My home computer is still a P4 3.2G w/1GB ram and a single monitor. It's getting a little sluggish for my needs these days, but it does what I need it to do.
At work I have a C2D E8400 w/4GB ram, RAID, dual monitors, etc. It's 3 years old, and still sufficient for the work I do, but I can occasionally bog it down with "normal" workloads (i.e. not intentially trying to kill it with a 20 threaded compile or something). I"ll probably be betting a new quad core tons of ram system in 2011 some time.
So no thanks, I'd rather not use my personal device for work:)
Then again, I'm in IT at a higher level, so I still have to support my own system either way.
Convenience is, in most cases, the opposite of security. To base any part of a security mechanism on that which is convenient serves only to undermind the goals of said mechanism.
If you are in the US---just look around. Infrastructure systems are crumbling away because of "deferred maintenance". It's not just IT. It's roads, bridges, state governments, municipalities, houses, businesses---it'severything!
You obviously missed when I said I get so focused on the professor's lecture that I have missed calls. So no vibrate doesn't work for me.
Seriously, if you are expeting such a necessary phone call, then make yourself available!
If you are that focused on the lecture, then obviously your dying relative in the hospital isn't that important to you.
If you seriously can't feel your phone vibrating on your desk or in your pocket, maybe you should stick it in your underwear or hold it with your teeth or something.
A commercial for Coca-Cola need not explain where one can buy Coca-Cola.
Correct, when it's Coca-Cola doing the advertising campaign.
But when it's Bob's Convenience store who wants to sell more high margin soda, he benefits in no way by stapling signs saying "buy a refreeshing c0ke-a-kol@ todai" on every utility pole.
As Dachannien points out above, the one who makes out in the end is the sign company that Bob contracted with.
Then there was some Chinese individual who personally spammed me trying to sell me electronics. I carried on a good convo with him for a week until he told me to go to hell for wasting his time.
Those people aren't so much spammers as they are just classic scammers that happen to use email as a communications medium. They target very specific people, and have a much much higher conversion ratio than a mass-email-spammer.
I have one going after me right now over 2 asian domain names, one of which I already have, lol. I've been stringing him along for almost 2 months now, and have gotten so far as to have HIM register the other domain at his expense, and point it at my server! Scamming the scammers FTW.
It's really funny too, my engarish has been worse worss every continueance of the each emailing i do have the makes. And yet he still persists, all for a measly 168 USD or whatever it's down to now (although that's probably a month's wages for him).
Either you only communicate with grammar/spelling nazis, or don't realize how even well educated people suddenly lose about 40 IQ points when they compose an email. For example, this is a legitimate and important email from a business professional to a client (formatting preserved):
------ Hi (redacted) I Congratulation's to both of you. still do not have pre approval from them yet. here are list of the inspectors. Title Co info it is on the offer. please have the verification of your money in bank please just email me a copy of bank statement or get it from your bank. thanks (redacted) Please see the attachment Inspectors list. ------
I totally agree, cell phone video calling is way overrated. My previous phone (which I acquired in mid 2007) supported video calls, but the carrier network didn't allow it to work. I only wanted to use it just for the novelty factor, and didn't "wish it worked" any other time in the following year and a half I used that phone.
I barely even record videos with my phone, and when I do it is even less often that they get sent to someone right away via MMS (much less having a need to show a "live" feed to them).
I've watched people sitting at the airport and stuff using Facetime, and it's just lame. The person in the airport has nothing special to show them, and the one on the other end is just in their living room sitting on the couch or whatever. There is no benefit whatsoever to having that video feed going, it's just wasting bandwidth on the crappy free wifiez that I'm trying to mooch with my own pointless timewasting.
I'm not inclined to cut Apple any slack and even I would not have put the Mini on that list.
Overall, this list seems pretty lame and mostly filled with stuff that doesn't really belong there.
Yeah, I'm usually first in line for an Apple product bashing, but a high price alone doesn't justify a slot on this top 10 list. If it did, it would be Apple's top 10 most overpriced products.
At least the BeBook reader was overpriced and failed epically on features & useability.
Not true, The New Kids On The Block made a comeback, and apparently still sing that lame ass song to all their fans (who are now in their 30s, because they haven't stopped drooling over them since 8th grade).
This device, the magnetic race-track, is a powerful storage-class memory which promises a solid state memory with the cost and storage capacities rivaling that of magnetic disk drives..."
In otherwords, new technology Y to replace technology X will give results >= X and cost = X.
I've heard that marketing mumojumbo way too many times, especially for Ys that don't exist yet. Show me just one storage technology that has come out in the past 30 years that makes that a true statement. I dare you.
I figured part of the reason for the 10" widescreen was to be pretty close to 8.5x11 erring on the size of smaller.
