Right-clicking isn't at all difficult on a laptop, at least on my Thinkpad. And I have the added bonus of an actual middle button.
A (any) Mac OS was not my first OS, so I can really comment on the single mouse button operation's usefulness. I do occasionally run OSX on my Thinkpad in VMWare and am able to take advantage of all buttons, though.
Would it be harder to support a lot of different hardware? Of course! So what? They need to stop being cowards and take the plunge.
I think it would be more than difficult. While certainly not the case with some hardware manufacturers, I'm willing to bet that many other manufacturers have signed agreements with Microsoft, giving an amount of exculsivity to them.
I pretty much agree with you if they're broadcast over-the-air shows, but some of the most popular shows being downloaded are actually shows on HBO, SHO, etc, which are premium channels with no commercials to begin with.
That being said, I can also understand why people continue to do it: Premium cable is not at all cheap.
He wants a system that will dual boot Windows and Linux, which suggests to me that he wants to use existing hardware, otherwise I'm betting he'd have said he was looking for new hardware to put Windows and Linux on.
And every single suggestion of OSX fails to take this into account. The only way you can legally get OSX is to buy new Apple hardware. Sure, you can run Maxxuss' Tiger under VmWare, but from first hand experience, it's dog slow. A great way to test out OSX, to be sure, but I certainly wouldn't want to run it that way on a daily basis.
I would love to confirm these thoughts, but all of the people I've tried to contact to ask why they're selling their systems either declined to comment or didn't have time.
Equally, if your employer wanted extra stuff, though, then he or she should be forced to spell it out.
Absolutely. Most reasonable people who have been working for a least a little while know to ask (or maybe I'm just giving people too much credit). For example, if you get an offer letter that says your job description may change over time (I actually received one with that phrase), you seriously need to ask what those changes will be. Since they bothered to mention it in the offer letter, they should have no problem telling you what those changes may be. If you don't get the answer you were hoping for, maybe you should reconsider accepting the job.
I said "They're already paying you to do your job."
If you wanted or expected more, you should have asked for it up front. It amazes me that people complain about not getting something they didn't ask for in the first place.
When I was working for corporations, I always expected a bonus, gifts, whatever at holiday time and was nearly always dissapointed.
Now that I've been working for myself the last couple of years, I don't make as much money as I did with corporations, but I'm generally a happier person, in that I can set my own hours (well, somewhat) and spend more time with my family and friends. That to me is far more useful than any trinket or bonus.
I've also come to realize that token gifts from the company NEVER meant anything, and was never anything I could ever use - the corporate logo paperweight fits that bill - much like the years of service gifts with the coporate logos on them.
Sure, when I got bonuses the extra money was nice, but really, it's not something anyone should come to expect.
Don't expect anything and you won't be dissappointed. They're already paying you to do you job.
Happy Windows ME users were few and far between in my experience.
True, but then (if I remember correctly), ME wasn't out there for very long either. Not that it was replaced with anything very qucily, but I think retailers still had the choice of having 98 loaded onto PCs and stayed with that.
And the few people I knew that actually got a machine with 98 installed pretty much immediately went back to 98. Remember that back then you didn't normally have a restore CD, you had the full install media for 98.
At least I like to think I'm normal. Some (mostly family) may disagree.
I maily use it while traveling though. I still lug my laptop around when travelling, but if I'm on a plane, it's just much easier to pull out my Zaurus (3000) and stowaway keyboard and start working. Or listen to music. Or watch movies/shows (that took some work to set up, but once set up, all was good). And frankly, when it comes to watching shows, I'd much rather have something I can turn away from my neighbor yet still see myself than have my neighbor crane his/her neck to watch what I'm watching.
Once I'm in my hotel room or back home, sure the laptop comes out, but for travelling I' mall over the Zaurus.
Making money should be a secondary concern to their primary purpose - delivering good tv to a British audience.
But as someone living in the US who enjoys good good british tv, I'd gladly pay good money. You have some good shows that are unavailable to us. My current favorite is Catherine Tate. Yes, she's all over Youtube, but if I could download high-def episodes, all the better.
appears to be taking a page out of the M$ playbook and tying the device tightly to the OS to drive OS X sales.
So what? If sales end up being so dismally low with Mac-only integration, they'll open it up to Windows users as well, much like they did with iTunes. Apple is every bit as proprietary as Microsoft. Let 'em do what they want, but ultimately the shareholders will decide.
My point was that if I were to spend 400 dollars (which, BTW, is what the Intel Classmate PC costs with much less onboard), why on earth wouldn't I buy a full-fledged laptop?
400 dollars is still 400 dollars, whether for a scaled down laptop or for a full-blown laptop.
We've all seen a case or two when a tech moves into management. Rarely is it a smooth transition.
I think it's great if a manager keeps up on technology, but once you're a manager, don't step on your workers' job responsibilities. I once had a manager who would constantly say things like "When I was doing it, I always did it this way. Try that." Yeah, that's nice and all that, but when you were doing it, the kernel was at level 2.0.13. Things have changed enough that the way you used to do it no longer works. It got old pretty quick.
since you can still download the source and compile it. If you don't feel like compiling, there are rpms that are easily found on sites such as rpm.pbone.net. They'll probably always be easy to find as long as the source is available.
I mean, really. Have you driven anywhere and NOT seen an iPod billboard. Or taken a train and NOT seen 8 cars with iPod ads plastered on the side? Or did you miss Oprah and Bono shopping together for an iPod (and we all know how middle-aged women in the US take her word as gospel)?
