Those that believe IT and InfoSec policies are just getting in their way are too short sighted to see beyond their own nose.
It's not short sightedness...it's the fact that IT and InfoSec policies should be behind the scenes, and not bugging me/disallowing me access every two minutes.
Work wants me to have a laptop of my own? they either buy it and control it, or compensate me every paycheck for it for trying to control it.
Or they'll just hire someone else, like the 99%of us who already own our own laptops for personal use. My old job wouldn't let us use our own gear. My new job gave me a better computer than my personal one. Guess where I'm happier? Seriously, with every other profession on the planet, pros bring their own tools, or work provides "pro" tools. Companies who plop down $199 for the latest outdated Dell Shitbox can be expected to excel as about as well as they outfit their work force with computers.
This is business as usual in the "real world", my diesel mechanic cousin owns all his tools... That wrench is his, not his bosses. Same with my electrician buddy and his tools. Its just how grown-ups do things
This is quite possibly the best statement of 2011 on slashdot.
How is it a cost for people who would own the devices anyway? I have an iPhone and and iPad on my own accord. It's nice that I can use them for work as well. Otherwise, you get the dumb companies like the one I used to work for that would buy me an iPad and an iPhone, even though I already owned one each, all in the name of 'security'.
...for those with years of self-preserving A+/Net+ style certifications... Thankfully. Now we can move forward as an information society, as opposed to being limited to what that-guy-with-the-certification-recommends-based-on-his-own-job-security.
System Prefs - Language & Text - Input Sources tab - select the pertinent languages you want. Once you've done that, the flag of the country that is currently active is displayed in the top right of the menu bar next to your time/volume/wifi signal strength stuff. Click the flag to change to one of the other languages you selected.
Keep in mind, this is only for keyboard input. If you want to change your entire system, that's also under Language & Text, but you have to log out and back in for it to take effect (not restart, just log out).
Seriously? I create technical documents in German using OS X in English. We use Macs because they are far easier to use for German. Option + U for umlaut then the vowel you want it on. Eszett is option + s. Then there's the nice touch of just switching your Mac to German with a simple System Menu selection...the whole computer, not just a few keystrokes and menus.
Seriously, unless you buy a German version of Windows, nothing is easier for foreign languages than a Mac. We translate everything at work into French, German, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Brazilian Portugese...I can only wonder how unproductive I'd be if we used Windows.
I guess you can't beat a keyboard for writing notes.
Yes, yes you can. Taking handwritten notes using software optimized for note taking is far superior to any notes I've ever tried to take on my MacBook...and I type 95 words per minute.
I'm not wrong because I never claimed anything about Apple's world wide market share.
Apple is #1 in market growth for 2011, moving into 3rd place. HP is #2 in growth (#1 market share), and the only other PC manufacturer to have market growth. Apple's growth was 10% more than HP. At that rate, Apple could bypass HP next year as #1 in the US. Notice, I still haven't said anything about world wide market share.
More importantly, it is wholly ignorant to claim that Apple has "poor mac sales", when they have the best PC sales of every manufacturer (in the US). Apple is perfectly fine with that. Anyone who thinks there's any doom-and-gloom for Macs is ignorant or biased or both.
Apple is actually projected to be #1 in PC sales (US only, no world wide data was available for the one I read), with still only around 6-10% market share. If that's poor sales, what does that say about Acer, Dell, HP, Sony, et. al?
Do you think Apple cares that they are only 10% of the market and EVERY OTHER PC MANUFACTURER COMBINED make up the other 89%?
Poor Mac sales? They will command a 15% total of PC sales in 2011, bringing it up to 6-14% (depending on which stats you use). Linux usage (relative to the same states I found for the Mac range I posted) is in the.6-1.0% range, for comparison.
I went through the standard Discrete Math books and the only one I see for that price is the Epp one (Discrete Mathematics with Applications at $202.49 on Amazon) - the other ones are cheaper or much cheaper (unless you are talking about another not well-known book, then please elaborate).
Well I'd guess that be the one. Last I checked, you don't buy the book you want, you buy the book required by the class. It's highly unlikely that there'd be another Discrete Math book for exactly $202, so yeah, that's probably the one.
You are comparing BUYING a hardcover for $202 with RENTING an ebook for $60.
Exactly. I never contended otherwise. What I'm comparing is the cost of taking this class is $142 cheaper. It turns out there are no buybacks on this book, so if you bought the hard cover, it's yours. If you rented it, you got whatever you got out of the book and you move on. I suppose we could go on Amazon and try to sell used books, but we have better things to do with our time.
In your universe that might seem like a steal, especially since in your universe you want to rationalize the Ipad purchase.
Sorry. I already stated neither me nor my wife were in the market for an iPad. Having used hers from time-to-time, I'd find it hard to justify the price without the savings we made in ebook purcha....errr, rentals. With that said, my contention, and the conclusion of TFA is that IF you go the ebook route, the money you save in renting an ebook pays for itself in a semester (my wife's case, granted probably not super-typical), or a couple of semesters. That's a bonus for anyone who wanted to justify the iPad purchase. That, however, was not our intent. My wife had back surgery, and the University of Texas is balls hot and campus is huge. It's no fun lugging four heavy textbooks around campus.
