I don't know whether you're trying to be funny, but most businesses I know of think the opposite. Tim Hortons for example, only accepts cash. Because it takes too long to process debit/credit transactions. Other coffee houses have their own cash cards where you swipe it and the money is taken instantly, no waiting around the for the bank to respond, or having to type in PIN numbers or signing a piece of paper. There's still a lot of fast food places that don't accept debit because it simply takes too long to process.
Failure rate within what time period? All electronics eventually die. But if you buy the warranty, for 2 years, what percentage break in that amount of time? Some products are more prone to breakage than others. I would most likely buy the warranty on the XBox, or PS2, since i've heard they have a lot of problems. But I've never had a keyboard stop working, so I don't think I'd be likely to buy a warranty. People complain about hard drives dying all the time. Yet i've never heard anyone complain about their soundcard dying.
Yes. The managers still get bonuses for meeting certain sales quotas, so they will ensure that their employees are selling enough of the product. Otherwise, they might start getting less hours, or fired, if the manager doesn't feel they are making enough sales.
I heard one guy trying to sell a warranty on a router, saying that's he's had 3 break down in the last year and a half, and that the warranty would be a really good idea. When in reality I don't think I've ever heard of a router failing. I really wanted to tell them that he was lying, but in the end didn't. I'm not one to confront people.
That is true for non-commissioned environments. However, in Canada we have futureshop. There's guys who easily make $15 an hour because they know their stuff, and are good at making a sale. There's also a select few who make $100,000 a year, because they have the right connections, and again, know how to make a sale. These guys don't spend their time on the floor, but user their connections to sell large numbers of items, often to people who own businesses. I would have to say that it helps a little bit, but often just rewards the better salesman. When the customer doesn't know anything about the product, it's easy to sell them a product they don't need, or sell them a warranty that they will never use, because 9999/10000 the product won't break.
so basically what we need is something like a PDA only with a bigger screen and built in full size keyboard, And more space, somewhere around 10 gigs. oh, and a Battery the size of the average laptop battery. This product isn't being produced. Nowhere have I seen something like this, but this is exactly what i'm looking for in a portable device.
I'm not really worried about video performance on a laptop. As long as it can play dvds, that's probably all it needs. Even that isn't necessary for a work laptop. Just something that can run run standard desktop applications. Get rid of all the 3D processing stuff, and just provide something that will work for desktop apps. And the fact that a lot of laptops come with 256 MB RAM is pretty bad. Using the hard drive as RAM has got to be pretty hard on the battery. Use 1 Gig of ram, and disable the swap completely. There are many things that could be done to cut down on battery usage, and they aren't being done. The fact that it even has a 2gig processor and a 3d graphics card shows that they really aren't trying to reduce battery consumption all that much. If you mixed a pentium II level processor and graphics card, with today's knowledge of power savings and advanced batteries, and threw in a bunch of ram to make it run fast, it would last twice as long as today's laptops.
There's a difference between vehicle maintenance and learning how to care for a vehicle. Most people realize that they have to change their oil, clean their car, check their tire pressure, listen for weird noises, and take the car to the shop when it starts pulling too much to the left (or the right in britain, it doesn't matter unless it's pulling into traffic). With computers, people can't even be bothered to learn how to drive, let alone learn the basics of computer care.
You have to realize that Heat = Wasted Electricity. On a laptop, battery life is bad enough without worrying about the graphics processor killing your battery. I'm sure they could build a laptop with 20 hours battery life. But nobody really seems to be focussing on this. Low power chip + old school graphics card because it doesn't affect office work anyway, and you could probably have a pretty low power computer. Use a slower hard drive, and give it enough ram that it doesn't need to have a swap file, and you'd probably get quite a bit more of life out of the thing.
This sounds like a pretty expensive procedure of going to Linux, and then eventually switching back when you find out that it isn't working for you. I think that with the right people, with the right knowledge, that it would be a good change for those involved. Buy you don't have to move everything all at once. Maybe just stop using windows for new things, and then eventually move the old stuff, or not. There's no reason to take down a working server, and try to replace it with something unfamiliar. replace little things, one at a time, and keep what's working for you. If you try Linux mail servers, and you just had a better time with Exchange, then leave exchange working. But if your database servers are performing better with Postgres, then leave that in place. There's no reason why you can't have a mixed environment.
No, more like spoken by someone who knows he'd have to accomodate IE, Firefox, Opera, Netscape 7, Safari. At that point, it's almost easier to just write an app in Java that supports Windows/Mac/Linux. Or write an app in C++ using gtk that supports all three. I've done enough work in AJAX to know that the differences between the browsers make it a big pain to make it work in all of them. Opera doesn't have document.implementation.createDocument working correctly yet, apparently it's fixed in 9.0, which is still in beta. Not to even go off on on the CSS bugs that are present in every browser. If you want a multiplatform app, there's much easier ways to do it. The only thing that web based gives you is instant user upgrades/bug fixes.
