My work gives me a crackberry to use on the job. It makes sense because depending on what's needed, I may be away from my office/laptop for 2-3 hours at a time, and that's the only way for me to get emails.
That being said, I leave the blackberry *at work*. I plug it in, lock my computer, and go home. They can contact me at 8am the next morning when I show up.
Wine doesn't work with everything. Also there is not as much driver support for linux which prevents a LOT of people from moving over to it (myself included. My sound card cannot work in linux.). Games do work through wine, yes, but they have crippled performance from what I've seen. I was looking at 60-70+fps on WoW with higher settings in vista where I was getting ~30-40 in linux at lower ones.
Every time I've tried linux there has been multiple reasons for me to say "Okay, back to windows." It's not a worthwhile system for most people, no matter what anyone may want to believe.
-Felysha
All games have to be played online. There won't be single player games anymore, there'll just be web based games or virtual worlds you can play single player-style or massively multiplayer style, but in either case the data for the game world will only be on the server.
That point is when I will stop playing games all together. I can't stand playing games online most of the time, especially FPS games. If there's no chance to play a game by myself, without the interaction with another player, then there's no possible way the game will be good enough to warrant my attention.
The printer drivers for my vista machine at home are absolutely horrid (They're beta drivers that can only print text with any quality) and I use a VM with usb support to print out of XP to get the photo quality prints.
I wish I could say that was uncommon. I've seen the same thing at my company, except with specifications for parts and contracts with rather well known companies (not that the company I'm working at isn't...).
But regardless, the encryption on the laptops and servers doesn't mean a thing when a random engineer prints off the contract/presentation information and leaves it out in the open for 4 hours.
I agree with you. One of the main reasons I went over to the iPhone is that for unlimited data/sms it was around $25 cheaper (IIRC) than the plan I had on my old smartphone.
That alone made me switch. I end up saving far more on service prices than the cost of the phone over the course of the 2 year contract. With me the contract isn't a huge deal, as A) I've been with AT&T for around 5 years and B) I'm perfectly happy with the service around my area and I have no other issues that would cause me to look down upon the service.
If the 3G model has the same pricing plan as my old smartphone, I may not bother getting that on top of my current EDGE iPhone. It's already faster than my friends 8525 when browsing the web and serves my purposes rather well, especially when the app store launches and the push service comes in september.
This seems like a normal practice to me to be honest. Almost every smartphone that people will buy will come with a contract at the time of purchase to get the price lowered to a point that is reasonable.
It happened with my old 8525 to get the $600 phone down to $285, and now it's happening with the iPhone to get the $400 phone down to $200. It just seems to be the industry standard, and before people start to complain about not being able to use it with t-mobile or another GSM carrier, I just want to say that you don't NEED to get an iPhone. You can get whatever smartphone comes with your service.
If you want to travel with a smartphone, then you can get a different one too to put different SIM cards in and only pay for those times you use it.
That's honestly a good idea, I may look into that. Right now I have vent bound to the left control key, which causes an issue when I'm copying and pasting to anyone.
Of course, even at ~4.00 a gallon, it's still cheaper than 1 venti green tea frap at starbucks, which even with a b&n discount card at the one in the store costs 4.37. Gas is 3.97 here, so if I buy 8 fraps to get the same volume, it costs me $3.20 more, which is a lot closer to a second gallon of gas than it is to another stupid frap. Gas is over 80% cheaper by volume than Starbucks is. That's one thing that's constantly annoyed me to tell the truth. People will complain about money and gas going up, but they will still spend much more money than they need to on things they don't need. Starbucks is one example, Lunches are another.
I don't think the economy is going sour as much as people are thinking it is. Yes gas has gone up, yes food has gone up, but other things are still around the same price.
Now to get on topic. A lot of tech may suffer but there's some tech that will keep thriving through the "recession." Case in point, I work as a contracted for a company that makes chips for necessities (Phones, networking (I think anyway), and other random electronics) and I don't think they will suffer too much if at all. If nothing else they'll improve on current designs to make them more cost efficient to let companies that use their chips sell their products for the same amount.
