This series has definitely jumped the shark. This season especially is dry & rather boring really lacking some of the punch and social commentary over the last few years. I hope they can put some fresh air into the series, otherwise it's getting done. There have been several episodes the last few that I've just jumped to the end on the TiVo and deleted vs. watching them.
If you read the SEC filing you would see that about 90% of their profits comes from INK! No wonder they want to do R&D into ways of controlling us further from printing.
I have a Canon for the record, but their INK! is just as expensive. but i prefer to use a company that does innovate instead of stagnate.
I don't know about everyone, but I'm not a Microsoft Hater, but I'm not a lover of them either. I don't think they 'won' the battle with the US courts, I think they bought the president. Pretty lame anti-trust slap on the wrist only after Bush comes into office. Prior to that it was looking like they were going to break into bitty pieces.
Get TeamSpeak so that you can play any game you want and if she isn't the gaming type you can play any game you want online or off.
That seems to work for me when I travel. Leave the wife & kids at home, play DAOC or Star Wars Galaxies on the laptop and yak away with the kids & wife instead of them having to play something like Counterstrike or another violent game (the kids are 2 and >1, so no) yet still talk to me.
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I wouldn't mod you as a troll for posting that, but I would mod you as 'miguided' or 'goofy';)
Seriously though. How can you consider PETA's statement about impotency accurate? They come up with all sorts of crazy things trying to stop people from eating meat, or using animals for some byproduct like milk that people drink, etc.
I for one could not make it on eating stuff grown in the back yard. I'm allergic to most soy products and to most artificial sweetners. It's not that I don't like them, it's that I break in hives all over the place.
as far as the impotency thing goes I must be immune because I'm doing the atkins thing and eating steaks every night and then screwing the wife later that evening.
Plus, if god didn't want me to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
Don't forget the ad CBS is refusing to air.
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Don't you know that you're not cool on Slashdot unless every time a portable music player review is posted you don't say something about Ogg Vorbis and it's lack of support?
Hm. On some of this I agree, on others I flat out disagree.
A) My underwear has 'TOMMY HILFIGER' scrawled across it. I hate advertising something unless it was given to me (like my IBM Shirt I'm wearing) but my wife bought it for me and she thought it was neat because I have the same first name as some goofy designer. I was irritated for my money being spent until she showed me what she liked about the underwear - that it was 'out of style' and at some outlet mall - so I was semi-ok with it.
B) I like Audi's. They're not overpriced VWs, they're a different class of car. Example is: Car broke, called dealership, tow truck at house 20 min later and car was fixed by Tuesday morning (broke friday night). I used to have an oldsmobile. Alternator blew out 1000 miles outside of warranty, they said 'yeah that's a problem with that car, give me $1000 please'. My previous Audi had a fuel guage break 1000 miles outside of warranty, they replaced it, cleaned the car and hand waxed it and gave it back to me and apologized that it took so long to get it repaired. I'll pay more for that any day, that's not just useless markup.
My powerbook cost me $1599. not much of a trappings of the rich to me, considering what else was in it's price range.
No. A "locked" state would prvent accidental removal of dock icons. It would not be possible for ignorant friends using your laptop without your permission/cats/etc to accidently remove icons.
That and my two year old daughter from 'click the mouse' and emptying the dock completely
Real World - We charge all vendors equally and make all our money off of the applications you have to buy to interact with these devices. MS Office, Exchange, and we make it next to impossible for someone to convert Lotus Notes into your Windoows CE, er Pocket Windows, er Pocket Windows 2002, er 2003, er hey you need a new PDA every year from our 'choice'
While my Palm 3.0 OS still works and I can still load what's latest and greatest on it.
MSSPeak - iTunes is a closed format, they don't offer choice.
Apple makes a player. It uses FairPlay's DRM. Apple doesn't own fairplay, and there is nothing stopping anyone from releasing players and/or portables to support this. Though people haven't, except one major one... HP.
However here's another handy dandy pocket windows media os that you ahve to buy all new items for in six months or so that should do everything but support AAC from Apple, but that's OK we have WMA and it even has a true lossless CODEC for you audiophiles - Apple Doesn't! Their software is lossless! BTW our Pocket Media OS will let you play a widescreen movie on a 2" LCD and you'll like it because we said so. Apple is insane saying that no one wants that because we make it and you buy it because we said it's there!
Whatever. Granted other than AAC that iTunes using being a bit to tight on the compression for my taste *I* like it and I've bought a few hundred songs. Would I care if it died tomorrow and some other vendor came out with a killer app? Heck no, but then again iTMS is the only one in the 10s of millions of songs sold. If 5% of the computer population can do that....
