I run a computer lab on a large university, and we already have more problems getting PDFs to print than any other format...so now they're going to muck up the spec even more?! Thanks soooooooooooooooooo much guys.
Thanks for that link. Says a lot about the Korean government and medical community that they feed this BS to the public with no science to back it up. Not that things are much better here in the US of A.
RTFA, one of the author's complaints is that Amazon's hype made people think it only handled DRM'd content. But it does seem to handle PDF and some other formats just fine.
Why the hell does a READER have one third of its real estate covered by a keyboard, that will probably be used very rarely? I mean, how much typing do you do while you're reading a book? Bad design, DRM, horrendous pricing. I hope the post that showed it on the cover of Newsweek isn't a hoax, because this thing is the poster child for what an e-book reader should not be, and when it tanks hopefully Apple or somebody will be taking lots of notes.
If it's remotely controlled, the signal can be jammed. I realize the military has some pretty fancy anti-jamming tech, I'd be interested in informed opinions on the likelihood that pirates could defeat it.
The other option is to make them autonomous, so we have armed robots roaming the high seas deciding whether or not to open fire on any vessel they encounter. A monumentally bad idea.
Give me a single proc Mac with a pci-x slot or two and I'm happy...basically a Mini without laptop components in a minitower case.
Earth to Apple...most gamers don't spend a couple grand for gaming machine, they get a $600 Dell and put a decent graphics card in it. By ignoring these folks you're leaving money on the table, a lot of us would love to be able to run Windows for games and Mac for real life, but we're not going to drop a couple grand to do it.
I understand Apple doesn't want to fracture the market with too many offerings, but at the rate their market's growing there should be room for another model.
Yeah, if they didn't buy that TV they could probably afford one or two months of health insurance! Look, I don't condone blowing a wad on something stupid like an entertainment system, but I can kind of understand the mindset: "I have a crappy apartment, crappy car, but at least I can get this huge TV from the rent-to-own shysters for only 40 bucks a month, so what the hell?"
Possibly because teaching birth control methods in the schools is not taboo in Britain and Europe, so there are fewer unplanned pregnancies? I can't back that up, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true.
The Democrat are only pro-consumer in comparison to the Repubs. If you pay attention--ie turn off your TV--you'll find they are pretty much bought and paid for, with a few exceptions. It's true they're not as bad as the Republicans, in the same manner that Herpes isn't as bad as AIDS.
Yeah, I watched it a couple nights ago, pretty chilling stuff. I've had it with the MSM and I'm tired of supporting Comcast so I got rid of cable last month, PBS is about the only station I get. And you know what? I don't really miss the other hundred and forty seven channels. At least I won't once football season's over.
I figure I'll be wealthier and wiser, Ben Franklin would be proud!
I'm assuming the OP was letting us know the number of machines he was dealing with, which I found to be useful information. Now if he did indeed mean 5 percent of an undisclosed number of machines, I'm with ya.
From the original post: "The big question is where it goes from here -- NASA? DARPA? The new ARPA-E? Or something new?"
My money's on Haliburton, via no-bid contract.
...or they wouldn't have just changed their licensing agreements so that universities can no longer purchase unlimited site licenses, and they don't allow concurrent licensing, which is crucial in the educational market.
When you have hundreds of machines loaded with hundreds of apps used by thousands of students, concurrent licensing is the only cost-effective means of deploying software. And SAS just doesn't get it.
Per-user settings should be stored in user profiles. Period. I realize this breaks apps that were written before Windows discovered profiles, but for cat's sake, join the new millennium.
It's not about being the "textbook" way, it's about making your software work in the real world. As someone who manages hundreds of machines used by thousands of people, I'd like to thank you and your brethren (and sisteren) for countless hours of frustration and needless trouble shooting and tweaking. And job security, I suppose.
Yeah, you're not holding a gun to my head to make me use your software. But telling a teacher that he can't use his favorite software in his class because the author didn't feel like complying with the most mundane security standards doesn't win me many points around here.
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"Also he didn't write an opera at age four, he's first opera was written at about age 11."
11? What a slacker!
I run a computer lab on a large university, and we already have more problems getting PDFs to print than any other format...so now they're going to muck up the spec even more?! Thanks soooooooooooooooooo much guys.
Thanks for that link. Says a lot about the Korean government and medical community that they feed this BS to the public with no science to back it up. Not that things are much better here in the US of A.
Sorry, forgot the post links to quite a few FAs. I was referring to this one
RTFA, one of the author's complaints is that Amazon's hype made people think it only handled DRM'd content. But it does seem to handle PDF and some other formats just fine.
