The majority of the people here in the south (Tropea, it's glorious) are pro-Berlusconi. In fact, in Sicily he got 120% of the vote initially. That's why now they will be getting the bridge. Lot's of concrete paid for by the state, and concrete == mafia (who helped obtain the extra % vote but underestimated the man's real popularity).
In fact the analogy used is good, but there is one better based on fact: back in the eighties IBM licensed it's hardware, ensuring anyone could create an IBM compatible PC, Apple, Commodore and others did not. This is the reason the PC became the dominant platform eventually. As they included an obscure cheap little OS (DOS) from Microsoft, MS benefitted greatly from the spreading of the platform.
Today IBM, the creator of the 'personal computer' as we know it, no longer makes them. Apple was on it's knees at the end of the nineties and needed saveing from bankrupcy by a loan from.... Microsoft, who I believe still own Apple shares. Commodore is dead, and Apple makes PC's with Intel chips.
As an owner of a PC and a purchased copy of OSX I find the assumption that I am not at liberty do with it in my own home as I please more than just annoying.
Asides from purely technical constraints it seems slightly mad to 'forbid' a free individual in a free country to pick and mix his or her products as they please. This has really gone too far.
it is still outrageously expensive to use data when roaming in another country and this happens to be the case you need a portable GPS the most hence I think there will be a different development in the US and EU.
In our small business we cannot afford to run anything but Macs. We have five of them working without needing maintenance.
Five Windows pc's need an administrator or so to keep going nicely. We cannot afford that.
Simple.
We use iWork, iLife for all the normal office stuff and an online CRM. We synchronize contacts and calenders between Macs and iPhones using.Mac. Coupled with a Time Capsule for backups it is a really simple and cheap setup that cannot be matched with PC's and legal software for the same cost and functionality and lack of administration.
I moved to Italy, about a 100km from this site, in 1982. I have therefore practically been raised in this toxic waters which ironically and sadly are some oft the most turquoise and clear in Europe.
It makes me sad as I love the sea and spend a lot of time in anïd on it. Here is to hoping that modern tecnology will help us clear this mess off. I agree with other posters that it probably has been happening elsewhere since the eighties and that the problem is much bigger around the world.
As for the local Mafia, the n'Drangheta, it is pervasive, omnipresent and trhough corruption it is very influential in politics. Nowaday's the core business is trafficking people, drugs and weapons. As such they do a lot of harm but are not visible and less trouble to your average business than, say, 20 years ago.
Funny that is. I use my iPhone for all those purposes but never use it to listen to music. In fact the earphones are still in the box - are they any good?
until your battery runs out and you realise you are screwed because you stopped carrying maps, spent all your money on smart gadgets with good reviews and sold your bike on ebay because the touchscreen was wreaking havoc in your pocket on the last bit of juice.
In many cases it is probable that it is matter of convenience and availability: - I used to download movies and TV episodes until iTunes started carrying them - Now the BBC provides a handy iPlayer so I use that
Ironically I downloaded my first torrent in years to upgrade to Snow Leopard - because it was not available as a download and because in rural Italy, where I live, it takes 2 weeks to get delivered.
Spot the trend? I am sure there are many more like me in that respect.
I have had Nokia smartphones for 5 years and I agree with you. My last (until a month ago) is a E61i, great phone with a terrible and slow interface. Instead of buying the E71 or 97 I got an iPhone which, of course, is great but expensive.
My Fiat has 200HP and incredible torque out of a 2.4TDI. It is rather powerful but fast diesels are now the norm in Italy with even diesel powered Alfa GTV's and Spiders! Diesels are a joy to drive in a mountainous country because of the low rev torque so there is no need to change gear that often.
Since Sat Nav is mostly useful when driving on unknown roads, for example abroad, you save on stuff to carry with you - and it's adaptors. I bought the small Tom Tom One which is really nice and flat (including the window mount) and may buy the iPhone app instead if the Tom Tom window mount is not too big or pricey.
At the end of the day it is all about convenience.
So you like your direct supervisor to be a lawyer - fine.
Does the supervisor of a dishwasher need to be a dishwasher as well? Better someone that can set and measure the targets for an efficient dish washing operation whilst hiring good dishwashers to achieve that.
And add to the high tech junk pile just for the sake of it? There are actually still people in the world that:
1) buy only what they need or seriously want 2) spend on quality 3) keep it as long as it works
It is against the consumeristic trends, but really - why on earth would you need a new computer every 3 years to store clients records? To other professions a computer is just a tool like any other.
