The reason that you can't just drag files on to it is that itunes and the ipod maintains a library of your songs, keeping track of how often you listen to them, and other things such as when they were added, and how much you like them. This information can be used to generate playlists, and to help find music in your vast collection that you haven't listened to in a while. While they could have made it so that you just dump files on it, creating a library means that there's a lot more features. If you would bother to explore them.
I really don't get it. 3 is probably the bare minimum of apps one could run while using a netbook. Browser and Instant messaging. That's already 2. Then add media player, and you're at the limit. Don't bother trying to open a word document, make a skype call, Open the calculator, run notepad, or do anything else. Sorry, you're past the limit.
Lots of things on the human body are quote prone to breaking. Ankle for instance. Just about everybody I know has broken, or at least sprained an ankle. Doesn't mean that it doesn't have it's advantages.
What's so unnatural about civilization. Granted humans have the most advanced civilization on this planet. But many animals have social behaviours, and live in groups. Some use tools. Apes will even care for and feed, an old crippled relative, even if it's not in their best interest to do so (old relative will never reproduce again, and food would be better off spent on the healthy).
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Like i'm going to use PostGres. Their string comparisons are case sensitive. That's a pretty major downside as far as i'm concerned.
They are a software company. Not a hardware company. As soon as it's ready to ship, just ship it. Let the OEMs catch up at their own pace. You don't need to buy a new computer to buy an OS (although it is cheaper that way), so why should they have to wait for the computer hardware makers to figure things out. People want a new OS now.
Yeah, but we're talking about people who don't have electricity or a kitchen, so this is probably the best option. However you are right. People complain how much food costs and then only buy premade stuff. Making stuff from raw ingredients can be really cheap.
The purpose of school shouldn't be teach students to be drones that can't think for themselves. It should be "teach them how to learn". Everybody I grew up with learned on DOS, UNIX (icons ftw) and Apple. We had little trouble adapting to the changing computer world. Now if people learned on Linux right now, they would have a lot less catching up then we ever did, even if they had to switch to windows for a job. Tech concepts and not memorization and you will get a lot further.
That's why you go to the grocery store and pick up a loaf of bread and some lunch meat. You shouldn't be paying so much for prepared food if you really are that poor.
It really depends on which bank you go with. I had my debit card duped, and there was a single invalid transaction ($500 withdrawal, in some town far away from me). My bank called me less than 24 hours after it happened, and I walked into a bank and got a new card instantly. Money was refunded in about a day. Pretty painless for the most part. Things like this shouldn't be able to happen in the first place (when is chip and pin going to be required). However, I'm happy knowing that banks are getting better at handling these situations. I pity anybody who's with one of those bad banks that doesn't handle this stuff as well.
I've always wondered why email servers don't use database servers to store the email. It seems like an obvious idea. Personally, I think that even personal email clients should employ this type of technology. If everything was indexed, it would make search the email so much easier. Also, with SQL access, the could be many plugins for your mail client that would increase the value of the product.
They had this on Grey's Anatomy. Some woman who was a hypochondriac took too many antibiotics, and she ended up killing all the bacteria in her gut. She had to ingest some of her boyfriend's feces to get her bacteria back. I'm sure that one was at least loosely based on reality.
Actually in Canada it's been legislated into law that engineers must be licensed to call themselves engineers, and it's been that way since 1936. Basically, they decided it's a really bad idea to have a bunch of people running around building bridges and designing dams when they have no idea what they are doing. So they created a law, stating that if you wanted to do "engineer" you had to become certified.
No, just like it's fine to be a nurse and work in the medical field, or a construction worker to build bridges. Just don't inflate what your actual credentials are. There's certain things that can be done by just regular programmers or developers that makes them very valuable for many companies. I'm a developer also. I took software engineering in university. However, I would never say that what I do at work is engineering, or call myself an engineer.
In many places, It's a protected word. Like Doctor. You don't want people who aren't doctors around calling themselves a doctor, prescribing drugs and doing surgery, and you don't want people who aren't civil engineers designing bridges. I think the same should be true for the software field.
