Even the most technical people are required to have "people skills." If you don't learn them, you won't succeed. Your posts are not proving your point, they are furthering the points of those that disagree.
You need to focus on reading comprehension. I did not say I was bitter about my student loans or my taxes. Those things are the cost of my lifestyle... the one I chose.
What makes you so special that you deserve free higher education and free dental? What was free when I was younger. I am still paying for Dental, I STILL have over $50k in student loans, and I am still paying higher taxes than you. You are furthering the stereotype.
Laid off for three years.... that stinks. The longest I have been without a job since completing college was 2 months. Even through the bubble and through 4 layoffs. Perhaps it is because I don't go through life with the same chip on my shoulder. Perhaps it is because I am a hard worker that people enjoy being around. Truthfully, I think it is because I don't believe I have a right to a job and am thankful to come to work each day... and by you name and attitude, I bet that is foreign to you.
Is you name really Jeff, if so, I am glad that I laid you off. Sometimes personality drives a project as much as merit...
Nice rant, it is a shame what they are doing will be proven to be legal. The internet is not a form of secure communications and you would have a very hard time proving an expectation of privacy. If you were to send encrypted information, I bet the government would require a warrant to decrypt it if they ever expected to be able to use it in court.
PS. If I wanted to, I could sniff all of the packets coming from your servers.
Now, instead of steaing a badge and learning some codes, a person will have to kidnap an employee and "remove" their arm... or just dig the impant out with a knife.
My Grandfather worked in real estate and worked for/at a bank for over 30 years and has never used a computer. He still types out his taxes on this thing called a typewriter and does his business letters the same way. I have offered many times to give him one of mine, but he refuses. Funny thing is, he got a Tivo a couple of months ago and thinks it is the best device ever invented. He talks about how it looks better that his video tapes and is so easy to use. He said he may get a DVD player this year.//For what it is worth, he retired the first time at 40, but got bored and went back to work.///Never heard one mention of money, except that he was upset he had to finance his house... but said he would pay it off within a year.
So they're trying to do what by releasing mediocre 1.0 releases? Take your money in advance of giving you a good product?
Do you at least get free upgrades to whatever point the apps start being good (2.x maybe)?
Nope, and that is what sucks. Even most fanboys will tell you to stay away from 1.0 releases from Apple. I will say that DVD Studio Pro, from initial release to today... with all the upgrades included is still less expensive than any other product that can do the same thing. The same can be said for Final Cut Pro. For some reason, I don't think this trend will continue with Aperature. I get the feeling this product will be for "pro photo" wannabees more than true professionals (like in many ways Final Cut and DVD studio is).
I can say for a fact that DVD Studio Pro and Final Cut were both crap at their release, and a ton of money was spent to market each. Both applications were even bastardize from other venders, and Apple managed to boob them up. Now, they are top notch and the best values on the market. Apple has a history of mediocre 1.0 releases, and I am sure Aperature is the same. I will bet that over the next few years, this will become a good app., you just have to live through the growing pains.
Keep in mind journalistic integrity only applies to the article and not those commenting. Just because a comment is wrong does not make it un-informative. People are being informed, just incorrectly. Remember, these are comments (see peanut gallery) and should be taken as such. I bet that the inaccuracy rates of "real" newspapers are about the same as Slashdot. Have you really read a newspaper and checked it for fact and objectivity recently.
Slashdot, and other user moderated sites have an unwritten "social contract." We except some mis-information in order to get some good stuff. We have words like Flaimbait and Troll to describe posts. I wish newspapers had such things, I would love to have gotten the opportunity to moderate the "missing white girl" stories as flaimbait... and most things political as trolls.
It is not THAT something is controlled by one entitity, it is HOW something is controlled by that entitity. MS is not bad for who they are, they are bad for what they do.
I wonder is there is a homeowners association. Could I move in a trailer and put some virtual cars up on blocks? Can I have my character gain 300 pounds and run around in a "wife beater" and jeans shorts? I may have to start playing these games just to play virtual white trash.