Actually - why does the 15 year old PC need changing? Just because they are getting a bit long in the tooth - that's no reason at all! (Actually fair enough - and well done).
This is a very informative post to which I would like to add another consideration, namely the fact that most people will not need to make an animal suffer at all in order to eat it.
"What level of suffering are you comfortable with" is thus irrelevant if the meat was obtained shrink wrapped in the supermarket.
Similarly most urban people could not stand watching any animal being killed.
Could it be easier for a law firm to run 100% on linux since your primary output is text? Linux has capable word processors, printing and mailing are no problem and central storage and backup neither.
My very small business (5 workstations 1 server) runs a linux server and 5 Macs since we don't have time to look after PC's ourselves and are too small to employ an administrator.
We are in property, so our output is brochures, web, spreadsheet and graphics, the Macs were a no-brainer that enables us to get on with it.
I concur - the Mighty Mouse is not so mighty, Apple's worst product in a long time. I have the problem you describe in Safari 3 and 4 beta. Plus scrolling down has worn out somehow.
I am now back at using an unbranded (but white!) mouse bought 4 years ago for under 10 euro! The bluetooth one may have a function in the living room for BBC iPlayer etc.
Your point is very clear - but I could leave my laptop to a shop, a handy cousin or anyone really and they could install and agree to things without my consent.
Not so clear now, I think.
Yes, I should not lend my computer. I should, I should. But when my TV breaks I bring it somewhere to fix. Same with the computer.
Really, I don't hear many complaints anymore and I see more and more people with computers with a black task bar and transparant title bars. I assumed that after the service pack it would be allright and that system requirements had reached the required level.
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The majority of the people here in the south (Tropea, it's glorious) are pro-Berlusconi. In fact, in Sicily he got 120% of the vote initially. That's why now they will be getting the bridge. Lot's of concrete paid for by the state, and concrete == mafia (who helped obtain the extra % vote but underestimated the man's real popularity).
Which one is that? Do they have an online version?
this made me laugh.
In fact the analogy used is good, but there is one better based on fact: back in the eighties IBM licensed it's hardware, ensuring anyone could create an IBM compatible PC, Apple, Commodore and others did not. This is the reason the PC became the dominant platform eventually. As they included an obscure cheap little OS (DOS) from Microsoft, MS benefitted greatly from the spreading of the platform.
Today IBM, the creator of the 'personal computer' as we know it, no longer makes them. Apple was on it's knees at the end of the nineties and needed saveing from bankrupcy by a loan from .... Microsoft, who I believe still own Apple shares. Commodore is dead, and Apple makes PC's with Intel chips.
As an owner of a PC and a purchased copy of OSX I find the assumption that I am not at liberty do with it in my own home as I please more than just annoying.
Asides from purely technical constraints it seems slightly mad to 'forbid' a free individual in a free country to pick and mix his or her products as they please. This has really gone too far.
it is still outrageously expensive to use data when roaming in another country and this happens to be the case you need a portable GPS the most hence I think there will be a different development in the US and EU.
In our small business we cannot afford to run anything but Macs. We have five of them working without needing maintenance.
Five Windows pc's need an administrator or so to keep going nicely. We cannot afford that.
Simple.
We use iWork, iLife for all the normal office stuff and an online CRM. We synchronize contacts and calenders between Macs and iPhones using .Mac. Coupled with a Time Capsule for backups it is a really simple and cheap setup that cannot be matched with PC's and legal software for the same cost and functionality and lack of administration.
I know - I tried years ago.
I moved to Italy, about a 100km from this site, in 1982. I have therefore practically been raised in this toxic waters which ironically and sadly are some oft the most turquoise and clear in Europe.
It makes me sad as I love the sea and spend a lot of time in anïd on it. Here is to hoping that modern tecnology will help us clear this mess off. I agree with other posters that it probably has been happening elsewhere since the eighties and that the problem is much bigger around the world.
As for the local Mafia, the n'Drangheta, it is pervasive, omnipresent and trhough corruption it is very influential in politics. Nowaday's the core business is trafficking people, drugs and weapons. As such they do a lot of harm but are not visible and less trouble to your average business than, say, 20 years ago.
