iFolder is pretty lame. We moved to a Novell-type infrastructure at work and trust me, the best way is to use all that installed software as little as possible. It just doesn't work properly.
For example, if you try to share the folder on a new instance (say because your laptop died, a pretty valid use case) it can't seem to figure out to pull everything down, rather than push up deletions.
In short, like everything else from Novell, it's got some neat features, that are too buggy to be useful and have a user interface made by a sadist.
This isn't anti-trust unless they are actually forcing you to purchase through monopoly power. This is clearly not the case. You have the choice to purchase or not - nothing anti-competitive about it. Just don't buy it.
Usually you can get your credit report for free, so you can find out. In addition in most countries they can't actually mark your credit record unless it went to court (even if you did a no show). I had a dispute with my local telco which involved collection agencies (they misaddressed the bills so I didn't get them, so I didn't pay them), but there's nothing on my credit record.
For example, you cannot make a GSM-compliant phone and then plug your GSM SIM into it and talk. You simply couldn't connect to the carrier, they'd just reject to connect to your unrecognized mobile phone, unless you as a "mobile manufacturer" striked a deal with them in advance.
That's just plain old wrong. Whenever I come to the US, I take my phone and SIM card with me. My phone roams between all the various GSM carriers - T-Mobile, Cingular and Rogers up in the Frozen Tundra. They have never heard of me, my phone, or my SIM card. The network simply checks with Vodafone NZ and determines that I can actually pay.... and then I am away. Takes a bit longer to get signal, but only a few seconds.
No. Often the licensing deals for bulk govt. institutions are $x/machine/year. If this is anything like some other sectors, then essentially Microsoft doesn't care whether the software is installed or not, it's just $xx/machine/year, so they pay for the software even on machines that it is not installed on. Neat, eh?
I'll say. My mid 80s grandparents learned how to use email, and after that started to be annoyed with their friends... how do they expect to keep in touch if they wont learn to use email??
It's a dynamic equilibrium, with large sources and sinks of CO2. Adding more from human sources will increase the total amount, even if net production is small compared to natural sources.
That site is hilarious. My favourite quote about Linux:
Fact File: What is a Kernel? This component is used for typing in simple commands like "dir" and "more". Windows has a component called "cmd.exe" which serves a similar purpose but comes with better commands. Windows programmers often use a modern graphical user interface in preference to a kernel, however Linux users do not have this luxuary.
Oh wow. Then later on:
Linux hackers call Torvalds a "Dictator", because he has based Linux on the principles originally developed by the Cuban Marxist terrorist Fidel Castro.
Australia's only nuclear reactor, at Lucas Heights, has a small red button. The label below the button says 'Do not press this button'. It is, quite literally, about 10 metres away from fissioning uranium.
This button is just hooked up to a counter, to see how many times it gets pressed.
The reason they put those questions on the form is so that should any of those things later turn out to be true (nazi war criminal, blah blah), they can kick you out of the country for lying on your immigration form.
Well, I found heaps in Beijing for about $5. These were real DVDs. You can tell the difference because they are in the massive bookshops, they have decent subtitles and use dual-layer DVDs.
I've changed computers often enough that I don't bother any more. I simply do a restore from backup, move the task bar to the left of the screen (widescreen laptop), and I am away.
To add to that one of the big benefits for travelers is the need to take only one adapter. Since my cell can charge over USB, I don't need to take my cell charger and adapter to make it go. Much much much less space!
I am afraid I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this:
The upper-left corner of the menu bar is NOT an active location to click on the apple menu
I just tried it, the very top left corner is active for the apple menu.
The Dock resizes and warps around so that you cannot utilize muscle memory to click on dock items
OK, so there's an option to allow the zooming on hover thing. Most people turn it off, so everything stays right where it should be.
Icons do not appear under anchored taskbars on Windows, but they DO appear beneath the dock
Yeah, they do appear under the dock sometimes, but I sure as hell run into the same problem on Windows. Just yesterday, I resumed my laptop and boom! Icons under the taskbar. Windows will do that if you put the taskbar in a non-standard spot. I put it on the left since I have a widescreen laptop.
