Both are these series are long over due for new entries with updated tech driving them. A reboot would be good. In the case of the Star Wars titles new entires that include the ships from the Prequel Trilogy would allow for adding fresh content. Perhaps even serving to provide a story arc. Fresh new Pilot in the days of the republic to grizzled Vet in the days the rebellion.
It's the Razor Model, the iPOD or any other similar device is the handle, you get that free or cheap, the Music is the Blades, thats where the really cash is in the business.
I fail to understand why Apple doesn't just throw the doors open anyway, they make the best handle, I doubt any significant portion of the music buying public would stop buying the iPod. And even so Apple still makes a pile of cash from the music sales.
I can understand trying to build a storyline to try to build a base to build the story on, but to spend an entire season doing so...not the way to make good TV. They spent the entire season moving towards something, but we never really got any idea of the something until the last 45 minutes of the season.
let me spell out a basic point here: Terminator = Action there was little action this season.
I was a manager of several Babbage's stores way back in the distant past. Babbage's was the company (along with Software etc after a merger) that Gamestop came from. All the way back then we were allowed to "check out" software. The rule at least then was that you could only do so if the software didn't require registration or keys to use. So pretty much no Microsoft software, but most other software and video games of the time were fair game.
Him being VP and the possibility that Obama my be in the frame of mind on these issues made it very hard to vote for this team. Just the thought that Biden is a heartbeat from being President gave and still gives me nightmares.
At some point and it seems that point is soon, we are going to have to crack open all those old landfills. Think of how much has been tossed in there before we really started to pay attention to reuse.
It really depends on level of access and what they can access. In many cases however they have been escorted out the door with in minutes of giving notice. Typically they get the two weeks notice they gave as paid time (Two weeks is standard).
I'm not ready (and neither are my families finances) for what I have always pegged as my retirement career. I am hoping the log jam breaks soon.
At least for me what has lead me here is the one hot project, with it's new tech and all that stuff that had me all excited, got dumped. Its really taken the wind out of my sails. There are other issues as well, but that is really the snowball that started the avalanche.
Sorry I am late to the party, but I had to get me two pennies in...
As someone who was in charge of the Computrace program installs and rollouts where I work I had to chime in.
Its complete and utter crap!
There are any number of ways (I am sworn not to tell) to defeat the software. This includes the method of using the software form BIOS that was the latest trick they were employing. The simple truth is it doesn't work. I would suspect that other similar products suffer from the same problem. And if your running anything, but windows forget it...game over.
According to the Cop that pulled me over a couple years ago, Yellow means stop if you are more than 2 car lengths from the stop line when it turns yellow. I got off with a warning, but you can be sure when I come to that light now (One of only two I know of in that entire town, Oxford, MA) if that light turns yellow I stop. That intersection, probably due proximity to the police station and the fact that it is pretty much town center, I always staked out with a cop.
Other reply other than a rejection would be saying something akin to: "We approve of SCO continuing to attempt to sue us."
SCO should be torn up for parts, Chapter 11 is not the right state from them to be in, they are unsalvagable, Chapter 7 time.
Not the way things were intended to work
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Ok, first of all the way the music industry was setup, and remains setup, recordings were/are not considered to be an artist's profit center. Recordings are setup to be promotional material. The artist is supposed to make their money from performing (concerts, gigs, shows, appearences, whatever you want to call it) under the original and existing plan. The problem is since the recording industry coam into being, the music industry as a whole has been trying to make this "continental" shift into making the recording the profit center and the concert the promotional method for the recording. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on point of view from which side of the whole arguement you are on) the recording industry has continued to structure costs and profits around the original intended model.
The end result is you now have artists who never, or rarely ever perform live who want to make all their money on the recordings. You have artists who do short when we feel like it tours for a total of 20-30 dates every few years. Again do do these tours to support the recording. The model was setup the other way around.
In the last 10 to 15 years we have seen the original true promotional vehicle of the "single" fade away. This as the tie breaker in the recording company artist tug of war. It wasn't ideal, the company still saw most of the profit, but it gave the artist someplace to make money. Now its all centered on the album sale, and that album sale wasn't structured to be the profit center for the artist, and was originally supposed to be the upsale from the single, which no longer exists.
The up shot in th end is that the industry is s mess and we the consumer are getting cheated two and half times, high recording prices with attendant limited availability since older recordings can be had only at high prices due to not being available at the easiest to reach retailers. And we are being cheating in that artists don't perfrom as often. My fater tell stories of the acts when he was growing up 50's/60's that would perform multiple times a year at multiple local venues, not once every 3-4 years at the central huge mega stadium or ampi-theater which is what we have now if they perform at all.
