It's probably related to the known heat problem in the MBPs, hot batteries expand and eventually blow. Not to excuse the heat problem though, you'd think that considering heat and performance were some of the the reasons they switched, they'd have checked that out. Just saying that it's probably not really a different problem
But, but, but...if we don't teach our good Christian children to enjoy violence, who will we send to undertake our crusades against pagans and Muslims for us? We have to protect them from fornication though, as long as they are pure in heart and mind, they can break the Ten Commandments any time they feel like it...
If you had the *time* and knowledge to check every individual file, and every key in the registry, of course you can deep clean by hand. If you have that many IT staff, it must be a wonderful fairy land you live in...
For normal techs, even if we have extensive knowledge, we have limited time and a lot of machines to maintain. If you do have time, it's not best practice to waste whole days on a single machine. Read the drive from something else, recover data, image it, spend your time on something that actually adds value to your business.
I've worked with people who will take two days to fix a borked computer, and everything else that other people need them to do has to wait, cos it's 'nearly finished'. Time is a factor in Cost/Benefit. You are much better off just imaging it, takes half an hour, then you have freed up two days to spend doing something useful like writing documentation or something.
In problem solving/negotiation, you have compromises, in which the issue ends but nobody actually gets exactly what they wanted, a win-win, in which both parties get what they wanted (usually by understanding the actual things each party is after and finding a lateral solution instead of the midpoint) , and a shafting, in which one party gets what it wanted and the other thinks it has compromised.
Music giants have wanted tiered pricing for a long time, and have succeeded in implementing it in some services. we know they wanted that and they concede they didn't get it. So they have compromised because they stil want the revenue they were getting.
We don't know for sure what Jobs/Apple went into negotiations looking for, but the fact that they didn't even cop a price rise from three years ago suggests that they probably got a lot closer to what they wanted.
Dude, that works if you live alone. The more people in your house, the more space you need just to not get on each other's nerves. I agree with you about lawn though - I like our good size house but we use the outside space about ten times a year, hardly worth it.
As for close to the city, out in the burbs, suburbia is boring and a long way from anything, but if you have kids you never go anywhere anyway so it really doesn't matter:P
There were at least four companies (Novell, Artisoft, Banyan, Performance Technologies) who were all but put out of business when Microsoft built networking capability into Windows 95, and no one said anything then.
Dude, that is exactly why everyone will want to sue their arses off now. Nobody wants to be the next <Novell, Artisoft, Banyan, Performance Technologies>
Alternately though, I have downloaded it once, and distributed that download to each of the 300 machines in the school I work at. Many other schools and quite a few corporates have rolled it out similarly. So while the number is out cos one person might download it 30 times, it's also out because you can't measure how many times a single download has been installed. Unless I guess you make it generate a unique key when it's installed and phone home with that every time you run Firefox, or something equally over the top.
Which still wouldn't work, cos firewalls and proxies would munch that
I agree it's an almost meaningless statistic, but then saying 1 billion computers in the world have IE installed is equally meaningless, since there's no way for the average user to avoid that
Dude, there is such a thing as too much information. Same for people above who said sourceforge. He might *find* every ticketing system on earth through one of those methods, but should he have to research, download, install (including battering himself against poorly documented and painful to implement open source installs) and test every package he finds to decide what to use?
For big orgs with a lot of technical users, RT is fine but for a small simple operation it's hopelessly overcomplicated. He wouldn't find that out without spending a week googling and reading reviews and articles
A number have people have compared the merits of just using email for a small operation, he *never* would have come across that idea by searching google
It's really not such a dumb question. The simple fact that there are so many options means it's worth asking somewhere for some aggregated wisdom. Haha wisdom..slashdot...
It's worth joining an industry group or something for questions like this. I'm in SAGE-AU, under $100/year, the mailing list alone is invaluable for finding useful professional advice, on both technical questions and organisational stuff like this. You may still get flamed with 'check the archive' replies, but the archive will either have the answer or you can explain why it doesn't and get resonable responses.
