On JACK FM this morning they mentioned that tonight at 9pm (PST) FutureShop via this link will be allowing the first several (hundred?) thousand MP3 downloads for FREE. (thereafter they will charge $1 per MP3)
yeah I'm probably going to burn karma for posting this, but what the hell...
On JACK FM this morning they mentioned that tonight at 9pm (PST) FutureShop via this link will be allowing the first several (hundred?) thousand MP3 downloads for FREE. (thereafter they will charge $1 per MP3)
yeah I'm probably going to burn karma for posting this, but what the hell...
Oh and THATS really going to make me want to rush out and buy media featuring this new technology! My house gets broken into or my car gets stolen and in addition to all the other bullshit I have to go through, on top of that I'll have to file a "stolen media report" in order to avoid getting charged for any copies that might surface! NO CHANCE IN HELL!!!
Besides I already posess most of the music I would be interested in listening to. You want to apply this to the latest crap from Brittneyslut or Jennifer Lopez? Fly at it, but IMO that shit already copy-protects itself!
I'll give you a hint - it has something to do with the word "stationary."
Only in a relative sense. The satellites in "geostationary" orbit are still moving, making one complete orbit every 24 hours (else they would fall back to earth), it's just to a person standing on the earth (which is also moving) there is no apparent movement.
Yes, they paid the built in sticker price for the OEM version, then they paid for the site license.
Yikes! That's what I like about living and working in Canada! We can actually by a complete workstation sans O/S and install whatever we like after the fact.
It's the work that we avoid... and we're all self-employed! We like to work at nothing all day!
Seriously, go self-employed and learn the miracle of billable hours! I work 15-20 billable hours a week and bill out at $60-100/hour! Overtime? Who cares!!! Overtime's a joke anyway because the govt eats most of it (oh and that's the other perk of being self-employed...lotsa writeoffs that you don't get when you work for someone else)
Well maybe that's because the americans ARE the cause of all their own terrorist problems! And no, I'm not a Canadian politican!
And yes, the americans have done some pretty shitty things throughout the world and it amazes me that this very important fact gets overlooked or dismissed. Though I guess that sort of admission doesn't really fit in if you want to bleat the "america the poor victim" tune one more time.
One of the biggest misconceptions about job search is that a job opening is like a lottery and you are one lucky sonofabitch if a company deigns to consider you for a position with them.
A job advertisment is NOT a lottery, it is an invitation to enter into a BUSINESS NEGOTIATION with them in which you exchange something they need (your skills) for something you need (dollars). You should ALWAYS have the view that they are on trial by you just as much as you are by them and you will walk away from the table if they aren't the right fit for you. NEVER adopt the demeanor of the supplicant or job-beggar.
Another thing I have to take exception to is this statement: If you don't have the right qualifications, don't apply for the job. That depends on who wrote the qualifications and how reasonable they are. Often the list is written by some HR drone who doesn't know shit from shinola, much less what UNIX is or what a router looks like or that you can't possibly have 5 years experience deploying Windows 2003! Maybe you don't exactly meet their qualification list...so what? If you think you can do the job and offer them something of value, by all means apply! I've applied for (and landed) jobs that I wasn't fully qualified for. Who knows? The other guy they're considering might be a super-qualified asshole. I'd rather train somebody I can get along with than have to deal with an asshole any day! And if some HR dork gives you grief for "wasting their time" because "you don't meet their list", politely remind them that your time is valuable too.
Actually, in England you can do just that. If you think a meal in a restaurant wasn't up to snuff, you can pay less than the price on the menu or walk out without paying at all. All you have to do is show that you had the money to pay for the meal.
I've also sent meals back (here in Canada) and have received replacements or freebies just because I bothered to complain about the poor quality. You are not obliged to pay for anything that turns out to be of a lesser quality than you were led to believe.
What, you can't afford a DVD, but you can afford a computer and broadband internet access?
Seriously, the relatively low price of a DVD, coupled the hassle of finding a quality rip of a movie I want to see and the nuisance of waiting hours (or days) to DL the rip is one of the reasons I continue to prefer buying DVDs and watch movies in theaters. I've had plenty of opportunities to DL ROTK, but I'd still rather see it in the theater first and buy the DVD later. Keep the quality of the product up, and that won't change..a lesson the recording industry still hasn't learned. Dling movies is still just a curiousity, not a preferred method of aquisition.