On the mac, my "Macintosh HD" icon appears in a new location on my desktop on every boot
I don't know about USA, but in New Zealand if you are aware that the retailer is making a price mistake (you know dropping a 'zero' off the price), then you are still responsible for the full price. It all comes down to intent. If you knew that the price was wrong (and really, buy one get one free, of course you have to pay for one), then your intent was to take advantage of this mistake, and in the eyes of our law, you are liable for the cost. If you don't pay or return, it's considered theft.
Semantic Interoperability. Just because you have given me an observation message with a blood pressure, what does that really mean? When did you take it? Were you lying down? Had you just done some exercise?
Transmission of an entire clinical record. HL7 is a transactional messaging standard. It deals with 'events', things that happen, rather than things that are. Patient demographic messages for example only transmit the changes in state, never the authoritative record of the demographics. Furthermore, there are no messages for the transmission of an entire record - how exactly do you plan on transmitting that scanned document?
There are other standards, such as openEHR that attempt to deal with these issues, but have little traction.
In New Zealand, all DVD players are region free. Normally the importer will flick whatever firmware switch is required to make them region free. You can't sell them if they are region locked.
There are a lot of different suggestions coming up here. How should they be evaluated? How do you compare between the guy that says 'keep it simple' and the guy that says 'put in the basic extensions'. The answers to these questions come down to a feature planning process. This is designed to ensure that your product direction is closely lined up with the direction of your business.
Essentially, it runs like this:
Ensure you understand your Business Goals.
Distill that down into a set of Goals for your product - the product is driven by the business.
For each of the 'new feature requests', understand *why* they are being asked for - what's the need?
Group those feature requests together by the problems they are solving
Plan your roadmap around the Goals for your product, and include solutions to the problems that need solving to meet those goals.
As an example, the goal of the organization might be to increase adoption of Firefox amongst non-technical users. As a subgoal, it might be to ensure that people that are currently using firefox do not migrate back to IE when Microsoft releases IE7.
So: You product goals would be:
Make it as easy as possible to install firefox, immediately seeing the advantages
Make it easy for people to spread it via 'word of mouth'
Make it obvious to people using firefox how much it is protecting you - and how scared you should be of Internet Explorer
Now you have a metric by which to choose features. This makes it obvious - you should include a lot of the basic extensions by default. New people picking it up will not come across adblock, foxclocks, new themes - and the like. Make that easier. Now that I've got my non-computer literate fiancee to use firefox instead of IE - how to I encourage her friends to use it? She loves it (no popup ads!) but I want to burn a CD with the extensions on it - but that's not easy.
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I mean - what does a Media PC even do, for god's sake? That's never been explained. Why would I want one? What does it give me over a DVD player? Can I watch TV on it? What does it do?
I think the problem is that nobody knows. Then you see them advertising it with people that have keyboards on their laps while watching TV. Who wants that? It's madness.
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For example, if you try to share the folder on a new instance (say because your laptop died, a pretty valid use case) it can't seem to figure out to pull everything down, rather than push up deletions.
In short, like everything else from Novell, it's got some neat features, that are too buggy to be useful and have a user interface made by a sadist.
Just a guess, but the host header of HTTP 1 will do the trick.
This isn't anti-trust unless they are actually forcing you to purchase through monopoly power. This is clearly not the case. You have the choice to purchase or not - nothing anti-competitive about it. Just don't buy it.
Usually you can get your credit report for free, so you can find out. In addition in most countries they can't actually mark your credit record unless it went to court (even if you did a no show). I had a dispute with my local telco which involved collection agencies (they misaddressed the bills so I didn't get them, so I didn't pay them), but there's nothing on my credit record.
That's just plain old wrong. Whenever I come to the US, I take my phone and SIM card with me. My phone roams between all the various GSM carriers - T-Mobile, Cingular and Rogers up in the Frozen Tundra. They have never heard of me, my phone, or my SIM card. The network simply checks with Vodafone NZ and determines that I can actually pay.... and then I am away. Takes a bit longer to get signal, but only a few seconds.
