You put $50 down on a pre-order at EB. On the big day, EB has nothing left for you and you are gameless even though you 'pre ordered'.
Meanwhile, Wal mart has 25 in stock. If you buy it at Wal mart, you don't get the EB depoist back (or it's a PITA)...now you are stuck waiting for EB's second shipment, or begging for you $50 back.
Foolish to lock yourself into one store when you can just shop around on release date and buy it from whomever has stock.
Here's a tip: Try switching your XP langauge to "English (Trinidad)". See what happens to the currency settings.
Here's a second tip: English was widely spoken before America was discovered by white people. Thanks for joining the party, but you are a little late to start defining things for the rest of the English world...
Your business model is dead. I would pay as much for a record store as I would for a "previously profitable" door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales route. Both businesses became obsolete.
If your big enough, or know others in your industry in the same boat as you and can join them , set up a commercial web site. If iTunes does not carry the rare stuff you do, you may have a market online for your material. The musicians want to sell it online, your clients want to buy it.
You probably only have a few years left. Get moving now while you have a customer base and cash. Step 1 is realizing that selling CD's is a dead end. Period. Gas Stations don't make any money selling gas. They realized that and now virtually every station has a (profitable) convenient store attached. Records stores don't make any money selling records. The big chain stores have already converted half their floor space to DVD's, MP3 players, electronics and accessories. They only carry CD's to attract browsers who buy profitable items. How much revenue do you make selling MP3 players? memory cards? CD accessories? DVD's? You do sell those, right? Because your customers trust you and are intimidated by the big box stores?
You have a lot of options. Music isn't going away. Quit whining and get to work....
FYI: Cigarette lighters are banned in the US, even for domestic travel. You can't even pack one in your checked luggage if it has any fuel in it...So if this fuel cell is similar to a lighter, it will likely be banned...
I don't like the last minute 'fees' and 'surcharges' - they should just list an all inclusive price up front, it's not like they have competitors in most cases, unless you want to drive to the box office of the event venue during limited hours.
Maybe you should get your tickets earlier as then there are no last minute fees. Shipping and handling charges make sense, especially as venue pickup and international deliveries make these costs variable.
Have you bought anything from TM lately? The surcharges are astonishing, I think only Car Rentals have more surcharges than TM. Apparently it costs tickemaster $2.50 to send an email - that is what they charge if you print your tickets on your own printer. They also charge PER TICKET handling fees, like each ticket is lovingly and tenderly placed in the envelope by a highly trained technician wearing disposable velvet gloves. No way to automate that, huh? Then they charge a 'per-order' fee to 'process' the order, even though you filled our the form in the internet and they didn't actually process anything. There are no reasonable explanations for the ridiculous fees they charge. You can count on a 50% TM tax to the face value of anything you buy from them.
If I can't buy the tickets direct from the box office, I usually don't bother.
XBOX360 does not do HD-DVD. It is a plain old DVD player. No HD. Sorry, vapor-ware rumours don't count and 'add-ons' rarely sell for consoles. Even if the add-on is much less than a stand alone HD-DVD player, let's say $500. Half price. End results for Xmas 2006 shoppers:
XboX360+HDDVD pack=500+500=$1000 PS3 incl Blu-Ray = $600
UNless the HD-DVD add-on is much less than (PS3-XBox360) It doesn't make sense to buy the HD-DVD addon *and* an Xbox360...even if you already have an X360, if the PS3 is almost as cheap as the HDDVD add-on, why not go for that?
Personally I have never had a DVD player. Since I skipped the DVD generation entirely, I probably buy something of the new generation - but I need a TV first, right?:)
It's telling you immediately associated 'hell-hole' with America, when the poster did not even imply that. is that just the usual American arrogance (everything is about the U.S.), or is it fear (the poster may be right)?
