How often do most companies call up Microsoft for support? Is this a common thing? Most people that I know, even at work just Google it when they want to know how to solve a problem in Windows, or on any other computer system.
Most people I know who use Windows use MSN. Of course, they don't have a "multi-protocol" instant messaging client. If you want a multi-protocol instant messaging client on windows, you pretty much have to go with pidgin. Does KDE4 Kopete work on Windows yet? Maybe i'll see if I can get that working. There isn't much choice when it comes to multi protocol IM clients. And Pidgin is probably one of the better ones (as sad as that is).
Only if you don't know how to write a proper regular expression. Sure you could write an incorrect one, and then you would have to check all your pages over to make sure it replaced everything correctly. But if you did it properly the first time (like with, coding your character entities correctly), you wouldn't have any problems. Taking an extra hour (I'm exagerrating here) to ensure you have the regex written correctly can save you a lot of work in going threw all the pages to fix the mistakes from an incorrect regex.
I just had this conversation with my boss yesterday. He was saying that one of our web designers should use FrontPage. I was saying that, as was the web designer, that there was no problem with NotePad++, and that using it actually yielded much better results than any wysiwyg editor. Wysiwyg editors are nice if you don't know any HTML at all, and still need to get the job done. But if you ever have to tweak anything by hand, you'll wish you had just coded it by hand in the first place. Also, you can use the Wysiwyg editors and code everything by hand. It makes it easier to switch back and forth between the code and the design. However, once you do that, you're just spending a bunch of cash for a tool that lets you switch between windows.
Are there any IT companies that offer high level, low hour jobs? I'm sure a lot of people would love to work 20 hours a week for $50K. But I don't think I've ever seen a job opening in IT that was only part time. If you did contracts, you might be able to do 3 months on, 3 months off, or 6 and 6, but I don't think there's a lot of positions for working 20 hours a week. The only place that does that is McDonald's .
Couldn't the same be done for Linux by booting up in single-user mode and editing/etc/shadow? I've used the software you speak of on Windows, before, and it works pretty well. You don't even have to go that far. You can copy the SAM file (or whatever the file is called) from a machine in which you do know the password to another machine on which you do not know the password, and just use the password from the other machine to log in. I had to do this once, because ntpasswd messed up writing to the NTFS drive, and I had to create windows boot disks and overwrite the SAM file with a known good one. Worked like a charm.
However, the flash drives are only 32 GB. How small and how low power could you make a drive that only needed to be 32 GB. You could probably go for a much smaller form factor. Which would mean smaller platters, which would take less energy to spin. It would also mean that the read/write heads wouldn't have to move as far to reach the data. Comparing a 32 GB SSD to a 3.5 inch, 250 GB HDD is not a very good comparison.
You really have to account for the cost of living in with your calculations. Even though the US dollar and CAN dollar are at par, most things in Canada still cost more than they do in the US. So you would be much better off living in the US making $US 100,000 than you would be in Canada making $CAD 100,000 even though the currencies are worth the same amount.
$100,000 US is still quite a bit of money. Expecially if you are talking about yearly gross income. I don't think you realize just how little money some people can live off, even in the United States. $100,000 should be more than enough to support a family. If it's not, you aren't spending your money correctly. If you aren't supporting a family, then you should be even better off with all that money.
I don't know why the law firm couldn't just have a website set up, where clients could "email" their lawyer by submitting the message over SSL. It wouldn't be email per se, but you probably wouldn't want to use your regular email for information that requires such a high level of security.
I think that everybody just has memories from the Netscape 4 days, where every line had to be coded differently depending on which browser you were using. Things have matured a lot lately, and you can almost get by without writing any browser specific hacks. However, the history of Javascript has lead many people to dispise it.
Saying the the Mini should have a removable graphics card is like saying your laptop should have one too. Most graphics cards, even my old ATI Radeon 9800 are actaully longer than the Mac Mini. Have fun trying to fit an NVidia 8800 GTS in there. The Mac Mini makes a lot of compromises to fit into the extra small form factor. If you can't live with those compromises, then don't buy one. But I think that asking Apple to Redesign the Mac Mini to have interchangable video cards goes against the whole point of the machine.
I agree. It's the same reason your game console doesn't crash very often. Limiting what hardware you are running on greatly reduces the complexity of your code, and makes everything much easier to support.
Couldn't more onus be placed on the users. Set up your browser to only load the main page, no images, and display the pages ind "single column format (like on the Wii). Sure some sites that are based solely on flash or similar wouldn't work, but you could probably still view the majority of sites like this.
Since when has windows not changed it's UI. Windows 3.1 -> Windows 95 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista. All of those incorporated major changes into the UI. I think the only consumer targeted release they had that didn't have major UI overhauls was Windows 98. Everytime they release a new version, I have to relearn the entire thing.
Hasn't this been tried before with things like Lindows? I think that making things too similar could be bad. People might just see it as something that is a cheap ripoff of windows. Instead of something that can stand on its own. Nobody would ever suggest Apple changing OSX to look like windows just to gain a few users.
