... if you use a Mac or a Linux box. Only Windows PCs are supported. See the Unbox FAQ.
I'm constantly amazed that vendors turn their noses up at millions of potential customers that happen to use other OSs. Amazon, at least, should know better.
I'm MUCH more interested in knowing the median annual raise.
Averages (arithmetic means) can give a very distorted view if the distribution is odd in some way. For example, suppose you know the average income of a sample of 100 people that includes Bill Gates. It doesn't tell you much about the rest of the sample.
Computerworld is for geeks. They should know better.
Can you sell more Exciting Flexible Collectible Action Figures, T-shirts, Sippy-Cups, Left-handed Staplers, and Nintendo Dongles(TM) if you have more villains?
Sure! But no one will want to see the frickin' movie. The plot will have holes. Motivations will be murky. No one will care about the characters.
Just tell a damn good story and the money will take care of itself. Leave the over-the-top merchandizing and box office flops to Disney. They're the masters of that.
I'm still using it. I've found it to be far more usable than the alternatives. I think providing it as freeware was one of the smartest bits of marketing to come out of Palm. It's a pity they've stepped backward from that.
... cus' Samsung has been sooo quick to release the SGH-i505. Whoops, I mean the SGH-i550. These Palm two smartphone models were first announced at a trade show in October 2003. I still haven't seen either one in the wild.
Buy a Treo. You can actually go to a store and touch one of those. It's loads easier to type on than a cloud of pretty, hot air from Samsung.
Overall, the more advanced features you want a clinical system to provide, the more that system needs to integrate with other systems. Companies have given up reinventing the wheel on this every time, and are basing what they do on standard software and protocols. Microsoft is one of those. We try to avoid it whenever possible, however in most instances the decision for one product over another is based on clinical value, and not IT preference.
Does 'clinical value' for software count the 'not crashing and killing people' feature? I kinda value that one a lot. I think that Greek guy would, too.
JPilot is an open-source, freeware organizer. You get a calendar, to do list with categories and priorities, address book, dialer, and memo pad. It is designed to sync with Palm devices. However, it can export to other calendar and address book formats (iCalendar, vCard, LDIF).
If you just want a free-as-in-beer organizer, the Palm Desktop is free for personal use on Mac or Windows.
People are whinging about Tog's remarks because "the Dock works and has never done anything wrong to me."
That's not his point. Every behavior he criticizes requires you to take your mind off your work and concentrate on the UI for a few seconds. That time away is a painless little vampire sucking on your productivity. It's nontrivial.
Tog isn't daydreaming or bitter. HCI isn't voodoo. Many of its precepts are supported by empiric research. Go. Read some of it!
... capture and purify my perspiration so that I can survive in a hyper-arid desert environment?
Think bigger, ScottEVest.
Atkin's weight-loss vs. Atkin's weight maintenance
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I was 180 lb at the end of 2002. I was 163 lb and holding by the end of March thanks to an Atkins-like diet plan and continuing my normal exercise routine.
The weight-loss phase of Atkins-like diets is quite different from the maintenance phase. Atkins and others don't advocate steak, bacon, and cheese for a lifetime.
After you reach your target, healthy weight, you gradually add more whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and cut back on protein. You still avoid simple sugars and high glycemic-index carbohydrates, though. That's the hardest part for me. I love good crusty white bread and desserts.
1) Too heavy. A tablet needs to be light enough to hold comfortably with one hand. You need to write with the other one.
2) Too expensive. Even the tablets with keyboards (yes, some of them have keyboards) are much more expensive than a comparable laptop.
3) Short battery life. See point 1, above.
4) Fragility. You're carrying around a color LCD plus digitizer (i.e., $$$). You're writing on it. It's collecting dust and dirt. Pity about that scratch, crack, ding...
5) False mimicry. The parallax between screen pixels and moving pen point makes it really, really clear that you're not using a pen on paper.
Every author has "trunk novels." They wrote them early in their career and tossed them in a steamer trunk, usually because the books stank. Book and magazine editors bounced them for a reason.
Sometimes these books get published when said authors are better known. Guess what? The books still stink once they're in print.
I'm not optimistic. Heinlein's early short fiction is good stuff. But it took him a while to build his writing chops up to longer works.
Slashdotting is a flash riot. A whole mess a' people show up to see something interesting and *boom*. Granted that Niven's flash riots required teleportation, but the phenomenon is very, very similar.
Slashdot Mirror
The sound on my =bare metal= install of Fedora 10 didn't work.
After much forum-searching, config tweaking, and pounding-of-keyboard, I eliminated PulseAudio.
The sound worked.
Tell me again about PA's awesomeness.
Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers. Carl M. Bender
...Daredevil, machine without peer.
... if you use a Mac or a Linux box. Only Windows PCs are supported. See the Unbox FAQ. I'm constantly amazed that vendors turn their noses up at millions of potential customers that happen to use other OSs. Amazon, at least, should know better.
Computerworld is for geeks. They should know better.
