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yellojktI’m a long time fan of Apple products, and prefer to exist in the Apple ecosystem. And that’s not going to change—I’m going to be using an iPhone 10 years from now, I have no doubt.
However, there is one area where I envy the Android-toting rebels and misfits: Google maps for Android. It is light-years ahead of the map functionality on iOS. It just is.
3D models of city areas, information on the indoors of certain places, restroom information, etc. Not to mention, vector data so it’s wicked fast and much easier on your dataplan. Sigh.
Ah, well. I’ve got nothing to complain about. I long wished for a device that combined music player, telephone, and PDA, and now I have it—plus it’s also a still camera and a video camera and a video game device! And an acceptable GPS. I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: I feel blessed to have been born when I was. But I still would like to see Google Maps for Android on iOS. But, I won’t, because they’re competing or something.
I have many favorite movies. One of them is Fight Club.
— KW
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I admire apple's interface and shocking track record for innovation, but my android phone fits my needs better (including pricing and less vendor lock-in). And there are things it does better.
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Fight Club is a seriously disturbed movie. It's violent pornography.
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wrong movie sorry!
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Oh wait, it IS. LOL Fooled by the subtitles
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Google Maps is a killer app. I also love gmail integration since Apple can never make a e-mail client worth anything.
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"Europe ramps up rescue fund, may turn to IMF" http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pressure-mounts-euro… ("If there's something strange, in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call . . . TIM GEITHNER!")
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Joke of the Day:Best friends graduated from medical school at the same time and decided that, in spite of two different specialties, they would open a practice together to share office space and personnel. Dr. Smith was the psychiatrist and Dr. Jones was the proctologist; they put up a sign reading: "Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones: Hysterias and Posteriors".The town council was livid and insisted they change it. So, the docs changed it to read: "Schizoids and Hemorrhoids". This was also not acceptable, so they again changed the sign. "Catatonics and High Colonics" – No go. Next, they tried "Manic Depressives and Anal Retentives" – thumbs down again. Then came "Minds and Behinds" – still no good. Another attempt resulted in "Lost Souls and Butt Holes" – unacceptable again! So they tried "Analysis and Anal Cysts" – not a chance. "Nuts and Butts" – no way. "Freaks and Cheeks" – still no good. "Loons and Moons" – forget it. Almost at their wit's end, the docs finally came up with: "Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones – Specializing in Odds and Ends". Everyone loved it.
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"Fight Club is a seriously disturbed movie. It's violent pornography. "If you want disturbing, watch Se7en.
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Hmmm, since we are planning to switch to iPhones shortly, I am bummed that they don't compare to Google Maps, which indeed does rule. I love it. (But it can be glitchy in cities, very glitchy.)Having had a spanking new Windows notebook for a few weeks now, I have to say that Mac also seems like garbage to me now. Maybe I'm nuts. But I'm no longer so impressed.
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Work on Macs and PCs all day. Prefer the Mac for most things, but the enterprise side isn't there. For ease of use and superior interface design, Macs win, hands down. Also, working constantly on Mac and Windows servers, it's clear that Apple loves its users while Microsoft wants to give their users migraines and make our heads explode. Spent a fair chunk of today fighting with 2008 server. So I definitely know which interface I think is garbage. ;)Alas, Apple is abandoning the enterprise, and we are the enterprise.
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I'm a total PC girl; I still can't wrap my head around the concept of a single button mouse.
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"For ease of use and superior interface design, Macs win, hands down."Not my experience with this new Windows notebook I've typing on. It slays our fancy Mac, which is just as glitchy as our old PC, too. I wouldn't have a clue about servers except that I am pretty sure our whole system is outsourced to the same monkey brigade that runs PL. They are a dedicate bunch–dedicated to ruining our lives and careers. Maybe Bill Gates helps them."I still can't wrap my head around the concept of a single button mouse."I want to bash that thing aginst the wall every time. A mouse that does neat tricks with one button, except that it is impossible to remember the finger moves. Good thinking.