My brother in law just installed Linux a couple months ago. He had been reading up on it a lot, and he knew that I was a big computer geek, and started asking me for advice. I pointed him to Mandriva, since that's what I use, and I felt it was pretty well suited for desktop users. I figured I would be supporting it a bit, so I wanted a distro that I was familiar with. It really is amazing how easily users pick up on Linux. He figured out how to install the NVidia drivers and everything all on his own.
At least in Linux you could boot up into command line mode and edit your xorg.conf file to change the resolution. Say what you want about the command line and editing the config file, and how users shouldn't have to do it, but at least the option is available. Any idea if the same can be done under windows? It's the same reason why so many forums are filled with directions on how to accomplish stuff over the command line. Sure it's a little more difficult than clicking around in a GUI. But it's much more likely to work across different distros and different versions of the same distro.
However, you should also do some usability testing with experienced users. I recently installed Mandriva 2008.1, and decided to give KDE4 a try. So much stuff has been changed since KDE3 that I feel completely lost. A new user might not have any problem with it, but for those who are used to the old KDE, it really is quite a big step, and it does take quite a bit of time to get used to.
I personally would love if TV shows only lasted 1 season. I think that Jericho really made that clear for me. While I would have liked maybe an extra 3-4 shows so they wouldn't have to end it so quickly and abruptly, I don't think it was ever the kind of show that could have lasted for 6 years. Same with Invasion. I wish they could have had an ending, but I really don't mind that it didn't. When you look at shows like CSI, Law And Order, and all the other shows that seem to be on the air for many years at a time, and even have multiple series based off the same premise, they all end up being very formulaic. You really do know what's going to happen in every show. Even if you can't guess the ending, it never really surprises you all that much.
Those kids who spend all their time IMing and MySpacing, and can't focus anything for more than 30 seconds will be perfectly suited to working in an office. According to the article I linked to, most office workers get interrupted every 3 minutes. So these kids who have no attention span will probably be much better adapted to working in such and environment.
That's kind of what I thought. Just because you're not watching TV, doesn't mean you will be doing something productive. Maybe you would be reading a book instead. Is that really any more productive? Sure you could spend all that free time writing open source software, or composing symphonies, But people need some downtime. Some time to just sit and and relax, without trying to get anything accomplished.
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How often do most companies call up Microsoft for support? Is this a common thing? Most people that I know, even at work just Google it when they want to know how to solve a problem in Windows, or on any other computer system.
I for one, consider the lack of winks in nudges in Pidgin to be a feature. Down with IM clients for 13 year old girls.
Most people I know who use Windows use MSN. Of course, they don't have a "multi-protocol" instant messaging client. If you want a multi-protocol instant messaging client on windows, you pretty much have to go with pidgin. Does KDE4 Kopete work on Windows yet? Maybe i'll see if I can get that working. There isn't much choice when it comes to multi protocol IM clients. And Pidgin is probably one of the better ones (as sad as that is).
Only if you don't know how to write a proper regular expression. Sure you could write an incorrect one, and then you would have to check all your pages over to make sure it replaced everything correctly. But if you did it properly the first time (like with, coding your character entities correctly), you wouldn't have any problems. Taking an extra hour (I'm exagerrating here) to ensure you have the regex written correctly can save you a lot of work in going threw all the pages to fix the mistakes from an incorrect regex.
I just had this conversation with my boss yesterday. He was saying that one of our web designers should use FrontPage. I was saying that, as was the web designer, that there was no problem with NotePad++, and that using it actually yielded much better results than any wysiwyg editor. Wysiwyg editors are nice if you don't know any HTML at all, and still need to get the job done. But if you ever have to tweak anything by hand, you'll wish you had just coded it by hand in the first place. Also, you can use the Wysiwyg editors and code everything by hand. It makes it easier to switch back and forth between the code and the design. However, once you do that, you're just spending a bunch of cash for a tool that lets you switch between windows.
Are there any IT companies that offer high level, low hour jobs? I'm sure a lot of people would love to work 20 hours a week for $50K. But I don't think I've ever seen a job opening in IT that was only part time. If you did contracts, you might be able to do 3 months on, 3 months off, or 6 and 6, but I don't think there's a lot of positions for working 20 hours a week. The only place that does that is McDonald's .
Couldn't the same be done for Linux by booting up in single-user mode and editing /etc/shadow? I've used the software you speak of on Windows, before, and it works pretty well. You don't even have to go that far. You can copy the SAM file (or whatever the file is called) from a machine in which you do know the password to another machine on which you do not know the password, and just use the password from the other machine to log in. I had to do this once, because ntpasswd messed up writing to the NTFS drive, and I had to create windows boot disks and overwrite the SAM file with a known good one. Worked like a charm.
