MS is very successful at its current market 'initiatives' (forgive me, I'm not a business major). In this I would account for its major divisions like OS, Software applications, Servers, Xbox, and Internet.
Suggestions even 5 years ago that Xbox would beat or rival Sony and Nintendo in the console market was unheard of, the point being, that Microsoft has a 'monopoly' on a large and diverse business and consumer userbase. Apple comes out with the iPod. There was already a 'healthy' competition with MP3 players but when MS saw the numbers the iPod was making Apple, I think it saw a great opportunity. Ditto, I think the iPhone, the Blackberry and other PDAs, etc.
If the government can somehow restrict it from going into new markets and letting some healthy competition grow, I don't see this as being a bad idea. The threat isn't MS entering other areas of business in itself. The problem is its huge cash reserves. The money and technology component, I see, remain exclusive to MS. IBM have a ton of cash too - but IBM has changed its core businesses instead of trying to gobble up small and major competitions in a wide array of industries. (yes, the irony IBM is making the chip for the XBox 360... its late and couldn't come up with a better example).
I agree, but I'd go further by proposing that an expenditure of fiber to the home could -save- money on infrastructure. Many people are opting not to commute to work and work from the home. The problem with working from home (I've not had the experience) is that many have to still commute to the office to attend meetings. Having a faster Internet connection throughout a given city would allow persons to stay at home and teleconference with video and voice in great quality.
Assuming that most businesses would agree to having its staff work from home and we can find was to ensure productivity remains high. We wouldn't need as much public transit or investment in roads. My city is a small-sized one and it spends over $500 million on road and public transit alone. I'm sure this figure would come darn close to wiring the whole city with fiber optic.
And if productivity remains high and time is saved commuting, we spend more time with our families rather than "wasting" 30-60 minutes commuting to work each day.
I still look at episode V as the best of the bunch. Its a gothic-type tale (I'm not great with movie genres). Its a dark story, with unforgiving environments and people, ugly truths revealed and lots of double crossing. When Episode III was made, I think it too was supposed to be a gothic but failed. The things in EP V which made it so good were all missing from III. Comparing the two movies reveals where the series went wrong: bad plot constuction and story telling, dark stories need to be, well, dark, and actors need to act. The earlier episodes also look much more futuristic (because of better special effects). I think the entire series should have maintained a consistent look and feel which it did not.
The acting alone in I, II, III leave so much to be desired that it ruined the entire movie. That and the special effects. Had it been an anime with good voice actors maybe I,II and III would have fared a lot better. Maybe.
If you find out the episode, please reply to this thread. I'd be interested in watching it (and its likely on Youtube which will make it easy to watch or my public library will have it).
At least one telemarketing operation is jacking up the volume of their calls to near deafing levels (granted I'm in my 20s...) despite the fact that the volume on the phone is at "1". I feel sorry for people who can't turn it down any lower on analog phones. This practice should be made illegal. Commercial and telemarketing operations should not be able to make changes to the default volume on the receiving line. For the next a***ole who tries this, they should sincerely hope I never meet them face to face with an air horn.
I'm not an IT worker, but I think the idea that because some people don't know what "xyz" is, ignores a basic pretense in this circumstance. I'm not going to pretend this example explains all or some of the 1/2 non-FW DB servers.
I've worked and volunteered for several non-profit, NGOs and small businesses. And worked in B2B sales selling computer equipment to them. Generally the IT staff is an outside consultant who does a few things (whatever they're able to afford). Setting up of complex computer equipment and software is often left to someone who's able to understand the instruction manual but no IT training (so it could be the receptionist, the director or somewhere in-between). Setting up a firewall is expensive and doesn't fit into many budgets of small organizations. Someone with no IT training may also think a DB server or networked printer needs no firewall.
Let me put it this way: as a non-IT worker, I haven't put 100% of my resources behind studying I.T. (software, hardware) etc. I've programmed computers and used computers since I was born. Despite being somewhat knowledgeable in TCP/IP and reading firewall and comp. security books (mostly for self-interest), I'm not confident I can even configure an adequate firewall for my home computer. Things like FreeBSD's IPFW are supposed to be "easy" to setup. Not my experience. Its sheer confusion. MS, Apple and some OSS firewalls are supposed to make it even easier. Block this port, block that port and that's it??? don't think so. I'm not even 50% confident this solution provides adequate protection esp for a NGO, non-profit, SMB or home computer. So how is someone not as well-read supposed to setup a firewall on a limited budget? But a pre-built hardware solution? Still that needs to be setup and configured too. And even then, you still have to be knowledgeable enough to *test* whatever solution you're using to actually make sure it works and keeps your system well protected.
