I've worked at Office Depot for about the last year and a half, in the Technology department. We sell a little of everything, including games and other software, and it is mostly (95%) oriented towards Windows. The only real Linux software that we carry in-store is RHx, and I'm quite sure we will continue to carry it. And for the mac stuff, well, as said previously, we only carry TurboTax and Quicken, and again, that will probably stay.
What this policy is affecting most is going to be the bargain software as well as the cheapo hardware. From the perspective I see from working there, it is most definately a wise move, since most of the time when a piece of software or hardware does not carry the logo, it is much more difficult to install/use, and is prone to return (Example: Lexmark... who here HASN'T had problems installing their shitty inkjets?). It is unreal how many people buy something, can't get it to work without tweaking something that they dont know how to change, and take it back, even if there is a big "DO NOT RETURN TO STORE" sticker on it. Most of these products get return to "DND", which is either returned to the vendor for repair or destroyed; but either way it costs the store money. I think the biggest company this will hurt is Lexmark, unless they can get their certification soon. The bargain software, in my opinion, is good riddance.
There has been a pretty good reason why the internet has been US-centric... I think it might have something to do with the Department of Defense and a few colleges back in the late 70's, but I'm not too sure. I do host webpages on my own machine, reuben[spaceapes.com], including a few other things, like a forum[spaceapes.com] and picture gallery[spaceapes.com]. I agree that the ability to host these locally is increasing with permanent connections, but the key is that these permanent connections have greater bandwidth.
The intention of ARPA when they created ARPANET, which evolved into the internet, was redundancy in the case of an attack on our country; this network didn't include DNS. Sure, DNS is pretty US-centric, but it works. It's Probably not as redundant as it could be, but short of a targeted attack on the DNS root servers, I think it's pretty solid.
You will do well. I am currently a 19 year old student at university, but throughout high school, I did a LOT of work for businesses as well as just people. The city I live in has a few computer shops, but they all severely overcharge, as well as do shoddy work. I made quite a living from doing my work, because my doing good work resulted in referals to other people/businesses. I did zero advertising, and last year grossed ~$55,000, and made ~$10,000. Everything was by word of mouth.
And I had no form of formal education for computer technician work.
Several years ago I went to work at a computer shop, and was severely turned off. The atmosphere and the attitude conveyed a sense of "We're a computer shop, and people don't know shit about computers, so we can do whatever the hell we want to". All certification requirements would do is make it illegal for me to do my work, and give the shops something to gloat to their customers about.
And yes, I have done plenty of fixing the messes that the computer shops created.
Hmm.... your math is good, your brain seems to be fucked. And its not 192kb/sec, it would be 192KBps (the little b is bit, the big B is byte). However, T-1 speeds are quite 1.544Kbps, that's right, bits not bytes. Only.044bps faster, it would be. Next time, engage brain BEFORE making seemingly intelligent comment.
Just wondering, but are not open letters generally in some sort of form such that users (read - readers) may be able to respond to the letter after they finish reading it, constituting the "openness" of the letter? The Gracenote letter not only just tried to explain their marketing team rather than state their arguments for suing a presumably quite large client, but also just shoves FUD up the reader's rear end.
Just Wondering.....
Covering the use of characters (of any form) to form words and sentences on a type of media, such as paper, plastic, in digital form or any other media. This patent covers every language, and also the use of bits to form bytes on computers and other digital forms.
Need I mention the recall of the 1.13 GHz PIII?
As I see it, AMD is kicking Intel's butt, they're about to release the new Athlons, mobile Athlons, have already released the Duron, and work to get the x86-64 processors out is going pretty good, and Intel is running scared....VERY scared
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I've worked at Office Depot for about the last year and a half, in the Technology department. We sell a little of everything, including games and other software, and it is mostly (95%) oriented towards Windows. The only real Linux software that we carry in-store is RHx, and I'm quite sure we will continue to carry it. And for the mac stuff, well, as said previously, we only carry TurboTax and Quicken, and again, that will probably stay.
What this policy is affecting most is going to be the bargain software as well as the cheapo hardware. From the perspective I see from working there, it is most definately a wise move, since most of the time when a piece of software or hardware does not carry the logo, it is much more difficult to install/use, and is prone to return (Example: Lexmark... who here HASN'T had problems installing their shitty inkjets?). It is unreal how many people buy something, can't get it to work without tweaking something that they dont know how to change, and take it back, even if there is a big "DO NOT RETURN TO STORE" sticker on it. Most of these products get return to "DND", which is either returned to the vendor for repair or destroyed; but either way it costs the store money. I think the biggest company this will hurt is Lexmark, unless they can get their certification soon. The bargain software, in my opinion, is good riddance.
Well see, they are... it's just that they're recovering from the last time when times were hard when times are hard again :-P
Pictures here too... I kinda wanna see what my university's connection and my box can handle... So beat the crap out of it!
;)
... reposting The Register's articles for the last year...
There has been a pretty good reason why the internet has been US-centric... I think it might have something to do with the Department of Defense and a few colleges back in the late 70's, but I'm not too sure. I do host webpages on my own machine, reuben[spaceapes.com], including a few other things, like a forum[spaceapes.com] and picture gallery[spaceapes.com]. I agree that the ability to host these locally is increasing with permanent connections, but the key is that these permanent connections have greater bandwidth.
The intention of ARPA when they created ARPANET, which evolved into the internet, was redundancy in the case of an attack on our country; this network didn't include DNS. Sure, DNS is pretty US-centric, but it works. It's Probably not as redundant as it could be, but short of a targeted attack on the DNS root servers, I think it's pretty solid.
You will do well. I am currently a 19 year old student at university, but throughout high school, I did a LOT of work for businesses as well as just people. The city I live in has a few computer shops, but they all severely overcharge, as well as do shoddy work. I made quite a living from doing my work, because my doing good work resulted in referals to other people/businesses. I did zero advertising, and last year grossed ~$55,000, and made ~$10,000. Everything was by word of mouth.
And I had no form of formal education for computer technician work.
Several years ago I went to work at a computer shop, and was severely turned off. The atmosphere and the attitude conveyed a sense of "We're a computer shop, and people don't know shit about computers, so we can do whatever the hell we want to". All certification requirements would do is make it illegal for me to do my work, and give the shops something to gloat to their customers about.
And yes, I have done plenty of fixing the messes that the computer shops created.
--Robert Cole
Ok, so my brain is fucked too, make that 1.544Mbps.
=)
Hmm.... your math is good, your brain seems to be fucked. And its not 192kb/sec, it would be 192KBps (the little b is bit, the big B is byte). However, T-1 speeds are quite 1.544Kbps, that's right, bits not bytes. Only .044bps faster, it would be.
Next time, engage brain BEFORE making seemingly intelligent comment.
Just wondering, but are not open letters generally in some sort of form such that users (read - readers) may be able to respond to the letter after they finish reading it, constituting the "openness" of the letter? The Gracenote letter not only just tried to explain their marketing team rather than state their arguments for suing a presumably quite large client, but also just shoves FUD up the reader's rear end. Just Wondering.....
Covering the use of characters (of any form) to form words and sentences on a type of media, such as paper, plastic, in digital form or any other media. This patent covers every language, and also the use of bits to form bytes on computers and other digital forms.
Need I mention the recall of the 1.13 GHz PIII? As I see it, AMD is kicking Intel's butt, they're about to release the new Athlons, mobile Athlons, have already released the Duron, and work to get the x86-64 processors out is going pretty good, and Intel is running scared....VERY scared