Well, since there's neither anguish nor hostility, not so much with the irony.
But seeing people on Slashdot mindlessly say "Apple is teh suxor" is about as intelligent as saying it about Microsoft or Linux without having used them... it's generally an uninformed opinion based on what people think they know as opposed to anything factual.
But, hey, all Linux fanboys are smelly virgins who live in their mom's basement, and all Windows fanboys must be corporate shills who don't know better... right?
Just make sure after you get it to come back to slashdot and respond to every anti-Apple post with anguished hostility.
Or, you know, you could try one and have an informed position instead of just mindlessly slagging the product every time it's mentioned.
My manager just bought his son's, because it wasn't compatible with the stuff he needed to do at school (Windows only class stuff). In a week he went from "meh, who cares" to "wow, I love this thing".
Maybe people like them because they find them extremely useful?
So far, mine hasn't led to the glamorous lifestyle you seem to suggest... but I'm old, fat, and un-hip, so that wasn't ever going to happen anyway.
But for business trips and being stuck on an airplane, it's an exceedingly useful thing. I can actually read my email from the airport wifi, and watch a movie on a screen much better than the one in the plane. Throw in eBooks, games, and a couple of other things, and I haven't used my laptop on a business trip in the last 7 trips I've made. Despite claims to the contrary, a netbook would not fill the same niche because it's still a clamshell with a keyboard. My iPad is about the size of a book.
Go to the lobby bar of a hotel in a business district, and count the number of people with iPads... and then look at them and see if you think they're hipsters who have these things for fashion purposes.
I haven't used one, but I suspect what I say is true of any tablet... it really is a nice form-factor.
First off, I would point out that "lot's" does indeed mean something, in this case it's of course a shorthand for "parking lot's" - which clearly shows that the author meant that today's education lacked enough knowledge and experience to fill several parking lot's.
From a purely grammatical point, "lots" would be the plural of "lot", so the second half of that statement is kind of amusing.
The word "lot's" would have to be possessive ("that lot's grade runs downhill and to the left") or contractive ("that lot's for sale") .
Plurals aren't done with " 's ".
Sorry, but "parking lot's" as you've described it isn't valid usage.
Yeah, I'd love 16GB on that... motherboard manual says 2x240 pin... a total of 8GB supported.
A nice thought, though.
Never thought I'd see the day where I was seriously contemplating 16GB for my home machine... hell, I remember upgrading my old 486 to 20MB of RAM, and that was bigger than the Sun workstations at school at the time.
And, of course, the notion of having one's own Terabyte seemed ludicrous... now I have 6TB.:-P
They went from making really good stuff that was used in business (laser printers, HP-UX and my old HP-9000 workstations) to absolute crap that isn't even usable at a consumer level.
I think we've thrown out 2 HP printers at home in the last few years because they just didn't last -- well, that and it cost less to replace than to buy new toner for it.
Not sure if they'll turn around or not, but I've viewed HP as making products I'm not willing to gamble on for a while... their management has turned over so many times as to make it fairly clear HP as a company has no idea of what it's got on the go.
And then there's whatever the hell they're doing with their web servers... good luck finding and retaining anything on their sites. By the time it gets obfuscated into something like "http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/siteHome?cc=us&lc=en", you'll never successfully bookmark anything of use, and probably never find it again.
HP is a company that used to be a tech giant, but which is failing quickly. Maybe some of their divisions are still doing good things... but I wouldn't spend my own money on an HP product.
With the prices of RAM, check whether your motherboard supports 16GB and if it does, buy it. It's so cheap these days, there is no reason not to get the maximum RAM your machine can handle, within reasonable prices.
Sadly, it's a PC that's getting close to 3 years old... and I'm pretty sure that 8GB was the maximum at the time.
I've always been of the opinion that nothing increases the longevity of a computer more than an obscene amount of RAM. Otherwise, I would.
You know, in all honesty, I've rather enjoyed Vista.
The machine I run it on at home has only ever had Vista, and the machine was purposely bought as big as I could manage at the time (8GB, quad core)... so Vista has had gobs of CPU, memory and disk and has "just worked" the whole time I've had it. I find I actually like UAC -- I seem to be the only one who doesn't think it sucks.
I'm just not willing to fork out the money for a full copy of Windows 7 yet... maybe with my next machine. Hopefully that one will have 16GB and even more cores.
So far I have been totally unable to tax my current CPU past 40% utilization.
Well, DfrgNtfs.exe is using 25% of my quad-core, and I'm not doing much else. I've gone well into 70% more more at times if I'm actually doing something intensive.
I'm using 7GB out of 8GB of RAM, and if I had 16GB I could probably put a hell of a dent in it too.
I don't even consider what I'm doing to be much of a load, and in the past I've been on machines where something literally was CPU bound for as much as an hour and I needed to walk away.
I don't even find it tough to use up that much resources... hell, I stopped using Mozilla because it would expand to well over 1GB of RAM overnight (with the same # of windows and tabs that used to fit in 300MB).
