I replaced 2, 5 year old Dell servers last year and Dell did not ask for us to ship them the old servers. In fact they did not even ask if we were replacing old servers.
I love my ipad but there is ZERO chance of a ipad lasting a kid all day for school. I get about 5 hours of solid on and in use, the 10 hour run time is a complete myth. Although the ipad1 did have a longer run time than this ipad 2 I have.
In gaming sessions I start with a fully charged ipad and end with 20% battery in the 4 hours we game. Not a chance in hell it's going to last a kid an entire school day.
A kindle can easily go weeks between chargings, if they made it thicker and covered the back in a full size solar panel, it could charge in a few hours of direct sunlight.
This would eliminate 99.99764% of all your arguments.
The kindle is useless as a fuel source, a book buns much longer and hotter to heat your shack or cook your soup under.
No, as a AV engineer and consultant I have observed the following. Teachers are incredibly dumb compared to the kids in regards to technology. Almost to the point that they are "special needs".
I have several educators that complain that when they press a button on a touchscreen that if something did not happen, they don't press it again, they crawl under the desk and start crying and proclaiming that the system is completely broken and needs to be replaced. These people may understand education, but they are incompetent when it comes to using any form of technology.
The rich will simply start rendering the poor into food and fuel. Soylent green is tasty, but Soylent Brown burns nicely in the tank of my Mercedes SEL9000. BRB: I need to activate the turrets again, it seems that children are trying to get to the trash for food.
You haven't seen grade school ipad cases. you can beat someone to death with the screen side and cause no damage to the screen. I watched a kindergarten psychopath kid go insane on one and jump up and down on it.
I am trying to track down what the case is and if it's available in black instead of bright purple.
But they are not. My wife has available most of her college textbooks on kindle or ipad. They cost the SAME as the paper book. but you can "rent" them for 3 months instead.
Fun part is it's easy to crack the "rent" feature and strip the DRM so you can keep the book.
All companies don't want your old broken gear back. I have a dead TV here, Panasonic wont take it back when I but a new one. This is normal for 100% of all companies on the planet.
More features, I can legally give each employee 37,000 copies to take home, give to friends, sell on the street for crack, etc.. Zero cost to the IT department, removes liability from BSA audits, removes future costs, removes training costs.
It's why I stayed employed and promoted, instead of being laid off because of money issues in the company. Oh an also why the company I am with is still in business and growing while ALL of our competition in the state has went bankrupt and out of business. We are the last man standing.
If we had did the lemming upgrade to Office 2010 and a windows backend we would have wasted a lot of money and been out of business. Now we are on OSS for Office suite, and Google for email, OSS for the backend.
From where I am standing, where the CEO is standing and where the shareholders are standing, OSS was the smart move. Got some real info to back up your claim that Office 2010 is superior and far more features? Because I could not find ANY real advantages to staying with MS Office.
"Electric cars generate a lot of torque. There's not much reason you couldn't use them for towing."
really? body and frame design as well as suspension means nothing in towing?
A Nissan Leaf will damage it's self if you tow with it because the Unibody frame is made so light that it cant not handle any towing, it will literally pull it's self apart as it is a FWD car. Plus the suspension is so light it cant handle more than a 150 pound hitch load. Motorcycles have a bigger towing capacity.
Fujitsu Stylistic tablets. Honestly use the real thing and stop screwing around with consumer junk. You can get used ones for under $400.00 that work great. www.ebay.com and search for fujitsu stylistic.
"Surely we've had enough of this ribbon is bad garbage by now? It's actually not bad "
No, but it helped me get the entire company off of Microsoft Office and only Libre office without a fight. on a test group of 10 we set up both. All of the test group told us they preferred Office 2003 first and Libre Office second. none wanted Office 2010.
I personally love "ribbons" it helped me continue the switch away from Microsoft in my company.
It's not better, it's different.
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And that is the problem.
Every single Iteration of Linux or Windows creates a ball of confusion for everyone. Microsoft starts hiding things, moving things, or WORSE, re-naming things.
Honestly, if you put in consistency so that a person looking for system tools like. Updates, Software Manager, Hardware Manager, etc.. It's easy to find.
But the latest iteration of Ubuntu and Mint, it's easier to drop to a shell and type sudo apt-get update than it is to find the farking Update manager. In windows, Add and remove programs is now renamed. And unless you change away from the "idiot at the wheel mode" of control panel you will have a bugger of a time finding it.
Microsoft renames and reshuffled everything to force their certifications to be updated every release, but the Linux people have ZERO excuse for making thing confusing as hell by renaming and putting something important like Update Manager Under "Menu,Other" It fricking goes under Menu,System... Anyone in charge of layout in Mint that put it in "other" needs to be beaten with a sack of doorknobs until they lose consciousness.
