I first listened to them on WBUR, before they were picked up by NPR. "Cartalk Plaza" was located on Commonwealth Avenue, not in "Hahvuhd Squayah", and "our fair city" was Boston, not Cambridge. Been a long time since I wandered those haunts. Click and Clack weren't going to last forever, guess it's that time to move on.
Here's a guy who picked up his degree at age 72. His life work (NBA coach for 30+ years, Hall of Fame) was deemed good enough to satisfy the "student-teaching" requirement.
While an HP TouchSmart might best meet the needs of the OP, one should not underestimate the utility of an iPad in a kitchen setting - it has a versatility not found in any All-In-One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcIwXVKQjsQ
Let's face it - you're designing an office building. Ignore the construction company - make yourself a machine room with a raised floor, fluorescent lights, extra HVAC, the works. You may not need it all now, but you're going to need it eventually to keep all those RJ-45 jacks humming...
It is the same theory that says that all those Jupiter-sized planets that we are finding closer to their parent stars than is Mercury couldn't possible exist.
It is also the same theory that says that Pluto is not a planet.
If anyone thinks Microsoft is being criticized unfairly, the cure is easy. Just head over to Rob Enderle's website: www.enderlegroup.com. Here are some recent articles:
"Is Google Facing the Beginning of the End?" "The New iPad: Apple lowers the bar" "Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion -- why Apple Suddenly Sucks"
Your esteem for Microsoft will return to an all-time high.
No viruses. No need to upgrade. No backups required. No power-brick or recharging necessary**. Large display with minimal weight. If you start running out of "memory", you can always shrink the font-size to extend its capacity. Works great even if you are stuck in a cramped hotel meeting room. Excellent archival properties.
**Assumes you start out with a fresh pen. Just about any pen will outlast a 3 day conference.
I always find Microsoft's documentation to be characterized consistently by two properties:
1. Tons of GUI screen shots. 20 pages of dead trees or dead electrons to convey a single paragraph's worth of actual information.
2. There is no universe outside of Microsoft. They can't acknowledge it even when they try. Example - Microsoft Exchange is notorious for violating the IMAP standard for RFC-822 message size. Microsoft's documentation actually acknowledges that Exchange does something different, but calls it a "clarification" of the standard. Right.
OK, I AM the boss, and the problem is not that my telecommuting people aren't being productive, but rather that when you need them to do something or provide information that they uniquely possess, you can't get it from them on short notice, thus preventing other people from getting their jobs done.
The fact that we are all on the road a lot (spread overy 4 continents) doesn't help either.
Let us not forget that mail-order catalogs were yesterday's equivalent of today's Amazon and Newegg, and competition between them and brick and mortar stores is nothing new.
I used to be on the mailing list for both Allied Radio and Lafayette - bought stuff from both. Lafayette even had it's store in Newark, NJ. All long gone. Allied Radio was merged into Radio Shack. (Allied Electronics - the industrial supply side of the business - apparently still exists.)
Heath (remember Heathkits?) had a store in California. Gone.
Tons of independent shops selling stereo gear, TVs. My favorite independent shop was called "Parts Unlimited" - nothing but caps, resistors, vacuum tubes, wire, solder, connectors, coax cable, hardware, etc. All gone.
You won't build any community among your customers if they feel locked out of key pieces of the product. If anything, they will be resentful. Jon Oosterhout tried it with TCL (Scriptics). Ransom Love tried it with OpenLinux (Caldera). Both failed.
You have already build your software on top of openMAT. If you want to be a closed-source company, then do the right thing - dump openMAT, and write your own replacement.
For what it's worth, in my opinion people are overly obsessed with the importance of protecting their precious "IP". You are not that smart. Any "edge" it gives you will only last a short time. It is more important that the products that you make do what you say they will do, that they are delivered on schedule, that they are reliable, that they are properly documented, and that you are available to stand behind them.
If you are already in New Mexico, this place is on the highway between Las Cruces and Alamogordo. You reach it by going through the security gate for the Missile Range itself.
I know several people who installed Linux on laptops for a while, but then they got tired of the hassles and went with Macs. The BSD environment on OS X is "good enough" that they can run all their UNIX/Linux apps, more or less.