Have you measured an 8.5x11 paper lately? Well it's almost 14" diagonally.
To get a full sheet of 8.5x11 on a widescreen (read: 16:9), you'd need to go all the way up to a 17.3" panel, a far cry from your 10" idea there.
A better, almost perfect, fit would be a 14.2" 4:3 ratio panel (8.53x11.35), but alas the days of mass produced 4:3 LCD panel have all but left us thanks to the HTDV & movie industries.
Because, believe it or not, Apple came in at a price point that nobody could match without Apple's sales volume. The only way to under cut Apple's price is to reduce the screen size. By half, it turns out (7^2 = 49, 10^2 =100).
What do 49 & 100 have to do with anything? I think your understanding of screen size specs is failing. I'll help out:
An iPad has a 9.7" 4:3 ratio screen, so that's 7.75" x 5.83" = 45.19 in^2
A Galaxy Tab is a 7" 16:9.4 ratio screen (yeah, not 16:9 or 16:10, go figure), so that's 6.04" x 3.54" = 21.39 in^2
So actually it's 21.39 / 45.19 * 100 = ~47.33% of the physical size, but as for pixel count it's 614400 / 786432 * 100 = 78.125% as many.
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My home computer is still a P4 3.2G w/1GB ram and a single monitor. It's getting a little sluggish for my needs these days, but it does what I need it to do.
At work I have a C2D E8400 w/4GB ram, RAID, dual monitors, etc. It's 3 years old, and still sufficient for the work I do, but I can occasionally bog it down with "normal" workloads (i.e. not intentially trying to kill it with a 20 threaded compile or something). I"ll probably be betting a new quad core tons of ram system in 2011 some time.
So no thanks, I'd rather not use my personal device for work :)
Then again, I'm in IT at a higher level, so I still have to support my own system either way.
To put it succinctly: Out of convenience
Convenience is, in most cases, the opposite of security. To base any part of a security mechanism on that which is convenient serves only to undermind the goals of said mechanism.
If you are in the US---just look around. Infrastructure systems are crumbling away because of "deferred maintenance". It's not just IT. It's roads, bridges, state governments, municipalities, houses, businesses---it'severything!
Cars, don't forget cars!
(insert obligatory car analogy here)
Because the bigger it is the more smoke it can hold and we all know that letting the smoke out totally kills performance.
So these new little ones...they have the same amount of smoke? Is it just at a higher pressure then? If so, I'd hate to see one "give up the ghost" !!
What's with all the 'quoted phrases' in TFS that imply the reader would have no clue what these highly-scientific terms mean?
'etching' 'very sophisticated' 'focused ion beam'
Reminds me of the Harvey Birdman episode Back to the Present where George Jetson is goin on about how "In the 'future' we use 'computers' to ..."
You obviously missed when I said I get so focused on the professor's lecture that I have missed calls. So no vibrate doesn't work for me.
Seriously, if you are expeting such a necessary phone call, then make yourself available!
If you are that focused on the lecture, then obviously your dying relative in the hospital isn't that important to you.
If you seriously can't feel your phone vibrating on your desk or in your pocket, maybe you should stick it in your underwear or hold it with your teeth or something.
It's an uncommon courtesy that you not do things which distract others from learning.
Fixed that for you ;)
Common sense, common courtesy. The terms are antiquated, from a time when they were common.
A commercial for Coca-Cola need not explain where one can buy Coca-Cola.
Correct, when it's Coca-Cola doing the advertising campaign.
But when it's Bob's Convenience store who wants to sell more high margin soda, he benefits in no way by stapling signs saying "buy a refreeshing c0ke-a-kol@ todai" on every utility pole.
As Dachannien points out above, the one who makes out in the end is the sign company that Bob contracted with.
Then there was some Chinese individual who personally spammed me trying to sell me electronics. I carried on a good convo with him for a week until he told me to go to hell for wasting his time.
Those people aren't so much spammers as they are just classic scammers that happen to use email as a communications medium. They target very specific people, and have a much much higher conversion ratio than a mass-email-spammer.
I have one going after me right now over 2 asian domain names, one of which I already have, lol. I've been stringing him along for almost 2 months now, and have gotten so far as to have HIM register the other domain at his expense, and point it at my server! Scamming the scammers FTW.
It's really funny too, my engarish has been worse worss every continueance of the each emailing i do have the makes. And yet he still persists, all for a measly 168 USD or whatever it's down to now (although that's probably a month's wages for him).
Either you only communicate with grammar/spelling nazis, or don't realize how even well educated people suddenly lose about 40 IQ points when they compose an email. For example, this is a legitimate and important email from a business professional to a client (formatting preserved):
------
Hi (redacted) I Congratulation's to both of you. still do not have pre approval from them yet. here are list of the inspectors.
