Huh, the 89 has all of the stat functions of the 84 plus all of its calculus functions, there simply isn't a reason other than simplified menu's and a couple bucks to get an 84 over an 89, and if there is any chance you will be doing calc then the 89 is the no brainer choice.
Actually there were times when an overclocked Ti-89 would have been quite usefull to me, mostly when doing 3D plots. Plotting a series of partial differentials and rotating them in 3D was quite slow on the 89, on the order of a few seconds per frame. I eventually ran the Ti-89 firmware in an emulator on my laptop which gave ~5x normal performance and the graphing was quite nice at those speeds. Of course then I lost the great input interface, no laptop will ever compare with a dedicated graphing calculator for ease of input for mathematical equations.
Monster? The Sony VAIO S series is 10% less volume and runs the 1.7Ghz Pentium M, which is pretty much equivilant to a same speed PPC970fx. It gets up to 6.5 hours on a charge depending on power settings and use, which is about the same as a PB G4 15". Quite making excuses for Apple, they really need to refresh their laptop lineup.
Assuming that Blizzard's numbers are accurate then those numbers are WAY small for WoW, Blizzard claims 600,000+ signups making it by far the #1 US MMO. Those numbers of from Nov, since WoW didn't ship until Nov 22nd I'm not suprised that there wasn't a stronger showing for Nov.
Huh? Sony VAIO S series has 10% less volume than the 15" Powerbook G4 and uses a 1.7Ghz Pentium M. I'll state again that there isn't any obvious technical hurdle in making a PPC970fx based laptop.
PPC970FX dissipates only 39W max, 24.5W typical, well within what is acceptable for a laptop. Heck the Pentium M at 1.5 Ghz and above dissipates 21W typical with no max given by the Intel spec sheet.
PPC970FX dissipates only 39W max, 24.5W typical, well within what is acceptable for a laptop. Heck the Pentium M at 1.5 Ghz and above dissipates 21W typical with no max given by the Intel spec sheet. Now the PPC975 will NOT be used in a laptop, way too high a thermal load. I see no obvious reason that Apple couldn't make a G5 based laptop.
I worked for GECITS several years ago, now I work for a mid sized consulting firm. I was based out of Cinicinatti when I first came on in mid 2000 though.
Yep, and all of that cash kept SGI around long enough for them to reinvent themselves. That's why the world's #2 supercomputer is an SGI. Besides SGI never even had single digit marketshare, they were always a niche player, their niche just changed. Zero profit on hardware is a LOT better than most companies do, HP loses money on PC's, so did IBM before they jetisoned that unit. Basically Dell is the only one making any money on PC hardware, and not a whole lot.
Not sure about the Apple keyboards but my Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro has a power pass through hub built in, that is it powers my MS Trackball Optical just fine without an additional wall wart. I have to say that MS really knows how to pick some of the best hardware to rebrand =)
Sounds like Exchange + MS Project is a perfect solution then. You can constrain tasks, track resources, etc. So build your schedule in Project and have it assign Exchange appointments automatically. Should work TONS better than pen and paper, especially since visualizing changes is so much easier and transitioning the bulk of the project from week to week is almost efortless.
Because I'm not a programmer, I'm a systems engineer who designs and fixes complex networking systems. I have taken quite a few programming classes but I'm really not that good at it and I don't enjoy doing it as a profession (hacking around is different). That and none of our customers are professional services people so we would have no customer base to sell such a solution to.
Hell, I pay $9.95/month for unlimited in state calling (100% of calls after 4 months) with broadvoice. The only problems I have had was putting the TA in front of the firewall (random junk crashed it about twice a week) and a backhoe took out their redundant lines a couple months back. Other than that things have been awsome, voice quality is landline clear and you really can't beat the price. Initial setup was less than $70 including the TA. Long distance to anywhere in North America is 3.9 cents per minute and most of europe and asia is well under 10 cents per minute. If you make a lot of international or long distance calls they also have an unlimited anywhere in the world plan for only $19.95 plus regulatory fees. I'm not associated with them in any way, just a very satisfied customer who can't believe how cheap technology is making this stuff. Given that kind of pricing this offering from the cable co is WAY, way overpriced. But what do you expect from a cable company =)
No freaking kidding. I work for a mid size (18 employee) consulting firm. We are looking for something to replace MS CRM for ticket tracking and Time Slips for time management. We'd love to have an enter it once get the info out as many ways as possible system, it just doesn't exist. We want to be able to create a ticket, enter notes and expenses, and be able to generate bills, customer satisfaction surveys, and knowledge base entries. There isn't anything even remotly like that out there, and the time and expense to build it just isn't justified for this sized firm. I'm sure we aren't the only service firm our size that would like something like this but no one seems to even be looking at it as a potential market. I mean you have something nice on the financial side with Quickbooks, why isn't there something that's a step up for when you need to do Customer Relationship Management?
