Honestly, I eat out WAY more than what is reasonable, and I still don't get how you can have less than 3 days worth of food. You would almost have to commit to ONLY eating out. I know that there are people like that, but surely the number of people who ONLY eat out is a very small number...
I have to agree with this. I keep hearing how Google searches don't work anymore, but other than a few specific cases, Google is almost always spot on. Even the few specific cases I can think of are actually on topic, they are just behind a paywall, and I am not prepared to pay for the information the site has.
Yes, they were being funny, but that doesn't make it any less true. Thinking that Mac "Just Works" any more than windows, or Linux for that matter is a myth. If you buy hardware that the OS knows about, all three will automatically install them. If you don't, they will all be a pain to set up. Yes, even OSX. As for day to day use, they all use the same basic paradigm. Yes, they may look slightly different, but nothing that will thow anyone that isn't willfully trying not to understand.
Smart phones are not a lot different. Dumping every application's icon on the desktop vs. having a home button that shows the applications that you don't see on the desktop is not a huge difference. Having a permenent back button vs. having the developers put a back button on every screen programatically again isn't a material difference.
Or, just a wireless dongle that they could keep in their pocket, or a bluetooth connection that can detect that their phone is nearby. Sonar is built into a specialized keyboard is just a bad idea. There is a time for integration, and times that it is bad. Keyboards are WAY to varied, and this keyboard would be too expensive for the integration to make sense. Heck, I would be better if it was just a USB dongle that sat on the desk than being integrated into the keyboard.
It's not the users work. It is the companies work. I would fire any administrator that suggested we destroy the companies work as a punishment to users that didn't do what we wanted. OK, I wouldn't fire them for suggesting it. I would point out how they are suggesting that the company's property should be destroyed. Then if they implemented it, I would fire them.
What is the program. And is it available for Windows and Mac? I have always wondered why more companies don't use the wireless token. It gives the user all of the convince of leaving their computer unlocked, and give the Administrator more security than expecting users to make their jobs harder. The cost isn't large. A phone based wireless token system like you say your are using would be a better solution in many situations. The battery issue would be pitted against people leaving the token on their desk when they went to lunch.
If they are counting redials, then they are faking the numbers. Just as counting every time I flip a light switch as a separate power outage would be faked numbers.
This thread made me do a mental note about how much food I have in the house. (In CA I don't really have to worry about being snowed in.) And that lead me to think about just how much a pain in the ass eating must be for people that don't have 3 days of food in the house. How do you even do that? Even if these people eat every piece of food in the house before going to the store the next time, they would have to be shopping 2-3 times a week. That must be an enormous burden on these people. Heck, a bottle of ketchup and some water, and you have 3 or 4 meals in a life or death situation.
It seems that you would have to go out of your way to get your house down to 3 days worth of food.
I am really surprised that we have not seen a single tablet that is 8.5"x11". Yes, it is a little big, but there would be great value in having the screen be a correct size for paper.
I can see lots of uses for rear facing cameras on tablets. I haven't looked at the quality of the iPad's camera, but the video on my G2 and Nexus One are both better than the quality of the picture on my Canon Camcorder. The Camcorder is in the closet, never to be used again. With that in mind, I can certainly see how someone might want to use an iPad as a camcorder. That way you could see what you are taking a video of without having to peek through a little hole. Heck, I could see it being used for taking photos. Put it on a tripod, and it would be WAY better for portraits than some little hand held camera.
And a Gyroscope? That is a no brainier. Of course you want a gyroscope. I didn't realize that it was missing from the iPad. I would have been pretty annoyed if I had bought one only to find out that it had been left out. How are you supposed to play a driving game where you hold the iPad like a steering wheel if it doesn't have a gyroscope?
consumer appliance that works out of the box the way you like it.
I think this kind of statement is a sign of having fallen for the PR. Clearly none of the devices "work the way you like". If they did, you wouldn't look forward to newer models with better features.
"Stupid" idea? No. Laptops are designed to be portable. They are sold as portable devices. They are marketed to people that the designers KNOW will move them while they are on. Laptops being so delicate that break because they were moved while on have a design defect. Blaming the user for moving their portable device is no better than telling them that they are holding their phone wrong.
Any problems associated with moving a laptop while on is a design failure. Not a user error. It would be trivial to force the laptop to completely shut down if it is moved while on. Not one manufacturer does this because they know that they users would not accept this. Why? Because the user is buying a product that can be moved while on. It is the manufacturers who are agreeing to sell the users what they want, and then failing to design a product that meets the known intended use.
If you are having that high of a failure rate on brand new drives, I would suggest that you should either treat the drive better on the way home, or choose a different store to buy your drives from. A 20% defective rate is not normal.
No, it isn't a long distance. SG's premise is that they are using wormholes. I don't recall them explaining exacty what the mechanism of the worm, but wormholes usually imply folding of space or some such things. If they are using a hole punched in a fold in space, it would have only had to travel a very short distance.
Maybe if you were not playing BS politics, you would never find a BCC'ed email to be awkward. You also are totally naive about customers.
