I have to carry my phone. It's required for my job. That phone lets me read and write emails. It lets me surf the web and play games on a screen that's big enough for those tasks. A watch screen is not big enough for any of that.
As a watch it's a device that requires regular charging and offers a lot of unnecessary complexity.
Smartwatches: Sure they're bad phone replacements but at least they are lousy watches too!
I listened to the sample tracks hdtracks.com offers for some albums I own & have ripped to 256kbps MP3s and without question the lossless tracks did sound better. The question that I then had to ask was did they sound $20/album better and nope, not even close for me.
Oregon may have relatively high gas prices for the nation but we're smack dab between areas with generally even higher prices. If we fire all the pump workers our prices won't go down. Why should they? They'll just fire the minimum wage workers and pocket the difference. It's not as if we can drive across the river to washington to fill up for less. It's more expensive there for self serve than for full serve in Portland.
As a support manager with a "susan" of my own recently I understand his position pretty well. You set schedules for individuals in order to have the staffing on hand to cover the calls you expect to get at a given time of day. I had an employee that was consistently late. I offered to adjust schedules to accomodate them as their customer skills were top-notch. They refused as they felt they shouldn't be held to a strict schedule because people in other departments weren't on a schedule. They no longer work for me. I don't know if the author offered a different schedule or not, but in a customer support department people need to be available, answering their phones, at the scheduled time with reasonable consistency.
Possibly because freedom of speech is only in the bill of rights to make absolutely clear that we citizens are not giving the government that authority. The right comes from us not the constitution and we've elected to keep it for ourselves rather than make it subject to government authority. The first amendment doesn't give you freedom of speech, you already had that. It says we refuse to give the government any authority to interfere with what we already have. In theory it's unnecessary but the framers didnt' want to risk any confusion on the point.
The interviewer asks specificaly if the 360 has limitations and the interviewee says that yes, both platforms have their challenges and this becomes "DVD and lack of built-in HD is limiting GTA4!!!
It may have been mentiond but using 6 spes isn't less than the full potential of the PS3. It's generally more. There are 8 but sony shut one down at the factory. Number 7 is reserved for the OS. Number 6 is required to be made available to the OS at the drop of a hat. That means that games can count on having 5 available.
You may be able to excel as a sales engineer, which is essentially pre-sales technical support. It requires the ability to prioritize issues coming at you from several sales people, all of whom believe that only their customers and prospects matter. It requires excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt your solutions to strange customer requests or the ability to convince customers that what you offer is better than what they're asking.
Most importantly it requires the ability to interact well with the sales team. If you find working with sales people annoying, draining, frustrating, or panful in any way, don't take a sales engineer position. They're frat boys by & large. If you have a problem with that, avoid the job.
Now that's my take on being an SE after doing the job, and loving the job, for a decade. Actually being a sales person is more pain than I'd ever contemplate. If you're good at it you can make a ton of money but there are more factors out of your control than I'd be willing to put up with. Product quality, support quality, quotas that are made up by picking a fair number and then inflating it 50%...no, I don't want to be a sales person!
I doubt the OS will actually refuse to install, but it could. The virtual network adaptors, by default, use known mac addresses. If microsoft wanted they could certainly prevent install if such an address was detected.
They also fail to mention the sega CD and 32X that would allow people to understand the general reaction to the saturn. I love mine but it got the developer support it did for a good reason. There is also no neo-geo or 3d0 which would have served as an interesting take off point for the ps3.
Steve is absolutely right. Sharing music by taking my earphones and letting a stranger shove them in her ears is so much more romantic and allows you a great chance to test the cleanliness of your prospective mate's ears. Seriously, does Steve consider earwax romantic?
Not wrong, just meaningless. They were Iran/Iraq war era chemical munitions that had degraded to the point of being useless as weapons. They weren't the weapons we were looking for.
Actually creation is easy. Support is an unholy nightmare in commercial terms. I can't properly support what I can't test, I can't test every combination of distribution & patch level, and god help you if you are a vendor that doesn't support the customer's favorite distribution even if he's one of 6 users on the planet that ever installed it;)
Has MS actually blocked third party apps from using a technique their own AV software uses or did they block it off from everyone? If vista simply doesn't allow ANY antivirus software, including their own, the ability to run at the level Symantec & Mcafee desire then too damn bad. If they are disadvantaging their competitors without inflicting the same limits on themselves in order to leverage their OS monopoly into the AV market then of course their activities are illegal. The former is whining, learn to adapt. The latter is actionable illegal activity so far as I'm aware.
The question is, what isn't an operating system component? Viruses operate due to design flaws in the OS and common applications. You say that fixing the flaws would be an operating system component but blocking the viruses in a different fashion is not? As an ex-symantec employee I can assure you that the folk there have always knows that their main product is only useful for a limited time and that eventually MS would either compete directly or just fix the problems that make av necessary. It looks like MS is attempting a bit of each.
