Seems to be the whole IT market in general. Maybe its a new industry trend? Not to sound flamebaitish but the only company I know that has truly changed in quality is Microsoft. Not as flexible as Unix (until the powershell comes out) but I was having a conversation with my gf about windows 3.1 and how horrible it was. It appears compaq/HP are improving again in quality after Fiona left and I hope its true. There is not one brand I trust anymore. Not even Apple.
Same is true with Honda. The bean counters seem to screw everything up with quality as they wont to sell junk for the same price as their previous higher quality automobiles. I guess it looks good on someone's resume that they saved X amount of money but long term it hurts profits and corporate image.
Dell used to make some nice computers but everything done their today is evaluated at a cost analysis level and they hardly even have engineers as they have a fixed cost. No wonder it became junk?
Oddly Hyundia is the top brand now for consumer cars and Samsung is catching up and surpassing Sony in quality. It seems the big guys never learn when they become successfull but the smaller ones dont have a bean counter mentality and try to perform.
My gf owns a vaio and let me tell you the batteries can scold you if you touch them after 10 minutes of use.
It upsets me that Sony wont even acknowledge they are defective. If Apple and Dell disagree then Sony could stand for a class action lawsuit agaisnt them. They are the same batteries afterall.
My gf has these batteries. Within 10 minutes you can get a blister from touching the back of her laptop. I told her to sue sony if they would not take it back. So far it overheated once where she had to get a cpu replacement. She always wonders if the fans are working inside her notebook. That could be a possibility but I wont open it as it would void her warranty.
THe batteries last maybe an hour before running otu of juice and its an overpriced piece of crap in my opinion. She even has one of the USB notebook cooler pads from Target and it still gets warm and her battery is the hottest part.
Thank god for my el cheapo Compaq pressario notebook. Its quite nice compared to her $400 more Viao.
THe states were like Canada back in 1980. It will happen as grass movements become more and more indoctrined with conservatice ideology without realizing from their peers at church. Before you know it they will think everyone around them will become super liberal in idealogy because they dont think like them.
Still a minority but if you have a 50/50 vote for a liberal vs conservative candidate the church goers will always tip the tide ot the conservative one. For example 80-90% of the american public do not oppose an all out ban of abortition but all levels of government support it. This is due to the influence of these groups but they are not dumb enough to pull that card which would cause a huge backlash. I pray that abortion is banned in the US. You would see a whole liberal response not seen since the 1960's and 40 years of democratic rule.
That is part of the problem. CS snobs like to point out its only science! Go to Devry if you want to learn programming?
However in the real world what is needed is learning how to spec and project manage programming requirements. That is the number one issue for any real IT project involving code. Coding itself should take the least amount of time and effort and if you follow the principles properly you can achieve near 100% completetion filling out requirements and saving or making your employer money.
Who cares really about mathmatical oriented things unless you write compiliers or something of that nature? MIS degrees will be the next major thing soon and its not just for PHB's bosses. I for one want to learn how to design projects and lead and having a knowledge of business.
Otherwise the excuse to outsource to India will only be more valid if computer science snobs who can't turn in their projects and fill requirements but are algorithmetically more correct keep churning out crap.
In some parts of the country church going folks represent 40% of the vote. They vote around 75-90% republican depending on the church and which part of the country. They believe Bush was appointed by god or feel he has values and morals similiar to theirs which make them identify with Bush more. They make up a large percentage but never a majority. However they add 20% points in the south in favor of the republican so those who vote liberal or stay at home get drowned out by this minority.
ANd like I said in a previous post its happening in Canada too. Right now only a few churches really love Harper but as the Canadian branch of the 700club and focus on teh family get their act together on Christian radio and TV you will see more of a shift of Canadians voting conservative thinking they are getting pro family candidates.
He was supported by Canadian branches of these same conservative think tanks and various churches across Canada. The whole right wing neoconservative is a movement out to take the world. First the bible belt and localities, then the federal government, and now Canada.
Unfortunately I do not think this is strictly an American thing more than a extremists using preachers to look moderate and doing anything possible to change society.
Thats no different than pulling a fire alarm in a building.
Also most computer centers have nice UPS for servers and mainframes so the damage would not be too bad. After the routers reboot in a minute or so things could return to normal.
