I've seen recently that a local Borders was listing a movie in 3 formats, DVD, HD, Blueray. I had hoped that they really were putting HD on DVD so I could play it in MythTV but what they really were selling was the standard DVD format, and 2 HD formats( HD-DVD, Blueray ). IMO, HD-DVD is confusing the market since it does not support the DVD format and is a new format( not DVD ) which also happens to be HD. I know the difference but do you think Joe or Jone Sixpack is going to know what it all means?
You've got it backwards. HD-DVD players are fully backward compatible with DVD. HD-DVD is an extension of the DVD format. Blu-Ray is the new format that's not compatible with standard DVDs.
If anything, you should go now while you can still see glimpses of the original. I'm sure someones been itching to turn the "Carosel of Progress" into a Buzz Lightyear music video.
When was the last time you were actually at Disneyland? The "Carousel of Progress" has been gone for years. It was replaced by Innoventions.
You might see a parallel in the questions that a company is and isn't allowed to ask in a job interview (because of anti-discrimination legislation). For example, a potential employer isn't allowed to ask a female candidate if she is pregnant or may become pregnant, because it's to the company's advantage to not have to allow an employee to go on maternity leave. By not allowing anyone to ask that question, the incentive to realize some sort of advantage by not hiring that woman is removed, because everyone is subject to the same law.
Except that in that case, they can just make the assumption that she will at some point get pregnant (especially if she's wearing a wedding ring). If the potential employer has to choose between the male and female and they're otherwise equal, they'll just go with the male. Even better if he's not wearing a wedding ring since he'll likely be putting in more hours than someone who's married.
This is all aside from another question. Why should potential employers be blocked from asking any of these things? Sure, the government can't discriminate, but why shouldn't a private business be allowed to? All they'll be doing, if they do discriminate, is limiting their own employee pool, which will see them out of business in no time.
I think if the public was exposed to the complexity of most issues, their decision making might be different than only being exposed to sound-bite politics.
The same public that watches American Idol each week? The same public that doesn't pay attention to a news item for more than 30 seconds? The same public that doesn't bother reading beyond the headline?
You have an awefully high opinion of the general public.
Are you on crack? XP can do this easily. Simply end the "explorer" task and then start a new one with runas using your credentials. Presto, you're logged in as you.
Of course the user will have to make sure everything's saved. Why wait for them to be there though? Just save all their work and do a runas. In fact, for most tasks, you don't even need to kill explorer. Explorer usually only needs to be killed with some application installs. For most everything else (adding printers, adding users, giving permissions, etc), a simple right-click and runas works just fine.
if you are not in the game of infringing on copyrights and such, for example a business, you will want correctly licensed copy of OS on a machine. Suggesting that a business or a person actually just installs a copy of XP without a license is dumb, not the other way around, and if the person or the business needs yet another machine and desires to have XP on it, the correct behaviour is to require that it is sold to you.
Or that you purchase a Vista license and simply install a copy of XP, which is perfectly acceptable to Microsoft.
this is nonsense. The value of a piece of software is not attached to the date the software was built (in case when this is existing software and not a new product anyway.)
Actually it is. Or are you saying that you'd still pay full retail price for a copy of Windows 95? The value of Windows 95 is either 0 or close to it. Likewise, the value of XP goes down each day. Each day XP gets closer to its end of life. When that comes about, XP will also be worth near 0.
Eventually everyone will have drivers that work on Vista. Eventually all games will be written for DX10 (that might take a year or two, but it will happen). Do you really think manufacturers aren't going to write Vista drivers just because very few people are buying Vista right now? Do you really think game developers are going to forego the new features in DX10 just because very few gamers are running Vista? And that's despite the fact that there are currently two DX10 only games in development. New hardware marches on, as does new software.
