I've supported Macs. Even though the software problems are less, the user problems are not. You can engineer a better OS, just not a better user. I actually got nearly as many calls from Mac users as Windows users, of course considering most of them were running virtual machines for client compatibility compounded that. (Hint - Parallels is a pain in the ass - though it's got less bling VM Ware Fusion is easier to run and peforms better. M7yy initial tests with Virtual Box is promising, but I haven't declared it "best" yet)
BTW - if you're a tech with Mac related equipment, it's really easy to just drop stuff off at the Apple store and tell them it's their problem. Of course as soon as the warranty is up a tech who knows how to use a putty knife to work on a Mac Mini or is able to conquor a G4 iBook to change out a hard drive without leftover screws is worth their weight in gold.
no doubt, media companies are evil to those who feed them. I at one time had people tied to the music industry in my life, I know that royalties almost always require lawsuits.
It's when they got a couple of guys from the mail room (literally) to start churning out scripts and they started shooting bad creature features that it became bad.
the 1970's series averages in at about 48:45 per episode - the modern series - which the directors says many many times over during the audio commentary of the first season the network kept making him trim averages about 43:40 per episode.
Star Trek is a better reference, there's multiple decades to reference for those, but they're not on Hulu.
Lets look at sitcoms:
Bewitched averages in at about 25:20 I Dream of Jeannie about 25:15
King of the Hill about 22:00 The Office about 21:50
The newer the show is, the more commercial is on during a slot and the less TV show is available!
No wonder people turn it off, they're running on advertising drain.
I've got ads blocked in my browser, I turn the radio off quite a bit, I've moved closer to work and I see less billboards, I don't have cable, and I can barely stand to check my mail for the advertising that in it.
At least with Hulu (and you can prod me for advertising that if you like) there are LESS ads when I watch a show. I actually buy the DVD sets of shows I want to see these days anyways.
They mostly did that years ago and replaced it with creature features.
They had a good thing going with some of the old Sci-Fi shows they kept canceling. We all know how important it is to replace things like First Wave, The Invisible Man, and Farscape with thing like stuck on an island with a really big snake, or raptor, or chupacabrea.
Low light performance has been a major sticking point for me on lots of digital cameras. My old 3.3 Megapixel Panasonic that wrote to LS-120's has outperformed most of the camera's that have replaced it in nearly every area except for Megapixels.
For the first time I find out about a scrub before the crew loads up from work not/. - or CNN, or Fark, or Fox news.
It's sick but I do ground system maintenance and unless I'm actually watching the screen and listening to DVIS we find out about the scrubs from the news, not the pipeline around here.
Wow, that is interesting, and here I was thinking that gas was legal, as were the books from the book store.
On a related note - I often grab a couple of Fried Boudain Balls in the morning at the gas station before I start driving back. If I haven't taken a dump before I cross the state line (which I never stop to do - rest stops ewww) am I liable for the Fried Boudain Balls as well?
I'm tempted to file the paperwork to pay the taxes on it just to make the state officials laugh.
They syncing version maybe - though it's an interesting idea.
The leaving the state one - absolutely not. You can't charge sales tax in one state for business done in another state, especially business that is most likely interstate anyways. I'm not going to research the location of the servers to be certain - but iTunes, probably hosted in Washingston state or California. How would Mississippi have any right to tax a transaction between Louisiana and California? I regularly travel between Texas and Louisiana, I sure as hell don't have to pay Texas state tax on Louisiana gas when I cross back, the same thinking should apply.
Or are they going to tax based on the honor system? What if I lived in Mississippi, but I traveled to Louisiana and downloaded music? What if I host a server in Colorado, pay for downloads from that server remotely, then sync my file system with that server?
I take all my important data I don't want to lose, dump it to an old hard drive, leave it in a dresser drawer at grannies house in the spare bedroom.
Then I use another old one, leave it at moms house in the spare bedroom.
In these cases my relatives don't have a clue how to read them, but I could encrypt if I wanted to. My photo's and original documents mostly.
My photo collection keeps growing, and is the determining factor on what size is useful. Not couting photo's - well, really who has more than 40 GB of original non-photo/video/audio content? If you're backing up original documents that are mostly text/information based a 40GB drive should be plenty.
The secret is to NOT backup all those installers, ISO's, movies, music, porn etc.. that you downloaded. Really, you can get all of that again. Focus on your original work then dump hard drives in nooks and crannies at relatives houses. Off site backup!
Of course I typically have a minimum of three computers on my desk, and none have Lotus Notes. If I must bang on my keyboard however I use mute. Being the tech means I often have to bang on a keyboard for a while to enable others to get into the meeting.