I bet you can write a towers of honia program to sort the cards in teh right column of stacks with the later cards on teh bottom and smaller ones on top.
Doesn't macosx already support HD content? It was my impression it did so for quite awhile. Admittingly it has no hddvd or blue ray support yet but video production engineers do use macs for editing hidef content
Name one product that doesn't say requires MS Windows?
They all do because the manufactors dont want grandma calling in their tech support lines asking about rpm and kernel modules to work with their hardware.
Its fustrating. Especially if you purchase a wifi card. Some with the name linksys will work. Some with the same name wont and will be based on a different proprietary chipset but will carry the same product name. Its just impossible to know if any product will work with linux at all unless you do some research and write down serial numbers so you can differentiate the 5 different versions of linksys G wifi cards with the same box which only half work on Linux. You have to check serial numbers now to research the chipset. But none of htem mention Linux at all.
Until more people use Linux the manufactors will chose to ignore us
It isn't theft if your employer takes away one of your paychecks.
However to you it might as well be theft and it is illegal. YOu provided a service for 40-60 hours for a whole week to the company and you should be compensated for providing it. Copyright infringement deals with people stealing works and depriving the maker of money. But still its under the same morale.
I have an issue for software developers on slashdot who go on and on about the evils of the RIAA but would be pretty pissed if people could pirate their software and deprive them of profit. Its the same concept and yes most of us here are grossly overpaid compared to the third world which the majority of people live. So would it be ok to take 30% of your income because you are paid alot more than the average Indian or Chinesse programmer?
Or be exposed to U238. A spec of dust can kill you from the radiation.
However I do remember reading that chernobyl will be habitable in 400 years so I wonder about the half life? Most of it after 20 years is quite habitable and safe though the hot spots are not which is why its still closed off.
Natural Uranium contains very very small amounts of U238 so its safe to touch but dont confuse it with refined weapons or plant grad e isotypes.
Most of chenrobyl is safe again. Go google more on this and you will find links to people who have visited including a well known photographer?
However near the plant and other hot spots you can certainly see problems. Radiatation 10,000x more than normal has stunted growth on many pine trees just nort of the plant. Also I would not go anywhere near the vehicles used for teh cleanup at the dump without a radiation suit. It certainly affects nature but if your not in a hot spot which 90% of the area closed off is not, then you wont see and anything far from ordinary.
You could buy distilled water which would remove any metallic ions including radioactive ones. Taste like crap though but great if you have kidney problems like stones.
Well the newest macbook pro's and first generation of most Ipods changed my mind on quality.
THe old macs were very nice before the late 80's and early 90's. Then they got better and it looks like they are going down again. Not worth the price difference to me.
Also I fried my asus for putting ram in it that was overspeced. 400mhz instead of 333mhz. Part of this could be my fault but I did see some odd bugs with it. For example in any version of unix Xorg will not allow virtual terminals. It works fine on my laptop and the same problem exists for Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux.
I heard Apple uses boards built by gigabyte but I am not too sure on this rumor. That would make it more generic.
It happens when my laptop hibernates and comes back online. Firefox will work but it will be at 100% cpu usage. Also the latest version fixed this but now I am getting into memory leaks and after a few days or sometimes hours I need to close it and reopen it.
Then if the upper guys quit (The ones the average worker will take advantage of) then it will no longer serve the average employee and it would hurt them.
Unless of course you think the average worker is not qualified to make such decisions and they can shoot themselves in the foot?
Yeah your supposed to work together as a team but guys with clipboards and 4 function calculators have no bussiness telling MBA educated CEO's and board of directors business decisions. Apearently this is whats happening and many big companies have no long term plans because these silly CPA's walk in and tell them what to do or even fire them. Thats not right either.
Reminds me of wall street punishing Sun for first missing out on the pc market eating into workstation and server sales. So sun becomes profitable again by making cost effective systems and then wall street punishes them again and fire Scott mcNealy for not concentrating on selling big mainframes that bring in all the dough and ignore the market disinterest in such systems.
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Seems to be the whole IT market in general. Maybe its a new industry trend? Not to sound flamebaitish but the only company I know that has truly changed in quality is Microsoft. Not as flexible as Unix (until the powershell comes out) but I was having a conversation with my gf about windows 3.1 and how horrible it was. It appears compaq/HP are improving again in quality after Fiona left and I hope its true. There is not one brand I trust anymore. Not even Apple.
