The menu was sane, it was the remote that offended me.
I also have a blue ray player, when I turn it on, it presses play automatically. If a disk is at the start, I have to watch all the unskipable ads before I can hit stop, then menu, to browse to Netflix.
Also, the 2 internet functions are behind an internet explorer icon, neither is a browser (Pandora ands Netflix ).
The tiny buttons with illegible even smaller print in-between them, with 4 inexplicable colored buttons on the remote are the biggest hi wtf though.
Except, funnily enough, that's my biggest complaint about Samsung electronics in general (their TV remotes are horribly designed, and their digital cameras I've used had really stupid interfaces too).
They always look great spec wise for the money, but the actual product feels just not right (their premium Android phones being an exception I hear, though I've avoided them after my other experiences with their stuff).
And he wasn't wildly successful with his next job either.
But he figured it out eventually, and is one of the most successful business men ever, and oversaw an amazing turn around.
I can't believe designers stuck with apple through the OSX and Intel transitions (that lead to inferior products for the mac platform vs windows from both quark and adobe).
But they did, and slowly design won out, leading to mass production of a narrow range giving price edges too (ipad, ipod, iPhone all generally get tear down prices lower than competitors). It's much like the trader Joes business model in that respect (look at linear feet of any given type of product, such as peanut butter, at trader Joes vs a super market).
Interesting, and you're probably right, but when I read "Windows small business whatever-it-is" I took it to mean old, and out of date.
I think a lot has to do with what the companies actual needs are (what is that server doing?).
I'm curious the size, and security requirements/desires. If all they're doing is sharing files to a dozen or so people and backing up, it would make sense (to me) to use a simple Linux thing, but if they need user security password syncing etc, with Windows clients, stick to Windows. Once the users are being managed there, outlook would make sense perhaps, but I personally would think outsource the e-mail (leave it so), have someone to blame when it goes down, and it will likely be more reliable (though I personally prefer Google Apps over a strait imap/pop service).
I have the feeling the IT was a solution set-up 5+ years ago, and handled internally since then, after 5 years it was no longer meeting their needs (disk space perhaps) and rather than hiring a consultant that was going to try and get them to buy a whole new solution, they are hiring a person, with the thought they will save capital now, and have things smoother/less headaches going forward. Maybe I'm just projecting past experience at small companies though.
My system with a 3500+ uses barley more power than a current (desktop) system (purchased late '04, 240 watt power supply). It supports significant power-saving options on both the GPU (Nvidia 6600 GT) and the CPU, and the hard disk can sleep. It doesn't idle (or run) as gently as my e-350 that is about equivelent CPU wise, and probably better on the graphics, but I really doubt I'm going to save $300 anytime soon on power, even with 9-5 usage.
Compare 45 watt (guessing based on actual power usage in the 30's under load) power supply vs 240 on the Shuttle. This is 1 kwh every 5 hours, or 1.75 kwh/day, or about $.20/day.
this comes to 1500 day term to replace, in reality it will be longer. I actually look now and see that the e-350 is more powerful though, so i guess there's that.
My 3500+ with enough RAM readily runs any single application I through at it for daily work (don't do much heavy, mostly light web design, and batched image conversions, while listening to music, also watch movies, but it is starting to show it's age there, as my GPU can't accelerate h.264, and the CPU can't due high bitrate of it. The fact that I can run a modern browser, recent flash, newer office, and newest creative suite (for page layout, and very minimal photoshop) is a major leg-up on a similarly aged MAC for a home computer. If I had a similar system from '06 (I think that's when G5's ended) I'd be even better off at home.
I've just found that the MAC eco system is very much oriented to quicker upgrading, and everything at once over the last decade (classic to OSX required hardware for older, but functional machines, then the application companies dropped support for Power well before Apple, requiring upgrades too, if timed right it wasn't a problem, but purchased mid cycle, aging, but decent hardware rapidly became worthless).
I'm pretty sure it made sense to charge me more for my G1 (which was a different plan in name only than the mytouch) than for my 6800. Any reasonable person can figure out which one is going to use more data, even though both were unlimited.
They did that for all the smart phones, basically the feature phones that were incapable of using much data had a different plan than the smartphones that could use a lot. Makes sense to me.
