You're making instant powdered joe, there, Mr. Coffee. We're talking about latte in a can. Leave the analysis to those of us with tastebuds. (Not that we'd drink this stuff either.)
I can't wait to walk down the coffee aisle and surreptitiously push the "heat" button on dozens of cans of coffee. Muhahaha.
"Damn, I got another can of self-heating coffee that doesn't heat!" I can almost hear the recalls as we speak. Another global corporation out to kill my neighborhood coffee shop, foiled by little old me.
While I agree that the Demopublicans are hardly a great party, tell me which company landed men on the moon. Oh, that's right - there aren't any.
Because there wasn't any profit in it. The government didn't make money by landing men on the moon - they lost a ton of money.
Now, the private companies did indeed make a fortune by doing contracting for the government. So, just to set things straight - the Democrats poured money into the coffers of private companies. And you're using this as an example of why Democrats are better than private companies? I'm a little confused there.
I think this is a great idea, but the companies are crazy if they think I'll pay more for it. I already pay $13/mo for TiVo and $22/mo for Netflix, that's $35 total for these services.
There's a benefit, though. With your current Netflix subscription, you lose movie time when you drop your viewed movie in the mail and wait for another one to come back to you. Plus, the movie that's next in your queue may not be available, and you may have to settle.
With the broadband delivery, there's less turnaround time, and the movie you want is always available. You don't have to worry about movies getting lost in the mail (which happened four separate times to me, and they billed me for all four when I cancelled.)
On Netflix's side, I bet they'd be thrilled, because their costs would go down. Less shipping costs, less printing costs, no more paying people to sort incoming DVD's, etc. If they can cut their own costs while increasing services to the consumer, they might not raise prices anyway, and still raise profits.
"Our press release was covered by Slashdot today! Perfect! Make sure our database guys delete all records received before October 1, because they're poor geeks who just want the brochure for free. Don't waste your phone calls on these freeloaders."
Seems like only yesterday that Yahoo bought Broadcast.com for $5.4 billion and said they'd "provide a selection of programming including business events, full-length CDs, and audio books." We all knew Yahoo was going to kill off the conventional media companies like ABC, NBC, and CBS - just a matter of time.
Now Apple and the recording companies under the same pressure. Wow, that's gotta be scary. I sure wouldn't want to be in Steve Jobs' shoes knowing that the same minds behind the Yahoo/Broadcast.com integration are now coming after my customers. I don't know how I'd sleep at night.
$20 per month / 720 hours = about 3 cents an hour.
No, because remember they have more than one customer, and it's not a ratio of one employee to one customer. One employee can probably service dozens and dozens of users, especially if you're prescreening email with SpamAssassin. When I start work in the morning, I can clear out the night's junk mail (after SpamAssassin's leftovers) in a matter of seconds.
I'd be more interesting in seeing the lag time between a mail going in, and it being "cleared" by their spam system.
I've used it to get blood off of several of my components without any problem. No I'm not a mass murderer or anything I just accidently cut myself while working on my computer and then don't feel it.
First: why don't you feel it? If you do computer work sober, I've found that you tend to not only get less cuts, but you have the additional bonus of noticing when you've sliced your hand open on a $30 Taiwanese case.
Second: who really cares if there's blood inside your computer? Isn't that innately cool? Especially if you play FPS's.
Guess it's time for 3M to create a solvent version of Fluorinert.
Actually, you've got a great (albeit expensive) single-machine solution right there: run the machine in a tub of Fluorinert. Presto, no smell is going to escape that liquid.
Wouldn't work for a data center, unless of course you wanted to run it inside a pool and send your techs in with scuba gear. And at that point, you might as well just run the data center in a normal room - but send the techs in with scuba gear, and they won't smell the funky servers because they'll be wearing scuba gear.
You're missing a prime chance to pull a real stunt.
One word: Ebay.
Put it all up for auction simultaneously, and watch the fun as people get their newly won purchases. I'd love to read that feedback. "Great PowerEdge, but I've never had computer equipment smell unholy before." And then, watch mass psychology at work as people read each other's feedback from the same vendor and start to put two and two together.
The only thing funnier would be to work at Paypal and hear people squirm as they try to justify asking for a refund. "You gotta believe me, this disk array smells bad. Really bad. Like dead meat bad."
But there's a snag. He has simply posted his results on the Internet and left his peers to work out for themselves whether he is right -- something they are still struggling to do.
Okay, so tell me how this is any different from every l33t user that tells me how to get my dual flat panel setup working under Xandros without editing the X files manually? Sounds like these kids just tried their hands at mathematics, too.
