You're right, people aren't upgrading - because that costs money and the mantra "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" trumps all when it comes to finances.
There are plenty of machines and tasks out there that Windows 2000 is still perfectly adequate for. Replacing Win2K with WinXP or later is a non-zero cost (both in labor and licensing) and may trigger many other software and hardware upgrades or replacements. IE6 is the last version available for Win2K and I'm sure many Win2K installations won't be replaced until complete hardware failure occurs.
Granted, at my office we can get away with installing Firefox on all the Win2K boxes - but that's not a solution for everyone as many of those stupid "Enterprise" level web apps only work on IE.
Watch the 2006 Chinese film "The Banquet".... about halfway through, it dawned on me that it was Hamlet set in the Forbidden City.
And there's been many many productions setting ethnic actors in Shakespearean roles. Just because you haven't seen it just means you need to get out more.
No, IPV6 is the exact opposite! IPV6 is meant so that every device has a unique address. What the article is talking about is a unique address per person that bridges multiple devices.
They'll probably start by denying all of it, claiming it to be a hoax by evil evilushionists. Then they'll come around to the idea that God planted life there, but no later than 6000 years ago! The people who will change views are the fence sitters at any of these levels.
Actually, their standard rhetoric on dinosaurs would still apply: Either the devil put it there to destroy mankinds belief in God, or else God placed it there as part of the creation process to test the faith of true believers.
So no major boat-rocking for that crowd either. Once someone chooses to believe something and stake their personal world view on it, it's pretty hard to dislodge that belief.
Actually, when I've hired web developers I've been very suspicious of anyone applying who didn't have a personal domain.
Likewise, web designers without an online portfolio are probably not going to get called in for an interview.
It all depends what you're hiring for. If I was trying to hire an IT manager, AOL.com addresses are on the discard pile, but if I'm hiring an electrician it doesn't matter.
If you want to get a job in a specific industry, all parts of your resume (including email address) should portray experience and understanding of how that industry works. Otherwise you're going to be eliminated very early in the process in favor of candidates who do show that level of attention in how they portray themselves.
To be reasonable though, whatever TV may tell you, there are a fairly limited number of emergencies that will render you able to dial 911, able to survive until help arrives, but completely unable to speak. It's not impossible, but hardly a common occurrence.
The problem isn't whether you can speak, but how long it takes for help to arrive.
911 service routes your call to the appropriate jurisdiction based on where they think your phone is, and how long it takes to get you routed to the right jurisdiction can add quite a bit of time to the call.
As a perfect example, my brother had his arm nearly ripped off the week before Thanksgiving. He called my uncle, who drove from home to the workplace (5 min), and then took him to the hospital (10 min) because it was faster than an ambulance. Just a month before they had to call 911 when another employee was injured and here is the hilarity that ensued: The workplace is on an agricultural preserve just outside of a large suburb of a major US city. The nearest hospital is in the suburb, and any local area ambulance service comes out of that suburb.
0:00) Call 911 from a landline. Automatically routed to the County dispatch. 0:45) County dispatch notices that the agricultural preserve is technically within the city limits of the Major City and outside of their responsibility, so they transfer you to Major City dispatch (even though most of the Major City is over 25 miles away). 1:30) Major City dispatch doesn't know why you are calling them from so far away and so transfers you Suburb City dispatch. 2:15) Suburb City transfers you back to County dispatch because you aren't in their jurisdiction. 3:00) Round-robin continues for several iterations. Even when the operators are told "We need an ambulance to this specific hospital as it is the closest", they are convinced they know better because of what their computer screen tells you about your location. 5:00) Eventually an ambulance is dispatched from the correct hospital (10 minutes away) by one of the agencies. 15:00) Ambulance picks up injured person. 25:00) Ambulance arrives at hospital.
In this situation, calling by cell wouldn't have improved things because mobile 911 calls are routed to the State Highway Patrol who then hands it off to the County and the whack-a-mole game starts all over. Even with just landlines, the time to hospital was 25+ minutes, whereas when my brother called my uncle for a ride, it was only 15. Luckily for him there was minimal blood loss, but in other situations the 10+ minute difference easily could have been life or death.
Don't have gigabit on a G4 Mini. And frankly, don't need it until something else exceeds the Mini's capacity. I stream movies all the time over 100-bT, and can even pull it off on 802.11g.
Thats exactly what I did. Threw a couple of external drives on a Mac Mini. Formatted as HFS+ and did software array. Then using afp and smb provided the contents as shares to the Windows media center and various client machines on the network.
Sure, software raid over USB is slow, but the bottleneck is the network so it doesn't really matter.
I'm not sure what's with this trend in recent years for Americans to be obsessed with product killers. What's with this notion that there needs to be a single dominant device?