I'd consider useful running the newest versions of OSS software I use (binary releases), the newest versions of freeware I use, and the newest version of commercial software I use.
I do recognize that things may be getting stable in the apple world, but it was a rough ten years as a user (os 9 -> 10, then power - > Intel). On the windows side I could just keep adding ram to xp machines and call it a day.
If the price is the same, I'm going with the easy purchase, even if it's just to run Windows/Linux (though I suppose after-market Windows license messes the price some).
They really need good screens though, as someone that wants to actually do work, I want higher res screens, I'm perfectly content to move my face closer to see the details, I want to read full pages in the height of a monitor, I really need at least 900px of height.
If this is about discovery, it's not about making it available to the public. Discovery is generally confidential, with a very small fraction of documents being made part of the public record (ones the judge determines are relevant and authentic).
If at issue is whether or not someone could of foreseen a different outcome as a potential, then I certainly do think that the rejected theories and conjectures are relevant. This law will rapidly be used to help large businesses cover up problems.
I like the availability of shortcuts, but I want a functional mouse interface too. Believe it or not, I like to use a large touchpad to control my TV, and leave the keyboard tucked away.
My biggest issue with unity is that the open an application button is not in a corner (annoying to hit) , and worse, when I over-shoot it and go to the corner, I close my current application.
Earlier versions had the launcher in the corner, but still dangerously close to close.
there's other issues too, but that's the big one for me.
Well that's probably pretty much will be the entirety of their Linux sales.
considering Linux was a requirement of inclusion, And that all hb sales are pretty much bonus sales (I suspect that like me, most people are spending veer money on a handful of indie games, most of which they'd never even know about without the bundle).
150k (bonus games get small one time payments apparently, so the five main games probably get close to 200k) should definitely make the port worth the money on a game that probably was earning nothing at this point. They may have thrown in an ad for the sequel in a splash screen too.
In my very limited use, it's closest to software center with a non apt back-end (so software center+aptish type system).
It tracks purchases, allow downloads to multiple computers of purchases (like software center or iTunes), tracks the installs (I'm curious weather the Linux version will include it's own tracking, or use it's own installer/remover, commercial software appears to be 50/50 on that in generall).
It also has some social aspects, much like Xbox Live.
I should include that I really mean dpkg for most uses of apt (I don't think the Software center you're referring to uses apt in any way, but I could be wrong, I certainly have not used "apt" for any commercial software, but was referring to.deb files).
On Windows it felt like "Yay, there's something resembling apt for games" when I first used it. I've always felt for almost all of my work that package management (Yast, yum, apt) more than made up for inferior/incompatible software (Yast, Gimp) almost any time there was an equivelentish option. It's too bad there's no document/deposition presentation software that's OSS, or I wouldn't need Windows at all.
Wow, I assume it's workload specif, but 80 vs 1600 cores is a huge gap.
I really hope that compilers start to leverage this, shifting workload to APUs where a discrete GPU would be inappropriate (I know AMD is counting on this, I just didn't realize how big of a difference there was).
I suspect they'll do a late in life cycle port to include in a Humble Bundle if it's (Humble Bundle) going strong still.
Currently there's about $100k per game in developer tips (assuming default split, and all games, including bonus previous participants are paid equal). Large games are often ported by a few people in their spare-time over a year, I imagine that effort is worth $100k. I also suspect prior to the Humble Bundle very few copies of the Linux version were sold. The fact that Linux compatibility is a requirement of being eligible for the bundle makes me believe that porting a cleanly coded (or flash based) game to Linux is a no-brainer for a developer, it's probably not worth it until the higher priced market drys up though.
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I just purchased a "famous brands" desktop with an e-450.
Technically a slight upgrade from my last desktop (my laptops are better, but I use the desktop as a home server.
most office workers could use it as their work machine (with sufficient ram), these are being sold for far less than the cheapest laptop.
The menu was sane, it was the remote that offended me.
I also have a blue ray player, when I turn it on, it presses play automatically. If a disk is at the start, I have to watch all the unskipable ads before I can hit stop, then menu, to browse to Netflix.
