I'm pretty sure that 90% of all documents on the internet need nothing more fancy than RTF encoding or even a very simple set of BBCode tags to be usable. I know PDFs are supposed to have tons of features but why not just be simple and stick with ASCII?
Google Apps for email, works miracles and it still allows you to use Outlook but also lets you use all the nifty free Mac apps. It has a calendar and automagically blocks spam. I've set this up for about 15 domains now, everybody loves it.
Active Directory however is one of the best features of Windows in the enterprise. Sure, their permissions make me go cross eyed but that's another story and has nothing to do with AD. It's really just LDAP with extensions anyway so you are complaining about the Microsoftisms that drive everybody nuts. It's a hard job to design a tool that works 90% for everybody in every use and not have some limitations from doing that.
As has been said previously: the flaw here is a PEBKAC issue. To save them from themselves we should be asking M$ to port Office to the Wii and a large majority of users can use that. The real issue that drives us all nuts with Windows is that it is a platform for 3rd party apps that work like shit. Almost all the M$ programs I've had to admin work awesome on their own, it's that accounting app that is 23 years old or some one-off utility database that sucks balls and forces us to reach around our heads to scratch our ear.
I gave up on games after I started to feel the treadmill effect of doing the same thing over and over. I pulled out the instrument I gave up for a decade and started actively entertaining myself rather than passively. This led me to home recording and then onto music production.
I've never been happier since I stopped consuming and started creating.
Wow, and to think when I upgrade Mac OS X it only cost me $30 and already had that shit...
Vista cost something near $300, and 7 is around $200. For... larger icons... and fancy graphics. The problems with Windows for most consumers is the constant update treadmill. Most support calls I get from my family have to do with their anti-virus software that has it's own grinding death march of updates as well. MS Office is terrible for this even on the Mac, if the 2000 version for Windows had a citation manager I'd still be using that. Adobe does the same, yet their software is capable of running just fine for years w/o an update performed (in fact, it is more stable if you is the pirated versions).
Which makes me wonder: why does an office suite take a gig of RAM to run? Didn't we run old ones off of floppies? I mean, really, Google Docs does 99% of what Office does and it runs in a web browser.
Once you start USING a computer for something instead of having a digital hot-rod on your desk you grow weary of the upgrade grind. Nobody gets excited about a new washer/dryer like how people froth about new MS releases.
Because the development cycle is longer than that for derivative projects. Imagine if you could have a cycled and tested app that was ready from day 0...
I've worked _for_ three different people (all women oddly) who had MIS degrees, at the masters level. They were all doing pretty high end system administration (remember that scalability thing?) and weren't worth a damn on the job.
One of them, literally, ghost wrote a blog on a site to attract users. Another spent more time looking at "productivity" in her custom written spreadsheet than she did doing anything to supervise the 4 people under her. And another couldn't successfully install win2k because the disk format part was "confusing".
Every single one of them made 160% of any wage I ever made working under them and I was making $60k/yr. So, they do start making more money for having taken Excel 101 because the PHB doesn't understand the differences between MIS and CS/CE.
I recently switched from a CS degree to a history BA to do something I love: talk about history. I expect to get a starting wage that is 1/2 of what I was making as an un-degree'd professional with 10 years under my belt. But, I'll be able to do it for 40 years without feeling like I need to march through the cubicles with an AK-47 or burning the building down.
Perhaps they'll lower the price on the old Sierra titles to a company sized more like the one that did the Penny Arcade title. That game rocked and was totally worth the $19 I spent on it. If they used that format and had an update to the Gold Rush! title I'd buy it in a heartbeat (I'm a history major, so I have odd tastes).
Episodic content in that manner is really interesting. The art style was familiar from two known artists. And the 'steampunk' styling was fresh and original for what was essentially a spoof. Space Quest would be a riot in that format.
Your figures are inflated. I played bass for over 10 years and here is what I remember paying:
Bass: about $1000 Amp: about $1500 PA: we did a used one, for $1500 (it came with two mics) Strings, picks, beer, etc: $60 every other month or so.
$10k is too much, we split the PA 3 ways and my grandparents of all people bought my amp for me. The most expensive part of the ordeal was probably the music training. Public school is subsidized to you by the gov't so taking music there is near free. But then I had 10 years of music lessons at $20/wk. Factor in the time spent practicing, buying books, etc and you have a bigger number than gear.
Hell, for $10k these days you could home record a pretty awesome record including all the gear to do so.
The key here is that you don't need the "ZOMG BESTEST!!!one" stuff to be a good musician. I'm not advocating being cheap, quality is what counts. And if you are going into bars and playing gigs with a tube amp, well, you deserve to shell out big bucks as you are an elitist twerp. They do sound better, but slamming them off of a truck every night is a good way to spend money on breaking something that can be replaced by a nigh indestructible IC.