I have a two year old that I've not quite gotten the 'no don't put that in your mouth stage' over with. As soon as she figures that out, they're back outside.
I just spent maybe $200 on LEGO for myself over the holidays. I've got a fortune sunk in LEGO in my master bedroom closet, much to the wife's annoyance (that I'm taking up closet space)
No but there havebeen other companies that have 'absolved' their user base of open source sins. Then they've pointed at IBM for not doing anything to 'save' them from the devil
Well if I read this right they're dropping the movie licensing as well, and that means bye bye star wars. Star Wars was their 'space' line and hears to hping they come out with some more space projects like they had in the 80s. The mars one was fun but they needed more sets.
I'd bet the reason is the GPL. Remember, IBM is a huge IP company. Anything they do internally they'd have to keep internally unless they wanted to GPL it. If my understanding of the GPL is valid that is.
Don't know myself. personally I like my 12" Powerbook at home and my IBM Thinkpad X30 at work. They're both light, easy to cart through airports, and I type and it appears on the screen without a lag.
Personally this looks more like people whining about bad marketing all around (9200 = 8x, 9000 =4x, nothing else different and then someone put 9200 as the part number on the box)
Lots of computer fan boys are conditioned into thinking if you increase the version/model number it's better. I would think some people would remember the movies and know that the second or later model / revision of something isn't always better.
Ask people that used DOS 4.1, Windows 3.0, Windows Me, etc.
"They tried to scare me," Borrayo said. "They told me, 'You're a pirate!' I said, 'C'mon, guys, pirates are all at sea. I just work in a parking lot.' "
OK, if you have seen my comments before on subjects of the RIAA you probably know I'm all for shutting down illegal distribution of copyrighted materials that license to not allow this to be done - whether it is Kazaa, the former napster, IRC, or a dude on a corner selling the latest filmed in the theater videotape.
But good lord this is insane. This has to violage some law. You can't tell me that they 'accidentally' made themselves look like police officers with the jackets with the TLAs on them. Probably doens't hurt that they're all ex-law enforcement either.
Pretty handy to raid someone where english is a second language too and the cops were feared. I'm sure they didn't make him think they were cops
Or, you tell HP 'hey, here's something that you can sell that will add a single option at over 30% margin while you compete with a cut rate competitor like Dell who makes you loose money on every sale. This thing is so popular it could bring more money in for your desktop market because people will buy them both'
Remeber this is HP, not Dell. HP isn't about dropping their drawers and forcing their vendors to sell things cheap or fast. I don't expect a $99 HPod next year unless Apple makes one first.
I said and I quote 'Marketing/Sales/Customer facing types' note the end word.
great, it's 9.0 based. But guess what, in my aformentioned note I mentioned it was August mind you. At that time, as the distro was explained to me it was 7.2 (unmodified kernal) with Ximian Gnome.
Not knowing what you do for a living at IBM since you posted anonymously, I'm wondering if you know some of the xSeries people that do linux daily for customer. I'm not much of a name dropper but there are guys on our team that set up WETA's cluster, Shell's clusters, and I myself worked on the first one at UNM. A lot of us have run linux exclusively on the desktop with VMware as a stop gap should we need winders.
I myself converted to XP because there were several times I needed to fire up VMware (pre-standard load mind you, I just installed RH 7.3 and Ximian and found a few things on the LTC Sourceforge internal site) but if I was in front of a customer the time it took Windows to boot up, and the lack of the ability to figure out how to get power saving features (like suspend, etc) to work in 2002 had me decide to stop using it. My local LUGs weren't able to help me so I decided to forget it and move on. I'm told things are much different now that someone who has time to tinker and hack the code made power saving work and I've been wanting to try again on my new X30.
In August we had our annual tech conference and that is when I got my last 'field' update from guys who were using linux - exclusively - on their Thinkpad T30s. Also I'd participated in several conference calls where an IGS person described our environment and he specifically said RH 7.2 was our base code. he also mentioned that most of our labs were running it. When I think labs I think our engineering staff, not the management staff. So since I don't try to install operating systems on my thinkpad weekly basis I've not watched to see if/when we changed to RH 9.0. The nice thing about open source and it's bane (for a business trying to set a standard for say a desktop) is you can be out of date within 4 months rather badly.
As for your last comment, I'm confused. I don't remember claiming that I was talking for IBM there. I remember saying in my experience and the people I work with the people that had more customers running linux and more daily exposure (which, indeed happen on the east and west coasts of the United States, and not where I've been the last 5 years in Kansas City and the SW US other than the Univ. of Mexico and places in Houston). Not sure how that equiates to geographic bullshit. I don't talk to people on the other side of the planet often, I wish I coulud, but I can't because I sleep at night.
