So how do you know that the bacteria in the water is the good kind or not? Fertiliser also has lots of bacteria in it...
You test it. And if not fit to drink, bring in drinking water from an unaffected area while the local supply is treated.
And if the fertiliser was used as an alternative to salt to keep the roads passable, they would not have used organic fertiliser. Shovelling shit on something only works in PR and politics.
Sheth suggested that customers upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Google Chrome 4.0 or Safari 3.0, or more recent versions of those browsers. "
Why would they even suggest IE7?
Because otherwise it would look like they were stopping support for IE6 for commercial reasons rather than technical reasons. Which would be unethical to say the least.
I'm also wondering how this will affect corporate infrastructures who rely on Docs or Sites. My company is one of those stuck in IE6 ZombieLand, but we are already in the certification process for Windows 7 and IE8. Unfortunately, for an organization our size, it takes 1-2 years to move to a new version of windows. I can't imagine we're all that unique. This time line seems very aggressive (don't get me wrong, I understand Google's perspective completely).
They will have to change or stop using the services.
How many years have people been saying that IE6 should be got rid of? Do you need a disembodied hand to write it on the board room wall in blood?
I don't know how EDS stays in business. Kickbacks to purchasing officers with no stake in the projects is my guess.
Don't they take on quite a few government white elephant projects? The ones that never actually work, but the minister vaguely associated with it in an unofficial non blame accepting manner always says is going incredibly well until it gets cancelled?
The school only has 230 students. I have a hard time believing they'd need 192 servers whether they used Linux or not.
Not heard of central provisioning then.. Standardised I.T. infrastructure mandates 192 servers per school reguardless of size+192 Windws server edition software+various resources reguardless of actual need. Somewhere there is a school that needs 237 servers, but only has 192 and can't get the extra alloocation because that would screw up the budgeting.
And BTW, as long as you're standing on my lawn, may I remind you that my own high school's expenditure on servers was exactly zero? How's that for savings?
Mine too. But then I'm old enough to have gone to school when computers were big complicated things that huge companies used.
I also walked to school.. in the snow, uphill both ways..
Having viruses and other types of malicious software running on the computer is so common that people don't care anymore. Seriously.. I see people working in the middle of a "adware popups up window, user closes it" kind of game and they don't even seem to bother. When is this going to change???
When people stop seeing "Joe Average" as the target demographic for everything, and mock any product that requires a little common sense and thought to use.
When even people here stop complaining about things not being intuitive, or that they need to learn something to use it and other bullshit.
Basically.. When ignorance stops being an acceptable state.
So in other words.. Probably never.
C was designed with platform Independence in mind. 90% of the C code is portable across platforms.
But the remaining ten percent of low level fiddly stuff is the killer. And games do a lot of it.
Bypassing the best practices to get an extra few FPS out of the hardware can't be done with straight portable code. So the devs use everytrick and every undocumented or poorly documented hack they can. This is why games crash more than other apps. And why games are more likely to cause a problem in the PC world, when you change OS version.
The transition time on my Sony 300 is less than a second - about the same as physically turning a page.
Same with my Cybook. It takes an instant to wake up fully and get everything sorted, but the actual screen redraw is fine for it's purpose.
Obviously, it's never going to be fast enough for the drama queens who simply must have instant screen refresh, and none of that beastly flashing as the display zeros.
Personally, I have developed the habit of pressing the next page button when I'm half ways through the last sentence, and it is not disruptive at all. Blink and you'll miss it.
I work tech support for a windows heavy environment, and the bottom end users are so mind bogglingly confused about the two buttons that it's laughable.
"Click on the icon" "Right click or left click?" "If I say click, I just mean left click" "Ok, it brought up a menu.." "No, you right clicked on it, use the left button" "Oh.. Now i have a properties window" "No, you left clicked the menu.. not the icon.. close that and start over" "Ok, I have the menu up again, now what? I right click on properties?" "... bring it in, I'll do it"
Then you need better communication skills..
First line changed to "Left click on the icon", and the problem does not arise.
Ya know, there's never been a case where a copyright owner has been required to honor a "perpetual" license grant.
It hasn't been tested with a proprietary license, let alone the GPL.
So are you saying that copyright over rules license conditions? You might want to sit down and think abotu that for a bit..
