Add a third option: For some of us, their stuff works, and we're so tired of hearing conspiracy theory crap from extremists that we want to puke. It's a technology company not a religion. Yes, it was funny at first, because we were laughing at the idea. Now not so much. We just want to be able to use the stuff and be left alone.
I think the way you would typically do this on an iPad is to import the pics into your library and show them from the "Photos" app. I find that method extremely fast and easy to use. (*For some people that won't work because you have limited storage.)
Same experience here. I'm interested in finding out more about how it scales for very large loads which if I understand correctly require z series or POWER. I only have one RHEL Advanced server and it's x86_64 so I don't really have a comparison point.
RHEL Advanced server runs on mainframes (including IBM z systems) and POWER platforms, not just x86 platforms. I just assumed you'd have to use one of these to get massive scalability and we weren't going to try to compare x86 systems.
I recently added a second hard drive to my 2007 MacBook Pro. Yes, it involved replacing the optical drive but the process was simple and cheap and went without a hitch. http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
Rise of the Triad and Heretic were awesome; both added different things (ROT added climbing and IIRC walls which moved diagonally; Heretic added more z-axis action and what seemed to be smarter AI).
Umm enterprise administrator is the next level up from domain admin and is used when adminning multiple domains...
VBscript and ActiveX are proprietary Microsoft technologies which fail in large heterogenous deployments such as my environment. They don't usually play well with mobile devices which is a fairly large segment of today's world.
It's probably safe to say that I'm familiar with ActiveX since I've used it since it was called OLE and COM. I've built DCOM services which were deployed and used enterprise-wide, which was probably before your time too.
I'm very happy with Apple products because they work reliably, just like I'm very happy with my RHEL servers because they also work reliably. But if all you've ever used is Windows you don't know what you're missing.
If you're using ActiveX to trade info in docs you're using a model that breaks regularly with new Windows and Office releases. It's not the fastest or the best at anything. Who has the time to do something over and over, or debug why the VBScript you wrote for Excel 2003 doesn't work in 2007? Why get into that at all?
Oh, sorry, didn't see you at -1 and all. And no, I won't buy you an iMac either. You're obviously challenged at using the caps key so that would be way too much.
Can we meet in the middle and I will get you a Speak-n-Spell? I hear they are great, and you will get a little workout too.
The reason I used Commodores, Amigas, and Macs was because Windows 3.x was a piece of shit. I'm not exaggerating. Worst desktop I've ever used.
Can't argue with you there. But current versions of Windows are akin to living in a log cabin to escape modern society. They're not the best in any way, and PC manufacturers have shaved corners off for so long that the hardware is just good enough to live through the warranty period... sometimes. But guess what? So many people with PC's either have virus problems or Windows problems that they never know for sure if it's a flaky card, flaky driver, flaky AV software etc.
Is your time worth so little now? Especially coming from a Mac, don't you feel more than a little dirty having to hack the registry to get shit to work? Are you telling yourself that Windows scripting works now, that PowerShell is a good answer, when bash/csh/tcsh have been around for decades and do more with less bloat? Have you convinced yourself that MDI is the way to go, and ActiveX works well in standalone and (snicker) enterprise environments? Do you fool yourself into thinking that NTFS is a great (performance or safety-wise) filesystem? How's that point-in-time backup Microsoft designed working for you? What do you mean it doesn't exist? And restore points? Oh yeah, to prevent recurrence of viruses you have to delete checkpoints don't you?
At least you know what you'll be doing every Patch Tuesday... forever.
Why run Windows at all if you don't need "crutches"? In what world is Windows considered sophisticated or modern?What part of OSX did you like least -- the stability? Voice control? Integration? AFP performance? Time Machine? Spaces? AppleScript? Having a real terminal prompt? Shell scripting? Having your stuff just work?
I'm sad that such a power user could be tricked into getting a Mac. I'm more sad that you had a sophisticated machine you didn't know how to use... kinda like giving a blind person a Porsche. Dude you should buy a Dell lol.
I use OpenOffice both at work and home with very good results. I do not allow any scripts to execute in any office document simply because I'm an enterprise admin. If you're using VBscript "extensively" you're probably doing something wrong, perhaps trying to operate outside MIS by building your own databases.
As far as your "rosey [sic] comment" trolling goes, listen kid. If you're still talking about theses, you're too young to know what you don't know and too dumb to shut up. Based on your negative attitude and borderline incompetency I would have pegged you for a government worker long before you admitted it. I'm only sorry that you're being compensated for a job clearly beyond your abilities.
Compatibility? What's that? Are you talking about how Office 2003 and 2007 don't talk with 2010 or Office XP without tearing out your hair? Or were you going to use an example of software that's been Windows-only and will always be Windows-only?
I use what I want when I want how I want. Like right now I'm using an iPad hooked up to my home network (shared Aircard in my MBP with Airport Express) to type this. If I ever need to fool you into believing I used a PC for something, you won't be able to tell.
