I see your point and I admit my comment you quote was a bit rash sounding, but I chose to phrase it as such for literary effect.:)
In your "normally 100% in the office" example, I suspect at least some of the difficulty was simply from not being a telecommute place - just lacking the infrastructure.
You can give people instant voice communication. Just set up a teamspeak server. It would be like everyone's in the same room. Just turn down mikes until they don't pick up the ambient noise of work.
Given all the technologies out there, it really does boil down to our own human reactions to not dealing with people face-to-face. The one thing you truly do lose is full communication of body language. Other than that, all other channels remain open.
Sorry if I'm not quite making my comment correctly and clearly here; I just woke up and for some reason I've got a terrible headache this morning.
And as for other things like calendar and task management - there's a deluge of those.
Anything else? The internet has most likely got it covered! Face-to-face time is only really needed these days for those who get some sort of warm, fuzzy reassurance from it.
If you had calmed your need to post a smarmy remark for a few moments, you may have noticed that the article is referring to a *desktop* computer, not a laptop.
Oh, I'm not saying Apple shouldn't fix the drivers. In fact, they SHOULD. It's just that it appears they have no intention of doing it anytime soon. At least from ther response to support posts about it. So if the guy wants to play games with out the crash, and without waiting for who-knows-how-long, he should just go ahead and buy an ATI.
When did you stop using ATI? I haven't seen an issue (at least any long-standing issues) with their drivers for the last 5 years I've had an ATI card. Honestly, I've had just a lot of issues with both ATI and nVidia hardware, with only slightly more from nVidia. So I do tend to lean ATI when looking at cards (that, and I'm more familiar with their performance capabilities.), but that doesn't mean I won't consider an nVidia card (in fact I was just the other day. Haven't bought anything yet.).
And talking as a completely newbie to Linux, I've not had any luck with either ATI nor nVidia in stalling card-specific drivers. The only thing that would work is what was provided from the distro's installation. (Now a disclaimer for all the apparently very sensitive/. mods today) This does not mean I dislike, hate, or am "ragging on" nVidia or ATI. If I'm ragging on anything, it's Linux-in-general's (lack of) friendliness to new users migrating from Windows.
To my knowledge, I wasn't wailing on nVidia, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. Just the other day I was considering an nVidia card for my next upgrade. I have nothing against them. I've had issues with reliable hardware on both sides of the fence (though I admittedly have had more trouble on the nVidia side ever since my geforce 2 mx400 gave up the ghost. What a great card that was, "back in the day").
That aside, if nVidia is serious about selling to the Mac crowd, I would suggest that it *IS* their problem. This doesn't mean it is not Apple's problem too, far from it. Of course, this is looking at it from the business side of things. Looking at it from the tech support side, yes it's all Apple's problem if they are the driver providers and maintainers.
Fact: There is a *known* bug between nVidia, Apple, and three gigs of ram that is a "show stopper". Fact: Apple is actively trying to cover this, or at least not deal with this issue, by removing support requests about it. Fact: There is apparently no fix in site. This is extrapolated from the above.
Therefore, there are only three solutions: 1) Suck it up and deal with the crashing 2) Take out 1/3 of your RAM 3) Buy a video card from the competition
I'm not trolling or trying to incite flames. It's fairly obvious to me, if company A doesn't have their crap together, you take your business to company B.
Just suck it up and buy an ATI card. I've never had any worse an experience with and ATI card than nVidia. Plus, since you now know that nVidia has this known bug AND has no solution on the horizon (plus Apple's active supression, apparently, of nVidia bug posts), perhaps it is time to give the competition a try?
I have a serious question. What if the beginning of the call is cut off on my voice mail? 99.999% of the time, they will start leaving the message while my outgoing greeting is still playing. Any idea on if this would invalidate my claim against them (or make it better)?
I've got 15 tabs open plus the error console and two view:source windows. It has been open since yesterday evening. Firefox is currently using 475MB with a peak of 485MB and a VM size of 635MB.
I do, though, have 40 extensions installed (all but a couple new ones I do actually use. The new ones I haven't really gotten around to testing out yet (such as analytics)). I also have 6 extensions which were rendered incompatable with 2.0, though most of those would duplicate features which are now integrated (session saver and such). Of those unduplicated ones, I only used one regularly (antipagination).
This is typical usage for me. 2.0 has actually fared better in memory usage and stability for me than 1.5.
