They probably already owned XP licenses, which is what allowed the transition to occur. Sure they'll have to upgrade eventually but XP could feasibly be ran on older machines for several years still.
There's a gas station by my house that likes to to put the names of people that bounced checks along with all their contact info on a great big billboard for the entire city to see. It's pretty entertaining.
I'm gonna toss this out there. I've been designing isp networks for the last 10 years, including some of the ones in the list. I haven't seen an area that only has a DS3 as it's backbone in about 5 years, and even then it was 3 of them. And yes, I have worked in some extremely rural areas where the entire subscriber base has been less than 100.
**EVERY** consumer internet solution is shared bandwidth. That's the entire business model. The only question is which side of what router does everything get smashed together at.
You used to hear DSL advertising that they weren't shared bandwidth, you don't anymore (at least in the US) because it's not true.
Delete your Facebook account like I did. Although I'll admit that the first week of not knowing what crops my friends were growing was a little hard on me..
I'm deploying docsis 3.0 networks today that can reach 200 mbit today. Only real limitation is the money to upgrade the gear and shifting around tv channels to free frequencies. Expect to see major pushes in 2011 by all carriers.
You people act like a cell phone is a religion. Just substitute Christianity/Judaism/Islam in for Iphone/Android/Blackberry (In whatever order you want).
Point #1
The thing about using linux (even kidified linux), is that it's going to be harder to find the answer to how you do something that's not obvious to a novice user. It's pretty easy to find someone that can walk you through a couple basic things on Windows because they poses the lion's share of the market. You might get lucky and find someone familiar with linux but there's a lot fewer of them out there.
Point #2
With a Windows system you can go to Wal-mart and buy a copy of most current software titles. Linux not so much, sure there's resipositories which applications that do about the same thing as some Windows counter-part but when someone says you need 'Microsoft Word' to a new person they may not associate 'Open Office' as being the same sort of program.
I'm not saying a new user couldn't be sucessful with Linux but they certainly would have some challenges ahead of them.
How to interview someone is seriously a topic on Slashdot? Must be a pretty slow day waiting for that Apple announcement..
Anyway I do the technical interviews at my large company (Fortune 500)all the time (not programming, so this will be just general advice). If you have someone that actually understands the topics ask the questions then it's easy to gauge someones knowledge. Hiring someone that knows what it is going on is important, but in my experience finding someone that has the right personalility is more so. Have your technical person narrow it down to like 3-4 potential canidates then have the hiring manager pick from those, remember that someone willing to do assigned tasks without arguement might be worth more than someone with a bit more experience but runs to HR 4x a week about minor things.
And now you know why they have trouble finding work.. The perception of CS to a lot of people is that it's an IT degree. You and I know its closer to a degree in computer theory and mathematics however the average HR rep might not. Along the same point of view while yes of course there are companies that need CS majors, I'm pretty sure there's more companies looking for IT people.
Hulu was great because it was this new, hip, free way to watch real shows on the internet. They had ads that weren't too intrusive which seemed like a fair trade off to me. But then they failed to move into the mobile market, in fact blocking access to devices that could show Hulu intentionally. Now they have a iPhone client but they lost part of that mojo from being free, and they kept the ads on top of it. They're well on there way to no longer being cool and that might be the end of them. Time to move on to the "next big thing".
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Yeah the integrated graphics in the 13 really turned me off to it. The macbook air still has an Nvidia chip in it.
time machines, how does it work
They probably already owned XP licenses, which is what allowed the transition to occur. Sure they'll have to upgrade eventually but XP could feasibly be ran on older machines for several years still.
If there's one thing people should realize by now is don't count Steve Jobs out. The dude is wildy sucessful at going against popular opinnion.
There's a gas station by my house that likes to to put the names of people that bounced checks along with all their contact info on a great big billboard for the entire city to see. It's pretty entertaining.
In summary, if you act like a fucktard to the wrong people, they might do bad things to you. Karma
Not really libel if he actually did it. Just sayin.
I'm gonna toss this out there. I've been designing isp networks for the last 10 years, including some of the ones in the list. I haven't seen an area that only has a DS3 as it's backbone in about 5 years, and even then it was 3 of them. And yes, I have worked in some extremely rural areas where the entire subscriber base has been less than 100.
All the service providers have multiple tiers of service, not as misleading as you seem to think it is.
It's not ranking YOU. It's ranking them as a company, which includes all tiers of their service.
That's an issue with all cell phones..
**EVERY** consumer internet solution is shared bandwidth. That's the entire business model. The only question is which side of what router does everything get smashed together at. You used to hear DSL advertising that they weren't shared bandwidth, you don't anymore (at least in the US) because it's not true.
Delete your Facebook account like I did. Although I'll admit that the first week of not knowing what crops my friends were growing was a little hard on me..
You mean after being investigated in Germany for the same thing right?
I'm deploying docsis 3.0 networks today that can reach 200 mbit today. Only real limitation is the money to upgrade the gear and shifting around tv channels to free frequencies. Expect to see major pushes in 2011 by all carriers.
Both my wife and myself have deleted our facebook accounts. Last time I was in that situation it was with Myspace. Remember Myspace?
You people act like a cell phone is a religion. Just substitute Christianity/Judaism/Islam in for Iphone/Android/Blackberry (In whatever order you want).
I'm not an unethical thief who would thinks nothing of stealing from friends.
Point #1 The thing about using linux (even kidified linux), is that it's going to be harder to find the answer to how you do something that's not obvious to a novice user. It's pretty easy to find someone that can walk you through a couple basic things on Windows because they poses the lion's share of the market. You might get lucky and find someone familiar with linux but there's a lot fewer of them out there. Point #2 With a Windows system you can go to Wal-mart and buy a copy of most current software titles. Linux not so much, sure there's resipositories which applications that do about the same thing as some Windows counter-part but when someone says you need 'Microsoft Word' to a new person they may not associate 'Open Office' as being the same sort of program. I'm not saying a new user couldn't be sucessful with Linux but they certainly would have some challenges ahead of them.
How to interview someone is seriously a topic on Slashdot? Must be a pretty slow day waiting for that Apple announcement.. Anyway I do the technical interviews at my large company (Fortune 500)all the time (not programming, so this will be just general advice). If you have someone that actually understands the topics ask the questions then it's easy to gauge someones knowledge. Hiring someone that knows what it is going on is important, but in my experience finding someone that has the right personalility is more so. Have your technical person narrow it down to like 3-4 potential canidates then have the hiring manager pick from those, remember that someone willing to do assigned tasks without arguement might be worth more than someone with a bit more experience but runs to HR 4x a week about minor things.
Iphone has had tethering for at least a year in the native software, but feel free to carry on with your uniformed opinions.
Steve Jobs is a moron for making such a shitty phone! Oh wait...
And now you know why they have trouble finding work.. The perception of CS to a lot of people is that it's an IT degree. You and I know its closer to a degree in computer theory and mathematics however the average HR rep might not. Along the same point of view while yes of course there are companies that need CS majors, I'm pretty sure there's more companies looking for IT people.
Pure gold sir.
Hulu was great because it was this new, hip, free way to watch real shows on the internet. They had ads that weren't too intrusive which seemed like a fair trade off to me. But then they failed to move into the mobile market, in fact blocking access to devices that could show Hulu intentionally. Now they have a iPhone client but they lost part of that mojo from being free, and they kept the ads on top of it. They're well on there way to no longer being cool and that might be the end of them. Time to move on to the "next big thing".