The big win for streaming for me and my kids is that I get to decide what I want to watch -right now-, not two days from now when I can get turnaround of my latest DVD from Netflix.
A million times, this. I used to cycle out the one DVD at a time thing... but like others, it tends to sit around forever until I watch it. I know my friends and family have this problem too.
In the meantime, I'm cruising through 20 discs worth of TV shows I like and various movies I wouldn't want to gamble on getting in the mail. Streaming from a large catalog of content suits both my indecisiveness and sense of immediacy, just right. And the picture is quite good, if even as a trade-off for unmatched convenience.
I'm inclined to assume incompetence in huge bureaucracies before an intentional shafting of veterans in favor of more explosive ordinance widgets on some spreadsheet. The guys making the budgets aren't in the sandbox, after all. But that could just be me being overly apologetic.
Meh, they already complain that they can't afford appropriate armor and such to protect our guys. Then they buy another F-22 they'll never use. Yes I know, different budgets, etc.
It's entirely misapplication. The military is a ginormous bureaucracy with truckloads of money, and has most of the same problems any other large government agency does. We can buy truckloads of consumables for the Javelin platform at $40,000 a pop, but a veteran has to kick and scream to have his PTSD cared for.
It's almost like those guys we vote for to act as oversight aren't really doing their jobs...
That sounds like an awful lot of aggravation and expense when you could just send a camera. It's not like we hadn't called BS on the Soviets with photos before.
But either way, at least we got a lot of use out of the thing... despite the price tag.
I'd expect the line would be exactly where you start to effectively impersonate some kind of official signalling or intentionally interrupting the operation of the same, just like anywhere else.
But then, all this stuff about the involvement of law enforcement and such is all speculation (best I can tell), so I guess it's not worth worrying about too much just yet.
If you're in Tampa you're going to want to leave like right now... Space View Park supposedly is packed like 6+ hours before launch. I'm stuck in Orlando waiting on my buddy still (flight delayed).:(
Though they could still decide to scrub due to weather.
I'm in Orlando now, waiting for a friend to catch up so we can relocate over to Titusville for the launch (lost the raffle for a chance to buy KSC tickets... misery). I'm really hoping that it goes off on time though, or gets scrubbed and pushed to one of the next two windows (Sat and Sun). If they push to the third, July 18th iirc, the whole trip was a waste.:(
But such are the hazards of trying to come see a launch.
I know you guys are mostly just going at each other, but seems to me that knowing corruption is rampant (at least what regular people call corruption) is very different from necessarily having some new, undisclosed evidence in hand. I mean, we see cases of it every day... some of which net prosecutions, and sadly many that don't. Politics is a lying bastards game, fueled by huge sums of money and extraordinary influence. It doesn't surprise most of us that a situation like that is rife with problems. The only time I hear anyone even suggest otherwise is when they're temporarily blinded by some flashy new liar. Though it always ends the same, in time.
And I think the original point stands... sometimes we consider various kinds of cronyism, back room deals, government contracts, negligence, etc. as examples of corruption, even if they're somehow legal. Just because most people don't know, or care enough to say anything about it, doesn't mean it's not shitty. We're not lawyers, so we judge right and wrong on the stricter criteria of everyday life.
I'm not normally a black helicopters, Illuminati, "zomg corporations r teh evil" kind of person... but I think it's entirely rational to expect frequent and serious problems in system with so much money and influence around for the taking.
I often wonder, and I'd like to see an article about that. It seems to me that when some health insurance company wants a web portal because they have to, or a city wants a new payroll system, they call an american consulting company to handle it... who farms out all the actual work to other countries and keeps the 90% difference. They call it "project management", and nobody actually cares if the project ends up being any good.
But when a high profile tech company develops something important that a billion people are going to use, do they really farm much out? If so, what are all those american thinkers doing employed at Google, Facebook, etc? I don't get the impression that those companies are all MBA's.
To be fair to the other guy, he didn't say he supported the war[s] either.
Personally, I'd rather we allocated considerably more to NASA and perhaps more importantly, gave them a clear and consistent mission. It seems like our political machine changes its mind every few years about what NASA should be working on.
Build out Constellation and put us back on the moon. Why are we stuck using the shuttle for short jogs, decades later? No, nevermind, that's getting expensive... use commercial options for manned flight, scrap that program and focus on research. Hey, we should have a manned flight program, how else are we going to get to mars?
