Apple fans tend to forget that both Apple and Microsoft "borrowed" most of the design from Xerox Star and qunix (now QNX).
You seem to forget that Apple PAID to "borrow" that info, or actually that rights to go to Xerox and look around were part of a stock deal. Even then, what they thought they saw there wasn't what they saw. Xerox and a desktop with icons that represented commands. Apple misunderstood and thought they saw for the desktop metaphor of drives and all and thus created something different.
Of course, IIRC, I think MS also actually got permission to do such. They asked for the ability to incorporate Apple innovations into their own products so that "we can make Word better (for the Mac)" and then used that permission to create Win95. While technically legal, it wasn't quite ethical.
The sounds like a description of the start menu, and its corresponding bar.
Hmmm.
I wonder why Jobs did not patent the Trashcan/recycle bin utility?
You mean the Apple menu and it's associated bar? As it was pretty much taken directly from the MacOS. There were plenty of other similarities like how holding the shift key down during boot would turn off extensions/go into safe mode. IIRC, they copied Win95 from the MacOS so closely they managed to get some of the bugs in there also.
Jobs should have patented it so that MS wouldn't have copied it when they made Win95. Perhaps he's learned his lesson?
Hell, I was a physics major and everything was on a curve. There was an exam in my upper division E&M classes where the highest score was a 37%, and that was with everybody paying attention and doing the homework. Once you're grading on a curve and learning actually tough subjects, there's no real reason teachers can't make hard tests. Otherwise, their tests are always geared so they get the grades they want out of their students.
Cool, now if I'm really good in that subject (math comes to mind), I can just skip the entire first half of each semester and still get a B in the class!
If kids can't cut it after say 2 or 3 grades being held back, give them some some early out like a GED program say after the 10th grade. It's sad to see high school kids who can barely read because our education system isn't strict enough about standards.
Hell, give the good kids a GED program at 10th grade and get them into college.
That E3 is going to get smaller seems to have been a forgone conclusion. Once they announced their new format, word from everybody I was talking to said companies were already jumping ship and going over to PAX and it would take the place of the old E3, and that the new E3 would wither and die. They are biased towards PAX as we all live in Seattle, however they also are in the industry working for the various game companies up here. It seems that many game companies aren't really hot on the idea of an 'industry only' event because it cripples their ability to promote their games which is the point of such events.
Somehow, I don't think you've actually be in a city that has decent subways or trains before. When you can get a pass that means just hopping on a subway that will go within a few blocks of just about anywhere you'd want to go, they become much more convenient than cars or busses. Especially when considering the parking situation that we have here in Seattle. No more waiting at stop lights or for pedestrians. No looking (or paying) for the parking that you had to circle the block for fifteen minutes just to get. I won't even talk about the cost of my Capitol Hill parking space.
OK, Canada may consider guns to have no value to the private citizen, or at least parts of Canada because I've heard lots of bitching from Canada on gun boards. Anyway, you might want to verify that your goal, reducing murders, is actually affected by the banning of guns. Typically, this is not the case. When gun bans go into effect, after the initial period where there is intensive police activity, you usually see the same murder rates as before the ban. Gun murders do go down, but the total number of murders does not. So unless you actually consider dying by gun rather than some other device, there's no reason to ban guns because nothing shows that this actually affects the number of murders committed. The only trends I've seen that actually change from previously existing trends from before such bans is an increase of crime and police brutality. If it could actually be shown that there is a consistent percentage drop of murders in the majority of areas where gun bands go into effect, there might be a case to ban guns. As it is, gun bans just exist to make some neurotics feel good about themselves.
Why companies deliberately lock themselves into agreements with other companies like this is beyond me. Maybe it's working for them. But given how far it looks like they're going to miss their target, it kind of looks like it's not.
I'll explain what is going on since nobody else seems to have an idea for me to use my mod points on. As I understand it, several of the key features of the iPhone such as the visual voice mail that set it apart from other phones and make it function the way Apple wanted it to for the user, require back end support by the telco company to do so. Why does a telco company go the extra effort to support just one brand of phone? Because they get an exclusive deal. So, AT&T agreed to handle back end support for iPhone features, and in return got their exclusive contract from Apple. After that deal is over, or if you can get an unlocked iPhone, you'll be able to set it up on another service, but some features they have been advertising simply won't work because there is no backend support. Some people might not notice so it's a non-issue from the start for them, others might be willing to deal with AT&T for those features. Like any feature, it's only good if you use it. Apple however is touting those features because it is what sets them apart from the other phones and provides the usability that they are known for rather than just another geek toy.
"look at how Steve Jobs' unusual and abrasive management style works.... Wired.com compiles a list of counterintuitive, suspicious-seeming and downright evil management techniques that actually work."