Godaddy. I've been using their domain services for years with absolutely no issues. They will even snail mail me a Final Warning if my domain is expiring.
I'm probably too late to have my question modded enough to be included, but here goes anyway...
1) Why were you not able to get your CSS and JavaScript compatability to come close to Firefox, Safari, and Opera?
2) Will there be updates released to address CSS and JavaScript issues, hopefully in some sort of reasonably timely manner, or will we have to agonizingly wait for IE8?
3) Where would you like to see IE compatability in a year's time and where do you realistically imagine it will be? Relatedly, has any CSS3 implementation been discussed yet?
"There are lots and lots of consol games, but subscribing just for Uru Live would be a bit extreme."\
When you consider that the Uru subscription and GT subscription are the same price (from what I recall of details from months ago), if you want Uru, there's no reason NOT to subscribe to GT anyway....unless you are non-US.
To respond to your first point - from my personal conversations with people (not just those within my geeky social circles), many (perhaps even most) would vote for a Libertarian (or someone with similar ideals EXCEPT for the idiot "wasted vote" arguement. A surprising chunk I've talked to actually DOESN'T CARE who it is they are voting for, as long as they are Republican/Democrat (my daddy voted [party] and his daddy before him and I will too!).That's even more frustrating to me than the "wasted vote" mentality.
I cannot in good conscience vote for anyone whose ideals do not match the closest to my own and who I feel will do what is the greater good for the most people of MY country. And anyone who votes for the same reasons as I I give my respect, whether it's a Bush you're voting for or a Badnarik.
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Erotic speech is already separated out from other forms of speech and this has already been ruled on as an acceptable segregation of speech.
This is why there are laws against running around town naked.
I see your point and I admit my comment you quote was a bit rash sounding, but I chose to phrase it as such for literary effect. :)
In your "normally 100% in the office" example, I suspect at least some of the difficulty was simply from not being a telecommute place - just lacking the infrastructure.
You can give people instant voice communication. Just set up a teamspeak server. It would be like everyone's in the same room. Just turn down mikes until they don't pick up the ambient noise of work.
Given all the technologies out there, it really does boil down to our own human reactions to not dealing with people face-to-face. The one thing you truly do lose is full communication of body language. Other than that, all other channels remain open.
Sorry if I'm not quite making my comment correctly and clearly here; I just woke up and for some reason I've got a terrible headache this morning.
That would be video chats, which can be handled by IM or a myriad of other clients out there.
Ok, just from the top of my head or a quick google:
Shared Whiteboard: http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage
Talk to the guy: Skype / IM / regular telephone
Demonstrate a computer environment: VNC / http://www.crossloop.com/ / https://www.iremotepc.com/ / many more
And as for other things like calendar and task management - there's a deluge of those.
Anything else? The internet has most likely got it covered! Face-to-face time is only really needed these days for those who get some sort of warm, fuzzy reassurance from it.
If you had calmed your need to post a smarmy remark for a few moments, you may have noticed that the article is referring to a *desktop* computer, not a laptop.
Oh, I'm not saying Apple shouldn't fix the drivers. In fact, they SHOULD. It's just that it appears they have no intention of doing it anytime soon. At least from ther response to support posts about it. So if the guy wants to play games with out the crash, and without waiting for who-knows-how-long, he should just go ahead and buy an ATI.
When did you stop using ATI? I haven't seen an issue (at least any long-standing issues) with their drivers for the last 5 years I've had an ATI card. Honestly, I've had just a lot of issues with both ATI and nVidia hardware, with only slightly more from nVidia. So I do tend to lean ATI when looking at cards (that, and I'm more familiar with their performance capabilities.), but that doesn't mean I won't consider an nVidia card (in fact I was just the other day. Haven't bought anything yet.).
We weren't talking about Linux, were we?
/. mods today) This does not mean I dislike, hate, or am "ragging on" nVidia or ATI. If I'm ragging on anything, it's Linux-in-general's (lack of) friendliness to new users migrating from Windows.
And talking as a completely newbie to Linux, I've not had any luck with either ATI nor nVidia in stalling card-specific drivers. The only thing that would work is what was provided from the distro's installation. (Now a disclaimer for all the apparently very sensitive
To my knowledge, I wasn't wailing on nVidia, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. Just the other day I was considering an nVidia card for my next upgrade. I have nothing against them. I've had issues with reliable hardware on both sides of the fence (though I admittedly have had more trouble on the nVidia side ever since my geforce 2 mx400 gave up the ghost. What a great card that was, "back in the day").
