Yeah a standalone NAS has some possibilities. I rather dislike paying money for a non upgradeable machine. For instance I'd like to be able to retrofit a Gigbyte LAN adapter when it becomes feasible to upgrade my whole LAN to that.
BTW did you know that most NAS devices that come with a built in installed drive become worthless if the drive has a problem? Yeah its because most of them store at least part of the OS on a partition on the hard drive. So unless you have a way to rebuild the OS image, the whole unit is trash. On the flip side the flash only units have a fairly limited feature set and based on the reports I see at Toms Hardware and SmallNetBuilder it looks like you get what you pay for - e.g. A LOT of the low end boxes have significant problems with bugs and performance.
Yeah I'm looking at it. It's got possibilities. I wish that it was expandable and carried the drive internally. I was also interested in the Synology 101j mostly for the purported quality of the OS, file system code and firmware. At $150+ I'd hope so at any rate. But do you see what I mean? a small expanable computer shouldn't command such a premium. I'm almost tempted to buy a used laptop machine.
mini ITX form factor Mobos cost 2x what they should. Their cabinets cost 3x what they should. I want a mini ITX computer, with as small a fan as possible to be a NAS. But the whole project is absurdly expensive compared to what it would cost for a big ugly mATX. So that's what I'll be forced to do - build yet another intrusive grey box and save myself $150.
And while we're at it, why do so many mini ITX cabinets look like early '70's stereo equipment? Just give me a cheap box that's as blank as possible and mounts a CD drive horizontally. That means the case on;y has to be 6" wide, not 11".
I do not care what they think might be fixed 6 months after they release it. Straight up I will not deploy it until it's more than 3 STD's complete. That means 99.4%. MS has some colossal balls to make something this shoddy and incomplete. I swear they WILL abandon the data center at this rate, by the end of 2008. In fact they should freeze the damn thing right now finish the code for 'significant impact issues' and delay the release another 6 months. What's the difference in another delay at this point?
So they're free to ask me and I will refuse to unlock it. If that means they detain me then fine, they'll still need some kind of warrant, either to hold me or to search the machine. I will be more than happy to turn it on, to demonstrate it's a 'real' computer and not a box full of exploding nails but that's it.
In any other venue, hundreds of millions of dollars spent and YEARS late, and functionality stripped out of it left and right would be called a failure. How MS and its minions can spin a great big fat yawn into success is mindboggling. We here seem to be moderately happy that it doesn't suck like cancer. Ok it doesn't suck like cancer. Does that make it good?
IT's not the ACCELERATION, it's the DECELERATION. Even if you could apply some force to slowly accelerate a massive space ship, once you got it up to that speed wouldn't it take K^2 (squared) units of fuel to slow it down it again? So let's say it takes a million tons of some super fuel to get your space ark up to speed. Wouldn't it take a million million tons to park it again?
It's more like advertising that given brand and implementation of a lock is faulty. It may or may not impinge on you but in either case it's general enough to be of benefit to people besides you. Would you like to know that every model of the car you own happens to accidently use the same key? I would.
You mean the loss of the network hardware division, the disk drive division, the PC division, the paring back of the enterprise systems division and the stagnation of the x-series division are not harbingers of things to come?
(See current WW staffing at IBM is actually higher now than it was on the eve of the Great Gerstner Bloodbath, when IBM cut loose an eighth of a million employees World Wide. )
Moreover, this size you speak of has an opposite effect. In order for IBM to show sufficient growth to boost its stock out of the mud, it would have to create from scratch a Fortune 200 company every year. Now clearly that's impossible so they go the acquisition route. But how long can you just buy up new companies and struggle to integrate them? Forever? I don't think so. So from a pure organizational perspective it makes sense to break software, hardware and services from one another. Services has a low margin and also suffers from a 1:1 headcount to revenue ratio. That is, in order to make x-multiples of income you have hire x-multiples of people to do it. You can't 'make' a serivce and stamp it out by the hundred thousand. So if services is to grow then staffing has to grow. Guess what - staffing isn't growing, not even in Asia, not that fast.
It won't mean anything anymore. I mean when everyone in the country with a computer is branded a sex offender and can't work or live anywhere then it will officially no longer be relevant. I'm hoping that day comes soon.
Whomever they can't replace in India, China and Brazil they cut loose onto bullshit projects that go nowhere because of 99 layers of management and a 'save our way to prosperity' mentality. Senior people at IBM are treated like Gods, comparatively speaking. The minions are denied training, travel, education, pay raises, bonuses while benefits get worse every year. First and second line managers are turned over like flapjacks so that the people who actually do the work have 2, 3, 4 managers a year and then if they're lucky they won't stumble into a department that's being 'reorganized' out of existence forcing them to find another job or quit. Meanwhile, the aristocrats lavish literally hundreds of millions of dollars on themselves while they send out epistles that a) extol the workers greatness and b) warn them to work harder for less for the sake of the firm.
