I believe this is not necessary. You should not be playing with RCs and betas on machine you use for actual work, and it could end up creating a lot of support problems for Microsoft from people who installed older versions.
You're asking for common sense from an AC. The very definition of a hopeless cause;)
You never can get into something as heavily as you could when you were a full-time student as when you're a part time, unfortunately. But, that's often the point of terminal masters degrees, which most part-time M.S. degrees are. It's not a stepping stone to a Ph.D, it's the end of the formal education process (or intended to be, at least) in that sequence.
The key there probably being "doesn't mean anything here".
Most places I've worked at place a premium on folks with advanced degrees. Your boss just didn't want to pay you more than you were currently making, but get your skill set anyway.
The reason this comes about is due to traditional "career experience" rulers for fields where the "state of the art" changes very slowly.
So, if they're looking for someone with "intermediate level sales experience" the standard is (iirc) 3-5 years.
As such, if the IT/Dev dept specifies to an HR drone that they need someone with mid-level skills in (let's say, "Android") in the HR drone's mind that translates to 3-5 years of experience.
I think that the anti-piracy stuff for folks that don't know its pirated is more common in non-US and western European locales where you can buy impressively authentic looking XP/Vista on the street for $5.
No one who gets XP/Vista "from a friend" thinks its legit, unless they're very clueless.
In the corporate world, you spec out the machines you're buying in bulk for applicability to your corporate needs. So, if it doesn't meet the spec, you remove it from consideration.
Also, no one buys Sony machines in bulk for corporate use. Dell, HP, or Lenovo will undercut them every time.
Heh. It is indeed true that in some cases old hardware can have a pretty good experience with Linux.
However, my point stands. The Average Joe doesn't even want to install on an old machine. They want a new machine that runs all their familiar apps, and their old ones, and don't want to bother installing anything if at all possible.
This is where Apple comes out ahead bigtime, because even if you need to reinstall, it's literally "boot off the CD, select 'Archive & Install', and then wait". No migrating data, no worry about pretty much anything.
In the case of the 360, if you mean "for 2x-3x the price you could get a macbook" or for the PS3 "for 2x", then you are right on that particular point.
The 360 and PS3 (and Wii for that matter) suffered most due to a lack of supply. The PS3 also suffered because Sony couldn't decide what system configuration they wanted to settle on.
Yes, the Wii is cheap and is clearly way ahead of the rest of the systems for the current game gen, but it's also the least capable machine outside the relatively basic games it plays.
One expects a machine that would be able to do more to cost more. This is the case in the current console field.
Nor does he *care*, which most geeks fail to realize.
Linux is all well and good, but it's still not the magic bullet for Joe. Neither functionality nor ease of install (which includes obtaining the media for install) are appropriate for Joe's level of computer competency.
If that wasn't the model for the Kindle 2, I have no idea why you'd expect it to be the model for the DX.
You seem to have developed an odd preconceived notion that these would be marketed like cell phones in the US. I do not know where you got that impression, since they haven't in the past.
Perhaps they will in the future, as you say, but there was no reason to believe that they would at this time.
You say people don't care about being able to customise their reading experience to their own preferences but I think you're wrong. It's simply that most people haven't been given the opportunity to do so. Similar de facto regimes of non-choice have existed in the past, but they have usually faded away as markets have matured and delivered more competitors or regulation offering options.
At which point they *restandardize* to some other default, so that users know what to expect when downloading/purchasing/taking home a product.
Endless customization is for geeks, standardized defaults are for everyone else, and they like it that way.
So I finally break down and buy a Kindle 2 when it came out, only to have Amazon give me the finger and release a nicer large screen version a few months later. Thanks a ton Amazon!
Ahh, the "early adopter bawwwwwwww". Music to my ears.
I don't get why notebook computers would be considered "outdated" anyway. Heaven forbid you use a portable *general*use* machine.