Also, the 2 internet functions are behind an internet explorer icon, neither is a browser (Pandora ands Netflix ).
The tiny buttons with illegible even smaller print in-between them, with 4 inexplicable colored buttons on the remote are the biggest hi wtf though.
Except, funnily enough, that's my biggest complaint about Samsung electronics in general (their TV remotes are horribly designed, and their digital cameras I've used had really stupid interfaces too).
They always look great spec wise for the money, but the actual product feels just not right (their premium Android phones being an exception I hear, though I've avoided them after my other experiences with their stuff).
And he wasn't wildly successful with his next job either.
But he figured it out eventually, and is one of the most successful business men ever, and oversaw an amazing turn around.
I can't believe designers stuck with apple through the OSX and Intel transitions (that lead to inferior products for the mac platform vs windows from both quark and adobe).
But they did, and slowly design won out, leading to mass production of a narrow range giving price edges too (ipad, ipod, iPhone all generally get tear down prices lower than competitors). It's much like the trader Joes business model in that respect (look at linear feet of any given type of product, such as peanut butter, at trader Joes vs a super market).
Interesting, and you're probably right, but when I read "Windows small business whatever-it-is" I took it to mean old, and out of date.
I think a lot has to do with what the companies actual needs are (what is that server doing?).
I'm curious the size, and security requirements/desires. If all they're doing is sharing files to a dozen or so people and backing up, it would make sense (to me) to use a simple Linux thing, but if they need user security password syncing etc, with Windows clients, stick to Windows. Once the users are being managed there, outlook would make sense perhaps, but I personally would think outsource the e-mail (leave it so), have someone to blame when it goes down, and it will likely be more reliable (though I personally prefer Google Apps over a strait imap/pop service).
I have the feeling the IT was a solution set-up 5+ years ago, and handled internally since then, after 5 years it was no longer meeting their needs (disk space perhaps) and rather than hiring a consultant that was going to try and get them to buy a whole new solution, they are hiring a person, with the thought they will save capital now, and have things smoother/less headaches going forward. Maybe I'm just projecting past experience at small companies though.
That makes no sense to me.
My system with a 3500+ uses barley more power than a current (desktop) system (purchased late '04, 240 watt power supply). It supports significant power-saving options on both the GPU (Nvidia 6600 GT) and the CPU, and the hard disk can sleep. It doesn't idle (or run) as gently as my e-350 that is about equivelent CPU wise, and probably better on the graphics, but I really doubt I'm going to save $300 anytime soon on power, even with 9-5 usage.
Compare 45 watt (guessing based on actual power usage in the 30's under load) power supply vs 240 on the Shuttle. This is 1 kwh every 5 hours, or 1.75 kwh/day, or about $.20/day.
this comes to 1500 day term to replace, in reality it will be longer. I actually look now and see that the e-350 is more powerful though, so i guess there's that.
My 3500+ with enough RAM readily runs any single application I through at it for daily work (don't do much heavy, mostly light web design, and batched image conversions, while listening to music, also watch movies, but it is starting to show it's age there, as my GPU can't accelerate h.264, and the CPU can't due high bitrate of it. The fact that I can run a modern browser, recent flash, newer office, and newest creative suite (for page layout, and very minimal photoshop) is a major leg-up on a similarly aged MAC for a home computer. If I had a similar system from '06 (I think that's when G5's ended) I'd be even better off at home.
I've just found that the MAC eco system is very much oriented to quicker upgrading, and everything at once over the last decade (classic to OSX required hardware for older, but functional machines, then the application companies dropped support for Power well before Apple, requiring upgrades too, if timed right it wasn't a problem, but purchased mid cycle, aging, but decent hardware rapidly became worthless).
I'm pretty sure it made sense to charge me more for my G1 (which was a different plan in name only than the mytouch) than for my 6800. Any reasonable person can figure out which one is going to use more data, even though both were unlimited.
They did that for all the smart phones, basically the feature phones that were incapable of using much data had a different plan than the smartphones that could use a lot. Makes sense to me.
Now they have true unlimited data for $20/month.
I'd consider useful running the newest versions of OSS software I use (binary releases), the newest versions of freeware I use, and the newest version of commercial software I use.