I can only imagine that if a senior guy leaves IBM for greener pastures they must have already decided, for no obvious reason at all to either kill all that person's products and projects, or, some palace infighting has left them holding their own ass.
I sold all my IBM and MS stock last week because it finally went up and it was clearly time to bail before they fuck it up again. And this observer's opinion is that IBM may be broken up and spun off in the near future and MS may split into several different companies as well. Because neither of them can get out of their own way.
Not seen 2007, probably won't. But THE biggest thing that irks me about Office, Word in particular, as we use 2002, is that things which seem absolutely commonsense to use EASILY, BECAUSE they are rarely used are strangely difficult or damn near impossible. Why is making a TOC so problematic and why does it take so much work. Why do pasted in tables take on a margin arrangement life of their own? Why do random words think they have to be spelled checked in French when the other 99% of the docyument is clearly written in English and is spell checked in English? Why is formatting text in a footer so damn hard? Especially something like not counting an arbitrary number of pages up front, like the rest of the publishing industry for the past 150 years? The point is, these things are hard because they're only used rarely. I'm sure that if had to monkey with it every day I'd memorize the 90 steps needed to do it. But why? Also why does font mapping between MS office and Notes just suck? Seems that 'Arial' should be 'Arial' and if it's 10pt in one doc it shouldn't naturally be converted to 24pt bold in another.
BTW - the differences in the interface between 2002 an 2003 are almost completely for the sake of upgrading and eye candy alone. Except for the annoying default that checks help ONLINE which is really a huge pain the ass.
I submit that MS spends little time actually bothering to find out what people what, and how they use it and they instead assume that whatever they like must be what we would naturally prefer too. OO is no better either since it follows MS's lead.
Having said that, I can appreciate you folks who have to use spreadsheets to run your business and you might actually have a real need to use some of those high end obscure functions. Me? No. And no thanks. I think it's a shame that you have to run business functions in a glorified spreadsheet and wordprocessor though or that we have an 'Office Suite' that attempts to compose memos and keep the books and make toast and service the wife, etc....maybe that's the approach that's wrong. My wife runs our rental properties and budgets with a spreadsheet and no matter what I tell her about something basic like MS Money she won't use it. And please make no mistake she knows jack shit about Excel and can't use it beyond typing anyway.
Anyway the problem with MS Office is that it's arbitrary. If the new version is still arbitrary then it's shit. If it's new kinds of arbitrary then it's shit. Either make my life easier or go away. I do not need to learn new workarounds.
They're not doing this to find content, they're doing this to pre identify suspects for crimes they may commit in the future. Profiling and it's being done by a private party.
Thinks that the IBM formal Patent program has become too cumbersome. Patent authors pass through a series of committees that either reject them or pass them on before they are ever considered for filing. If they were awarded 3700 patents then probably 20x that amount of submissions were made at the beginning of the process. Employees are awarded for patent submssions not patents. So this new rule will thin the submissions down greatly and will force most patent submissions to come out of the research areas. With fewer higher quality patents they'll have to do far less work to process them and will award far less in bounty money.
"For YEARS"? the NSA has helped MS with security issues? The mind reels. A bunch of talented amateurs building Linux do a better effort than the combined efforts of MS and the NSA. The next time the NSA comes to help me with a problem I think I'll politely decline.
Govt jobs can be both the best and the worst. On the upside expectations are nil and no one cares. You can be lazy and evil and treat people like shit - as long as you're not sexist, racist or insulting to the handicapped or muslims you can have another job at your job. And if god is really smiling on your you can be a small city cop. On the downside you can work in hell in shitty surroundings and there's no way out. On the really bad side you can be working for a dept that is indicted and people go to jail.
The Detroit car companies have laid off 10s of thousands of employees and closed plants that used to make low margin vehicles. They're betting that the market for humongo vehicles will return.
GM says in no uncertain terms that the batteries to make the Volt a viable car, do not in fact exist.
No, you should disabuse yourselves of the fiction that Detroit has any interest in electric cars. They do it at all because of a wrinkle in the Federal CAFE law which allows them to factor in these experimental cars into their CAFE standards. This way they can continue to build more 11mpg land arks. In fact that's what Detroit is doing - they're building evermore large trucks and SUVs. Some, like Ford are leaving the minivan market altogether and are scaling back car production in favor of trucks and SUV's. Why? Because the margin on them is too fat to ignore.
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Yeah a standalone NAS has some possibilities. I rather dislike paying money for a non upgradeable machine. For instance I'd like to be able to retrofit a Gigbyte LAN adapter when it becomes feasible to upgrade my whole LAN to that.