Also, I dunno when "doesn't fit in my shirt pocket" make something fail to be considered "portable". Don't people have backpacks and hand bags anymore?
Second, the idea that the bridge crew stayed the same for years on end was unrealistic (even in TNG, but at least in TNG people got promoted and Riker was berated several times by Picard for staying on the Enterprise and not accepting a promotion, to the detriment of his career).
There weren't a ton of TAS episodes, IIRC, so wouldn't surprise me. They're not considered canon anyway (which is all but meaningless at this point, I realize), AFAIK.
Well it certainly could be better than Nemesis and Insurrection, neither of which were very strong movies (but Nemesis had some pretty hot starship-on-starship action, if you ignore the stupid ending). I have no problem with that.
Enterprise suffered from the same problem as Voyager. Great story idea, horrible writing (and in the case of Voyager, Kate Mulgrew as Janeway was a horrible, horrible casting choice -- that series SHINES when she's not onscreen pulling it down).
Don't even get me started on the Borg. They were the most bad-ass villains in popular science fiction in the last 30 years until First Contact, when they got turned into bees that forgot how to time travel for a while.. until they remembered... and then forgot how to be bad guys.
Except that he's right. Basically they're throwing out the entirety of the established universe and re-creating it using only the barest of threads to dress it in a way that appears similar.
And, to add to my other comment, it's implied in a number of cases that it isn't the universal translator that is doing the work. i.e. in Undiscovered Country, you have Kang speaking "To Be or Not to Be" in both Klingon and English, which would seem to imply that he is speaking both languages, not being translated.
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My thoughts exactly. Couldn't one just make a Safari bookmark?
I believe this is not necessary. You should not be playing with RCs and betas on machine you use for actual work, and it could end up creating a lot of support problems for Microsoft from people who installed older versions.
You're asking for common sense from an AC. The very definition of a hopeless cause ;)
You never can get into something as heavily as you could when you were a full-time student as when you're a part time, unfortunately. But, that's often the point of terminal masters degrees, which most part-time M.S. degrees are. It's not a stepping stone to a Ph.D, it's the end of the formal education process (or intended to be, at least) in that sequence.
The key there probably being "doesn't mean anything here".
Most places I've worked at place a premium on folks with advanced degrees. Your boss just didn't want to pay you more than you were currently making, but get your skill set anyway.
The reason this comes about is due to traditional "career experience" rulers for fields where the "state of the art" changes very slowly.
So, if they're looking for someone with "intermediate level sales experience" the standard is (iirc) 3-5 years.
As such, if the IT/Dev dept specifies to an HR drone that they need someone with mid-level skills in (let's say, "Android") in the HR drone's mind that translates to 3-5 years of experience.
That fits in totally with my impression of Berman. He never really got what made Star Trek good.
I think that the anti-piracy stuff for folks that don't know its pirated is more common in non-US and western European locales where you can buy impressively authentic looking XP/Vista on the street for $5.
No one who gets XP/Vista "from a friend" thinks its legit, unless they're very clueless.
In the corporate world, you spec out the machines you're buying in bulk for applicability to your corporate needs. So, if it doesn't meet the spec, you remove it from consideration.
Also, no one buys Sony machines in bulk for corporate use. Dell, HP, or Lenovo will undercut them every time.
Heh. It is indeed true that in some cases old hardware can have a pretty good experience with Linux.
However, my point stands. The Average Joe doesn't even want to install on an old machine. They want a new machine that runs all their familiar apps, and their old ones, and don't want to bother installing anything if at all possible.
This is where Apple comes out ahead bigtime, because even if you need to reinstall, it's literally "boot off the CD, select 'Archive & Install', and then wait". No migrating data, no worry about pretty much anything.
Sorry folks, Linux has a long, long way to go.
Because there's more to an OS than simple speed benchmarks. Putting things in logical places and GUI ergonomics go a long, long way if done right.
Just turn off UAC :P
I use Vista 64 every day and there's no "hoops" that aren't equivalently present in some fashion in every other OS I end up using.
