Uhh, at 6kg (13.23 lbs), I think I might come up with better term to describe it.
I think all laptop designers should be required to carry a "laptop" of that weight, with other "necessary" accessories, plus 20lb of contract papers and junk, and walk all day long, for 3 days, and then, they can go back to design laptop, and see what criteria they will value more (hint: weight).
For those of you working in "customer-facing" department, and if your company refuses to buy lighter laptops for reason of uniformity, you know what I mean.
Carrying these heavy thingies is going to break your back. Hope your company's disability insurance cover that.
and I thought, cool, now I can attend the workshop and design my own luna base. I put up all the paperwork necessary so that my manager can approve my trip and expenses to the workhop, and ran to his office, afraid that I wouldn't be the first one.
Then, he said:"Sure, I can approve that, if you take care of the budget for the launch.".
Grade point -- Personally, I really don't care so much about your GPA as you might think. Unfortunately, you will be judged by it by far too many people, right or wrong. So if you're not 3.9 or 4.0, you might be ready to spin it a bit. "Yes, it's 3.2, but I've buckled down and have 3.84 in the last three semesters." "Yes it's 3.1, but you'll note it's 3.6 on courses in my major." Don't get surreal but make that number say something good about you.
If you are still in school, and are thinking about applying for a job at IBM, I'd suggest that you ramp up your GPA right now. The importance of GPA for IBM can't be stressed enough. It's an understatement that you will be judged by it by far too many people. You can be the best and brightest programmer in the world, but your GPA is the only thing that will get you an interview. Only after you got an interview can you show how much you know, right?
At the time when I was about to graduate (I didn't apply to IBM or any big corporations, coz I wanted to work in small companies), the only people who got an interview from IBM are the straight-A students, regardless of how much they know about computer and programming (not to be pejorative!!!). (Notes: at our school, straight-A GPA does not necessary mean you are good programmer, coz our school is very theory-oriented).
I started working at a small company the day after my last exam, so as two of classmates who were hired by IBM. We bumped into each other one year later. By then, I've developed two drivers already, and theses folks are still in training, and had not written a single line of code yet.
IBM can hire the "best students" (in terms of GPA) and send them to training for a long time.
Good for them. This is not sour grape though, as I've never applied to IBM anyways.
Way too big, way too heavy, too much extra crap that's not needed for a portable storage device.
No, you should have seen it before you claim that it's too heavy and too big.
I just went to CompUSA during lunch break, and had it on my hand. It's very ligh, and fit into my hand very nicely. It's slick too.
Unfortunately, like all display model, it does not work. No battery, no shit. So I don't know about the sound quality.
An advice for retail store managers: Please have your floor models work properly (put in the god danm battery, if needed), and loaded up a couple of mp3 so people can test it. It would be a quick sale for gadget afficionado, like me, who tend to jump on this kind of things impulsively.
Do you really think that companies are lazy or incapable of producing quality manuals? Me think not.
All the lousy manuals we have today is the result of "product strategy" or "business model strategy", whatever the big cheese calls these days. Manuals are created as confusing as possible, so that customers will pay for product training and consulting.
About 13 million Americans get a free ride as a result, compared with the more than 64.5 million paying cable subscribers, according to research firm The Carmel Group.
You have to really wonder how did they come up with this number. Seriously. 13 million people are getting free cable? wtf....
Copyright is heading towards being this kind of an issue, and we need to take smart action to prevent it before we have college students going to jail for their MP3 collections.
Impossible! How can that be? You mean, our american college students are stealing? Noooo way !
It's the fault of people outside US. I have the proof to show you:
In the music industry, piracy remains rampant -- virtually all international releases are pirated --
Now, blame it on the Brits, shall we? If you don't believe me, go to a Virgin music store in London, you can see all these pirated american CDs. All international releases are pirated. They said it, it's gotta be true.
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I don't understand why every web site needs to set/read cookie, for everything and for nothing. It's ridiculous. It's impossible to find any site that does not try to set cookie.
I'm using Mozilla (1.0RC3), and I think it's great that it can block cookies from those stupid sites.
Everyone should be using browser that can selectively block cookies!
As Linux developers inside IBM, do you get to see the AIX source code? If you do, are you allowed to "steal" some ideas from AIX and implement them in Linux? If not, why not, and what's the IBM official line?
While Microsoft is not the answer, the open-source community should seriously think of another solution to a national e-ID problem. It's easy to bitch about Microsoft if you don't have a better idea.
Sorry buddy, I think you've got it all wrong and fell into the trap of the government for this national ID thing.
I'm sure the OS community can come up with something better in a very short time, just look at how fast different systems, apps, protocols, media format (e.g. ogg vorbis), etc, have been development as a response to proprietory counterparts. And this is done on the developers' spare time (big majority, at least). Now imagine if they get paid and work full-time, so I'm very confident on this.