No. Often the licensing deals for bulk govt. institutions are $x/machine/year. If this is anything like some other sectors, then essentially Microsoft doesn't care whether the software is installed or not, it's just $xx/machine/year, so they pay for the software even on machines that it is not installed on. Neat, eh?
I'll say. My mid 80s grandparents learned how to use email, and after that started to be annoyed with their friends... how do they expect to keep in touch if they wont learn to use email??
It's a dynamic equilibrium, with large sources and sinks of CO2. Adding more from human sources will increase the total amount, even if net production is small compared to natural sources.
Oh wow. Then later on:
This button is just hooked up to a counter, to see how many times it gets pressed.
The reason they put those questions on the form is so that should any of those things later turn out to be true (nazi war criminal, blah blah), they can kick you out of the country for lying on your immigration form.
Well, I found heaps in Beijing for about $5. These were real DVDs. You can tell the difference because they are in the massive bookshops, they have decent subtitles and use dual-layer DVDs.
More and more I find it easier to less and less.
It all depends on whether a reasonable person would be mislead. Even if technically correct, it is not OK to mislead.
To add to that one of the big benefits for travelers is the need to take only one adapter. Since my cell can charge over USB, I don't need to take my cell charger and adapter to make it go. Much much much less space!
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The upper-left corner of the menu bar is NOT an active location to click on the apple menu
I just tried it, the very top left corner is active for the apple menu.
The Dock resizes and warps around so that you cannot utilize muscle memory to click on dock items
OK, so there's an option to allow the zooming on hover thing. Most people turn it off, so everything stays right where it should be.
Icons do not appear under anchored taskbars on Windows, but they DO appear beneath the dock
Yeah, they do appear under the dock sometimes, but I sure as hell run into the same problem on Windows. Just yesterday, I resumed my laptop and boom! Icons under the taskbar. Windows will do that if you put the taskbar in a non-standard spot. I put it on the left since I have a widescreen laptop.
On the mac, my "Macintosh HD" icon appears in a new location on my desktop on every boot
Well, can't comment on that. Works for me.
I don't know about USA, but in New Zealand if you are aware that the retailer is making a price mistake (you know dropping a 'zero' off the price), then you are still responsible for the full price. It all comes down to intent. If you knew that the price was wrong (and really, buy one get one free, of course you have to pay for one), then your intent was to take advantage of this mistake, and in the eyes of our law, you are liable for the cost. If you don't pay or return, it's considered theft.
I'm guessing because that wouldn't meet the consumer protection law criteria. No contract can waive legal rights.
- Semantic Interoperability. Just because you have given me an observation message with a blood pressure, what does that really mean? When did you take it? Were you lying down? Had you just done some exercise?
- Transmission of an entire clinical record. HL7 is a transactional messaging standard. It deals with 'events', things that happen, rather than things that are. Patient demographic messages for example only transmit the changes in state, never the authoritative record of the demographics. Furthermore, there are no messages for the transmission of an entire record - how exactly do you plan on transmitting that scanned document?
There are other standards, such as openEHR that attempt to deal with these issues, but have little traction.Yes, I do work for a health IT vendor.
In New Zealand, all DVD players are region free. Normally the importer will flick whatever firmware switch is required to make them region free. You can't sell them if they are region locked.
Essentially, it runs like this:
As an example, the goal of the organization might be to increase adoption of Firefox amongst non-technical users. As a subgoal, it might be to ensure that people that are currently using firefox do not migrate back to IE when Microsoft releases IE7.
So: You product goals would be:
Now you have a metric by which to choose features. This makes it obvious - you should include a lot of the basic extensions by default. New people picking it up will not come across adblock, foxclocks, new themes - and the like. Make that easier. Now that I've got my non-computer literate fiancee to use firefox instead of IE - how to I encourage her friends to use it? She loves it (no popup ads!) but I want to burn a CD with the extensions on it - but that's not easy.
I hear you, fellow groupwise traveller.
I think the problem is that nobody knows. Then you see them advertising it with people that have keyboards on their laps while watching TV. Who wants that? It's madness.