I hate to break it to you but I don't think you are doing your job right if you are waiting overnight for parts. I ALWAYS get the 4 hour support, if the client is cheap then it's 12x5 instead of 24x7 but I always get them to get 4 hour support. The reason being that anything else always results in two working days of downtime vs about a half day to a day depending on when the problem happens. I also highly recommend against Dell's bronze support, it costs almost as much as silver but you end up spending too much time on inane phone drones, silver gets you access to decent people who don't waste your time with call flow charts.
You're assuming that there is a marginal cost for the carriers that has to be made up for by the rest of their customers when one defaults, there isn't. SMS rates are pure profit once the carrier has built out their network (which they do primarily for voice coverage). So people refusing to pay asnine bills to the carriers for low value service isn't really a problem except for the hit they take on their credit rating. The real problem is the vast majority of parents who go ahead and pay off the bill, that's resources that could have been used to purchase something usefull. Of course hopefully the maturity lesson to their offspring makes up for the material loss.
Correct, most AT&T plans include unlimited incoming SMS with a $0.10/message outgoing fee. There are some plans (mostly older ones no longer offered) which do charge for incoming. I think they came to realize that customers got pissed off paying for SMS spam. Besides when you have a network that can handle 2.5G speeds how much of your bandwidth does SMS take up? Not very much I would suspect so charging for SMS is just gravey.
Actually the number one reason that a flat or fair tax will never come to be is that WAY too many people have a vested interest in the mortage deduction. I know tons of people who bought more house than they can reasonably afford because they figured the deduction makes up enough of the difference that it's worth it to them to be a little extended for the things they like about their bigger, more expensive house. Personally I'm fiscally conservative so I have a house with only an 1,100sq ft footprint on an acre of land (don't like neighbors) that cost well, well below both the national and regional averages for a home.
First, MS bought this solution from a third party vendor. Second, you are correct that fixing the holes would be better than cleaning the resulting spyware, but a LOT of spyware is not MS's fault. Much of the spyware out there infects through flaws that were patched, in many cases years ago. Still others install not through holes but through user ignorance and subterfuge (like the ones that piggyback with many shareware/freeware packages). From my eyes the biggest blame lays with the antivirus vendors, most of the adware/spyware programs could be classified as trojans, and they tend to cause WAY more problems than the vast majority of virus's. It's a bloody crime that AV vendors haven't protected their clients against one of the biggest computer problems in decades. Sure some of the vendors are starting to add anti-spyware stuff to their AV suites, but so far from what I've seen is much too little way too late.
to have so many rooms that you have to worry about something like this =) Personally I just use my 3 room setup with my multichannel reciever and a wifi CE device for programming. It's a bit geeky but more standard audio geek with a streaming net radio twist than something like this which is very technogeek.
Seriously, doesn't anyone else here think 3 hours of cell phone yammering every day might be a bit excessive?
Yes, yes I do. ~6,000 minutes a month is a bit insane. My father is about the only person I know who would and should do that. And that's only because he has a two person business and is on the road 95% of the day calling on customers and working with his business partner. Yammering with your friends on your cellphone about nothing 3+ hours a day is just stupid.
Or, thinksecret can do what real journalists do and refuse to reveal their source and get thrown in the poky for a little while for contempt of court. We have freedom of the press but no one ever said it came without cost or strings attached. Personally if I was a journalist I would NEVER give up a source because doing so would mean you aren't very likely to ever get another one.
Why the heck would you want to run an LCD or an OLED at lower than the highest res?
Because you can't run the latest game at the right resolution with all the eye candy turned on, or you are playing an older game that doesn't scale to the native resolution, or you are running another old app with a fixed resolution. They are also cheaper because production runs are 99.999+% sucessfull vs about 20% for zero defect LCD panels.
