My guess is that a study asking these "independent geek" underachievers about nice cars or fine wine or other luxury goods would find them similarly critical. But I suppose the study is correct that for many there is pressure to conform to your social group by proving your non-conformity by disdaining the iPad.
re "scored terribly in the areas of altruism" from OP: The study may have found that we iPad owners scored low in altruism. Whether that is terrible or good is a subjective judgement and in no way addressed in the study. Besides, Internet posters tend to use the word altruism only when they want to hijack the discussion to be about a certain dead philosopher.
There is a small but growing segment of users who play multiple accounts simultaneously. The number of people "dual-boxing" went up after Blizzard's recruit-a-friend program; a few hardy souls even 5-box. So the downloads and online bandwidth required on an ISP account could be double that of a traditional user.
Exactly! Reddit is mostly political chaff now. If/when Bush pardons Libby, I do not want to read about it on slashdot or any technical web site. But I am stunned that the comment is an anonymous reader saying Bush is going to pardon... How could this have been posted???
IANAL but I thought a non-trivial problem was TV Guide / Gemstar have a number of patents in this area. So it needs to be someone like Google , Y!, M$ with deep pockets. Otherwise it is an guerilla site that stays up only until it becomes popular and the lawyers notice it.
Although, WalMart is NOT a good example of profit optimization; there strategy is more likely to take cost decreases and pass them on. Which may not optimize the short term. And certainly only works if you are the more efficient retailer, which scale tends to help. But it is very pre-consumer and relatively dificult to compete against based upon price.
A MUCH better example would be airlines; where what is practically the same product - a coach seat on the same flight might go for 5 to 8 price-points of $100 to $1000 each way. Grocery and department stores might sell comparable products for 10 to 50% more than WalMart but rarely can get the 1000%
the study in question had nothing to do with mobile phones and was actually investigating the influence of electromagnetic fields, especially those used by cordless phones that work on fixed-line networks, on the learning ability of bees.
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So was it a reasonable scientific investigation hyped by a reporter and picked up by Luddites who blamed technology. SSDD. Sigh.
But that is only one aspect of backup. ( And it really only works if you make C: read-only; otherwise you might end up with foo.c from 3:00 AM and foo.h from 3:04 AM and they are not consistent - one needs both from 3:00 or 3:04. ZFS sounds nice.)
My big problem is it provides no help if you find that file you want was corrupted/modified/deleted last week or month. The copy you want is no longer on c or d.
Once a week/month/quarter, another task needs to examine the D drive and see which files have not previously been written to DVD and then create on E: DVD-sized (or tape-sized) directories of these new files to later be written to DVD.
The news reports said there is a device in the house that tells people when to get up, when to go to bed and praises the leader. And they will cut power to an apartment complex so police can see what video tapes are trapped in the VCR. I think that is a lot closer to 1994 than these annoyances.
1) With two banks and four non-bank financial firms, I DO NOT want 6 dongles.
2) I want to be able to use PC, Mac or Treo
3) I want to be able to travel - the suggestion to look at IP location was moronic!!!! I want to be able to access bill pay and balances when I am travelling for business or pleasure
If you are a salaried worker, then you are hired to do the job and the employer has very broad rights as to what they can require; they can't actually require anything but set it as a condition of employment for at-will employees. There is no reason that one of the 99.9% of saleried employees without written contracts should assume the job is only 40hr/wk. The business gets to choose what it thinks are the "optimal" (of which cost is but one part of the productivity equation) employees - whether it is $120k/yr for 60hr/wk or 80$k for 40 or $40k fo 20 hr/wk. And the employee has the absolute freedom to balance their desires, including time and income, and choose their employer.
If there are 15-30% marketshare of alternatives, then organizations can't assume and reinforce a monoculture. E.g. when Netscape's numbers went through the tipping point, more sites started being IE only and thus more people used IE and thus more sites...
Alternatives mean choices and competition both of which are better for the user. And, most importantly, me.
I'm pulling for Tivo! Can Adversity force Change?
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I really am pulling for Tivo!
I am sure it is tough competing with the cable companies. I hope cablecard works out.
And I never understood the lifetime subscription complaints. I do not like subscriptions but just think of the price of the Tivo as $300 higher.
And I think the "Why buy Intel chips when sand is so cheap" crowd either have never used Tivo or have an extremely low value of their time/convenience
I just got Moxie from Charter but also kept my series 2 Tivo. The Tivo season pass is clearly better. And the EVIL cable company changed the 30-second skip button to be 900 seconds The 30-second button is HUGELY important to me.
But the Moxie is dual tuner and HD. Those are big features that IMHO Tivo is way late in addressing.
