I disagree, that's roughly 253 hours at the local minimum wage, assuming that you don't pay any taxes to earn the thing. I think that qualifies it as a status symbol, especially given that in most areas it would be more work, and it isn't a necessity, a much cheaper laptop would do most people just fine.
So? It's legitimate to point out that only very rarely is Apple first at anything, most of the time they prefer to wait for a market to be at a tipping point before releasing a product. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just disingenuous to suggest that Apple is an innovator, it's been a good long while since they were doing much more than perfecting something that somebody else did first, which is a much easier task.
I'm not sure that they have to all stay in the country, but what this whole thing really illustrates quite clearly is that it's that much more difficult to ensure that our laws are being respected when the work is being done overseas. The US does not have the power to enforce its laws in India anymore than the French have the right to enforce their laws in Mexico, which leads to all sorts of complications.
Unfortunately even a company that's just looking to cut the cost of labor can find itself in a position where the employees are not complying with the law in the US and have to solve that.
The easiest solution is to just not go offshore, but it isn't the most efficient, given that it's often times quite efficient to have some tech support done on the other side of the world. A problem sent in at just before closing time can be solved and answered somewhat before the customer gets up in the morning without making somebody stay up all night.
I'm not trolling, the one button mouse was a stupid invention. You're substituting command + click for right click, if you honestly think that's easier to comprehend you ought to really think about how a person identifies left and right and how they know what button the command key is.
Additionally, a mouse is supposed to have three buttons one for context one for selection and one for execution. Any mouse which requires double clicking is fail, going from three buttons down to one does precisely zero for usability, in fact it makes it less usable because now all of a sudden you have to use multiple hands.
But is the business paying for the time it takes to retrain users how to handle the lack of a recycle bin? I think that's the point, that if the company isn't asking for the retraining on something like this it shouldn't be given. All it does is cause headaches for end users who can't or won't learn to use their computers properly.
It's a special folder. The way that deleting things on Windows works is that it renames the file and moves it to a directory within the recycling bin. I'm not sure how it determines the name for the file, but I'd suspect that it has to do with the name and path of the file. It likely has to do with naming conventions and wanting to combine multiple drives deleted folders into one bin.
It goes from empty to full because it's hard to tell on a modern screen if it's a couple percent or completely full. Plus the whole point of it is that it's not empty. They're not trying to tell you how full it is, they're trying to tell you that it's full enough to empty.
An 80gb file wouldn't end up in the recycle bin, there's a size limit on that, unless they've changed that in recent times. Plus you're right about the rest of it, when you delete a file it gets renamed and moved to the recycle bin, which is pretty cheap as far as operations go. Moving it to another partition would be quite a bit more resource intensive and add an opportunity to corrupt the data.
Same here, but requiring that extra key is a good thing, it means that you're more likely to be sure you want to get rid of it than if you accidentally fat finger the delete key.
Fragmentation hasn't been a problem for a really long time, it's just that some filesystems like NTFS don't spend the time to place files in a way that prevents it. I don't think I've ever seen a UFS filesystem with more than a couple percent fragmentation that wasn't practically completely filled up.
Windows 3.0 came out in 1990 and Mac OS came out in 1984. I'm not sure how exactly that makes MS first to dumb down the interface for the benefit of people lacking technical proficiency. And don't count those earlier revisions of Windows, they were complete unusable crap also they were after Mac OS was released anyways.
I had one of these bad boys years before the iPod first appeared. Rio PMP300 And my PMP500 was really a great player. Even at the time that Apple first released their players, Creative amongst others had already created their Nomad line.
It might be that we wouldn't have players like the iPod without Apple, but let's be honest, the iPods were never the best players out, the sound quality wasn't ever as good as the competition and the feature list somewhat anemic compared to other lines of players.
And that explains the pathological hatred of buttons? Simplifying is good, but there's a reason why Apple is the only company to use a 1 button mouse, and why the early mouses all had 3 buttons. Single button mouses suck.
Back in college I happened upon some NeXT hardware and it was nice. It was fairly old at that point, but the stuff that still ran was quite nice indeed. The monitors were high res albeit black and white, but the interface was quite responsive and the experience was quite a bit more positive than I would've expected out of such old equipment.
I think that they probably could have taken NeXT equipment mainstream had they wanted to, although one might say that that's what OSX was.
There is, it's just that it has to be pretty clear that the standard is pretty high, you don't get disbarred just for representing a client that's full of it or trying to utilize legal loopholes or overreaching. It has to be pretty substantial. I mean just look how long it took to get Jack Thompson disbarred.
