Yes, HEADING towards obsolescence. They are not there yet, is my point.
Sometimes you don't need the 650 megs. Plenty of times I just needed a word document or a powerpoint file flipped over to another machine. Rather than setup shares on a somewhat hostile network, it's easier to just drag it to the floppy. Even email takes longer (usually it was a machine in the next room)
Sometimes you need to boot off said floppy. This isn't so useful for joe average user, but when you are trying to troubleshoot a machine, there is nothing like a boot floppy with either linux or dos on it.
It is difficult to make a boot CD that can create other boot CDs. I still don't have one. (not that I've looked lately, but I did a few months ago) Yeah, every machine pretty much now comes standard with a CDR, but in the university and k-12 setting you see a lot of older hardware. Besides, giving students access to a public machine on a univeristy backbone with a CD recorder is asking for trouble:)
2010? You mean 7 YEARS from now? You give them too much credit.
First of all, you can't get wireless everywhere, or wired. Hotels? Motels? Cellular? Other countires? Where are you going internationally that you can get this "everywhere you go".
Of course you think everyone is headed towards 19-20" LCD's, you are dealing with PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BUY THEM! So yeah, it may look that way to you, but on my end I see a lot of people trying to save money, and spending 2x for an LCD isn't in the budget. What do those graphic designers say when they actually compare contrast quality?
As far as the USB keychain goes, sometime people still use legacy equipment. You should see the stuff the Navy still uses for some research stuff. (I worked at a University where they had some joint things going on) Some stuff doesn't even have USB, and some of the ones that do, don't support booting off it. School notoriously hold onto old equipment. We had everything from 486's up to the newest P4's IN USE, and even older stuff in the warehouse.
How many machines do you see out there with Compact Flash? What are you smoking? CF isn't NEARLY dispersed enough for any serious IT staff to use it for maintenance purposes.
Yeah, you can use CDR's, but I go back to my original point: I don't see any good ways to use a boot CDR to make another boot CDR.
As far as the 100meg/300 gig thing goes, wow, where did you get a 300 gig CDROM? You misunderstand. Re-read what I said, I was talking about the Yamaha CD-Writer that could burn pictures on the unused space. I meant that on a typical CD, I only had MAYBE 100 megs free. Yeah, your dick is bigger than mine, I only have 250 gigs. Troll.
Besides, DVD burners aren't that popular yet. They are getting there. I give it another year or two. Most games still come on CDR. Most audio devices can't play DVD's yet.
They can bitch at me for using multiple machines when they start paying my power bill and remove the upstream and downstream caps on my service!
My current provider, Adelphia, seems to think 15KB/s is reasonable. My previous ISP, Roadrunner, was at 60KB/s. I won't depress you or myself with my previous previous ISP's stats, but here's a hint: university.
What is the nature of your audience? Are they going to grab one file at a time, or pick a bunch of files? HTTP is better for quick grabbing one thing. FTP is nice if you want to see a list of things and queue them up. Yeah, you CAN queue stuff with those crappy HTTP managers, but I haven't come across one I like yet.
What is your primary audiences connection? FTP is easier to resume from. HTTP requires more shitty download spamming managers. (or wget, but lets be realistic here) If most of the users might be on broadband, then who cares if the HTTP connection drops and they have to reget the file? But if they are dialup, then having to redownload sucks.
For relatively small files, when authentication isn't an issue, go with HTTP.
I personally would do both, just because FTP gives you so much more control.
Floppies are commodity items. Yeah, you can buy them for free (AR). Monitors are cheaper than LCD.
If you do any system administration at all, then you are still using floppies. With a proper boot floppy, you can make OTHER boot floppies. I still don't see and CD boot disks in circulation that can do this quickly and easily.
CRTs, dead? Whatever. I don't see everyone throwing them out in a rush for LCDs. A few businesses are buying them for cramped quarters (such as front desks), but other than that I don't see them anywhere. None of my gamer friends use them, they don't look as good. Schools can't afford to just drop their investment in CRTs to replace them with the newest thing. Ask any graphic designer with a monitor 21"+ if they want to trade one in for a more expensive, smaller, lower quality LCD.