Tivo needs a dual tuner, HD recorder with either huge disk available or preferablely a way to add Firewire drives. If it has to wait until 2006, then early 2006 would be better. Mac support for TivoToGo would be nice as would wired ethernet instead of 802.11b.
And if Tivo decides that their leaning towards the Dark Side is not getting them any friends and gets desparate, then perhaps they might risk making more consumer-friendly decisions in regards to DRM and Tivo-to-go and moving video around the network.
For some perspective on Apple's decline, the INCREASE in Apple's market capitalization ( the $value of all its stock) since last June is approximately 9 times the value of Red Hat or Novell. I.e., Apple's gained in value approximately a entire Red Hat company every month for the last 9!
Hello, my name is Toccoa and I am a tab-aholoic. I greatly prefer the way groups of tabs are done in Mozilla; or at least based upon my current understanding of 0.9.
E.g. with a group of tabs on the tab bar Mozilla: click on tab, all tabs open & start loading Firefox: you get dropdown; for maximum hassle, the choice I want(Open in tabs) is always at bottom. Nor have I found way to set "add tabs" versus "replace tabs" preference.
If Mozilla did not exist, I would use Firefox. But for now, tabs mean I prefer Mozilla.
Alas, the popularity is in Hold em
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I think that stud is more about odds and less about bravado than Texas Holdem. So I prefer stud.
I think this is true! Would I prefer to talk to a quickly accessible, well-paid, knowledgible, experienced trained human over a machine? Absolutely. However, I Would rather deal with the automated system rather than the typical person at the other end of the phone.
From the outside, the Linux enthusiasm does not seem near as strong in the Lotus division as elsewhere in IBM. E.g., QP, ST, clients, slow support for newer versions of Linux...
Do you have a plan/goal to "evangelize" Linux to the less enlightened? Do you see much difference in interest/enthusiasm for Linux throughout IBM?
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My guess is that a study asking these "independent geek" underachievers about nice cars or fine wine or other luxury goods would find them similarly critical. But I suppose the study is correct that for many there is pressure to conform to your social group by proving your non-conformity by disdaining the iPad.
re "scored terribly in the areas of altruism" from OP: The study may have found that we iPad owners scored low in altruism. Whether that is terrible or good is a subjective judgement and in no way addressed in the study. Besides, Internet posters tend to use the word altruism only when they want to hijack the discussion to be about a certain dead philosopher.
There is a small but growing segment of users who play multiple accounts simultaneously. The number of people "dual-boxing" went up after Blizzard's recruit-a-friend program; a few hardy souls even 5-box. So the downloads and online bandwidth required on an ISP account could be double that of a traditional user.
IIRC M$ said it was not going to produce a 32-bit version of server software after W2008.
d ows-vista-declared-32-bits-last-hurrah.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-win
I really hope they do not produce any more 32-bit client O/S either. It is time to move on.
Exactly! Reddit is mostly political chaff now. If/when Bush pardons Libby, I do not want to read about it on slashdot or any technical web site. But I am stunned that the comment is an anonymous reader saying Bush is going to pardon ... How could this have been posted???
IANAL but I thought a non-trivial problem was TV Guide / Gemstar have a number of patents in this area. So it needs to be someone like Google , Y!, M$ with deep pockets. Otherwise it is an guerilla site that stays up only until it becomes popular and the lawyers notice it.
Although, WalMart is NOT a good example of profit optimization; there strategy is more likely to take cost decreases and pass them on. Which may not optimize the short term. And certainly only works if you are the more efficient retailer, which scale tends to help. But it is very pre-consumer and relatively dificult to compete against based upon price.
A MUCH better example would be airlines; where what is practically the same product - a coach seat on the same flight might go for 5 to 8 price-points of $100 to $1000 each way. Grocery and department stores might sell comparable products for 10 to 50% more than WalMart but rarely can get the 1000%
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/news/wirele ss23.php
the study in question had nothing to do with mobile phones and was actually investigating the influence of electromagnetic fields, especially those used by cordless phones that work on fixed-line networks, on the learning ability of bees.
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So was it a reasonable scientific investigation hyped by a reporter and picked up by Luddites who blamed technology.
SSDD. Sigh.
But that is only one aspect of backup. ( And it really only works if you make C: read-only; otherwise you might end up with foo.c from 3:00 AM and foo.h from 3:04 AM and they are not consistent - one needs both from 3:00 or 3:04. ZFS sounds nice.)
My big problem is it provides no help if you find that file you want was corrupted/modified/deleted last week or month. The copy you want is no longer on c or d.
Once a week/month/quarter, another task needs to examine the D drive and see which files have not previously been written to DVD and then create on E: DVD-sized (or tape-sized) directories of these new files to later be written to DVD.
