But then again, we rarely do. We usually order what we want, configured how we need it. But at least a couple of times, recently, we sent back something in order to get something else.
My system depends on a POTS phone line for notification/remote access by the service provider (I highly recommend them). When I asked them about DSL compatibility, they said it wouldn't work, and there were no supported DSL-to-POTS doohickeys that would make it work.
Of course, I'm a satisfied cable customer, but at $15/month, this might just be the excuse I was looking for...
You can't judge the effectiveness of regulation until there has been enforcement. Then you need to wait until "the world" has had time to weigh the risks of future infraction. E.g. it can only succeed if well enforce - strongly enough to send a message to make people think twice before spamming.
The latest Atlast/Delta rocket motors by Lockheed-Martin were, in fact, designed by Energia. They are far more efficient (read: bigger payloads or more fuel capacity) than what we were using, and they are beasts. Tough and indestructible.
We will not explore the solar system without these brilliant people. "Going it alone" is stupid and shortsighted. But, then again, so are politicians...
Seriously. I have used the units by HP/Compaq and Gateway/Motion. The Gateway/Motion is better (lighter yet bigger), but both are totally anemic. Windows XP is a dog on either. Battery life on both, however, is excellent (even with WiFi in constant use).
I think a small laptop is a better value.
Your "tools" are not general purpose to matter
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Just because the Extron Button Label Generator doesn't work on the Mac does not mean my staff should all have to use Windows. 99% of them do the things that can be done on Mac just as well, if not better than Windows (or Linux or Solaris, for that matter).
VERY limited examples of providers of Mac software to your specific areas of interest:
Except for extremely limited examples of very specific software (like turning in certain IRS forms), platform is irrelevant (which makes their platform-specificness all the more appaling).
Mac is a better tool for the things that most users do most of the time.
Seriously. If you're turning your neck to see 2 or 3 displays right up against each other, YOU'RE SITTING TOO CLOSE TO THEM! Move back a bit and use your eyes to scan, glasshoppah!
But, yeah, I want my FPS games to work like the mock-up they show. Most games today simply black out all but the primary display. Tactical information on a second screen would kick.
But I have many brands of tools...
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Trust me, my Wiha tools are FAR better than the "junk drawer" tools I lend to my neighbors. As both a Mac fan and woodworker, I've learned that it does not pay, in terms of time, hassle or quality of work to use "any old tool." If I'm shaving a piece off the bottom of a door, I'll grab a decent Stanely hand plane. For fine furniture, nothing beats my Lie-Nielsens, which at over 8x the cost, are well worth it.
Mac and Windows PCs do essentially the same things. There are a jillion more crappy games available for WIndows, but the good ones are on both. My G4 is an excellent gaming platform, plus it lets me talk to my friends, family and even get work done. My G4 Powerbook, even more so. I could do the same things my Dell, but the experience just isn't the same. Ergo, the Mac is a "better quality tool" for me.
GEOS was great, but I cut my teeth on the Graphical Environment Manager and Ventura Publisher. Remember those GEMs? I think Xerox owned them. Not sure who owned them last...
1) iTunes Music Store - typically $9.99 per album, no matter the length. I get to preview the music and instant gratification. Works on my Macs, Dell and iPod.
2) Tower Records - it's across the street from work. If I have a few extra minutes at lunch, I pop in and listen to the "listening stations" (mostly for new electronic stuff). I *rarely* buy anything because there are so few albums on listening stations. I do not buy before trying, except for my favorite few bands (been told to get the new Frontline Assembly album - not on iTunes).
3) Barnes & Noble - they have a very cool system that lets you scan the UPS from any CD in the shop and listen to samples. Very sweet. Not as convenient as iTunes, but if I'm there already getting some books and a crappuccino, I might just go home with a CD or two.
So, WhoreHouse music may be closing its doors. That's fine with me. They don't give me what I want, they go the way of the dodo.
We've got some Blade 100s to replace them, and there's not much difference (besides DVD and better speed, and most importantly, it uses standard DRAM). Good 'ol reliable Solaris on SPARC.
Now, however, the "good medicine" (watching Dances With Wolves at the moment) belongs in the Macintosh camp. OSX is akin to the SunOS of yore. Tinker around with it, but still get shit done. And, with a G5, it's even 64-bit (big whoop, except possibly for Genentech and VA Tech). Plus, the TiBooks and AlBooks look swank.
One major reason for this is so that they can get a better understanding of what is going on in IT and how it impacts the company overall.
That's backwards. The IT organization exists to support the goals of the organization. What "goes on" in IT should be well known, as it should be aimed at the business processes of the company. They don't need to know squat about the specifics of WEP vs. WPA, just how their needs for mobile users were met (or not met) by your deployment of WiFi throughout the campus. They don't need to know about SOAP or JSP or whatever. They just need to know that their customers, partners and employees are being served by their website.
So, the best thing you can do is try to get these people to clearly articulate their goals, so that IT knows what will be expected of them. Then be clever and figure out ways to meet those goals that save money, make people happy, and get you extra time off;)
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But then again, we rarely do. We usually order what we want, configured how we need it. But at least a couple of times, recently, we sent back something in order to get something else.
My system depends on a POTS phone line for notification/remote access by the service provider (I highly recommend them). When I asked them about DSL compatibility, they said it wouldn't work, and there were no supported DSL-to-POTS doohickeys that would make it work.
Of course, I'm a satisfied cable customer, but at $15/month, this might just be the excuse I was looking for...
My Sony unit holds 400 DVDs, of which I have 84. No need for a geeky solution. This one just works, and it works well.
You can't judge the effectiveness of regulation until there has been enforcement. Then you need to wait until "the world" has had time to weigh the risks of future infraction. E.g. it can only succeed if well enforce - strongly enough to send a message to make people think twice before spamming.
for catered meals shipped in from a neighboring country.
