FYI, didn't mean to imply that Project Management is really "administrative" work, just that with telecommuters, you may be more likely to be also paying in-house project managers, instead of getting project management as part of the outsourcing package.
While I'm sure most here will play up the labor issue, the clients of my company's outsourcing solutions are paying mainly for on-site management of staff, project evaluation and management, and centralized billing cost-structure. If you use telecommuters instead of an outsourcing solution, you're still responsible for lots of administrative work, like payroll and project management. The main advantage of outsourcing is not only cost management in a labor sense, but in an administrative sense.
Despite my sympathy for your point, why would the Justice Department prosecute you for something that's not against the law? It's not their fault they wouldn't prosecute that, it's perfectly legal. Your point is better directed to your legislature.
Hi there, now you *can* dual-boot into OS9 if you wish, but there's no need to. Launching an OSX app (like newer Office and Photoshop) works as expected and has the Aqua look to it. Launching an OS 9 app *in OS X* will start up Classic mode.
Whenever the Classic app has the focus, the menu bar at the top changes to an OS9 look. Give the OS X app focus, back to the new Aqua look. Fairly seemless for me at least, and there certainly may be problems with some apps in Classic. I just haven't encountered any.
Of course now with Fink's easy install of XFree86 Rootless or Apple's own X11 you can also run X apps, including GTK+ or KDE/Qt apps, on top of that.
Well, that certainly isn't my experience. I've been using all my OS 9 apps in Classic side-by-side with my native OS X apps for months with no problem. I've never encountered an older app that didn't run just fine in Classic. If you want Office for X, well, yeah you have to buy it. Why wouldn't you? I get along just fine using Office 98 that runs in Classic.
Um, it's already in Windows XP. Just click Start then Search. MSN is the default site (as expected, why would it not be?) but with two clicks you can change the default search site to Google, or a number of other search sites.
You know, I want to totally agree with you. I agree that there's little I can do on my PC that I can't do with my OS X machine, but I'm genuinely disappointed just with the performace aspects. At work I run an XP machine with a 600 mhz Pentium 3, and I'm writing this on a 600 mhz G3 iBook (no I don't want to get into the discussion about mhz as a speed benchmark) with OS X. I really do like OS X, especially with the flexibility Fink gives me to run Darwin-ported *nix apps, XFree86, etc.
But really the performance sucks. I understand I'm not running the latest/greatest hardware that apple provides. But my XP machine is far from being new, and it really blows away this iBook in speed, in such a way that I can't tell that I'm running the fancy eycandy that XP includes. I would expect it to be faster anyway because of the processor, but really, it's multiples faster in opening and closing applications.
So, I agree with regard to the operating system features and flexibility, but it seems MS was able to make as "fancy" a product (if not as ideal in flexibility) that ran without effort on somewhat similar hardware that OS X, it seems to me as a lay user, still seems to run slowly on.
A serious upgrade, such as the IBM processor I've read about, may make my point moot. I hope so. I hope I don't have to wait too long to not have to turn to my right at my desk because I need to do something "fast."
I constantly see this assertion"Remember, paper and phone calls make more of a difference than emails!"
Having worked in the US Congress as a Legislative Correspondent, I can confidently say, huh uh! We physically counted phone calls, letters, faxes and emails completely equally with no regard to their type, as did every other congressional office that I was familiar with. The only thing that made one correspondence count and another not is if one was not from a constituent address.
Is it just me, or is there no one else that sees that there's a legitimate distinction between "Movies will be encoded in Windows Media 9 format to be played back on digital cinema playback systems" and "Theaters will be set up by grandmas using Windows XP Home edition who have their screensavers and virus checkers turned on, as well as a game of minesweeper."
While I appreciate the humor about blue screens, etc, it seems disingenuous to suggest that the latter option is truly the plan.
Correction: Apple is trying to kill Microsoft with Safari. Or, Apple is trying to challenge Microsoft's browser dominance on the OSX platform with Safari. I hope OSX isn't trying to kill anyone.
And I can use both Mozilla and Konqueror on OS X with on a rootless X11. It's surprisingly fast, even on this iBook, given that it's running on top of the Aqua interface with X11 and Apple's (closed source) aqua-wm window manager.
