Your phone book, as you pointed out, does not specifically list only one group of people. It basically lists all people.
This delegate list was published to make these delegates targets of attack, whether physical or non-physical. The purpose of this would be to attempt to pressure the delegates into changing their votes, and by proxy to pressure delegates not listed to also change their votes lest they become targets.
Whether it's illegal or not, it certainly stinks. It's a sad situation when people feel they must create pressure or threat like this in order to see their political party win. Of course to those of us who fall in the middle ("moderate") of the two parties, it pushes us AWAY from the freaks who do these things.
So on the far left we have the radical SUV torchers, the information warriors (posting delegates' information), the "hackers" who vow to disrupt RNC technical services, the "make no mention of God anywhere, at any time" athiests, and of course the "you make more than 50k, you're rich! give it to us!" people, etc. etc.
On the far right we have the "no abortion under any cirumstances" folks, the "Christian is the only religion" folks, and the "police state is safer" folks.
Call me a pragmatist, or call me short sighted, but the former group scares me more personally, and immediately. I don't want my vehicles burned, my personal info posted, my money taken away (although you're welcome to all my debt if you like).
California Digital bought VA's hardware line when VA got out of the hardware business.
Did you try contacting them?
The six servers (of three flavors) that I had were all Intel server motherboards, Intel CPUs, popular raid controllers (I forget brand/model), and VXA standard tape drives. What's confusing about that?
Yeah I know, I was overly harsh. But if memory serves me correctly, those advanced features really didn't come into play until you had built structures, tools, and perhaps raised livestock.
MS's only hope at a valid argument for why MS Office is cheaper than OO is something like "well since we know you're already using MS Office, if you moved to OO you would save on the license, but you it would cost you $$$ in retraining your users."
Of course that's based on the incorrect assumption that most users actually USE many of the features of MS Office. Most typical office drones could use Wordpad and never know the difference (between MS Office), except that Wordpad wouldn't do wacky automatic shit to them that they'd have to keep manually undoing.
Even the MS argument, valid as it may be for their twisted scenario, would break down after one upgrade cycle. OO license savings + retraining cost might theoretically be > than MS Office license cost, but come next upgrade cycle, there will no longer be a retraining issue. So then it will simply be a question of Free versus $$.
It all reminds me of the illogical (but hopeful) arguments a child will give for why they must have something, or why they must not do something. It's somewhat comical when it's a child, but it's really sad and embarassing when it's an "adult" corporation. Something about it reminds me of politics too...
the US is not the superpower it once thought it was. I worry that Bush is isolating us from the rest of the world with his tough talk. Tough talk is necessary sometimes, but are we actually able to back it up?
Depends on how careful we want to be. The Iraq war has been an extreme effort to kill only the "bad guys". This great care has cost the US many good soldiers and plenty of good equipment.
It's rather difficult though to kill the bad guy when he's dressed like the civilian, standing in a crowd of civilians, and firing at you. It's also difficult to blow up his mobile AA installations when they're located in sensitive areas (like around hospitals, schools, and other hotspots of civilian activity.
Now, if we just hated Iraqis and wanted to kill them all (without nukes of course, because those are absolute No No's), we'd just bomb them to oblivion.
The only type of warfare that the US cannot deal well with is guerilla warfare. We have to commit tons of ground troops to make any progress, and since we make effort to not harm civilians, we have a huge disadvantage. You don't think Saddam's men worried about killing civilians do you? News sources outside the US regularly reported of Iraqis using Iraqis as human shields while attacking coalition troops. Of course right now the "enemy" is hiding in mosques and other places that are "holy". I wonder if that's what they mean when they say Allah will protect them. Of course it's out of our respect for their religious beliefs that we don't just obliterate their stronghold. Consider that against the extremist Muslim position that all non-Muslims are infidels and must die.
Also, don't mistake the current situation in Iraq for being a failure or an example of bad performance in war. This is a completely different war than a year ago. The problem is that we "liberated" a people who weren't ready for liberation. Remember the mass looting right after the US "won" (and pulled back)? If we had left then, as one older Iraqi storeowner stated on camera, "we would eat each other". His point was, the Iraqis were and are lawless. They've been oppressed so long, many of them haven't developed the skills necessary to operate within a non-dictatorship. And those who know right from wrong are afraid to stand up to their "brothers" who are creating this bad situation.