But the issue is not that the OS community can't come up with something better. The issue is that the national ID is a BAD thing. And handing all your citizens' personal information to a private corporation is a BAD thing. And when this is sponsored by the government, it is a BAD BAD thing.
Ok, maybe the government is bluffing with MS Passport for the e-ID. But, as someone already said it, the government is very likely cooking up something already, and try to scare everyone with this MS thingy. So everyone is trying to come up with something better, then by that time, accepting a national e-ID is not even an issue anymore, it's just a question of which one to pick.
Ask any good waiter/waitress. This is the strategy they use all the time to get the "customer" to buy something. You don't ask the customer whether he/she wants something or not. You ask which one he/she wants, and how many/much of it.
Bah, whatever Williamson says, you have to take it with a big grain of salt, and maybe add some soy sauce too.
I used to subscribe JDJ, and I basically discontinued my subscription, in part, because of his sometimes quite stupid column. If you are a regular JDJ reader, you've probably figured out that he is quite pro-MS already.
Couldn't read the article before it is struck down, and I'd suggest that Williamson go write article in his own magazine, probably something like "C# Developer's Journal", or something like that. I mean, why would you stick with a technology if you know that it has only 5 years left to live? I sure wouldn't.
I think the person in charge of this stupid product should be fired. If someone knows his/her name, let's see how long he/she will stay on that position.
Everyone in the OSS community has been bashing (well, most people anyways) MS's forced upgrade treadmill, and now, we want to adopt that? How hypocrit can we be?
I have the source code, leave me alone, even if I want to leave with all the security holes I want. That's my choice. That's all about being free.
Now, if I'm forced to upgrade, and there's still security holes and my system gets cracked, if I can sue you for loss and damages, then we can talk about forced upgrade. This should apply to all commercial softwares.
Otherwise, just leave me alone. One MS model is bad enough. We don't need more.
I don't know, I just feel that you get democracy once every four years (or whatever the length of the term). And the rest of the time, you can moan, you can shout, you can do whatever you want, there's nothing you can change.
I don't think it's listed on any american exchange. The ticker listed on Taiwan stock exchange is "2382.TW".
I just grabbed that from the market data of our company (which provides market data, obviously). You can probably find it on Yahoo with "Quanta Computer Inc".
Gee, I don't like that ideas, especially if it can apply to individuals. Now, imagine if some Goliath sending you spams or junk mails (which I toss to the shredder as soon as I don't, or don't want to, recognize the sender), stating that if you don't reply by a certain day, you are binding yourself to their contract.
It won't be applicable, for sure, but when precendence is created, it can get hairy.
Maybe we should post law firm email addresses all over the place on the net, so they get picked up by the bots.
The lawyers get spams, and they will sue the spammers. If enough lawyers sue enough spammers and win the case, maybe quite a few of spammers will go broke. And maybe the lawyers might have a better image among the geeks too.
It seems that trolls and retards don't like having to pay $10 to get their login back after they get banned for being an idiot.
Hmm, I do not subscribe to.5e, so I don't know what kind of people are considered "idiots" there. So I'm talking thru my behind.
Mind defining "idiocy" here? Think differently? Take an opposite stand againts the mainstream? Or just saying something the "elite" consider stupid? Not knowing the Linux/BSD kernel inside out to participate in discussion?
I hate trolls too, but not all trolls are like those FPs and goatsex(?) or whatever. And sometimes the difference between "trolling" and "thinking on the edge of the mainstream" is a very fine line. Yeah, how many thinkers and scientists have been considered "trollers" and "retards" in the history? Go ask Galois (who has "failed" so many exams and been refused admission to Paris Polytechnique, just because the examiners thought he trolled. He died at 21 at a duel), who gave us an important foundation for modern computer science and cryptography.
I thought most people on/. or other "open" forum are open for open discussion (no puch intended). In an open forum, there's always noise to signal. Or am I too optimistic, and geeks are just a bunch of self-promoted elite? So all these talks about pro-democracy and pro-openness are just crap?
Quite a few of my posts here have been modded as troll too. Yeah, and go ahead, this one is also a real troll.
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Here's a suggestion: Physically block the fucking I/O ports on display models. Put a locked metal bar across them or something. Cheap, quick, and effective.
It's already done. I saw the I/O ports on some computers at Fry's Electronic blocked with chewing gum. Obviously, Fry's is more clued than CompUSA.
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Uhh, at 6kg (13.23 lbs), I think I might come up with better term to describe it.
I think all laptop designers should be required to carry a "laptop" of that weight, with other "necessary" accessories, plus 20lb of contract papers and junk, and walk all day long, for 3 days, and then, they can go back to design laptop, and see what criteria they will value more (hint: weight).
For those of you working in "customer-facing" department, and if your company refuses to buy lighter laptops for reason of uniformity, you know what I mean.