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Huh, the 89 has all of the stat functions of the 84 plus all of its calculus functions, there simply isn't a reason other than simplified menu's and a couple bucks to get an 84 over an 89, and if there is any chance you will be doing calc then the 89 is the no brainer choice.
Actually there were times when an overclocked Ti-89 would have been quite usefull to me, mostly when doing 3D plots. Plotting a series of partial differentials and rotating them in 3D was quite slow on the 89, on the order of a few seconds per frame. I eventually ran the Ti-89 firmware in an emulator on my laptop which gave ~5x normal performance and the graphing was quite nice at those speeds. Of course then I lost the great input interface, no laptop will ever compare with a dedicated graphing calculator for ease of input for mathematical equations.
Monster? The Sony VAIO S series is 10% less volume and runs the 1.7Ghz Pentium M, which is pretty much equivilant to a same speed PPC970fx. It gets up to 6.5 hours on a charge depending on power settings and use, which is about the same as a PB G4 15". Quite making excuses for Apple, they really need to refresh their laptop lineup.
Assuming that Blizzard's numbers are accurate then those numbers are WAY small for WoW, Blizzard claims 600,000+ signups making it by far the #1 US MMO. Those numbers of from Nov, since WoW didn't ship until Nov 22nd I'm not suprised that there wasn't a stronger showing for Nov.
Huh? Sony VAIO S series has 10% less volume than the 15" Powerbook G4 and uses a 1.7Ghz Pentium M. I'll state again that there isn't any obvious technical hurdle in making a PPC970fx based laptop.
PPC970FX dissipates only 39W max, 24.5W typical, well within what is acceptable for a laptop. Heck the Pentium M at 1.5 Ghz and above dissipates 21W typical with no max given by the Intel spec sheet.
PPC970FX dissipates only 39W max, 24.5W typical, well within what is acceptable for a laptop. Heck the Pentium M at 1.5 Ghz and above dissipates 21W typical with no max given by the Intel spec sheet. Now the PPC975 will NOT be used in a laptop, way too high a thermal load. I see no obvious reason that Apple couldn't make a G5 based laptop.
I worked for GECITS several years ago, now I work for a mid sized consulting firm. I was based out of Cinicinatti when I first came on in mid 2000 though.
GE is #2 on the Forbes 2000 list, #8 by sales, #3 by profits, and #1 by market cap.
And nearly double the price......
Yep, and all of that cash kept SGI around long enough for them to reinvent themselves. That's why the world's #2 supercomputer is an SGI. Besides SGI never even had single digit marketshare, they were always a niche player, their niche just changed. Zero profit on hardware is a LOT better than most companies do, HP loses money on PC's, so did IBM before they jetisoned that unit. Basically Dell is the only one making any money on PC hardware, and not a whole lot.
Not sure about the Apple keyboards but my Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro has a power pass through hub built in, that is it powers my MS Trackball Optical just fine without an additional wall wart. I have to say that MS really knows how to pick some of the best hardware to rebrand =)
Sounds like Exchange + MS Project is a perfect solution then. You can constrain tasks, track resources, etc. So build your schedule in Project and have it assign Exchange appointments automatically. Should work TONS better than pen and paper, especially since visualizing changes is so much easier and transitioning the bulk of the project from week to week is almost efortless.
Because I'm not a programmer, I'm a systems engineer who designs and fixes complex networking systems. I have taken quite a few programming classes but I'm really not that good at it and I don't enjoy doing it as a profession (hacking around is different). That and none of our customers are professional services people so we would have no customer base to sell such a solution to.
Hell, I pay $9.95/month for unlimited in state calling (100% of calls after 4 months) with broadvoice. The only problems I have had was putting the TA in front of the firewall (random junk crashed it about twice a week) and a backhoe took out their redundant lines a couple months back. Other than that things have been awsome, voice quality is landline clear and you really can't beat the price. Initial setup was less than $70 including the TA. Long distance to anywhere in North America is 3.9 cents per minute and most of europe and asia is well under 10 cents per minute. If you make a lot of international or long distance calls they also have an unlimited anywhere in the world plan for only $19.95 plus regulatory fees. I'm not associated with them in any way, just a very satisfied customer who can't believe how cheap technology is making this stuff. Given that kind of pricing this offering from the cable co is WAY, way overpriced. But what do you expect from a cable company =)
No freaking kidding. I work for a mid size (18 employee) consulting firm. We are looking for something to replace MS CRM for ticket tracking and Time Slips for time management. We'd love to have an enter it once get the info out as many ways as possible system, it just doesn't exist. We want to be able to create a ticket, enter notes and expenses, and be able to generate bills, customer satisfaction surveys, and knowledge base entries. There isn't anything even remotly like that out there, and the time and expense to build it just isn't justified for this sized firm. I'm sure we aren't the only service firm our size that would like something like this but no one seems to even be looking at it as a potential market. I mean you have something nice on the financial side with Quickbooks, why isn't there something that's a step up for when you need to do Customer Relationship Management?
