"Lest you forget, MS kept Apple alive with a huge cash infusion when they were about to go under."
No, Apple was not about to go under. The $150 million was a token gesture of solidarity and it purchased non-voting shares. Apple had BILLIONS of dollars in the bank at the time. Apple was rudderless, which is what led to Jobs returning and reforging the sword that was broken, but Apple didn't need Microsoft's cash--they needed Office to be supported.
Presumably you're talking about a previous article on Slashdot from today regarding Apple suing Samsung for making a look-alike device when compared to the iPad and that has nothing to do with patents? That's OK though, because you bashed Apple, which means you'll get modded up anyway....
I couldn't agree more. I've been using a MacBook Pro in my enterprise DBA job for the last year. In that time, the Enterprise-grade AD has suffered numerous outages and fallen to two viruses. During that time, my consumer-grade laptop has powered through the darkest hours, providing me with quick access to our data centers and generally outperforming the Windows-based machine on my desk.
Furthermore, our corporate wi-fi has been nearly unusable for the past two years, and because our overlords are cheapskates, our meeting rooms have four-port Ethernet hubs at best. I walk into a meeting room and set up a wireless hub via my laptop in seconds and everyone in our group is connected and working quickly.
I can't even imagine the corporate nirvana that would exist if we qdid away with much of our Enterprise setup and instead replaced all 10000+ employees' machines with Macs.
Long live the Mac's non-Enterprisiness!!!
On my iPhone 3GS, the Strongbad email runs, but it's dog slow (about one frame per second) and there's no sound. It's a cool idea, but it's effectively unusable (not that this will stop ad agencies from immediately pumping it out to the entire web).
The answer to the submission's query is so simple that it's mind-boggling that folks at the NYT and elsewhere haven't even considered it. Who will control the cost of the NYT on digital readers? The Consumer.
If iPad/Nook/Kindle/netbook/etc users aren't willing to pay the price for the product, the Times will have to bring the price down until enough people are willing to pay.
This is an ongoing problem with print media. They think they're still playing in the arena they've been in for the last 100 years. It ain't so, and the awakening will be a rude one for them.
My wife works 20 miles away from our home and the only viable route to her workplace is via a freeway. I work 7 miles from our home and while I could ride a bicycle there are two things that prevent it: (1) it's unbearably hot an muggy during the summer months, and (2) even my local roads which don't require me to use the freeway are extremely dangerous -- I've never before lived in a place with such angry drivers.
I couldn't agree with you more that finding alternative ways to encourage the populace to conserve is a good thing, but a tax of this nature just punishes those of us who do not have alternatives.
Is this shipping? Their site says something about "mid-2009" but the store certainly doesn't have it available, whereas BenQ's offering is available now.
I'm working for a leading worldwide business software provider in their SaaS division. I'm 35. I'm the youngest person on the team. While I have no doubt that ageism exists in IT, I'm very encouraged that the folks I work with are dedicated geeks of varying ages. This is also the best job I've ever had.
There was a line at the AT&T store in my town the day the iPhone was released. I drove by and chuckled. Then I picked up an iPhone the day they went on sale.
These two concepts are nothing alike, and you know it.
If I want to record my own music and then post it on the web as a new Backstreet Boys song, or go into a music store and replace all of and artist's CDs with copies that include my song instead of the one that was officially recorded, then you've got a point. And I don't think anyone on Slashdot would argue against the RIAA prosecuting someone who does that.
This is a bait-and-switch. It stinks to the highest elevation and means that ISPs aren't just abusing/violating copyright -- they're also invading my privacy.
If you honestly believe this is a double-standard, you've got some serious fucking problems.
I know Jonathan Spira personally. I couldn't have nailed it better. Jonathan's a well-meaning attention whore who loves talking about himself as much as about his own interests.
The only thing he's better at is misunderstanding technology.
They staggered the release for 3rd Edition, so why not for 4th? My hope is that the materials are high-quality and don't end up feeling rushed because of this change.
Crow about your 133t sk1llz on every forum you can find
Get your pathetic no-content blog featured on Slashdot, Fark, Digg, etc
Sit back and watch the foaming-at-the-mouth geeks visit/link to your page
Watch your Google pagerank skyrocket
See ad revenue skyrocket
Profit!
