I think they understand music just fine. I think that they understand that I want to listen to my music how I want, and how the artist intended. Primarily, I don't want fucking annoying gaps between each track of my mix CDs, thank you very much.
Oh, so they're not laid off, they're realigned. But they're still out of work. That's called a euphamism, useful for propaganda. So let's put this in plain English: There are no company layoffs, there are company layoffs. You're missing the point. The realignment is the process, the layoffs are the (potential) result. The department I work in recently had some realignments due to fundamental changes in how the business we support worked. How many layoffs? Actually none - we're hiring like mad. Realignment means change, the results can vary.
Again, instead of saying "Product" or "Service", which is *exactly* what we're discussing here, you'll use the Web 2.0 version, namely "Deliverable". Deliverable != product A deliverable may be an application, or a document, or a memo, or a picture, or a class library, or a building. It's a generic term to mean "thing which you're delivering to me, the customer". Generic terms are not uncommon, and are not a bad thing. Deliverable has also been around a looooong time.
I'd say it's more important to convey ideas in plain english without resorting to flowery/trendy language to sound 'hip' or 'with it'. I guess I'm just old fashioned though... (not meant as a troll) Sounding hip has nothing to do with it. I think it's important to convey ideas in a language the other people will understand. My business manager doesn't care that I'm 30% done with the db schema and that the initial cut of the GUI is being coded up by the swing guy. She want's to know that I'm on track with the deliverables. That's shorter, to the point, and gets the message across easily. It also lets her know that I'm concentrating on actual tangible things of value to her business, not padding my resume with trendy Web2.0 crap. See how the tables can turn?
Big brand game console developer 2: "We hyped about our new product for 2 years, released it quickly but weren't able to make enough to meet demans, seriously it's 4 months later and they're still scarce. We can't understand why people seem to think nobody is buying our new console and software titles"
I fall somewhere between 1 & 2. Is this specific insurance you have to buy? Does it come with your homeowner's insurance (if you have that)? If not, can you add it to your homeowner's insurance?
That's kind of hard to say, seeing as I don't have access to your policy. Maybe you should, I dunno, read it? Or just call your insurer. I know laptops are covered under my renters policy, but YMMV.
I really don't understand the number of people who carry around $2000 devices without ensuring they're insured - it's just plain dumb.
changing the network.http.pipelining to true and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 100 made an AMAZING difference in page render speeds It also used to break GoogleMaps - not sure if it's fixed yet but I disabled pipelining a while ago for that reason.
Agreed on Dell. I have a pair of the 20" 2001FP's and they're great. Cheap, great image quality, no dead pixels, nice features (PIP, video in, USB etc). They even work great for games (although I usually just use one at a time as dual head games don't really work very well).
Wow - you're right - I didn't know this. A quick read of the PSP manual states that you can't charge while the WLAN is in use. Weird. Oh well, you learn something new every day:)
Well I don't know anyone with a DS, but I have a PSP and know at least 4 other people who do also. Isn't it fun how non-indicative of reality personal experiences can be? As it happens, according to a recent article on 1up, the PSP and DS are roughly level in the US market (not so in Japan however, the PSP is at about 50% of the DS installed base there).
Errr....this is about UMD movies, not the PSP. You can do everything you mention on a PSP now by using a memory stick instead of UMD. That's really the problem with UMD, I watch video on my PSP all the time but I do it from MS not UMD.
The PSP itself really isn't a failure - go read the article on 1up the other day, they say that in the US it's essentially level with the DS in sales. That's not bad for a market newcomer.
Well I use close far more than maximize (I hardly ever max windows) and probably more than minimize. As for accidental closing of an app, so what? If there's anything unsaved you'll get prompted, if not then the couple of seconds it takes to reopen isn't the end of the world. I'm not saying the vista stuff is perfect, but it's not bad, and I'd still take it over OSX's "pick a color, any color" unlabelled buttons.
Bugs are caused by developers. Period. To say anything else is just passing the buck.
Management are responsible for ensuring that policies, procedures and resources are in place for finding and fixing bugs in an expedient manner (and ensuring that the most significant ones are fixed first), but it's the developers who put them there in the first place. As a developer I know I've created plenty, as a manager I know how hard it is to handle them propely.
NB: I'm referring specifically to bugs here, i.e. where a program fails to perform as expected/required. Design or requirements defects are a whole different matter.
So let me get this straight. A DVD published by (I think) Warner, using the Intervideo authoring tools, fails to work on a player made by Apple, and this is somehow Microsoft's fault? I mean it's not like it only plays on Windows - it also plays on consumer DVD players and mplayer etc on Linux. There's exactly one player that doesn't like it - and it's made by Apple. Even if Microsoft really cared (I mean, how many people do you expect to sell their Mac and buy an XP box just to play one DVD?) how exactly would they go about doing this? If the Apple player worked right it wouldn't be possible to make a disc which didn't work on it - that's what standard's are all about.
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Simple. If you don't have an HDTV you don't need HD-DVD or BluRay.
I think they understand music just fine. I think that they understand that I want to listen to my music how I want, and how the artist intended. Primarily, I don't want fucking annoying gaps between each track of my mix CDs, thank you very much.
Depends what you want. I have no interest in video, but a lot of interest in gapless playback. Score 1 - Rockbox.
And that's why I'm considering an iPod once my beloved Karma finally dies. Rockbox rules :)
anyone wearing or otherwise displaying Che's image in an "ironic" manner deserves death
Dude. It's a t-shirt. Get over it.
Oh, so they're not laid off, they're realigned. But they're still out of work. That's called a euphamism, useful for propaganda. So let's put this in plain English: There are no company layoffs, there are company layoffs.