If you get Nook or some other ereader that supports the epub standard then you're not going to be in that sort of situation. I can replace the battery in my Nook without much trouble, and the device itself is standards compliant. Worse case I have to get a new battery from a 3rd party source and stick with DRM free books, not that big a deal.
Plus, it's just a whole lot easier to read books on an ereader than it is with a standard dead tree edition.
I haven't bought any from them in years, and I won't be buying any from them until they learn to behave themselves and place nice. If they want to sue pirates, that's there right, but I'll be damned if I'm financing those questionable law suits. Restrict the suits to people that are likely guilty of significant distribution and ask for a reasonable sum and I'll start buying music again. Until then I just won't buy anything and they can make whatever they can off of those free sites like Pandora.
You pay a premium for tiny. I remember when I got my Nomad Jukebox 3, the iPod of that generation was selling for a couple hundred dollars more and had less disk space, but it was a fraction of the size. People are willing to pay a lot of money for something that's tiny, whether or not that's the wisest course of action.
Halogens ought to be banned. I can't go anywhere near them because they cause excruciating eye pain. And that's in household light fixtures, if I go within about 5 feet of them I get a massive eye ache.
I'd sort of assumed that they were licensed the way that other media is licensed. But either way, the library buys a certain number of copies, and I don't see any reason why ebooks should be treated differently than regular books. Well, perhaps the fact that they don't wear out might warrant a little something to help the publisher, but this is just asinine.
Fad? I take it you haven't actually tried an ebook, but they're pretty amazing. Pretty much the only aspect that's worse than the dead tree editions is that you need electricity to use them. There's more to innovate there like improving the interface and the screens, but it's a lot more convenient for me than books are.
Plus, I'm the sort of person that likes to keep books once I've bought them, and I just don't have much room available for books I might not read for several years.
That's not quite true, they've had CFLs for dimmer switches for quite a while now. I know that GE makes them and I would assume that there's other manufacturers.
That's the thing, I could see a legitimate reason for allowing an exemption for lights intended for use in places like closets, but completely repealing the ban is a bad idea. Although I'm not sure I can envision a way of writing the repeal which wouldn't open the door for widespread abuse.
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I disagree, that's roughly 253 hours at the local minimum wage, assuming that you don't pay any taxes to earn the thing. I think that qualifies it as a status symbol, especially given that in most areas it would be more work, and it isn't a necessity, a much cheaper laptop would do most people just fine.
So? It's legitimate to point out that only very rarely is Apple first at anything, most of the time they prefer to wait for a market to be at a tipping point before releasing a product. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, it's just disingenuous to suggest that Apple is an innovator, it's been a good long while since they were doing much more than perfecting something that somebody else did first, which is a much easier task.
I'm not sure that they have to all stay in the country, but what this whole thing really illustrates quite clearly is that it's that much more difficult to ensure that our laws are being respected when the work is being done overseas. The US does not have the power to enforce its laws in India anymore than the French have the right to enforce their laws in Mexico, which leads to all sorts of complications.
Unfortunately even a company that's just looking to cut the cost of labor can find itself in a position where the employees are not complying with the law in the US and have to solve that.
The easiest solution is to just not go offshore, but it isn't the most efficient, given that it's often times quite efficient to have some tech support done on the other side of the world. A problem sent in at just before closing time can be solved and answered somewhat before the customer gets up in the morning without making somebody stay up all night.
I'm not trolling, the one button mouse was a stupid invention. You're substituting command + click for right click, if you honestly think that's easier to comprehend you ought to really think about how a person identifies left and right and how they know what button the command key is.
Additionally, a mouse is supposed to have three buttons one for context one for selection and one for execution. Any mouse which requires double clicking is fail, going from three buttons down to one does precisely zero for usability, in fact it makes it less usable because now all of a sudden you have to use multiple hands.
But is the business paying for the time it takes to retrain users how to handle the lack of a recycle bin? I think that's the point, that if the company isn't asking for the retraining on something like this it shouldn't be given. All it does is cause headaches for end users who can't or won't learn to use their computers properly.
It's a special folder. The way that deleting things on Windows works is that it renames the file and moves it to a directory within the recycling bin. I'm not sure how it determines the name for the file, but I'd suspect that it has to do with the name and path of the file. It likely has to do with naming conventions and wanting to combine multiple drives deleted folders into one bin.
I tried looking for that file and couldn't find it? Where do I find this /dev? Is it on my C drive?
