Only 100 out of 2000??? That does not sound like much. Guess what? Your problem is NOT going to go away with smartphones. Why? Well, to those who are not geeks, these things are new. They will have more issues for quite some time until people get used to them. Also, as they are carried 24/7 by some, they WILL be dropped, driven over, dropped in toilets, dropped in urinals, dropped in portapotties and even worse. You are complaining that only 100 out of 2000 have a problem? Only 5 percent?? Wow. I want your job.....
Last night,our building was stuck by lightning and while we had no real data loss, we did have at least 8 PC's, our network switch and a Sun box all need new network cards and because they were all integrated, your talking MB swap....MB's that take time to get here. Our PC/Support did a bang up job getting almost everyone back online before noon. Now that was the IT department.....they had other folks to get to too. They will be fixing crap because of this strike for the next month.
Give me those 2000 blackberries with only 5 percent defects where all you gotta do is get a replacement and send the old one back. I'd take that over what we have here now.
I FAIL to see how RSS can be a dangerous vector for viruses. Why do you ask? Well, first off, it's no worse then a web browser or e-mail which both happen to have the same ability to download executable binaries. Second, Mozilla Firefox, iTunes, Safari and proabably IE 7 currently have no way of automatically running code. I have seen more iPodder clients (iPodder itself did have the problem but does not any more) that have the ability to open the media file upon download. The problem is much worse if Microsoft decides to do something brain dead with it. Now, if a virus is downloaded in a enclosure, there's still no danger.....you have to click on it for it to run. Plus the automated features of most podcatchers will save us. If your podcatcher, safari or IE7 downloads a virus in teh middle of the night, your nightly virus scan should catch it before it's too late if it doesn't catch it as soon as it's written to the disk so am I worried about RSS being a vector for this stuff? No more then I already worry about idiot users....means I don't loose sleep over it.
I wonder if this buyout is just a way for Microsoft to kill off a whole slew of spyware? Seems to me that 500 million is a fair price to rid us of Claria's crap.
I agree with you too. I have NO need for a Digital TV yet. Analog TV works very well and there's not much out o Digital TV that is compelling enough for me to view it.
Of course. It helps them sell iPods. So far I am liking it. Ony one quibble...no way that I have seen to MANUALLY add a feed. If the iTMS does not have it in it's directory, then you can't add it.
NEVER had iTunes upgrades on Windows clobber my quicktime prefs....EVER. In fact, just finsihed installing 4.9 on my laptop. No goofy Quicktime icon in my tray....like I like it.
Don't fool yourself. All of those books that were "painstakingly" copied were not really done like you said. The Bible itself has at least 10 different translations....probably more. In english there are:
NIV - New International Version ASV - American Standard Version KJV - King James Version
Those are just the ones I remember and there are definitely more. Plus there's things that get lost in the translation from Hebrew to English as well as from Aramaic. My point is the Bible of today had been changed over time to suit the differen Christian sects. There's no Bible I can point to and with any sort of confidence say that it is how the original writers wrote it. Heck, many of the scriptures in the Bible were wrote to stand alone and not to be incorporated in any book.
Back to the subject at hand...in order to make sure your digital photos outlive you, the thing that must be done is copying. Digital mode is MADE for copying and distributing data. You can easily move data to a CD-ROM, a DVD and whatever other technlogy there is. You need to move it fro one data media to another....from cd's to a dvd to a backup tape to whatever other technology there is. I think what frustrates most home users is there's no real economical way to back these up at home. The size of our hard disks has gone up and up yet the size of CHEAP back up has not. The best we can likely do is dual layer DVD and you even need multiples of those to backup 200+ Gig of data. The best option now is another hard disk and even that is suspect.
About friggin time. I see so many companies I used to consider legit that I now hae to question whether I should do business with them any more. Spam from the University of Phoenix, Bank Cards from legit companies being peddled via spam, and ad ware. This stuff has to stop.
As much as I hate Windows, I have to know it. There are many add on and other related products out there that your companies non technical offices buy and you have to make it work. Knowing Windows in addition to UNIX is essential. Windows is not really all that different then UNIX to make ir difficult. In fact, some of Windows limitations make it easier to learn then Linux. Certifying in Both? Questionable. HR departments need to let the technical areas do the selecing and rely less on using certs to weed out people. I have found that certs DO help you, but only if you also KNOW the info. Wallpaper will only get you some interviews. Having a impressive resume in addition to know people in the industry helps alot.
