"I am on my 5th treo in less than a year. Our Ceo is on number 14. We were RMA-ing about 2 per week for some time, we have had AT&T (Now Cingular) in our offices on at least four occasions to complain about the number of failures we have had on these devices."
your 5th ok... wow... pretty crazy, but your CEO's 14th?!?!! Now ruling out some crazy odds of that happening, would you maybe notice a pattern here?? Something maybe that your loading on them, or some environment that you're subjecting them to? I mean really, under those odds you would think you would hear about the product as being this horrible lemon being recalled left and right, yet I don't hear of that; actually just the oposite for the most part.
Even if it were such a defective product, back to your CEO - c'mon 14.. you would think that would be an excessive number of replacements to a point that your boss might just say enough.."give me something different!" I can't believe that would be an acceptable failure rate, in business.
"To be honest, I don't care how novel their ideas are. Using a system where position is located based on such arbitrary measurements is not only silly, but a waste of time."
Indeed. Sounds more like these two conned some venture capital money out of some schmucks, using a lot of technological gibbirish to make it sound like a untapped gold mine venture.
ok smartass, i looked at the wrong phone model, but *again* when doing anything in vnc, or entering in data, you're typing input with 10 number keys, which is soooooo uhh..convenient i'm sure.
"It can do a few of them things, It does tell me the details field of my calender It can run vnc client If I had a gig sd card I could use it to store mp3s."
uhh yeah, your little nokia can run a vnc client? i think not..even if it could, you're staring at a tiny little display of what 4 lines of like 12 characters per line maybe? ok. not to mention you're trying to type with a set of numbers representing letters (333 22 777 55 222 etc)
and yes, you could store mp3s (but can your phone play them?) if you had a SD card, but as you said it you don't, no interface on that phone to do it. so no you can't.
you can see contact details maybe, but again the screen is so damned small and youre scrolling constantly for every half a dozen words or so...very obnoxious too. With a pocketpc not only can you see a lot more, your desktop can automatically sync all your information from contacts, email, appointments, etc. over a cellular connection, if you've got a phone based pocketpc.
basically you're comparing apples and oranges here with your phone and a PDA phone hybrid.
just to add to that, don't get me wrong, i'm all about women's rights, it was properly taught to me in upbringing by a strong role model (single mother in the US Army.)
My point was that you just have a slightly naive point of view based on entitlement from a phantom unlimited financial source, which is not realistic or economically feasible.
"children go to school. Business's should be able to afford it or people won't work for them."
you're kidding right?! Well i'm sure you're not, of course. but yeah, anyhow - Businesses should be able to afford it huh? Like money grows on trees. Those businesses WOULDN'T EVEN BE THERE TO GIVE YOU A JOB if they didn't have money to pay you. If you tax the hell out of a company like that (esp a small business) they cannot hire any employees, and therefor there will be less and less businesses around, thereby also making more and more people unemployed, there by bringing the ecomony down to nothing, and the government will not be able to pay for your childcare at all because they don't have any money coming in from people and busineses from income taxes.
See the fault in your logic and downward spiral here?
"What about women getting paid time off from work after having a baby ? In Canada women get a whole year off and their job is guarenteed."
why should a company pay you a whole years salary to not be there, and garantee your job after you're year is done? What about the person that fills in that job in that year? what do you do with them after that?
More importantly, what about small businesses that can't afford to spend 20..30..40..50k whatever salary it is (double actually, because they're paying someone else to do your job as well) just because you decided to have a baby?? That's pretty selfish, wouldn't you think?
"It depends on his hosting. I'd love to have one of my sites slashdotted (I'm posting AC so I'm not accused of whoring). Then again, I have a dedicated server on a nice fat pipe, with 1000 gig of monthly transfer of which I'm only using 400 (I host a few of my own sites as well as several for clients). If a slashdotting can take more than 600 gig of transfer, I'd be happy to pay the overage fees and be proven wrong."
hope it's not some cheap celeron box or something... bandwidth be damned - images.. PHP code.. lots of other things can melt your box.. *and* take your client sites with it!
I'd run SETI@home on 3 computers at home here (2 Mac's and a Linux box), and I'd love to dedicate one or all to medical needs like the Fight AIDS@home one, but they unfortunately do not support either platforms I use - only Windows. They state that in "phase two" of their project they will support both, but that's been a couple years i think now, no change there.
