unions can get slightly insane sometimes and forget about what's in the interest of the whole company, such as letting the company fire the lazy or incompetent.
Not really. You can still be fired with cause, and unions will take cuts if it means keeping the company, and their jobs, alive. What they wont do, is take big cuts so executives can get their 20% annual raise with golden parachutes for upper management.
It's worse in the States as far as retail goes. They'll sell a single disk of, say Brain of Morbius for $25. Whereas if they sold them by season at a reasonable price, I'd have at least the Pertwee, Tom Baker and McCoy stuff.
What are you basing that conspiracy theory on? Where did you get pricing information?
For the same reason a can of pop costs you 65 cents from a pop machine but 25 cents apiece if you buy a case. It's basic economics, plus the well-known greed of big software publishers (I'm looking at you, EA).
Are you suggesting that the shrinkwrap copy of the XBOX version will have features missing that the Sony version has?
I was using San Andreas as a hypothetical example, Captain Obvious Guy. As for GTA 4, it looks to be a multiplatform release, but they've only talked about downloadable expansions for the 360.
Because they'll charge a lot more, that's why. Instead of charging $30 for a mission pack, they'll split it up into smaller epsides and charge twice as much.
...if they stop to think about it. He's not against expansion packs, he's against expansion packs that get broken up into "episodes" and sold for 10x the price of the same content in an expansion pack. If you've played San Andreas, imagine if it cost $5 to unlock each city and 50 cents for every mission...it'd be about a hundred bucks for the whole game.
There were no giant online retailers when Bezos got started. There were no giant brick and mortar department stores that crushed suppliers, labor and compeditors with ruthless efficiency when Walton got in the business.
So come up with some better examples...or just keep shooting your mouth off and proving Lincon's addage about how it's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
how about all their network lines running across public land or even private land, with assistance from emminent domain? If I were a locate, state or federal official I'd start asking these asshats how much rent they plan on paying for the privledge of running their fiber on our land.
Huh, I was sure you were going to say ATI. I knew a guy who worked for Gateway's phone support about 7-10 years ago, and anytime someone would mention ATI he would fly into a 10 minute rant about what a POS company they were.
Maybe because until recently apple made all thier own hardware?
What does hardware have to do with networking protocols? And the hardware Apple has used for the last decade has been almost entirely industry standard...SCSI/ATA/Firewire/USB/PC100/DDR/PCI/AGP /Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet...
I don't work in the movie industry, but I'm willing to bet that pricing these at anything below current DVD prices won't increase revenue.
Oh, I doubt that. They wont have to pay for manufacturing, distribution with be a fraction of the cost (they aren't even paying for all the bandwidth), and the middleman with all this B&M employees will be out of the picture. This will be a stream of almost pure profit. Also, the more they drop the price, the more it will be an impulse buy, like the $5.50 bargin bin at your local Wal-Mart.
Sony and Microsoft both took big losses on the PS2 and Xbox hardware, whereas Nintendo did not. Sony might have made more money in the long run, but selling your hardware at a big loss and hoping to make it up on game licensing is a very risky business model. The only reason we're seeing the 360 is because Microsoft can afford to lose 4 billion here and there to prop up a console system. Sony can't.
It was just a matter of unplugging it, setting it face-down on a towel or something, unscrewing the compartment cover, inserting the memory, and then putting the door back on.
Not on the Rev A it wasn't.:) You had to remove a plastic panel on the back, unscrew the video & power supply cords, remove the screws holding the chasis to the monitor, pull out the chasis, remove the cpu cover, and add your memory. If you wanted to upgrade the existing 32 meg chip that came with the computer, you also had to take off the daughter card. Some of the early iMacs had plastic clips to hold in the memory that were easy to break off as well, making the slot rather useless. Some pictures and instructions here.
Which iMac? The origional form factor was a serious PITA to upgrade...generally would take you at least 20-30 minutes the first time unless you wanted a bunch of extra screws when you reassebled it. When the switched to the iLamps, though, I thought it was a simple matter of popping off a panel on the backside to put in another stick.
My high school would force everyone all the students to attend pep rallies at the school's gym before a wrestling meet or basketball game. However, you wouldn't see anything approaching that for the debate team or student government. If schools would emphasize athletics for the whole student body and give out letter jackets to the chess club, it wouldn't end derision from team athletes, but it would help imo.
...was that professors are expected to split their time between research and teaching. I had one teacher that scared me to death the first day of class because he had a Ben Stein, boring, high school math teacher sort of voice and I was sure I would be asleep inside of 3 minutes. As it turns out, he was a high school math teacher, but he turned out to be a bad ass instructor. He would periodically pause in our Data Structures class and diss various design decisions in Java.