Same is true with Honda. The bean counters seem to screw everything up with quality as they wont to sell junk for the same price as their previous higher quality automobiles. I guess it looks good on someone's resume that they saved X amount of money but long term it hurts profits and corporate image.
Dell used to make some nice computers but everything done their today is evaluated at a cost analysis level and they hardly even have engineers as they have a fixed cost. No wonder it became junk?
Oddly Hyundia is the top brand now for consumer cars and Samsung is catching up and surpassing Sony in quality. It seems the big guys never learn when they become successfull but the smaller ones dont have a bean counter mentality and try to perform.
My gf owns a vaio and let me tell you the batteries can scold you if you touch them after 10 minutes of use.
It upsets me that Sony wont even acknowledge they are defective. If Apple and Dell disagree then Sony could stand for a class action lawsuit agaisnt them. They are the same batteries afterall.
My compaq pressario is cool to the touch always.
It varies on processor type and ratings from zdnet. Look for via or intel chips if you want cool books.
My gf has these batteries. Within 10 minutes you can get a blister from touching the back of her laptop. I told her to sue sony if they would not take it back. So far it overheated once where she had to get a cpu replacement. She always wonders if the fans are working inside her notebook. That could be a possibility but I wont open it as it would void her warranty.
THe batteries last maybe an hour before running otu of juice and its an overpriced piece of crap in my opinion. She even has one of the USB notebook cooler pads from Target and it still gets warm and her battery is the hottest part.
Thank god for my el cheapo Compaq pressario notebook. Its quite nice compared to her $400 more Viao.
THe states were like Canada back in 1980. It will happen as grass movements become more and more indoctrined with conservatice ideology without realizing from their peers at church. Before you know it they will think everyone around them will become super liberal in idealogy because they dont think like them.
Still a minority but if you have a 50/50 vote for a liberal vs conservative candidate the church goers will always tip the tide ot the conservative one. For example 80-90% of the american public do not oppose an all out ban of abortition but all levels of government support it. This is due to the influence of these groups but they are not dumb enough to pull that card which would cause a huge backlash. I pray that abortion is banned in the US. You would see a whole liberal response not seen since the 1960's and 40 years of democratic rule.
That is part of the problem. CS snobs like to point out its only science! Go to Devry if you want to learn programming?
However in the real world what is needed is learning how to spec and project manage programming requirements. That is the number one issue for any real IT project involving code. Coding itself should take the least amount of time and effort and if you follow the principles properly you can achieve near 100% completetion filling out requirements and saving or making your employer money.
Who cares really about mathmatical oriented things unless you write compiliers or something of that nature? MIS degrees will be the next major thing soon and its not just for PHB's bosses. I for one want to learn how to design projects and lead and having a knowledge of business.
Otherwise the excuse to outsource to India will only be more valid if computer science snobs who can't turn in their projects and fill requirements but are algorithmetically more correct keep churning out crap.
In some parts of the country church going folks represent 40% of the vote. They vote around 75-90% republican depending on the church and which part of the country. They believe Bush was appointed by god or feel he has values and morals similiar to theirs which make them identify with Bush more. They make up a large percentage but never a majority. However they add 20% points in the south in favor of the republican so those who vote liberal or stay at home get drowned out by this minority.
ANd like I said in a previous post its happening in Canada too. Right now only a few churches really love Harper but as the Canadian branch of the 700club and focus on teh family get their act together on Christian radio and TV you will see more of a shift of Canadians voting conservative thinking they are getting pro family candidates.
Look at your pm Steven Harper?
He was supported by Canadian branches of these same conservative think tanks and various churches across Canada. The whole right wing neoconservative is a movement out to take the world. First the bible belt and localities, then the federal government, and now Canada.
Unfortunately I do not think this is strictly an American thing more than a extremists using preachers to look moderate and doing anything possible to change society.
Was he fired?
Thats no different than pulling a fire alarm in a building.
Also most computer centers have nice UPS for servers and mainframes so the damage would not be too bad. After the routers reboot in a minute or so things could return to normal.
I bet you can write a towers of honia program to sort the cards in teh right column of stacks with the later cards on teh bottom and smaller ones on top.
Why is it offtopic to use another platform that is not so drm locked up? WIndows is not the only OS. If you can't stand it then dont use it.