It seems we have entered into the era of change for the sake of change and not for the sake of better. I honestly am waiting for Windows to rename "control panel" to "shiny stuff" in windows 9.0
No, what I am saying that that people with a CS degree cant program a system that relies on EE knowlege, in fact I said that quite clearly. No worry about you firing me, The janitor cant fire people.
In my field of embedded programming a CS grad is worthless. If you dont have an EE degree you will never be able to write the code. You have to understand what the voltages coming in MEAN. Understand transistors, logic devices, feedback loops, etc...
The last CS grad we hired was completely worthless. Dude did not even know how a microprocessor worked. Almost all CS grads know nothing at all about computers.
Mythbusters can lob a cannon ball 3/4 of the way around the planet from california to dublin,Ireland and not only out it through the front door, but up the stairs and out the window into a minivan!
Honestly a drone takeover requires you to be above it. They get control from satellites and AWAC's that are flying ABOVE Them. they do not get controls from ground based transmitters. Plus how did they get their hands on the C&C protocols?
IF they did this, then the USA military electronics is a complete and utter joke. But right now I'm claiming that it glided into the sandy wasteland after it had a failure and they found it.
The network guys need it because they cant see it on their own.
Last place I worked I turned in a fellow programmer for downloading nasty snuff porn at work. The morons in the NOC could never catch it but little ol me after inserting a 20 year old 10 base T hub in line with our outbound router and then plugging in the bosses second ethernet line into it so I could run etherape and other tools in there was able to deliver proof in 20 minutes. the linux tool that displays images that are being sent around on the network made the Ops manager crap himself right there in his chair.
Yet the experts in the NOC and Network operations told the higher ups that they cant do what I was showing them. A skilled person can easily set up network side tools to discover and log things without resorting to amateur hour apps on the desktop.
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I replaced 2, 5 year old Dell servers last year and Dell did not ask for us to ship them the old servers.
In fact they did not even ask if we were replacing old servers.
I love my ipad but there is ZERO chance of a ipad lasting a kid all day for school. I get about 5 hours of solid on and in use, the 10 hour run time is a complete myth. Although the ipad1 did have a longer run time than this ipad 2 I have.
In gaming sessions I start with a fully charged ipad and end with 20% battery in the 4 hours we game. Not a chance in hell it's going to last a kid an entire school day.
What idiot is buying a 64 gig 3G ipad for kids?
Schools pay less than $199 each for ipad 2's 16 gig wifi units.
Or are you making up a price because you have zero clue as to how much an ipad costs?
A kindle can easily go weeks between chargings, if they made it thicker and covered the back in a full size solar panel, it could charge in a few hours of direct sunlight.
This would eliminate 99.99764% of all your arguments.
The kindle is useless as a fuel source, a book buns much longer and hotter to heat your shack or cook your soup under.
No, as a AV engineer and consultant I have observed the following. Teachers are incredibly dumb compared to the kids in regards to technology. Almost to the point that they are "special needs".
I have several educators that complain that when they press a button on a touchscreen that if something did not happen, they don't press it again, they crawl under the desk and start crying and proclaiming that the system is completely broken and needs to be replaced. These people may understand education, but they are incompetent when it comes to using any form of technology.
only for the poor.
The rich will simply start rendering the poor into food and fuel. Soylent green is tasty, but Soylent Brown burns nicely in the tank of my Mercedes SEL9000.
BRB: I need to activate the turrets again, it seems that children are trying to get to the trash for food.
You haven't seen grade school ipad cases. you can beat someone to death with the screen side and cause no damage to the screen. I watched a kindergarten psychopath kid go insane on one and jump up and down on it.
I am trying to track down what the case is and if it's available in black instead of bright purple.
But they are not. My wife has available most of her college textbooks on kindle or ipad. They cost the SAME as the paper book. but you can "rent" them for 3 months instead.
Fun part is it's easy to crack the "rent" feature and strip the DRM so you can keep the book.
Almost as bad as the windows whores that have to complain all the time.
Not if the company that made the software only wrote it for ipad....
All companies don't want your old broken gear back. I have a dead TV here, Panasonic wont take it back when I but a new one. This is normal for 100% of all companies on the planet.
More features, I can legally give each employee 37,000 copies to take home, give to friends, sell on the street for crack, etc.. Zero cost to the IT department, removes liability from BSA audits, removes future costs, removes training costs.
It's why I stayed employed and promoted, instead of being laid off because of money issues in the company. Oh an also why the company I am with is still in business and growing while ALL of our competition in the state has went bankrupt and out of business. We are the last man standing.
If we had did the lemming upgrade to Office 2010 and a windows backend we would have wasted a lot of money and been out of business. Now we are on OSS for Office suite, and Google for email, OSS for the backend.