You dont need a job offer to move to the UK. It's like Canada, you collect 'points' with education, work experience, languages, etc. If you have enough points you are in and can THEN look for work. That's a year, renewable visa. I know this because if you get an MBA from one of their self-defined 'top 40 MBA' programs you automatically are granted all the points you need. I happen to be getting my MBA at one of those schools in Canada...would not mind spending a few years there, as I already did 7 years in the US.
So do Sony MP3 players play MP3s now, or are they still using incompatible formats, incompatible memory, and selling for 3x the price of generic units that do the same thing?
no,yes, yes, yes
I bought a Bean fri night, playe dwith all night,brought it back sat morning. Same old sonsy shit - it ONLY plays atrac3 DRM songs. It does NOT play MP3's. It acts like a USB device, and you can see the files on it, but your MP3's get renamed 10000001.OMA, 10000002.OMA etc and are unreadable by any other system. If you copy MP3's to it, it will not recognize or play them.
and the kicker, the crappy sony software is painfully slow (4 minutes to switch from 'album' listing to 'artisit' listing...) and the player needs to be registered with sony so you can play your (now) protected material...
same old sony shit. they still dont get it. I though they did, and the sales guy at Sony Store thought they did. I showed it to him on my laptop. He is obvously tired of this complaint and really thought that sony had changed...nope
So how does the electic motor improve the energy efficiency of the internal combustion engine?
You just came out of hibernation and missed the zillions of articles, in every news source, that clearly exlain how the hybrid drve works?. In other news, the Berlin wall was taken down. And there is this new company called 'google'....
large ships dont' simply 'plug into the grid" when docked. They keep running off their own power. That is a major cause of port pollution, so there is a push on to convert ships to 'cold-iron' for loading and unloading. With cold-iron they do plug into shore power, and shut their main engines off. So far very very few (1%) of ships have this capability, it is in a pilot project at the port of Long Beach/LA right now.
So idling won't be an issue - the ships are always running anyway.
Note that 3 miles offshore will be a) easily visible, and b) not in international waters.
People that have never used NDS think AD is really great.
People that have used NDS are stunned at the HUGE loss of functionality they suffer by moving from NDS to AD and hate it, and it's stupid limitations every day.
AD 2003 is not even at NDS with Netware 4.11 level yet. it is truly astonish how petty AD - but you and many peopel liek you think it is just great.
Just wait until they integrate application publishing with it! Desktop settings! File services! The ability to replicate parts of the tree independtly! email! wow , won't that be great?? All that would put you at ~ 1999.
MS blatantly rips off the rest of the industry, I wish they would hurry up and copy NDS COMPLETLY now. Instead you get 'good engouh' AD.
Simple solution: The game randomly chooses a server for you to play on.
Yeah, just like Quake, Doom, Warcraft, etc., right? You go online to play with a few friends, but you can't play together because you are assigned a random server. Wow, that would be fun, wouldn't it? correct answer:no
A TERABYTE IS 1000G. And 1G IS A 1000M. So A TERABYTE IS 1,000,000 MEGABYTES. Right? there are 1 million documents in this database? And it's 800 terabytes? So each doc is 800m in size? 800m EACH? That's freaking huge. Even if the thing is only 8T in size (far more reasonable), each doc is still 8M in size. Again, pretty massive.
is this like that time MSFT bragged about their 1T DB of geological data, and then Oracle built the same database, with the same content using only 300G of space?
>Do you have the wherewithall to deploy and >crosstrain your users?
I am not sure the cross training is a factor.
I work in a perpetually cash strapped industry.
One of my clients did a 'study' (not scientific, but they spent a few weeks on it, with 12 people) on the migration costs from Office 97. Half the gorup migrated to Office XP and the other half migrated to OO1.0 (pretty sure it was 1.0, this was in early 2003)
They found it was easier for the end user to migrate to OO then to Office XP. Lots of confusing stuff in XP and many changes just for the sake of changing. They also scored exactly the same on the document migration process - yes XP wouldn't always get an O97 word doc right!( The spreadsheets worked 100% in XP, not very well in OO.)