Not a trivial or inexpensive task. But people with no training or knowledge are often asked to do this.
Thanks for that tidbit.:) I thought it was more like the passively cooled AMD or Via CPUs. I also haven't seen the passive heat-sink bundled with the Xeon Processors. I'll definitely get a fan cooled based model instead of throwing in case fans which probably won't get enough airflow over the heat-sink.
While I realize that GPUs may be doing more calculations that CPUs (I'm not a Programmer), the power consumption of many graphics cards/GPUs at idle is getting ridiculous (some are 100 to 200 watts), never mind what is needed during gaming. On the one hand, I would buy an on-board accelerator or a cheap PCI-x with the knowledge it won't need additional power to the board, but for the odd games that I play, I need more GPU power. Game consoles' -as a whole like the X360- consumes about 200 Watts @ max draw. This is for the whole system - may PC video cards draw this for the video card alone!
On the subject of these new chips, I'm quite interested in building a new desktop with a Penryn - been a long time since I upgraded. I'm particularly interested in the Xeon chips because previous designs from Intel included fanless/passive coolers. If this continues on the Penryn, I'll definitely buy one. I'm all for a quieter desktop.
I think the best idea is for companies to find ways to 1) hire people least likely to take company information; 2) make leaving the job a less stressful thing. Something as simple as providing a couple of day's pay, a letter of reference and an exit interview would help. I think any company that would do this would find itself highly recommended and would be less likely to be a victim of information theft.
If the way a company lets go of its employees after giving a resignation leaves a bad impression on the employee it creates a problem for the company's image. Friends often recommend others to work for current or past employers. This might reduce the potential number of recruits within the local community meaning they may eventually need to recruit out of the city or open satellite offices. Second, many people are now susceptible to changing jobs/employers every few years. Some companies could benefit from re-hiring an ex-employee 5 or 10 years after working for other competitors - unless they don't feel positively about the employers. This doesn't mean the benefit of hiring the person is to gain from their knowledge of the competitor. But the talent pool is often limited and cost of hiring and recruiting would be reduced.
I believe this is an improvement of the original fake with a better set and special effects. I can't get over how well this was filmed.
I'm a Hollywood producer*, and I know where the original film was shot. But between myself and other Oscar nominated directors, we have no idea which Hollywood studio shot this film. If it was under tight security, we would know. Further, we're not familiar with any landscape that could be used to film a similar surface. The only location I'm familiar with would be the Epcot center, but there are too many "stars" in the background and its expensive to take them out of the footage.
I will seriously consider switching. I'm moving soon and also use a Blackberry as my cell. I'd rather have *one* phone line. It unfortunate AFAIK that I can't use a Blackberry with a VoIP provider. That would be killer value.
I'd like to consider my options though. Any useful resources with less marketing speak that I can read through?
Bad enough an entire blog is dedicated to listing voicemail messages and there's a ton of them in there. The second one down is the exact same message I'm getting annoyed with. "See Mar 15: Recording of travel fraud in this link": http://phonespam.blogspot.com/search?q=florida
I can't find it now, but there's more than a few google postings about this company. I had the number in my call display and it identified at least 2 companies that were responsible, then again with the call display records being randomized, I don't really know its them. Some help the government is in all this.
Of other postings I've found, people also tried to talk the telemarketers invovled in these scams. Unless you provide them with CCd details, they will immediately hang up on you.
Personally, I don't think the do-not-call registries or fines go far enough. If people from Enron go to jail for fraud, they should impose prison sentences on people committing telemarketing fraud. If you're talking to someone and scamming them, you should go to jail.
I've been getting the really annoying phone call for last 2 months or more now on a weekly basis. The gist is, you pick up and an automated recording lasting more than 2 minutes begins to play. The call display sometimes shows a phone number but most often does not. It then asks to press 1 to speak to someone or "2" to be placed on do-not call list. I hang up incase its a scam for long-distance calls.
