Many people seem to mistakenly think, cingulars edge network is the same as that terrible mess you get access to with a Verizon/sprint edge card. Tethered cingular is much faster and more reliable than anything ever experienced with one of those cards.
Um... have you even used Verizon's or Sprint's "edge card" (mobile data service)? Doesn't sound like it.
As far as, "more reliable", that's based on the coverage in your location. I've used both AT&T's EDGE and Verizon's 1xRTT service in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee; based on my experience, CDMA coverage is much better in these areas than GSM. Of course, that's just where I go. You may have better GSM coverage than CDMA in your area.
But assuming you have coverage for both in a given area, you'll find that that EV-DO is much faster than EDGE. UTMS, GSM's successor to EDGE... well, that's gonna be a long hard road for GSM carriers; as it requires many changes to each individual cell phone tower in the GSM network. Which is why it's taking longer for AT&T to roll this service out to markets where EV-DO has already been for years.
I wasn't even aware that VFP was available for anything but Windows, as I've never had any contact with it. But anyways, the cross-platform foundation for VFP wasn't even built by Microsoft, since they acquired VFP in '92. Most of that work would've been done by Fox Software. Then Microsoft simply dropped support for the other platforms when they snapped VFP up.
You could say there's no Mac equivalent release of Office XP/2002. You could also say that the general consensus is that Entourage is a POS that crashes frequently, would work a helluva lot better if it could speak MAPI, and doesn't integrate (as well as Apple Mail does) with Microsoft's own Exchange server. Out of ten Mac users here, only one actually uses Entourage.
Really, that's my only complaint about Office for Mac. They need to scrap Entourage and start from scratch, come up with something that actually is analogous to Outlook's excellent functionality.
Yeah, after how long they've known about the switch to Intel!? Yeah, it's not totally stagnant, but it doesn't nearly get the attention that Office on Windows does. And it's not like their "Mac Business Unit" developers have a whole lot of other stuff to keep them busy ya know?
Though, for the first time, this is Open Source. So it may have a fighting chance, until perhaps Microsoft starts developing closed API's for the Windows version of Silverlight that are incompatible with other plugins such as "Moonlight".
I love it... the company I work for sells modified Canon ink jet printers to print stuff on edible paper to be placed on cakes. So basically, when a new Canon printer comes in, the first thing they do is take the Canon ink "tanks" out of the box and throw 'em in boxes that go into storage. We replace those with our edible food-grade inks. Thus, we have an ENDLESS supply of FREE Canon inks to dip into. Needless to say, Canon ink jets are pretty popular around the office and most employee's homes.
We do of course have some of the Xerox Phaser wax printers (these guys REALLY RAPE YOU on ink!), HP Color and B&W Laser Jets, etc. But the Canon ink jets seem to hold up pretty damn well for the price. Though Canon's software does nag you pretty early about the ink running low, it will continue to print if you force it to, you can also verify yourself that the ink is out, as the "tanks" are clear. We also have an 8-ink wide format Epson ink jet that's pretty sweet, but that one is also real expensive on the inks of course.
The worst we've found as far as ink wastage are the Lexmarks, and the HP's in second place. Haven't had any experience with Brother, or Kodak ink jets.
Oh, good point. I didn't even realize a product like this existed.
Encrypted email and digital signatures shouldn't be that difficult to implement. As far as disk encryption, I know the desktop and server versions of OS X have had this for the past two releases. Whether File Vault will trickle down into iPhone, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I don't know for sure if it's Apple's or ATI's fault but; myself, and a few other people found that Quartz Extreme was broken on 10.4 Server Universal after the infamous 10.4.9 update!
True... but the incandescent doesn't spew ~4mg of Mercury directly into your child's room, your kitchen, etc. when it breaks. Regular incandescent bulbs contain no Mercury inside themselves.
Ugh... Netzero, yeah, that POS. I remember hacking that software to get rid of the adverts. It got harder and harder to keep the adverts away with each release.
You shouldn't have thrown away the hard drive!? To wipe LILO off the MBR, it was a simple undocumented command in Microsoft's Fdisk: A:\>fdisk/MBRto get your DOS Master Boot Record back.
Did the dx4 use a 3x multiplyer? Didn't someone make a pentium upgrade chip for 486 boards (evergreen)?
Yeah Evergreen... I put one of these in an old AST for my dad. It started out as a 33MHz DX, 4MB of RAM, 175MB WD HDD, running DOS/Win 3.1, then we upgraded it to a 66MHz DX2 with an Intel "Overdrive" chip and 8MB of RAM running Win95, then finally to an Evergreen/AMD K5 150MHz, 32MB of RAM, a 2GB HDD, running Slackware and NT4.
