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Load up a page on a Blackberry, it comes up in 15 seconds. Load that same page up on an iPhone, and you're waiting a good 2 minutes. Yes you get the web as it's presented on a Desktop, but in order to do that you have to download the entire web page. This is a serious problem when all I want to do is take a quick look at a webpage for updates, or get some information that I need right then and there.
Yeah totem+gstreamer is lame. It's getting better, but VERY VERY VERY slowly. Just remove totem-gstreamer and install totem-xine with the proper dvd decryption libraries and you'll be good to go. Totem's a _decent_ player once you do that. I still go for VLC, though, if only for its ability to handle subtitle files.
"The Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine [...] The name "Postal Service" was chosen due to the way in which the band produced their songs. Jimmy would write the music then send DAT tapes to Ben, who would edit the song as he saw fit, adding his vocals along the way, and send them back to Jimmy via "Postal Service"."
How do you like that, Elton? Here's a group who's creating new music that's quite well done, and they didn't once meet face to face! The article itself quotes Elton as saying "I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano." Sounds like someone's a little upset that this new-fangled technology seems to be becoming more and more ubiquitous, and he's being left in the dust.
"a version of Gnome in which "file roller" uses a drag and drop interface not supported by Nautilus"
That seems to be permanent. It's been like this for as long as I can remember, and neither team seems to be willing to fix it. Welcome to my biggest frustration with Gnome.
"the country plans to sweep the low end of the market by offering the lowest cost per launched kilogram for smaller payloads"
And why not? It's been working VERY well for them so far. Replace "launched kilogram" with "line of code" and "palyoads" with "projects" and you have the very foundation of the Indian tech boom.
I saw slashdot transformed into Digg, with "slashdotit" links everywhere. That was supposed to be a joke, right? Because it's only funny the first time.
Absolutely. My file server is running happily off of an old 500MHz Compaq laptop, and has been running happily for years. The thing is discreet enough to be tucked into a corner, and barely sucks any juice whatsoever. Laptops are the way to go if you're interested in energy savings.
...have overhung the entire cell phone market. Everyone even thinking about dropping some cash on a cell phone is now holding their breath until the fall. Just by announcing their product they've dipped into everyone else's market share. Even if they haven't gained any share yet, they've at least reserved their spot at the expense of other vendors.
That's why you take a co-op or internship program. I did 4 months of work for every 4 months of school I went through. By the end of my degree I had 2 and a half years of real industry experience.
And contrary to what most people think, most places won't put you to work fetching coffee. I was developing firmware for embedded devices and working on operating systems for most of my co-ops.
Well, who are you managing? Are you manager of a marketing department? If so, it probably doesn't matter one way or another if you're able to turn on a computer. Are you manager of an engineering department? If so, one might wonder how you got there in the first place if you're not intimately familiar with that field of engineering. A good manager has to know the business that they do. They need to know when to push their team, and when to push back on other teams. If that manager's team happens to create technology, then that manager had better know everything involved in the creation of that technology so that they're able to make the calls for scheduling, and know when something is possible or not.
I've noticed that too on my old Motorola. Annoying as hell. Might I recommend the Blackberry Pearl? I've found it lets me store several (4 or so) numbers per person. It also has the killer Blackberry interface, and is just as thin as a RAZR (I actually did a side by side comparison a few days ago...it's exactly the same size as a RAZR V3).
Have you tried this little gem?. RIM makes a BlackBerry smartcard reader. Basically unlocks your PC when you get near it, locks when you leave. Just carry the little smartcard-sized device on your belt / in your pocket.
Before you take such a smug tone, consider that the "suits" are the ones dictating what engineering and research you'll be doing. It's a matter of where you want to fit in. Do you want to be at the helm, leading the company, or do you want to back the visionary at the helm in the form of taking orders?
The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts.
Pay a fee to go back to skipping adverts. I assume that this would be money paid to the content provider, who would in turn give a cut to all companies whose commercials were skipped. So the net result is that even though no commercial for Coca-Cola or what have you was seen, and no Coca-Cola product was used in the TV show, Coca-Cola still makes a profit off of the viewing of this show.