Anyone think there's enough references to CSI: Miami?
Seriously though, this seems like a good idea overall, however I'm thinking that we shall see this in the future at the airports. Extended wait periods to test for explosives like this.
I agree that some parts of bullying should be controlled, but the idea that children cannot deal with virtual bullying is a huge insult. I can understand changing policies about physical bullying. I can almost understand changing policies about verbal bullying. But having to concentrate on cyber-bullying would just be a huge waste of time and money.
Think about this, how many times have each of you had a negative comment directed towards you? For the younger slashdotters like myself who had the internet during school, how many of those were from friends and classmates? If your school had to investigate, suspend, or expell each of those persons, how much time and money would that have taken away from the school that could have been put towards new books or other improvements?
Yes, deal with physical and verbal bullying, but don't even try to deal with cyber-bullying. It would take far too much time and far too much money to even begin dealing with it.
At the moment it's my school software that's causing a problem for me. But that's easily fixed using an emulator for a windows OS.
One thing that you might be able to help me with is maybe a utility along the lines of partition magic to configure partions on my mac (i only have one drive so i don't know if there's anything possible for that.
Overall i agree there's a lot of programs for the mac that replace PC apps, but there's some that are released just for PC when it's not assumed that people would use otherwise (my school lab software for example).
I've just recently switched back over to mac from working with a PC for a while after selling a mac mini. The one thing i've had a problem with both then and now is finding software that i used on the PC and finding a worthwhile replacement on the mac.
With google joining the team with mac development it seems that other companies may join them and start to develop programs for the mac platform, or would that be too far fetched to see? I guess it may turn into a version of "monkey see, monkey do" for some companies now that google shows that there is a large market for a different system other than windows.
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My work gives me a crackberry to use on the job. It makes sense because depending on what's needed, I may be away from my office/laptop for 2-3 hours at a time, and that's the only way for me to get emails. That being said, I leave the blackberry *at work*. I plug it in, lock my computer, and go home. They can contact me at 8am the next morning when I show up.
I get 60-70 FPS on my system. It's not even that modern.
I might as well join in too
So you're only matching to 500 of the faces? Or do you have 500 male chests?
Jack harkness? Is that you?
Wine doesn't work with everything. Also there is not as much driver support for linux which prevents a LOT of people from moving over to it (myself included. My sound card cannot work in linux.). Games do work through wine, yes, but they have crippled performance from what I've seen. I was looking at 60-70+fps on WoW with higher settings in vista where I was getting ~30-40 in linux at lower ones.
Every time I've tried linux there has been multiple reasons for me to say "Okay, back to windows." It's not a worthwhile system for most people, no matter what anyone may want to believe.
-Felysha
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/f/f/get_a_brain_morans.jpg Stupid Anonymous Coward is stupid.
This is why people hate the US.
It matters which one?
All games have to be played online. There won't be single player games anymore, there'll just be web based games or virtual worlds you can play single player-style or massively multiplayer style, but in either case the data for the game world will only be on the server.
That point is when I will stop playing games all together. I can't stand playing games online most of the time, especially FPS games. If there's no chance to play a game by myself, without the interaction with another player, then there's no possible way the game will be good enough to warrant my attention.
Agreed, which is why I steer away from Second Life most of the time, even with being a furry. Bunch of crazy people on there I swear.
I have to second that one, from experience.
The printer drivers for my vista machine at home are absolutely horrid (They're beta drivers that can only print text with any quality) and I use a VM with usb support to print out of XP to get the photo quality prints.
I wish I could say that was uncommon. I've seen the same thing at my company, except with specifications for parts and contracts with rather well known companies (not that the company I'm working at isn't...). But regardless, the encryption on the laptops and servers doesn't mean a thing when a random engineer prints off the contract/presentation information and leaves it out in the open for 4 hours.