They went to XP, MSFT gave them a ~$21/seat deal because they are a non-profit. Part of the deal was they had to buy a license for every seat, whether it needed Office or not. Sound familiar?
It's not a training issue as 97 and XP are APPARENTLY just as different as 97 and OO
JON
P.S. small study. meaningless. I know. But think about it...
>Since you have been sleeping under a rock for the >last 10 years, you should probably make a search >on the net for Citrix.
>>There are nothing but complaints about Citrix.
Thats your problem, not Citrix. Citrix is becoming increasingly popular in large corp environments, particularly healthcare. Many, many hospitals are 99% citrix based thin client on the floors.
If you haven't worked at at least 20 different sites that have over 1000 PC's each, you haven't worked in the target citrix market. In that case, you are not in any way qualified to comment, are you?
olds is dead. the old geezers who buy buicks don't complain as much, they are used to buying junk. Deaf people don't complain about rattles. The younger people who buy chevy/gm/pontiac compact or midsize cars do expect better, and don't get it.
Plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, or pretty much any tradesman, are expected to have their own tools.
Do you provide your own PC when you are at work?
...and they expect to get paid when they use them, if you can find a 24hr plumber, expect to pay dearly for it.
Hell, McDonalds' employees pay for their uniforms. And they are on call 24hrs a day? Do they have a deep fryer and a register at home, just in case something goes wrong with the ones at the restuarant?
Is it really that unreasonable to expect computer professionals to have a computer and internet access?
Internet access? sure, but that has nothing to do with corporate access, does it?
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You put $50 down on a pre-order at EB. On the big day, EB has nothing left for you and you are gameless even though you 'pre ordered'.
...now you are stuck waiting for EB's second shipment, or begging for you $50 back.
Meanwhile, Wal mart has 25 in stock. If you buy it at Wal mart, you don't get the EB depoist back (or it's a PITA)
Foolish to lock yourself into one store when you can just shop around on release date and buy it from whomever has stock.
JON
Wow.
Here's a tip: Try switching your XP langauge to "English (Trinidad)". See what happens to the currency settings.
Here's a second tip: English was widely spoken before America was discovered by white people. Thanks for joining the party, but you are a little late to start defining things for the rest of the English world...
JON
That would depend on where the employer is based. My friend in France just got a 8.000,00$ raise. (That's $8,000.00 in the English (American) style.)
It's entirely possible that %10 is the 'proper' way of writing 10% somewhere...and since we should not assume that the job seeker is in the US...
JON
bad assumption. H1-b's are transparent to payroll - all the usual gov't taxes, deductions, fees etc apply.
JON
Your business model is dead. I would pay as much for a record store as I would for a "previously profitable" door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales route. Both businesses became obsolete.
If your big enough, or know others in your industry in the same boat as you and can join them , set up a commercial web site. If iTunes does not carry the rare stuff you do, you may have a market online for your material. The musicians want to sell it online, your clients want to buy it.
You probably only have a few years left. Get moving now while you have a customer base and cash. Step 1 is realizing that selling CD's is a dead end. Period. Gas Stations don't make any money selling gas. They realized that and now virtually every station has a (profitable) convenient store attached. Records stores don't make any money selling records. The big chain stores have already converted half their floor space to DVD's, MP3 players, electronics and accessories. They only carry CD's to attract browsers who buy profitable items. How much revenue do you make selling MP3 players? memory cards? CD accessories? DVD's? You do sell those, right? Because your customers trust you and are intimidated by the big box stores?
You have a lot of options. Music isn't going away. Quit whining and get to work....
Move with the market or get run over.
JON
FYI: Cigarette lighters are banned in the US, even for domestic travel. You can't even pack one in your checked luggage if it has any fuel in it...So if this fuel cell is similar to a lighter, it will likely be banned...
