I picked up a white Zune for $150 off of Woot a month or so ago (I think you can get them off of there now for a bit less when they come up). It cost about as much as a 2gig Ipod nano at the time and had 15x more space. It was much bulkier but it could play videos and I have pockets. I don't care about squirting the music so I turned the wireless off.
So far I'm pretty happy with it and the only things I'd change are that it's difficult to put videos on it, the battery life is shorter than the nano, and it takes longer to recharge but the battery issues aren't bad.
This crazy guy poured his crazy little heart and crazy little soul into this crazy little book and some reasonably respected scientist craps all over it for modest crime of it being terrible. The author is upset about that and wants to punish the reviewer for making him look bad and costing him book sales.
I'm not sure what the best way to handle this situation is since I think scientists have a small but real obligation to expose ridiculous pseudoscience like this. As for the legal mumbo jumbo, my first thought is that counter-suing for something like being brought to court in bad faith is the way to go but establishing intent is very difficult.
On a side note I'd have really liked to see more physicists work this piece of crap over more throughly in public.
I think another big issue is that Google is probably still at that stage where projects are new enough and the organization is new enough where you're actually permitted to accomplish significant things without a mountain of bureaucracy, a long series of pointless meetings, and approval from several large committees. You get the impression that, unlike other software companies, Google hires good people and lets them work instead of keeping them perpetually frustrated.
Eventually, Google's employees will be as over-managed as most other employees at most other software companies.
A lot of people think IT work = cubicles, fat and creepy nerds, impersonal, stressful, long hours, and high turnover or layoffs.
The perceived upsides to IT work are that there are quite a few jobs that have high pay for fairly young people and sometimes you get to play with cool, new stuff. I'm not going to speak for all women but I'm under the impression that women tend to value salary and cool equipment a little less than men tend to do when job hunting and value they may work environment more.
Congress has two reasons to address this. First, we are falling way, way behind other industrialized nations when it comes to communications infastructure. Second, congress passed a bill in the 90's to give tax breaks and hefty regulations changes in exchange for huge upgrades in our national communications system by the telecoms. For the most part the telecoms raised their rates and fees, took the money, and didn't do what they promised.
Finally, it looks like someone is trying to do something about this and a small part of that is clearing up the ridiculous standards used to define broadband availability. I'm glad you are content with your internet access speed but the internet in general is in pretty bad shape these days and American consumers including you (assuming you are American) have been ripped off to the tune of several billion dollars on this deal.
This shooter drill thing is troubling since my plan is nudity. Being a somewhat overweight, hairy guy this would serve many purposes.
1. Distraction - They are coordinating a dangerous operation and the last thing they need is to ponder is what's up with that fat, naked guy. This distraction is just what the SWAT team is looking for.
2. Not a Threat (Mostly) - Unless I'm aroused I'm not going to appear too dangerous at first but in the back of their minds they know they aren't going to want to fight a naked dude.
3. Safety Via Shame - They aren't going to shoot everyone because then no one would be left to explain the naked guy. I don't think there is anything wrong with being gay but there is a good chance that the shooters aren't going to want people to think the fat naked guy thing was their idea of sexy time. At the very least they are going to want to spare a few people to make sure everyone knows that I didn't get naked because they asked me to. My naked ass might not survive that scenario but I'd go out saving a few lives.
My home anti-invasion/burglar scheme is pretty much the same idea. I've near heard of a nudist being robbed.
So if you buy a WMA file from a service that uses Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM (most notably Napster), it won't work with the Zune (which uses Microsoft's Zune DRM).
A thing called PlaysForSure which will not play on something produced by the company that produces both things sounds like what Douglas Adams would write about DRM if he were still around.
It's rare to find a hosptial that doesn't have dozens of software vendors. Getting nearly all of those vendors them to all switch to Linux is impossible.
Then all you need to do is get a giant health care organization to go with a completely untested, nearly unsupported software solution enterprise wide. They'll also need to buy new hardware because their current system is 10-15 years old and retrain 100,000+ people.
nothing to it
It's easier and sometimes cheaper to administer a few hundred Citrix machines than a hundred thousand fat clients. Citrix isn't a requirement for the software but it can make things easier. It shouldn't come as too big of a suprise that the world's largest Citrix install does appear to have some issues.
Software issues vs. Infrastructure issues seem to be getting a bit muddled here. There seems to be quite a lot of blaming the software vendor for hardware infrastructure problems.
God made a minor revision to the inventory control system that accidentally allowed for duping certain large swords when the player equipped them and dropped them at the same time. This will be patched in Earth version 1.0.25
1. Shaving my back with rubbing alcohol and fire+.
2. Testing for the presence of pheromones in ball sweat by putting my hand down my pants, cupping my balls, and holding my hand over my sleeping girlfriend's face while she slept.*
+ I was going to do this while in the shower with the water running off to the side so I could hop into the water in the event of the inevitable accident
* Danger: She's a biter thus the reluctance to tea bag her directly
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I picked up a white Zune for $150 off of Woot a month or so ago (I think you can get them off of there now for a bit less when they come up). It cost about as much as a 2gig Ipod nano at the time and had 15x more space. It was much bulkier but it could play videos and I have pockets. I don't care about squirting the music so I turned the wireless off.