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Hey, qb!How was your Thanksgiving?
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As a Windows System Admin, I believe Microsoft OS design peaked from an administrator perspective with Windows XP & Windows Server 2003. I do not believe Microsoft has handled the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit well with Windows Vista/7 & Server 2008. Ideally, Windows XP & Server 2003 would have been the last 32 bit operating systems Microsoft produced and Windows 7 & Server 2008 would have been released in 64 bit only. With regards to Mac's, I've been pretty happy with the Intel based ones coupled with OS X version 10.4 & newer. I believe Mac has done it's users a service with the evolutionary approach to the OS upgrades in OS X versus the Windows changes from XP through Vista and Windows 7 where Microsoft hasn't really simplified anything as much as they have obfuscated the complexity that is still there.
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"I'm a total PC girl; I still can't wrap my head around the concept of a single button mouse. "You can always plug in a multi button USB mouse into a Mac and configure it in System Preferences.
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jnc: And I would do that why?????? 🙂
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I support PC 99% of the time. I have supported Macs, and I don't like 'em.I also don't like Vista, but I love W7! And Office 2010! Still learning the ins and outs, but no worries; as soon as I know all of that, there will be a new OS.
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Not a fan of Vista. Of course, I used XP forever. I also find Windows 7 more usable that previous incarnations of Windows. Alas, most of my time spent down in the muck is on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Servers. Ugh! No fun. I'd much prefer OS X Servers . . . but Apple has pretty much abandoned OS X Server for a "server components" package for Lion, which I haven't touched yet, and abandoned the X-Serves. And come up with no suitable alternative, essentially vacating the enterprise market (given how poorly their directory solution performed at enterprise levels compared to Active Directory, I'm not surprised). Anytime you support one thing 99% of the time and something else 1% of the time, you're not going to like that 1%. Familiarity is important. I still miss the Amiga. as soon as I know all of that, there will be a new OSOne of the things I like about the Mac is the overall consistency of the interface. There are changes, usually for the better (not always) but the interface guidelines are logical and user-centric, and it makes for a better overall experience in many areas. Moving between different iterations between Windows or Windows Server is often like moving between different platforms, where half of everything is moved or retitled in order to avoid legal hassles over copyright. It's a difference in philosophy, and without a crazy person on the top to impose order Apple products are on their way to losing interface consistency (this happened under Sculley during the 90s, too). But, like the Amiga, I will remember the old days fondly.Apples Webkit still makes for an excellent browser base. Google uses it for their browser!
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QB: Not my experience with this new Windows notebook I've typing on. It slays our fancy Mac, which is just as glitchy as our old PC, too.Well, mileage may vary. If you had to jump back and forth between 2003 and 2008 Server, and then develop on X Serves, you might feel differently. Or support 20,000 Macs and 5000 PCs and guess which require a greater quantity of support. 😉 Goose: I'm a total PC girl; I still can't wrap my head around the concept of a single button mouse.Well, once your alternate timeline joins us in the mid-90s, you too will be able to use a multi-button mouse, with scroll wheel, on the Mac. Even in Apple's current mice, they can be configured for two buttons, given which side you press on. Even the trackpad on my Mac is "two button"–press on the left side, it's a left click. Press on the right side, it's a right click. Works fine. Apple systems (including their mice) have supported two-button configurations for about a decade now. The Magic Mouse is interesting, but tends to take me places I don't want to go. I think the scroll-ball was the better system. At home, I still use my two-button Logitech with scroll-wheel. Works great, and, frankly, I still like it better than any of my Apple mice.
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Hi Michi,Thanksgiving was good if a bit same-old, same-old. A little anticlimactic around here. But my brother was forced by my sister-in-law to end his holiday Scrooge strike of last year, so that was good! Hope yours was good too.
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You computer geeks are talking Greek now. I am more like a hammer and nail guy.