Look for yourself on Hulu - there's less TV on now
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Look up "Battlestar Galactica" on Hulu -
For a 1 hour slot:
the 1970's series averages in at about 48:45 per episode - the modern series - which the directors says many many times over during the audio commentary of the first season the network kept making him trim averages about 43:40 per episode.
Star Trek is a better reference, there's multiple decades to reference for those, but they're not on Hulu.
Lets look at sitcoms:
Bewitched averages in at about 25:20 I Dream of Jeannie about 25:15
King of the Hill about 22:00 The Office about 21:50
The newer the show is, the more commercial is on during a slot and the less TV show is available!
No wonder people turn it off, they're running on advertising drain.
I've got ads blocked in my browser, I turn the radio off quite a bit, I've moved closer to work and I see less billboards, I don't have cable, and I can barely stand to check my mail for the advertising that in it.
At least with Hulu (and you can prod me for advertising that if you like) there are LESS ads when I watch a show. I actually buy the DVD sets of shows I want to see these days anyways.
Parallels is to problematic in my experience. VMWare seems to work alright but bogs down and locks up occasionally, though it does work a bit better since McAfee was removed. I'm messing with Virtual Box now, so far it's promising but I need to mess with it more. I've run out of reasons to boot Windows, and to chain myself to my desk recently so I haven't been testing it as much as I could.
Let's look at the history of Sony "Pulling Sony's"
1. MD - Mini Disk - My favorite. The MD was superior to the compact disk in nearly every way. On top of that it came out when it could have dented the CD market - unfortunately they did the same thing they did with Beta. Instead of licensing the tech to competitors cheaply the held it close to their chests and charged a fortune - until about a year after it was to late to make a difference. It failed.
2. Beta - I put this below MD because it had more success. Beta was superior to VHS in quality, was better respected among professionals, and was on the market at the right time to defeat VHS, and was even used by early adopters before VHS. But they kept it close to their chest, wouldn't allow competitors to manufacture units until a year or two after it was to late.
3. Atrac - Technology we didn't need to compete with better technology that already exist. This one exist for the sole purpose of establishing "the Sony way of doing it" (as though we need proprietary anything) and more importantly to push DRM on us. After a couple of years of dismal Atrac playing Walkmans sales, they finally started supporting a couple of more common formats.
4. Memory Stick - Sony makes really really awesome hardware - there's no doubt. There's no other way they could stay in business after pulling so many Sony's if they didn't. Memory stick is just another one of those things. Nobody but Sony really uses it, the world wants SD, Sony gives you Memory Stick. Why? Oh yeah, DRM again. Sony finally started supporting SD and Memory Stick on many of their cameras due to massive demand, but they still embrace their proprietary stuff in favor of being proprietary. They want to be like Apple when it comes to proprietary methods, but oddly Apple is more open when than Sony when it comes to compatibility. BTW, the Apple stores in the mall are always full when the Sony stores are half assed.
5. PSP - a REALLY awesome gaming platform on a handheld with massive untapped potential. Sony REFUSES to tap the potential of the PSP. So people hack them. What have the hackers done? Turned it into a universal infrared remote control (1000 only), an external secondary monitor for Windows, an ebook reader, a graphical MythTV remote (1000 and 2000), an iTunes remote, AND de-UMDed it to make it much more useful and portable? Sony's response? Release the nearly unhackable 3000 among firmware updates to do everything they can to leave that potential untapped. They wonder why sales aren't what they wanted them to be.
6. PS3 - I'll leave this article to explain that one.
Honorable mention: Blu-ray - arguably Blu-ray is a sucess (despite less than expected sales - which should only climb). Initially Sony approached this better then they have most endeavors, by co-operating with competitors a bit more. It was good, better than HDDVD but it failed to smack HDDVD down. I blame cost. My personal prediction was that the dual HD/Blu-ray players would become ubiquitous making the winner a moot point - I was wrong. Mostly because Sony BRIBED the competition. For Blu-ray to actually suceed price is going to have to be addressed. There's little reason to buy an Adam Sandler movie on Blu-Ray for $30 when the DVD version can be had for $14. (Battle) Star Anything, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, yeah, I'll shell out for Blu-Ray, but your average drama or chick flick?
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I've supported Macs. Even though the software problems are less, the user problems are not. You can engineer a better OS, just not a better user. I actually got nearly as many calls from Mac users as Windows users, of course considering most of them were running virtual machines for client compatibility compounded that. (Hint - Parallels is a pain in the ass - though it's got less bling VM Ware Fusion is easier to run and peforms better. M7yy initial tests with Virtual Box is promising, but I haven't declared it "best" yet)
BTW - if you're a tech with Mac related equipment, it's really easy to just drop stuff off at the Apple store and tell them it's their problem. Of course as soon as the warranty is up a tech who knows how to use a putty knife to work on a Mac Mini or is able to conquor a G4 iBook to change out a hard drive without leftover screws is worth their weight in gold.