I don't know the answer just stating the view I have developed. I definately think that artists should be performing more often, I see coming around on tour as thier job. Just as I go to a job every day they should be either working on the next album, or coming on by to perfrom in my town. I do also think that labels need to lower the price of CD's since they are still the promotional material for that tour I think the artist should be on, and lacking the singles that used to fill a larger protion of that roll the CD needs to fill some median space between old full album perpose, and the old single's purpose.
Its a damn good thing we didn't have the Web back when I was in school.
The things I would have had to say about Good-Old East Bridgewater High School, MA would have probably gotten me locked up!
I had the privilege to attend school taught by the most incompetent collection of Idiots, Bitches, and Assholes that ever staffed a school. There were a few rare exceptions, a couple good teachers here or there. For the most part that school owes me for wasted time attending that Jungle Gym, and the IQ points that they shaved off due to me my having to mix with those worthless assmonkeys.
I highly suspect that when all the players finally surrender to Blu-ray that Sony is going to pull a serious hidden rabbit out of its ass. Prediction the PS3 is currently and always has been HD-DVD compatible, making it so was one of the delay reasons during PS3 launch. Sony wanted to be sure they had everything right to make it so. Right now the HD-DVD compatibility is turned off in the firmware. Once the battle dust settles we will see an announcement that in the next firmware the compatibility will be turned on, see Sony helping ya out! Wasn't that nice of us. How when your early adopter HD Unit dies that's alright you can use your PS3. You do have a PS3 right? No thats OK, we'll be happy to sell you one.
Lets examine this, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are practically the same thing, they only vary slightly in some small technical details. I suspect that those variations hardware wise are accounted for in the PS3 hardware. And well, the software side, thats what PS3 does best.
We had developed a "worm" that exploited the exact same holes as several of the common ones around at the time to release on the corporate network. The point of "worm" was to deliver the fixes for those exploits. We were calling the program a "white worm" (short for White Blood Cell Worm). It was quickly shot down by security at the time.
They are the crappiest ISP in the broadband market I have ever had the displeasure of having to deal with. I am a Charter Customer, but I didn't loose mail because I run my own server in violation of the TOS/AUP. This is hands down the number one reason why it should be allowed.
Then they can't price gouge you on the local servers, which is the best idea.
Seriously though.
Actually put WAFS servers or in router devices in each office with decent size disks. They are linux devices and can be configured to do local auth as well as file and print.
1. Find a way to end the RIAA and MPAA 2. Get the US out of the Berne Convention 3. Find a way to get rid of the DMCA 4. Find the happy medium in the whole IRAQ war, we need to pull back when its possible, but we can't leave yet, figure out when its safe to bring most home, while still ensuring the stability of the region, and the safety of our allies and interests. 5. Find a way to impliment sane network neutrality for the internet. 6. Get the FCC to revise the rules around Broadband deployment, re-define what broadband means, grant a nationwide license on the provision that the telco's must make broadband available to 100% of the country under the provisions of what my administration has defined broadband to be within my term of office. 7. Force the opening of the Cell Networks under the provisions of true openness. The phones my not be locked in anyway, if the vendor of the phone offers a feature the Telco must make the faeture available and allow it to work. Ie. If the phone is capable of having a USB plugged into it to upload/download ring tones, pictures, text, etc without having to go over the telco's data network then it must be capable of doing that. 8. Force Microsoft to play nice in the market place (this applies to all other vendors as well) no more secrets. All protocols must be open, all hardware must be supportable by any OS. 9. Find some way to force Apple to open the iPod, and the MAC Hardware/Software. 10. Give the Space Program the shot in the arm it needs. 11. $1,000,000,000 bounty on Osama bin Laden's head. 12. Raise Emmisson Standards to where they oughta be, the Auto industry needs a serious kick in the ass, Neccessity is the mother of invention, make the standards immpossibly high and force the companies to get there. 13. Overhaul patent and trademark system, key point you must have a product (or have the aptent licensed to a company that has a product) 14. ICANN, I think it needs to stay in US hands, but it needs more international support and inclusion. 15. Sign the Kyoto Protocol, but only if Japan Bans Whaling. 16. Outsourcing/Off Shoring/Global Sourcing, whatever you call it some control needs to be had in all sectors, IT, AUTO, etc over the number of US jobs going over seas. 17. Recognize that the Illegal Immigration problem is not going to get solved, find a rational way to handle the issue and allow those who need to come to America to come here and join society without having to do it illegally.
Thats a quick list I could probably think of more that were less technology oriented given time.
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Both are these series are long over due for new entries with updated tech driving them. A reboot would be good. In the case of the Star Wars titles new entires that include the ships from the Prequel Trilogy would allow for adding fresh content. Perhaps even serving to provide a story arc. Fresh new Pilot in the days of the republic to grizzled Vet in the days the rebellion.
