Distribute an installer which preconfigures things like proxy settings and the like and when someone calls in with misconfiguration problem, you spend no more than a few minutes trying to fix it and them you tell them to reinstall it.
Too much time is spent on people who deviate from the norm and then expect the world to stop to help them fix their mistakes.
Yup, it's the secretaries and managers (the higher they are, the worse the problems) that cause the trouble. Unlike engineers, they the ones who get most of the viruses. The secretaries and managershey are the ones that are least able help themselves.
What needs to be managed on firefox or any other browser for that matter?
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Wow, the first comment was one criticising any article that dare look at Apple in anything but the most positive light. Big surprise.
What went wrong with the Mac Portable is just as worthy of a question as what went right with the Powerbook. That are even better questions when asked together.
What is it about Apple that makes it's supporters so sensitive? This article doesn't look like a criticism as much as it looks like an analysis, and a worthy one at that. It's a computer not a lifestyle.
"Adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. " - Horace
I guess this is find for small to medium companies but many large companies are already turning their calls between international offices into VoIP calls if they aren't already.
I pay $5 a month for the Tivo software and get my listings from DirecTV as usual.
I get all the normal TiVo functionality plus dual tuner support (all the good TV is on at the same time, it's called competition) and it's all without all the encoding, decoding and reincoding with standalone TiVos.
I'm guessing DirecTV's replacement for TiVo isn't going to have the same functinality. It will probably be worse.
Congrats airbus, you've bet the farm on this one and the industry still isn't sold on it. Aviation doesn't need another big ass airplane, it needs an efficient one. Airbus's stated 15% operating expense savings over the 747 is going to be difficult to attain. "Maybe there's not room for two planes, but now, there's only one." and analyst said. Sounds like a roll of the dice to me.
The A380 has a better range, a better capacity, yet only adds 6% more passengers and will require each airport to spend millions retrofitting to support it. Sounds like a aircraft which will be attractive mostly to cargo carriers to me.
I hope the airports retrofitting to handle this monster are going to recoup that money from increased landing fees for those carriers who fly these things, not everyone else. Redesigning airports to handle an aircraft that only adds 31 seats is ridiculous.
The A380 is no different than the Concorde in that it's all about being first and not about being sustainable. Look for the A380 in a desert storage airport near you in 10 years.
Much of the tech wizardry mentioned in the article centers around telecommunications infrastructure. Rolling out a new generation of telecom in Japan is a lot different than rolling it out in the US. There are many more companies in the US which own the existing infrastructure and a much much larger land area to cover especially with wireless services.
No reason to bring the neat toys to the US if there isn't an infrastructure to make them work. Even Europe has a much easier time rolling out very new technologies because of it's smaller size.
this one tops the list. Just because it's possible doesn't mean it needs to be done.
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... and my parents still live there. WiFi may be the best best because the phone infrastructure in many of these rural areas is still horrible. When it rains, the phone lines get crackly.
CATV was installed in the the mid 80's and hasn't had much done to it since then so it's probably not up handling broadband.
The 'dozen experts' have decided that 'fresh software' is the best way to remedy it - probably means re-installing Windows, but have they considered Linux?
Yeah, that's a great way to get things back up and running. Introduce a new OS. I'm sure everything will run smoothly after that. Comments like this dont do much to dispell the view that many have of linux proponents: a lack of a grip on the realities of IT.
While considering Linux would be wise, it should be considered a long term solution, not one that will get everybody up and running again. For now, if reinstallation is the best option, you put together a plan to train some people really quickly to do it and fan and and work 24/7 until it's done.
The Linux option should be brought up but not now, that's for the post-mortem meeting.
Let's say you go into the park, pay by credit card, wander round a bit and the system tracks you and your activities. Now if the company in question (lets say Disney) can link the ID to your CC number, and if they retain the data, then they'll be able to tightly market to you later based on what you did at the park.
Disney probably already does this with resort guests. They can track your entry to the parks, your room, what rides you get fast passes for as well as purchases made on the card issued to you when you arrive. It serves as room key, park ticket and credit card.
The next generation Tivos will then be able to recognize web content and direct it to the appropriate home device. This could be the stuff that saves tivo because none of the set top boxes will have this ability.
