There is a statistically significant portion of the population that believe that immunizations are a part of a conspiracy by [the government|zionists|the illuminati|the UN|Andy Smartypants] to control the population and create a world government. And they are not all rural yokels (though most of them are), I've heard that sort of nonsense from tenured professors and executives at Fortune 1000 companies.
1. Don't care (lazyness, "not my pc", whatever)
2. Are too intimidated by technology to go outside the little box they've created for themselves
3. Think IE's still the better browser
While I agree, and use firefox exclusively myself, you do realize that those 'users still left' encompasses about 60% of web users, and probably closer to 90% of the people who are not web users as well.
It would appear that each countrys iTunes is specific to that country. iTunes UK carries al of the Manic Street Preachers albums, but iTunes US only carries one.
Note that one of the most popular country songs of the last year was "Redneck Woman", a song proclaiming her pride in being a redneck. If you are not a part of the target audience, you will laugh at the nomenclature. If you are apart of it, you will likely revel in it.
It wouldn't be a poor strategic choice at all. MS doesn't sell hardware. So people start buying big ol apple boxes and giving apple money for an OS license, then buying 10 MS licenses to run Windows Server in VMs. How does microsoft lose here?
I work on a federal project right now for a non-defense (and largely forgotten) agency. The security on our webfarm is nothing short of massive, and this is not sensitive information by any stretch of the imagination. You can't get from one network segment to another without passing through at least two firewalls that default deny anything and everything.
And remedial english classes wouldn't even begin to help. These gov people use all the same words as english but there are entirely different, inconsistent, and arbitrary rules regarding meaning and grammar.
Since when is Orkut multilingual? I gave up on the site many many months ago when posting something in english in any of the dozens of forums I was in resulted in 20-30 abusive responses in portuguese.
The Brazilians took over Orkut long ago, it's useless to anyone else.
Clearly you don't do purchasing for large enterprises. I'm in an organization known for being cheap and the 'low end' machines they buy are in the $900-$1200 range (though with bulk discounts I'm sure it's less than that). A high end machine will be $1800-$2500. Gee, that's what a G5 tower costs.
Fortune 1000 companies don't build their own boxes from parts they find on pricewatch, and they don't buy eMachines boxes. They buy mid range and high end Dell/HP/Gateway boxes and pay the same price they'd pay for an Apple box.
Turn the volume down and ignore it. I don't recall any law stating that you have to answer the phone when it rings. If my phone rings (at work or at home) and I don't feel like answering, I don't
This is America. Violence is good and wholesome because it is the desire of the religious fanatics that people grow up insensitive to human suffering. Sex is evil and shameful and corrupts our youth and may cause them to actually care about their fellow humans.
They asked him to come in to interview. He wasn't looking to work there, they were trying to convince him to and instead of trying to demonstrate what the company had to offer him they gave him the standard quiz they'd give any entry level developer.
And this is why I don't pay for a subscription to slashdot. Until the editors can be bothered to care about the site, no way I'm paying my hard earned cash.
I use XP at work, but in classic UI mode because it's the only way to not want to gouge my eyes out. Seeing the Longhorn screenshots reminds me of something going on in the nicer neighborhood a few blocks from my house.
There's a really working class guy who made good running a car repair shop. They've got a great reputation and do solid work. So he's moved into an upscale neighborhood, bought an older house that needed some work, and he's fixed it up. But he didn't just relandscape and update the paint job, he is seriously pimping it out. It's all very nicely done and high quality, but it's done with no eye for aesthetics. If a three tier $4500 marble fountain with an 8 foot radius is good, then four of them in a front yard that's 50 feet wide is even better!
From what I hear the inside is pretty much the same concept.
And iBook screens are limited to 1024x768 and 1.25G of RAM, while PB's go up to 1280x1024 and 2G on the 15" model and 1440x900 with 2G on the 17". I don't think it justifies the price difference, but that's what there is.
I used to do this kind of work on the site before/during the dotcom era, and the residential customers were people with fully loaded IBM, Dell, and HP machines. These are people who have a machine that was top of the line when they bought it and it cost at least $2000 (US).
Sure, a $500 Dell might be the same specs as that machine now, but if they were going to just buy a new computer they'd be buying a top of the line machine again and spend $2000+ dollars. So $300 for repair is a small price to pay.
Trade in historiographic materials, religious relics, and artwork is huge business. Collectors with more money than brains will pay millions of dollars to own an item they can never admit to owning (since it would be admitting to possesion of stolen property and they'd have to give it back).
What drives me crazy is all the programmers I've known who make the connection "I'm socially awkward and like computers, so I am a misunderstood genius and I'm better than everybody!"
And this goes hand in hand with every kid who can stack blocks by the age of 3 being 'gifted'. Of course, there's a whole industry dedicated to 'helping' (read: profiting off of) parents who believe their child is gifted.