I guess you might be thinking wrong on the amt of linux in the inferior US. There are some serious GRID projects in the NE and there are lots of render farms on the west coast. Granted nothing the size that the NZ folks have but there are lots of blade render farms going into Hollywood.
And for the record, I'm not a complete marketroid I somehow managed to get my RHCE in 2001, and a MCSE in 1995 and a CNE in 1994. Note that transcender and those didn't exist back then. So yeah I can install and troubleshoot just about anything but I sure as hell can't write code.
Nope. It's Ximian running RedHat. 7.2 I believe, whichever one came with the 2.4.9 kernal, don't remember.
and then we have Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office setup in Wine enivornments.
It's available for installation right now, however not everyone can use it because of certain applications that require specific things they've not gotten either emulated in Wine or replaced by a non-MS Specific application.
All you need is a diskette and about an hour and you too can wipe out your Windows Thinkpad or Desktop and off you go. Most of the engineering places that don't need a lot of the more verticle type applications like the Watson Labs and other labs have fully flipped to linux.
It's us types in the marketing/sales/customer facing environments that need specific apps that are holding us a back a bit.
Plus there's been no mandate. We all joke about it at tech conferences (I'm on the xSeries side) and such because everyone had 'heard' of this type of memo and a lot of our guys closer to using Linux more (IE not in the midwest but east and west coasts) have already converted over.
Most run VMware workstation to fire up windows on the rare opportunity that they need them. And the last guy I talked to about it as far back as August said he rarely ever needed to fire up Windows any more.
Why would you say that? At this time there isn't anything to replace it but Microsoft Exchange. Sendmail, qmail and others I've seen on Linux don't support any method of scheduling. If IBM were to flip to soemthing else *today* they'd have to flip to Exchange.
Notes is still my email client, and still the email client of almost all the xSeries sales and technical people I know/work with (about 500 people)
Don't think that's happening overnight. No saying it might not go away but there is a lot of business processes and documentation circled into Notes.
Plus we'd need some serious contact management and calendaring software that could handle worldwide scheduling. To my knowledge there is nothing like that integrated with email that Linux provides at this time.
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This series has definitely jumped the shark. This season especially is dry & rather boring really lacking some of the punch and social commentary over the last few years. I hope they can put some fresh air into the series, otherwise it's getting done. There have been several episodes the last few that I've just jumped to the end on the TiVo and deleted vs. watching them.
If you read the SEC filing you would see that about 90% of their profits comes from INK! No wonder they want to do R&D into ways of controlling us further from printing.
I have a Canon for the record, but their INK! is just as expensive. but i prefer to use a company that does innovate instead of stagnate.
I don't know about everyone, but I'm not a Microsoft Hater, but I'm not a lover of them either. I don't think they 'won' the battle with the US courts, I think they bought the president. Pretty lame anti-trust slap on the wrist only after Bush comes into office. Prior to that it was looking like they were going to break into bitty pieces.
Just my viewpoint.
Get TeamSpeak so that you can play any game you want and if she isn't the gaming type you can play any game you want online or off.
That seems to work for me when I travel. Leave the wife & kids at home, play DAOC or Star Wars Galaxies on the laptop and yak away with the kids & wife instead of them having to play something like Counterstrike or another violent game (the kids are 2 and >1, so no) yet still talk to me.
I wouldn't mod you as a troll for posting that, but I would mod you as 'miguided' or 'goofy' ;)
Seriously though. How can you consider PETA's statement about impotency accurate? They come up with all sorts of crazy things trying to stop people from eating meat, or using animals for some byproduct like milk that people drink, etc.
I for one could not make it on eating stuff grown in the back yard. I'm allergic to most soy products and to most artificial sweetners. It's not that I don't like them, it's that I break in hives all over the place.
as far as the impotency thing goes I must be immune because I'm doing the atkins thing and eating steaks every night and then screwing the wife later that evening.
Plus, if god didn't want me to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
Pretty potent/A. non-sex non-beer ad with only one statement in it.
Pretty effective ad no matter what you US Political viewpoint is.
Would that be John 'Captain Crunch' Draper?
Don't you know that you're not cool on Slashdot unless every time a portable music player review is posted you don't say something about Ogg Vorbis and it's lack of support?
Hm. On some of this I agree, on others I flat out disagree.
A) My underwear has 'TOMMY HILFIGER' scrawled across it. I hate advertising something unless it was given to me (like my IBM Shirt I'm wearing) but my wife bought it for me and she thought it was neat because I have the same first name as some goofy designer. I was irritated for my money being spent until she showed me what she liked about the underwear - that it was 'out of style' and at some outlet mall - so I was semi-ok with it.