I do recognize that things may be getting stable in the apple world, but it was a rough ten years as a user (os 9 -> 10, then power - > Intel). On the windows side I could just keep adding ram to xp machines and call it a day.
Funny, I have useful PCs from when apple was using power processors.
Thanks for the heads up, I had assumed the intelness would of made it super easy.
I'd go as far as to say MacBook Air.
If the price is the same, I'm going with the easy purchase, even if it's just to run Windows/Linux (though I suppose after-market Windows license messes the price some).
They really need good screens though, as someone that wants to actually do work, I want higher res screens, I'm perfectly content to move my face closer to see the details, I want to read full pages in the height of a monitor, I really need at least 900px of height.
If this is about discovery, it's not about making it available to the public. Discovery is generally confidential, with a very small fraction of documents being made part of the public record (ones the judge determines are relevant and authentic).
If at issue is whether or not someone could of foreseen a different outcome as a potential, then I certainly do think that the rejected theories and conjectures are relevant. This law will rapidly be used to help large businesses cover up problems.
The same could be said for any decision making process though.
I like the availability of shortcuts, but I want a functional mouse interface too. Believe it or not, I like to use a large touchpad to control my TV, and leave the keyboard tucked away.
My biggest issue with unity is that the open an application button is not in a corner (annoying to hit) , and worse, when I over-shoot it and go to the corner, I close my current application.
Earlier versions had the launcher in the corner, but still dangerously close to close.
there's other issues too, but that's the big one for me.
Statutory rape is a "statutory" crime, it does not require Mens Rea, that's what distinguishes it from non-statutory rape.
Thus I thought she was older doesn't hold up as defense.
Last I saw (US anyway) the contents of messages are not logged.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/cellular-customer-data/
Well that's probably pretty much will be the entirety of their Linux sales.
considering Linux was a requirement of inclusion, And that all hb sales are pretty much bonus sales (I suspect that like me, most people are spending veer money on a handful of indie games, most of which they'd never even know about without the bundle).
150k (bonus games get small one time payments apparently, so the five main games probably get close to 200k) should definitely make the port worth the money on a game that probably was earning nothing at this point. They may have thrown in an ad for the sequel in a splash screen too.
In my very limited use, it's closest to software center with a non apt back-end (so software center+aptish type system).
It tracks purchases, allow downloads to multiple computers of purchases (like software center or iTunes), tracks the installs (I'm curious weather the Linux version will include it's own tracking, or use it's own installer/remover, commercial software appears to be 50/50 on that in generall).
It also has some social aspects, much like Xbox Live.
I should include that I really mean dpkg for most uses of apt (I don't think the Software center you're referring to uses apt in any way, but I could be wrong, I certainly have not used "apt" for any commercial software, but was referring to .deb files).
On Windows it felt like "Yay, there's something resembling apt for games" when I first used it. I've always felt for almost all of my work that package management (Yast, yum, apt) more than made up for inferior/incompatible software (Yast, Gimp) almost any time there was an equivelentish option. It's too bad there's no document/deposition presentation software that's OSS, or I wouldn't need Windows at all.
Wow, I assume it's workload specif, but 80 vs 1600 cores is a huge gap.
I really hope that compilers start to leverage this, shifting workload to APUs where a discrete GPU would be inappropriate (I know AMD is counting on this, I just didn't realize how big of a difference there was).
Multiple applications that don't need the disk.
Almost all of my background stuff is hitting disk, especially the backgroundy type stuff.
I thought they dropped Celeron when they added i7
Only when crunching. The idle power usage is way more relevant for typical workloads, and that's about equivalent.
I suspect they'll do a late in life cycle port to include in a Humble Bundle if it's (Humble Bundle) going strong still.
Currently there's about $100k per game in developer tips (assuming default split, and all games, including bonus previous participants are paid equal). Large games are often ported by a few people in their spare-time over a year, I imagine that effort is worth $100k. I also suspect prior to the Humble Bundle very few copies of the Linux version were sold. The fact that Linux compatibility is a requirement of being eligible for the bundle makes me believe that porting a cleanly coded (or flash based) game to Linux is a no-brainer for a developer, it's probably not worth it until the higher priced market drys up though.