Problem was, he just wanted to teach, and the U wanted him to also do research. So he left for some U in Alaska, and was replaced with a prof some some place in Asia who would teach AND research. While he was a nice guy, he couldn't speak English for shit.
You'd think programmers would have been smart enough to start a union already.
Too many of them are self-centered and short-sighted for this to work, however. They think that a union would hold them back, nevermind the fact that offshoring and worker disposability keeps them down a lot farther.
Example, take Thanos right. Villian, bad guy. Automatically you consider him a humanoid WMD right. Again same situation. Having him on file, does jack and or shit.
Showing my inner geek here...it wouldn't matter to Thantos. He can already go toe to toe with many of the heavies in the MU, and that's just with his natural abilities, without any powerups. He also has very advanced alien technology that would make Nimrod look like a car from the Flintstones. In his own series he even managed to hold off a fully energized Galactus (temporarily) with an energy sheild.
It's not avoiding the issue. There are lies, damn lies, statistics, and then there are really bad polls trying to masquarade as statistics.
Also, the survey results have been repeatedly confirmed over and over. Liberal reporters outnumber conservative reporters by up to a 9-to-1 ratio.
Over and over by more bad polling, and by making one of more of the following fallacies: someone is liberal if they say something opposing a conservative candidate or official, if they are to the left of Strom Thurmond, or are a Democrat. None of which are necessarily the case.
For example, when Kenneth Tomlinson, the formoer CPB chairman, was monitoring PBS for "liberal bias", his consultant tagged Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, as "liberal" for having some disagreements with the Bush administration and misgivings over Iraq. However, Hagel got a 100% conservative rating from both the Christian Coalition and the Eagle Forum that year.
On the second point, someone you would call "liberal" today is likely to be more conservative than a "conservative" 30 to 40 years ago, before the rise of think tanks and the God-gun-free market jihad. "This country is going so far to the right you are not even going to recognize it." Know who said that? John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general. Know when he said it? 1970. Just because someone is not a rabbid neocon or a hardcore conservative does not make them "liberal". Which leads to....
9-to-1 voted for Clinton vs Bush Sr.
Oh, please. Clinton famously made many Republican issues his own during both his campaigns and as president. Balancing the budget (remember when the GOP was for a balanced budget amendment?), welfare reform, free trade, defining marriage as between a man and a woman, putting more cops on the street, and COPA. Democrat != liberal.
And your "journalists" argument is bullshit for a third reason: by focusing only on reporters (of which there are a good more than 10,000) you ignore the most conservative part of the media: talk radio. This also allows you to ignore the talking heads on Fox and the pundits on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. And even if you are right, you are still wrong, because media owners call the shots, and the great majority of those are conservative, especially the big outlets. And if repoters are so liberal, then why did they have a massive hate on for the Clintons, Dean and Gore while having a love affair with Bush?
Ted Turner is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.
CNN is a fraction of the news media, and Turner hasn't had anything to do with it for years.
He thought the 9-11 terrorists were "brave men"
They certainally were brave, just as the Pentagon was a legitimate military target. The fact that they were murdering bastards who ended the lives of thousands of innocent people does nothing to change the fact that it took balls of steel to do what they did.
and thought the world would be better if Al Gore was elected.
Of course it would have been. 9/11 might have actually been prevented had Gore become president, as he would have paid more attention to the warnings put out by Clinton administration officials. We are of course dealing in "what if's" here, but is is very likely that Gore's AG would have been more concerned with terrorists than covering up boobies on statues in the DOJ. We also wouldn't have added a couple trillion dollars to the national debt while passing more and more tax breaks for the super rich, while silently depending on the AMT snaring more and more of the middle class to offset even larger defecits down the road. We also wouldn't have gone into Iraq and lost over 2,000 more American lives based on the piss poor evidence that Bush used. So, yes: the world would be a better place with Gore in office.
But back to CNN. The CNN that routinely gives conservatives like Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck their own shows while not doin
Then I load it all up into iTunes over a samba share. It's pretty slow importing the songs the first time, but fast enough after that. I much prefer having it organized this way over the iTunes way (artist --> album) so I don't have 1,000 folders to search through.
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unions can get slightly insane sometimes and forget about what's in the interest of the whole company, such as letting the company fire the lazy or incompetent.
Not really. You can still be fired with cause, and unions will take cuts if it means keeping the company, and their jobs, alive. What they wont do, is take big cuts so executives can get their 20% annual raise with golden parachutes for upper management.
It's worse in the States as far as retail goes. They'll sell a single disk of, say Brain of Morbius for $25. Whereas if they sold them by season at a reasonable price, I'd have at least the Pertwee, Tom Baker and McCoy stuff.