Can you imagine how quickly the world could pull Iraq up into a good situation were it not for the "resistance"? Imagine electricity, water, roads, communications, hospitals, schools. Those are things we do very well, but it's difficult to do that when the contractors doing the work keep getting kidnapped (which incidentally is now being done clearly for the ransom money, using religion or politics as a front).
The US, and Bush, takes so much heat. What about the Iraqis? Have they no responsibility for themselves? Apparently they don't, yet. They weren't ready for freedom, and they aren't grateful for it because they didn't earn it. They didn't fight their own successful uprising (no mention of the Kurds in 1991, who tried but were let down by the US... but they'd have failed anyway, sadly).
Then (during the "bubble", yes perks were particularly in vogue). Some of the 90s perks were ridiculous. Netscape was famous for many things, and infamous for some of their perks - onsite free sushi bar, roving free masseuse, etc.
DotComs were offering Ferraris to those who could recruit the most talent. Everyone who was anyone offered stock options.
When the bubble burst, much of the madness was finally seen as madness, and it all went away. That gave many existing companies leverage to take away benefits - "You're lucky to have a job!". Yes and no.
I had a friend who was an attorney for Tandy Corporation (Radio Shack). Tandy paid their attorneys ridiculously low salaries (as in $30k/yr for a real estate attorney). When I asked him what the hell was wrong with them, and why they thought that was appropriate, he told me their response: "These guys are just going to come here for a couple of years and leave anyway, so why should we pay them reasonably?" Duh! Naturally, anyone with talent will move along. That's true in IT as well, and options do still exist. Maybe they involve moving to a new city, but they exist.
Some companies have been doing right all along, and they are rewarded with fierce loyalty and very good productivity. SAS Institute, in Cary, North Carolina, has been providing stellar perks for years. They've remained private, and thus avoided the Quarterly Earnings per Share death-cycle. Imagine if your company had benefits like theirs.
Other companies could be like SAS if they weren't public, and if their leaders understood what some perks could do for their productivity and employee loyalty.
I got one for the same reason. It's very lovely, very feature rich, and still pretty simple to use. The only downside is the size (compared to an iPod). It's the same size as a 12" laptop, but thicker. With the manufacturer bag, it's easily portable (with mic, cable, and AC power supply). Of course it also runs on AA batteries, but it's hungry.
I first tried the iPod with the iTalk, but it couldn't auto-adjust the recording level quickly enough to keep from clipping horribly (a nasty digital trash clip) from piano and higher pitch voice.
Musician's Friend sells it for a good price, and they also sell some kits that include it, a mic, balanced cable, headphones, and other accessories. Just make sure you buy a Fostex certified memory card if you want to upgrade beyond the card they provide. It needs good, fast cards to do multi-track work.
You may not want to do this every night (it can get a little unexciting after a while), but 1-2 hours of sex definitely helps.
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1. Halt all caffeine intake. Caffeine stays in your system a long time and interferes with natural sleep signals.
2. Stop watching TV or other "bright" displays a few hours before you wish to sleep. I forget the name of the brain chemical (and I don't feel like looking it up), but bright light (sunlight esp., computer monitors, TVs, etc.) cause the brain to generate "wake up" chemicals. Instead, try reading print material if you need intellectual stimulation in the evening.
3. Go to bed when you first feel drowsy. I have a window between 9 and 10pm where I get drowsy. If I don't go to bed then, I'll magically refresh and then stay up until 2+am.
4. Get a regular schedule. Don't nap. Get up at the same (early) time each day, and go to bed at the same time each night. Ideally, try to align your schedule with the sun. It will help.
I think you've been hanging out on/. too long. It's easy to think the rest of the world is like us. But they're not. They gobble up the reality tv crap. They watch Nascar and pro sports religiously. They live by Oprah and Dr. Phil.
The internet is taking some eyes away from TV, but it's mostly younger eyes. The huge baby boomer group, and their parents (the ones still living), are still happily watching TV.
