Remember, if you go and buy a new Airport Extreme base station, it will come with the enablers for you machine. The $4.99 fee is for enabling 802.11n functionality if and only if you don't purchase a new base station. I guess they somehow built the update price into the cost of the base station.
Once non-Slashdot people start seeing the likes of Paris Hilton and Shaq using the iPhone, it will gain traction. Isn't that how it always is? Remember, nobody was going to spend $300 on an MP3 player named the iPod...
This is a new take on an old market. Give it time. I bet come October we'll all be singing a different tune...
My company (~2,500 ppl) has moved to this model. However, we have dedicated "deployment engineers" who take the developers' documentation and follow it to a T. If there is an issue, they roll back. At first nobody liked the idea, but as time progressed it has started to work well. The deployment engineers were taken from the server teams and the DBA team and formed into a new group of about 10 people.
Don't worry about speaking the language, they all speak English quite well. Also, Dutch women are, on a whole in my opinion, the hottest European women.
It's not like the current Congress had much of an opportunity to overturn a presidential veto. GWB has vetoed (sp?) at most 1 piece of legislation from Congress during his 6 years in the White House. That said, it still takes 66 votes to overturn a veto.
You've never spoken to a Democrat have you? Ms. Pelosi from CA and Mr. Kerry from MA are both very critical of the current government and I haven't heard either of them called "a commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die." While I think both of them are asshats, they're not terrorists.
BS in chem here. We were only required to take Calculus through Multivariable - no diff eqs for me. It's my loss, that's one of the courses I should've taken.
Most of my chem classes up to, but not including, P-Chem were filled with pre-Med Bio majors. All they could do was memorize (something I am not good at, hence the C in Orgo - both of them). I did well in P-CHEM. The crazy thing is, in order to get a minor in Chem, one would have to take P-CHEM 1 WITHOUT THE LAB. Only 5% of the pre-Med bio majors went that far. As for Multivariable, it was mostly Chem and Physics majors. There were only a handful of math majors at the time.
A lot of people underestimate the usefullness of higher-level math. At my current job (IT PM/Business Analyst at a large financial institution in Boston [not Fidelity]), I see a lot of areas where I could apply higher-level math to model everyday things. Maybe I'll take diff eqs at Harvard Extension in the fall...
I've studied German and find it to be a very difficult language. I've also studied Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Greek. With the exception of Greek, all of the other languages I've studied have been vastly easier to learn than German.
The reference to cake isn't cake as you know it. It's a reference to the by-product of cleaning the ovens by spreading bread-dough on the walls and baking it. The result is a black, crusty crust-like substance called cake.
That's sabotage! In order NOT to get killed in ad costs by being slashdotted, techreview redirected the page-of-slashdottedness back to an ad on Slashdot thus screwing slashdot and something, something, something....
It made sense when I started typing. It's too damn early...
There are a whole lot of liability issues that you don't want to take on by running your e-bay fiber yourself or boring your own holes in the landlord's property. Hire the proper entity to do this (after getting the landlord's permission) and make sure they carry enough (or what is required by the property owner) liability insurance.
He's not running fiber to the cabana next to his pool at home -- let the professionals take care of it.
I don't think it's the fact that they're made in China. Apple's laptops are assembled somewhere over there (don't recall if it's Taiwan or the main land) and they're good quality. It's the QA and the attention to detail that the mother company (Lenovo/Apple/HP/Toshiba) demands of the contract manufacturer. Maybe Lenovo isn't as strict as IBM was? Maybe they're using a different manufacturer. Who knows. We use IBM desktops and ThinkPads here and have since ~2003. I have not heard anything bad about the new Lenovo machines - but then again I haven't really been paying too much attention. I will ask today and post more if it's bad...
Silly you. Everyone knows that France is a break-away province of Germany. Hell, Germany even tried to real back in said province twice last century...
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No kidding. Why is Greenpeace railing on Apple now?
4 hour marathon? Suni is 41 years old. In order to qualify for the Boston Marathon she would have had to run it is 3:50:00 or less.
see: here
(By the way, she is bib # 11469. I wonder if she has her official bib and Champion Chips (that that the chip would do much good...)
I'm with you on that. 24 hours in 26 tapes? WTF?
I knew it was Peary...I did. I passed the sign 100 million freakin times. Pass it up to spelling error.
It sucks that Google Maps doesn't have hi-res photos of my Alma Matter....
--Mike
How do you find out where Google gets its images from?
Look at zip code 23186 (Williamsburg, VA) -- you can't get shit for detail there. I wonder if it's because Camp Perry is right there...
