I miss the days when you could create a persistent RAM disk in MacOS that would survive between soft reboots. You could copy your whole OS to the RAM disk, reboot with the ram disk as the startup drive and boot in seconds. It still puts modern SSD's to shame.
In tech companies, it's still a problem retaining good talent. To a lot of people (including where I work) being given a MacBook as their company laptop is actually a perk. I work for a software company whose products run on all major platforms (OSX, Win, UNIX, Linux, BSD, etc) and a good number of our employees (more than 100) have MacBooks. It makes sense to have some people using the platform that our software runs on also...
I know a guy who works for Square D who uses his iPad for email.
His answers are so short that he may as well not answer at all. It is sort of
the equivalent of a grunt instead of actual speech, the way he uses a one-word
answer to respond to complex questions in an email.
This guy's name is Rus Emerick, and he used to be my friend, until he
bought an iPad. I'll be damned if I am going to allow someone to be rude
to me just because they've got a fetish for Apple hardware.
If your friend can't type a long email response to you, maybe he just doesn't like you. I can type at about 50 WPM on a real keyboard which is pretty decent for someone who isn't a professional typist. On my iPad, I would guess I type at about 50% of that speed... 25WPM is still pretty fast compared to most people. So I would just guess that you're a douchebag and your ex-friend just doesn't want to communicate with you in a meaningful way.
This is just silly. Why bash someone for a personal preference? I don't go after linux or windows users nor do I bash Andriod owners for being .
Really, wired magazine, Apple haters, and everyone who has a beef with how I live my live and spend my money...
FUCK OFF
I have a similar problem in the morning with my WiFi over a similar time period (1 to 2 hours). I considered that it could be interference from a rogue AP as well and tried shuffling around the channels my AP was broadcasting on but with no luck. Another thought was that there are high-tension power lines near me and perhaps (100% speculation) that higher load in the AM causes some kind of RF interference... Ultimately, I purchased a Netgear WNR3700 which is a dual-band A/B/G/N AP and that sort of solved my problem; my 5Ghz wireless N access in unaffected by the issue so the only PC in the house impacted is my wife's laptop which only can do 2.4Ghz wireless-N
"While the rest of the industry has been babbling on about the iPad" the geeks have been babbling about any random piece of vaporware that is remotely flat and meant to be touched as the next "killer"
This is like a VHS vs. Betamax debate. Like millions of other people, I'm not a developer. I exclusively use Windows for PC gaming. I could give two flying F's whether my game is developed in OGL or DX. Coke, Pepsi, Ford, Chevy, just don't care...
A single act you did as a kid 15 years ago will not define who you are. Anyone who treats the event as a defining act is probably a jackass and not someone you want to deal with anyways. However, given how much effort/thought you have put into dealing with the situation, I would guess these events did have some kind of significant effect on who you are as a person today. Should it ever come up in a discussion, I would use it as an opportunity to put a positive spin on yourself and how you are a better, more ethical person because of your youthful mistake(s)
The problem is that Coshocton is a pathetic little hick town east of Columbus, OH. The primary product that it produces is poor people and poorer people. The last time I went there, the high points of my trip were a blizzard from DQ and leaving.
The reason they didn't fight the case is because the town is SO freaking poor that they didn't stand a chance. It's sad too because for such a little podunk town, they actually did something smart and progressive: muni wifi. Their reward for doing so? The MPAA Whambulance.
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They put up some pretty useless graphs with very little information about how they arrived at those numbers and how they interpret them. It's worthless to make any inferences about all gamers without explaining their data.
First of all, they provide no checks for problems such as autocorrelation or multicollinearity between their various survey categories. That aside, it doesn't look like they even did any regression analysis at all. They, in effect, said "duhh, this is 10% of all the answers so it must mean something!". Bull. Just because the response rate for a particular category is 10% doesn't mean it is statistically significant in the academic sense.
Sorry, but as a professional data analyst, I get really pissed when people collect some (possibly non-random) data, do some half-assed analysis, post some pretty colors on a graph and say "Eureka! I haz solved wurld peez!"
