Just because BN could not get enough business from eBooks, it does not mean you-know-what-store is going to kill off eBooks. After all, BN does not sell kitchen stuff on their web site either:)
Well yes. Studio recordings now emply autotuners, vocoders (thanks, Cher), an array of samplers and other digital sound make-up. Result -- clean sound, less worries for engineers, more harmony and polished sound. Those who're not into polished sound probably do it too, just tune them in opposite way:) What amazes me is nobody complains about regular make-up for stars (of any caliber). Have you ever seen your favourite movie star without make up? How about a tv announcer? Not quite the same, huh? Yet nobody screams "CHEATING!!!" because it's a part of professional life. Why sound should be different?
Niobe have succeeded, Trinity shut down back-up generators, and Neo is ready to enter that certain door located in one of the NY skyscrapers (and conviniently filmed in Australia ) Trinity being overprotective shut down a few extra blocks, just to be sure power does not come back up at the wrong time...:)
"-- You see! They managed to build a sweeping robot with pure analog parts! Motor and switches! We, on the other hand, found an engenious way to emulate those functions with sophisticated CPU, that costs more than TWO of those pesky sweepers!"
Now what if kernel 4.6 SCO Edition gets released. Will they whail about offering a license too? And then 4.7 SCO Edition and 4.8 SCO Edition, until overloaded PR and Lawyers give up updating "buy license for these versions" press releases. Nothing beats automated build scripts:)
Talking about expensive unncesessary tech...
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Wouldn't a simple "Refill please"/"Hey, waiter!" button do the job, without all the glass-to-beer sensors? You can make it wireless and with a velcro or a suction fixator:)
So all the civilizations, capable of building radio beakons and moving them away from the star for clearer transmittion will be excluded, as every megawatt transmittion with goal of reaching other civilizations should originate by the planet!
Hm. Strange ideas.
"The next message will be sent by us in 0.00063 of galactic second".
Unfortunately it is not enough for salary to go down. Because even if you're offering to cut your salary in half, company has already decided to move the position to India, spent amount, equal to half of your "high" annual salary to bring person into US, pay for hotel and training and then send him back. So, unless you find a whole team with salary substantially less than those in India, company won't even think of bringing the job back. The only competition is from China, and I saw articles about Indian companies starting to worry -- they're getting into the same situation as US developers "China cuts us off!".
p.s. dramatic cut in salaries should lead to deflation, which is feared so much by US politians;)
p.p.s. The US dollars sent to other countries in exchange for products can be used WITHOUT ever returing to Amercia. India buys stuff from China and pays with Dollars. And China buys back from India something else. With Dollars. Where is the "win" for US except for chance of horrible inflation if all the monetary mass suddenly shipped back into US?
I know I probably gonna get whacked for "dissident option" but I think it's way better to have proprietary SPECIALIZED things. Yes, you can create open generic CPU, and everybody would be able to build an alarm clock or server out of it. Yet if you have a chip for alarm clock that is proprietary, but suits just fine alarm clock builders, 10 times smaller, 5 times cheaper, consumes 13 times less energy, what would you choose?
I don't need generic thing that works 3 hours on one charge. I would go with PDA that is less flexible, can't run linux (gasp!), but works longer from the battery. When I figure out something else to do with PDA I will buy myself a bigger one, or a laptop;)
In other news, one of respectable professors have just discovered, that African tribes used antient modems in form of drums with two way communication, error correction, capable of speed of 0.4 bods. No news if they used compression yet, so GIF patents still hold.:)
Dr.Evil:.... ozone layer Number Two: That already happend. Dr.Evil: Sh.t! Oh well, let's draft some frivolous lawsuit and sue the world's biggest computer company for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS! Number Two: *cough* Don't you think we should ask for more? Dr.Evil: OK. And sue them for ONE BILLION DOLLARS! Or heck, make it three. Good.
