Came here to say this. My 65" DLP started crapping out (the pixel dying problem) and I recently installed a new DLP chip for $150 to tide me over until an even larger 4K becomes affordable. I'm quite happy with the TV.
Am I the only one who remembers when AOL created Digital City to get that exact same hyper-local news and content? And then in less than two years, they severely reduced funding, didn't pay attention to local ad sales and eventually killed it, laying everyone off. I just checked - the domain now goes to Mapquest, another brand that AOL reduced funding from just in time for Google to take the mapping crown.
AOL's culture is to reinvent itself over and over thinking that's a good response to fast-changing times, but it comes at the severe loss of consistency and stability. And the results speak for themselves over the past 13 or so years.
I knew it before reading: yet another ad agency. So many marketing firms worldwide have waded deep into the technology pool without any understanding at the leadership level, much less the tactical level about the very basics of IT operations and management that have been honed for decades. From quality to security to legality (in this case), it's go-go-go-launch-and-move-on with people with marketing backgrounds making the calls, pressuring their underling tech people to deliver at all costs.
Came here to say this. I've been seeing these huge Obama sponsored image posts on my iPad that irritate me no end - and I can't report them, can't change a setting to make them go away, can't even complain about them. Man, I wish I could make them go away.
And I don't like either candidate in real life or on Facebook, and my political leaning on FB is listed as "pragmatic"
Agreed, because nothing else holds as much. I recently got to the point where I can't fit all of my music on my Classic and keep hoping they'll come out with, say, a half-terabyte iPod.
And I'm disappointed that they don't address a few well-known, gnawing bugs with one last software update for the Classic.
I worked 16 years at an airport in West Texas with temps regularly much higher than that, and we didn't have planes sinking into the asphalt. Ramps are stress designed to specific weight limits, and that comes from the depth of the stone and substrate layers underneath. For heavies, it's along the lines of 2, 3 or more feet deep of crushed, packed stone underneath the asphalt - THAT'S what prevents something from sinking; not the asphalt itself.
Areas with less depth underneath were where a single wheel heavy plane (the B-727 puts the most stress of any of them because it sits on two single main wheels) would sink.
I've got great download speed (~28Mbs) at home, but my upload speed is throttled down to the 0.8 range, meaning it would take a month round the clock to get all my music up, and more like 3 or 4 months to get a complete hard drive backup there. Like you, I have all these cloud accounts (Amazon, Google, Live, Dropbox, etc.) and I only use them for tiny point solutions - like sending a small number family photos or maybe one family video out. There's no way I'll be loading up my Amazon cloud player any time soon. And something like Carbonite? Not gonna happen.
I suspect I'm probably in the minority, but I have always thought that the UI really needs some serious work. It's never obvious (to me) where to click to get the article that's being pointed out, and the comments below (which is my favorite part) really needs an overhaul in the visual design and possibly the layout. It's just so clunky and unattractive the threading as displayed makes it difficult. And it seems to have a mind of its own on what it shows you.
Put what you have now in a usability lab and I'll bet it'll hurt your feelings to see regular users trying to understand and use it. I say that as someone who's had my own heart broken by designs I thought were good... But we learned from it and the designs got way better. And traffic exploded - after one redesign, usage shot up over 900% in just one month, and was in the millions of users.
I was on CompuServe starting around 1981 or 1982, and was recruited to become a Sysop, which would be called a Forum manager or moderator nowadays. Being a Sysop was golden, because you got unlimited online time when it was $30-something an hour to be online. We developed a lot of rules, processes and customs on managing online community way back then. There's a small former Sysop group on Facebook where we reminisce a bit. And we chuckle a bit over all of the training, seminars and articles on this "new" social media world, teaching things we knew and perfected 30 years ago. We also were using smilies back then, plus a number of shortened terms like roflmao and the ever-popular (grinning, ducking & running).
I later was a Wizop (board owner and manager - a paid position) and went to work for CompuServe in Columbus. It was such a wonderful ride and the many people I worked with at CS were wonderful. Lots of stories, too.
I went with a contingent to Cupertino last year where we met with several Apple gurus about mobile devices which the business has demanded. They were very nice people of course, but the undercurrent was clearly, 'this is how it works'. It was very clear that everything is built for the consumer market with anything enterprise being an afterthought, which puzzled me a bit because clearly, they have to run their own enterprise and as we all know, it's very secretive and controlled.
