Is it just me or does everyone agree with me that HP is in what one would call "a confused state of mind?"
I am afraid I am inclined to believe that this is the case especially when one closely listens to what the company's direction has been in the last few years.
This isn't a particularly big deal. The "IP address isn't a person" argument has been brought up in cases before, but it's just never mattered
It would be absurd to even insinuate that an IP is a person. From what I know, an IP doesn't have "life" or a "state of mind," so how can it be a person?
An IP in this context could be used to narrow down a set of suspects. In other words, it's just a set of numbers, right?
Advertised to work on both entry level tablets as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching between applications among other features."
I would modify the above piece to read...
Advertised to work on both entry level tablets as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching between applications among other features just like Linux does. "
And we all know how Linux is [generally] doing, right?
Although slower, the new version offers several advantages: cleaner code using a structured representation of the input document, Unicode support, and saner support for multiple output backends. (emphasis mine).
Whether a end user will notice, I don't know for sure! Who does?
I have an issue with the so called, "session cookies."
While they are a part of online the presence, non of their behavior would be stomached in actual day-to-day life. So the issue is that we've got two set's of paradigms. An online one where you can be tracked by default and a real life one where you have to be explicitly informed if one is to monitor your every activity.
Asia-Pacific manufacturers are more focused on the consumer electronics market and better able to cope with low margins thanks to rapid adoption and huge potential customer bases.
How about:
(1) Less greed,
(2) Being nimble
(3) Proper labor relations and management?
(4) The sense that, "We can beat them at their game?"
(5) Proud citizenry - Those Asians usually patronize Asian
made goods. You ask a Japanese what the best car is.
They'll tell you it's a Toyota! They then buy that!
Professor Gail Dines, an expert on pornography and speaker at a recent conference at Reykjavik University.
How exactly did this gentleman become an expert on pornography?
It is looking a pornography from a new position â" from the perspective of the harm it does to the women who appear in it and as a violation of their civil rights."
What if they unconsciously want to appear in it? Isn't democracy the right to choose your destiny, good or bad?
In the meantime, Google undermines itself by bankrolling a product (the Nexus 4) which is so delicate that it will crack with small temperature fluctuations.
Talk of a formidable but substandard product! I have held off buying this phone for this very reason. Google can surely do better.
The constant upgrade treadmill put me off!
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How Red Hat Hires
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Congratulations to Red Hat though I definitely won't among the hires. I am uninterested.
Here's why:
Most of these tech companies require that a [new] hire remains up-to-date. This isn't the problem, though. The problem is that the costs involved are pushed to the employee. The time/energy spent is enormous. If one has little ones, it's worse.
Time came when I was absent minded, thinking about a function that just could not work properly. Exposure to newer ways of solving tasks like the one I had would have helped, but I had to foot the initial cost!! Imagine that in this economy. My company agreed to reimburse the costs if I passed, and remained with them for at least 2 more years. In the mean time, deadlines were exerting enormous pressure.
So the idea that the US is propped up by foreign debt is pretty dumb.
It is definately dumb to dumb people. But for those who know that without borrowing in the last few weeks, the government would shut down, the idea that the US is propped up by foreign debt is real.
It might sound terrible but it's true. Reckless spending with no corresponding income coming in, is the problem. I can see through your pride as you furnish those numbers but the governent and the markets on the other and know the facts --- which are amaemic!
Well, I thought I'd be able to use the phone's GPS without a data connection.
My Samsung Galaxy S3 immediately "tells" me, "Cannot complete action without a data connection," the moment I try to enter a direction -- even with the GPS enabled. It will only work with a data connection.
"Its company policy that if you have a car requiring high octane gas, we will charge you for high octane gas, no matter what you actually use or want". Finally, you can't go to an alternative gas station provider because you were dumb enough to sign a 2-year gasoline contract and there's only a handful of gas stations who collude WRT prices and services anyway.
(emphasis mine...)
Not exactly...It's better explained this way: -
"Its company policy that if you have a car that would satisfy you with low octane gas, we will charge you for high octane gas, no matter what you actually use or want". Finally, you can't go to an alternative gas station provider because you were dumb enough to sign a 2-year gasoline contract and there's only a handful of gas stations who collude WRT prices and services anyway.
How about "forcing" companies like Microsoft to use "standard file formats" for what has now become the defacto office suite?
Or making sure these companies, including Facebook, provide a mechanism for data portability, provisioned by a script?
Here's how it would work: I, the user, run this script through an interface, the result of which should be the "porting" of all my data from one provider to another in a 'reasonable time.'
They (Federal Trade Commission), dropped the ball long ago!