If ultra easy to use time shifting and commercial elimination isn't enough to interest people in buying TiVos, a bad implementation of WebTV isn't going to do it either.
ChiralSoftware writes "Remember John Gilmore's fight to be able to travel on commercial airlines without having to show ID? It has dropped out of the news for a while, but now it appears that the fight is continuing. I remember in the 80s we used to make jokes about Soviet citizens being asked "show me your papers" and needing internal passports to travel in their own country. Now we need internal passports to travel in our country. How did this happen? The requirement to show ID for flying on commercial passenger flights started in 1996, in response to the crash of TWA Flight 800. This crash was very likely caused by a mechanical failure. How showing ID to board a plane prevents mechanical failures is left as an exercise to the reader. How mandatory ID even prevents terrorist attacks is also not clear to me; all the 9/11 hijackers had valid government-issued ID. I hope the courts don't wimp out on this fight."
Sure TWA 800 was likely caused by a mechanical failure but the investigation of that incident uncovered a lot of concerns about vulnerabilities in the security of commercial air travel in the US. This is why the requirement to present government issued ID was introduced.
The fact that the 9/11 hijackers had valid government ID doesn't mean that the only protection this offers is the possession of said ID. There is a lot going on behind the scenes with that passenger manifest that passengers do not see. The checking of ID at the gate is the last step in the process, the verification of the data they've been working with (i.e. the passenger manifest) to spot potential problems.
They've got the monopoly so they will get the ratings regardless so the message to send them is that you'd love to watch more but find the overemphasis of successful americans and inane chatter of Costas and Couric to much to take.
3) I beleive that a massive percentage lose alot of night vision, you might not be able to legally drive at night for example
I asked a lot of questions about this of my surgeon, my optometrist and several friends who had the proceedure done.
I've not lost any night vision that I can tell. I dont have the halo problems that people talk about. The only people I've found who complain about this had the proceedure done several years ago and the technology has come a ways since then.
4) the eye is much more prone to infection
This is no surprise to your optometrist or surgeon. You'll get a collection of eye drops which includiung anti-biotics. You'll be told when you can get your eyes wet in the shower and when you can swim.
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think
All the hype about being able to see perfectly on the way home from the proceedure was a bunch of bunk. They've got plastic shields over your eyes that you can see through anyway.
My vision was pretty blurry for the first day or two. Dry eyes were a very big problem for the first week and then just a pain in the ass for the next 3 weeks. I went through a lot of eye drops. The drops that my surgeon gave me were actually making things worse (my optometrist had a fit when he saw them, had me switch to simple sterile saline instead.)
Planning on going on vacation soon after the surgery? You'll be sitting beside the pool instead of in it for the first 30 days same goes for any other swimming (infection risk).
The part they dont tell you abou that./'ers will be most interested in is that sitting in front of a monitor all day makes your recovery time a lot different from what they tell you. My eyes got very tired very quickly (and very dry, see above). I got physically tired as well.
Like many patients I had my vision slightly over corrected in one eye and slightly undercorrected in the other. This is a common technique for younger patients to help stave off the need for reading glasses later (almost everyone needs them eventually). My problem was that I was REALLY farsighted in one eye and slighly near sighted in the other. After surgery my nearsighted eye was now ever so slightly farsighted and vice versa. This confused the out of my brain. Headaches, blurry vision and just plain fatigue! It took 2 weeks to get used to my new eyes, literally.
If your surgeon suggests this kind of correction, consider it but talk to them about not switching up things on your eyes like mine did if possible.
As bug-me-not logins are disabled, more will be created. I suspect the rate at which they are disabled cant catch up to the rate at which they are created either.
The net community is much more motivated to stay ahead of the newspapers on this one. People are annoyed and they've got a tool to do something about it now.
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Distribute an installer which preconfigures things like proxy settings and the like and when someone calls in with misconfiguration problem, you spend no more than a few minutes trying to fix it and them you tell them to reinstall it.
Too much time is spent on people who deviate from the norm and then expect the world to stop to help them fix their mistakes.
Yup, it's the secretaries and managers (the higher they are, the worse the problems) that cause the trouble. Unlike engineers, they the ones who get most of the viruses. The secretaries and managershey are the ones that are least able help themselves.
What needs to be managed on firefox or any other browser for that matter?