Wrong, verging on flamebait. Chances are they're supporting software running on a Windows OS, and the first point of call when troubleshooting is to start from a fresh reboot.
Your first point of call in supporting anything is to start from a fresh reboot. The first task in doing any troubleshooting is to show that the problem is reproducible. If you can't recreate the problem, then there's no real way to troubleshoot it because you can't tell if anything you've done has fixed it or not. If rebooting the problem does fix the issue, then nothing you would have done would have fixed it. If you don't reboot, and the problem is not caused by a single application but by a combination of applications and workflow, you'll never be able to troubleshoot it successfully. Any attempt at troubleshooting that doesn't start with a fresh reboot, usually isn't troubleshooting, but rather just "pick and pray".
One of the first thing that any IT support person needs to know is that "USERS LIE". With people on the other end of the phone, they are certain there is some secret "fixed" button and if they stall and are a pain long enough, you'll tell them where it is so they make stuff up in an effort to speed things along. Sometimes, you even do tell them where the "fixed" button is (for their problem anyway) and they'll keep on lying because they don't recognise it as being the instructions for pushing the "fixed" button. They may not even know they are lying, but they still lie. Many times, they'll try and describe what is happening, and do so in a way that either offers no information or wrong information who actually knows what the terms they are using actually mean. Then there are the people who simply call the help desk but are still trying to solve the problem on their own. The number of times I've told people to click one button or open a window and not to do anything else, and could hear frantic typing over the phone drives is non-trivial. When I repeat "do not do anything" they'll tell me they aren't. Then when I ask them to do something like read the error message that appears or follow a set of steps that has to be done in order without doing anything else, they tell me to hold on and reboot the machine to return to the state I told them to get in. This in one of the main reasons help desk zombies want to get their hands on the machine, users lie and when the person who is actually trying to fix the machine can't see the machine and must rely upon a lier to tell them what is going in, it makes things really hard.
On the other side of things, the on-site reboot specialists have to deal with the users who give them no information and still expect results.
...help desk zombie, but even lower on the totem pole, is the on-site reboot specialist...
Having done both, I completely disagree. In fact, I have yet to meet a help desk zombie who hasn't dreamed of becoming an on-site reboot specialist. It doesn't take long for a help desk zombie to wish they could simply get the person on the other end of the phone to do what they tell them and nothing else, or even just understand what they have told them. Getting to be an on-site reboot specialist allows one to work directly on a machine without the person who has no idea playing a literal game of telephone with your instructions to mess things up. In addition, on-site rebooters usually get paid more for doing less and can get rid of angry customers at least for a time by telling them to go get coffee. The only real exception I've seen to this would be the Graveyard Support Vampire who have other priorities than more money or getting the job done ASAP to meet quota.
Pfft, physicists and they're obtuse vernacular can suck it. We all know from Episode 1 that they're called midichlorians!
Which we all know were discovered in 1938 by Wilhelm Reich and called "bions". The Force and it's positive and negative effects were also documented and described under the term "orgone energy".
Is thicker than MacBook Air. Winner: MacBook Air.
Really, who gives two craps about thickness... it's all marketing from Apple. Who has honestly gone "Gee wizz, this laptop is just too darn THICK for my needs!"? Pretty much no-one... where does it being super, super thin make for a big boon? Any bag you're going to carry said laptop in is going to be able to handle another centimeter or so... geeze.
Is heavier than MacBook Air. Winner: MacBook Air.
Weight does matter, indeed... but when it gets to a certain point, it doesn't any more, light enough is light enough, unless you have some sort of musculature atrophy that makes you unable to lift the heaviest version of the notebook at a whole... ooh, 3.5 pounds. Geeze... from his review: "is still very thin and light. It's under an inch thick and even at its heaviest is only 3.5 pounds." So, these points are just mindless waffle.
'Mindless waffle' to you maybe, to those of us that have to put our notebooks in a bag with other books and items and then carry them around for significant periods of time (such as even through airports while rushing to make a connection) both are very important. I carry my laptop to work everyday along with my other work. Those fractions of an inch and pounds add up quickly and I am grateful for every little bit I don't have to lug around.
Quick show of hands...how many bought a PS2 not because it was a game console, but because it let them get a console and DVD player in one, for not a lot more than a high-quality DVD player?
Or you might have dual accounts if you wanted both Alliance and Horde characters on a PvP server. There were several people in my old guild that did this because they were really into PvP. I think there was another that had two accounts simply because they had started and stopped playing WoW at multiple times and created several accounts in the process and later decided to keep playing both of them both due to the chanracters and the people that those characters were associated with in game. Sure you could have your characters moved from one account to another, but that's a lot of money at one time if you had multiple characters. Judging from my old guild, I'd say from 3-5% had multiple accounts. Of course, judging from my current guild, I'd come up with the same answer you did.
