Anyone remember stats? How many data points do you need to determine a trend?
Since no one has ever walking into a job interview with the exact experience an employeer is looking for, a hiring manager needs enough "pros" to outweigh the "cons" of hiring an employee.
Certification is just a data point.
So if the employee is fresh out of school with just a couple years of experience, perhaps the certs help set him or her apart from the other candidates. If an employee nails the interview, perhaps it doesn't make a hill of beans that they aren't RedHat certified.
I guarantee a resume with your name and every certification known to man on it and no experience won't get you a job, but many people who have IT jobs are certified. Get it?
I actually do own a WRT54G but I haven't heard of OpenWrt. This flashes the built in OS and basically replaces all the software on the box right? How big is the OpenWrt user base? I wouldn't want to flash my box with an OS some teen in Germany supports for him and his eight friends.
An IPO would do more than just give Vonage capital to reinvest in infrastructure and R&D, it would bring a tone of legitimacy to the VoIP industry and Vonage as a company.
I replaced my Bell land line with Vonage almost two years ago. The service has been similar to cell phones as far as a few growing pains in the first months with packet dropping (due to my cable modem I found ou t- a replacement fixed the issues!)
But in the past year, the only complaint has been one time when I happen to be downloading some large torrents and the wife was unhappy about her phone conversation quality.
Plus it is far less expensive than a land line, and portable which allows me to vacation six states away and be reachable on my home phone line...and even better...make calls from it too.
Even rich Americans have a limited amount of disposable income. Why spend $25-30 on a movie for two when the movies that were out last month can be rented on DVD for $5 or purchased for $10? That same money buys you three albums on iTunes that you can enjoy for a long time on your iPod and get the same 'social benefit' as having seen the latest crap from Hollywood. Music not your bag? then you could rent/buy a video game or watch pay per view for your entertainment.
Fact is, movie quality has been declining in direct proportion to movie price increases and at the same time, many many good substitutes for time and cash have been coming to market.
Perhaps the only thing that can SAVE movies is digital distribution.
All these posts seem like there is only one option...the bend over and take it option.
But there is another....
You can vote with your wallet. don't buy this crap. If you are in a coprorate purchasing position, don't buy it for your company. I would bet that ALL of us were Windows users in the early 90's....maybe a little OS/2 Warp and BeOS here and there...but when MS didn't give us what we wanted, we switched to Linux and Mac OS X.
That is the power we hold. It is the ONLY voice we have as consumer and it is the most powerful one. If you feel usage rights and too restrictive or don't like the idea of "upgrading" to a restrictive system then don't and tell sales people why you aren't givign them a commission.
You blame the user's perception of a difference in battery life post OS upgrade to their usage habits? The user's work habits completely changed on an OS upgrade?
My usage habits have changed as OSes have been upgraded. I use Dashboard and Spotlight all the time now. Whereas before I used Apps like Calculator and Safari to hit maps.google.com, I have widgets. I don't browse all over my hard drive looking for files because I have "smart folders" from Spotlight.
Hell, even when I used Windows and Linux my useage changed when the OS was upgraded - You didn't do things differently from Win 3.1 to Win 95?
And no, I did NOT imply the shouldn't do any work. I stated that if they were doing drive intensive things, that would have an affect on the battery life. Perhaps since Tiger supports Quicktime H.264 the poster is now doing a lot of quicktime eidting.
Point is that *I* don't know and *you* don't know either.
For someone with such a low/. ID you surely seam more like a newbe flamer.
I'm glad you're being open minded about checking out the Apple products. I would say that the "Mighty Mouse" is the cheesiest (pardon the pun) marketing from Apple in their history. More impressive are pageslikethese.
I mentioned this originally in relation to the legal attacks (which apple has done more than once recently) that change my opinion from mild interest (in the cute and cuddly) to strong dislike.
Okay, so say more about that. What is it about "the legal attacks" that gives you such a "strong dislike" for Apple?
Okay, so GOOG is trading near $300 a share and they want to raise some more capital - great. Just help me understand where their money comes from.
As best I can tell, Google makes money on: (1) AdWords (is this like 90% of their revenue?) (2) Intranet searching licenses for those sites who allow you to search it with a Google search, but maybe this is a free service Google offers (3) They sell those yellow Google blade servers that look cool but I think accomplish the same as (2) above.
So how else does Google make money? Every damn thing is free. Gmail, maps.google.com, Google Earth. As a consumer I am not complaining, but as an investor, I won't touch GOOG with ten feet of CAT6.