The volume on these calls alone is deafening. The phone volume alone makes me feel like I'd really like to give someone there a piece of my mind should I ever encouter them.
In any case, I've reason to believe the calls are coming from the US. The company never identifies itself. But I've google searched the call and its been narrowed down to one three companies.
I live in Canada. The police, our "do-not-call" registry, the government, etc can't do anything unless I am the victim of a crime. I can't even report it. The telco I'm with wants money to block these calls. They won't tell me the actual phone number of the caller and would only release to police under court order. I've looked on-line to report in the US. I'd report to the BBB of the state where caller is located but I don't know the call display to be accurate.
Any suggestions would be welcome. I'd really like to take down as many as these clowns from calling people as possible. We all benefit!
Denying support to the OLPC is silly. People in developing countries need modern-technologies and education if they are survive, become productive members of their own societies. If you want to be more crude, if they don't become educated and realize that 1 billion people in a food and water-poor country is a bad thing and not sustainable, we're all in for a world of hurt. And religious-rights groups sure as heck aren't helping by denying condoms and safe-sex education. But onwards with the 'tech' discussion.
The OLPC is also a great idea because it promotes lower energy use in computing. I'm all for Quad-core pentiums and such, but my system is generally off and I use my laptop so as not to use too much power for web-browsing and such. I also turn on as many power-saving features as I can at work. I don't know that the OLPC will take-off in corporate America, but, something like the Asus EEE PC, has a good chance.
Besides, trying to deny persons in developing countries the ability to use the OLPC for fear of "losing your job" is ludicrous. While there is a possibility, these countries will eventually I would hope, create their own I.T. support infrastructures requiring people trained in their fields. And I would hope, some software developers may come about and sell domestically or abroad. The only 'problem' I would see with this is the idea that security auditing in software, protection from financial scams during purchase and good UI design will be issues. I'd say, that as the markets mature, and laws are introduced or respected that this will self-regulate.
If you're talking about putting SD card readers (or similar) on the motherboard and have the ability for users to replace the cards as they wear out or need increased capacity, I think its an awesome idea.
I'd love to get a small form factor system. Using SD memory in place of hard drives is a great solution to reducing the space, noise and heat issues. Obviously, I'd like to see speed and size increases and cost decreases. But this is a natural move for the market which will happen over time anyways.
I was in an EB a few months ago. Lady walks into the store and she pulled out a sheet of paper and read what was written on it. She was looking for a "Sega Nintendo Sony Sonic Worms Metal Gear 15 video game". Something like that. Anyways, she had all the right brand names but the product clearly doesn't exist. Poor clerk stuck with her say, "Sorry this doesn't exist". Exchange goes on for a few minutes.... gift for her son, he was quite specific. Escalates to her shouting and she leaves 5 minutes later, no apologies.
So, will parents get duped into buying this thing. Probably. But the smarter consumer might think would Nintendo sell something like this or would it be a $200-ish gaming system?
More like with Digital cable service, Pay-Per-View movies etc. are to blame. Many companies modernized their infrastructure and have a boat load of movies available for the same price as the Blockbuster rental. There are a lot more people watching via PPV then there are illegal downloads. In any case, I'd like to see a reduction in cost for PPV rentals before I'd start using it. $5.00 (in my area) a pop for a movie is too much.
I agree. Terminal.app, Preview, Spotlight and Memory usage are much improved. On my iMac G5 w/ 1 GB RAM memory usage is considerably down and I can run more apps at the same time. It makes using Adobe CS2 much more enjoyable. YMMV. Automator, which wasn't mentionned, is really a point and click operation and much simplified. I didn't use it in Tiger but am enjoying using it now with Leopard (not for everything) but the GUI is cleaner anyways.
Coverflow rocks. It quite fast on my system - much more so than iTunes albums ever were. I have a lot of PDFs, and using Coverflow which shows an image of the first page helps me identify the file right away. Handy if you use academic articles, forget to rename it and try to remember what 012434fddf.pdf has as contents.
My only grudge at this point is the Icon Previews. There doesn't seem to be a way to disable it either on the desktop or in Finder in icon view mode. Leopard is displaying the picture of the contents of the file (which is either rendered in QuickTime or Corewhatever). Either case my system with its limited CPU and RAM, slows to a crawl with this feature. I'd appreciate it if there was a way to disable this.
