those that I work with assume that 150 million people can't be wrong. those within our tech department are always publicizing Firefox, so it's no wonder people use it - when they're told how popular it is, most people are at least interested in giving it a shot. there are those people, of course, who don't understand standards as the parent stated, and they don't care how many downloads Firefox has had. IE is working for them currently and they don't see a need to switch.
Working tech in a school district myself, I can't imagine 350 animals running around with laptops... Our classroom machines don't even survive, and they don't carry them around all day.
At my school, we issue textbooks, and even use them... But none of the teachers teach directly from the textbook... They create their own course of study within the class and use the textbook as a reference.... I don't really see the advantage here...
right on.... I'm already using the 'useful' features of the Google toolbar in Firefox... No popups + a google search box... I'd just be taking up more space by installing the toolbar...
I've seen exactly the same thing. I'm not a full time service tech or consultant, however, I've noticed that all my "customers" from when I first began to service computers expect that same free service I offered to them several years ago.
I completely agree that it is very important to charge for every "service call", or otherwise, you will be screwed in the end, especially if you are self-employed and rely on all service calls for income...
it's really going to suck when my tv signal freezes up for no reason like my windows box does.... I don't know that I really want microsoft taking over anymore of the world than it has already...
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those that I work with assume that 150 million people can't be wrong. those within our tech department are always publicizing Firefox, so it's no wonder people use it - when they're told how popular it is, most people are at least interested in giving it a shot. there are those people, of course, who don't understand standards as the parent stated, and they don't care how many downloads Firefox has had. IE is working for them currently and they don't see a need to switch.
at least in my county they do... machine prints the record which is then viewable to the voter.
lucky dog. mine suffered a tragic washing machine death.
1) HP compaq NX9010 laptop
2) Brick for (1)
3) Thinkgeek Liquid Santa optical mouse
4) 4-port USB hub
5) brick for (4)
6) Nikon Coolpix camera
7) USB cable for (6)
8) 16-tool pocket knife
9) 21-piece computer repair kit
10) Craftsman 10-in-1 screwdriver
11) Dell Axim Handheld
12) Cradle/charger for (11)
13) $10 in quarters for Dew machines
14) 12ounce can of Dew for emergencies
15) Hmm... another pocket knife
16) Stick of deodorant
17) Axe spray?
18) Kenwood HT Transceiver
19) Cell phone charger
20) zippo lighter
21) 128 mb Lexar Jumpdrive
22) 80 CD folder (full)
23) Blank CDs/DVDs and cases
24) countless sets of keys for home, tech closets, etc.
25) extra pens and pencils
26) clean technology staff shirt
27) tech notebook, school notebooks
28) radioshack usb extenders (2)
29) 5 7-9ft cat6 patch cables
30) usb-to-serial adapter cable
31) DBX driverack PC cable
32) TI-84 plus silver edition calc
33) TI-89 Titanium calc
34) Sony headphones
35) Radioshack headphone amp/distributor
36) bible
37) Shure Beta57 mic
38) clip for (38)
39) extra USB/firewire cables
40) HP deskjet 350 travel printer
41) linksys Wireless-G router
42) linksys Wireless-G USB adapter
43) Calculus books (2)
44) cell phone
45) guitar tuner
46) assortment of pain killers/vitamins/cold pills
47) weenie whistle?
48) assortment of extra packs of AA/AAA/9Vs
49) pair of running shoes hanging off back
50) rubiks cube
51) velcro cable ties
52) electric razor..
53) countless amounts of change and other random objects on the bottom...
Working tech in a school district myself, I can't imagine 350 animals running around with laptops... Our classroom machines don't even survive, and they don't carry them around all day. At my school, we issue textbooks, and even use them... But none of the teachers teach directly from the textbook... They create their own course of study within the class and use the textbook as a reference.... I don't really see the advantage here...
right on.... I'm already using the 'useful' features of the Google toolbar in Firefox... No popups + a google search box... I'd just be taking up more space by installing the toolbar...
That would be entirely too easy....
its already easy for me to spend too much... its just getting too easy to spend money...
I've seen exactly the same thing. I'm not a full time service tech or consultant, however, I've noticed that all my "customers" from when I first began to service computers expect that same free service I offered to them several years ago.
I completely agree that it is very important to charge for every "service call", or otherwise, you will be screwed in the end, especially if you are self-employed and rely on all service calls for income...
it's really going to suck when my tv signal freezes up for no reason like my windows box does.... I don't know that I really want microsoft taking over anymore of the world than it has already...