Not saying you.. but a common mistake people make with wireless routers is to treat them like modems and tuck them away out of sight.. In the 2Wire modems case, it needs to be standing upright..Those that set it on it's side are broadcasting signals into the surface it's laying on. It also helps some to elevate the router a bit if you can. Yes signals can go through walls and maybe it doesn't make sense, but give it a try and see if you get better results if you get a clearer path. The channel problem probably isn't as bad as you think, and I suspect it is more to do with your router, or the wireless adapter in your laptop.
Although I get your point, and there is nothing wrong with learning a variety of subjects, to me the classroom only prepares you for so much. I'd much rather hire someone with some work experience and some college, than someone with only college. I would also rate ex military higher than college only. Perhaps this seems unfair, but I've worked with all of these and this is my take on who can get things done and are generally better employees. I suppose though it depends on the job we are talking about.
You don't provide enough details to comment on.. Added a hard drive, and changed the boot drive to a blank drive ?.. I am already pretty sure what you did, but you purposely left out the part of what you did to the blank drive before you tried to make it the boot drive.
Well, my main point in posting was pointing out the lame kids running on the grass analogy.., and that in my scenario "you could see how someone would want to be compensated"... Here's the deal, I am not a lawyer but I do know that sometimes damages and compensation for victims are sometimes added into judgements against someone convicted in a criminal case.. and there is also civil court where victims can also sue.. As Whopner (sp ?) used to say, you can sue anyone for anything.. Truth is, you would probably win against a convicted burgler in civil court and get those bars paid for.. although you might have difficulty collecting as his income has gone to crap..
Your analogy changes though if it's a greased naked man who squeezed through a skylight on the roof and is looking through your sock drawer at 2 am. Now perhaps it is not the mans fault that you have a skylight, and that other people who are willing can do the same thing he did.. but you can see how you might want him to pay to keep others from doing the same thing.
Actually in this case, we are talking about a device that has a touch screen UI and connects to the internet for internet raido.. it's not exactly the toaster scenario. I think it's a relevant question to ask and poorly handled by the marketing director. In marketing any device that has some technology behind it, you have choices.. You can supply specs when asked, or treat everyone like morons and say "it's magic".. to downplay a technology used in your device when asked, doesn't come across as confident in your design choices. If he wasn't capable of being able to answer the questions all in a positive way, he should not have been in a question and answer scenario.. It would be the same if he had a similar question on bluetooth.. bluetooth ?.. not everyone knows or understands what it is or does.. But if your marketing a device that has the technology, then you should, and you should be able to explain why it's good, and why it's on your device.
Ohh.. the hole you dig.. Your claim that people don't write software for Linux.. Tons of software out there, and even some commercial.. The reason that malware is not "popular" on Linux is not due to it's lack of popularity, but more to do with the way executables are handled in Linux compared to the way they are handled in Windows.. Both in general, and in a browser with active-x... Windows has gotten better at it, but the ironic thing is that the whole "ease of use" click and run that made it so vulnerable, had to be shored up and has turned it into a dialog popup fiasco.. Linux beats it all to hell in user experience when installing software.
Can malware be written for Linux ?.. of course it can.. It's just a bit more difficult. Right now, Linux has a pretty good balance between usability and security.. The problems come when you have all these users wanting to make installs of software "more like Windows".. If that happens, and it gets away from the software repository system which has testing designed into it, then you will have the same problems as Windows. I'd rather the users adapt to the Linux way, than for Linux to cave into the Windows model.
Actually, they already do and then some.. You get so much at one price, then if you use beyond that it gets really expensive. There is a problem with it though.. whatever voodoo they use to calculate the baseline is all over the place. You and a neighbor with identical houses could have different baselines before they start sticking it to you or them.. same with apartments.. you can move into an apartment and then be shocked at the low baseline that probably has something to do with the people who lived there previously, or have this huge baseline.. it's a crap shoot.
Not quite sure why the governator is opposed to regulating.. the lack of it is what got him into his job in the first place.
It's surprising the number of people who already think that their voice service is being broadcast using their 3G.. hence all the recent comments by people about i-phone users surfing the web causing their dropped calls.. I know that isn't the case now, and I know I don't get a vote on it, but I think I prefer the way it is, keeping them separate.
John Cleese, "Wine for the confused" on Hulu, did an unlabeled tasting of expensive verses inexpensive.. His best advice on the whole thing.. is buy what tastes good to you..