The Visual Effects were large, and imposing, but they were choppy and fake...
They were supposed to be because those scenes were taking place in a virtual environment, so a little choppiness is not amiss (and yes, that includes the final battle for Zion, which also took place in a virtual environment).
This is big pharaceuticals leaning on them to try and limit the ability of people to shop for perscription drugs outside the US and (gasp!) actually pay a fair price (and a price they can afford) for them!
The only reason to have a certification is to be able to prove to someone who doesn't have a clue about computers that you might know what you're doing, ie: it's something to flash the HR lepton who has concocted a bunch of hiring "qualifications" that they themselves don't understand. I've held an MCSE for nearly 5 years now and I still have yet to be asked to produce it. I'm just glad somebody else paid for it. A certification is no replacement for the problem solving skills that only experience can teach you, but try telling that to some HR drone. That's one of the reasons I decided to go the self-employed route. For some weird reason, it's a hell of a lot easier to bid a support contract for a company than it is to get hired by them, even though you may be doing the exact same thing for more money!
Actually only those of you who are condemned to life in jurisdictions ruled by the minions of RIAA need to turn off file sharing. The rest of us living in the free world don't need to do so (yet).
Oh, and the new Kazaa Lite lets you continue to share files while at the same time preventing others from listing the entire contents of your catalogue. Sure you downloaded a song from me but how many more do I have? 1? 50? 10000? You'll never know...
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... just imagine an extraterrestrial life finally reading this plaque. I can't ever imagine what a super-intelligent race could do with it.
I can. They'd finally be able to figure out where the source of all that free porn spam is located!
On JACK FM this morning they mentioned that tonight at 9pm (PST) FutureShop via this link will be allowing the first several (hundred?) thousand MP3 downloads for FREE. (thereafter they will charge $1 per MP3)
yeah I'm probably going to burn karma for posting this, but what the hell...
On JACK FM this morning they mentioned that tonight at 9pm (PST) FutureShop via this link will be allowing the first several (hundred?) thousand MP3 downloads for FREE. (thereafter they will charge $1 per MP3)
yeah I'm probably going to burn karma for posting this, but what the hell...
So use a dummy non-routable 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x address. It doesn't even have to be the same subnet as your box, it will still go nowhere.
Oh and THATS really going to make me want to rush out and buy media featuring this new technology! My house gets broken into or my car gets stolen and in addition to all the other bullshit I have to go through, on top of that I'll have to file a "stolen media report" in order to avoid getting charged for any copies that might surface! NO CHANCE IN HELL!!!
Besides I already posess most of the music I would be interested in listening to. You want to apply this to the latest crap from Brittneyslut or Jennifer Lopez? Fly at it, but IMO that shit already copy-protects itself!
Bullshit! It's divisible by three!
I'll give you a hint - it has something to do with the word "stationary."
Only in a relative sense. The satellites in "geostationary" orbit are still moving, making one complete orbit every 24 hours (else they would fall back to earth), it's just to a person standing on the earth (which is also moving) there is no apparent movement.
What is this I am seeing?!?
We're talking about Star Trek and you're all complaining about the quality of the acting?!?
Ohhh the irony!!!
does Canada value freedom and speech in all the same ways as the USA does?
I've got two words for you eh! Patriot Act
Hmmm...maybe the answer is no, Canada places a higher value on those things!
Yes, they paid the built in sticker price for the OEM version, then they paid for the site license.
Yikes! That's what I like about living and working in Canada! We can actually by a complete workstation sans O/S and install whatever we like after the fact.
Antec Sonata case.
It's the work that we avoid...
and we're all self-employed!
We like to work at nothing all day!
Seriously, go self-employed and learn the miracle of billable hours! I work 15-20 billable hours a week and bill out at $60-100/hour! Overtime? Who cares!!! Overtime's a joke anyway because the govt eats most of it (oh and that's the other perk of being self-employed...lotsa writeoffs that you don't get when you work for someone else)
Well maybe that's because the americans ARE the cause of all their own terrorist problems! And no, I'm not a Canadian politican!
