I tried to keep them on the phone, as keeping them busy is the worst thing you can do to annoy them. I spent the entire 45 min ride home from my daughter's gymnastics on with them yesterday. She was amused by the conversations. The funny thing is, I don't know how these guys can make any money. I spend much of my day working with people with Indian accents, and I'm pretty good at understanding them. But these guys are inaudible. I have a sense of what they are trying to tell me to do, and I still can't figure it out! "Press the 4-flagged windows key on the lower left quadrant of your keyboard". Forget about when the guy was trying to tell me what URL to go to. I wanted to know what service they were using, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what URL he was trying to tell me to get to!
The first round of all the recent 802.3 standards (1000baseT, 10GbaseT) have all forgone the requirement of 8P8C, and as technologies improved, added them back in. Only recently could we do 10GbaseT over Cat6. Early implementations were over fibre, and twinax cables. 40/100Gbps ethernet is still fiber only.
Yeah, I did that. Silly me, thinking I was dragging a shortcut. Pissed off our Mac admin when it turned out that by dragging the icons to groups, I was actually dragging the.app, so other users logging into the same Mac had a lot of "?" icons because they could no longer find the.app
And that's a good point. We really should be rethinking our lighting methodology. Light 'bulbs' work great for an incandescent light, and in our office spaces, we very efficiently light large areas with fluorescent tubes. In our homes, we should be designing in large area 'fixtures' that many LED's over a large area, and power them by a single transformer. That would be the most efficient and pleasant way to light an area. But we focus so much on cramming fluorescent and LED technology into a screw-in bulb format, which is expensive, inefficient, and not the best way to light most spaces.
EXACTLY! With four kids, I buy (or receive as gifts) a lot of kids DVD's. Disney, Dreamworks, etc. When we put a movie on in the car, I can't be juggling menus to skip past previews galore, and ultimately hit enter on a menu to get the movie to start. I regularly would use tools like DVDShrink to rip the movie to another disk so that it would play automatically when put in the player. Eventually, I got tired of the cat and mouse chase with copy protection, and began to download the torrents of the movies instead. Not to mention, ripping a movie would take close to an hour on my old computer, but I could download the torrent in 20 minutes! These were movies that I had on legitimate DVD's in my hand, but the pirates were still providing a product that was more convenient.
If they just used that as there reasoning- that they require everyone to pay attention, then they would have more credibility. However, they give the bogus excuse that it's for interference, that they lose all credibility. They confiscate my toothpaste and nail trimmers in the name of safety, and I'm supposed to believe that my ereader will bring down the plane and they let it slide?
And how would you name OS's? If the best criticism you can come up with is the name, then they are doing something right. To the contrary, I think MS is horrible at marketing. They haven't had a good marketing campaign since the debut of Windows 95.
As for each version being just another version of Windows NT- what else would you expect it to be? Just like every release of MacOS before OS X was a new version of MacOS Classic, and every release of OS X is a new version of 10.0.That doesn't diminish the fact that new, and sometimes innovative features aren't added.
And all the people who feel that Google is being too restrictive with Android and their restrictive app payment options are going to flock to Apple and iTunes?
Except that with Apple, if you want to distribute your app to any iPhone/Pod/Pad, you must distribute through Apple's market, and if you distribute through their market, you must use their payment system. Under Android, if a developer chooses to not use Google's payment system, they are free to distribute their app on Amazon, Getjar, or any other method. Yes, the user has to go out of their way to check a box in the settings, but at least the user isn't forced to violate an EULA in doing so.
Bad wiring and re-transmits don't result in latency at the network/transport layer. Tools such as pings and traceroute don't retransmit when a packet is lost. It either completes the round trip, and latency is calculated, or it's lost and a timeout is reported. The only place in a typical network that would be an exception is on a wireless network. 802.11 and cellular packet networks will provide some measure of guaranteed transmission at layer 2, and will retransmit layer 2 packets without requiring action by the session layer above.
