See, the whole point of TAKING NOTES is to summarize, and only write down what you need.
Scanning/taking pictures of whole pages? What an incredible waste of time.
Take a notetaking class and quit making things hard on yourself.
Oh, forgot to mention, if you are running Exhange on the Windows server, your costs are always going to be huge.
Exchange is the most evil application ever created by MS. That bloated piece of shit, all by itself, will completely monopolize an admin's time, and the companies money. I still can't believe Exchange is for real, it's so poorly designed. I always try to talk companies out of using it if they aren't already, but I always lose. Every company thinks they need the fucking calendar, though after about a week, no one uses it anyway (or any other Exchange features), and the Exchange server might as well be an POP server.
I hate Exchange.
I've worked as a Unix and Windows admin at various times. And here's the deal:
A company that knows enough about IT issues to seriously consider UNIX probably hires good admins, whether they are Windows admins *or* UNIX admins.
The companies that just blindly buy a bunch of Microsoft stuff to slap on the boss's old Dell machine (which is now the "server") probably don't hire good admins. Or, honestly, have any kind of cohesive idea about what they are using their PC's and the network for. Which means they will ALWAYS be dumping money into it to try to make it work, to cover up for their lack of planning.
UNIX, on the other hand, isn't even CONSIDERED by shops that aren't pretty fuckin' serious about their network/workstation/applications, and they'll keep costs down, because they aren't screwing around.
What I'm saying is, Windows works fine, if it does what you need it to do, and you hire people that know how to do it. But that's rarely the case with Windows shops. And it's almost *always* the case with UNIX shops.
I thought they were all too busy making Quicktime movies of their trip to the Volvo dealer, and ripping Yanni CDs to play on their iPod while they wait at the coffee shop for their Shitsu to get it's nails manicured, sipping latte's.
You know, Thinking Differently.
Does anyone remember how cool the Playstation was in it's first 2 years?
How I miss those days. These days consoles aren't as fun as they used to be- they feel like Big Business. Every time I buy a game, I get the same creepy feeling I get when I buy a music CD and help out the RIAA a little.
Ah well...
Hey! New Palm devices!
And they still don't do anything useful.
Well, I suppose if you are a hopeless geek, it makes you feel like you are important and busy enough that you need a computer with you at all times just to survive.
Palmtops of all kinds are for dorks.
There aren't *5* hours of TV worth watching in any given week.
I'm sorry, but the whole PVR thing escapes me. Who is watching that much TV? And shouldn't they be doing something better?
Oh, wait, I forgot about all the lardass geeks who have to record every showing of every cartoon or science fiction show for "archival purposes".
Yes, the poor countries have tyrants and dictators. Of course, the U.S. Government put those tyrants and dictators into power...
Capitalism RELIES on cheap, almost-slave labor. All those poor countries are poor because we WANT them to be. Makes our products cheap, makes the corporations cheaper.
I'm not saying that the wealth doesn't need to be spread more evenly- it does. But to imply that "democracy and capitalism will solve poverty!" is naive in the extreme.
"...Wi-Fi networks and the Internet access they offer should remain free."
But they aren't free now! People that hook on to unsecured Wi-Fi networks are stealing, plain and simple.
Not that it was WEAK, but until Direct X started being used for almost every game, most games were written to directly control VGA cards at the register level. This gave good performance that wasn't possible in a GUI environment, because of the overhead of having to use inefficient APIs to draw everything.
Well, Macs never had the option of directly controlling the video card registers. It wasn't allowed. You had to use QuickDraw to do everything.
With 3D accelerated games, and cards to support them, it was finally possible to do a Mac game decently, since OpenGL could be used to control the 3D card directy, mostly avoiding QuickDraw and all that overhead. There was also the short-lived GameSprockets API, that never really caught on, and as far as I know isn't used/supported by Apple anymore. There STILL isn't a good way to do 2D games on a Mac. And by good, I mean efficient and hardware accelerated.
Sandman was and is great. It set a standard that will last forever.
But his novels are...mediocre at best. He's a cool guy, he's a good writer, but he basically shot his entire wad on Sandman. Which is okay. It was a cool wad.
Reminds me of William Gibson. There was Burning Chrome, then Neuromancer, then....everything else. Everyone still respects him as an author, but it's really just because of Neuromancer.
I'm all for appreciating the art of other countries/cultures in their original language. But I doubt that these guys who spent a summer learning Japanese to watch NGE in it's original form are reading Japanese novels.
It's the equivalent of learning to speak Spanish so you can have a good time in Tiajuana, and that's it. It makes you look like a poseur to the natives.
