Well in education you generally have to deal with PC and Mac computers. In my case I have a little bit of Linux as well. I care about cross platform. I have been building web-based front ends for my database apps for the past few years for this exact reason. Our PR person is Mac but our calendar application was in Access. We had to give her a PC just so that she could use it.
Now I have a nice web interface and everybody can access it in their native platform at home or work. For that reason, I think that web interfaces are best for database apps as they don't require much more than data formatting and validation.
It crushes the Opteron too. This isn't a troll, it's just a hard fact. I'm too lazy to find a link but check out the SPEC_fp numbers. Itanium is a beast.
I guess the problem is that craziness is a trait that many women that we know posess;-). It doesn't mean we love them any less. Hell, we put up with it don't we?
Many times craziness is just where the genders generally disagree. Like women are more sensitive to discomfort than men and they can make a BIG deal about it. Men are more prone to sweat out a little excess heat or faint smell and look at the woman convulsing on the floor as a little...
crazy.
No this isn't ALL women but it's a large number. If you're not one of them then you probably don't hang around those types anyway. But they are out there in huge numbers and just about any man that has interacted with more than a few women on a personal level for longer than six months will bear witness. It's the ones who sit home and jack off all night that think that women are perfect and "the same." We're different. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can get back to having decent marriages in this country.
All humans are crazy, that's a known fact. But even most women will tell you that they have a special brand of craziness that bludgeons men into complicity. It's like they have developed this irrational fuck-with-you-till-they-get-their-way method as a counter to a man's physical advantage. Which - if that's actually the case - would be very rational.
Well personally I haven't dealt with too many ads before unless you count desktop icon which pimps the Netscape ISP which can be annoying but is removable using the CCK.
I don't know is there is a CCK for NS 7.2 yet, but the 7.0 one should work fine.
I think that it has to do with Intel having a (very good) corps of engineers in Israel. Some people can make the massive leap from this tidbit to "Intel supports the murder of Palestenians!!!"
My problem here is that you seem to be assuming that an MCSE is going to sit there and atrophy while they are on the job. This is why I put the competent qualifier in there. A competent MCSE will always be learning and expanding his or her horizons. Problem solving on a CS level can be useful but is generally superfluous on the front lines.
It would seem to me that a CS person managing an IT shop would be more like a BMW engineer in the Marketing / PR department.
Well competent = highly motivated to me, though that certainly isn't an assumption. I say CIS / MIS though because they generally know the way that business works. They have taken accounting and economics classes and are generally able to draft better proposals (ones that understand the metrics of bean counting and not just technical details), better manage staff and users, and make better priority decisions with respect to the unit's place in the organization as opposed to technical ideals.
Of course many CS grads know or can pick these things up and many CIS / MIS grads don't have a clue, but my general experience is that CS people are better for skunkworks where the others do better on the front line.
I don't know, it seems to me - a person who works at a university and manages many grad-level CS students in my shop - that CS grads generally know little about the actual systems. They can abstract logic into math and write great low-level algorithms like nobody else, but in actuality, CS is a math degree. If you want somebody to run a network (or a shop for that matter) my experience says that a CIS / MIS grad or competent MSCE is generally more useful.
I wonder if my newly acquired NX protection (just installed XP SP2) will protect me from this. I use Trillian Pro anyway but if anybody has a link, I'd like to see.
God come on man. Yes I can see that happening with almost any version of Windows or Linux. The most difficult part would be finding out which program is used to type documents, something that is equally difficult / easy on any system. They can all be configured to show you these applications right on the dektop but do not by default. After you find the program, you type it and save it.
Unless a Mac somehow reads you mind and opens a word processor then automatically saves and prints the document, I don't see how this process is that much easier - and I've been using Macs for over 15 years now.
There are other examples of better usability that you could have used (verb based confirmation being one) but contrary to popular belief, Windows has several usability features that that Mac doesn't as well.
Well the developers have been screaming about it for years. Just read some of those MS blogs, CSS and PNG are at the top of just about every list of requested features. In this case, the end user is the one who doesn't understand the utility of the technology.
the same core with differences in FSB, SMP capability, L2 cache sizes, and sometimes the presence of an L3 cache.
I know the differences between the chips over the years and even if what you say is true it does nothing to address my main point: You have to compare the top of the line to the top of the line.
This is still flawed because the AMD model numbers are relative to the class that they compete against. So the 3500+ is supposed to compete against a PIV at 3500 MHz. Just like the Semprom 3100+ competes with a Celeron at 3100 MHz. The Opterons, which compete with the Xeon, don't have MHz ratings they go by pure performance.
