Their components are on the higher-end of the spectrum (Core2Duo as opposed to AMD or CoreDuo or Pentiums, etc.), FireWire 800, etc. Even their graphics processors, which get a lot of flack for not being high-end, are better than the average you'll find at Best Buy or Fry's.
Exactly this. Last year when I was considering buying a MacBook Pro, I was also giving consideration to a cheaper Windows laptop. Almost all the sub-$900 laptops at Future Shop (like Best Buy) had basic Pentium chips, and Intel integrated graphics. NONE of the Windows laptops, even the $1000+ ones, had screens even approaching the quality of Apple's, and as an amateur designer and photographer (stereotype STFU, I'm also an IT guy), that means a whole lot to me. It's crazy vivid compared to my girlfriend's Toshiba.
I bought my MacBook Pro 13" for $1199. The screen may be relatively small (it fits well in my bag, though), but shopping around, the whole package was better than anything comparable on the Windows side.
Not much of note. A few old websites I made, a few 3D renders (can't find the models, though.) I didn't produce much worth holding onto back then.
But pretty much all my stuff from 10~12 years back until now stays on my hard disk, and moves from new disk to new disk as I upgrade. All of my music and photos are managed by library apps, and I have automatic backups at least weekly. (Backing up is more convenient now, since I recently moved to a Mac and have Time Machine set to do it when I plug in my external drive.)
On one hand, our most popular mobile devices (namely the iPhone and soon the iPad) are extremely locked up and restricted, with the vendor telling you EXACTLY which applications you're allowed to run.
I don't remember being able to run whatever I wanted to on my NES. Nintendo dictated that. (Yes, I'm comparing the iPad and iPhone to a game console, not a general purpose computer.)
My first year in high school was in a shiny new building with nice computer labs full of 386s with Windows 3.1. (Although, I tended to gravitate to the one room with the few Macs when I could.)
Back then you couldn't lock everything down on the desktop, so we managed to explore every nook and cranny of Windows. The real challenge to us was the network, since it was locked down pretty well. I got on some sort of blacklist at one point for hanging around with kids who'd managed to hack the network. Eventually I managed to get into the computer office on a regular basis and even set up a rudimentary web server, once we'd integrated the internet and installed an ISDN line. They even let my plug in a phone line and RAS from home for free net access when I finally got my own computer. (My mom got that perk cut-off by abusing the RAS during school hours...)
Of course, back then, computer labs had an entirely different purpose than they have now. They taught you how to use and get familiar with computers, since most families did not have one at home. Nowadays they're just where kids go to check their Facebook.
Yes, America is a huge landmass. There's no denying that. However, the population is not evenly distributed, and this is where the excuse completely falls apart.
Yes, the rural minority will be difficult to get high-speed internet to, but there's a whole ton of metropolitan areas that have no such excuse for all this foot dragging.
If I can get 50mbps in a semi-dense residential suburb of Toronto, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to get a 50 mbps connection in a suburb of (insert American city).
Then again, I dunno, the chances of it getting done may have been easier if it were a whole bunch of local companies each doing their own portion of the work, rather than massive, national corporations going "Wah! Look at all the work this will take!"
My boss was asking me a question about something, I was trying to explain it to him, and right in the middle of my explanation, without any signal like turning his head or looking away, he unexpectedly got right back into another (LOUD) conversation with whoever had put him on hold on his bluetooth.
IT MAKES ME WANT TO STRANGLE HIM. IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. IF YOU'RE USING ONE OF THESE AND YOU'RE NOT DRIVING A CAR, I HOPE IT EXPLODES IN YOUR EAR.
Who wants to wear an extra pair of glasses just to watch TV?
It's difficult enough in the theatre. I have to wear glasses over my glasses. Keeping them comfortably balanced is an ordeal, and then there's the problem of reflections bouncing back and forth between the two shiny surfaces.
The way things are starting to look, I would be surprised if in a few years all Google employees are to be given guns and told to be on the lookout for a suave, British spy.
This sorta applies to IT work, as well. After configuring and installing a server, the boss said something along the lines of "I watched you staring at a screen doing nothing half of the time. Why should I pay you for 6 hours?" (Because, apparently, waiting for software going through a lengthy install on a piece of shit cheap "server" is "free time".)