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jnc4p: I believe Mac has done it's users a service with the evolutionary approach to the OS upgrades in OS X versus the Windows changes from XP through Vista and Windows 7 where Microsoft hasn't really simplified anything as much as they have obfuscated the complexity that is still thereThis is especially true when you compare Microsoft's tiers of simultaneously released products. One server product puts half of everything someplace different (and often accessed in entirely different ways). Just crazy. Later I'll look up the video comparing Microsoft package design to Apple package design–and internal video that was developed by Microsoft as an education tool about how ineffective their package design was.
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Taroya: Have you been in contact with Robert Half? Those folks are always emailing me, asking me if I know anybody looking for work in IT. My guy is local but I think they do placement nationwide.
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On our PCs I jumped from XPsp3 to 7 and 7 has been solid out of the box – first time in my experience with Microsoft.OT- Ezra Klein writes this morning:"On almost every measure you can think of, extending unemployment insurance makes more sense then extending the payroll tax cut. Over at TaxVox, for instance, Howard Gleckman writes that if you extend the payroll tax cut, "many relatively high-income workers—who are more likely to save rather than spend some of this windfall—would benefit. And if the idea is to boost the economy by increasing demand for goods and services, giving the money to savers isn’t helpful." Not so for unemployment insurance, which is targeted to people who are unemployed, and need the money to stay afloat."********I agree, on first consideration.
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Pardon me, my liberal friends, while I poke some fun at Obama, mainly for Scott's amusement.He refers here to the English Embassy in Iran as having been stormed, then "corrects" to Embassy of the United Kingdom, missing the ball both times if I am not mistaken. If Bush had said it, or Palin, Bachmann, Quayle, Cain ….
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qb:They are generally referred to as "British embassies", but I do believe the full, official name is the Emabassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So I don't think we can give O too much grief. As gaffes go, he's done a whole lot worse.
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I imagine we'll be hearing from ashot soon. Yesterday was birth day if nothing changed prior to that.
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"Microsoft hasn't really simplified anything as much as they have obfuscated the complexity that is still there."well put. its still, after all these years, not a very well thought out OS.
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"On almost every measure you can think of, extending unemployment insurance makes more sense then extending the payroll tax cut."If those are the only options, sure. I'd like to think those aren't the only options.
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bsimon: "well put. its still, after all these years, not a very well thought out OS"I think what is most problematic (and this is true of Office as well) is the inconsistency between versions (and this includes almost simultaneous versions of the operating system: Business Server versus IIS versus XP of almost identical time periods suffer from radical differences in how you do the exact same thing. Not to mention, IIS was never as stable or robust, in my opinion, as OSX Server or pick-your-flavor-of-Linux in terms of web hosting. I'd prefer to run OSX server pulling Oracle or MSSQL Server data from a Windows box via ODBC, rather than running IIS or even Apache native on the Windows box. OSX Server has real limits in regards to scalability, though. There's a reason why Apple's own iCloud, and various server farms that power iTunes and the App store, are Linux based. But there's always been a contingent in Apple that has wanted to get out of the enterprise computing market entirely. BTW, Apple sold us a million bucks worth of server hardware, software, and services (just before abandoning the server market), without being clear on if what they were selling us had any prayer of actually working. Which, as it turns out, it did not. So, my critique of various computer platforms is tempered with real world experience on all ends. 😉
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Eventually, unemployment insurance has to end. Both because it is insurance and isn't designed to pay out in perpetuity. And because I can tell you from experience, when collecting unemployment, I tended to get my new job just about the time the unemployment ran out. There's something about being at the end of the clock that helps light a fire under some folks. I can't recall, but I believe there are some statistics on the same thing: that many folks end up finally taking a job shortly before or shortly after their benefits expire.
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FYI — ash posted in the morning report.
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I'm quite accustomed to using multi-button mice on my Mac. Nothing PC land has comes close to the trackpad. Going back to a mouse seems like a step back into the 20th century. United Kingdom is the correct name to be used for the nation consisting of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. There are, however, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Ireland football teams.BB
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