This question is *not* helpful. Not only does it not help answer the riddle: "Which came first the chicken or the egg?", but now if one chooses 'egg' you have to now answer "Which came first the egg or the sand?".
Thanks a bunch pal! I'll remember you next time I try to print an egg.;)
I don't understand the rationale behind this. If these boats are going to patrol the waters for enemy boats, terrorists, or protect troops and the other side hasn't thought of, designed or implemented this idea, why let it out? Don't let the information get out and keep it secret. I understand there could be ulterior motives here, or a company hungry for a large contract. But military spending budgets have lots of room for secret spending.
I recall before a lot of companies had terms of network use, a few employees where I worked had been downloading games from warez servers because the company network was significantly faster than anything available at the time. I knew even the network admin was violating this. I very much felt like reporting it, but as an entry-level employee on their first job, 1) I would feel guilty with getting someone fired; 2) I didn't feel like testing management by reporting this and see myself get fired; 3) I didn't really understand the policy and didn't know what to do.
I'll make clear that I wouldn't let this go today.
My point in all this is, some people starting at the company may be aware of activities the admins themselves or other staff are performing which management may not be. My first job was relatively simple and well paid, I have had no beefs with the company. But our Acceptable-use policy book was some 20-30 pages long. This was about 10 years ago. I would rather have had a 1 page document, sign at bottom: I will not download virsues or warez, share company information or NDAs to outsiders, etc on company time. If I know another employee is doing so, please report anonymously to. Violators will be disciplined or fired.
Really, does it really need to be any longer than this or more complicated? It simplifies reporting and makes the issue and repercussions clear. Get the 20 page document too if you must. But the one-pager should be clear to *all* employees regardless of law degree. But help make it clear too, that if you mistype a domain and get a porn site, you shouldn't have to hide it and feel like someone is about to can you (e.g. whitehouse.com vs whitehouse.gov).
With all the 'dick' analogies, you forgot to mention that Bush actually hired a "Dick". And in the strategy sense of it all, who better to get along than a Bush and a Dick?
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MS is very successful at its current market 'initiatives' (forgive me, I'm not a business major). In this I would account for its major divisions like OS, Software applications, Servers, Xbox, and Internet.
... its late and couldn't come up with a better example).
Suggestions even 5 years ago that Xbox would beat or rival Sony and Nintendo in the console market was unheard of, the point being, that Microsoft has a 'monopoly' on a large and diverse business and consumer userbase. Apple comes out with the iPod. There was already a 'healthy' competition with MP3 players but when MS saw the numbers the iPod was making Apple, I think it saw a great opportunity. Ditto, I think the iPhone, the Blackberry and other PDAs, etc.
If the government can somehow restrict it from going into new markets and letting some healthy competition grow, I don't see this as being a bad idea. The threat isn't MS entering other areas of business in itself. The problem is its huge cash reserves. The money and technology component, I see, remain exclusive to MS. IBM have a ton of cash too - but IBM has changed its core businesses instead of trying to gobble up small and major competitions in a wide array of industries. (yes, the irony IBM is making the chip for the XBox 360
I agree, but I'd go further by proposing that an expenditure of fiber to the home could -save- money on infrastructure. Many people are opting not to commute to work and work from the home. The problem with working from home (I've not had the experience) is that many have to still commute to the office to attend meetings. Having a faster Internet connection throughout a given city would allow persons to stay at home and teleconference with video and voice in great quality.
Assuming that most businesses would agree to having its staff work from home and we can find was to ensure productivity remains high. We wouldn't need as much public transit or investment in roads. My city is a small-sized one and it spends over $500 million on road and public transit alone. I'm sure this figure would come darn close to wiring the whole city with fiber optic.
And if productivity remains high and time is saved commuting, we spend more time with our families rather than "wasting" 30-60 minutes commuting to work each day.
I still look at episode V as the best of the bunch. Its a gothic-type tale (I'm not great with movie genres). Its a dark story, with unforgiving environments and people, ugly truths revealed and lots of double crossing. When Episode III was made, I think it too was supposed to be a gothic but failed. The things in EP V which made it so good were all missing from III. Comparing the two movies reveals where the series went wrong: bad plot constuction and story telling, dark stories need to be, well, dark, and actors need to act. The earlier episodes also look much more futuristic (because of better special effects). I think the entire series should have maintained a consistent look and feel which it did not.