That aside, if nVidia is serious about selling to the Mac crowd, I would suggest that it *IS* their problem. This doesn't mean it is not Apple's problem too, far from it. Of course, this is looking at it from the business side of things. Looking at it from the tech support side, yes it's all Apple's problem if they are the driver providers and maintainers.
Wow, such a hostile response to my comment.
It seemed pretty logical to me.
Fact: There is a *known* bug between nVidia, Apple, and three gigs of ram that is a "show stopper".
Fact: Apple is actively trying to cover this, or at least not deal with this issue, by removing support requests about it.
Fact: There is apparently no fix in site. This is extrapolated from the above.
Therefore, there are only three solutions:
1) Suck it up and deal with the crashing
2) Take out 1/3 of your RAM
3) Buy a video card from the competition
I'm not trolling or trying to incite flames. It's fairly obvious to me, if company A doesn't have their crap together, you take your business to company B.
Just suck it up and buy an ATI card. I've never had any worse an experience with and ATI card than nVidia. Plus, since you now know that nVidia has this known bug AND has no solution on the horizon (plus Apple's active supression, apparently, of nVidia bug posts), perhaps it is time to give the competition a try?
You can't.
Nothing.
Have you tried applying Linux twice daily?
Great quote that can be construed in very interesting ways in the linked video:
Lou Dobbs: "E-voting machines will count at least 3 out of every 4 votes cast in next week's election."
How about ZoIP?
I have a serious question. What if the beginning of the call is cut off on my voice mail? 99.999% of the time, they will start leaving the message while my outgoing greeting is still playing. Any idea on if this would invalidate my claim against them (or make it better)?
Only on Slashdot can a guy get modded offtopic for posting an on-topic reply to an on-topic post (or at least a post that wasn't decried as offtopic).
I came in just to ensure that a Star Trek joke was made.
:)
Thanks for not letting me down.
I've got 15 tabs open plus the error console and two view:source windows. It has been open since yesterday evening. Firefox is currently using 475MB with a peak of 485MB and a VM size of 635MB.
I do, though, have 40 extensions installed (all but a couple new ones I do actually use. The new ones I haven't really gotten around to testing out yet (such as analytics)). I also have 6 extensions which were rendered incompatable with 2.0, though most of those would duplicate features which are now integrated (session saver and such). Of those unduplicated ones, I only used one regularly (antipagination).
This is typical usage for me. 2.0 has actually fared better in memory usage and stability for me than 1.5.
Godaddy. I've been using their domain services for years with absolutely no issues. They will even snail mail me a Final Warning if my domain is expiring.
Ok, done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YErx0JgCHo
The ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YErx0JgCHo
I'm probably too late to have my question modded enough to be included, but here goes anyway...
1) Why were you not able to get your CSS and JavaScript compatability to come close to Firefox, Safari, and Opera?
2) Will there be updates released to address CSS and JavaScript issues, hopefully in some sort of reasonably timely manner, or will we have to agonizingly wait for IE8?
3) Where would you like to see IE compatability in a year's time and where do you realistically imagine it will be? Relatedly, has any CSS3 implementation been discussed yet?
"There are lots and lots of consol games, but subscribing just for Uru Live would be a bit extreme."\
...unless you are non-US.
When you consider that the Uru subscription and GT subscription are the same price (from what I recall of details from months ago), if you want Uru, there's no reason NOT to subscribe to GT anyway.
Out of curiosity, is there any brand you have come to prefer and any that you steer clear from?
I dunno about 82 Pontiacs, but 97 Fords should DEFINITELY retain full retail value!
On a completely unrelated note, anyone want to buy a 97 Ford Contour?!
To respond to your first point - from my personal conversations with people (not just those within my geeky social circles), many (perhaps even most) would vote for a Libertarian (or someone with similar ideals EXCEPT for the idiot "wasted vote" arguement. A surprising chunk I've talked to actually DOESN'T CARE who it is they are voting for, as long as they are Republican/Democrat (my daddy voted [party] and his daddy before him and I will too!).That's even more frustrating to me than the "wasted vote" mentality.
I cannot in good conscience vote for anyone whose ideals do not match the closest to my own and who I feel will do what is the greater good for the most people of MY country. And anyone who votes for the same reasons as I I give my respect, whether it's a Bush you're voting for or a Badnarik.