I bet if this were a discussion on the successor to OS X, everyone would be claiming there's no reason to stick with the old stuff (it works doesn't it?). OS X will have and end of life at some point as well. It's really the only way to get people to upgrade. Upgrading to Vista is no different than upgrading OS X (despite what the commercials would have you think). It'll be slow at first, but it'll happen eventually. And we'll be right back here in a few years talking about the same thing when MS releases their next OS.
Speeding is illegal, but we don't have cars with speed limiting governors (we'd just remove them anyway); we have police to punish you for violating the limits.
Actually we do. Not everyone removes them because not everyone knows how. They're usually set pretty high, but the point is that cars do have speed limiting governors.
If, on the other hand, you bring in a used monitor you got for free or $50 or so, you can do whatever you want with no hassle, and it put no obligation on the company. If anyone has any jealousy issues about it, the company can just say, "You're free to bring in an extra monitor for yourself if you want it too."
Where does that stop though? So someone decides they need a faster computer for surfing the net and doing email. They ask for something faster and are told they don't really need it. Let's assume for now they have a single core P4 2.8 GHz. They've been reading about these "new fangled dual core" computers that are a lot faster and they want one, but they don't really need it. So you tell them they can bring in their own monitor and they end up bringing in a whole system.
If you work for a small company with a small network, it probably won't even be noticed. However, now you run into the problem that you don't know 1) what Anti-Virus they're running (assume Windows) and 2) whether or not it's being kept up to date. Also, maybe you end up rolling out some changes, but they don't get the changes because they're on their own system. Sure, if you've got a domain controller, they won't even be able to access the network, but they'll just end up figuring out a way to do it themselves (especially in a really small company).
You also run into the problem of who owns the equipment if something tragic happens to the employee? Does the next of kin take it back or does it stay at the job? What if they get pissed off and decide to take everything they've brought in with them when they suddenly leave?
My point is, make them understand that you can be more productive with two monitors. If they don't understand that, bring one in on a trial basis and even offer to let them buy it from you (cheaper than a brand new one). And if management can't handle telling other people that you need it and they don't, perhaps you need new management for that reason and not because they won't get you a second monitor.
On a side note, we have an engineer here that jokingly asked for a second monitor one day. He said "Wouldn't it be cool if I had two monitors?" I said it would be and that he should ask his boss. Well, his boss pretty much approves anything if he's not directly involved with it (the monitor could have cost $2000 and his boss would've said yes). So he got one and then the other engineer wanted a second one. The other engineer has been working fine for 2 or more years without two monitors and suddenly "it would be nice if I had a second one, so let's get a computer that has the capabilities for two displays". Apparently he didn't know he could already do this. Anyway, these guys didn't really need two monitors (the first stretches Solidworks across both displays, the second periodically reads PDF specs on one while designing on the other), but they gave us such a hard time about it once the idea came up that they wouldn't let it go (well, the first one, the new guy, was willing to let it go, but the second one, who has been here longer, kept bugging). Were the two new monitors expensive? No, they weren't, but they do eat into the companies profit sharing program.
Of course the $40,000 3D printer they just got eats into it more. That'll actually save the company money though, so it was worthwhile.
Aside from the 3D virus hacking environment, Nvidia does sell graphics cards that let you do 4 monitors per card, so you can get 8 displays. The Quadro NVS 440. So 6 monitors isn't really that outlandish.
The parent poster, however, was comparing a freshly-downloaded Linux ISO
And what freshly-downloaded Linux distribution is fully patched on every ISO download? None that I know of. Download Fedora Core 6 today vs 6 months from now. It's the same ISO and will need the same patches installed.
So now we compare a 5 or 6 year old OS to an ISO that was released within the last few months? Yeah, that's realistic.
Either way you're going to have to make a custom disc, unless you like downloading new ISO's every week.
And I suppose you read all the source code of all the services you run on your Linux box before you run them? I also suppose that you compile everything from source, but only after pouring through all the sources to make sure it's only doing what it says it's doing?
