But can't you also see two teams (one at Apple, the other at Microsoft) thinking:
"We have all these entrenched 3D GPUs...what can we do to take advantage of them?"
It's really hard to say GPU acceleration of the GUI is an Apple only idea. If you get past that, "What snazzy stuff can we DO with said GPU?" is the next logical extension.
Reguardless of age, there are still jobs for verifiably talented people. But I WILL say that getting a cold-call job is pretty tough. Most of the GOOD programmers I've seen laid off were unemployed less than a month and got hired via networking with their peers.
I think you're seeing a LOT of weeding out in the field of the folks that got that associates degree and jumped into the IT field to get the 'easy money'.
What's funny is, at least in Denver, most of them hopped over to real estate, a marked that's PRIMED for a bust.
I noticed when my 3 month old boys were talking, they'd wave their hands alot. One of my cow-orkers stated that at that point in development, both the vocalization and the movement were being handled by the same part of the brain.
The point? Two disparate tasks are being run by the same ciruitry, so Synesthesia may just be another manefestation of a similar behavior.
It's because you don't need physical access to the wiring closet to sniff packets now. All you need is netstumbler and a pringles can.
There'd be a similar hubbub if there was a small LED display outside your cubicle, showing everything that was moving across the ethernet segment on your desktop.
You crazy/.'ers, always bitching about printers...
Lets do some math here:
Ink cart, Black - $30
Ink cart, Color - $30
Printer (after rebate, laptop purchase, whatever) - Free to $60
Do you REALLY think something that can precicely paint 1200 dots to an inch (That's roughly _115_ million dots on a full color page), in less than 4 minutes costs the company NOTHING to produce, package, advertise, ship and GIVE to you?
If you think so, take my advice and don't go into business.
All of the manufacturers are selling their 'low-end' printers at a loss and expecting to make it up in ink sales. If you decide you don't like that, go FIND a cheap, good, printer with cheap refillable ink...go ahead. What? you can't find one? Why do you think that is?
Pay for it up front or pay for it in installments. Any company that successfully stays in business will get your money in one of those two ways and STAY in business.
If they try to dongle their own PC-based in some way, so that Mac OS X only runs on their own hardware, people will figure out how to get around this pretty quickly, so this is a non-starter as well.
All they need is that 007 game...there's a buffer overflow exploit, ya know.
I've found that it'd really like a well publicized place that LISTED what all was installed in Distro DuJour. Case in point, Redhat 8's almost a gig, and yet there's no real way, short of taking the initiative and executing each program with find out what everything does. You've heard of a joke-a-day? It's be GREAT to have an app-a-day. Just make sure that the dialogbox has 'Next', 'Cancel', and 'Uninstall'
On the other side of the coin is NetBSD. NOTHING MUCH is installed by default. I _like_ that. It's _good_. That way I don't have to worry about apotential compromise in an application I didn't even know was installed on my machine.
Not if you don't mind folks seeing your bills as you pay them.
You can secure the transactions by running through SSH or setting up a vpn tunnel...there's some overhead, but I'd guess your computers could encrypt faster than the hardware in your 802.11 setup.
Must have had newborn kids. This PVR has SAVED my TV viewing life. The ability to a)pause live TV, b) rewind when you missed critical dialog during a screamfest, and 3) Watch your favorite 9pm (MST) TV show when you have enough banked time to watch it is invaluable...
Cause sometimes the only time I can watch CSI: Miami is Saturday at 9am.
In your enthusiasm to slam Microsoft, I get a Really Good Feel for when a patch is critical or not. It lets me ignore the servers until a front page Slashdot article shows up.
I'm implying that doing business costs money and the TCO of both products is similar. I'm also implying that if you wring all the blood you can out of this turnip, the next manager over will pull a bonehead stunt and waste all of your savings plus a margin.
I'm ALSO implying that being a linux Fanboy is rewarded here, while stating the Linux vs. the Great White Evil is a pretty senseless waste of time isn't. Again, it's like Ford vs. Chevy, Catholicism vs. Judaism, or day vs. night. They're BOTH good.
Figures you'd get a +5 insightful. As a govt IT professional that HAS migrated 1200 machines to XP, the costs were managable, the migration automated and scripted fully, and the training was negligible.
Further, the managability received from migrating to Active Directory led to immediate savings in machine configuration and administration.
But what the hell, ya pissed on a Microsoft product, +5 for ya!
Taco King product tie-in: $6.50 ($4 for lunch, $2.50 for stuffed Frodo) Movie + popcorn for two: $30 Soundtrack of funky movie music: $15 DVD of movie at Costco: $18 DVD+super special extras ("Lord of the Rings + Two towers + bookends + STING!"): $45
We're up to $115-ish so far, wonder why the industry's so big?
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But can't you also see two teams (one at Apple, the other at Microsoft) thinking:
"We have all these entrenched 3D GPUs...what can we do to take advantage of them?"
It's really hard to say GPU acceleration of the GUI is an Apple only idea. If you get past that, "What snazzy stuff can we DO with said GPU?" is the next logical extension.