The acting alone in I, II, III leave so much to be desired that it ruined the entire movie. That and the special effects. Had it been an anime with good voice actors maybe I,II and III would have fared a lot better. Maybe.
Your second and third sentences read more like PR statements.
If you find out the episode, please reply to this thread. I'd be interested in watching it (and its likely on Youtube which will make it easy to watch or my public library will have it).
At least one telemarketing operation is jacking up the volume of their calls to near deafing levels (granted I'm in my 20s...) despite the fact that the volume on the phone is at "1". I feel sorry for people who can't turn it down any lower on analog phones. This practice should be made illegal. Commercial and telemarketing operations should not be able to make changes to the default volume on the receiving line. For the next a***ole who tries this, they should sincerely hope I never meet them face to face with an air horn.
I'm not an IT worker, but I think the idea that because some people don't know what "xyz" is, ignores a basic pretense in this circumstance. I'm not going to pretend this example explains all or some of the 1/2 non-FW DB servers.
I've worked and volunteered for several non-profit, NGOs and small businesses. And worked in B2B sales selling computer equipment to them. Generally the IT staff is an outside consultant who does a few things (whatever they're able to afford). Setting up of complex computer equipment and software is often left to someone who's able to understand the instruction manual but no IT training (so it could be the receptionist, the director or somewhere in-between). Setting up a firewall is expensive and doesn't fit into many budgets of small organizations. Someone with no IT training may also think a DB server or networked printer needs no firewall.
Let me put it this way: as a non-IT worker, I haven't put 100% of my resources behind studying I.T. (software, hardware) etc. I've programmed computers and used computers since I was born. Despite being somewhat knowledgeable in TCP/IP and reading firewall and comp. security books (mostly for self-interest), I'm not confident I can even configure an adequate firewall for my home computer. Things like FreeBSD's IPFW are supposed to be "easy" to setup. Not my experience. Its sheer confusion. MS, Apple and some OSS firewalls are supposed to make it even easier. Block this port, block that port and that's it??? don't think so. I'm not even 50% confident this solution provides adequate protection esp for a NGO, non-profit, SMB or home computer. So how is someone not as well-read supposed to setup a firewall on a limited budget? But a pre-built hardware solution? Still that needs to be setup and configured too. And even then, you still have to be knowledgeable enough to *test* whatever solution you're using to actually make sure it works and keeps your system well protected.
Not a trivial or inexpensive task. But people with no training or knowledge are often asked to do this.
Thanks for that tidbit. :) I thought it was more like the passively cooled AMD or Via CPUs. I also haven't seen the passive heat-sink bundled with the Xeon Processors. I'll definitely get a fan cooled based model instead of throwing in case fans which probably won't get enough airflow over the heat-sink.
While I realize that GPUs may be doing more calculations that CPUs (I'm not a Programmer), the power consumption of many graphics cards/GPUs at idle is getting ridiculous (some are 100 to 200 watts), never mind what is needed during gaming. On the one hand, I would buy an on-board accelerator or a cheap PCI-x with the knowledge it won't need additional power to the board, but for the odd games that I play, I need more GPU power. Game consoles' -as a whole like the X360- consumes about 200 Watts @ max draw. This is for the whole system - may PC video cards draw this for the video card alone!
On the subject of these new chips, I'm quite interested in building a new desktop with a Penryn - been a long time since I upgraded. I'm particularly interested in the Xeon chips because previous designs from Intel included fanless/passive coolers. If this continues on the Penryn, I'll definitely buy one. I'm all for a quieter desktop.
I think the best idea is for companies to find ways to 1) hire people least likely to take company information; 2) make leaving the job a less stressful thing. Something as simple as providing a couple of day's pay, a letter of reference and an exit interview would help. I think any company that would do this would find itself highly recommended and would be less likely to be a victim of information theft.
If the way a company lets go of its employees after giving a resignation leaves a bad impression on the employee it creates a problem for the company's image. Friends often recommend others to work for current or past employers. This might reduce the potential number of recruits within the local community meaning they may eventually need to recruit out of the city or open satellite offices. Second, many people are now susceptible to changing jobs/employers every few years. Some companies could benefit from re-hiring an ex-employee 5 or 10 years after working for other competitors - unless they don't feel positively about the employers. This doesn't mean the benefit of hiring the person is to gain from their knowledge of the competitor. But the talent pool is often limited and cost of hiring and recruiting would be reduced.