Lather, rinse, repeat because geeks love to hate you
How many other sites -- especially online "news" sites have figured out that this whole thing is driving some serious traffic and boosting ad revenue? It doesn't matter if you're using Adblock (I do). Some ads are still going to get through (I never block Google AdSense) and you're still going to drive some revenue. Even then, some sites will be able to quote a boosted number of page visits which they can use to negotiate better payouts from advertisers. However you spin this whole mess, these folks win.
I've chosen to stop feeding the trolls. I visited one site at the beginning of this whole circus. I'm not doing it any more.
Truer words were never spoken. You could be getting this info straight from some of the horses' mouths. Seriously, many of the industry giants regularly post on ENWorld.
I majored in Physics in college, only to find that I was exceptionally good at explaining things in our campus planetarium and observatory. After two years of friends, family, and planetarium patrons telling me I should become a teacher, I took the plunge and added Secondary Education to my major.
I met with my new adviser who told me, "You have a lot of ground to cover -- you've missed two years... I just don't know how you're going to make it up in time."
Then I attended my first class. Every test -- EVERY test -- was based on the bold letter definitions in the text book. Hell, in one of my "advanced" classes (500-level (I had to get "special permission" to take it as an undergrad)) the professor handed out the final exam on the first day of class. She said, "Have this back to me by the end of the semester. It's really hard, so I figured I'd give you the whole time. Again, bold-letter definitions and requests to copy and paste -- err, transcribe -- huge segments of text from the textbook into the space provided.
My most memorable experience was coming from a Stat Therm in the morning. The prof in that class said to us, "I realize nobody has the book yet, but the first 10 problems are due tomorrow. There's a copy of the book in the library, so not having the book is not an excuse." I went from that to my education class, wherein the prof said, "Here's a 90-page novella that I think is nice. Please read it by the end of the semester and write a paragraph on what you thought."
I can't tell you how shocked I was when the hands went up and the litany of childish grunts from ALL of the other students began:
"Do we have to read the whole thing?"
"Is this for a grade?!"
"How many sentences have to be in this paragraph?"
"Does our name have to be on this?!"
These are the people to whom we trust the education of our children.
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"Lest you forget, MS kept Apple alive with a huge cash infusion when they were about to go under."
No, Apple was not about to go under. The $150 million was a token gesture of solidarity and it purchased non-voting shares. Apple had BILLIONS of dollars in the bank at the time. Apple was rudderless, which is what led to Jobs returning and reforging the sword that was broken, but Apple didn't need Microsoft's cash--they needed Office to be supported.
Presumably you're talking about a previous article on Slashdot from today regarding Apple suing Samsung for making a look-alike device when compared to the iPad and that has nothing to do with patents? That's OK though, because you bashed Apple, which means you'll get modded up anyway....
I couldn't agree more. I've been using a MacBook Pro in my enterprise DBA job for the last year. In that time, the Enterprise-grade AD has suffered numerous outages and fallen to two viruses. During that time, my consumer-grade laptop has powered through the darkest hours, providing me with quick access to our data centers and generally outperforming the Windows-based machine on my desk. Furthermore, our corporate wi-fi has been nearly unusable for the past two years, and because our overlords are cheapskates, our meeting rooms have four-port Ethernet hubs at best. I walk into a meeting room and set up a wireless hub via my laptop in seconds and everyone in our group is connected and working quickly. I can't even imagine the corporate nirvana that would exist if we qdid away with much of our Enterprise setup and instead replaced all 10000+ employees' machines with Macs. Long live the Mac's non-Enterprisiness!!!
iOS 4.3 is already available on the Verizon iPhone 4. It's just not available yet on the devices listed on the link you provided.
On my iPhone 3GS, the Strongbad email runs, but it's dog slow (about one frame per second) and there's no sound. It's a cool idea, but it's effectively unusable (not that this will stop ad agencies from immediately pumping it out to the entire web).
I think the word you're looking for is "consumers."
The answer to the submission's query is so simple that it's mind-boggling that folks at the NYT and elsewhere haven't even considered it. Who will control the cost of the NYT on digital readers? The Consumer.
If iPad/Nook/Kindle/netbook/etc users aren't willing to pay the price for the product, the Times will have to bring the price down until enough people are willing to pay.
This is an ongoing problem with print media. They think they're still playing in the arena they've been in for the last 100 years. It ain't so, and the awakening will be a rude one for them.
Ummm, no.... He says iMacs and MacBooks... No "Pro" there at all.