I can't help but wonder if the folks over there get a little peeved about starting and stopping programs on fleeting political whims. But maybe I've got it wrong and it just looks that way to the casual observer.
It looks like someone did 365 days by about.9505 (still technically over 95% uptime, requiring half payment) and divided that by 12 to get 1.5 days per month.
I guess it's a possible outcome... but clearly someone was looking for the worst possible way to represent the ToS. Maybe that's part of diligent research for your company... but certainly doesn't tell the whole story (like you did).
But then... an overblown/. summary? Not surprising.
I think you'll find that people are mostly amenable to that arrangement nowadays. I keep a couple different machines set up with different sets of tools. I always have a windows distro somewhere to do work-related stuff and the rare game (office, exchange, activedir, photoshop, etc). But I choose to do much of my programming work on other platforms, when able (python, C, etc). Obviously any the of the.net stuff still happens in windows.
I think most all of us have long since come to a, "use whatever you prefer... just choose the right tool for the job."
Likewise. And occasionally I'll catch myself stopping to think about it, like in a huge, non-grid box store (I'm thinking of a particular menards).
We had a discussion about this at work, my boss and I almost always know which way is which, but the women in the office had no idea if they weren't on a major road.
I wrote it off as being and old eagle scout. You spend a little time with a compass and map, finding your way around without obvious landmarks.
You're saying people should be eager to hire the guy from the story? I dunno man... sounds like a seriously unbalanced dude. Not that nobody should ever hire him, but I'd be wary. People can be weird... you can't be sure you'll keep every single person happy all of the time just by being a good boss.
The one thing you hope to be able to count on, at the very least, is that a person wants to avoid jail and be employable at some point in their future.
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The big win for streaming for me and my kids is that I get to decide what I want to watch -right now-, not two days from now when I can get turnaround of my latest DVD from Netflix.
A million times, this. I used to cycle out the one DVD at a time thing... but like others, it tends to sit around forever until I watch it. I know my friends and family have this problem too.
In the meantime, I'm cruising through 20 discs worth of TV shows I like and various movies I wouldn't want to gamble on getting in the mail. Streaming from a large catalog of content suits both my indecisiveness and sense of immediacy, just right. And the picture is quite good, if even as a trade-off for unmatched convenience.
I'm inclined to assume incompetence in huge bureaucracies before an intentional shafting of veterans in favor of more explosive ordinance widgets on some spreadsheet. The guys making the budgets aren't in the sandbox, after all. But that could just be me being overly apologetic.
Meh, they already complain that they can't afford appropriate armor and such to protect our guys. Then they buy another F-22 they'll never use. Yes I know, different budgets, etc.
It's entirely misapplication. The military is a ginormous bureaucracy with truckloads of money, and has most of the same problems any other large government agency does. We can buy truckloads of consumables for the Javelin platform at $40,000 a pop, but a veteran has to kick and scream to have his PTSD cared for.
It's almost like those guys we vote for to act as oversight aren't really doing their jobs...
That sounds like an awful lot of aggravation and expense when you could just send a camera. It's not like we hadn't called BS on the Soviets with photos before.
But either way, at least we got a lot of use out of the thing... despite the price tag.
I'm glad these folks continue to make discoveries and such, even after all the layoffs and knowing that their funding has been cut off after FY 2011.
Good on them, and I hope they all find great places to work. Maybe across the pond where gov's still fund research.
I, for one, was concerned that Henry Rollins had joined Anon.
That's an angry concoction the gubbermint would have to take down.
I'd expect the line would be exactly where you start to effectively impersonate some kind of official signalling or intentionally interrupting the operation of the same, just like anywhere else.
But then, all this stuff about the involvement of law enforcement and such is all speculation (best I can tell), so I guess it's not worth worrying about too much just yet.
You're all bright guys. I think you can work out the difference between "can't" and "don't want to".
The whole discussion lies between the two.
We ended up getting out on the bridge just north of Space View Park. Great viewing there.
It was amazing... made the whole trip and all the aggravation worth it!
I'd take today, tomorrow or Sunday. 16th isn't an option, and I'd really like to see a shuttle launch. :/
If you're in Tampa you're going to want to leave like right now... Space View Park supposedly is packed like 6+ hours before launch. I'm stuck in Orlando waiting on my buddy still (flight delayed). :(
Though they could still decide to scrub due to weather.