However, the flash drives are only 32 GB. How small and how low power could you make a drive that only needed to be 32 GB. You could probably go for a much smaller form factor. Which would mean smaller platters, which would take less energy to spin. It would also mean that the read/write heads wouldn't have to move as far to reach the data. Comparing a 32 GB SSD to a 3.5 inch, 250 GB HDD is not a very good comparison.
You really have to account for the cost of living in with your calculations. Even though the US dollar and CAN dollar are at par, most things in Canada still cost more than they do in the US. So you would be much better off living in the US making $US 100,000 than you would be in Canada making $CAD 100,000 even though the currencies are worth the same amount.
$100,000 US is still quite a bit of money. Expecially if you are talking about yearly gross income. I don't think you realize just how little money some people can live off, even in the United States. $100,000 should be more than enough to support a family. If it's not, you aren't spending your money correctly. If you aren't supporting a family, then you should be even better off with all that money.
I don't know why the law firm couldn't just have a website set up, where clients could "email" their lawyer by submitting the message over SSL. It wouldn't be email per se, but you probably wouldn't want to use your regular email for information that requires such a high level of security.
I hardly think you could fit just any video card in your laptop, and certainly not an 8800 GTS.
I think that everybody just has memories from the Netscape 4 days, where every line had to be coded differently depending on which browser you were using. Things have matured a lot lately, and you can almost get by without writing any browser specific hacks. However, the history of Javascript has lead many people to dispise it.
Saying the the Mini should have a removable graphics card is like saying your laptop should have one too. Most graphics cards, even my old ATI Radeon 9800 are actaully longer than the Mac Mini. Have fun trying to fit an NVidia 8800 GTS in there. The Mac Mini makes a lot of compromises to fit into the extra small form factor. If you can't live with those compromises, then don't buy one. But I think that asking Apple to Redesign the Mac Mini to have interchangable video cards goes against the whole point of the machine.
It worked for SUSE 10.1.
I agree. It's the same reason your game console doesn't crash very often. Limiting what hardware you are running on greatly reduces the complexity of your code, and makes everything much easier to support.
Couldn't more onus be placed on the users. Set up your browser to only load the main page, no images, and display the pages ind "single column format (like on the Wii). Sure some sites that are based solely on flash or similar wouldn't work, but you could probably still view the majority of sites like this.
Since when has windows not changed it's UI. Windows 3.1 -> Windows 95 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista. All of those incorporated major changes into the UI. I think the only consumer targeted release they had that didn't have major UI overhauls was Windows 98. Everytime they release a new version, I have to relearn the entire thing.
Hasn't this been tried before with things like Lindows? I think that making things too similar could be bad. People might just see it as something that is a cheap ripoff of windows. Instead of something that can stand on its own. Nobody would ever suggest Apple changing OSX to look like windows just to gain a few users.
My brother in law just installed Linux a couple months ago. He had been reading up on it a lot, and he knew that I was a big computer geek, and started asking me for advice. I pointed him to Mandriva, since that's what I use, and I felt it was pretty well suited for desktop users. I figured I would be supporting it a bit, so I wanted a distro that I was familiar with. It really is amazing how easily users pick up on Linux. He figured out how to install the NVidia drivers and everything all on his own.
At least in Linux you could boot up into command line mode and edit your xorg.conf file to change the resolution. Say what you want about the command line and editing the config file, and how users shouldn't have to do it, but at least the option is available. Any idea if the same can be done under windows? It's the same reason why so many forums are filled with directions on how to accomplish stuff over the command line. Sure it's a little more difficult than clicking around in a GUI. But it's much more likely to work across different distros and different versions of the same distro.
However, you should also do some usability testing with experienced users. I recently installed Mandriva 2008.1, and decided to give KDE4 a try. So much stuff has been changed since KDE3 that I feel completely lost. A new user might not have any problem with it, but for those who are used to the old KDE, it really is quite a big step, and it does take quite a bit of time to get used to.
I personally would love if TV shows only lasted 1 season. I think that Jericho really made that clear for me. While I would have liked maybe an extra 3-4 shows so they wouldn't have to end it so quickly and abruptly, I don't think it was ever the kind of show that could have lasted for 6 years. Same with Invasion. I wish they could have had an ending, but I really don't mind that it didn't. When you look at shows like CSI, Law And Order, and all the other shows that seem to be on the air for many years at a time, and even have multiple series based off the same premise, they all end up being very formulaic. You really do know what's going to happen in every show. Even if you can't guess the ending, it never really surprises you all that much.
Those kids who spend all their time IMing and MySpacing, and can't focus anything for more than 30 seconds will be perfectly suited to working in an office. According to the article I linked to, most office workers get interrupted every 3 minutes. So these kids who have no attention span will probably be much better adapted to working in such and environment.
That's kind of what I thought. Just because you're not watching TV, doesn't mean you will be doing something productive. Maybe you would be reading a book instead. Is that really any more productive? Sure you could spend all that free time writing open source software, or composing symphonies, But people need some downtime. Some time to just sit and and relax, without trying to get anything accomplished.