On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Stephen Brownfield
wrote:
> My wife would like to watch videos (MP4s) in slow motion on her MacBook Pro
> (OS 10.5.7). Her default player is QuickTime. I know she can watch them in
> slow motion by slowing dragging the movie progress triangle, but is there a
> w
> According to stats last year, 74 million people buy and read daily
> newspapers. That's not chump change. You really can't be well informed
> without reading the news. Radio, TV, Internet don't have the important
> details, especially for local news.
That was last year. Depending on your paper,
> There was only one problem: the IT "professionals" did not know what
> the hell they were talking about.
>
> Management now reaps the whirlwind. Conveniently they blame the
> economy. Bad managers always do.
Truly amazing. Not your shaggy dog story, but your stubborn refusal to
acknowledge rea
According to stats last year, 74 million people buy and read daily
newspapers. That's not chump change. You really can't be well informed
without reading the news. Radio, TV, Internet don't have the important
details, especially for local news.
I have several subscriptions--news, econ, tech, s
The *netbook* is a niche product
Accordingly, some posters have theorized that there are some netbooks
out there that are not crap. They also quoted prices for such
non-crappy netbooks that were close to the price of the MBA.
Yeah. That was Betty. An Apple-head.
I'm not an Apple head, not e
On Mon, 25 May 2009 21:20:21 -0400, t.piwowar wrote:
>On May 25, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
>
>> So what, indeed. My original gripe was with Tom. He whines about
>> how useless netbooks are then lavishes glowing praise on the Air
>> that fit perfectly with netbooks. He's the one that
> > So what, indeed. My original gripe was with Tom. He whines about
> > how useless netbooks are then lavishes glowing praise on the Air
> > that fit perfectly with netbooks. He's the one that brought up
> > pricing. I just reminded him who it was (the Apple-head thing was
> > less about Betty tha
On May 25, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
So what, indeed. My original gripe was with Tom. He whines about
how useless netbooks are then lavishes glowing praise on the Air
that fit perfectly with netbooks. He's the one that brought up
pricing. I just reminded him who it was (the Apple-
Quoting Andy Gallant :
Whether or not that last statement below was written possibly with
tongue in cheek, I'm glad to see Betty's missives appear on this list.
Hey. I'm with you. Betty's da bomb.
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Quoting "Eric S. Sande" :
Yeah. That was Betty. An Apple-head.
So what. She isn't afraid to say what she thinks and that is a
So what, indeed. My original gripe was with Tom. He whines about how
useless netbooks are then lavishes glowing praise on the Air that fit
perfectly with netbook
Management now reaps the whirlwind. Conveniently they blame the
economy. Bad managers always do.
You can blame whomever you like. Good managers do the job and
we don't have to apologize for what we do.
If you think this stuff is easy you need to try running it.
It isn't easy and it mostly
On May 25, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Now you're just making things up.
Of course, because I specialize in working with the publishing
industry, by WFB rules I'm disqualified.
Perhaps a new slogan for M$: only the ignorant need apply.
Several newspapers and magazines that are "ho
Whether or not that last statement below was written possibly with
tongue in cheek, I'm glad to see Betty's missives appear on this list.
Myself, I wish there was less of the unnecessary ad hominem/ad feminam
stuff (yes, I know Wikipedia says it's a mistaken neologism!) that IMHO
there is too
> That's what happens when the spreadsheet guys do "rollups." You get
> management that knows nothing about the business they pretend manage,
> excessive centralization, a corporate monoculture, and the high
> probability of a mass die off. You just saw the results of this is
> the financial sector
My wife would like to watch videos (MP4s) in slow motion on her MacBook
Pro (OS 10.5.7). Her default player is QuickTime. I know she can watch
them in slow motion by slowing dragging the movie progress triangle, but
is there a way to have it just play at a slower speed? Does she need to
be u
Yeah. That was Betty. An Apple-head.
So what. She isn't afraid to say what she thinks and that is a
good thing in my book.
As long as we seem to be applying labels, try me. I think that
as an OS and platform independent guy I'm at least qualified
to render an opinion.
The netbooks that ex
That's perfect!
Thanks Steve.
phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jordan wrote:
Thanks both!
There is also an app named "SurplusMeter" for the Mac that will do
what you want. It will maintain a tally of your usage even if you
routinely turn off the compute
On May 25, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
*All* the businesses in the same industry going under all at the
same time?