OKay.. great, you aren't a sexist. Hey, only you know you!
but what about the rest of what I said: But I digress...It is clear from your statements and your own admissions that you are ignorant when it comes to Apple as a corporation. Rather than flame you for it, I invite you to, at the risk of changing your mind, check out Apple's website and learn more about them as a company and the products they invent and sell. You will find that their website offers both non-technical and highly technical information. You may also better understand how Apple has reinvented itself from the company it was to a company admired, not admonished, by the likes of those technical males on Slashdot, and the women who blindly follow them.
This definition ought to get you started on the right track to better understanding yourself. It nearly quotes your "Women are, in general,..." statement.
But heh, you wanna live your life judging people not as individuals, but because of the group they are born into, that's your thing. Perhaps when you start viewing people as individuals, you will be ready to join the "adults" group, one group that no one is born into.
But I digress...It is clear from your statements and your own admissions that you are ignorant when it comes to Apple as a corporation. Rather than flame you for it, I invite you to, at the risk of changing your mind, check out Apple's website and learn more about them as a company and the products they invent and sell. You will find that their website offers both non-technical and highly technical information. You may also better understand how Apple has reinvented itself from the company it was to a company admired, not admonished, by the likes of those technical males on Slashdot, and the women who blindly follow them.
From here: To turn indexing on or off for a volume, run sudo mdutil -i on volume name or sudo mdutil -i off volume name, respectively. For example, if you want to turn off indexing for a volume called Backup, the command would be sudo mdutil -i off/Volumes/Backup.
Now to give you some grief about it: This is pretty basic stuff - the less the hardware is used, the less power it will consume. If Spotlight, or any other app, is accessing the disk, then it will need power to do so. Likewise, if Spotlight is doing a bunch of searching through it's index that has to be loaded into RAM from the disk and those queries must be computed by the OS, then the disk and OS and RAM are all getting a workout.
What I recommend is that you check out what it is you are doing. If you are copy and moving files all over the place, or mounting and unmounting CDs, those processes would cause HD/CD usage as well as Spotlight indexing on top of that. Likewise, if you are doing a lot of Spotlight searching, there will be more usage because you are querying a DBMS.
Perhaps your battery is just coincidentally needed a replacement and/or non-spotlight related OS tweeks are changing power consumption.
The following are my favorite ways a Google/Apple partnership could be implemented: - Lyric search with links to iTMS for purchase - AdWords like contextual ads so when you are searching for Michael Jackson accquital news, you get links to buy "Thriller". - Integrated Gmail recommendation system to suggest music to friends - maps.iTunes.Google.com where you could find concerts in your area or by band and buy them only, complete with driving directions - satellite version of the above - hybrid maps/satellite version of the above - 3D satellite model called "iTunes Earth" that would allows mapping of all instances of a particular song being played at that time around the world. Would be tied directly to NORAD to target high concentrations of bad pop like number one iTunes song "Just the Girl"
It really concerns me that MS is able to create a "standard" due to their market share. What ensures they continue to maintain or even _use_ their own standard?
I think of the browser wars. MS loves it that everyone but them are W3C compliant because that ensures they can break all other browsers simply by being incompatible with one standard. Because of their market share, developers will just 'give up' and code CSS, Javascript, and the like as IE compatible. Out of frustration with incompatible websites, users won't use FireFox et al and MS maintains control.
So I welcome the compatibility but I'd like to see an independant standards body regulat the XML DTD.
From TFA page 2: Aural feedback As it turns out, Apple blew the description of its "aural feedback" and "touch sensitivity" out of proportion and led most of us to believe that 1) there was some sort of speaker built into the mouse with synthetic mouse sounds coming out of it, and 2) the shell might be solid-state touch-sensitive like our beloved iPod wheels. That is overly exaggerated--I even stuck my ear up to the mouse while using it for several minutes to be sure (and received a few strange glances in the process).
Like the Apple Pro Mouse, the upper shell depresses when you press on it in various places with your finger(s), and the clicking noise is an actual, real clicking noise that is not any different from the clicking noise I'm getting right now with the Microsoft Intellimouse on my Windows XP box. Frankly, I was almost a little disappointed that I would not be able to make fun of these "features!"
Hmm...I think of myself reasonably as "most people" and I have issue with the Ars review.
(1) Apple doesn't say (right column "Now Hear This") there's a speaker and quite honestly, It doesn't make sense that there would be. Mice have provided great clicking feedback for a decade without the use of a speaker.
