Depends on where you live in the US and your transport options.
Since I'm legally blind as well as deaf, I can't drive period. To get to the other side of DC from the eastern suburbs will take about an hour and a half to two hours using public transport.
And that is the best case scenario.
In rural areas, your only real option is indeed by car. In areas that are only sprawl, then you might be stuck with either a lengthly bus ride or car. As you are from the LA area (at least I think NOLA means North of LA), then you are in what I call an uncontrolled sprawl zone with bad public transport.
I wish people would not drive so much it would make developers and towns think more about this sort o thing.
Useless to me since I'm deaf and use a TTY anyway. A TTY is a text based telecommunications device that works over a phone line. You can buy software TTY's though they aren't as good as the hardware.
Kind of hard to overhear a TTY since it isn't verbal.:grins: One of the few advantages of being deaf, that and not hearing some of what you don't want to.
So what I'd like to ask some of the more savvier Slashdot denizen: What are some of the bureaucratic black arts that you've performed in your workplace to work around the office politics and get your work done on time and to a high standard?
I'd advise not to use the black arts. Using black magic will affect negatively on your karma. I mean do you really want this to be the answer to the question:
What did I do in my pervious life to deserve this?
I clicked on the browser requirements link on the page and guess what? The Mac requirements reguire:
MacOS 9.0 or later MS IE 5.0
Notice that IE has been discontinued for the Mac a while back. They they do say they "support"Netscape 7.2 but, that seems to be Windows only versions.
FWIW, you have the following on MacOS X:
iCab, Mozilla, Netscape (don't know if they still maintain it), FireFox, Comano, Safari, Opera, OmniWeb, and Shaive(spelling?).
On an aside, I'm an evening adult student (work full time in the field during the day), and the only program offered at night by the local state uni is "Information Technology".. jeeezus this program is horrible. Ask any of my classmates what order an algorithm is (and I'm not talking about anything complex) or what a program counter is and they'll look at you like you've grown a third head. The other night it came out that 90% of the class (junior level) didn't know the difference between "pass by reference" and "pass by value". But by golly than can throw together a GUI and use ADO.net!
Information Technology majors are kinda like Information Systems - the business courses.. which leaves you with?
Depends what school you go to. I have been to RIT (will return soon to finish degree) and I'm actually an IT major. AFIK, RIT is one of the few colleges that has a true IT degree. (has a separate computing college)
On the downside, they switched the programming classes from C++ to VB when I started. Though I managed to take the C++ classes as well (had some C background). That was a while ago though, they might have changed it again.
IT majors at RIT learn about networking, how at least PCs work, Data Communications, and other things. But, the emphasis isn't on programming. It is on managing systems , multimedia, web development, or Windows Programming (at least the undergrad degree anyway).
Though if you want to learn about algorithms, you should have gone into Software Engineering or even (shudder) Computer Science.
I didn't go into Software Engineering primarily because I'm disabled and it would have been too much of an effort to overcome it for that.
Darwin doesn't prevent the existence of a deity or deities. Also don't assume that everyone who believes in a religion is Christian (Catholic or otherwise).
Furthermore, I dislike those who try to impose their religion on others no matter what their belief system is (including atheism)
I'm don't believe in Hell but, reincarnation so your threat of going to Hell is useless.
However, there is one non-computer based grammar checker. It is a proofreader.
If you write anything important, have someone else look over it for errors you overlooked.
To be honest, I gave up a long time ago with grammar checkers on a computer. I have my english textbooks around here for anything important this reason, though a proofreader is a very valuable thing to have.
A/. posting of a comment isn't important however as long as it is intelligible to everyone else.
I happen to live on the East coast and the worst disaster to go through here in 30 years of living here was one tornado. Usually, it is just the usual Washington area blistering heat in the summer (DC used to be swamp land before it was drained).
Now to really have fun with your argument, in the Midwest there are plenty of disasters along the Mississippi region. Floods are the most common. However, parts of the Mississippi sit on top of a fault line where the continent had thought of splitting in two many millions of years ago. I think it was called the New Madrid fault (might have the name wrong).
Instead, you should argue against putting important things in disaster zones, like flood plains, fault lines, or along other areas of disaster.
Every corporation has a corporate culture. When was the last time you saw Microsoft publicly attacking it's one of its developers for 'leaking secrets'? It happens, but Apple has a disturbing history of jealously pursuing it's employees. The corporate culture of Apple has transitioned from the hackers' culture of Woz to a Culture of Fear. If you are a developer at Apple, high profile anti-employee actions like this send a message: secrecy first, collaboration second.
You don't know Apple well do you?
Apple has one of the most open corporate cultures out there. They even have policies about discrimination against Transsexuals.
This has nothing to do with corporate culture but, with the guy in question not adhering to the NDA he signed. This is an ethical and legal issue.
Those guys have a very bad repuation in the Mac community. You might be able to get something from them online but, that is the extent of it especially since their support and quality, not to mention prices are not good.
Word of mouth on these guys is not exactly positive.
The thing is the software does not support other drives. If another manufacter wants to sell a DVD burner then they have to either do one of two things if they want it to work with Macs.
1. Write their own 2. License someone else (even iDVD). No one has obtained a license to bundle iDVD therefore it is not sold or supported to work with it.
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Depends on where you live in the US and your transport options.
Since I'm legally blind as well as deaf, I can't drive period. To get to the other side of DC from the eastern suburbs will take about an hour and a half to two hours using public transport.
And that is the best case scenario.
In rural areas, your only real option is indeed by car. In areas that are only sprawl, then you might be stuck with either a lengthly bus ride or car. As you are from the LA area (at least I think NOLA means North of LA), then you are in what I call an uncontrolled sprawl zone with bad public transport.