Methinks you are a tool of the bleeding edge. Just because new tech comes out, doesn't make the old stuff irrelevant or any less usefull.
And someone else already covered this, but modems are not going anywhere. Ask anyone with a laptop if they use that modem. Not everyone has access to a network port wherever they go. Wireless may become the standard, but as it's popularity grows, it's available bandwidth per person will shrink.
I think this is Yamaha's reaction to a commodity market. I have always seen Yamaha's products as overpriced and not necessarily better. Good riddance. Yeah, the image writing drive looked cool, but I try to fill my discs to capacity as a rule. I usually get to within 100 megs of capacity, which doesn't leave much room for images.
And what makes you so insightful? Of course they need to check you out, but something like a credit history has NO comparisson to something like a criminal background check.
First of all, this isn't necessarily for people "high on the food chain". Sometimes it is for people at the bottom, but may be in contact with money or other desireables. I will agree that the CFO or someone at the tippy-top should be investigated THOROUGHLY, but how probable is it that the poster is in line fore a CEO/CFO position? "I'm gonna run a company, better go ask slashdot!" whatever.
Secondly, they have already invested time and energy into hiring the poster, and it would be a pain in the ass for them to start over.
I personally believe that said poster needs to stand up to this and not let them pressure him/her about it. A simple "No thanks, I don't believe it's justified. I'd be happy to discuss any concerns you have, without my personal credit history involved."
That is what they are CLAIMING they really want. Insight to the person. Isn't that was interviews and background checks into employment history accomplish?
I'm horribly unemployed at the moment. I have rising debt, and not too many prospects for the immediate future. I don't need another reason for some idiot HR person to judge me unfairly.
I had a roommate once that told the guy on the phone he was a little busy at the moment because he was masturbating. I've told people I was blind before so they wouldn't try to sell me some visual-oriented device.
"Sorry, I'm getting a blowjob right now, and my girlfriend is getting a little mad that I'm not paying attention to her. "
"Lossless means no loss of information, not no loss of bytes, and if you uncompress a flac file you get exactly the same wave file you compressed. Same as with a zip file.No loss of information, but a loss of bytes. I can say 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2 Or I could say 20*2, or just 40. It's the same information, diffrent amount of characters(bytes)."
Actually what you represented isn't lossless. Yes, the sums are the same, but the string of 2's is lost in the 40 representation. 20*2 is valid tho, as long as you have some way of knowing that it spans to a summation of 2's. Otherwise it could just be 20+20.
"My son is currently in fourth, going to fifth grade next year. (School change.. lower to middle) and he has "learned" that he doesnt really need to take in his homework, complete his assignments on time, etc, simply because the way this lower school runs, it is next to impossibe to fail."
School didn't run that way for me, but I still managed to squeak by while not doing the homework. You better do your job as a parent and try ot help him curb this. I was like this in middle and high school, and it carried on into college. I managed to get my degree, but it took me a little longer than it should have, and I spent a bunch of money retaking some classes that I shouldn't have had to retake. Sometimes I just didn't feel like doing it, sometimes I didn't have time, and sometimes I would just say to myself "It's too late, just retake it next semester".
Maybe this is a little premature for your child, but depression can also cause this.
Oh, and don't assume your kid is going to coast through. The article is NOT accurate for the majority of schools.
This whole "the batteries wouldn't last long enough if the HD could store more" doesn't fly. ACCE$$ORIE$. They want you to buy as much crap as possible, so they therefore want you to buy batteries. Back in the day we had a VHS camcorder (one of those big honkers) and we kept 3 batteries around for it. What if you are taping and you need more time? Swap the tape and battery when needed, and keep going. It's that simple. If you had more HD space in this and the battery went dead, you could just throw another battery on it. No biggie.
My guess is that they don't want to compete too much with their old inventory. Kind of like the recent "HP: we're-not-going-to-benchmark-the-alpha-if-it's-fas ter-than-the-Itanium's-we're-selling" deal. I didn't read the article, but it seems reasonable. They have other camcorders that have about this time limit to them and they don't want to be stuck with them. If they release a 20 hour model, who is going to buy the other 2 million 1.5 hour models sitting in the warehouse?
