(That and call me when batteries become paper thin, let alone electrical contacts that are still good after being flexed a few tens of thousand times.)
Yeah, people are still emotionally involved in microsoft's failure. It's a hold-over from when they really mattered, and behaved horribly.
Of course that's not so relevant anymore and there's no rational reason to get so worked up over "yet another device" or "yet another windows". I think even microsoft knows that getting traction with a brand new line of tablets with a new tablet-y UI on a new windows, in an already saturated market, is a difficult and risky thing.
We'll see what happens, but I'd guess (only guess) that the surface line will end up being like google's platform references while other companies produce their own, less expensive, more capable tablets with a breadth of options more like we're accustomed to in laptops.
Fire to Nexus to iPad to Surface... it'll be nice to see options filling in the cracks. You'll note the new, larger Nexus and new, smaller iPad. They're each trying to push out from their respective beachheads.
are we to believe that no women or any non-whites sent in good presentations?
You think it's more likely that they really are all racist misogynists, and would rather cancel their own event than let a woman speak?
It sounds like the problem was they were working on it until this Susser guy implied on Twitter that they're racist misogynists. From there it turned into a typical Twitter shitstorm, and the organizer realized that anyone making the panel at that point would be seen as the token speaker, and no sponsor would want to be associated with something that became high profile for bad reasons.
Assuming the article is accurate, people should really just mind their damn business until there's something concrete and legitimately wrong to make accusations over.
It's unlikely anyone has ever told you that computers were invented for space travel.
What they probably told you is you enjoy technological advances spurred by the space program, evidenced by things you take for granted in your everyday life, such as your computer and mobile phone. And that's accurate in that the space program helped drastically advance the miniaturization of electronics and improvements in material sciences, among countless other things.
No, this is a motherboard and case for half of what a Mac Mini in working order goes for. At $300, you still need to add a power supply, mSata storage, memory, ethernet, etc.
Mac mini's start at $599, ready to run, with an i5, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd, and have ethernet, firewire, sound ports, etc.
The role of IT is to take care of the monster, not tame it. When IT takes action to bring down storage "waste" (be it in SF or in mailboxes) on its own, it's like having the office administrator go around making sure people use both sides of the pages in notebooks and that people stop doodling on post-its while taking calls because it's waste.
Nah, this depends on how it's done. If you're nagging people, or just looking down your nose at the 'stupid' users, then yeah, you're that guy.
But if you set quotas appropriately, let everyone know up front what resources you're working with, and field any further questions respectfully, you're taming the beast to take care of it. I don't usually have opinions on things like this, where people get really riled up. But I will explain the situation to the people above me, even make a recommendation, but then do whatever they decide in the very best way I know how.
Yeah well, nothing really new there. In their defense, I've heard footwear can be dangerous now.;)
I'd like to see a photo of the watch though. "wires, switches, and fuses" sounds pretty cool... though I think I'd know better than to test TSA by wearing it through security.
I'm not the GP, but if you're talking about SSO using windows authentication through Firefox to your intranet app, I think that can be done. I could be wrong.
I don't know about everyone else, but the users where I'm at are way more comfortable with using something different than they've ever been. Sales staff push for services like salesforce. All kinds of users gripe that they'd prefer to work on a mac, both on the desktop and with laptops.
The remaining mental lock-in nowadays, where I come from, is really just Exchange+Outlook. Of course you can get Outlook to work with other combinations of services, and you can use different clients with Exchange, but what the users are used to is the utility afforded by using the two together.
Obviously this is just what I see at work... your situations likely differ.
This kind of thing is ridiculous, and I'm not surprised the RIAA would say something so absurd and disgusting. But one has to wonder, wouldn't you shy away from selling pirated entertainment on physical media after your conviction and house arrest?
Confirmation bias, irrational primacy, etc... but let's not get too far off topic.
I don't see a problem with getting our energy here instead of buying it from somewhere else, as long as we're still working on practical alternatives.
Employment up, interest in the middle east down, energy prices down, extraction happening somewhere where we have some control over regulations and oversight, etc. Sounds promising.
You'll note the "the US could be all but self-sufficient" part depends on assumptions made about increased efficiency in vehicles, appliances, etc. So we'll have to continue to make progress there, too.
I don't understand what the problem is. It's not like oil from the middle east is magically safer and cleaner than oil we get here.
Let's use our own. Put some of our unemployed to work, bring the cost down, avoid the old suppliers as much as is practical, and be working on alternative energy technology in the background until it's a good replacement.
Apple is the clear winner here. HTC gains only legal relief. Nothing Apple has patented is of value, except as a club to beat others with.