In other words, if you were waiting for a month until work order gets signed, but now asked to work all the overtime in the world, isn't it logical? Contractors don't get paid at all if there's no work (not to mention kick in the rear with "thank you, the project is finished now"). Or am I missing something?
I can see the spam headlines already:) "This super-absorbant shielding will shield you from those harmful radiowaves, emitted by the super-GPS tracker in your new Oregonian car! Easy to install and saves you gas money! Easy to remove for the state inspection.":)
Enevts like that proof we don't live in the Matrix. Otherwise Godzilla's would be popping up in New York every time someone finds another hole in one of the servers...
Now all we will have to do is to switch from dollars to wulongs, and Cowboy Bebop can go hunting for them:) A nice 15 000 wulongs for "Mad Joe The Enlarger", or 20 000 for "Mortgage Broking Mike":)
The whole idea can fall apart, if at the end of the 3rd Matrix movie Neo will wake up once again in his bed, late for work. Then he will describe all this crazy 2.9 movie long dream in his blog, where Morpheus, Trinity and other friends with familiar nicknames will comment vividly, suggesting crazy interpretations and hinting at "too much stress", as Neo's co-workers get laid off one by one by a reputable software company. His medically educated friend will point out that all knowing Oracle is a reference to a well know database product, for which Neo writes stored procedures, constantly having problems with number of DB Agents, he sometimes referrs to "Smith". Lady in Red is a secretary of his boss.
For those, who loses remotes, take those "find me" beeping keychains and glue it onto each remote. Idea of a fancy "terminal" seems to be kinda stupid right now. Just like having TV/Internet access built into the fridge (it might be ok if you have REALLY small apartment and have only space for the fridge in it but, unless you live in Tokyo, that's not gonna happen). For those wanting terminal, there already are tablet PCs. There are learning remotes that can control everything (heck, there's even sony learning remote with LCD screen for changing layout for less than $400;) ). And there are PDAs that can control anything with IR control, show somewhat castrated web pages, play your music, browse your wireless network, yet still cheaper than a thousand bucks.
Just. Not a whole lot. Automatic delete on everything "NAME, get...../number-letter-thing/". Semi-automatic delete on "I can't contact you!! 232". Delete on "make yourself B-I-G". Delete on "rooms for rent", "LEARN ENGLISH NOW" (Huh? How'd I read this subject if I did not speak English?), delete "free access!" and a number of other things. Whose rights it's going to infringe? What would you say if someone followed you on the street shouting "GET YOURSELF A BIGGER MEMBER". Politely say "No thank you" each time? If you tell him to shut up and go away he'd say "This is my right to the free speach!" and go on. Not a pleasant picture, is it? Then why doing the same thing through Email is different? Even more, why COMMERCIAL speech ("Buy yourself a member enlarger") can mask as non-commercial? So, to those "free speechwriters" I say: filter on you, fee on you, and curse on you, so that your member would get as long as many spams you sent about it, so you can go and fck yourself easily.
Well, those people, who actually are trying to SPAM through open WLANs usually act because someone (like American Language Center) promised them money/cut of profits or something else. Problem is while WLANS can be more or less secured, and hijackers can be delt with, the main source is still intact. And, because in most cases companies will say "well WE did not send spam, we just hired Joe to advertise us" and get off the hook, WLAN hijacking will go on. Until all "Joe smartypans" spammers will be rooted out. Given the size of the population it's highly unlikely.
Wait until SPAM on behalf of unsuspecting companies will be employed as 'crush the competitor' technique:)
One of the suits already got dismissed. If, on the other hand, Sun looses this one, then bye bye US jobs and hello nice fat contract for Sun India. Which would be even worse.
