I've always thought that someone should right a book explaining Unix to business types. A full chapter should be devoted to the fact that in the UNIX world (whether developers or system administrators) a person's competence is inversely proportional to their level of dress.
So a new manager of a UNIX group should look around. The guy who is wearing ten-year-old sandals, with jean shorts, and a t-shirt you would be embarrassed to wash your car with. That person is your best employee, learn to kiss his or her ass.
I wonder if they will be surprised when the drill begins to melt?:-)
Seriously this just sounds like a bad idea if there is significant population anywhere near there. I'm not a geologist, but I'm not impressed that they were suprised by the thermometer melting either. (Perhaps thats just bad reporting/translation.)
Saddly given how little the current administration cares about global warming (or about never admitting it made a mistake), private industry is already doing more to combat Global warming than the US government is trying to do.
Value of the dollor means more than just what is the "main currency." What do you think the effect of American's no longer being able to afford to buy the massive exports of China, Japan, South America, and Europe?
What happens to BMW, when they can no longer sell cars in the US at HUGE profits? DITTO for Benz, Audi, etc. What about the drug companies that have 50% of sells in the US? What about almost all of Asia that ships huge amounts of goods (computers, iPods, TV's, phones, etc.) to the US?
All of Europe has an economy about the size of the US economy. Asking what happens when the dollor goes way down is that same as asking what happens when it takes 1000 euro's to buy a can of Coke.
Now granted in the long run it might be better for the world ecologically if the US economy fell apart, but the short term pain for everyone who sells to the US would be HUGE!
Sounds like a business oppurtunity for someone in the US to decouple the unit sells with the phone service. Here companies want a 2 year agreement and I have sworn never to do that again.
ebay has got to be the posterchild for "first mover advantage." Not only is the site ugly, but the user interface is one of the worst I have ever seen in my life. Yet they are one of the most sucessful websites ever!!
There is a whole dot-com economy around making ebay easier to use. See ChannelAdvisor for example.
True, but its not just the US that would suffer in a violent failure of the US economy. I have long believed that devaluing the US $ to point of being valueless would have nearly the same effect on western civilization as global nuclear war.
Yes, but the remote I was using in the gym did not have channel up down buttons. Typing in a channel number on the key pad did nothing as well. Generally I can figure out remotes in short order. Even ones in other languages, my dvd player is imported from China for the chinese market & I don't read chinese. But this remote completely confused me. And that says something about the state of user interfaces in CE devices.
I just don't know what the differences between Athlon 64 and Opteron. But what I am more interested in is how do new Intel dual cores compare to dual core Opterons.
That may not be a big difference if the difference between Athlon and Opteron is more marketing than substance. These days I have been considering Athlon CPU's as low end.
So we all know that poster and submitter didn't apparently read past the first 2 or 3 paragraphs of the article.
The article is mostly praise for Apple's view of the future and reminds me of a discussion I had with a freind of mine about the Apple remote when it first came out.
My take was that simplicity and easy to use will appeal to more people than shear number of buttons and number of button presses to reach a fuction. The goal of a remote control is not to "shock and awe" the consumer into being afraid to use the product. He argued for quickness to access functions, I argued for ease of use.
I was recently at the gym and wanted to watch something other than a review of the day's golfing news. I picked up the remote and pressed buttons that I assumed would change the channel up. After hitting that one button the only thing I could watch was childrens programming on the local PBS station. I could bring up useless menus also, but in 3 minutes could not figure out how to change a channel. Some companies just DON'T get user interfaces. Apple groks user interfaces!!
That is why I beleive the mini will be a front end machine, or it will have to grow in size. It is not physically possible to put significantly larger drives in the mini. The mini uses 2.5 notebook drives, to get more than 80GB is VERY expensive in that form factor. A 500GB 3.5 drive costs about the same as a 160GB 2.5 drive.
Geeks have another option for getting that diskspace. Of course Apple could build and sell a similar product with the mini as a DVR package.
I, for one, am watching closely to see if I can determine the answer to that question myself. As a stock investor, if Apple developes a MediaCenter Mac with the appeal of of the iPod then Apple's currently "high" stock price will suddenly be cheap.
It appears that Apple is slowly putting the peices in place to have the Mini as a frontend solution for media serving or an "iPod for the living room". Its not all integrated yet, and there are lots more technical and legal problems with video that didn't apply in practice to music.
Another issue is that if the Disney Pixar deal goes through, then with Jobs being the largest Disney share holder he will be sitting on both sides of the DRM debate. (Much like the CEO of Sony.)
All the chips haven't fallen, but it is very interesting to watch. A defactor Apple monopoly on the magical convergance of the PC into the media center would be very interesting indeed.