When stars on Friends, Frasier, Raymond, etc. are making $700,000 per episode and up, it's clear there's some serious viewing going on.
Say you've got a great idea and a niche market to play that idea to. Unless you're already wealthy, you won't be building your own TV station. And you're not likely to find one to buy, since most are already owned by the big players.
But say you've got a station. You're now a local broadcaster. How can you expand beyond the local market? Cable probably isn't going to pick you up, since it's owned by the big media. Satellite isn't going to take you.
Pretty much, you either make something attractive enough to have your company bought by the big media, or you're doomed to a niche in a small market. Good luck getting any real ad money.
Your only chance to ever grow will be on the internet, by word of mouth (or of hyperlink, as the case may be). So forget TV and radio. If you have an idea, the internet is the only distribution channel that can possibly get your idea to a decent sized audience. Perhaps you can pull a CNN or a Fox on the internet. But you won't, with the current rules and market, create anything significant in television or radio.
If you had read the article you wouldn't have asked that question.
Turner's article clearly explains how the consolidation of media makes it increasingly difficult (nearly impossible now) to start anything new and independent.
There can be no new CNN now. The market structure and the rules would make it so much more difficult to do than when Turner started CNN.
If my iPod lasted close to the 8 hours advertized I wouldn't be so disappointed. Of course, I guess I should assume this new "12 hour" iPod will really do about 8.5 hours.
Basically it's about Apple constantly overstating the performance of their products. All existing Apple products underperform. If this were Microsoft people would be calling for lawsuits. Both MS and Apple promise more than they deliver. But Apple is the underdog, so that's ok for them?
I didn't expect it to be an investment, but I did ignorantly expect it to have close to the advertized 8 hour battery life.
Quickly I've discovered that it has a much lower useful battery life, plus Apple just happily dropped the price $100 while reportedly increasing the battery life to 12 hours. That's just insult to injury.
I'll bet a mere $10,000 would pay for a PI+hitman to take out the person threatening you. That's a huge savings, and it could be considered self defense.
My 2.5 month old 40GB iPod never had 8hr battery life as advertized. It's typically 5hours on a "complete" charge.
So I paid the $499 for it, and now 2.5 months later it is worth 40% less. Thanks Apple. Who would have guessed an iPod would depreciate faster than a car.
I would choose an attractive young woman from the class and appoint her as the "Presentation Operator".
When you want to advance a slide, point at her, flick your thumb in the traditional "hey baby, I'm the man" motion, and make a *CLK* sound with your mouth.
To back up a slide or two, I would personally walk over to her and whisper the request.
(to the PC sensitive, I'm joking. anyway, it's only sexist if you're not a pretty girl, because the pretty girls know they're pretty, and they know it gives them preferential treatment... and they'll take the advantage.)
Portage is fine if the software you want exists in the list. If not, you end up doing the old tarball manual install, after which you may or may not have conflicts with existing libraries and apps.
It's also something of a drag to build some of the larger packages (like Firefox or OpenOffice). Those make a kernel compile look brief.
Software company failures are not typically due to the frequency of release of games.
The first and foremost reason a game company fails is that it failed to release its first game. This is often due to poor planning (business, game design, project management), and secondly to lack of resources/talent.
The second reason a game company fails is because it releases a bad product. This can be a product that's very unfinished (rushed out), very bug ridden, or just not what game players want.
Crunches usually happen because of external influences - trying to meet Christmas retail season, trying to get a playable demo ready for E3, or trying to meet a publisher deadline for a milestone.
Anyway, game developers I've worked with were usually as committed to their game development as they were to their spouses (those who were married), or sometimes more. They _want_ to get it done. It's not simply a boss behind them cracking a whip.
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Green seems to really motivate me. Not $ure why...
Your phone book, as you pointed out, does not specifically list only one group of people. It basically lists all people.
This delegate list was published to make these delegates targets of attack, whether physical or non-physical. The purpose of this would be to attempt to pressure the delegates into changing their votes, and by proxy to pressure delegates not listed to also change their votes lest they become targets.