Furthermore, if you are still working bars and getting ~$400 for your gigs then you aren't making enough to tour on w/o outside jobs and therefore are still not professional. Perhaps it's better on the coasts but here in the mid-west it's tough to get paying gigs that aren't weddings. People just don't go out to hear music as they all want to hear the same schlock that is bleating off of corporate radio.
This however doesn't cover streaming internet radio pricing into how bands/artists get paid for their art. Somebody needs to put a nail in the coffin of corporate radio and the FCC needs to ensure fair access to the airwaves. It used to be that if you could tolerate outlandish opinions and dead air you could find some of the best music on college radio. Now most of the stations are run by corporate interests and farm interns from schools. Pirate radio is some of the best programming you can find, however it is rabidly illegal. This leaves streaming, and RIAA is killing it. Therefore, radio shows need to go to the "podcast" broadcast method and deliver "value added" content. Essentially bring back the educated music loving DJ and some critical theory. He wraps it up into a show, and generates sponsors to pay for his time (and cd habit). Streaming is dead as a delivery method.
I don't think it's the bulletin boards fault really. I'd rather blame bonehead instructors and the fact that 70% of my classmates have never used such a thing. Most of them text up a storm but have never even seen a USENET discussion or quoted an email in a response message.
Of the 4 classes I have this semester only one of them is trying to foster any sort of discussion on the black board workalike we're using. And it's miserable for everybody involved.
The best experiences I've had with BBs has been with a motorcycle enthusiast club and a WoW guild. The prevalence of these sorts of uses makes me wonder how people who are "computer illiterate" find some information. Libraries sure aren't cutting it on how to re-needle your carbs or what the best elemental shaman spec is for a raid.
The "change" part is say like him saying "I'm not Bush" in a slogan. Given Bush's approval rating this is the most logical way to run a campaign right now. Hell, even McCain is running on the "Look, see, I'm not Bush either!" ticket and essentially letting the swing voters pick the election.
As for third parties: I'll vote for one when they have a ghost chance in hell to elect an official. I voted for the Libertarian (I'm a Democrat who voted for Clinton twice) coroner when he was _actually_ qualified for the job and the other schmuck was a "soccer mom". It comes down to not just picking your team but picking the individual (I voted for Republican congress critters when the Democrats were corrupt bums). But, voting for them in protest does nothing but reduce the total number of votes for a viable candidate. If you care that much about politics go down to your local courthouse and do something local.
I call bullshit on this. Most people I know who have lost their jobs have been sucking up anything making $10k less per year as it's better than nothing. Least hit, that comforting as I know at least 5 techies who are under or unemployed while everyone I know in any other "sector" is having no issues.
I'm currently a student (after being an admin for 10 years) working on a history degree. The one thing every class wants is lively out of class discussion but you never get it with the "blackboard" clones. Make available a PHPBB workalike to instructors with easy to remember URLs (eg, HIS3660.youdomain.com).
With that simple tool an instructor can post videos, syllabus, and class material that can be seen from any browser.
You could probably even offer this to student groups including the, gasp, non-school sponsored ones that don't get resources (like the history club I'm in).
This would never fly in the US. The average boob citizen cannot comprehend the math you just used.
This doesn't mean that it isn't happening, it just won't be worded that way. The gov't can't have it's loyal voters screaming "THEY TOOK OUR JAWBS!!!" over it.
Depends on where you buy from. My DSL costs me $9 for a copper line from Qwaste and then I pay $20 for bandwidth on top of that from a local small shop ISP.
They don't have glitzy features or 24/7/365 support or for that matter any extraneous crap I don't use (like email). However, this price is *literally* 20% of what I was paying just a decade ago for the _same_exact_service_ (though I had a static IP back in the day).
So prices did come down, the sad part is that most people don't have access to them because they can't stop getting service through national ISPs. I believe that anybody can get a dry copper wire from a telco wired up anywhere, now you just need the rest of the infrastructure (good luck).
What if you play 5 hours a day just to hang out with your buddies and to try and stay out of the bar? Lots of people dog on it because it is a video game. But I'm a lot healtheir now that I stay home, play a game, and cook for myself rather than sit in a smokey bar and guzzle 4 pints a night.
Some people do too much of anything, that's how us meatbags work.
I thought that you only had to pay for the machines that you actually wanted support for. Buy one license, install multiple times. That's how it works. This $350k number sounds to large to me.
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I'm pretty sure that 90% of all documents on the internet need nothing more fancy than RTF encoding or even a very simple set of BBCode tags to be usable. I know PDFs are supposed to have tons of features but why not just be simple and stick with ASCII?
