Forget the 2megapixel camera, I want cheap LCD's. Hopefully the hardware gurus recycle all of the parts, so we can have a webcam, a display, and a memory stick, all for the low low price of $20.00
Everyone blames the chinese, but the ads are written in english, for american products, and targetted at americans. The Chinese are just a relay, and being blamed as spammers, when they should be blamed for not keeping their computers secure.
And I suppose that the sanctions on software, language barrier, and lack of skilled people have nothing to do with it?
Well to everyone on Slashdot this is old news.
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I've been using Linux desktops for six years, and I still impress my boss with the applications available for it, the ease of use, and the compatibility.
Aside from our accounting package, there is nothing really holding us to Windows. E-mail, Web, DNS, and our main business programs run on some flavour of *nix, including the evil version, and with Mono/C#/.NET, we are starting to develop platform agnostic versions of most of our other apps.
All we need is a good platform-independant financials package, and we would be able to use any platform we wanted to.
I have an Averatec laptop with built in Wi-fi and a D-link 514 Router on the 2nd floor of my house. I get 100% coverage inside my house, and can even go four or so houses in any direction. My SMC 802.11a/b card doesn't get me off my front porch.
"The printers aren't working!" "I went searching on the internet and I'm getting popups!" "Why can't you convert that scanned image to text?" "I spilled water on my keyboard" "I spilled Pepsi all over my $300 phone" "My mouse isn't working... (replace it three times, notice water on the keyboard). That shouldn't have broken it." "My computer that sits in a telnet shell all day isn't fast enough for me to look for new houses." "Why can't I spend all day on Pogo games?" "I don't care how important that server install or network install is, my mouse is dirty, and it's not rolling smoothly!" "I still can't print!" "The laser printer is always jammed in the corner and covered with paper, thereby not allowing it to breathe and frying every six months because I like to put my newspaper on this side of my desk. Why do you ask?" Why can't I use Wordperfect anymore. I don't like Word."
I fear that I will have my personal information stolen. I am uncertain that the IE Developers are competent programmers. I doubt that I will switch back to IE in the near future.
The company is also very keen to highlight the place that the new platform holds in its long term plans to migrate from the Alpha chipset to Itanium 2. HP once again confirmed its commitment to support existing users through the migration process for all of the supported operating systems, including True64 and Open VMS.
My company provides me with a Cell phone. They do not pay for my internet feed, which I could not care less about, as it is unmetered. They can call me at any time, but are always apologetic about it. One person ordered me in to fix a computer on a Sunday night, when there were five others available for her to use. I politely refused, fixed it Monday morning, and forwarded her snotty e-mail concerning not wanting to come in to fix a broken mouse to my boss, who gave her a written warning on the spot.
Furthermore, we implemented a product life-cycle that is realistic. We don't expect a ten year old PC to continue to function, so we replace them. We may repurpose the box, but nothing over four years old is used as mission-critical. That way, I get called only in emergencies. Amazingly, this allows me to support three locations, ten servers on seven platforms, and almost a hundred users.
In short, they pay $50 bucks for my phone, and can call me anytime, but they take important steps to prevent the problem rather than squeeze the budgets and require more IT staff.
They constantly need to be updated with new address lists and new spam messages to be effective
We're talking about how much spam is sent, not how much is received. They don't have to be effective at delivering mail, just effective at saturating your companies very expensive T3 line.
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You pretty much summed up mine.
Forget the 2megapixel camera, I want cheap LCD's.
Hopefully the hardware gurus recycle all of the parts, so we can have a webcam, a display, and a memory stick, all for the low low price of $20.00
is sell Type R stickers, hood scoops, and big wings for the back!
Sorry Tom, but the internet is a very effective form of birth control. Just look around here.
$8499 MSRP.
Everyone blames the chinese, but the ads are written in english, for american products, and targetted at americans. The Chinese are just a relay, and being blamed as spammers, when they should be blamed for not keeping their computers secure.