That's akin to cutting off the head of a hydra.
Then I typed the word "Goat" - I saw the .cx variation - well, at least they're making some attempt at saving the populace from the horrors of the web.
no doubt, media companies are evil to those who feed them. I at one time had people tied to the music industry in my life, I know that royalties almost always require lawsuits.
Look them up. Though I admit it can be murky at times, inspired by and written by are NOT the same thing.
Seriously, when you get down to it how many things are inspired by Biblical stories and old fairy tales?
I have no problem with that.
It's when they got a couple of guys from the mail room (literally) to start churning out scripts and they started shooting bad creature features that it became bad.
I suggest we leave them that way. It will reduce spam, and make Dell hire locally for their call centers.
I'll tell you what killed TV. TV networks did.
Use Hulu to double check my work:
Look up "Battlestar Galactica" -
For a 1 hour slot:
the 1970's series averages in at about 48:45 per episode - the modern series - which the directors says many many times over during the audio commentary of the first season the network kept making him trim averages about 43:40 per episode.
Star Trek is a better reference, there's multiple decades to reference for those, but they're not on Hulu.
Lets look at sitcoms:
Bewitched averages in at about 25:20
I Dream of Jeannie about 25:15
King of the Hill about 22:00
The Office about 21:50
The newer the show is, the more commercial is on during a slot and the less TV show is available!
No wonder people turn it off, they're running on advertising drain.
I've got ads blocked in my browser, I turn the radio off quite a bit, I've moved closer to work and I see less billboards, I don't have cable, and I can barely stand to check my mail for the advertising that in it.
At least with Hulu (and you can prod me for advertising that if you like) there are LESS ads when I watch a show. I actually buy the DVD sets of shows I want to see these days anyways.
They mostly did that years ago and replaced it with creature features.
They had a good thing going with some of the old Sci-Fi shows they kept canceling. We all know how important it is to replace things like First Wave, The Invisible Man, and Farscape with thing like stuck on an island with a really big snake, or raptor, or chupacabrea.
Low light performance has been a major sticking point for me on lots of digital cameras. My old 3.3 Megapixel Panasonic that wrote to LS-120's has outperformed most of the camera's that have replaced it in nearly every area except for Megapixels.
For the first time I find out about a scrub before the crew loads up from work not /. - or CNN, or Fark, or Fox news.
It's sick but I do ground system maintenance and unless I'm actually watching the screen and listening to DVIS we find out about the scrubs from the news, not the pipeline around here.
Wow, that is interesting, and here I was thinking that gas was legal, as were the books from the book store.
On a related note - I often grab a couple of Fried Boudain Balls in the morning at the gas station before I start driving back. If I haven't taken a dump before I cross the state line (which I never stop to do - rest stops ewww) am I liable for the Fried Boudain Balls as well?
I'm tempted to file the paperwork to pay the taxes on it just to make the state officials laugh.
Good luck getting a retailer in New Jersey to comply with Mississippi state law if they don't have to, especially small retailers.
Though, getting Apple and a few the largest others, like Amazon to comply wouldn't be as hard.
They syncing version maybe - though it's an interesting idea.
The leaving the state one - absolutely not. You can't charge sales tax in one state for business done in another state, especially business that is most likely interstate anyways. I'm not going to research the location of the servers to be certain - but iTunes, probably hosted in Washingston state or California. How would Mississippi have any right to tax a transaction between Louisiana and California? I regularly travel between Texas and Louisiana, I sure as hell don't have to pay Texas state tax on Louisiana gas when I cross back, the same thinking should apply.
Or are they going to tax based on the honor system? What if I lived in Mississippi, but I traveled to Louisiana and downloaded music? What if I host a server in Colorado, pay for downloads from that server remotely, then sync my file system with that server?
I take all my important data I don't want to lose, dump it to an old hard drive, leave it in a dresser drawer at grannies house in the spare bedroom.
Then I use another old one, leave it at moms house in the spare bedroom.
In these cases my relatives don't have a clue how to read them, but I could encrypt if I wanted to. My photo's and original documents mostly.
My photo collection keeps growing, and is the determining factor on what size is useful. Not couting photo's - well, really who has more than 40 GB of original non-photo/video/audio content? If you're backing up original documents that are mostly text/information based a 40GB drive should be plenty.
The secret is to NOT backup all those installers, ISO's, movies, music, porn etc.. that you downloaded. Really, you can get all of that again. Focus on your original work then dump hard drives in nooks and crannies at relatives houses. Off site backup!
Of course you could always just play it in your browser.
