The first interesting Core Duo Notebook besides the MBP: weighs only 2kg (I would choose the smallest battery pack), decent screen resolution (WXGA+ 1140*900 Pixels - I don't care for the 1280*something crap, ever since I have seen the Samsung X20), Core Duo. With that I compare it to a MBP, which is 1000 to 1500EUR more expensive (depending on how you rate the 3 year warranty).
I wish I could see one of those D620 notebooks, though - my only fear is that it might be very ugly. Not sure if that justifies paying 1000EUR more, and I don't think the MBP is THAT well designed, anyway. I have only found positive words about the D620 on the internet, though. I am looking for a good work horse that is not too heavy to drag around.
The MacBook however I consider to be just cheap and trashy. Glare display is all I can say.
What the D620 is sorely missing is DVI out. Maybe the time hasn't come to buy a new notebook yet:-(
As readers of "High Fidelity" know, that must be the best ordering system (it seems save to assume that what works for music should work for books, too).
It's a bit strange that you had to have your hardware repaired several times, unless you are not talking about your private stuff, but about a big company...
The main thing that interests me is the noise. How loud are the fans? I have already heard several bad things about the MacBook: display emits a humming, notebook emits a humming if cpu is idle (apparently known from earlier apple hardware, too), fans spinning very often. Is anybody able to comment on that?
"Apparently not, according to the observational evidence.
And I think you missed the folksonomy angle with your library analogy (not to mention that books can only sit on one shelf at a time)."
The other reply to my post says it all: there already is a "keywords" meta-tag in HTML, I think that proves that tagging is an old hat. The folksonomy angle: sure, I am not saying that delicious is useless (although I don't find it so useful yet). It's just not the invention of tagging.
"There's a difference between "that's obvious" and "I've done it." I suppose there's a third "I've done it and it doesn't suck"
I totally agree to that and I don't say that the delicious guy doesn't deserve the success. It's just that the article annoyed me by claiming the delicious guy invented tagging. It would be more interesting to learn about the REAL reasons for the success.
Actually it seems to be quite common that not the first inventor of something gets all the money and the fame.
Isn't it like the most obvious idea? How else would you categorise any kind of data? And it's also obvious that information can belong to several categories at the same time. Hasn't this been going on since even before the invention of computers (libraries labeling their collection etc.)?
So the delicious guy became popular with it, but I don't think that's because he invented "tagging". Not that it matters, but the hyping tone of the article just annoyed me.
Besides, I am curious if del.icio.us will really be usueful one day. A tag like "funny" isn't going to help much in the long run... Also, there were other bookmark collecting web pages before. The unsovled problem of the whole idea is the privacy issues. But I learn from that example that it might not be worth worrying about that anyway.
Good points, and of course, even if everybody has one defect or another, there would always be situations where one applicant would win over another because of genetic dispositions.
Still, it seems to me with more information available, it should in the end be possible to handle things more efficently, to everyone's benefit? Not that I am not concerned about privacy issues etc., but their might be solutions, too.
I wonder how many genetically perfect people there are? Would there be enough genetically perfect people for companies to hire, so that they could ignore the imperfect ones?
Riiight... I know collecting data always only ever works out in favour of the individual that has been monitored. Lovely stuff like advertising tailored to your needs etc.
How on earth does Google want to be not evil, when every single thing they do is designed to collect as much data about people as possible (and that includes "free WLAN for everybody" - monitor surfing habits at the root has to be Google's wet dream)? I think they would have to make a VERY directed effort to avoid being evil.
I wonder, suppose some renowned newspaper would have made the claim against Siegenthaler, would he have been as eager to sue, with all the newspapers lawyers etc.? Or did it seem just so much easier to go after some presumably poor hacker without a life?
Who even cares about this Windows vs Linux stuff anymore? I feel reminded of the sex advice that is an evergreen in all the women's and men's journals. They run the same story three times every week, yet people just can't get enough of it.
used to be so much better than Lego. I wonder what their markt share is today? I think they went through some rough times, but I am happy to see that they are still around. As a kid I used to have some Lego stuff, but once I moved to FischerTechnik, I never looked back. Too bad it seems to be not so well known outside of germany.
I can relate to the person with the web company having troubles finding good employees. Training is one thing, but the people you train should at least show some promise, no? If you consider training someone who can't even tell ssh from telnet, then you might as well walk up to any random person in the street and offer to train them.
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Just learn the things you need on the fly, and only them. Don't try to understand everything before you even start.
The first interesting Core Duo Notebook besides the MBP: weighs only 2kg (I would choose the smallest battery pack), decent screen resolution (WXGA+ 1140*900 Pixels - I don't care for the 1280*something crap, ever since I have seen the Samsung X20), Core Duo. With that I compare it to a MBP, which is 1000 to 1500EUR more expensive (depending on how you rate the 3 year warranty).