If you're lazy, steal from your employer, go to work drunk, act like a total jerk to your fellow employees then you should lose your job. But to lose your job when the fat cat CEO earns five hundred times what you do so that the company can hire a replacement for you at a lower pay rate, well, that's just plain damned evil.
You're right, it is evil. Hopefully this news will keep people from applying to Circuit City. I know I sure as hell would not want to work somewhere that's going to do something like this. With no one wanting to pickup those jobs, they'll just fall further and further until they've declared bankruptcy and closed down the whole chain. In fact, even if I wasn't one of the ones layed off, I'd definitely be looking for a new job now. Despite the stock price going up, this is going to prove to be disastrous for them. Hell, start a boycott if you want. They may sell some decent stuff, but they treat their employees like shit, so there's no reason to patronize them.
Hopefully people will remember this so that if the mere idea ever creeps into another CEO's head he'll forget about it instantly or risk losing his company.
Or they were happy making $30k per year. Yeah, the high paid ones were making $15 per hour. That doesn't exactly scream improving oneself to me.
As another poster said, why not go start their own business. These employees should get together and start a new company. If they're all intelligent and willing to work hard, maybe they can beat CC at their own game.
This is correct. Circuit City employees use to get commission. That's where Best Buy's line "Don't worry, I'm not on commission" came from. Best Buy doesn't employ this line anymore since Circuit City employees aren't on commission anymore.
The change is very obvious from the way things use to be. Go into a Circuit City during dead time. You won't feel like you're swimming amongst sharks these days. It use to be that the moment you walked through the door during a dead season (basically anytime it's not the holidays), someone would ask you if you needed help with anything. Now, you're lucky to find help unless you look really confused. Hell, if it's not a busy season now, you won't get help without asking. They have no incentive to help people as much as they use to since there's no money in it for them.
I use to hate shopping at Circuit City because I wanted to avoid the salesmen until I had a chance to look at some product. Now, it's not much different than shopping at Best Buy.
C:\WINXP>ifconfig 'ifconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
C:\WINXP>doskey ifconfig=ipconfig
It's never ceased to amaze me the sheer number of workarounds one collects when using or administering Linux systems. To say nothing of the endless variations of config files and values that must be memorised, but change frequently enough (or are different between distros) to remind you that the sum total of your knowledge is mostly a collection of useless trivia.
Yes, that can be made to always run (from the registry), just like yours will run from.bashrc.
Maybe our places of employment use MS formats. Maybe our customers use MS formats. Most people do. If your customers demand you send them MS office files, what are you going to do?
Ask them if a PDF is ok. Unless you're dealing with a government (local, state, or federal), I've found that most places happily accept a PDF document. Well, except headhunters, but they're a different story altogether. I've seen a fair number of headhunters ask for Word document resumes for jobs for Unix admins. Uh, hello, Word does not run on Unix.
I'm not suggesting that anyone use OO.o (I still don't think it's there yet), but if you want to use it, printing your files to PDF before sending them to someone is the way to go.
Personally, I don't understand why humans are so clock oriented vs sun oriented. It kills me that houses in the US are built in random directions (unless there is a nice view) instead of oriented around the Sun.
Random directions? Most of the homes in Orange County California are built facing either North or South. Irvine might be a little different (all their roads twist and turn to much), but I'm willing to bet they're built the same way. The houses on the beach are probably the only ones built facing East/West.
4 flavors of Windows that were all mostly compatible with each other or at least looked the same (if we count from Win95, NT, and 98). You could throw Windows 2000 in there too since it was technically released in 1999.
Anytime before that and there was only 1 version of Windows. Windows 3.1 and later 3.11 for Workgroups. Those were essentially the same version of Windows though.
The growth of the PC market can be attributed to that and the fact that PC prices plummeted during that time.