In my Universe...
Good for you. My income isn't part of your universe. But since this was MY post, my universe rules apply.
No, because the next page of a web page is different enough from the previous one, that there's a visual difference. You instigate the new page in the browser, you are expecting new information to be presented. That's why when a page is slow to connect, users get fidgety and start to fret they may have done something wrong, because the expected result isn't happening.
With a calendar, the only thing that changes is the name of the month and the day numbers shift a little bit. If you aren't paying close attention, you may miss the month flip (or year flip). You know you've done it...you pushed "next month" arrow a few too many times because you didn't think it changed, and you end up overshooting by a couple of months.
Ok, my wife is home. Discrete Math was $202, ebook version $60. And that's just one class. The semester just ended and the physical book is not eligible for buyback and the ebook expires in 2 months. So, for undergrad purposes (i.e., probably no interest in keeping the books), the ebook is a better deal, because you aren't guaranteed to be able to sell back your expensive text.
I'll ask my wife. It's a Probability book, a Discrete Math, a Statistics book and a (non-math) Business Law book. All standard undergraduate stuff for Math majors. The e-books were all $20-$60 and the hardback versions were all over $100. We don't really care to go on wild goose chases for ultra low cost options.
On a side note: we got the iPad because it's more than just an e-reader, and the other e-readers' software is available on the iPad. We personally don't see any difference in the reading experience from an eye strain point of view, so that's a non-issue for us.
Right because there are no such programs called "Profile Manager" or "iPhone Configuration Utility" that let school admins control what student can access on an iPad.
ebooks for popular fiction don't benefit from the huge discounts like academic books do. This is because there's a huge false markup built into academic books that the e-book versions don't use.
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Who works in tech that already doesn't have a bunch of personal tech that is most likely better than the crap their companies will provide?
In my last two jobs, I wish they HAD made me buy my own gear...I'd probably still be working there.
Those that believe IT and InfoSec policies are just getting in their way are too short sighted to see beyond their own nose.
It's not short sightedness...it's the fact that IT and InfoSec policies should be behind the scenes, and not bugging me/disallowing me access every two minutes.
Good IT and security is invisible to the user.
Work wants me to have a laptop of my own? they either buy it and control it, or compensate me every paycheck for it for trying to control it.
Or they'll just hire someone else, like the 99%of us who already own our own laptops for personal use. My old job wouldn't let us use our own gear. My new job gave me a better computer than my personal one. Guess where I'm happier? Seriously, with every other profession on the planet, pros bring their own tools, or work provides "pro" tools. Companies who plop down $199 for the latest outdated Dell Shitbox can be expected to excel as about as well as they outfit their work force with computers.
This is business as usual in the "real world", my diesel mechanic cousin owns all his tools... That wrench is his, not his bosses. Same with my electrician buddy and his tools. Its just how grown-ups do things
This is quite possibly the best statement of 2011 on slashdot.
How is it a cost for people who would own the devices anyway? I have an iPhone and and iPad on my own accord. It's nice that I can use them for work as well. Otherwise, you get the dumb companies like the one I used to work for that would buy me an iPad and an iPhone, even though I already owned one each, all in the name of 'security'.
This will not end well.
...for those with years of self-preserving A+/Net+ style certifications... Thankfully. Now we can move forward as an information society, as opposed to being limited to what that-guy-with-the-certification-recommends-based-on-his-own-job-security.
System Prefs - Language & Text - Input Sources tab - select the pertinent languages you want. Once you've done that, the flag of the country that is currently active is displayed in the top right of the menu bar next to your time/volume/wifi signal strength stuff. Click the flag to change to one of the other languages you selected.
Keep in mind, this is only for keyboard input. If you want to change your entire system, that's also under Language & Text, but you have to log out and back in for it to take effect (not restart, just log out).
Seriously? I create technical documents in German using OS X in English. We use Macs because they are far easier to use for German. Option + U for umlaut then the vowel you want it on. Eszett is option + s. Then there's the nice touch of just switching your Mac to German with a simple System Menu selection...the whole computer, not just a few keystrokes and menus.
Seriously, unless you buy a German version of Windows, nothing is easier for foreign languages than a Mac. We translate everything at work into French, German, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Brazilian Portugese...I can only wonder how unproductive I'd be if we used Windows.
First off. Never put a comma in front of and.
First off -comma- never use never when discussing English grammar.
I guess you can't beat a keyboard for writing notes.
Yes, yes you can. Taking handwritten notes using software optimized for note taking is far superior to any notes I've ever tried to take on my MacBook...and I type 95 words per minute.
I'm not wrong because I never claimed anything about Apple's world wide market share.