I think the software has already caught up... especially if you're like me and open something and leave it open.
It's easier to do lots of things when it's somewhat impersonal. If people acted in real life the way they do online, well, lots more people would likely have broken noses.:-P
The perception of anonymity can cause otherwise normal people to devolve into complete arseholes.
I was such a lazy bastard, I automated everything I could when I worked in the group I worked in, and got done faster than most others.
You're hired.;-)
OK, so I don't actually have a job to offer you in bioinformatics (or any job, really)... but on a recent project we took the opportunity to automate anything that allowed for it.
Automating reduces manual errors, cuts down on human time, and means you have more consistently reproduceable outcomes. It also means you've thought about the long-term and realized that if it was tedious and error-prone the first time, scripting it would yield better results.
I guess we probably saved hundreds of man-hours by automating some of our steps that would have had one or more techies plodding through some repetitive steps. And, I'm really not kidding about the amount of time we saved.
When I told my manager it was out of mostly being too lazy/unwilling to do that over and over again he more or less said "I'll take that kind of lazy any day of the week"... most of these have become standard process now, since there's just no damned good reason to do it otherwise.
Expect an even worse version to be submitted in the US in the near future. It will almost certainly be presented as a way to 1) save the children, or 2) protect us from terrorists.
And, if the way they do the copyright stuff is any indication... they'll say it's to bring America in line with what the rest of the world is doing.
Really? I'm pretty sure this is Sarah Michelle Gellar... but, I'm willing to entertain the fact that I can't tell the difference between two skinny blondes.:-P
I only knew the TV series... and even that only a little. To me, that looks like Sarah Michelle Gellar. That, of course, doesn't make me correct.:-P
The constant prompting to link contacts to Facebook friends is already a feature or many Android phones, especially the ones running Sense.
Yeah, well, Facebook will get only the information I give them, and I don't much care what they want. I'm still not giving them a password to my email account, and it's none of their fscking business the phone numbers of my contacts.
Zuckerberg can give me his password first as a show of good faith.
Is this supposed to be a sexual joke or is this article just terribly written?
Sarah Michelle Gellar bent over a table showing cleavage, holding a Facebook phone with a graphic of dripping blood... definitely sexual, likely not a joke... just trying to figure out who the metaphorical Vampire is in this one.
I wonder if that's an 'official' Facebook phone photo, or something the site did in photoshop.
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Well, I can always hope, misguided as that may be.
Well, since there's neither anguish nor hostility, not so much with the irony.
But seeing people on Slashdot mindlessly say "Apple is teh suxor" is about as intelligent as saying it about Microsoft or Linux without having used them ... it's generally an uninformed opinion based on what people think they know as opposed to anything factual.
But, hey, all Linux fanboys are smelly virgins who live in their mom's basement, and all Windows fanboys must be corporate shills who don't know better ... right?
Or we could act like adults.
I saw Christmas stuff in the stores a full two weeks before Halloween. We actually received the Sears "Spring Preview" catalog earlier this week.
It has definitely gotten absurd.
Or, you know, you could try one and have an informed position instead of just mindlessly slagging the product every time it's mentioned.
My manager just bought his son's, because it wasn't compatible with the stuff he needed to do at school (Windows only class stuff). In a week he went from "meh, who cares" to "wow, I love this thing".
Maybe people like them because they find them extremely useful?
So far, mine hasn't led to the glamorous lifestyle you seem to suggest ... but I'm old, fat, and un-hip, so that wasn't ever going to happen anyway.
But for business trips and being stuck on an airplane, it's an exceedingly useful thing. I can actually read my email from the airport wifi, and watch a movie on a screen much better than the one in the plane. Throw in eBooks, games, and a couple of other things, and I haven't used my laptop on a business trip in the last 7 trips I've made. Despite claims to the contrary, a netbook would not fill the same niche because it's still a clamshell with a keyboard. My iPad is about the size of a book.
Go to the lobby bar of a hotel in a business district, and count the number of people with iPads ... and then look at them and see if you think they're hipsters who have these things for fashion purposes.
I haven't used one, but I suspect what I say is true of any tablet ... it really is a nice form-factor.
My apologies .. the above is incorrect. I had assumed it was about the Hummers running on bio-diesel ... this is something else.
Actually, the Hummer comes out ahead ... so, the bias is exactly opposite to what you'd expect it to be.
The Hummer runs on bio-diesel I believe. That's the whole point of the poster, not that you compare a Hummer to a Prius and the Pruis is better.
From a purely grammatical point, "lots" would be the plural of "lot", so the second half of that statement is kind of amusing.
The word "lot's" would have to be possessive ("that lot's grade runs downhill and to the left") or contractive ("that lot's for sale") .
Plurals aren't done with " 's ".
Sorry, but "parking lot's" as you've described it isn't valid usage.
No, but statistically within 4.75 hops, someone you're linked to does.
An average which didn't work out to an integer?
When huffing gasoline, you should gently swirl the container to maximize the bouquet without spilling.
LOL ... I'm guessing you meant feminine.