It's win-win for the corporation, and absurd for the consumer. If the corporation's ad gets seen, they get more money through traditional marketing routes. Now, in places where their ad DOESN'T get seen, they get money too. We are effectively unconditionally throwing money at megacorps.
A degree in Engineering would be a start. I suppose CS might qualify as well. I got my BASc in Computer Engineering with Soft Eng option, and the SE option was jointly run by the CS and Engineering departments, so I suppose it's that kind of area.
A Software Engineer, well, Engineers. They start right from the start of a software project, seeing it through the requirements and specifications, through design and project planning, implementation, and testing. Granted, some SEs will specialize in certain areas, but a good Software Engineer will be capable of producing a clear, coherent specification, detailed design, solid implementation, and appropriate test plan for large complicated systems. It will all be done on schedule, and within budget.
Based on the price, vendors classify servers as small (anywhere from Rs 40000 up to Rs 500,000), medium (from Rs 500,000 to Rs 1 crore) and large (over Rs 1 crore). They are identified as Intel (or X86 processor-based), Unix (or non-X86 processor-based) and Blade servers. Linux and Solaris are flavours of Unix. Windows and Intel form the loosely-termed "Wintel" brand.
Since when did running Unix decide your processor type for you? Last I checked, BSD ran on X86 without much issue. Last I checked, Linux wasn't a flavour of Unix.
This is what happens when English majors get hired on to do tech writing. It becomes tech guessing.
You didn't answer the question. I have an iBook that's only 4 months old, and I'm assuming the keyboard is the same. I've had no complaints yet. What's missing?
My mother designs kitchens for a living. Serious kitchens that go in million dollar homes...upscale showroom kind of stuff. She used to do it all by hand, and would swear against ever using a computer. Well she did some work for a company that required her to use some CAD software (this one). After working with it for a few months she couldn't go back. According to her, it did so much of the work for her that it allowed her to focus more on the designs and layout of the kitchen and less on fixing errors. Now any draftsman would see this as a reduced skill set. Your drafting board skills get rusty, and you can't do as much. However, if you look at the big picture, her productivity has skyrocketed and her designs have benefitted from the use of CAD tools.
As previously mentioned, it's the Compiler and Debugger vs Assembler argument. It's keyboard vs handwriting. It's growing your own food vs buying it at the grocery store. We're not so good at hunting, gathering, or painting on cave walls anymore either, and I can picture a bunch of cavemen standing around lamenting about that newfangled paper and how it's ruining their basic skills.
Whenever a new technology usurps an old one, the skills required to use the old one will fade. Not that there isn't intrinsic value in the old pen and paper...I'm just saying this is the way of the world.
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If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I can't stand that about Gmail. Google is a SEARCH company. You figure that SEARCH would be their first priority. But really, if you don't type the word you're looking for exactly as it appears in the email, you're out of luck.
That, and the fact that you can't download HTML. If you attach an HTML file to an email and email your gmail, it will automatically put it inline. No option to download it to another machine and work on it there.
I like gmail, but there are some pretty serious holes in the interface that the engineers seem to be ignoring.
The blackberry is not a consumer device. It is a business device. Hence, no mp3 player, no camera, no third party software installed by default save for java to run the apps.
RIM is just starting to think about the consumer market with its 7100 series. It's the first "phone-like" blackberry.
Blackberries have always been targetted at business users. That means it has to work well and it has to work all the time. A blackberry does both. It handles email like a champ, makes calls without a problem, and gives you access to the web when you need it in a decent mobile browser. Now, according to the article there's an integrated 3G modem, meaning business types will be able to use 3G networks on their laptops, just by syncing via bluetooth to their blackberry. This makes it an even BETTER business device.
If you only consider what it was meant to do, Blackberry is best of breed.
People seem to be complaining that it doesn't load word docs flawlessly or that it doesn't have all their favorite features. People, it was released TODAY. To expect it to be a full out MS Word competitor on the release day is naive.
Google released an RSS reader that barely functions, and people lose their shit. Someone else comes out with a full featured online word processor, and everyone holds their nose. What gives?
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Load up a page on a Blackberry, it comes up in 15 seconds. Load that same page up on an iPhone, and you're waiting a good 2 minutes. Yes you get the web as it's presented on a Desktop, but in order to do that you have to download the entire web page. This is a serious problem when all I want to do is take a quick look at a webpage for updates, or get some information that I need right then and there.