Whether it's illegal or not, it certainly stinks. It's a sad situation when people feel they must create pressure or threat like this in order to see their political party win. Of course to those of us who fall in the middle ("moderate") of the two parties, it pushes us AWAY from the freaks who do these things.
So on the far left we have the radical SUV torchers, the information warriors (posting delegates' information), the "hackers" who vow to disrupt RNC technical services, the "make no mention of God anywhere, at any time" athiests, and of course the "you make more than 50k, you're rich! give it to us!" people, etc. etc.
On the far right we have the "no abortion under any cirumstances" folks, the "Christian is the only religion" folks, and the "police state is safer" folks.
Call me a pragmatist, or call me short sighted, but the former group scares me more personally, and immediately. I don't want my vehicles burned, my personal info posted, my money taken away (although you're welcome to all my debt if you like).
Seems I'm rambling.
California Digital bought VA's hardware line when VA got out of the hardware business.
Did you try contacting them?
The six servers (of three flavors) that I had were all Intel server motherboards, Intel CPUs, popular raid controllers (I forget brand/model), and VXA standard tape drives. What's confusing about that?
Yeah I know, I was overly harsh. But if memory serves me correctly, those advanced features really didn't come into play until you had built structures, tools, and perhaps raised livestock.
Go fetch small piece of natural resource X.
Go fetch small piece of natural resource Y.
Put X and Y together to make tool A.
Go fetch small piece of natural resource Y.
Go fetch small piece of natural resource Z.
Put Y and Z together using tool A to make item B.
Repeat until you have 80 units of item B.
Go fetch small piece of natural resource P.
Bake P in item B.
Removed baked P.
Stack baked P.
Call all your friends to gather around and see your abstract art, created entirely of baked P!!11!
MS's only hope at a valid argument for why MS Office is cheaper than OO is something like "well since we know you're already using MS Office, if you moved to OO you would save on the license, but you it would cost you $$$ in retraining your users."
Of course that's based on the incorrect assumption that most users actually USE many of the features of MS Office. Most typical office drones could use Wordpad and never know the difference (between MS Office), except that Wordpad wouldn't do wacky automatic shit to them that they'd have to keep manually undoing.
Even the MS argument, valid as it may be for their twisted scenario, would break down after one upgrade cycle. OO license savings + retraining cost might theoretically be > than MS Office license cost, but come next upgrade cycle, there will no longer be a retraining issue. So then it will simply be a question of Free versus $$.
It all reminds me of the illogical (but hopeful) arguments a child will give for why they must have something, or why they must not do something. It's somewhat comical when it's a child, but it's really sad and embarassing when it's an "adult" corporation. Something about it reminds me of politics too...
Depends on how careful we want to be. The Iraq war has been an extreme effort to kill only the "bad guys". This great care has cost the US many good soldiers and plenty of good equipment.
It's rather difficult though to kill the bad guy when he's dressed like the civilian, standing in a crowd of civilians, and firing at you. It's also difficult to blow up his mobile AA installations when they're located in sensitive areas (like around hospitals, schools, and other hotspots of civilian activity.
Now, if we just hated Iraqis and wanted to kill them all (without nukes of course, because those are absolute No No's), we'd just bomb them to oblivion.
The only type of warfare that the US cannot deal well with is guerilla warfare. We have to commit tons of ground troops to make any progress, and since we make effort to not harm civilians, we have a huge disadvantage. You don't think Saddam's men worried about killing civilians do you? News sources outside the US regularly reported of Iraqis using Iraqis as human shields while attacking coalition troops. Of course right now the "enemy" is hiding in mosques and other places that are "holy". I wonder if that's what they mean when they say Allah will protect them. Of course it's out of our respect for their religious beliefs that we don't just obliterate their stronghold. Consider that against the extremist Muslim position that all non-Muslims are infidels and must die.
Also, don't mistake the current situation in Iraq for being a failure or an example of bad performance in war. This is a completely different war than a year ago. The problem is that we "liberated" a people who weren't ready for liberation. Remember the mass looting right after the US "won" (and pulled back)? If we had left then, as one older Iraqi storeowner stated on camera, "we would eat each other". His point was, the Iraqis were and are lawless. They've been oppressed so long, many of them haven't developed the skills necessary to operate within a non-dictatorship. And those who know right from wrong are afraid to stand up to their "brothers" who are creating this bad situation.