Well, while I do like the idea, it's a novel one, if Einstein had truly proven that "nothing" is faster then the speed of light then "The speed of gravity == infinite" was disproven years ago. Unfortunately, I don't think that's exactly true. While I'm as certain as most that gravity is not instantaneous, we wouldn't really be having this discussion if it had been proven to such a degree that physicists no longer argued over it.
But you can eliminate the source of light. Like the off switch on the flashlight. You can't eliminate the source of gravity. The fastest you could do so, theoretically, would be to move the massive object causing the gravity away from the measuring instrument at the speed of light, which would screw up the measurement. Up to the smarter ones here to figure out how the measurement would be affected, but it certainly wouldn't be the same as turning off the light. And, need I mention, how do you remove the massive object at anywhere close to the speed of light?
if it could automatically send an email back to the sender saying the email address doesn't exist
I love! this feature of some email progs, notably Mail on OS X, called "Bounce to Sender". Admittedly, there is the annoyance that you almost always receive another server message telling you that your bounce email was sent to an address that doesn't exist, but in those cases where you don't, it may help get off some spam lists.
I agree with you. I also frequently have reason to send email without a subject, for example, to myself so that I have a file available on my IMAP server that I can easily access from outside the office. The reason I don't need the subject is because I already know the contents of the email and it's a waste of time to write myself telling me what I'm sending myself. No one seemed to mention this but the obvious behavior to be called for here is that of Outlook Express for the Mac (I think that's where it happened to me, no promises) It will tell you that you're sending an email without a subject, but has a checkbox allowing you to disable that prompt. Is there something wrong with this type of behavior that the Mozilla developers purposely chose not to include it?
What are you talking about? Bill Gates is the Chief Software Architect. He gave up his job as chief executive for exactly that reason, to have an active role in OS development. Of course he's not the one compiling the releases, but to say he "actually has very little to do with Microsoft these days" is just flat incorrect. From link (prepare sarcastic tone):
No, but my google toolbar did popup today and ask if it could use my spare cycles for its Google Compute feature. First beneficiary of my processor and google toolbar? That's right, folding@home.
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FYI, didn't mean to imply that Project Management is really "administrative" work, just that with telecommuters, you may be more likely to be also paying in-house project managers, instead of getting project management as part of the outsourcing package.
While I'm sure most here will play up the labor issue, the clients of my company's outsourcing solutions are paying mainly for on-site management of staff, project evaluation and management, and centralized billing cost-structure. If you use telecommuters instead of an outsourcing solution, you're still responsible for lots of administrative work, like payroll and project management. The main advantage of outsourcing is not only cost management in a labor sense, but in an administrative sense.
Despite my sympathy for your point, why would the Justice Department prosecute you for something that's not against the law? It's not their fault they wouldn't prosecute that, it's perfectly legal. Your point is better directed to your legislature.
Whenever the Classic app has the focus, the menu bar at the top changes to an OS9 look. Give the OS X app focus, back to the new Aqua look. Fairly seemless for me at least, and there certainly may be problems with some apps in Classic. I just haven't encountered any.
Of course now with Fink's easy install of XFree86 Rootless or Apple's own X11 you can also run X apps, including GTK+ or KDE/Qt apps, on top of that.
Well, that certainly isn't my experience. I've been using all my OS 9 apps in Classic side-by-side with my native OS X apps for months with no problem. I've never encountered an older app that didn't run just fine in Classic. If you want Office for X, well, yeah you have to buy it. Why wouldn't you? I get along just fine using Office 98 that runs in Classic.
Quite funny, and this made me google it. Snopes has a great history of the copyright ownership of "Happy Birthday", which is currently controlled by a division of AOL Time Warner until 2030. That is, until copyrights are extended. . .again.
Um, it's already in Windows XP. Just click Start then Search. MSN is the default site (as expected, why would it not be?) but with two clicks you can change the default search site to Google, or a number of other search sites.
Haha, that is absolutely laughable if you think your little table even remotely represents true browser-share.