If you are seeing high latency on a wireless connection, connect via ethernet to see if the latency is a result of retransmissions in your own wireless. I've seen latencies as as 3 or 4 SECONDS on my WiFi at home as a result of bad drivers, interference, etc.
Otherwise, latency is likely the result of network buffering, and over-buffering resulting in buffer bloat buffer bloat
So losing the PC battle killed them? I don't think so. Apple currently is the #3 PC manufacturer, but I'd wager that their margins far outstrip #1 and #2. On the phone front, I don't think they would have too much problem with the same scenario. They can be a #3 in terms of devices sold, but if they control the eco system from hardware, to software, to cloud, they can enjoy far greater margins than the others.
Not speaking an an Apple Fanboi. I prefer Windows, and Android.
The Amiga 1000 (the first Amiga) was released with 256k in the Summer of 1985. It had preemptive multitasking, and 4096 colors, and 4 channel, stereo sound while the Mac was peddling along with black and white. It truly leap-frogged the Mac in every respect, except for the business and marketing sense of those in charge.
Funny. I felt the same way about the iPhone when I switched to an iPhone 4 from my Droid1. Although the interface was pretty, and 'satisfying' to use in how it was responsive and animated, I felt the functions that would make it a good PDA and phone were lacking. I have now switched to a Samsung Galaxy S2. I like it, but what I dislike most is the Samsung Touchwiz interface, which tries to be more iPhone like than the standard Android. I'm looking forward to rooting it, and putting a proper Android interface on it.
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The fact that there are +/- 1 billion users would say that maybe, as a web designer, you are wrong in your assessment about what makes for a good UI.
I tried to keep them on the phone, as keeping them busy is the worst thing you can do to annoy them. I spent the entire 45 min ride home from my daughter's gymnastics on with them yesterday. She was amused by the conversations. The funny thing is, I don't know how these guys can make any money. I spend much of my day working with people with Indian accents, and I'm pretty good at understanding them. But these guys are inaudible. I have a sense of what they are trying to tell me to do, and I still can't figure it out! "Press the 4-flagged windows key on the lower left quadrant of your keyboard". Forget about when the guy was trying to tell me what URL to go to. I wanted to know what service they were using, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what URL he was trying to tell me to get to!
The first round of all the recent 802.3 standards (1000baseT, 10GbaseT) have all forgone the requirement of 8P8C, and as technologies improved, added them back in. Only recently could we do 10GbaseT over Cat6. Early implementations were over fibre, and twinax cables. 40/100Gbps ethernet is still fiber only.
argh... my brackets were removed. terroristic threats != terrorism
Perhaps by actually giving them some help, not arresting them under a terrorism related charge.
I live right off 280, so when I first saw that, I thought it was pretty cool that the desktop was dynamic and gave me icons specific to my location.
Yeah, I did that. Silly me, thinking I was dragging a shortcut. Pissed off our Mac admin when it turned out that by dragging the icons to groups, I was actually dragging the .app, so other users logging into the same Mac had a lot of "?" icons because they could no longer find the .app
He would explode before he hit the bottom.
American english slang? Seems to be used under the King's English as well: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/ferrari-288-gto-f40-f50-enzo-donuts-2012-03-21
Actually, multimode was about the only thing that I DID understand from the post.
And that's a good point. We really should be rethinking our lighting methodology. Light 'bulbs' work great for an incandescent light, and in our office spaces, we very efficiently light large areas with fluorescent tubes. In our homes, we should be designing in large area 'fixtures' that many LED's over a large area, and power them by a single transformer. That would be the most efficient and pleasant way to light an area. But we focus so much on cramming fluorescent and LED technology into a screw-in bulb format, which is expensive, inefficient, and not the best way to light most spaces.
