Asking a company to tell you everything they're working on (or schedules) is nuts because it lets your competitors know where to aim.
Or, they could use the Microsoft Method: fill the channels with bloody obvious, redundant and conflicting pronouncements of what the future holds but only deliver about 4% of it. That'll keep everyone off balance, eh? Nobody really knows what in the hell you're working on and everyone will freeze in their tracks.
Seriously - something is amazingly fucked up with what's going on wherever you are. I can copy several gigs of stuff over the network in two minutes with all my Macs (I manage about 60 of them). Does the boot drive say "4 kb available"? That's the only thing I know of that'll slow down a Mac like that.
Aside from that, I've replaced piles of Windows machines with Macs over the last 3 years. Windows is the only OS I know of that will crash if you leave it alone long enough. The Macs have all been way more trouble free and cheaper to run than all the Windows machines they replaced. We used to do nothing but run around and fix Microsoft specific problems all day long. Now I mostly sit around - and the other two guys got laid off.
Whatever the hell is going on, it ain't right - or maybe it really is you.
Out of a gazillion posts, this one made some synapses connect.
If Microsoft actually calls someone to the payment table, they'll need to exactly define what is being paid for. If I paid a ransom like that, I'd want a specific invoice and license for whatever I just paid for.
We need 235 volunteers.
"Hello, Mr. Ballmer. Please speak into my tie and face the moose"
I think he means when Xerox invited Apple to view their technology, freely use the developments and hire the inventors which Microsoft subsequently ripped off.
A large video post production facility was using a space which used to belong to Sperry Univac years before. They had all the big red emergency power shutoff buttons on the wall which we covered with a guard. One new employee asked what those big red buttons did and someone answered "if you push it, the clowns come out". Sure enough, before anyone could tackle him, he yanked the guard off and pushed the button. Put us out of business for an hour.
Sidebar: my Uncle used to work for Univac as a system troubleshooter and he remembered that old building. He also told me long ago what "IBM" stood for - "Itty Bitty Monkeys, because that's what's inside their machines".
Yes, you can still get DVDs for authoring which are 3.95GB or 4.7GB but embody the format used in pressed masters (allowing CSS) instead of that DVD-R stuff. There's a fair explanation about it here.
Some of this crap isn't even worth $0.99. I get the higher quality encoding and dumping the DRM, but why pay a higher price? It's been proven time and again that a high price simply drives people to piracy.
I guess lead in solder gives the joint a little flexibility and tolerates expansion and contraction cycles.
I miss the good old days where you can find a bad part by following the burnt wiring harness right up to it. My current favorite is the chip that overheats, unsolders itself and falls off the board.
Stores worked so well for Compaq *cough* - nothing like walking into a store where you can see how hideously fugly all the products looked in one place. It looked like a Radio Shack or an Amtrak train wreck.
I'll second that - we had about 6 Inspirons in our company and they all degraded into spare parts within 12-18 months. Enough. After that, we bought iBook G4s and some PowerBooks. They've lasted so long we're selling these 4+ year old iBooks to the staff and buying new MacBook Pros. You can pound nails with the iBooks but the PowerBooks were a little more fragile - still outlasting the Inspirons by several years and still working fine.
We shall now read from the book of Jobs, chapter 5:21:01 - "thou shalt go forth and multiply thine retail presence in upscale shopping areas, or within 200 yards of any Starbucks, and thou shalt be rewarded with massive growth for thine stockholders."
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I know a lot of people who frown about what the iPhone can and can't do... but then they say they're buying one anyway.
I'm waiting for version 2
Asking a company to tell you everything they're working on (or schedules) is nuts because it lets your competitors know where to aim .
Or, they could use the Microsoft Method: fill the channels with bloody obvious, redundant and conflicting pronouncements of what the future holds but only deliver about 4% of it. That'll keep everyone off balance, eh? Nobody really knows what in the hell you're working on and everyone will freeze in their tracks.
Maybe you've got the Inverse Midas Touch.
