It probably means low levels of IO and the display cranked to the dimmest levels all while not using the wireless radio. I think we would have heard about an increase in battery efficiency of this scale in something other than an HP laptop.
In the school district my company works for, they have higher markups when getting quotes from vendors under the schools name than we do.
So lets say they need to purchase 20 workstations for a lab. They would get a quote for 20-30 percent more money than we would for the same parts. And I'm not talking about going through a distributor. I'm talking a retailer's quote for us vs. a retailer's quote for the school board.
FYI: approaching 750 workstations and a little over 2 dozen servers. Over a half a million dollars spent on proprietary software just for the customer end (not including systems administration, monitoring, etc.).
...but why is this something our Congress is focusing on? How much time and money was just spent ignoring all the other needs so an oddball like this could get through?
Why don't they start pushing to have government offices 50% reliant upon solar (or other green power) by 10 years from now?
then it sounds like you don't make a big enough event out of it at your home. cook some popcorn and such. schedule a time with your family to watch the next big flick.
or maybe i'm just too jaded from the crappy theater experiences of years passed to know what the general populous likes?
I'm sorry but if you are just now responding to the $12 tickets, $5 popcorn, $3 soda, then you're quite slow. If you've taken yourself and a date to a movie in the last 10 years, you already know that its going to be at least $20 (already more than the price of the DVD). Put this together with the other downsides, and you're just plain dumb.
Personally I would rather invest in a nice home theater setup (HD video, 5.1 audio, setup correctly!) and avoid the 16 year olds, high ticket prices, lines, static movie times, smelly theaters, and crowds of people.
"You do have alternative. Cable, wireless, dial up, other DSL providers, not having internet, etc. The alternatives aren't always acceptable, what you want, or all available in your area. But they are there in some form. If you don't want the telco's to "rape us financially", then let your view know to them and if they start to, take your business elsewhere."
If one company gets away with it, then they'll all do it. So what's my choice? The size of the foot in my ass or the style shoe?
I'm not arguing for the telcos. I think the idea is stupid. I'm just pointing out that it's THEIR network (even though it may cross our property) and they can do with it as they want in this area.
You don't seem to understand what sort of a monopolistic strangehold they have on us. If you (like I) worked in the field and new the behind the scenes BUSINESS (not technical) end of it all, you would have a completely different outlook.
And btw, it's not the consumers that would get raped (at least not directly). It's the providers at the other end. But don't give them ideas."
So the providers killing VoIP amongst other things isn't going to kill productivity? Imagine if you just rolled out 400 employees VoIP phones and now none of them work. Or that you rely on a resource that is behind that shitlist made up by the telco's... Your productivity drops 15-20% because of it.
The providers will always flourish if their product is good, and the end user won't have a choice of which carrier is used to get to the provider.
"I see that the telcos should be allow to control their networks."
They need to realize that THEIR NETWORKS our on our property and aren't god given rights to rape us financially. If they set this up then they should be able to have businesses lay cable just like they do so we can have alternatives to them.
Fighting for fair business in data is fighting for fair business in telecom.
And I can undoubtedly say that this is a huge reason this country is taking a shit on itself. We're so brainwashed that we think these companies can do this to us that it goes unnoticed. It gets worse every day. =(
1) My text messaging is free 2) I'd rather not get feedback on things I text... it's just like an e-mail, send complete thoughts and once you're done "talking", you get a complete response 3) Multitasking is much easier when text messaging than it is when talking on the phone (for the reason of #2, you don't have to be prepared to respond to feedback immediately)
this is much more a culture problem than a market problem. the market will exist and flourish when the consumer demands the product. right now, parents could give a shit less what their kids are doing (for the majority). it's the exact same reason the U.S. is lagging in many arenas (16th in Internet, way back in education, etc.).
face it: america is on top. problem being, there's only 1 way to go once you're up there. prepare for it or suffer in the end.
... to run a game business. it sounds as if the only problem they had was the problem of not being funded enough. if they didn't get the VC before they started, they wasted a humongous amount of time/effort/money in the months they've been "developing" the game.
it takes more than developer talent to run a game business because it is still a business! it operates on the mathematical practice of incoming cash being greater than outgoing cash. once that fails, the business has failed.
right. simple. like yesterday when i couldn't install a printer because the print spooler would crash, the drivers would claim the RPC server is unavailable, and after 2 hours of fiddling... the fix was: rename the computer. the rpc server was querying the wrong name. changing the name of the computer rewrote those settings (wherever they are in registryland) back to match the active settings.
Windows XP and HP LaserJet 1300. F u and all your little buddies.
they will keep operating like normal and won't integrate symantec's garbage. think of the number of clients a bank has times the cost of a license for this. besides that, it limits the number of customers that can use their service. i know guys that work for the IT dept. of banks and none of them are fans of Symantec's products.
if it is cheap enough, functional, high enough quality (192kbps minimum), and works in the formats requested (see: mp3 and ogg), they may be able to grab a few customers away from iTMS.
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It probably means low levels of IO and the display cranked to the dimmest levels all while not using the wireless radio. I think we would have heard about an increase in battery efficiency of this scale in something other than an HP laptop.
In the school district my company works for, they have higher markups when getting quotes from vendors under the schools name than we do.
So lets say they need to purchase 20 workstations for a lab. They would get a quote for 20-30 percent more money than we would for the same parts. And I'm not talking about going through a distributor. I'm talking a retailer's quote for us vs. a retailer's quote for the school board.
FYI: approaching 750 workstations and a little over 2 dozen servers. Over a half a million dollars spent on proprietary software just for the customer end (not including systems administration, monitoring, etc.).
