Model III here with 16k upgraded to 48k. Cassette. Great computer. Learned BASIC on it and that I wanted to develop software. Got a model 4p and a 100 in the house to remind me of those times.
So wait, we cry foul when our Android phones don't get upgraded to the next version of Android, but damn Microsoft for upgrading everyone to Windows 10?
Yeah, I understand your Windows 7 works great on your ten-year-old PC, but it's going to run out of updates soon, and if your PC's that old maybe you should consider something a little more modern, or get a version of Linux that will keep it going. For the majority of "just make my PC work" folk, automatic upgrades are great. Keep the machine up to date and not force the users to think.
I theorize that a lot of people who bought consoles for simple games have moved onto their phones or even handheld consoles. That leaves the folks who are willing to spend $60 per game. So given that supposition, what are Microsoft and Sony's total revenu on games sales for the new platforms? Or what is the revenue per console? Has that actually shifted much? If a lot of previous generation consoles were used for cheap games, or hardly at all, then there would be little disparity in the sales income. This is based on the assumption that console sales still fix the (expensive) razor blade model.
The US government applied tariffs to Chinese solar panels because the Chinese were dumping them in the US market. If they can agree to see their product in our market for a fair price, sure we can climate the tariffs; otherwise, forget it cause we're not killing our on shore manufacturing and watching the prices skyrocket.
I accidentally posted anonymously. This is just silly. The problem isn't that they didn't use Linux or MacOS, it's that nobody locked down these computers. They're the school's computers, so they can put whatever they want on them. No one should have rights to install software, and Security Essentials should be turned on, and kept up to date. Sloppy system administration. Pure and simple.
Either you inhabit a dead planet, in which case what harm does that cause, or you inhabit a plant with non-sentient life and thwart the chances of it developing. Cause option 2 is less ethical, but at least they won't come after you later on.
Saftey is unproven? Are you nuts? An underground train station, with limited space, limited egress, trains moving through, and high voltage. Sound pretty safe to me, too.
Look, I'm all for everyone getting their say, but saftey comes first.
I go cross-eyed every time someone says how egregious it is that BART cut off the cell phone service. I'd like to have cell service in my underground train system. I rather suspect, BART took note of the recent London riots that were flamed by idiots with their cell phones and didn't want a repeat in their expensive facility. Cell services isn't a god given right. As a commuter, I'd be annoyed there was no service, but furious a bunch of people want to deny me my ride home.
So, the original intent was to protest someone being killed by the BART police. Why not protest outside the BART offices then? The communters didn't have anything to do with it.
Finally, if you're going to stand on the escollator, do it on the right. The left side is for walking.
Ouch. I have an iPhone 4 on a month-to-month plan (no contract) plan here in Australia... for ~$25/month....the ability to change to a better plan as soon as a company releases one means that you definitely save money.
Sadly, things aren't like that in The States. The service will cost you $70 whether you bought the phone outright or not. It doesn't drop once the contract is over, once the phone is paid off, nada. And that's the giant scam, and why you're better off getting the next best phone once the contract is over, because you're paying for it anyway.
Of course Apple rakes in more money than the other manufacturers. iOS devices come from a single vendor. Android and Windows Phones come from a group of vendors who have to share the same slice of pie. That's a comparison of oranges to tangerines.
I completely agree. What do you think they're going to do, figure out where everyone is going? Technology is so ingrained into our every day lives that if Big Brother wants to know with whom you're plotting, it's got the information already. The problem for Big Brother is determining who it should be suspicious of in the first place. Anyway, think of it as another great reason to take public transport.
This is such a truth of Doctor Who fandom. That being said, the Doctor Who for the modern audience is the modern Doctor Who. My first Doctor was Tom Baker and he will always be the best, but unless you're five, he's not going to stand up to BSG. Watch the new seasons, enjoy Silence in the Library and Blink, along with the other new episodes, but then go back and watch the best of the old seasons. Then read the books that were published while the show was off the air. Some of those were really great.
At some point there comes a time when you get tired, and you lose patience with others' idiocies, and so you don't really want to spend your dotage jumping through arbitrary hoops of others' devising.