Damn shame too, cause my G5 really kicks out those data units fast...
as of 6:30p eastern, only one of the three mirrors are still holding together. i'm not karma whoring or anything, just thought it was a really funny article and trying to keep it alive..
http://www.starliant.net/users/flyawaymike/powerbo ok
"Yes, it is. An MP3 server doesn't need to have the monitor on for more than maybe ten minutes per bootup, which saves quite a bit of electricity."
why do you need it served on a dedicated box to begin with? That is just wasting electricity then. Granted there can be a momentary coolness factor in there, which i would have had myself some time ago, but is it really necessary?
Store it on a second hard drive on your desktop.. if you've got multiple machines (like a desktop and a laptop or something), just store it on the desktop, you don't need another system to handle that. Assuming the server isn't the one playing the music as well, then file sharing isn't gonna kill your desktop..
"And nobody should even bother to try to DDOS EV1Servers... They're swimming in bandwidth over there, and that doesn't even show the new datacenter that goes live later this week."
heh...just watch those lines on the graph go higher, as more people read the article today:)
"Not much of a joke. I know a few people here that would sell their soul to own a Ferrari...
...Or an Alfa Romeo 147 GTA. Shove the 6 cyliner engine from the 156 into a small (yet beautiful) hatchback body, and you have something which will scare V8 muscle cars. The Italians and the French make some truly beautiful cars. Alfa's whole range is stunning, and some of Peugeot's stuff is amazing too...the 406 Coupe (although it was designed by an Italian design studio) and the 206 hatch come to mind."
I know i'm off-topic here, but just looking for a quick specs of that on the web, at 60k you can beat that car in something as small and half the cost as a Honda S2000 roadster (which incidentally is a 4 cylinder engine.)
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"I am on my 5th treo in less than a year. Our Ceo is on number 14. We were RMA-ing about 2 per week for some time, we have had AT&T (Now Cingular) in our offices on at least four occasions to complain about the number of failures we have had on these devices."
your 5th ok... wow... pretty crazy, but your CEO's 14th?!?!! Now ruling out some crazy odds of that happening, would you maybe notice a pattern here?? Something maybe that your loading on them, or some environment that you're subjecting them to? I mean really, under those odds you would think you would hear about the product as being this horrible lemon being recalled left and right, yet I don't hear of that; actually just the oposite for the most part.
Even if it were such a defective product, back to your CEO - c'mon 14.. you would think that would be an excessive number of replacements to a point that your boss might just say enough.."give me something different!" I can't believe that would be an acceptable failure rate, in business.
"To be honest, I don't care how novel their ideas are. Using a system where position is located based on such arbitrary measurements is not only silly, but a waste of time."
:-)
Indeed. Sounds more like these two conned some venture capital money out of some schmucks, using a lot of technological gibbirish to make it sound like a untapped gold mine venture.
How reminescent of the 90's.
"Okay, what do apples have in common with computers?"
"I dunno, full of bugs"
bugs crawl through open Windows too..
ok smartass, i looked at the wrong phone model, but *again* when doing anything in vnc, or entering in data, you're typing input with 10 number keys, which is soooooo uhh..convenient i'm sure.
"It can do a few of them things, It does tell me the details field of my calender It can run vnc client If I had a gig sd card I could use it to store mp3s."
uhh yeah, your little nokia can run a vnc client? i think not..even if it could, you're staring at a tiny little display of what 4 lines of like 12 characters per line maybe? ok. not to mention you're trying to type with a set of numbers representing letters (333 22 777 55 222 etc)
and yes, you could store mp3s (but can your phone play them?) if you had a SD card, but as you said it you don't, no interface on that phone to do it. so no you can't.
you can see contact details maybe, but again the screen is so damned small and youre scrolling constantly for every half a dozen words or so...very obnoxious too. With a pocketpc not only can you see a lot more, your desktop can automatically sync all your information from contacts, email, appointments, etc. over a cellular connection, if you've got a phone based pocketpc.
basically you're comparing apples and oranges here with your phone and a PDA phone hybrid.
"Also, in WWII at least; letters to home were free, no stamp."
still the case today, they just write "free mail" in the top corner where a stamp would be.A star with a huge waistline? One of them has got to be called "Oprah".
no, you're thinking of Michael Moore..
just to add to that, don't get me wrong, i'm all about women's rights, it was properly taught to me in upbringing by a strong role model (single mother in the US Army.)
My point was that you just have a slightly naive point of view based on entitlement from a phantom unlimited financial source, which is not realistic or economically feasible.