Houston offers a great push-based email newsletter for homeowners: a listing of all permits that were applied for, by zip code. Every couple of weeks, I get a listing of everybody that's applied to modify their house, build a new one, etc., near me, so I have a chance to protest if it's something horrendous. As a homeowner, it's great for protecting property values.
The sad thing is that as a faithful Verizon customer for three years, I can't give them enough money to get me a phone with fully functional, non-crippled Bluetooth. I travel a lot, and along with several other geeks in the company, we pay Verizon for their great network as opposed to taking the company's free Sprint phones with horrendous coverage. I preach the gospel of Verizon's great signal strength whenever a friend is thinking about dumping one of the GSM carriers, but they always turn their nose up at the crummy phones Verizon carries.
I don't get it: Verizon has rabidly faithful customers already. They do a great job with the high-speed data service. Why don't they go the last mile and carry a decent Bluetooth phone? It's not like I'm asking for it for free - I'll *give* them the money, they just won't take it....
The first disposable digital camera was the SiPix Blink I got for $50 from Fry's. After using it, you want to throw it away even if you have the receipt, because you want to prevent any other human being from undergoing the sheer torture. I looked at the $50 as a charity expense.
I'm not concerned about media outlets that push banner ads and journalists who sneak in keyword-link ads. Magazines like Car & Driver take ad money from the very companies whose products they review, and they've withstood the test of time. Online media will go through the same ethical quandries. The ones that don't make the right choices will wash themselves out.
"Aruze also cited the system's high versatility and consistent updates as other factors in its decision."
Consistent updates? Maybe I'm missing something, but it feels like my Windows boxen get security updates at least once a week when the root-of-the-day exploit comes out.
Saying that you can buy a one-handed keyboard for $25, but you have to roll your own software, means you're not buying a one-handed keyboard for $25. That's like saying you can buy your own crystal meth for $25 - sure, the ingredients are only $25, but you have to know the recipe and risk life and limb cooking the stuff.
Not that I'd know about those things. (And that applies to both coding my own keyboard drivers as well as cooking meth.)
I dunno about the rest of you, but I have a lot of clients whose default browser/printer setups put out about 720 pixels wide on an 8.5"x11" page, portrait mode. They want to be able to print out reports and whatnot out of straight HTML and get them on a single page wide, with antiquated versions of IE and Netscape, without touching their printer margins, without paying for custom report generation in Adobe Acrobat.
Don't preach at me to change their browsers. These are companies with users all over the world who send me trouble tickets asking why IE prints headers and footers on their pages. Lovely.
I guess I don't see the problem. Whether the posters were anonymous or not, don't their opinions and refutations of the facts matter?
Well, it's like when you start having cybersex with somebody. It does indeed matter whether they're an 18 year old hot chick, or a 50 year old fat guy. Even if they both say the same thing, like "I wanna get with you, baby!"
More seriously, it matters because it matters who you're speaking for. When I stand up in a developer community and say my company is using ___ and the speed has gotten better between versions, that it crashes less often, or that the new features work as advertised, then I need to have something behind those claims. While people usually claim they're not speaking for their company, it still means more when someone is actually employed.
Furthermore, nobody wants to make enterprise software decisions based solely on the vendor's recommendations: you want to find a group of users that can verify the stuff works correctly. If I looked up JBoss's users to find out how it's working, and it turns out the entire JBoss user community consists solely of their employees posting under pseudonyms, you'd better believe we've got a problem.
And yet his total take was a meager $3500, offset by the very real risk of arrest and imprisonment. To make criminal behavior like this truley worthwhile, one would have to consistently defraud the target retailer of much more than the above amount.
People rob liquor stores for $100 and some Boone's Farm. Those aren't sustainable crimes either, yet they happen all of the time in every city around the world.
He's not saying it's a perfect crime, he's just saying that on the scale of crimes, it's way above the liquor store holdup in terms of the risk/reward payoff, and it's a very real risk for the stores involved.
No, it's not, because it runs plain Windows XP Home and Pro - not the Tablet edition. The whole point of a tablet PC is the handwriting recognition, note taking, etc built into the XP TabletPC os, not just using a pen like a mouse. Nice try, Sony, but other vendors have tried the same routine and failed miserably.
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My kettle takes about a minute.
You're making instant powdered joe, there, Mr. Coffee. We're talking about latte in a can. Leave the analysis to those of us with tastebuds. (Not that we'd drink this stuff either.)
I can't wait to walk down the coffee aisle and surreptitiously push the "heat" button on dozens of cans of coffee. Muhahaha.
"Damn, I got another can of self-heating coffee that doesn't heat!" I can almost hear the recalls as we speak. Another global corporation out to kill my neighborhood coffee shop, foiled by little old me.