If you give a customer an email address, you better expect them to use it. Telling them not to send emails to the person that definitely knows the answer because it should first go through someone that might know the answer is going to be taken by some as you telling them that their time is unimportant. It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong. Making your customers feel insulting when it is totally unnecessary is not good business.
Seriously, I am surprised at the number of Slashdot users that don't get that. They should be complaining that it isn't used more instead of claiming that it is never used. When most people are rude, you don't remove the mechanism needed to be polite.
Unfortunately, depending on the corporate culture, there is often no choice but to bring a boss into a spat. Of course, if you must, then CCing the boss is the best course anyway. The boss knows it's only an FYI, and the other employee knows that everything from that point on is out in the open.
But what really pisses me off about the *.A.As is the double standard bullshit they try to pull. They say "oh you didn't buy the (insert movie/game/CD) you bought a license to use it!" (and thus getting around first sale). Okay, I'll play. That means I get to replace it for free if anything happens to the media, right? After all I already have a license to use it? "Oh no" they say "You bought a copy thus you have to go buy a replacement!"
That is my single biggest complaint as well. We can either license, or we can buy. They can accept my money for one or the other, they need to pick which one they are doing.
That is touching on the problem. Who is really the parent. As it stands now, a large portion of the minor population spends more waking hours under the care of the state than they do their biological "parents". By a wide margin they spend more time under the care of the state than they do an individual "parent". It is now common for students to be supplied breakfast and lunch by the state. Many places are pushing to have dinners supplied by the state as well. There is a constant push to expand these programs. Even when the child is under the care of the biological "parent", the "parent" is being pressured to follow the directions of the school.
So, good or bad, who is really the child's parent? I believe we now live in an orphanage nation where most biological parents only get visitation rights.
If it comes down to it, the school does not need to sue. They will just place a call to the CPS, and let an entire other part of the government handle harassing you.
In the end, the issue will come down to how badly the school wants this power, and if they think they can get away with it. I am always amazed at how many people do not understand the difference between something being "illegal", and something being "against the school rules". Because of this confusion, one risks CPS agents using the force of their government position to try to stop you from breaking school rules that they believe to be laws. If it ever makes it to a courtroom, you also risk having a judge or jury believing that school rules and law are synonymous. We have already seen this slippery slope make progress with things like strip searches of students, and the common belief that a school has authority over the student when they have left the school property.
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Honestly, I eat out WAY more than what is reasonable, and I still don't get how you can have less than 3 days worth of food. You would almost have to commit to ONLY eating out. I know that there are people like that, but surely the number of people who ONLY eat out is a very small number...
I have to agree with this. I keep hearing how Google searches don't work anymore, but other than a few specific cases, Google is almost always spot on. Even the few specific cases I can think of are actually on topic, they are just behind a paywall, and I am not prepared to pay for the information the site has.
Yes, they were being funny, but that doesn't make it any less true. Thinking that Mac "Just Works" any more than windows, or Linux for that matter is a myth. If you buy hardware that the OS knows about, all three will automatically install them. If you don't, they will all be a pain to set up. Yes, even OSX. As for day to day use, they all use the same basic paradigm. Yes, they may look slightly different, but nothing that will thow anyone that isn't willfully trying not to understand.
Smart phones are not a lot different. Dumping every application's icon on the desktop vs. having a home button that shows the applications that you don't see on the desktop is not a huge difference. Having a permenent back button vs. having the developers put a back button on every screen programatically again isn't a material difference.
"Just works" always was PR, and it still is.
Or, just a wireless dongle that they could keep in their pocket, or a bluetooth connection that can detect that their phone is nearby. Sonar is built into a specialized keyboard is just a bad idea. There is a time for integration, and times that it is bad. Keyboards are WAY to varied, and this keyboard would be too expensive for the integration to make sense. Heck, I would be better if it was just a USB dongle that sat on the desk than being integrated into the keyboard.
It's not the users work. It is the companies work. I would fire any administrator that suggested we destroy the companies work as a punishment to users that didn't do what we wanted. OK, I wouldn't fire them for suggesting it. I would point out how they are suggesting that the company's property should be destroyed. Then if they implemented it, I would fire them.
What is the program. And is it available for Windows and Mac? I have always wondered why more companies don't use the wireless token. It gives the user all of the convince of leaving their computer unlocked, and give the Administrator more security than expecting users to make their jobs harder. The cost isn't large. A phone based wireless token system like you say your are using would be a better solution in many situations. The battery issue would be pitted against people leaving the token on their desk when they went to lunch.
If they are counting redials, then they are faking the numbers. Just as counting every time I flip a light switch as a separate power outage would be faked numbers.
This thread made me do a mental note about how much food I have in the house. (In CA I don't really have to worry about being snowed in.) And that lead me to think about just how much a pain in the ass eating must be for people that don't have 3 days of food in the house. How do you even do that? Even if these people eat every piece of food in the house before going to the store the next time, they would have to be shopping 2-3 times a week. That must be an enormous burden on these people. Heck, a bottle of ketchup and some water, and you have 3 or 4 meals in a life or death situation.
