Did you type this into your computer yourself? Are you reading this reply or is someone reading it to you? Reading, writing, and yes science was taught to the masses by monasteries and cathedrals in medieval times. Many of the cornerstones of modern science were invented by religious men and women. It's an unfortunate fact but the vocal minority get noticed more than the silent majority. Believing in a supreme being is an act of faith. It is by definition unprovable. What passes for religion these days is not so thinly veiled politics. The fact is there are an order of magnitude more "simple" folk who aren't dumb but they are uneducated and can be easily swayed by anyone who portends to be in their corner.
If Sony or Microsoft developed PSN or XBox Live apps for iOS and Apple refused to let them be installed then yes it would be Apple to blame. I am at this time unaware and would be quite shocked if Sony or Microsoft created such apps for iOS as it would potentially dilute their own hardware offerings.
Another tech industry giant Nintendo has announced they too will be entering the TV space with their line of flat panel tuners. They are dubbing their TV line Cii (pronounced see). The sets will only be capable of 480p but Nintendo is confident their revolutionary remote control is the key to selling more units not resolution.
I am quite shocked at this response. Especially from someone who's obviously been around/. for a while. Perhaps you are familiar with a famous phrase ( I believe we call the MEMES now ) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire. Apple did, in fact, ban FLASH from iOS. They can't ban it from OS X just yet as they haven't eased their constituency ( paying customers ) into the idea of a walled garden for their desktop just yet but they have already stated their intent to move in that direction. Adobe had a version of Flash capable of running on iOS but Apple refused to approve it for the app store. They effectively locked out all third party interpreters including FLASH and JAVA. So while I may agree Flash has its detractors people wishing to utilize it should not be prevented from doing so simply because Apple doesn't think it is worthy of running on their hardware.
Google is under a great deal of scrutiny of late and anything they can do to show they are benevolent overseers will go a long way in allaying some of the current concerns. The fact they also benefit with all those FireFox users searches doesn't heart either.
If you want a tool that the company hasn't provided you, the right channel to go through is via management and the procurement process.
I recently encountered a situation where a dept. director (who happened to be friends with the VP) managed to get a project green lighted to create a MS Access DB for her group. She even got permission to hire a dedicated MS Access programmer. The company has likely spent millions on our Oracle system but the director had used Access in a past job. The first IT ( me ) heard about the project was when I received the request to install Access on ~40 systems so the DB could go live! The director (who I am friends with) didn't understand why most of the words out of my mouth were of the 4 letter variety. When I asked why our Oracle developers were not engaged for the project instead her answer was it would take too long and the guy she hired only knew Access. Since we do have a large Oracle infrastructure Access is not supported (DUH). We will install it if you request it since it comes with our Office site license but you are on your own (yeah right). Well the guy is gone and now they want support...oops.
And if they get caught they will be fired...if they are lucky. Working around IT policies put in place to comply with government regulation for any reason looks suspicious. If the feds notice the results can be much, much worse. When I see violations to SOX or corporate policy I make it a point to inform the person violating the policy and their supervisor. I also send an email to my supervisor with the details of my observations and subsequent actions so there is a record that I did not turn a blind eye to the infraction. How it is handled from there is up to the person violating the policy and their superiors. I can't speak for other IT "dictators" but the way I look at it is if you get this office shut down it affects my job too @ss hole. As it happens I can see the old Enron building (now owned by Chevron) from my office. A constant reminder of just why SOX exists in the first place.
A very good question (Since I've asked myself that very question over and over). I suspect it is not cost effective to incorporate the extra hardware and logic circuitry. I've often wondered why HDD didn't incorporate both a read and a write head on opposite ends of the platter. I'm sure smarter men than I have pondered thusley. Perhaps one of them is reading/. and has a good (extra points if it is good AND factual) answer.
So slow, this is the reason you need to install so many PS3 games. slow slow slow.
FTFY
Why are they so slow you ask? (and I'm glad you did)
They are slow because of a little thing called centrifugal force. If you've ever ridden on a merry go round you are familiar with CF. The same CF that threw you off of the merry go round is at work on spinning platters. Go beyond a certain spinning speed and the polycarbonate material the BD or DVD or CD or even the aluminum/glass ceramic the HDD is made out of will disintegrate. That's why the XBox 720i (in partnership with BMW) will have an SSD for running it's core and a HDD for booting games that actually run "In The Cloud".