I went over the details one thing I am confused about is in this situation is the internal or External IP of the router that is Key here?
It's the Razor Model, the iPOD or any other similar device is the handle, you get that free or cheap, the Music is the Blades, thats where the really cash is in the business.
I fail to understand why Apple doesn't just throw the doors open anyway, they make the best handle, I doubt any significant portion of the music buying public would stop buying the iPod. And even so Apple still makes a pile of cash from the music sales.
I can understand trying to build a storyline to try to build a base to build the story on, but to spend an entire season doing so...not the way to make good TV. They spent the entire season moving towards something, but we never really got any idea of the something until the last 45 minutes of the season.
let me spell out a basic point here: Terminator = Action there was little action this season.
I was a manager of several Babbage's stores way back in the distant past. Babbage's was the company (along with Software etc after a merger) that Gamestop came from. All the way back then we were allowed to "check out" software. The rule at least then was that you could only do so if the software didn't require registration or keys to use. So pretty much no Microsoft software, but most other software and video games of the time were fair game.
Him being VP and the possibility that Obama my be in the frame of mind on these issues made it very hard to vote for this team. Just the thought that Biden is a heartbeat from being President gave and still gives me nightmares.
At some point and it seems that point is soon, we are going to have to crack open all those old landfills. Think of how much has been tossed in there before we really started to pay attention to reuse.
I wish they still made some of those space sets. In some cases you can't even buy some of the special pieces that came in those sets anymore.
If domain squatting, front running, and everything else of the like has taught us anything its that this is a bad bad bad! Idea.
Never mind the levels of confusion it would be creating.
It really depends on level of access and what they can access. In many cases however they have been escorted out the door with in minutes of giving notice. Typically they get the two weeks notice they gave as paid time (Two weeks is standard).
Unfortunately the belt tightening has already occurred. It's as tight as it gets. Our life is what our life is...
I am facing exactly the same problem currently.
I'm not ready (and neither are my families finances) for what I have always pegged as my retirement career. I am hoping the log jam breaks soon.
At least for me what has lead me here is the one hot project, with it's new tech and all that stuff that had me all excited, got dumped. Its really taken the wind out of my sails. There are other issues as well, but that is really the snowball that started the avalanche.
Sorry I am late to the party, but I had to get me two pennies in...
As someone who was in charge of the Computrace program installs and rollouts where I work I had to chime in.
Its complete and utter crap!
There are any number of ways (I am sworn not to tell) to defeat the software. This includes the method of using the software form BIOS that was the latest trick they were employing. The simple truth is it doesn't work. I would suspect that other similar products suffer from the same problem. And if your running anything, but windows forget it...game over.
According to the Cop that pulled me over a couple years ago, Yellow means stop if you are more than 2 car lengths from the stop line when it turns yellow. I got off with a warning, but you can be sure when I come to that light now (One of only two I know of in that entire town, Oxford, MA) if that light turns yellow I stop. That intersection, probably due proximity to the police station and the fact that it is pretty much town center, I always staked out with a cop.
Other reply other than a rejection would be saying something akin to: "We approve of SCO continuing to attempt to sue us."
SCO should be torn up for parts, Chapter 11 is not the right state from them to be in, they are unsalvagable, Chapter 7 time.
Ok, first of all the way the music industry was setup, and remains setup, recordings were/are not considered to be an artist's profit center. Recordings are setup to be promotional material. The artist is supposed to make their money from performing (concerts, gigs, shows, appearences, whatever you want to call it) under the original and existing plan. The problem is since the recording industry coam into being, the music industry as a whole has been trying to make this "continental" shift into making the recording the profit center and the concert the promotional method for the recording. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on point of view from which side of the whole arguement you are on) the recording industry has continued to structure costs and profits around the original intended model.
The end result is you now have artists who never, or rarely ever perform live who want to make all their money on the recordings. You have artists who do short when we feel like it tours for a total of 20-30 dates every few years. Again do do these tours to support the recording. The model was setup the other way around.
In the last 10 to 15 years we have seen the original true promotional vehicle of the "single" fade away. This as the tie breaker in the recording company artist tug of war. It wasn't ideal, the company still saw most of the profit, but it gave the artist someplace to make money. Now its all centered on the album sale, and that album sale wasn't structured to be the profit center for the artist, and was originally supposed to be the upsale from the single, which no longer exists.
The up shot in th end is that the industry is s mess and we the consumer are getting cheated two and half times, high recording prices with attendant limited availability since older recordings can be had only at high prices due to not being available at the easiest to reach retailers. And we are being cheating in that artists don't perfrom as often. My fater tell stories of the acts when he was growing up 50's/60's that would perform multiple times a year at multiple local venues, not once every 3-4 years at the central huge mega stadium or ampi-theater which is what we have now if they perform at all.