B) I like Audi's. They're not overpriced VWs, they're a different class of car. Example is: Car broke, called dealership, tow truck at house 20 min later and car was fixed by Tuesday morning (broke friday night). I used to have an oldsmobile. Alternator blew out 1000 miles outside of warranty, they said 'yeah that's a problem with that car, give me $1000 please'. My previous Audi had a fuel guage break 1000 miles outside of warranty, they replaced it, cleaned the car and hand waxed it and gave it back to me and apologized that it took so long to get it repaired. I'll pay more for that any day, that's not just useless markup.
My powerbook cost me $1599. not much of a trappings of the rich to me, considering what else was in it's price range.
That and my two year old daughter from 'click the mouse' and emptying the dock completely
MSSpeak - We give you CHOICE in the PDA market
Real World - We charge all vendors equally and make all our money off of the applications you have to buy to interact with these devices. MS Office, Exchange, and we make it next to impossible for someone to convert Lotus Notes into your Windoows CE, er Pocket Windows, er Pocket Windows 2002, er 2003, er hey you need a new PDA every year from our 'choice'
While my Palm 3.0 OS still works and I can still load what's latest and greatest on it.
MSSPeak - iTunes is a closed format, they don't offer choice.
Apple makes a player. It uses FairPlay's DRM. Apple doesn't own fairplay, and there is nothing stopping anyone from releasing players and/or portables to support this. Though people haven't, except one major one... HP.
However here's another handy dandy pocket windows media os that you ahve to buy all new items for in six months or so that should do everything but support AAC from Apple, but that's OK we have WMA and it even has a true lossless CODEC for you audiophiles - Apple Doesn't! Their software is lossless! BTW our Pocket Media OS will let you play a widescreen movie on a 2" LCD and you'll like it because we said so. Apple is insane saying that no one wants that because we make it and you buy it because we said it's there!
Whatever. Granted other than AAC that iTunes using being a bit to tight on the compression for my taste *I* like it and I've bought a few hundred songs. Would I care if it died tomorrow and some other vendor came out with a killer app? Heck no, but then again iTMS is the only one in the 10s of millions of songs sold. If 5% of the computer population can do that....
I have a two year old that I've not quite gotten the 'no don't put that in your mouth stage' over with. As soon as she figures that out, they're back outside.
I just spent maybe $200 on LEGO for myself over the holidays. I've got a fortune sunk in LEGO in my master bedroom closet, much to the wife's annoyance (that I'm taking up closet space)
No but there have been other companies that have 'absolved' their user base of open source sins. Then they've pointed at IBM for not doing anything to 'save' them from the devil
Well if I read this right they're dropping the movie licensing as well, and that means bye bye star wars. Star Wars was their 'space' line and hears to hping they come out with some more space projects like they had in the 80s. The mars one was fun but they needed more sets.
I'd bet the reason is the GPL. Remember, IBM is a huge IP company. Anything they do internally they'd have to keep internally unless they wanted to GPL it. If my understanding of the GPL is valid that is.
Don't know myself. personally I like my 12" Powerbook at home and my IBM Thinkpad X30 at work. They're both light, easy to cart through airports, and I type and it appears on the screen without a lag.
Personally this looks more like people whining about bad marketing all around (9200 = 8x, 9000 =4x, nothing else different and then someone put 9200 as the part number on the box)
Lots of computer fan boys are conditioned into thinking if you increase the version/model number it's better. I would think some people would remember the movies and know that the second or later model / revision of something isn't always better.
Ask people that used DOS 4.1, Windows 3.0, Windows Me, etc.
OK, if you have seen my comments before on subjects of the RIAA you probably know I'm all for shutting down illegal distribution of copyrighted materials that license to not allow this to be done - whether it is Kazaa, the former napster, IRC, or a dude on a corner selling the latest filmed in the theater videotape.
But good lord this is insane. This has to violage some law. You can't tell me that they 'accidentally' made themselves look like police officers with the jackets with the TLAs on them. Probably doens't hurt that they're all ex-law enforcement either.
Pretty handy to raid someone where english is a second language too and the cops were feared. I'm sure they didn't make him think they were cops
IBM switch to that? hell already froze once last year (iTunes for Windows) don't think it can take that again so soon
Or, you tell HP 'hey, here's something that you can sell that will add a single option at over 30% margin while you compete with a cut rate competitor like Dell who makes you loose money on every sale. This thing is so popular it could bring more money in for your desktop market because people will buy them both'
Remeber this is HP, not Dell. HP isn't about dropping their drawers and forcing their vendors to sell things cheap or fast. I don't expect a $99 HPod next year unless Apple makes one first.
