You really don't need to do anything. See, with Macs being so user friendly, you just have the truck back up with skids of computers, plop them on folks' desks, and BINGO! everything is ready to go!
Man, I'd update your resume because they won't need you anymore. Or, insist that some MS products are still around because of... of...email...no...um...well, that's your problem.
Great idea, but what if you listen to music with only one ear? I work in an office environment where people regularly interrupt my coding work. As a result, I have taken the habit of listening to my music with only one ear bud. That way I can hear whenever someone is trying to get my attention, but can still listen to my alternative rock to my heart's content.
You can concentrate on what you're doing when you listen to music?
When I tried that once, my attention alternates between the music, what I'm doing while tuning out the music, to not paying attention to anything, and just being distracted. What I'm saying is, I can't do it and be productive - and I'm also saying that I don't think anyone else can either.
They're called "kernel panics" and I know you know this: I'm stating for others who may not know that. I'm getting one every time I boot fedora 11 and a report is sent to kerneloops.org,
I guess I'll have to be modded "-1 Flamebait" too.
I only know of one application that does not have a Linux counterpart, MS Visio.
*Sigh* As far as I know that's true. The other thing is the MS Excel ability to take a table from a website and put it into a spreadsheet where each and every table element has its own cell. Unless it has changed recently, OO can't do that.
But even then, we're talking about some very esoteric functionality and applications that the bulk of Windows users are not interested in. Besides, this is an advertisement, you pull just about any number out of your ass you want and get away with it.
What do you actually know about dark matter and the current state of the evidence? Do you even understand it at a layman's level let alone understand the insanely complex math? Have you heard of the bullet cluster? Do you know about the rotation curve of galaxies? Do you understand anything about the cosmic microwave background and its fluctuations? Do you understand the background theories you're ridiculing? Do you know why General Relativity fits the data we have collected so well? Have you even bothered to find out why scientists believe in these things?
NARRATOR: Tune in next week when the physicist says, "Oh shit! I forgot to divide by two!That changes EVERYTHING!"
Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), met me for breakfast at an unassuming little restaurant in a strip mall tucked into the woods a few minutes' drive from his house.
Over an omelet and fruit, McNealy....
While drinking my tea after having eaten my toast and having a bowel movement, I refrained from buying an airline ticket to fly to Business Week's office to slap the shit out of this "reporter" for adding "color" to his article.
Ooooh to be a journalism professor! This article could have been one page!
Considering how narcissistic folks are with their cars, you know, the ones with the really loud stereos that you can hear from a mile away going *BOOM* BOOM* *BOOM*, I would think they'd like something that says in an infinite loop "Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!"
I would also prefer that the folks who like the loud pipes on their Harley's - you know the ones that make your ears ring when they drive by.
Or the manuals are written in English, and IBM thinks that their "solution" is better than translating the manuals into Chinese.
The written word isn't that old in terms of human history. It was invented as the best way to use the current technology - making symbols in wet clay which was then moved to other materials then to paper and now to the computer screen. Before that it was oral. Writing isn't necessarily the best way to share information and it's the reason we have illustrations and photos and movies to help and augment the information being transmitted.
As we become more and more sophisticated technologically, we will develop better methods of propagating information from one to another. Call it 3D, virtual reality, or alternative learning, there will be better ways and some would argue that there are better ways than the printed word: learning by discovery has been my personal favorite. The printed word is just too limited to share information completely; hence experience comes into play. If the manuals were enough, experience would be a no factor.
That's is always how it starts. The last scheduled missions are always the ones that get lost in black holes, freak accidents where they get frozen or some such then they all appear in the future with every one being apes or something or thrust into another dimension.
I DON'T want to be them! Something's going to happen!
Crypto just takes some smart folks to create it. I get the impression that the US Government doesn't believe that people outside its borders are capable of developing their own.
However, that exemption is nullified if the source code is distributed to any of the countries on the U.S embargo list, such as Cuba, Iran or North Korea.
Huh. I didn't realize that Cuba, Iran, and North Korea didn't have any mathematicians or anyone else that is capable of developing their own cryptography. Or that other countries that do not have a problem with those particular countries do not have that expertise either. I guess the US has a monopoly on that talent. It's a good thing that the US Government is embargoing crypto. It worked great for nuclear bomb technology after all!
Seriously, how is a PC a unit of processing ability? And one thousand million GB sticks is an Exabyte (hence the name). Perhaps you can just say 10^18 bytes. This is slashdot, not msnbc.
Some of us went and got an MBA; upon which, it knocked tens of points off of our IQ.
And you've scientifically proven that this is due to organic farming as opposed to, say, the freshness of the fruits in question?
Yes. I always buy stuff that's in season.
Also, when you say stuff like "like they did when I was a kid!" you're just marking yourself as nostalgia-obsessed, as far as I'm concerned. Nostalgia kills rational thought.