If that legal relief includes exemption from being beating with that club, regardless of what they do, that might well be a great competitive advantage on its own.
Somewhere along the line someone decided that the 'public' only understand high level concepts, so everything we communicate is written as thought it was for a 16 year old to understand.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard that it's common for news sources to target somewhere near a 6-8th grade reading and comprehension level. I imagine that's a pragmatic approach if you'd like to get a message out and reach is more important than detail.
As for this little report, I noticed that you see dots where there are lots of people, and a shotgun pattern in the deep south. Not particularly surprising.
I'd like to see something like this that figures racists tweets by unique persons, as a percentage by topic, and figured for the origin's population.
I mean, 10 unique racists in 200k election tweets in Chicago would seem pretty low compared to 6 unique racists in 100 election tweets in Nowhere, Alabama (pop 26).
It's possible some of them are just defective, though getting two in a row that have the problem suggests a real flaw.
I have a first generation Kindle Fire, and a bunch of those came out faulty with noticeable screen ghosting. Amazon just replaced them until you got a good one and dealt with the issue in the background.
I'm sure someone at Microsoft either knows or is tasked with finding out if this is a design or manufacturing issue. They can't afford for this to go too sideways on them.
I think that's actually a fair answer to the original question, so for something a little more challenging, let's change the tone.
You'd like to start getting familiar with the use of hypervisors and virtual machines, from vocabulary up to practical application. You're a hands on kind of guy, but good, accompanying reference material would be useful too.
At first this will be for personal use, but with an eye towards understanding their use in a business environment at the SMB level. Keep in mind, since you're starting out at home on your own equipment, doing this out of pocket, cost is a concern, so we probably aren't looking for a 5-digit pricetag on a commercial solution.
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(That and call me when batteries become paper thin, let alone electrical contacts that are still good after being flexed a few tens of thousand times.)
Saw this yesterday... note the manufacturer.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/electric-wedgies-elastic-material-maintains-conductivity-when-stretched/
Yeah, people are still emotionally involved in microsoft's failure. It's a hold-over from when they really mattered, and behaved horribly.
Of course that's not so relevant anymore and there's no rational reason to get so worked up over "yet another device" or "yet another windows". I think even microsoft knows that getting traction with a brand new line of tablets with a new tablet-y UI on a new windows, in an already saturated market, is a difficult and risky thing.
We'll see what happens, but I'd guess (only guess) that the surface line will end up being like google's platform references while other companies produce their own, less expensive, more capable tablets with a breadth of options more like we're accustomed to in laptops.
Fire to Nexus to iPad to Surface... it'll be nice to see options filling in the cracks. You'll note the new, larger Nexus and new, smaller iPad. They're each trying to push out from their respective beachheads.
25 days. I know you were joking but I was curious.
I'm picturing a very bored T-1000. Perhaps one of the underachievers that never quite mastered human extermination.
are we to believe that no women or any non-whites sent in good presentations?
You think it's more likely that they really are all racist misogynists, and would rather cancel their own event than let a woman speak?
It sounds like the problem was they were working on it until this Susser guy implied on Twitter that they're racist misogynists. From there it turned into a typical Twitter shitstorm, and the organizer realized that anyone making the panel at that point would be seen as the token speaker, and no sponsor would want to be associated with something that became high profile for bad reasons.
Assuming the article is accurate, people should really just mind their damn business until there's something concrete and legitimately wrong to make accusations over.
It's unlikely anyone has ever told you that computers were invented for space travel.
What they probably told you is you enjoy technological advances spurred by the space program, evidenced by things you take for granted in your everyday life, such as your computer and mobile phone. And that's accurate in that the space program helped drastically advance the miniaturization of electronics and improvements in material sciences, among countless other things.
Negative. It's turtles all the way down.
No, this is a motherboard and case for half of what a Mac Mini in working order goes for. At $300, you still need to add a power supply, mSata storage, memory, ethernet, etc.
Mac mini's start at $599, ready to run, with an i5, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd, and have ethernet, firewire, sound ports, etc.
The role of IT is to take care of the monster, not tame it. When IT takes action to bring down storage "waste" (be it in SF or in mailboxes) on its own, it's like having the office administrator go around making sure people use both sides of the pages in notebooks and that people stop doodling on post-its while taking calls because it's waste.
Nah, this depends on how it's done. If you're nagging people, or just looking down your nose at the 'stupid' users, then yeah, you're that guy.