Your licorice comment has a different twist for me.. When I was small, I always liked it.. Then I caught some bug and was sick as a dog.. my mom gave me some black licorice cough drops,, could never eat it again.. aversion therapy I guess.
I don't know if Windows has done it yet or not.. but what it should do, is make a copy of a driver when it has to install one from an outside source.. That's the biggest bummer for people when say, their network card stops working, and it requests a driver.. but who knows where the dang disk is ?.. I seriously haven't had any real problems with hardware on Linux since the late 90's and most of that was caused by the infamous "Win Modems" where the hardware was emulated in software.. hated those things, but got em to work.. I guess more recently, I have also had a few glitches with getting the advanced stuff working on some video cards.. but in fairness, I have had much worse scenarios with video cards and Windows.. Safe mode or no safe mode.
It's genius.. by actually using the product day to day, they will discover it's strengths and weaknesses and know what changes they need to focus on. That they have not done this from day one is the amazing part.
That Debian runs older stable software, does not stop them from installed patched versions of software when it comes to security. You still get security updates in stable.. Not pointing fingers or anything.. but if I do a search for roundcube in debian stable I don't find anything.. testing, unstable, and experimental yes.. but stable no.. So perhaps the whole idea of running the creaky old software makes sense.
While I applaud your ability to get Android on your phone, Your experience is hardly representative of the Android Market, or Android.. If I manage to install OSX onto a netbook, and then say that OSX is a cobbled together imitation of Windows it makes as much sense.
OK.. Google designed the Android platform, and have gotten handset manufacturers to use it.. But it is up to Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T to get their heads out of their ass and decide to carry them.. Sprint will be soon, and Verizon is also coming down the pipeline (again with Motorola).. And AT&T is also supposedly going to as well.. But once again.. People keep saying.. "Google needs to do this".. "Android needs to do that".. "Why doesn't Motorola do..""... IT"S THE CARRIERS WHO DECIDE WHAT THEY SELL, NOT THE MANUFACTURERS... If the only thing available is Verizon, it might be good to write the some letters.. Sounds pointless, but their support people, and their sales people.. they all want cool things to offer as well.
Well the point I am making is that.. You can spend taxpayer money to try someone, in an attempt to spend more taxpayer money to house them in prison.. So you are in effect you are planning to spend money.. So you should be damn sure this is what you want to do.. otherwise give the money to the person you were going to spend it on, if it turns out you were wrong.. If you don't want to spend the money, or are sure you can't win, then you shouldn't bring the case.. period.. saves lots of taxpayer money.
It was thin and wide instead of narrow and bulky.. In my experience (V3).. It also had good call quality, and was pretty rock solid and would not drop calls like some other phones.. The UI was ok, but a little odd to me.. But from a design perspective it felt good in your pocket or using it.. and was a top seller because of all the things I mentioned, regardless of the UI.. It also had a larger screen inside than other phones when it came out, as well as the little screen outside that would display the incoming call (for screening)... a Smart phone by no means.. but if I just wanted a basic phone with no 3g it would still be my choice, as long as it wasn't Sprints.. because I tried their version, and the UI seemed even worse to me.
You have two camps.. We have the people who complain about all the Android phones that don't have a physical keyboard, so every phone that doesn't have one they say "fail".. but then we have the people who realize that the touch screen keyboards are pretty good and it makes the phone bulky and say "fail"... I agree with you about the "blur" being a bad name.. I think it's really more about the integrated facebook/twitter/email/messaging system which is nice and everything, and the blurring of communications.. yeah I get it, but to define your whole UI with the name that has a negative connotation is asking for trouble when the fanboy critics start to tear into it.. you know they are going to make them regret that name.
Well, juries have no loss in such a scenario.. In theory judges don't either.. seems to me it would tend towards fewer cases, as only the more solid and "winnable" cases would make it. As it stands now, the "system" is designed to punish you before you have been found guilty.. and if your innocent, there is no undoing the punishment, and no compensation.. If it's a matter of saving taxpayer money, that ship has already sailed.. It is already extremely expensive to try someone, and expensive once they are convicted., The figures I have read are from $15,000 to $18,000 a year.. and like $60,000 for maximum security prisoners.. I imagine it then becomes a price point of cost of defense.. If your looking at 3 years in prison, and your defense costs $50,000 then it is the same cost to the taxpayer if the convict you and pay for prison, or pay for your defense if your found innocent.
So from a prosecution point of view.. it should be looked at that.. We are going to spend X amount of dollars on this person in the attempt to house him away from society.. If we don't win, we will give that money to him (do we really have a case ?).. Same amount of money after all.
