I have seen this out sourcing cutting back to basics method of compensating for lack lustre management from so many US based companies now that Im surprised companies still do it. GM and Ford both did exactly the same as Dell while Toyota who now totally thrashing them built more factories and became bigger and better. Dell should stop thinking of cutting back and saving costs but look at ways of becoming more inventive and increase your size thus restricting your competitors ability to strike at you. When you down size your company you do to some degree become more competitive but you also lose the ability to increase your market share and if your competition is clever they should attack this weakness.
I would say you spend all day looking for minor infringements of your variation of the english language. Sorry but the wording is correct for my socio graphical position.
Microsoft is like that brother/sister/neighbour who agrees to share things but doesn't actually understand the social rules of doing so. So you lend them something you cherish and then ask to loan something of theirs and they give you a blank look then say "oh, you mean I have to share to, I didn't know that was part of the deal".
I've got a dual core machine sitting on the desk before me and the cpu rarely goes above 20% load. The strange thing though is it is still slow when loading programs and this is due to the hardisk (SATA II) being the bottle_neck on my system. I could fix this to some degree with a RAID setup but the real question is why isnt this being looked at more closely ?
I love America and Americans, they are fun and come up with some of the greatest ideas and concepts. But I cant help but feel that now we have a red flag situation and its time for the citizens of the USA to sit down and think seriously about what direction they are going.
Im the company IT guy and recently one of our female staffers purchased a brand new dual core Compaq laptop to replace her ageing P4 model. What she found is two of the USB ports refuse to work and her wireless modem would not work even though they were all certified by Microsoft. She took it to an IT "Windows" specialist and and he was stumped and said the laptop must be faulty. Out of curiosity I had a look at the machine booted up both my XP live and Ubuntu Live CD and everything worked. The fix was simple just install XP and recommend she find a new Windows support shop.
PS on a side note she said the new laptop running Vista was way slower than her old machine running XP.
The East Germans had the exact same thing called the Stasi Secret Police . Your friends and neighbours even your relatives would pass on details about you to your local representative in the name of crime and social harmony. It worked great until those dam Americans stuffed it all up.........eh wait a minute.
The reality is that Linux has little to offer the inexperienced user.
I used to be one of these inexperienced users then I went to a thing called a "community college " and learn't how to use computers including using Linux. Dont you hate how certain segments of the geek elite think just because a few users do not want to improve their computing ability that means everyone is the same. Your whole diatribe is one big stereotype and fails on so many levels it's not funny.
Free doesn't mean "fair" (unless you like getting paid $00.00 for your time). Artists are already getting screwed by by the record industry without consumers adding to the fire. What Im looking at is a distribution system were artists and consumers don't get screwed and it isn't very expensive (iTunes fails on these two points accept ease of use).
Or the record industry could stop living in the past and have modern cost effective (fair) distribution model that makes sense to modern internet users.
On the surface your statement seems plausible until you sit down and think about all the variables of motion in the other dimensions one has to compensate for. Lets ignore for starters such things as the earth doesn't circle the earth in a circular motion but in a uneven oval. We shall also for now ignore other other quirks like the Sun circling the galaxy whilst entering and leaving the galactic plane, bit like a horse going around a merry-go-round going up and down in the verticle while circling in the horizontal plane, no lets just look at our planet and those variables. Now you have to materialise at a point in space and time on the planet (ignoring the few million other galactic variables) and not in the middle of a moving car,bird, building etc. Basically you could only travel through time and land on a spot on earth were you "know" beyond a doubt no life has ever been because otherwise it would be too risky (russian roulette). Just think about that, you would have to have a perfect understanding of all the variables of all objects moving on the surface of the planet earth before hand, we cant even keep a correct report of what is happening today let alone years later (the future being impossible to judge). So now we wont be able to compensate for the other dimensions unless "you become a god like being" that has knowledge of all the moving variables not just of our planet but the universe.
The problem with time travel is although it may be possible to travel in time it would not be a good idea. Let me explain, if have an actual time machine and travel back lets say 1 week you would materialize millions of miles away from earth in the middle of deep space. The reason for this becomes obvious when you realise earth is actually moving through space faster than a speeding bullet thus totally stuffing up the usefulness of traveling through time.
I posted a comment weeks ago that knowing Apple and its control freak nature that I would not be surprised if the SDK has lots of hooks in it restricting developers. So now Apple has proven itself to be just as EVIL (tm) as Microsoft (more so) on the mobile platform I wonder what spin doctoring they will do to make this pile of manure look good. Hmm maybe a new iPhone with even more bouncing icons for the style insecure.
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they have isolated the bastard aka SOB gene ?
I have seen this out sourcing cutting back to basics method of compensating for lack lustre management from so many US based companies now that Im surprised companies still do it. GM and Ford both did exactly the same as Dell while Toyota who now totally thrashing them built more factories and became bigger and better. Dell should stop thinking of cutting back and saving costs but look at ways of becoming more inventive and increase your size thus restricting your competitors ability to strike at you. When you down size your company you do to some degree become more competitive but you also lose the ability to increase your market share and if your competition is clever they should attack this weakness.
