I think the hard drive industry might disagree with you. Everyone says it's just a recent marketting gimmick to cheat people out of space, but every HD I have ever bought, since 20MB was "huge", was rated in decimal multiples.
Just because an industry has co-opted our terminology for data storage doesn't mean we need to play their game and change our terminology to be more "politically correct." In fact, I would argue that we've been talking about bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes a lot longer than they've been cheating consumers on storage, so we have more of a right to use the term "megabyte" than they do.
The day I start saying mebibytes will be a cold day in hell.
Looks like a nice phone, but no EDGE? Also, no SD card slot and only 128MB of memory built in? And no USB 2.0? Only 1.1? For a phone that isn't even released yet their specs are about 3 years behind the rest of the industry.
"busy killing your friends? take a short break to go down a refreshing glass of joe-kola.. this game of death-killer-2000 brought to you by joe-kola.. kill more people hyped up on joe-kola, it's what the killer craves.. it's got electrolytes! we now return you to your slaughter"
In MSFT's defense it is a smart move. That way a virus can't modify update.microsoft.com
It sounds like a smart move but I believe it has some more nefarious purpose. If all they are concerned with is the integrity of update packages, why does this matter? The updates are already signed with Microsoft's private key and the signature verified before installation. This should stop any malicious package pretending to be a Windows update made by Joe Q. Hacker. It's far more likely that they want to embed their own web-enabled products like Live Office, Live Search into the OS and they want to prevent any third-parties from offering competing solutions. If the OS is hardcoded to go to microsoft.com to receive it's search queries, and there is no way to override this through a hosts file, MS has a real lock on the internet services and can use this monopoly power to eliminate competitors like Google.
And it looks like that they are already selling workstations with Linux pre-installed:
Selling a precision workstation (their professional line of workstations) with a several hundred dollar license of Redhat Enterprise Workstation 4 is a far cry from selling a consumer version of a desktop computer with a free copy of Ubuntu. One is used by companies that pay top dollar for professional Unix or Linux workstations, the other might take the place of a budget computer that somebody could then use to connect to Google apps and bypass the Microsoft monopoly completely.
This is why we need Dell to support Linux. It's probably the only chance to break the MS monopoly.
Wow. Sorry this is a little off-topic, but I have to ask: do you live in an expensive area of the country (SF Bay area, LA, NE)? I'm a Unix/Linux sysadmin with more than 20 years of experience, and I don't make that much. Now, I'm in a part of the country where the wages are lower, but I didn't think they were that much lower.
Yeah, I live in New England. You can make really good money here doing Unix/Linux work. I have several friends that are a few years more senior than I that make upwards of $180k after bonuses. You have to really know your stuff to break the 6 figure mark though.
In 10 or 20 years, a CCNA or whatever from 2007 will be effectively worthless. However, a B.Sc. degree will still mean quite a bit.
Why does everybody say to get a degree? I don't have a degree yet I make 6 digit income (US dollars) as a Linux sysadmin. I took a few CS courses in college before I left and nothing, I mean absolutely nothing I learned in college has any relevance once you get into the real world...
Unless you want to be a software developer or work at a University, I think a University degree is rubbish for most "hands-on" network and system engineering.
Here's my advice: Build a lab in your house with a mix of used eBayed computers, routers, switches, etc. Get a mix of hardware and OS. Linux, Solaris, BSD, Windows, hell even Windows servers just to learn about interoperability. Set it all up and pretend like you're setting up branch offices for a large company. If you get 2 v.35 cables and a couple old 2500 or 2600 series Cisco routers you can simulate a frame relay or T1 point-to-point connection between offices. Or go new school and get some VPN concentrators. Set up multiple branch offices and then start breaking things and learn how to fix them. Get some good books and study things. Start building web servers, DNS servers, database servers, firewalls, and DMZs. Learn how all of this stuff works inside and out. Start writing scripts to automate the configuration and management of these servers. Get centralized syslog, snort intrusion detection, event correlation, and monitoring working.