Are there any colleges not using Linux, or Apache, or OSS mail servers, DNS servers, FTP servers, etc?
When I go back to visit my old school there are labs with 50 or more linux workstations in almost every building, or every building I walk into anyway.
If the machines are running 95 and 98, I'd bet more then a few are old enough that they probably shouldn't be running XP so the actual cost likely is less.
That means upgrading to XP would cost MORE, because they would have to buy new hardware.
I would think it would be better for all people to be on the same page, you know using the same OS and applications. And since Linux is very usable on really old hardware I think going with Linux is a resonable idea. Finding Educational software might be a problem though.
A legal gray to black area would be finding Apple and Commodore emulators and running old eductional software from 80's on the emulators.
Money: I think Google's model of owning blogger.com and then making an easy tie in for adsense allows them to fund hardware and sometimes pay bloggers to use the service. So I don't expect blogger.com to go away even if VC's aren't interested in funding competing sites.
Social:What I like about non-commercial blogs is that it reminds me of the really early days of the world wide web, where almost all pages were a person's personal site talking about their life and interests. Bloggs tend to be personal, and I like and value that aspect of them.
Its not just that the iPod is stylish, easy to use, and a good peice of engineering. Its also the iTunes software. I might buy a secondary non-Apple mp3 player, but it will HAVE to work with iTunes.
iTunes makes managing the transfer of songs so seemless and easy to use. I am an old time command line Unix geek, but to me iTunes is to MP3 management what http is to ftp.
Joe 6-pack will max out his credit cards and spend his children's college fund to watch the super-bowl in HD. After that he can watch nascar in HD while asking the wife/kids to bring him another beer.
The question is not will Joe buy a HDTV, but will he bother to buy an HD DVD player. And that probably depends on the porn industry!
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In this TWIT POD cast, John C. Dvorak claims there is evidence that Apple is planning to dump OS X and run windows once everything switches to Intel!!
That Dvorak has not been torn limb from limb by crowds of angry Mac users is a testiment to their self restraint.
I've always thought that someone should right a book explaining Unix to business types. A full chapter should be devoted to the fact that in the UNIX world (whether developers or system administrators) a person's competence is inversely proportional to their level of dress.
So a new manager of a UNIX group should look around. The guy who is wearing ten-year-old sandals, with jean shorts, and a t-shirt you would be embarrassed to wash your car with. That person is your best employee, learn to kiss his or her ass.
I have long thought this is a great idea. I am however shocked that the current US administration would agree to an idea like this.
Wired did an article last year on how this type of idea has helped in finding missing persons.
I wonder if they will be surprised when the drill begins to melt? :-)
Seriously this just sounds like a bad idea if there is significant population anywhere near there. I'm not a geologist, but I'm not impressed that they were suprised by the thermometer melting either. (Perhaps thats just bad reporting/translation.)
Saddly given how little the current administration cares about global warming (or about never admitting it made a mistake), private industry is already doing more to combat Global warming than the US government is trying to do.
Value of the dollor means more than just what is the "main currency." What do you think the effect of American's no longer being able to afford to buy the massive exports of China, Japan, South America, and Europe?
What happens to BMW, when they can no longer sell cars in the US at HUGE profits? DITTO for Benz, Audi, etc. What about the drug companies that have 50% of sells in the US? What about almost all of Asia that ships huge amounts of goods (computers, iPods, TV's, phones, etc.) to the US?
All of Europe has an economy about the size of the US economy. Asking what happens when the dollor goes way down is that same as asking what happens when it takes 1000 euro's to buy a can of Coke.
Now granted in the long run it might be better for the world ecologically if the US economy fell apart, but the short term pain for everyone who sells to the US would be HUGE!
The easy way to avoid hearing loss from your portable media player is, as Chris Rock would say, "turn that $h!t down!"
Really, just turn it down. I'm known amoung my freinds as the one who likes to listen at really low levels. And I don't think thats a bad thing.
Sounds like a business oppurtunity for someone in the US to decouple the unit sells with the phone service. Here companies want a 2 year agreement and I have sworn never to do that again.
ebay has got to be the posterchild for "first mover advantage." Not only is the site ugly, but the user interface is one of the worst I have ever seen in my life. Yet they are one of the most sucessful websites ever!!
There is a whole dot-com economy around making ebay easier to use. See ChannelAdvisor for example.
True, but its not just the US that would suffer in a violent failure of the US economy. I have long believed that devaluing the US $ to point of being valueless would have nearly the same effect on western civilization as global nuclear war.
Yes, but the remote I was using in the gym did not have channel up down buttons. Typing in a channel number on the key pad did nothing as well. Generally I can figure out remotes in short order. Even ones in other languages, my dvd player is imported from China for the chinese market & I don't read chinese. But this remote completely confused me. And that says something about the state of user interfaces in CE devices.