Corporations are in competition, but sometimes I think they don't want to set the bar too high, else they will have problems reaching it on the next new product run. I think these corps don't want to do the best thing they can, they just want to do better than the other guy.
Notice how you said you are still a sophomore. At my school, they weed people out with difficult classes. Usually right around sophmore/junior year. I had to take several classes more than once (even 3 times) before I got it right. I saw many people switch majors or give up college entirely, and I was close myself (but I did graduate last May).
Maybe you haven't tried yet, but hiring doesn't take place in a vaccuum. There is an interview process. Blatantly incompetent people don't get very far, and if your interviewers can't tell the difference, you need better HR people.
I don't feel the need to pay some govt organization for the right to call myself qualified if I am already qualified. This is just as bad as the "Microsoft Tax" of getting an MCSE or something similar. If someone makes mistakes on the job, then they answer for it like usual. Certification doesn't change that, and accidents will happen anyway.
With the way the computer industry operates, this will just become yet ANOTHER tax. You will have to pay every so often for a piece of paper that says you are good-to-go. You are being taxed to work in this industry. Don't fall for it. It's hard enough to have to keep up with new technology, do you want to have to pay even more than you already do to keep up?
Besides, I'm unemployed and broke. I can't afford it right now:)
My g/f bought a Miyazaki/Ghibli box set for about $100. Region 1 with Japanese language and english or chinese(!?) subtitles.
Contents:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (my personal fav)
Princess Mononoke
Porco Rosso
My Neighbor Totoro
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Grave of the Fireflies
Kiki's Delivery Service
On your Mark
Ocean Waves
Only Yesterday
Pom Poko
6 DVD set titled "Archives of Studio Ghibli" with an outline of the totoro on a grey box. Released by Anime Cartoon Intl.
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Yes, HEADING towards obsolescence. They are not there yet, is my point.
:)
Sometimes you don't need the 650 megs. Plenty of times I just needed a word document or a powerpoint file flipped over to another machine. Rather than setup shares on a somewhat hostile network, it's easier to just drag it to the floppy. Even email takes longer (usually it was a machine in the next room)
Sometimes you need to boot off said floppy. This isn't so useful for joe average user, but when you are trying to troubleshoot a machine, there is nothing like a boot floppy with either linux or dos on it.
It is difficult to make a boot CD that can create other boot CDs. I still don't have one. (not that I've looked lately, but I did a few months ago) Yeah, every machine pretty much now comes standard with a CDR, but in the university and k-12 setting you see a lot of older hardware. Besides, giving students access to a public machine on a univeristy backbone with a CD recorder is asking for trouble
2010? You mean 7 YEARS from now? You give them too much credit.
Incorrect.
First of all, you can't get wireless everywhere, or wired. Hotels? Motels? Cellular? Other countires? Where are you going internationally that you can get this "everywhere you go".
Of course you think everyone is headed towards 19-20" LCD's, you are dealing with PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BUY THEM! So yeah, it may look that way to you, but on my end I see a lot of people trying to save money, and spending 2x for an LCD isn't in the budget. What do those graphic designers say when they actually compare contrast quality?
As far as the USB keychain goes, sometime people still use legacy equipment. You should see the stuff the Navy still uses for some research stuff. (I worked at a University where they had some joint things going on) Some stuff doesn't even have USB, and some of the ones that do, don't support booting off it. School notoriously hold onto old equipment. We had everything from 486's up to the newest P4's IN USE, and even older stuff in the warehouse.
How many machines do you see out there with Compact Flash? What are you smoking? CF isn't NEARLY dispersed enough for any serious IT staff to use it for maintenance purposes.
Yeah, you can use CDR's, but I go back to my original point: I don't see any good ways to use a boot CDR to make another boot CDR.
As far as the 100meg/300 gig thing goes, wow, where did you get a 300 gig CDROM? You misunderstand. Re-read what I said, I was talking about the Yamaha CD-Writer that could burn pictures on the unused space. I meant that on a typical CD, I only had MAYBE 100 megs free. Yeah, your dick is bigger than mine, I only have 250 gigs. Troll.
