My grandfather is 70 years old, and I gave him a computer with Linux on it. However, this was a long time ago, before there were as many apps, and I switched it over to Windows because people sent him email attachments that needed to be run in Windows (maybe.wmv files, I forget). Even though I did switch it to Windows, in general, he preferred Linux, the only issue was those email attachments.
Linux has come a long way since then (at the time, I had installed Debian, because it was the most user friendly).
But as a small-d democrat, I also understand that my preference is overridden by the huge majority of Americans who want weed and other drugs to remain criminalized. Most people probably think gays should be burned at the stake, but it's not a law.
hen they're tracking a suspect by looking at credit card purchase activity, should they have to send an agent over to the card center to go through a paper file, or should they be able to subpoena that info and get it instantly in electronic format? The harder it is for them to get the records, the less likely they are to do it for frivolous reasons.
Yeah, I keep hearing this stuff like "I don't have a HD set, so it's worthless." Well, yeah, the PS3 is pretty much worthless if you don't have an HD set. I hooked up my PS3 to a SD set, and tried all my games on it. It doesn't really look much better than a PS2. However, if you do have an HD set, especially if it's 1080p, I can't see how the PS3 isn't the best deal.
I bought a PS3 for $600 and I don't feel screwed at all. I actually feel more screwed by the Wii, since it would have been way better if I could use the Wiimote with the PS3.
I have a 61" DLP, and the Wii looks "acceptable" with the component cables. I also have a PS3. However, I can't play the PS3 with anyone else (in person), because the games are "too hard". Visitors want to play the Wii, but (at least the games i've seen) get real boring real fast when you try to play single player.
Well, even $16 vs. $10 for an album is quite different than $16 vs $1 if you only want one song off it, which is more what I was getting at. I'd pay $6 extra to get the actual CD with the box and liner notes and physical disc. If I only wanted one song off the CD, paying $15 extra is a different story.
This (in the article) is almost exactly the same device as is present in EZpass tags (the tags you put in your windshield to drive through toll lanes). They use the vibration of the car to jiggle a magnet through a coil, generating electricity which powers a radio transmitter. This one claims to generate "microwatts", but I'd think you'd at least need a few mW to power a transmitter that could reach the base station at the toll lane.
I'm willing to grant that they are nervous, may not know everything, whatever. But overwhelmingingly, the fact is, these people say that can do x and y and in reality, after the stated 15 years experience, can even demonstrate the minimum competency required for the position. We are not rediculous expectations by any standard. But if you've been doing remoting for 7 years in.NET, then we expect you to get the very most rudimentery service and client up and running. If you have 20 years writing TCP/IP software and 5 of it in C#, then we expect a very simple socket application. If you say on your resume that you have 6 years experience writing asynchronous things in C#, then write a few lines of code demonstrating it. But alas, these people can't. See, this is what Anonymous Coward commenting is actually for! I'd be curious to know how many resumes you get swamped with after this comment...
Yeah, and then you have people like me, born in the US, getting a PhD from a US university, waiting to finish their research so they can move out of the US.
Interestingly enough, I'm in a PhD program at a top US university. None of the foreign students (Indian or Chinese) have the slightest interest in remaining in the US after they graduate.
They have to outsource because colleges aren't turning out enough qualified employees. Whether perception or reality, colleges aren't turning out enough qualified employees because nobody wants to major in something that's going to be outsourced.
And, the iTunes store sold their two billionth track in January. Sales of digital singles have been insanely huge for the past seven years or so. How much of this has to do with the fact that while there is a price benefit to buying a single track off iTunes versus a CD album, there is no benefit to buying an album off iTunes versus buying a CD? I'd buy a single off iTunes (well, only one of the DRM-free ones), but I still wouldn't buy an album when I could get the actual CD for the same price off Amazon.
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I wouldn't buy from ebay scalpers out of principle.
My grandfather is 70 years old, and I gave him a computer with Linux on it. However, this was a long time ago, before there were as many apps, and I switched it over to Windows because people sent him email attachments that needed to be run in Windows (maybe .wmv files, I forget). Even though I did switch it to Windows, in general, he preferred Linux, the only issue was those email attachments.
Linux has come a long way since then (at the time, I had installed Debian, because it was the most user friendly).
The Macintosh was also vastly more expensive. It's become quite a bit more popular since the prices are more in line with a comparable PC.
Yeah, I keep hearing this stuff like "I don't have a HD set, so it's worthless." Well, yeah, the PS3 is pretty much worthless if you don't have an HD set. I hooked up my PS3 to a SD set, and tried all my games on it. It doesn't really look much better than a PS2. However, if you do have an HD set, especially if it's 1080p, I can't see how the PS3 isn't the best deal.
The PS3 is in a smaller box (especially if you consider the lack of an external power supply), and it's far quieter.
The Resistance map pack was $7, I think. The price per map was kind of a ripoff.
I bought a PS3 for $600 and I don't feel screwed at all. I actually feel more screwed by the Wii, since it would have been way better if I could use the Wiimote with the PS3.
After two weeks of trying to find a Wii, I gave up and bought a PS3.
For covers, you still have to pay royalties to the songwriters, but not the performers.
Did Microsoft exceed the statute of limitations by lying for a year and a half about the 360 failure rate?
Oddly enough, I have the 60GB PS3, and I had to plug it into a wireless router anyway because Linux doesn't support the wifi in the PS3...
I have a 61" DLP, and the Wii looks "acceptable" with the component cables. I also have a PS3. However, I can't play the PS3 with anyone else (in person), because the games are "too hard". Visitors want to play the Wii, but (at least the games i've seen) get real boring real fast when you try to play single player.
Well, even $16 vs. $10 for an album is quite different than $16 vs $1 if you only want one song off it, which is more what I was getting at. I'd pay $6 extra to get the actual CD with the box and liner notes and physical disc. If I only wanted one song off the CD, paying $15 extra is a different story.
This (in the article) is almost exactly the same device as is present in EZpass tags (the tags you put in your windshield to drive through toll lanes). They use the vibration of the car to jiggle a magnet through a coil, generating electricity which powers a radio transmitter. This one claims to generate "microwatts", but I'd think you'd at least need a few mW to power a transmitter that could reach the base station at the toll lane.
Mercer? The "Talking to Americans" guy? I'm not surprised he likes Canada.
Yeah, and then you have people like me, born in the US, getting a PhD from a US university, waiting to finish their research so they can move out of the US.
Interestingly enough, I'm in a PhD program at a top US university. None of the foreign students (Indian or Chinese) have the slightest interest in remaining in the US after they graduate.
They have to outsource because colleges aren't turning out enough qualified employees.
Whether perception or reality, colleges aren't turning out enough qualified employees because nobody wants to major in something that's going to be outsourced.
I'm amused by all this, since I'm in the US, and I'd move to Canada if I could find a job there...
Fair enough. Zenith isn't Chinese, it's Korean.
Every CD i've bought for in the last 10 years has been after I heard a few songs off whatever p2p was around at the time.