The news reports said there is a device in the house that tells people when to get up, when to go to bed and praises the leader. And they will cut power to an apartment complex so police can see what video tapes are trapped in the VCR. I think that is a lot closer to 1994 than these annoyances.
Even worse is if you are trying to write a CD-R or DVD-R. They have their own similar but not the same restrictions. file length and commas IIRC. PITA
As the Mikado said, "let the punishment fit the crime"
Absolutely. And if the fees aren't worth the experience, then prices will fall or venues will improve their experince.
But letting illegal scalpers and long lines allocate scarce tickets is annoyingly inefficient.
1) With two banks and four non-bank financial firms, I DO NOT want 6 dongles.
2) I want to be able to use PC, Mac or Treo
3) I want to be able to travel - the suggestion to look at IP location was moronic!!!! I want to be able to access bill pay and balances when I am travelling for business or pleasure
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/677 .html
or at least hum some Ludwig van
If you are a salaried worker, then you are hired to do the job and the employer has very broad rights as to what they can require; they can't actually require anything but set it as a condition of employment for at-will employees. There is no reason that one of the 99.9% of saleried employees without written contracts should assume the job is only 40hr/wk. The business gets to choose what it thinks are the "optimal" (of which cost is but one part of the productivity equation) employees - whether it is $120k/yr for 60hr/wk or 80$k for 40 or $40k fo 20 hr/wk. And the employee has the absolute freedom to balance their desires, including time and income, and choose their employer.
If there are 15-30% marketshare of alternatives, then organizations can't assume and reinforce a monoculture. E.g. when Netscape's numbers went through the tipping point, more sites started being IE only and thus more people used IE and thus more sites ...
Alternatives mean choices and competition both of which are better for the user. And, most importantly, me.
I am sure it is tough competing with the cable companies. I hope cablecard works out.
And I never understood the lifetime subscription complaints. I do not like subscriptions but just think of the price of the Tivo as $300 higher.
And I think the "Why buy Intel chips when sand is so cheap" crowd either have never used Tivo or have an extremely low value of their time/convenience
I just got Moxie from Charter but also kept my series 2 Tivo. The Tivo season pass is clearly better. And the EVIL cable company changed the 30-second skip button to be 900 seconds The 30-second button is HUGELY important to me.
But the Moxie is dual tuner and HD. Those are big features that IMHO Tivo is way late in addressing.
Tivo needs a dual tuner, HD recorder with either huge disk available or preferablely a way to add Firewire drives. If it has to wait until 2006, then early 2006 would be better. Mac support for TivoToGo would be nice as would wired ethernet instead of 802.11b.
And if Tivo decides that their leaning towards the Dark Side is not getting them any friends and gets desparate, then perhaps they might risk making more consumer-friendly decisions in regards to DRM and Tivo-to-go and moving video around the network.
For some perspective on Apple's decline, the INCREASE in Apple's market capitalization ( the $value of all its stock) since last June is approximately 9 times the value of Red Hat or Novell. I.e., Apple's gained in value approximately a entire Red Hat company every month for the last 9!
To me, this is clearly the biggest worry (certainty?)
Microsoft has not bee bashful about being very competitive using lawyers, non-public APIs and changing APIs.
It seems quite problematic to spend the effort in the hopes that it will not be an issue here.
Hello, my name is Toccoa and I am a tab-aholoic. I greatly prefer the way groups of tabs are done in Mozilla; or at least based upon my current understanding of 0.9.
E.g. with a group of tabs on the tab bar
Mozilla: click on tab, all tabs open & start loading
Firefox: you get dropdown; for maximum hassle, the choice I want(Open in tabs) is always at bottom. Nor have I found way to set "add tabs" versus "replace tabs" preference.
If Mozilla did not exist, I would use Firefox. But for now, tabs mean I prefer Mozilla.
I think that stud is more about odds and less about bravado than Texas Holdem. So I prefer stud.
I think this is true!
Would I prefer to talk to a quickly accessible, well-paid, knowledgible, experienced trained human over a machine? Absolutely. However, I Would rather deal with the automated system rather than the typical person at the other end of the phone.
http://www.frys.com/e .html
http://www.frys.com/hisfram
Their are B&M stores other than in SoCal. E.g., Bay Area. In fact, Frys was founded in Sunnyvale.
From the outside, the Linux enthusiasm does not seem near as strong in the Lotus division as elsewhere in IBM. E.g., QP, ST, clients, slow support for newer versions of Linux ...
Do you have a plan/goal to "evangelize" Linux to the less enlightened? Do you see much difference in interest/enthusiasm for Linux throughout IBM?
Thanks and good luck!