(2) Who really thought the whole mouse was made out of solid state iPod Wheel magic plastic? It would be a waste of materials driving up costs for no reason at all (not even AAPL profits!)
As a "switcher" and happy investor in AAPL, I have to say I am glad to see this device for what it indicates of management and Steve Jobs himself - they are willing to reconsider the past Sacred Cows of their own designers and deliver what the market is asking for.
With an OS that doesn't suck, a sub $500 Mac, a move to x86, and a mulitbutton Apple mouse, will Apple reconsider other Sacred Cows like a 21st century Newton?
According to Apple (right sidebar "now hear this") there is a small speaker built in to give feedback on clicks and scrolling - similar to digital camera "clicks" I suppose.
I don't see it explicitly described as being a true "click" button mouse or not. I assume it would be more like the iPod/laptop trackpad experience where you just apply pressure to activate the click.
The current one button mice do have a definite "click" to them.
You will see that the last quarter, Apple earned $1.565B on desktops and portables, $1.103B on iPods, $345M on software, $266M on other HW, and $241M on music.
I will leave it as an exercise to you to review the 10-k filings and apply the gross margins for each category to the earnings to answer the question "Is -all- of their money made off of the hardware?", but those calculations are not required to see that it is not 80-90%.
So Apple is using the Palladium chip for DRM of their OS. Big Deal.
Before the Intel switch, the "DRM" for OS X and before was the PPC architecture. Because the kernel and OS were only compiled for those architectures, it was effectively a DRM because you could only run the software on a computer supplied by the SW vendor (Apple).
Same thing here, but because the x86 processor is more widely available, Apple is supplimenting DRM by using a "DRM chipset".
Nothing has changed from an "Access to the Apple OS" point of view.
And when the cops shoot a black man for having a candybar in his pocket or shoot an unarmed non violent black man four dozen times at close range...
Is that really what you think? Really? Even if you read a story about cops shooting an unarmed person who had a candy bar in their pocket...do you really think that is the begining and end of the story? You don't think there is any additional information missing that might explain why someone who makes a career out of law enforcement would just go murdering innocent candy bar eaters with no provocation? Do you REALLY think that?
I think the grandparent is right. Without infringers of copyrights, there would be no reason to spend R&D dollars to electronically deter infringement - it would be a waste of money.
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(Slashdot wouldn't let me post this message orignally because there were too many "junk characters" in it...ha! I guess I will have to re-write the thing with "dah" and "dit" all over it!)
IM replaces what we would say on a phone. e-mail replaces what we would print on a printer.
And just to clarify, teens, as the article discusses, would do the same things. They wouldn't IM a professor their homework. They wouldn't e-mail a girlfriend to see if she wanted to hangout later.
Teens don't use e-mail as much because what they have to say is of far less consequence than those in corporate environments who's jobs are to 'document' things.
IM is used when we have a quick question, need to check and see if someone is in before we transfer a call, want to know who wants to get some Chineese for lunch, etc.
We e-mail our clients. We e-mail project status reports, team task lists, meeting agendas.
IM replaces what we would say on a phone. e-mail replaces what we would print on a printer.
Why don't we take a moment to appreciate the vision of TFA. Sure, easy to say "Where's my Jetson's Jetpack" but without vision, where is aspiration?
From TFA, the main issue I have is with the comments that the web-applications will display differently depending on the device accessing them. This happens already with CSS that can declare different styles for PDA browsers vs. desktop browsers, or for viewing on a monitor vs. printing. The main issue I have, as a web developer, is that creating just ONE of these views that looks the same on IE as it does on FireFox, on a Mac and a PC, is a huge pain. Take a look at what Google went through to make Google Maps work the same on FireFox and IE.
What it would require to make applications not only IE Vs. FireFox friendly but also view vs. print and desktop vs. PDA is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that coded the diffrences for you. My boss simply doesn't provide me the time to code all that crap by hand, so we end up delivering solutions that work in IE and if it works on other platforms, so be it.
VisualStudio is an IDE that is supposed to abstract some of this but as with all things Microsoft, it is half baked.
Are there IDEs for other platforms that do what I am talking about?
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Fararri also has optional stereos. Some people enjoy listening to the engine. For others still, it is listening to their passengers, or their own thoughts.
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Anyone remember stats? How many data points do you need to determine a trend?
Since no one has ever walking into a job interview with the exact experience an employeer is looking for, a hiring manager needs enough "pros" to outweigh the "cons" of hiring an employee.
Certification is just a data point.