Yeah totem+gstreamer is lame. It's getting better, but VERY VERY VERY slowly. Just remove totem-gstreamer and install totem-xine with the proper dvd decryption libraries and you'll be good to go. Totem's a _decent_ player once you do that. I still go for VLC, though, if only for its ability to handle subtitle files.
"The Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine
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The name "Postal Service" was chosen due to the way in which the band produced their songs. Jimmy would write the music then send DAT tapes to Ben, who would edit the song as he saw fit, adding his vocals along the way, and send them back to Jimmy via "Postal Service"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postal_Service
How do you like that, Elton? Here's a group who's creating new music that's quite well done, and they didn't once meet face to face! The article itself quotes Elton as saying "I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano." Sounds like someone's a little upset that this new-fangled technology seems to be becoming more and more ubiquitous, and he's being left in the dust.
"a version of Gnome in which "file roller" uses a drag and drop interface not supported by Nautilus"
That seems to be permanent. It's been like this for as long as I can remember, and neither team seems to be willing to fix it. Welcome to my biggest frustration with Gnome.
"the country plans to sweep the low end of the market by offering the lowest cost per launched kilogram for smaller payloads"
And why not? It's been working VERY well for them so far. Replace "launched kilogram" with "line of code" and "palyoads" with "projects" and you have the very foundation of the Indian tech boom.
I saw slashdot transformed into Digg, with "slashdotit" links everywhere. That was supposed to be a joke, right? Because it's only funny the first time.
Absolutely. My file server is running happily off of an old 500MHz Compaq laptop, and has been running happily for years. The thing is discreet enough to be tucked into a corner, and barely sucks any juice whatsoever. Laptops are the way to go if you're interested in energy savings.
I just use a re-writable with the latest Ubuntu LiveCD on it. Been using the same CD for years.
...have overhung the entire cell phone market. Everyone even thinking about dropping some cash on a cell phone is now holding their breath until the fall. Just by announcing their product they've dipped into everyone else's market share. Even if they haven't gained any share yet, they've at least reserved their spot at the expense of other vendors.
That's why you take a co-op or internship program. I did 4 months of work for every 4 months of school I went through. By the end of my degree I had 2 and a half years of real industry experience.
And contrary to what most people think, most places won't put you to work fetching coffee. I was developing firmware for embedded devices and working on operating systems for most of my co-ops.
There's an odor industry? It seems I missed my calling.
Well, who are you managing? Are you manager of a marketing department? If so, it probably doesn't matter one way or another if you're able to turn on a computer. Are you manager of an engineering department? If so, one might wonder how you got there in the first place if you're not intimately familiar with that field of engineering. A good manager has to know the business that they do. They need to know when to push their team, and when to push back on other teams. If that manager's team happens to create technology, then that manager had better know everything involved in the creation of that technology so that they're able to make the calls for scheduling, and know when something is possible or not.
I've noticed that too on my old Motorola. Annoying as hell. Might I recommend the Blackberry Pearl? I've found it lets me store several (4 or so) numbers per person. It also has the killer Blackberry interface, and is just as thin as a RAZR (I actually did a side by side comparison a few days ago...it's exactly the same size as a RAZR V3).
Have you tried this little gem?. RIM makes a BlackBerry smartcard reader. Basically unlocks your PC when you get near it, locks when you leave. Just carry the little smartcard-sized device on your belt / in your pocket.
Complete with full sized images.
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http://www.computerworld.com.nyud.net:8090/action
Before you take such a smug tone, consider that the "suits" are the ones dictating what engineering and research you'll be doing. It's a matter of where you want to fit in. Do you want to be at the helm, leading the company, or do you want to back the visionary at the helm in the form of taking orders?
The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts.
Pay a fee to go back to skipping adverts. I assume that this would be money paid to the content provider, who would in turn give a cut to all companies whose commercials were skipped. So the net result is that even though no commercial for Coca-Cola or what have you was seen, and no Coca-Cola product was used in the TV show, Coca-Cola still makes a profit off of the viewing of this show.