Apple is #1 in market growth for 2011, moving into 3rd place. HP is #2 in growth (#1 market share), and the only other PC manufacturer to have market growth. Apple's growth was 10% more than HP. At that rate, Apple could bypass HP next year as #1 in the US. Notice, I still haven't said anything about world wide market share.
More importantly, it is wholly ignorant to claim that Apple has "poor mac sales", when they have the best PC sales of every manufacturer (in the US). Apple is perfectly fine with that. Anyone who thinks there's any doom-and-gloom for Macs is ignorant or biased or both.
Apple is actually projected to be #1 in PC sales (US only, no world wide data was available for the one I read), with still only around 6-10% market share. If that's poor sales, what does that say about Acer, Dell, HP, Sony, et. al?
Do you think Apple cares that they are only 10% of the market and EVERY OTHER PC MANUFACTURER COMBINED make up the other 89%?
Or you could buy a used Mac on Craigslist for a couple hundred bucks.
Poor Mac sales? They will command a 15% total of PC sales in 2011, bringing it up to 6-14% (depending on which stats you use). Linux usage (relative to the same states I found for the Mac range I posted) is in the .6-1.0% range, for comparison.
I might have told it thee times. Depends on what I was responding to. Hopefully my argument was consistent.
I went through the standard Discrete Math books and the only one I see for that price is the Epp one (Discrete Mathematics with Applications at $202.49 on Amazon) - the other ones are cheaper or much cheaper (unless you are talking about another not well-known book, then please elaborate).
Well I'd guess that be the one. Last I checked, you don't buy the book you want, you buy the book required by the class. It's highly unlikely that there'd be another Discrete Math book for exactly $202, so yeah, that's probably the one.
You are comparing BUYING a hardcover for $202 with RENTING an ebook for $60.
Exactly. I never contended otherwise. What I'm comparing is the cost of taking this class is $142 cheaper. It turns out there are no buybacks on this book, so if you bought the hard cover, it's yours. If you rented it, you got whatever you got out of the book and you move on. I suppose we could go on Amazon and try to sell used books, but we have better things to do with our time.
In your universe that might seem like a steal, especially since in your universe you want to rationalize the Ipad purchase.
Sorry. I already stated neither me nor my wife were in the market for an iPad. Having used hers from time-to-time, I'd find it hard to justify the price without the savings we made in ebook purcha....errr, rentals. With that said, my contention, and the conclusion of TFA is that IF you go the ebook route, the money you save in renting an ebook pays for itself in a semester (my wife's case, granted probably not super-typical), or a couple of semesters. That's a bonus for anyone who wanted to justify the iPad purchase. That, however, was not our intent. My wife had back surgery, and the University of Texas is balls hot and campus is huge. It's no fun lugging four heavy textbooks around campus.
In my Universe...
Good for you. My income isn't part of your universe. But since this was MY post, my universe rules apply.
No, because the next page of a web page is different enough from the previous one, that there's a visual difference. You instigate the new page in the browser, you are expecting new information to be presented. That's why when a page is slow to connect, users get fidgety and start to fret they may have done something wrong, because the expected result isn't happening.
With a calendar, the only thing that changes is the name of the month and the day numbers shift a little bit. If you aren't paying close attention, you may miss the month flip (or year flip). You know you've done it...you pushed "next month" arrow a few too many times because you didn't think it changed, and you end up overshooting by a couple of months.
Who said you have to use iTunes? Coursesmart provides an app for their books, one was a Kindle book and the other was a Nook book.
Ok, my wife is home. Discrete Math was $202, ebook version $60. And that's just one class. The semester just ended and the physical book is not eligible for buyback and the ebook expires in 2 months. So, for undergrad purposes (i.e., probably no interest in keeping the books), the ebook is a better deal, because you aren't guaranteed to be able to sell back your expensive text.
I'll ask my wife. It's a Probability book, a Discrete Math, a Statistics book and a (non-math) Business Law book. All standard undergraduate stuff for Math majors. The e-books were all $20-$60 and the hardback versions were all over $100. We don't really care to go on wild goose chases for ultra low cost options.
On a side note: we got the iPad because it's more than just an e-reader, and the other e-readers' software is available on the iPad. We personally don't see any difference in the reading experience from an eye strain point of view, so that's a non-issue for us.
No pirating at all. She went to the online bookstore...the option is buy physical book for $150, or buy the e-book version for $30.
I"m sure the e-book version expires or has some encumbering DRM associated with it, but for 1/5th the price, who cares?
Her physical books were to be about $600, and the equivalent ebooks were $200. With a discount, that is the price of the cheapest iPad2.
Right because there are no such programs called "Profile Manager" or "iPhone Configuration Utility" that let school admins control what student can access on an iPad.
You've never heard of education channels or volume sales?
ebooks for popular fiction don't benefit from the huge discounts like academic books do. This is because there's a huge false markup built into academic books that the e-book versions don't use.
As if you get to chose which text books to use in College Math classes...