We work in a highly regulated industry and pointed out many features we needed them to understand and support and the response was always to find a vendor who's built a bolt-on tool for that need. We already are and the few enterprise of those tools and apps and they're godawful and clunky. And they're the best out there. We made many points such as, if the (insert regulatory agency's name here) determined that we needed to remove carefully approved information from every employee iPad and iPhone (which needs to be untethered because there isn't always internet, so no central web delivery), that had to be accomplished within hours and the penalties could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, people losing their jobs and potentially jail time depending on the country. In the PC tablet world, this is simple to do. In the end, we received extremely underwhelming responses at every turn and clearly no grasp of our global enterprise challenges - and not really any interest in ways that Apple could help us, either. Different industries play by different rules, different countries have wildly different laws - but not in Apple's mindset. We were there to understand their way; they were not going to understand our way.
In fact, their biggest push of the day to us was to urge us to make the information we provide to employees look really cool (visually, with super-cool UIs), like some of the cool apps do. Make it super cool-looking so the employees love to engage with your information.
Side note trivia: the company Apple store there is the only place on the planet where you can buy Apple logo clothing, if that's your bag. They also have a BJ's Brewhouse in the parking lot right out front of the main entrance.
I have a Sprint air card for my laptop and with the strongest of strong signals no matter where I go around the country, it's slower than dialup, worse than ancient Wifi-B. I run speedtest.net and get abysmal results.
And then I watched a friend wait over 5 minutes to load a single web page on an iPhone. gag.
My employer bought a company whose site had a ton of Real videos (I lead the internet services department). We just got through converting them all to streaming flash a week ago. It took a little work finding a tool that could do the job well. I feel better, the users win, it's all good. I just couldn't sleep at night knowing that I had a website out there that instructed good people to install the Real player.
AOL laid off all of the Netscape engineers many years ago and the last browser was outsourced to Mercurial (small Canadian company).
So who developed this one?
Unless something changes dramatically in the pricing model, I kind of expect to see Blue-Ray on this list one day./side note: I worked for IBM's PC sales support when the PCjr came out and had one assigned to me for demos. The only thing cool about it was the wireless keyboard (but not the actual chicklet keyboard itself). The 45-pound transportable PC (like a heavy suitcase) was much cooler.
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Came here to say this. My 65" DLP started crapping out (the pixel dying problem) and I recently installed a new DLP chip for $150 to tide me over until an even larger 4K becomes affordable. I'm quite happy with the TV.
Am I the only one who remembers when AOL created Digital City to get that exact same hyper-local news and content? And then in less than two years, they severely reduced funding, didn't pay attention to local ad sales and eventually killed it, laying everyone off. I just checked - the domain now goes to Mapquest, another brand that AOL reduced funding from just in time for Google to take the mapping crown.
AOL's culture is to reinvent itself over and over thinking that's a good response to fast-changing times, but it comes at the severe loss of consistency and stability. And the results speak for themselves over the past 13 or so years.
...like the sigs that tell me please not to print this e-mail so as to save our precious resources? That one really irritates me.
I knew it before reading: yet another ad agency. So many marketing firms worldwide have waded deep into the technology pool without any understanding at the leadership level, much less the tactical level about the very basics of IT operations and management that have been honed for decades. From quality to security to legality (in this case), it's go-go-go-launch-and-move-on with people with marketing backgrounds making the calls, pressuring their underling tech people to deliver at all costs.
Came here to say this. I've been seeing these huge Obama sponsored image posts on my iPad that irritate me no end - and I can't report them, can't change a setting to make them go away, can't even complain about them. Man, I wish I could make them go away.
And I don't like either candidate in real life or on Facebook, and my political leaning on FB is listed as "pragmatic"
Agreed, because nothing else holds as much. I recently got to the point where I can't fit all of my music on my Classic and keep hoping they'll come out with, say, a half-terabyte iPod.
And I'm disappointed that they don't address a few well-known, gnawing bugs with one last software update for the Classic.
I worked 16 years at an airport in West Texas with temps regularly much higher than that, and we didn't have planes sinking into the asphalt. Ramps are stress designed to specific weight limits, and that comes from the depth of the stone and substrate layers underneath. For heavies, it's along the lines of 2, 3 or more feet deep of crushed, packed stone underneath the asphalt - THAT'S what prevents something from sinking; not the asphalt itself.
Areas with less depth underneath were where a single wheel heavy plane (the B-727 puts the most stress of any of them because it sits on two single main wheels) would sink.
I love eating great food, but I have zero interest in how it's prepared and no desire to learn about cooking; much less work as a chef.
They're violating a cardinal rule in business: Listen to your customer. And that customer has been roaring.
Two easy tweaks to the UI and everyone would settle down: Put back the Start menu and allow it to be the default (make Metro optional).
I've got great download speed (~28Mbs) at home, but my upload speed is throttled down to the 0.8 range, meaning it would take a month round the clock to get all my music up, and more like 3 or 4 months to get a complete hard drive backup there. Like you, I have all these cloud accounts (Amazon, Google, Live, Dropbox, etc.) and I only use them for tiny point solutions - like sending a small number family photos or maybe one family video out. There's no way I'll be loading up my Amazon cloud player any time soon. And something like Carbonite? Not gonna happen.
