You're starting from a false premise. I was an iTunes fan for about 3 years before I finally got an iPod. None of my collection is in AAC, because I didn't want a mix of mp3 and AAC in my library. Everything I buy on iTunes gets converted to mp3. Everything wmv that I've bought also gets converted to mp3.
Container matters a LOT. Or so I've heard. I've been stuck with WebSphere for 6 years and performance is garbage. I don't blame Java, I blame IBM. The WAS Server is a monstrous piece of bloat, coming in at several GB for a bare App Server install. On fairly nice HPUX boxes performance is molasses in winter, and our app simply isn't that huge or complex (and we're talking to DB2 on the back end, so there's no vendor finger pointing issues).
Here's something I observed, and fortunately was not directly affected by:
United flight from Hong Kong to Chicago. There's two of these a day. The day before our flight, both flights had been overbooked and everyone showed up. So they had to pay people effectively $1200 each to stay an extra day in HK. The day we were flying everyone showed as well as the people who had been left over from the previous day. They paid 56 people $1400 to wait around in the hopes of getting the second flight that day. One of them had been bumped twice the previous day and had no reason to hurry home so he had gotten a total of $5000 in order to delay his flight a day or so. Keep in mind the plane tickets themselves were $1200 each when we purchased them.
The weird part is that once we were on the plane and they had already paid 56 people who were at the gate to not get on the plane, they had to ask another 10 to get off because of weight restrictions. So the airline paid out $92000 on that flight alone because they overbooked it. This is why the airlines are going bankrupt, because their predictive models of who is going to no-show isn't working anymore. I have several relatives who always build an extra 2-3 days into their travel schedules so they can volunteer to be bumped. As a result they usually end up essentially getting upgraded to business or economy plus AND getting to fly for free.
Yes, you're right. A fascist regime or a dictatorship would certainly take better care of the rights of the minorities than a democracy does. Why, just look at the last thousand years of their treatment of dissent!
I worked for a manager whose style would best be described as "scream, berate, humiliate, threaten". I generally threw up every morning before heading in to work because of the stress. This was during the early 90's recesssion, so finding another comparable paying job (only slightly above minimum wage) wasn't an option.
Have you tried using Office XP and McAfee Enterprise with only 256M of RAM? The COTR on our project fires up Word and it takes a good 2-3 minutes to open. It lags her typing noticeably as well.
Wow, what agency are you with? We all know FBI is hopelessly outdated on tech, as is Interior. The cabinet level agency I work for only just moved to XP, and SP2 is still under evaluation. The standard desktop configuration is a 2Ghz machine with 256M of RAM and an 80G hard drive. And the management structure complains about how fancy the machines are.
Because the average non techie understands the internet a good deal less than the Senator from Alaska who described it as a series of tubes. And many small business owners have a persecution complex. I used to love patronizing small local businesses, and still do a lot of the time. But an astounding number of them are just plain jerks.
We also called it Rapid Recrash, because if your system crashed RR would bring it right back of to the state it was in just before it crashed. And the first thing it would do is crash...
A buddy of mine just launched a site to serve precisely this market: Indiekazoo. Simple site to use, simple ecommerce, very convenient.
IndieKazoo makes it easy to:
* Take control of your own music sales
* Sell your music as MP3 downloads
* Sell your out-of-print CDs and music again
IndieKazoo is perfect for:
* Bands with tracks or CDs to sell
* Individual musicians
* Singer/songwriters
Key features:
* Songs play on any MP3 player or device (iPod, iTunes, MusicMatch, WinAmp, etc.)
* Admin area to track sales and music store usage
* Adjustable song samples for visitors
* Set your own prices
I had a discussion about almost this exact issue with a coworker today. I personally hate viewing Office/PDF documents in a browser. The tools I use in that context (search, zoom, print previewing and setup) don't work the same in the browser as in the standalone app if they work at all. My work environment is a pure MS shop (though I use FF for personal surfing) and the general experience has been that any Office/PDF doc at all is as likely to crash your browser as not regardless of browser.
I don't use MS at home anymore, but I thought that XP had something similar to fast user switching on OS X? That would resolve the different sessions issue.
I would dispute this, I'm running firefox on OS X, Windows, and SUSE Linux across a half dozen machines and have been since the beta releases of firefox. I have had three linksys routers (still using 2) and a linksys NSLU2 'storage server'. Firefox has had no problems doing anything including the firmware updates.
