I meant Microsoft Office Suite. I'm proficient in Excel. I know a decent amount in Word, Access, Power Point, Publisher, Visio, Project, and Front Page. The only one I've never touched is InfoPath.
I have a computer information system: web design bachelors and currently work at the university as a peer tutor. I'm a jack-of-all trades. I have an animation associates as well. Some programming experience, some graphic design experience. I know the whole Microsoft Suite, Photoshop, XHTML, CSS.
I figured I'd just go for an Masters in Business Administration, then go for management. As a manager I would be able to use most all my skills.
I'm still trying to find that first job to get the experience, while going to graduate school, so I'm in the same basket as the poster. If anyone knows how I could market myself, as a jack-of-all-trades, that'd be great. Thanks
You could make it bigger and adapt it to a car, the car vibrates as it goes down the road, in turn powering the device that allows it to go down the road...Perpetual motion automobile...I'd like my Nobel Prize now please... You'd just need to pull a Little Miss Sunshine to start up the car.
GMail says nothing. They should have made it GoogleMail, since this would allow people unfamiliar with the service to quickly apply Google's reputation on GoogleMail. I personally think Gmail does say something, just like e-mail does. E-mail says to me Electronic mail. Gmail (or G-mail), in the same light, says Google mail (and Giersch mail) respectively.
Secondly the shorter name is much appreciated. I wouldn't want to have to type out GoogleMail every time I wrote someone.
This is completely speculation, but Gmail is so well known now that I think it'd be hard to find someone who couldn't make the correlation to Google. It's like the Nike Swoosh, everyone now knows that's Nike now, so they don't even need to put their name on their product any more, just the swoosh. Google just looked at the big picture and thought let make it short and simple.
Fight Night Round 2 (Innovative boxing), and Tetris Attack (Always seems overlooked). Everything else I could think of off the top of my head was on the list.
Yes, but will there be Hurd drivers? Depends on your definition of hard drive. If you're talking about a hard disk drive, that has moving parts and uses magnetization to store data, then there might not be.
Now that flash drives have started replacing the function of hard drives it'll be interesting to see if we keep calling it a hard drive. If a flash drive can be considered a hard drive, then yes, we'll still have hard drives.
Either way there will be some sort of non-volatile storage device and 640 GB won't be enough for everybody.
Thanks. I had a route I roller blade on. I had an idea how long it was, but it's a little trail that's not on any maps. However knowing the shape of the trail and the starting and ending points, that site let me map out the route and gave me a general idea of the distance.
I look at it this way, if people are willing to spend money to NOT experience part of the game, then there is a fundamental design flaw in the game. I challenge everyone to think of a way for a game to have an economy and not have the potential something like RMT to whore it. If there isn't one then it's not a design flaw it's more of a logical limitation.
For me that time factor involved in acquiring money and gear gives me a sense of ownership. If you didn't have to grind for hours or go through huge raids to get the best equipment then it wouldn't seem like much of an accomplishment.
Parts can seem tedious, but they're still fun. This isn't a design flaw. Compare it to the real world a second. If you want a Dodge Viper and not a beat up old car you have to work for it. If everyone could spend a little bit of time working to get a Viper then the value of a Viper would diminish. So the way the games are set up they're so you can feel you accomplished something.
If someone wants to sell their accomplishments, they can. If someone wants to buy someone else's accomplishment instead of working to get it themselves, they can as well. Personally I'd never pay for items or money in a game. To me that'd take away from the game experience and I wouldn't feel like I earned it. However for some people who don't have that much free time and want to experience late game material I wouldn't hold it against them.
I can hardly believe it's a fundamental flaw for a game to have 100+ hours worth of content and not have a way for people to take a warp hole, like in Mario, to skip through part of it.
This may be a little off topic, but how does Microsoft's hardware fair in general?
My friend has an XBox360 and it seems to work just fine. The only problem I've seen is that when playing music from the iPod, the USB will read it, start playing what you tell it to, but if you come back to change the track it has to re-find the USB drive before you can.
What about the Zune, does that run smoothly, no blue screen? I don't own an MP3 player so I don't have a comparison to work with here.
What about their keyboard and mouse? I've always had Logitech mice and off brand keyboards and they've always worked for me. Any problems or happy stories about Microsoft ones?
I still have yet to perfect my female voice, my male one works just fine. I'm going to stay away from Ventrilo for now. It might kill the mood if a sexy female Night Elf busted out with a deep male voice, and I still get me free stuff because they think I'm a girl, YAY.
I liked my old manager's solution. Don't get cable TV at all. Instead they used that $40+ they 'saved' a month and spent it buying box sets of their favorite TV shows. Now they can watch them over and over again and whenever they want.
I personally just don't watch TV, and when I do it's my friend's box sets of stuff.
getting up out of bed each morning and taking a piss. You do that? I have the patent on that. I'm suing you!