I believe this is an improvement of the original fake with a better set and special effects. I can't get over how well this was filmed.
I'm a Hollywood producer*, and I know where the original film was shot. But between myself and other Oscar nominated directors, we have no idea which Hollywood studio shot this film. If it was under tight security, we would know. Further, we're not familiar with any landscape that could be used to film a similar surface. The only location I'm familiar with would be the Epcot center, but there are too many "stars" in the background and its expensive to take them out of the footage.
*for the purposes of this post
I will seriously consider switching. I'm moving soon and also use a Blackberry as my cell. I'd rather have *one* phone line. It unfortunate AFAIK that I can't use a Blackberry with a VoIP provider. That would be killer value.
I'd like to consider my options though. Any useful resources with less marketing speak that I can read through?
Bad enough an entire blog is dedicated to listing voicemail messages and there's a ton of them in there. The second one down is the exact same message I'm getting annoyed with. "See Mar 15: Recording of travel fraud in this link": http://phonespam.blogspot.com/search?q=florida
I can't find it now, but there's more than a few google postings about this company. I had the number in my call display and it identified at least 2 companies that were responsible, then again with the call display records being randomized, I don't really know its them. Some help the government is in all this.
Of other postings I've found, people also tried to talk the telemarketers invovled in these scams. Unless you provide them with CCd details, they will immediately hang up on you.
Personally, I don't think the do-not-call registries or fines go far enough. If people from Enron go to jail for fraud, they should impose prison sentences on people committing telemarketing fraud. If you're talking to someone and scamming them, you should go to jail.
I've been getting the really annoying phone call for last 2 months or more now on a weekly basis. The gist is, you pick up and an automated recording lasting more than 2 minutes begins to play. The call display sometimes shows a phone number but most often does not. It then asks to press 1 to speak to someone or "2" to be placed on do-not call list. I hang up incase its a scam for long-distance calls.
The volume on these calls alone is deafening. The phone volume alone makes me feel like I'd really like to give someone there a piece of my mind should I ever encouter them.
In any case, I've reason to believe the calls are coming from the US. The company never identifies itself. But I've google searched the call and its been narrowed down to one three companies.
I live in Canada. The police, our "do-not-call" registry, the government, etc can't do anything unless I am the victim of a crime. I can't even report it. The telco I'm with wants money to block these calls. They won't tell me the actual phone number of the caller and would only release to police under court order. I've looked on-line to report in the US. I'd report to the BBB of the state where caller is located but I don't know the call display to be accurate.
Any suggestions would be welcome. I'd really like to take down as many as these clowns from calling people as possible. We all benefit!
Denying support to the OLPC is silly. People in developing countries need modern-technologies and education if they are survive, become productive members of their own societies. If you want to be more crude, if they don't become educated and realize that 1 billion people in a food and water-poor country is a bad thing and not sustainable, we're all in for a world of hurt. And religious-rights groups sure as heck aren't helping by denying condoms and safe-sex education. But onwards with the 'tech' discussion.
The OLPC is also a great idea because it promotes lower energy use in computing. I'm all for Quad-core pentiums and such, but my system is generally off and I use my laptop so as not to use too much power for web-browsing and such. I also turn on as many power-saving features as I can at work. I don't know that the OLPC will take-off in corporate America, but, something like the Asus EEE PC, has a good chance.
Besides, trying to deny persons in developing countries the ability to use the OLPC for fear of "losing your job" is ludicrous. While there is a possibility, these countries will eventually I would hope, create their own I.T. support infrastructures requiring people trained in their fields. And I would hope, some software developers may come about and sell domestically or abroad. The only 'problem' I would see with this is the idea that security auditing in software, protection from financial scams during purchase and good UI design will be issues. I'd say, that as the markets mature, and laws are introduced or respected that this will self-regulate.
If you're talking about putting SD card readers (or similar) on the motherboard and have the ability for users to replace the cards as they wear out or need increased capacity, I think its an awesome idea.
I'd love to get a small form factor system. Using SD memory in place of hard drives is a great solution to reducing the space, noise and heat issues. Obviously, I'd like to see speed and size increases and cost decreases. But this is a natural move for the market which will happen over time anyways.
