I'm actually really curious to see how the iphone holds up in a corporate environment. Our company is also talking about converting to those as wells but I still much prefer having a tactile keyboard which is a bit of a downer for me for the iphone.
You did nail a good point with regard to doing presentations from it - that's definitely a handy feature.
One thing worth noting - I hated the previous Blackberries I've interacted with but the one I have supports multi touch which SIGNIFICANTLY improves the user experience and just nails the kind of UI I prefer at this time.
While I'm sure we agree on the overall issue I think people are heavily over-dramatizing this aspect. I've flown a significant number of times since the implementation of the TSA and have always opted for the pat-downs. While I feel my liberties are being violated I've yet to encounter any conduct that was less than professional. Always back of the hand, always vocalizing what they're doing, and never crossing any lines that I could define the treatment as "rape".
To compare the pat-down to rape is abhorrent in most of the cases. While I understand the issue at hand you're having, pun intended, you're grossly misrepresenting what's going on.
We're not being raped in a physical sense. It's our liberties that are being harmed and they're being murdered.
I got issued a Blackberry Bold for work yesterday and so far I've been incredibly impressed and actually like it more than my Android phone. It's something I never thought I'd get into but the physical format and the UI made pretty good sense to me (unlike android which feels disorganized/non-intuitive in a few places).
Where I think RIM has really failed is in regards to creating a culture around their devices outside of the workplace. Android has geeks and counterculture, Apple has the hipsters...and well everyone else. When I think of people with Blackberries I think of corporate culture and suit and ties - what young consumer wants to be a part of that?
Anywho - for my own selfish reasons I hope they continue (at least from my first impression) making quality devices and figure out how to market themselves outside of the enterprise.
Hey - I don't make the rules. However, I did read in a few places that one of the biggest demands from employees was more hours. Like I alluded to in the previous, there apparently isn't much room to move up, but supposedly you can get wider (more hours).
Queue the angry mobs of workings who actually want to work those incredible hours. They can't get the wages we do but they can certainly work much more than us and are often willing to.
So his crime was so bad he was offered freedom. Oh wait, then it somehow got worse after the fact and is now worth 10 years and deportation. Bah. I don't understand how there's any justice in that.
"Shortly after its release, PGP encryption found its way outside the United States, and in February 1993 Zimmermann became the formal target of a criminal investigation by the US Government for "munitions export without a license". Cryptosystems using keys larger than 40 bits were then considered munitions within the definition of the US export regulations; PGP has never used keys smaller than 128 bits so it qualified at that time. Penalties for violation, if found guilty, were substantial. After several years, the investigation of Zimmermann was closed without filing criminal charges against him or anyone else."
There always seems to be some mysterious upper threshold for most encryption schemes...Wonder why...
Another article where someone claims their personal view must surely be the view of the remainder of the world.
Personally I like them for the random contacts you make. Not the prearranged things the article talks about. I run into folks in my industry via flights, friends of friends, and other fairly happenstance meetings. Hell, I used to give out my professional card for personal contacts (with the preface of course - "I'm not trying to be an arrogant douche and flaunt a status, it's just much easier to give you my number this way") - though I've since created a non-business card for handing out to people without having to worry about the negative inferences from the former.
And yes - as another poster(s) has stated: QR codes and the like are a great feature to have on them these days. Worst case you carry one and you can exchange info by just scanning each other's cards.
Just curious - in the same way higher quality imaging allows for larger scaling, does higher quality audio allow, for instance, louder music to be heard more clearly?
Conversely, the fella I worked with was very practical about the topic. Basically I can afford up to X but I'd be eating only ramen and wiping with newspaper. For every increment lower that I could get to would increase my quality of life so either make more money or find something significantly cheaper than X. And hell, I was 23 at the time.
Oh, and the bank - Bank of America oddly enough. Incidentally that guy doesn't work there anymore. He moved back to Sweden. Probably saw the writing on the wall, heh.
Your salary could probably feed the entire country if you use their rates. What's your point? They've already banked a few million from their pirating and are still starving - what's that tell you?
More aid in that general direction doesn't seem to really help those groups in the long term. There's a lot of "feeding them fish" instead of "teaching them to fish" going on that's creating codependence, not self-reliance.
My favorite part was the line "InDesign CS6 has not been released yet and its system requirements are unknown". Can't just look at the previous release's specs and project from there? Jesus, what kind of non-IT fella wrote this garbage?
I don't think their request is unreasonable - as it even states within the summary itself that it'll also be used to upgrade the infrastructure as well.
"Also a side benefit I look much more attractive. I never thought I cared about my appearance, but I guess deep down I kinda did. I feel a certain confidence that I never new was missing.. if that makes sense (and I get if it doesn't, because I barely understand it)."
Makes perfect sense to me. It's kind of a positive feedback loop. It's kind of the same thing I went through - "wow, you look really good" suddenly meant I somehow turned into a viable candidate in the dating meat market. Granted, I'm out of that market now it still sets the bar in a neat way. The more fit I get the less my wife feels inclined to let herself go and vice versa so it's kind of a team thing now. And heck, no one can complain about their wife still being hot throughout the years.
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I'm actually really curious to see how the iphone holds up in a corporate environment. Our company is also talking about converting to those as wells but I still much prefer having a tactile keyboard which is a bit of a downer for me for the iphone.
You did nail a good point with regard to doing presentations from it - that's definitely a handy feature.
One thing worth noting - I hated the previous Blackberries I've interacted with but the one I have supports multi touch which SIGNIFICANTLY improves the user experience and just nails the kind of UI I prefer at this time.