...but why is this something our Congress is focusing on? How much time and money was just spent ignoring all the other needs so an oddball like this could get through?
Why don't they start pushing to have government offices 50% reliant upon solar (or other green power) by 10 years from now?
Who owns the physical media in the ground.
TweakUI from MS is free and can keep apps from doing that. Configuring software correctly can keep them from doing that.
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No wonder digg is now more popular than
This is garbage. Give me a break.
then it sounds like you don't make a big enough event out of it at your home. cook some popcorn and such. schedule a time with your family to watch the next big flick.
or maybe i'm just too jaded from the crappy theater experiences of years passed to know what the general populous likes?
I'm sorry but if you are just now responding to the $12 tickets, $5 popcorn, $3 soda, then you're quite slow. If you've taken yourself and a date to a movie in the last 10 years, you already know that its going to be at least $20 (already more than the price of the DVD). Put this together with the other downsides, and you're just plain dumb.
Personally I would rather invest in a nice home theater setup (HD video, 5.1 audio, setup correctly!) and avoid the 16 year olds, high ticket prices, lines, static movie times, smelly theaters, and crowds of people.
"You do have alternative. Cable, wireless, dial up, other DSL providers, not having internet, etc. The alternatives aren't always acceptable, what you want, or all available in your area. But they are there in some form. If you don't want the telco's to "rape us financially", then let your view know to them and if they start to, take your business elsewhere."
If one company gets away with it, then they'll all do it. So what's my choice? The size of the foot in my ass or the style shoe?
I'm not arguing for the telcos. I think the idea is stupid. I'm just pointing out that it's THEIR network (even though it may cross our property) and they can do with it as they want in this area.
You don't seem to understand what sort of a monopolistic strangehold they have on us. If you (like I) worked in the field and new the behind the scenes BUSINESS (not technical) end of it all, you would have a completely different outlook.
And btw, it's not the consumers that would get raped (at least not directly). It's the providers at the other end. But don't give them ideas."
So the providers killing VoIP amongst other things isn't going to kill productivity? Imagine if you just rolled out 400 employees VoIP phones and now none of them work. Or that you rely on a resource that is behind that shitlist made up by the telco's... Your productivity drops 15-20% because of it.
The providers will always flourish if their product is good, and the end user won't have a choice of which carrier is used to get to the provider.
"I see that the telcos should be allow to control their networks."
They need to realize that THEIR NETWORKS our on our property and aren't god given rights to rape us financially. If they set this up then they should be able to have businesses lay cable just like they do so we can have alternatives to them.
Fighting for fair business in data is fighting for fair business in telecom.
And I can undoubtedly say that this is a huge reason this country is taking a shit on itself. We're so brainwashed that we think these companies can do this to us that it goes unnoticed. It gets worse every day. =(
1) My text messaging is free
2) I'd rather not get feedback on things I text... it's just like an e-mail, send complete thoughts and once you're done "talking", you get a complete response
3) Multitasking is much easier when text messaging than it is when talking on the phone (for the reason of #2, you don't have to be prepared to respond to feedback immediately)
exactly.
this is much more a culture problem than a market problem. the market will exist and flourish when the consumer demands the product. right now, parents could give a shit less what their kids are doing (for the majority). it's the exact same reason the U.S. is lagging in many arenas (16th in Internet, way back in education, etc.).
face it: america is on top. problem being, there's only 1 way to go once you're up there. prepare for it or suffer in the end.
actually, their customers paid for it. in taxes, in rate hikes, and STILL don't get what they were charged for.
http://muniwireless.com/community/1023
Either way it's make believe.
Get over it!
as well as the power device thats going into the wall (UPS/surge strip)
In related news, my pants were the leading distribution method for iPod nanos, in the USA, in California, in my house, yesterday.
/.'ers pants, it's got to be nano!
coming out of any
least i heard, the fine was close to $100k/hour for cutting off 911 access. hopefully someone saw that money locally (doubt it though).
If they run Mcaffee, they deserve it. ;)
note: I can too make fun of all antivirus companies. I run debian.
... to run a game business. it sounds as if the only problem they had was the problem of not being funded enough. if they didn't get the VC before they started, they wasted a humongous amount of time/effort/money in the months they've been "developing" the game.
it takes more than developer talent to run a game business because it is still a business! it operates on the mathematical practice of incoming cash being greater than outgoing cash. once that fails, the business has failed.
Now I can move on with my life (again) not caring about useless, baseless predictions.
They're giving these things out to ANYBODY.
Finally proof they're just as stoopid as us Americanos :D
right. simple. like yesterday when i couldn't install a printer because the print spooler would crash, the drivers would claim the RPC server is unavailable, and after 2 hours of fiddling... the fix was: rename the computer. the rpc server was querying the wrong name. changing the name of the computer rewrote those settings (wherever they are in registryland) back to match the active settings.
Windows XP and HP LaserJet 1300. F u and all your little buddies.
they will keep operating like normal and won't integrate symantec's garbage. think of the number of clients a bank has times the cost of a license for this. besides that, it limits the number of customers that can use their service. i know guys that work for the IT dept. of banks and none of them are fans of Symantec's products.
Basing your price on other people's taste makes it seem like you're buying the music for someone else.
If YOU like a song enough, it's worth $0.99. Just because other people don't like it doesn't mean it's not worth $0.99 to you.
if it is cheap enough, functional, high enough quality (192kbps minimum), and works in the formats requested (see: mp3 and ogg), they may be able to grab a few customers away from iTMS.