I would have no problems with space based weapons if they worked, but like anything that NASA sends to space the issue will be over-engineered to the point of failure. Lasers and fancy missles will be researched and costs of billions of dollars when a handfull of dropped ball bearing could do just as much damage falling from space. Let those super-computers compute the falling trajectory of ball bearing from space and everytime we need something shot, just have a satellite push a handfull of ball bearing to earth and let then rain down on the target.
We have offices in two cities, and on top of our tape backups, we backup to each other. City one backs up via VPN and data encryption to City two, and visa versa. we are actually two seperate companies with the same parent company, so we encrypt the data (even over encrypted VPN) just to be safe from the prying eyes of people on each end.
True story: We both run Citrix servers, and one time we had a data loss at my location. Within an hour, we restored our database and application to an extra server at the remote location and used Citrix to connect our users here to the main database. I could then work on restoring from tape, without the pressure of true downtime, just inconvenience time, which I and management can tolerate.
If I had mod points left, I would give them all to you. I posted above about the same thing. On a four year PC life cycle, the RIO can be about the same for MS and OSX machines. The PC can be higher if it ever gets a virus or spyware that must be removed.
Remember, most geeks don't understand the business aspects of what they do. They often look at things like the speed of the machine and the initial price tag. In a corporate environment, a lot more goes into the purchase. I ran the numbers for my company (took forever BTW) and for anything below power users, the numbers don't work out that well because of training costs. Power users tend to adapt quicker and require less help-desk support. Given, I work for a large printing company, so all of the tech staff were already OSX friendly and all of our systems were as well. We only run two non-compatible apps, and they could run through our Citrix network on the OSX boxen. BTW. all of our macs are active directory integrated as well, which can be real pain if things are not planned correctly.
The moral of the story is, if I were starting a company from scratch, I would consider OSX boxen on a four year replacement cycle on the MacMini and IMac levels. If you built the system from the ground up, you would save money in the long run. If there are existing systems, the migration would be difficult and expensive and the ROI would be well beyond what most companies would tolerate. It would take 5-6 years for my company to recoupe all costs if we were to switch all 100+ pcs over and re-train... and we are closer than most campanies to being able to pull it off.
At my company with the software we run, if we replace computers every 4 years and keep software current during that period, I can justify an OSX machine over a Windows machine. Their ROI is about the same, assuming the PC gets no viruses and no spyware. If the PC gets infected once or twice during the 4 years, the OSX machine will slip ahead.
I am assuming an IMac or MacMini (which are buying more and more of), with the latter using an off the shelf LCD "deal of the month."
China is communist, so I would not want to get outsourced to them because they would limit my internet access and my ability to play Battlefield 2 (just being honest).
India is better that China, but the odds are I would end up in a one room shack that may or may not have running water, while my house gets bought by the few rich. There is not really a middle class in India, so I would assume I would go down rather than up. There are a lot of cows in NC, so there would be limit as to where I could move.
I guess my choice would have to be Mexico. My housing complex could be turned into a resort (I am 5 minutes from the ocean). What I have in savings could support me for years. I don't buy bottled water now, but I guess I could start. Mexico it is then.
$39b for MS, as comprared to only $19b in gross collections for the NC Dept of Revenue for 2003-2004. I hope my state does not end up on the MS radar, it could get outsourced.
Allow tech support and training to modify the keys at any time.
Imagine telling a person on the phone to press "these keys" and all the other keys go dark except those. You could get into some really neat applications like this.
"Honey, tape the game for me.... then go get me a beer... and then make me dinner."
Seems to me like their in control of the DVR.//just kidding, karma killing
I hate managing drive space. I just want to connect a drive and label it as removable or not. If it is not removable it becomes part of the storage pool, and the FS handles where to put my file. I don't want to have to remember what drive that big file is on. I should not need to know that there are 4 drives inside my computer. Just space, no matter what form it is in.
FYI. Folders should be part of the storage pool, and hold files that reside anywhere in the pool.
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Even the most technical people are required to have "people skills." If you don't learn them, you won't succeed. Your posts are not proving your point, they are furthering the points of those that disagree.
You need to focus on reading comprehension. I did not say I was bitter about my student loans or my taxes. Those things are the cost of my lifestyle... the one I chose.
