the IT Policy is what is universally hated, not the IT dept or the poor souls that make it up. Often there are some very bright and helpful people that will try to go out of their way to help out end users (especially researchers, who have "interesting" requirements -- we've gotten around this by setting up a department just to field their demands).
I also can't help feeling that IT depts have brought this reputation on themselves. "Our way is the One Try Way and you can't do it any other way". "Oh, yes, we installed this multi-million dollar pile of enterprise software that does not work, makes simple tasks week long epics, but you have to use it anyway".
Over the past decade, there has been a brain drain and now the IT depts are filled with "admins" that hardly know anything about only one particular platform and refuse to consider anything else (watch them squirm when the CEO / President walks in with a MacBook Air). To them, every problem can be solved by reinstalling the SOE, blaming the end user for installing "non-approved" tools etc etc.
IT is now looked upon as a cost centre. The business is quite rightly making comparisons with other providers who can provide the same service, for much less outlay.
I'm in Australia and had a friend bring me a Galaxy Tab 10.1 from overseas. It's not a bad unit, good size and weight, the speakers are okay. However, the most loudly touted feature, "it has Flash for the *full* web experience", does not work. The Flash plugin does not work in the default browser!
Just so you know, even a VTP *client* with a higher revision number and a different table used to be able to / can wipe out a VTP domain by being introduced. Being a VTP server just allows you to add and remove VLANs from the database. VTPv3 is supposed to fix these kinds of things though. The last time this happened to me, thankfully, I still had the output from a "show vlan" in my scroll back buffer.
So, Windows Phone 7 is an app that Microsoft has submitted for approval in the App Store? Will Apple somehow stop Windows Phone 7 from being sold? Huh?
I don't think it's been proved they did have one. It may have been the typical play of "hey, look over here at (this video rendering of) what we have, ignore that iPad thing". When the iPad took off, they simply deleted the video files.
PowerPC was never intended to be faster than x86, it was intended to be comparable in performance at a much smaller die size and lower subsequent cost.
I think these days, it is called "Performance Per Watt".:-)
1 button mice were always stupid.
I see you've never worked on a help-desk trying to talk a (l)user through a simple point-and-click operation.
help: click on the phone icon
user: i've got a menu, which one do i choose
help: noooo, click your left mouse button just once on the phone icon...
user: do you want me to choose properties from this menu?
help:...
Although you don't see it as much with network printer drivers, the local printer drivers for things such as inkjet printers are horrid, and lack full functionality. Perhaps this will encourage printer manufacturers to develop more, full featured, drivers that are more on par with their Windows counterparts in the future on the Mac OS X platform. Oh I hope not. When I install a printer driver, I want a printer driver. Not a printer driver and a crappy photo editing software and software to order photo prints online and software to order new ink tanks online and...
Well, we have to take a look at who Microsofts customers are. Microsofts customers are not the end users sitting at their computer watching YouTube videos. Microsofts customers are content providers and other compainies that want to make money by serving content. Microsoft will meet with these companies and offer features like:
- want to make sure you can insert ads that the viewer cannot skip - want to disable the browser back button so the view has to watch the ad - want to disable the keyboard and mouse so the viewer is forced to watch the ad - want to automatically charge the viewer $0.01 each time they play the video
It was marketed as Internet Explorer for UNIX. It required root access to install, the installer checked and bailed if it was not running as root. And it only ran on Solaris 2.5, it would not run on 2.5.1. I saw someone manage to get it to load and display on 2.6, but it could not do anything after that. One of the selling points was being able to run ActiveX controls. Not sure how they managed to get compiled Win32 code to run on a SPARC!
And that is why I think that Microsoft has been resisting a full embreace of EFI so far. OS independant device drivers that are stored on expansion cards. Somehow I don't think Microsoft likes the idea that a consumer can down to the shop, buy a new card of some kind and have it Just Work on any platform of their choosing.
NBC provides all episodes of the current season of Friday Night Lights online for free. CBS has done the same thing with Jericho. There are probably other such shows out there provided online for free by the parent company that I just haven't stumbled across (I watch and enjoy Heroes and Jericho, and though I haven't watched it yet I ran across Friday Night Lights by accident). Ironic that I cannot view the episodes because I am outside of the US, but the ads play fine.
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the IT Policy is what is universally hated, not the IT dept or the poor souls that make it up. Often there are some very bright and helpful people that will try to go out of their way to help out end users (especially researchers, who have "interesting" requirements -- we've gotten around this by setting up a department just to field their demands).