It's win-win for the corporation, and absurd for the consumer. If the corporation's ad gets seen, they get more money through traditional marketing routes. Now, in places where their ad DOESN'T get seen, they get money too. We are effectively unconditionally throwing money at megacorps.
A degree in Engineering would be a start. I suppose CS might qualify as well. I got my BASc in Computer Engineering with Soft Eng option, and the SE option was jointly run by the CS and Engineering departments, so I suppose it's that kind of area.
A Software Engineer, well, Engineers. They start right from the start of a software project, seeing it through the requirements and specifications, through design and project planning, implementation, and testing. Granted, some SEs will specialize in certain areas, but a good Software Engineer will be capable of producing a clear, coherent specification, detailed design, solid implementation, and appropriate test plan for large complicated systems. It will all be done on schedule, and within budget.
That is what a Software Engineer does.
Based on the price, vendors classify servers as small (anywhere from Rs 40000 up to Rs 500,000), medium (from Rs 500,000 to Rs 1 crore) and large (over Rs 1 crore). They are identified as Intel (or X86 processor-based), Unix (or non-X86 processor-based) and Blade servers. Linux and Solaris are flavours of Unix. Windows and Intel form the loosely-termed "Wintel" brand.
Since when did running Unix decide your processor type for you? Last I checked, BSD ran on X86 without much issue. Last I checked, Linux wasn't a flavour of Unix.
This is what happens when English majors get hired on to do tech writing. It becomes tech guessing.
You didn't answer the question. I have an iBook that's only 4 months old, and I'm assuming the keyboard is the same. I've had no complaints yet. What's missing?
My mother designs kitchens for a living. Serious kitchens that go in million dollar homes...upscale showroom kind of stuff. She used to do it all by hand, and would swear against ever using a computer. Well she did some work for a company that required her to use some CAD software (this one). After working with it for a few months she couldn't go back. According to her, it did so much of the work for her that it allowed her to focus more on the designs and layout of the kitchen and less on fixing errors. Now any draftsman would see this as a reduced skill set. Your drafting board skills get rusty, and you can't do as much. However, if you look at the big picture, her productivity has skyrocketed and her designs have benefitted from the use of CAD tools.
As previously mentioned, it's the Compiler and Debugger vs Assembler argument. It's keyboard vs handwriting. It's growing your own food vs buying it at the grocery store. We're not so good at hunting, gathering, or painting on cave walls anymore either, and I can picture a bunch of cavemen standing around lamenting about that newfangled paper and how it's ruining their basic skills.
Whenever a new technology usurps an old one, the skills required to use the old one will fade. Not that there isn't intrinsic value in the old pen and paper...I'm just saying this is the way of the world.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up. I can't stand that about Gmail. Google is a SEARCH company. You figure that SEARCH would be their first priority. But really, if you don't type the word you're looking for exactly as it appears in the email, you're out of luck.
That, and the fact that you can't download HTML. If you attach an HTML file to an email and email your gmail, it will automatically put it inline. No option to download it to another machine and work on it there.
I like gmail, but there are some pretty serious holes in the interface that the engineers seem to be ignoring.
What exactly has he done to spread technology?
Well, there's that whole "computer in every home in America" deal.
The blackberry is not a consumer device. It is a business device. Hence, no mp3 player, no camera, no third party software installed by default save for java to run the apps.
RIM is just starting to think about the consumer market with its 7100 series. It's the first "phone-like" blackberry.
Blackberries have always been targetted at business users. That means it has to work well and it has to work all the time. A blackberry does both. It handles email like a champ, makes calls without a problem, and gives you access to the web when you need it in a decent mobile browser. Now, according to the article there's an integrated 3G modem, meaning business types will be able to use 3G networks on their laptops, just by syncing via bluetooth to their blackberry. This makes it an even BETTER business device.
If you only consider what it was meant to do, Blackberry is best of breed.
People seem to be complaining that it doesn't load word docs flawlessly or that it doesn't have all their favorite features. People, it was released TODAY. To expect it to be a full out MS Word competitor on the release day is naive.
Google released an RSS reader that barely functions, and people lose their shit. Someone else comes out with a full featured online word processor, and everyone holds their nose. What gives?