Wow, the first comment was one criticising any article that dare look at Apple in anything but the most positive light. Big surprise.
What went wrong with the Mac Portable is just as worthy of a question as what went right with the Powerbook. That are even better questions when asked together.
What is it about Apple that makes it's supporters so sensitive? This article doesn't look like a criticism as much as it looks like an analysis, and a worthy one at that. It's a computer not a lifestyle.
"Adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. " - Horace
I guess this is find for small to medium companies but many large companies are already turning their calls between international offices into VoIP calls if they aren't already.
I pay $5 a month for the Tivo software and get my listings from DirecTV as usual.
I get all the normal TiVo functionality plus dual tuner support (all the good TV is on at the same time, it's called competition) and it's all without all the encoding, decoding and reincoding with standalone TiVos.
I'm guessing DirecTV's replacement for TiVo isn't going to have the same functinality. It will probably be worse.
Congrats airbus, you've bet the farm on this one and the industry still isn't sold on it. Aviation doesn't need another big ass airplane, it needs an efficient one. Airbus's stated 15% operating expense savings over the 747 is going to be difficult to attain. "Maybe there's not room for two planes, but now, there's only one." and analyst said. Sounds like a roll of the dice to me.
The A380 has a better range, a better capacity, yet only adds 6% more passengers and will require each airport to spend millions retrofitting to support it. Sounds like a aircraft which will be attractive mostly to cargo carriers to me.
I hope the airports retrofitting to handle this monster are going to recoup that money from increased landing fees for those carriers who fly these things, not everyone else. Redesigning airports to handle an aircraft that only adds 31 seats is ridiculous.
The A380 is no different than the Concorde in that it's all about being first and not about being sustainable. Look for the A380 in a desert storage airport near you in 10 years.
So what does it matter how "mainstream" Linux gets. Does it change your use of Linux? Probably not.
Is Linux in danger of going away? Does Linux need a large retailer like WalMart to keep it viable, I dont think so.
So who cares whether consumers buy this $500 linux laptop or spend an extra $50 on the one that comes with XP?
Blazed? I was thinking...um.... festive. Will Wonka is supposed to be creepy not swishy.
this will certainly do it.
Much of the tech wizardry mentioned in the article centers around telecommunications infrastructure. Rolling out a new generation of telecom in Japan is a lot different than rolling it out in the US. There are many more companies in the US which own the existing infrastructure and a much much larger land area to cover especially with wireless services.
No reason to bring the neat toys to the US if there isn't an infrastructure to make them work. Even Europe has a much easier time rolling out very new technologies because of it's smaller size.
as is proven in this video. His mind wasn't always on trivia it seems.
broadband okay, web logs, perhaps, downloading music & sharing photos shutup and study.
this one tops the list. Just because it's possible doesn't mean it needs to be done.
... and my parents still live there. WiFi may be the best best because the phone infrastructure in many of these rural areas is still horrible. When it rains, the phone lines get crackly.
CATV was installed in the the mid 80's and hasn't had much done to it since then so it's probably not up handling broadband.
The 'dozen experts' have decided that 'fresh software' is the best way to remedy it - probably means re-installing Windows, but have they considered Linux?
Yeah, that's a great way to get things back up and running. Introduce a new OS. I'm sure everything will run smoothly after that. Comments like this dont do much to dispell the view that many have of linux proponents: a lack of a grip on the realities of IT.
While considering Linux would be wise, it should be considered a long term solution, not one that will get everybody up and running again. For now, if reinstallation is the best option, you put together a plan to train some people really quickly to do it and fan and and work 24/7 until it's done.
The Linux option should be brought up but not now, that's for the post-mortem meeting.
Let's say you go into the park, pay by credit card, wander round a bit and the system tracks you and your activities. Now if the company in question (lets say Disney) can link the ID to your CC number, and if they retain the data, then they'll be able to tightly market to you later based on what you did at the park.
Disney probably already does this with resort guests. They can track your entry to the parks, your room, what rides you get fast passes for as well as purchases made on the card issued to you when you arrive. It serves as room key, park ticket and credit card.
That's too much juicy data not to mine.
... that's whats paying for these useless things. Improved network access and labs, those are useful things. Napster and iPods, not so useful.