Google Apps for email, works miracles and it still allows you to use Outlook but also lets you use all the nifty free Mac apps. It has a calendar and automagically blocks spam. I've set this up for about 15 domains now, everybody loves it.
Active Directory however is one of the best features of Windows in the enterprise. Sure, their permissions make me go cross eyed but that's another story and has nothing to do with AD. It's really just LDAP with extensions anyway so you are complaining about the Microsoftisms that drive everybody nuts. It's a hard job to design a tool that works 90% for everybody in every use and not have some limitations from doing that.
As has been said previously: the flaw here is a PEBKAC issue. To save them from themselves we should be asking M$ to port Office to the Wii and a large majority of users can use that. The real issue that drives us all nuts with Windows is that it is a platform for 3rd party apps that work like shit. Almost all the M$ programs I've had to admin work awesome on their own, it's that accounting app that is 23 years old or some one-off utility database that sucks balls and forces us to reach around our heads to scratch our ear.
I gave up on games after I started to feel the treadmill effect of doing the same thing over and over. I pulled out the instrument I gave up for a decade and started actively entertaining myself rather than passively. This led me to home recording and then onto music production.
I've never been happier since I stopped consuming and started creating.
Wow, and to think when I upgrade Mac OS X it only cost me $30 and already had that shit...
Vista cost something near $300, and 7 is around $200. For... larger icons... and fancy graphics. The problems with Windows for most consumers is the constant update treadmill. Most support calls I get from my family have to do with their anti-virus software that has it's own grinding death march of updates as well. MS Office is terrible for this even on the Mac, if the 2000 version for Windows had a citation manager I'd still be using that. Adobe does the same, yet their software is capable of running just fine for years w/o an update performed (in fact, it is more stable if you is the pirated versions).
Which makes me wonder: why does an office suite take a gig of RAM to run? Didn't we run old ones off of floppies? I mean, really, Google Docs does 99% of what Office does and it runs in a web browser.
Once you start USING a computer for something instead of having a digital hot-rod on your desk you grow weary of the upgrade grind. Nobody gets excited about a new washer/dryer like how people froth about new MS releases.
You slut...
Because the development cycle is longer than that for derivative projects. Imagine if you could have a cycled and tested app that was ready from day 0...
I've worked _for_ three different people (all women oddly) who had MIS degrees, at the masters level. They were all doing pretty high end system administration (remember that scalability thing?) and weren't worth a damn on the job.
One of them, literally, ghost wrote a blog on a site to attract users. Another spent more time looking at "productivity" in her custom written spreadsheet than she did doing anything to supervise the 4 people under her. And another couldn't successfully install win2k because the disk format part was "confusing".
Every single one of them made 160% of any wage I ever made working under them and I was making $60k/yr. So, they do start making more money for having taken Excel 101 because the PHB doesn't understand the differences between MIS and CS/CE.
I recently switched from a CS degree to a history BA to do something I love: talk about history. I expect to get a starting wage that is 1/2 of what I was making as an un-degree'd professional with 10 years under my belt. But, I'll be able to do it for 40 years without feeling like I need to march through the cubicles with an AK-47 or burning the building down.
Perhaps they'll lower the price on the old Sierra titles to a company sized more like the one that did the Penny Arcade title. That game rocked and was totally worth the $19 I spent on it. If they used that format and had an update to the Gold Rush! title I'd buy it in a heartbeat (I'm a history major, so I have odd tastes).
Episodic content in that manner is really interesting. The art style was familiar from two known artists. And the 'steampunk' styling was fresh and original for what was essentially a spoof. Space Quest would be a riot in that format.
Your figures are inflated. I played bass for over 10 years and here is what I remember paying:
Bass: about $1000
Amp: about $1500
PA: we did a used one, for $1500 (it came with two mics)
Strings, picks, beer, etc: $60 every other month or so.
$10k is too much, we split the PA 3 ways and my grandparents of all people bought my amp for me. The most expensive part of the ordeal was probably the music training. Public school is subsidized to you by the gov't so taking music there is near free. But then I had 10 years of music lessons at $20/wk. Factor in the time spent practicing, buying books, etc and you have a bigger number than gear.
Hell, for $10k these days you could home record a pretty awesome record including all the gear to do so.
The key here is that you don't need the "ZOMG BESTEST!!!one" stuff to be a good musician. I'm not advocating being cheap, quality is what counts. And if you are going into bars and playing gigs with a tube amp, well, you deserve to shell out big bucks as you are an elitist twerp. They do sound better, but slamming them off of a truck every night is a good way to spend money on breaking something that can be replaced by a nigh indestructible IC.
Furthermore, if you are still working bars and getting ~$400 for your gigs then you aren't making enough to tour on w/o outside jobs and therefore are still not professional. Perhaps it's better on the coasts but here in the mid-west it's tough to get paying gigs that aren't weddings. People just don't go out to hear music as they all want to hear the same schlock that is bleating off of corporate radio.