Unless you were recommending he buy used which is the only way he could get close to a price point I would consider cheap the current model is the X220T. I've deployed a few to our executives and they are the best version of the X series tablets to date.
And QNX (Now owned by RIM) has been in the embedded car market for years so it is already integrated with all the drive systems. They have even opened up the platform. In fact for everyone espousing RIM's death because of their missteps with the BlackBerry platform should take a look at all the places QNX is entrenched.
When companies act badly enough to their employees unions can be a great way to flex a little muscle to get them to straighten up. If a union would disband once the situation that necessitated it is abated I would gladly advocate and join. What we see today is unions that have lived long past their original charter and are in some cases worse than the companies they seek to extort.
Add to that the fact that organizing developers into a cohesive group is akin to herding cats and you start to see how hard unionizing would be.
You're half right. While it is true that consumers have an almost complete lack of interest in Android they have an equal lack of interest in IOS. Consumers want gadgets but only if the gadgets high techiness is able to get out of the way and the consumer can do cool things without knowing too much. This is where IOS excels and Android has faltered...until now. While handset OEMs have focused on prettying up the interface to distinguish themselves Barnes & Noble flat out covered up the underlying Android base and focused on User Experience as much as UI. They also hit a price point that was palatable for more of the masses by leaving out the ubiquitous front and rear cameras and a few other bells and whistles and not skimping on the screen or touch interface. Of course the Android community likes to point out how easily hackable the device is but I'm reasonably sure total sales were not overly impacted by this fact. The success of the NC got Amazon's attention and Bezos & Co. have now launched the Kindle Fire. For all intents and purposes a BlackBerry PlayBook without cameras and running Android. The Fire has taken the NC concept and gone even further. By tying the Fire to amazon's cloud services they seek to capture the kind of repeat business Apple has using iTunes. For/. aficionados these devices are toys but for Joe Average these are just what the Dr. ordered. And at $199 entry point they are right at impulse buy territory.
You misunderstand. Indispensable to executives means profit making. Any position which merely provides support to the money making arm of the business is an expense and they will go to hell and back to minimize any expense, many times to the detriment of the core business. Unfortunately most executives don't see the true value of their IT staff since they can't pull up a spreadsheet with a metric to show them how much money was saved/made because the IT staff was doing their job.
The better question is why the submission focuses on Intel when the port currently only works on AMD?
"The release isn’t fully stable — missing sound, camera, ethernet, and hardware acceleration for Intel chipsets. What will work however is Wi-Fi, sound, and hardware acceleration for AMD chipsets."
The older blackberry os is completely proprietary, even if you rooted it you'd have nothing to install on it..
WTF?
Since when is J2MEproprietary?
AFAIK RIM has never dictated what apps can or cannot be installed. They do however make that power available to BES administrators. One of the biggest mistakes RIM made IMO was their lack of vision creating an "app store". Until I discovered Handango.com around 2004/2005 whenever I needed a particular type of app I would post to a forum and hope someone else knew of an app that would do what I needed.
The Nook Color would be my recommendation as well. It may only have a single core 800MHz processor but I haven't had any issues doing everything you require it to do. The simplicity of putting a custom ROM on it is second to none and the screen is excellent. With them selling for less than $150 refurbished there's really no reason to worry about voiding a warranty.
You don't happen to live in the greater Houston metroplex do you? I ask because we have 3 Fry's, a MicroCenter, as well as Tiger's CompUSA brick & Mortar stores. We also have the worldwide warehouse for Directron. I just need Newegg to open a store and my impulse buying will be covered.
Why more people don't use them instead of continuing to be extorted by the big carriers is beyond explanation. If gas cost half as much but you had to pump it yourself (oh, wait) how many people would ever go to full-serve filling stations?
Perhaps if your analogy were tweaked a bit it would make more sense. Let's say you walk in to your local Shell station and the attendant informs you that if you agree to only buy gas from shell for the next 1/2/3 years Shell will sell you a Cadillac/Lexus/Infinity for the price of a Chevy Cruz. You pay more for your gas every month but you got a sweet deal on a new luxury automobile. What doesn't make sense is people who willingly go month to month paying the same rate for gas as the ones who got the luxury auto.