I use Adblock to also block STUPID things websites do to promote themselves. NASCAR.com has a little video thing that plays everytime you load the page. http://www.pki.com/ also has this. I block these because I do not like to turn off sound, but I don't want to load a page and have my soundcard explode sound...especially If I am checking something at work. Sound and video at load time sucks.
Not to mention the fact that, moreso in the prequels than in the sequels, the actors had NOTHING to act against. Just a green screen. When Mark Hamill shot the scenes in Yoda's house, there was a littl green puppet to interact with. When Obi, Bail and Yoda were walking down ithe hall of the Tantive IV, Yoda was NOT there(bad example, but you get the idea). When you practice a scene with other actors in the room, you can judge your performance by how they react to you. One GOOD example is the gantry scene in Empire...Darth was holding out his hand and Luke was holding on for dear life and his scream was VERY believeable. Imagine if during WW II, you were a member of a Allied country and you found out you were Hitler's son. That was why Luke did what he did. After Empire was over, Luke searched his feelings and likely meditated on the whole thing and reached out with the Force and felt the good in Vader(plus Vader would not come close to killing him...which mean's he's not all bad).
Yep. Even better, take the day off and do it during the day when the kids are in school. No babysitter to pay for and you get to go to bed early for....other things!;)
Yes but were they Power 5's? I doubt it. The Power5 is VERY fast. We have 3 LPAR's on our system and many processors....one LPAR has 6 dedicated processors and one has 10 processors. Total ram for the system is 106 GB and we split that up between the LPARS.
Blogs are a great way to share news with your family. I use mine for that, although I am well known for blowing it off for a while. Reminds me...I should post something.
And then another blogger will refute what they said. No "blogger" can discredit CNN, MSNBC, FOX News or any other true news organization. I tend to NOT believe any blogger unless I KNOW THEM. Even then, I will have to check OTHER news outlets to verify my blogger friend.
RTFA. It's a OLD Orlon spacesuit. One they are not using. It's cheaper for them to do that and let it burn up in the atmosphere then it will be for them to send it back on a Soyuz or Shuttle.
The downside is tha they are going with a inferior (as in technical) platform. Jobs may say that it's better, but what he failed to realize was that the Power PC can do more then a Intel chip could per clock cycle. This has been proven before. Case in point, when I got my powerbook, my desktop, a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz was JUST as fast at doing my every day stuff as a lowly 1 GHz G4. The Clock speed myth STILL lives. Now a G5 may require more power per unit of calculation power, but the old G4 did not really have that limitation. Also, I think that Apple still has not given IBM the chance to perform. There's also the differenctiation. If Apple does not lock Mac OS X to Intel Macs, not only will Apple have lost Mac sales in between now and the intro fo the first Intel Macs, but they will loose salses after the fact too. PowerPC was also a way of differentiation. Now there's no justification of Apple charging higher prices. If the Macintel's are brought out and are MORE then the equivalent non Mac platform, then it will hardly seem worth paying for the privledge of Mac OS X. I would then but the Dell and run Kubuntu.
It used to be everyone wore a shirt and tie where I work. Now my boss will only wear a tie when he goes to a meeting with the company president and the restr of the time, he looks like use and here's what we wear:
Men - Polos and Kahki's. Well groomed hair. Occasional five o clock shadow after a bad night is permissible. When we have big meeting, we will someitmes wear a tie. NO Suits and NO sport coats.....ever.
Women: The same really.....you may see a woman wear a slightly lowcut, but not tasteless blouse and almost never do I see skirts. In other areas, it's more lax. In one area, a hot chic wears tight hip huggers every day (thank god).
Fridays are different...we usually wear jeans and the occasional t-shirt. If our "Friday" falls on a week day other then friday, we wear jeans then.
There's no reason for us techies to dress up because noone else does anymore either. Besides, 90 percent of the time our contact is via phone or e-mail even with customers so it's no big deal if we aren't dressed in Armani.
Now, I will continue to be a Mac user as long as they are around, but, I sure as heck am not going sit hear and just praise Jobs. I STILL think that this move is stupid and with in 2 weeks, likely less, of release of the first Intel based Mac not only will the OS run on another Intel based box (a Dell or a IBM/Lenovo or whatever) AND Not ONLY will Windows run and run well on it, but so will any x86 Linux.
