buy a sun or IBM workstation. Just tried on the IBM website, all workstations except power come with windows preinstalled (cannot deselect the option), adding redhat enterprise incl. 1 year support adds $300 to the total costs. The power workstations you can either buy with AIX or no OS at all, but they claim to be supported by SUSE and redhat, you'd have to buy those seperately I guess.
Design is not as sleek as a nano I would say: http://www.samsung.com/Products/DigitalAudioPlayer /MP3Players/files/yp-z5.pdf Too much like a ipod-ripoff mp3 player would look like: "Nothing to see here, please move along". They could have made something really nice of it, a bit oval form, buttons at the edges, anything better than an ipod with a square menu-wheel.
But look, it actually has screws! Nice for maintenance (batteries?) or people that want to rebuild it into a mini-server or whatever a nerd can come up to!
I always buy 2.0 because I can't stand bass. Luckily you can still find some decent 2.0 pc speakers, but you should always listen before you buy, most are not full enough.
I myself have the biggest 2.0 speakers of labtec (didn't see those in store, but seem to be still made), but the best ones I've seen in the store lately is this set from terratec, it blew me away! Both these sets are 20 bucks each, so pretty affordable.
On a similar note, a family member recently bought a surround dvd player set, and didn't find a real option to turn the subwoofer off! Living in a small house, with neighbours at all sides, and sometimes just not being in the mood for a lot of bass, this pretty much sucks. Always check for a seperate knob for the subwoofer if you are destined to buy surround stuff.
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Yeah, I was a bit sad not being able to play mario like my friend who had a nes, but then I had a commodore 64 and could do much more than just play games. I remember adjusting the track picture of a pac-man-like game, making an extra exit to the other side:) Retrospectively, I would say I've drawn the better straw there, with this kind of 'programming' experience since I was 11:)
you've never been in a train where someone was sending and recieving unlimited sms-messages all trip long, did you? A lot of people have "sms-recieved" beeps turned on, hearing a stupid "beep-beep" every 30 seconds is not a joy, I can tell you that.
On another note, I and most of my friends have simple prepaid phones (with high costs/minute), and sending text messages is also there often really a cheaper way to talk to others. Wouldn't mind getting a unlimited sms account as you have, though;)
But on the other hand, as soon as they start giving better results than google, why stick to google? Seen by the current quality of the others that might still take a while, though.
On a different note, if you search and have a google mail window open at the same time, google search sees you as being 'logged in', so I guess your searches get connected to your e-mail address there.
And with a bit of luck, people that missed the discussion on slashdot the first time still get the change to read a similar discussion when the dupe is posted a few days later;)
Maintenance on the desktop systems at my last uni was done with ghost images on the harddrive. I guess it would automatically load a clean system every morning. Something like that is easy, just works, and impossible on a laptop. Or you could think of thin client systems, etc.
Furthermore I would be more than happy if my college would not require me to carry around 3 kg of laptop everywhere, are they also going to pay for my physiotherapist later on?;) Similarly, the keyboards of laptops are always of less ergonomic quality than desktop keyboards.
if they introduce wifi, ok with me, but don't force me to buy a laptop and having to carry it everywhere. The system you describe sounds exactly like I would want it.
woops, actually, if you read the abc link mentioned in a post below, you see that it was the employer who forwarded the e-mail communication. I guess that changes the perspective of your post a lot!
yeah, but anyone could google that when applying online, I would guess. Furthermore it gets rather specific, do job sites really have the knowledge to set up these tests. I like the idea of the parent though, sharing a certain amount of points on certain fields. It's easy to implement, and you can show if you have broad or specific knowledge.
May I use this place to get some feedback from a jobsite employee then:) ?
Just yesterday I was looking on Monster just trying to find something with a low amount of years of work experience and/or at my current academic level. But, much to my surprise, I couldn't specifically search on this at all! Even when it is actually mentioned in the job offers, so I have to filter out by manually scrolling past all the >3 years work experience jobs.
Do you guys at Indeed have this 'advanced search' option? I don't know your site, since I'm living in Europe where Monster generates a lot of advertizing (maybe that's why they don't have money to spend on software development).
Or, if you don't offer this, maybe you can explain why these advanced searches are not possible. It seems so strange, a second hand car I can buy based on how far the offer is from my house, the mileage of the car, the age of the car, type, etc. etc. But for a job you just have to search through the big heap. Now what may be a cause is that one might easily limit too much, finding no jobs at all. But I guess everyone will be smart enought to start specific and search more general until they find something.
openoffice pdf export in my version at work (I guess 1.1.1 for linux but I don't know by heart) manages to screw up pdf output every now and then, overlapping letters, etc. Solution: print to file, it creates a PS file, then just ps2pdf and voila, a correct pdf output of the file.
would be easy to have a screensaver mode for this, after xx seconds going on blank.
Actually, these kind of problems is exactly where they make the 3-key keyboard for: to test and develop plugins for the big one when it's coming. But I guess one cannot blame people for not rtfa, since it was slowed down too much.
Why is it worth so much to obtain just the plain DNA code of a lot of people? The practical uses of this are limited, and will also meets some ethical questions. It will enable screening people for diseases, the like etc. etc. But will it really? Genetically, you can only prove an increased chance on a certain 'disease', and sometimes this might even depend on combinations of genes that are now not understood.