From where I am standing, where the CEO is standing and where the shareholders are standing, OSS was the smart move. Got some real info to back up your claim that Office 2010 is superior and far more features? Because I could not find ANY real advantages to staying with MS Office.
"Electric cars generate a lot of torque. There's not much reason you couldn't use them for towing."
really? body and frame design as well as suspension means nothing in towing?
A Nissan Leaf will damage it's self if you tow with it because the Unibody frame is made so light that it cant not handle any towing, it will literally pull it's self apart as it is a FWD car. Plus the suspension is so light it cant handle more than a 150 pound hitch load. Motorcycles have a bigger towing capacity.
Fujitsu Stylistic tablets. Honestly use the real thing and stop screwing around with consumer junk. You can get used ones for under $400.00 that work great.
www.ebay.com and search for fujitsu stylistic.
All done.
"Surely we've had enough of this ribbon is bad garbage by now? It's actually not bad "
No, but it helped me get the entire company off of Microsoft Office and only Libre office without a fight. on a test group of 10 we set up both. All of the test group told us they preferred Office 2003 first and Libre Office second. none wanted Office 2010.
I personally love "ribbons" it helped me continue the switch away from Microsoft in my company.
And that is the problem.
Every single Iteration of Linux or Windows creates a ball of confusion for everyone. Microsoft starts hiding things, moving things, or WORSE, re-naming things.
Honestly, if you put in consistency so that a person looking for system tools like. Updates, Software Manager, Hardware Manager, etc.. It's easy to find.
But the latest iteration of Ubuntu and Mint, it's easier to drop to a shell and type sudo apt-get update than it is to find the farking Update manager.
In windows, Add and remove programs is now renamed. And unless you change away from the "idiot at the wheel mode" of control panel you will have a bugger of a time finding it.
Microsoft renames and reshuffled everything to force their certifications to be updated every release, but the Linux people have ZERO excuse for making thing confusing as hell by renaming and putting something important like Update Manager Under "Menu,Other" It fricking goes under Menu,System... Anyone in charge of layout in Mint that put it in "other" needs to be beaten with a sack of doorknobs until they lose consciousness.
It seems we have entered into the era of change for the sake of change and not for the sake of better. I honestly am waiting for Windows to rename "control panel" to "shiny stuff" in windows 9.0
No, what I am saying that that people with a CS degree cant program a system that relies on EE knowlege, in fact I said that quite clearly.
No worry about you firing me, The janitor cant fire people.
So the answer is , to file a patent, you send the actual device. if someone else makes an identical device, then they get smacked.
Problem solved, no more of this BS vague drawings on paper patents.
Yup.
In my field of embedded programming a CS grad is worthless. If you dont have an EE degree you will never be able to write the code. You have to understand what the voltages coming in MEAN. Understand transistors, logic devices, feedback loops, etc...
The last CS grad we hired was completely worthless. Dude did not even know how a microprocessor worked. Almost all CS grads know nothing at all about computers.
Java apps are to be written as fast as possible without sleep and you have ZERO time for debugging and testing before it ships.
Cobol apps are designed properly, go through reviews, testing, more testing, and the programmers are given the time to perfect it.
IS caused by the Patent system.
Honestly, all it does is stifle creativity. I made a square, you cant make a square too!
Mythbusters can lob a cannon ball 3/4 of the way around the planet from california to dublin,Ireland and not only out it through the front door, but up the stairs and out the window into a minivan!
Honestly a drone takeover requires you to be above it. They get control from satellites and AWAC's that are flying ABOVE Them. they do not get controls from ground based transmitters. Plus how did they get their hands on the C&C protocols?
IF they did this, then the USA military electronics is a complete and utter joke. But right now I'm claiming that it glided into the sandy wasteland after it had a failure and they found it.
The network guys need it because they cant see it on their own.
Last place I worked I turned in a fellow programmer for downloading nasty snuff porn at work. The morons in the NOC could never catch it but little ol me after inserting a 20 year old 10 base T hub in line with our outbound router and then plugging in the bosses second ethernet line into it so I could run etherape and other tools in there was able to deliver proof in 20 minutes. the linux tool that displays images that are being sent around on the network made the Ops manager crap himself right there in his chair.
Yet the experts in the NOC and Network operations told the higher ups that they cant do what I was showing them. A skilled person can easily set up network side tools to discover and log things without resorting to amateur hour apps on the desktop.
you should see the list of take down notices the government has sent to youtube over criticism of the government and police.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/us-government-issues-more-takedown.html
http://www.xdtalk.com/forums/political-view/186707-feds-order-you-tube-remove-video-containing-government-criticism.html
The first amendment has been dead for a while now. it's buried under the bodies of the other amendments that have been killed.