Title Co info it is on the offer. please have the verification of your money in bank please just email me a copy of bank statement or get it from your bank. thanks (redacted)
Please see the attachment Inspectors list.
------
B...b..b..but that's not in real-time!
I totally agree, cell phone video calling is way overrated. My previous phone (which I acquired in mid 2007) supported video calls, but the carrier network didn't allow it to work. I only wanted to use it just for the novelty factor, and didn't "wish it worked" any other time in the following year and a half I used that phone.
I barely even record videos with my phone, and when I do it is even less often that they get sent to someone right away via MMS (much less having a need to show a "live" feed to them).
I've watched people sitting at the airport and stuff using Facetime, and it's just lame. The person in the airport has nothing special to show them, and the one on the other end is just in their living room sitting on the couch or whatever. There is no benefit whatsoever to having that video feed going, it's just wasting bandwidth on the crappy free wifiez that I'm trying to mooch with my own pointless timewasting.
I'm not inclined to cut Apple any slack and even I would not have put the Mini on that list.
Overall, this list seems pretty lame and mostly filled with stuff that doesn't really belong there.
Yeah, I'm usually first in line for an Apple product bashing, but a high price alone doesn't justify a slot on this top 10 list. If it did, it would be Apple's top 10 most overpriced products.
At least the BeBook reader was overpriced and failed epically on features & useability.
"Hello world" is not a useful learning experience in the way that "20 GOTO 10" is.)
10 GOTO 10
Now that's a learning experience.
What language is "C/C++", exactly?
Well, if C were an int, it's a Floating point exception.
If C were a float, then it's 1.000000 except for C=0, in which case it's nan.
At least according to code written in C.
They're frequently right. BASIC was fun to learn as a kid but probably derailed me from ever learning proper programming.
Still using GOTO statements everywhere, I presume.
IIRC, paris/france gets most of its energy from nuclear power. So limited upstream pollution.
Yes, limited upstream. But man, the downstream pollution is another story, just ask Blinky!
Sigh. Nobody talks about The Right Stuff anymore.
Not true, The New Kids On The Block made a comeback, and apparently still sing that lame ass song to all their fans (who are now in their 30s, because they haven't stopped drooling over them since 8th grade).
Damn, forgot to use the ampersand-l-t-semicolon to show a < for cost <= X. Oh well, you get the idea.
This device, the magnetic race-track, is a powerful storage-class memory which promises a solid state memory with the cost and storage capacities rivaling that of magnetic disk drives..."
In otherwords, new technology Y to replace technology X will give results >= X and cost = X. I've heard that marketing mumojumbo way too many times, especially for Ys that don't exist yet. Show me just one storage technology that has come out in the past 30 years that makes that a true statement. I dare you.
Nope, no unicode support in slashdot.
Yeah, I know, which is part of the irony with both this topic and what I said in my comment.
Whirr [1]
[1] I asked google (by way of double translation) how to say "whoosh" in chinese and that came back to English as Whirr, lol.
I figured part of the reason for the 10" widescreen was to be pretty close to 8.5x11 erring on the size of smaller.
Have you measured an 8.5x11 paper lately? Well it's almost 14" diagonally.
To get a full sheet of 8.5x11 on a widescreen (read: 16:9), you'd need to go all the way up to a 17.3" panel, a far cry from your 10" idea there.
A better, almost perfect, fit would be a 14.2" 4:3 ratio panel (8.53x11.35), but alas the days of mass produced 4:3 LCD panel have all but left us thanks to the HTDV & movie industries.
Because, believe it or not, Apple came in at a price point that nobody could match without Apple's sales volume. The only way to under cut Apple's price is to reduce the screen size. By half, it turns out (7^2 = 49, 10^2 =100).
What do 49 & 100 have to do with anything? I think your understanding of screen size specs is failing.
I'll help out:
An iPad has a 9.7" 4:3 ratio screen, so that's 7.75" x 5.83" = 45.19 in^2
A Galaxy Tab is a 7" 16:9.4 ratio screen (yeah, not 16:9 or 16:10, go figure), so that's 6.04" x 3.54" = 21.39 in^2
So actually it's 21.39 / 45.19 * 100 = ~47.33% of the physical size, but as for pixel count it's 614400 / 786432 * 100 = 78.125% as many.
There’s no semantic difference apparently, it’s a purely syntactic distinction.
Syntactic distinction is the basis of most Grammar Nazi arguments :)
Spelt? German community?
So they were really Spelling Nazis,not Grammar Nazis as previously alleged. Glad you could settle that for us, now back to France...
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