1. Do you want to pay $199 for an operating system or you prefer to pay $0? I didn't pay anything for my operating system, it just came with the computer
2. Do you want to have control over your computer or do you want your computer to control you?Umm what? My computer doesn't control me, I can do anything I want with it - I play the games I like, type emails to my Mum...
3. Do you want to depend on a company (if it goes bankrupt or just is not interested to upgrade the *program: example Internet Exploder)? I'm not sure what you mean, are you talking about Microsoft? Aren't they like the richest company in the world, I doubt they'd go bankrupt. As far as upgrades, I don't need to upgrade, Internet Explorer does everything I need it to
4. Do you want a system that doesn't get slower in time if you install and remove programs?Well of course, and mine does seem a bit slow these days, but I've had it for a few years, I'll probably just buy a new one, they are so cheap these days.
5. Do you want a system that's virtualy virus/worm free? Of course I don't want viruses, that's why I have a virus scanner. It was installed on the computer when I bought it, I've never had to do anything with it. What's worms got to do with it?
Think about all the people whose computer you have had to clean years of crap off cos they didn't know and didn't caer. These arguments are for techies, not for the great unwashed.
That's true, but the cyberpunk noir atmosphere that Gibson was excited about doesn't appear in the book at all - the basic idea of the detective hunting the replicants is in the story, but the entire plot, atmosphere, themes...everything is almost completely different
In the old days, they always were- that's why the sins of the father are visited upon the sons for seven generations...this is the justice system that the terrorists already believe in, and by not following it, we're wimping out.
Don't have time right now to reference it properly, but I think you'll find the Koran saying specifically that Allah does not punish the son for the sins of the father
How can someone's family be executed for what they do? Would you kill the families of American murderers too? Suicide bomber or not, killing is killing. You kill the families of suicide bombers, their neighbours will say that the families and countrymen of your soldiers equally deserve to die, and we are all killing each other. Have you even thought this out???
As for revenge and fear...fear of the US is what drives a lot of terrorism anyway, and your government knows this. Those who want more war know this.
People who aren't afraid will stand up in a definite way, either in military or diplomatic fora. The fear you want to instill simply breeds more terrorists
Do mean producing wealth? Wealth is just an illusion we all choose to believe in. Did he increase the mass of the world in some way? A CEO hasn't directly produced anything in a holistic sense. How does one person produce 100 times more than another? What does a manager produce? Nothing tangible. A carpenter should get paid more than a sales manager by that reckoning, he's actually produced something.
Think of it this way then : A CEO of a global company basically makes business decisions. The people below him do too. The Lichtenstein national sales manager for the same company also makes business decisions all day. Ignore the scale of the decision, that's just a perception we put on it, the CEO hasn't done any more *actual work* than anyone else, yet he gets paid more because our perceptions put more import on what he does
So many seem to think that equality means someone else doing all the work.
I don't think that is the case, although I do think there needs to be understanding of why people are in a position of unemployment, and a degree of social responsibility to not let people starve, freeze to death or otherwise in a civilised country.
I also don't think equality means one person gets several million dollars a year as ceo of a company working 10 hour days, and someone in a factory gets twenty thousand dollars a year for working 10 hour days. Time is the one think we all have in relatively equal amount, Brin and Page will have approximately just as much time on Earth as the chick on the counter at Safeway, and probably won't work as hard, and will definitely get more holidays, better health care, and better quality of leisure time. But the harder worker here is paid several orders of magnitude less
If you want to talk equality of work:pay, then don't take into account upbringing, basic intelligence, creative ideas, or flukey right time at the right place, because they aren't distributed equally in the first place. Even if someone works 24/7, he is still only working 3 times as much as an average person, equality shouldn't allow anyone to make 100,000 times as much money as anyone else
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It's an important part of our convict heritage - the right to bruise arms.
It's probably related to the known heat problem in the MBPs, hot batteries expand and eventually blow. Not to excuse the heat problem though, you'd think that considering heat and performance were some of the the reasons they switched, they'd have checked that out. Just saying that it's probably not really a different problem
That's gold - in Australia, 'Radio Shack' is known as 'Tandy Electronics'. That's as good as the producer of NCIS beiong named 'Frank Military'
But, but, but...if we don't teach our good Christian children to enjoy violence, who will we send to undertake our crusades against pagans and Muslims for us? We have to protect them from fornication though, as long as they are pure in heart and mind, they can break the Ten Commandments any time they feel like it...
