[i]I mean just the ability to stick and unstick the keys is pretty sharp.[/i]... until the second week, when the adhesive no longer adheres.
This thing would be completely miserable for typing text.
I've seen all of the TV episodes, but not yet the movie. I thought it was okay, but not outstanding. The intermixture of "Chinese" and English was stilted and unbelievable as presented. Anara is quite clearly Deanna Troi. I have to agree with you on the cult factor. I know people who cream their pants over this show and view those who don't as transgressors.
The one time I rode Amtrack, there was no cell signal in the cars.
If this service is like Verizon's 1x service, a seperate data plan is not necessary. Using Verizon's 1x cost me about 20 bucks to buy the cable.
I'm not sure what they were paying for the position for which I interviewed - sysadmin. I was asked some of the questions that you list, as well as others, but at increasingly petty detail. This sort of thing no doubt varies quite a bit depending on the individual on the other end. When I've done phone screens on the other end, for local people it was largely weeding out those not even in the ballpark, eg. who don't know what the fields in a password file are.
[i]The idea that people will wait for the next, better model that is right around the corner is outdated at this point. A speed boost to a computer means less today (in my opinion) than it did 5 or 10 years ago.[/i]
I'm using a 1.6GHz G5. The web browser uses 35-50% even when idle. Finder, when idle, uses 15-20%. A speed boost would mean plenty when I regularly have to wait for apps to stop pinwheeling.
[i]but is it going to mean all that much in terms of the actual computers? I don't think so. Yes, it will mean they will get faster proscessors , but I don't think it will be so significant that holding out for a year on old hardware makes a good business descion.[/i]
Today's Macs, especially the laptops, are already 'old hardware'. They're underpowered for the dollar, and if I'm going to plunk out $1500-2000 of my own money for a machine, I don't want it to be slow, and an EOL'd platform that already has minimal market share and software availability.
I had a phone screen with Google recently, and it was the strangest I've yet experienced. Skills weren't discussed - the screener obsessively beat on a few arcane points, rather than my ability to do the job. He knew pretty much nothing of the facility for which I was applying, and was several states away. About 10 days later I got a GFY form email.
[i]Eval(Good breadwinner + good hair + muscles == sexy) == 1.* [/i]
Of higher weight in that equation than anything else is TALL. Many women seem to put up with just about anything from a guy who's tall. Find me an *active* dating site where height isn't the first attribute listed then I'll believe that something's changed.
[i]Given that one of the major selling points of Linux (aside from the stability and lack of virus attacks) [/i]
Stability? Lack of virus attacks? I ran a Red Hat box at one point. Kept it up to date on the rare occasions when RH's servers were accessible and the update/rpm utilities weren't wedged unkillably. It locked up frequently, and one day I got email from CERT because it'd been 0wned.
I feel the same way -- I'd expect Apple's sales to drop as a result of this, as people figure out that the PPC's are a dead end. Of course the boxes will continue to be useful for years, but I was thinking of buying a powerbook, but will probably hold off on that now, maybe get an x86 laptop instead for better bang/buck and just put up with M$ Windows on it for the ability to do things like play a greater variety of video files.
The mini is damn small. You can put it next to your monitor, like an external CD drive, and that's your entire computer.
Congrats! You just invented the iMac!
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That's right -- kids should be forced to only use curses apps on DEC Ranbow's in VT220 mode.
Yes. but does he have pink flamingos there?
Can you pay the MPAA thousands of $ when they sue your a55?
[i]I mean just the ability to stick and unstick the keys is pretty sharp.[/i] ... until the second week, when the adhesive no longer adheres.
This thing would be completely miserable for typing text.
I've seen all of the TV episodes, but not yet the movie. I thought it was okay, but not outstanding. The intermixture of "Chinese" and English was stilted and unbelievable as presented. Anara is quite clearly Deanna Troi. I have to agree with you on the cult factor. I know people who cream their pants over this show and view those who don't as transgressors.
The one time I rode Amtrack, there was no cell signal in the cars. If this service is like Verizon's 1x service, a seperate data plan is not necessary. Using Verizon's 1x cost me about 20 bucks to buy the cable.
No, no video editing. Web browsing, mail handling, IRCing, etc. Nothing that *should* be demanding.
I'm not sure what they were paying for the position for which I interviewed - sysadmin. I was asked some of the questions that you list, as well as others, but at increasingly petty detail. This sort of thing no doubt varies quite a bit depending on the individual on the other end. When I've done phone screens on the other end, for local people it was largely weeding out those not even in the ballpark, eg. who don't know what the fields in a password file are.
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[i]The idea that people will wait for the next, better model that is right around the corner is outdated at this point. A speed boost to a computer means less today (in my opinion) than it did 5 or 10 years ago.[/i] I'm using a 1.6GHz G5. The web browser uses 35-50% even when idle. Finder, when idle, uses 15-20%. A speed boost would mean plenty when I regularly have to wait for apps to stop pinwheeling. [i]but is it going to mean all that much in terms of the actual computers? I don't think so. Yes, it will mean they will get faster proscessors , but I don't think it will be so significant that holding out for a year on old hardware makes a good business descion.[/i] Today's Macs, especially the laptops, are already 'old hardware'. They're underpowered for the dollar, and if I'm going to plunk out $1500-2000 of my own money for a machine, I don't want it to be slow, and an EOL'd platform that already has minimal market share and software availability.
I had a phone screen with Google recently, and it was the strangest I've yet experienced. Skills weren't discussed - the screener obsessively beat on a few arcane points, rather than my ability to do the job. He knew pretty much nothing of the facility for which I was applying, and was several states away. About 10 days later I got a GFY form email.
The desire to not lose their browser bookmarks and other files will discourage most people from switching distributions.
... except of course for a few grand for the mongo home theater to play the flicks.
[i]Eval(Good breadwinner + good hair + muscles == sexy) == 1.* [/i] Of higher weight in that equation than anything else is TALL. Many women seem to put up with just about anything from a guy who's tall. Find me an *active* dating site where height isn't the first attribute listed then I'll believe that something's changed.
I just don't get bash - an ancient shell with tcsh envy.
[i]Apple PCs will run Windows[/i] Ummm, Apple PC's have had window systems for something like 20 years.
How often do you find yourself editing Hollerith cards?
[i]Given that one of the major selling points of Linux (aside from the stability and lack of virus attacks) [/i] Stability? Lack of virus attacks? I ran a Red Hat box at one point. Kept it up to date on the rare occasions when RH's servers were accessible and the update/rpm utilities weren't wedged unkillably. It locked up frequently, and one day I got email from CERT because it'd been 0wned.
I feel the same way -- I'd expect Apple's sales to drop as a result of this, as people figure out that the PPC's are a dead end. Of course the boxes will continue to be useful for years, but I was thinking of buying a powerbook, but will probably hold off on that now, maybe get an x86 laptop instead for better bang/buck and just put up with M$ Windows on it for the ability to do things like play a greater variety of video files.
So CRT's are here to stay for the pre-pubescent market.
Great -- more crowding of an already-confusing product line.
I don't understand the obsession with bittorrent when edonkey is so clearly a better way to get files that are more than 15 seconds old.
It's frustrating that on this elaborate web site, there isn't a single decent photo.
The mini is damn small. You can put it next to your monitor, like an external CD drive, and that's your entire computer. Congrats! You just invented the iMac!
Except that it can't be your boot volume, right?