Is it really inflated grades, or is it that some courses just happen to be easy? I know a couple courses in university where the class got universal A+'s (90%). Ok, not everybody, but well over 70% of the class, basically anybody who put any effort into the course. I also know some professors who didn't like the look of everyone getting A+, so they made a statement that nobody will get an A, and that everyone will get a B or lower. Which can really mess with your scholarships and stuff. There's also no reason that by 4th year, once you've weeded out all the people who don't really want to be there anyway, that you can't have classes where everyone scores pretty well. And it's funny that you pick on SOC 101, because I've found that those courses, with subjective answers and essays to write are much harder to get A+ in than courses like physics or math where you can be pretty much assured of having the right answer.
While I think you were trying to be funny, what you say makes a lot of sense. When you only make a release every 5 years, there are a lot of problems in getting people to accept your new product. So much changes in 5 years, that there will be a huge learning curve for existing users. When you update a product every 6 months, and introduce changes slowly, it's a lot easier for the customer to adjust.
They are still overselling, even in the business tier. They depend on the fact that not everybody on their service is going to be using their entire 2Mb 24 hours a day.
Who cares if the stack is open. It's not like you can verify that the stack running on your particular machine hasn't been altered from what was originally intended. Just like a modded xbox. They can design a box and ship it out with a certain set of software on it. Doesn't mean that software can't be modified by someone else.
How would you know that there's a problem with the computer count unless you opened the box and did a manual count to check? Does the computer tell you when it made a mistake?
The election is in November, and the President doesn't get inaugurated until January. Not like they really need to have them counted in a couple hours. Maybe if they didn't vote for things like "dog catcher" they wouldn't have such complicated ballots. This is why you elect the high ranking officials. So that they can decide for you for all the silly little issues that shouldn't require a full out election.
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The reason that you can't just drag files on to it is that itunes and the ipod maintains a library of your songs, keeping track of how often you listen to them, and other things such as when they were added, and how much you like them. This information can be used to generate playlists, and to help find music in your vast collection that you haven't listened to in a while. While they could have made it so that you just dump files on it, creating a library means that there's a lot more features. If you would bother to explore them.
If you're going to run some cracked version, why not just run the professional version.
I really don't get it. 3 is probably the bare minimum of apps one could run while using a netbook. Browser and Instant messaging. That's already 2. Then add media player, and you're at the limit. Don't bother trying to open a word document, make a skype call, Open the calculator, run notepad, or do anything else. Sorry, you're past the limit.
Lots of things on the human body are quote prone to breaking. Ankle for instance. Just about everybody I know has broken, or at least sprained an ankle. Doesn't mean that it doesn't have it's advantages.
What's so unnatural about civilization. Granted humans have the most advanced civilization on this planet. But many animals have social behaviours, and live in groups. Some use tools. Apes will even care for and feed, an old crippled relative, even if it's not in their best interest to do so (old relative will never reproduce again, and food would be better off spent on the healthy).
Like i'm going to use PostGres. Their string comparisons are case sensitive. That's a pretty major downside as far as i'm concerned.
They are a software company. Not a hardware company. As soon as it's ready to ship, just ship it. Let the OEMs catch up at their own pace. You don't need to buy a new computer to buy an OS (although it is cheaper that way), so why should they have to wait for the computer hardware makers to figure things out. People want a new OS now.
Yeah, but we're talking about people who don't have electricity or a kitchen, so this is probably the best option. However you are right. People complain how much food costs and then only buy premade stuff. Making stuff from raw ingredients can be really cheap.
The purpose of school shouldn't be teach students to be drones that can't think for themselves. It should be "teach them how to learn". Everybody I grew up with learned on DOS, UNIX (icons ftw) and Apple. We had little trouble adapting to the changing computer world. Now if people learned on Linux right now, they would have a lot less catching up then we ever did, even if they had to switch to windows for a job. Tech concepts and not memorization and you will get a lot further.