Carrying these heavy thingies is going to break your back. Hope your company's disability insurance cover that.
I read the title
ESA Holds Workshop On Lunar Base Design
and I thought, cool, now I can attend the workshop and design my own luna base. I put up all the paperwork necessary so that my manager can approve my trip and expenses to the workhop, and ran to his office, afraid that I wouldn't be the first one.
Then, he said:"Sure, I can approve that, if you take care of the budget for the launch.".
Oh boy, feeling like a deflated balloon now....
Grade point -- Personally, I really don't care so much about your GPA as you might think. Unfortunately, you will be judged by it by far too many people, right or wrong. So if you're not 3.9 or 4.0, you might be ready to spin it a bit. "Yes, it's 3.2, but I've buckled down and have 3.84 in the last three semesters." "Yes it's 3.1, but you'll note it's 3.6 on courses in my major." Don't get surreal but make that number say something good about you.
If you are still in school, and are thinking about applying for a job at IBM, I'd suggest that you ramp up your GPA right now. The importance of GPA for IBM can't be stressed enough. It's an understatement that you will be judged by it by far too many people. You can be the best and brightest programmer in the world, but your GPA is the only thing that will get you an interview. Only after you got an interview can you show how much you know, right?
At the time when I was about to graduate (I didn't apply to IBM or any big corporations, coz I wanted to work in small companies), the only people who got an interview from IBM are the straight-A students, regardless of how much they know about computer and programming (not to be pejorative!!!).
(Notes: at our school, straight-A GPA does not necessary mean you are good programmer, coz our school is very theory-oriented).
I started working at a small company the day after my last exam, so as two of classmates who were hired by IBM. We bumped into each other one year later. By then, I've developed two drivers already, and theses folks are still in training, and had not written a single line of code yet.
IBM can hire the "best students" (in terms of GPA) and send them to training for a long time.
Good for them. This is not sour grape though, as I've never applied to IBM anyways.
Way too big, way too heavy, too much extra crap that's not needed for a portable storage device.
No, you should have seen it before you claim that it's too heavy and too big.
I just went to CompUSA during lunch break, and had it on my hand. It's very ligh, and fit into my hand very nicely. It's slick too.
Unfortunately, like all display model, it does not work. No battery, no shit. So I don't know about the sound quality.
An advice for retail store managers: Please have your floor models work properly (put in the god danm battery, if needed), and loaded up a couple of mp3 so people can test it. It would be a quick sale for gadget afficionado, like me, who tend to jump on this kind of things impulsively.
Do you really think that companies are lazy or incapable of producing quality manuals? Me think not.
All the lousy manuals we have today is the result of "product strategy" or "business model strategy", whatever the big cheese calls these days. Manuals are created as confusing as possible, so that customers will pay for product training and consulting.
About 13 million Americans get a free ride as a result, compared with the more than 64.5 million paying cable subscribers, according to research firm The Carmel Group.
You have to really wonder how did they come up with this number. Seriously. 13 million people are getting free cable? wtf....
Copyright is heading towards being this kind of an issue, and we need to take smart action to prevent it before we have college students going to jail for their MP3 collections.
Impossible! How can that be? You mean, our american college students are stealing? Noooo way !
It's the fault of people outside US. I have the proof to show you:
In the music industry, piracy remains rampant -- virtually all international releases are pirated --
Now, blame it on the Brits, shall we? If you don't believe me, go to a Virgin music store in London, you can see all these pirated american CDs. All international releases are pirated. They said it, it's gotta be true.
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I don't understand why every web site needs to set/read cookie, for everything and for nothing. It's ridiculous. It's impossible to find any site that does not try to set cookie.
I'm using Mozilla (1.0RC3), and I think it's great that it can block cookies from those stupid sites.
Everyone should be using browser that can selectively block cookies!
As Linux developers inside IBM, do you get to see the AIX source code? If you do, are you allowed to "steal" some ideas from AIX and implement them in Linux? If not, why not, and what's the IBM official line?
While Microsoft is not the answer, the open-source community should seriously think of another solution to a national e-ID problem. It's easy to bitch about Microsoft if you don't have a better idea.
Sorry buddy, I think you've got it all wrong and fell into the trap of the government for this national ID thing.
I'm sure the OS community can come up with something better in a very short time, just look at how fast different systems, apps, protocols, media format (e.g. ogg vorbis), etc, have been development as a response to proprietory counterparts. And this is done on the developers' spare time (big majority, at least). Now imagine if they get paid and work full-time, so I'm very confident on this.
But the issue is not that the OS community can't come up with something better. The issue is that the national ID is a BAD thing. And handing all your citizens' personal information to a private corporation is a BAD thing. And when this is sponsored by the government, it is a BAD BAD thing.