No. I'm above that and I actually go home and taste the apples I grew up with and they taste the same. Actually, my local super market does have "non-organic" McIntosh Apples that just as good as the Whole Foods - they're actually more expensive.
But, my original post was a generalization about fruit and only fruit in the grocery stores. I'm well aware of those studies.
The other thing is many of the fruits in the regular supermarkets are fruits that have been cross bred with others. For example, many of the McIntosh apples in the super markets really aren't fully McIntoshes: they're bred with other apple strains to make them bigger and maybe last a little longer. Unfortunately, as a result, taste is also sacrificed.
A perfect example: there's brand down here that's shipped from New York. Compared with some of the California ones and their taste, well, it actually has an Apple taste.
God. I guess I have to write essays to explain myself here on Slashdot!
Scientific ignorance from the organic produce industry? Really? That's just so shocking.
Yeah, I know. But sometimes the taste is so much better than the "inorganic" food. I don't know what it is but organic fruit actually tastes like it should. Do a blind taste comparison between organic strawberries and the regular kind, or cantaloupe, or blueberries, or.... Apples! Organic apples taste like apples did when I was a kid. The crap that is passed for Red Delicious in the regular grocery stores have no taste - but they're bigger and last longer!.
As I get older, I find that I'm having a harder time reading from computer monitors and especially captchas. I confuse words all the time. For acample: erection with election. Not so bad, but if Google doesn't pass that unknown to multiple folks, it could get embarrassing. Text from a Bill Clinton bio:
After Bill Clinton's first erection as President, he proceeded.....
Localized brain damage can drain all the colour from your world and leave you in a world of the grey hued zombies.
Oh, shit! I bordered up myself in my house, held off the zombie cops and all the other zombies - for nothing?! They weren't zombies?! I'm the crazy one?!
I'm just curious. Isn't it a bit of a coincidence that this warning comes out when there is a growing trade dispute with China happening now? We have been using China as our factory an major offshoring partner for quite a few years and now there are warnings.
I haven't gotten an infection on my Windows XP box in years. How?
Browse with a user's account. Don't browse with an admin account.
use Firefox or anything BUT IE.
Virus scanner.
Don't browse porn sites.
Google and others are great at warning about sites that are sources of infections.
Of course, it is quite entertaining when I am on my Linux box and a Windows looking "Warning" comes up saying the my "C:" drive is infected and that I need to run the "anti-virus" that has popped up.
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Man, I'd update your resume because they won't need you anymore. Or, insist that some MS products are still around because of ... of...email ...no...um...well, that's your problem.
Great idea, but what if you listen to music with only one ear? I work in an office environment where people regularly interrupt my coding work. As a result, I have taken the habit of listening to my music with only one ear bud. That way I can hear whenever someone is trying to get my attention, but can still listen to my alternative rock to my heart's content.
You can concentrate on what you're doing when you listen to music?
When I tried that once, my attention alternates between the music, what I'm doing while tuning out the music, to not paying attention to anything, and just being distracted. What I'm saying is, I can't do it and be productive - and I'm also saying that I don't think anyone else can either.
No more crashes?
They're called "kernel panics" and I know you know this: I'm stating for others who may not know that. I'm getting one every time I boot fedora 11 and a report is sent to kerneloops.org,
I guess I'll have to be modded "-1 Flamebait" too.
Yes, in an advertisement, you will have to state the obvious - it's only obvious to those of us who know Linux.
I only know of one application that does not have a Linux counterpart, MS Visio.
*Sigh* As far as I know that's true. The other thing is the MS Excel ability to take a table from a website and put it into a spreadsheet where each and every table element has its own cell. Unless it has changed recently, OO can't do that.
But even then, we're talking about some very esoteric functionality and applications that the bulk of Windows users are not interested in. Besides, this is an advertisement, you pull just about any number out of your ass you want and get away with it.
...even Wall Street have been using: Linux!
That may not be a positive selling point these days.
What do you actually know about dark matter and the current state of the evidence? Do you even understand it at a layman's level let alone understand the insanely complex math? Have you heard of the bullet cluster? Do you know about the rotation curve of galaxies? Do you understand anything about the cosmic microwave background and its fluctuations? Do you understand the background theories you're ridiculing? Do you know why General Relativity fits the data we have collected so well? Have you even bothered to find out why scientists believe in these things?
NARRATOR: Tune in next week when the physicist says, "Oh shit! I forgot to divide by two!That changes EVERYTHING!"
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), met me for breakfast at an unassuming little restaurant in a strip mall tucked into the woods a few minutes' drive from his house.
Over an omelet and fruit, McNealy ....
While drinking my tea after having eaten my toast and having a bowel movement, I refrained from buying an airline ticket to fly to Business Week's office to slap the shit out of this "reporter" for adding "color" to his article.