Seriously - something is amazingly fucked up with what's going on wherever you are. I can copy several gigs of stuff over the network in two minutes with all my Macs (I manage about 60 of them). Does the boot drive say "4 kb available"? That's the only thing I know of that'll slow down a Mac like that.
Aside from that, I've replaced piles of Windows machines with Macs over the last 3 years. Windows is the only OS I know of that will crash if you leave it alone long enough. The Macs have all been way more trouble free and cheaper to run than all the Windows machines they replaced. We used to do nothing but run around and fix Microsoft specific problems all day long. Now I mostly sit around - and the other two guys got laid off.
Whatever the hell is going on, it ain't right - or maybe it really is you.
Maybe the paper punch tape has too much drag on it. Loosen the supply reel brake a little.
Out of a gazillion posts, this one made some synapses connect.
If Microsoft actually calls someone to the payment table, they'll need to exactly define what is being paid for. If I paid a ransom like that, I'd want a specific invoice and license for whatever I just paid for.
We need 235 volunteers.
"Hello, Mr. Ballmer. Please speak into my tie and face the moose"
Microsoft Research is the new Bell Labs.
...and Apple is Microsoft's R&D Department.
I think he means when Xerox invited Apple to view their technology, freely use the developments and hire the inventors which Microsoft subsequently ripped off.
No, they just have no case. Applying DRM of any kind is the choice of the copyright holder and these people can't force anyone to do that. It's silly.
This will be the world's shortest hearing.
A large video post production facility was using a space which used to belong to Sperry Univac years before. They had all the big red emergency power shutoff buttons on the wall which we covered with a guard. One new employee asked what those big red buttons did and someone answered "if you push it, the clowns come out". Sure enough, before anyone could tackle him, he yanked the guard off and pushed the button. Put us out of business for an hour.
Sidebar: my Uncle used to work for Univac as a system troubleshooter and he remembered that old building. He also told me long ago what "IBM" stood for - "Itty Bitty Monkeys, because that's what's inside their machines".
Yes, you can still get DVDs for authoring which are 3.95GB or 4.7GB but embody the format used in pressed masters (allowing CSS) instead of that DVD-R stuff. There's a fair explanation about it here.
There's definitely a market for used MP3s, and the price is right.
Acchh... the Zimbra logo looks too much like a Zune logo. Anybody here remember the Zune?
Some of this crap isn't even worth $0.99. I get the higher quality encoding and dumping the DRM, but why pay a higher price? It's been proven time and again that a high price simply drives people to piracy.
Yup, it was a big ASIC that scorched the board and discolored the two adjacent boards. The replacement board caught fire six months later.
I guess lead in solder gives the joint a little flexibility and tolerates expansion and contraction cycles.
I miss the good old days where you can find a bad part by following the burnt wiring harness right up to it. My current favorite is the chip that overheats, unsolders itself and falls off the board.
For the hard of seeing on Mac OS X - hold the control button and scroll the mouse wheel. In Cuptertino, SCREEN FOLLOWS YOU!
What is 48C?
Look throught the "Full Figured CEO" part of the Victoria's Secret catalog.My Mistake... it was the Gateway Store, not Compaq. Thanks for reconnecting those synapses.
Stores worked so well for Compaq *cough* - nothing like walking into a store where you can see how hideously fugly all the products looked in one place. It looked like a Radio Shack or an Amtrak train wreck.
Is there anywhere left that isn't within 200 yards of a Starbucks?
I think they missed this location
I'll second that - we had about 6 Inspirons in our company and they all degraded into spare parts within 12-18 months. Enough. After that, we bought iBook G4s and some PowerBooks. They've lasted so long we're selling these 4+ year old iBooks to the staff and buying new MacBook Pros. You can pound nails with the iBooks but the PowerBooks were a little more fragile - still outlasting the Inspirons by several years and still working fine.
We shall now read from the book of Jobs, chapter 5:21:01 - "thou shalt go forth and multiply thine retail presence in upscale shopping areas, or within 200 yards of any Starbucks, and thou shalt be rewarded with massive growth for thine stockholders."
Yeah, whatever.