Do all of this on your own and then network with some local businesspeople that need computer work done. Offer to do it at a lower cost than market rate so that you can get some resume building experience. Once you have a couple years of experience handling small lawyers, doctors, or various local businesses computer needs, you can list that on a resume as work experience. When you start applying for real jobs, they don't know that the Law Firm of "Whozits, Whatsitz, and How" is small. Pretend like you've been doing IT for a large law firm. You don't need to lie, but make it sound impressive. "Managed wide area connectivity for a law firm with 4 branch offices" sounds impressive... Setting up a VPN to 3 of the partners home offices doesn't sound so hot. Learn how to creatively tell the truth until you get your first job working with a big company.
You can do all this for a few hundred dollars worth of old equipment on eBay and a few hundred dollars worth of books as well. School is for chumps, or PhDs...
In the event of a 180-POINT DECLINE in the NYA, all index-arbitrage sell orders of the S&P 500 stocks must be stabilizing for the remainder of the day. Collar will be removed if the NYA moves back to within 90 points of the previous days close.
Thanks for the explanation. I was mostly guessing of course based on past history. I studied this a bit although I'm not a trader by any stretch of the imagination. Looks like they've instituted safeguards (the collars) to prevent people from making too much money off of the fluctuations. Otherwise automated professionals would have cleaned up yesterday, just as is the case in most downturns.
Now, perhaps the DJIs computer slowdown, and consequent large jump when they fixed the problem and got the backup running, caused more people to sell, but this seems specious.
No, what really happens is that a lot of the big money has automated trading systems. These automated trading systems look for key criteria like quick movements in stock and buy or sell to make money (or avoid losses) on the trend. When a big movement happens in a short period of time, it creates a feedback loop where big movement causes automated trading systems to issue sell orders, and a glut of sell orders causes the downward movement to increase, thus triggering another round of automated sales orders. FYI, automated trading systems were blamed for the October 1987 crash as well.
The moral of the story is this: When automated trading systems take the market data as gospel truth (they have to, what else will they trust) and that data turns out to be inaccurate, bad things happen. Thus the need for more accurate and timely market data.
Let me just jump in here. I'm using OSX 10.3 so it's not the most recent release, but I'm also running it on a Dual G5 2.0GHz with 2 GB RAM, which is a pretty fast machine by any standard. OSX is an absolute dog compared to XP on a Core Duo 2.16GHz with 2 GB RAM. Granted, that is a slightly faster machine for most operations, but they are definitely in the same ballpark.
This sounds an awful lot like a copy-paste Windows fanboi troll.
The Macintosh has provided me with little but frustration. The system locks up due to application errors more than XP does. I'm running mostly Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Photoshop has been pretty reliable, but the other two applications both manage to lock the machine up to the point where a cold boot is necessary on a semi-regular basis based on how much I am using the system.
You do realize that the Mac is a Unix system and that any application that locks up can simply be killed from the terminal? If it's really locked up "kill -9" should handle it. The only time I've ever had a problem app that couldn't be killed with a "kill -9" was when a USB device it was using went away unexpectedly, but that's a hardware issue and was more like a "Doh! Don't unplug a USB device while an app is trying to use it." Mac has Windows beat hands down in this area. Windows can regularly get hung by a single app that requires a cold boot to fix it.
If you truly believe that OSX will make you more productive, then you are simply a fool, with one exception; if you want to use Apple's bundled applications. Unfortunately they are unintuitive as all hell.
To each their own, but you freely admit that you're running a 2 1/2 year old O/S that is out of date and you're obviously an experienced Windows user so I think you're a bit biased. The simple fact is that I've been using Windows for 15 years, OS X for 3 years, and I'm much more productive in OS X. Even though I used a Windows box all day at work and I'm no idiot when it comes to Windows. I just have more valuable things to do with my time than scanning for viruses and spyware, defragmenting my hard drive, and cleaning my registry (all of which are completely unnecessary on OS X).
It has *less* features than other mobile phones, less a pretty screen and more storage space.
Comments like your's remind me of CmdrTaco's infamous "No wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame..." quote. This is also the reason why you're completely wrong.