OK. I was only half sure about the Delta. My father-in-law works on the Atlas, so I was sure about that one.
Now, that is TOO COOL if they are in fact going to use these for human powered "flight." They are good birds.
Heh. Yeah. But I meant that they put out the type of thrust that would have our previous designs splattered all over the Gulf of Mexico.
Anybody who ever gets the chance should visit their facilities at Baikonor. I have never been (haven't been out of North America), but some day...
The latest Atlast/Delta rocket motors by Lockheed-Martin were, in fact, designed by Energia. They are far more efficient (read: bigger payloads or more fuel capacity) than what we were using, and they are beasts. Tough and indestructible.
We will not explore the solar system without these brilliant people. "Going it alone" is stupid and shortsighted. But, then again, so are politicians...
Seriously. I have used the units by HP/Compaq and Gateway/Motion. The Gateway/Motion is better (lighter yet bigger), but both are totally anemic. Windows XP is a dog on either. Battery life on both, however, is excellent (even with WiFi in constant use).
I think a small laptop is a better value.
Just because the Extron Button Label Generator doesn't work on the Mac does not mean my staff should all have to use Windows. 99% of them do the things that can be done on Mac just as well, if not better than Windows (or Linux or Solaris, for that matter).
VERY limited examples of providers of Mac software to your specific areas of interest:
Business-oriented - Microsoft, Intuit, AEC, Nametschek
Development tools - GNU, Borland, Sun, IBM
Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, IBM, Oracle
Except for extremely limited examples of very specific software (like turning in certain IRS forms), platform is irrelevant (which makes their platform-specificness all the more appaling).
Mac is a better tool for the things that most users do most of the time.
Yum yum.
Seriously. If you're turning your neck to see 2 or 3 displays right up against each other, YOU'RE SITTING TOO CLOSE TO THEM! Move back a bit and use your eyes to scan, glasshoppah!
With my Mac II. Snore...
But, yeah, I want my FPS games to work like the mock-up they show. Most games today simply black out all but the primary display. Tactical information on a second screen would kick.
Trust me, my Wiha tools are FAR better than the "junk drawer" tools I lend to my neighbors. As both a Mac fan and woodworker, I've learned that it does not pay, in terms of time, hassle or quality of work to use "any old tool." If I'm shaving a piece off the bottom of a door, I'll grab a decent Stanely hand plane. For fine furniture, nothing beats my Lie-Nielsens, which at over 8x the cost, are well worth it.
Mac and Windows PCs do essentially the same things. There are a jillion more crappy games available for WIndows, but the good ones are on both. My G4 is an excellent gaming platform, plus it lets me talk to my friends, family and even get work done. My G4 Powerbook, even more so. I could do the same things my Dell, but the experience just isn't the same. Ergo, the Mac is a "better quality tool" for me.
I totally forgot that Atari used a later version of GEM for the ST! That's great. Thanks for the link!
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GEOS was great, but I cut my teeth on the Graphical Environment Manager and Ventura Publisher. Remember those GEMs? I think Xerox owned them. Not sure who owned them last...
The term mearly refers to "matter which, for whatever reason, we cannot see." It's just plain old matter. It's just shielded from our view somehow.
Don't be all stupid and Star-Trekie.
Where do I buy albums?
1) iTunes Music Store - typically $9.99 per album, no matter the length. I get to preview the music and instant gratification. Works on my Macs, Dell and iPod.
2) Tower Records - it's across the street from work. If I have a few extra minutes at lunch, I pop in and listen to the "listening stations" (mostly for new electronic stuff). I *rarely* buy anything because there are so few albums on listening stations. I do not buy before trying, except for my favorite few bands (been told to get the new Frontline Assembly album - not on iTunes).
3) Barnes & Noble - they have a very cool system that lets you scan the UPS from any CD in the shop and listen to samples. Very sweet. Not as convenient as iTunes, but if I'm there already getting some books and a crappuccino, I might just go home with a CD or two.
So, WhoreHouse music may be closing its doors. That's fine with me. They don't give me what I want, they go the way of the dodo.
You stupid SUV-driving braindead soccer mom!
The book is broken! What a crock!
We should be using the metric system (better yet, SI) by now. Any half-retarded grade school kid understands base 100.
It's amazing the weird looks I get whenever I refer to shit in meters or liters, unless it's 400 meter dash or 2 liter Coke.
We've got some Blade 100s to replace them, and there's not much difference (besides DVD and better speed, and most importantly, it uses standard DRAM). Good 'ol reliable Solaris on SPARC.
Now, however, the "good medicine" (watching Dances With Wolves at the moment) belongs in the Macintosh camp. OSX is akin to the SunOS of yore. Tinker around with it, but still get shit done. And, with a G5, it's even 64-bit (big whoop, except possibly for Genentech and VA Tech). Plus, the TiBooks and AlBooks look swank.
But, I still use the Blade.
You state:
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One major reason for this is so that they can get a better understanding of what is going on in IT and how it impacts the company overall.
That's backwards. The IT organization exists to support the goals of the organization. What "goes on" in IT should be well known, as it should be aimed at the business processes of the company. They don't need to know squat about the specifics of WEP vs. WPA, just how their needs for mobile users were met (or not met) by your deployment of WiFi throughout the campus. They don't need to know about SOAP or JSP or whatever. They just need to know that their customers, partners and employees are being served by their website.
So, the best thing you can do is try to get these people to clearly articulate their goals, so that IT knows what will be expected of them. Then be clever and figure out ways to meet those goals that save money, make people happy, and get you extra time off
That show was as exciting as watching the mold ring grow around my bathtub. And the theme song was THE WORST.