I know it's way late to ask that, but why ?!? I've listened to mp3s since before the Napster area and used mp3 players since the Rio and I don't see anything better about the iPods compared to the competition. Quite the opposite (no card reading ability for instance). So, I repeat, why are they so successful ? I find that the best mp3 player is simply my cell phone (no needless duplication of devices).
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Simple.. Known quantity and availability.
Ignore any fanboy input, where the only requirement is to have an Apple logo to be the best ever anything..And you can get to the real issue. iProducts are the midi systems of the PMP world.
Realistically, go into any consumer electronics chain and you have a pretty pitiful range of choices. iProducts and a few cheap models, a couple of big brand names with disappointing spec perhaps, but that is about it. And that is where it ends for most.
The good stuff is really only available in online outlets. Which is possibly why many of the really cool far eastern PMPs never get outside Asia.
Ask anyone on the street if they know what Android is. Do the same for the iPhone. Check the proportions.
Ask 500 random people on the street what a tampon is, and most will know.. Does that mean men are using tampons now? Brand recognition is not a guarantee of sales. I know what an iPhone is, and what it does, but I don't want one. I don't even want a cell phone, which doesn't mean I want a touch. Brand recognition is not a guarantee of sales.
A new unknown product is still an unknown product. The iPhone has Apple's entire marketing (which is arguably one of their strongest assets) behind it, while Android didn't really have much before. I think this shows that no matter the quality of the product, awareness is key.
And cell phones are a rapidly changing market. So a new product is still a new product. The iPhone is not new any more.
Usual phone retail life span is about 2 years tops. The Jesus phone is 3 years + old. Even though it is updated every so often, it still looks like the first one.
Some people actually want a new phone, not an upgrade of the same one. Most are not as neophobic as you think. And some actually like being able to put their phone on a table, and not have to figure out which one is theirs..
The iPhone is getting old.. Deal with it..
Uh, but DRM also protects the smaller authors who would be happy to eke out a comfortable life. If the books can only be free, then people can only write books as a hobby. That means only rich people can write books.
And why do DRM free books have to be free?
I buy DRM free music.Asdo millions of others. Why would I not buy DRM free books? Same concept. And please don't give me the "everybody downloads everything" bullshit, because it isn't true. If it was, the music and movie industry would already be out of business.
Depends how technical you want to get. Most people only know the basics,
Exactly! And lets be honest here.. The basics translate pretty well from one app to another.
but power users can do alot more using formulas, mail-merges, macros, VBA etc. Then there's SQL which can be used alongside Access, not to mention database normalisation etc. Office can be quite technical if you look at some of the deeper parts of it. It's not just bold, italics and paragraphs, it's actually quite a powerful system if you do your research.
Irrelevant. My question was not about power users, or the scope and functionality of a modern office suite. We both know exactly what I meant by "Office skills". And you answered my question in your second sentence.
Yes, I've mentioned him before, but my uncle will trust any jackoff (Wait, I'm in Pittsburgh now, "jagoff") with a sign on his truck even if he were the biggest idiot who burns half his house down in the process of setting his VCR clock. When it comes to me fixing, say, a loose power socket that just needed the screw in back tightened down, he'd rather have it hanging loose until he can afford to hire someone to do it.
Sounds like my dad.. I can remember him calling the TV repair guy (shows how old I am) to retune the TV I wasn't allowed to wire a power plug until I was 18.
Stuff he didn't understand was stuff I couldn't possibly understand either obviously. I did have a nice little sideline fixing radios for schoolmates though in my early teens.
Would it be too much to hope that Microsoft gets the message that it might be best to say goodbye to software patents (work to invalidize all of them)?
But.. But.. But... Microsoft PROTECTS intellectual property.. It is obviously protecting i4i's intellectual property from it's self.
Biter bit. Not that they are going to learn unless it really damages them.
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So how do you know that the bacteria in the water is the good kind or not? Fertiliser also has lots of bacteria in it...
You test it. And if not fit to drink, bring in drinking water from an unaffected area while the local supply is treated.
And if the fertiliser was used as an alternative to salt to keep the roads passable, they would not have used organic fertiliser. Shovelling shit on something only works in PR and politics.
Sheth suggested that customers upgrade to Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Google Chrome 4.0 or Safari 3.0, or more recent versions of those browsers. " Why would they even suggest IE7?
Because otherwise it would look like they were stopping support for IE6 for commercial reasons rather than technical reasons. Which would be unethical to say the least.