If you had the *time* and knowledge to check every individual file, and every key in the registry, of course you can deep clean by hand. If you have that many IT staff, it must be a wonderful fairy land you live in...
For normal techs, even if we have extensive knowledge, we have limited time and a lot of machines to maintain. If you do have time, it's not best practice to waste whole days on a single machine. Read the drive from something else, recover data, image it, spend your time on something that actually adds value to your business.
I've worked with people who will take two days to fix a borked computer, and everything else that other people need them to do has to wait, cos it's 'nearly finished'. Time is a factor in Cost/Benefit. You are much better off just imaging it, takes half an hour, then you have freed up two days to spend doing something useful like writing documentation or something.
A quad digit IQ would be worth more!
Hmm but that might disqualify you from posting on Slashdot
'PS2 is the opiate of the masses', kind of thing? I like your thinking.
Especially if the maps are 1:1 scale!
Oops my bad, that's a multibutton mouse! Try that one
Better yet, what SHOULD be original about it? ...a one-button controller for simpler learning curves?
That wouldn't be original
I assumed the same thing. I wonder how many people read the headline and not even the summary, let alone the article...
In problem solving/negotiation, you have compromises, in which the issue ends but nobody actually gets exactly what they wanted, a win-win, in which both parties get what they wanted (usually by understanding the actual things each party is after and finding a lateral solution instead of the midpoint) , and a shafting, in which one party gets what it wanted and the other thinks it has compromised. Music giants have wanted tiered pricing for a long time, and have succeeded in implementing it in some services. we know they wanted that and they concede they didn't get it. So they have compromised because they stil want the revenue they were getting. We don't know for sure what Jobs/Apple went into negotiations looking for, but the fact that they didn't even cop a price rise from three years ago suggests that they probably got a lot closer to what they wanted.
Dude, that works if you live alone. The more people in your house, the more space you need just to not get on each other's nerves. I agree with you about lawn though - I like our good size house but we use the outside space about ten times a year, hardly worth it.
:P
As for close to the city, out in the burbs, suburbia is boring and a long way from anything, but if you have kids you never go anywhere anyway so it really doesn't matter
There were at least four companies (Novell, Artisoft, Banyan, Performance Technologies) who were all but put out of business when Microsoft built networking capability into Windows 95, and no one said anything then.
Dude, that is exactly why everyone will want to sue their arses off now. Nobody wants to be the next <Novell, Artisoft, Banyan, Performance Technologies>
The (software|hardware) is only as smart as the person operating it.
The same could be said for democracy...
Alternately though, I have downloaded it once, and distributed that download to each of the 300 machines in the school I work at. Many other schools and quite a few corporates have rolled it out similarly. So while the number is out cos one person might download it 30 times, it's also out because you can't measure how many times a single download has been installed. Unless I guess you make it generate a unique key when it's installed and phone home with that every time you run Firefox, or something equally over the top.
Which still wouldn't work, cos firewalls and proxies would munch that
I agree it's an almost meaningless statistic, but then saying 1 billion computers in the world have IE installed is equally meaningless, since there's no way for the average user to avoid that
Dude, there is such a thing as too much information. Same for people above who said sourceforge. He might *find* every ticketing system on earth through one of those methods, but should he have to research, download, install (including battering himself against poorly documented and painful to implement open source installs) and test every package he finds to decide what to use?
For big orgs with a lot of technical users, RT is fine but for a small simple operation it's hopelessly overcomplicated. He wouldn't find that out without spending a week googling and reading reviews and articles
A number have people have compared the merits of just using email for a small operation, he *never* would have come across that idea by searching google
It's really not such a dumb question. The simple fact that there are so many options means it's worth asking somewhere for some aggregated wisdom. Haha wisdom..slashdot...
