...that doesn't need full-time IT.
The company I work for only has forty employees and we have a part-time admin who comes in two days a week. The only drawback is that he's on call 24/7. Just remember that remote access is your friend.
Why are these people attacking Google. Privacy and anonymity are rapidly eroding in the UK.
Hello! You've got bigger privacy problems than Google if you're living there.
are these so expensive just because they're expensive to make, or is there massive demand that keeps that the price up (and if so, what is that demand based on)
Blue lasers are expensive period. They're hard to produce. It's cheaper to use longer wavelength lasers and there are very few applications where blue lasers are necessary. In the lab where I work we have ~20 different lasers in use. Only one of them is blue.
Thor Labs, a major supplier of lasers and optical components, has a 405nm 35mw laser diode for $2604.18. I'd assume Wicked is getting some kind of bulk discount on these parts. I call BS on them tearing Bluray players apart for the diodes.
Now the real question is how long before Sony sues them for trademark violation? They have the Bluray emblem etched on their device. I wonder if it's been properly licensed.
I'll give a big AMEN to that! I'm so sick of television advertising in the US. There's just no substance to it. The commercials we're forced to suffer through (no tivo here) do little to convince me to try new products or services.
The worst, however, are the cheesy locally made or made by the cable company commercials. Good grief people, if you're going to make your own ads find someone who knows what they're doing to help you. If there was a way to pick up my TV and wring it out every time I see one of these I'd have my own cheese factory.
Dell goes to great lengths to avoid keeping stock at that plant as well.
Actually Dell uses vendor managed inventory. All the parts are at the factory, but Dell doesn't "own" the parts until they're removed from the truck parked just outside.
Now it's all cranked out in China and is as good as anything else cranked out in China, so there's no real advantage over competitors.
Actually Dell produces a large number of systems in the U.S. They have a large plant east of Nashville TN that runs 24/7. Also, their enterprise support is handled through a large call center in Nashville.
I put 5000 ft of CAT5E in my fathers new office; in exchange he paid off my car. Technically the local building inspector could have raised a fuss because I'm not a licensed contractor, but he never said a word. I'm not sure that an installer working with low voltage cable has to be certified in the US. You just have to use plenum rated cable or conduit in the walls and ceiling. Probably a good idea to get a contractors license as well. That or get hired by the general contractor (Dad hired me freelance).
The Osborne 1 wasn't built by Adam Osborne. He hired Lee Felsenstein to design it. Felsenstein was the epitome of a hardware hacker and designed the computer to be cheap and durable.
Sony has evolved from the quality hardware manufacturer to the mediocre hardware manufacturer to the company it is now. They can't decide whether they're a hardware manufacturer or a content provider.
I think the best things Microsoft has done is to hire good marketing and they got in bed with IBM and kept it an open marriage. I have little respect for a company that produces a string of flops and continues to propogate the belief that their next product will change the world, be bug free, and be secure. I think Pete Loshin, columnist for CPU expresses it best, "Linux isn't for everyone." To that I would amend "Windows isn't for anyone."
The manufacturing company I previously worked for had regular Dell towers all over the shop. They were daily sucking up a combination of dust, dirt, welding and laser smoke, grinding dust, and powder coat. I never heard of a hardware failure in the year I worked there and no one ever cleaned them out; the IT staf didn't give a flip, they'd just buy a new machine if one went down.
Sec 120(a) of the Copyright Act of 1976 states, "The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photoghaphs or other pictorial representations of the work," if the building is in a public place.
UCSD could sue for copyright infringement if said photo was pulled directly off it's site, because they own the rights to that photo. If a student were to take their own photo and place it on the site there would be no grounds for suit.
Let's see: XP released 2001; SP2 rolls out 2004. ~1.5 years between service packs. SP6 will be out between 2010-2015, but I'll be too busy fighting with beta Longhorn and won't have time to install it.
Microsoft has 50K people devoted to bringing you the next worst OS on the planet. Switch, please! Choose Linux. Choose Mac OS X. Do something nonconformal.
I remember a night firing Thiokol did ~10-12 yrs. ago. We lived twenty miles away from the test sight and even from that distance you could hear it. The light it put out was like a sunset, but localized.
I remember going out to watch test firings during the Solid Rocket Booster redesign. Very cool! They don't happen very often now. Thiokol is a shell of what it was before the Challenger disaster.
If you're going to go the tape route find some high quality painters masking tape, gaffers leaves nasty residue that's worse than duct tape if left on for extended periods of time.
I like the sharpie idea; it's transparent and easily reversible.
I love the smell of fresh hardware so much I kept all the packaging that came with my Powerbook. Every once in a while I open it up and remember that magical moment, my first Mac.
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...that doesn't need full-time IT. The company I work for only has forty employees and we have a part-time admin who comes in two days a week. The only drawback is that he's on call 24/7. Just remember that remote access is your friend.
Why are these people attacking Google. Privacy and anonymity are rapidly eroding in the UK. Hello! You've got bigger privacy problems than Google if you're living there.
the uninstaller completely removes any traces of u3 functionality.
