Not everyone's relationships are as businesslike as yours. Some people have different levels of emotional contact. The fact that you don't understand this, or have never had that sort of a relationship doesn't invalidate it.
Even though this is Slashdot, the rest of us are not married to robots.
I run a business about the same size as yours. We're all Mac, so the programs we use most for officy things are Quickbooks Pro, Filemaker Pro, Pages, Keynote and Microsoft Excel. We use Microsoft Word only for printing shipping labels. We're planning to dump Excel when Apple releases its new spreadsheet software. At that time we'll probably update our label templates and move them to Pages so we can dump Word, too.
As a small shop you have the freedom to do things right from the start and not be locked into some legacy system someone put together in the 70's or 80's.
My advice to you is to code your own software and have it as a web service that you run from a beater server in the office. That way as long as there are browsers you'll never be locked in to one vendor, and as your business grows and you have to travel more you can access what you need on the road.
I'm not an OS X guy, so I don't follow or know my Mac-related sites. Anyway I follow the link, and I'm reading along, and in the second Greenpeace-related paragraph I encounter:
encouraging user donations to Greenpeace to somehow solve that issue.
My BullshitDetectorReadingOpinion(submission) returns a mild buzz. Next line:
After attempting to take credit for Apple's announcements (referring to the G.P. rep)
sends me off on a bit of surfing of roughlydrafted.com, and googling of same said, which leads me to the conclusion that roughlydrafted.com is Daniel Eran's pulpit. Some of the 'articles' are fine and interesting, but that's not my point.
It's 2007, and you're only just now figuring out that the internet isn't journalism?
You are correct, the software is maintained out of Tokyo. But every six months the system suffers a serious crash and Sony flies a bunch of people in from San Francisco to fix it. THEY certainly know how to speak English.
Maybe if we start paying our Sony bill with checks written so poorly they don't cash then Sony will pay attention.
this whole thing sounds like drama for the sake of drama.
Worse. This whole thing sounds like someone taking a minor action from a private company and turning it into an opportunity to promote themselves and their web site across Slashdot and the rest of the internet.
I had an ISP in Texas (EV1, I think) tell me that they were taking action on my report, but due to privacy concerns they couldn't tell me what action was being taken.
Of course, since he HAS a PS1, and NOT a DS, it makes your comment pretty worthless. Why would he go out and buy another game machine just to mod it? The point is to re-use what he has, not to satisfy one fanboy club or another.
While the MythBusters is entertaining, it's not exactly science. It's closer to tabloid junk science. Rarely are there control groups for most of their "experiments," and there are many other transgressions.
Sure, it's popular on/. because things go up in flames, but I think the show is giving a kids a bad idea of what science is. Won't they be disappointed when they get to college and have to follow strict scientific procedures instead of watching things to boom.
The technology promised a way to link packaging to Web sites -- and once cell phone cameras get good enough
I've seen this in Japan for years. Ads in magazines and elsewhere have little square bar codes like American UPS packages. Take a picture of them with your cell phone and it pops up some content on your screen.
Good to see Microsoft "innovating" once again.
I once worked for a company that sank millions into the CueCat. This seems like the same thing, only with a cell phone instead of a plastic cat. I wonder if it will meet the same fate.
Interesting. It sounds like Windows is now as picky about memory as OS X is. One of the minor advantages of having commodity hardware that ran Windows before was that you could jam pretty much any RAM into a box and it would work, while Macs required higher quality RAM. I guess the playing field has been leveled in at least this one way.
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Does disk utility give you plausible deniability, steganographically hidden volumes, unidentifiable partition headers, traveler mode, and your choice of the strongest available encryption algorithms up to and including multi-algorithm cascades?
I'm afraid this is definitely an area where os x lags.
Maybe because the tinfoil hat crowd usually doesn't buy Apple computers.
While I support a lot of what the FOSS movement does, I think this is a good example of the overall trend -- it (over)fills very small niches very well, but doesn't do much for the masses.