Suprise that a European arm of IBM is switching to desktop Linux? The only suprise I'm registering is that it took this long for it to happen.
I probably really should cut back, but I really drink coffee almost exclusively during the cold months.
I just don't know what the differences between Athlon 64 and Opteron. But what I am more interested in is how do new Intel dual cores compare to dual core Opterons.
That may not be a big difference if the difference between Athlon and Opteron is more marketing than substance. These days I have been considering Athlon CPU's as low end.
So we all know that poster and submitter didn't apparently read past the first 2 or 3 paragraphs of the article.
The article is mostly praise for Apple's view of the future and reminds me of a discussion I had with a freind of mine about the Apple remote when it first came out.
My take was that simplicity and easy to use will appeal to more people than shear number of buttons and number of button presses to reach a fuction. The goal of a remote control is not to "shock and awe" the consumer into being afraid to use the product. He argued for quickness to access functions, I argued for ease of use.
I was recently at the gym and wanted to watch something other than a review of the day's golfing news. I picked up the remote and pressed buttons that I assumed would change the channel up. After hitting that one button the only thing I could watch was childrens programming on the local PBS station. I could bring up useless menus also, but in 3 minutes could not figure out how to change a channel. Some companies just DON'T get user interfaces. Apple groks user interfaces!!
That is why I beleive the mini will be a front end machine, or it will have to grow in size. It is not physically possible to put significantly larger drives in the mini. The mini uses 2.5 notebook drives, to get more than 80GB is VERY expensive in that form factor. A 500GB 3.5 drive costs about the same as a 160GB 2.5 drive.
Geeks have another option for getting that diskspace. Of course Apple could build and sell a similar product with the mini as a DVR package.
I, for one, am watching closely to see if I can determine the answer to that question myself. As a stock investor, if Apple developes a MediaCenter Mac with the appeal of of the iPod then Apple's currently "high" stock price will suddenly be cheap.
It appears that Apple is slowly putting the peices in place to have the Mini as a frontend solution for media serving or an "iPod for the living room". Its not all integrated yet, and there are lots more technical and legal problems with video that didn't apply in practice to music.
Another issue is that if the Disney Pixar deal goes through, then with Jobs being the largest Disney share holder he will be sitting on both sides of the DRM debate. (Much like the CEO of Sony.)
All the chips haven't fallen, but it is very interesting to watch. A defactor Apple monopoly on the magical convergance of the PC into the media center would be very interesting indeed.
Are there any colleges not using Linux, or Apache, or OSS mail servers, DNS servers, FTP servers, etc?
When I go back to visit my old school there are labs with 50 or more linux workstations in almost every building, or every building I walk into anyway.
Can anyone confirm if the new Mini's have a way to output 5.1 surround sound? If its made for HT, then it needs surround sound output.
Freinds have been asking me about a intel based mac mini for months, every time they see me. I'm glad I don't have to keep saying I don't know.
The Apple store seems over loaded I'm getting 500 errors trying to get specs for the new mini. Does anyone have a full feature list?
If the machines are running 95 and 98, I'd bet more then a few are old enough that they probably shouldn't be running XP so the actual cost likely is less.
That means upgrading to XP would cost MORE, because they would have to buy new hardware.
I would think it would be better for all people to be on the same page, you know using the same OS and applications. And since Linux is very usable on really old hardware I think going with Linux is a resonable idea. Finding Educational software might be a problem though.
A legal gray to black area would be finding Apple and Commodore emulators and running old eductional software from 80's on the emulators.
Money:
I think Google's model of owning blogger.com and then making an easy tie in for adsense allows them to fund hardware and sometimes pay bloggers to use the service. So I don't expect blogger.com to go away even if VC's aren't interested in funding competing sites.
Social:What I like about non-commercial blogs is that it reminds me of the really early days of the world wide web, where almost all pages were a person's personal site talking about their life and interests. Bloggs tend to be personal, and I like and value that aspect of them.
Its not just that the iPod is stylish, easy to use, and a good peice of engineering. Its also the iTunes software. I might buy a secondary non-Apple mp3 player, but it will HAVE to work with iTunes.
iTunes makes managing the transfer of songs so seemless and easy to use. I am an old time command line Unix geek, but to me iTunes is to MP3 management what http is to ftp.
I just wanted to say this makes me feel better after reading the HD DVD AACS news for most of the day!!
Joe 6-pack will max out his credit cards and spend his children's college fund to watch the super-bowl in HD. After that he can watch nascar in HD while asking the wife/kids to bring him another beer.
The question is not will Joe buy a HDTV, but will he bother to buy an HD DVD player. And that probably depends on the porn industry!