But seriously, you are obviously looking for a really cheap computer and I'm glad you found it. Not everyone wants that.
Overpriced is your opinion, and you're welcome to it. If you're not familiar with the Apple platform I'm sure such a large change is scary to you. If you've used it you wouldn't be making these insane comments, and you certainly wouldn't be putting Windows 7 in the same category as Snow Leopard.
I've only recently considered getting rid of 2 older Macs because they're PPC. My 2007 MBP runs great and I just finished upgrading to Snow Leopard. In the meantime my coworkers replaced their (not cheap) HP Evos twice. Display problems, hinges getting broken, hard drive failures, etc on 4 other machines -- and these were $1500 laptops.
Consider the downtime and the cost for Suzie Smith to bring her computer to Geek Squad every time Windows barfs and you're out considerably more money with considerably more fuss and bother. Screw that, you get what you pay for. My time is worth a lot to me and you can bet my kids will have Macs in college because my time is important to me.
Hey I can appreciate not having the cash for the initial outlay. No shame in that. For some no amount of saving helps because you're always going to have $3 or $400 for a computer. That's cool. Apple doesn't market to you. You will have to shop elsewhere, just like I don't wear Ferragamo shoes anymore. It's all about choice. I choose my Mac stuff. You choose collecting old cars or whatever. No big deal.
Hey the fart apps will come soon, don't worry. And then the vuvuzela apps and the dog barking apps and the 10,000 Farmville/Mafia Wars-like apps and THEN their app store will be complete!
Yes, but Apple is bigger than Microsoft now. They won't be picked on by the school bully anymore. Time to deliver some wedgies of their own, I'd suppose. Geek angst is the worst kind.
Ask Adobe how well things are working out for them now that they've pissed off Apple, and ask them again in a year. I'd say Apple is just starting to stretch their legs, and Microsoft is due for a showdown of epic proportions any day. I will have the popcorn ready because this is going to be a most excellent fight.
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Add a third option: For some of us, their stuff works, and we're so tired of hearing conspiracy theory crap from extremists that we want to puke. It's a technology company not a religion. Yes, it was funny at first, because we were laughing at the idea. Now not so much. We just want to be able to use the stuff and be left alone.
Agreed. For SSH I have had good luck with the app "TouchTerm".
Yep, mobile Safari is lacking in many areas.
I think the way you would typically do this on an iPad is to import the pics into your library and show them from the "Photos" app. I find that method extremely fast and easy to use. (*For some people that won't work because you have limited storage.)
Thank you, this helps me understand. It makes all the difference when it has to be partitioned.
I use a Sprint Aircard so that's out.
Same experience here. I'm interested in finding out more about how it scales for very large loads which if I understand correctly require z series or POWER. I only have one RHEL Advanced server and it's x86_64 so I don't really have a comparison point.
RHEL Advanced server runs on mainframes (including IBM z systems) and POWER platforms, not just x86 platforms. I just assumed you'd have to use one of these to get massive scalability and we weren't going to try to compare x86 systems.
Too big even for RHEL? Help me put this into perspective, what kinds of sizes are we talking here?
Theoretically I understood RHEL Advanced Server was capable of an unlimited number of CPU's and memory ( http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/ ).
Perhaps you're reaching some contention at high loads or with large numbers of CPU's / storage / etc?
Thanks for any info you can provide.
+1 funny
Almost spit my coffee out on my screen, I can imagine him saying exactly that!
I recently added a second hard drive to my 2007 MacBook Pro. Yes, it involved replacing the optical drive but the process was simple and cheap and went without a hitch. http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipad+battery+life
It's OK, the occupant won't care.
Rise of the Triad and Heretic were awesome; both added different things (ROT added climbing and IIRC walls which moved diagonally; Heretic added more z-axis action and what seemed to be smarter AI).
you're old enough to remember Geocities and Angelfire
Shhh! We don't talk of those things. Imagine if they had AJAX back then -- the world could've exploded. Best to let those memories die.
Umm enterprise administrator is the next level up from domain admin and is used when adminning multiple domains...
VBscript and ActiveX are proprietary Microsoft technologies which fail in large heterogenous deployments such as my environment. They don't usually play well with mobile devices which is a fairly large segment of today's world.
It's probably safe to say that I'm familiar with ActiveX since I've used it since it was called OLE and COM. I've built DCOM services which were deployed and used enterprise-wide, which was probably before your time too.
I'm very happy with Apple products because they work reliably, just like I'm very happy with my RHEL servers because they also work reliably. But if all you've ever used is Windows you don't know what you're missing.
If you're using ActiveX to trade info in docs you're using a model that breaks regularly with new Windows and Office releases. It's not the fastest or the best at anything. Who has the time to do something over and over, or debug why the VBScript you wrote for Excel 2003 doesn't work in 2007? Why get into that at all?