Just becaus they have it running on x86, doesn't mean they plan to sell Mac OS X separetely from their computers.
There is NO reason that Apple would stop making their own hardware. Hardware that would be radically different from PCs designed to run Windows. Hell, I doubt you'd even be able to install Windows or an x86 Linux distro on an x86-based Mac. It would surely have competely different BIOS and ports and everything.
You know what the whole Sun vs. MS regarding Java thing reminds me of?
In high school, we had "open lunch", which meant that we could leave the school grounds to eat at the restaurants across the street. Well, after a few years of this, some of the restaurants and stores complained about how awful the students were, and how they were always having to call the police to break up fights, report theft, etc. So the school took away open lunch for a year.
Open lunch was re-instated, at the request of those same stores and restaurants, because they realized that those same rowdy students were providing about half of their revenue.
McNealy can't have it both ways. Really, he shouldn't have it any way. Say what you want about Bill Gates, but at least he doesn't whine constantly. McNealy and Sun deserve to die a slow, painful death, with their incomplete, overpriced products.
Dear retarded creationist:
Here's the answer for your little "moon dust" theory.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_159a.html
See, it's all about logic. Logic is handy. You should try it.
Man, that was a shitty story. I mean, that's high-school level stuff. In a college-level writing course, that would rate about a C.
So, Jon Katz is writing fiction under a nom de plume now?
Actually reason VHS won the war
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BetaMax WAS and IS better, but when it was first introduced, the tapes only held ONE HOUR of video/audio.
This, obviously, sucks. And it meant that movies really couldn't be put onto Beta tapes without splitting them. VHS ruled the rental market because of this, and most people liked being able to record more hours of their own stuff, too.
So Beta wasn't perfect by any means. It wasn't mis-marketed, it just wasn't right for the market, period. In the beginning, anyway.
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See, the whole point of TAKING NOTES is to summarize, and only write down what you need. Scanning/taking pictures of whole pages? What an incredible waste of time. Take a notetaking class and quit making things hard on yourself.
Oh, forgot to mention, if you are running Exhange on the Windows server, your costs are always going to be huge. Exchange is the most evil application ever created by MS. That bloated piece of shit, all by itself, will completely monopolize an admin's time, and the companies money. I still can't believe Exchange is for real, it's so poorly designed. I always try to talk companies out of using it if they aren't already, but I always lose. Every company thinks they need the fucking calendar, though after about a week, no one uses it anyway (or any other Exchange features), and the Exchange server might as well be an POP server. I hate Exchange.
I've worked as a Unix and Windows admin at various times. And here's the deal: A company that knows enough about IT issues to seriously consider UNIX probably hires good admins, whether they are Windows admins *or* UNIX admins. The companies that just blindly buy a bunch of Microsoft stuff to slap on the boss's old Dell machine (which is now the "server") probably don't hire good admins. Or, honestly, have any kind of cohesive idea about what they are using their PC's and the network for. Which means they will ALWAYS be dumping money into it to try to make it work, to cover up for their lack of planning. UNIX, on the other hand, isn't even CONSIDERED by shops that aren't pretty fuckin' serious about their network/workstation/applications, and they'll keep costs down, because they aren't screwing around. What I'm saying is, Windows works fine, if it does what you need it to do, and you hire people that know how to do it. But that's rarely the case with Windows shops. And it's almost *always* the case with UNIX shops.
I thought they were all too busy making Quicktime movies of their trip to the Volvo dealer, and ripping Yanni CDs to play on their iPod while they wait at the coffee shop for their Shitsu to get it's nails manicured, sipping latte's. You know, Thinking Differently.
The "overclocking saves money" thing is false.
What does it take to successfully overclock? Good fans. More of them. Heatsinks. Et cetera.
You end up spending more on cooling devices, negating any savings.
Besides, overclocking fucks things up. And it's for hopeless dorks.
Does anyone remember how cool the Playstation was in it's first 2 years? How I miss those days. These days consoles aren't as fun as they used to be- they feel like Big Business. Every time I buy a game, I get the same creepy feeling I get when I buy a music CD and help out the RIAA a little. Ah well...
Ooops... 307200/64000 = 4.8 Now I'm a math genius
Hey, math genius:
320x200 = 64000
640x480 = 307200
307200/4 = 4.8
640x480 is MORE than 4 times 320x200
1280x800 is SIXTEEN times 320x200
Hey! New Palm devices! And they still don't do anything useful. Well, I suppose if you are a hopeless geek, it makes you feel like you are important and busy enough that you need a computer with you at all times just to survive. Palmtops of all kinds are for dorks.
Oh, yes, an internet radio station that doesn't play music from ANY artist that anyone has ever heard of before.