I don't know the answer just stating the view I have developed. I definately think that artists should be performing more often, I see coming around on tour as thier job. Just as I go to a job every day they should be either working on the next album, or coming on by to perfrom in my town. I do also think that labels need to lower the price of CD's since they are still the promotional material for that tour I think the artist should be on, and lacking the singles that used to fill a larger protion of that roll the CD needs to fill some median space between old full album perpose, and the old single's purpose.
Its a damn good thing we didn't have the Web back when I was in school.
The things I would have had to say about Good-Old East Bridgewater High School, MA would have probably gotten me locked up!
I had the privilege to attend school taught by the most incompetent collection of Idiots, Bitches, and Assholes that ever staffed a school. There were a few rare exceptions, a couple good teachers here or there. For the most part that school owes me for wasted time attending that Jungle Gym, and the IQ points that they shaved off due to me my having to mix with those worthless assmonkeys.
"You heard it here first"
I highly suspect that when all the players finally surrender to Blu-ray that Sony is going to pull a serious hidden rabbit out of its ass.
Prediction the PS3 is currently and always has been HD-DVD compatible, making it so was one of the delay reasons during PS3 launch. Sony wanted to be sure they had everything right to make it so. Right now the HD-DVD compatibility is turned off in the firmware. Once the battle dust settles we will see an announcement that in the next firmware the compatibility will be turned on, see Sony helping ya out! Wasn't that nice of us. How when your early adopter HD Unit dies that's alright you can use your PS3. You do have a PS3 right? No thats OK, we'll be happy to sell you one.
Lets examine this, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are practically the same thing, they only vary slightly in some small technical details. I suspect that those variations hardware wise are accounted for in the PS3 hardware. And well, the software side, thats what PS3 does best.
We had developed a "worm" that exploited the exact same holes as several of the common ones around at the time to release on the corporate network. The point of "worm" was to deliver the fixes for those exploits. We were calling the program a "white worm" (short for White Blood Cell Worm). It was quickly shot down by security at the time.
They should instead raise the royalty to something like 50%. That would fix 'em right quick.
They are the crappiest ISP in the broadband market I have ever had the displeasure of having to deal with. I am a Charter Customer, but I didn't loose mail because I run my own server in violation of the TOS/AUP. This is hands down the number one reason why it should be allowed.
Then they can't price gouge you on the local servers, which is the best idea.
Seriously though.
Actually put WAFS servers or in router devices in each office with decent size disks. They are linux devices and can be configured to do local auth as well as file and print.
18. Codify Fair Use in to law!
1. Find a way to end the RIAA and MPAA
2. Get the US out of the Berne Convention
3. Find a way to get rid of the DMCA
4. Find the happy medium in the whole IRAQ war, we need to pull back when its possible, but we can't leave yet, figure out when its safe to bring most home, while still ensuring the stability of the region, and the safety of our allies and interests.
5. Find a way to impliment sane network neutrality for the internet.
6. Get the FCC to revise the rules around Broadband deployment, re-define what broadband means, grant a nationwide license on the provision that the telco's must make broadband available to 100% of the country under the provisions of what my administration has defined broadband to be within my term of office.
7. Force the opening of the Cell Networks under the provisions of true openness. The phones my not be locked in anyway, if the vendor of the phone offers a feature the Telco must make the faeture available and allow it to work. Ie. If the phone is capable of having a USB plugged into it to upload/download ring tones, pictures, text, etc without having to go over the telco's data network then it must be capable of doing that.
8. Force Microsoft to play nice in the market place (this applies to all other vendors as well) no more secrets. All protocols must be open, all hardware must be supportable by any OS.
9. Find some way to force Apple to open the iPod, and the MAC Hardware/Software.
10. Give the Space Program the shot in the arm it needs.
11. $1,000,000,000 bounty on Osama bin Laden's head.
12. Raise Emmisson Standards to where they oughta be, the Auto industry needs a serious kick in the ass, Neccessity is the mother of invention, make the standards immpossibly high and force the companies to get there.
13. Overhaul patent and trademark system, key point you must have a product (or have the aptent licensed to a company that has a product)
14. ICANN, I think it needs to stay in US hands, but it needs more international support and inclusion.
15. Sign the Kyoto Protocol, but only if Japan Bans Whaling.
16. Outsourcing/Off Shoring/Global Sourcing, whatever you call it some control needs to be had in all sectors, IT, AUTO, etc over the number of US jobs going over seas.
17. Recognize that the Illegal Immigration problem is not going to get solved, find a rational way to handle the issue and allow those who need to come to America to come here and join society without having to do it illegally.
Thats a quick list I could probably think of more that were less technology oriented given time.
1. Neal Peart - Rush
2. Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater
Its a close race...