Let's remove the dupe tag. Replace it with Short-Term Memory.
Guess that makes my nickname ban-proof. Or am I failing in logical reason?
I was in an EB a few months ago. Lady walks into the store and she pulled out a sheet of paper and read what was written on it. She was looking for a "Sega Nintendo Sony Sonic Worms Metal Gear 15 video game". Something like that. Anyways, she had all the right brand names but the product clearly doesn't exist. Poor clerk stuck with her say, "Sorry this doesn't exist". Exchange goes on for a few minutes .... gift for her son, he was quite specific. Escalates to her shouting and she leaves 5 minutes later, no apologies.
So, will parents get duped into buying this thing. Probably. But the smarter consumer might think would Nintendo sell something like this or would it be a $200-ish gaming system?
More like with Digital cable service, Pay-Per-View movies etc. are to blame. Many companies modernized their infrastructure and have a boat load of movies available for the same price as the Blockbuster rental. There are a lot more people watching via PPV then there are illegal downloads. In any case, I'd like to see a reduction in cost for PPV rentals before I'd start using it. $5.00 (in my area) a pop for a movie is too much.
I agree. Terminal.app, Preview, Spotlight and Memory usage are much improved. On my iMac G5 w/ 1 GB RAM memory usage is considerably down and I can run more apps at the same time. It makes using Adobe CS2 much more enjoyable. YMMV. Automator, which wasn't mentionned, is really a point and click operation and much simplified. I didn't use it in Tiger but am enjoying using it now with Leopard (not for everything) but the GUI is cleaner anyways.
Coverflow rocks. It quite fast on my system - much more so than iTunes albums ever were. I have a lot of PDFs, and using Coverflow which shows an image of the first page helps me identify the file right away. Handy if you use academic articles, forget to rename it and try to remember what 012434fddf.pdf has as contents.
My only grudge at this point is the Icon Previews. There doesn't seem to be a way to disable it either on the desktop or in Finder in icon view mode. Leopard is displaying the picture of the contents of the file (which is either rendered in QuickTime or Corewhatever). Either case my system with its limited CPU and RAM, slows to a crawl with this feature. I'd appreciate it if there was a way to disable this.
This question is *not* helpful. Not only does it not help answer the riddle: "Which came first the chicken or the egg?", but now if one chooses 'egg' you have to now answer "Which came first the egg or the sand?".
;)
Thanks a bunch pal! I'll remember you next time I try to print an egg.
I don't understand the rationale behind this. If these boats are going to patrol the waters for enemy boats, terrorists, or protect troops and the other side hasn't thought of, designed or implemented this idea, why let it out? Don't let the information get out and keep it secret. I understand there could be ulterior motives here, or a company hungry for a large contract. But military spending budgets have lots of room for secret spending.
I recall before a lot of companies had terms of network use, a few employees where I worked had been downloading games from warez servers because the company network was significantly faster than anything available at the time. I knew even the network admin was violating this. I very much felt like reporting it, but as an entry-level employee on their first job, 1) I would feel guilty with getting someone fired; 2) I didn't feel like testing management by reporting this and see myself get fired; 3) I didn't really understand the policy and didn't know what to do.
I'll make clear that I wouldn't let this go today.
My point in all this is, some people starting at the company may be aware of activities the admins themselves or other staff are performing which management may not be. My first job was relatively simple and well paid, I have had no beefs with the company. But our Acceptable-use policy book was some 20-30 pages long. This was about 10 years ago. I would rather have had a 1 page document, sign at bottom: I will not download virsues or warez, share company information or NDAs to outsiders, etc on company time. If I know another employee is doing so, please report anonymously to. Violators will be disciplined or fired.
Really, does it really need to be any longer than this or more complicated? It simplifies reporting and makes the issue and repercussions clear. Get the 20 page document too if you must. But the one-pager should be clear to *all* employees regardless of law degree. But help make it clear too, that if you mistype a domain and get a porn site, you shouldn't have to hide it and feel like someone is about to can you (e.g. whitehouse.com vs whitehouse.gov).
With all the 'dick' analogies, you forgot to mention that Bush actually hired a "Dick". And in the strategy sense of it all, who better to get along than a Bush and a Dick?