Seriously, Microsoft has not done anywhere near the amount of marketing that Apple has done. That may change the closer we get to Christmas, we'll see. Frankly, I think flooding the market with ads this close to the holidays is a wash.
But to say that the iPod is popular because of its superior design is subjective. Surely you remember hearing about screen problems, surface scratching, sleep mode problems. Problems arise, they fix them (or at least we hope they do). I suspect any technical problems with the Zune will be addressed by Microsoft as well.
True enough, but now you've got people like President Arroyo of the Phillipines using "second world" incorrectly, which just highlights how outdated these terms are.
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A (any) Mac OS was not my first OS, so I can really comment on the single mouse button operation's usefulness. I do occasionally run OSX on my Thinkpad in VMWare and am able to take advantage of all buttons, though.
You can, albeit slow and illegal. Use Maxxuss' tiger image (found all over the place) and vmware.
Like I said, it's slow, but it works.
No proof, of course, but it would seem logical.
I pretty much agree with you if they're broadcast over-the-air shows, but some of the most popular shows being downloaded are actually shows on HBO, SHO, etc, which are premium channels with no commercials to begin with.
That being said, I can also understand why people continue to do it: Premium cable is not at all cheap.
He wants a system that will dual boot Windows and Linux, which suggests to me that he wants to use existing hardware, otherwise I'm betting he'd have said he was looking for new hardware to put Windows and Linux on.
And every single suggestion of OSX fails to take this into account. The only way you can legally get OSX is to buy new Apple hardware. Sure, you can run Maxxuss' Tiger under VmWare, but from first hand experience, it's dog slow. A great way to test out OSX, to be sure, but I certainly wouldn't want to run it that way on a daily basis.
No it didn't, particularly when he's specifically asking for a Linux system.
And posted anonymously by Jason, no less.
Absolutely. Most reasonable people who have been working for a least a little while know to ask (or maybe I'm just giving people too much credit). For example, if you get an offer letter that says your job description may change over time (I actually received one with that phrase), you seriously need to ask what those changes will be. Since they bothered to mention it in the offer letter, they should have no problem telling you what those changes may be. If you don't get the answer you were hoping for, maybe you should reconsider accepting the job.
If you wanted or expected more, you should have asked for it up front. It amazes me that people complain about not getting something they didn't ask for in the first place.
When I was working for corporations, I always expected a bonus, gifts, whatever at holiday time and was nearly always dissapointed.
Now that I've been working for myself the last couple of years, I don't make as much money as I did with corporations, but I'm generally a happier person, in that I can set my own hours (well, somewhat) and spend more time with my family and friends. That to me is far more useful than any trinket or bonus.
I've also come to realize that token gifts from the company NEVER meant anything, and was never anything I could ever use - the corporate logo paperweight fits that bill - much like the years of service gifts with the coporate logos on them.
Sure, when I got bonuses the extra money was nice, but really, it's not something anyone should come to expect.
Don't expect anything and you won't be dissappointed. They're already paying you to do you job.
What am I missing?
I maily use it while traveling though. I still lug my laptop around when travelling, but if I'm on a plane, it's just much easier to pull out my Zaurus (3000) and stowaway keyboard and start working. Or listen to music. Or watch movies/shows (that took some work to set up, but once set up, all was good). And frankly, when it comes to watching shows, I'd much rather have something I can turn away from my neighbor yet still see myself than have my neighbor crane his/her neck to watch what I'm watching.
Once I'm in my hotel room or back home, sure the laptop comes out, but for travelling I' mall over the Zaurus.
But as someone living in the US who enjoys good good british tv, I'd gladly pay good money. You have some good shows that are unavailable to us. My current favorite is Catherine Tate. Yes, she's all over Youtube, but if I could download high-def episodes, all the better.
Your comment history says a lot.
So what? If sales end up being so dismally low with Mac-only integration, they'll open it up to Windows users as well, much like they did with iTunes. Apple is every bit as proprietary as Microsoft. Let 'em do what they want, but ultimately the shareholders will decide.
400 dollars is still 400 dollars, whether for a scaled down laptop or for a full-blown laptop.
Plus, it's too big to be a PDA, too small to be a usable laptop. Maybe a decent movie player, but that seems about it.
That's the nature of statistics.
And fanboys.
You should check your ping times.
I think it's great if a manager keeps up on technology, but once you're a manager, don't step on your workers' job responsibilities. I once had a manager who would constantly say things like "When I was doing it, I always did it this way. Try that." Yeah, that's nice and all that, but when you were doing it, the kernel was at level 2.0.13. Things have changed enough that the way you used to do it no longer works. It got old pretty quick.
since you can still download the source and compile it. If you don't feel like compiling, there are rpms that are easily found on sites such as rpm.pbone.net. They'll probably always be easy to find as long as the source is available.
The loss of revenue through traffic tickets alone is enough to make this unfeasible in the US, let alone any other big city across the globe.
Seriously, Microsoft has not done anywhere near the amount of marketing that Apple has done. That may change the closer we get to Christmas, we'll see. Frankly, I think flooding the market with ads this close to the holidays is a wash.
But to say that the iPod is popular because of its superior design is subjective. Surely you remember hearing about screen problems, surface scratching, sleep mode problems. Problems arise, they fix them (or at least we hope they do). I suspect any technical problems with the Zune will be addressed by Microsoft as well.
True enough, but now you've got people like President Arroyo of the Phillipines using "second world" incorrectly, which just highlights how outdated these terms are.