It goes from empty to full because it's hard to tell on a modern screen if it's a couple percent or completely full. Plus the whole point of it is that it's not empty. They're not trying to tell you how full it is, they're trying to tell you that it's full enough to empty.
An 80gb file wouldn't end up in the recycle bin, there's a size limit on that, unless they've changed that in recent times. Plus you're right about the rest of it, when you delete a file it gets renamed and moved to the recycle bin, which is pretty cheap as far as operations go. Moving it to another partition would be quite a bit more resource intensive and add an opportunity to corrupt the data.
Same here, but requiring that extra key is a good thing, it means that you're more likely to be sure you want to get rid of it than if you accidentally fat finger the delete key.
Fragmentation hasn't been a problem for a really long time, it's just that some filesystems like NTFS don't spend the time to place files in a way that prevents it. I don't think I've ever seen a UFS filesystem with more than a couple percent fragmentation that wasn't practically completely filled up.
Windows 3.0 came out in 1990 and Mac OS came out in 1984. I'm not sure how exactly that makes MS first to dumb down the interface for the benefit of people lacking technical proficiency. And don't count those earlier revisions of Windows, they were complete unusable crap also they were after Mac OS was released anyways.
I had one of these bad boys years before the iPod first appeared. Rio PMP300 And my PMP500 was really a great player. Even at the time that Apple first released their players, Creative amongst others had already created their Nomad line.
It might be that we wouldn't have players like the iPod without Apple, but let's be honest, the iPods were never the best players out, the sound quality wasn't ever as good as the competition and the feature list somewhat anemic compared to other lines of players.
And that explains the pathological hatred of buttons? Simplifying is good, but there's a reason why Apple is the only company to use a 1 button mouse, and why the early mouses all had 3 buttons. Single button mouses suck.
Back in college I happened upon some NeXT hardware and it was nice. It was fairly old at that point, but the stuff that still ran was quite nice indeed. The monitors were high res albeit black and white, but the interface was quite responsive and the experience was quite a bit more positive than I would've expected out of such old equipment.
I think that they probably could have taken NeXT equipment mainstream had they wanted to, although one might say that that's what OSX was.
I've still got mine, I just need to get new batteries.
There is, it's just that it has to be pretty clear that the standard is pretty high, you don't get disbarred just for representing a client that's full of it or trying to utilize legal loopholes or overreaching. It has to be pretty substantial. I mean just look how long it took to get Jack Thompson disbarred.
If you get Nook or some other ereader that supports the epub standard then you're not going to be in that sort of situation. I can replace the battery in my Nook without much trouble, and the device itself is standards compliant. Worse case I have to get a new battery from a 3rd party source and stick with DRM free books, not that big a deal.
Plus, it's just a whole lot easier to read books on an ereader than it is with a standard dead tree edition.
I haven't bought any from them in years, and I won't be buying any from them until they learn to behave themselves and place nice. If they want to sue pirates, that's there right, but I'll be damned if I'm financing those questionable law suits. Restrict the suits to people that are likely guilty of significant distribution and ask for a reasonable sum and I'll start buying music again. Until then I just won't buy anything and they can make whatever they can off of those free sites like Pandora.
You pay a premium for tiny. I remember when I got my Nomad Jukebox 3, the iPod of that generation was selling for a couple hundred dollars more and had less disk space, but it was a fraction of the size. People are willing to pay a lot of money for something that's tiny, whether or not that's the wisest course of action.
Halogens ought to be banned. I can't go anywhere near them because they cause excruciating eye pain. And that's in household light fixtures, if I go within about 5 feet of them I get a massive eye ache.
I'd sort of assumed that they were licensed the way that other media is licensed. But either way, the library buys a certain number of copies, and I don't see any reason why ebooks should be treated differently than regular books. Well, perhaps the fact that they don't wear out might warrant a little something to help the publisher, but this is just asinine.
Fad? I take it you haven't actually tried an ebook, but they're pretty amazing. Pretty much the only aspect that's worse than the dead tree editions is that you need electricity to use them. There's more to innovate there like improving the interface and the screens, but it's a lot more convenient for me than books are.
Plus, I'm the sort of person that likes to keep books once I've bought them, and I just don't have much room available for books I might not read for several years.
That's not quite true, they've had CFLs for dimmer switches for quite a while now. I know that GE makes them and I would assume that there's other manufacturers.
That's the thing, I could see a legitimate reason for allowing an exemption for lights intended for use in places like closets, but completely repealing the ban is a bad idea. Although I'm not sure I can envision a way of writing the repeal which wouldn't open the door for widespread abuse.