:-(
I wish I could see one of those D620 notebooks, though - my only fear is that it might be very ugly. Not sure if that justifies paying 1000EUR more, and I don't think the MBP is THAT well designed, anyway. I have only found positive words about the D620 on the internet, though. I am looking for a good work horse that is not too heavy to drag around.
The MacBook however I consider to be just cheap and trashy. Glare display is all I can say.
What the D620 is sorely missing is DVI out. Maybe the time hasn't come to buy a new notebook yet
You know the world is probably OK if people are bothered by the naming of a video console.
As readers of "High Fidelity" know, that must be the best ordering system (it seems save to assume that what works for music should work for books, too).
It's a bit strange that you had to have your hardware repaired several times, unless you are not talking about your private stuff, but about a big company...
Don't know about the iBook G4, but all the other machines you mention have fans in them. Or do you mean fan as in "worshipper"?
The main thing that interests me is the noise. How loud are the fans? I have already heard several bad things about the MacBook: display emits a humming, notebook emits a humming if cpu is idle (apparently known from earlier apple hardware, too), fans spinning very often. Is anybody able to comment on that?
"Apparently not, according to the observational evidence. And I think you missed the folksonomy angle with your library analogy (not to mention that books can only sit on one shelf at a time)." The other reply to my post says it all: there already is a "keywords" meta-tag in HTML, I think that proves that tagging is an old hat. The folksonomy angle: sure, I am not saying that delicious is useless (although I don't find it so useful yet). It's just not the invention of tagging.
"There's a difference between "that's obvious" and "I've done it." I suppose there's a third "I've done it and it doesn't suck"
I totally agree to that and I don't say that the delicious guy doesn't deserve the success. It's just that the article annoyed me by claiming the delicious guy invented tagging. It would be more interesting to learn about the REAL reasons for the success.
Actually it seems to be quite common that not the first inventor of something gets all the money and the fame.
Isn't it like the most obvious idea? How else would you categorise any kind of data? And it's also obvious that information can belong to several categories at the same time. Hasn't this been going on since even before the invention of computers (libraries labeling their collection etc.)?
So the delicious guy became popular with it, but I don't think that's because he invented "tagging". Not that it matters, but the hyping tone of the article just annoyed me.
Besides, I am curious if del.icio.us will really be usueful one day. A tag like "funny" isn't going to help much in the long run... Also, there were other bookmark collecting web pages before. The unsovled problem of the whole idea is the privacy issues. But I learn from that example that it might not be worth worrying about that anyway.
Good points, and of course, even if everybody has one defect or another, there would always be situations where one applicant would win over another because of genetic dispositions.
Still, it seems to me with more information available, it should in the end be possible to handle things more efficently, to everyone's benefit? Not that I am not concerned about privacy issues etc., but their might be solutions, too.
is all I can say. Seriously, what are they thinking? Microsoft should pay for debugging their sources themselves.
I wonder how many genetically perfect people there are? Would there be enough genetically perfect people for companies to hire, so that they could ignore the imperfect ones?
It's up to you to negotiate what you are worth to your company. If they don't have to train you, you can ask for a higher salary
Last time I looked (a while ago, but still), that was how the documentation of C# came along. Java documentation is HTML and PDF.
You choose...
I guess their WLAN plans are not giving them enough users to spy on fast enough.
and pretend it's Linux
Not funny at all - it's just another attempt to pass off the trusted computing stuff as a good thing.
"their point is precisely that they do make a very directed effort to avoid being evil."
So they say...
Riiight... I know collecting data always only ever works out in favour of the individual that has been monitored. Lovely stuff like advertising tailored to your needs etc.
How on earth does Google want to be not evil, when every single thing they do is designed to collect as much data about people as possible (and that includes "free WLAN for everybody" - monitor surfing habits at the root has to be Google's wet dream)? I think they would have to make a VERY directed effort to avoid being evil.
I wonder, suppose some renowned newspaper would have made the claim against Siegenthaler, would he have been as eager to sue, with all the newspapers lawyers etc.? Or did it seem just so much easier to go after some presumably poor hacker without a life?
Who even cares about this Windows vs Linux stuff anymore? I feel reminded of the sex advice that is an evergreen in all the women's and men's journals. They run the same story three times every week, yet people just can't get enough of it.
used to be so much better than Lego. I wonder what their markt share is today? I think they went through some rough times, but I am happy to see that they are still around. As a kid I used to have some Lego stuff, but once I moved to FischerTechnik, I never looked back. Too bad it seems to be not so well known outside of germany.
"it's just that for the practical purposes of your hiring interviews, the difference between Telnet and SSH is $30,000 on your payroll."
You expect an $30000 extra just because you managed the incredible difficult, almost humane impossible task of understanding what ssh does???????
Maybe outsourcing to China and India is the way to go, if everybody else is so arrogant.
I can relate to the person with the web company having troubles finding good employees. Training is one thing, but the people you train should at least show some promise, no? If you consider training someone who can't even tell ssh from telnet, then you might as well walk up to any random person in the street and offer to train them.