They are now trying to impress upon us that they are doing everything they can to "protect and safe guard" our privacy? I don't buy it one bit!
I have downloaded more than 400MB of map data but in order to even get directions to some place (on the map I have downloaded), my smartphone says it needs a data connection for this! Trouble! I will try those other solutions and report accordingly.
SDR hobbyists have been using the inexpensive receivers to decode airplane data transmission giving locations and mechanical condition, GPS signals, and many other digital signals traveling through the air around us.
I mean, I would like to use my smartphone as a GPS without requiring a data connection (strictly speaking);
Just like how those GPS units from Garmin, TomTom et al work.
"RIM has a chance to carve out its own market with tomorrow's launch of BlackBerry 10 given that they get a few things right. They need to heavily promote their devices to CEOs, heavily promote the top apps to users, and most of all, they need to be able to explain why people should give it a look."
The analyst's statement sounds obvious to me. Seriously, does one need an analyst to come up with such an appraisal?
Unfortunately, it's only available in the US right now, but hopefully Microsoft will be expanding regional support soon."
Making the app available in jurisdictions other than the US is a no brainer to me. If I am a company, all I want is to make as much dough as I can. So why would a company restrict availability of a product to a selected market at the outset; if making it available to a larger customer base is a matter of coding?
I have done it on behalf of my small startup which unfortunaltely, was aquired and the new owner discountinued the product. But for a number of customers outside the USA, our products were good. And we sold them without any support. Cusomers [still] bought. We made about 19% of our sales this way. Now Microsoft launches an app and makes it only availabe to those in the USA.
Why do companies do this? Let the customer purchase the product at his/her own risk. They will still buy - I mean some.
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Is it just me or does everyone agree with me that HP is in what one would call "a confused state of mind?"
I am afraid I am inclined to believe that this is the case especially when one closely listens to what the company's direction has been in the last few years.
This isn't a particularly big deal. The "IP address isn't a person" argument has been brought up in cases before, but it's just never mattered
It would be absurd to even insinuate that an IP is a person. From what I know, an IP doesn't have "life" or a "state of mind," so how can it be a person?
An IP in this context could be used to narrow down a set of suspects. In other words, it's just a set of numbers, right?
Advertised to work on both entry level tablets as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching between applications among other features."
I would modify the above piece to read...
Advertised to work on both entry level tablets as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching between applications among other features just like Linux does. "
And we all know how Linux is [generally] doing, right?
Although slower, the new version offers several advantages: cleaner code using a structured representation of the input document, Unicode support, and saner support for multiple output backends. (emphasis mine).
Whether a end user will notice, I don't know for sure! Who does?
I have an issue with the so called, "session cookies."
While they are a part of online the presence, non of their behavior would be stomached in actual day-to-day life.
So the issue is that we've got two set's of paradigms. An online one where you can be tracked by default and a real life
one where you have to be explicitly informed if one is to monitor your every activity.
Sad, indeed.
Asia-Pacific manufacturers are more focused on the consumer electronics market and better able to cope with low margins thanks to rapid adoption and huge potential customer bases.
How about:
(1) Less greed,
(2) Being nimble
(3) Proper labor relations and management?
(4) The sense that, "We can beat them at their game?"
(5) Proud citizenry - Those Asians usually patronize Asian
made goods. You ask a Japanese what the best car is.
They'll tell you it's a Toyota! They then buy that!
Is there any? I ask because I don't see the possibility of support conracts...Or do they exist? Anyone?
Professor Gail Dines, an expert on pornography and speaker at a recent conference at Reykjavik University.
How exactly did this gentleman become an expert on pornography?
It is looking a pornography from a new position â" from the perspective of the harm it does to the women who appear in it and as a violation of their civil rights."
What if they unconsciously want to appear in it? Isn't democracy the right to choose your destiny, good or bad?
I have a gut feeling that this is the judge who filed for bankruptcy. Sorry, I had to mention this.
In the meantime, Google undermines itself by bankrolling a product (the Nexus 4) which is so delicate that it will crack with small temperature fluctuations.
Talk of a formidable but substandard product! I have held off buying this phone for this very reason. Google can surely do better.
Congratulations to Red Hat though I definitely won't among the hires. I am uninterested.
Here's why:
Most of these tech companies require that a [new] hire remains up-to-date. This isn't the problem, though. The problem is that the costs involved are pushed to the employee. The time/energy spent is enormous. If one has little ones, it's worse.
Time came when I was absent minded, thinking about a function that just could not work properly. Exposure to newer ways of solving tasks like the one I had would have helped, but I had to foot the initial cost!! Imagine that in this economy. My company agreed to reimburse the costs if I passed, and remained with them for at least 2 more years. In the mean time, deadlines were exerting enormous pressure.