The iPod had less features than it's competitors when it came out as well. Unlike the asian markets, where people want millions of features that they will rarely, if ever use, the american consumer wants just a few features that are simple to use and work very well. This is why Apple won with the iPod, and this is why Apple will win again with the iPhone.
And if you seriously considering multi image same system partitioning of Windows then you my friend need to re examine what it is you're doing. LPARs are not for Windows code. Go out and by an iSeries midrange or an AIX machine.
You need to keep up on industry trends. Thousands of high-end data centers and almost every fortune 100 company is using VMware, and they're doing more with it than just development and QA. You know how most production servers only run at about 5-10% utilization? Why not consolidate your server farm and reduce the amount of servers you have by a factor of 10? The cost savings are significant, and are more than just FTE. We are talking about power savings, data center floor space, network infrastructure, and reducing the amount of hardware that can fail. And it's not just Windows apps, it's Linux, Solaris, BSD, etc.
Keep an eye on Redhat Enterprise 5 and XenSource because when that arrives it will have built in virtualization and at that point large Linux shops will start to virtualize wholesale. Now please crawl back under your rock, AIX troll...
So that's why Christians have to not believe evolution. If they accept evolution, then the entire point of Christianity is called into question.
You make a very good point. I do believe that's why _some_ Christians choose to be ignorant. I also know that a lot of Christian religions find evolution completely compatible. One explanation I was given was this:
"It says in the bible that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days. How do we know how long one of God's days is? If the solar system never existed, why would God base his day/night cycle on a silly measure like how fast the third planet from the sun in a solar system that he hadn't yet created rotated? For all we know one of God's days could be millions or billions of years."
That makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
For instance, Visual Studio.NET is an application that pretty much always needs to be run as admin.
And that, my friends, is why Windows security is such a joke. If Microsoft can't even write their own applications to run as a normal user, how can they expect 3rd party developers to follow those rules?
So I'd like to get a LAMP -> LAPP migrator that will automate the switch.
Since most of these LAMP applications are shipped as source code anyway, and the install procedure usually says something like "Run mysql -u root dbinstall.sql", you are already manually installing the database or creating the schema by importing the SQL. Why not just import it into Postgres and see if it works?
The only hard part is looking through all of the PHP code and changing every call from it's MySQL equivelant to Postgres equivelant... This is why I like Perl DBI a lot better because it is database independent and easy to switch back and forth between different production databases.
I'm not sure why being a so-called "red state" means that it's people or government agencies are supporters of MS.
It doesn't, but in general, Republicans fall on the side of big business much more often than they fall on the side of the consumer, therefore a red state is probably less likely to be anti-MS. There are exceptions to this rule: Utah and Massachusetts, but Utah has Novell as a constituent and Massachusetts has Mitt Romney, who came from Utah and knows full well how MS destroyed Novell and WordPerfect and probably has a bit of an axe to grind.
I dunno about that. I know lots of "normal" people that have them and use them just fine.
Oh, I also wanted to mention that most "normal" people I know with Treos (and by normal, I mean non-techies) don't have any third-party apps installed on their phones, and half of them don't even know how to sync their calendar and contacts with their PC. That's why applications like BrightMail sell so well on the corporate side; because your IT department now does all the dirty work of getting a mail/calendar/contacts application installed on the phone that wirelessly syncs so that brain-dead MBAs can do the important work of talking on their $600 phones all day:)
I agree that setting up a smart phone to do all that smart stuff can be a pain..but...20 hours? That seems a bit much considering that phone/texting/camera/email work out of the box and ptunes takes two clicks and sync to install. yes, there's a lot more to play with beyond that, but the basic funtionality is included and works without futzing.
I have a lot more applications installed than PocketTunes, so the 20 hours figure is to get PocketTunes, TreoAlertMgr, Java Virtual Machine, Gmail, Google Maps, and a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head installed.