That will just RAKE in the dough.
Do you have any concept of reality?
There aren't *5* hours of TV worth watching in any given week. I'm sorry, but the whole PVR thing escapes me. Who is watching that much TV? And shouldn't they be doing something better? Oh, wait, I forgot about all the lardass geeks who have to record every showing of every cartoon or science fiction show for "archival purposes".
Yes, the poor countries have tyrants and dictators. Of course, the U.S. Government put those tyrants and dictators into power...
Capitalism RELIES on cheap, almost-slave labor. All those poor countries are poor because we WANT them to be. Makes our products cheap, makes the corporations cheaper.
I'm not saying that the wealth doesn't need to be spread more evenly- it does. But to imply that "democracy and capitalism will solve poverty!" is naive in the extreme.
"...Wi-Fi networks and the Internet access they offer should remain free." But they aren't free now! People that hook on to unsecured Wi-Fi networks are stealing, plain and simple.
Not that it was WEAK, but until Direct X started being used for almost every game, most games were written to directly control VGA cards at the register level. This gave good performance that wasn't possible in a GUI environment, because of the overhead of having to use inefficient APIs to draw everything.
Well, Macs never had the option of directly controlling the video card registers. It wasn't allowed. You had to use QuickDraw to do everything.
With 3D accelerated games, and cards to support them, it was finally possible to do a Mac game decently, since OpenGL could be used to control the 3D card directy, mostly avoiding QuickDraw and all that overhead. There was also the short-lived GameSprockets API, that never really caught on, and as far as I know isn't used/supported by Apple anymore. There STILL isn't a good way to do 2D games on a Mac. And by good, I mean efficient and hardware accelerated.
Open mouth. Insert cock of A&R man from whatever label.
That's the truth. Otherwise, all you can do is tour your ass off forever, and be happy.
Sandman was and is great. It set a standard that will last forever. But his novels are...mediocre at best. He's a cool guy, he's a good writer, but he basically shot his entire wad on Sandman. Which is okay. It was a cool wad. Reminds me of William Gibson. There was Burning Chrome, then Neuromancer, then....everything else. Everyone still respects him as an author, but it's really just because of Neuromancer.
I'm all for appreciating the art of other countries/cultures in their original language. But I doubt that these guys who spent a summer learning Japanese to watch NGE in it's original form are reading Japanese novels. It's the equivalent of learning to speak Spanish so you can have a good time in Tiajuana, and that's it. It makes you look like a poseur to the natives.
People that learn the Japanese language to watch fucking CARTOONS are geeky beyond all hope.
Get a life.
Just becaus they have it running on x86, doesn't mean they plan to sell Mac OS X separetely from their computers.
There is NO reason that Apple would stop making their own hardware. Hardware that would be radically different from PCs designed to run Windows. Hell, I doubt you'd even be able to install Windows or an x86 Linux distro on an x86-based Mac. It would surely have competely different BIOS and ports and everything.
Spreading disinformation isn't whining. Christ, you open source people are whiny, too.
You know what the whole Sun vs. MS regarding Java thing reminds me of? In high school, we had "open lunch", which meant that we could leave the school grounds to eat at the restaurants across the street. Well, after a few years of this, some of the restaurants and stores complained about how awful the students were, and how they were always having to call the police to break up fights, report theft, etc. So the school took away open lunch for a year. Open lunch was re-instated, at the request of those same stores and restaurants, because they realized that those same rowdy students were providing about half of their revenue. McNealy can't have it both ways. Really, he shouldn't have it any way. Say what you want about Bill Gates, but at least he doesn't whine constantly. McNealy and Sun deserve to die a slow, painful death, with their incomplete, overpriced products.
Dear retarded creationist: Here's the answer for your little "moon dust" theory. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_159a.html See, it's all about logic. Logic is handy. You should try it.
Man, that was a shitty story. I mean, that's high-school level stuff. In a college-level writing course, that would rate about a C.
So, Jon Katz is writing fiction under a nom de plume now?
BetaMax WAS and IS better, but when it was first introduced, the tapes only held ONE HOUR of video/audio.
This, obviously, sucks. And it meant that movies really couldn't be put onto Beta tapes without splitting them. VHS ruled the rental market because of this, and most people liked being able to record more hours of their own stuff, too.
So Beta wasn't perfect by any means. It wasn't mis-marketed, it just wasn't right for the market, period. In the beginning, anyway.
$264 is cheap.
CD recorders were selling for that a scant 4 years ago.
The problem with DVD burners is the cost of media. The discs are too expensive to be used in the same way as CDRs. They're not disposable.