He suggests that we conduct a new Constitutional Convention to revamp things.
No way!
There's no way another constitutional convention could ever happen these days and we would even get half as good a deal as the one we have now. We'd probably have all our same rights, there would just be plenty of wording in there that would let the government and corporate entities ignore them when they felt like it.
How many people do you know that only use a computer for myspace and music that had to
shell out $1000+ in order to get the hardware just to run Vista?
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You seem to forget that Apple PAID to "borrow" that info, or actually that rights to go to Xerox and look around were part of a stock deal. Even then, what they thought they saw there wasn't what they saw. Xerox and a desktop with icons that represented commands. Apple misunderstood and thought they saw for the desktop metaphor of drives and all and thus created something different.
Of course, IIRC, I think MS also actually got permission to do such. They asked for the ability to incorporate Apple innovations into their own products so that "we can make Word better (for the Mac)" and then used that permission to create Win95. While technically legal, it wasn't quite ethical.
The sounds like a description of the start menu, and its corresponding bar. Hmmm.
I wonder why Jobs did not patent the Trashcan/recycle bin utility?
You mean the Apple menu and it's associated bar? As it was pretty much taken directly from the MacOS. There were plenty of other similarities like how holding the shift key down during boot would turn off extensions/go into safe mode. IIRC, they copied Win95 from the MacOS so closely they managed to get some of the bugs in there also.
Jobs should have patented it so that MS wouldn't have copied it when they made Win95. Perhaps he's learned his lesson?
Hell, I was a physics major and everything was on a curve. There was an exam in my upper division E&M classes where the highest score was a 37%, and that was with everybody paying attention and doing the homework. Once you're grading on a curve and learning actually tough subjects, there's no real reason teachers can't make hard tests. Otherwise, their tests are always geared so they get the grades they want out of their students.
You mean just like college.
Somehow, I don't think you understand what the usage of the word "clear" along with the singular word "successor" meant.
If kids can't cut it after say 2 or 3 grades being held back, give them some some early out like a GED program say after the 10th grade. It's sad to see high school kids who can barely read because our education system isn't strict enough about standards.
Hell, give the good kids a GED program at 10th grade and get them into college.
Has anybody else noticed that these reports of gross IT mis-management are almost always government related?
That's because corporate IT mis-management is considered a trade secret and thus highly guarded information.
That E3 is going to get smaller seems to have been a forgone conclusion. Once they announced their new format, word from everybody I was talking to said companies were already jumping ship and going over to PAX and it would take the place of the old E3, and that the new E3 would wither and die. They are biased towards PAX as we all live in Seattle, however they also are in the industry working for the various game companies up here. It seems that many game companies aren't really hot on the idea of an 'industry only' event because it cripples their ability to promote their games which is the point of such events.
I see that you're only at a Score of 4. I wish I had mod points to mod you +1 Funny.
Somehow, I don't think you've actually be in a city that has decent subways or trains before. When you can get a pass that means just hopping on a subway that will go within a few blocks of just about anywhere you'd want to go, they become much more convenient than cars or busses. Especially when considering the parking situation that we have here in Seattle. No more waiting at stop lights or for pedestrians. No looking (or paying) for the parking that you had to circle the block for fifteen minutes just to get. I won't even talk about the cost of my Capitol Hill parking space.
OK, Canada may consider guns to have no value to the private citizen, or at least parts of Canada because I've heard lots of bitching from Canada on gun boards. Anyway, you might want to verify that your goal, reducing murders, is actually affected by the banning of guns. Typically, this is not the case. When gun bans go into effect, after the initial period where there is intensive police activity, you usually see the same murder rates as before the ban. Gun murders do go down, but the total number of murders does not. So unless you actually consider dying by gun rather than some other device, there's no reason to ban guns because nothing shows that this actually affects the number of murders committed. The only trends I've seen that actually change from previously existing trends from before such bans is an increase of crime and police brutality. If it could actually be shown that there is a consistent percentage drop of murders in the majority of areas where gun bands go into effect, there might be a case to ban guns. As it is, gun bans just exist to make some neurotics feel good about themselves.
Why companies deliberately lock themselves into agreements with other companies like this is beyond me. Maybe it's working for them. But given how far it looks like they're going to miss their target, it kind of looks like it's not.