I mean, look at the process a new phone user has to go through to get PocketTunes alone working:
1. Insert the Treo CD-ROM in their computer. 2. Click through about 10 annoying menus that pop up trying to sell you extra crapware and choose "No, I REALLY don't want to register with Palm" for about the 10th time each reboot. 3. Reboot the computer a couple of times to get all of the device drivers and software installed. 4. Futz around with Intellisync software for about 30 minutes trying to figure out how to tell it you want it to sync with a USB device instead of a serial port. Bluetooth is a bigger nightmare because you have to setup a virtual serial port, a task which is pretty much impossible for your average computer user, and then tell the Intellisync software which COM5 or COM6 port is actually the virtual serial port you want to use to sync with. 5. Perform your first sync to get all of your calendar and contacts onto your phone.
At this point you've spent about 1-2 hours and are thoroughly frustrated with the whole process, and all you've accomplished is getting your contacts and calendar onto your phone. Now, we can actually load software onto the phone.
6. Go to the PocketTunes website. 7. Download the trial version of the software. 8. Double-click on the.PRC file to load the application into the sync software. 9. Sync your Treo with your computer again to install the application. 10. Go back to the PocketTunes website. 11. Put in your credit card number and buy a key to unlock the full version of PocketTunes (did I mention that MP3 playback actually costs extra money on a Treo?) 12. Now, check your email and type in the registration key on your Treo in order to unlock PocketTunes.
Congratulations, you now have PocketTunes installed, although you haven't even gotten any music onto the Treo to listen to yet.
13. Go buy a 1-2GB SD card to store your music on. If you are lucky, you'll have a card reader on your computer that you can insert it into and drag-drop music onto it. If you're not, you'll have to continue to the next step. 14. Insert the card into your Treo. 15. Plug in your Treo and try to figure out how to make the SD card appear as a drive under Windows so that you can drag-drop files to it. Pull out your hair in frustration as you realize that it will take another software program just to make the drive visible to Windows. 16. Download the Freeware E2 Internal Drive software which makes your SD card in the Treo appear as a drive letter. 17. Reboot again and hope Windows doesn't get messed up by some shady freeware device driver. If it does you might have to purchase a commercial program that does the same thing. 18. Drag-Drop your MP3 files onto your Treo SD card drive. 19. Disconnect and enjoy music on your Treo 650.
Get the picture? Simply installing a functional music player on the Treo 650 is a task that a normal person just cannot do. At least one or two of those steps would baffle some of my friends that work in IT. This is just for one application. Now imagine that you need 10-15 of those productivity applications to make your Treo fully functional. That's where I get the 20 hour figure.
I'm guessing the only thing you need to do to get music playback working on the iPhone is this:
1. Insert the iTunes CD-ROM. 2. Install iTunes, let it scan for musi
No, it doesn't. You need a flip-down case, then you can hold the Treo by the flip-down cover and thumb-type. It may seem goofy, but it works like a charm. It's by far the best single-handed input device I have ever used.
So if you buy a third-party accessory, hold it just right, and have the agility of a crack-addled 12 year old on ritalin, you can type with one hand? I've had my Treo for almost 2 years and I never had the need or desire to use it one-handed. What are you trying to do, type on the keypad and drive at the same time? Get a fucking clue.
That does not seem likely, Cingular would set a horrible precedent by allowing this alternative to their pay-per-SMS system that they make gazillion$ of dollars from.
The precedent has already been set. Cingular sells a Sidekick with a built in AIM client.
Then it adds a couple of problems other cell phones don't have... like having a battery that is not user replaceable.
Disclaimer: I've had a Treo 650 for almost 2 years and I love it.
Palm found out with the Treo early on that there was a certain subset of business users that talk on their phone more than 5-6 hours a day and absolutely demanded an easily replaceable battery. Newsflash: These users are NOT Apple's target market for the iPhone. Type A overachievers that spend 12 hours a day with their cellphone glued to their ear have to be at best 0.001% of the total phone market.
Having no replaceable battery will not deter the other 99.999% of the market. Everyone I know that has a cellphone uses the same battery that the phone salesman popped in there in the store when they bought it, and never removes it once. They just plug in their phone and let it charge overnight while they're asleep and talk on the phone for as long as they feel like during the day.