Really? is that only for apps that follow certain development specs? because Using firefox, OpenOffice, and others, teh icons aren't svg, and don't get scaled.
One of my profs was writing his own book. We got to beta test the book, so we got early copies from the photocopy centre. I think for the semester it ended up around $CDN 30. Which is pretty good considering the price that the book is selling for now. He even gave prizes at the end of the semester for students who found the most mistakes.
I'm not just talking about the icons used for folders and files and the task bar. Those aren't really the problem. It's the line of icons on the top of just every GUI application in existence. They are stuck in a certain size in 98% of cases, and can't be resized.
I am a semi-big fan of Escher's work. At lot of stuff that I have says M.C. Escher TM. So I'm guessing that they trademarked his name, so that even when his art goes out of copyright, you won't be able to sell it under the Escher name, because it will still be trademarked (they don't expire). You may even be able to copy the artworks because they contain his name, which is trademarked, maybe they can just crop out the part with his name.
Why would anybody store customer information on the same network that they are giving free-for-all wireless information on. Are businesses becoming that cheap that they can't even get 2 different routers, to suffice for the two different network, or are they just stupid? I can understand Joe sixpack not wanting to secure his home network, but if you own a business and are generating revenue from the use of your network, then you should take the time to set it up correctly.
I have a 17 inch at work which runs at the same resolution as my 19 inch at home (1280x1024). They're LCDs, so they look like crap in anything other than native. The 17 inch makes most things really hard to see, not just fonts, but those tiny icons used all over moden operating systems. Oh, and i upped the DPI, which makes a bunch of programs misbehave and look all gross because they expect a certain standard DPI. I think there's a certain resolution at which monitors display things big enough to read them, and still provide enough clarity. I think many monitors don't follow that. I've seen 17 inch displays that support up to 1600x1200, which is nice and clear, but you can't see a damn thing.
I have a Software Engineering degree, and you can probably count on 2 hands the organizations that actually do software engineering. I may never end up doing real software engineering in my entire lifetime. But, software engineering has prepared me much better for life as a software developer/programmer/ hopefully project manager eventually, than computer science ever would have. I looked at the curriculum for computer science, and took some of the same courses. They are nothing alike. CS had no testing, No system archtecture, no UI design, and was missing a lot of other stuff that is invaluable in current programming jobs. The better start you get, the better you'll do later on.
My cable TV costs $30 a month. For that I could watch 15 shows on iTunes. I watch way more than 15 shows in a month, and I can't get much without cable. The price will have to come way down for TV over the internet to really catch on.
And you define that as being smarter? I say something is smart if it works well. My old VCR was quite smart. It would record everything I asked it to, and it never crashed. It also wouldn't record things I didn't ask it to. When you think about it, a DVR is a glorified VCR, that uses a hard drive instead of tapes. I wouldn't expect that it would crash at all, and if it crashed as often as yours, I'd return it to whoever sold it to me.
They really should make more cartoons like that. We complain that nobody knows anything about technology, or how computers work, but then we don't try to teach them at a level they can understand. I think people would learn a lot more if they had advertisements like this on during commercial breaks instead of the usual low level crap.
As far as I recall, the owner was administrator, and he was logged in as administrator. He had removed R/W permissions on the files, and for some reason he couldn't change the permissions. Maybe he just ran into a weird bug. I'm not really sure how it happened. This all leads to the point that even in XP home, it now installs with NTFS by default. Which is good in a way, but the security model is way too complicated for most home users. Even having experience with the unix security model, among others, I was stumped by this. Although the FAT32 security model is quite lacking, I think there is a happy medium for home users.
The thing that made me laugh the most was when my roommate managed to lock himself out of some of his own files on his NTFS partition. Oh, and he as was logged in as administrator. As much as it's important to maintain permissions, and not let users do stuff they shouldn't, it's important that you can still do whatever you want if you are root, because otherwise, the computer is the one in control, not the user.
Which is really funny, because originally, the balls had not "dots" (dimples) at all. Then they realized that the more they hit it, and the more dents it got, the further it went, so they started making them with the dots built in. Now all the balls have different patterns of dots, trying to make them fly the best. Now they starting complaining because people are putting the dimples in a certain pattern? How deep do the dimples have to be? Would putting shallow dimples all over except 2 deep rows have the same effect?