It seems that you would have to go out of your way to get your house down to 3 days worth of food.
I am really surprised that we have not seen a single tablet that is 8.5"x11". Yes, it is a little big, but there would be great value in having the screen be a correct size for paper.
I can see lots of uses for rear facing cameras on tablets. I haven't looked at the quality of the iPad's camera, but the video on my G2 and Nexus One are both better than the quality of the picture on my Canon Camcorder. The Camcorder is in the closet, never to be used again. With that in mind, I can certainly see how someone might want to use an iPad as a camcorder. That way you could see what you are taking a video of without having to peek through a little hole. Heck, I could see it being used for taking photos. Put it on a tripod, and it would be WAY better for portraits than some little hand held camera.
And a Gyroscope? That is a no brainier. Of course you want a gyroscope. I didn't realize that it was missing from the iPad. I would have been pretty annoyed if I had bought one only to find out that it had been left out. How are you supposed to play a driving game where you hold the iPad like a steering wheel if it doesn't have a gyroscope?
consumer appliance that works out of the box the way you like it.
I think this kind of statement is a sign of having fallen for the PR. Clearly none of the devices "work the way you like". If they did, you wouldn't look forward to newer models with better features.
"Stupid" idea? No. Laptops are designed to be portable. They are sold as portable devices. They are marketed to people that the designers KNOW will move them while they are on. Laptops being so delicate that break because they were moved while on have a design defect. Blaming the user for moving their portable device is no better than telling them that they are holding their phone wrong.
Any problems associated with moving a laptop while on is a design failure. Not a user error. It would be trivial to force the laptop to completely shut down if it is moved while on. Not one manufacturer does this because they know that they users would not accept this. Why? Because the user is buying a product that can be moved while on. It is the manufacturers who are agreeing to sell the users what they want, and then failing to design a product that meets the known intended use.
If you are having that high of a failure rate on brand new drives, I would suggest that you should either treat the drive better on the way home, or choose a different store to buy your drives from. A 20% defective rate is not normal.
No, it isn't a long distance. SG's premise is that they are using wormholes. I don't recall them explaining exacty what the mechanism of the worm, but wormholes usually imply folding of space or some such things. If they are using a hole punched in a fold in space, it would have only had to travel a very short distance.
Maybe if you were not playing BS politics, you would never find a BCC'ed email to be awkward. You also are totally naive about customers.
If you give a customer an email address, you better expect them to use it. Telling them not to send emails to the person that definitely knows the answer because it should first go through someone that might know the answer is going to be taken by some as you telling them that their time is unimportant. It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong. Making your customers feel insulting when it is totally unnecessary is not good business.
With that kind of attitude, your never going get that 3 (4, 5,6) way.
Seriously, I am surprised at the number of Slashdot users that don't get that. They should be complaining that it isn't used more instead of claiming that it is never used. When most people are rude, you don't remove the mechanism needed to be polite.
Unfortunately, depending on the corporate culture, there is often no choice but to bring a boss into a spat. Of course, if you must, then CCing the boss is the best course anyway. The boss knows it's only an FYI, and the other employee knows that everything from that point on is out in the open.
I can't tell if that post is self deprecating, humor, ignorant or some combination of that.
But what really pisses me off about the *.A.As is the double standard bullshit they try to pull. They say "oh you didn't buy the (insert movie/game/CD) you bought a license to use it!" (and thus getting around first sale). Okay, I'll play. That means I get to replace it for free if anything happens to the media, right? After all I already have a license to use it? "Oh no" they say "You bought a copy thus you have to go buy a replacement!"
That is my single biggest complaint as well. We can either license, or we can buy. They can accept my money for one or the other, they need to pick which one they are doing.
Bingo! That is what the CA schools are all about. Public school is big business.
Then after getting involved, they complain about being involved, and how that involvement means they do not get enough money.
That is touching on the problem. Who is really the parent. As it stands now, a large portion of the minor population spends more waking hours under the care of the state than they do their biological "parents". By a wide margin they spend more time under the care of the state than they do an individual "parent". It is now common for students to be supplied breakfast and lunch by the state. Many places are pushing to have dinners supplied by the state as well. There is a constant push to expand these programs. Even when the child is under the care of the biological "parent", the "parent" is being pressured to follow the directions of the school.
So, good or bad, who is really the child's parent? I believe we now live in an orphanage nation where most biological parents only get visitation rights.
If it comes down to it, the school does not need to sue. They will just place a call to the CPS, and let an entire other part of the government handle harassing you.
In the end, the issue will come down to how badly the school wants this power, and if they think they can get away with it. I am always amazed at how many people do not understand the difference between something being "illegal", and something being "against the school rules". Because of this confusion, one risks CPS agents using the force of their government position to try to stop you from breaking school rules that they believe to be laws. If it ever makes it to a courtroom, you also risk having a judge or jury believing that school rules and law are synonymous. We have already seen this slippery slope make progress with things like strip searches of students, and the common belief that a school has authority over the student when they have left the school property.
The bug you refer to is in the definition of who is "authority".