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JON
http://www.tsa.gov/public/interweb/assetlibrary/P
Maybe you should get your tickets earlier as then there are no last minute fees. Shipping and handling charges make sense, especially as venue pickup and international deliveries make these costs variable.
Have you bought anything from TM lately? The surcharges are astonishing, I think only Car Rentals have more surcharges than TM. Apparently it costs tickemaster $2.50 to send an email - that is what they charge if you print your tickets on your own printer. They also charge PER TICKET handling fees, like each ticket is lovingly and tenderly placed in the envelope by a highly trained technician wearing disposable velvet gloves. No way to automate that, huh? Then they charge a 'per-order' fee to 'process' the order, even though you filled our the form in the internet and they didn't actually process anything. There are no reasonable explanations for the ridiculous fees they charge. You can count on a 50% TM tax to the face value of anything you buy from them.
If I can't buy the tickets direct from the box office, I usually don't bother.
JON
XBOX360 does not do HD-DVD. It is a plain old DVD player. No HD. Sorry, vapor-ware rumours don't count and 'add-ons' rarely sell for consoles. Even if the add-on is much less than a stand alone HD-DVD player, let's say $500. Half price. End results for Xmas 2006 shoppers:
:)
XboX360+HDDVD pack=500+500=$1000
PS3 incl Blu-Ray = $600
UNless the HD-DVD add-on is much less than (PS3-XBox360) It doesn't make sense to buy the HD-DVD addon *and* an Xbox360...even if you already have an X360, if the PS3 is almost as cheap as the HDDVD add-on, why not go for that?
Personally I have never had a DVD player. Since I skipped the DVD generation entirely, I probably buy something of the new generation - but I need a TV first, right?
JON
I am only posting to see my number. Heh.
JON
It's telling you immediately associated 'hell-hole' with America, when the poster did not even imply that.
is that just the usual American arrogance (everything is about the U.S.), or is it fear (the poster may be right)?
JON
You dont need a job offer to move to the UK. It's like Canada, you collect 'points' with education, work experience, languages, etc. If you have enough points you are in and can THEN look for work. That's a year, renewable visa. I know this because if you get an MBA from one of their self-defined 'top 40 MBA' programs you automatically are granted all the points you need. I happen to be getting my MBA at one of those schools in Canada...would not mind spending a few years there, as I already did 7 years in the US.
JON
no,yes, yes, yes
I bought a Bean fri night, playe dwith all night,brought it back sat morning. Same old sonsy shit - it ONLY plays atrac3 DRM songs. It does NOT play MP3's. It acts like a USB device, and you can see the files on it, but your MP3's get renamed 10000001.OMA, 10000002.OMA etc and are unreadable by any other system. If you copy MP3's to it, it will not recognize or play them.
and the kicker, the crappy sony software is painfully slow (4 minutes to switch from 'album' listing to 'artisit' listing...) and the player needs to be registered with sony so you can play your (now) protected material...
same old sony shit. they still dont get it. I though they did, and the sales guy at Sony Store thought they did. I showed it to him on my laptop. He is obvously tired of this complaint and really thought that sony had changed...nope
JON
You just came out of hibernation and missed the zillions of articles, in every news source, that clearly exlain how the hybrid drve works?. In other news, the Berlin wall was taken down. And there is this new company called 'google'....
JON
large ships dont' simply 'plug into the grid" when docked. They keep running off their own power. That is a major cause of port pollution, so there is a push on to convert ships to 'cold-iron' for loading and unloading. With cold-iron they do plug into shore power, and shut their main engines off. So far very very few (1%) of ships have this capability, it is in a pilot project at the port of Long Beach/LA right now.
So idling won't be an issue - the ships are always running anyway.
Note that 3 miles offshore will be a) easily visible, and b) not in international waters.
JON
It's being heard in court today.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050221-4
JON
For $29 dollars you can get 128k DSl from sympatico, without needing an extra phone line. Your paying $50 for dial up. Hmmm.
