these people have no idea how lame they are or how much power they negate because of it.
Maybe those people don't care about "power"?
Thinking back on all the coworkers I've had, it's the power hungry ones that are the most fake - that have the most desperate smiles. Thankfully the worst offenders got made redundant or fired. For the most part I love the atmosphere here. The engineering department is full of genuine people who I can get on well with. The other departments, not so much.
It's not evil, but it is kind of sociopathic if it's not within your nature to do these things. I'll smile when I'm happy, or perhaps instinctually when others smile at me, but I don't go around smiling at people for no reason. I can tell when people are just faking their smiles, and I hate it. It definitely doesn't make my day feel more enjoyable, it just creeps me out.
The Xoom has a dual core CPU and great battery life too. It is heavier than a 7", but I have a stand for it that I use at tables, and sensible postures for holding it to reduce strain when lounging around.
My Kindle was even causing shoulder strain when I held it wrong though. It only weighs something like 700g, so weight is less important than posture. I notice strained muscles from bad posture or repetitive movements (using a mouse all day every day for example) pretty quickly these days because I get plenty of exercise and am really aware of the condition my body is in.
Yeah one of my friends said that there is a cultural thing in some countries like India where people refuse to admit that there is a problem, even when they're calling you for help about their problem. He works with hardware rather than software, but it's the same idea.
My HDTV has a lower resolution than some of the laptops I've had, but I still prefer the TV if I'm going to be watching a movie, despite the lower DPI.
Size only matters if your eyesight is poor.
I can't even begin to say how stupid I think this is. I was almost lost for words:p Would you say the same about the same resolution at 5"? What about 3"? Hey it's got the same amount of information, you just aren't looking hard enough! The latest iPhone almost has as high a resolution as an iPad.. but for some reason people are buying iPads! What's with that?
Disclaimer: I was stupid enough to think my 5" phone was a possible competitor to the iPad when I first got it. Short answer: it's not.
until there are word processors, Exchange support, or other basic functionality, Android tablets will be considered at best a novelty.
WTF are you talking about? For one thing there is Google Docs. For another, my Dell Streak came with "QuikOffice" or something like that that does word docs. Not that I'd really want to use an office suite on a tablet when I have a laptop available.
Android has had Exchange support since version 1.5 - ie since 2009. You are either lazy and ignorant, or flat out trolling.
Finally, there is device security. There has yet to be a single piece of malware on an iPad in the wild. Shows you something doesn't it?
It might take a few years, but you'd think that eventually they'd catch on that these projects are costing more to maintain and start teaching that in business school. If it's just for throwaway one-off programs then outsourcing probably isn't so bad though.
Telling myself what, exactly? Who said that tablets are meant to be a replacement for computers? I have a desktop, ultrabook, netbook, tablet, PS3, Xbox 360 and a phone. They have a hell of a lot of overlapping features, but all of them save the 360 get used regularly. My tablet is the only one that I'm guaranteed to use every day of the week.
I used to think that tablets would be crap too until I got my first capacitive screened phone with a 5" screen and realised that a touchscreen keyboard might be acceptable after all.
Oh yeah I guess my Kindle Keyboard has a 6" screen now that I looked it up. The form factor overall is about 7" though once you account for the keyboard.
The Fire is only 7 inches. It's not really the same category as an iPad or any of the 10 inch Android tablets. I think it's stupid when people compare the two. There is an element of overlap for sure, but I don't see this eating significantly into the larger tablet market.
Experience: I've got a 5 inch tablet/phone, tried some cheap 7 inch chinese tablets and also have a 10 inch Xoom.
You can watch movies on 5 and 7 inch screens in a pinch, but I'd probably prefer just to read instead.
My Kindle (Keyboard version) is 7 inches and it's just big enough to be comfortable for reading in portrait orientation. When I've used my phone for reading, I've needed to switch to landscape to read comfortably.
I probably wouldn't even use my Xoom for watching movies, but I'd definitely choose it over a 7 inch tablet for web browsing and watching YouTube. I also like it for reading.
Don't see much difference between clicking on an interesting looking album or movie and clicking the "change channel" button. You're not stuck with your first choice.
If you want the complete TV experience, you could even just only watch the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Admittedly I put more effort into finding a good movie than when using Spotify, since movies are 2 hours and not 3 minutes, and once I start a movie I like to finish it. Unless it's even worse than Macgruber. With TV shows, you try the 1st episode, and continue if you like it. Services like Amazon, Netflix and LoveFilm do personal recommendations too - so you don't have to think if you really don't want to. If you're happy to completely waste the time it's your own choice though. I'd rather go for a walk if I want to relax with no demanding stimulus.