I, on the other hand, am stubborn and will only run Linux - in large part because you then get a much wider range of hardware options. I've run it on 3 generations of Thinkpads, 2 generations of netbooks, 2 desktops, and a tablet. In NO case (even when Linux came preinstalled) did everything "just work" - there was always some fiddling to do. The biggest problem is the hardware "arms race" - vendors are forever tinkering, either adding features or taking shortcuts and compensating for it in proprietary drivers. The Linux kernel eventually catches up, which means that the best strategy is to use the latest distro from whoever - Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. and find one that works. I load them all onto bootable USB drives and try out the "live distro" version first before installing.
Comcast is the biggest source of junk mail (paper) that I receive. Guess that's what happens when you are in Comcast territory and not a customer.
Collection agencies are the biggest source of unwanted calls on my phone. It's a wrong number - they're after someone else. Do you think these guys would figure it out and correct their records? Of course not.
Go for it! Sue that pants off each other! Next stop - Chapter 7. Well, I can dream.
Yes, it is frustrating having to put up with all those silly airpot checks demanded by the TSA.
It is also frustrating to have to wait forever when trying to land at Heathrow at 6 AM in the morning just because you don't have enough runways. Do you think you could you do something about that?
Where I work (very much a science and technology organization), our DESKTOP platforms are extremely limited. Office, lab, whatever, it doesn't matter. We have the following choices:
MS Windows Mac OS X Linux
This list is considerably reduced from what it used to be.
On the server side Linux dominates, but MS Windows is quite prevalent, and I imagine UNIX is around as well.
If you have to go with a SINGLE platform (not good), I would recommend OS X. It straddles the Linux/UNIX and Windows universes, and for a high school level lab, will give you the best of both worlds.
Exactly, which must be why just yesterday I had to use OOOo on Linux to reformat a.ppt file created by MS Office on a MS Windows box so someone could read it using MS Office on a Mac. All in a corporate environment.
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I first listened to them on WBUR, before they were picked up by NPR. "Cartalk Plaza" was located on Commonwealth Avenue, not in "Hahvuhd Squayah", and "our fair city" was Boston, not Cambridge. Been a long time since I wandered those haunts. Click and Clack weren't going to last forever, guess it's that time to move on.
Wasn't aware of that. I subscribe to mlb.com exactly because it DOES use flash and thus works on Linux.
The other partner for Sliverlight is NBC, for its Olympics coverage. Nothing I will ever watch.
Here's a guy who picked up his degree at age 72. His life work (NBA coach for 30+ years, Hall of Fame) was deemed good enough to satisfy the "student-teaching" requirement.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/don-nelson-iowa-graduate-50-185357704--nba.html
While an HP TouchSmart might best meet the needs of the OP, one should not underestimate the utility of an iPad in a kitchen setting - it has a versatility not found in any All-In-One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcIwXVKQjsQ
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Let's face it - you're designing an office building. Ignore the construction company - make yourself a machine room with a raised floor, fluorescent lights, extra HVAC, the works. You may not need it all now, but you're going to need it eventually to keep all those RJ-45 jacks humming ...
It is the same theory that says that all those Jupiter-sized planets that we are finding closer to their parent stars than is Mercury couldn't possible exist.
It is also the same theory that says that Pluto is not a planet.
If anyone thinks Microsoft is being criticized unfairly, the cure is easy. Just head over to Rob Enderle's website: www.enderlegroup.com. Here are some recent articles:
"Is Google Facing the Beginning of the End?"
"The New iPad: Apple lowers the bar"
"Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion -- why Apple Suddenly Sucks"
Your esteem for Microsoft will return to an all-time high.
No viruses. No need to upgrade. No backups required. No power-brick or recharging necessary**. Large display with minimal weight. If you start running out of "memory", you can always shrink the font-size to extend its capacity. Works great even if you are stuck in a cramped hotel meeting room. Excellent archival properties.
**Assumes you start out with a fresh pen. Just about any pen will outlast a 3 day conference.
Rumor is his next movie is going to be called "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom", which kinda means he really does need to reach the Bottom.
I always find Microsoft's documentation to be characterized consistently by two properties:
1. Tons of GUI screen shots. 20 pages of dead trees or dead electrons to convey a single paragraph's worth of actual information.
2. There is no universe outside of Microsoft. They can't acknowledge it even when they try. Example - Microsoft Exchange is notorious for violating the IMAP standard for RFC-822 message size. Microsoft's documentation actually acknowledges that Exchange does something different, but calls it a "clarification" of the standard. Right.
OK, I AM the boss, and the problem is not that my telecommuting people aren't being productive, but rather that when you need them to do something or provide information that they uniquely possess, you can't get it from them on short notice, thus preventing other people from getting their jobs done.