Ours (my wife and I) did this. Or should I say mine did this when we first got it. Turned out to be a bad battery. We basically swapped batteries for a few weeks. She thought I was nuts until it happened to her. I use my phone a lot and she uses hers very little. Once it happened on her phone, we knew it was the battery. Took forever to get a replacement. It was such an odd problem that customer service kept wanting us to swap the batteries and see if it happened again. Yeah, it happens rarely, so of course it'll do it while you're on the phone with customer service. Anyway, we ended up having to talk directly to Motorola (our service is through T-Mobile) and they sent us a replacement battery.
Aside from the phone being slow (I don't pay attention to what the screen says most of the time, it catches up eventually), we haven't had any other problems. Of course, since it's slow, you have to be careful when dialing numbers, otherwise it sometimes misses a digit.
Macs and OSX are less secure than Windows? HAHA Though there might be some I haven't heard of any Mac virii out in the wild however there are hundreds if not thousands of Window virii on the loose. Spyware? Same, well XP and Vista is spyware. Spyware that constantly phones home and refuses to run if it can't.
It's not the virii or spyware that he was referring to. He was referring to trying to put a Mac on a Windows 2003 domain. It can't be done natively without destroying the security of the Windows domain. You either turn off all the security that MS has added due to complaints or you get a third party program that lets the Mac talk to the domain securely.
Yes, I did this recently. No, it wasn't fun at all. Macs are anything but easy to use when it comes to communicating with a Windows 2003 domain. They're also a pain to use with Exchange, just like the OP said.
You probably saw it on the History channel. That's where I saw it. And it wasn't that they didn't introduce the technology sooner, it was that the technology wasn't available sooner. It wasn't really until the advent of the personal computer that they were actually able to do it. Before then, yes, the NYSE was closed for a few days each week so the people that were processing the trades could catch up with that weeks trades. Yes, it was PEOPLE doing the processing, not COMPUTERS like they have today.
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I've seen recently that a local Borders was listing a movie in 3 formats, DVD, HD, Blueray. I had hoped that they really were putting HD on DVD so I could play it in MythTV but what they really were selling was the standard DVD format, and 2 HD formats( HD-DVD, Blueray ). IMO, HD-DVD is confusing the market since it does not support the DVD format and is a new format( not DVD ) which also happens to be HD. I know the difference but do you think Joe or Jone Sixpack is going to know what it all means?
You've got it backwards. HD-DVD players are fully backward compatible with DVD. HD-DVD is an extension of the DVD format. Blu-Ray is the new format that's not compatible with standard DVDs.
If anything, you should go now while you can still see glimpses of the original. I'm sure someones been itching to turn the "Carosel of Progress" into a Buzz Lightyear music video.
When was the last time you were actually at Disneyland? The "Carousel of Progress" has been gone for years. It was replaced by Innoventions.
You might see a parallel in the questions that a company is and isn't allowed to ask in a job interview (because of anti-discrimination legislation). For example, a potential employer isn't allowed to ask a female candidate if she is pregnant or may become pregnant, because it's to the company's advantage to not have to allow an employee to go on maternity leave. By not allowing anyone to ask that question, the incentive to realize some sort of advantage by not hiring that woman is removed, because everyone is subject to the same law.
Except that in that case, they can just make the assumption that she will at some point get pregnant (especially if she's wearing a wedding ring). If the potential employer has to choose between the male and female and they're otherwise equal, they'll just go with the male. Even better if he's not wearing a wedding ring since he'll likely be putting in more hours than someone who's married.
This is all aside from another question. Why should potential employers be blocked from asking any of these things? Sure, the government can't discriminate, but why shouldn't a private business be allowed to? All they'll be doing, if they do discriminate, is limiting their own employee pool, which will see them out of business in no time.
I think if the public was exposed to the complexity of most issues, their decision making might be different than only being exposed to sound-bite politics.
The same public that watches American Idol each week? The same public that doesn't pay attention to a news item for more than 30 seconds? The same public that doesn't bother reading beyond the headline?
You have an awefully high opinion of the general public.
If you recall, Geraldo was nearly kicked out of Afghanistan when he mistakenly showed a map of troop movements in the area on Fox News.
