I bought two Tivo Series 1 DVRs (one for me, one I gave to my parents). Both autodetect when the cable company reassigns the stations. They give me a little message saying 'your stations have changed blah blah blah.' Neither crashes.
Don't we get warnings about this every decade for the last several centuries? Wasn't writing in the vernacular going to ruin writing back ever since writing was invented?
How do you deal with the people who are going to whine no matter what you do? Can you afford to risk just ignoring them, or do you try to address them knowing it will fall on deaf ears, or have you come up with a better plan?
"Career paths" are the sort of beauracracy and red tape that big companies waste their time talent and money on without getting anything useful in return.
"Part 2", the "what MS is doing to stop Linux" part, points out obvious facts (can't buy Linux computers in major retailers), asks why, and then postulates no decent answers. We should all ask, why does it suggest no decent answers? Is it perhaps because the most likely answer, that retail stores would lose money selling Linux systems due to higher difficulty of making the sale, higher support costs, higher return rates, and lower volume? Or is it perhaps because there is a global conspiracy that stores take against profitable actions?
The author says we should believe: "Obviously, there are forces at work in the IT industry that cause retailers to choose not to participate in being more profitable." Right. Global conspiracy, obvious. Try again. The only thing that is really obvious is that the course of action he is suggesting (selling Linux systems in mass market brick and mortar retailers) is deemed unprofitable for these stores.
Sure, Walmart sells Linux. But only online, not brick and mortar.
Nah. It's like saying, I don't want a Game Boy if it will make my PS2 suck. Why is my RAZR phone a WORSE _phone_ than my last Nokia? Adding a camera and color screen and music playback and web browsing ended up diminishing the quality of the actual phone part.:(
For your family: put in a simple home router to hide the windows box behind, install spybot search and destroy and show them how to run it, convince them to use firefox, and shut off activex.
Then your vacations can become enjoyable again, zero admin work required.
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Is it just me, or is the current design more readable, and thus better?
Yeah, but the 'hacked by chinese!' griefers sure get old quick.
I bought two Tivo Series 1 DVRs (one for me, one I gave to my parents).
Both autodetect when the cable company reassigns the stations. They give me a little message saying 'your stations have changed blah blah blah.'
Neither crashes.
What DVR are you using? Sounds defective.
That's their current business model.
Everybody keeps rolling their own instead of paying the license fees.
I've had that call. It's about as weird as it sounds.
Heh, read the other comment and reply. Oops. So much for the fast use of reply button. :)
Play Eve Online. Seriously.
Give up now. It is too high a goal, there will never be another game like Starflight and Starflight II.
Easy. Patent is on radio-based "push" e-mail. Obvious workaround? Go to a polling system. Downside? Significantly reduced battery life.
The world is unavoidably ending. Consider yourself informed.
Of course, it might take a while. By the way, you're going to die, too.
Extremes are too easy to work around.
Wow. Good thing nobody tried to sell him a calculator.
Don't we get warnings about this every decade for the last several centuries? Wasn't writing in the vernacular going to ruin writing back ever since writing was invented?
Nobody is forcing you to play new games. If it's not worth the cost, don't play it.
How do you deal with the people who are going to whine no matter what you do? Can you afford to risk just ignoring them, or do you try to address them knowing it will fall on deaf ears, or have you come up with a better plan?
We have had outlook send out e-mails as random other users - secretary randomly promoted to CEO, that sort of fun.
Solution involved rebooting every desktop in the enterprise. Not a joke, sadly.
I use BitTorrent to get the updates for World of Warcraft. I'm not guilty of 'piracy' for that.
Headline should read: "People who share copyrighted movies guilty of copyright infringement."
But I guess that wouldn't get as much of a reaction, what with it being obvious and all...
"Career paths" are the sort of beauracracy and red tape that big companies waste their time talent and money on without getting anything useful in return.
"Part 2", the "what MS is doing to stop Linux" part, points out obvious facts (can't buy Linux computers in major retailers), asks why, and then postulates no decent answers. We should all ask, why does it suggest no decent answers? Is it perhaps because the most likely answer, that retail stores would lose money selling Linux systems due to higher difficulty of making the sale, higher support costs, higher return rates, and lower volume? Or is it perhaps because there is a global conspiracy that stores take against profitable actions?
The author says we should believe: "Obviously, there are forces at work in the IT industry that cause retailers to choose not to participate in being more profitable." Right. Global conspiracy, obvious. Try again. The only thing that is really obvious is that the course of action he is suggesting (selling Linux systems in mass market brick and mortar retailers) is deemed unprofitable for these stores.
Sure, Walmart sells Linux. But only online, not brick and mortar.
In other shocking news, millions of people keep diaries!
HOLY COW who knew?
Can we please get some "stuff that matters" now?
Nah. It's like saying, I don't want a Game Boy if it will make my PS2 suck. Why is my RAZR phone a WORSE _phone_ than my last Nokia? Adding a camera and color screen and music playback and web browsing ended up diminishing the quality of the actual phone part. :(
Who still prints the whole number?
In America, or abroad?
Oh really? Name one. Prove it.
For your family: put in a simple home router to hide the windows box behind, install spybot search and destroy and show them how to run it, convince them to use firefox, and shut off activex.
Then your vacations can become enjoyable again, zero admin work required.
I pay $57 for the imports (incl. shipping), order online. I'd love to see them at $25 also. :(
Import the Takara BinalTech models from Japan. Die-cast outer shells instead of the plastic they sell here.