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Just because BN could not get enough business from eBooks, it does not mean you-know-what-store is going to kill off eBooks. After all, BN does not sell kitchen stuff on their web site either :)
Well yes. Studio recordings now emply autotuners, vocoders (thanks, Cher), an array of samplers and other digital sound make-up. Result -- clean sound, less worries for engineers, more harmony and polished sound. Those who're not into polished sound probably do it too, just tune them in opposite way :)
What amazes me is nobody complains about regular make-up for stars (of any caliber). Have you ever seen your favourite movie star without make up? How about a tv announcer? Not quite the same, huh? Yet nobody screams "CHEATING!!!" because it's a part of professional life. Why sound should be different?
Niobe have succeeded, Trinity shut down back-up generators, and Neo is ready to enter that certain door located in one of the NY skyscrapers (and conviniently filmed in Australia ) :)
Trinity being overprotective shut down a few extra blocks, just to be sure power does not come back up at the wrong time...
"-- You see! They managed to build a sweeping robot with pure analog parts! Motor and switches!
We, on the other hand, found an engenious way to emulate those functions with sophisticated CPU, that costs more than TWO of those pesky sweepers!"
Hm...
Do you think they have opted out for some sort of insurance that will pay out in case of government intervention/legal claims/etc? :)
Now what if kernel 4.6 SCO Edition gets released. Will they whail about offering a license too? And then 4.7 SCO Edition and 4.8 SCO Edition, until overloaded PR and Lawyers give up updating "buy license for these versions" press releases. Nothing beats automated build scripts :)
Wouldn't a simple "Refill please"/"Hey, waiter!" button do the job, without all the glass-to-beer sensors? You can make it wireless and with a velcro or a suction fixator :)
So all the civilizations, capable of building radio beakons and moving them away from the star for clearer transmittion will be excluded, as every megawatt transmittion with goal of reaching other civilizations should originate by the planet!
Hm. Strange ideas.
"The next message will be sent by us in 0.00063 of galactic second".
Unfortunately it is not enough for salary to go down. Because even if you're offering to cut your salary in half, company has already decided to move the position to India, spent amount, equal to half of your "high" annual salary to bring person into US, pay for hotel and training and then send him back. So, unless you find a whole team with salary substantially less than those in India, company won't even think of bringing the job back. The only competition is from China, and I saw articles about Indian companies starting to worry -- they're getting into the same situation as US developers "China cuts us off!".
;)
p.s. dramatic cut in salaries should lead to deflation, which is feared so much by US politians
p.p.s. The US dollars sent to other countries in exchange for products can be used WITHOUT ever returing to Amercia. India buys stuff from China and pays with Dollars. And China buys back from India something else. With Dollars. Where is the "win" for US except for chance of horrible inflation if all the monetary mass suddenly shipped back into US?
I know I probably gonna get whacked for "dissident option" but I think it's way better to have proprietary SPECIALIZED things.
;)
Yes, you can create open generic CPU, and everybody would be able to build an alarm clock or server out of it. Yet if you have a chip for alarm clock that is proprietary, but suits just fine alarm clock builders, 10 times smaller, 5 times cheaper, consumes 13 times less energy, what would you choose?
I don't need generic thing that works 3 hours on one charge. I would go with PDA that is less flexible, can't run linux (gasp!), but works longer from the battery. When I figure out something else to do with PDA I will buy myself a bigger one, or a laptop
Please smash the pad with your fist now.
In other news, one of respectable professors have just discovered, that African tribes used antient modems in form of drums with two way communication, error correction, capable of speed of 0.4 bods. :)
No news if they used compression yet, so GIF patents still hold.
Planning meeting in Dr. Evil's lair.
.... ozone layer
Dr.Evil:
Number Two: That already happend.
Dr.Evil: Sh.t! Oh well, let's draft some frivolous lawsuit and sue the world's biggest computer company for...
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Number Two: *cough* Don't you think we should ask for more?
Dr.Evil: OK. And sue them for ONE BILLION DOLLARS!
Or heck, make it three.
Good.