(though I can't test it, possibly your PS3's browser to)
Of course I typically have a minimum of three computers on my desk, and none have Lotus Notes. If I must bang on my keyboard however I use mute. Being the tech means I often have to bang on a keyboard for a while to enable others to get into the meeting.
Look up "Battlestar Galactica" on Hulu -
For a 1 hour slot:
the 1970's series averages in at about 48:45 per episode - the modern series - which the directors says many many times over during the audio commentary of the first season the network kept making him trim averages about 43:40 per episode.
Star Trek is a better reference, there's multiple decades to reference for those, but they're not on Hulu.
Lets look at sitcoms:
Bewitched averages in at about 25:20
I Dream of Jeannie about 25:15
King of the Hill about 22:00
The Office about 21:50
The newer the show is, the more commercial is on during a slot and the less TV show is available!
No wonder people turn it off, they're running on advertising drain.
I've got ads blocked in my browser, I turn the radio off quite a bit, I've moved closer to work and I see less billboards, I don't have cable, and I can barely stand to check my mail for the advertising that in it.
At least with Hulu (and you can prod me for advertising that if you like) there are LESS ads when I watch a show. I actually buy the DVD sets of shows I want to see these days anyways.
Parallels is to problematic in my experience. VMWare seems to work alright but bogs down and locks up occasionally, though it does work a bit better since McAfee was removed. I'm messing with Virtual Box now, so far it's promising but I need to mess with it more. I've run out of reasons to boot Windows, and to chain myself to my desk recently so I haven't been testing it as much as I could.
Assuming of course you count Cruithne as a moon. What happens once it passes our gravity?
EARLY Windows APIs? Wasn't Windows 1.x more or less a "start up a DOS program" interface and a clipboard?
Let's look at the history of Sony "Pulling Sony's"
1. MD - Mini Disk - My favorite. The MD was superior to the compact disk in nearly every way. On top of that it came out when it could have dented the CD market - unfortunately they did the same thing they did with Beta. Instead of licensing the tech to competitors cheaply the held it close to their chests and charged a fortune - until about a year after it was to late to make a difference. It failed.
2. Beta - I put this below MD because it had more success. Beta was superior to VHS in quality, was better respected among professionals, and was on the market at the right time to defeat VHS, and was even used by early adopters before VHS. But they kept it close to their chest, wouldn't allow competitors to manufacture units until a year or two after it was to late.
3. Atrac - Technology we didn't need to compete with better technology that already exist. This one exist for the sole purpose of establishing "the Sony way of doing it" (as though we need proprietary anything) and more importantly to push DRM on us. After a couple of years of dismal Atrac playing Walkmans sales, they finally started supporting a couple of more common formats.
4. Memory Stick - Sony makes really really awesome hardware - there's no doubt. There's no other way they could stay in business after pulling so many Sony's if they didn't. Memory stick is just another one of those things. Nobody but Sony really uses it, the world wants SD, Sony gives you Memory Stick. Why? Oh yeah, DRM again. Sony finally started supporting SD and Memory Stick on many of their cameras due to massive demand, but they still embrace their proprietary stuff in favor of being proprietary. They want to be like Apple when it comes to proprietary methods, but oddly Apple is more open when than Sony when it comes to compatibility. BTW, the Apple stores in the mall are always full when the Sony stores are half assed.
5. PSP - a REALLY awesome gaming platform on a handheld with massive untapped potential. Sony REFUSES to tap the potential of the PSP. So people hack them. What have the hackers done? Turned it into a universal infrared remote control (1000 only), an external secondary monitor for Windows, an ebook reader, a graphical MythTV remote (1000 and 2000), an iTunes remote, AND de-UMDed it to make it much more useful and portable? Sony's response? Release the nearly unhackable 3000 among firmware updates to do everything they can to leave that potential untapped. They wonder why sales aren't what they wanted them to be.
6. PS3 - I'll leave this article to explain that one.
Honorable mention:
Blu-ray - arguably Blu-ray is a sucess (despite less than expected sales - which should only climb). Initially Sony approached this better then they have most endeavors, by co-operating with competitors a bit more. It was good, better than HDDVD but it failed to smack HDDVD down. I blame cost. My personal prediction was that the dual HD/Blu-ray players would become ubiquitous making the winner a moot point - I was wrong. Mostly because Sony BRIBED the competition. For Blu-ray to actually suceed price is going to have to be addressed. There's little reason to buy an Adam Sandler movie on Blu-Ray for $30 when the DVD version can be had for $14. (Battle) Star Anything, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, yeah, I'll shell out for Blu-Ray, but your average drama or chick flick?
When Sony learns to wear pants they'll be an unstoppable force.
Saw them, never had one. I have a Retro Duo now so I can play 8 bit games with SNES controls (like the ASCII fight stick)
Yeah, computer gaming, that's what carpal tunnel is for.