No, I drew the same meaning as yourself, but it made me realize that despite your body rotating faster/slower as you move your arm in those situations, your hand's "absolute" speed for example might not change all that much.
Funny that you should say all of that, because I finished watching Episode 1 of "The Prisoner" right now. I think Casablanca was probably also on the "100 films to see before you die" type list I saw on LoveFilm.
You can browse for free on Netflix and LoveFilm. You can try things even if they sound cheesy. Pretty much all sci-fi sounds cheesy if you try to summarise the concept in one sentence.
You just have to change your habits rather than thinking the way the TV pushers want you to think. I'd hate to discover a TV show halfway through the season. If I did happen to see something I liked, I certainly wouldn't watch it on TV schedule. I don't even use PVRs any more. I just wait until the series is out and I can watch it in my own time.
The reason TV works, is because I can browse pretty much for free - I just pay for the TV set. Sure, I won't be able to decide what to watch, but it does expose me to stuff I haven't seen before - stuff I wouldn't want to pay a small fortune for, just to find out it sucks.
Here in the UK we have to pay a TV license if we use live TV broadcasts. £145.50 a year for a colour TV. You are allowed to use BBC iPlayer and other such services without paying the license though. I pay less than £145.50 per year for unlimited LoveFilm streaming, and 2 discs at home at any time. Sometimes I upgrade the package to include games.. I'm definitely saving compared to when I used to buy a few movies each month and pay half of the TV license.
It's pretty much high school physics. Spin yourself on an office chair and observe what happens as you move your arms or legs closer and further away from the center of your rotation. Admittedly the summary did phrase things such that I realised better why spreading out your mass changes your rotational velocity..
Well for example with Spotify I have heard plenty of new music from the "what's new?" section, as well as using search and "similar artists" etc. Likewise LoveFilm has weekly recommendations, categories and user reviews. You can do all that stuff without streaming, but on a streaming plan you feel more free to just try something new and drop it if it sucks. The upside is that you get it immediately. The downside is that you don't really own any of it, but I'm spending less and getting much more overall.
Fkat rate streaming is especially good for TV series - I recently used HMA VPN with Amazon.com's free Prime trial membership, which gives you free streaming on some shows - so I got to watch all 4 seasons of Farscape for basically £5 (one month of HMA).
As long as there's something on â" anything â" that is reasonably engaging, we're cool. Most of us are even OK spending a few minutes just shuffling through channels at random
That was acceptable when there was no other option, and when you were just wanting to relax for a while. There are much better alternatives now though. Even if those alternatives also involve just passively watching media, why should you settle just for something "reasonably engaging" - probably punctuated by ads every 10-15 minutes - when you have streaming options available? Even before I overcame my strange desire to build a collection of media, I much preferred simply buying everything outright than putting up with adverts. These days I'm happy with streaming and rentals.
Yeah I think the headline is a bit lame. It should read "most IT pros don't look at confidential info". I don't really have any interest in looking at confidential files when it's not required for the job. I also just have a personal sense of morality and honour that makes me want to live up to the responsibility that I have being able to do anything I want on the network.
Let some "normal" users know that they have full admin access for the whole network for the day and see if 75% of them can resist having a peek around.
My right eye does have an astigmatism, but my left is pretty good. Both TVs in our flat are 40", so I do notice the difference between 1080p and 720p even when sitting 3m away on the sofa.
Oblivion on PS3 was plenty of fun, but it had limited memory for textures and objects so you could see the environment changing as you moved toward it. Skyrim on my PC is gorgeous. Likewise GTA IV runs a lot nicer on my PC than it ever did on PS3.
With consoles you don't have to care about graphics settings etc, which is relaxing, but I also find it satisfying being able to tweak everything up to maximum on a good PC. It does get stressful when you have to keep upgrading to play the latest games acceptably though. I'm hoping I won't have to upgrade my new PC for 2 or 3 years, and then banging in one or two new graphics cards in Crossfire mode should be enough, if I'm not just sticking with my PS4 or whatever.
You can plug in a monitor though. I was going to state all that, but I thought it was obvious enough that it didn't need to be said. Right now I'm using my laptop's display for Spotify and my main monitor for the VMs that I'm working in.
I have my desktop hooked up to the TV at home too, have been playing games and streaming music and movies to the home theatre setup:) I decided it was about time I tried out PC gaming again, especially with the difference between consoles and PC on games like Skyrim.
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these people have no idea how lame they are or how much power they negate because of it.
Maybe those people don't care about "power"?