(Not that Apples are owned by the masses; but that's a different discussion.)
A financially irresponsible former friend of mine used a credit card to buy a 'Vette because he couldn't get a bank loan.
The only thing dumber than paying credit card interest rates on a Corvette is the fact that he didn't have insurance when he totalled it slamming into a concrete wall on the ramp from I-10 to I-610 in Houston.
It seems obvious that he picked the 4th quarter because Apple had a revenue spike.
It seems obvious that you didn't read the article. In it, the author notes several times that the fourth quarter was chosen because that's when the Zune came out.
If you like, we can use the first quarter of 2006 instead.
iPod sales: 1.5 bazillion
Zune sales: zero.
Apple wins.
I still have my original 5GB first generation iPod. Bought it the week they came out. LOVE the mechanical scroll wheel. Even though I have other, more modern iPods, the wheel is still the best interface.
And it's FIREWIRE which is great since my USB ports are usually full of other things.
After more than five years of service, I guess I should complain about the battery life, but I have no problems. I'm still on the original battery, but only use it for 30 minutes or so each day so I'm not running into any problems. I have it hooked into an iTrip and use it to transmit sleepytime music to my clock radio each night.
anti-Mac zealotry on the part of IT departments has been a huge barrier against more widespread adoption of Macs.
You hit the nail on the head. I know one IT head (I assume he still has his job, it's been a couple of years) who could only utter one phrase whenever Macs were mentioned: "Apple is crapple." I assume it was left over from his Commodore 64 days. If you tried to make a point in favor of Macs he would chant, "Crapple, crapple, crapple, crapple..." Nice mature attitude for a man in his late-50's. But he was the big in-charge IT guy, so the rest of the Fortune 500 company was forced to follow his lead.
And Mac users are supposed to be the zealots. Right.
Items that have failed and support DST and still failed include my wall Atomic Clocks
Strange. My atomic clocked changed just fine. Also, I was always under the impression that the DST function wasn't built into the clock itself, but into the data stream coming from WWV or WWVH (depending on your location.) Maybe you live somewhere that your clock ended up locking into CHU, the atomic clock in Canada, or the one in South America (call letters escape me right now). I've picked both of those up loud and clear on my shortwave radios from time to time in the United States.
Howardforums contains two threads related to this. One is just another piece of blogspam with a link to the same blog as the Slashdot submission.
The other is a thread about how T-Zones is now giving people what they pay for. When you signed up with T-Zones you were told web and e-mail. T-Mobile let some other data through in some other markets. Now they're expanding their restrictions in what appears to be an attempt to make all markets the same.
So, T-Mobile enforcing the restrictions you agreed to when you signed up for T-Zones service is the same thing as T-Mobile disallowing third-party apps on cell phones? Not even close.
Sounds like you're mad because you finally got caught and you're trying to make this into something it isn't.
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Not everyone's relationships are as businesslike as yours. Some people have different levels of emotional contact. The fact that you don't understand this, or have never had that sort of a relationship doesn't invalidate it.
Even though this is Slashdot, the rest of us are not married to robots.
(Hint: look at the color of her hands. If there's any makeup left in the barrel, she should put some on there, too!)
I run a business about the same size as yours. We're all Mac, so the programs we use most for officy things are Quickbooks Pro, Filemaker Pro, Pages, Keynote and Microsoft Excel. We use Microsoft Word only for printing shipping labels. We're planning to dump Excel when Apple releases its new spreadsheet software. At that time we'll probably update our label templates and move them to Pages so we can dump Word, too.
As a small shop you have the freedom to do things right from the start and not be locked into some legacy system someone put together in the 70's or 80's.
My advice to you is to code your own software and have it as a web service that you run from a beater server in the office. That way as long as there are browsers you'll never be locked in to one vendor, and as your business grows and you have to travel more you can access what you need on the road.