Anandtech's claim that the upcoming PIV's are exactly like the Nocona chips are specious if for no other reason than the fact that there would be no reason to differentiate the two.
They should have at least used an FX53 for some semblance of parity.
The point is that liquid cooling has been used in PC circles for years to overclock machines. To assume that Apple is using it for any other purpose is falling into the Jobs RDF or at best being a sucker to the Apple PR spin doctors. Especially when you consider the fact that their yields are obviously not where they were supposed to be right now (3 GHz in a year remember?). While it may actually be what you say, Occam's Razor says that it's less likely.
Ignoring all of that, I'm glad that Apple is sensitive to sound because my Dual G5 2.0 can get pretty loud, we won't even get into the jet engine that was miraculously shrunken to fit into my old G4 dualie. The 3.0 GHz P4 in my office and my new Athlon 64 3000+ at home are virtually silent. The Macs are always the loudest CPUs in the room - discounting the ones in my server closet.
The problem with what you're saying is that you seem to assume that the only way that a site can look good in IE is by using IE-only features. This is just not true. I just launched a site using web standards that looks exceedingly good in all major web browsers. I did have to use a proprietary IE feature (If statements) to get around parts of IE's broken ass CSS engine but the design as a whole caters to web standards, not just one browser.
If you read the feedback on those IE pages you'll see that there is a HUGE demand for the features discussed. Couple that with the fact that IE is losing marketshare and you may find that catering to IE really amounts to painting yourself in a corner.
The PC community doesn't care about Apple, they just don't like Mac users. This is a case in point of why. The 2.5 GHz Apple chip is liquid cooled. Ignoring the implications that this hold from a yield perspective, Intel and AMD chips can get quite a bit more mileage when water cooled.
Not that it even matters as it's still difficult(if not impossible to do a 1:1 PC/Mac comparison. If you run the same app, the side that loses the benchmark will whine about software availability this or user experience that. It's a hopeless exercise.
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Well in education you generally have to deal with PC and Mac computers. In my case I have a little bit of Linux as well. I care about cross platform. I have been building web-based front ends for my database apps for the past few years for this exact reason. Our PR person is Mac but our calendar application was in Access. We had to give her a PC just so that she could use it.
Now I have a nice web interface and everybody can access it in their native platform at home or work. For that reason, I think that web interfaces are best for database apps as they don't require much more than data formatting and validation.
It crushes the Opteron too. This isn't a troll, it's just a hard fact. I'm too lazy to find a link but check out the SPEC_fp numbers. Itanium is a beast.
If I had a choice though, I would still go AMD.
I guess the problem is that craziness is a trait that many women that we know posess ;-). It doesn't mean we love them any less. Hell, we put up with it don't we?
Many times craziness is just where the genders generally disagree. Like women are more sensitive to discomfort than men and they can make a BIG deal about it. Men are more prone to sweat out a little excess heat or faint smell and look at the woman convulsing on the floor as a little...
crazy.
No this isn't ALL women but it's a large number. If you're not one of them then you probably don't hang around those types anyway. But they are out there in huge numbers and just about any man that has interacted with more than a few women on a personal level for longer than six months will bear witness. It's the ones who sit home and jack off all night that think that women are perfect and "the same." We're different. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can get back to having decent marriages in this country.
All humans are crazy, that's a known fact. But even most women will tell you that they have a special brand of craziness that bludgeons men into complicity. It's like they have developed this irrational fuck-with-you-till-they-get-their-way method as a counter to a man's physical advantage. Which - if that's actually the case - would be very rational.
Ahhhh evolution is grand...
Well personally I haven't dealt with too many ads before unless you count desktop icon which pimps the Netscape ISP which can be annoying but is removable using the CCK.
I don't know is there is a CCK for NS 7.2 yet, but the 7.0 one should work fine.
WHY WHY WHY did we make the IE deal with them?
Ask why 749,999,997 times and you'll have an idea.
Sounds like you might want Netscape with the Client Customization Kit.
I think that it has to do with Intel having a (very good) corps of engineers in Israel. Some people can make the massive leap from this tidbit to "Intel supports the murder of Palestenians!!!"
Or it could be something else.
If you actually read the BSOD it will tell you where the error is or what caused the error. Just look for a file extension.
I remember I would always get a "GPF in nvid.dll" error and when I updated my nVidia drivers all was well.
Some people may not dig a 90-day warranty on a computer though.
AOL's 24 hour support might be, especially since it will cover Star(or Open)Office too.
My problem here is that you seem to be assuming that an MCSE is going to sit there and atrophy while they are on the job. This is why I put the competent qualifier in there. A competent MCSE will always be learning and expanding his or her horizons. Problem solving on a CS level can be useful but is generally superfluous on the front lines.
