The US isn't requiring banks to switch to chip and PIN credit cards. American Express did issue chip and PIN cards when the Blue card came out a few years back, but since switched back to a traditional card.
Older cars usually implement an over rev protection system via a mechanical relay connected to the fuel system. At a certain engine RPM, the relay will begin to limit current to the fuel pump and starve the engine for fuel. Its not as quick to react like a computer, but usually sufficient for most cases.
I'm not saying all inexperienced programmers can't ever become good ones -- but many of us simply aren't willing to gamble on them and trust them with our code.
Lack of experience sometimes means you may not actually have the skillset. And employers aren't willing to pay to find out.
...which leads to a past "Ask Slashdot" question, how do these folks who stick it out four years for a BS in Comp Sci actually get a paying job in the field if no one is willing to hire inexperienced folks?
Aren't recruiters usually paid by commission on the number of leads they generate? If so, that would explain the spam. Besides, everyone is looking for "good" or "experienced" programmers. There are plenty of inexperienced programmers out there too, many of which aren't given a shot at any of those open positions because they don't have the necessary experience or resume buzzwords.
In regards to audio quality, its well known that the iPod used to come with a garbage sounding DAC, until people started to make a racket about it. The laptops have decent sound in them however, and Apple is one of the few to still ship laptops with displays in higher resolutions then 1366x768.
Back in 2005, Apple was still "struggling" with the PowerPC platform. When did SMB/CIFS in OS X become a "butchered and buggy Microsoft stack"? It was based on the open source Samba stack until 10.6 and starting with 10.7, an Apple built system. Samba along with gcc were banished/limited from OS X due to GPLv3 more so then Apple's decisions.
As for iTunes... its a bloated mess nowadays. Its basically Apple's Outlook, a far cry from what Jobs called "The best damn Windows App Ever" in 2003. Its one of the many apps that requires a ground up re-work at this point.
I guess it means that Windows 7 really is Vista SP3. I'm also noticing how each version of Windows has less service packs (it peaked with NT 4.0). NT 3.1 = 3 SPs, NT 3.5 = 3 SPs, NT 3.51 = 5 SPs (first widely deployed release), NT 4.0 = 6 SPs (this is when NT went mainstream on servers), 2000 = 4 SPs, XP = 3 SPs, Server 2003 = 2 SPs, Vista/Server 2008 = 2 SPs, and finally 7/2008 R2 = 1 SP (so far).
I've had less hassle dealing direct with hardware manufacturers then with any major OEM's tech support. Business support is a different story, but then again its their bread and butter source of income.
Well, not only that, but Microcenter does have competitive pricing on some items as well. Returns are also a breeze, just walk in, they RMA it on the spot with no hassle. No mailing stuff back and waiting. The other advantage for me here in NJ is lower sales tax. I get charged the full 7% from Newegg (and soon Amazon if they build a warehouse here.. boo), but our local Microcenter is in a designated "urban enterprise zone" and charges 3.5% sales tax.
I ran into a slight problem.... I now no longer have a store where I can quickly grab repair parts that I need "right now" for a service job I'm doing. Used to be just a short drive to the local CompUSA (which was Computer City before that), now the closest real computer store is a Microcenter thats a half hour away... which is a thriving store. Before that my only option was.... umm.... Staples... yeah, I have to resort to a store that sells paperclips, desk calenders, and pens to buy computer parts locally.
I'm waiting for them to offer it on the books they sell.... yes my local Best Buy apparently has enough floor space to sell mass market hard cover and paperback books. Yet, they don't seem to have any room to sell higher end cameras or camcorders.
Funny you mention fixtures. The family owned computer store I used to work for cleaned them out of fixtures during the final liquidation days. Imagine a tiny computer store decked out to look like a CompUSA....
If there was an HD version of DVCam that camcorders could standardize to, I'd be super happy. Also, I do realize that a lot of the above matters less to the professional arena than the consumer arena, but there is a degree of overlap that is worth exploring as both used tape for their video storage.