What are you basing that conspiracy theory on? Where did you get pricing information?
For the same reason a can of pop costs you 65 cents from a pop machine but 25 cents apiece if you buy a case. It's basic economics, plus the well-known greed of big software publishers (I'm looking at you, EA).
Are you suggesting that the shrinkwrap copy of the XBOX version will have features missing that the Sony version has?
I was using San Andreas as a hypothetical example, Captain Obvious Guy. As for GTA 4, it looks to be a multiplatform release, but they've only talked about downloadable expansions for the 360.
Because they'll charge a lot more, that's why. Instead of charging $30 for a mission pack, they'll split it up into smaller epsides and charge twice as much.
...if they stop to think about it. He's not against expansion packs, he's against expansion packs that get broken up into "episodes" and sold for 10x the price of the same content in an expansion pack. If you've played San Andreas, imagine if it cost $5 to unlock each city and 50 cents for every mission...it'd be about a hundred bucks for the whole game.
Free markets don't tolerate fools or monopolies gladly.
Of course they do, that's how non-utility monopolies rise in the first place.
You are a partisan hack of the economics type. Where is PoliticalTrollOptOut When you need him
I just wish I could go back in time and cancel 30 years if Scaife donations to various think tanks that advance this sort of nonsense.
There were no giant online retailers when Bezos got started. There were no giant brick and mortar department stores that crushed suppliers, labor and compeditors with ruthless efficiency when Walton got in the business.
So come up with some better examples...or just keep shooting your mouth off and proving Lincon's addage about how it's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
how about all their network lines running across public land or even private land, with assistance from emminent domain? If I were a locate, state or federal official I'd start asking these asshats how much rent they plan on paying for the privledge of running their fiber on our land.
Yes, Cirrus Logic, I'm looking at you.
Huh, I was sure you were going to say ATI. I knew a guy who worked for Gateway's phone support about 7-10 years ago, and anytime someone would mention ATI he would fly into a 10 minute rant about what a POS company they were.
Maybe because until recently apple made all thier own hardware?
P /Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet...
What does hardware have to do with networking protocols? And the hardware Apple has used for the last decade has been almost entirely industry standard...SCSI/ATA/Firewire/USB/PC100/DDR/PCI/AG
I don't work in the movie industry, but I'm willing to bet that pricing these at anything below current DVD prices won't increase revenue.
Oh, I doubt that. They wont have to pay for manufacturing, distribution with be a fraction of the cost (they aren't even paying for all the bandwidth), and the middleman with all this B&M employees will be out of the picture. This will be a stream of almost pure profit. Also, the more they drop the price, the more it will be an impulse buy, like the $5.50 bargin bin at your local Wal-Mart.
Sony and Microsoft both took big losses on the PS2 and Xbox hardware, whereas Nintendo did not. Sony might have made more money in the long run, but selling your hardware at a big loss and hoping to make it up on game licensing is a very risky business model. The only reason we're seeing the 360 is because Microsoft can afford to lose 4 billion here and there to prop up a console system. Sony can't.
It was just a matter of unplugging it, setting it face-down on a towel or something, unscrewing the compartment cover, inserting the memory, and then putting the door back on.
:) You had to remove a plastic panel on the back, unscrew the video & power supply cords, remove the screws holding the chasis to the monitor, pull out the chasis, remove the cpu cover, and add your memory. If you wanted to upgrade the existing 32 meg chip that came with the computer, you also had to take off the daughter card. Some of the early iMacs had plastic clips to hold in the memory that were easy to break off as well, making the slot rather useless. Some pictures and instructions here.
Not on the Rev A it wasn't.
Apparently, the debate was settled in court. Apple Computer can use the Apple name and the Apple Computer logo on the iTunes Music Store.
But they don't use the logo on the store and the only mention of Apple you can find is a copyright notice at the bottom of the page.
True, any amateur can try, but apple will void your warranty if they found out you opened your mini.
Where do they say that?
Which iMac? The origional form factor was a serious PITA to upgrade...generally would take you at least 20-30 minutes the first time unless you wanted a bunch of extra screws when you reassebled it. When the switched to the iLamps, though, I thought it was a simple matter of popping off a panel on the backside to put in another stick.
They should have worked more on low cost clustering, imo, and they definetly should have bought Nvidia.
Employee turnover will kill them just as quickly as striking.
Not with an abundant labor pool and the majority of companies in the industry having the same policies, it wont. This is why we need unions.
My high school would force everyone all the students to attend pep rallies at the school's gym before a wrestling meet or basketball game. However, you wouldn't see anything approaching that for the debate team or student government. If schools would emphasize athletics for the whole student body and give out letter jackets to the chess club, it wouldn't end derision from team athletes, but it would help imo.