The fact that we are all on the road a lot (spread overy 4 continents) doesn't help either.
How many xterms fit on the screen? And does it do edge-flip?
Everything else is fluff.
Let us not forget that mail-order catalogs were yesterday's equivalent of today's Amazon and Newegg, and competition between them and brick and mortar stores is nothing new.
I used to be on the mailing list for both Allied Radio and Lafayette - bought stuff from both. Lafayette even had it's store in Newark, NJ. All long gone. Allied Radio was merged into Radio Shack. (Allied Electronics - the industrial supply side of the business - apparently still exists.)
Heath (remember Heathkits?) had a store in California. Gone.
Tons of independent shops selling stereo gear, TVs. My favorite independent shop was called "Parts Unlimited" - nothing but caps, resistors, vacuum tubes, wire, solder, connectors, coax cable, hardware, etc. All gone.
My office Dell computer came bundled with FreeDOS, which was never used. Yet more racketware. I want a refund, too.
Let us not forget that Shakespeare "stole" many of his plot lines as well.
You won't build any community among your customers if they feel locked out of key pieces of the product. If anything, they will be resentful. Jon Oosterhout tried it with TCL (Scriptics). Ransom Love tried it with OpenLinux (Caldera). Both failed.
You have already build your software on top of openMAT. If you want to be a closed-source company, then do the right thing - dump openMAT, and write your own replacement.
For what it's worth, in my opinion people are overly obsessed with the importance of protecting their precious "IP". You are not that smart. Any "edge" it gives you will only last a short time. It is more important that the products that you make do what you say they will do, that they are delivered on schedule, that they are reliable, that they are properly documented, and that you are available to stand behind them.
If you are already in New Mexico, this place is on the highway between Las Cruces and Alamogordo. You reach it by going through the security gate for the Missile Range itself.
I know several people who installed Linux on laptops for a while, but then they got tired of the hassles and went with Macs. The BSD environment on OS X is "good enough" that they can run all their UNIX/Linux apps, more or less.
I, on the other hand, am stubborn and will only run Linux - in large part because you then get a much wider range of hardware options. I've run it on 3 generations of Thinkpads, 2 generations of netbooks, 2 desktops, and a tablet. In NO case (even when Linux came preinstalled) did everything "just work" - there was always some fiddling to do. The biggest problem is the hardware "arms race" - vendors are forever tinkering, either adding features or taking shortcuts and compensating for it in proprietary drivers. The Linux kernel eventually catches up, which means that the best strategy is to use the latest distro from whoever - Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. and find one that works. I load them all onto bootable USB drives and try out the "live distro" version first before installing.
Comcast is the biggest source of junk mail (paper) that I receive. Guess that's what happens when you are in Comcast territory and not a customer.
Collection agencies are the biggest source of unwanted calls on my phone. It's a wrong number - they're after someone else. Do you think these guys would figure it out and correct their records? Of course not.
Go for it! Sue that pants off each other! Next stop - Chapter 7. Well, I can dream.
The end of Zune is not problem here - glad I stuck with my "Play For Sure" music player ... oh wait.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004074417_playsforsure15.html
Yes, it is frustrating having to put up with all those silly airpot checks demanded by the TSA.
It is also frustrating to have to wait forever when trying to land at Heathrow at 6 AM in the morning just because you don't have enough runways. Do you think you could you do something about that?
Where I work (very much a science and technology organization), our DESKTOP platforms are extremely limited. Office, lab, whatever, it doesn't matter. We have the following choices:
MS Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
This list is considerably reduced from what it used to be.
On the server side Linux dominates, but MS Windows is quite prevalent, and I imagine UNIX is around as well.
If you have to go with a SINGLE platform (not good), I would recommend OS X. It straddles the Linux/UNIX and Windows universes, and for a high school level lab, will give you the best of both worlds.
It is also worth pointing out that CDR is an event (as the parent states), not a "test" (as the article title alleges).
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Exactly, which must be why just yesterday I had to use OOOo on Linux to reformat a .ppt file created by MS Office on a MS Windows box so someone could read it using MS Office on a Mac. All in a corporate environment.
Here is how Bill Hilf explains Microsoft's Open Source Strategy:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=203100965&pgno=3 ... versus LITIGATE."
".. our PREFERRED plan is to LICENSE
Gee, where have we heard that before? Oh yes. Darl McBride, CEO of The SCO Group:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/07/59701
"We would PREFER LICENSING to LITIGATION,"
Such a nice bunch of guys.