"children go to school. Business's should be able to afford it or people won't work for them."
you're kidding right?! Well i'm sure you're not, of course. but yeah, anyhow - Businesses should be able to afford it huh? Like money grows on trees. Those businesses WOULDN'T EVEN BE THERE TO GIVE YOU A JOB if they didn't have money to pay you. If you tax the hell out of a company like that (esp a small business) they cannot hire any employees, and therefor there will be less and less businesses around, thereby also making more and more people unemployed, there by bringing the ecomony down to nothing, and the government will not be able to pay for your childcare at all because they don't have any money coming in from people and busineses from income taxes.
See the fault in your logic and downward spiral here?
"What about women getting paid time off from work after having a baby ? In Canada women get a whole year off and their job is guarenteed."
why should a company pay you a whole years salary to not be there, and garantee your job after you're year is done? What about the person that fills in that job in that year? what do you do with them after that?
More importantly, what about small businesses that can't afford to spend 20..30..40..50k whatever salary it is (double actually, because they're paying someone else to do your job as well) just because you decided to have a baby?? That's pretty selfish, wouldn't you think?
"It depends on his hosting. I'd love to have one of my sites slashdotted (I'm posting AC so I'm not accused of whoring). Then again, I have a dedicated server on a nice fat pipe, with 1000 gig of monthly transfer of which I'm only using 400 (I host a few of my own sites as well as several for clients). If a slashdotting can take more than 600 gig of transfer, I'd be happy to pay the overage fees and be proven wrong."
hope it's not some cheap celeron box or something... bandwidth be damned - images.. PHP code.. lots of other things can melt your box.. *and* take your client sites with it!
"Cue the prancing sweaty stinking monkey boy and the "Developers, Developers, Developers" rant."
cued...
I'd run SETI@home on 3 computers at home here (2 Mac's and a Linux box), and I'd love to dedicate one or all to medical needs like the Fight AIDS@home one, but they unfortunately do not support either platforms I use - only Windows. They state that in "phase two" of their project they will support both, but that's been a couple years i think now, no change there.
Damn shame too, cause my G5 really kicks out those data units fast...
woops, link
as of 6:30p eastern, only one of the three mirrors are still holding together. i'm not karma whoring or anything, just thought it was a really funny article and trying to keep it alive.. http://www.starliant.net/users/flyawaymike/powerbo ok
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heeey...another number we can
ask 'em why they're giving everyone the boot or something... then ask them what they're wearing and how long they've been beating their kids.
"Yes, it is. An MP3 server doesn't need to have the monitor on for more than maybe ten minutes per bootup, which saves quite a bit of electricity."
why do you need it served on a dedicated box to begin with? That is just wasting electricity then. Granted there can be a momentary coolness factor in there, which i would have had myself some time ago, but is it really necessary?
Store it on a second hard drive on your desktop.. if you've got multiple machines (like a desktop and a laptop or something), just store it on the desktop, you don't need another system to handle that. Assuming the server isn't the one playing the music as well, then file sharing isn't gonna kill your desktop..
"I see nullsoft have also used this opportunity to force all us old Winamp 2.9 users to upgrade to the bloated POS Winamp 5 player."
being that it is a free product, and there are plenty of other mp3 players out there - I wouldn't say you were forced to upgrade
"MS gets punished for offering MORE to their customers"
oooooh, you mean more cost to them? in locked in licensing agreements?
"And nobody should even bother to try to DDOS EV1Servers... They're swimming in bandwidth over there, and that doesn't even show the new datacenter that goes live later this week."
:)
heh...just watch those lines on the graph go higher, as more people read the article today
"Better yet, let's Slashdot them!"
well we already have nuked their php/mysql forums..
"Oh, you mean the powerbook.
...uh huh
Once again, Apple is ahead of the curve."
"Not much of a joke. I know a few people here that would sell their soul to own a Ferrari...
...Or an Alfa Romeo 147 GTA. Shove the 6 cyliner engine from the 156 into a small (yet beautiful) hatchback body, and you have something which will scare V8 muscle cars. The Italians and the French make some truly beautiful cars. Alfa's whole range is stunning, and some of Peugeot's stuff is amazing too...the 406 Coupe (although it was designed by an Italian design studio) and the 206 hatch come to mind."
I know i'm off-topic here, but just looking for a quick specs of that on the web, at 60k you can beat that car in something as small and half the cost as a Honda S2000 roadster (which incidentally is a 4 cylinder engine.)
"Yeah. The least he could have done is sourced a small LCD screen and put that in place of the original screen."
c'mon now...the original mac had a 9" screen on it, that's not a lot to work with, let alone easy to find or fit that in nicely.