What makes you so special that you deserve free higher education and free dental? What was free when I was younger. I am still paying for Dental, I STILL have over $50k in student loans, and I am still paying higher taxes than you. You are furthering the stereotype.
You sound bitter that you have to start at the bottom like everyone else. Then again, maybe that is the problem some of us have with your generation.
Google crm-ctt and alfresco. Done.
Laid off for three years.... that stinks. The longest I have been without a job since completing college was 2 months. Even through the bubble and through 4 layoffs. Perhaps it is because I don't go through life with the same chip on my shoulder. Perhaps it is because I am a hard worker that people enjoy being around. Truthfully, I think it is because I don't believe I have a right to a job and am thankful to come to work each day... and by you name and attitude, I bet that is foreign to you.
Is you name really Jeff, if so, I am glad that I laid you off. Sometimes personality drives a project as much as merit...
Nice rant, it is a shame what they are doing will be proven to be legal. The internet is not a form of secure communications and you would have a very hard time proving an expectation of privacy. If you were to send encrypted information, I bet the government would require a warrant to decrypt it if they ever expected to be able to use it in court.
PS. If I wanted to, I could sniff all of the packets coming from your servers.
Now, instead of steaing a badge and learning some codes, a person will have to kidnap an employee and "remove" their arm... or just dig the impant out with a knife.
My Grandfather worked in real estate and worked for/at a bank for over 30 years and has never used a computer. He still types out his taxes on this thing called a typewriter and does his business letters the same way. I have offered many times to give him one of mine, but he refuses. Funny thing is, he got a Tivo a couple of months ago and thinks it is the best device ever invented. He talks about how it looks better that his video tapes and is so easy to use. He said he may get a DVD player this year. //For what it is worth, he retired the first time at 40, but got bored and went back to work. ///Never heard one mention of money, except that he was upset he had to finance his house... but said he would pay it off within a year.
I vote that we send Joss Whedon to explore this "Buffy."
If it is anywhere near as good looking as Sarah Michelle Gellar, I will happily go up there and probe it.
So they're trying to do what by releasing mediocre 1.0 releases? Take your money in advance of giving you a good product? Do you at least get free upgrades to whatever point the apps start being good (2.x maybe)? Nope, and that is what sucks. Even most fanboys will tell you to stay away from 1.0 releases from Apple. I will say that DVD Studio Pro, from initial release to today... with all the upgrades included is still less expensive than any other product that can do the same thing. The same can be said for Final Cut Pro. For some reason, I don't think this trend will continue with Aperature. I get the feeling this product will be for "pro photo" wannabees more than true professionals (like in many ways Final Cut and DVD studio is).
I can say for a fact that DVD Studio Pro and Final Cut were both crap at their release, and a ton of money was spent to market each. Both applications were even bastardize from other venders, and Apple managed to boob them up. Now, they are top notch and the best values on the market. Apple has a history of mediocre 1.0 releases, and I am sure Aperature is the same. I will bet that over the next few years, this will become a good app., you just have to live through the growing pains.
Keep in mind journalistic integrity only applies to the article and not those commenting. Just because a comment is wrong does not make it un-informative. People are being informed, just incorrectly. Remember, these are comments (see peanut gallery) and should be taken as such. I bet that the inaccuracy rates of "real" newspapers are about the same as Slashdot. Have you really read a newspaper and checked it for fact and objectivity recently.
Slashdot, and other user moderated sites have an unwritten "social contract." We except some mis-information in order to get some good stuff. We have words like Flaimbait and Troll to describe posts. I wish newspapers had such things, I would love to have gotten the opportunity to moderate the "missing white girl" stories as flaimbait... and most things political as trolls.
It is not THAT something is controlled by one entitity, it is HOW something is controlled by that entitity. MS is not bad for who they are, they are bad for what they do.
I wonder is there is a homeowners association. Could I move in a trailer and put some virtual cars up on blocks? Can I have my character gain 300 pounds and run around in a "wife beater" and jeans shorts? I may have to start playing these games just to play virtual white trash.