So if the employee is fresh out of school with just a couple years of experience, perhaps the certs help set him or her apart from the other candidates. If an employee nails the interview, perhaps it doesn't make a hill of beans that they aren't RedHat certified.
I guarantee a resume with your name and every certification known to man on it and no experience won't get you a job, but many people who have IT jobs are certified. Get it?
I actually do own a WRT54G but I haven't heard of OpenWrt. This flashes the built in OS and basically replaces all the software on the box right? How big is the OpenWrt user base? I wouldn't want to flash my box with an OS some teen in Germany supports for him and his eight friends.
An IPO would do more than just give Vonage capital to reinvest in infrastructure and R&D, it would bring a tone of legitimacy to the VoIP industry and Vonage as a company.
I replaced my Bell land line with Vonage almost two years ago. The service has been similar to cell phones as far as a few growing pains in the first months with packet dropping (due to my cable modem I found ou t- a replacement fixed the issues!)
But in the past year, the only complaint has been one time when I happen to be downloading some large torrents and the wife was unhappy about her phone conversation quality.
Plus it is far less expensive than a land line, and portable which allows me to vacation six states away and be reachable on my home phone line...and even better...make calls from it too.
Even rich Americans have a limited amount of disposable income. Why spend $25-30 on a movie for two when the movies that were out last month can be rented on DVD for $5 or purchased for $10? That same money buys you three albums on iTunes that you can enjoy for a long time on your iPod and get the same 'social benefit' as having seen the latest crap from Hollywood. Music not your bag? then you could rent/buy a video game or watch pay per view for your entertainment.
Fact is, movie quality has been declining in direct proportion to movie price increases and at the same time, many many good substitutes for time and cash have been coming to market.
Perhaps the only thing that can SAVE movies is digital distribution.
All these posts seem like there is only one option...the bend over and take it option.
But there is another....
You can vote with your wallet. don't buy this crap. If you are in a coprorate purchasing position, don't buy it for your company. I would bet that ALL of us were Windows users in the early 90's....maybe a little OS/2 Warp and BeOS here and there...but when MS didn't give us what we wanted, we switched to Linux and Mac OS X.
That is the power we hold. It is the ONLY voice we have as consumer and it is the most powerful one. If you feel usage rights and too restrictive or don't like the idea of "upgrading" to a restrictive system then don't and tell sales people why you aren't givign them a commission.
You blame the user's perception of a difference in battery life post OS upgrade to their usage habits? The user's work habits completely changed on an OS upgrade?
/. ID you surely seam more like a newbe flamer.
My usage habits have changed as OSes have been upgraded. I use Dashboard and Spotlight all the time now. Whereas before I used Apps like Calculator and Safari to hit maps.google.com, I have widgets. I don't browse all over my hard drive looking for files because I have "smart folders" from Spotlight.
Hell, even when I used Windows and Linux my useage changed when the OS was upgraded - You didn't do things differently from Win 3.1 to Win 95?
And no, I did NOT imply the shouldn't do any work. I stated that if they were doing drive intensive things, that would have an affect on the battery life. Perhaps since Tiger supports Quicktime H.264 the poster is now doing a lot of quicktime eidting.
Point is that *I* don't know and *you* don't know either.
For someone with such a low
I'm glad you're being open minded about checking out the Apple products. I would say that the "Mighty Mouse" is the cheesiest (pardon the pun) marketing from Apple in their history. More impressive are pages like these.
I mentioned this originally in relation to the legal attacks (which apple has done more than once recently) that change my opinion from mild interest (in the cute and cuddly) to strong dislike.
Okay, so say more about that. What is it about "the legal attacks" that gives you such a "strong dislike" for Apple?
Okay, so GOOG is trading near $300 a share and they want to raise some more capital - great. Just help me understand where their money comes from.
As best I can tell, Google makes money on:
(1) AdWords (is this like 90% of their revenue?)
(2) Intranet searching licenses for those sites who allow you to search it with a Google search, but maybe this is a free service Google offers
(3) They sell those yellow Google blade servers that look cool but I think accomplish the same as (2) above.
So how else does Google make money? Every damn thing is free. Gmail, maps.google.com, Google Earth. As a consumer I am not complaining, but as an investor, I won't touch GOOG with ten feet of CAT6.
OKay.. great, you aren't a sexist. Hey, only you know you!
but what about the rest of what I said:
But I digress...It is clear from your statements and your own admissions that you are ignorant when it comes to Apple as a corporation. Rather than flame you for it, I invite you to, at the risk of changing your mind, check out Apple's website and learn more about them as a company and the products they invent and sell. You will find that their website offers both non-technical and highly technical information. You may also better understand how Apple has reinvented itself from the company it was to a company admired, not admonished, by the likes of those technical males on Slashdot, and the women who blindly follow them.