Said with a straight face and enough fluff to bypass the crapfilter
Reguardless of age, there are still jobs for verifiably talented people. But I WILL say that getting a cold-call job is pretty tough. Most of the GOOD programmers I've seen laid off were unemployed less than a month and got hired via networking with their peers.
I think you're seeing a LOT of weeding out in the field of the folks that got that associates degree and jumped into the IT field to get the 'easy money'.
What's funny is, at least in Denver, most of them hopped over to real estate, a marked that's PRIMED for a bust.
I noticed when my 3 month old boys were talking, they'd wave their hands alot. One of my cow-orkers stated that at that point in development, both the vocalization and the movement were being handled by the same part of the brain.
The point? Two disparate tasks are being run by the same ciruitry, so Synesthesia may just be another manefestation of a similar behavior.
It's because you don't need physical access to the wiring closet to sniff packets now. All you need is netstumbler and a pringles can.
There'd be a similar hubbub if there was a small LED display outside your cubicle, showing everything that was moving across the ethernet segment on your desktop.
You crazy /.'ers, always bitching about printers...
Lets do some math here:
Ink cart, Black - $30
Ink cart, Color - $30
Printer (after rebate, laptop purchase, whatever) - Free to $60
Do you REALLY think something that can precicely paint 1200 dots to an inch (That's roughly _115_ million dots on a full color page), in less than 4 minutes costs the company NOTHING to produce, package, advertise, ship and GIVE to you?
If you think so, take my advice and don't go into business.
All of the manufacturers are selling their 'low-end' printers at a loss and expecting to make it up in ink sales. If you decide you don't like that, go FIND a cheap, good, printer with cheap refillable ink...go ahead. What? you can't find one? Why do you think that is?
Pay for it up front or pay for it in installments. Any company that successfully stays in business will get your money in one of those two ways and STAY in business.
{OT} Actually, a PII266 Laptop with 390 Mb RAM works rather well with XP for surfing the web, remote desktop, and SSH. {/OT}
Because in Colorado, there's LOTS of places without digital cellphone access.
I'm actually pretty impressed at how mature Synchronization has gotten (Frankly Covey excluded. shudder.)
You forgot about that 'Evil Bit' they're adding to TCP/IP
Or old fashioned automobiles!
Where's my flying car? I was PROMISED a flying car with my videophone!
I've found that it'd really like a well publicized place that LISTED what all was installed in Distro DuJour. Case in point, Redhat 8's almost a gig, and yet there's no real way, short of taking the initiative and executing each program with find out what everything does. You've heard of a joke-a-day? It's be GREAT to have an app-a-day. Just make sure that the dialogbox has 'Next', 'Cancel', and 'Uninstall'
On the other side of the coin is NetBSD. NOTHING MUCH is installed by default. I _like_ that. It's _good_. That way I don't have to worry about apotential compromise in an application I didn't even know was installed on my machine.
Bah, BSD is DEAD!
'available' might be stretching things a bit.
Not if you don't mind folks seeing your bills as you pay them.
You can secure the transactions by running through SSH or setting up a vpn tunnel...there's some overhead, but I'd guess your computers could encrypt faster than the hardware in your 802.11 setup.
Must have had newborn kids. This PVR has SAVED my TV viewing life. The ability to a)pause live TV, b) rewind when you missed critical dialog during a screamfest, and 3) Watch your favorite 9pm (MST) TV show when you have enough banked time to watch it is invaluable...
Cause sometimes the only time I can watch CSI: Miami is Saturday at 9am.
In your enthusiasm to slam Microsoft, I get a Really Good Feel for when a patch is critical or not. It lets me ignore the servers until a front page Slashdot article shows up.
So, Danke!
Or anybody that had any interest in current events in the 80's. I hope it aged well.
(I still remember the critters and Steve D on the wheelchair running from the AT&T deathstar logo on a billboard)
I think a 'buncha younguns(tm)' will miss out on the political satire.
Now, do this with Calivn and Hobbes!
What is it with people and phone/watches?
{mumble}tack wires on the walls and windows that are bulletproof but won't open{/mumble}
I'm implying that doing business costs money and the TCO of both products is similar. I'm also implying that if you wring all the blood you can out of this turnip, the next manager over will pull a bonehead stunt and waste all of your savings plus a margin.
I'm ALSO implying that being a linux Fanboy is rewarded here, while stating the Linux vs. the Great White Evil is a pretty senseless waste of time isn't. Again, it's like Ford vs. Chevy, Catholicism vs. Judaism, or day vs. night. They're BOTH good.
Figures you'd get a +5 insightful. As a govt IT professional that HAS migrated 1200 machines to XP, the costs were managable, the migration automated and scripted fully, and the training was negligible.
Further, the managability received from migrating to Active Directory led to immediate savings in machine configuration and administration.
But what the hell, ya pissed on a Microsoft product, +5 for ya!
Taco King product tie-in: $6.50 ($4 for lunch, $2.50 for stuffed Frodo)
Movie + popcorn for two: $30
Soundtrack of funky movie music: $15
DVD of movie at Costco: $18
DVD+super special extras ("Lord of the Rings + Two towers + bookends + STING!"): $45
We're up to $115-ish so far, wonder why the industry's so big?
Have kids. THEN tell me you want them exposed to all the harsh realities of life as soon as possible.