Besides, DVD burners aren't that popular yet. They are getting there. I give it another year or two. Most games still come on CDR. Most audio devices can't play DVD's yet.
They can bitch at me for using multiple machines when they start paying my power bill and remove the upstream and downstream caps on my service!
My current provider, Adelphia, seems to think 15KB/s is reasonable. My previous ISP, Roadrunner, was at 60KB/s. I won't depress you or myself with my previous previous ISP's stats, but here's a hint: university.
What is the nature of your audience? Are they going to grab one file at a time, or pick a bunch of files? HTTP is better for quick grabbing one thing. FTP is nice if you want to see a list of things and queue them up. Yeah, you CAN queue stuff with those crappy HTTP managers, but I haven't come across one I like yet.
What is your primary audiences connection? FTP is easier to resume from. HTTP requires more shitty download spamming managers. (or wget, but lets be realistic here) If most of the users might be on broadband, then who cares if the HTTP connection drops and they have to reget the file? But if they are dialup, then having to redownload sucks.
For relatively small files, when authentication isn't an issue, go with HTTP.
I personally would do both, just because FTP gives you so much more control.
Floppies are commodity items. Yeah, you can buy them for free (AR). Monitors are cheaper than LCD.
If you do any system administration at all, then you are still using floppies. With a proper boot floppy, you can make OTHER boot floppies. I still don't see and CD boot disks in circulation that can do this quickly and easily.
CRTs, dead? Whatever. I don't see everyone throwing them out in a rush for LCDs. A few businesses are buying them for cramped quarters (such as front desks), but other than that I don't see them anywhere. None of my gamer friends use them, they don't look as good. Schools can't afford to just drop their investment in CRTs to replace them with the newest thing. Ask any graphic designer with a monitor 21"+ if they want to trade one in for a more expensive, smaller, lower quality LCD.
Methinks you are a tool of the bleeding edge. Just because new tech comes out, doesn't make the old stuff irrelevant or any less usefull.
And someone else already covered this, but modems are not going anywhere. Ask anyone with a laptop if they use that modem. Not everyone has access to a network port wherever they go. Wireless may become the standard, but as it's popularity grows, it's available bandwidth per person will shrink.
I think this is Yamaha's reaction to a commodity market. I have always seen Yamaha's products as overpriced and not necessarily better. Good riddance. Yeah, the image writing drive looked cool, but I try to fill my discs to capacity as a rule. I usually get to within 100 megs of capacity, which doesn't leave much room for images.
And what makes you so insightful? Of course they need to check you out, but something like a credit history has NO comparisson to something like a criminal background check.
First of all, this isn't necessarily for people "high on the food chain". Sometimes it is for people at the bottom, but may be in contact with money or other desireables. I will agree that the CFO or someone at the tippy-top should be investigated THOROUGHLY, but how probable is it that the poster is in line fore a CEO/CFO position? "I'm gonna run a company, better go ask slashdot!" whatever.
Secondly, they have already invested time and energy into hiring the poster, and it would be a pain in the ass for them to start over.
I personally believe that said poster needs to stand up to this and not let them pressure him/her about it. A simple "No thanks, I don't believe it's justified. I'd be happy to discuss any concerns you have, without my personal credit history involved."
That is what they are CLAIMING they really want. Insight to the person. Isn't that was interviews and background checks into employment history accomplish?
I'm horribly unemployed at the moment. I have rising debt, and not too many prospects for the immediate future. I don't need another reason for some idiot HR person to judge me unfairly.
Yeah, in some freaky pedophile way. She looks 14. What is your problem?
I had a roommate once that told the guy on the phone he was a little busy at the moment because he was masturbating. I've told people I was blind before so they wouldn't try to sell me some visual-oriented device.
"Sorry, I'm getting a blowjob right now, and my girlfriend is getting a little mad that I'm not paying attention to her. "
You can have a lot of fun with this.
"Lossless means no loss of information, not no loss of bytes, and if you uncompress a flac file you get exactly the same wave file you compressed.
