Are you serious? It cost more to have lunch at Mcdonalds with the family. If you are using it heavily, at $60 it would pay itself off in no time. I don't have a tablet but i did purchase the Home Office edition 2010 and I have long since forgotten about that $100 bucks or whatever it was. If it has value to you why would $20 be some magic cutoff point? The free alternatives are there for everyone anyway. If the free versions don't do what you need and you really "need" that functionality the difference between $60 and $20 is trivial for most people.
Facebook free for three months now. I just came to the realization that I was not interacting with all the people I care about in my life on Facebook. I was interacting with them in real life. The only interaction was with "fringe" friends or people you felt obligated to friend because they are "friends of friends" you met somewhere. "Hey great, Joe's wife took a picture of her Big Mac and fries and is enjoying a delicious shake." Ya, I'm outta here.
I agree with this. At first I was the same thinking that it was better back in the day. Its a natural reaction to cling to some "idealized notion of the past" as you say. Now that I have a son we have bought the new legos. Sure it is build by numbers the first time you put it together, but the fun is in taking it apart and putting all the parts from a different set into the same bucket. Now you can start creating all kinds of things. My son is only 3 and half years old and we already spend hours playing and creating things. He amazes me with the things he cobbles together. Today for him its all about garbage trucks and we build all kinds of whacky setups. Legos are still very creative, and in my opinion, much more fun since the old block sets. Just remember the real fun happens after you take them apart.
I sound like them? You just answered the question. When you leave they are fucked. I have had to clean up too many homebrew implementations after the superstar went on to something better without leaving so much as a one pager of documentation. Yes most of them were brilliant implementations and became mission critical. Many of them were done with little or no budget, which makes it even more impressive. But your bosses should be fired for putting the company at risk and not having a proper change management and succession policy in place for their now "mission critical" apps. I don't blame you, your an IT guy who can easily move onto something else when the place implodes.
What kind of companies do you and your parent poster work at that your bosses do not even know what infrastructure they are running. I can only believe you work in small companies where you have inserted yourselves as indispensable network gods. Maybe I am wrong but the gist of your replies suggest it. I bet your solutions are kickass all the way, but what happens when you leave.
What kind of idiot parent would resort to using Eblaster to spy on their own kids. This software is creepy, period. Christ allmighty parents like this dad make me sick to my stomach.
This is so true. In fact you have just described your average newspaper site comments section. They are the worst for this. I consider myself at the centre of the political spectrum, right leaning fiscally and left leaning socially. It makes constructive political discourse, everywhere on the internet, pretty much impossible. Has anyone ever found a balanced political discussion forum?
You can browse.com from Canada but good luck getting things shipped.
Amazon.ca is even worse. Everything I have searched for is way more expensive on.ca, ridiculously so. Their.ca and.com sites may as well be two different companies all together. The only thing that is similar is the look and feel. Selection, price, shipping...you name it, it's a whole different experience.
So many responses about getting Bob to be part of the solution and "tip toe'ing" around his fragile ego. This response right here is the best one. Presumably you are involved with this non profit to make a difference in relation to the goals of the organization. Who wants to muck around with document tracking systems. As Osgeld says, "Tidy shit up!".
I am definitely going to try Crossover tomorrow on my Linux Laptop. For the life of me I have not been able to connect my Slingbox to the Windows client under Wine. I have found some people who got it to work and have tried their instructions to no avail. Have also seen many people with the same issues as me that never did figure it out. If I can get it going with Crossover I will happily pay the $60.
I can say the same about Skydrive. I have Office 2010 home edition for the Windows laptop and use skydrive as well. The in browser version of office doesn't give everything that the desktop client gives but is a pretty worthy option in a pinch. Is plenty for most users. Also comes with 25GB of space (although 7 GB or something now). Just personal preference for me as Google docs just feels klunky to me. Again personal preference only.
I have Libre Office on my Linux laptop and it seems ok too.
When I was kid we used to go to my uncle's "cabane a sucre" (translates as sugar shack) on the outskirts of Sherbrooke to make the stuff. You need 40 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of syrup. Reduce it slowly, the longer you reduce it the darker it gets. I prefer a medium to dark but most of the places sell light. Makes sense as it takes less time. Pouring hot maple syrup over cold snow and eating it right away after it solidifies is one of lifes good things. Also bringing it to a boil and stirring it constantly turns it to sugar. That makes my mouth water.
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Are you serious? It cost more to have lunch at Mcdonalds with the family. If you are using it heavily, at $60 it would pay itself off in no time. I don't have a tablet but i did purchase the Home Office edition 2010 and I have long since forgotten about that $100 bucks or whatever it was. If it has value to you why would $20 be some magic cutoff point? The free alternatives are there for everyone anyway. If the free versions don't do what you need and you really "need" that functionality the difference between $60 and $20 is trivial for most people.