After all, WV has a long history of overkill on pork projects.
Intuit.
I suspect I'm probably in the minority, but I have always thought that the UI really needs some serious work. It's never obvious (to me) where to click to get the article that's being pointed out, and the comments below (which is my favorite part) really needs an overhaul in the visual design and possibly the layout. It's just so clunky and unattractive the threading as displayed makes it difficult. And it seems to have a mind of its own on what it shows you.
Put what you have now in a usability lab and I'll bet it'll hurt your feelings to see regular users trying to understand and use it. I say that as someone who's had my own heart broken by designs I thought were good... But we learned from it and the designs got way better. And traffic exploded - after one redesign, usage shot up over 900% in just one month, and was in the millions of users.
Huh.
The system deleted (gd&r) and only left the translation.
I was on CompuServe starting around 1981 or 1982, and was recruited to become a Sysop, which would be called a Forum manager or moderator nowadays. Being a Sysop was golden, because you got unlimited online time when it was $30-something an hour to be online. We developed a lot of rules, processes and customs on managing online community way back then. There's a small former Sysop group on Facebook where we reminisce a bit. And we chuckle a bit over all of the training, seminars and articles on this "new" social media world, teaching things we knew and perfected 30 years ago. We also were using smilies back then, plus a number of shortened terms like roflmao and the ever-popular (grinning, ducking & running).
I later was a Wizop (board owner and manager - a paid position) and went to work for CompuServe in Columbus. It was such a wonderful ride and the many people I worked with at CS were wonderful. Lots of stories, too.
I do and was a member when CServe bought it.
I went with a contingent to Cupertino last year where we met with several Apple gurus about mobile devices which the business has demanded. They were very nice people of course, but the undercurrent was clearly, 'this is how it works'. It was very clear that everything is built for the consumer market with anything enterprise being an afterthought, which puzzled me a bit because clearly, they have to run their own enterprise and as we all know, it's very secretive and controlled.
We work in a highly regulated industry and pointed out many features we needed them to understand and support and the response was always to find a vendor who's built a bolt-on tool for that need. We already are and the few enterprise of those tools and apps and they're godawful and clunky. And they're the best out there. We made many points such as, if the (insert regulatory agency's name here) determined that we needed to remove carefully approved information from every employee iPad and iPhone (which needs to be untethered because there isn't always internet, so no central web delivery), that had to be accomplished within hours and the penalties could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, people losing their jobs and potentially jail time depending on the country. In the PC tablet world, this is simple to do. In the end, we received extremely underwhelming responses at every turn and clearly no grasp of our global enterprise challenges - and not really any interest in ways that Apple could help us, either. Different industries play by different rules, different countries have wildly different laws - but not in Apple's mindset. We were there to understand their way; they were not going to understand our way.
In fact, their biggest push of the day to us was to urge us to make the information we provide to employees look really cool (visually, with super-cool UIs), like some of the cool apps do. Make it super cool-looking so the employees love to engage with your information.
Side note trivia: the company Apple store there is the only place on the planet where you can buy Apple logo clothing, if that's your bag. They also have a BJ's Brewhouse in the parking lot right out front of the main entrance.
I set up my wife's 4S with her Chevy Traverse in maybe 20 seconds. Yay USA. (We've owned 4 BMWs in the past, each worse than the one before. No mas.)
Awesome. Now knock down about.com and I'll be happy.
I'm just curious: Can six people install enterprise SAP?
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b8/releasenotes/buglist.html
I have a Sprint air card for my laptop and with the strongest of strong signals no matter where I go around the country, it's slower than dialup, worse than ancient Wifi-B. I run speedtest.net and get abysmal results. And then I watched a friend wait over 5 minutes to load a single web page on an iPhone. gag.
My employer bought a company whose site had a ton of Real videos (I lead the internet services department). We just got through converting them all to streaming flash a week ago. It took a little work finding a tool that could do the job well. I feel better, the users win, it's all good. I just couldn't sleep at night knowing that I had a website out there that instructed good people to install the Real player.
AOL laid off all of the Netscape engineers many years ago and the last browser was outsourced to Mercurial (small Canadian company). So who developed this one?
Unless something changes dramatically in the pricing model, I kind of expect to see Blue-Ray on this list one day. /side note: I worked for IBM's PC sales support when the PCjr came out and had one assigned to me for demos. The only thing cool about it was the wireless keyboard (but not the actual chicklet keyboard itself). The 45-pound transportable PC (like a heavy suitcase) was much cooler.