You haven't seen the vast pool of nerds who work at the NSA. Those guys can get bullets cheaply but wouldn't have the first clue of what to do with them.
Sorry, but there's no reality in your fantasy land scenario. Working for the NSA is quite banal and very typically office-like. Part of the allure of the NSA is that it's all this cool super secret stuff, when in reality, its just a bunch of UNIX and Windows boxes and a pool of laborers with clearances run by PHBs.
Yeah, well had my former employer ever bothered to upgrade to Win7, the differences on the other side might not have been so drastic. I like Win7 but it is not so super stable and awesome for business as people think. That's my only point, really; you don't really know until you go from XP in the workplace to Snow Leopard/Lion in the workplace. The daily gremlins of Windows that I took for granted for 15 years disappeared in a day. So far in three months the only gremlin I've had is one of my four Macs seems to get confused on waking up from sleep with bluetooth devices attached. I'll take that general inconvenience over lost productivity every day of the week.
Well, what I was saying is that life is much better on the other side. I'm just saying life isn't as Windows dependent as most people think. I get why so many corporations use Windows. I don't, however, get why so many individuals free-willingly choose Windows for their personal use.
I just left a Windows-only company of 3,000 employees for a Mac-only company of 50k+ employees. It's only a matter of time until other companies figure it out and ditch Windows.
My anecdote is funner, but it has financial results to trump your anecdote. See, everyone I know with a Mac has a Windows partition, but none of them use it. They 'think' they need Windows, but as new Mac converts, they learn that they really don't need Windows, and they start to understand that people like me who have been Windows free since 1989 aren't crazy zealots, and they no longer boot into Windows except to play games (and even that is dwindling).
The saddest thing I've read on the Internet this week is not anything about the debt ceiling; it's the fact that Vista has twice as many users as OS X.
You are crazy. I paid $45 last time I went to a Jiffy Lube like place. $85? You got suckered.
Besides, 5 quarts of synthetic oil at Wal-mart is $25 bucks. The filter is probably $5. That's $30 minimum cost. Then you have the oil disposal fee (which I have no idea what it runs these days, since it costs more to change your own oil). Then, as I said before, there's my time. Even if it's only 20 minutes, thats $30 of my salary. $30 plus 20 minutes of my time is already way over the cost benefit.
It is worth mentioning that it is 105 degrees every day this week in Texas. Have fun changing your oil in that weather.
Actually you are wrong. For simplicity's sake, I avoided talking about synthetics, but my car (a Mazdaspeed 3) uses synthetic oil AND 6 quarts of oil as opposed to the regular 4-5 quarts. The synthetic+extra quart price advantage is even greater by going to quick-lube-du-jour than DIY.
Yeah, but you have legal recourse if they do. Anecdotally, I've been taking cars to Jiffy Lube for 23 years and I've never had a problem. And they can't up-sell you to a bunch of stuff you don't need like the repair shops and dealerships do.
Yeah, thanks for hanging out on a forum and not contributing anything that doesn't pass Ivy League College citation requirements.
Last I checked, this is an informal place to discuss technology stuff. If you don't like my ideas or the other guy, feel free to disagree. I won't even give you grief or drop a "citation" penis size comparo on you if you don't give a citation in the process.
None of them frighten me. Google pisses me off because they have chosen a business model built around selling ads, and I hate ads. Society in general is much more stupid due to advertising. What I DO like about Google, and Apple, however, is an insane level of demanded excellence at all levels of everything they do. This makes society better, even if they are excellently selling ads.
Most employment contracts I sign make no such distinction. If it's work-related the company owns it, no matter what.
Well, yeah, if it's work related, that goes without saying. If you are at work and its not work related, they also own it (using their equipment). If you are at home using your own gear and it isn't work related than they don't own it.
So people who prefer to shop online for tech products are more likely to buy high end tech gadgets. What a concept! Your picking and choosing which sales report to cite is just as weak as his lack of citation.
Now if anybody has the complete picture of what kind of android phones are purchased, that would be informative. I'm gonna guess that the $50-$100 ones easily outsell the high end Galaxy S and the like.
I don't change my own oil for two reasons: if I screw it up, I'm the only one to blame, and it costs me more in supplies to change my own oil than it does to pay Jiffy Lube. Taking my car to Jiffy lube every 5-6 months, buying tires and a battery every three years, and filling it up is all car maintenance should be. If it is anything else, you are a serious hobbyist, or you are doing it wrong.
5 quarts of generic oil at wal-mart (with tax is $20). A standard oil change, plus filter at Jiffy lube is $25, and they'll dispose of the oil. Most importantly, my time is worth 10x both of those, easily.
This is the heart of the anti-Apple rant. Some of you are so stubborn that you'd rather change your own oil, even if it costs you MORE money to do so than to let somebody else dictate the steps (proper steps that work just fine, mind you) and process to change the oil. It's this mentality that the has driven the rest of us to coin the phrase, "he's so damn smart he's stupid", when it comes to talking about our software developer coworkers.
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You haven't seen the vast pool of nerds who work at the NSA. Those guys can get bullets cheaply but wouldn't have the first clue of what to do with them.
NSA wouldn't run a counterintelligence operation against Americans. That would be illegal and easy to beat.
Especially considering "counterintelligence" is not one of the missions of the NSA.
Sorry, but there's no reality in your fantasy land scenario. Working for the NSA is quite banal and very typically office-like. Part of the allure of the NSA is that it's all this cool super secret stuff, when in reality, its just a bunch of UNIX and Windows boxes and a pool of laborers with clearances run by PHBs.