Can you sell more Exciting Flexible Collectible Action Figures, T-shirts, Sippy-Cups, Left-handed Staplers, and Nintendo Dongles(TM) if you have more villains?
Sure! But no one will want to see the frickin' movie. The plot will have holes. Motivations will be murky. No one will care about the characters.
Just tell a damn good story and the money will take care of itself. Leave the over-the-top merchandizing and box office flops to Disney. They're the masters of that.
I've pretty much stopped buying Slurpees because without fail, half of the machines have just unfrozen liquid at any 7-11 I visit.
I'm still using it. I've found it to be far more usable than the alternatives. I think providing it as freeware was one of the smartest bits of marketing to come out of Palm. It's a pity they've stepped backward from that.
Exactly, the schema are soooo open that we patented them.
And, the XML is NOT pretty. It could win prizes as obfuscated code. Ever seen what a Word doc looks like when saved as HTML? Ugh-lee! This is worse.
... when you hire someone who can write.
Rumor has it that Lucas hired a ghost screenwriter for this one. I'll bet that's a huge part of the difference.
That said, I'm not paying to see Episode III. Episode I was an insult and I hold a grudge.
1) Keep your word. Stay until the end date that you promised. Nobody likes a liar.
2) Document everything on paper.
3) Get witnesses. Don't hold any critical employment conversations without a third party present.
4) Request an exit interview. At it, deliver a copy of your documentation.
5) Buy a farewell lunch for your co-workers to celebrate your departure.
6) Leave with a smile.
It was October 2003. The SGH-i500 was cancelled; the SGH-i550/i505 was shown in early 2004. Samsung hasn't shipped a single unit of either model.
I commented on it here.
... cus' Samsung has been sooo quick to release the SGH-i505. Whoops, I mean the SGH-i550. These Palm two smartphone models were first announced at a trade show in October 2003. I still haven't seen either one in the wild.
Buy a Treo. You can actually go to a store and touch one of those. It's loads easier to type on than a cloud of pretty, hot air from Samsung.
Polling: Daily Kos Wonderful poll analysis, great community, lots of smart commenters
Economics: Brad DeLong He's a PhD economist and a former economic advisor to the Clinton administration
Social Policy: Body and Soul She blogs the uncomfortable places where others won't go.
Politics: Atrios The man reads everything. This site is especially good for U.S. politics.
Snark: Sisyphus Shrugged This woman has it. Her recent posts on Nader are vicious and painfully accurate.
Satire: Fafblog!!! The world's only source of Fafblog. Do not drink while reading. Your keyboard will thank you.
I use a 12-inch, G3-500 iBook for travel. It typically gets 5+ hours on a charge.
:-)
There will always be a processor/battery life tradeoff. This laptop is plenty fast enough for me when I travel.
If you think you need the ability to render footage for "Shrek 3" on your laptop, perhaps you need to think again.
JPilot is an open-source, freeware organizer. You get a calendar, to do list with categories and priorities, address book, dialer, and memo pad. It is designed to sync with Palm devices. However, it can export to other calendar and address book formats (iCalendar, vCard, LDIF).
If you just want a free-as-in-beer organizer, the Palm Desktop is free for personal use on Mac or Windows.
I use Firefox on my G4/1.25G Powerbook and G3/500 iBook because Safari is actively hostile to bookmark portability unless you have a .Mac subscription.
I use Thunderbird because Mail.app runs like a pregnant water buffalo in deep mud. I also despise Mail.app's slide-out drawer.
People are whinging about Tog's remarks because "the Dock works and has never done anything wrong to me."
That's not his point. Every behavior he criticizes requires you to take your mind off your work and concentrate on the UI for a few seconds. That time away is a painless little vampire sucking on your productivity. It's nontrivial.
Tog isn't daydreaming or bitter. HCI isn't voodoo. Many of its precepts are supported by empiric research. Go. Read some of it!
Think bigger, ScottEVest.
The weight-loss phase of Atkins-like diets is quite different from the maintenance phase. Atkins and others don't advocate steak, bacon, and cheese for a lifetime.
After you reach your target, healthy weight, you gradually add more whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and cut back on protein. You still avoid simple sugars and high glycemic-index carbohydrates, though. That's the hardest part for me. I love good crusty white bread and desserts.
2) Too expensive. Even the tablets with keyboards (yes, some of them have keyboards) are much more expensive than a comparable laptop.
3) Short battery life. See point 1, above.
4) Fragility. You're carrying around a color LCD plus digitizer (i.e., $$$). You're writing on it. It's collecting dust and dirt. Pity about that scratch, crack, ding ...
5) False mimicry. The parallax between screen pixels and moving pen point makes it really, really clear that you're not using a pen on paper.
Every author has "trunk novels." They wrote them early in their career and tossed them in a steamer trunk, usually because the books stank. Book and magazine editors bounced them for a reason.
Sometimes these books get published when said authors are better known. Guess what? The books still stink once they're in print.
I'm not optimistic. Heinlein's early short fiction is good stuff. But it took him a while to build his writing chops up to longer works.
karma happens between posts