...was that professors are expected to split their time between research and teaching. I had one teacher that scared me to death the first day of class because he had a Ben Stein, boring, high school math teacher sort of voice and I was sure I would be asleep inside of 3 minutes. As it turns out, he was a high school math teacher, but he turned out to be a bad ass instructor. He would periodically pause in our Data Structures class and diss various design decisions in Java.
Problem was, he just wanted to teach, and the U wanted him to also do research. So he left for some U in Alaska, and was replaced with a prof some some place in Asia who would teach AND research. While he was a nice guy, he couldn't speak English for shit.
You'd think programmers would have been smart enough to start a union already.
Too many of them are self-centered and short-sighted for this to work, however. They think that a union would hold them back, nevermind the fact that offshoring and worker disposability keeps them down a lot farther.
Example, take Thanos right. Villian, bad guy. Automatically you consider him a humanoid WMD right. Again same situation. Having him on file, does jack and or shit.
Showing my inner geek here...it wouldn't matter to Thantos. He can already go toe to toe with many of the heavies in the MU, and that's just with his natural abilities, without any powerups. He also has very advanced alien technology that would make Nimrod look like a car from the Flintstones. In his own series he even managed to hold off a fully energized Galactus (temporarily) with an energy sheild.
It's not avoiding the issue. There are lies, damn lies, statistics, and then there are really bad polls trying to masquarade as statistics.
Also, the survey results have been repeatedly confirmed over and over. Liberal reporters outnumber conservative reporters by up to a 9-to-1 ratio.
Over and over by more bad polling, and by making one of more of the following fallacies: someone is liberal if they say something opposing a conservative candidate or official, if they are to the left of Strom Thurmond, or are a Democrat. None of which are necessarily the case.
For example, when Kenneth Tomlinson, the formoer CPB chairman, was monitoring PBS for "liberal bias", his consultant tagged Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, as "liberal" for having some disagreements with the Bush administration and misgivings over Iraq. However, Hagel got a 100% conservative rating from both the Christian Coalition and the Eagle Forum that year.
On the second point, someone you would call "liberal" today is likely to be more conservative than a "conservative" 30 to 40 years ago, before the rise of think tanks and the God-gun-free market jihad. "This country is going so far to the right you are not even going to recognize it." Know who said that? John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general. Know when he said it? 1970. Just because someone is not a rabbid neocon or a hardcore conservative does not make them "liberal". Which leads to....
9-to-1 voted for Clinton vs Bush Sr.
Oh, please. Clinton famously made many Republican issues his own during both his campaigns and as president. Balancing the budget (remember when the GOP was for a balanced budget amendment?), welfare reform, free trade, defining marriage as between a man and a woman, putting more cops on the street, and COPA. Democrat != liberal.
And your "journalists" argument is bullshit for a third reason: by focusing only on reporters (of which there are a good more than 10,000) you ignore the most conservative part of the media: talk radio. This also allows you to ignore the talking heads on Fox and the pundits on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. And even if you are right, you are still wrong, because media owners call the shots, and the great majority of those are conservative, especially the big outlets. And if repoters are so liberal, then why did they have a massive hate on for the Clintons, Dean and Gore while having a love affair with Bush?
Ted Turner is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.
CNN is a fraction of the news media, and Turner hasn't had anything to do with it for years.
He thought the 9-11 terrorists were "brave men"
They certainally were brave, just as the Pentagon was a legitimate military target. The fact that they were murdering bastards who ended the lives of thousands of innocent people does nothing to change the fact that it took balls of steel to do what they did.
and thought the world would be better if Al Gore was elected.
Of course it would have been. 9/11 might have actually been prevented had Gore become president, as he would have paid more attention to the warnings put out by Clinton administration officials. We are of course dealing in "what if's" here, but is is very likely that Gore's AG would have been more concerned with terrorists than covering up boobies on statues in the DOJ. We also wouldn't have added a couple trillion dollars to the national debt while passing more and more tax breaks for the super rich, while silently depending on the AMT snaring more and more of the middle class to offset even larger defecits down the road. We also wouldn't have gone into Iraq and lost over 2,000 more American lives based on the piss poor evidence that Bush used. So, yes: the world would be a better place with Gore in office.
But back to CNN. The CNN that routinely gives conservatives like Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck their own shows while not doin
genre --> artist --> album for me.
Then I load it all up into iTunes over a samba share. It's pretty slow importing the songs the first time, but fast enough after that. I much prefer having it organized this way over the iTunes way (artist --> album) so I don't have 1,000 folders to search through.