While I agree that the Demopublicans are hardly a great party, tell me which company landed men on the moon. Oh, that's right - there aren't any.
Because there wasn't any profit in it. The government didn't make money by landing men on the moon - they lost a ton of money.
Now, the private companies did indeed make a fortune by doing contracting for the government. So, just to set things straight - the Democrats poured money into the coffers of private companies. And you're using this as an example of why Democrats are better than private companies? I'm a little confused there.
I think this is a great idea, but the companies are crazy if they think I'll pay more for it. I already pay $13/mo for TiVo and $22/mo for Netflix, that's $35 total for these services.
There's a benefit, though. With your current Netflix subscription, you lose movie time when you drop your viewed movie in the mail and wait for another one to come back to you. Plus, the movie that's next in your queue may not be available, and you may have to settle.
With the broadband delivery, there's less turnaround time, and the movie you want is always available. You don't have to worry about movies getting lost in the mail (which happened four separate times to me, and they billed me for all four when I cancelled.)
On Netflix's side, I bet they'd be thrilled, because their costs would go down. Less shipping costs, less printing costs, no more paying people to sort incoming DVD's, etc. If they can cut their own costs while increasing services to the consumer, they might not raise prices anyway, and still raise profits.
"Our press release was covered by Slashdot today! Perfect! Make sure our database guys delete all records received before October 1, because they're poor geeks who just want the brochure for free. Don't waste your phone calls on these freeloaders."
Seems like only yesterday that Yahoo bought Broadcast.com for $5.4 billion and said they'd "provide a selection of programming including business events, full-length CDs, and audio books." We all knew Yahoo was going to kill off the conventional media companies like ABC, NBC, and CBS - just a matter of time.
Now Apple and the recording companies under the same pressure. Wow, that's gotta be scary. I sure wouldn't want to be in Steve Jobs' shoes knowing that the same minds behind the Yahoo/Broadcast.com integration are now coming after my customers. I don't know how I'd sleep at night.
"24 hours a day" * 30 days/month = 720 hours
$20 per month / 720 hours = about 3 cents an hour.
No, because remember they have more than one customer, and it's not a ratio of one employee to one customer. One employee can probably service dozens and dozens of users, especially if you're prescreening email with SpamAssassin. When I start work in the morning, I can clear out the night's junk mail (after SpamAssassin's leftovers) in a matter of seconds.
I'd be more interesting in seeing the lag time between a mail going in, and it being "cleared" by their spam system.
I've used it to get blood off of several of my components without any problem. No I'm not a mass murderer or anything I just accidently cut myself while working on my computer and then don't feel it.
First: why don't you feel it? If you do computer work sober, I've found that you tend to not only get less cuts, but you have the additional bonus of noticing when you've sliced your hand open on a $30 Taiwanese case.
Second: who really cares if there's blood inside your computer? Isn't that innately cool? Especially if you play FPS's.
Guess it's time for 3M to create a solvent version of Fluorinert.
Actually, you've got a great (albeit expensive) single-machine solution right there: run the machine in a tub of Fluorinert. Presto, no smell is going to escape that liquid.
Wouldn't work for a data center, unless of course you wanted to run it inside a pool and send your techs in with scuba gear. And at that point, you might as well just run the data center in a normal room - but send the techs in with scuba gear, and they won't smell the funky servers because they'll be wearing scuba gear.
You're missing a prime chance to pull a real stunt.
One word: Ebay.
Put it all up for auction simultaneously, and watch the fun as people get their newly won purchases. I'd love to read that feedback. "Great PowerEdge, but I've never had computer equipment smell unholy before." And then, watch mass psychology at work as people read each other's feedback from the same vendor and start to put two and two together.
The only thing funnier would be to work at Paypal and hear people squirm as they try to justify asking for a refund. "You gotta believe me, this disk array smells bad. Really bad. Like dead meat bad."
If technology workers unionized, they could use collective bargining to get overtime via contract.
Yeah, and it would have saved us from overseas outsourcing! After all, look what it did for the steel industry!
The steel industry's dying? Oh, well, look how it helped manufacturing!
No...no, wait, I mean textiles! Look how it saved textile industry workers!
Help me out here, somebody...
They're showing a proof of concept by hosting the linked article on it! (rimshot) Oh, it's - it's down already? Oh.
But there's a snag. He has simply posted his results on the Internet and left his peers to work out for themselves whether he is right -- something they are still struggling to do.
Okay, so tell me how this is any different from every l33t user that tells me how to get my dual flat panel setup working under Xandros without editing the X files manually? Sounds like these kids just tried their hands at mathematics, too.