I'm also wondering how this will affect corporate infrastructures who rely on Docs or Sites. My company is one of those stuck in IE6 ZombieLand, but we are already in the certification process for Windows 7 and IE8. Unfortunately, for an organization our size, it takes 1-2 years to move to a new version of windows. I can't imagine we're all that unique. This time line seems very aggressive (don't get me wrong, I understand Google's perspective completely).
They will have to change or stop using the services. How many years have people been saying that IE6 should be got rid of? Do you need a disembodied hand to write it on the board room wall in blood?
I thought the iTampon was the name of the coming wearable computer.
No.. That would be the SUPPOSiTORY
The digital tampon:
Shh.. iTampon is the name for the next pocket sized version.. And the full newspaper sized one is the Max..
I don't know how EDS stays in business. Kickbacks to purchasing officers with no stake in the projects is my guess.
Don't they take on quite a few government white elephant projects? The ones that never actually work, but the minister vaguely associated with it in an unofficial non blame accepting manner always says is going incredibly well until it gets cancelled?
The school only has 230 students. I have a hard time believing they'd need 192 servers whether they used Linux or not.
Not heard of central provisioning then.. Standardised I.T. infrastructure mandates 192 servers per school reguardless of size+192 Windws server edition software+various resources reguardless of actual need. Somewhere there is a school that needs 237 servers, but only has 192 and can't get the extra alloocation because that would screw up the budgeting.
And BTW, as long as you're standing on my lawn, may I remind you that my own high school's expenditure on servers was exactly zero? How's that for savings?
Mine too. But then I'm old enough to have gone to school when computers were big complicated things that huge companies used. I also walked to school.. in the snow, uphill both ways..
Having viruses and other types of malicious software running on the computer is so common that people don't care anymore. Seriously.. I see people working in the middle of a "adware popups up window, user closes it" kind of game and they don't even seem to bother. When is this going to change???
When people stop seeing "Joe Average" as the target demographic for everything, and mock any product that requires a little common sense and thought to use. When even people here stop complaining about things not being intuitive, or that they need to learn something to use it and other bullshit. Basically.. When ignorance stops being an acceptable state. So in other words.. Probably never.
I'll never understand why so many people here blame so many ills on the free market when we currently do not even have a free market.
Because we vainly hope to educate the brainwashed morons who think it actually exists.
C was designed with platform Independence in mind. 90% of the C code is portable across platforms.
But the remaining ten percent of low level fiddly stuff is the killer. And games do a lot of it. Bypassing the best practices to get an extra few FPS out of the hardware can't be done with straight portable code. So the devs use everytrick and every undocumented or poorly documented hack they can. This is why games crash more than other apps. And why games are more likely to cause a problem in the PC world, when you change OS version.
The transition time on my Sony 300 is less than a second - about the same as physically turning a page.
Same with my Cybook. It takes an instant to wake up fully and get everything sorted, but the actual screen redraw is fine for it's purpose. Obviously, it's never going to be fast enough for the drama queens who simply must have instant screen refresh, and none of that beastly flashing as the display zeros. Personally, I have developed the habit of pressing the next page button when I'm half ways through the last sentence, and it is not disruptive at all. Blink and you'll miss it.
I work tech support for a windows heavy environment, and the bottom end users are so mind bogglingly confused about the two buttons that it's laughable.
"Click on the icon"
"Right click or left click?"
"If I say click, I just mean left click"
"Ok, it brought up a menu.."
"No, you right clicked on it, use the left button"
"Oh.. Now i have a properties window"
"No, you left clicked the menu.. not the icon.. close that and start over"
"Ok, I have the menu up again, now what? I right click on properties?"
"... bring it in, I'll do it"
Then you need better communication skills..
First line changed to "Left click on the icon", and the problem does not arise.
Ya know, there's never been a case where a copyright owner has been required to honor a "perpetual" license grant. It hasn't been tested with a proprietary license, let alone the GPL.
So are you saying that copyright over rules license conditions? You might want to sit down and think abotu that for a bit..