And switching to management is the fix for this how? I've been in management for four years now. You still have to deal with the other management twits, plus you have to fight the battles to make life easier for your subordinates. If you want piece and quiet, management isn't going to do it for you.
Sure, there's delegation, and that's great. But with that comes responcibility.
I really think they should've virtuallized the OS. Make each app run in isolation, and make the damned thing skinnable. Put a really nice skin on it, and you've given it what the majority of the people want.
If they don't publish a system level API, they're going to loose a lot of people. There have been a lot of Palm devotees, but once they've lost Word and Excel support, and what ever else they run, they're going to move to platforms that will fill in the gap.
The biggest problem with LED traffic lights is that the greens are REALLY bright. You'll be shocked, especially at night how bright the damned things are. In SoCal, we have LED traffic lights everywhere.
It's about having enough people to get the work done efficiently, and having enough people to handle occasional spikes. Your development team should not be doing support all the time. Everyone should have things to do, but have a little extra capacity, because things come up, and research must be done. If your staff is working excessive hours at nominal loads, what are you going to do when you have an emergency? The support team should be able to do support, without dumping on the development team. In some places, the developers are the only people who know how all systems work, and how systems can impact each other. Having narrow minded people working in support rolls isn't going to get problems solved.
You can't go around comparing the cost of goods in the UK after the conversion rate, to the cost of goods in the US without the conversion rate. It is very typical for goods to be sold in the UK for the same figure as they are in the US. That $700 laptop will often be sold in the UK for £700. That goes for everything from hamburgers to hair dryers. Maybe it's the VAT, but I doubt it. I think it's easier for the multinationals, and it's lucrative.
You're probably not a parent. You see, as a parent, you worry about your kids -- even while they're being cared for by a trusted baby sitter. If something goes wrong, you want to be notified of it right away. There may be information only you can provide and waiting only makes things worse. Movies are a source of entertainment, and I think an emergency overrides you need to be entertained. I, on the other hand, do not want to hear people yak about their personal issues while I'm watching a flick.
Are catalogs compelled to publish braille editions? Are magazine publishers? I think typically, there are companies that charge large sums of money to make braille translations of books and magazines. If your company thinks it would be cost effective to target the blind, then go ahead an create a web site that's more open to them, but most customers want a site that takes advantage of their abilities. Maybe a little callous.
In most cases if you are an exempt employee there is no need to fill out a time-sheet and while you may be expected to put in extra time on occasion the flip side is that no one will be looking for you if you take a long lunch or leave early on the "slow" days.
snortIn more and more situations, FTEs are being expected to put in regular overtime, fill in one or two different time sheets, and are shunned for taking comp time. Hell, most places expect you to take vacation hours to go see the doctor, despite the illegality of such practices. Flex time is just a nasty myth.
I recently took a trip back to the United Kingdom, via France. At no point during that journey did customs go through all my belongings, and ask me to fill in some form that disclosed how much stuff I was bringing back. I come back to the States, and it's like the Spanish Inquisition. It's like the rest of the West has moved on, yet over here, we're dwelling in the dark ages. Did you say "Witch?"
That's my response to swearing in the workplace. I have quite a liberal tongue, but I don't really want to share in the workplace. I use a dictionary of fictional swear words from HHG and Red Dwarf. I've only been spotted by one RD fan thus far. It is effective, but I'm sure my coworkers think I'm a whack job.
This is exactly what we needed: A law that will allow a government office to sue a citizen based upon some subjective criteria. What is a "perceived hoax?" Who is going to be nailed for the next Mooninite fiasco? The guy who leaves his lawn mower by the curb for a week? Someone traveling through an airport? There are already laws for creating a disturbance, and causing unrest.
So many coments here are along the lines of "Boo hoo! Those CF lamps either make my house look ugly, or are just the wrong shade of white."
Do you want a pretty house, or do you want a planet that supports life? Oh sure, the plannet will continue to support life, but if we keep farking it up, it's not going to be the same kind of life that we've been experiancing for the last several thousand years.