Facebook free for three months now. I just came to the realization that I was not interacting with all the people I care about in my life on Facebook. I was interacting with them in real life. The only interaction was with "fringe" friends or people you felt obligated to friend because they are "friends of friends" you met somewhere. "Hey great, Joe's wife took a picture of her Big Mac and fries and is enjoying a delicious shake." Ya, I'm outta here.
No we are not talking about pirating. You are talking about Pirating. That's not my thing.
So that's your solution? Buy a Surface Pro? He already has a tablet and used it to meet his needs by spending $0.
Yes but only if they learn to type in nano directly. Don't let them near the pico alias to nano. It's for their own good.
I agree with this. At first I was the same thinking that it was better back in the day. Its a natural reaction to cling to some "idealized notion of the past" as you say. Now that I have a son we have bought the new legos. Sure it is build by numbers the first time you put it together, but the fun is in taking it apart and putting all the parts from a different set into the same bucket. Now you can start creating all kinds of things. My son is only 3 and half years old and we already spend hours playing and creating things. He amazes me with the things he cobbles together. Today for him its all about garbage trucks and we build all kinds of whacky setups. Legos are still very creative, and in my opinion, much more fun since the old block sets. Just remember the real fun happens after you take them apart.
Still laughing...
I sound like them? You just answered the question. When you leave they are fucked. I have had to clean up too many homebrew implementations after the superstar went on to something better without leaving so much as a one pager of documentation. Yes most of them were brilliant implementations and became mission critical. Many of them were done with little or no budget, which makes it even more impressive. But your bosses should be fired for putting the company at risk and not having a proper change management and succession policy in place for their now "mission critical" apps. I don't blame you, your an IT guy who can easily move onto something else when the place implodes.
What kind of companies do you and your parent poster work at that your bosses do not even know what infrastructure they are running. I can only believe you work in small companies where you have inserted yourselves as indispensable network gods. Maybe I am wrong but the gist of your replies suggest it. I bet your solutions are kickass all the way, but what happens when you leave.
What kind of idiot parent would resort to using Eblaster to spy on their own kids. This software is creepy, period. Christ allmighty parents like this dad make me sick to my stomach.
You are not the average user driving sales. Joe Shmoe doesn't give a crap about that. Windows XP/Vista/7 still work fine for Joe.
This is so true. In fact you have just described your average newspaper site comments section. They are the worst for this. I consider myself at the centre of the political spectrum, right leaning fiscally and left leaning socially. It makes constructive political discourse, everywhere on the internet, pretty much impossible. Has anyone ever found a balanced political discussion forum?
You can browse .com from Canada but good luck getting things shipped.
Amazon.ca is even worse. Everything I have searched for is way more expensive on .ca, ridiculously so. Their .ca and .com sites may as well be two different companies all together. The only thing that is similar is the look and feel. Selection, price, shipping...you name it, it's a whole different experience.
So many responses about getting Bob to be part of the solution and "tip toe'ing" around his fragile ego. This response right here is the best one. Presumably you are involved with this non profit to make a difference in relation to the goals of the organization. Who wants to muck around with document tracking systems. As Osgeld says, "Tidy shit up!".
I am with you for most of this. I put stuff in the basement too. The wireless keyboard and mouse are a non starter for me. I have a 3 year old.
I'm not sensing anger. Confusion yes. Maybe he should have included a relevant emoticon instead of inadvertently pissing in your cereal.
I am definitely going to try Crossover tomorrow on my Linux Laptop. For the life of me I have not been able to connect my Slingbox to the Windows client under Wine. I have found some people who got it to work and have tried their instructions to no avail. Have also seen many people with the same issues as me that never did figure it out. If I can get it going with Crossover I will happily pay the $60.
Yup I have the crappy company issue Torch. Feel quite safe walking alone.
Server: Redhat, Centos
i don't know. sounds like a sausage party.
I can say the same about Skydrive. I have Office 2010 home edition for the Windows laptop and use skydrive as well. The in browser version of office doesn't give everything that the desktop client gives but is a pretty worthy option in a pinch. Is plenty for most users. Also comes with 25GB of space (although 7 GB or something now). Just personal preference for me as Google docs just feels klunky to me. Again personal preference only. I have Libre Office on my Linux laptop and it seems ok too.
No, those are in Alberta. I keed I keed. ;-)
lol, because I suck at coding. :-P
When I was kid we used to go to my uncle's "cabane a sucre" (translates as sugar shack) on the outskirts of Sherbrooke to make the stuff. You need 40 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of syrup. Reduce it slowly, the longer you reduce it the darker it gets. I prefer a medium to dark but most of the places sell light. Makes sense as it takes less time. Pouring hot maple syrup over cold snow and eating it right away after it solidifies is one of lifes good things. Also bringing it to a boil and stirring it constantly turns it to sugar. That makes my mouth water.
you forgot 30 goto 10