Oh, sorry, didn't see you at -1 and all. And no, I won't buy you an iMac either. You're obviously challenged at using the caps key so that would be way too much.
Can we meet in the middle and I will get you a Speak-n-Spell? I hear they are great, and you will get a little workout too.
The reason I used Commodores, Amigas, and Macs was because Windows 3.x was a piece of shit. I'm not exaggerating. Worst desktop I've ever used.
Can't argue with you there. But current versions of Windows are akin to living in a log cabin to escape modern society. They're not the best in any way, and PC manufacturers have shaved corners off for so long that the hardware is just good enough to live through the warranty period... sometimes. But guess what? So many people with PC's either have virus problems or Windows problems that they never know for sure if it's a flaky card, flaky driver, flaky AV software etc.
Is your time worth so little now? Especially coming from a Mac, don't you feel more than a little dirty having to hack the registry to get shit to work? Are you telling yourself that Windows scripting works now, that PowerShell is a good answer, when bash/csh/tcsh have been around for decades and do more with less bloat? Have you convinced yourself that MDI is the way to go, and ActiveX works well in standalone and (snicker) enterprise environments? Do you fool yourself into thinking that NTFS is a great (performance or safety-wise) filesystem? How's that point-in-time backup Microsoft designed working for you? What do you mean it doesn't exist? And restore points? Oh yeah, to prevent recurrence of viruses you have to delete checkpoints don't you?
At least you know what you'll be doing every Patch Tuesday... forever.
Why run Windows at all if you don't need "crutches"? In what world is Windows considered sophisticated or modern?What part of OSX did you like least -- the stability? Voice control? Integration? AFP performance? Time Machine? Spaces? AppleScript? Having a real terminal prompt? Shell scripting? Having your stuff just work?
I'm sad that such a power user could be tricked into getting a Mac. I'm more sad that you had a sophisticated machine you didn't know how to use... kinda like giving a blind person a Porsche. Dude you should buy a Dell lol.
No, I'm not buying a Mac for you. You will have to learn to do without.
I use OpenOffice both at work and home with very good results. I do not allow any scripts to execute in any office document simply because I'm an enterprise admin. If you're using VBscript "extensively" you're probably doing something wrong, perhaps trying to operate outside MIS by building your own databases.
As far as your "rosey [sic] comment" trolling goes, listen kid. If you're still talking about theses, you're too young to know what you don't know and too dumb to shut up. Based on your negative attitude and borderline incompetency I would have pegged you for a government worker long before you admitted it. I'm only sorry that you're being compensated for a job clearly beyond your abilities.
Compatibility? What's that? Are you talking about how Office 2003 and 2007 don't talk with 2010 or Office XP without tearing out your hair? Or were you going to use an example of software that's been Windows-only and will always be Windows-only?
I use what I want when I want how I want. Like right now I'm using an iPad hooked up to my home network (shared Aircard in my MBP with Airport Express) to type this. If I ever need to fool you into believing I used a PC for something, you won't be able to tell.
But seriously, you are obviously looking for a really cheap computer and I'm glad you found it. Not everyone wants that.
Overpriced is your opinion, and you're welcome to it. If you're not familiar with the Apple platform I'm sure such a large change is scary to you. If you've used it you wouldn't be making these insane comments, and you certainly wouldn't be putting Windows 7 in the same category as Snow Leopard.
I've only recently considered getting rid of 2 older Macs because they're PPC. My 2007 MBP runs great and I just finished upgrading to Snow Leopard. In the meantime my coworkers replaced their (not cheap) HP Evos twice. Display problems, hinges getting broken, hard drive failures, etc on 4 other machines -- and these were $1500 laptops.
Consider the downtime and the cost for Suzie Smith to bring her computer to Geek Squad every time Windows barfs and you're out considerably more money with considerably more fuss and bother. Screw that, you get what you pay for. My time is worth a lot to me and you can bet my kids will have Macs in college because my time is important to me.
Hey I can appreciate not having the cash for the initial outlay. No shame in that. For some no amount of saving helps because you're always going to have $3 or $400 for a computer. That's cool. Apple doesn't market to you. You will have to shop elsewhere, just like I don't wear Ferragamo shoes anymore. It's all about choice. I choose my Mac stuff. You choose collecting old cars or whatever. No big deal.
I approve using a 3 Stooges pic in place of the Microsoft Borg pic. Do we have a third?
Hey the fart apps will come soon, don't worry. And then the vuvuzela apps and the dog barking apps and the 10,000 Farmville/Mafia Wars-like apps and THEN their app store will be complete!
Yes, but Apple is bigger than Microsoft now. They won't be picked on by the school bully anymore. Time to deliver some wedgies of their own, I'd suppose. Geek angst is the worst kind.
Ask Adobe how well things are working out for them now that they've pissed off Apple, and ask them again in a year. I'd say Apple is just starting to stretch their legs, and Microsoft is due for a showdown of epic proportions any day. I will have the popcorn ready because this is going to be a most excellent fight.