The customer I'm working for won't be deploying Windows 7 anytime soon because they are in the middle of rolling out Vista. Of course we kinda thought about waiting, but to deploy a new operating system requires lots and lots of testing to make sure that most of the applications work. It probably takes almost a year to get it to the point where it can be approved.
Heh, we cheered at a previous company when we finally changed from Notes to Exchange for our company E-Mail. It kept going for years because the man in charge liked the encryption functionality of Notes, apparently. No matter that it was a PITA for the rest of us to use.
No doubt. I kept my Calculus textbook for just that reason.
Often for a class, tho, you will need a textbook since often the professor will teach to that textbook. Sometimes you will need the questions or problems defined in the text book for some assignments.
Then again, some subjects don't hold up for 20 years. For example, history text books tend to reflect the times that they were written in. One that was written in the 60s would have a different slant than one written in the 90s.
Considering that textbooks get replaced all the time, your estimate for 20 years is unrealistic.
You are correct that the information doesn't change much, but the companies who make textbooks want to sell more, so they issue a new edition, rearrange some of the information in there, and then suddenly the secondary market now has an obsolete book which isn't acceptable for whatever class you are taking.
As for lifespan, my Sony Reader is still going strong after a year of pretty heavy usage. Considering that the original Kindle has been out for barely over a year, you can't say that the Kindle's lifespan is 2 years. No Kindle has reached 2 years yet!
"Americans see hybrids as the darling," says Global Insight auto analyst Philip Gott, "and diesel as old-tech."
Replace "Americans" with "American auto companies" and they will get it right. VW just rereleased the Jetta TDI in limited quantities and it is selling like hotcakes.
I've never cared for CompUSA except that since there are no longer any real mom and pop independent computer stores around, your choice is between CompUSA and Fry's.
As someone said above, there is Microcenter, which has always been miles better than CompUseless. Also, there are a ton of "Mom & Pop" computer places. You usually see them at computer shows, but I definitely know of one that has a nice B&M presence.
As a corollary to this, using the creator's book as a textbook for learning C++ isn't a good idea either. I had a hard time making heads or tails of anything and ended up failing the course. Course, it being the early days of C++, there weren't many options.
Nice to do, if you fit the criteria for it. Unfortunatly, there are still plenty of places in the nation that get crappy cell coverage. Neither my sister's nor my place get's good cell reception. She has an excuse, living in the middle of nowhere, but I live just outside the beltway in DC. That would have to improve greatly for mass replacements to happen.
Then there are some things that cells are probably not going to do as well. Fact is, you aren't going to have reception problems with a landline, for example. Also, multiple people joining in on a conversation is as easy as lifting a handset.
So, all those guys who wrote the code for the software keyboard just did it for free?
Not at all, but the per-unit cost was probably far less for the software solution Write it once, display everywhere.
My point still stands. Like most handhelds, you have a stylus and a soft keyboard. If you don't like it, you can buy a seperate keyboard. If you wanted something with a keyboard, you'd be better off with some of the subcompacts, or tablets that came with keyboards. Course, it wouldn't be quite as portable as this thing.
From my understanding of the review, the keyboard is onscreen. So, no, you didn't pay for a HARDWARE keyboard, which would have added additional cost to the unit, where a software keyboard does not.
I use Firefox 1.5 at work. The only extentions I currently have on it is GMail Notifier, and IE View. On average, it will crash twice a day, and before then, become rather unstable. (Can't change tabs, freeze when accessing pages.) Some sites also trigger this behavior. (BoardGameGeek comes to mind.)
Opera, which I use at home, seems to work a bit better, tho every couple of weeks it will crap out on me. At least there, Opera will recover from that and I can still look at what I was looking at.
Funny thing is, as much as IE gets bashed, it is pretty much a model of stability in comparison to the competition.
That's the problem with a faith-based agenda vs a reality-based agenda.
A faith-based agenda wants to wish porn away, especially if they ignore it enough, while reality is that porn has been around forever, and it will continue to be around as long as humans are humans.
Actually, I wonder if it would have worked better for Ken if he was actually able to compete against these guys equally, rather than be given a bye, basically. In that final, he sure looked rusty, while the other guys had been competing for weeks.
I had an instructor who would do something like this. Problem is, he would also put a bunch of blanks on his notes, and you were supposed to fill in the blanks while he was lecturing. He'd even want you to occasionally turn in your notes. I guess he wanted to make sure you were paying attention. The problem is, tho, it turned into a "can you guess what he wants in this blank" contest, since it wasn't always clear. It made studying for exams fun...
Ozric Tentacles did a live broadcast over the internet back in 98. It was later released on CD as "Spice Doubt". Course, it was audio only back in those days.
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The customer I'm working for won't be deploying Windows 7 anytime soon because they are in the middle of rolling out Vista. Of course we kinda thought about waiting, but to deploy a new operating system requires lots and lots of testing to make sure that most of the applications work. It probably takes almost a year to get it to the point where it can be approved.