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I don't know whether you're trying to be funny, but most businesses I know of think the opposite. Tim Hortons for example, only accepts cash. Because it takes too long to process debit/credit transactions. Other coffee houses have their own cash cards where you swipe it and the money is taken instantly, no waiting around the for the bank to respond, or having to type in PIN numbers or signing a piece of paper. There's still a lot of fast food places that don't accept debit because it simply takes too long to process.
Failure rate within what time period? All electronics eventually die. But if you buy the warranty, for 2 years, what percentage break in that amount of time? Some products are more prone to breakage than others. I would most likely buy the warranty on the XBox, or PS2, since i've heard they have a lot of problems. But I've never had a keyboard stop working, so I don't think I'd be likely to buy a warranty. People complain about hard drives dying all the time. Yet i've never heard anyone complain about their soundcard dying.
Yes. The managers still get bonuses for meeting certain sales quotas, so they will ensure that their employees are selling enough of the product. Otherwise, they might start getting less hours, or fired, if the manager doesn't feel they are making enough sales.
I heard one guy trying to sell a warranty on a router, saying that's he's had 3 break down in the last year and a half, and that the warranty would be a really good idea. When in reality I don't think I've ever heard of a router failing. I really wanted to tell them that he was lying, but in the end didn't. I'm not one to confront people.
That is true for non-commissioned environments. However, in Canada we have futureshop. There's guys who easily make $15 an hour because they know their stuff, and are good at making a sale. There's also a select few who make $100,000 a year, because they have the right connections, and again, know how to make a sale. These guys don't spend their time on the floor, but user their connections to sell large numbers of items, often to people who own businesses. I would have to say that it helps a little bit, but often just rewards the better salesman. When the customer doesn't know anything about the product, it's easy to sell them a product they don't need, or sell them a warranty that they will never use, because 9999/10000 the product won't break.
so basically what we need is something like a PDA only with a bigger screen and built in full size keyboard, And more space, somewhere around 10 gigs. oh, and a Battery the size of the average laptop battery. This product isn't being produced. Nowhere have I seen something like this, but this is exactly what i'm looking for in a portable device.
I'm not really worried about video performance on a laptop. As long as it can play dvds, that's probably all it needs. Even that isn't necessary for a work laptop. Just something that can run run standard desktop applications. Get rid of all the 3D processing stuff, and just provide something that will work for desktop apps. And the fact that a lot of laptops come with 256 MB RAM is pretty bad. Using the hard drive as RAM has got to be pretty hard on the battery. Use 1 Gig of ram, and disable the swap completely. There are many things that could be done to cut down on battery usage, and they aren't being done. The fact that it even has a 2gig processor and a 3d graphics card shows that they really aren't trying to reduce battery consumption all that much. If you mixed a pentium II level processor and graphics card, with today's knowledge of power savings and advanced batteries, and threw in a bunch of ram to make it run fast, it would last twice as long as today's laptops.
There's a difference between vehicle maintenance and learning how to care for a vehicle. Most people realize that they have to change their oil, clean their car, check their tire pressure, listen for weird noises, and take the car to the shop when it starts pulling too much to the left (or the right in britain, it doesn't matter unless it's pulling into traffic). With computers, people can't even be bothered to learn how to drive, let alone learn the basics of computer care.
You have to realize that Heat = Wasted Electricity. On a laptop, battery life is bad enough without worrying about the graphics processor killing your battery. I'm sure they could build a laptop with 20 hours battery life. But nobody really seems to be focussing on this. Low power chip + old school graphics card because it doesn't affect office work anyway, and you could probably have a pretty low power computer. Use a slower hard drive, and give it enough ram that it doesn't need to have a swap file, and you'd probably get quite a bit more of life out of the thing.
This sounds like a pretty expensive procedure of going to Linux, and then eventually switching back when you find out that it isn't working for you. I think that with the right people, with the right knowledge, that it would be a good change for those involved. Buy you don't have to move everything all at once. Maybe just stop using windows for new things, and then eventually move the old stuff, or not. There's no reason to take down a working server, and try to replace it with something unfamiliar. replace little things, one at a time, and keep what's working for you. If you try Linux mail servers, and you just had a better time with Exchange, then leave exchange working. But if your database servers are performing better with Postgres, then leave that in place. There's no reason why you can't have a mixed environment.
No, more like spoken by someone who knows he'd have to accomodate IE, Firefox, Opera, Netscape 7, Safari. At that point, it's almost easier to just write an app in Java that supports Windows/Mac/Linux. Or write an app in C++ using gtk that supports all three. I've done enough work in AJAX to know that the differences between the browsers make it a big pain to make it work in all of them. Opera doesn't have document.implementation.createDocument working correctly yet, apparently it's fixed in 9.0, which is still in beta. Not to even go off on on the CSS bugs that are present in every browser. If you want a multiplatform app, there's much easier ways to do it. The only thing that web based gives you is instant user upgrades/bug fixes.