The next generation Tivos will then be able to recognize web content and direct it to the appropriate home device. This could be the stuff that saves tivo because none of the set top boxes will have this ability.
If ultra easy to use time shifting and commercial elimination isn't enough to interest people in buying TiVos, a bad implementation of WebTV isn't going to do it either.
ChiralSoftware writes "Remember John Gilmore's fight to be able to travel on commercial airlines without having to show ID? It has dropped out of the news for a while, but now it appears that the fight is continuing. I remember in the 80s we used to make jokes about Soviet citizens being asked "show me your papers" and needing internal passports to travel in their own country. Now we need internal passports to travel in our country. How did this happen? The requirement to show ID for flying on commercial passenger flights started in 1996, in response to the crash of TWA Flight 800. This crash was very likely caused by a mechanical failure. How showing ID to board a plane prevents mechanical failures is left as an exercise to the reader. How mandatory ID even prevents terrorist attacks is also not clear to me; all the 9/11 hijackers had valid government-issued ID. I hope the courts don't wimp out on this fight."
Sure TWA 800 was likely caused by a mechanical failure but the investigation of that incident uncovered a lot of concerns about vulnerabilities in the security of commercial air travel in the US. This is why the requirement to present government issued ID was introduced.
The fact that the 9/11 hijackers had valid government ID doesn't mean that the only protection this offers is the possession of said ID. There is a lot going on behind the scenes with that passenger manifest that passengers do not see. The checking of ID at the gate is the last step in the process, the verification of the data they've been working with (i.e. the passenger manifest) to spot potential problems.
the best way to make NBC understand that they their coverage style isn't appreciated is to tell them:
nbcolympicsfeedback@nbcuni.com
They've got the monopoly so they will get the ratings regardless so the message to send them is that you'd love to watch more but find the overemphasis of successful americans and inane chatter of Costas and Couric to much to take.
3) I beleive that a massive percentage lose alot of night vision, you might not be able to legally drive at night for example
I asked a lot of questions about this of my surgeon, my optometrist and several friends who had the proceedure done.
I've not lost any night vision that I can tell. I dont have the halo problems that people talk about. The only people I've found who complain about this had the proceedure done several years ago and the technology has come a ways since then.
4) the eye is much more prone to infection
This is no surprise to your optometrist or surgeon. You'll get a collection of eye drops which includiung anti-biotics. You'll be told when you can get your eyes wet in the shower and when you can swim.
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think
Huh? The Army is offering the proceedure to active duty soldiers.
All the hype about being able to see perfectly on the way home from the proceedure was a bunch of bunk. They've got plastic shields over your eyes that you can see through anyway.
./'ers will be most interested in is that sitting in front of a monitor all day makes your recovery time a lot different from what they tell you. My eyes got very tired very quickly (and very dry, see above). I got physically tired as well.
My vision was pretty blurry for the first day or two. Dry eyes were a very big problem for the first week and then just a pain in the ass for the next 3 weeks. I went through a lot of eye drops. The drops that my surgeon gave me were actually making things worse (my optometrist had a fit when he saw them, had me switch to simple sterile saline instead.)
Planning on going on vacation soon after the surgery? You'll be sitting beside the pool instead of in it for the first 30 days same goes for any other swimming (infection risk).
The part they dont tell you abou that
Like many patients I had my vision slightly over corrected in one eye and slightly undercorrected in the other. This is a common technique for younger patients to help stave off the need for reading glasses later (almost everyone needs them eventually). My problem was that I was REALLY farsighted in one eye and slighly near sighted in the other. After surgery my nearsighted eye was now ever so slightly farsighted and vice versa. This confused the out of my brain. Headaches, blurry vision and just plain fatigue! It took 2 weeks to get used to my new eyes, literally.
If your surgeon suggests this kind of correction, consider it but talk to them about not switching up things on your eyes like mine did if possible.
Tuition: $29,350
Room & Board: $8,210
Books, Supplies, Toothpaste, airfare back to New Jersey: $2,520
Grand total $40,080
Free iPod priceless*
*actual cost ~$400
2003-2004 undergraduate costs
As bug-me-not logins are disabled, more will be created. I suspect the rate at which they are disabled cant catch up to the rate at which they are created either.
The net community is much more motivated to stay ahead of the newspapers on this one. People are annoyed and they've got a tool to do something about it now.