It's worth joining an industry group or something for questions like this. I'm in SAGE-AU, under $100/year, the mailing list alone is invaluable for finding useful professional advice, on both technical questions and organisational stuff like this. You may still get flamed with 'check the archive' replies, but the archive will either have the answer or you can explain why it doesn't and get resonable responses.What the average computer owner would answer :
1. Do you want to pay $199 for an operating system or you prefer to pay $0? I didn't pay anything for my operating system, it just came with the computer
2. Do you want to have control over your computer or do you want your computer to control you?Umm what? My computer doesn't control me, I can do anything I want with it - I play the games I like, type emails to my Mum...
3. Do you want to depend on a company (if it goes bankrupt or just is not interested to upgrade the *program: example Internet Exploder)? I'm not sure what you mean, are you talking about Microsoft? Aren't they like the richest company in the world, I doubt they'd go bankrupt. As far as upgrades, I don't need to upgrade, Internet Explorer does everything I need it to
4. Do you want a system that doesn't get slower in time if you install and remove programs?Well of course, and mine does seem a bit slow these days, but I've had it for a few years, I'll probably just buy a new one, they are so cheap these days.
5. Do you want a system that's virtualy virus/worm free? Of course I don't want viruses, that's why I have a virus scanner. It was installed on the computer when I bought it, I've never had to do anything with it. What's worms got to do with it?
Think about all the people whose computer you have had to clean years of crap off cos they didn't know and didn't caer. These arguments are for techies, not for the great unwashed.That's true, but the cyberpunk noir atmosphere that Gibson was excited about doesn't appear in the book at all - the basic idea of the detective hunting the replicants is in the story, but the entire plot, atmosphere, themes...everything is almost completely different
In the old days, they always were- that's why the sins of the father are visited upon the sons for seven generations...this is the justice system that the terrorists already believe in, and by not following it, we're wimping out.
Don't have time right now to reference it properly, but I think you'll find the Koran saying specifically that Allah does not punish the son for the sins of the father
buy your beer (not sure if it has a different name across the pond)
Nope pretty sure it's called beer in most places :)
How can someone's family be executed for what they do? Would you kill the families of American murderers too? Suicide bomber or not, killing is killing. You kill the families of suicide bombers, their neighbours will say that the families and countrymen of your soldiers equally deserve to die, and we are all killing each other. Have you even thought this out???
As for revenge and fear...fear of the US is what drives a lot of terrorism anyway, and your government knows this. Those who want more war know this.
People who aren't afraid will stand up in a definite way, either in military or diplomatic fora. The fear you want to instill simply breeds more terrorists
Aww nuts I used all my mod points up this morning, that always happens :( That was funny
Do mean producing wealth? Wealth is just an illusion we all choose to believe in. Did he increase the mass of the world in some way? A CEO hasn't directly produced anything in a holistic sense. How does one person produce 100 times more than another? What does a manager produce? Nothing tangible. A carpenter should get paid more than a sales manager by that reckoning, he's actually produced something.
Think of it this way then : A CEO of a global company basically makes business decisions. The people below him do too. The Lichtenstein national sales manager for the same company also makes business decisions all day. Ignore the scale of the decision, that's just a perception we put on it, the CEO hasn't done any more *actual work* than anyone else, yet he gets paid more because our perceptions put more import on what he does
I don't think that is the case, although I do think there needs to be understanding of why people are in a position of unemployment, and a degree of social responsibility to not let people starve, freeze to death or otherwise in a civilised country.
I also don't think equality means one person gets several million dollars a year as ceo of a company working 10 hour days, and someone in a factory gets twenty thousand dollars a year for working 10 hour days. Time is the one think we all have in relatively equal amount, Brin and Page will have approximately just as much time on Earth as the chick on the counter at Safeway, and probably won't work as hard, and will definitely get more holidays, better health care, and better quality of leisure time. But the harder worker here is paid several orders of magnitude less
If you want to talk equality of work:pay, then don't take into account upbringing, basic intelligence, creative ideas, or flukey right time at the right place, because they aren't distributed equally in the first place. Even if someone works 24/7, he is still only working 3 times as much as an average person, equality shouldn't allow anyone to make 100,000 times as much money as anyone else