Houston offers a great push-based email newsletter for homeowners: a listing of all permits that were applied for, by zip code. Every couple of weeks, I get a listing of everybody that's applied to modify their house, build a new one, etc., near me, so I have a chance to protest if it's something horrendous. As a homeowner, it's great for protecting property values.
The sad thing is that as a faithful Verizon customer for three years, I can't give them enough money to get me a phone with fully functional, non-crippled Bluetooth. I travel a lot, and along with several other geeks in the company, we pay Verizon for their great network as opposed to taking the company's free Sprint phones with horrendous coverage. I preach the gospel of Verizon's great signal strength whenever a friend is thinking about dumping one of the GSM carriers, but they always turn their nose up at the crummy phones Verizon carries.
I don't get it: Verizon has rabidly faithful customers already. They do a great job with the high-speed data service. Why don't they go the last mile and carry a decent Bluetooth phone? It's not like I'm asking for it for free - I'll *give* them the money, they just won't take it....
Make life easy - somebody just please copy the entire list of video cards from Epinions or Cnet.
The first disposable digital camera was the SiPix Blink I got for $50 from Fry's. After using it, you want to throw it away even if you have the receipt, because you want to prevent any other human being from undergoing the sheer torture. I looked at the $50 as a charity expense.
I'm not concerned about media outlets that push banner ads and journalists who sneak in keyword-link ads. Magazines like Car & Driver take ad money from the very companies whose products they review, and they've withstood the test of time. Online media will go through the same ethical quandries. The ones that don't make the right choices will wash themselves out.
"Aruze also cited the system's high versatility and consistent updates as other factors in its decision."
Consistent updates? Maybe I'm missing something, but it feels like my Windows boxen get security updates at least once a week when the root-of-the-day exploit comes out.
Oh, you mean that's NOT a selling point? Oh.
Saying that you can buy a one-handed keyboard for $25, but you have to roll your own software, means you're not buying a one-handed keyboard for $25. That's like saying you can buy your own crystal meth for $25 - sure, the ingredients are only $25, but you have to know the recipe and risk life and limb cooking the stuff.
Not that I'd know about those things. (And that applies to both coding my own keyboard drivers as well as cooking meth.)
I dunno about the rest of you, but I have a lot of clients whose default browser/printer setups put out about 720 pixels wide on an 8.5"x11" page, portrait mode. They want to be able to print out reports and whatnot out of straight HTML and get them on a single page wide, with antiquated versions of IE and Netscape, without touching their printer margins, without paying for custom report generation in Adobe Acrobat.
Don't preach at me to change their browsers. These are companies with users all over the world who send me trouble tickets asking why IE prints headers and footers on their pages. Lovely.
I guess I don't see the problem. Whether the posters were anonymous or not, don't their opinions and refutations of the facts matter?
Well, it's like when you start having cybersex with somebody. It does indeed matter whether they're an 18 year old hot chick, or a 50 year old fat guy. Even if they both say the same thing, like "I wanna get with you, baby!"
More seriously, it matters because it matters who you're speaking for. When I stand up in a developer community and say my company is using ___ and the speed has gotten better between versions, that it crashes less often, or that the new features work as advertised, then I need to have something behind those claims. While people usually claim they're not speaking for their company, it still means more when someone is actually employed.
Furthermore, nobody wants to make enterprise software decisions based solely on the vendor's recommendations: you want to find a group of users that can verify the stuff works correctly. If I looked up JBoss's users to find out how it's working, and it turns out the entire JBoss user community consists solely of their employees posting under pseudonyms, you'd better believe we've got a problem.
And yet his total take was a meager $3500, offset by the very real risk of arrest and imprisonment. To make criminal behavior like this truley worthwhile, one would have to consistently defraud the target retailer of much more than the above amount.
People rob liquor stores for $100 and some Boone's Farm. Those aren't sustainable crimes either, yet they happen all of the time in every city around the world.
He's not saying it's a perfect crime, he's just saying that on the scale of crimes, it's way above the liquor store holdup in terms of the risk/reward payoff, and it's a very real risk for the stores involved.
and this time it's a tablet indeed ( U series).
No, it's not, because it runs plain Windows XP Home and Pro - not the Tablet edition. The whole point of a tablet PC is the handwriting recognition, note taking, etc built into the XP TabletPC os, not just using a pen like a mouse. Nice try, Sony, but other vendors have tried the same routine and failed miserably.
probably that's why Xandros does to, since it's based on fedora
No, actually, Xandros is based off Debian more than anything else. (Well, and of course Corel.)