Glad to have you back from your coma.
You are correct, the software is maintained out of Tokyo. But every six months the system suffers a serious crash and Sony flies a bunch of people in from San Francisco to fix it. THEY certainly know how to speak English.
Maybe if we start paying our Sony bill with checks written so poorly they don't cash then Sony will pay attention.
A piece of industrial Sony software I work with every day is full of grammar problems.
"Are you sure to delete?"
Every time there's a Sony tech in the room I complain. In four years and several versions nothing's changed.
Are end users to blame? Exactly how am I supposed to change an error message?
I had an ISP in Texas (EV1, I think) tell me that they were taking action on my report, but due to privacy concerns they couldn't tell me what action was being taken.
Of course, since he HAS a PS1, and NOT a DS, it makes your comment pretty worthless. Why would he go out and buy another game machine just to mod it? The point is to re-use what he has, not to satisfy one fanboy club or another.
While the MythBusters is entertaining, it's not exactly science. It's closer to tabloid junk science. Rarely are there control groups for most of their "experiments," and there are many other transgressions.
/. because things go up in flames, but I think the show is giving a kids a bad idea of what science is. Won't they be disappointed when they get to college and have to follow strict scientific procedures instead of watching things to boom.
Sure, it's popular on
Good to see Microsoft "innovating" once again.
I once worked for a company that sank millions into the CueCat. This seems like the same thing, only with a cell phone instead of a plastic cat. I wonder if it will meet the same fate.
I saw just yesterday that it's up to 28%. I'm not on board yet... but soon. Eventually everyone will. It's the law.
Interesting. It sounds like Windows is now as picky about memory as OS X is. One of the minor advantages of having commodity hardware that ran Windows before was that you could jam pretty much any RAM into a box and it would work, while Macs required higher quality RAM. I guess the playing field has been leveled in at least this one way.
Just curious -- will you return to iTunes to sample EMI's DRM-free offerings, or are you done with iTunes for good?
I thought 665 was the neighbor of the beast.
While I support a lot of what the FOSS movement does, I think this is a good example of the overall trend -- it (over)fills very small niches very well, but doesn't do much for the masses.
(Not that Apples are owned by the masses; but that's a different discussion.)
A financially irresponsible former friend of mine used a credit card to buy a 'Vette because he couldn't get a bank loan.
The only thing dumber than paying credit card interest rates on a Corvette is the fact that he didn't have insurance when he totalled it slamming into a concrete wall on the ramp from I-10 to I-610 in Houston.
Glad I never lent him any money.
If you like, we can use the first quarter of 2006 instead.
iPod sales: 1.5 bazillion
Zune sales: zero.
Apple wins.
I still have my original 5GB first generation iPod. Bought it the week they came out. LOVE the mechanical scroll wheel. Even though I have other, more modern iPods, the wheel is still the best interface.
And it's FIREWIRE which is great since my USB ports are usually full of other things.
After more than five years of service, I guess I should complain about the battery life, but I have no problems. I'm still on the original battery, but only use it for 30 minutes or so each day so I'm not running into any problems. I have it hooked into an iTrip and use it to transmit sleepytime music to my clock radio each night.
And Mac users are supposed to be the zealots. Right.
Imagination and delusion aren't the same thing. But it's nice to see that the mere mention of religion could bring out your anger and intolerance.
Howardforums contains two threads related to this. One is just another piece of blogspam with a link to the same blog as the Slashdot submission.
The other is a thread about how T-Zones is now giving people what they pay for. When you signed up with T-Zones you were told web and e-mail. T-Mobile let some other data through in some other markets. Now they're expanding their restrictions in what appears to be an attempt to make all markets the same.
So, T-Mobile enforcing the restrictions you agreed to when you signed up for T-Zones service is the same thing as T-Mobile disallowing third-party apps on cell phones? Not even close.
Sounds like you're mad because you finally got caught and you're trying to make this into something it isn't.