Remember, if you go and buy a new Airport Extreme base station, it will come with the enablers for you machine. The $4.99 fee is for enabling 802.11n functionality if and only if you don't purchase a new base station. I guess they somehow built the update price into the cost of the base station.
Once non-Slashdot people start seeing the likes of Paris Hilton and Shaq using the iPhone, it will gain traction. Isn't that how it always is? Remember, nobody was going to spend $300 on an MP3 player named the iPod...
This is a new take on an old market. Give it time. I bet come October we'll all be singing a different tune...
My company (~2,500 ppl) has moved to this model. However, we have dedicated "deployment engineers" who take the developers' documentation and follow it to a T. If there is an issue, they roll back. At first nobody liked the idea, but as time progressed it has started to work well. The deployment engineers were taken from the server teams and the DBA team and formed into a new group of about 10 people.
--Mike
Don't worry about speaking the language, they all speak English quite well. Also, Dutch women are, on a whole in my opinion, the hottest European women.
It's not like the current Congress had much of an opportunity to overturn a presidential veto. GWB has vetoed (sp?) at most 1 piece of legislation from Congress during his 6 years in the White House. That said, it still takes 66 votes to overturn a veto.
You've never spoken to a Democrat have you? Ms. Pelosi from CA and Mr. Kerry from MA are both very critical of the current government and I haven't heard either of them called "a commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die." While I think both of them are asshats, they're not terrorists.
I buy Monster Cable because it looks nice.
--Mike
(just kidding)
I wish I had mod points. Good job, one of the funniest responses I've read in a while...
Just proof your gf is an idiot.
Last week on the Security Now! podcast, Steve Gibson made the observation that virtualization is really a 40-year-old technology. Pretty cool.
--mike
It sorts nicely in Excel when people enter dates as text...
BS in chem here. We were only required to take Calculus through Multivariable - no diff eqs for me. It's my loss, that's one of the courses I should've taken.
Most of my chem classes up to, but not including, P-Chem were filled with pre-Med Bio majors. All they could do was memorize (something I am not good at, hence the C in Orgo - both of them). I did well in P-CHEM. The crazy thing is, in order to get a minor in Chem, one would have to take P-CHEM 1 WITHOUT THE LAB. Only 5% of the pre-Med bio majors went that far. As for Multivariable, it was mostly Chem and Physics majors. There were only a handful of math majors at the time.
A lot of people underestimate the usefullness of higher-level math. At my current job (IT PM/Business Analyst at a large financial institution in Boston [not Fidelity]), I see a lot of areas where I could apply higher-level math to model everyday things. Maybe I'll take diff eqs at Harvard Extension in the fall...
--Mike
Queue up That Awful German Language by Mark Twain.
I've studied German and find it to be a very difficult language. I've also studied Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Greek. With the exception of Greek, all of the other languages I've studied have been vastly easier to learn than German.
--Mike
You forgot Canada. Everyone forgets Canada...
The reference to cake isn't cake as you know it. It's a reference to the by-product of cleaning the ovens by spreading bread-dough on the walls and baking it. The result is a black, crusty crust-like substance called cake.
That's sabotage! In order NOT to get killed in ad costs by being slashdotted, techreview redirected the page-of-slashdottedness back to an ad on Slashdot thus screwing slashdot and something, something, something....
It made sense when I started typing. It's too damn early...
--Mike
fiber++
Doing it yourself--
There are a whole lot of liability issues that you don't want to take on by running your e-bay fiber yourself or boring your own holes in the landlord's property. Hire the proper entity to do this (after getting the landlord's permission) and make sure they carry enough (or what is required by the property owner) liability insurance.
He's not running fiber to the cabana next to his pool at home -- let the professionals take care of it.
--Mike
I don't think it's the fact that they're made in China. Apple's laptops are assembled somewhere over there (don't recall if it's Taiwan or the main land) and they're good quality. It's the QA and the attention to detail that the mother company (Lenovo/Apple/HP/Toshiba) demands of the contract manufacturer. Maybe Lenovo isn't as strict as IBM was? Maybe they're using a different manufacturer. Who knows. We use IBM desktops and ThinkPads here and have since ~2003. I have not heard anything bad about the new Lenovo machines - but then again I haven't really been paying too much attention. I will ask today and post more if it's bad...
--Mike
Silly you. Everyone knows that France is a break-away province of Germany. Hell, Germany even tried to real back in said province twice last century...
Most of the students barely speak English...