with overnight delivery of replacement parts
I hate to break it to you but I don't think you are doing your job right if you are waiting overnight for parts. I ALWAYS get the 4 hour support, if the client is cheap then it's 12x5 instead of 24x7 but I always get them to get 4 hour support. The reason being that anything else always results in two working days of downtime vs about a half day to a day depending on when the problem happens. I also highly recommend against Dell's bronze support, it costs almost as much as silver but you end up spending too much time on inane phone drones, silver gets you access to decent people who don't waste your time with call flow charts.
You're assuming that there is a marginal cost for the carriers that has to be made up for by the rest of their customers when one defaults, there isn't. SMS rates are pure profit once the carrier has built out their network (which they do primarily for voice coverage). So people refusing to pay asnine bills to the carriers for low value service isn't really a problem except for the hit they take on their credit rating. The real problem is the vast majority of parents who go ahead and pay off the bill, that's resources that could have been used to purchase something usefull. Of course hopefully the maturity lesson to their offspring makes up for the material loss.
Correct, most AT&T plans include unlimited incoming SMS with a $0.10/message outgoing fee. There are some plans (mostly older ones no longer offered) which do charge for incoming. I think they came to realize that customers got pissed off paying for SMS spam. Besides when you have a network that can handle 2.5G speeds how much of your bandwidth does SMS take up? Not very much I would suspect so charging for SMS is just gravey.
Actually the number one reason that a flat or fair tax will never come to be is that WAY too many people have a vested interest in the mortage deduction. I know tons of people who bought more house than they can reasonably afford because they figured the deduction makes up enough of the difference that it's worth it to them to be a little extended for the things they like about their bigger, more expensive house. Personally I'm fiscally conservative so I have a house with only an 1,100sq ft footprint on an acre of land (don't like neighbors) that cost well, well below both the national and regional averages for a home.
First, MS bought this solution from a third party vendor. Second, you are correct that fixing the holes would be better than cleaning the resulting spyware, but a LOT of spyware is not MS's fault. Much of the spyware out there infects through flaws that were patched, in many cases years ago. Still others install not through holes but through user ignorance and subterfuge (like the ones that piggyback with many shareware/freeware packages). From my eyes the biggest blame lays with the antivirus vendors, most of the adware/spyware programs could be classified as trojans, and they tend to cause WAY more problems than the vast majority of virus's. It's a bloody crime that AV vendors haven't protected their clients against one of the biggest computer problems in decades. Sure some of the vendors are starting to add anti-spyware stuff to their AV suites, but so far from what I've seen is much too little way too late.
to have so many rooms that you have to worry about something like this =) Personally I just use my 3 room setup with my multichannel reciever and a wifi CE device for programming. It's a bit geeky but more standard audio geek with a streaming net radio twist than something like this which is very technogeek.
Seriously, doesn't anyone else here think 3 hours of cell phone yammering every day might be a bit excessive?
Yes, yes I do. ~6,000 minutes a month is a bit insane. My father is about the only person I know who would and should do that. And that's only because he has a two person business and is on the road 95% of the day calling on customers and working with his business partner. Yammering with your friends on your cellphone about nothing 3+ hours a day is just stupid.
Or, thinksecret can do what real journalists do and refuse to reveal their source and get thrown in the poky for a little while for contempt of court. We have freedom of the press but no one ever said it came without cost or strings attached. Personally if I was a journalist I would NEVER give up a source because doing so would mean you aren't very likely to ever get another one.
Why the heck would you want to run an LCD or an OLED at lower than the highest res?
Because you can't run the latest game at the right resolution with all the eye candy turned on, or you are playing an older game that doesn't scale to the native resolution, or you are running another old app with a fixed resolution. They are also cheaper because production runs are 99.999+% sucessfull vs about 20% for zero defect LCD panels.