Exchange 5.5 running on an old 500MHz Compaq ProLiant 3000 Total Emails 1/27/04: 5526 (that's about double our average) MyDoom infected messages 1/27/04: 1515 (Ouch!)
However performance hasn't degraded much overall, I only notice it because I'm the dork that monitors the damn thing... end users aren't feeling a thing.
Dell just brought their support back to Texas after losing the "No. 1 in Customer Service Surveys" spot for a while. I think it got posted on/. a while back...
Why does an education entitle you to anything?, let alone a good paying job. Wake up, once education became accesable to all, a degree isn't a golden ticket to success anymore. Now you need a degree to compete for the opportunity.
Education is accessable to all? When did this happen and why was I never informed. And to think... I dropped out of college because I thought I couldn't afford it...
'There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore,' Carly Fiorina, chief executive for Hewlett-Packard Co., said Wednesday.
"...that's why we fired so many people" she continued, "the only God given right is new private jets for the executives, and how are we supposed to afford those while paying the people who do the real work here enough money to live in America?"
However, I was a little dissapointed by the price of the new iPod mini. At $250 (just $50 less than the (now) 15Gb iPod) I can't really see how it's worth it. I'll just pay another $50 and get an iPod that can hold my entire music library. Not sure what they were thinking with that price.
It is indeed an interesting marketing strategy but I have a few thoughts on why.
Apple is currently the leader in MP3 player sales with ~30% market share and a steady stream of iPod purchasers. If they were to open the door with these mini-iPods and start selling at $100 (the original rumored price) it would potentially eat into their 15- 20- & 40- gig model sales. So in order not to cannibalize their own product line, they offer the "new, hot thing" at a somewhat prohibitivly expensive price- all the people that have "gotta have a pink iPod" or "gotta be the first on my block with one" will buy now, leaving Apple the ability to, as 15+ gig iPod sales fall, drop the price significantly.
...Or maybe these were pushed rather quickly to market (*cough cough* panther anyone?) to have them in time for the expo so they throw an "only a fool would buy one" price tag on it ($50 bucks more for over 3x the storage... just cant get it in pink...) and wait for rev. 2 to drop the price.
Either way, Ms. Cleo sees a big price drop in the near future...
I want to know where the hell they get their data from... I'm not really going to put much faith in their stats though, as these are the same people who claim that only 13% of people who use the internet have been to an "adult website".
You pay HOW MUCH??? Around here SBC offers "low-end" business DSL for $27/mo. Granted you'll probably want something better than 384/128, but for $10 bucks more you can get 1500/384. That should be fine to meet the demands of initial users at a small establishment and obviously, as demand/revenue grows, so too can the bandwidth.
...we don't want the 'creative' customers going crazy with that 54Mb pipe (11Mb should be more then enough for the average customer).
...and then some. I dont know too many folks who go to coffee shops to set up a LAN or a file & print server... Sure that router says 54 or 11 MBps, but you're really looking at the 1.5 - 3 MBps range as far as actual internet bandwidth goes. I don't think a "Mom & Pop" coffee shop's tip jar is going to be supporting a T3 just yet...:)
Do you really think your average barista is going to want to deal with Linux when something goes awry?
The "average barista" works at Starbucks who have their APs set up and managed by T-Mobile... 99% of the time, baristas dont have to deal with the APs (if they are even aware that they exist).
the thing is, these "coffee jockies" aren't really the ones selling the access, at least as far as Starbucks goes (my fiancee was a barista for a long while). You can't go up to the counter and say "Venti Soy Latte and and hour of wi-fi"... Everything is handled by T-mobile and you need a T-Mobile account to use the APs. Most employees there don't even know it exits and it's more of a "partnership" deal anyway than a new service Starbucks is offering, the stores themselves only benefit from increased traffic, not a direct cut of the $10/hour T-Mobile is billing you.
On a recent trip to starbucks I found 3 other APs (unencrypted, no auth. necessary) within the same strip mall, and all accessable from my latte drinking ass. I wonder how many clueless folks have booted up their default laptops and accidentally locked on to those instead of the Starbucks "tmobile" AP? (...because that how I did it... uhm... "accidentally"). And all for free...
*All the DVDs of FLCL , both volumes of the FLCL manga and both sountracks
*"Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance" for the PS2 (2-player so she can play with me!)
*A Bionicle robot
*Master Gundam Deluxe Action Figure...
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Total Emails 1/27/04: 5526 (that's about double our average)
MyDoom infected messages 1/27/04: 1515 (Ouch!)