It would seem to me that a CS person managing an IT shop would be more like a BMW engineer in the Marketing / PR department.
Well competent = highly motivated to me, though that certainly isn't an assumption. I say CIS / MIS though because they generally know the way that business works. They have taken accounting and economics classes and are generally able to draft better proposals (ones that understand the metrics of bean counting and not just technical details), better manage staff and users, and make better priority decisions with respect to the unit's place in the organization as opposed to technical ideals.
Of course many CS grads know or can pick these things up and many CIS / MIS grads don't have a clue, but my general experience is that CS people are better for skunkworks where the others do better on the front line.
Yes sir.
But I bought the CPU to play Doom 3 and as such, the 3000+ does me fine. Especially compared to ANY Intel chip.
I don't know, it seems to me - a person who works at a university and manages many grad-level CS students in my shop - that CS grads generally know little about the actual systems. They can abstract logic into math and write great low-level algorithms like nobody else, but in actuality, CS is a math degree. If you want somebody to run a network (or a shop for that matter) my experience says that a CIS / MIS grad or competent MSCE is generally more useful.
Yeap 3000+
I wonder if my newly acquired NX protection (just installed XP SP2) will protect me from this. I use Trillian Pro anyway but if anybody has a link, I'd like to see.
God come on man. Yes I can see that happening with almost any version of Windows or Linux. The most difficult part would be finding out which program is used to type documents, something that is equally difficult / easy on any system. They can all be configured to show you these applications right on the dektop but do not by default. After you find the program, you type it and save it.
Unless a Mac somehow reads you mind and opens a word processor then automatically saves and prints the document, I don't see how this process is that much easier - and I've been using Macs for over 15 years now.
There are other examples of better usability that you could have used (verb based confirmation being one) but contrary to popular belief, Windows has several usability features that that Mac doesn't as well.
Well the developers have been screaming about it for years. Just read some of those MS blogs, CSS and PNG are at the top of just about every list of requested features. In this case, the end user is the one who doesn't understand the utility of the technology.
That's what the WhatWG is all about.
the same core with differences in FSB, SMP capability, L2 cache sizes, and sometimes the presence of an L3 cache.
I know the differences between the chips over the years and even if what you say is true it does nothing to address my main point: You have to compare the top of the line to the top of the line.
This is still flawed because the AMD model numbers are relative to the class that they compete against. So the 3500+ is supposed to compete against a PIV at 3500 MHz. Just like the Semprom 3100+ competes with a Celeron at 3100 MHz. The Opterons, which compete with the Xeon, don't have MHz ratings they go by pure performance.
Anandtech's claim that the upcoming PIV's are exactly like the Nocona chips are specious if for no other reason than the fact that there would be no reason to differentiate the two.
They should have at least used an FX53 for some semblance of parity.
The point is that liquid cooling has been used in PC circles for years to overclock machines. To assume that Apple is using it for any other purpose is falling into the Jobs RDF or at best being a sucker to the Apple PR spin doctors. Especially when you consider the fact that their yields are obviously not where they were supposed to be right now (3 GHz in a year remember?). While it may actually be what you say, Occam's Razor says that it's less likely.
Ignoring all of that, I'm glad that Apple is sensitive to sound because my Dual G5 2.0 can get pretty loud, we won't even get into the jet engine that was miraculously shrunken to fit into my old G4 dualie. The 3.0 GHz P4 in my office and my new Athlon 64 3000+ at home are virtually silent. The Macs are always the loudest CPUs in the room - discounting the ones in my server closet.
The problem with what you're saying is that you seem to assume that the only way that a site can look good in IE is by using IE-only features. This is just not true. I just launched a site using web standards that looks exceedingly good in all major web browsers. I did have to use a proprietary IE feature (If statements) to get around parts of IE's broken ass CSS engine but the design as a whole caters to web standards, not just one browser.
If you read the feedback on those IE pages you'll see that there is a HUGE demand for the features discussed. Couple that with the fact that IE is losing marketshare and you may find that catering to IE really amounts to painting yourself in a corner.
The PC community doesn't care about Apple, they just don't like Mac users. This is a case in point of why. The 2.5 GHz Apple chip is liquid cooled. Ignoring the implications that this hold from a yield perspective, Intel and AMD chips can get quite a bit more mileage when water cooled.
Not that it even matters as it's still difficult(if not impossible to do a 1:1 PC/Mac comparison. If you run the same app, the side that loses the benchmark will whine about software availability this or user experience that. It's a hopeless exercise.