I would say you spend all day looking for minor infringements of your variation of the english language. Sorry but the wording is correct for my socio graphical position.
Microsoft is like that brother/sister/neighbour who agrees to share things but doesn't actually understand the social rules of doing so. So you lend them something you cherish and then ask to loan something of theirs and they give you a blank look then say "oh, you mean I have to share to, I didn't know that was part of the deal".
Tea Cup!!! what are you an Apple user, now a Beer mug is more like it..
[Non descript Office worked walks up to a door marked "Marketing Dept" then opens it.]
Marketing Dept "BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS"
[Office worker quickly shuts door scratches head then opens it again]
Marketing Dept BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS WE WANT MORE BRAAAAAINS"
[Office worked shakes head and quickly heads down the hall.]
I've got a dual core machine sitting on the desk before me and the cpu rarely goes above 20% load. The strange thing though is it is still slow when loading programs and this is due to the hardisk (SATA II) being the bottle_neck on my system. I could fix this to some degree with a RAID setup but the real question is why isnt this being looked at more closely ?
started charging record companies for "promoting their music in public venue's". TV stations charge record companies why can't DJ's.
Microsoft "GET OF MY CODE!!"
I love America and Americans, they are fun and come up with some of the greatest ideas and concepts. But I cant help but feel that now we have a red flag situation and its time for the citizens of the USA to sit down and think seriously about what direction they are going.
Im the company IT guy and recently one of our female staffers purchased a brand new dual core Compaq laptop to replace her ageing P4 model. What she found is two of the USB ports refuse to work and her wireless modem would not work even though they were all certified by Microsoft. She took it to an IT "Windows" specialist and and he was stumped and said the laptop must be faulty. Out of curiosity I had a look at the machine booted up both my XP live and Ubuntu Live CD and everything worked. The fix was simple just install XP and recommend she find a new Windows support shop. PS on a side note she said the new laptop running Vista was way slower than her old machine running XP.
The East Germans had the exact same thing called the Stasi Secret Police . Your friends and neighbours even your relatives would pass on details about you to your local representative in the name of crime and social harmony. It worked great until those dam Americans stuffed it all up.........eh wait a minute.
The reality is that Linux has little to offer the inexperienced user.
I used to be one of these inexperienced users then I went to a thing called a "community college " and learn't how to use computers including using Linux. Dont you hate how certain segments of the geek elite think just because a few users do not want to improve their computing ability that means everyone is the same. Your whole diatribe is one big stereotype and fails on so many levels it's not funny.
I don't surf the internet, the internet surfs me.
A error was found and patched, now remind me why this is news ?
How many Microsoft software engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb ?
Non, Microsoft defines darkness at the new standard.
Free doesn't mean "fair" (unless you like getting paid $00.00 for your time). Artists are already getting screwed by by the record industry without consumers adding to the fire. What Im looking at is a distribution system were artists and consumers don't get screwed and it isn't very expensive (iTunes fails on these two points accept ease of use).
Or the record industry could stop living in the past and have modern cost effective (fair) distribution model that makes sense to modern internet users.
On the surface your statement seems plausible until you sit down and think about all the variables of motion in the other dimensions one has to compensate for. Lets ignore for starters such things as the earth doesn't circle the earth in a circular motion but in a uneven oval. We shall also for now ignore other other quirks like the Sun circling the galaxy whilst entering and leaving the galactic plane, bit like a horse going around a merry-go-round going up and down in the verticle while circling in the horizontal plane, no lets just look at our planet and those variables. Now you have to materialise at a point in space and time on the planet (ignoring the few million other galactic variables) and not in the middle of a moving car,bird, building etc. Basically you could only travel through time and land on a spot on earth were you "know" beyond a doubt no life has ever been because otherwise it would be too risky (russian roulette). Just think about that, you would have to have a perfect understanding of all the variables of all objects moving on the surface of the planet earth before hand, we cant even keep a correct report of what is happening today let alone years later (the future being impossible to judge). So now we wont be able to compensate for the other dimensions unless "you become a god like being" that has knowledge of all the moving variables not just of our planet but the universe.
The problem with time travel is although it may be possible to travel in time it would not be a good idea. Let me explain, if have an actual time machine and travel back lets say 1 week you would materialize millions of miles away from earth in the middle of deep space. The reason for this becomes obvious when you realise earth is actually moving through space faster than a speeding bullet thus totally stuffing up the usefulness of traveling through time.
Sharks cant survive long in a desert thus the toxic wast problem.
Mrs Kattie Mac Craith is suing the Irish dept of transport for allowing cars on the same roads as children.
If caching is classified as a memory leak then Vista has the worlds biggest god awful memory leak.
I posted a comment weeks ago that knowing Apple and its control freak nature that I would not be surprised if the SDK has lots of hooks in it restricting developers. So now Apple has proven itself to be just as EVIL (tm) as Microsoft (more so) on the mobile platform I wonder what spin doctoring they will do to make this pile of manure look good. Hmm maybe a new iPhone with even more bouncing icons for the style insecure.
I see were you are going with that now, replace the word "effective" with "profitable"