I bet you wish you posted AC this time don't cha.
With people being able to easily dual boot a Windows OS and Mac OS on their machine it would be even harder to sell a copy of a Mac game now. I think you'd need to put bonus content in the game to make it worth it, but that would just piss off Windows users.
I use my PC for Photoshop and gaming primarily when dealing with processing power. MY desktop with a dedicated graphics card, 1 gig of ram and a decent processor speed (2.6ghz currently) works just fine for those. I would like to use programs like Final Cut Pro for video editing, but that's not even available for PC and the Windows equivalent in my eyes is far from. However I need Photoshop for web design, but I don't need Final Cut Pro, I'd just like it.
I'm looking to get a laptop to do everything my desktop does now. Which would be running Photoshop, games, and other mundane things like surf the web, write papers, play mp3s through Winamp, etc. I'm assuming all I'd need is a gig of ram and a dedicated graphics card to do this, any laptop with those will probably also have a fast enough processor as well. Checking for prices I could get a PC Laptop with those specs for about $600 - $800 (retail).
I guess I'm wondering if there is a Mac for an equivalent price for my needs? The closest I found was a MacBook for $1100 (retail). It says nothing about a dedicated graphics cards, but it's an equivalent processor to the $600 PCs and has a gig of ram. I'm also interested in the MacBook Pro so I can dual boot Windows and Mac OS and thus won't lose any current functionality switching to a Mac. However a MacBook Pro starts at $2000 (retail) and compared to $600 it seems frightening.
This is why I always say Macs seem to be more expensive than PCs. If it weren't for the proprietary software (Final Cut Pro, Shake (latest version), etc) then I couldn't see a reason to ever want to switch over.
Why does everyone think we're comparing apples to oranges here.
We're comparing Apples to PCs dang it.
But seriously you've got a great point, they're not looking at the big picture. I'd actually rather know which one runs Photoshop better, if it'll play a computer game better or if it even runs the program I want (Final Cut Pro - Mac only, Most games - PC only). Then there is the issue of cost. Which one preforms adequately and costs the least.
I've been debating getting a Mac for quite a long time, but they all seem to cost more with out enough added performance to make it worth it. I've been trolled for saying that before, but seriously wanted an adequate rebuttal to the statement. Also PCs are still industry standard which makes it a hard to switch.
Another one of those stories where you read only 2 of the 10 and hit Next Page (more ads)
So to save you time RFTA:
1. Cobol
2. Nonrelational DBMS
3. Non-IP networks
4. cc:Mail
5. ColdFusion
6. C programming
7. PowerBuilder
8. Certified NetWare Engineers
9. PC network administrators
10. OS/2
Get an MBA, then do something in the financial industry, which has a stranglehold on everything else to the extent of destroying progress. You mean work for the RIAA?
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I meant Microsoft Office Suite. I'm proficient in Excel. I know a decent amount in Word, Access, Power Point, Publisher, Visio, Project, and Front Page. The only one I've never touched is InfoPath.
I have a computer information system: web design bachelors and currently work at the university as a peer tutor. I'm a jack-of-all trades. I have an animation associates as well. Some programming experience, some graphic design experience. I know the whole Microsoft Suite, Photoshop, XHTML, CSS.
I figured I'd just go for an Masters in Business Administration, then go for management. As a manager I would be able to use most all my skills.
I'm still trying to find that first job to get the experience, while going to graduate school, so I'm in the same basket as the poster. If anyone knows how I could market myself, as a jack-of-all-trades, that'd be great. Thanks
Secondly the shorter name is much appreciated. I wouldn't want to have to type out GoogleMail every time I wrote someone.
This is completely speculation, but Gmail is so well known now that I think it'd be hard to find someone who couldn't make the correlation to Google. It's like the Nike Swoosh, everyone now knows that's Nike now, so they don't even need to put their name on their product any more, just the swoosh. Google just looked at the big picture and thought let make it short and simple.
Fight Night Round 2 (Innovative boxing), and Tetris Attack (Always seems overlooked). Everything else I could think of off the top of my head was on the list.
Now that flash drives have started replacing the function of hard drives it'll be interesting to see if we keep calling it a hard drive. If a flash drive can be considered a hard drive, then yes, we'll still have hard drives.
Either way there will be some sort of non-volatile storage device and 640 GB won't be enough for everybody.
I see a new celebrity death match. Caged death match: Prince vs. Record Label Execs. Fight!
Thanks. I had a route I roller blade on. I had an idea how long it was, but it's a little trail that's not on any maps. However knowing the shape of the trail and the starting and ending points, that site let me map out the route and gave me a general idea of the distance.
It only worked when you moved out of your parent's basement.
For me that time factor involved in acquiring money and gear gives me a sense of ownership. If you didn't have to grind for hours or go through huge raids to get the best equipment then it wouldn't seem like much of an accomplishment.