I'm in Orlando now, waiting for a friend to catch up so we can relocate over to Titusville for the launch (lost the raffle for a chance to buy KSC tickets... misery). I'm really hoping that it goes off on time though, or gets scrubbed and pushed to one of the next two windows (Sat and Sun). If they push to the third, July 18th iirc, the whole trip was a waste. :(
But such are the hazards of trying to come see a launch.
I know you guys are mostly just going at each other, but seems to me that knowing corruption is rampant (at least what regular people call corruption) is very different from necessarily having some new, undisclosed evidence in hand. I mean, we see cases of it every day... some of which net prosecutions, and sadly many that don't. Politics is a lying bastards game, fueled by huge sums of money and extraordinary influence. It doesn't surprise most of us that a situation like that is rife with problems. The only time I hear anyone even suggest otherwise is when they're temporarily blinded by some flashy new liar. Though it always ends the same, in time.
And I think the original point stands... sometimes we consider various kinds of cronyism, back room deals, government contracts, negligence, etc. as examples of corruption, even if they're somehow legal. Just because most people don't know, or care enough to say anything about it, doesn't mean it's not shitty. We're not lawyers, so we judge right and wrong on the stricter criteria of everyday life.
I'm not normally a black helicopters, Illuminati, "zomg corporations r teh evil" kind of person... but I think it's entirely rational to expect frequent and serious problems in system with so much money and influence around for the taking.
I often wonder, and I'd like to see an article about that. It seems to me that when some health insurance company wants a web portal because they have to, or a city wants a new payroll system, they call an american consulting company to handle it... who farms out all the actual work to other countries and keeps the 90% difference. They call it "project management", and nobody actually cares if the project ends up being any good.
But when a high profile tech company develops something important that a billion people are going to use, do they really farm much out? If so, what are all those american thinkers doing employed at Google, Facebook, etc? I don't get the impression that those companies are all MBA's.
To be fair to the other guy, he didn't say he supported the war[s] either.
Personally, I'd rather we allocated considerably more to NASA and perhaps more importantly, gave them a clear and consistent mission. It seems like our political machine changes its mind every few years about what NASA should be working on.
Build out Constellation and put us back on the moon. Why are we stuck using the shuttle for short jogs, decades later?
No, nevermind, that's getting expensive... use commercial options for manned flight, scrap that program and focus on research.
Hey, we should have a manned flight program, how else are we going to get to mars?
I can't help but wonder if the folks over there get a little peeved about starting and stopping programs on fleeting political whims. But maybe I've got it wrong and it just looks that way to the casual observer.
Chill... he made a mistake about duck hunt. He didn't kick your dog.
It looks like someone did 365 days by about .9505 (still technically over 95% uptime, requiring half payment) and divided that by 12 to get 1.5 days per month.
/. summary? Not surprising.
I guess it's a possible outcome... but clearly someone was looking for the worst possible way to represent the ToS. Maybe that's part of diligent research for your company... but certainly doesn't tell the whole story (like you did).
But then... an overblown
I think you'll find that people are mostly amenable to that arrangement nowadays. I keep a couple different machines set up with different sets of tools. I always have a windows distro somewhere to do work-related stuff and the rare game (office, exchange, activedir, photoshop, etc). But I choose to do much of my programming work on other platforms, when able (python, C, etc). Obviously any the of the .net stuff still happens in windows.
I think most all of us have long since come to a, "use whatever you prefer... just choose the right tool for the job."
To be fair, you could use his big, free, well-written one that's actually aimed at people who are new to programming.
I mean, another option doesn't seem like a bad thing.
Lol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Novoselov
That you?
...fame is a helluva drug.
Ah yes, back the in the day. Now everyone is sure their kid is going to be snatched up, anywhere they go.
I know a lot of cards work like that as a "fraud prevention service". Unfortunately it's always that reactive flagging, instead of proactive rules. :(
I should call my card company and see if they'll do that on request, though.
Likewise. And occasionally I'll catch myself stopping to think about it, like in a huge, non-grid box store (I'm thinking of a particular menards).
We had a discussion about this at work, my boss and I almost always know which way is which, but the women in the office had no idea if they weren't on a major road.
I wrote it off as being and old eagle scout. You spend a little time with a compass and map, finding your way around without obvious landmarks.
You're saying people should be eager to hire the guy from the story? I dunno man... sounds like a seriously unbalanced dude. Not that nobody should ever hire him, but I'd be wary. People can be weird... you can't be sure you'll keep every single person happy all of the time just by being a good boss.
The one thing you hope to be able to count on, at the very least, is that a person wants to avoid jail and be employable at some point in their future.