... and limit computer access.
... or hell even now.. I would be go insane.
If you did this to me at 16 years old
How do you know he wont be playing Wow or spamming more people for profit.
Time for macosx.
Doesn't macosx already support HD content? It was my impression it did so for quite awhile. Admittingly it has no hddvd or blue ray support yet but video production engineers do use macs for editing hidef content
Name one product that doesn't say requires MS Windows?
They all do because the manufactors dont want grandma calling in their tech support lines asking about rpm and kernel modules to work with their hardware.
Its fustrating. Especially if you purchase a wifi card. Some with the name linksys will work. Some with the same name wont and will be based on a different proprietary chipset but will carry the same product name. Its just impossible to know if any product will work with linux at all unless you do some research and write down serial numbers so you can differentiate the 5 different versions of linksys G wifi cards with the same box which only half work on Linux. You have to check serial numbers now to research the chipset. But none of htem mention Linux at all.
Until more people use Linux the manufactors will chose to ignore us
Or the GodFatherII
It isn't theft if your employer takes away one of your paychecks.
However to you it might as well be theft and it is illegal. YOu provided a service for 40-60 hours for a whole week to the company and you should be compensated for providing it. Copyright infringement deals with people stealing works and depriving the maker of money. But still its under the same morale.
I have an issue for software developers on slashdot who go on and on about the evils of the RIAA but would be pretty pissed if people could pirate their software and deprive them of profit. Its the same concept and yes most of us here are grossly overpaid compared to the third world which the majority of people live. So would it be ok to take 30% of your income because you are paid alot more than the average Indian or Chinesse programmer?
Or be exposed to U238. A spec of dust can kill you from the radiation.
However I do remember reading that chernobyl will be habitable in 400 years so I wonder about the half life? Most of it after 20 years is quite habitable and safe though the hot spots are not which is why its still closed off.
Natural Uranium contains very very small amounts of U238 so its safe to touch but dont confuse it with refined weapons or plant grad e isotypes.
Most of chenrobyl is safe again. Go google more on this and you will find links to people who have visited including a well known photographer?
However near the plant and other hot spots you can certainly see problems. Radiatation 10,000x more than normal has stunted growth on many pine trees just nort of the plant. Also I would not go anywhere near the vehicles used for teh cleanup at the dump without a radiation suit. It certainly affects nature but if your not in a hot spot which 90% of the area closed off is not, then you wont see and anything far from ordinary.
You could buy distilled water which would remove any metallic ions including radioactive ones. Taste like crap though but great if you have kidney problems like stones.
Well the newest macbook pro's and first generation of most Ipods changed my mind on quality.
THe old macs were very nice before the late 80's and early 90's. Then they got better and it looks like they are going down again. Not worth the price difference to me.
Also I fried my asus for putting ram in it that was overspeced. 400mhz instead of 333mhz. Part of this could be my fault but I did see some odd bugs with it. For example in any version of unix Xorg will not allow virtual terminals. It works fine on my laptop and the same problem exists for Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux.
I heard Apple uses boards built by gigabyte but I am not too sure on this rumor. That would make it more generic.
It happens when my laptop hibernates and comes back online. Firefox will work but it will be at 100% cpu usage. Also the latest version fixed this but now I am getting into memory leaks and after a few days or sometimes hours I need to close it and reopen it.
Then if the upper guys quit (The ones the average worker will take advantage of) then it will no longer serve the average employee and it would hurt them.
Unless of course you think the average worker is not qualified to make such decisions and they can shoot themselves in the foot?
Yeah your supposed to work together as a team but guys with clipboards and 4 function calculators have no bussiness telling MBA educated CEO's and board of directors business decisions. Apearently this is whats happening and many big companies have no long term plans because these silly CPA's walk in and tell them what to do or even fire them. Thats not right either.
Reminds me of wall street punishing Sun for first missing out on the pc market eating into workstation and server sales. So sun becomes profitable again by making cost effective systems and then wall street punishes them again and fire Scott mcNealy for not concentrating on selling big mainframes that bring in all the dough and ignore the market disinterest in such systems.
Try doing massive calculations using matrixes on a cluster? Large datasets need to share the same memory and only a super computer can provide it.
unless I am mistaken I believe that quadro is based on the FX5700 chipset in non sli mode.