As for my opinion of the Intel platform, I hate it. The BIGGEST problem is also the biggest benefit....competition. There are TONS of different hardware configurations out there and you never know what config one machine will have just by looking at it, unlike most Macs. The option to run any ole piece of hardware on a Wintel box is a great benefit and it's BIGGEST achilles heal. Drivers are what cause a huge percentage of Windows crashes. It has gotten better, but now you have spyware and viruses thanks to the silly idea Microsoft had to integrate Internet Explorer into Windows. It should have always remained separate and only Java and Javascript should have been allowed. ActiveX should have been better thought out. Microsoft has a large amount of the blame. BUT that's not to say that Apple is not able to do it right. Apple will only support the hardware they try to sell. That means the drivers for Mac OS X (x86 version) will be rock solid. They will work and there will be no issues between each driver. Third party drivers for printers, external hard disks and whatever is not inside the intel mac case would be fairly stable to. Windows biggest issue has been the graphics drivers and as Apple will only support cards that it installs in thier Macs. Macs will likely continue to require special Mac versions too.
If you look at the pics, they are also complaining about Teflon. They said teflon stop being made by 3m 5 years ago.....except Teflon is NOT owned by 3m....it's owned by DuPont:
Yep. Enviromentalists at their worst. Greenpeace a sthe guy stated started out as something good, but most enviromentalist movements are CRAP and full of politicos tryign to raise fundage by using scare tatics and bullshit. Anyone know if Bullshit is on DVD yet???
Politics are the 1st rule. Second rule of working at the University would be not so much of a rule, but more of a problem.....users have no frickin idea what they want. EVERYTHING takes longer then it should take and the main problem the administration refuses to accept is hat you can't please everyone. I mean where I work (a Large Community College) are main students are obviously local yet our programmers had to make sure that people from other countries with weird addresses worked and everything was scrutinized to make sure that ALL students would understand every communication.
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Only 100 out of 2000??? That does not sound like much. Guess what? Your problem is NOT going to go away with smartphones. Why? Well, to those who are not geeks, these things are new. They will have more issues for quite some time until people get used to them. Also, as they are carried 24/7 by some, they WILL be dropped, driven over, dropped in toilets, dropped in urinals, dropped in portapotties and even worse. You are complaining that only 100 out of 2000 have a problem? Only 5 percent?? Wow. I want your job.....
Last night,our building was stuck by lightning and while we had no real data loss, we did have at least 8 PC's, our network switch and a Sun box all need new network cards and because they were all integrated, your talking MB swap....MB's that take time to get here. Our PC/Support did a bang up job getting almost everyone back online before noon. Now that was the IT department.....they had other folks to get to too. They will be fixing crap because of this strike for the next month.
Give me those 2000 blackberries with only 5 percent defects where all you gotta do is get a replacement and send the old one back. I'd take that over what we have here now.
I FAIL to see how RSS can be a dangerous vector for viruses. Why do you ask? Well, first off, it's no worse then a web browser or e-mail which both happen to have the same ability to download executable binaries. Second, Mozilla Firefox, iTunes, Safari and proabably IE 7 currently have no way of automatically running code. I have seen more iPodder clients (iPodder itself did have the problem but does not any more) that have the ability to open the media file upon download. The problem is much worse if Microsoft decides to do something brain dead with it. Now, if a virus is downloaded in a enclosure, there's still no danger.....you have to click on it for it to run. Plus the automated features of most podcatchers will save us. If your podcatcher, safari or IE7 downloads a virus in teh middle of the night, your nightly virus scan should catch it before it's too late if it doesn't catch it as soon as it's written to the disk so am I worried about RSS being a vector for this stuff? No more then I already worry about idiot users....means I don't loose sleep over it.
I wonder if this buyout is just a way for Microsoft to kill off a whole slew of spyware? Seems to me that 500 million is a fair price to rid us of Claria's crap.
I agree with you too. I have NO need for a Digital TV yet. Analog TV works very well and there's not much out o Digital TV that is compelling enough for me to view it.
Not all. It will not update Xcode.
Of course. It helps them sell iPods. So far I am liking it. Ony one quibble...no way that I have seen to MANUALLY add a feed. If the iTMS does not have it in it's directory, then you can't add it.