So far I'm pretty happy with it and the only things I'd change are that it's difficult to put videos on it, the battery life is shorter than the nano, and it takes longer to recharge but the battery issues aren't bad.
I like my Zune.
got his or her legal education from a series of DVDs.
The Athlon 4800+ runs at 2.4GHz so this 900+ GPU thing must be really dragging ass.
This crazy guy poured his crazy little heart and crazy little soul into this crazy little book and some reasonably respected scientist craps all over it for modest crime of it being terrible. The author is upset about that and wants to punish the reviewer for making him look bad and costing him book sales.
I'm not sure what the best way to handle this situation is since I think scientists have a small but real obligation to expose ridiculous pseudoscience like this. As for the legal mumbo jumbo, my first thought is that counter-suing for something like being brought to court in bad faith is the way to go but establishing intent is very difficult. On a side note I'd have really liked to see more physicists work this piece of crap over more throughly in public.
I think another big issue is that Google is probably still at that stage where projects are new enough and the organization is new enough where you're actually permitted to accomplish significant things without a mountain of bureaucracy, a long series of pointless meetings, and approval from several large committees. You get the impression that, unlike other software companies, Google hires good people and lets them work instead of keeping them perpetually frustrated.
Eventually, Google's employees will be as over-managed as most other employees at most other software companies.
A lot of people think IT work = cubicles, fat and creepy nerds, impersonal, stressful, long hours, and high turnover or layoffs.
The perceived upsides to IT work are that there are quite a few jobs that have high pay for fairly young people and sometimes you get to play with cool, new stuff. I'm not going to speak for all women but I'm under the impression that women tend to value salary and cool equipment a little less than men tend to do when job hunting and value they may work environment more.
Congress has two reasons to address this. First, we are falling way, way behind other industrialized nations when it comes to communications infastructure. Second, congress passed a bill in the 90's to give tax breaks and hefty regulations changes in exchange for huge upgrades in our national communications system by the telecoms. For the most part the telecoms raised their rates and fees, took the money, and didn't do what they promised.
Finally, it looks like someone is trying to do something about this and a small part of that is clearing up the ridiculous standards used to define broadband availability. I'm glad you are content with your internet access speed but the internet in general is in pretty bad shape these days and American consumers including you (assuming you are American) have been ripped off to the tune of several billion dollars on this deal.
This shooter drill thing is troubling since my plan is nudity. Being a somewhat overweight, hairy guy this would serve many purposes.
1. Distraction - They are coordinating a dangerous operation and the last thing they need is to ponder is what's up with that fat, naked guy. This distraction is just what the SWAT team is looking for.
2. Not a Threat (Mostly) - Unless I'm aroused I'm not going to appear too dangerous at first but in the back of their minds they know they aren't going to want to fight a naked dude.
3. Safety Via Shame - They aren't going to shoot everyone because then no one would be left to explain the naked guy. I don't think there is anything wrong with being gay but there is a good chance that the shooters aren't going to want people to think the fat naked guy thing was their idea of sexy time. At the very least they are going to want to spare a few people to make sure everyone knows that I didn't get naked because they asked me to. My naked ass might not survive that scenario but I'd go out saving a few lives.
My home anti-invasion/burglar scheme is pretty much the same idea. I've near heard of a nudist being robbed.
Speak for yourself there buddy. I have a bad Slashdot thread museum and this is going in my collection.
Hardcore gamers also tend not to mate and thus not reproduce.
It's rare to find a hosptial that doesn't have dozens of software vendors. Getting nearly all of those vendors them to all switch to Linux is impossible.
Then all you need to do is get a giant health care organization to go with a completely untested, nearly unsupported software solution enterprise wide. They'll also need to buy new hardware because their current system is 10-15 years old and retrain 100,000+ people. nothing to it
It's easier and sometimes cheaper to administer a few hundred Citrix machines than a hundred thousand fat clients. Citrix isn't a requirement for the software but it can make things easier. It shouldn't come as too big of a suprise that the world's largest Citrix install does appear to have some issues.
Software issues vs. Infrastructure issues seem to be getting a bit muddled here. There seems to be quite a lot of blaming the software vendor for hardware infrastructure problems.
Are you assuming that their database servers are windows machines?
stealing. The US border guards are stealing computers. How about we make them stop stealing things?
Motherboard wise I'd be a lot more concerned about all of that partially cooked egg on/in his laptop.
My conference is going to be Web 2.1 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 3 Build 5781 and all of those guys are going to feel quite the fool.
The VP then replied, "Oh my God, a talking cow!"
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
God made a minor revision to the inventory control system that accidentally allowed for duping certain large swords when the player equipped them and dropped them at the same time. This will be patched in Earth version 1.0.25
Yep, just like God.
You want filthy to review . . . and then he does.
1. Shaving my back with rubbing alcohol and fire+.
2. Testing for the presence of pheromones in ball sweat by putting my hand down my pants, cupping my balls, and holding my hand over my sleeping girlfriend's face while she slept.*
+ I was going to do this while in the shower with the water running off to the side so I could hop into the water in the event of the inevitable accident
* Danger: She's a biter thus the reluctance to tea bag her directly
I think it is safe to say that the people in the space station now have super powers and at least one is now evil.