However performance hasn't degraded much overall, I only notice it because I'm the dork that monitors the damn thing... end users aren't feeling a thing.
Dry-El? That's Superman's brother, right?
Heavily caffinated beverages
Free Wi-Fi network (maybe a discount for those that bring their own boxen?)
Have the gaming area and a separate lounge-y area (kind of like bowling alleys)
Keep the Yakuza at bay... Im afraid to go to the gaming centers in my area because they're all asian gang run and folks keep getting shot...
Correct that it wont save to pdf, but it "prints" to PDF via a number of "distillers"
I can just see it now... "Is that a power strip in your pocket...?"
that's why s/he posted as "Anonymous Coward"... duh.
oh c'mon, what self respecting geek doen't have access to that kind of stuff...
and it's fumes don't burn out quite as many neurons as do the fumes from burning plastic.
but they're not nearly as fun!
Dell just brought their support back to Texas after losing the "No. 1 in Customer Service Surveys" spot for a while. I think it got posted on /. a while back...
because it's the first post in this thread that isn't a troll and people with mod points are lazy?
Apple is currently the leader in MP3 player sales with ~30% market share and a steady stream of iPod purchasers. If they were to open the door with these mini-iPods and start selling at $100 (the original rumored price) it would potentially eat into their 15- 20- & 40- gig model sales. So in order not to cannibalize their own product line, they offer the "new, hot thing" at a somewhat prohibitivly expensive price- all the people that have "gotta have a pink iPod" or "gotta be the first on my block with one" will buy now, leaving Apple the ability to, as 15+ gig iPod sales fall, drop the price significantly.
...Or maybe these were pushed rather quickly to market (*cough cough* panther anyone?) to have them in time for the expo so they throw an "only a fool would buy one" price tag on it ($50 bucks more for over 3x the storage... just cant get it in pink...) and wait for rev. 2 to drop the price.
Either way, Ms. Cleo sees a big price drop in the near future...
I want to know where the hell they get their data from... I'm not really going to put much faith in their stats though, as these are the same people who claim that only 13% of people who use the internet have been to an "adult website".
You pay HOW MUCH??? Around here SBC offers "low-end" business DSL for $27/mo. Granted you'll probably want something better than 384/128, but for $10 bucks more you can get 1500/384. That should be fine to meet the demands of initial users at a small establishment and obviously, as demand/revenue grows, so too can the bandwidth.
...and then some. I dont know too many folks who go to coffee shops to set up a LAN or a file & print server... Sure that router says 54 or 11 MBps, but you're really looking at the 1.5 - 3 MBps range as far as actual internet bandwidth goes. I don't think a "Mom & Pop" coffee shop's tip jar is going to be supporting a T3 just yet...
The "average barista" works at Starbucks who have their APs set up and managed by T-Mobile... 99% of the time, baristas dont have to deal with the APs (if they are even aware that they exist).
spend the extra $10/month for "business grade" DSL where you get a 1.5MBps uplink... problem solved...
the thing is, these "coffee jockies" aren't really the ones selling the access, at least as far as Starbucks goes (my fiancee was a barista for a long while). You can't go up to the counter and say "Venti Soy Latte and and hour of wi-fi"... Everything is handled by T-mobile and you need a T-Mobile account to use the APs. Most employees there don't even know it exits and it's more of a "partnership" deal anyway than a new service Starbucks is offering, the stores themselves only benefit from increased traffic, not a direct cut of the $10/hour T-Mobile is billing you.
So be nice to those baristas...
On a recent trip to starbucks I found 3 other APs (unencrypted, no auth. necessary) within the same strip mall, and all accessable from my latte drinking ass. I wonder how many clueless folks have booted up their default laptops and accidentally locked on to those instead of the Starbucks "tmobile" AP? (...because that how I did it... uhm... "accidentally"). And all for free...
*All the DVDs of FLCL , both volumes of the FLCL manga and both sountracks
...all that and I pick up my iPod tomorrow...
*"Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance" for the PS2 (2-player so she can play with me!)
*A Bionicle robot
*Master Gundam Deluxe Action Figure...
best...christmas... evar...
It is Tekken, but no need for apologies my good sir.
Seems that Black Label Games has acquired the "interactive rights" to the movie and were supposed to release it for the XBox, PS2 & PC, sometime in '04. However, last I heard it got axed in production, so you have nothing to fear. Frankly, I'm waaaay more interested in the . Seems as if it could really kick ass... or suck. Only time will tell...