Yes, if they actively prevent AV apps from working in an effort to promote their own subscription they should be sued...but complaining that you don't like the new way your product has to operate on a new os is ridiculous. It DOES work and barring actual evidence of bad behavior by MS this is nothing by symantec whining.
I watch about an hour of TV a week...maybe two. If I were the only person in the house then sure, it might be interesting but since I'd probably turn off the cable and just rely on broadcast TV how would I even know what shows I'm missing & would want to buy?? Thing is, I'm not the only person in the house and even if the three of us all watched as little TV as I do I wouldn't save any money over my satellite service. I can understand the value of this for the single person that likes a couple of shows but doesn't want to pay for cable...but I have have wonder how many such people there really are that would be willing to spend a couple hundred bucks on a video player for downloaded TV content.
I could be wrong but at least for me, and almost everyone I know, this is an astonishingly pointless product. I can pay a couple bucks an episode to watch videos on my TV or I can just record it, no matter when it's on, for $5 a month on my DVR...and that's assuming I don't use a computer for that function in which case there probably a monthly fee at all.
In fairness I can't imagine paying for an itunes video at all. Any show I want to see I can tivo and if I'm on a trip I can, oh I don't know, wait a couple of days. Clearly I'm not the target market!
I always marvel at the people who think the only way to preserve a free market is for the government to intervene in it.
I marvel at people that think there is any such thing as a market free of government. The rules established for trade by the government and the system of laws that enable a reasonably free society ARE the 'free market'. A market without infrastructure or rules isn't one I'd want to do business in...heck it's hard to even call 'me want, me bigger, you unconsicous' a market.
I use Footprints by unipress now and pretty well hate that. I've used remedy in the past plus the ticketing systems built into half a dozen CRM tools and they also were pretty unpleasant for the most part.
If you are on domino now and will be there for awhile I'd recommend at least looking at http://www.gwi.com/ as they have a product that's about as good as possible on Domino. The.Net version is quite a bit better than the Domino version so if you aren't stuck on Domino for this purchase you should definitely give it a look. I worked there a couple of years ago and, at that time, it was incredibly cheap compared to most similar products.
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Yes, there are so called moorish citizens that claim to belong to an imaginary pre-US government and are therefor not subject to US laws.
I have to carry my phone. It's required for my job. That phone lets me read and write emails. It lets me surf the web and play games on a screen that's big enough for those tasks. A watch screen is not big enough for any of that. As a watch it's a device that requires regular charging and offers a lot of unnecessary complexity. Smartwatches: Sure they're bad phone replacements but at least they are lousy watches too!
I listened to the sample tracks hdtracks.com offers for some albums I own & have ripped to 256kbps MP3s and without question the lossless tracks did sound better. The question that I then had to ask was did they sound $20/album better and nope, not even close for me.
Oregon may have relatively high gas prices for the nation but we're smack dab between areas with generally even higher prices. If we fire all the pump workers our prices won't go down. Why should they? They'll just fire the minimum wage workers and pocket the difference. It's not as if we can drive across the river to washington to fill up for less. It's more expensive there for self serve than for full serve in Portland.
As a support manager with a "susan" of my own recently I understand his position pretty well. You set schedules for individuals in order to have the staffing on hand to cover the calls you expect to get at a given time of day. I had an employee that was consistently late. I offered to adjust schedules to accomodate them as their customer skills were top-notch. They refused as they felt they shouldn't be held to a strict schedule because people in other departments weren't on a schedule. They no longer work for me. I don't know if the author offered a different schedule or not, but in a customer support department people need to be available, answering their phones, at the scheduled time with reasonable consistency.
Possibly because freedom of speech is only in the bill of rights to make absolutely clear that we citizens are not giving the government that authority. The right comes from us not the constitution and we've elected to keep it for ourselves rather than make it subject to government authority. The first amendment doesn't give you freedom of speech, you already had that. It says we refuse to give the government any authority to interfere with what we already have. In theory it's unnecessary but the framers didnt' want to risk any confusion on the point.
The interviewer asks specificaly if the 360 has limitations and the interviewee says that yes, both platforms have their challenges and this becomes "DVD and lack of built-in HD is limiting GTA4!!!
It may have been mentiond but using 6 spes isn't less than the full potential of the PS3. It's generally more. There are 8 but sony shut one down at the factory. Number 7 is reserved for the OS. Number 6 is required to be made available to the OS at the drop of a hat. That means that games can count on having 5 available.