I went to Case Western as well and was in the Business School so I'm very familiar with the Gehry building. Yes, there were issues with snow and ice sliding off the roof in the winter. It was an unfortunate design oversight. However, unlike most of the douches posting here, I actually went to class inside the building. The space inside was absolutely spectacular and was a great place to go to school. Every room and lobby was filled with natural light and it never felt claustrophobic. Sitting in the atrium, you could see all the comings and goings of the students... nothing like your traditional, sterile, school building. Never trust anything CWRU engineering students say, they're all goobers and can't throw a party to save their lives. Except for the BME's, they rock.
The big problem with UO was that everyone who was the "bomb diggity" on their own shard thought they were the king of the entire universe. I was in The Black Company on Great Lakes (at one point, the largest membership in all of UO), and people like The Syndicate would do a server transfer over to our shard. It would usually go like this:
1) "0mgzz d00d, pr3pare to be pwned!"
2) "what do you mean you've never heard of The Syndicate?"
3) "Omg, you guys all hack and cheat, that's the only possible explanation why we suck"
4) "This shard sucks, I'm going to go check out Napa"
Terrible, awful idea. Despite popular beliefs, Apple is not a hardware manufacturer. Apple works with Chinese sub-contractors to design and manufacture all their laptops, ipods, etc. They have no organizational competency with cpu/gpu design or any chip manufacturing for that matter. Apple and AMD merging would be like gluing a cheeseburger to an airplane. In the end, the sum is no greater than its parts... it's still just a cheeseburger and an airplane.
You sir, are a tool. I guess they need more flaming animated gifs and a nice Flash intro? I have no vested interest in Thunderstone, period. I am familiar with them because I participate in a number of NE Ohio technology conferences and I have seen their product in action. Next time you want to make a knee-jerk reaction to a post, make sure you get a little more fact and a little less "jerk"
A company named Thunderstone based out of Cleveland, OH makes a way better (and cheaper) search appliance than Google's. FYI, they aren't new to the search engine industry either. Up until very recently, they were the search engine for Ebay and a few other significant sites as well. www.thunderstone.com
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I miss the days when you could create a persistent RAM disk in MacOS that would survive between soft reboots. You could copy your whole OS to the RAM disk, reboot with the ram disk as the startup drive and boot in seconds. It still puts modern SSD's to shame.
In tech companies, it's still a problem retaining good talent. To a lot of people (including where I work) being given a MacBook as their company laptop is actually a perk. I work for a software company whose products run on all major platforms (OSX, Win, UNIX, Linux, BSD, etc) and a good number of our employees (more than 100) have MacBooks. It makes sense to have some people using the platform that our software runs on also...
I know a guy who works for Square D who uses his iPad for email.
His answers are so short that he may as well not answer at all. It is sort of the equivalent of a grunt instead of actual speech, the way he uses a one-word answer to respond to complex questions in an email.
This guy's name is Rus Emerick, and he used to be my friend, until he bought an iPad. I'll be damned if I am going to allow someone to be rude to me just because they've got a fetish for Apple hardware.
If your friend can't type a long email response to you, maybe he just doesn't like you. I can type at about 50 WPM on a real keyboard which is pretty decent for someone who isn't a professional typist. On my iPad, I would guess I type at about 50% of that speed... 25WPM is still pretty fast compared to most people. So I would just guess that you're a douchebag and your ex-friend just doesn't want to communicate with you in a meaningful way.
This is just silly. Why bash someone for a personal preference? I don't go after linux or windows users nor do I bash Andriod owners for being . Really, wired magazine, Apple haters, and everyone who has a beef with how I live my live and spend my money... FUCK OFF
I have a similar problem in the morning with my WiFi over a similar time period (1 to 2 hours). I considered that it could be interference from a rogue AP as well and tried shuffling around the channels my AP was broadcasting on but with no luck. Another thought was that there are high-tension power lines near me and perhaps (100% speculation) that higher load in the AM causes some kind of RF interference... Ultimately, I purchased a Netgear WNR3700 which is a dual-band A/B/G/N AP and that sort of solved my problem; my 5Ghz wireless N access in unaffected by the issue so the only PC in the house impacted is my wife's laptop which only can do 2.4Ghz wireless-N
"While the rest of the industry has been babbling on about the iPad" the geeks have been babbling about any random piece of vaporware that is remotely flat and meant to be touched as the next "killer"
This is like a VHS vs. Betamax debate. Like millions of other people, I'm not a developer. I exclusively use Windows for PC gaming. I could give two flying F's whether my game is developed in OGL or DX. Coke, Pepsi, Ford, Chevy, just don't care...