Road trip !.. Used by authors since forever to delay a story, make the task (whatever it is) seem more difficult, and give the reader more time to learn about the characters. Usually ends in a comparatively quick resolution.. In many of these, the journey is more interesting than the resolution, and doesn't always translate well to film.. IMHO, not every good book should be made into a movie. Usually what made it good was enough detail that you could visualize it.. reading about hobbits camping is far more interesting than a film of them camping.
Well, it would seem that if it is a matter of scan quality, then it should be somewhat easy from here to throw some computing power into OCR and clean things up.. It would take up a lot less space as well, I imagine. Of course pictures, and illustrations are going to be difficult and probably never to anyones satisfaction... Perhaps, just perhaps, having done the first step of capturing the scanned data makes the 5 year job of converting them to the way you want, possible.
From what I have read.. Lancaster is dead.. Not saying this to burst your bubble, I had my eye on that phone. Apparently, they just snoozed too long and specs just would not be that impressive to compete. I believe that Sprint (with the modified Hero) and Tmobile (Motorola Morrison) are the next androids coming out.. Verizon will also come out with a Motorola phone as well.. (not sure when yet).. And AT&T just might have their own Hero as well.. will it be modified like Sprints ?, or the stock Hero ?.. we will see.. As to modifying the OS for "buy stuff", I don't necessarily think that was the whole story. I'm sure they wanted to be able to sell things like their Navigator., but I think it was also a choice not to go with the "Google experience" version of thew OS which has some limitations built in.. For example, you cant use the HTC created multitouch UI with the Google experience phone.. So perhaps "maybe" (however unlikely) they were trying to keep it better for the user. Although I should caveat this with the fact that I own a myTouch (got tired of waiting for rumor phones) and I have no problem with the Googlfication. Yes the multitouch thing would probably be a little nicer, but really I am happy with what I got.
The problem is, that when an application goes down.. it goes down for all.. In the old scenario, if my machine dies, or an application gets corrupted somehow., my neighbor still is functional.. In the new scenario, if the latest update of the application has some bug that is crashing.. everyone is equally screwed in using it.. It's a choice between fixing individuals problems, or global panic.
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Not saying you.. but a common mistake people make with wireless routers is to treat them like modems and tuck them away out of sight.. In the 2Wire modems case, it needs to be standing upright..Those that set it on it's side are broadcasting signals into the surface it's laying on. It also helps some to elevate the router a bit if you can. Yes signals can go through walls and maybe it doesn't make sense, but give it a try and see if you get better results if you get a clearer path. The channel problem probably isn't as bad as you think, and I suspect it is more to do with your router, or the wireless adapter in your laptop.
Although I get your point, and there is nothing wrong with learning a variety of subjects, to me the classroom only prepares you for so much. I'd much rather hire someone with some work experience and some college, than someone with only college. I would also rate ex military higher than college only. Perhaps this seems unfair, but I've worked with all of these and this is my take on who can get things done and are generally better employees. I suppose though it depends on the job we are talking about.
You don't provide enough details to comment on.. Added a hard drive, and changed the boot drive to a blank drive ? .. I am already pretty sure what you did, but you purposely left out the part of what you did to the blank drive before you tried to make it the boot drive.
Well, my main point in posting was pointing out the lame kids running on the grass analogy.., and that in my scenario "you could see how someone would want to be compensated"... Here's the deal, I am not a lawyer but I do know that sometimes damages and compensation for victims are sometimes added into judgements against someone convicted in a criminal case.. and there is also civil court where victims can also sue.. As Whopner (sp ?) used to say, you can sue anyone for anything.. Truth is, you would probably win against a convicted burgler in civil court and get those bars paid for.. although you might have difficulty collecting as his income has gone to crap..
Your analogy changes though if it's a greased naked man who squeezed through a skylight on the roof and is looking through your sock drawer at 2 am. Now perhaps it is not the mans fault that you have a skylight, and that other people who are willing can do the same thing he did.. but you can see how you might want him to pay to keep others from doing the same thing.
Actually in this case, we are talking about a device that has a touch screen UI and connects to the internet for internet raido.. it's not exactly the toaster scenario. I think it's a relevant question to ask and poorly handled by the marketing director. In marketing any device that has some technology behind it, you have choices.. You can supply specs when asked, or treat everyone like morons and say "it's magic".. to downplay a technology used in your device when asked, doesn't come across as confident in your design choices. If he wasn't capable of being able to answer the questions all in a positive way, he should not have been in a question and answer scenario.. It would be the same if he had a similar question on bluetooth.. bluetooth ? .. not everyone knows or understands what it is or does.. But if your marketing a device that has the technology, then you should, and you should be able to explain why it's good, and why it's on your device.
