I am in full gripe mode this morning, so I thought I'd throw all my minor gripe about the Sixth Report & Order into one post. I've already posted my major gripes.
Again, I just want to make clear that as a whole, the 6th R&O improves the program. But the positive changes were all touted in the FCC press release, so I'll stick to the dark side.
“As long as schools are in compliance with CIPA requirements, we leave specific policymaking decisions up to individual schools to address.” (footnote 76)
So now that schools are offering Internet access to adult community members, do they now have to comply with the heinous CIPA rules that the Supreme Court came up with for libraries? That would mean turning off filtering for individuals who request unfiltered access….
“we plan to include a box on the FCC Form 471 when we next revise this form for applicants to check if they are taking advantage of this rule change.” (paragraph 25)
“an eligible school or library may assess computer fees to help defray the cost of computers" (paragraph 26)
Does a converse to the Free Services Advisory apply? Can my school charge $5/hour for computer use, and throw in Internet access for free, or will I have to do some cost allocation? Look for the blossoming of PTO-sponsored cybercafé fundraisers.
Well, at least it's in the right direction. At this rate, 40% schools will get some P2 funding around, say, Stardate 2542.7.
First off, kudos for using the word "ubiquitously." You just don't see that word often enough. But $10 million dollars to a “handful” of applicants who have already deployed off-campus wireless Internet access? Is there really a pool of schools and libraries that are spending $1 million/year or so on off-campus access? And who gets stuck evaluating the proposals?
“we direct USAC to make available on its website and update on an ongoing basis a list of donation and recycling locations for communications equipment.” (paragraph 75)
This is not how USAC should be spending USF funds. Remember the Eligible Services Database? I foresee cobwebs on this database.
Involved with the E-Rate program since 1997, On-Tech's president, Dan Riordan, has continuously assisted schools and libraries in obtaining E-Rate funding, first as a trainer, then as a district employee, and now as an E-Rate consultant.
Paradizo is your go-to travel agency for luxury vacation rentals and unique travel experiences. Our team of specialists will help you book your dream holidays. Contact us to plan your Villa Rental Holidays
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces including the the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, and his work is in the collections of several museums, including the San Francisco MOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Portland Museum of Art, The West Collection, the Coppel collection, the FEMSA collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others.
Alejandro is a self-publisher and co-editor and has created several award winning titles, including Santa Barbara Shame on US, A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, Rivers of Power, Santa Barbara Return Jobs to US, Headshots, Before the War, Carpoolers, and Suburbia Mexicana. Some of his books are in the Yale University Library, the Tate Britain, the 10×10 Photobooks book collections among others.
Cartagena has received several awards including the international Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, the Street Photography Award in London Photo Festival, the Lente Latino Award in Chile, the Premio IILA-FotoGrafia Award in Rome and the Salon de la Fotografia of Fototeca de Nuevo Leon in Mexico among others. He has been named an International Discoveries of the FotoFest festival, a FOAM magazine TALENT and an Emerging photographer of PDN magazine. He has also been a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Award and has been nominated for the Santa Fe Photography Prize, the Prix Pictet Prize, the Photoespaña Descubrimientos Award and the FOAM Paul Huff Award. His work has been published internationally in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Nowness, Domus, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Le Monde, Stern, PDN, The New Yorker, and Wallpaper among others. He is represented by Patricia Conde Gallery.
In Zona, Fábio creates two separate layers of meaning that collide in a beautiful book poem. On one part the visual repetitions and similarities make the flow of the book feel almost romantic in a way. On the other layer, there is the sense of the aftermath of a crisis that bent a country and a continent. We are assured that things are not simple and that there are still remnants of what our politicians deem as the best possible course for a nation. Hardship is turned into a visual and physical motive that, with little information, suggests a bigger picture of the painful economic reality of many Europeans.
Bleu has me coming back to it over and over again. It is not about what I can understand of it but what it makes me feel, and that is just a mix of things; fragility, disgust, curiosity, sexiness, strangeness, anxiety and many more things. I think it´s this viscerality and entanglement of sensations that never lets you go. You want to come back to try and find peace. But there is no peace in this book. It feels like we are no more than just pieces of flesh, dehumanized and twisted. A gross book that makes you feel alive.
My main attraction to this book comes from the passing of time and how photographs depict such a thing. Mexico is not same Mexico from 1986. We´ve lived through wars, corruption, "change," and looped back to a barbaric time when the human beings have been pushed to their limits. The recent present seems less romantic and grimmer from the first images of the book. Bodies twist and coil and blood runs free to create a stark reality of a country that is continuously in pain. A cockfight on the cover is a great way to summarize the book; there will be a winner and there will be a loser, life and death, celebration and sadness. A series of personal trips and moments through time that creates a vision that ultimately reflects our Mexican reality.
Blog Archive November (4) October (11) September (16) August (13) July (10) June (11) May (10) April (7) March (8) February (9) January (11) December (36) November (13) October (15) September (12) August (13) July (12) June (14) May (13) April (13) March (15) February (14) January (13) December (38) November (17) October (16) September (13) August (16) July (16) June (18) May (20) April (21) March (22) February (20) January (20) December (48) November (24) October (24) September (21) August (18) July (21) June (20) May (23) April (22) March (23) February (24) January (27) December (54) November (24) October (24) September (20) August (20) July (23) June (21) May (23) April (27) March (26) February (22) January (49) December (29) November (24) October (27) September (25) August (24) July (28) June (25) May (28) April (25) March (25) February (22) January (22) December (31) November (28) October (23) September (18) August (23) July (22) June (21) May (24) April (21) March (24) February (23) January (23) December (24) November (21) October (22) September (18) August (21) July (22) June (22) May (21) April (18) March (21) February (20) January (24) December (20) November (30) October (25) September (22) August (26) July (15) June (8) May (7)
Even the biggest haters of QA automation cannot fail to acknowledge that a reasonable and consistent approach to automated testing can bring great benefits to a software testing company.
The following are brief recommendations on how to plan and execute test automation in a best possible way and perform effective mobile testing or website testing.
Make sure that project managers approve the automation initiative. Given that test automation consumes a lot of time and finances, the involvement of business people is essential.
Prepare a sketch plan describing the features that are to be automated, approach to their automation, and approximate time for each task.
Analyze the system and determine the areas to be automated in the first place. Project managers can significantly help with that.
Determine the features that are rarely modified. Those are good candidates for practicing the automated test scripts creation.
Control both manual and automated test efforts. This will help to demonstrate the benefits of QA automation to project managers and business analysts.
Try to write as simple test scripts as possible. The simpler they are, the easier it is to reuse them in future.
Make project managers aware that test automation is not a fix-all strategy. It doesn’t eliminate all quality issues, but at the competent approach it can be very beneficial.
These recommendations will help not to fail system testing, load testing, performance testing, etc., and make the best of them.
Generating new traffic, providing new services to be sold and increasing the profit, the cloud grows fast and requires new business models and coordinated work of several players. In order