Its called HDV, and pros mostly use it today. Sadly it isn't true HD (only 1440x1080i) and far from intraframe compression. Intraframe HD camera cost big bucks.
How about $250? I built a friend a Newegg shell shocker deal machine last week. Admittedly it isn't top of the line (Biostar MB, flimsy case, Pentium G850, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, DVD burner), but its pretty darned fast for what he uses it for. If it wasn't for the floods, it likely would have come with a 1TB HD instead. Desktop parts are pretty cheap right now.
Its been raining enough that it isn't a problem. NJ isn't known for persistent snow pack in the winters. If it snows, it usually doesn't stick around like say in upstate New York. NJ's real problem is its limited reservoir capacity. Even if we had a snowy winter, all it would take to push the area into "drought" is a few weeks of dry weather.
Yes, computers in 1993 were expensive, but many of the $2000 ones came with a CD-ROM, soundcard, and a 486SX. My circa 1993 machine came with Grolier's, a friend's Macintosh Performa came with Compton's. It was a standard bundle in program to demonstrate the multimedia features of a new computer at the time.... all under the guise of education of course.
Setting up the Notes client for a family member that was working from home was quite annoying. It gave me flashbacks to the Windows 3.1x era complete with INI files to edit.
Anything past Socket 775 is pushing it in terms of legacy ports. Seems when Sandy Bridge came out is when the floppy port finally vanished along with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports on mainstream boards (lower end H61 boards seem to have them along with parallel and serial headers for some reason).
What would you call Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2) then? I enjoyed that game because it was an action RPG, like the Zelda series. Square was never big in that genre of RPG, sad because SoM was a great game.
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The US isn't requiring banks to switch to chip and PIN credit cards. American Express did issue chip and PIN cards when the Blue card came out a few years back, but since switched back to a traditional card.
Apparently the complex gated shifter Toyota used in the car made it confusing to switch into neutral while in a panic.
Older cars usually implement an over rev protection system via a mechanical relay connected to the fuel system. At a certain engine RPM, the relay will begin to limit current to the fuel pump and starve the engine for fuel. Its not as quick to react like a computer, but usually sufficient for most cases.
The linked monitor is listed as 1920x1200 in the specs.
Isn't PC Card and ExpressCard also vulnerable to this style attack?
Its a external PCIe 4x connector that can also carry DisplayPort signals... and yes external Thunderbolt to PCIe card cages exist.
Now you know why every Republican with cash was begging Chris Christie to enter the race, they didn't like any of the other contenders.
I'm not saying all inexperienced programmers can't ever become good ones -- but many of us simply aren't willing to gamble on them and trust them with our code.
Lack of experience sometimes means you may not actually have the skillset. And employers aren't willing to pay to find out.
...which leads to a past "Ask Slashdot" question, how do these folks who stick it out four years for a BS in Comp Sci actually get a paying job in the field if no one is willing to hire inexperienced folks?
Aren't recruiters usually paid by commission on the number of leads they generate? If so, that would explain the spam. Besides, everyone is looking for "good" or "experienced" programmers. There are plenty of inexperienced programmers out there too, many of which aren't given a shot at any of those open positions because they don't have the necessary experience or resume buzzwords.
Thats true in the case of MacOS iPod users, Windows iPod users were stuck with Musicmatch Jukebox until iTunes for Windows was released Oct. 2003.
In regards to audio quality, its well known that the iPod used to come with a garbage sounding DAC, until people started to make a racket about it. The laptops have decent sound in them however, and Apple is one of the few to still ship laptops with displays in higher resolutions then 1366x768.
Back in 2005, Apple was still "struggling" with the PowerPC platform. When did SMB/CIFS in OS X become a "butchered and buggy Microsoft stack"? It was based on the open source Samba stack until 10.6 and starting with 10.7, an Apple built system. Samba along with gcc were banished/limited from OS X due to GPLv3 more so then Apple's decisions.