Yeah, I'd love 16GB on that ... motherboard manual says 2x240 pin ... a total of 8GB supported.
A nice thought, though.
Never thought I'd see the day where I was seriously contemplating 16GB for my home machine ... hell, I remember upgrading my old 486 to 20MB of RAM, and that was bigger than the Sun workstations at school at the time.
And, of course, the notion of having one's own Terabyte seemed ludicrous ... now I have 6TB. :-P
LOL ... if I had 16GB of RAM just laying around, I'd test it.
I'm pretty sure the 2x4GB I have in there is what the specs say is the max.
HP seems to have long ago jumped the shark.
They went from making really good stuff that was used in business (laser printers, HP-UX and my old HP-9000 workstations) to absolute crap that isn't even usable at a consumer level.
I think we've thrown out 2 HP printers at home in the last few years because they just didn't last -- well, that and it cost less to replace than to buy new toner for it.
Not sure if they'll turn around or not, but I've viewed HP as making products I'm not willing to gamble on for a while ... their management has turned over so many times as to make it fairly clear HP as a company has no idea of what it's got on the go.
And then there's whatever the hell they're doing with their web servers ... good luck finding and retaining anything on their sites. By the time it gets obfuscated into something like "http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/siteHome?cc=us&lc=en", you'll never successfully bookmark anything of use, and probably never find it again.
HP is a company that used to be a tech giant, but which is failing quickly. Maybe some of their divisions are still doing good things ... but I wouldn't spend my own money on an HP product.
Sadly, it's a PC that's getting close to 3 years old ... and I'm pretty sure that 8GB was the maximum at the time.
I've always been of the opinion that nothing increases the longevity of a computer more than an obscene amount of RAM. Otherwise, I would.
You know, in all honesty, I've rather enjoyed Vista.
The machine I run it on at home has only ever had Vista, and the machine was purposely bought as big as I could manage at the time (8GB, quad core) ... so Vista has had gobs of CPU, memory and disk and has "just worked" the whole time I've had it. I find I actually like UAC -- I seem to be the only one who doesn't think it sucks.
I'm just not willing to fork out the money for a full copy of Windows 7 yet ... maybe with my next machine. Hopefully that one will have 16GB and even more cores.
2009 called ... I'm running Vista. My Linux boxes are all now VMs ... I've no interest in running Linux as my primary box anymore.
But, I see you're living up to your nick.
Well, DfrgNtfs.exe is using 25% of my quad-core, and I'm not doing much else. I've gone well into 70% more more at times if I'm actually doing something intensive.
I'm using 7GB out of 8GB of RAM, and if I had 16GB I could probably put a hell of a dent in it too.
I don't even consider what I'm doing to be much of a load, and in the past I've been on machines where something literally was CPU bound for as much as an hour and I needed to walk away.
I don't even find it tough to use up that much resources ... hell, I stopped using Mozilla because it would expand to well over 1GB of RAM overnight (with the same # of windows and tabs that used to fit in 300MB).
I think the software has already caught up ... especially if you're like me and open something and leave it open.
I think it's that those things make you a "Greater Fuckwad".
The A-hole is greater than the sum of its parts. ;-)
It's easier to do lots of things when it's somewhat impersonal. If people acted in real life the way they do online, well, lots more people would likely have broken noses. :-P
The perception of anonymity can cause otherwise normal people to devolve into complete arseholes.
You're hired. ;-)
OK, so I don't actually have a job to offer you in bioinformatics (or any job, really) ... but on a recent project we took the opportunity to automate anything that allowed for it.
Automating reduces manual errors, cuts down on human time, and means you have more consistently reproduceable outcomes. It also means you've thought about the long-term and realized that if it was tedious and error-prone the first time, scripting it would yield better results.
I guess we probably saved hundreds of man-hours by automating some of our steps that would have had one or more techies plodding through some repetitive steps. And, I'm really not kidding about the amount of time we saved.
When I told my manager it was out of mostly being too lazy/unwilling to do that over and over again he more or less said "I'll take that kind of lazy any day of the week" ... most of these have become standard process now, since there's just no damned good reason to do it otherwise.
And, if the way they do the copyright stuff is any indication ... they'll say it's to bring America in line with what the rest of the world is doing.
Really? I'm pretty sure this is Sarah Michelle Gellar ... but, I'm willing to entertain the fact that I can't tell the difference between two skinny blondes. :-P
I only knew the TV series ... and even that only a little. To me, that looks like Sarah Michelle Gellar. That, of course, doesn't make me correct. :-P
Yeah, well, Facebook will get only the information I give them, and I don't much care what they want. I'm still not giving them a password to my email account, and it's none of their fscking business the phone numbers of my contacts.
Zuckerberg can give me his password first as a show of good faith.
Sarah Michelle Gellar bent over a table showing cleavage, holding a Facebook phone with a graphic of dripping blood ... definitely sexual, likely not a joke ... just trying to figure out who the metaphorical Vampire is in this one.
I wonder if that's an 'official' Facebook phone photo, or something the site did in photoshop.