Same as with a zip file.No loss of information, but a loss of bytes.
I can say 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2
Or I could say 20*2, or just 40.
It's the same information, diffrent amount of characters(bytes)."
Actually what you represented isn't lossless. Yes, the sums are the same, but the string of 2's is lost in the 40 representation. 20*2 is valid tho, as long as you have some way of knowing that it spans to a summation of 2's. Otherwise it could just be 20+20.
"My son is currently in fourth, going to fifth grade next year. (School change.. lower to middle) and he has "learned" that he doesnt really need to take in his homework, complete his assignments on time, etc, simply because the way this lower school runs, it is next to impossibe to fail."
School didn't run that way for me, but I still managed to squeak by while not doing the homework. You better do your job as a parent and try ot help him curb this. I was like this in middle and high school, and it carried on into college. I managed to get my degree, but it took me a little longer than it should have, and I spent a bunch of money retaking some classes that I shouldn't have had to retake. Sometimes I just didn't feel like doing it, sometimes I didn't have time, and sometimes I would just say to myself "It's too late, just retake it next semester".
Maybe this is a little premature for your child, but depression can also cause this.
Oh, and don't assume your kid is going to coast through. The article is NOT accurate for the majority of schools.
First you said:
"I am currently a freshman at Duke and can attest to the fact that there is not grade inflation of any type."
Then you said:
"I will not deny that some professors inflate their grades and some departments inflate their grades."
So which is it? Who modded this up? Don't you people pay attention!?
This whole "the batteries wouldn't last long enough if the HD could store more" doesn't fly. ACCE$$ORIE$. They want you to buy as much crap as possible, so they therefore want you to buy batteries. Back in the day we had a VHS camcorder (one of those big honkers) and we kept 3 batteries around for it. What if you are taping and you need more time? Swap the tape and battery when needed, and keep going. It's that simple. If you had more HD space in this and the battery went dead, you could just throw another battery on it. No biggie. My guess is that they don't want to compete too much with their old inventory. Kind of like the recent "HP: we're-not-going-to-benchmark-the-alpha-if-it's-fas ter-than-the-Itanium's-we're-selling" deal. I didn't read the article, but it seems reasonable. They have other camcorders that have about this time limit to them and they don't want to be stuck with them. If they release a 20 hour model, who is going to buy the other 2 million 1.5 hour models sitting in the warehouse?
Corporations are in competition, but sometimes I think they don't want to set the bar too high, else they will have problems reaching it on the next new product run. I think these corps don't want to do the best thing they can, they just want to do better than the other guy.
Notice how you said you are still a sophomore. At my school, they weed people out with difficult classes. Usually right around sophmore/junior year. I had to take several classes more than once (even 3 times) before I got it right. I saw many people switch majors or give up college entirely, and I was close myself (but I did graduate last May).
Maybe you haven't tried yet, but hiring doesn't take place in a vaccuum. There is an interview process. Blatantly incompetent people don't get very far, and if your interviewers can't tell the difference, you need better HR people.
I don't feel the need to pay some govt organization for the right to call myself qualified if I am already qualified. This is just as bad as the "Microsoft Tax" of getting an MCSE or something similar. If someone makes mistakes on the job, then they answer for it like usual. Certification doesn't change that, and accidents will happen anyway.
:)
With the way the computer industry operates, this will just become yet ANOTHER tax. You will have to pay every so often for a piece of paper that says you are good-to-go. You are being taxed to work in this industry. Don't fall for it. It's hard enough to have to keep up with new technology, do you want to have to pay even more than you already do to keep up?
Besides, I'm unemployed and broke. I can't afford it right now
My g/f bought a Miyazaki/Ghibli box set for about $100. Region 1 with Japanese language and english or chinese(!?) subtitles. Contents: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (my personal fav) Princess Mononoke Porco Rosso My Neighbor Totoro Laputa Castle in the Sky Grave of the Fireflies Kiki's Delivery Service On your Mark Ocean Waves Only Yesterday Pom Poko 6 DVD set titled "Archives of Studio Ghibli" with an outline of the totoro on a grey box. Released by Anime Cartoon Intl.