As for iTunes... its a bloated mess nowadays. Its basically Apple's Outlook, a far cry from what Jobs called "The best damn Windows App Ever" in 2003. Its one of the many apps that requires a ground up re-work at this point.
I guess it means that Windows 7 really is Vista SP3. I'm also noticing how each version of Windows has less service packs (it peaked with NT 4.0). NT 3.1 = 3 SPs, NT 3.5 = 3 SPs, NT 3.51 = 5 SPs (first widely deployed release), NT 4.0 = 6 SPs (this is when NT went mainstream on servers), 2000 = 4 SPs, XP = 3 SPs, Server 2003 = 2 SPs, Vista/Server 2008 = 2 SPs, and finally 7/2008 R2 = 1 SP (so far).
I've had less hassle dealing direct with hardware manufacturers then with any major OEM's tech support. Business support is a different story, but then again its their bread and butter source of income.
Well, not only that, but Microcenter does have competitive pricing on some items as well. Returns are also a breeze, just walk in, they RMA it on the spot with no hassle. No mailing stuff back and waiting. The other advantage for me here in NJ is lower sales tax. I get charged the full 7% from Newegg (and soon Amazon if they build a warehouse here.. boo), but our local Microcenter is in a designated "urban enterprise zone" and charges 3.5% sales tax.
I ran into a slight problem.... I now no longer have a store where I can quickly grab repair parts that I need "right now" for a service job I'm doing. Used to be just a short drive to the local CompUSA (which was Computer City before that), now the closest real computer store is a Microcenter thats a half hour away... which is a thriving store. Before that my only option was.... umm.... Staples... yeah, I have to resort to a store that sells paperclips, desk calenders, and pens to buy computer parts locally.
I'm waiting for them to offer it on the books they sell.... yes my local Best Buy apparently has enough floor space to sell mass market hard cover and paperback books. Yet, they don't seem to have any room to sell higher end cameras or camcorders.
Funny you mention fixtures. The family owned computer store I used to work for cleaned them out of fixtures during the final liquidation days. Imagine a tiny computer store decked out to look like a CompUSA....
If there was an HD version of DVCam that camcorders could standardize to, I'd be super happy. Also, I do realize that a lot of the above matters less to the professional arena than the consumer arena, but there is a degree of overlap that is worth exploring as both used tape for their video storage.
Its called HDV, and pros mostly use it today. Sadly it isn't true HD (only 1440x1080i) and far from intraframe compression. Intraframe HD camera cost big bucks.
How about $250? I built a friend a Newegg shell shocker deal machine last week. Admittedly it isn't top of the line (Biostar MB, flimsy case, Pentium G850, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, DVD burner), but its pretty darned fast for what he uses it for. If it wasn't for the floods, it likely would have come with a 1TB HD instead. Desktop parts are pretty cheap right now.
Its been raining enough that it isn't a problem. NJ isn't known for persistent snow pack in the winters. If it snows, it usually doesn't stick around like say in upstate New York. NJ's real problem is its limited reservoir capacity. Even if we had a snowy winter, all it would take to push the area into "drought" is a few weeks of dry weather.
Yes, computers in 1993 were expensive, but many of the $2000 ones came with a CD-ROM, soundcard, and a 486SX. My circa 1993 machine came with Grolier's, a friend's Macintosh Performa came with Compton's. It was a standard bundle in program to demonstrate the multimedia features of a new computer at the time.... all under the guise of education of course.
Setting up the Notes client for a family member that was working from home was quite annoying. It gave me flashbacks to the Windows 3.1x era complete with INI files to edit.
Anything past Socket 775 is pushing it in terms of legacy ports. Seems when Sandy Bridge came out is when the floppy port finally vanished along with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports on mainstream boards (lower end H61 boards seem to have them along with parallel and serial headers for some reason).
What would you call Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2) then? I enjoyed that game because it was an action RPG, like the Zelda series. Square was never big in that genre of RPG, sad because SoM was a great game.