A single act you did as a kid 15 years ago will not define who you are. Anyone who treats the event as a defining act is probably a jackass and not someone you want to deal with anyways. However, given how much effort/thought you have put into dealing with the situation, I would guess these events did have some kind of significant effect on who you are as a person today. Should it ever come up in a discussion, I would use it as an opportunity to put a positive spin on yourself and how you are a better, more ethical person because of your youthful mistake(s)
nuff said
The problem is that Coshocton is a pathetic little hick town east of Columbus, OH. The primary product that it produces is poor people and poorer people. The last time I went there, the high points of my trip were a blizzard from DQ and leaving. The reason they didn't fight the case is because the town is SO freaking poor that they didn't stand a chance. It's sad too because for such a little podunk town, they actually did something smart and progressive: muni wifi. Their reward for doing so? The MPAA Whambulance.
They put up some pretty useless graphs with very little information about how they arrived at those numbers and how they interpret them. It's worthless to make any inferences about all gamers without explaining their data.
First of all, they provide no checks for problems such as autocorrelation or multicollinearity between their various survey categories. That aside, it doesn't look like they even did any regression analysis at all. They, in effect, said "duhh, this is 10% of all the answers so it must mean something!". Bull. Just because the response rate for a particular category is 10% doesn't mean it is statistically significant in the academic sense.
Sorry, but as a professional data analyst, I get really pissed when people collect some (possibly non-random) data, do some half-assed analysis, post some pretty colors on a graph and say "Eureka! I haz solved wurld peez!"
I went to Case Western as well and was in the Business School so I'm very familiar with the Gehry building. Yes, there were issues with snow and ice sliding off the roof in the winter. It was an unfortunate design oversight. However, unlike most of the douches posting here, I actually went to class inside the building. The space inside was absolutely spectacular and was a great place to go to school. Every room and lobby was filled with natural light and it never felt claustrophobic. Sitting in the atrium, you could see all the comings and goings of the students... nothing like your traditional, sterile, school building. Never trust anything CWRU engineering students say, they're all goobers and can't throw a party to save their lives. Except for the BME's, they rock.
The big problem with UO was that everyone who was the "bomb diggity" on their own shard thought they were the king of the entire universe. I was in The Black Company on Great Lakes (at one point, the largest membership in all of UO), and people like The Syndicate would do a server transfer over to our shard. It would usually go like this: 1) "0mgzz d00d, pr3pare to be pwned!" 2) "what do you mean you've never heard of The Syndicate?" 3) "Omg, you guys all hack and cheat, that's the only possible explanation why we suck" 4) "This shard sucks, I'm going to go check out Napa"
Terrible, awful idea. Despite popular beliefs, Apple is not a hardware manufacturer. Apple works with Chinese sub-contractors to design and manufacture all their laptops, ipods, etc. They have no organizational competency with cpu/gpu design or any chip manufacturing for that matter. Apple and AMD merging would be like gluing a cheeseburger to an airplane. In the end, the sum is no greater than its parts... it's still just a cheeseburger and an airplane.
When did Dvorak become such a douchebag? Like Microsoft has anything to worry about?
You sir, are a tool. I guess they need more flaming animated gifs and a nice Flash intro? I have no vested interest in Thunderstone, period. I am familiar with them because I participate in a number of NE Ohio technology conferences and I have seen their product in action. Next time you want to make a knee-jerk reaction to a post, make sure you get a little more fact and a little less "jerk"
A company named Thunderstone based out of Cleveland, OH makes a way better (and cheaper) search appliance than Google's. FYI, they aren't new to the search engine industry either. Up until very recently, they were the search engine for Ebay and a few other significant sites as well. www.thunderstone.com