Funny that is. I use my iPhone for all those purposes but never use it to listen to music. In fact the earphones are still in the box - are they any good?
until your battery runs out and you realise you are screwed because you stopped carrying maps, spent all your money on smart gadgets with good reviews and sold your bike on ebay because the touchscreen was wreaking havoc in your pocket on the last bit of juice.
In many cases it is probable that it is matter of convenience and availability:
- I used to download movies and TV episodes until iTunes started carrying them
- Now the BBC provides a handy iPlayer so I use that
Ironically I downloaded my first torrent in years to upgrade to Snow Leopard - because it was not available as a download and because in rural Italy, where I live, it takes 2 weeks to get delivered.
Spot the trend? I am sure there are many more like me in that respect.
I have had Nokia smartphones for 5 years and I agree with you. My last (until a month ago) is a E61i, great phone with a terrible and slow interface. Instead of buying the E71 or 97 I got an iPhone which, of course, is great but expensive.
My Fiat has 200HP and incredible torque out of a 2.4TDI. It is rather powerful but fast diesels are now the norm in Italy with even diesel powered Alfa GTV's and Spiders! Diesels are a joy to drive in a mountainous country because of the low rev torque so there is no need to change gear that often.
Convenience!
Since Sat Nav is mostly useful when driving on unknown roads, for example abroad, you save on stuff to carry with you - and it's adaptors. I bought the small Tom Tom One which is really nice and flat (including the window mount) and may buy the iPhone app instead if the Tom Tom window mount is not too big or pricey.
At the end of the day it is all about convenience.
Am I the only one to find the title confusing and hard to read?
So you like your direct supervisor to be a lawyer - fine.
Does the supervisor of a dishwasher need to be a dishwasher as well? Better someone that can set and measure the targets for an efficient dish washing operation whilst hiring good dishwashers to achieve that.
Same in IT.
If all you have is a hammer, etc etc ......
The boss of a webmaster is a weblord!
Seriously I had one in Hollands largest telco!
At Dixons at a London airport a saw 1 netbook out of no less than 5 running Linux. It was SuSE Linux and I think it was an HP netbook.
Very nice, right price - very tempting. Just don't need another laptop.
And add to the high tech junk pile just for the sake of it? There are actually still people in the world that:
1) buy only what they need or seriously want
2) spend on quality
3) keep it as long as it works
It is against the consumeristic trends, but really - why on earth would you need a new computer every 3 years to store clients records? To other professions a computer is just a tool like any other.
Actually - why does the 15 year old PC need changing? Just because they are getting a bit long in the tooth - that's no reason at all! (Actually fair enough - and well done).
Get a UPS, you don't need a powerful machine so get something quiet with low energy consumption and let it switched on at all times.
Notice how a bulb always fails when you switch it on? It is much the same with most electronics - just keep it running!
Is this true? What about driving uphill, or pulling a caravan?
Who on earth modded this "interesting"???
This is a very informative post to which I would like to add another consideration, namely the fact that most people will not need to make an animal suffer at all in order to eat it.
"What level of suffering are you comfortable with" is thus irrelevant if the meat was obtained shrink wrapped in the supermarket.
Similarly most urban people could not stand watching any animal being killed.
Could it be easier for a law firm to run 100% on linux since your primary output is text? Linux has capable word processors, printing and mailing are no problem and central storage and backup neither.
My very small business (5 workstations 1 server) runs a linux server and 5 Macs since we don't have time to look after PC's ourselves and are too small to employ an administrator.
We are in property, so our output is brochures, web, spreadsheet and graphics, the Macs were a no-brainer that enables us to get on with it.
I concur - the Mighty Mouse is not so mighty, Apple's worst product in a long time. I have the problem you describe in Safari 3 and 4 beta. Plus scrolling down has worn out somehow.
I am now back at using an unbranded (but white!) mouse bought 4 years ago for under 10 euro! The bluetooth one may have a function in the living room for BBC iPlayer etc.
Your point is very clear - but I could leave my laptop to a shop, a handy cousin or anyone really and they could install and agree to things without my consent.
Not so clear now, I think.
Yes, I should not lend my computer. I should, I should. But when my TV breaks I bring it somewhere to fix. Same with the computer.
Really, it's not that clear-cat.
Really, I don't hear many complaints anymore and I see more and more people with computers with a black task bar and transparant title bars. I assumed that after the service pack it would be allright and that system requirements had reached the required level.