NEVER had iTunes upgrades on Windows clobber my quicktime prefs....EVER. In fact, just finsihed installing 4.9 on my laptop. No goofy Quicktime icon in my tray....like I like it.
This one needs modded up. Anyone that made the statement the grand parent made does not understand how RSS and Podcatchers work.
Don't fool yourself. All of those books that were "painstakingly" copied were not really done like you said. The Bible itself has at least 10 different translations....probably more. In english there are:
NIV - New International Version
ASV - American Standard Version
KJV - King James Version
Those are just the ones I remember and there are definitely more. Plus there's things that get lost in the translation from Hebrew to English as well as from Aramaic. My point is the Bible of today had been changed over time to suit the differen Christian sects. There's no Bible I can point to and with any sort of confidence say that it is how the original writers wrote it. Heck, many of the scriptures in the Bible were wrote to stand alone and not to be incorporated in any book.
Back to the subject at hand...in order to make sure your digital photos outlive you, the thing that must be done is copying. Digital mode is MADE for copying and distributing data. You can easily move data to a CD-ROM, a DVD and whatever other technlogy there is. You need to move it fro one data media to another....from cd's to a dvd to a backup tape to whatever other technology there is. I think what frustrates most home users is there's no real economical way to back these up at home. The size of our hard disks has gone up and up yet the size of CHEAP back up has not. The best we can likely do is dual layer DVD and you even need multiples of those to backup 200+ Gig of data. The best option now is another hard disk and even that is suspect.
About friggin time. I see so many companies I used to consider legit that I now hae to question whether I should do business with them any more. Spam from the University of Phoenix, Bank Cards from legit companies being peddled via spam, and ad ware. This stuff has to stop.
As much as I hate Windows, I have to know it. There are many add on and other related products out there that your companies non technical offices buy and you have to make it work. Knowing Windows in addition to UNIX is essential. Windows is not really all that different then UNIX to make ir difficult. In fact, some of Windows limitations make it easier to learn then Linux. Certifying in Both? Questionable. HR departments need to let the technical areas do the selecing and rely less on using certs to weed out people. I have found that certs DO help you, but only if you also KNOW the info. Wallpaper will only get you some interviews. Having a impressive resume in addition to know people in the industry helps alot.
Yep that about sums it up.
I use Adblock to also block STUPID things websites do to promote themselves. NASCAR.com has a little video thing that plays everytime you load the page. http://www.pki.com/ also has this. I block these because I do not like to turn off sound, but I don't want to load a page and have my soundcard explode sound...especially If I am checking something at work. Sound and video at load time sucks.
Not to mention the fact that, moreso in the prequels than in the sequels, the actors had NOTHING to act against. Just a green screen. When Mark Hamill shot the scenes in Yoda's house, there was a littl green puppet to interact with. When Obi, Bail and Yoda were walking down ithe hall of the Tantive IV, Yoda was NOT there(bad example, but you get the idea). When you practice a scene with other actors in the room, you can judge your performance by how they react to you. One GOOD example is the gantry scene in Empire...Darth was holding out his hand and Luke was holding on for dear life and his scream was VERY believeable. Imagine if during WW II, you were a member of a Allied country and you found out you were Hitler's son. That was why Luke did what he did. After Empire was over, Luke searched his feelings and likely meditated on the whole thing and reached out with the Force and felt the good in Vader(plus Vader would not come close to killing him...which mean's he's not all bad).
Yep. Even better, take the day off and do it during the day when the kids are in school. No babysitter to pay for and you get to go to bed early for....other things! ;)
Yes but were they Power 5's? I doubt it. The Power5 is VERY fast. We have 3 LPAR's on our system and many processors....one LPAR has 6 dedicated processors and one has 10 processors. Total ram for the system is 106 GB and we split that up between the LPARS.
Blogs are a great way to share news with your family. I use mine for that, although I am well known for blowing it off for a while. Reminds me...I should post something.
And then another blogger will refute what they said. No "blogger" can discredit CNN, MSNBC, FOX News or any other true news organization. I tend to NOT believe any blogger unless I KNOW THEM. Even then, I will have to check OTHER news outlets to verify my blogger friend.
RTFA. It's a OLD Orlon spacesuit. One they are not using. It's cheaper for them to do that and let it burn up in the atmosphere then it will be for them to send it back on a Soyuz or Shuttle.