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Did you type this into your computer yourself? Are you reading this reply or is someone reading it to you? Reading, writing, and yes science was taught to the masses by monasteries and cathedrals in medieval times. Many of the cornerstones of modern science were invented by religious men and women. It's an unfortunate fact but the vocal minority get noticed more than the silent majority. Believing in a supreme being is an act of faith. It is by definition unprovable. What passes for religion these days is not so thinly veiled politics. The fact is there are an order of magnitude more "simple" folk who aren't dumb but they are uneducated and can be easily swayed by anyone who portends to be in their corner.
If Sony or Microsoft developed PSN or XBox Live apps for iOS and Apple refused to let them be installed then yes it would be Apple to blame. I am at this time unaware and would be quite shocked if Sony or Microsoft created such apps for iOS as it would potentially dilute their own hardware offerings.
Another tech industry giant Nintendo has announced they too will be entering the TV space with their line of flat panel tuners. They are dubbing their TV line Cii (pronounced see). The sets will only be capable of 480p but Nintendo is confident their revolutionary remote control is the key to selling more units not resolution.
I am quite shocked at this response. Especially from someone who's obviously been around /. for a while. Perhaps you are familiar with a famous phrase ( I believe we call the MEMES now ) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire. Apple did, in fact, ban FLASH from iOS. They can't ban it from OS X just yet as they haven't eased their constituency ( paying customers ) into the idea of a walled garden for their desktop just yet but they have already stated their intent to move in that direction. Adobe had a version of Flash capable of running on iOS but Apple refused to approve it for the app store. They effectively locked out all third party interpreters including FLASH and JAVA. So while I may agree Flash has its detractors people wishing to utilize it should not be prevented from doing so simply because Apple doesn't think it is worthy of running on their hardware.
WHAT! You mean the sales guy lied to me when he told me this cable would make GIGLI and ISHTAR good movies? Date night this week is gonna suck hard.
Google is under a great deal of scrutiny of late and anything they can do to show they are benevolent overseers will go a long way in allaying some of the current concerns. The fact they also benefit with all those FireFox users searches doesn't heart either.
If you want a tool that the company hasn't provided you, the right channel to go through is via management and the procurement process.
I recently encountered a situation where a dept. director (who happened to be friends with the VP) managed to get a project green lighted to create a MS Access DB for her group. She even got permission to hire a dedicated MS Access programmer. The company has likely spent millions on our Oracle system but the director had used Access in a past job. The first IT ( me ) heard about the project was when I received the request to install Access on ~40 systems so the DB could go live! The director (who I am friends with) didn't understand why most of the words out of my mouth were of the 4 letter variety. When I asked why our Oracle developers were not engaged for the project instead her answer was it would take too long and the guy she hired only knew Access. Since we do have a large Oracle infrastructure Access is not supported (DUH). We will install it if you request it since it comes with our Office site license but you are on your own (yeah right). Well the guy is gone and now they want support...oops.
And if they get caught they will be fired...if they are lucky. Working around IT policies put in place to comply with government regulation for any reason looks suspicious. If the feds notice the results can be much, much worse. When I see violations to SOX or corporate policy I make it a point to inform the person violating the policy and their supervisor. I also send an email to my supervisor with the details of my observations and subsequent actions so there is a record that I did not turn a blind eye to the infraction. How it is handled from there is up to the person violating the policy and their superiors. I can't speak for other IT "dictators" but the way I look at it is if you get this office shut down it affects my job too @ss hole. As it happens I can see the old Enron building (now owned by Chevron) from my office. A constant reminder of just why SOX exists in the first place.
OBLIGITORY xkcd.com reference.
A very good question (Since I've asked myself that very question over and over). I suspect it is not cost effective to incorporate the extra hardware and logic circuitry. I've often wondered why HDD didn't incorporate both a read and a write head on opposite ends of the platter. I'm sure smarter men than I have pondered thusley. Perhaps one of them is reading /. and has a good (extra points if it is good AND factual) answer.
WOW! These Chinese Crowdturfers are mean.
Optical drives are SLOW.
slow slow slow.
So slow, this is the reason you need to install so many PS3 games. slow slow slow.
FTFY
Why are they so slow you ask? (and I'm glad you did)
They are slow because of a little thing called centrifugal force. If you've ever ridden on a merry go round you are familiar with CF. The same CF that threw you off of the merry go round is at work on spinning platters. Go beyond a certain spinning speed and the polycarbonate material the BD or DVD or CD or even the aluminum/glass ceramic the HDD is made out of will disintegrate. That's why the XBox 720i (in partnership with BMW) will have an SSD for running it's core and a HDD for booting games that actually run "In The Cloud".