I also can't help feeling that IT depts have brought this reputation on themselves. "Our way is the One Try Way and you can't do it any other way". "Oh, yes, we installed this multi-million dollar pile of enterprise software that does not work, makes simple tasks week long epics, but you have to use it anyway".
Over the past decade, there has been a brain drain and now the IT depts are filled with "admins" that hardly know anything about only one particular platform and refuse to consider anything else (watch them squirm when the CEO / President walks in with a MacBook Air). To them, every problem can be solved by reinstalling the SOE, blaming the end user for installing "non-approved" tools etc etc.
IT is now looked upon as a cost centre. The business is quite rightly making comparisons with other providers who can provide the same service, for much less outlay.
Yes, there is, another browser. The Flash plugin seems to work in Dolphin for Pad as well as Firefox. This is after updating to version 11 as well.
I'm in Australia and had a friend bring me a Galaxy Tab 10.1 from overseas. It's not a bad unit, good size and weight, the speakers are okay. However, the most loudly touted feature, "it has Flash for the *full* web experience", does not work. The Flash plugin does not work in the default browser!
Just so you know, even a VTP *client* with a higher revision number and a different table used to be able to / can wipe out a VTP domain by being introduced. Being a VTP server just allows you to add and remove VLANs from the database. VTPv3 is supposed to fix these kinds of things though. The last time this happened to me, thankfully, I still had the output from a "show vlan" in my scroll back buffer.
(unless picked up by a passing spaceship, and the odds against that are astronomical)
No, just infinitely improbable.
No, Standards Australia abstained in the vote to fast track DIS29500.
Now you know why windows 7 is the fastest selling windows os ever ...
So, Windows Phone 7 is an app that Microsoft has submitted for approval in the App Store? Will Apple somehow stop Windows Phone 7 from being sold? Huh?
I don't think it's been proved they did have one. It may have been the typical play of "hey, look over here at (this video rendering of) what we have, ignore that iPad thing". When the iPad took off, they simply deleted the video files.
That and they listened to Microsoft and spent all their energy targetting OS/2 ...
Trademark those names and register the domains, quickly!
The Courier looked like a great device. Why was that ended?
It. Never. Existed.
the AAC and H.264 codecs are openly documented well enough that there are open source implementations of both.
PowerPC was never intended to be faster than x86, it was intended to be comparable in performance at a much smaller die size and lower subsequent cost.
I think these days, it is called "Performance Per Watt". :-)
1 button mice were always stupid.
I see you've never worked on a help-desk trying to talk a (l)user through a simple point-and-click operation.
help: click on the phone icon ... ...
user: i've got a menu, which one do i choose
help: noooo, click your left mouse button just once on the phone icon
user: do you want me to choose properties from this menu?
help:
Add "&fmt=18" to the end of the youtube url, and the video in the page becomes a plain .mp4 file (H.264 + AAC) rather than .flv. No converting needed.
It was TDK that developed the scratch resistant coating.
Well, we have to take a look at who Microsofts customers are. Microsofts customers are not the end users sitting at their computer watching YouTube videos. Microsofts customers are content providers and other compainies that want to make money by serving content. Microsoft will meet with these companies and offer features like:
- want to make sure you can insert ads that the viewer cannot skip
- want to disable the browser back button so the view has to watch the ad
- want to disable the keyboard and mouse so the viewer is forced to watch the ad
- want to automatically charge the viewer $0.01 each time they play the video
*This* is how Microsoft technologies get adopted.
It was marketed as Internet Explorer for UNIX. It required root access to install, the installer checked and bailed if it was not running as root. And it only ran on Solaris 2.5, it would not run on 2.5.1. I saw someone manage to get it to load and display on 2.6, but it could not do anything after that. One of the selling points was being able to run ActiveX controls. Not sure how they managed to get compiled Win32 code to run on a SPARC!
So, how hard did the the door knob hit him in the arse as he was walked out the door?
In the last Leopard preview I had installed, TextEdit.app had support for ODF.
And that is why I think that Microsoft has been resisting a full embreace of EFI so far. OS independant device drivers that are stored on expansion cards. Somehow I don't think Microsoft likes the idea that a consumer can down to the shop, buy a new card of some kind and have it Just Work on any platform of their choosing.
That limitation is only for selecting a state or province from the drop down. There are plenty enough fields for filling in an international address.
No, they do not.