I can't find and data anywhere that can qualify why the ROKR is being considered a failure? As compared to what?
I would have no problems with space based weapons if they worked, but like anything that NASA sends to space the issue will be over-engineered to the point of failure. Lasers and fancy missles will be researched and costs of billions of dollars when a handfull of dropped ball bearing could do just as much damage falling from space. Let those super-computers compute the falling trajectory of ball bearing from space and everytime we need something shot, just have a satellite push a handfull of ball bearing to earth and let then rain down on the target.
We have offices in two cities, and on top of our tape backups, we backup to each other. City one backs up via VPN and data encryption to City two, and visa versa. we are actually two seperate companies with the same parent company, so we encrypt the data (even over encrypted VPN) just to be safe from the prying eyes of people on each end.
True story: We both run Citrix servers, and one time we had a data loss at my location. Within an hour, we restored our database and application to an extra server at the remote location and used Citrix to connect our users here to the main database. I could then work on restoring from tape, without the pressure of true downtime, just inconvenience time, which I and management can tolerate.
If I had mod points left, I would give them all to you. I posted above about the same thing. On a four year PC life cycle, the RIO can be about the same for MS and OSX machines. The PC can be higher if it ever gets a virus or spyware that must be removed.
Remember, most geeks don't understand the business aspects of what they do. They often look at things like the speed of the machine and the initial price tag. In a corporate environment, a lot more goes into the purchase. I ran the numbers for my company (took forever BTW) and for anything below power users, the numbers don't work out that well because of training costs. Power users tend to adapt quicker and require less help-desk support. Given, I work for a large printing company, so all of the tech staff were already OSX friendly and all of our systems were as well. We only run two non-compatible apps, and they could run through our Citrix network on the OSX boxen. BTW. all of our macs are active directory integrated as well, which can be real pain if things are not planned correctly.
The moral of the story is, if I were starting a company from scratch, I would consider OSX boxen on a four year replacement cycle on the MacMini and IMac levels. If you built the system from the ground up, you would save money in the long run. If there are existing systems, the migration would be difficult and expensive and the ROI would be well beyond what most companies would tolerate. It would take 5-6 years for my company to recoupe all costs if we were to switch all 100+ pcs over and re-train... and we are closer than most campanies to being able to pull it off.
//typos included for free
At my company with the software we run, if we replace computers every 4 years and keep software current during that period, I can justify an OSX machine over a Windows machine. Their ROI is about the same, assuming the PC gets no viruses and no spyware. If the PC gets infected once or twice during the 4 years, the OSX machine will slip ahead.
I am assuming an IMac or MacMini (which are buying more and more of), with the latter using an off the shelf LCD "deal of the month."
Well, I have not thought about it.
China is communist, so I would not want to get outsourced to them because they would limit my internet access and my ability to play Battlefield 2 (just being honest).
India is better that China, but the odds are I would end up in a one room shack that may or may not have running water, while my house gets bought by the few rich. There is not really a middle class in India, so I would assume I would go down rather than up. There are a lot of cows in NC, so there would be limit as to where I could move.
I guess my choice would have to be Mexico. My housing complex could be turned into a resort (I am 5 minutes from the ocean). What I have in savings could support me for years. I don't buy bottled water now, but I guess I could start. Mexico it is then.
$39b for MS, as comprared to only $19b in gross collections for the NC Dept of Revenue for 2003-2004. I hope my state does not end up on the MS radar, it could get outsourced.
Allow tech support and training to modify the keys at any time.
Imagine telling a person on the phone to press "these keys" and all the other keys go dark except those. You could get into some really neat applications like this.
"Honey, tape the game for me.... then go get me a beer... and then make me dinner." Seems to me like their in control of the DVR. //just kidding, karma killing
I hate managing drive space. I just want to connect a drive and label it as removable or not. If it is not removable it becomes part of the storage pool, and the FS handles where to put my file. I don't want to have to remember what drive that big file is on. I should not need to know that there are 4 drives inside my computer. Just space, no matter what form it is in.
FYI. Folders should be part of the storage pool, and hold files that reside anywhere in the pool.