U3 has a removal program available on their website. Available here: http://www.u3.com/uninstall/
are these so expensive just because they're expensive to make, or is there massive demand that keeps that the price up (and if so, what is that demand based on)
Blue lasers are expensive period. They're hard to produce. It's cheaper to use longer wavelength lasers and there are very few applications where blue lasers are necessary. In the lab where I work we have ~20 different lasers in use. Only one of them is blue.
Thor Labs, a major supplier of lasers and optical components, has a 405nm 35mw laser diode for $2604.18. I'd assume Wicked is getting some kind of bulk discount on these parts. I call BS on them tearing Bluray players apart for the diodes.
Now the real question is how long before Sony sues them for trademark violation? They have the Bluray emblem etched on their device. I wonder if it's been properly licensed.
I'll give a big AMEN to that! I'm so sick of television advertising in the US. There's just no substance to it. The commercials we're forced to suffer through (no tivo here) do little to convince me to try new products or services.
The worst, however, are the cheesy locally made or made by the cable company commercials. Good grief people, if you're going to make your own ads find someone who knows what they're doing to help you. If there was a way to pick up my TV and wring it out every time I see one of these I'd have my own cheese factory.
Dell goes to great lengths to avoid keeping stock at that plant as well.
Actually Dell uses vendor managed inventory. All the parts are at the factory, but Dell doesn't "own" the parts until they're removed from the truck parked just outside.
Now it's all cranked out in China and is as good as anything else cranked out in China, so there's no real advantage over competitors.
Actually Dell produces a large number of systems in the U.S. They have a large plant east of Nashville TN that runs 24/7. Also, their enterprise support is handled through a large call center in Nashville.
and Enderle BS.
I put 5000 ft of CAT5E in my fathers new office; in exchange he paid off my car. Technically the local building inspector could have raised a fuss because I'm not a licensed contractor, but he never said a word. I'm not sure that an installer working with low voltage cable has to be certified in the US. You just have to use plenum rated cable or conduit in the walls and ceiling. Probably a good idea to get a contractors license as well. That or get hired by the general contractor (Dad hired me freelance).
The Osborne 1 wasn't built by Adam Osborne. He hired Lee Felsenstein to design it. Felsenstein was the epitome of a hardware hacker and designed the computer to be cheap and durable.
In reply to my own post (modded as flamebait).
I have no love for either Sony or Microsoft.
Sony has evolved from the quality hardware manufacturer to the mediocre hardware manufacturer to the company it is now. They can't decide whether they're a hardware manufacturer or a content provider.
I think the best things Microsoft has done is to hire good marketing and they got in bed with IBM and kept it an open marriage. I have little respect for a company that produces a string of flops and continues to propogate the belief that their next product will change the world, be bug free, and be secure. I think Pete Loshin, columnist for CPU expresses it best, "Linux isn't for everyone." To that I would amend "Windows isn't for anyone."
Save Earth from Sony!
Yeah and let Bill take over. My ass.
This is utter BS. Firewire is the interface of choice for professionals in the audio and video arenas; there's no way in hell Apple's abandoning it.
but it's been Slashdotted.
The Apple Store is down. Guess you'd better call 'em.
AMEN!
The manufacturing company I previously worked for had regular Dell towers all over the shop. They were daily sucking up a combination of dust, dirt, welding and laser smoke, grinding dust, and powder coat. I never heard of a hardware failure in the year I worked there and no one ever cleaned them out; the IT staf didn't give a flip, they'd just buy a new machine if one went down.
I've got a life. An iLife.
I have the same class. Who's your prof?
I can hear their server melting.
Sec 120(a) of the Copyright Act of 1976 states, "The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photoghaphs or other pictorial representations of the work," if the building is in a public place.
UCSD could sue for copyright infringement if said photo was pulled directly off it's site, because they own the rights to that photo. If a student were to take their own photo and place it on the site there would be no grounds for suit.
Let's see: XP released 2001; SP2 rolls out 2004. ~1.5 years between service packs. SP6 will be out between 2010-2015, but I'll be too busy fighting with beta Longhorn and won't have time to install it. Microsoft has 50K people devoted to bringing you the next worst OS on the planet. Switch, please! Choose Linux. Choose Mac OS X. Do something nonconformal.
I remember a night firing Thiokol did ~10-12 yrs. ago. We lived twenty miles away from the test sight and even from that distance you could hear it. The light it put out was like a sunset, but localized.
I remember going out to watch test firings during the Solid Rocket Booster redesign. Very cool! They don't happen very often now. Thiokol is a shell of what it was before the Challenger disaster.
If you're going to go the tape route find some high quality painters masking tape, gaffers leaves nasty residue that's worse than duct tape if left on for extended periods of time.
I like the sharpie idea; it's transparent and easily reversible.
I love the smell of fresh hardware so much I kept all the packaging that came with my Powerbook. Every once in a while I open it up and remember that magical moment, my first Mac.