I know it's way late to ask that, but why ?!? I've listened to mp3s since before the Napster area and used mp3 players since the Rio and I don't see anything better about the iPods compared to the competition. Quite the opposite (no card reading ability for instance). So, I repeat, why are they so successful ? I find that the best mp3 player is simply my cell phone (no needless duplication of devices). --
Simple.. Known quantity and availability. Ignore any fanboy input, where the only requirement is to have an Apple logo to be the best ever anything..And you can get to the real issue. iProducts are the midi systems of the PMP world. Realistically, go into any consumer electronics chain and you have a pretty pitiful range of choices. iProducts and a few cheap models, a couple of big brand names with disappointing spec perhaps, but that is about it. And that is where it ends for most. The good stuff is really only available in online outlets. Which is possibly why many of the really cool far eastern PMPs never get outside Asia.
So... By your logic. Who should be able to contribute.... I haven't really found a good OS yet...
Companies with no vested interest in subverting standards.
Ask anyone on the street if they know what Android is. Do the same for the iPhone. Check the proportions.
Ask 500 random people on the street what a tampon is, and most will know.. Does that mean men are using tampons now? Brand recognition is not a guarantee of sales. I know what an iPhone is, and what it does, but I don't want one. I don't even want a cell phone, which doesn't mean I want a touch. Brand recognition is not a guarantee of sales.
A new unknown product is still an unknown product. The iPhone has Apple's entire marketing (which is arguably one of their strongest assets) behind it, while Android didn't really have much before. I think this shows that no matter the quality of the product, awareness is key.
And cell phones are a rapidly changing market. So a new product is still a new product. The iPhone is not new any more. Usual phone retail life span is about 2 years tops. The Jesus phone is 3 years + old. Even though it is updated every so often, it still looks like the first one. Some people actually want a new phone, not an upgrade of the same one. Most are not as neophobic as you think. And some actually like being able to put their phone on a table, and not have to figure out which one is theirs.. The iPhone is getting old.. Deal with it..
Uh, but DRM also protects the smaller authors who would be happy to eke out a comfortable life. If the books can only be free, then people can only write books as a hobby. That means only rich people can write books.
And why do DRM free books have to be free? I buy DRM free music.Asdo millions of others. Why would I not buy DRM free books? Same concept. And please don't give me the "everybody downloads everything" bullshit, because it isn't true. If it was, the music and movie industry would already be out of business.
Depends how technical you want to get. Most people only know the basics,
Exactly! And lets be honest here.. The basics translate pretty well from one app to another.
but power users can do alot more using formulas, mail-merges, macros, VBA etc. Then there's SQL which can be used alongside Access, not to mention database normalisation etc. Office can be quite technical if you look at some of the deeper parts of it. It's not just bold, italics and paragraphs, it's actually quite a powerful system if you do your research.
Irrelevant. My question was not about power users, or the scope and functionality of a modern office suite. We both know exactly what I meant by "Office skills". And you answered my question in your second sentence.
Pretty much what I thought then.
MS Office skills are marketable at any age.
What exactly are MS Office skills?
All the pro-China/anti-US comments. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....
All the paranoid merkin wankers 5,4, Oh.. Already here I see.
Yes, I've mentioned him before, but my uncle will trust any jackoff (Wait, I'm in Pittsburgh now, "jagoff") with a sign on his truck even if he were the biggest idiot who burns half his house down in the process of setting his VCR clock. When it comes to me fixing, say, a loose power socket that just needed the screw in back tightened down, he'd rather have it hanging loose until he can afford to hire someone to do it.
Sounds like my dad.. I can remember him calling the TV repair guy (shows how old I am) to retune the TV I wasn't allowed to wire a power plug until I was 18. Stuff he didn't understand was stuff I couldn't possibly understand either obviously. I did have a nice little sideline fixing radios for schoolmates though in my early teens.
Would it be too much to hope that Microsoft gets the message that it might be best to say goodbye to software patents (work to invalidize all of them)?
But.. But.. But... Microsoft PROTECTS intellectual property.. It is obviously protecting i4i's intellectual property from it's self. Biter bit. Not that they are going to learn unless it really damages them.
I refuse to believe that they've cancled this... *nah* *nah* *nah* I can't hear you.. AC - patiently holding my breath since 1997
It's ok.. I heard a rumour that it is going to come pre installed on the Apple tablet.
I agree with this, but one thing I am baffled about - why are RATM part of the Sony Empire? Surely completely against what they stand for?
Aww bless.. You are still innocent enough to think that musicians stand for something..
In the context of the orriginal post I don't see the difference.
I was afraid of that..