This however doesn't cover streaming internet radio pricing into how bands/artists get paid for their art. Somebody needs to put a nail in the coffin of corporate radio and the FCC needs to ensure fair access to the airwaves. It used to be that if you could tolerate outlandish opinions and dead air you could find some of the best music on college radio. Now most of the stations are run by corporate interests and farm interns from schools. Pirate radio is some of the best programming you can find, however it is rabidly illegal. This leaves streaming, and RIAA is killing it. Therefore, radio shows need to go to the "podcast" broadcast method and deliver "value added" content. Essentially bring back the educated music loving DJ and some critical theory. He wraps it up into a show, and generates sponsors to pay for his time (and cd habit). Streaming is dead as a delivery method.
I don't think it's the bulletin boards fault really. I'd rather blame bonehead instructors and the fact that 70% of my classmates have never used such a thing. Most of them text up a storm but have never even seen a USENET discussion or quoted an email in a response message.
Of the 4 classes I have this semester only one of them is trying to foster any sort of discussion on the black board workalike we're using. And it's miserable for everybody involved.
The best experiences I've had with BBs has been with a motorcycle enthusiast club and a WoW guild. The prevalence of these sorts of uses makes me wonder how people who are "computer illiterate" find some information. Libraries sure aren't cutting it on how to re-needle your carbs or what the best elemental shaman spec is for a raid.
The "change" part is say like him saying "I'm not Bush" in a slogan. Given Bush's approval rating this is the most logical way to run a campaign right now. Hell, even McCain is running on the "Look, see, I'm not Bush either!" ticket and essentially letting the swing voters pick the election.
As for third parties: I'll vote for one when they have a ghost chance in hell to elect an official. I voted for the Libertarian (I'm a Democrat who voted for Clinton twice) coroner when he was _actually_ qualified for the job and the other schmuck was a "soccer mom". It comes down to not just picking your team but picking the individual (I voted for Republican congress critters when the Democrats were corrupt bums). But, voting for them in protest does nothing but reduce the total number of votes for a viable candidate. If you care that much about politics go down to your local courthouse and do something local.
This is what the line item veto is for.
I call bullshit on this. Most people I know who have lost their jobs have been sucking up anything making $10k less per year as it's better than nothing. Least hit, that comforting as I know at least 5 techies who are under or unemployed while everyone I know in any other "sector" is having no issues.
I'm currently a student (after being an admin for 10 years) working on a history degree. The one thing every class wants is lively out of class discussion but you never get it with the "blackboard" clones. Make available a PHPBB workalike to instructors with easy to remember URLs (eg, HIS3660.youdomain.com).
With that simple tool an instructor can post videos, syllabus, and class material that can be seen from any browser.
You could probably even offer this to student groups including the, gasp, non-school sponsored ones that don't get resources (like the history club I'm in).
This would never fly in the US. The average boob citizen cannot comprehend the math you just used.
This doesn't mean that it isn't happening, it just won't be worded that way. The gov't can't have it's loyal voters screaming "THEY TOOK OUR JAWBS!!!" over it.
Depends on where you buy from. My DSL costs me $9 for a copper line from Qwaste and then I pay $20 for bandwidth on top of that from a local small shop ISP.
They don't have glitzy features or 24/7/365 support or for that matter any extraneous crap I don't use (like email). However, this price is *literally* 20% of what I was paying just a decade ago for the _same_exact_service_ (though I had a static IP back in the day).
So prices did come down, the sad part is that most people don't have access to them because they can't stop getting service through national ISPs. I believe that anybody can get a dry copper wire from a telco wired up anywhere, now you just need the rest of the infrastructure (good luck).
Wait, so the money guy accuses the academics of being to, well, academic?
Film at 11...
What if you play 5 hours a day just to hang out with your buddies and to try and stay out of the bar? Lots of people dog on it because it is a video game. But I'm a lot healtheir now that I stay home, play a game, and cook for myself rather than sit in a smokey bar and guzzle 4 pints a night.
Some people do too much of anything, that's how us meatbags work.
Wow, the new layout doesn't look like trash in FF on my Mac. Kudos!
But do the Bosons write poetry?
I've always enjoyed signing up for soul sucking free registrations with eat@shit.com.
Two words: External Modem.
You plug it into a serial port but you don't have to put the receiver of the phone into the little rubber grometty things anymore.
This is suffers from the Existential Fallacy. What makes you think that humans even exist? Sheesh! Kids these days with their purple unicorns...
This all just sounds like Asimo's little Chucky...
I thought that you only had to pay for the machines that you actually wanted support for. Buy one license, install multiple times. That's how it works. This $350k number sounds to large to me.