I'd say we got our money's worth out of that one. It still works... though it hasn't even been turned on in like 2 years.
And for what it's worth, if I were the CIA in the U.S., you'd bet I'd be leaning on Microsoft to seriously backdoor every piece of software that it sold for military purposes abroad.
I've experienced odd InDesign behavior on multiple Macs here where I work. 9 times out of 10 it's one or more corrupt fonts that keep finding their ways back into these user's documents. The rest of the time it appears to be corrupt.indd files themselves.
One favorite that I've seen a lot lately is the "Cascading Unresponsive Save Dialog of Death". It requires a reboot, and trashing of the recovery files that InDesign creates.
Because they have the best coverage, that's the only reason. GSM phones don't work in my house unfortunately, and I don't want a landline or voip. Also, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Cingular's rural coverage generally sucks compared to Verizon's as well.
Coverage is the only thing keeping me on Verizon at the moment. I absolutely loathe this POS Razr phone that they gave me as well.
Sorry, I just don't think the supply/demand issue is really as bad as big oil makes it out to be. They've got us by the balls and they like it that way.
Too bad Verizon's phones only run signed "BREW" code, therefore you can only install (subscribe) to applications that Verizon offers you through their get-assraped-now service.
In addition, their shitty, featureless, Openwave browser doesn't allow you to disable images.
Hey, you know what's even worse than Motorola's UI? Verizon's UI that they hack onto every damn phone! This V3c is hands down the worst phone I've ever owned. I constantly have to reboot it, as it locks up, or gets buggy as hell without it's daily reboots. Bluetooth on it is crackly and fuzzy when it does actually work, other times it decides to just randomly turn the damn bluetooth radio off on the phone for fun, and disconnects my call.
This is not a good precident. I know other countries already have a blank media tax, and I always thought this was ONE way the USA was better off then said countries.
Um, the US does indeed pay a "piracy tax" for CD's that are designated as "Audio CD-R's". You may have noticed they always cost more than regular data CD-R's at the store. Of course, you can use data CD-R's to burn music to just as well. *BUT* there is a flag on these "Audio CD-R's" that devices can chose to look at if they please. For example, an acquaintance of mine has one of those old CD duplicators made by a popular audio equipment manufacturer (JVC I think), it refuses to burn to any CD-R's except those that are marketed as "Audio CD-R".
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First of all, it's not called EDGE in the context of a CDMA carrier, EDGE is a technology that's exclusive to GSM carriers like T-Mobile, and AT&T/Cingular. It's called 1xRTT (at least slightly faster than EDGE), or EV-DO (at least 3 times faster than EDGE) on Sprint or Verizon's network.
As far as, "more reliable", that's based on the coverage in your location. I've used both AT&T's EDGE and Verizon's 1xRTT service in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee; based on my experience, CDMA coverage is much better in these areas than GSM. Of course, that's just where I go. You may have better GSM coverage than CDMA in your area.
But assuming you have coverage for both in a given area, you'll find that that EV-DO is much faster than EDGE. UTMS, GSM's successor to EDGE... well, that's gonna be a long hard road for GSM carriers; as it requires many changes to each individual cell phone tower in the GSM network. Which is why it's taking longer for AT&T to roll this service out to markets where EV-DO has already been for years.
I wasn't even aware that VFP was available for anything but Windows, as I've never had any contact with it. But anyways, the cross-platform foundation for VFP wasn't even built by Microsoft, since they acquired VFP in '92. Most of that work would've been done by Fox Software. Then Microsoft simply dropped support for the other platforms when they snapped VFP up.
You could say there's no Mac equivalent release of Office XP/2002. You could also say that the general consensus is that Entourage is a POS that crashes frequently, would work a helluva lot better if it could speak MAPI, and doesn't integrate (as well as Apple Mail does) with Microsoft's own Exchange server. Out of ten Mac users here, only one actually uses Entourage.
Really, that's my only complaint about Office for Mac. They need to scrap Entourage and start from scratch, come up with something that actually is analogous to Outlook's excellent functionality.
Yeah, after how long they've known about the switch to Intel!? Yeah, it's not totally stagnant, but it doesn't nearly get the attention that Office on Windows does. And it's not like their "Mac Business Unit" developers have a whole lot of other stuff to keep them busy ya know?