What apparently the X-prize doesn't want to help achieve is a good understainding of what the genetic code means, or how to interpret it at least. Instead, they help gaining bulk DNA data which is of no real use (yet), although I guess insurance companies might be interested. I would rather have them see putting a prize on unraveling DNA decoding schemes exhaustively.
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lenovo doesn't mention linux as an option when selecting a laptop/pc, but after using the search function one finds the overview with checked distributions per system: http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-48 NT8D.html?sitestyle=lenovo
But look, it actually has screws! Nice for maintenance (batteries?) or people that want to rebuild it into a mini-server or whatever a nerd can come up to!
I myself have the biggest 2.0 speakers of labtec (didn't see those in store, but seem to be still made), but the best ones I've seen in the store lately is this set from terratec, it blew me away! Both these sets are 20 bucks each, so pretty affordable.
On a similar note, a family member recently bought a surround dvd player set, and didn't find a real option to turn the subwoofer off! Living in a small house, with neighbours at all sides, and sometimes just not being in the mood for a lot of bass, this pretty much sucks. Always check for a seperate knob for the subwoofer if you are destined to buy surround stuff.
Yeah, I was a bit sad not being able to play mario like my friend who had a nes, but then I had a commodore 64 and could do much more than just play games. I remember adjusting the track picture of a pac-man-like game, making an extra exit to the other side :) Retrospectively, I would say I've drawn the better straw there, with this kind of 'programming' experience since I was 11 :)
Wow, selfcritisism on slashdot! It hurts! ;) Too true, though...
no, the other way around!
On another note, I and most of my friends have simple prepaid phones (with high costs/minute), and sending text messages is also there often really a cheaper way to talk to others. Wouldn't mind getting a unlimited sms account as you have, though ;)
On a different note, if you search and have a google mail window open at the same time, google search sees you as being 'logged in', so I guess your searches get connected to your e-mail address there.
And with a bit of luck, people that missed the discussion on slashdot the first time still get the change to read a similar discussion when the dupe is posted a few days later ;)
Furthermore I would be more than happy if my college would not require me to carry around 3 kg of laptop everywhere, are they also going to pay for my physiotherapist later on? ;) Similarly, the keyboards of laptops are always of less ergonomic quality than desktop keyboards.
if they introduce wifi, ok with me, but don't force me to buy a laptop and having to carry it everywhere. The system you describe sounds exactly like I would want it.
Very good point! I guess they can afford keeping up the double morale much easier than Joe Doe who bought these "crippled" cds though.
A linux version of spss was introduced already in 2003 (sorry, page in german). It's a server version, might be no GUI.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1635472
annoying, unsocialized, indiscrete.. sounds like the perfect profile for a lawyer to me! ;)
the parent is not offtopic, you fools! I guess people misinterpreted the second sentence there ;)
yeah, but anyone could google that when applying online, I would guess. Furthermore it gets rather specific, do job sites really have the knowledge to set up these tests. I like the idea of the parent though, sharing a certain amount of points on certain fields. It's easy to implement, and you can show if you have broad or specific knowledge.
Just yesterday I was looking on Monster just trying to find something with a low amount of years of work experience and/or at my current academic level. But, much to my surprise, I couldn't specifically search on this at all! Even when it is actually mentioned in the job offers, so I have to filter out by manually scrolling past all the >3 years work experience jobs.
Do you guys at Indeed have this 'advanced search' option? I don't know your site, since I'm living in Europe where Monster generates a lot of advertizing (maybe that's why they don't have money to spend on software development).
Or, if you don't offer this, maybe you can explain why these advanced searches are not possible. It seems so strange, a second hand car I can buy based on how far the offer is from my house, the mileage of the car, the age of the car, type, etc. etc. But for a job you just have to search through the big heap. Now what may be a cause is that one might easily limit too much, finding no jobs at all. But I guess everyone will be smart enought to start specific and search more general until they find something.
openoffice pdf export in my version at work (I guess 1.1.1 for linux but I don't know by heart) manages to screw up pdf output every now and then, overlapping letters, etc. Solution: print to file, it creates a PS file, then just ps2pdf and voila, a correct pdf output of the file.
I think I saw something like you mean once, but the only thing I can find on google is that canon did something like this in 1996 (bigger picture)
Reminds me of the Connection Machine 2, which had a cubic architecture from both the computing and the outer design: http://mission.base.com/tamiko/cm/cm-image.html
Actually they say that the price of the mini will even go up after the preorders.
Actually, these kind of problems is exactly where they make the 3-key keyboard for: to test and develop plugins for the big one when it's coming. But I guess one cannot blame people for not rtfa, since it was slowed down too much.
http://artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus-mini/answe rs/
no insert? Then how do you swap insert modes in vim? :(
Why is it worth so much to obtain just the plain DNA code of a lot of people? The practical uses of this are limited, and will also meets some ethical questions. It will enable screening people for diseases, the like etc. etc. But will it really? Genetically, you can only prove an increased chance on a certain 'disease', and sometimes this might even depend on combinations of genes that are now not understood.
What apparently the X-prize doesn't want to help achieve is a good understainding of what the genetic code means, or how to interpret it at least. Instead, they help gaining bulk DNA data which is of no real use (yet), although I guess insurance companies might be interested. I would rather have them see putting a prize on unraveling DNA decoding schemes exhaustively.