Ooooh to be a journalism professor! This article could have been one page!
I would also prefer that the folks who like the loud pipes on their Harley's - you know the ones that make your ears ring when they drive by.
Or the manuals are written in English, and IBM thinks that their "solution" is better than translating the manuals into Chinese.
The written word isn't that old in terms of human history. It was invented as the best way to use the current technology - making symbols in wet clay which was then moved to other materials then to paper and now to the computer screen. Before that it was oral. Writing isn't necessarily the best way to share information and it's the reason we have illustrations and photos and movies to help and augment the information being transmitted.
As we become more and more sophisticated technologically, we will develop better methods of propagating information from one to another. Call it 3D, virtual reality, or alternative learning, there will be better ways and some would argue that there are better ways than the printed word: learning by discovery has been my personal favorite. The printed word is just too limited to share information completely; hence experience comes into play. If the manuals were enough, experience would be a no factor.
That's is always how it starts. The last scheduled missions are always the ones that get lost in black holes, freak accidents where they get frozen or some such then they all appear in the future with every one being apes or something or thrust into another dimension.
I DON'T want to be them! Something's going to happen!
Crypto just takes some smart folks to create it. I get the impression that the US Government doesn't believe that people outside its borders are capable of developing their own.
However, that exemption is nullified if the source code is distributed to any of the countries on the U.S embargo list, such as Cuba, Iran or North Korea.
Huh. I didn't realize that Cuba, Iran, and North Korea didn't have any mathematicians or anyone else that is capable of developing their own cryptography. Or that other countries that do not have a problem with those particular countries do not have that expertise either. I guess the US has a monopoly on that talent. It's a good thing that the US Government is embargoing crypto. It worked great for nuclear bomb technology after all!
Seriously, how is a PC a unit of processing ability? And one thousand million GB sticks is an Exabyte (hence the name). Perhaps you can just say 10^18 bytes. This is slashdot, not msnbc.
Some of us went and got an MBA; upon which, it knocked tens of points off of our IQ.
Now, 10 carrots 18? 18 what? Rabbits?
It should read 10 carrots and 18 rabbits!
And people say I'm stewped!
Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who became billionaires after selling Skype to eBay in 2005,....
Take your money, buy an island, fill it with beautiful naked women or use the money to start something else and add more value to the economy.
Suing just enriches the lawyers - they don't need any help - and it doesn't add anything of value to the economy.
Think about it.
And you've scientifically proven that this is due to organic farming as opposed to, say, the freshness of the fruits in question?
Yes. I always buy stuff that's in season.
Also, when you say stuff like "like they did when I was a kid!" you're just marking yourself as nostalgia-obsessed, as far as I'm concerned. Nostalgia kills rational thought.
No. I'm above that and I actually go home and taste the apples I grew up with and they taste the same. Actually, my local super market does have "non-organic" McIntosh Apples that just as good as the Whole Foods - they're actually more expensive.
But, my original post was a generalization about fruit and only fruit in the grocery stores. I'm well aware of those studies.
The other thing is many of the fruits in the regular supermarkets are fruits that have been cross bred with others. For example, many of the McIntosh apples in the super markets really aren't fully McIntoshes: they're bred with other apple strains to make them bigger and maybe last a little longer. Unfortunately, as a result, taste is also sacrificed.
A perfect example: there's brand down here that's shipped from New York. Compared with some of the California ones and their taste, well, it actually has an Apple taste.
God. I guess I have to write essays to explain myself here on Slashdot!
Scientific ignorance from the organic produce industry? Really? That's just so shocking.
Yeah, I know. But sometimes the taste is so much better than the "inorganic" food. I don't know what it is but organic fruit actually tastes like it should. Do a blind taste comparison between organic strawberries and the regular kind, or cantaloupe, or blueberries, or .... Apples! Organic apples taste like apples did when I was a kid. The crap that is passed for Red Delicious in the regular grocery stores have no taste - but they're bigger and last longer!.
After Bill Clinton's first erection as President, he proceeded .....
Oh, shit! I bordered up myself in my house, held off the zombie cops and all the other zombies - for nothing?! They weren't zombies?! I'm the crazy one?!
Nah. Back off you zombies!!!
Orangutans and chimpanzees ARE apes.
I DARE you to say that to their faces!
The World will one day be run by those damn dirty apes and they'll enslave us!
Just imagine those waify PETA chicks getting all mad and kicking the big bruiser mafia guys asses!
I'm just curious. Isn't it a bit of a coincidence that this warning comes out when there is a growing trade dispute with China happening now? We have been using China as our factory an major offshoring partner for quite a few years and now there are warnings.
Of course, it is quite entertaining when I am on my Linux box and a Windows looking "Warning" comes up saying the my "C:" drive is infected and that I need to run the "anti-virus" that has popped up.