That's pretty sweet, but I'm not sure I'd want to try splitting lanes in that thing. Still, it's cool to know that you could.
Why the hell does a READER have one third of its real estate covered by a keyboard, that will probably be used very rarely? I mean, how much typing do you do while you're reading a book? Bad design, DRM, horrendous pricing. I hope the post that showed it on the cover of Newsweek isn't a hoax, because this thing is the poster child for what an e-book reader should not be, and when it tanks hopefully Apple or somebody will be taking lots of notes.
As a diehard Beaver, I never say this, but just this once:
GO DUCKS!
Actually, I might have thought it once or twice last Saturday when they played USC.
If it's remotely controlled, the signal can be jammed. I realize the military has some pretty fancy anti-jamming tech, I'd be interested in informed opinions on the likelihood that pirates could defeat it.
The other option is to make them autonomous, so we have armed robots roaming the high seas deciding whether or not to open fire on any vessel they encounter. A monumentally bad idea.
"paying for the big screen and the chrysler 300, or in one case 2 mercedes..."
Damn!
Give me a single proc Mac with a pci-x slot or two and I'm happy...basically a Mini without laptop components in a minitower case.
Earth to Apple...most gamers don't spend a couple grand for gaming machine, they get a $600 Dell and put a decent graphics card in it. By ignoring these folks you're leaving money on the table, a lot of us would love to be able to run Windows for games and Mac for real life, but we're not going to drop a couple grand to do it.
I understand Apple doesn't want to fracture the market with too many offerings, but at the rate their market's growing there should be room for another model.
Yeah, if they didn't buy that TV they could probably afford one or two months of health insurance! Look, I don't condone blowing a wad on something stupid like an entertainment system, but I can kind of understand the mindset: "I have a crappy apartment, crappy car, but at least I can get this huge TV from the rent-to-own shysters for only 40 bucks a month, so what the hell?"
...welcome our mostly rural, kitchen fiddling, space tourist overlords!
What you are looking for is impulsively.
Possibly because teaching birth control methods in the schools is not taboo in Britain and Europe, so there are fewer unplanned pregnancies? I can't back that up, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's true.
The Democrat are only pro-consumer in comparison to the Repubs. If you pay attention--ie turn off your TV--you'll find they are pretty much bought and paid for, with a few exceptions. It's true they're not as bad as the Republicans, in the same manner that Herpes isn't as bad as AIDS.
Some of their equipment sits on my property, for which I receive no compensation. I'd say that should give me a some rights.
Yeah, I watched it a couple nights ago, pretty chilling stuff. I've had it with the MSM and I'm tired of supporting Comcast so I got rid of cable last month, PBS is about the only station I get. And you know what? I don't really miss the other hundred and forty seven channels. At least I won't once football season's over.
I figure I'll be wealthier and wiser, Ben Franklin would be proud!
I'm assuming the OP was letting us know the number of machines he was dealing with, which I found to be useful information. Now if he did indeed mean 5 percent of an undisclosed number of machines, I'm with ya.
From the original post: "The big question is where it goes from here -- NASA? DARPA? The new ARPA-E? Or something new?"
My money's on Haliburton, via no-bid contract.
...or they wouldn't have just changed their licensing agreements so that universities can no longer purchase unlimited site licenses, and they don't allow concurrent licensing, which is crucial in the educational market.
When you have hundreds of machines loaded with hundreds of apps used by thousands of students, concurrent licensing is the only cost-effective means of deploying software. And SAS just doesn't get it.
Per-user settings should be stored in user profiles. Period. I realize this breaks apps that were written before Windows discovered profiles, but for cat's sake, join the new millennium.
It's not about being the "textbook" way, it's about making your software work in the real world. As someone who manages hundreds of machines used by thousands of people, I'd like to thank you and your brethren (and sisteren) for countless hours of frustration and needless trouble shooting and tweaking. And job security, I suppose.
Yeah, you're not holding a gun to my head to make me use your software. But telling a teacher that he can't use his favorite software in his class because the author didn't feel like complying with the most mundane security standards doesn't win me many points around here.
Yep, that's the first thing that popped in to my head too. Just wish he'd include lossless crop for Jpegs.
"It would have been cool to see Tim Burton make this. Johnny Depp could have played one of the flying monkeys.
After seeing his performance as Willy Wonka, I'd cast him as the Wicked Witch of the West, personally.
"True Lies," if I recall correctly, was a particularly egregious offender."
Probably my least favorite movie of all time. When Tom Arnold's performance is the best part of the picture, you're in deep trouble.