Unless you were recommending he buy used which is the only way he could get close to a price point I would consider cheap the current model is the X220T. I've deployed a few to our executives and they are the best version of the X series tablets to date.
And QNX (Now owned by RIM) has been in the embedded car market for years so it is already integrated with all the drive systems. They have even opened up the platform. In fact for everyone espousing RIM's death because of their missteps with the BlackBerry platform should take a look at all the places QNX is entrenched.
When companies act badly enough to their employees unions can be a great way to flex a little muscle to get them to straighten up. If a union would disband once the situation that necessitated it is abated I would gladly advocate and join. What we see today is unions that have lived long past their original charter and are in some cases worse than the companies they seek to extort.
Add to that the fact that organizing developers into a cohesive group is akin to herding cats and you start to see how hard unionizing would be.
You're half right. While it is true that consumers have an almost complete lack of interest in Android they have an equal lack of interest in IOS. Consumers want gadgets but only if the gadgets high techiness is able to get out of the way and the consumer can do cool things without knowing too much. This is where IOS excels and Android has faltered...until now. While handset OEMs have focused on prettying up the interface to distinguish themselves Barnes & Noble flat out covered up the underlying Android base and focused on User Experience as much as UI. They also hit a price point that was palatable for more of the masses by leaving out the ubiquitous front and rear cameras and a few other bells and whistles and not skimping on the screen or touch interface. Of course the Android community likes to point out how easily hackable the device is but I'm reasonably sure total sales were not overly impacted by this fact. The success of the NC got Amazon's attention and Bezos & Co. have now launched the Kindle Fire. For all intents and purposes a BlackBerry PlayBook without cameras and running Android. The Fire has taken the NC concept and gone even further. By tying the Fire to amazon's cloud services they seek to capture the kind of repeat business Apple has using iTunes. For /. aficionados these devices are toys but for Joe Average these are just what the Dr. ordered. And at $199 entry point they are right at impulse buy territory.
You misunderstand. Indispensable to executives means profit making. Any position which merely provides support to the money making arm of the business is an expense and they will go to hell and back to minimize any expense, many times to the detriment of the core business. Unfortunately most executives don't see the true value of their IT staff since they can't pull up a spreadsheet with a metric to show them how much money was saved/made because the IT staff was doing their job.
Actually it just forked and became Limewire, Bearshare, etc.
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The better question is why the submission focuses on Intel when the port currently only works on AMD?
"The release isn’t fully stable — missing sound, camera, ethernet, and hardware acceleration for Intel chipsets. What will work however is Wi-Fi, sound, and hardware acceleration for AMD chipsets."
But you can do that now just by installing Chrome.
The older blackberry os is completely proprietary, even if you rooted it you'd have nothing to install on it..
WTF? Since when is J2ME proprietary?
AFAIK RIM has never dictated what apps can or cannot be installed. They do however make that power available to BES administrators. One of the biggest mistakes RIM made IMO was their lack of vision creating an "app store". Until I discovered Handango.com around 2004/2005 whenever I needed a particular type of app I would post to a forum and hope someone else knew of an app that would do what I needed.
The Nook Color would be my recommendation as well. It may only have a single core 800MHz processor but I haven't had any issues doing everything you require it to do. The simplicity of putting a custom ROM on it is second to none and the screen is excellent. With them selling for less than $150 refurbished there's really no reason to worry about voiding a warranty.
You don't happen to live in the greater Houston metroplex do you? I ask because we have 3 Fry's, a MicroCenter, as well as Tiger's CompUSA brick & Mortar stores. We also have the worldwide warehouse for Directron. I just need Newegg to open a store and my impulse buying will be covered.
Why more people don't use them instead of continuing to be extorted by the big carriers is beyond explanation. If gas cost half as much but you had to pump it yourself (oh, wait) how many people would ever go to full-serve filling stations?
Perhaps if your analogy were tweaked a bit it would make more sense. Let's say you walk in to your local Shell station and the attendant informs you that if you agree to only buy gas from shell for the next 1/2/3 years Shell will sell you a Cadillac/Lexus/Infinity for the price of a Chevy Cruz. You pay more for your gas every month but you got a sweet deal on a new luxury automobile. What doesn't make sense is people who willingly go month to month paying the same rate for gas as the ones who got the luxury auto.