That's why you go to the grocery store and pick up a loaf of bread and some lunch meat. You shouldn't be paying so much for prepared food if you really are that poor.
Everybody knows, to bypass the gait recognition, all you have to do is put rocks in your shoes.
It really depends on which bank you go with. I had my debit card duped, and there was a single invalid transaction ($500 withdrawal, in some town far away from me). My bank called me less than 24 hours after it happened, and I walked into a bank and got a new card instantly. Money was refunded in about a day. Pretty painless for the most part. Things like this shouldn't be able to happen in the first place (when is chip and pin going to be required). However, I'm happy knowing that banks are getting better at handling these situations. I pity anybody who's with one of those bad banks that doesn't handle this stuff as well.
I've always wondered why email servers don't use database servers to store the email. It seems like an obvious idea. Personally, I think that even personal email clients should employ this type of technology. If everything was indexed, it would make search the email so much easier. Also, with SQL access, the could be many plugins for your mail client that would increase the value of the product.
They had this on Grey's Anatomy. Some woman who was a hypochondriac took too many antibiotics, and she ended up killing all the bacteria in her gut. She had to ingest some of her boyfriend's feces to get her bacteria back. I'm sure that one was at least loosely based on reality.
It came out in 2005. Hardly what I would consider old. Especially when compared to windows 2k and xp, Which came out 5 years before that.
Actually in Canada it's been legislated into law that engineers must be licensed to call themselves engineers, and it's been that way since 1936. Basically, they decided it's a really bad idea to have a bunch of people running around building bridges and designing dams when they have no idea what they are doing. So they created a law, stating that if you wanted to do "engineer" you had to become certified.
Well, he does have a Ph.D., so I see no reason why he shouldn't call himself a doctor.
No, just like it's fine to be a nurse and work in the medical field, or a construction worker to build bridges. Just don't inflate what your actual credentials are. There's certain things that can be done by just regular programmers or developers that makes them very valuable for many companies. I'm a developer also. I took software engineering in university. However, I would never say that what I do at work is engineering, or call myself an engineer.
In many places, It's a protected word. Like Doctor. You don't want people who aren't doctors around calling themselves a doctor, prescribing drugs and doing surgery, and you don't want people who aren't civil engineers designing bridges. I think the same should be true for the software field.
Is it really inflated grades, or is it that some courses just happen to be easy? I know a couple courses in university where the class got universal A+'s (90%). Ok, not everybody, but well over 70% of the class, basically anybody who put any effort into the course. I also know some professors who didn't like the look of everyone getting A+, so they made a statement that nobody will get an A, and that everyone will get a B or lower. Which can really mess with your scholarships and stuff. There's also no reason that by 4th year, once you've weeded out all the people who don't really want to be there anyway, that you can't have classes where everyone scores pretty well. And it's funny that you pick on SOC 101, because I've found that those courses, with subjective answers and essays to write are much harder to get A+ in than courses like physics or math where you can be pretty much assured of having the right answer.
While I think you were trying to be funny, what you say makes a lot of sense. When you only make a release every 5 years, there are a lot of problems in getting people to accept your new product. So much changes in 5 years, that there will be a huge learning curve for existing users. When you update a product every 6 months, and introduce changes slowly, it's a lot easier for the customer to adjust.
They are still overselling, even in the business tier. They depend on the fact that not everybody on their service is going to be using their entire 2Mb 24 hours a day.
Who cares if the stack is open. It's not like you can verify that the stack running on your particular machine hasn't been altered from what was originally intended. Just like a modded xbox. They can design a box and ship it out with a certain set of software on it. Doesn't mean that software can't be modified by someone else.
How would you know that there's a problem with the computer count unless you opened the box and did a manual count to check? Does the computer tell you when it made a mistake?
The election is in November, and the President doesn't get inaugurated until January. Not like they really need to have them counted in a couple hours. Maybe if they didn't vote for things like "dog catcher" they wouldn't have such complicated ballots. This is why you elect the high ranking officials. So that they can decide for you for all the silly little issues that shouldn't require a full out election.