There's the innovative new secret web site called 'Google'. The first page of results returns half a dozen commercial fully supported linux CNC solutions.
If you actually wanted a linux based solution you would've taken the five seconds necessary to do that, but you'd rather just tout the MS line "There's no software for it, and if there is it might not be supported tomorrow, and if it is you can't trust those dirty hippies." Which is basically what they said about Apple for the last 20 years as well.
No no, you're thinking of Spencer Tracy and Buddy Hackett and Sid Caesar and Jonathan Winters in a race to find buried treasure in southern California.
SawStop is not new. This guy has been trying to get tool manufacturers to license his technology for about 4 years now. The makers determined that it would increase the price of their saws by about 50%, and most of them surveyed their customers (me being one of those customers). The overwhelming response was "Yea, it's a great idea. But if it means I can't get a table saw for under $2000 then I guess I won't have a table saw."
When he couldn't get the companies to license it, he started working the government to require all table saws to use his system. Note that every time the emergency stop kicks in you have to buy a whole new brake set and saw blade (to the tune of about $500).
For myself, I've been using table saws for about 20 years now. And I'm often a bit careless. I've never even come close to getting cut, nor do I know anyone who has been. It's a solution in search of a problem. The only place I see this as being really appropriate is in a high school shop class, where the users are much more likely to get hurt.
I note that of the dozens of reviews I've seen in the various woodworking mags, they all think it's a nice system, but they are all still using their prefered powermatic or dewalt ot whatever saw instead...
I've got 5. One running Puma (g3 iMac, no dvd), 2 running Panther (it came installed on one, I upgraded the other)2 running Tiger (came installed on one, I upgraded the other).
You can buy family pack licenses to cover up to 5 computers (which is what I'll do when Leopard comes out, so I can have the same on all of them), but if you buy a single license you should only be installing it on a single computer.
I think that's accurate. Based on my circle of friends (online and off), I think I'm a pretty standard Mac user. I paid for the Jaguar upgrade, got the Panther upgrade for free when I bought a new computer, and paid for the Tiger upgrade. And that still is less than one license for the minimal usable version of XP (Pro = $300).
This is the one thing that I've been waiting for in terms of mice. I liked the mighty mouse when it first came out, but I wanted it bluetooth because I don't want wires all over my desk. I currently use a rf mouse because all the full size bluetooth mice I've used suck (Logitech, Kensington, Microsoft, MacAlly, several others).
WMA is vendor lock in. And the DRM on WMA seriously degrades the quality as well which is one reason why the WMA based online stores are doing so poorly, aside from not being playable on an iPod.
I'm no fan of FairPlay, but it doesn't degrade that quality of the music I buy.
That is how the free market works, didn't you know? Buyer beware, no regulations, and companies have no responsibility other than to screw customers, employees, and suppliers for as much money as possible.
You're confusing the content itself for the impact the content has. Of course instant communication has a dramatic impact on everything from lunch plans to battle plans. But they are still lunch plans and battle plans.
Companies and individuals are still sending back and forth orders for goods and services, bills for the aforementioned, and complaints about the quality. Population centers still need to move large quantities of food in for the people not engaged in food production, and move out waste produced by those people.
I understand your complaints, and I certainly should have been more clear in what I meant. I don't mean to say nothing at all has changed, because that's clearly not true. I could go on and on, but frankly this is a response to a week old thread that you'll probably never read.
I wish I could mod you up. As a historian, I'm dismayed at how much people think things have changed. Some big things have changed (civil rights, for example), but the vast majority of changes since the industrial revolution have been mostly superficial. Yes, we can communicate across the globe instantaneously. The content of that communication hasn't changed all that wildly.
There never were any 'good old days'.
Now if you were to go back to any time prior to the Industrial Revolution, people from that period would be amazed at what they saw in 2006. They'd be equally amazed at what they saw in 1906. To take it a step further, if you were to take pre-agrarian people and drop them in the Middle Ages, they'd be hornswaggled as well.
This is a very specific plan to require people who are receiving government benefits to be able to demonstrate that they are who they claim to be. Don't like it? Don't participate. If you want the benefits, you have to play by the rules.