Heh, we cheered at a previous company when we finally changed from Notes to Exchange for our company E-Mail. It kept going for years because the man in charge liked the encryption functionality of Notes, apparently. No matter that it was a PITA for the rest of us to use.
No doubt. I kept my Calculus textbook for just that reason.
Often for a class, tho, you will need a textbook since often the professor will teach to that textbook. Sometimes you will need the questions or problems defined in the text book for some assignments.
Then again, some subjects don't hold up for 20 years. For example, history text books tend to reflect the times that they were written in. One that was written in the 60s would have a different slant than one written in the 90s.
Considering that textbooks get replaced all the time, your estimate for 20 years is unrealistic.
You are correct that the information doesn't change much, but the companies who make textbooks want to sell more, so they issue a new edition, rearrange some of the information in there, and then suddenly the secondary market now has an obsolete book which isn't acceptable for whatever class you are taking.
As for lifespan, my Sony Reader is still going strong after a year of pretty heavy usage. Considering that the original Kindle has been out for barely over a year, you can't say that the Kindle's lifespan is 2 years. No Kindle has reached 2 years yet!
Correct, it isn't that old, but it doesn't have the latest "security" features.
Which doesn't work with my monitor, since I have an older flat panel that isn't HDCP compliant. It makes the service completely useless to me.
"Americans see hybrids as the darling," says Global Insight auto analyst Philip Gott, "and diesel as old-tech."
Replace "Americans" with "American auto companies" and they will get it right. VW just rereleased the Jetta TDI in limited quantities and it is selling like hotcakes.
I've never cared for CompUSA except that since there are no longer any real mom and pop independent computer stores around, your choice is between CompUSA and Fry's.
As someone said above, there is Microcenter, which has always been miles better than CompUseless. Also, there are a ton of "Mom & Pop" computer places. You usually see them at computer shows, but I definitely know of one that has a nice B&M presence.Hey, we could use a game version of Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series...
As a corollary to this, using the creator's book as a textbook for learning C++ isn't a good idea either. I had a hard time making heads or tails of anything and ended up failing the course. Course, it being the early days of C++, there weren't many options.
You are always going to get bumpers and some DJ chatter, but it is certainly better than FM.
There is a lot more infrastructure that would have to be built to make eletric cars practical for the general populace.
Then there are some things that cells are probably not going to do as well. Fact is, you aren't going to have reception problems with a landline, for example. Also, multiple people joining in on a conversation is as easy as lifting a handset.
Maybe they are taking VAT into account...
Not at all, but the per-unit cost was probably far less for the software solution Write it once, display everywhere.
My point still stands. Like most handhelds, you have a stylus and a soft keyboard. If you don't like it, you can buy a seperate keyboard. If you wanted something with a keyboard, you'd be better off with some of the subcompacts, or tablets that came with keyboards. Course, it wouldn't be quite as portable as this thing.
From my understanding of the review, the keyboard is onscreen. So, no, you didn't pay for a HARDWARE keyboard, which would have added additional cost to the unit, where a software keyboard does not.
Well, you either buy is seperately, or you pay for it as part of the cost for the product. Either way, you'd pay for it.
I use Firefox 1.5 at work. The only extentions I currently have on it is GMail Notifier, and IE View. On average, it will crash twice a day, and before then, become rather unstable. (Can't change tabs, freeze when accessing pages.) Some sites also trigger this behavior. (BoardGameGeek comes to mind.)
Opera, which I use at home, seems to work a bit better, tho every couple of weeks it will crap out on me. At least there, Opera will recover from that and I can still look at what I was looking at.
Funny thing is, as much as IE gets bashed, it is pretty much a model of stability in comparison to the competition.
There is no mention of his wife's or his kids' names anywhere in the article, and having a last name of "Jones" is innocuous enough.
A bit, but the minimum requirement for the MyHD card, which has a built-in MPEG decoder, is a PII 400. (You'd need a PCI bus, and run Windows 98.)
A faith-based agenda wants to wish porn away, especially if they ignore it enough, while reality is that porn has been around forever, and it will continue to be around as long as humans are humans.
Actually, I wonder if it would have worked better for Ken if he was actually able to compete against these guys equally, rather than be given a bye, basically. In that final, he sure looked rusty, while the other guys had been competing for weeks.
I had an instructor who would do something like this. Problem is, he would also put a bunch of blanks on his notes, and you were supposed to fill in the blanks while he was lecturing. He'd even want you to occasionally turn in your notes. I guess he wanted to make sure you were paying attention. The problem is, tho, it turned into a "can you guess what he wants in this blank" contest, since it wasn't always clear. It made studying for exams fun...
I'm sure others have done it as well.
I do think Froogle is useful for some things, and has some better search capabilities than PriceWatch. I personally use both.