I'll explain what is going on since nobody else seems to have an idea for me to use my mod points on. As I understand it, several of the key features of the iPhone such as the visual voice mail that set it apart from other phones and make it function the way Apple wanted it to for the user, require back end support by the telco company to do so. Why does a telco company go the extra effort to support just one brand of phone? Because they get an exclusive deal. So, AT&T agreed to handle back end support for iPhone features, and in return got their exclusive contract from Apple. After that deal is over, or if you can get an unlocked iPhone, you'll be able to set it up on another service, but some features they have been advertising simply won't work because there is no backend support. Some people might not notice so it's a non-issue from the start for them, others might be willing to deal with AT&T for those features. Like any feature, it's only good if you use it. Apple however is touting those features because it is what sets them apart from the other phones and provides the usability that they are known for rather than just another geek toy.
I have my Apple branded Kool-aid mug!
Your first point of call in supporting anything is to start from a fresh reboot. The first task in doing any troubleshooting is to show that the problem is reproducible. If you can't recreate the problem, then there's no real way to troubleshoot it because you can't tell if anything you've done has fixed it or not. If rebooting the problem does fix the issue, then nothing you would have done would have fixed it. If you don't reboot, and the problem is not caused by a single application but by a combination of applications and workflow, you'll never be able to troubleshoot it successfully. Any attempt at troubleshooting that doesn't start with a fresh reboot, usually isn't troubleshooting, but rather just "pick and pray".
One of the first thing that any IT support person needs to know is that "USERS LIE". With people on the other end of the phone, they are certain there is some secret "fixed" button and if they stall and are a pain long enough, you'll tell them where it is so they make stuff up in an effort to speed things along. Sometimes, you even do tell them where the "fixed" button is (for their problem anyway) and they'll keep on lying because they don't recognise it as being the instructions for pushing the "fixed" button. They may not even know they are lying, but they still lie. Many times, they'll try and describe what is happening, and do so in a way that either offers no information or wrong information who actually knows what the terms they are using actually mean. Then there are the people who simply call the help desk but are still trying to solve the problem on their own. The number of times I've told people to click one button or open a window and not to do anything else, and could hear frantic typing over the phone drives is non-trivial. When I repeat "do not do anything" they'll tell me they aren't. Then when I ask them to do something like read the error message that appears or follow a set of steps that has to be done in order without doing anything else, they tell me to hold on and reboot the machine to return to the state I told them to get in. This in one of the main reasons help desk zombies want to get their hands on the machine, users lie and when the person who is actually trying to fix the machine can't see the machine and must rely upon a lier to tell them what is going in, it makes things really hard.
On the other side of things, the on-site reboot specialists have to deal with the users who give them no information and still expect results.
Having done both, I completely disagree. In fact, I have yet to meet a help desk zombie who hasn't dreamed of becoming an on-site reboot specialist. It doesn't take long for a help desk zombie to wish they could simply get the person on the other end of the phone to do what they tell them and nothing else, or even just understand what they have told them. Getting to be an on-site reboot specialist allows one to work directly on a machine without the person who has no idea playing a literal game of telephone with your instructions to mess things up. In addition, on-site rebooters usually get paid more for doing less and can get rid of angry customers at least for a time by telling them to go get coffee. The only real exception I've seen to this would be the Graveyard Support Vampire who have other priorities than more money or getting the job done ASAP to meet quota.
...if only I had a 1000 GP gem.
Which we all know were discovered in 1938 by Wilhelm Reich and called "bions". The Force and it's positive and negative effects were also documented and described under the term "orgone energy".
'Mindless waffle' to you maybe, to those of us that have to put our notebooks in a bag with other books and items and then carry them around for significant periods of time (such as even through airports while rushing to make a connection) both are very important. I carry my laptop to work everyday along with my other work. Those fractions of an inch and pounds add up quickly and I am grateful for every little bit I don't have to lug around.
I really, really hope you're looking for Funny moderation with this post. Otherwise, humanity is doomed.
Or you might have dual accounts if you wanted both Alliance and Horde characters on a PvP server. There were several people in my old guild that did this because they were really into PvP. I think there was another that had two accounts simply because they had started and stopped playing WoW at multiple times and created several accounts in the process and later decided to keep playing both of them both due to the chanracters and the people that those characters were associated with in game. Sure you could have your characters moved from one account to another, but that's a lot of money at one time if you had multiple characters. Judging from my old guild, I'd say from 3-5% had multiple accounts. Of course, judging from my current guild, I'd come up with the same answer you did.
No way!
There's no way another constitutional convention could ever happen these days and we would even get half as good a deal as the one we have now. We'd probably have all our same rights, there would just be plenty of wording in there that would let the government and corporate entities ignore them when they felt like it.
Um, none.
Nobody I know runs Vista.
Not new enough apparently.