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You're starting from a false premise. I was an iTunes fan for about 3 years before I finally got an iPod. None of my collection is in AAC, because I didn't want a mix of mp3 and AAC in my library. Everything I buy on iTunes gets converted to mp3. Everything wmv that I've bought also gets converted to mp3.
Container matters a LOT. Or so I've heard. I've been stuck with WebSphere for 6 years and performance is garbage. I don't blame Java, I blame IBM. The WAS Server is a monstrous piece of bloat, coming in at several GB for a bare App Server install. On fairly nice HPUX boxes performance is molasses in winter, and our app simply isn't that huge or complex (and we're talking to DB2 on the back end, so there's no vendor finger pointing issues).
Here's something I observed, and fortunately was not directly affected by:
United flight from Hong Kong to Chicago. There's two of these a day. The day before our flight, both flights had been overbooked and everyone showed up. So they had to pay people effectively $1200 each to stay an extra day in HK. The day we were flying everyone showed as well as the people who had been left over from the previous day. They paid 56 people $1400 to wait around in the hopes of getting the second flight that day. One of them had been bumped twice the previous day and had no reason to hurry home so he had gotten a total of $5000 in order to delay his flight a day or so. Keep in mind the plane tickets themselves were $1200 each when we purchased them.
The weird part is that once we were on the plane and they had already paid 56 people who were at the gate to not get on the plane, they had to ask another 10 to get off because of weight restrictions. So the airline paid out $92000 on that flight alone because they overbooked it. This is why the airlines are going bankrupt, because their predictive models of who is going to no-show isn't working anymore. I have several relatives who always build an extra 2-3 days into their travel schedules so they can volunteer to be bumped. As a result they usually end up essentially getting upgraded to business or economy plus AND getting to fly for free.
Yes, you're right. A fascist regime or a dictatorship would certainly take better care of the rights of the minorities than a democracy does. Why, just look at the last thousand years of their treatment of dissent!
I worked for a manager whose style would best be described as "scream, berate, humiliate, threaten". I generally threw up every morning before heading in to work because of the stress. This was during the early 90's recesssion, so finding another comparable paying job (only slightly above minimum wage) wasn't an option.
Have you tried using Office XP and McAfee Enterprise with only 256M of RAM? The COTR on our project fires up Word and it takes a good 2-3 minutes to open. It lags her typing noticeably as well.
Wow, what agency are you with? We all know FBI is hopelessly outdated on tech, as is Interior. The cabinet level agency I work for only just moved to XP, and SP2 is still under evaluation. The standard desktop configuration is a 2Ghz machine with 256M of RAM and an 80G hard drive. And the management structure complains about how fancy the machines are.
Because the average non techie understands the internet a good deal less than the Senator from Alaska who described it as a series of tubes. And many small business owners have a persecution complex. I used to love patronizing small local businesses, and still do a lot of the time. But an astounding number of them are just plain jerks.
We also called it Rapid Recrash, because if your system crashed RR would bring it right back of to the state it was in just before it crashed. And the first thing it would do is crash...
A buddy of mine just launched a site to serve precisely this market: Indiekazoo. Simple site to use, simple ecommerce, very convenient.
IndieKazoo makes it easy to:
* Take control of your own music sales
* Sell your music as MP3 downloads
* Sell your out-of-print CDs and music again
IndieKazoo is perfect for:
* Bands with tracks or CDs to sell
* Individual musicians
* Singer/songwriters
Key features:
* Songs play on any MP3 player or device (iPod, iTunes, MusicMatch, WinAmp, etc.)
* Admin area to track sales and music store usage
* Adjustable song samples for visitors
* Set your own prices
I had a discussion about almost this exact issue with a coworker today. I personally hate viewing Office/PDF documents in a browser. The tools I use in that context (search, zoom, print previewing and setup) don't work the same in the browser as in the standalone app if they work at all. My work environment is a pure MS shop (though I use FF for personal surfing) and the general experience has been that any Office/PDF doc at all is as likely to crash your browser as not regardless of browser.
I don't use MS at home anymore, but I thought that XP had something similar to fast user switching on OS X? That would resolve the different sessions issue.
I would dispute this, I'm running firefox on OS X, Windows, and SUSE Linux across a half dozen machines and have been since the beta releases of firefox. I have had three linksys routers (still using 2) and a linksys NSLU2 'storage server'. Firefox has had no problems doing anything including the firmware updates.