Thinking back on all the coworkers I've had, it's the power hungry ones that are the most fake - that have the most desperate smiles. Thankfully the worst offenders got made redundant or fired. For the most part I love the atmosphere here. The engineering department is full of genuine people who I can get on well with. The other departments, not so much.
It's not evil, but it is kind of sociopathic if it's not within your nature to do these things. I'll smile when I'm happy, or perhaps instinctually when others smile at me, but I don't go around smiling at people for no reason. I can tell when people are just faking their smiles, and I hate it. It definitely doesn't make my day feel more enjoyable, it just creeps me out.
It's pretty easy to snort coke laced with platinum from a diamod encrusted hooker's ass.. but it ain't cheap, let me tell you
The Xoom has a dual core CPU and great battery life too. It is heavier than a 7", but I have a stand for it that I use at tables, and sensible postures for holding it to reduce strain when lounging around.
My Kindle was even causing shoulder strain when I held it wrong though. It only weighs something like 700g, so weight is less important than posture. I notice strained muscles from bad posture or repetitive movements (using a mouse all day every day for example) pretty quickly these days because I get plenty of exercise and am really aware of the condition my body is in.
Damnit guys, you undercooked the food again!
Yeah one of my friends said that there is a cultural thing in some countries like India where people refuse to admit that there is a problem, even when they're calling you for help about their problem. He works with hardware rather than software, but it's the same idea.
My HDTV has a lower resolution than some of the laptops I've had, but I still prefer the TV if I'm going to be watching a movie, despite the lower DPI.
Size only matters if your eyesight is poor.
I can't even begin to say how stupid I think this is. I was almost lost for words :p Would you say the same about the same resolution at 5"? What about 3"? Hey it's got the same amount of information, you just aren't looking hard enough! The latest iPhone almost has as high a resolution as an iPad.. but for some reason people are buying iPads! What's with that?
Disclaimer: I was stupid enough to think my 5" phone was a possible competitor to the iPad when I first got it. Short answer: it's not.
until there are word processors, Exchange support, or other basic functionality, Android tablets will be considered at best a novelty.
WTF are you talking about? For one thing there is Google Docs. For another, my Dell Streak came with "QuikOffice" or something like that that does word docs. Not that I'd really want to use an office suite on a tablet when I have a laptop available.
Android has had Exchange support since version 1.5 - ie since 2009. You are either lazy and ignorant, or flat out trolling.
Finally, there is device security. There has yet to be a single piece of malware on an iPad in the wild. Shows you something doesn't it?
Sure.
Simple answer there: I don't watch sports (unless you count Parkour as a sport)
It might take a few years, but you'd think that eventually they'd catch on that these projects are costing more to maintain and start teaching that in business school. If it's just for throwaway one-off programs then outsourcing probably isn't so bad though.
Telling myself what, exactly? Who said that tablets are meant to be a replacement for computers? I have a desktop, ultrabook, netbook, tablet, PS3, Xbox 360 and a phone. They have a hell of a lot of overlapping features, but all of them save the 360 get used regularly. My tablet is the only one that I'm guaranteed to use every day of the week.
I used to think that tablets would be crap too until I got my first capacitive screened phone with a 5" screen and realised that a touchscreen keyboard might be acceptable after all.
Oh yeah I guess my Kindle Keyboard has a 6" screen now that I looked it up. The form factor overall is about 7" though once you account for the keyboard.
The Fire is only 7 inches. It's not really the same category as an iPad or any of the 10 inch Android tablets. I think it's stupid when people compare the two. There is an element of overlap for sure, but I don't see this eating significantly into the larger tablet market.
Experience: I've got a 5 inch tablet/phone, tried some cheap 7 inch chinese tablets and also have a 10 inch Xoom.
You can watch movies on 5 and 7 inch screens in a pinch, but I'd probably prefer just to read instead.
My Kindle (Keyboard version) is 7 inches and it's just big enough to be comfortable for reading in portrait orientation. When I've used my phone for reading, I've needed to switch to landscape to read comfortably.
I probably wouldn't even use my Xoom for watching movies, but I'd definitely choose it over a 7 inch tablet for web browsing and watching YouTube. I also like it for reading.
Don't see much difference between clicking on an interesting looking album or movie and clicking the "change channel" button. You're not stuck with your first choice.
If you want the complete TV experience, you could even just only watch the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Admittedly I put more effort into finding a good movie than when using Spotify, since movies are 2 hours and not 3 minutes, and once I start a movie I like to finish it. Unless it's even worse than Macgruber. With TV shows, you try the 1st episode, and continue if you like it. Services like Amazon, Netflix and LoveFilm do personal recommendations too - so you don't have to think if you really don't want to. If you're happy to completely waste the time it's your own choice though. I'd rather go for a walk if I want to relax with no demanding stimulus.