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Model III here with 16k upgraded to 48k. Cassette. Great computer. Learned BASIC on it and that I wanted to develop software. Got a model 4p and a 100 in the house to remind me of those times.
So wait, we cry foul when our Android phones don't get upgraded to the next version of Android, but damn Microsoft for upgrading everyone to Windows 10?
Yeah, I understand your Windows 7 works great on your ten-year-old PC, but it's going to run out of updates soon, and if your PC's that old maybe you should consider something a little more modern, or get a version of Linux that will keep it going. For the majority of "just make my PC work" folk, automatic upgrades are great. Keep the machine up to date and not force the users to think.
I theorize that a lot of people who bought consoles for simple games have moved onto their phones or even handheld consoles. That leaves the folks who are willing to spend $60 per game. So given that supposition, what are Microsoft and Sony's total revenu on games sales for the new platforms? Or what is the revenue per console? Has that actually shifted much? If a lot of previous generation consoles were used for cheap games, or hardly at all, then there would be little disparity in the sales income. This is based on the assumption that console sales still fix the (expensive) razor blade model.
The US government applied tariffs to Chinese solar panels because the Chinese were dumping them in the US market. If they can agree to see their product in our market for a fair price, sure we can climate the tariffs; otherwise, forget it cause we're not killing our on shore manufacturing and watching the prices skyrocket.
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I accidentally posted anonymously.
This is just silly. The problem isn't that they didn't use Linux or MacOS, it's that nobody locked down these computers. They're the school's computers, so they can put whatever they want on them. No one should have rights to install software, and Security Essentials should be turned on, and kept up to date. Sloppy system administration. Pure and simple.
Either you inhabit a dead planet, in which case what harm does that cause, or you inhabit a plant with non-sentient life and thwart the chances of it developing. Cause option 2 is less ethical, but at least they won't come after you later on.
Saftey is unproven? Are you nuts? An underground train station, with limited space, limited egress, trains moving through, and high voltage. Sound pretty safe to me, too.
Look, I'm all for everyone getting their say, but saftey comes first.
I go cross-eyed every time someone says how egregious it is that BART cut off the cell phone service. I'd like to have cell service in my underground train system. I rather suspect, BART took note of the recent London riots that were flamed by idiots with their cell phones and didn't want a repeat in their expensive facility. Cell services isn't a god given right. As a commuter, I'd be annoyed there was no service, but furious a bunch of people want to deny me my ride home.
So, the original intent was to protest someone being killed by the BART police. Why not protest outside the BART offices then? The communters didn't have anything to do with it.
Finally, if you're going to stand on the escollator, do it on the right. The left side is for walking.
Best post I've read in a while. Thank you.
Ouch. I have an iPhone 4 on a month-to-month plan (no contract) plan here in Australia ... for ~$25/month. ...the ability to change to a better plan as soon as a company releases one means that you definitely save money.
Sadly, things aren't like that in The States. The service will cost you $70 whether you bought the phone outright or not. It doesn't drop once the contract is over, once the phone is paid off, nada. And that's the giant scam, and why you're better off getting the next best phone once the contract is over, because you're paying for it anyway.
Of course Apple rakes in more money than the other manufacturers. iOS devices come from a single vendor. Android and Windows Phones come from a group of vendors who have to share the same slice of pie. That's a comparison of oranges to tangerines.
I completely agree. What do you think they're going to do, figure out where everyone is going? Technology is so ingrained into our every day lives that if Big Brother wants to know with whom you're plotting, it's got the information already. The problem for Big Brother is determining who it should be suspicious of in the first place. Anyway, think of it as another great reason to take public transport.
This is such a truth of Doctor Who fandom. That being said, the Doctor Who for the modern audience is the modern Doctor Who. My first Doctor was Tom Baker and he will always be the best, but unless you're five, he's not going to stand up to BSG. Watch the new seasons, enjoy Silence in the Library and Blink, along with the other new episodes, but then go back and watch the best of the old seasons. Then read the books that were published while the show was off the air. Some of those were really great.