As long as they're not showing an exact (or near exact) location on a map, they seem to be ok.
So yes, the media is censored at times when it comes to troop movements.
Are you on crack? XP can do this easily. Simply end the "explorer" task and then start a new one with runas using your credentials. Presto, you're logged in as you.
Of course the user will have to make sure everything's saved. Why wait for them to be there though? Just save all their work and do a runas. In fact, for most tasks, you don't even need to kill explorer. Explorer usually only needs to be killed with some application installs. For most everything else (adding printers, adding users, giving permissions, etc), a simple right-click and runas works just fine.
Of course they did. You can buy cheap or you can buy quality. If it's cheap, it shows. If it's quality, it's going to cost more, but it's worth it.
if you are not in the game of infringing on copyrights and such, for example a business, you will want correctly licensed copy of OS on a machine. Suggesting that a business or a person actually just installs a copy of XP without a license is dumb, not the other way around, and if the person or the business needs yet another machine and desires to have XP on it, the correct behaviour is to require that it is sold to you.
Or that you purchase a Vista license and simply install a copy of XP, which is perfectly acceptable to Microsoft.
this is nonsense. The value of a piece of software is not attached to the date the software was built (in case when this is existing software and not a new product anyway.)
Actually it is. Or are you saying that you'd still pay full retail price for a copy of Windows 95? The value of Windows 95 is either 0 or close to it. Likewise, the value of XP goes down each day. Each day XP gets closer to its end of life. When that comes about, XP will also be worth near 0.
Eventually everyone will have drivers that work on Vista. Eventually all games will be written for DX10 (that might take a year or two, but it will happen). Do you really think manufacturers aren't going to write Vista drivers just because very few people are buying Vista right now? Do you really think game developers are going to forego the new features in DX10 just because very few gamers are running Vista? And that's despite the fact that there are currently two DX10 only games in development. New hardware marches on, as does new software.
I bet if this were a discussion on the successor to OS X, everyone would be claiming there's no reason to stick with the old stuff (it works doesn't it?). OS X will have and end of life at some point as well. It's really the only way to get people to upgrade. Upgrading to Vista is no different than upgrading OS X (despite what the commercials would have you think). It'll be slow at first, but it'll happen eventually. And we'll be right back here in a few years talking about the same thing when MS releases their next OS.
White or black, throwing hip hop slang into your sentences still makes you sound like a jackass.
So there were 3 movies available on hi-def formats? :P
Speeding is illegal, but we don't have cars with speed limiting governors (we'd just remove them anyway); we have police to punish you for violating the limits.
Actually we do. Not everyone removes them because not everyone knows how. They're usually set pretty high, but the point is that cars do have speed limiting governors.
If, on the other hand, you bring in a used monitor you got for free or $50 or so, you can do whatever you want with no hassle, and it put no obligation on the company. If anyone has any jealousy issues about it, the company can just say, "You're free to bring in an extra monitor for yourself if you want it too."
Where does that stop though? So someone decides they need a faster computer for surfing the net and doing email. They ask for something faster and are told they don't really need it. Let's assume for now they have a single core P4 2.8 GHz. They've been reading about these "new fangled dual core" computers that are a lot faster and they want one, but they don't really need it. So you tell them they can bring in their own monitor and they end up bringing in a whole system.
If you work for a small company with a small network, it probably won't even be noticed. However, now you run into the problem that you don't know 1) what Anti-Virus they're running (assume Windows) and 2) whether or not it's being kept up to date. Also, maybe you end up rolling out some changes, but they don't get the changes because they're on their own system. Sure, if you've got a domain controller, they won't even be able to access the network, but they'll just end up figuring out a way to do it themselves (especially in a really small company).
You also run into the problem of who owns the equipment if something tragic happens to the employee? Does the next of kin take it back or does it stay at the job? What if they get pissed off and decide to take everything they've brought in with them when they suddenly leave?