That's what happens when the spreadsheet guys do "rollups." You get
management that knows nothing about the business they pretend manage,
excessive centralization, a
On May 25, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
Yeah. That was Betty. An Apple-head.
Yes, somebody who knows what they are talking about.
Oh I forgot, the latest WFB mantra: anybody who knows what they are
talking about is disqualified.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jordan wrote:
> Thanks both!
There is also an app named "SurplusMeter" for the Mac that will do
what you want. It will maintain a tally of your usage even if you
routinely turn off the computer.
Steve
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Quoting "t.piwowar" :
On May 25, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
The *netbook* is a niche product
Accordingly, some posters have theorized that there are some netbooks
out there that are not crap. They also quoted prices for such
non-crappy netbooks that were close to the price of the MBA
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM, mike wrote:
> Well see...the problem is, Tom *hates* anything not Apple...
Now, that statement is completely untrue, cannot be substantiated by
a viewing of the archives of this forum, and Mr. Piwowar, as
opinionated as he may seem to be, is undeserving of such
> It is not uncommon to have businesses do poorly because management is
> bad at math.
*All* the businesses in the same industry going under all at the same time?
That must have been one lousy year for MBA grads.
Is this Gitmo logic? It seems awfully tortured.
It's not that the business model is failing and that consumers are
divesting
themselves of archaic information delivery methods and using other
means of
gathering information now, but that business owners wanted to see
their
investments fail and not make a positive return.
It is not uncomm
Thanks both!
I should have thought of looking for the information in my router, and I
should have checked Activity Monitor for the information more carefully.
I don't like the whole Dashboard/Widgets concept, but istat nano is a
cool one. As with most widgets, the info it displays and the inf
> Another example of excessive greed ruining a good thing. As you say,
> newspapers were at a stable place between expenses and revenues.
> Owners made a reasonable living. The greedy conglomerates wanted more
> and didn't care about the long-term consequences of their short-term
> greed. They star
> Accordingly, some posters have theorized that there are some netbooks
> out there that are not crap. They also quoted prices for such non-
> crappy netbooks that were close to the price of the MBA.
That's true, if $329 is close to $1,799.
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On May 25, 2009, at 11:05 AM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Main problem with many of the good newspapers has been conglomos--
ownership by corporate entities that have no interest in
publications other than making a profit. A 10% profit for a
newspaper is OK, but conglomos want 30% profit. Solutions? Sta
On May 25, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Jordan wrote:
On the Mac, is there a way to see how much internet I am getting?
Or is there a tool or program I can download? I'm thinking of
getting one of the wireless devices from Verizon so I can have
internet on the road and I want to see if I can get by wi
On May 25, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
The *netbook* is a niche product
Accordingly, some posters have theorized that there are some netbooks
out there that are not crap. They also quoted prices for such non-
crappy netbooks that were close to the price of the MBA.
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Well see...the problem is, Tom *hates* anything not Apple...so the ultra
portable niche product stripped of anything unnecessary that does not say
Apple is a waste of hardware...stick that happy mac logo on it and indeed
it's a perfect machine.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
iStat nano should do what you need, only caveat is that I believe it resets
on restarts. Put you mac to sleep and it should keep counting.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Jordan wrote:
> On the Mac, is there a way to see how much internet I am getting? Or is
> there a tool or program I can dow
Who complained about it?
Lauren complained bitterly.
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Yes, it's related to computers, sortakinda.
The print media scrambles to remain relevant in the information singularity
age. Michael Kinsley moons Time magazine on the way out the door and posts
an overly-long, but spot on, critique of Newsweek's new model, which is to
tell the booges to piss of
>
> It may be more than enough machine for a journalist. I was listing the
> complaints I heard elsewhere.
David Pogue tests software, lots of it. He doesn't just observe and
write about tech. He was in on the ground floor. He's also a composer,
writing music, and scores for shows--on his Mac
On the Mac, is there a way to see how much internet I am getting? Or is
there a tool or program I can download? I'm thinking of getting one of
the wireless devices from Verizon so I can have internet on the road and
I want to see if I can get by with a 250Mb limit.
Thanks
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Quoting "t.piwowar" :
I've heard runs hot, and slower than other Macs. No real experience on my
part. The Air is the machine you give the hands off CEO who doesn't do all
that much with it.
The Air is a niche product, an "ultra portable" laptop. It was stripped
of anything unnecessary so th
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