I have the same password on my luggage!
What about when you find a boyfriend through WoW like I did? Then it keeps going since he found a gamer chick, and I found him.
I agree with you. One of the main reasons I went over to the iPhone is that for unlimited data/sms it was around $25 cheaper (IIRC) than the plan I had on my old smartphone.
That alone made me switch. I end up saving far more on service prices than the cost of the phone over the course of the 2 year contract. With me the contract isn't a huge deal, as A) I've been with AT&T for around 5 years and B) I'm perfectly happy with the service around my area and I have no other issues that would cause me to look down upon the service.
If the 3G model has the same pricing plan as my old smartphone, I may not bother getting that on top of my current EDGE iPhone. It's already faster than my friends 8525 when browsing the web and serves my purposes rather well, especially when the app store launches and the push service comes in september.
This seems like a normal practice to me to be honest. Almost every smartphone that people will buy will come with a contract at the time of purchase to get the price lowered to a point that is reasonable. It happened with my old 8525 to get the $600 phone down to $285, and now it's happening with the iPhone to get the $400 phone down to $200. It just seems to be the industry standard, and before people start to complain about not being able to use it with t-mobile or another GSM carrier, I just want to say that you don't NEED to get an iPhone. You can get whatever smartphone comes with your service. If you want to travel with a smartphone, then you can get a different one too to put different SIM cards in and only pay for those times you use it.
That's honestly a good idea, I may look into that. Right now I have vent bound to the left control key, which causes an issue when I'm copying and pasting to anyone.
I for one wel....Wait, I don't to memes, nevermind.
I don't think the economy is going sour as much as people are thinking it is. Yes gas has gone up, yes food has gone up, but other things are still around the same price. Now to get on topic. A lot of tech may suffer but there's some tech that will keep thriving through the "recession." Case in point, I work as a contracted for a company that makes chips for necessities (Phones, networking (I think anyway), and other random electronics) and I don't think they will suffer too much if at all. If nothing else they'll improve on current designs to make them more cost efficient to let companies that use their chips sell their products for the same amount.
Anyone think there's enough references to CSI: Miami? Seriously though, this seems like a good idea overall, however I'm thinking that we shall see this in the future at the airports. Extended wait periods to test for explosives like this.
I agree that some parts of bullying should be controlled, but the idea that children cannot deal with virtual bullying is a huge insult. I can understand changing policies about physical bullying. I can almost understand changing policies about verbal bullying. But having to concentrate on cyber-bullying would just be a huge waste of time and money. Think about this, how many times have each of you had a negative comment directed towards you? For the younger slashdotters like myself who had the internet during school, how many of those were from friends and classmates? If your school had to investigate, suspend, or expell each of those persons, how much time and money would that have taken away from the school that could have been put towards new books or other improvements? Yes, deal with physical and verbal bullying, but don't even try to deal with cyber-bullying. It would take far too much time and far too much money to even begin dealing with it.
At the moment it's my school software that's causing a problem for me. But that's easily fixed using an emulator for a windows OS. One thing that you might be able to help me with is maybe a utility along the lines of partition magic to configure partions on my mac (i only have one drive so i don't know if there's anything possible for that. Overall i agree there's a lot of programs for the mac that replace PC apps, but there's some that are released just for PC when it's not assumed that people would use otherwise (my school lab software for example).
I've just recently switched back over to mac from working with a PC for a while after selling a mac mini. The one thing i've had a problem with both then and now is finding software that i used on the PC and finding a worthwhile replacement on the mac.
With google joining the team with mac development it seems that other companies may join them and start to develop programs for the mac platform, or would that be too far fetched to see? I guess it may turn into a version of "monkey see, monkey do" for some companies now that google shows that there is a large market for a different system other than windows.
The frequency of sounds that are able to be produced by the speakers in the earbuds and the frequencies that the device supports transmitting.