Huh? I left the NSA 10 years ago after 13 years and there has been no acrimony. I've actually used my bosses as references for later jobs.
Yeah, well had my former employer ever bothered to upgrade to Win7, the differences on the other side might not have been so drastic. I like Win7 but it is not so super stable and awesome for business as people think. That's my only point, really; you don't really know until you go from XP in the workplace to Snow Leopard/Lion in the workplace. The daily gremlins of Windows that I took for granted for 15 years disappeared in a day. So far in three months the only gremlin I've had is one of my four Macs seems to get confused on waking up from sleep with bluetooth devices attached. I'll take that general inconvenience over lost productivity every day of the week.
Well, what I was saying is that life is much better on the other side. I'm just saying life isn't as Windows dependent as most people think. I get why so many corporations use Windows. I don't, however, get why so many individuals free-willingly choose Windows for their personal use.
Well, he could have skipped ME and XP and went from Win98 2E right to Win7 (the only 2 decent OSes out of Redmond in my lifetime).
MS will come up with Win OS X once Apple goes to OS XI (using the past 20 years for reference).
I just left a Windows-only company of 3,000 employees for a Mac-only company of 50k+ employees. It's only a matter of time until other companies figure it out and ditch Windows.
My anecdote is funner, but it has financial results to trump your anecdote. See, everyone I know with a Mac has a Windows partition, but none of them use it. They 'think' they need Windows, but as new Mac converts, they learn that they really don't need Windows, and they start to understand that people like me who have been Windows free since 1989 aren't crazy zealots, and they no longer boot into Windows except to play games (and even that is dwindling).
No, the logical path is to ditch the Fisher Price OS, skip the worst OS ever released, and go for the much better Win 7 OS.
The saddest thing I've read on the Internet this week is not anything about the debt ceiling; it's the fact that Vista has twice as many users as OS X.
You are crazy. I paid $45 last time I went to a Jiffy Lube like place. $85? You got suckered.
Besides, 5 quarts of synthetic oil at Wal-mart is $25 bucks. The filter is probably $5. That's $30 minimum cost. Then you have the oil disposal fee (which I have no idea what it runs these days, since it costs more to change your own oil). Then, as I said before, there's my time. Even if it's only 20 minutes, thats $30 of my salary. $30 plus 20 minutes of my time is already way over the cost benefit.
It is worth mentioning that it is 105 degrees every day this week in Texas. Have fun changing your oil in that weather.
Actually you are wrong. For simplicity's sake, I avoided talking about synthetics, but my car (a Mazdaspeed 3) uses synthetic oil AND 6 quarts of oil as opposed to the regular 4-5 quarts. The synthetic+extra quart price advantage is even greater by going to quick-lube-du-jour than DIY.
Yeah, but you have legal recourse if they do. Anecdotally, I've been taking cars to Jiffy Lube for 23 years and I've never had a problem. And they can't up-sell you to a bunch of stuff you don't need like the repair shops and dealerships do.
Yeah, thanks for hanging out on a forum and not contributing anything that doesn't pass Ivy League College citation requirements.
Last I checked, this is an informal place to discuss technology stuff. If you don't like my ideas or the other guy, feel free to disagree. I won't even give you grief or drop a "citation" penis size comparo on you if you don't give a citation in the process.
None of them frighten me. Google pisses me off because they have chosen a business model built around selling ads, and I hate ads. Society in general is much more stupid due to advertising. What I DO like about Google, and Apple, however, is an insane level of demanded excellence at all levels of everything they do. This makes society better, even if they are excellently selling ads.
Most employment contracts I sign make no such distinction. If it's work-related the company owns it, no matter what.
Well, yeah, if it's work related, that goes without saying. If you are at work and its not work related, they also own it (using their equipment). If you are at home using your own gear and it isn't work related than they don't own it.
Flawless, perfect, yet to crash one single time: delusional.
God forbid you bring personal experience to a discussion forum--especially slashdot!
So people who prefer to shop online for tech products are more likely to buy high end tech gadgets. What a concept! Your picking and choosing which sales report to cite is just as weak as his lack of citation.
Now if anybody has the complete picture of what kind of android phones are purchased, that would be informative. I'm gonna guess that the $50-$100 ones easily outsell the high end Galaxy S and the like.
I know I'm in the minority, but if I can't pop the lid and mess with the noodles ... it's just not for me...It wasn't designed with me in mind...
Jot this day down in history -- slashdotter discovers the world doesn't evolve around him, on August 1st, 2011.
He started his post with "the green robot with the linux brain is loose..." Did you actually expect anything after that to be factual?
I don't change my own oil for two reasons: if I screw it up, I'm the only one to blame, and it costs me more in supplies to change my own oil than it does to pay Jiffy Lube. Taking my car to Jiffy lube every 5-6 months, buying tires and a battery every three years, and filling it up is all car maintenance should be. If it is anything else, you are a serious hobbyist, or you are doing it wrong.
5 quarts of generic oil at wal-mart (with tax is $20). A standard oil change, plus filter at Jiffy lube is $25, and they'll dispose of the oil. Most importantly, my time is worth 10x both of those, easily.
This is the heart of the anti-Apple rant. Some of you are so stubborn that you'd rather change your own oil, even if it costs you MORE money to do so than to let somebody else dictate the steps (proper steps that work just fine, mind you) and process to change the oil. It's this mentality that the has driven the rest of us to coin the phrase, "he's so damn smart he's stupid", when it comes to talking about our software developer coworkers.
Wow. I thought such people existed only in soap operas and politics.
Yes every soap opera has an über-cheap jackass who doesn't want to spend money on anything. And in politics, we call them "Tea Partiers".