My wife works 20 miles away from our home and the only viable route to her workplace is via a freeway. I work 7 miles from our home and while I could ride a bicycle there are two things that prevent it: (1) it's unbearably hot an muggy during the summer months, and (2) even my local roads which don't require me to use the freeway are extremely dangerous -- I've never before lived in a place with such angry drivers. I couldn't agree with you more that finding alternative ways to encourage the populace to conserve is a good thing, but a tax of this nature just punishes those of us who do not have alternatives.
Is this shipping? Their site says something about "mid-2009" but the store certainly doesn't have it available, whereas BenQ's offering is available now.
I'm working for a leading worldwide business software provider in their SaaS division. I'm 35. I'm the youngest person on the team. While I have no doubt that ageism exists in IT, I'm very encouraged that the folks I work with are dedicated geeks of varying ages. This is also the best job I've ever had.
Go for the degree and keep a positive attitude.
Age matters to me. McCain is too old for any of a number of reasons: physical health, inability to remember key facts (or to jumble them up), etc.
I think Quagmire can do that, too...
"Does this look like a Q to you?"
There was a line at the AT&T store in my town the day the iPhone was released. I drove by and chuckled. Then I picked up an iPhone the day they went on sale.
I've used SubEthaEdit for years for this purpose.
These two concepts are nothing alike, and you know it.
If I want to record my own music and then post it on the web as a new Backstreet Boys song, or go into a music store and replace all of and artist's CDs with copies that include my song instead of the one that was officially recorded, then you've got a point. And I don't think anyone on Slashdot would argue against the RIAA prosecuting someone who does that.
This is a bait-and-switch. It stinks to the highest elevation and means that ISPs aren't just abusing/violating copyright -- they're also invading my privacy.
If you honestly believe this is a double-standard, you've got some serious fucking problems.
I can already smell the goatse links......
I know Jonathan Spira personally. I couldn't have nailed it better. Jonathan's a well-meaning attention whore who loves talking about himself as much as about his own interests.
The only thing he's better at is misunderstanding technology.
They staggered the release for 3rd Edition, so why not for 4th? My hope is that the materials are high-quality and don't end up feeling rushed because of this change.
Butterfly net.
Stop and think about it for a minute:
How many other sites -- especially online "news" sites have figured out that this whole thing is driving some serious traffic and boosting ad revenue? It doesn't matter if you're using Adblock (I do). Some ads are still going to get through (I never block Google AdSense) and you're still going to drive some revenue. Even then, some sites will be able to quote a boosted number of page visits which they can use to negotiate better payouts from advertisers. However you spin this whole mess, these folks win.
I've chosen to stop feeding the trolls. I visited one site at the beginning of this whole circus. I'm not doing it any more.
I just ran out of mod points, dammit.
Truer words were never spoken. You could be getting this info straight from some of the horses' mouths. Seriously, many of the industry giants regularly post on ENWorld.
Go there now.
Amen, brother.
I majored in Physics in college, only to find that I was exceptionally good at explaining things in our campus planetarium and observatory. After two years of friends, family, and planetarium patrons telling me I should become a teacher, I took the plunge and added Secondary Education to my major.
I met with my new adviser who told me, "You have a lot of ground to cover -- you've missed two years... I just don't know how you're going to make it up in time."
Then I attended my first class. Every test -- EVERY test -- was based on the bold letter definitions in the text book. Hell, in one of my "advanced" classes (500-level (I had to get "special permission" to take it as an undergrad)) the professor handed out the final exam on the first day of class. She said, "Have this back to me by the end of the semester. It's really hard, so I figured I'd give you the whole time. Again, bold-letter definitions and requests to copy and paste -- err, transcribe -- huge segments of text from the textbook into the space provided.
My most memorable experience was coming from a Stat Therm in the morning. The prof in that class said to us, "I realize nobody has the book yet, but the first 10 problems are due tomorrow. There's a copy of the book in the library, so not having the book is not an excuse." I went from that to my education class, wherein the prof said, "Here's a 90-page novella that I think is nice. Please read it by the end of the semester and write a paragraph on what you thought."
I can't tell you how shocked I was when the hands went up and the litany of childish grunts from ALL of the other students began:
These are the people to whom we trust the education of our children.
Ugh.
No, they want you to pay for that privilege. Too bad for them it's a right that carries with it implicit freedoms.
They can take my freedoms when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Mod parent up. I was shocked to learn that all of the freeware and OSS offerings I'm regularly using on my Mac are apparently unavailable.
The article author is an idiot.