Ohh.. the hole you dig.. Your claim that people don't write software for Linux.. Tons of software out there, and even some commercial.. The reason that malware is not "popular" on Linux is not due to it's lack of popularity, but more to do with the way executables are handled in Linux compared to the way they are handled in Windows.. Both in general, and in a browser with active-x... Windows has gotten better at it, but the ironic thing is that the whole "ease of use" click and run that made it so vulnerable, had to be shored up and has turned it into a dialog popup fiasco.. Linux beats it all to hell in user experience when installing software.
Can malware be written for Linux ?.. of course it can.. It's just a bit more difficult. Right now, Linux has a pretty good balance between usability and security.. The problems come when you have all these users wanting to make installs of software "more like Windows".. If that happens, and it gets away from the software repository system which has testing designed into it, then you will have the same problems as Windows. I'd rather the users adapt to the Linux way, than for Linux to cave into the Windows model.
Actually, they already do and then some.. You get so much at one price, then if you use beyond that it gets really expensive. There is a problem with it though.. whatever voodoo they use to calculate the baseline is all over the place. You and a neighbor with identical houses could have different baselines before they start sticking it to you or them.. same with apartments.. you can move into an apartment and then be shocked at the low baseline that probably has something to do with the people who lived there previously, or have this huge baseline.. it's a crap shoot.
Not quite sure why the governator is opposed to regulating.. the lack of it is what got him into his job in the first place.
It's surprising the number of people who already think that their voice service is being broadcast using their 3G .. hence all the recent comments by people about i-phone users surfing the web causing their dropped calls.. I know that isn't the case now, and I know I don't get a vote on it, but I think I prefer the way it is, keeping them separate.
John Cleese, "Wine for the confused" on Hulu, did an unlabeled tasting of expensive verses inexpensive.. His best advice on the whole thing.. is buy what tastes good to you..
Your licorice comment has a different twist for me.. When I was small, I always liked it.. Then I caught some bug and was sick as a dog.. my mom gave me some black licorice cough drops,, could never eat it again.. aversion therapy I guess.
I don't know if Windows has done it yet or not.. but what it should do, is make a copy of a driver when it has to install one from an outside source.. That's the biggest bummer for people when say, their network card stops working, and it requests a driver.. but who knows where the dang disk is ? .. I seriously haven't had any real problems with hardware on Linux since the late 90's and most of that was caused by the infamous "Win Modems" where the hardware was emulated in software.. hated those things, but got em to work.. I guess more recently, I have also had a few glitches with getting the advanced stuff working on some video cards.. but in fairness, I have had much worse scenarios with video cards and Windows.. Safe mode or no safe mode.
It's genius.. by actually using the product day to day, they will discover it's strengths and weaknesses and know what changes they need to focus on. That they have not done this from day one is the amazing part.
I often tell my co-workers.. This job would be great if it weren't for the damn customers.
After the giggling stops, I get back to it and do my best to help the people who make my paycheck possible.
That Debian runs older stable software, does not stop them from installed patched versions of software when it comes to security. You still get security updates in stable.. Not pointing fingers or anything.. but if I do a search for roundcube in debian stable I don't find anything.. testing, unstable, and experimental yes.. but stable no.. So perhaps the whole idea of running the creaky old software makes sense.
While I applaud your ability to get Android on your phone, Your experience is hardly representative of the Android Market, or Android.. If I manage to install OSX onto a netbook, and then say that OSX is a cobbled together imitation of Windows it makes as much sense.
OK.. Google designed the Android platform, and have gotten handset manufacturers to use it.. But it is up to Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T to get their heads out of their ass and decide to carry them.. Sprint will be soon, and Verizon is also coming down the pipeline (again with Motorola).. And AT&T is also supposedly going to as well.. But once again.. People keep saying.. "Google needs to do this".. "Android needs to do that".. "Why doesn't Motorola do.."" ... IT"S THE CARRIERS WHO DECIDE WHAT THEY SELL, NOT THE MANUFACTURERS... If the only thing available is Verizon, it might be good to write the some letters.. Sounds pointless, but their support people, and their sales people.. they all want cool things to offer as well.