While I'm sure we agree on the overall issue I think people are heavily over-dramatizing this aspect. I've flown a significant number of times since the implementation of the TSA and have always opted for the pat-downs. While I feel my liberties are being violated I've yet to encounter any conduct that was less than professional. Always back of the hand, always vocalizing what they're doing, and never crossing any lines that I could define the treatment as "rape".
To compare the pat-down to rape is abhorrent in most of the cases. While I understand the issue at hand you're having, pun intended, you're grossly misrepresenting what's going on.
We're not being raped in a physical sense. It's our liberties that are being harmed and they're being murdered.
I got issued a Blackberry Bold for work yesterday and so far I've been incredibly impressed and actually like it more than my Android phone. It's something I never thought I'd get into but the physical format and the UI made pretty good sense to me (unlike android which feels disorganized/non-intuitive in a few places).
Where I think RIM has really failed is in regards to creating a culture around their devices outside of the workplace. Android has geeks and counterculture, Apple has the hipsters...and well everyone else. When I think of people with Blackberries I think of corporate culture and suit and ties - what young consumer wants to be a part of that?
Anywho - for my own selfish reasons I hope they continue (at least from my first impression) making quality devices and figure out how to market themselves outside of the enterprise.
Hey - I don't make the rules. However, I did read in a few places that one of the biggest demands from employees was more hours. Like I alluded to in the previous, there apparently isn't much room to move up, but supposedly you can get wider (more hours).
Queue the angry mobs of workings who actually want to work those incredible hours. They can't get the wages we do but they can certainly work much more than us and are often willing to.
I think you two are agreeing actually.
Re-read it as "Sure, [cancel] one of the few things that China did that actually seemed to make sense"
No mod points here but came across that too. Thanks for posting!
So his crime was so bad he was offered freedom. Oh wait, then it somehow got worse after the fact and is now worth 10 years and deportation. Bah. I don't understand how there's any justice in that.
Reminds me of this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_investigation
"Shortly after its release, PGP encryption found its way outside the United States, and in February 1993 Zimmermann became the formal target of a criminal investigation by the US Government for "munitions export without a license". Cryptosystems using keys larger than 40 bits were then considered munitions within the definition of the US export regulations; PGP has never used keys smaller than 128 bits so it qualified at that time. Penalties for violation, if found guilty, were substantial. After several years, the investigation of Zimmermann was closed without filing criminal charges against him or anyone else."
There always seems to be some mysterious upper threshold for most encryption schemes...Wonder why...
Another article where someone claims their personal view must surely be the view of the remainder of the world.
Personally I like them for the random contacts you make. Not the prearranged things the article talks about. I run into folks in my industry via flights, friends of friends, and other fairly happenstance meetings. Hell, I used to give out my professional card for personal contacts (with the preface of course - "I'm not trying to be an arrogant douche and flaunt a status, it's just much easier to give you my number this way") - though I've since created a non-business card for handing out to people without having to worry about the negative inferences from the former.
And yes - as another poster(s) has stated: QR codes and the like are a great feature to have on them these days. Worst case you carry one and you can exchange info by just scanning each other's cards.
Who pays for those roads?
Think a prospective employer could do this without knowing an applicant's age, race, sexual orientation, marriage status, and so on? Doubtful.
Sweet fucking jesus what the fucking fuck. Usually I have better words for this. But fuck.
Just curious - in the same way higher quality imaging allows for larger scaling, does higher quality audio allow, for instance, louder music to be heard more clearly?
No True Scotsman would assume such a thing!
Conversely, the fella I worked with was very practical about the topic. Basically I can afford up to X but I'd be eating only ramen and wiping with newspaper. For every increment lower that I could get to would increase my quality of life so either make more money or find something significantly cheaper than X. And hell, I was 23 at the time.
Oh, and the bank - Bank of America oddly enough. Incidentally that guy doesn't work there anymore. He moved back to Sweden. Probably saw the writing on the wall, heh.
Touche`!
I always figured you guys just hitched rides on the various livestock. Express routes via stampedes.
THIS IS GENIUS. Although I actually happen to enjoy chatting it up with my mother in law oddly enough...
Authentication issues perhaps?
Bet it wont happen again next year!
Screw it, I'll bite.
Your salary could probably feed the entire country if you use their rates. What's your point? They've already banked a few million from their pirating and are still starving - what's that tell you?
More aid in that general direction doesn't seem to really help those groups in the long term. There's a lot of "feeding them fish" instead of "teaching them to fish" going on that's creating codependence, not self-reliance.
My favorite part was the line "InDesign CS6 has not been released yet and its system requirements are unknown". Can't just look at the previous release's specs and project from there? Jesus, what kind of non-IT fella wrote this garbage?
I don't think their request is unreasonable - as it even states within the summary itself that it'll also be used to upgrade the infrastructure as well.
Yet I could feasibly buy a horse cock dildo at my local adult store using my credit card from potentially one of these banks...
Just a paperweight, right? Neighhhh.
"Also a side benefit I look much more attractive. I never thought I cared about my appearance, but I guess deep down I kinda did. I feel a certain confidence that I never new was missing.. if that makes sense (and I get if it doesn't, because I barely understand it)."
Makes perfect sense to me. It's kind of a positive feedback loop. It's kind of the same thing I went through - "wow, you look really good" suddenly meant I somehow turned into a viable candidate in the dating meat market. Granted, I'm out of that market now it still sets the bar in a neat way. The more fit I get the less my wife feels inclined to let herself go and vice versa so it's kind of a team thing now. And heck, no one can complain about their wife still being hot throughout the years.