A list of stagnant "cross-platform" Microsoft products:
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Internet Explorer for Mac
Windows Media Player for Mac
Internet Explorer for Unix
Remote Desktop for Mac
Virtual PC for Mac
Outlook Express for Mac
Though, for the first time, this is Open Source. So it may have a fighting chance, until perhaps Microsoft starts developing closed API's for the Windows version of Silverlight that are incompatible with other plugins such as "Moonlight".
I love it... the company I work for sells modified Canon ink jet printers to print stuff on edible paper to be placed on cakes. So basically, when a new Canon printer comes in, the first thing they do is take the Canon ink "tanks" out of the box and throw 'em in boxes that go into storage. We replace those with our edible food-grade inks. Thus, we have an ENDLESS supply of FREE Canon inks to dip into. Needless to say, Canon ink jets are pretty popular around the office and most employee's homes.
We do of course have some of the Xerox Phaser wax printers (these guys REALLY RAPE YOU on ink!), HP Color and B&W Laser Jets, etc. But the Canon ink jets seem to hold up pretty damn well for the price. Though Canon's software does nag you pretty early about the ink running low, it will continue to print if you force it to, you can also verify yourself that the ink is out, as the "tanks" are clear. We also have an 8-ink wide format Epson ink jet that's pretty sweet, but that one is also real expensive on the inks of course.
The worst we've found as far as ink wastage are the Lexmarks, and the HP's in second place. Haven't had any experience with Brother, or Kodak ink jets.
Oh, good point. I didn't even realize a product like this existed.
Encrypted email and digital signatures shouldn't be that difficult to implement. As far as disk encryption, I know the desktop and server versions of OS X have had this for the past two releases. Whether File Vault will trickle down into iPhone, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Nope! 1st gen Shuffle had sequential playback as well. See the switch on the back?
Uh yes, it does have sequential playback. That would be what the switch on the left is for.
I'll second that one!
Ugh, ATI's drivers do suck hard core!
I don't know for sure if it's Apple's or ATI's fault but; myself, and a few other people found that Quartz Extreme was broken on 10.4 Server Universal after the infamous 10.4.9 update!
True... but the incandescent doesn't spew ~4mg of Mercury directly into your child's room, your kitchen, etc. when it breaks. Regular incandescent bulbs contain no Mercury inside themselves.
Ugh... Netzero, yeah, that POS. I remember hacking that software to get rid of the adverts. It got harder and harder to keep the adverts away with each release.
/MBR to get your DOS Master Boot Record back.
You shouldn't have thrown away the hard drive!? To wipe LILO off the MBR, it was a simple undocumented command in Microsoft's Fdisk: A:\>fdisk
I'd say we got our money's worth out of that one. It still works... though it hasn't even been turned on in like 2 years.
It's already been done
I've experienced odd InDesign behavior on multiple Macs here where I work. 9 times out of 10 it's one or more corrupt fonts that keep finding their ways back into these user's documents. The rest of the time it appears to be corrupt .indd files themselves.
One favorite that I've seen a lot lately is the "Cascading Unresponsive Save Dialog of Death". It requires a reboot, and trashing of the recovery files that InDesign creates.
Because they have the best coverage, that's the only reason. GSM phones don't work in my house unfortunately, and I don't want a landline or voip. Also, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Cingular's rural coverage generally sucks compared to Verizon's as well.
Coverage is the only thing keeping me on Verizon at the moment. I absolutely loathe this POS Razr phone that they gave me as well.
You mean like this? Or these?
Sorry, I just don't think the supply/demand issue is really as bad as big oil makes it out to be. They've got us by the balls and they like it that way.
Kind of like Microsoft... Hey! Why make our software more secure when we can actually make money off of it's security shortcomings!?
Too bad Verizon's phones only run signed "BREW" code, therefore you can only install (subscribe) to applications that Verizon offers you through their get-assraped-now service.
In addition, their shitty, featureless, Openwave browser doesn't allow you to disable images.
*COUGH* VERIZON *COUGH*
Hey, you know what's even worse than Motorola's UI? Verizon's UI that they hack onto every damn phone! This V3c is hands down the worst phone I've ever owned. I constantly have to reboot it, as it locks up, or gets buggy as hell without it's daily reboots. Bluetooth on it is crackly and fuzzy when it does actually work, other times it decides to just randomly turn the damn bluetooth radio off on the phone for fun, and disconnects my call.
It's so bad that people are actually hacking their Verizon Razr's to run the UI that's on your phone, as it's a vast improvement over Verizon's shit!
Is there a win32 version of iobench? I thought it only ran on Unix, last I heard.
One of my gripes about NTFS is the fragmentation is often ridiculously out of control.
I have several server volumes that look like this for example.