In other words, if you were waiting for a month until work order gets signed, but now asked to work all the overtime in the world, isn't it logical? Contractors don't get paid at all if there's no work (not to mention kick in the rear with "thank you, the project is finished now"). Or am I missing something?
I can see the spam headlines already :) :)
"This super-absorbant shielding will shield you from those harmful radiowaves, emitted by the super-GPS tracker in your new Oregonian car! Easy to install and saves you gas money! Easy to remove for the state inspection."
Enevts like that proof we don't live in the Matrix. Otherwise Godzilla's would be popping up in New York every time someone finds another hole in one of the servers...
Well you know, you can't wipe with flat screen monitor after you read :)
Now all we will have to do is to switch from dollars to wulongs, and Cowboy Bebop can go hunting for them :) A nice 15 000 wulongs for "Mad Joe The Enlarger", or 20 000 for "Mortgage Broking Mike" :)
The whole idea can fall apart, if at the end of the 3rd Matrix movie Neo will wake up once again in his bed, late for work. Then he will describe all this crazy 2.9 movie long dream in his blog, where Morpheus, Trinity and other friends with familiar nicknames will comment vividly, suggesting crazy interpretations and hinting at "too much stress", as Neo's co-workers get laid off one by one by a reputable software company. His medically educated friend will point out that all knowing Oracle is a reference to a well know database product, for which Neo writes stored procedures, constantly having problems with number of DB Agents, he sometimes referrs to "Smith". Lady in Red is a secretary of his boss.
:) :)
But then you'll say...
For those, who loses remotes, take those "find me" beeping keychains and glue it onto each remote. ;) ). And there are PDAs that can control anything with IR control, show somewhat castrated web pages, play your music, browse your wireless network, yet still cheaper than a thousand bucks.
Idea of a fancy "terminal" seems to be kinda stupid right now. Just like having TV/Internet access built into the fridge (it might be ok if you have REALLY small apartment and have only space for the fridge in it but, unless you live in Tokyo, that's not gonna happen). For those wanting terminal, there already are tablet PCs. There are learning remotes that can control everything (heck, there's even sony learning remote with LCD screen for changing layout for less than $400
In one word: Yuk!
Just. Not a whole lot. Automatic delete on everything "NAME, get ..... /number-letter-thing/". Semi-automatic delete on "I can't contact you!! 232". Delete on "make yourself B-I-G". Delete on "rooms for rent", "LEARN ENGLISH NOW" (Huh? How'd I read this subject if I did not speak English?), delete "free access!" and a number of other things.
Whose rights it's going to infringe? What would you say if someone followed you on the street shouting "GET YOURSELF A BIGGER MEMBER". Politely say "No thank you" each time? If you tell him to shut up and go away he'd say "This is my right to the free speach!" and go on. Not a pleasant picture, is it? Then why doing the same thing through Email is different? Even more, why COMMERCIAL speech ("Buy yourself a member enlarger") can mask as non-commercial?
So, to those "free speechwriters" I say: filter on you, fee on you, and curse on you, so that your member would get as long as many spams you sent about it, so you can go and fck yourself easily.
Well, those people, who actually are trying to SPAM through open WLANs usually act because someone (like American Language Center) promised them money/cut of profits or something else. Problem is while WLANS can be more or less secured, and hijackers can be delt with, the main source is still intact. And, because in most cases companies will say "well WE did not send spam, we just hired Joe to advertise us" and get off the hook, WLAN hijacking will go on. Until all "Joe smartypans" spammers will be rooted out. Given the size of the population it's highly unlikely.
:)
Wait until SPAM on behalf of unsuspecting companies will be employed as 'crush the competitor' technique
are the LAN Lords :)
Evil Bid would be set for all repeats, occuring within given time period, which would significantly simplify routing and weeding off articles :)
One of the suits already got dismissed.
If, on the other hand, Sun looses this one, then bye bye US jobs and hello nice fat contract for Sun India. Which would be even worse.