The only time I've ever taken my Treo battery out of the phone was when some consultant at our office drained his battery and forgot his charger and asked to borrow mine to check his voicemail. Those type of people should clearly have their cellphone flushed down the toilet and their eardrum poked out with a sharp pointy stick so that they can't talk on the phone any more. I mean seriously, anyone that talks on the phone more than 5 hours of their waking life is putting everyone around them through hell and needs to be taken out back of the office and shot.
I'm not saying the iPhone isn't a good accessory that will get your boyfriend all hot and bothered, but to say that the featureset is unique is beyond ignorant.
The Creative Nomad did everything that the iPod did when it was released, yet the iPod was actually usable by normal people. Look where the Creative Nomad is today. FWIW, I'm a happy Treo 650 owner with PocketTunes and all the doodads, but it took me about 20 hours to get all of the applications installed and usable and I'm a techie. For the normal person you see walking the street with white earbuds hanging out of their ears, the Treo is completely unusable.
That is how Apple is going to take over the phone market, by making powerful devices that are actually usable by normal people, not techies.
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The day I start saying mebibytes will be a cold day in hell.
Looks like a nice phone, but no EDGE? Also, no SD card slot and only 128MB of memory built in? And no USB 2.0? Only 1.1? For a phone that isn't even released yet their specs are about 3 years behind the rest of the industry.
This is why we need Dell to support Linux. It's probably the only chance to break the MS monopoly.
Unless you want to be a software developer or work at a University, I think a University degree is rubbish for most "hands-on" network and system engineering.
Here's my advice: Build a lab in your house with a mix of used eBayed computers, routers, switches, etc. Get a mix of hardware and OS. Linux, Solaris, BSD, Windows, hell even Windows servers just to learn about interoperability. Set it all up and pretend like you're setting up branch offices for a large company. If you get 2 v.35 cables and a couple old 2500 or 2600 series Cisco routers you can simulate a frame relay or T1 point-to-point connection between offices. Or go new school and get some VPN concentrators. Set up multiple branch offices and then start breaking things and learn how to fix them. Get some good books and study things. Start building web servers, DNS servers, database servers, firewalls, and DMZs. Learn how all of this stuff works inside and out. Start writing scripts to automate the configuration and management of these servers. Get centralized syslog, snort intrusion detection, event correlation, and monitoring working.
Do all of this on your own and then network with some local businesspeople that need computer work done. Offer to do it at a lower cost than market rate so that you can get some resume building experience. Once you have a couple years of experience handling small lawyers, doctors, or various local businesses computer needs, you can list that on a resume as work experience. When you start applying for real jobs, they don't know that the Law Firm of "Whozits, Whatsitz, and How" is small. Pretend like you've been doing IT for a large law firm. You don't need to lie, but make it sound impressive. "Managed wide area connectivity for a law firm with 4 branch offices" sounds impressive... Setting up a VPN to 3 of the partners home offices doesn't sound so hot. Learn how to creatively tell the truth until you get your first job working with a big company.
You can do all this for a few hundred dollars worth of old equipment on eBay and a few hundred dollars worth of books as well. School is for chumps, or PhDs...
The moral of the story is this: When automated trading systems take the market data as gospel truth (they have to, what else will they trust) and that data turns out to be inaccurate, bad things happen. Thus the need for more accurate and timely market data.
The iPod had less features than it's competitors when it came out as well. Unlike the asian markets, where people want millions of features that they will rarely, if ever use, the american consumer wants just a few features that are simple to use and work very well. This is why Apple won with the iPod, and this is why Apple will win again with the iPhone.
Keep an eye on Redhat Enterprise 5 and XenSource because when that arrives it will have built in virtualization and at that point large Linux shops will start to virtualize wholesale. Now please crawl back under your rock, AIX troll...
"It says in the bible that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days. How do we know how long one of God's days is? If the solar system never existed, why would God base his day/night cycle on a silly measure like how fast the third planet from the sun in a solar system that he hadn't yet created rotated? For all we know one of God's days could be millions or billions of years."
That makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
The only hard part is looking through all of the PHP code and changing every call from it's MySQL equivelant to Postgres equivelant... This is why I like Perl DBI a lot better because it is database independent and easy to switch back and forth between different production databases.