Dude. Who peed in your cornflakes this morning?
I said and I quote 'Marketing/Sales/Customer facing types' note the end word.
great, it's 9.0 based. But guess what, in my aformentioned note I mentioned it was August mind you. At that time, as the distro was explained to me it was 7.2 (unmodified kernal) with Ximian Gnome.
Not knowing what you do for a living at IBM since you posted anonymously, I'm wondering if you know some of the xSeries people that do linux daily for customer. I'm not much of a name dropper but there are guys on our team that set up WETA's cluster, Shell's clusters, and I myself worked on the first one at UNM. A lot of us have run linux exclusively on the desktop with VMware as a stop gap should we need winders.
I myself converted to XP because there were several times I needed to fire up VMware (pre-standard load mind you, I just installed RH 7.3 and Ximian and found a few things on the LTC Sourceforge internal site) but if I was in front of a customer the time it took Windows to boot up, and the lack of the ability to figure out how to get power saving features (like suspend, etc) to work in 2002 had me decide to stop using it. My local LUGs weren't able to help me so I decided to forget it and move on. I'm told things are much different now that someone who has time to tinker and hack the code made power saving work and I've been wanting to try again on my new X30.
In August we had our annual tech conference and that is when I got my last 'field' update from guys who were using linux - exclusively - on their Thinkpad T30s. Also I'd participated in several conference calls where an IGS person described our environment and he specifically said RH 7.2 was our base code. he also mentioned that most of our labs were running it. When I think labs I think our engineering staff, not the management staff. So since I don't try to install operating systems on my thinkpad weekly basis I've not watched to see if/when we changed to RH 9.0. The nice thing about open source and it's bane (for a business trying to set a standard for say a desktop) is you can be out of date within 4 months rather badly.
As for your last comment, I'm confused. I don't remember claiming that I was talking for IBM there. I remember saying in my experience and the people I work with the people that had more customers running linux and more daily exposure (which, indeed happen on the east and west coasts of the United States, and not where I've been the last 5 years in Kansas City and the SW US other than the Univ. of Mexico and places in Houston). Not sure how that equiates to geographic bullshit. I don't talk to people on the other side of the planet often, I wish I coulud, but I can't because I sleep at night.
I guess you might be thinking wrong on the amt of linux in the inferior US. There are some serious GRID projects in the NE and there are lots of render farms on the west coast. Granted nothing the size that the NZ folks have but there are lots of blade render farms going into Hollywood.
And for the record, I'm not a complete marketroid I somehow managed to get my RHCE in 2001, and a MCSE in 1995 and a CNE in 1994. Note that transcender and those didn't exist back then. So yeah I can install and troubleshoot just about anything but I sure as hell can't write code.
Nope. It's Ximian running RedHat. 7.2 I believe, whichever one came with the 2.4.9 kernal, don't remember.
and then we have Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office setup in Wine enivornments.
It's available for installation right now, however not everyone can use it because of certain applications that require specific things they've not gotten either emulated in Wine or replaced by a non-MS Specific application.
All you need is a diskette and about an hour and you too can wipe out your Windows Thinkpad or Desktop and off you go. Most of the engineering places that don't need a lot of the more verticle type applications like the Watson Labs and other labs have fully flipped to linux.
It's us types in the marketing/sales/customer facing environments that need specific apps that are holding us a back a bit.
Plus there's been no mandate. We all joke about it at tech conferences (I'm on the xSeries side) and such because everyone had 'heard' of this type of memo and a lot of our guys closer to using Linux more (IE not in the midwest but east and west coasts) have already converted over.
Most run VMware workstation to fire up windows on the rare opportunity that they need them. And the last guy I talked to about it as far back as August said he rarely ever needed to fire up Windows any more.
Why would you say that? At this time there isn't anything to replace it but Microsoft Exchange. Sendmail, qmail and others I've seen on Linux don't support any method of scheduling. If IBM were to flip to soemthing else *today* they'd have to flip to Exchange.
Notes is still my email client, and still the email client of almost all the xSeries sales and technical people I know/work with (about 500 people)
Don't think that's happening overnight. No saying it might not go away but there is a lot of business processes and documentation circled into Notes.
Plus we'd need some serious contact management and calendaring software that could handle worldwide scheduling. To my knowledge there is nothing like that integrated with email that Linux provides at this time.
Until 1999 OS/2 was a standard desktop load on many of our machines. Lots of our sales force were drug to Windows 2000 Kicking and screaming as well.