Yes, let's cripple a world-leading, forward-thinking American company by taking all the money from possibly risky R&D and hand it over to a bunch of greedy, do-nothing shareholders. Screw the future, the next big thing can come from overseas.
That's one of the main reasons America is on a shit train to nowhere right now.
As an end user, with no real ability to configure SpamAssassin other than through cPanel, what can I do about this? (Unless my webhost is right on top of it.)
Now I imagine a new movie, where Arnold Schwarzenegger defeats the BSOD by the might of his muscles alone. (Of course, it may not work as well now, since he's the flabby Governator.)
Where I work we don't even have cubicles. We have a row of desks on angles. Right next to me is this woman who is on the phone ALL DAY, and she has a really annoying nasal voice, and half of the time she's speaking really loud in spanish. I can't tell if they're social calls, or work calls, but when I hear "AY! NO!" followed by loud laughing, I know it's a social call. Then her and my boss sit down and have a gigantic lunch every day, which takes at least 20 minutes, and my boss is not a quiet eater. I have to either excuse myself and go outside, or put in my headphones. Then there's getting caught right in the middle of a discussion between her and the guy on the other side of me, both of them trying to talk through my head.
If I could find another job, I would take it in an instant.
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...nothing says "I have a small penis" like owning something from Apple.
Hey! This can be fun!
Nothing says "No girl will ever touch my penis" like running Linux.
Nothing says "My penis has all kinds of STDs" like running Windows.
Their components are on the higher-end of the spectrum (Core2Duo as opposed to AMD or CoreDuo or Pentiums, etc.), FireWire 800, etc. Even their graphics processors, which get a lot of flack for not being high-end, are better than the average you'll find at Best Buy or Fry's.
Exactly this. Last year when I was considering buying a MacBook Pro, I was also giving consideration to a cheaper Windows laptop. Almost all the sub-$900 laptops at Future Shop (like Best Buy) had basic Pentium chips, and Intel integrated graphics. NONE of the Windows laptops, even the $1000+ ones, had screens even approaching the quality of Apple's, and as an amateur designer and photographer (stereotype STFU, I'm also an IT guy), that means a whole lot to me. It's crazy vivid compared to my girlfriend's Toshiba.
I bought my MacBook Pro 13" for $1199. The screen may be relatively small (it fits well in my bag, though), but shopping around, the whole package was better than anything comparable on the Windows side.
Not much of note. A few old websites I made, a few 3D renders (can't find the models, though.) I didn't produce much worth holding onto back then.
But pretty much all my stuff from 10~12 years back until now stays on my hard disk, and moves from new disk to new disk as I upgrade. All of my music and photos are managed by library apps, and I have automatic backups at least weekly. (Backing up is more convenient now, since I recently moved to a Mac and have Time Machine set to do it when I plug in my external drive.)
Is the author suggesting that we try to solve the problem by killing anyone who still uses IE6?
On one hand, our most popular mobile devices (namely the iPhone and soon the iPad) are extremely locked up and restricted, with the vendor telling you EXACTLY which applications you're allowed to run.
I don't remember being able to run whatever I wanted to on my NES. Nintendo dictated that. (Yes, I'm comparing the iPad and iPhone to a game console, not a general purpose computer.)
My first year in high school was in a shiny new building with nice computer labs full of 386s with Windows 3.1. (Although, I tended to gravitate to the one room with the few Macs when I could.)
Back then you couldn't lock everything down on the desktop, so we managed to explore every nook and cranny of Windows. The real challenge to us was the network, since it was locked down pretty well. I got on some sort of blacklist at one point for hanging around with kids who'd managed to hack the network. Eventually I managed to get into the computer office on a regular basis and even set up a rudimentary web server, once we'd integrated the internet and installed an ISDN line. They even let my plug in a phone line and RAS from home for free net access when I finally got my own computer. (My mom got that perk cut-off by abusing the RAS during school hours...)
Of course, back then, computer labs had an entirely different purpose than they have now. They taught you how to use and get familiar with computers, since most families did not have one at home. Nowadays they're just where kids go to check their Facebook.