Ok, maybe the government is bluffing with MS Passport for the e-ID. But, as someone already said it, the government is very likely cooking up something already, and try to scare everyone with this MS thingy. So everyone is trying to come up with something better, then by that time, accepting a national e-ID is not even an issue anymore, it's just a question of which one to pick.
Ask any good waiter/waitress. This is the strategy they use all the time to get the "customer" to buy something. You don't ask the customer whether he/she wants something or not. You ask which one he/she wants, and how many/much of it.
Wake me up when there's a player for Ogg Vorbis.
I've converted most of my CDs to Ogg already,
and getting rid of the mp3 formats.
While we're at it, please make one for my car
too, will ya?
Bah, whatever Williamson says, you have to take it with a big grain of salt, and maybe add some soy sauce too.
I used to subscribe JDJ, and I basically discontinued my subscription, in part, because of his sometimes quite stupid column. If you are a regular JDJ reader, you've probably figured out that he is quite pro-MS already.
Couldn't read the article before it is struck down, and I'd suggest that Williamson go write article in his own magazine, probably something like "C# Developer's Journal", or something like that. I mean, why would you stick with a technology if you know that it has only 5 years left to live? I sure wouldn't.
I did that long time ago, with a laptop!
I think the person in charge of this stupid product should be fired. If someone knows his/her name, let's see how long he/she will stay on that position.
payable when you meed the programmer next time.
Yeah, let's block the god-damn site all together, shall we? So that no OSS programmer will ever reach the site again.
While we're at it, let's block the MS domain too, just to be sure.
Everyone in the OSS community has been bashing (well, most people anyways) MS's forced upgrade treadmill, and now, we want to adopt that? How hypocrit can we be?
I have the source code, leave me alone, even if I want to leave with all the security holes I want. That's my choice. That's all about being free.
Now, if I'm forced to upgrade, and there's still security holes and my system gets cracked, if I can sue you for loss and damages, then we can talk about forced upgrade. This should apply to all commercial softwares.
Otherwise, just leave me alone. One MS model is bad enough. We don't need more.
That's democracy, remember?
I don't know, I just feel that you get democracy once every four years (or whatever the length of the term). And the rest of the time, you can moan, you can shout, you can do whatever you want, there's nothing you can change.
I don't think it's listed on any american exchange. The ticker listed on Taiwan stock exchange is "2382.TW".
I just grabbed that from the market data of our company (which provides market data, obviously). You can probably find it on Yahoo with "Quanta Computer Inc".
Gee, I don't like that ideas, especially if it can apply to individuals. Now, imagine if some Goliath sending you spams or junk mails (which I toss to the shredder as soon as I don't, or don't want to, recognize the sender), stating that if you don't reply by a certain day, you are binding yourself to their contract.
It won't be applicable, for sure, but when precendence is created, it can get hairy.
Maybe we should post law firm email addresses all over the place on the net, so they get picked up by the bots.
The lawyers get spams, and they will sue the spammers. If enough lawyers sue enough spammers and win the case, maybe quite a few of spammers will go broke. And maybe the lawyers might have a better image among the geeks too.
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The Chinese, who've been alleged to use prisons as organ factories, or us?
And where is your proof to support that statement? Or is this just he-says-she-says-thingy?
Hacker, as a species, would disappear very soon, if RIAA/MPAA have their way with DMCA and all their laws on circumventing devices.
It seems that trolls and retards don't like having to pay $10 to get their login back after they get banned for being an idiot.
.5e, so I don't know what kind of people are considered "idiots" there.
/. or other "open" forum are open for open discussion (no puch intended). In an open forum, there's always noise to signal. Or am I too optimistic, and geeks are just a bunch of self-promoted elite? So all these talks about pro-democracy and pro-openness are just crap?
Hmm, I do not subscribe to
So I'm talking thru my behind.
Mind defining "idiocy" here? Think differently? Take an opposite stand againts the mainstream?
Or just saying something the "elite" consider stupid? Not knowing the Linux/BSD kernel inside out to participate in discussion?
I hate trolls too, but not all trolls are like those FPs and goatsex(?) or whatever. And sometimes the difference between "trolling" and "thinking on the edge of the mainstream" is a very fine line. Yeah, how many thinkers and scientists have been considered "trollers" and "retards" in the history? Go ask Galois (who has "failed" so many exams and been refused admission to Paris Polytechnique, just because the examiners thought he trolled. He died at 21 at a duel), who gave us an important foundation for modern computer science and cryptography.
I thought most people on
Quite a few of my posts here have been modded as troll too. Yeah, and go ahead, this one is also a real troll.
Here's a suggestion: Physically block the fucking I/O ports on display models. Put a locked metal bar across them or something. Cheap, quick, and effective.
It's already done. I saw the I/O ports on some computers at Fry's Electronic blocked with chewing gum. Obviously, Fry's is more clued than CompUSA.