Any thoughts?
This definition ought to get you started on the right track to better understanding yourself. It nearly quotes your "Women are, in general, ..." statement.
But heh, you wanna live your life judging people not as individuals, but because of the group they are born into, that's your thing. Perhaps when you start viewing people as individuals, you will be ready to join the "adults" group, one group that no one is born into.
But I digress...It is clear from your statements and your own admissions that you are ignorant when it comes to Apple as a corporation. Rather than flame you for it, I invite you to, at the risk of changing your mind, check out Apple's website and learn more about them as a company and the products they invent and sell. You will find that their website offers both non-technical and highly technical information. You may also better understand how Apple has reinvented itself from the company it was to a company admired, not admonished, by the likes of those technical males on Slashdot, and the women who blindly follow them.
From here: /Volumes/Backup .
To turn indexing on or off for a volume, run sudo mdutil -i on volume name or sudo mdutil -i off volume name, respectively. For example, if you want to turn off indexing for a volume called Backup, the command would be sudo mdutil -i off
Now to give you some grief about it:
This is pretty basic stuff - the less the hardware is used, the less power it will consume. If Spotlight, or any other app, is accessing the disk, then it will need power to do so. Likewise, if Spotlight is doing a bunch of searching through it's index that has to be loaded into RAM from the disk and those queries must be computed by the OS, then the disk and OS and RAM are all getting a workout.
What I recommend is that you check out what it is you are doing. If you are copy and moving files all over the place, or mounting and unmounting CDs, those processes would cause HD/CD usage as well as Spotlight indexing on top of that. Likewise, if you are doing a lot of Spotlight searching, there will be more usage because you are querying a DBMS.
Perhaps your battery is just coincidentally needed a replacement and/or non-spotlight related OS tweeks are changing power consumption.
The following are my favorite ways a Google/Apple partnership could be implemented:
- Lyric search with links to iTMS for purchase
- AdWords like contextual ads so when you are searching for Michael Jackson accquital news, you get links to buy "Thriller".
- Integrated Gmail recommendation system to suggest music to friends
- maps.iTunes.Google.com where you could find concerts in your area or by band and buy them only, complete with driving directions
- satellite version of the above
- hybrid maps/satellite version of the above
- 3D satellite model called "iTunes Earth" that would allows mapping of all instances of a particular song being played at that time around the world. Would be tied directly to NORAD to target high concentrations of bad pop like number one iTunes song "Just the Girl"
It really concerns me that MS is able to create a "standard" due to their market share. What ensures they continue to maintain or even _use_ their own standard?
I think of the browser wars. MS loves it that everyone but them are W3C compliant because that ensures they can break all other browsers simply by being incompatible with one standard. Because of their market share, developers will just 'give up' and code CSS, Javascript, and the like as IE compatible. Out of frustration with incompatible websites, users won't use FireFox et al and MS maintains control.
So I welcome the compatibility but I'd like to see an independant standards body regulat the XML DTD.
From TFA page 2: Aural feedback As it turns out, Apple blew the description of its "aural feedback" and "touch sensitivity" out of proportion and led most of us to believe that 1) there was some sort of speaker built into the mouse with synthetic mouse sounds coming out of it, and 2) the shell might be solid-state touch-sensitive like our beloved iPod wheels. That is overly exaggerated--I even stuck my ear up to the mouse while using it for several minutes to be sure (and received a few strange glances in the process).
Like the Apple Pro Mouse, the upper shell depresses when you press on it in various places with your finger(s), and the clicking noise is an actual, real clicking noise that is not any different from the clicking noise I'm getting right now with the Microsoft Intellimouse on my Windows XP box. Frankly, I was almost a little disappointed that I would not be able to make fun of these "features!"
Hmm...I think of myself reasonably as "most people" and I have issue with the Ars review.
(1) Apple doesn't say (right column "Now Hear This") there's a speaker and quite honestly, It doesn't make sense that there would be. Mice have provided great clicking feedback for a decade without the use of a speaker.
(2) Who really thought the whole mouse was made out of solid state iPod Wheel magic plastic? It would be a waste of materials driving up costs for no reason at all (not even AAPL profits!)
So perhaps Ars is out of it.