I tried it with both my iBook and mini, and had the same problem in Panther: I had to re-pair every time the machine rebooted. I also had lousy luck with the tracking on the Logitech that I didn't have with any of the other ones I tried (even the cheapo Kensington that cost half as much).
I didn't get bluetooth until I had a kid. Being able to easily pull the kybd/mouse off the tray and put them on top of the monitor without having cables all over the place and in the way when I'm trying to use them is worth the five dollars more I paid for the keyboard and the fifteen dollars more I paid for the mouse.
Logitech has a bluetooth. It sucks. I returned the first one I bought because I thought it was defective it tracked so badly and dropped connection constantly. Logitech showed no interest in providing support so I returned the replacement one I bought as well. Microsoft's and Kensington's BT mice are OK if you are strictly and XP user, Kensingtons' is a little better ergonomically.
I went through quite a few BT mice before I found two that work consistently and have reasonable battery life.
The MS and Kensington mice were buggy on OS X and slightly better on XP. The Logitech bluetooth mouse was a complete joke, didn't work with anything but XP and not very well at that (tracking was hopeless, battery life was worthless). A few other brands I don't recall were OK, but weren't very comfortable.
I ultimately settled on the iogear bt mouse for the laptop and the MacMice bt mouse for the desktop. I hear Apple's mouse is solid but I can't give up my scroll wheel.
I agree that it's silly to buy it because it's cheap and then spend craploads making it perform.
Most of the people I know that have bought one (only a handful, so far) didn't buy it for price alone. Form factor and noise are the two things that sold me. I've built dozens of sub $500 PCs, but to get the thing even close to quiet enough to use in a home recording studio you're going to spend another $1000 and not get much result for your money.
I've bought 'silent' hard drive enclosures, superquiet fans, case batting, enclosed cases in larger foam lined cabinets (which is not only the most effective approach, but also by far the cheapest). The foam lined cabinet worked pretty well, but heat and accessibility were big issues.
Now I have a tiny little 6x6 box on the shelf above my monitor, it makes less noise than me breathing in between takes, and there's plenty of room for keyboards, DSPs, speakers, sheet music, etc etc etc.
I threw a 160g mini mate in there for good measure and it fits nicely right under the mini and raises the profile by less than 2 inches.
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There is a statistically significant portion of the population that believe that immunizations are a part of a conspiracy by [the government|zionists|the illuminati|the UN|Andy Smartypants] to control the population and create a world government. And they are not all rural yokels (though most of them are), I've heard that sort of nonsense from tenured professors and executives at Fortune 1000 companies.
>The rest of the users still left on IE either
1. Don't care (lazyness, "not my pc", whatever)
2. Are too intimidated by technology to go outside the little box they've created for themselves
3. Think IE's still the better browser
While I agree, and use firefox exclusively myself, you do realize that those 'users still left' encompasses about 60% of web users, and probably closer to 90% of the people who are not web users as well.
It would appear that each countrys iTunes is specific to that country. iTunes UK carries al of the Manic Street Preachers albums, but iTunes US only carries one.
>> turgid carp
While you may not be a fan of carp, they are still part of nature...
Graphite Suite. I'm fairly sure the artist would appreciate you getting the name of his work right.
Note that one of the most popular country songs of the last year was "Redneck Woman", a song proclaiming her pride in being a redneck. If you are not a part of the target audience, you will laugh at the nomenclature. If you are apart of it, you will likely revel in it.
It wouldn't be a poor strategic choice at all. MS doesn't sell hardware. So people start buying big ol apple boxes and giving apple money for an OS license, then buying 10 MS licenses to run Windows Server in VMs. How does microsoft lose here?
I work on a federal project right now for a non-defense (and largely forgotten) agency. The security on our webfarm is nothing short of massive, and this is not sensitive information by any stretch of the imagination. You can't get from one network segment to another without passing through at least two firewalls that default deny anything and everything.
And remedial english classes wouldn't even begin to help. These gov people use all the same words as english but there are entirely different, inconsistent, and arbitrary rules regarding meaning and grammar.
Since when is Orkut multilingual? I gave up on the site many many months ago when posting something in english in any of the dozens of forums I was in resulted in 20-30 abusive responses in portuguese.
The Brazilians took over Orkut long ago, it's useless to anyone else.
Clearly you don't do purchasing for large enterprises. I'm in an organization known for being cheap and the 'low end' machines they buy are in the $900-$1200 range (though with bulk discounts I'm sure it's less than that). A high end machine will be $1800-$2500. Gee, that's what a G5 tower costs.
Fortune 1000 companies don't build their own boxes from parts they find on pricewatch, and they don't buy eMachines boxes. They buy mid range and high end Dell/HP/Gateway boxes and pay the same price they'd pay for an Apple box.