There's the innovative new secret web site called 'Google'. The first page of results returns half a dozen commercial fully supported linux CNC solutions.
If you actually wanted a linux based solution you would've taken the five seconds necessary to do that, but you'd rather just tout the MS line "There's no software for it, and if there is it might not be supported tomorrow, and if it is you can't trust those dirty hippies." Which is basically what they said about Apple for the last 20 years as well.
There's a flag for grouping compilations now. Under the General preference pane.
No no, you're thinking of Spencer Tracy and Buddy Hackett and Sid Caesar and Jonathan Winters in a race to find buried treasure in southern California.
SawStop is not new. This guy has been trying to get tool manufacturers to license his technology for about 4 years now. The makers determined that it would increase the price of their saws by about 50%, and most of them surveyed their customers (me being one of those customers). The overwhelming response was "Yea, it's a great idea. But if it means I can't get a table saw for under $2000 then I guess I won't have a table saw."
When he couldn't get the companies to license it, he started working the government to require all table saws to use his system. Note that every time the emergency stop kicks in you have to buy a whole new brake set and saw blade (to the tune of about $500).
For myself, I've been using table saws for about 20 years now. And I'm often a bit careless. I've never even come close to getting cut, nor do I know anyone who has been. It's a solution in search of a problem. The only place I see this as being really appropriate is in a high school shop class, where the users are much more likely to get hurt.
I note that of the dozens of reviews I've seen in the various woodworking mags, they all think it's a nice system, but they are all still using their prefered powermatic or dewalt ot whatever saw instead...
I've got 5. One running Puma (g3 iMac, no dvd), 2 running Panther (it came installed on one, I upgraded the other)2 running Tiger (came installed on one, I upgraded the other).
You can buy family pack licenses to cover up to 5 computers (which is what I'll do when Leopard comes out, so I can have the same on all of them), but if you buy a single license you should only be installing it on a single computer.
I think that's accurate. Based on my circle of friends (online and off), I think I'm a pretty standard Mac user. I paid for the Jaguar upgrade, got the Panther upgrade for free when I bought a new computer, and paid for the Tiger upgrade. And that still is less than one license for the minimal usable version of XP (Pro = $300).
This is the one thing that I've been waiting for in terms of mice. I liked the mighty mouse when it first came out, but I wanted it bluetooth because I don't want wires all over my desk. I currently use a rf mouse because all the full size bluetooth mice I've used suck (Logitech, Kensington, Microsoft, MacAlly, several others).
WMA is vendor lock in. And the DRM on WMA seriously degrades the quality as well which is one reason why the WMA based online stores are doing so poorly, aside from not being playable on an iPod.
I'm no fan of FairPlay, but it doesn't degrade that quality of the music I buy.
That is how the free market works, didn't you know? Buyer beware, no regulations, and companies have no responsibility other than to screw customers, employees, and suppliers for as much money as possible.
This is the Libertarian Utopia.
You're confusing the content itself for the impact the content has. Of course instant communication has a dramatic impact on everything from lunch plans to battle plans. But they are still lunch plans and battle plans.
Companies and individuals are still sending back and forth orders for goods and services, bills for the aforementioned, and complaints about the quality. Population centers still need to move large quantities of food in for the people not engaged in food production, and move out waste produced by those people.
I understand your complaints, and I certainly should have been more clear in what I meant. I don't mean to say nothing at all has changed, because that's clearly not true. I could go on and on, but frankly this is a response to a week old thread that you'll probably never read.
Dude, you worked for NWA? That is hard core!
I wish I could mod you up. As a historian, I'm dismayed at how much people think things have changed. Some big things have changed (civil rights, for example), but the vast majority of changes since the industrial revolution have been mostly superficial. Yes, we can communicate across the globe instantaneously. The content of that communication hasn't changed all that wildly.
There never were any 'good old days'.
Now if you were to go back to any time prior to the Industrial Revolution, people from that period would be amazed at what they saw in 2006. They'd be equally amazed at what they saw in 1906. To take it a step further, if you were to take pre-agrarian people and drop them in the Middle Ages, they'd be hornswaggled as well.
This is a very specific plan to require people who are receiving government benefits to be able to demonstrate that they are who they claim to be. Don't like it? Don't participate. If you want the benefits, you have to play by the rules.