I have a lot more applications installed than PocketTunes, so the 20 hours figure is to get PocketTunes, TreoAlertMgr, Java Virtual Machine, Gmail, Google Maps, and a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head installed.
.PRC file to load the application into the sync software.
I mean, look at the process a new phone user has to go through to get PocketTunes alone working:
1. Insert the Treo CD-ROM in their computer.
2. Click through about 10 annoying menus that pop up trying to sell you extra crapware and choose "No, I REALLY don't want to register with Palm" for about the 10th time each reboot.
3. Reboot the computer a couple of times to get all of the device drivers and software installed.
4. Futz around with Intellisync software for about 30 minutes trying to figure out how to tell it you want it to sync with a USB device instead of a serial port. Bluetooth is a bigger nightmare because you have to setup a virtual serial port, a task which is pretty much impossible for your average computer user, and then tell the Intellisync software which COM5 or COM6 port is actually the virtual serial port you want to use to sync with.
5. Perform your first sync to get all of your calendar and contacts onto your phone.
At this point you've spent about 1-2 hours and are thoroughly frustrated with the whole process, and all you've accomplished is getting your contacts and calendar onto your phone. Now, we can actually load software onto the phone.
6. Go to the PocketTunes website.
7. Download the trial version of the software.
8. Double-click on the
9. Sync your Treo with your computer again to install the application.
10. Go back to the PocketTunes website.
11. Put in your credit card number and buy a key to unlock the full version of PocketTunes (did I mention that MP3 playback actually costs extra money on a Treo?)
12. Now, check your email and type in the registration key on your Treo in order to unlock PocketTunes.
Congratulations, you now have PocketTunes installed, although you haven't even gotten any music onto the Treo to listen to yet.
13. Go buy a 1-2GB SD card to store your music on. If you are lucky, you'll have a card reader on your computer that you can insert it into and drag-drop music onto it. If you're not, you'll have to continue to the next step.
14. Insert the card into your Treo.
15. Plug in your Treo and try to figure out how to make the SD card appear as a drive under Windows so that you can drag-drop files to it. Pull out your hair in frustration as you realize that it will take another software program just to make the drive visible to Windows.
16. Download the Freeware E2 Internal Drive software which makes your SD card in the Treo appear as a drive letter.
17. Reboot again and hope Windows doesn't get messed up by some shady freeware device driver. If it does you might have to purchase a commercial program that does the same thing.
18. Drag-Drop your MP3 files onto your Treo SD card drive.
19. Disconnect and enjoy music on your Treo 650.
Get the picture? Simply installing a functional music player on the Treo 650 is a task that a normal person just cannot do. At least one or two of those steps would baffle some of my friends that work in IT. This is just for one application. Now imagine that you need 10-15 of those productivity applications to make your Treo fully functional. That's where I get the 20 hour figure.
I'm guessing the only thing you need to do to get music playback working on the iPhone is this:
1. Insert the iTunes CD-ROM.
2. Install iTunes, let it scan for musi
Palm found out with the Treo early on that there was a certain subset of business users that talk on their phone more than 5-6 hours a day and absolutely demanded an easily replaceable battery. Newsflash: These users are NOT Apple's target market for the iPhone. Type A overachievers that spend 12 hours a day with their cellphone glued to their ear have to be at best 0.001% of the total phone market.
Having no replaceable battery will not deter the other 99.999% of the market. Everyone I know that has a cellphone uses the same battery that the phone salesman popped in there in the store when they bought it, and never removes it once. They just plug in their phone and let it charge overnight while they're asleep and talk on the phone for as long as they feel like during the day.
The only time I've ever taken my Treo battery out of the phone was when some consultant at our office drained his battery and forgot his charger and asked to borrow mine to check his voicemail. Those type of people should clearly have their cellphone flushed down the toilet and their eardrum poked out with a sharp pointy stick so that they can't talk on the phone any more. I mean seriously, anyone that talks on the phone more than 5 hours of their waking life is putting everyone around them through hell and needs to be taken out back of the office and shot.
That is how Apple is going to take over the phone market, by making powerful devices that are actually usable by normal people, not techies.