Well the point I am making is that.. You can spend taxpayer money to try someone, in an attempt to spend more taxpayer money to house them in prison.. So you are in effect you are planning to spend money.. So you should be damn sure this is what you want to do.. otherwise give the money to the person you were going to spend it on, if it turns out you were wrong.. If you don't want to spend the money, or are sure you can't win, then you shouldn't bring the case.. period.. saves lots of taxpayer money.
It was thin and wide instead of narrow and bulky.. In my experience (V3).. It also had good call quality, and was pretty rock solid and would not drop calls like some other phones.. The UI was ok, but a little odd to me.. But from a design perspective it felt good in your pocket or using it.. and was a top seller because of all the things I mentioned, regardless of the UI.. It also had a larger screen inside than other phones when it came out, as well as the little screen outside that would display the incoming call (for screening)... a Smart phone by no means.. but if I just wanted a basic phone with no 3g it would still be my choice, as long as it wasn't Sprints.. because I tried their version, and the UI seemed even worse to me.
You have two camps .. We have the people who complain about all the Android phones that don't have a physical keyboard, so every phone that doesn't have one they say "fail" .. but then we have the people who realize that the touch screen keyboards are pretty good and it makes the phone bulky and say "fail"... I agree with you about the "blur" being a bad name.. I think it's really more about the integrated facebook/twitter/email/messaging system which is nice and everything, and the blurring of communications .. yeah I get it, but to define your whole UI with the name that has a negative connotation is asking for trouble when the fanboy critics start to tear into it.. you know they are going to make them regret that name.
Well, juries have no loss in such a scenario.. In theory judges don't either.. seems to me it would tend towards fewer cases, as only the more solid and "winnable" cases would make it. As it stands now, the "system" is designed to punish you before you have been found guilty.. and if your innocent, there is no undoing the punishment, and no compensation.. If it's a matter of saving taxpayer money, that ship has already sailed.. It is already extremely expensive to try someone, and expensive once they are convicted., The figures I have read are from $15,000 to $18,000 a year.. and like $60,000 for maximum security prisoners.. I imagine it then becomes a price point of cost of defense.. If your looking at 3 years in prison, and your defense costs $50,000 then it is the same cost to the taxpayer if the convict you and pay for prison, or pay for your defense if your found innocent.
So from a prosecution point of view.. it should be looked at that.. We are going to spend X amount of dollars on this person in the attempt to house him away from society.. If we don't win, we will give that money to him (do we really have a case ?).. Same amount of money after all.
Road trip !.. Used by authors since forever to delay a story, make the task (whatever it is) seem more difficult, and give the reader more time to learn about the characters. Usually ends in a comparatively quick resolution.. In many of these, the journey is more interesting than the resolution, and doesn't always translate well to film.. IMHO, not every good book should be made into a movie. Usually what made it good was enough detail that you could visualize it.. reading about hobbits camping is far more interesting than a film of them camping.
Half as much page turning.
Well, it would seem that if it is a matter of scan quality, then it should be somewhat easy from here to throw some computing power into OCR and clean things up.. It would take up a lot less space as well, I imagine. Of course pictures, and illustrations are going to be difficult and probably never to anyones satisfaction... Perhaps, just perhaps, having done the first step of capturing the scanned data makes the 5 year job of converting them to the way you want, possible.
From what I have read.. Lancaster is dead.. Not saying this to burst your bubble, I had my eye on that phone. Apparently, they just snoozed too long and specs just would not be that impressive to compete. I believe that Sprint (with the modified Hero) and Tmobile (Motorola Morrison) are the next androids coming out.. Verizon will also come out with a Motorola phone as well.. (not sure when yet).. And AT&T just might have their own Hero as well.. will it be modified like Sprints ?, or the stock Hero ?.. we will see.. As to modifying the OS for "buy stuff", I don't necessarily think that was the whole story. I'm sure they wanted to be able to sell things like their Navigator., but I think it was also a choice not to go with the "Google experience" version of thew OS which has some limitations built in.. For example, you cant use the HTC created multitouch UI with the Google experience phone.. So perhaps "maybe" (however unlikely) they were trying to keep it better for the user. Although I should caveat this with the fact that I own a myTouch (got tired of waiting for rumor phones) and I have no problem with the Googlfication. Yes the multitouch thing would probably be a little nicer, but really I am happy with what I got.
The problem is, that when an application goes down.. it goes down for all.. In the old scenario, if my machine dies, or an application gets corrupted somehow., my neighbor still is functional.. In the new scenario, if the latest update of the application has some bug that is crashing.. everyone is equally screwed in using it.. It's a choice between fixing individuals problems, or global panic.