Turn the volume down and ignore it. I don't recall any law stating that you have to answer the phone when it rings. If my phone rings (at work or at home) and I don't feel like answering, I don't
This is America. Violence is good and wholesome because it is the desire of the religious fanatics that people grow up insensitive to human suffering. Sex is evil and shameful and corrupts our youth and may cause them to actually care about their fellow humans.
They asked him to come in to interview. He wasn't looking to work there, they were trying to convince him to and instead of trying to demonstrate what the company had to offer him they gave him the standard quiz they'd give any entry level developer.
And this is why I don't pay for a subscription to slashdot. Until the editors can be bothered to care about the site, no way I'm paying my hard earned cash.
I use XP at work, but in classic UI mode because it's the only way to not want to gouge my eyes out. Seeing the Longhorn screenshots reminds me of something going on in the nicer neighborhood a few blocks from my house.
There's a really working class guy who made good running a car repair shop. They've got a great reputation and do solid work. So he's moved into an upscale neighborhood, bought an older house that needed some work, and he's fixed it up. But he didn't just relandscape and update the paint job, he is seriously pimping it out. It's all very nicely done and high quality, but it's done with no eye for aesthetics. If a three tier $4500 marble fountain with an 8 foot radius is good, then four of them in a front yard that's 50 feet wide is even better!
From what I hear the inside is pretty much the same concept.
That's what these screenshots make me think of.
And iBook screens are limited to 1024x768 and 1.25G of RAM, while PB's go up to 1280x1024 and 2G on the 15" model and 1440x900 with 2G on the 17". I don't think it justifies the price difference, but that's what there is.
I used to do this kind of work on the site before/during the dotcom era, and the residential customers were people with fully loaded IBM, Dell, and HP machines. These are people who have a machine that was top of the line when they bought it and it cost at least $2000 (US).
Sure, a $500 Dell might be the same specs as that machine now, but if they were going to just buy a new computer they'd be buying a top of the line machine again and spend $2000+ dollars. So $300 for repair is a small price to pay.
He's also assuming that everyone thinks and interacts with computers exactly the same way he does.
Trade in historiographic materials, religious relics, and artwork is huge business. Collectors with more money than brains will pay millions of dollars to own an item they can never admit to owning (since it would be admitting to possesion of stolen property and they'd have to give it back).
What drives me crazy is all the programmers I've known who make the connection "I'm socially awkward and like computers, so I am a misunderstood genius and I'm better than everybody!"
And this goes hand in hand with every kid who can stack blocks by the age of 3 being 'gifted'. Of course, there's a whole industry dedicated to 'helping' (read: profiting off of) parents who believe their child is gifted.
I tried it with both my iBook and mini, and had the same problem in Panther: I had to re-pair every time the machine rebooted. I also had lousy luck with the tracking on the Logitech that I didn't have with any of the other ones I tried (even the cheapo Kensington that cost half as much).
I didn't get bluetooth until I had a kid. Being able to easily pull the kybd/mouse off the tray and put them on top of the monitor without having cables all over the place and in the way when I'm trying to use them is worth the five dollars more I paid for the keyboard and the fifteen dollars more I paid for the mouse.
Logitech has a bluetooth. It sucks. I returned the first one I bought because I thought it was defective it tracked so badly and dropped connection constantly. Logitech showed no interest in providing support so I returned the replacement one I bought as well. Microsoft's and Kensington's BT mice are OK if you are strictly and XP user, Kensingtons' is a little better ergonomically.
I went through quite a few BT mice before I found two that work consistently and have reasonable battery life.
The MS and Kensington mice were buggy on OS X and slightly better on XP. The Logitech bluetooth mouse was a complete joke, didn't work with anything but XP and not very well at that (tracking was hopeless, battery life was worthless). A few other brands I don't recall were OK, but weren't very comfortable.
I ultimately settled on the iogear bt mouse for the laptop and the MacMice bt mouse for the desktop. I hear Apple's mouse is solid but I can't give up my scroll wheel.
I agree that it's silly to buy it because it's cheap and then spend craploads making it perform.
Most of the people I know that have bought one (only a handful, so far) didn't buy it for price alone. Form factor and noise are the two things that sold me. I've built dozens of sub $500 PCs, but to get the thing even close to quiet enough to use in a home recording studio you're going to spend another $1000 and not get much result for your money.
I've bought 'silent' hard drive enclosures, superquiet fans, case batting, enclosed cases in larger foam lined cabinets (which is not only the most effective approach, but also by far the cheapest). The foam lined cabinet worked pretty well, but heat and accessibility were big issues.
Now I have a tiny little 6x6 box on the shelf above my monitor, it makes less noise than me breathing in between takes, and there's plenty of room for keyboards, DSPs, speakers, sheet music, etc etc etc.
I threw a 160g mini mate in there for good measure and it fits nicely right under the mini and raises the profile by less than 2 inches.