And yes, the americans have done some pretty shitty things throughout the world and it amazes me that this very important fact gets overlooked or dismissed. Though I guess that sort of admission doesn't really fit in if you want to bleat the "america the poor victim" tune one more time.
can it weather a good slashdotting? Hmmmm...apparently not...
Dear Sir or Madam,
I live in Russia, kiss my hairy ass!
One of the biggest misconceptions about job search is that a job opening is like a lottery and you are one lucky sonofabitch if a company deigns to consider you for a position with them.
A job advertisment is NOT a lottery, it is an invitation to enter into a BUSINESS NEGOTIATION with them in which you exchange something they need (your skills) for something you need (dollars). You should ALWAYS have the view that they are on trial by you just as much as you are by them and you will walk away from the table if they aren't the right fit for you. NEVER adopt the demeanor of the supplicant or job-beggar.
Another thing I have to take exception to is this statement: If you don't have the right qualifications, don't apply for the job. That depends on who wrote the qualifications and how reasonable they are. Often the list is written by some HR drone who doesn't know shit from shinola, much less what UNIX is or what a router looks like or that you can't possibly have 5 years experience deploying Windows 2003! Maybe you don't exactly meet their qualification list...so what? If you think you can do the job and offer them something of value, by all means apply! I've applied for (and landed) jobs that I wasn't fully qualified for. Who knows? The other guy they're considering might be a super-qualified asshole. I'd rather train somebody I can get along with than have to deal with an asshole any day! And if some HR dork gives you grief for "wasting their time" because "you don't meet their list", politely remind them that your time is valuable too.
The correct exchange (according to The Simpsons) is:
Hey you, let's fight!
Them's fightin words!
A machine that lets me make my own Purina Cat Chow commercials. Just what I needed.
Here's a link.
Actually, in England you can do just that. If you think a meal in a restaurant wasn't up to snuff, you can pay less than the price on the menu or walk out without paying at all. All you have to do is show that you had the money to pay for the meal.
I've also sent meals back (here in Canada) and have received replacements or freebies just because I bothered to complain about the poor quality. You are not obliged to pay for anything that turns out to be of a lesser quality than you were led to believe.
What, you can't afford a DVD, but you can afford a computer and broadband internet access?
Seriously, the relatively low price of a DVD, coupled the hassle of finding a quality rip of a movie I want to see and the nuisance of waiting hours (or days) to DL the rip is one of the reasons I continue to prefer buying DVDs and watch movies in theaters. I've had plenty of opportunities to DL ROTK, but I'd still rather see it in the theater first and buy the DVD later. Keep the quality of the product up, and that won't change..a lesson the recording industry still hasn't learned. Dling movies is still just a curiousity, not a preferred method of aquisition.
The Visual Effects were large, and imposing, but they were choppy and fake...
They were supposed to be because those scenes were taking place in a virtual environment, so a little choppiness is not amiss (and yes, that includes the final battle for Zion, which also took place in a virtual environment).
This is big pharaceuticals leaning on them to try and limit the ability of people to shop for perscription drugs outside the US and (gasp!) actually pay a fair price (and a price they can afford) for them!
The only reason to have a certification is to be able to prove to someone who doesn't have a clue about computers that you might know what you're doing, ie: it's something to flash the HR lepton who has concocted a bunch of hiring "qualifications" that they themselves don't understand. I've held an MCSE for nearly 5 years now and I still have yet to be asked to produce it. I'm just glad somebody else paid for it. A certification is no replacement for the problem solving skills that only experience can teach you, but try telling that to some HR drone. That's one of the reasons I decided to go the self-employed route. For some weird reason, it's a hell of a lot easier to bid a support contract for a company than it is to get hired by them, even though you may be doing the exact same thing for more money!
Actually only those of you who are condemned to life in jurisdictions ruled by the minions of RIAA need to turn off file sharing. The rest of us living in the free world don't need to do so (yet).
Oh, and the new Kazaa Lite lets you continue to share files while at the same time preventing others from listing the entire contents of your catalogue. Sure you downloaded a song from me but how many more do I have? 1? 50? 10000? You'll never know...