No, I drew the same meaning as yourself, but it made me realize that despite your body rotating faster/slower as you move your arm in those situations, your hand's "absolute" speed for example might not change all that much.
Relax, he was just kidding. I hope.
Funny that you should say all of that, because I finished watching Episode 1 of "The Prisoner" right now. I think Casablanca was probably also on the "100 films to see before you die" type list I saw on LoveFilm.
You can browse for free on Netflix and LoveFilm. You can try things even if they sound cheesy. Pretty much all sci-fi sounds cheesy if you try to summarise the concept in one sentence.
You just have to change your habits rather than thinking the way the TV pushers want you to think. I'd hate to discover a TV show halfway through the season. If I did happen to see something I liked, I certainly wouldn't watch it on TV schedule. I don't even use PVRs any more. I just wait until the series is out and I can watch it in my own time.
The reason TV works, is because I can browse pretty much for free - I just pay for the TV set. Sure, I won't be able to decide what to watch, but it does expose me to stuff I haven't seen before - stuff I wouldn't want to pay a small fortune for, just to find out it sucks.
Here in the UK we have to pay a TV license if we use live TV broadcasts. £145.50 a year for a colour TV. You are allowed to use BBC iPlayer and other such services without paying the license though. I pay less than £145.50 per year for unlimited LoveFilm streaming, and 2 discs at home at any time. Sometimes I upgrade the package to include games.. I'm definitely saving compared to when I used to buy a few movies each month and pay half of the TV license.
It's pretty much high school physics. Spin yourself on an office chair and observe what happens as you move your arms or legs closer and further away from the center of your rotation. Admittedly the summary did phrase things such that I realised better why spreading out your mass changes your rotational velocity..
Well for example with Spotify I have heard plenty of new music from the "what's new?" section, as well as using search and "similar artists" etc. Likewise LoveFilm has weekly recommendations, categories and user reviews. You can do all that stuff without streaming, but on a streaming plan you feel more free to just try something new and drop it if it sucks. The upside is that you get it immediately. The downside is that you don't really own any of it, but I'm spending less and getting much more overall.
Fkat rate streaming is especially good for TV series - I recently used HMA VPN with Amazon.com's free Prime trial membership, which gives you free streaming on some shows - so I got to watch all 4 seasons of Farscape for basically £5 (one month of HMA).
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As long as there's something on â" anything â" that is reasonably engaging, we're cool. Most of us are even OK spending a few minutes just shuffling through channels at random
That was acceptable when there was no other option, and when you were just wanting to relax for a while. There are much better alternatives now though. Even if those alternatives also involve just passively watching media, why should you settle just for something "reasonably engaging" - probably punctuated by ads every 10-15 minutes - when you have streaming options available? Even before I overcame my strange desire to build a collection of media, I much preferred simply buying everything outright than putting up with adverts. These days I'm happy with streaming and rentals.
But surely everyone can accept that all planets have an evil twin?
This from the land where everyone wears their pants on the outside.
Yeah I think the headline is a bit lame. It should read "most IT pros don't look at confidential info". I don't really have any interest in looking at confidential files when it's not required for the job. I also just have a personal sense of morality and honour that makes me want to live up to the responsibility that I have being able to do anything I want on the network.
Let some "normal" users know that they have full admin access for the whole network for the day and see if 75% of them can resist having a peek around.
My right eye does have an astigmatism, but my left is pretty good. Both TVs in our flat are 40", so I do notice the difference between 1080p and 720p even when sitting 3m away on the sofa.
Oblivion on PS3 was plenty of fun, but it had limited memory for textures and objects so you could see the environment changing as you moved toward it. Skyrim on my PC is gorgeous. Likewise GTA IV runs a lot nicer on my PC than it ever did on PS3.
With consoles you don't have to care about graphics settings etc, which is relaxing, but I also find it satisfying being able to tweak everything up to maximum on a good PC. It does get stressful when you have to keep upgrading to play the latest games acceptably though. I'm hoping I won't have to upgrade my new PC for 2 or 3 years, and then banging in one or two new graphics cards in Crossfire mode should be enough, if I'm not just sticking with my PS4 or whatever.
You can plug in a monitor though. I was going to state all that, but I thought it was obvious enough that it didn't need to be said. Right now I'm using my laptop's display for Spotify and my main monitor for the VMs that I'm working in.
I have my desktop hooked up to the TV at home too, have been playing games and streaming music and movies to the home theatre setup :) I decided it was about time I tried out PC gaming again, especially with the difference between consoles and PC on games like Skyrim.