My point is, make them understand that you can be more productive with two monitors. If they don't understand that, bring one in on a trial basis and even offer to let them buy it from you (cheaper than a brand new one). And if management can't handle telling other people that you need it and they don't, perhaps you need new management for that reason and not because they won't get you a second monitor.
On a side note, we have an engineer here that jokingly asked for a second monitor one day. He said "Wouldn't it be cool if I had two monitors?" I said it would be and that he should ask his boss. Well, his boss pretty much approves anything if he's not directly involved with it (the monitor could have cost $2000 and his boss would've said yes). So he got one and then the other engineer wanted a second one. The other engineer has been working fine for 2 or more years without two monitors and suddenly "it would be nice if I had a second one, so let's get a computer that has the capabilities for two displays". Apparently he didn't know he could already do this. Anyway, these guys didn't really need two monitors (the first stretches Solidworks across both displays, the second periodically reads PDF specs on one while designing on the other), but they gave us such a hard time about it once the idea came up that they wouldn't let it go (well, the first one, the new guy, was willing to let it go, but the second one, who has been here longer, kept bugging). Were the two new monitors expensive? No, they weren't, but they do eat into the companies profit sharing program.
Of course the $40,000 3D printer they just got eats into it more. That'll actually save the company money though, so it was worthwhile.
Aside from the 3D virus hacking environment, Nvidia does sell graphics cards that let you do 4 monitors per card, so you can get 8 displays. The Quadro NVS 440. So 6 monitors isn't really that outlandish.
The parent poster, however, was comparing a freshly-downloaded Linux ISO
And what freshly-downloaded Linux distribution is fully patched on every ISO download? None that I know of. Download Fedora Core 6 today vs 6 months from now. It's the same ISO and will need the same patches installed.
So now we compare a 5 or 6 year old OS to an ISO that was released within the last few months? Yeah, that's realistic.
Either way you're going to have to make a custom disc, unless you like downloading new ISO's every week.
And I suppose you read all the source code of all the services you run on your Linux box before you run them? I also suppose that you compile everything from source, but only after pouring through all the sources to make sure it's only doing what it says it's doing?
I guess you don't use your computer for much.
If you're lazy, steal from your employer, go to work drunk, act like a total jerk to your fellow employees then you should lose your job. But to lose your job when the fat cat CEO earns five hundred times what you do so that the company can hire a replacement for you at a lower pay rate, well, that's just plain damned evil.
You're right, it is evil. Hopefully this news will keep people from applying to Circuit City. I know I sure as hell would not want to work somewhere that's going to do something like this. With no one wanting to pickup those jobs, they'll just fall further and further until they've declared bankruptcy and closed down the whole chain. In fact, even if I wasn't one of the ones layed off, I'd definitely be looking for a new job now. Despite the stock price going up, this is going to prove to be disastrous for them. Hell, start a boycott if you want. They may sell some decent stuff, but they treat their employees like shit, so there's no reason to patronize them.
Hopefully people will remember this so that if the mere idea ever creeps into another CEO's head he'll forget about it instantly or risk losing his company.
Or they were happy making $30k per year. Yeah, the high paid ones were making $15 per hour. That doesn't exactly scream improving oneself to me.
As another poster said, why not go start their own business. These employees should get together and start a new company. If they're all intelligent and willing to work hard, maybe they can beat CC at their own game.
This is correct. Circuit City employees use to get commission. That's where Best Buy's line "Don't worry, I'm not on commission" came from. Best Buy doesn't employ this line anymore since Circuit City employees aren't on commission anymore.
The change is very obvious from the way things use to be. Go into a Circuit City during dead time. You won't feel like you're swimming amongst sharks these days. It use to be that the moment you walked through the door during a dead season (basically anytime it's not the holidays), someone would ask you if you needed help with anything. Now, you're lucky to find help unless you look really confused. Hell, if it's not a busy season now, you won't get help without asking. They have no incentive to help people as much as they use to since there's no money in it for them.