BTW did you know that most NAS devices that come with a built in installed drive become worthless if the drive has a problem? Yeah its because most of them store at least part of the OS on a partition on the hard drive. So unless you have a way to rebuild the OS image, the whole unit is trash. On the flip side the flash only units have a fairly limited feature set and based on the reports I see at Toms Hardware and SmallNetBuilder it looks like you get what you pay for - e.g. A LOT of the low end boxes have significant problems with bugs and performance.
Yeah I'm looking at it. It's got possibilities. I wish that it was expandable and carried the drive internally. I was also interested in the Synology 101j mostly for the purported quality of the OS, file system code and firmware. At $150+ I'd hope so at any rate. But do you see what I mean? a small expanable computer shouldn't command such a premium. I'm almost tempted to buy a used laptop machine.
mini ITX form factor Mobos cost 2x what they should. Their cabinets cost 3x what they should. I want a mini ITX computer, with as small a fan as possible to be a NAS. But the whole project is absurdly expensive compared to what it would cost for a big ugly mATX. So that's what I'll be forced to do - build yet another intrusive grey box and save myself $150.
And while we're at it, why do so many mini ITX cabinets look like early '70's stereo equipment? Just give me a cheap box that's as blank as possible and mounts a CD drive horizontally. That means the case on;y has to be 6" wide, not 11".
I think they should spend their money on better code and less on lobbying, public relations and propaganda.
I do not care what they think might be fixed 6 months after they release it. Straight up I will not deploy it until it's more than 3 STD's complete. That means 99.4%. MS has some colossal balls to make something this shoddy and incomplete. I swear they WILL abandon the data center at this rate, by the end of 2008. In fact they should freeze the damn thing right now finish the code for 'significant impact issues' and delay the release another 6 months. What's the difference in another delay at this point?
So they're free to ask me and I will refuse to unlock it. If that means they detain me then fine, they'll still need some kind of warrant, either to hold me or to search the machine. I will be more than happy to turn it on, to demonstrate it's a 'real' computer and not a box full of exploding nails but that's it.
In any other venue, hundreds of millions of dollars spent and YEARS late, and functionality stripped out of it left and right would be called a failure. How MS and its minions can spin a great big fat yawn into success is mindboggling. We here seem to be moderately happy that it doesn't suck like cancer. Ok it doesn't suck like cancer. Does that make it good?
Because 'producers' who 'produce' beats are really just taking someone's work.
IT's not the ACCELERATION, it's the DECELERATION. Even if you could apply some force to slowly accelerate a massive space ship, once you got it up to that speed wouldn't it take K^2 (squared) units of fuel to slow it down it again? So let's say it takes a million tons of some super fuel to get your space ark up to speed. Wouldn't it take a million million tons to park it again?
You upgrade IE6 with the assumption that MS will require it for one thing or another. We don't actually use it but we install it just in case.
It's more like advertising that given brand and implementation of a lock is faulty. It may or may not impinge on you but in either case it's general enough to be of benefit to people besides you. Would you like to know that every model of the car you own happens to accidently use the same key? I would.
You mean the loss of the network hardware division, the disk drive division, the PC division, the paring back of the enterprise systems division and the stagnation of the x-series division are not harbingers of things to come?
(See current WW staffing at IBM is actually higher now than it was on the eve of the Great Gerstner Bloodbath, when IBM cut loose an eighth of a million employees World Wide. )
Moreover, this size you speak of has an opposite effect. In order for IBM to show sufficient growth to boost its stock out of the mud, it would have to create from scratch a Fortune 200 company every year. Now clearly that's impossible so they go the acquisition route. But how long can you just buy up new companies and struggle to integrate them? Forever? I don't think so. So from a pure organizational perspective it makes sense to break software, hardware and services from one another. Services has a low margin and also suffers from a 1:1 headcount to revenue ratio. That is, in order to make x-multiples of income you have hire x-multiples of people to do it. You can't 'make' a serivce and stamp it out by the hundred thousand. So if services is to grow then staffing has to grow. Guess what - staffing isn't growing, not even in Asia, not that fast.
It won't mean anything anymore. I mean when everyone in the country with a computer is branded a sex offender and can't work or live anywhere then it will officially no longer be relevant. I'm hoping that day comes soon.
Whomever they can't replace in India, China and Brazil they cut loose onto bullshit projects that go nowhere because of 99 layers of management and a 'save our way to prosperity' mentality. Senior people at IBM are treated like Gods, comparatively speaking. The minions are denied training, travel, education, pay raises, bonuses while benefits get worse every year. First and second line managers are turned over like flapjacks so that the people who actually do the work have 2, 3, 4 managers a year and then if they're lucky they won't stumble into a department that's being 'reorganized' out of existence forcing them to find another job or quit. Meanwhile, the aristocrats lavish literally hundreds of millions of dollars on themselves while they send out epistles that a) extol the workers greatness and b) warn them to work harder for less for the sake of the firm.