And I suppose that the sanctions on software, language barrier, and lack of skilled people have nothing to do with it?
That's what you think!
I've been using Linux desktops for six years, and I still impress my boss with the applications available for it, the ease of use, and the compatibility.
Aside from our accounting package, there is nothing really holding us to Windows. E-mail, Web, DNS, and our main business programs run on some flavour of *nix, including the evil version, and with Mono/C#/.NET, we are starting to develop platform agnostic versions of most of our other apps.
All we need is a good platform-independant financials package, and we would be able to use any platform we wanted to.
Just look at what Google is doing today.
I have an Averatec laptop with built in Wi-fi and a D-link 514 Router on the 2nd floor of my house. I get 100% coverage inside my house, and can even go four or so houses in any direction. My SMC 802.11a/b card doesn't get me off my front porch.
If she's hot, I'll take care of it. Just send her over!
"The printers aren't working!" ."
"I went searching on the internet and I'm getting popups!"
"Why can't you convert that scanned image to text?"
"I spilled water on my keyboard"
"I spilled Pepsi all over my $300 phone"
"My mouse isn't working... (replace it three times, notice water on the keyboard). That shouldn't have broken it."
"My computer that sits in a telnet shell all day isn't fast enough for me to look for new houses
"Why can't I spend all day on Pogo games?"
"I don't care how important that server install or network install is, my mouse is dirty, and it's not rolling smoothly!"
"I still can't print!"
"The laser printer is always jammed in the corner and covered with paper, thereby not allowing it to breathe and frying every six months because I like to put my newspaper on this side of my desk. Why do you ask?"
Why can't I use Wordperfect anymore. I don't like Word."
Ad Nausea....
This is really going to get me in shit with the wife.
But all the FUD was created by IE anyways.
I fear that I will have my personal information stolen.
I am uncertain that the IE Developers are competent programmers.
I doubt that I will switch back to IE in the near future.
Yes.
The company is also very keen to highlight the place that the new platform holds in its long term plans to migrate from the Alpha chipset to Itanium 2. HP once again confirmed its commitment to support existing users through the migration process for all of the supported operating systems, including True64 and Open VMS.
It was featured on Fark.
Hey, I can't spend all my time here.
but Realdoll comes close to filling the rest of your requirements, if you substitute the blue hair with pink.
Perfect for the Anime Nerd everywhere.
My company provides me with a Cell phone. They do not pay for my internet feed, which I could not care less about, as it is unmetered. They can call me at any time, but are always apologetic about it. One person ordered me in to fix a computer on a Sunday night, when there were five others available for her to use. I politely refused, fixed it Monday morning, and forwarded her snotty e-mail concerning not wanting to come in to fix a broken mouse to my boss, who gave her a written warning on the spot.
Furthermore, we implemented a product life-cycle that is realistic. We don't expect a ten year old PC to continue to function, so we replace them. We may repurpose the box, but nothing over four years old is used as mission-critical. That way, I get called only in emergencies. Amazingly, this allows me to support three locations, ten servers on seven platforms, and almost a hundred users.
In short, they pay $50 bucks for my phone, and can call me anytime, but they take important steps to prevent the problem rather than squeeze the budgets and require more IT staff.
Ugly file format in Word.
Once you're done slashdotting it, I'll see what I can do to convert it.
OpenOffice save as PDF rocks.
A vaccine that hasn't been used in 40 years. So you're left with a bunch of healthy retirees and no children to take care of them?
It'd be like living in florida, everywhere. I'd personally take the H-bomb.
from my tired, cramped hands!
Nobody's going to get fired over this, nobody's going to go to jail over this, nobody's going to even care about this.
If you do, you're un-American. Welcome to McCarthyism, population: you.
They constantly need to be updated with new address lists and new spam messages to be effective
We're talking about how much spam is sent, not how much is received. They don't have to be effective at delivering mail, just effective at saturating your companies very expensive T3 line.
But my 200,000 BTU central Air system works just fine. Want to Lan Party? Bring a Parka!