Really? is that only for apps that follow certain development specs? because Using firefox, OpenOffice, and others, teh icons aren't svg, and don't get scaled.
One of my profs was writing his own book. We got to beta test the book, so we got early copies from the photocopy centre. I think for the semester it ended up around $CDN 30. Which is pretty good considering the price that the book is selling for now. He even gave prizes at the end of the semester for students who found the most mistakes.
I'm not just talking about the icons used for folders and files and the task bar. Those aren't really the problem. It's the line of icons on the top of just every GUI application in existence. They are stuck in a certain size in 98% of cases, and can't be resized.
I am a semi-big fan of Escher's work. At lot of stuff that I have says M.C. Escher TM. So I'm guessing that they trademarked his name, so that even when his art goes out of copyright, you won't be able to sell it under the Escher name, because it will still be trademarked (they don't expire). You may even be able to copy the artworks because they contain his name, which is trademarked, maybe they can just crop out the part with his name.
Also good examples would be Saturday Night Live and Mad Magazine (do they still exist?) who parody just about everything.
Why would anybody store customer information on the same network that they are giving free-for-all wireless information on. Are businesses becoming that cheap that they can't even get 2 different routers, to suffice for the two different network, or are they just stupid? I can understand Joe sixpack not wanting to secure his home network, but if you own a business and are generating revenue from the use of your network, then you should take the time to set it up correctly.
I have a 17 inch at work which runs at the same resolution as my 19 inch at home (1280x1024). They're LCDs, so they look like crap in anything other than native. The 17 inch makes most things really hard to see, not just fonts, but those tiny icons used all over moden operating systems. Oh, and i upped the DPI, which makes a bunch of programs misbehave and look all gross because they expect a certain standard DPI. I think there's a certain resolution at which monitors display things big enough to read them, and still provide enough clarity. I think many monitors don't follow that. I've seen 17 inch displays that support up to 1600x1200, which is nice and clear, but you can't see a damn thing.
I have a Software Engineering degree, and you can probably count on 2 hands the organizations that actually do software engineering. I may never end up doing real software engineering in my entire lifetime. But, software engineering has prepared me much better for life as a software developer/programmer/ hopefully project manager eventually, than computer science ever would have. I looked at the curriculum for computer science, and took some of the same courses. They are nothing alike. CS had no testing, No system archtecture, no UI design, and was missing a lot of other stuff that is invaluable in current programming jobs. The better start you get, the better you'll do later on.
My cable TV costs $30 a month. For that I could watch 15 shows on iTunes. I watch way more than 15 shows in a month, and I can't get much without cable. The price will have to come way down for TV over the internet to really catch on.
And you define that as being smarter? I say something is smart if it works well. My old VCR was quite smart. It would record everything I asked it to, and it never crashed. It also wouldn't record things I didn't ask it to. When you think about it, a DVR is a glorified VCR, that uses a hard drive instead of tapes. I wouldn't expect that it would crash at all, and if it crashed as often as yours, I'd return it to whoever sold it to me.
They really should make more cartoons like that. We complain that nobody knows anything about technology, or how computers work, but then we don't try to teach them at a level they can understand. I think people would learn a lot more if they had advertisements like this on during commercial breaks instead of the usual low level crap.
As far as I recall, the owner was administrator, and he was logged in as administrator. He had removed R/W permissions on the files, and for some reason he couldn't change the permissions. Maybe he just ran into a weird bug. I'm not really sure how it happened. This all leads to the point that even in XP home, it now installs with NTFS by default. Which is good in a way, but the security model is way too complicated for most home users. Even having experience with the unix security model, among others, I was stumped by this. Although the FAT32 security model is quite lacking, I think there is a happy medium for home users.
The thing that made me laugh the most was when my roommate managed to lock himself out of some of his own files on his NTFS partition. Oh, and he as was logged in as administrator. As much as it's important to maintain permissions, and not let users do stuff they shouldn't, it's important that you can still do whatever you want if you are root, because otherwise, the computer is the one in control, not the user.
Which is really funny, because originally, the balls had not "dots" (dimples) at all. Then they realized that the more they hit it, and the more dents it got, the further it went, so they started making them with the dots built in. Now all the balls have different patterns of dots, trying to make them fly the best. Now they starting complaining because people are putting the dimples in a certain pattern? How deep do the dimples have to be? Would putting shallow dimples all over except 2 deep rows have the same effect?