The downside is tha they are going with a inferior (as in technical) platform. Jobs may say that it's better, but what he failed to realize was that the Power PC can do more then a Intel chip could per clock cycle. This has been proven before. Case in point, when I got my powerbook, my desktop, a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz was JUST as fast at doing my every day stuff as a lowly 1 GHz G4. The Clock speed myth STILL lives. Now a G5 may require more power per unit of calculation power, but the old G4 did not really have that limitation. Also, I think that Apple still has not given IBM the chance to perform. There's also the differenctiation. If Apple does not lock Mac OS X to Intel Macs, not only will Apple have lost Mac sales in between now and the intro fo the first Intel Macs, but they will loose salses after the fact too. PowerPC was also a way of differentiation. Now there's no justification of Apple charging higher prices. If the Macintel's are brought out and are MORE then the equivalent non Mac platform, then it will hardly seem worth paying for the privledge of Mac OS X. I would then but the Dell and run Kubuntu.
It used to be everyone wore a shirt and tie where I work. Now my boss will only wear a tie when he goes to a meeting with the company president and the restr of the time, he looks like use and here's what we wear:
Men - Polos and Kahki's. Well groomed hair. Occasional five o clock shadow after a bad night is permissible. When we have big meeting, we will someitmes wear a tie. NO Suits and NO sport coats.....ever.
Women: The same really.....you may see a woman wear a slightly lowcut, but not tasteless blouse and almost never do I see skirts. In other areas, it's more lax. In one area, a hot chic wears tight hip huggers every day (thank god).
Fridays are different...we usually wear jeans and the occasional t-shirt. If our "Friday" falls on a week day other then friday, we wear jeans then.
There's no reason for us techies to dress up because noone else does anymore either. Besides, 90 percent of the time our contact is via phone or e-mail even with customers so it's no big deal if we aren't dressed in Armani.
Now, I will continue to be a Mac user as long as they are around, but, I sure as heck am not going sit hear and just praise Jobs. I STILL think that this move is stupid and with in 2 weeks, likely less, of release of the first Intel based Mac not only will the OS run on another Intel based box (a Dell or a IBM/Lenovo or whatever) AND Not ONLY will Windows run and run well on it, but so will any x86 Linux.
As for my opinion of the Intel platform, I hate it. The BIGGEST problem is also the biggest benefit....competition. There are TONS of different hardware configurations out there and you never know what config one machine will have just by looking at it, unlike most Macs. The option to run any ole piece of hardware on a Wintel box is a great benefit and it's BIGGEST achilles heal. Drivers are what cause a huge percentage of Windows crashes. It has gotten better, but now you have spyware and viruses thanks to the silly idea Microsoft had to integrate Internet Explorer into Windows. It should have always remained separate and only Java and Javascript should have been allowed. ActiveX should have been better thought out. Microsoft has a large amount of the blame. BUT that's not to say that Apple is not able to do it right. Apple will only support the hardware they try to sell. That means the drivers for Mac OS X (x86 version) will be rock solid. They will work and there will be no issues between each driver. Third party drivers for printers, external hard disks and whatever is not inside the intel mac case would be fairly stable to. Windows biggest issue has been the graphics drivers and as Apple will only support cards that it installs in thier Macs. Macs will likely continue to require special Mac versions too.
If you look at the pics, they are also complaining about Teflon. They said teflon stop being made by 3m 5 years ago.....except Teflon is NOT owned by 3m....it's owned by DuPont:
v let?pageId=/consumer/na/eng/housewares/keyword/tef lon_keyword_home.html
http://www.teflon.com/NASApp/Teflon/TeflonPageSer
And, as far as I know, Teflon is still in production.
Yep. Enviromentalists at their worst. Greenpeace a sthe guy stated started out as something good, but most enviromentalist movements are CRAP and full of politicos tryign to raise fundage by using scare tatics and bullshit. Anyone know if Bullshit is on DVD yet???
Politics are the 1st rule. Second rule of working at the University would be not so much of a rule, but more of a problem.....users have no frickin idea what they want. EVERYTHING takes longer then it should take and the main problem the administration refuses to accept is hat you can't please everyone. I mean where I work (a Large Community College) are main students are obviously local yet our programmers had to make sure that people from other countries with weird addresses worked and everything was scrutinized to make sure that ALL students would understand every communication.