As a "switcher" and happy investor in AAPL, I have to say I am glad to see this device for what it indicates of management and Steve Jobs himself - they are willing to reconsider the past Sacred Cows of their own designers and deliver what the market is asking for.
With an OS that doesn't suck, a sub $500 Mac, a move to x86, and a mulitbutton Apple mouse, will Apple reconsider other Sacred Cows like a 21st century Newton?
According to Apple (right sidebar "now hear this") there is a small speaker built in to give feedback on clicks and scrolling - similar to digital camera "clicks" I suppose.
I don't see it explicitly described as being a true "click" button mouse or not. I assume it would be more like the iPod/laptop trackpad experience where you just apply pressure to activate the click.
The current one button mice do have a definite "click" to them.
"Bueller? Bueller?"
This $49 single-button-looking, scrolling, rolling, four button optical, is great but...
Why when my iMac, new iBooks, and even the Mac mini come with Bluetooth does this mouse come with a USB 2.0 tether?
I'm still buying one for my iMac, but not for my iBook.
is -all- their money made off of the hardware?
The vast bulk of it. 80-90% if I recall correctly.
Please check your facts.
You will see that the last quarter, Apple earned $1.565B on desktops and portables, $1.103B on iPods, $345M on software, $266M on other HW, and $241M on music.
I will leave it as an exercise to you to review the 10-k filings and apply the gross margins for each category to the earnings to answer the question "Is -all- of their money made off of the hardware?", but those calculations are not required to see that it is not 80-90%.
So Apple is using the Palladium chip for DRM of their OS. Big Deal.
Before the Intel switch, the "DRM" for OS X and before was the PPC architecture. Because the kernel and OS were only compiled for those architectures, it was effectively a DRM because you could only run the software on a computer supplied by the SW vendor (Apple).
Same thing here, but because the x86 processor is more widely available, Apple is supplimenting DRM by using a "DRM chipset".
Nothing has changed from an "Access to the Apple OS" point of view.
And when the cops shoot a black man for having a candybar in his pocket or shoot an unarmed non violent black man four dozen times at close range...
Is that really what you think? Really? Even if you read a story about cops shooting an unarmed person who had a candy bar in their pocket...do you really think that is the begining and end of the story? You don't think there is any additional information missing that might explain why someone who makes a career out of law enforcement would just go murdering innocent candy bar eaters with no provocation? Do you REALLY think that?
I think the grandparent is right. Without infringers of copyrights, there would be no reason to spend R&D dollars to electronically deter infringement - it would be a waste of money.
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(Slashdot wouldn't let me post this message orignally because there were too many "junk characters" in it...ha! I guess I will have to re-write the thing with "dah" and "dit" all over it!)
IM replaces what we would say on a phone. e-mail replaces what we would print on a printer.
And just to clarify, teens, as the article discusses, would do the same things. They wouldn't IM a professor their homework. They wouldn't e-mail a girlfriend to see if she wanted to hangout later.
Teens don't use e-mail as much because what they have to say is of far less consequence than those in corporate environments who's jobs are to 'document' things.
When they get jobs, they will e-mail more too.
In the office we use both IM and e-mail.
IM is used when we have a quick question, need to check and see if someone is in before we transfer a call, want to know who wants to get some Chineese for lunch, etc.
We e-mail our clients. We e-mail project status reports, team task lists, meeting agendas.
IM replaces what we would say on a phone. e-mail replaces what we would print on a printer.
Why don't we take a moment to appreciate the vision of TFA. Sure, easy to say "Where's my Jetson's Jetpack" but without vision, where is aspiration?
From TFA, the main issue I have is with the comments that the web-applications will display differently depending on the device accessing them. This happens already with CSS that can declare different styles for PDA browsers vs. desktop browsers, or for viewing on a monitor vs. printing. The main issue I have, as a web developer, is that creating just ONE of these views that looks the same on IE as it does on FireFox, on a Mac and a PC, is a huge pain. Take a look at what Google went through to make Google Maps work the same on FireFox and IE.
What it would require to make applications not only IE Vs. FireFox friendly but also view vs. print and desktop vs. PDA is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that coded the diffrences for you. My boss simply doesn't provide me the time to code all that crap by hand, so we end up delivering solutions that work in IE and if it works on other platforms, so be it.
VisualStudio is an IDE that is supposed to abstract some of this but as with all things Microsoft, it is half baked.
Are there IDEs for other platforms that do what I am talking about?
Fararri also has optional stereos. Some people enjoy listening to the engine. For others still, it is listening to their passengers, or their own thoughts.