You may be able to excel as a sales engineer, which is essentially pre-sales technical support. It requires the ability to prioritize issues coming at you from several sales people, all of whom believe that only their customers and prospects matter. It requires excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt your solutions to strange customer requests or the ability to convince customers that what you offer is better than what they're asking. Most importantly it requires the ability to interact well with the sales team. If you find working with sales people annoying, draining, frustrating, or panful in any way, don't take a sales engineer position. They're frat boys by & large. If you have a problem with that, avoid the job. Now that's my take on being an SE after doing the job, and loving the job, for a decade. Actually being a sales person is more pain than I'd ever contemplate. If you're good at it you can make a ton of money but there are more factors out of your control than I'd be willing to put up with. Product quality, support quality, quotas that are made up by picking a fair number and then inflating it 50%...no, I don't want to be a sales person!
I doubt the OS will actually refuse to install, but it could. The virtual network adaptors, by default, use known mac addresses. If microsoft wanted they could certainly prevent install if such an address was detected.
Viva Pinata is an evil, time-sucking beast. I love it though it's darn hard to shut that garden down at the end of a game session!
...but the placement of some of those games is just nuts. Planescape should be much, much higher. It's the best storytelling in an RPG to date.
They also fail to mention the sega CD and 32X that would allow people to understand the general reaction to the saturn. I love mine but it got the developer support it did for a good reason. There is also no neo-geo or 3d0 which would have served as an interesting take off point for the ps3.
Steve is absolutely right. Sharing music by taking my earphones and letting a stranger shove them in her ears is so much more romantic and allows you a great chance to test the cleanliness of your prospective mate's ears. Seriously, does Steve consider earwax romantic?
Not wrong, just meaningless. They were Iran/Iraq war era chemical munitions that had degraded to the point of being useless as weapons. They weren't the weapons we were looking for.
Scratch that, the one for the MS. Misread that :) Still a stupid placement but not insane.
They have Sonic the Hedgehog and no Dracula X for the PCEngine?
Actually creation is easy. Support is an unholy nightmare in commercial terms. I can't properly support what I can't test, I can't test every combination of distribution & patch level, and god help you if you are a vendor that doesn't support the customer's favorite distribution even if he's one of 6 users on the planet that ever installed it ;)
Has MS actually blocked third party apps from using a technique their own AV software uses or did they block it off from everyone? If vista simply doesn't allow ANY antivirus software, including their own, the ability to run at the level Symantec & Mcafee desire then too damn bad. If they are disadvantaging their competitors without inflicting the same limits on themselves in order to leverage their OS monopoly into the AV market then of course their activities are illegal. The former is whining, learn to adapt. The latter is actionable illegal activity so far as I'm aware.
The question is, what isn't an operating system component? Viruses operate due to design flaws in the OS and common applications. You say that fixing the flaws would be an operating system component but blocking the viruses in a different fashion is not? As an ex-symantec employee I can assure you that the folk there have always knows that their main product is only useful for a limited time and that eventually MS would either compete directly or just fix the problems that make av necessary. It looks like MS is attempting a bit of each. Yes, if they actively prevent AV apps from working in an effort to promote their own subscription they should be sued...but complaining that you don't like the new way your product has to operate on a new os is ridiculous. It DOES work and barring actual evidence of bad behavior by MS this is nothing by symantec whining.
I watch about an hour of TV a week...maybe two. If I were the only person in the house then sure, it might be interesting but since I'd probably turn off the cable and just rely on broadcast TV how would I even know what shows I'm missing & would want to buy?? Thing is, I'm not the only person in the house and even if the three of us all watched as little TV as I do I wouldn't save any money over my satellite service. I can understand the value of this for the single person that likes a couple of shows but doesn't want to pay for cable...but I have have wonder how many such people there really are that would be willing to spend a couple hundred bucks on a video player for downloaded TV content.
So their target market is people that don't watch much TV. Well that's gonna be a success of pippin-like proportions!
I could be wrong but at least for me, and almost everyone I know, this is an astonishingly pointless product. I can pay a couple bucks an episode to watch videos on my TV or I can just record it, no matter when it's on, for $5 a month on my DVR...and that's assuming I don't use a computer for that function in which case there probably a monthly fee at all. In fairness I can't imagine paying for an itunes video at all. Any show I want to see I can tivo and if I'm on a trip I can, oh I don't know, wait a couple of days. Clearly I'm not the target market!
I use Footprints by unipress now and pretty well hate that. I've used remedy in the past plus the ticketing systems built into half a dozen CRM tools and they also were pretty unpleasant for the most part. If you are on domino now and will be there for awhile I'd recommend at least looking at http://www.gwi.com/ as they have a product that's about as good as possible on Domino. The .Net version is quite a bit better than the Domino version so if you aren't stuck on Domino for this purchase you should definitely give it a look. I worked there a couple of years ago and, at that time, it was incredibly cheap compared to most similar products.