Parts can seem tedious, but they're still fun. This isn't a design flaw. Compare it to the real world a second. If you want a Dodge Viper and not a beat up old car you have to work for it. If everyone could spend a little bit of time working to get a Viper then the value of a Viper would diminish. So the way the games are set up they're so you can feel you accomplished something.
If someone wants to sell their accomplishments, they can. If someone wants to buy someone else's accomplishment instead of working to get it themselves, they can as well. Personally I'd never pay for items or money in a game. To me that'd take away from the game experience and I wouldn't feel like I earned it. However for some people who don't have that much free time and want to experience late game material I wouldn't hold it against them.
I can hardly believe it's a fundamental flaw for a game to have 100+ hours worth of content and not have a way for people to take a warp hole, like in Mario, to skip through part of it.
This may be a little off topic, but how does Microsoft's hardware fair in general?
My friend has an XBox360 and it seems to work just fine. The only problem I've seen is that when playing music from the iPod, the USB will read it, start playing what you tell it to, but if you come back to change the track it has to re-find the USB drive before you can.
What about the Zune, does that run smoothly, no blue screen? I don't own an MP3 player so I don't have a comparison to work with here.
What about their keyboard and mouse? I've always had Logitech mice and off brand keyboards and they've always worked for me. Any problems or happy stories about Microsoft ones?
1. Video killed the radio star
2. Internet killed the video star
3. Royalties killed the internet star
4. ???
5. Profit
I still have yet to perfect my female voice, my male one works just fine. I'm going to stay away from Ventrilo for now. It might kill the mood if a sexy female Night Elf busted out with a deep male voice, and I still get me free stuff because they think I'm a girl, YAY.
I liked my old manager's solution. Don't get cable TV at all. Instead they used that $40+ they 'saved' a month and spent it buying box sets of their favorite TV shows. Now they can watch them over and over again and whenever they want.
I personally just don't watch TV, and when I do it's my friend's box sets of stuff.
God just called, he wants money from everyone!
I bet you wish you posted AC this time don't cha.
With people being able to easily dual boot a Windows OS and Mac OS on their machine it would be even harder to sell a copy of a Mac game now. I think you'd need to put bonus content in the game to make it worth it, but that would just piss off Windows users.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I'll consider it.
I use my PC for Photoshop and gaming primarily when dealing with processing power. MY desktop with a dedicated graphics card, 1 gig of ram and a decent processor speed (2.6ghz currently) works just fine for those. I would like to use programs like Final Cut Pro for video editing, but that's not even available for PC and the Windows equivalent in my eyes is far from. However I need Photoshop for web design, but I don't need Final Cut Pro, I'd just like it.
I'm looking to get a laptop to do everything my desktop does now. Which would be running Photoshop, games, and other mundane things like surf the web, write papers, play mp3s through Winamp, etc. I'm assuming all I'd need is a gig of ram and a dedicated graphics card to do this, any laptop with those will probably also have a fast enough processor as well. Checking for prices I could get a PC Laptop with those specs for about $600 - $800 (retail).
I guess I'm wondering if there is a Mac for an equivalent price for my needs? The closest I found was a MacBook for $1100 (retail). It says nothing about a dedicated graphics cards, but it's an equivalent processor to the $600 PCs and has a gig of ram. I'm also interested in the MacBook Pro so I can dual boot Windows and Mac OS and thus won't lose any current functionality switching to a Mac. However a MacBook Pro starts at $2000 (retail) and compared to $600 it seems frightening.
This is why I always say Macs seem to be more expensive than PCs. If it weren't for the proprietary software (Final Cut Pro, Shake (latest version), etc) then I couldn't see a reason to ever want to switch over.
Why does everyone think we're comparing apples to oranges here.
We're comparing Apples to PCs dang it.
But seriously you've got a great point, they're not looking at the big picture. I'd actually rather know which one runs Photoshop better, if it'll play a computer game better or if it even runs the program I want (Final Cut Pro - Mac only, Most games - PC only). Then there is the issue of cost. Which one preforms adequately and costs the least.
I've been debating getting a Mac for quite a long time, but they all seem to cost more with out enough added performance to make it worth it. I've been trolled for saying that before, but seriously wanted an adequate rebuttal to the statement. Also PCs are still industry standard which makes it a hard to switch.
Another one of those stories where you read only 2 of the 10 and hit Next Page (more ads)
So to save you time RFTA:
1. Cobol
2. Nonrelational DBMS
3. Non-IP networks
4. cc:Mail
5. ColdFusion
6. C programming
7. PowerBuilder
8. Certified NetWare Engineers
9. PC network administrators
10. OS/2
I think I speak for all the guys on /. when I say:
I want to go shopping for a purse!
It's over. You got here just in time for the death rattle. Last gasp. Last grope.