EXACTLY! With four kids, I buy (or receive as gifts) a lot of kids DVD's. Disney, Dreamworks, etc. When we put a movie on in the car, I can't be juggling menus to skip past previews galore, and ultimately hit enter on a menu to get the movie to start. I regularly would use tools like DVDShrink to rip the movie to another disk so that it would play automatically when put in the player. Eventually, I got tired of the cat and mouse chase with copy protection, and began to download the torrents of the movies instead. Not to mention, ripping a movie would take close to an hour on my old computer, but I could download the torrent in 20 minutes! These were movies that I had on legitimate DVD's in my hand, but the pirates were still providing a product that was more convenient.
I'd bet that's more the result of a poor scalar, than your eye distinguishing between the different resolutions.
...invasion!
Or that under 2 infant that I have onmy lap.
If they just used that as there reasoning- that they require everyone to pay attention, then they would have more credibility. However, they give the bogus excuse that it's for interference, that they lose all credibility. They confiscate my toothpaste and nail trimmers in the name of safety, and I'm supposed to believe that my ereader will bring down the plane and they let it slide?
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Actually, Win98 was the dog. Win98SE was the odd version that righted the ship, before WinME sunk it.
And how would you name OS's? If the best criticism you can come up with is the name, then they are doing something right. To the contrary, I think MS is horrible at marketing. They haven't had a good marketing campaign since the debut of Windows 95.
As for each version being just another version of Windows NT- what else would you expect it to be? Just like every release of MacOS before OS X was a new version of MacOS Classic, and every release of OS X is a new version of 10.0.That doesn't diminish the fact that new, and sometimes innovative features aren't added.
And all the people who feel that Google is being too restrictive with Android and their restrictive app payment options are going to flock to Apple and iTunes?
Except that with Apple, if you want to distribute your app to any iPhone/Pod/Pad, you must distribute through Apple's market, and if you distribute through their market, you must use their payment system. Under Android, if a developer chooses to not use Google's payment system, they are free to distribute their app on Amazon, Getjar, or any other method. Yes, the user has to go out of their way to check a box in the settings, but at least the user isn't forced to violate an EULA in doing so.
Bad wiring and re-transmits don't result in latency at the network/transport layer. Tools such as pings and traceroute don't retransmit when a packet is lost. It either completes the round trip, and latency is calculated, or it's lost and a timeout is reported. The only place in a typical network that would be an exception is on a wireless network. 802.11 and cellular packet networks will provide some measure of guaranteed transmission at layer 2, and will retransmit layer 2 packets without requiring action by the session layer above.
If you are seeing high latency on a wireless connection, connect via ethernet to see if the latency is a result of retransmissions in your own wireless. I've seen latencies as as 3 or 4 SECONDS on my WiFi at home as a result of bad drivers, interference, etc.
Otherwise, latency is likely the result of network buffering, and over-buffering resulting in buffer bloat buffer bloat
So losing the PC battle killed them? I don't think so. Apple currently is the #3 PC manufacturer, but I'd wager that their margins far outstrip #1 and #2. On the phone front, I don't think they would have too much problem with the same scenario. They can be a #3 in terms of devices sold, but if they control the eco system from hardware, to software, to cloud, they can enjoy far greater margins than the others. Not speaking an an Apple Fanboi. I prefer Windows, and Android.
The Amiga 1000 (the first Amiga) was released with 256k in the Summer of 1985. It had preemptive multitasking, and 4096 colors, and 4 channel, stereo sound while the Mac was peddling along with black and white. It truly leap-frogged the Mac in every respect, except for the business and marketing sense of those in charge.
Funny. I felt the same way about the iPhone when I switched to an iPhone 4 from my Droid1. Although the interface was pretty, and 'satisfying' to use in how it was responsive and animated, I felt the functions that would make it a good PDA and phone were lacking. I have now switched to a Samsung Galaxy S2. I like it, but what I dislike most is the Samsung Touchwiz interface, which tries to be more iPhone like than the standard Android. I'm looking forward to rooting it, and putting a proper Android interface on it.