But if you set quotas appropriately, let everyone know up front what resources you're working with, and field any further questions respectfully, you're taming the beast to take care of it. I don't usually have opinions on things like this, where people get really riled up. But I will explain the situation to the people above me, even make a recommendation, but then do whatever they decide in the very best way I know how.
That's what I'm there for.
Last I heard, the Ouya project is already working along with XBMC (who has an Android app).
http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/08/07/xbmc-and-ouya-oh-yeah/
Yeah well, nothing really new there. In their defense, I've heard footwear can be dangerous now. ;)
I'd like to see a photo of the watch though. "wires, switches, and fuses" sounds pretty cool... though I think I'd know better than to test TSA by wearing it through security.
I'm not the GP, but if you're talking about SSO using windows authentication through Firefox to your intranet app, I think that can be done. I could be wrong.
I don't know about everyone else, but the users where I'm at are way more comfortable with using something different than they've ever been. Sales staff push for services like salesforce. All kinds of users gripe that they'd prefer to work on a mac, both on the desktop and with laptops.
The remaining mental lock-in nowadays, where I come from, is really just Exchange+Outlook. Of course you can get Outlook to work with other combinations of services, and you can use different clients with Exchange, but what the users are used to is the utility afforded by using the two together.
Obviously this is just what I see at work... your situations likely differ.
And he'll make his $50 back when the libel suit happens. ;)
This kind of thing is ridiculous, and I'm not surprised the RIAA would say something so absurd and disgusting. But one has to wonder, wouldn't you shy away from selling pirated entertainment on physical media after your conviction and house arrest?
Buddhists call this protecting your ignorance.
Confirmation bias, irrational primacy, etc... but let's not get too far off topic.
I don't see a problem with getting our energy here instead of buying it from somewhere else, as long as we're still working on practical alternatives.
Employment up, interest in the middle east down, energy prices down, extraction happening somewhere where we have some control over regulations and oversight, etc. Sounds promising.
You'll note the "the US could be all but self-sufficient" part depends on assumptions made about increased efficiency in vehicles, appliances, etc. So we'll have to continue to make progress there, too.
I don't understand what the problem is. It's not like oil from the middle east is magically safer and cleaner than oil we get here.
Let's use our own. Put some of our unemployed to work, bring the cost down, avoid the old suppliers as much as is practical, and be working on alternative energy technology in the background until it's a good replacement.
That sounds like a win.
Tough question. We had market crashes during both, so depends on what you were invested in.
Apple is the clear winner here. HTC gains only legal relief. Nothing Apple has patented is of value, except as a club to beat others with.
If that legal relief includes exemption from being beating with that club, regardless of what they do, that might well be a great competitive advantage on its own.
Somewhere along the line someone decided that the 'public' only understand high level concepts, so everything we communicate is written as thought it was for a 16 year old to understand.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard that it's common for news sources to target somewhere near a 6-8th grade reading and comprehension level. I imagine that's a pragmatic approach if you'd like to get a message out and reach is more important than detail.
As for this little report, I noticed that you see dots where there are lots of people, and a shotgun pattern in the deep south. Not particularly surprising.
I'd like to see something like this that figures racists tweets by unique persons, as a percentage by topic, and figured for the origin's population.
I mean, 10 unique racists in 200k election tweets in Chicago would seem pretty low compared to 6 unique racists in 100 election tweets in Nowhere, Alabama (pop 26).
Me, If i developed anything and name it nice names, like "Fuckoff" "sloppyshit", "kludge", and "ididyourmom"
Lemme guess, you're involved in the GIMP project?
It's possible some of them are just defective, though getting two in a row that have the problem suggests a real flaw.
I have a first generation Kindle Fire, and a bunch of those came out faulty with noticeable screen ghosting. Amazon just replaced them until you got a good one and dealt with the issue in the background.
I'm sure someone at Microsoft either knows or is tasked with finding out if this is a design or manufacturing issue. They can't afford for this to go too sideways on them.
I'd wager that all of us have quite a few things we don't need. Seems like an odd criteria to judge people by.
I can't figure out why anyone would ever stop.
And with regard to the summary title... this climate change shit just got real.
I think that's actually a fair answer to the original question, so for something a little more challenging, let's change the tone.
You'd like to start getting familiar with the use of hypervisors and virtual machines, from vocabulary up to practical application. You're a hands on kind of guy, but good, accompanying reference material would be useful too.
At first this will be for personal use, but with an eye towards understanding their use in a business environment at the SMB level. Keep in mind, since you're starting out at home on your own equipment, doing this out of pocket, cost is a concern, so we probably aren't looking for a 5-digit pricetag on a commercial solution.
Now, what would you recommend?