It has nothing to do with American obsessions. It's purely a journalistic trick. Take the following two headlines:
New iPhone killer from Verizon
New smartphone from Verizon
Which is going to get more eyeballs in print? Which is going to get better keyword ranking and float up on Google News? Which is more likely to be spread amongst social network sites? Which is more likely to be copied as a/. article? It's a way to capitalize on the attention already given to the dominant product, while simultaneously setting the attention space of your article by comparing to a product that your readers are likely familiar with.
If my recollection is correct, the manuscript's frequency of letters and the frequency of the length of words strongly mimics that of a natural language.
Except for one small problem... it doesn't match any known language.
I second this. It sounds like the poster wants to synchronize his programming projects. In which case, SVN or CVS plus the IDE of his choice is a hands-down winner (and it gets him thinking about version control).
Then you just need a cross-platform IDE (like Eclipse)
Now if what the OP wants is to synchronize his user profile, then the best idea is dump everything on a removable drive or a network share that all his machines can access.
I think they explained that pretty well in the series, and even discussed the social conditions that lead to it.
1) Lots of people on speculative journeys (think gold-rush mentality) that had a tough time and can't afford the return trip home. 2) Refugees from war, political and religious persecution, etc.
Throw in some compassion on the administration's part (eg, not just going to throw them out an airlock), but not full-fledged socialism, and voila, a slum.
That sounds like a good way to kill the entertainment businesses in your town and watch the tax revenue move across the city limits to the town next door or unincorporated county.
They are behind a NAT and have firewalling enabled. What I meant is that initiating desktop sharing through iChat doesn't require any extra configuration of the firewall or NAT (unlike Windows remote desktop assistance). "It just works" in the simplest, easy method I have ever seen, even works well for traveling laptops.
The most beautiful part? When I was convincing them to pick up a Mini to replace their dying PC, my dad's first question was (I kid you not): "But will it run Firefox and OpenOffice?"
I almost cried.
And if I do need to give them support? 99% of the time I can just have them fire up iChat and share their desktop with me. Quick and easy for them, and doesn't require messing with opening ports in any firewalls or NATs.
But the joke is that LA traffic lights aren't centrally coordinated. They may actually be, but it sure as hell doesn't seem like it. After all, this is the city that's spending millions of dollars to install protected left-turn lights.
LA traffic instructions: Green light: wait for the intersection to clear. Yellow: GO GO GO!!!! Red: Make a left.
I would disagree with the poster above regarding using sound technologies. You have to remember that museums can be pretty noisy places, especially during high profile exhibitions and on weekends
I believe the previous poster meant sound as in "well-established, robust" technologies, not sound as in "audio".
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That's almost 15% more, per subscriber
I know I'd consider a 15% raise a pretty big one.
Well we don't really know do we?
You're right, people aren't upgrading - because that costs money and the mantra "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" trumps all when it comes to finances.
There are plenty of machines and tasks out there that Windows 2000 is still perfectly adequate for. Replacing Win2K with WinXP or later is a non-zero cost (both in labor and licensing) and may trigger many other software and hardware upgrades or replacements. IE6 is the last version available for Win2K and I'm sure many Win2K installations won't be replaced until complete hardware failure occurs.
Granted, at my office we can get away with installing Firefox on all the Win2K boxes - but that's not a solution for everyone as many of those stupid "Enterprise" level web apps only work on IE.
Watch the 2006 Chinese film "The Banquet".... about halfway through, it dawned on me that it was Hamlet set in the Forbidden City.
And there's been many many productions setting ethnic actors in Shakespearean roles. Just because you haven't seen it just means you need to get out more.
No, IPV6 is the exact opposite! IPV6 is meant so that every device has a unique address. What the article is talking about is a unique address per person that bridges multiple devices.
Actually, their standard rhetoric on dinosaurs would still apply: Either the devil put it there to destroy mankinds belief in God, or else God placed it there as part of the creation process to test the faith of true believers.
So no major boat-rocking for that crowd either. Once someone chooses to believe something and stake their personal world view on it, it's pretty hard to dislodge that belief.
Actually, when I've hired web developers I've been very suspicious of anyone applying who didn't have a personal domain.
Likewise, web designers without an online portfolio are probably not going to get called in for an interview.
It all depends what you're hiring for. If I was trying to hire an IT manager, AOL.com addresses are on the discard pile, but if I'm hiring an electrician it doesn't matter.
If you want to get a job in a specific industry, all parts of your resume (including email address) should portray experience and understanding of how that industry works. Otherwise you're going to be eliminated very early in the process in favor of candidates who do show that level of attention in how they portray themselves.
Notice the smiley at the end of the GP's post indicating you missed the joke.
False advertising regulatory powers belong to the FTC, not the FCC. Different agency.
Oh the US providers would LOVE it provided that they could lock it out and charge extra to use it.
The problem isn't whether you can speak, but how long it takes for help to arrive.
911 service routes your call to the appropriate jurisdiction based on where they think your phone is, and how long it takes to get you routed to the right jurisdiction can add quite a bit of time to the call.