You know, I want to totally agree with you. I agree that there's little I can do on my PC that I can't do with my OS X machine, but I'm genuinely disappointed just with the performace aspects. At work I run an XP machine with a 600 mhz Pentium 3, and I'm writing this on a 600 mhz G3 iBook (no I don't want to get into the discussion about mhz as a speed benchmark) with OS X. I really do like OS X, especially with the flexibility Fink gives me to run Darwin-ported *nix apps, XFree86, etc.
But really the performance sucks. I understand I'm not running the latest/greatest hardware that apple provides. But my XP machine is far from being new, and it really blows away this iBook in speed, in such a way that I can't tell that I'm running the fancy eycandy that XP includes. I would expect it to be faster anyway because of the processor, but really, it's multiples faster in opening and closing applications.
So, I agree with regard to the operating system features and flexibility, but it seems MS was able to make as "fancy" a product (if not as ideal in flexibility) that ran without effort on somewhat similar hardware that OS X, it seems to me as a lay user, still seems to run slowly on.
A serious upgrade, such as the IBM processor I've read about, may make my point moot. I hope so. I hope I don't have to wait too long to not have to turn to my right at my desk because I need to do something "fast."
No shit? Wow and all this time I thought "ghetto kids" couldn't learn.
Having worked in the US Congress as a Legislative Correspondent, I can confidently say, huh uh! We physically counted phone calls, letters, faxes and emails completely equally with no regard to their type, as did every other congressional office that I was familiar with. The only thing that made one correspondence count and another not is if one was not from a constituent address.
While I appreciate the humor about blue screens, etc, it seems disingenuous to suggest that the latter option is truly the plan.
Correction: Apple is trying to kill Microsoft with Safari. Or, Apple is trying to challenge Microsoft's browser dominance on the OSX platform with Safari. I hope OSX isn't trying to kill anyone.
And I can use both Mozilla and Konqueror on OS X with on a rootless X11. It's surprisingly fast, even on this iBook, given that it's running on top of the Aqua interface with X11 and Apple's (closed source) aqua-wm window manager.
Well, while I do like the idea, it's a novel one, if Einstein had truly proven that "nothing" is faster then the speed of light then "The speed of gravity == infinite" was disproven years ago. Unfortunately, I don't think that's exactly true. While I'm as certain as most that gravity is not instantaneous, we wouldn't really be having this discussion if it had been proven to such a degree that physicists no longer argued over it.
But you can eliminate the source of light. Like the off switch on the flashlight. You can't eliminate the source of gravity. The fastest you could do so, theoretically, would be to move the massive object causing the gravity away from the measuring instrument at the speed of light, which would screw up the measurement. Up to the smarter ones here to figure out how the measurement would be affected, but it certainly wouldn't be the same as turning off the light. And, need I mention, how do you remove the massive object at anywhere close to the speed of light?
Again, this is for POP3 accounts. I'd love to try it, but it needs to have IMAP support.
I love! this feature of some email progs, notably Mail on OS X, called "Bounce to Sender". Admittedly, there is the annoyance that you almost always receive another server message telling you that your bounce email was sent to an address that doesn't exist, but in those cases where you don't, it may help get off some spam lists.
Unfortunately, Spamnet doesn't fully support IMAP. That makes it useless to me, but they say they're working on it.
I agree with you. I also frequently have reason to send email without a subject, for example, to myself so that I have a file available on my IMAP server that I can easily access from outside the office. The reason I don't need the subject is because I already know the contents of the email and it's a waste of time to write myself telling me what I'm sending myself. No one seemed to mention this but the obvious behavior to be called for here is that of Outlook Express for the Mac (I think that's where it happened to me, no promises) It will tell you that you're sending an email without a subject, but has a checkbox allowing you to disable that prompt. Is there something wrong with this type of behavior that the Mozilla developers purposely chose not to include it?
"I might be threatening to write code."
Oh phooey, some Mac person probably put ".doc" on the end of a Quark file and sent it to you thinking that's how you changed a file type ;-)
Well, its pretty easy (and you don't have to download a client) when it's built into your Google toolbar.
No, but my google toolbar did popup today and ask if it could use my spare cycles for its Google Compute feature. First beneficiary of my processor and google toolbar? That's right, folding@home.
Bravo my friend, bravo.