I can only imagine that if a senior guy leaves IBM for greener pastures they must have already decided, for no obvious reason at all to either kill all that person's products and projects, or, some palace infighting has left them holding their own ass.
I sold all my IBM and MS stock last week because it finally went up and it was clearly time to bail before they fuck it up again. And this observer's opinion is that IBM may be broken up and spun off in the near future and MS may split into several different companies as well. Because neither of them can get out of their own way.
Seems like you can push it in the water and drown the guy. And oh, it's 120Deg F in Iraq in the Summer.
Not seen 2007, probably won't. But THE biggest thing that irks me about Office, Word in particular, as we use 2002, is that things which seem absolutely commonsense to use EASILY, BECAUSE they are rarely used are strangely difficult or damn near impossible. Why is making a TOC so problematic and why does it take so much work. Why do pasted in tables take on a margin arrangement life of their own? Why do random words think they have to be spelled checked in French when the other 99% of the docyument is clearly written in English and is spell checked in English? Why is formatting text in a footer so damn hard? Especially something like not counting an arbitrary number of pages up front, like the rest of the publishing industry for the past 150 years? The point is, these things are hard because they're only used rarely. I'm sure that if had to monkey with it every day I'd memorize the 90 steps needed to do it. But why? Also why does font mapping between MS office and Notes just suck? Seems that 'Arial' should be 'Arial' and if it's 10pt in one doc it shouldn't naturally be converted to 24pt bold in another.
BTW - the differences in the interface between 2002 an 2003 are almost completely for the sake of upgrading and eye candy alone. Except for the annoying default that checks help ONLINE which is really a huge pain the ass.
I submit that MS spends little time actually bothering to find out what people what, and how they use it and they instead assume that whatever they like must be what we would naturally prefer too. OO is no better either since it follows MS's lead.
Having said that, I can appreciate you folks who have to use spreadsheets to run your business and you might actually have a real need to use some of those high end obscure functions. Me? No. And no thanks. I think it's a shame that you have to run business functions in a glorified spreadsheet and wordprocessor though or that we have an 'Office Suite' that attempts to compose memos and keep the books and make toast and service the wife, etc....maybe that's the approach that's wrong. My wife runs our rental properties and budgets with a spreadsheet and no matter what I tell her about something basic like MS Money she won't use it. And please make no mistake she knows jack shit about Excel and can't use it beyond typing anyway.
Anyway the problem with MS Office is that it's arbitrary. If the new version is still arbitrary then it's shit. If it's new kinds of arbitrary then it's shit. Either make my life easier or go away. I do not need to learn new workarounds.
At the end of the day did you contact NVIDIA and find some kind of answer?
That's it then, Blu-Ray is official dead.
They're not doing this to find content, they're doing this to pre identify suspects for crimes they may commit in the future. Profiling and it's being done by a private party.
Thinks that the IBM formal Patent program has become too cumbersome. Patent authors pass through a series of committees that either reject them or pass them on before they are ever considered for filing. If they were awarded 3700 patents then probably 20x that amount of submissions were made at the beginning of the process. Employees are awarded for patent submssions not patents. So this new rule will thin the submissions down greatly and will force most patent submissions to come out of the research areas. With fewer higher quality patents they'll have to do far less work to process them and will award far less in bounty money.
"For YEARS"? the NSA has helped MS with security issues? The mind reels. A bunch of talented amateurs building Linux do a better effort than the combined efforts of MS and the NSA. The next time the NSA comes to help me with a problem I think I'll politely decline.
Govt jobs can be both the best and the worst. On the upside expectations are nil and no one cares. You can be lazy and evil and treat people like shit - as long as you're not sexist, racist or insulting to the handicapped or muslims you can have another job at your job. And if god is really smiling on your you can be a small city cop. On the downside you can work in hell in shitty surroundings and there's no way out. On the really bad side you can be working for a dept that is indicted and people go to jail.
The Detroit car companies have laid off 10s of thousands of employees and closed plants that used to make low margin vehicles. They're betting that the market for humongo vehicles will return.
GM says in no uncertain terms that the batteries to make the Volt a viable car, do not in fact exist.
No, you should disabuse yourselves of the fiction that Detroit has any interest in electric cars. They do it at all because of a wrinkle in the Federal CAFE law which allows them to factor in these experimental cars into their CAFE standards. This way they can continue to build more 11mpg land arks. In fact that's what Detroit is doing - they're building evermore large trucks and SUVs. Some, like Ford are leaving the minivan market altogether and are scaling back car production in favor of trucks and SUV's. Why? Because the margin on them is too fat to ignore.
The most retarded thing I have ever seen or heard of in my life.