Guess what, I quit, and I am a happier fella.
So which environment is it running?
1: Gnome: [ ] 2: KDE [ ] 3: Other [ ]
Thanks!
So the idea that the US is propped up by foreign debt is pretty dumb.
It is definately dumb to dumb people. But for those who know that without borrowing in the last few weeks, the government would shut down, the idea that the US is propped up by foreign debt is real.
It might sound terrible but it's true. Reckless spending with no corresponding income coming in, is the problem. I can see through your pride as you furnish those numbers but the governent and the markets on the other and know the facts --- which are amaemic!
Well, I thought I'd be able to use the phone's GPS without a data connection.
My Samsung Galaxy S3 immediately "tells" me, "Cannot complete action without a data connection," the moment I try to enter a direction -- even with the GPS enabled. It will only work with a data connection.
Needless to say, I am disappointed.
Best economic engine on the planet...
--->> Financed or propped up by debt especially to China and Japan, right?
"Its company policy that if you have a car requiring high octane gas, we will charge you for high octane gas, no matter what you actually use or want". Finally, you can't go to an alternative gas station provider because you were dumb enough to sign a 2-year gasoline contract and there's only a handful of gas stations who collude WRT prices and services anyway.
(emphasis mine...)
Not exactly...It's better explained this way: -
"Its company policy that if you have a car that would satisfy you with low octane gas, we will charge you for high octane gas, no matter what you actually use or want". Finally, you can't go to an alternative gas station provider because you were dumb enough to sign a 2-year gasoline contract and there's only a handful of gas stations who collude WRT prices and services anyway.
I whole heartedly agree. Trouble is, most Americans think the [mighty] USA is the best place to be.
They view themselves as being superior to others nations, after all they have the strongest, the best of everything, including democracy.
No wonder companies like At&T treat them that way.
How about "forcing" companies like Microsoft to use "standard file formats" for what has now become the defacto office suite?
Or making sure these companies, including Facebook, provide a mechanism for data portability, provisioned by a script?
Here's how it would work: I, the user, run this script through an interface, the result of which should be the "porting" of all my data from one provider to another in a 'reasonable time.'
They (Federal Trade Commission), dropped the ball long ago!
They are now trying to impress upon us that they are doing everything they can to "protect and safe guard" our privacy? I don't buy it one bit!
I have downloaded more than 400MB of map data but in order to even get directions to some place (on the map I have downloaded), my smartphone says it needs a data connection for this! Trouble! I will try those other solutions and report accordingly.
SDR hobbyists have been using the inexpensive receivers to decode airplane data transmission giving locations and mechanical condition, GPS signals, and many other digital signals traveling through the air around us.
I mean, I would like to use my smartphone as a GPS without requiring a data connection (strictly speaking);
Just like how those GPS units from Garmin, TomTom et al work.
Possible?
Fun fact: Apple's iPhone 5 has more processing power than this one-eyed explorer.
Never mind that iPhone's source code is closed. I don't dispute the fact above.
My trouble though is on the constant reference to Apple's device as if a generic term like "Smart Phone" would not suffice!
Personally, I am tired of seeing the term "iPhone" day in and day out. I am tired!
Can anyone refute 'my fact that' any smart phone has more processing power then the the one-eyed explorer?
they should not be using a consumer-level OS and browser, but something a bit more realtime.
Like...?
"RIM has a chance to carve out its own market with tomorrow's launch of BlackBerry 10 given that they get a few things right. They need to heavily promote their devices to CEOs, heavily promote the top apps to users, and most of all, they need to be able to explain why people should give it a look."
The analyst's statement sounds obvious to me. Seriously, does one need an analyst to come up with such an appraisal?
I guess I could be one, right?
I stopped using it because it was so much slower than Chrome at some basic tasks
Are you a "high speed" trader?
What real useful difference does it make? Seriously?
Unfortunately, it's only available in the US right now, but hopefully Microsoft will be expanding regional support soon."
Making the app available in jurisdictions other than the US is a no brainer to me. If I am a company, all I want is to make as much dough as I can. So why would a company restrict availability of a product to a selected market at the outset; if making it available to a larger customer base is a matter of coding?
I have done it on behalf of my small startup which unfortunaltely, was aquired and the new owner discountinued the product. But for a number of customers outside the USA, our products were good. And we sold them without any support. Cusomers [still] bought. We made about 19% of our sales this way. Now Microsoft launches an app and makes it only availabe to those in the USA.
Why do companies do this? Let the customer purchase the product at his/her own risk. They will still buy - I mean some.