You're missing the point. The realignment is the process, the layoffs are the (potential) result. The department I work in recently had some realignments due to fundamental changes in how the business we support worked. How many layoffs? Actually none - we're hiring like mad. Realignment means change, the results can vary.
Again, instead of saying "Product" or "Service", which is *exactly* what we're discussing here, you'll use the Web 2.0 version, namely "Deliverable".
Deliverable != product
A deliverable may be an application, or a document, or a memo, or a picture, or a class library, or a building. It's a generic term to mean "thing which you're delivering to me, the customer". Generic terms are not uncommon, and are not a bad thing. Deliverable has also been around a looooong time.
I'd say it's more important to convey ideas in plain english without resorting to flowery/trendy language to sound 'hip' or 'with it'. I guess I'm just old fashioned though... (not meant as a troll)
Sounding hip has nothing to do with it. I think it's important to convey ideas in a language the other people will understand. My business manager doesn't care that I'm 30% done with the db schema and that the initial cut of the GUI is being coded up by the swing guy. She want's to know that I'm on track with the deliverables. That's shorter, to the point, and gets the message across easily. It also lets her know that I'm concentrating on actual tangible things of value to her business, not padding my resume with trendy Web2.0 crap. See how the tables can turn?
No, a deliverable is what (might be) generated as a result of a task.
Method = task
Argument = resources
Return value = deliverable
Easier?
Big brand game console developer 2: "We hyped about our new product for 2 years, released it quickly but weren't able to make enough to meet demans, seriously it's 4 months later and they're still scarce. We can't understand why people seem to think nobody is buying our new console and software titles"
Fixed.
I fall somewhere between 1 & 2. Is this specific insurance you have to buy? Does it come with your homeowner's insurance (if you have that)? If not, can you add it to your homeowner's insurance?
That's kind of hard to say, seeing as I don't have access to your policy. Maybe you should, I dunno, read it? Or just call your insurer. I know laptops are covered under my renters policy, but YMMV.
I really don't understand the number of people who carry around $2000 devices without ensuring they're insured - it's just plain dumb.
changing the network.http.pipelining to true and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 100 made an AMAZING difference in page render speeds
It also used to break GoogleMaps - not sure if it's fixed yet but I disabled pipelining a while ago for that reason.
DownThemAll is my choice for batch downloading. It's all built in, no external apps like FlashGet needed. Simple, free, supports regex, nice UI.
What you're looking for is not an unreliable, expensive GPS tracker which probably won't work. It's insurance. Simple eh?
20" is the sweet spot for LCDs at the moment, IMHO. 1600x1200 for well under $500 - look at something like the Dell 2001FP.
Agreed on Dell. I have a pair of the 20" 2001FP's and they're great. Cheap, great image quality, no dead pixels, nice features (PIP, video in, USB etc). They even work great for games (although I usually just use one at a time as dual head games don't really work very well).
Wow - you're right - I didn't know this. A quick read of the PSP manual states that you can't charge while the WLAN is in use. Weird. Oh well, you learn something new every day :)
I'd even consider it for multiplayer if the thing would charge (or even just run off the A/C adaptor) with bluetooth enabled.
PSP doesn't have bluetooth. It does have wifi though, which you can (unsurprisingly) use while charging.
Well I don't know anyone with a DS, but I have a PSP and know at least 4 other people who do also. Isn't it fun how non-indicative of reality personal experiences can be? As it happens, according to a recent article on 1up, the PSP and DS are roughly level in the US market (not so in Japan however, the PSP is at about 50% of the DS installed base there).
Errr....this is about UMD movies, not the PSP. You can do everything you mention on a PSP now by using a memory stick instead of UMD. That's really the problem with UMD, I watch video on my PSP all the time but I do it from MS not UMD.
The PSP itself really isn't a failure - go read the article on 1up the other day, they say that in the US it's essentially level with the DS in sales. That's not bad for a market newcomer.
You would have the equivalent of two Xbox 360s, and a much better OS.
And no games. Which kinda defeats the purpose.
Don't like it? Don't buy it.
Well I use close far more than maximize (I hardly ever max windows) and probably more than minimize. As for accidental closing of an app, so what? If there's anything unsaved you'll get prompted, if not then the couple of seconds it takes to reopen isn't the end of the world. I'm not saying the vista stuff is perfect, but it's not bad, and I'd still take it over OSX's "pick a color, any color" unlabelled buttons.
What's weird is that in some cases a positive and a positive give a negative:
SCO == Good (well, they were once)
SCO * Linux == Evil
Bugs are caused by developers. Period. To say anything else is just passing the buck.
Management are responsible for ensuring that policies, procedures and resources are in place for finding and fixing bugs in an expedient manner (and ensuring that the most significant ones are fixed first), but it's the developers who put them there in the first place. As a developer I know I've created plenty, as a manager I know how hard it is to handle them propely.
NB: I'm referring specifically to bugs here, i.e. where a program fails to perform as expected/required. Design or requirements defects are a whole different matter.
So let me get this straight. A DVD published by (I think) Warner, using the Intervideo authoring tools, fails to work on a player made by Apple, and this is somehow Microsoft's fault? I mean it's not like it only plays on Windows - it also plays on consumer DVD players and mplayer etc on Linux. There's exactly one player that doesn't like it - and it's made by Apple. Even if Microsoft really cared (I mean, how many people do you expect to sell their Mac and buy an XP box just to play one DVD?) how exactly would they go about doing this? If the Apple player worked right it wouldn't be possible to make a disc which didn't work on it - that's what standard's are all about.
Wow. You really don't know what you're talking about do you?