As a perfect example, my brother had his arm nearly ripped off the week before Thanksgiving. He called my uncle, who drove from home to the workplace (5 min), and then took him to the hospital (10 min) because it was faster than an ambulance. Just a month before they had to call 911 when another employee was injured and here is the hilarity that ensued:
The workplace is on an agricultural preserve just outside of a large suburb of a major US city. The nearest hospital is in the suburb, and any local area ambulance service comes out of that suburb.
0:00) Call 911 from a landline. Automatically routed to the County dispatch.
0:45) County dispatch notices that the agricultural preserve is technically within the city limits of the Major City and outside of their responsibility, so they transfer you to Major City dispatch (even though most of the Major City is over 25 miles away).
1:30) Major City dispatch doesn't know why you are calling them from so far away and so transfers you Suburb City dispatch.
2:15) Suburb City transfers you back to County dispatch because you aren't in their jurisdiction.
3:00) Round-robin continues for several iterations. Even when the operators are told "We need an ambulance to this specific hospital as it is the closest", they are convinced they know better because of what their computer screen tells you about your location.
5:00) Eventually an ambulance is dispatched from the correct hospital (10 minutes away) by one of the agencies.
15:00) Ambulance picks up injured person.
25:00) Ambulance arrives at hospital.
In this situation, calling by cell wouldn't have improved things because mobile 911 calls are routed to the State Highway Patrol who then hands it off to the County and the whack-a-mole game starts all over. Even with just landlines, the time to hospital was 25+ minutes, whereas when my brother called my uncle for a ride, it was only 15. Luckily for him there was minimal blood loss, but in other situations the 10+ minute difference easily could have been life or death.
Don't have gigabit on a G4 Mini. And frankly, don't need it until something else exceeds the Mini's capacity. I stream movies all the time over 100-bT, and can even pull it off on 802.11g.
Thats exactly what I did. Threw a couple of external drives on a Mac Mini. Formatted as HFS+ and did software array. Then using afp and smb provided the contents as shares to the Windows media center and various client machines on the network.
Sure, software raid over USB is slow, but the bottleneck is the network so it doesn't really matter.
It has nothing to do with American obsessions. It's purely a journalistic trick. Take the following two headlines:
Which is going to get more eyeballs in print? Which is going to get better keyword ranking and float up on Google News? Which is more likely to be spread amongst social network sites? Which is more likely to be copied as a /. article? It's a way to capitalize on the attention already given to the dominant product, while simultaneously setting the attention space of your article by comparing to a product that your readers are likely familiar with.
Except for one small problem... it doesn't match any known language.
I second this. It sounds like the poster wants to synchronize his programming projects. In which case, SVN or CVS plus the IDE of his choice is a hands-down winner (and it gets him thinking about version control).
Then you just need a cross-platform IDE (like Eclipse)
Now if what the OP wants is to synchronize his user profile, then the best idea is dump everything on a removable drive or a network share that all his machines can access.
I think they explained that pretty well in the series, and even discussed the social conditions that lead to it.
1) Lots of people on speculative journeys (think gold-rush mentality) that had a tough time and can't afford the return trip home.
2) Refugees from war, political and religious persecution, etc.
Throw in some compassion on the administration's part (eg, not just going to throw them out an airlock), but not full-fledged socialism, and voila, a slum.
That sounds like a good way to kill the entertainment businesses in your town and watch the tax revenue move across the city limits to the town next door or unincorporated county.
They are behind a NAT and have firewalling enabled. What I meant is that initiating desktop sharing through iChat doesn't require any extra configuration of the firewall or NAT (unlike Windows remote desktop assistance). "It just works" in the simplest, easy method I have ever seen, even works well for traveling laptops.
I completely agree. I did the exact same thing.
The most beautiful part? When I was convincing them to pick up a Mini to replace their dying PC, my dad's first question was (I kid you not): "But will it run Firefox and OpenOffice?"
I almost cried.
And if I do need to give them support? 99% of the time I can just have them fire up iChat and share their desktop with me. Quick and easy for them, and doesn't require messing with opening ports in any firewalls or NATs.
But the joke is that LA traffic lights aren't centrally coordinated. They may actually be, but it sure as hell doesn't seem like it. After all, this is the city that's spending millions of dollars to install protected left-turn lights.
LA traffic instructions:
Green light: wait for the intersection to clear.
Yellow: GO GO GO!!!!
Red: Make a left.
I believe the previous poster meant sound as in "well-established, robust" technologies, not sound as in "audio".
Solar water heaters already do this. They use a simple light sensor to switch a pump on and off. My parent's 30 year old house has always had one.
You know, if Apple released an OSX update the same day as Win7, I'm sure Win7 would have been mentioned an article about it...
I agree... my point was that Filemaker makes Access look good by comparison.