Yes, America is a huge landmass. There's no denying that. However, the population is not evenly distributed, and this is where the excuse completely falls apart.
Yes, the rural minority will be difficult to get high-speed internet to, but there's a whole ton of metropolitan areas that have no such excuse for all this foot dragging.
If I can get 50mbps in a semi-dense residential suburb of Toronto, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to get a 50 mbps connection in a suburb of (insert American city).
Then again, I dunno, the chances of it getting done may have been easier if it were a whole bunch of local companies each doing their own portion of the work, rather than massive, national corporations going "Wah! Look at all the work this will take!"
Maybe he bought it on the internet. As far as I know, your computer can't tell how fat you are. Yet.
Maybe now they'll require you to have a webcam, so you can stand-up and have some person on the other end check you over...
It's because people who use OO.o are likely people who wouldn't have paid for Office anyway.
My dad was a huge Saab fan. If they returned to their pre-GM roots, he'd buy another.
Because they're luxury? No. Because they were solid cars, good for wintery conditions, and fit tall people quite well.
That happened to me five minutes ago.
My boss was asking me a question about something, I was trying to explain it to him, and right in the middle of my explanation, without any signal like turning his head or looking away, he unexpectedly got right back into another (LOUD) conversation with whoever had put him on hold on his bluetooth.
IT MAKES ME WANT TO STRANGLE HIM. IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. IF YOU'RE USING ONE OF THESE AND YOU'RE NOT DRIVING A CAR, I HOPE IT EXPLODES IN YOUR EAR.
With the amount I get paid, I virtual am volunteering.
Affected by the exploit? In a word, yes. Affected in the same way? Doesn't sound like it one bit.
I'd rather have my browser crash than simply hand over the keys to my entire OS.
Who wants to wear an extra pair of glasses just to watch TV?
It's difficult enough in the theatre. I have to wear glasses over my glasses. Keeping them comfortably balanced is an ordeal, and then there's the problem of reflections bouncing back and forth between the two shiny surfaces.
Makes me wish I wore contacts.
The way things are starting to look, I would be surprised if in a few years all Google employees are to be given guns and told to be on the lookout for a suave, British spy.
This sorta applies to IT work, as well. After configuring and installing a server, the boss said something along the lines of "I watched you staring at a screen doing nothing half of the time. Why should I pay you for 6 hours?" (Because, apparently, waiting for software going through a lengthy install on a piece of shit cheap "server" is "free time".)
Another two years? Good, now we can all can put off panicking for another two years and not do anything to resolve this in the meantime.
Yes, let's cripple a world-leading, forward-thinking American company by taking all the money from possibly risky R&D and hand it over to a bunch of greedy, do-nothing shareholders. Screw the future, the next big thing can come from overseas.
That's one of the main reasons America is on a shit train to nowhere right now.
As an end user, with no real ability to configure SpamAssassin other than through cPanel, what can I do about this? (Unless my webhost is right on top of it.)
I've disabled it, for now.
Now I imagine a new movie, where Arnold Schwarzenegger defeats the BSOD by the might of his muscles alone. (Of course, it may not work as well now, since he's the flabby Governator.)
Where I work we don't even have cubicles. We have a row of desks on angles. Right next to me is this woman who is on the phone ALL DAY, and she has a really annoying nasal voice, and half of the time she's speaking really loud in spanish. I can't tell if they're social calls, or work calls, but when I hear "AY! NO!" followed by loud laughing, I know it's a social call. Then her and my boss sit down and have a gigantic lunch every day, which takes at least 20 minutes, and my boss is not a quiet eater. I have to either excuse myself and go outside, or put in my headphones. Then there's getting caught right in the middle of a discussion between her and the guy on the other side of me, both of them trying to talk through my head.
If I could find another job, I would take it in an instant.
Plus, I run out of music to listen to.
How much music do you have? Or this this a storage capacity problem?
Drinking straw? Nah, more like one of those plastic coffee stirring things.
They still do. Just go to any college bar and see.
Regardless, Sisko's Dad owns a restaurant on Earth, if I'm not mistaken.