Can you imagine how quickly the world could pull Iraq up into a good situation were it not for the "resistance"? Imagine electricity, water, roads, communications, hospitals, schools. Those are things we do very well, but it's difficult to do that when the contractors doing the work keep getting kidnapped (which incidentally is now being done clearly for the ransom money, using religion or politics as a front).
The US, and Bush, takes so much heat. What about the Iraqis? Have they no responsibility for themselves? Apparently they don't, yet. They weren't ready for freedom, and they aren't grateful for it because they didn't earn it. They didn't fight their own successful uprising (no mention of the Kurds in 1991, who tried but were let down by the US... but they'd have failed anyway, sadly).
Then (during the "bubble", yes perks were particularly in vogue). Some of the 90s perks were ridiculous. Netscape was famous for many things, and infamous for some of their perks - onsite free sushi bar, roving free masseuse, etc.
DotComs were offering Ferraris to those who could recruit the most talent. Everyone who was anyone offered stock options.
When the bubble burst, much of the madness was finally seen as madness, and it all went away. That gave many existing companies leverage to take away benefits - "You're lucky to have a job!". Yes and no.
I had a friend who was an attorney for Tandy Corporation (Radio Shack). Tandy paid their attorneys ridiculously low salaries (as in $30k/yr for a real estate attorney). When I asked him what the hell was wrong with them, and why they thought that was appropriate, he told me their response: "These guys are just going to come here for a couple of years and leave anyway, so why should we pay them reasonably?" Duh! Naturally, anyone with talent will move along. That's true in IT as well, and options do still exist. Maybe they involve moving to a new city, but they exist.
Some companies have been doing right all along, and they are rewarded with fierce loyalty and very good productivity. SAS Institute, in Cary, North Carolina, has been providing stellar perks for years. They've remained private, and thus avoided the Quarterly Earnings per Share death-cycle. Imagine if your company had benefits like theirs.
Other companies could be like SAS if they weren't public, and if their leaders understood what some perks could do for their productivity and employee loyalty.
Fostex MR-8
I got one for the same reason. It's very lovely, very feature rich, and still pretty simple to use. The only downside is the size (compared to an iPod). It's the same size as a 12" laptop, but thicker. With the manufacturer bag, it's easily portable (with mic, cable, and AC power supply). Of course it also runs on AA batteries, but it's hungry.
I first tried the iPod with the iTalk, but it couldn't auto-adjust the recording level quickly enough to keep from clipping horribly (a nasty digital trash clip) from piano and higher pitch voice.
Musician's Friend sells it for a good price, and they also sell some kits that include it, a mic, balanced cable, headphones, and other accessories. Just make sure you buy a Fostex certified memory card if you want to upgrade beyond the card they provide. It needs good, fast cards to do multi-track work.
Get married. Keep your wife mentally happy. Worship her in bed.
:P
Then you'll get plenty
You may not want to do this every night (it can get a little unexciting after a while), but 1-2 hours of sex definitely helps.
1. Halt all caffeine intake. Caffeine stays in your system a long time and interferes with natural sleep signals.
2. Stop watching TV or other "bright" displays a few hours before you wish to sleep. I forget the name of the brain chemical (and I don't feel like looking it up), but bright light (sunlight esp., computer monitors, TVs, etc.) cause the brain to generate "wake up" chemicals. Instead, try reading print material if you need intellectual stimulation in the evening.
3. Go to bed when you first feel drowsy. I have a window between 9 and 10pm where I get drowsy. If I don't go to bed then, I'll magically refresh and then stay up until 2+am.
4. Get a regular schedule. Don't nap. Get up at the same (early) time each day, and go to bed at the same time each night. Ideally, try to align your schedule with the sun. It will help.
Good luck.
I think you've been hanging out on /. too long. It's easy to think the rest of the world is like us. But they're not. They gobble up the reality tv crap. They watch Nascar and pro sports religiously. They live by Oprah and Dr. Phil.