In the case of the 360, if you mean "for 2x-3x the price you could get a macbook" or for the PS3 "for 2x", then you are right on that particular point.
The 360 and PS3 (and Wii for that matter) suffered most due to a lack of supply. The PS3 also suffered because Sony couldn't decide what system configuration they wanted to settle on.
Yes, the Wii is cheap and is clearly way ahead of the rest of the systems for the current game gen, but it's also the least capable machine outside the relatively basic games it plays.
One expects a machine that would be able to do more to cost more. This is the case in the current console field.
Nor does he *care*, which most geeks fail to realize.
Linux is all well and good, but it's still not the magic bullet for Joe. Neither functionality nor ease of install (which includes obtaining the media for install) are appropriate for Joe's level of computer competency.
If that wasn't the model for the Kindle 2, I have no idea why you'd expect it to be the model for the DX.
You seem to have developed an odd preconceived notion that these would be marketed like cell phones in the US. I do not know where you got that impression, since they haven't in the past.
Perhaps they will in the future, as you say, but there was no reason to believe that they would at this time.
You say people don't care about being able to customise their reading experience to their own preferences but I think you're wrong. It's simply that most people haven't been given the opportunity to do so. Similar de facto regimes of non-choice have existed in the past, but they have usually faded away as markets have matured and delivered more competitors or regulation offering options.
At which point they *restandardize* to some other default, so that users know what to expect when downloading/purchasing/taking home a product.
Endless customization is for geeks, standardized defaults are for everyone else, and they like it that way.
So I finally break down and buy a Kindle 2 when it came out, only to have Amazon give me the finger and release a nicer large screen version a few months later. Thanks a ton Amazon!
Ahh, the "early adopter bawwwwwwww". Music to my ears.
Wut?
The Kindle 2 is ~$350 and the Kindle DX is larger and about $100 more. Not sure exactly what you were expecting in terms of price.
Or these:
http://about.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=85969096/search=motion%20computing%20le1700&mode=about_mobileoffice&
Expensive, but do what the OP wants.
I don't get why notebook computers would be considered "outdated" anyway. Heaven forbid you use a portable *general*use* machine.
Also, I dunno when "doesn't fit in my shirt pocket" make something fail to be considered "portable". Don't people have backpacks and hand bags anymore?
Buncha consumerist lemmings :)
The series wasn't for kids, first off.
Second, the idea that the bridge crew stayed the same for years on end was unrealistic (even in TNG, but at least in TNG people got promoted and Riker was berated several times by Picard for staying on the Enterprise and not accepting a promotion, to the detriment of his career).
There weren't a ton of TAS episodes, IIRC, so wouldn't surprise me. They're not considered canon anyway (which is all but meaningless at this point, I realize), AFAIK.
Well it certainly could be better than Nemesis and Insurrection, neither of which were very strong movies (but Nemesis had some pretty hot starship-on-starship action, if you ignore the stupid ending). I have no problem with that.
Enterprise suffered from the same problem as Voyager. Great story idea, horrible writing (and in the case of Voyager, Kate Mulgrew as Janeway was a horrible, horrible casting choice -- that series SHINES when she's not onscreen pulling it down).
Don't even get me started on the Borg. They were the most bad-ass villains in popular science fiction in the last 30 years until First Contact, when they got turned into bees that forgot how to time travel for a while.. until they remembered... and then forgot how to be bad guys.
Except that he's right. Basically they're throwing out the entirety of the established universe and re-creating it using only the barest of threads to dress it in a way that appears similar.
It's the same reason I disliked BSG.
And, to add to my other comment, it's implied in a number of cases that it isn't the universal translator that is doing the work. i.e. in Undiscovered Country, you have Kang speaking "To Be or Not to Be" in both Klingon and English, which would seem to imply that he is speaking both languages, not being translated.
Cuz Klingon was the only language that was fully fleshed out, so they gotta use it!