That' what my parents have, and it just what this guy wants. He needs to research local options.
People that have never used NDS think AD is really great.
People that have used NDS are stunned at the HUGE loss of functionality they suffer by moving from NDS to AD and hate it, and it's stupid limitations every day.
AD 2003 is not even at NDS with Netware 4.11 level yet. it is truly astonish how petty AD - but you and many peopel liek you think it is just great.
Just wait until they integrate application publishing with it! Desktop settings! File services! The ability to replicate parts of the tree independtly! email! wow , won't that be great?? All that would put you at ~ 1999.
MS blatantly rips off the rest of the industry, I wish they would hurry up and copy NDS COMPLETLY now. Instead you get 'good engouh' AD.
JON
JON
The game randomly chooses a server for you to play on.
Yeah, just like Quake, Doom, Warcraft, etc., right? You go online to play with a few friends, but you can't play together because you are assigned a random server. Wow, that would be fun, wouldn't it? correct answer:no
Duh.
There are two kids of Maxtor users - those that have lost data, and those that are about to...
JON
http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.ph p?postid=38129#poststop
for the latest. search google for the rest. they make rambus look like saints.
JON
A TERABYTE IS 1000G. And 1G IS A 1000M. So A TERABYTE IS 1,000,000 MEGABYTES. Right?
there are 1 million documents in this database? And it's 800 terabytes? So each doc is 800m in size?
800m EACH? That's freaking huge. Even if the thing is only 8T in size (far more reasonable), each doc is still 8M in size. Again, pretty massive.
is this like that time MSFT bragged about their 1T DB of geological data, and then Oracle
built the same database, with the same content using only 300G of space?
Inefficiency is nothing to brag about...or is it?
JON
>Do you have the wherewithall to deploy and >crosstrain your users?
I am not sure the cross training is a factor.
I work in a perpetually cash strapped industry.
One of my clients did a 'study' (not scientific, but they spent a few weeks on it, with 12 people) on the migration costs from Office 97. Half the gorup migrated to Office XP and the other half migrated to OO1.0 (pretty sure it was 1.0, this was in early 2003)
They found it was easier for the end user to migrate to OO then to Office XP. Lots of confusing stuff in XP and many changes just for the sake of changing. They also scored exactly the same on the document migration process - yes XP wouldn't always get an O97 word doc right!( The spreadsheets worked 100% in XP, not very well in OO.)
They went to XP, MSFT gave them a ~$21/seat deal because they are a non-profit. Part of the deal was they had to buy a license for every seat, whether it needed Office or not. Sound familiar?
It's not a training issue as 97 and XP are APPARENTLY just as different as 97 and OO
JON
P.S. small study. meaningless. I know. But think about it...
>Since you have been sleeping under a rock for the >last 10 years, you should probably make a search >on the net for Citrix.
>>There are nothing but complaints about Citrix.
Thats your problem, not Citrix. Citrix is becoming increasingly popular in large corp environments, particularly healthcare. Many, many hospitals are 99% citrix based thin client on the floors.
If you haven't worked at at least 20 different sites that have over 1000 PC's each, you haven't worked in the target citrix market. In that case, you are not in any way qualified to comment, are you?
JON
olds is dead. the old geezers who buy buicks don't complain as much, they are used to buying junk. Deaf people don't complain about rattles. The younger people who buy chevy/gm/pontiac compact or midsize cars do expect better, and don't get it.
there is only one US manufacturer, UAW.
JON
Do you provide your own PC when you are at work?
Hell, McDonalds' employees pay for their uniforms. And they are on call 24hrs a day? Do they have a deep fryer and a register at home, just in case something goes wrong with the ones at the restuarant?
Is it really that unreasonable to expect computer professionals to have a computer and internet access?
Internet access? sure, but that has nothing to do with corporate access, does it?
JON