The internet is taking some eyes away from TV, but it's mostly younger eyes. The huge baby boomer group, and their parents (the ones still living), are still happily watching TV.
When stars on Friends, Frasier, Raymond, etc. are making $700,000 per episode and up, it's clear there's some serious viewing going on.
Ok, I'll bite.
Say you've got a great idea and a niche market to play that idea to. Unless you're already wealthy, you won't be building your own TV station. And you're not likely to find one to buy, since most are already owned by the big players.
But say you've got a station. You're now a local broadcaster. How can you expand beyond the local market? Cable probably isn't going to pick you up, since it's owned by the big media. Satellite isn't going to take you.
Pretty much, you either make something attractive enough to have your company bought by the big media, or you're doomed to a niche in a small market. Good luck getting any real ad money.
Your only chance to ever grow will be on the internet, by word of mouth (or of hyperlink, as the case may be). So forget TV and radio. If you have an idea, the internet is the only distribution channel that can possibly get your idea to a decent sized audience. Perhaps you can pull a CNN or a Fox on the internet. But you won't, with the current rules and market, create anything significant in television or radio.
I only wish I was as broke as he is.
$2B can buy me a few fine dinners.
If you had read the article you wouldn't have asked that question.
Turner's article clearly explains how the consolidation of media makes it increasingly difficult (nearly impossible now) to start anything new and independent.
There can be no new CNN now. The market structure and the rules would make it so much more difficult to do than when Turner started CNN.
Why does everyone miss the point?
If my iPod lasted close to the 8 hours advertized I wouldn't be so disappointed. Of course, I guess I should assume this new "12 hour" iPod will really do about 8.5 hours.
Basically it's about Apple constantly overstating the performance of their products. All existing Apple products underperform. If this were Microsoft people would be calling for lawsuits. Both MS and Apple promise more than they deliver. But Apple is the underdog, so that's ok for them?
Then technically I'd owe 40k * 5 = 200k.
/. math?
Or perhaps I'm not understanding some special
I didn't expect it to be an investment, but I did ignorantly expect it to have close to the advertized 8 hour battery life.
Quickly I've discovered that it has a much lower useful battery life, plus Apple just happily dropped the price $100 while reportedly increasing the battery life to 12 hours. That's just insult to injury.
I'll bet a mere $10,000 would pay for a PI+hitman to take out the person threatening you. That's a huge savings, and it could be considered self defense.
So the list works more like this:
1) Send Death Threat Emails
2) ???
3) Die Die Die
My 2.5 month old 40GB iPod never had 8hr battery life as advertized. It's typically 5hours on a "complete" charge.
So I paid the $499 for it, and now 2.5 months later it is worth 40% less. Thanks Apple. Who would have guessed an iPod would depreciate faster than a car.
I would choose an attractive young woman from the class and appoint her as the "Presentation Operator".
When you want to advance a slide, point at her, flick your thumb in the traditional "hey baby, I'm the man" motion, and make a *CLK* sound with your mouth.
To back up a slide or two, I would personally walk over to her and whisper the request.
(to the PC sensitive, I'm joking. anyway, it's only sexist if you're not a pretty girl, because the pretty girls know they're pretty, and they know it gives them preferential treatment... and they'll take the advantage.)
Portage is fine if the software you want exists in the list. If not, you end up doing the old tarball manual install, after which you may or may not have conflicts with existing libraries and apps.
It's also something of a drag to build some of the larger packages (like Firefox or OpenOffice). Those make a kernel compile look brief.
Software company failures are not typically due to the frequency of release of games.
The first and foremost reason a game company fails is that it failed to release its first game. This is often due to poor planning (business, game design, project management), and secondly to lack of resources/talent.
The second reason a game company fails is because it releases a bad product. This can be a product that's very unfinished (rushed out), very bug ridden, or just not what game players want.
Crunches usually happen because of external influences - trying to meet Christmas retail season, trying to get a playable demo ready for E3, or trying to meet a publisher deadline for a milestone.
Anyway, game developers I've worked with were usually as committed to their game development as they were to their spouses (those who were married), or sometimes more. They _want_ to get it done. It's not simply a boss behind them cracking a whip.