At some point there comes a time when you get tired, and you lose patience with others' idiocies, and so you don't really want to spend your dotage jumping through arbitrary hoops of others' devising.
And switching to management is the fix for this how? I've been in management for four years now. You still have to deal with the other management twits, plus you have to fight the battles to make life easier for your subordinates. If you want piece and quiet, management isn't going to do it for you.
Sure, there's delegation, and that's great. But with that comes responcibility.
I really think they should've virtuallized the OS. Make each app run in isolation, and make the damned thing skinnable. Put a really nice skin on it, and you've given it what the majority of the people want.
If they don't publish a system level API, they're going to loose a lot of people. There have been a lot of Palm devotees, but once they've lost Word and Excel support, and what ever else they run, they're going to move to platforms that will fill in the gap.
The biggest problem with LED traffic lights is that the greens are REALLY bright. You'll be shocked, especially at night how bright the damned things are. In SoCal, we have LED traffic lights everywhere.
It's about having enough people to get the work done efficiently, and having enough people to handle occasional spikes. Your development team should not be doing support all the time. Everyone should have things to do, but have a little extra capacity, because things come up, and research must be done. If your staff is working excessive hours at nominal loads, what are you going to do when you have an emergency? The support team should be able to do support, without dumping on the development team. In some places, the developers are the only people who know how all systems work, and how systems can impact each other. Having narrow minded people working in support rolls isn't going to get problems solved.
You can't go around comparing the cost of goods in the UK after the conversion rate, to the cost of goods in the US without the conversion rate. It is very typical for goods to be sold in the UK for the same figure as they are in the US. That $700 laptop will often be sold in the UK for £700. That goes for everything from hamburgers to hair dryers. Maybe it's the VAT, but I doubt it. I think it's easier for the multinationals, and it's lucrative.
You're probably not a parent. You see, as a parent, you worry about your kids -- even while they're being cared for by a trusted baby sitter. If something goes wrong, you want to be notified of it right away. There may be information only you can provide and waiting only makes things worse. Movies are a source of entertainment, and I think an emergency overrides you need to be entertained. I, on the other hand, do not want to hear people yak about their personal issues while I'm watching a flick.
Are catalogs compelled to publish braille editions? Are magazine publishers? I think typically, there are companies that charge large sums of money to make braille translations of books and magazines. If your company thinks it would be cost effective to target the blind, then go ahead an create a web site that's more open to them, but most customers want a site that takes advantage of their abilities. Maybe a little callous.
snortIn more and more situations, FTEs are being expected to put in regular overtime, fill in one or two different time sheets, and are shunned for taking comp time. Hell, most places expect you to take vacation hours to go see the doctor, despite the illegality of such practices. Flex time is just a nasty myth.
I recently took a trip back to the United Kingdom, via France. At no point during that journey did customs go through all my belongings, and ask me to fill in some form that disclosed how much stuff I was bringing back. I come back to the States, and it's like the Spanish Inquisition. It's like the rest of the West has moved on, yet over here, we're dwelling in the dark ages. Did you say "Witch?"
That's my response to swearing in the workplace. I have quite a liberal tongue, but I don't really want to share in the workplace. I use a dictionary of fictional swear words from HHG and Red Dwarf. I've only been spotted by one RD fan thus far. It is effective, but I'm sure my coworkers think I'm a whack job.
I too used to put the lid down, as it seemed the most fair; however, the wife corrected this view point.
This is exactly what we needed: A law that will allow a government office to sue a citizen based upon some subjective criteria. What is a "perceived hoax?" Who is going to be nailed for the next Mooninite fiasco? The guy who leaves his lawn mower by the curb for a week? Someone traveling through an airport? There are already laws for creating a disturbance, and causing unrest.
So many coments here are along the lines of "Boo hoo! Those CF lamps either make my house look ugly, or are just the wrong shade of white."
Do you want a pretty house, or do you want a planet that supports life? Oh sure, the plannet will continue to support life, but if we keep farking it up, it's not going to be the same kind of life that we've been experiancing for the last several thousand years.
Get some perspective!