I use to hate shopping at Circuit City because I wanted to avoid the salesmen until I had a chance to look at some product. Now, it's not much different than shopping at Best Buy.
C:\WINXP>ifconfig
.bashrc.
'ifconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\WINXP>doskey ifconfig=ipconfig
It's never ceased to amaze me the sheer number of workarounds one collects when using or administering Linux systems. To say nothing of the endless variations of config files and values that must be memorised, but change frequently enough (or are different between distros) to remind you that the sum total of your knowledge is mostly a collection of useless trivia.
Yes, that can be made to always run (from the registry), just like yours will run from
Maybe our places of employment use MS formats. Maybe our customers use MS formats. Most people do. If your customers demand you send them MS office files, what are you going to do?
Ask them if a PDF is ok. Unless you're dealing with a government (local, state, or federal), I've found that most places happily accept a PDF document. Well, except headhunters, but they're a different story altogether. I've seen a fair number of headhunters ask for Word document resumes for jobs for Unix admins. Uh, hello, Word does not run on Unix.
I'm not suggesting that anyone use OO.o (I still don't think it's there yet), but if you want to use it, printing your files to PDF before sending them to someone is the way to go.
Personally, I don't understand why humans are so clock oriented vs sun oriented. It kills me that houses in the US are built in random directions (unless there is a nice view) instead of oriented around the Sun.
Random directions? Most of the homes in Orange County California are built facing either North or South. Irvine might be a little different (all their roads twist and turn to much), but I'm willing to bet they're built the same way. The houses on the beach are probably the only ones built facing East/West.
4 flavors of Windows that were all mostly compatible with each other or at least looked the same (if we count from Win95, NT, and 98). You could throw Windows 2000 in there too since it was technically released in 1999.
Anytime before that and there was only 1 version of Windows. Windows 3.1 and later 3.11 for Workgroups. Those were essentially the same version of Windows though.
The growth of the PC market can be attributed to that and the fact that PC prices plummeted during that time.
Ours (my wife and I) did this. Or should I say mine did this when we first got it. Turned out to be a bad battery. We basically swapped batteries for a few weeks. She thought I was nuts until it happened to her. I use my phone a lot and she uses hers very little. Once it happened on her phone, we knew it was the battery. Took forever to get a replacement. It was such an odd problem that customer service kept wanting us to swap the batteries and see if it happened again. Yeah, it happens rarely, so of course it'll do it while you're on the phone with customer service. Anyway, we ended up having to talk directly to Motorola (our service is through T-Mobile) and they sent us a replacement battery.
Aside from the phone being slow (I don't pay attention to what the screen says most of the time, it catches up eventually), we haven't had any other problems. Of course, since it's slow, you have to be careful when dialing numbers, otherwise it sometimes misses a digit.
Macs and OSX are less secure than Windows? HAHA Though there might be some I haven't heard of any Mac virii out in the wild however there are hundreds if not thousands of Window virii on the loose. Spyware? Same, well XP and Vista is spyware. Spyware that constantly phones home and refuses to run if it can't.
It's not the virii or spyware that he was referring to. He was referring to trying to put a Mac on a Windows 2003 domain. It can't be done natively without destroying the security of the Windows domain. You either turn off all the security that MS has added due to complaints or you get a third party program that lets the Mac talk to the domain securely.
Yes, I did this recently. No, it wasn't fun at all. Macs are anything but easy to use when it comes to communicating with a Windows 2003 domain. They're also a pain to use with Exchange, just like the OP said.
You probably saw it on the History channel. That's where I saw it. And it wasn't that they didn't introduce the technology sooner, it was that the technology wasn't available sooner. It wasn't really until the advent of the personal computer that they were actually able to do it. Before then, yes, the NYSE was closed for a few days each week so the people that were processing the trades could catch up with that weeks trades. Yes, it was PEOPLE doing the processing, not COMPUTERS like they have today.