I wish people would not drive so much it would make developers and towns think more about this sort o thing.
The name of my actual faith is Wicca.
Neo-pagan is a blanket term for a group of faiths.
People make typing mistakes you know and don't always catch them.
I feel compelled to point out that there are these faiths alone in the US:
Myself I fall into the neo-pegan camp since I'm Wiccan and I don't have a problem with evolution. So, this isn't earth shattering for me
:shrugs:
:grins: One of the few advantages of being deaf, that and not hearing some of what you don't want to.
Useless to me since I'm deaf and use a TTY anyway. A TTY is a text based telecommunications device that works over a phone line. You can buy software TTY's though they aren't as good as the hardware.
Kind of hard to overhear a TTY since it isn't verbal.
I'd advise not to use the black arts. Using black magic will affect negatively on your karma. I mean do you really want this to be the answer to the question:
What did I do in my pervious life to deserve this?
Why would Apple bundle Firefox when they bundle their own browser?
As for HP or Dell it depends on their relationship with MS.
Only if you consider something that has ceased development years ago and no longer ships with the OS as made for the OS.
Mac IE is dead.
Yeah, there are other browsers (Seven alone on OS X, not counting FireFox and the dead IE) Not to mention that OS X's default browser is Safari.
On UNIX and Linux there is Konqueror, Lynx, Links, Firefox, and a couple more I can't remember.
Even if all together they only added up to 3 percent or so that would still not add up.
Interesting.
I clicked on the browser requirements link on the page and guess what? The Mac requirements reguire:
MacOS 9.0 or later
MS IE 5.0
Notice that IE has been discontinued for the Mac a while back. They they do say they "support"Netscape 7.2 but, that seems to be Windows only versions.
FWIW, you have the following on MacOS X:
iCab, Mozilla, Netscape (don't know if they still maintain it), FireFox, Comano, Safari, Opera, OmniWeb, and Shaive(spelling?).
Depends what school you go to. I have been to RIT (will return soon to finish degree) and I'm actually an IT major. AFIK, RIT is one of the few colleges that has a true IT degree. (has a separate computing college)
On the downside, they switched the programming classes from C++ to VB when I started. Though I managed to take the C++ classes as well (had some C background). That was a while ago though, they might have changed it again.
IT majors at RIT learn about networking, how at least PCs work, Data Communications, and other things. But, the emphasis isn't on programming. It is on managing systems , multimedia, web development, or Windows Programming (at least the undergrad degree anyway).
Though if you want to learn about algorithms, you should have gone into Software Engineering or even (shudder) Computer Science.
I didn't go into Software Engineering primarily because I'm disabled and it would have been too much of an effort to overcome it for that.
Or you could just be going deaf like us poor late deafened people.
I wouldn't notice the noise unless there was a vibration or it was really loud.
Darwin doesn't prevent the existence of a deity or deities. Also don't assume that everyone who believes in a religion is Christian (Catholic or otherwise).
Furthermore, I dislike those who try to impose their religion on others no matter what their belief system is (including atheism)
I'm don't believe in Hell but, reincarnation so your threat of going to Hell is useless.
As for Titan having life, who knows?
Agreed.
/. posting of a comment isn't important however as long as it is intelligible to everyone else.
However, there is one non-computer based grammar checker. It is a proofreader.
If you write anything important, have someone else look over it for errors you overlooked.
To be honest, I gave up a long time ago with grammar checkers on a computer. I have my english textbooks around here for anything important this reason, though a proofreader is a very valuable thing to have.
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Like they did New Orleans?
It took them at least four days to even begin to do anything useful.
Lots of luck if you live in the danger zone.
I happen to live on the East coast and the worst disaster to go through here in 30 years of living here was one tornado. Usually, it is just the usual Washington area blistering heat in the summer (DC used to be swamp land before it was drained).
Now to really have fun with your argument, in the Midwest there are plenty of disasters along the Mississippi region. Floods are the most common. However, parts of the Mississippi sit on top of a fault line where the continent had thought of splitting in two many millions of years ago. I think it was called the New Madrid fault (might have the name wrong).
Instead, you should argue against putting important things in disaster zones, like flood plains, fault lines, or along other areas of disaster.
Nice joke.
Apple isn't going to use processors from AMD.
You wrote:
You don't know Apple well do you?
Apple has one of the most open corporate cultures out there. They even have policies about discrimination against Transsexuals.
This has nothing to do with corporate culture but, with the guy in question not adhering to the NDA he signed. This is an ethical and legal issue.
unless the bidder can't be there to pay in person then your COD requirment for biddrs falls through.
Those guys have a very bad repuation in the Mac community. You might be able to get something from them online but, that is the extent of it especially since their support and quality, not to mention prices are not good.
Word of mouth on these guys is not exactly positive.
Possibly a littl.
:-)
Fancy meeting you here
Note: You know me as a fellow mod on a certain forum.
It was Other World Computing (OWC) not Small Dog.
Small Dog knows better.
OWC has done some stupid things in the past.
Quite true.
The thing is the software does not support other drives. If another manufacter wants to sell a DVD burner then they have to either do one of two things if they want it to work with Macs.
1. Write their own
2. License someone else (even iDVD). No one has obtained a license to bundle iDVD therefore it is not sold or supported to work with it.
I don't use Windows. I have more taste in my pinky finger than most Windows users seem to have.
The only time I will use Windows is at work if it is mandated. Even then, I'll try to use a different office package if possible.
Mind you, this is a UNIX and Mac geek talking.
You wrote:
I feel compelled to point out that Britain gave Palestine for the new Israel. Palestine was British controlled
Actually, I seem to recall one or two cameras (hideously expensive) that exceed the quality of film.