I, for one, wish the MPAA, Microsoft, the RIAA, etc all the best in their attempts to protect and overcharge insane amounts for their content and media.
Ok, I have to weigh in here in the interest of some objectivity. Most DVDs currently are in the $25 or less range. Most of the DVDs I've recently purchased have been $10 to $14. I don't see that as overcharging, particularly since a matinee ticket costs $5.00-$5.50 and as high as $9 for evening showings, and you have to schedule yourself to be at the theater at their showing time, not when best fits your schedule.
Some people apparently missed the Good Old Days when VHS tapes of movies were $30 up to $80 (one studio was always in the $70 to 80 range, while others were much lower) and if you adjust the dollars these would be considerably more in today's bucks.
Blank media may be pricey, but don't confuse that with what's on sale with content.
Will Tableau be the next Google? No, but it will be Tableau, and may even be a great service. Whether or not it will succeed, and why, remains to be determined.
When asked if he was the next Greg LeMond, a young Lance Armstrong replied, "No, I'm the first Lance Armstrong."
Tableau should follow the example and make their own name for themselves.
Biggest problem with hauling data out of databases is establishing rules which turn data into information.
I've developed an SQL tool (a little improvement here, a little there, as needed) which is getting pretty nice and takes care of 90% of what I do, but there's still enough stuff that's sufficiently weird that some element of coding is required to keep the needed and discard the unneeded and generate the end result. Then there's the bombastic treatment of data as the database designers subject us to which means even more finagling.
and hit them with big ugly damages just for saying it.
It would be rather amusing if IBM ended up owning SCO and whatever IP they have as a result of SCO being unable to pay the damages and going into default. I suppose it's possible, but who could rule out Microsoft (who certainly may see some stake in this, lord knows they've thrown tons of money at more absurd things) picking up the remains, after all, with 5K patents and planning to have 5K more.
In a nutshell, IBM accuses SCO of not only wrangling the legal process to keep delaying the eventual resolution of this case, but they go so far as to pull the curtain away and show that this table never had any legs to begin with.
Seems William Shatner should have been their spokesman, IIRC as a kid he cut the legs off his parents dining table and should have some experience here...
"It's more doomed than we thought, Scotty, beam us up NOW!"
Call me a "spinmeister", but expressing turnover as a perentage seems far more informative to me than comparing the total number of individuals changing tech jobs in 2004 compared to 1984. Unless you own a moving company or a cubicle nameplate maker.
A smaller pop will have more radical swings with change. There are fewer positions to move among.
Back in 1997 there were so many positions and so many IT people (including pseudo IT people, those with arts degrees who self taught themselves html and such) they changed employers frequently. It was exciting and sad (sad because I saw so many friends leave the company.) Now there are fewer shops and most have much leaner staffing levels.
The article doesn't make it sound like the survey was just Silicon Valley companies. It seems to be the industry as a whole. So, percentages really do matter.
Yeah, but the Valley is what I know and the entire Bay Area accounted for a lot of businesses on the leading edge of IT deployment.
Raise your hand if your boss doesn't have the most powerful PC in the place on his desk, while the people who actually perform the critical day to day fuctions make do with a clunker.
If I were a spinmeister I would love percentages. What you don't see is the total number of people in the field.
Where once great herds of IT professionals roamed the valley, only a few clusters remain here and there, each skittish
any remote lightning flash of resource realignment or rumble of offshoring.
It is worth considering tho, that Information work is a relatively new thing and where many businesses once spent nothing on it
they now would have a staff or contractor responsible for making sure all their technology continues to go and many businesses are
still getting a grip on what the right size of commitment should be for their IT needs. As long as staff have improper technology for their
particular function thanks to poor assessment of need, there will still be wiggle room for more (or less) tech staffing.
These have been available from Thinkgeek for a while now. They also make a "travel version" without those fearsome weapons of mass destruction. (Meaning the scissors, nail file and that itty-bitty knife.)
Meaning the only parts of the knife that will actually see any use. I'm still carrying an old knife I received as a gift and also have one I received at highschool graduation (a long while back) and the screwdriver and big blade are what I use the most.
Not that the travel version is necessary, since the USB drive is removable.
Really, since that's probably the only part you could carry onto a plane. Be a shame to chuck a pricey toy because you have to catch your flight and that toy has your latest architectural drawings on it. Hopefully the drive is upgradable as what ought to be good enough for anybody, today, will be laughably inadequate in a few years time.
homebrewed software that allows XMPCR users to automatically record and tag each song.
I always assumed this was why DJ's talked over the intro to tunes, to mess up anyone recording, lord knows they could save their
breath because who cares what DJ's have to say when your tune starts to play (you actually want them to shut the fsck up!)
'Sony' was meant to be Sonny, as in Sonny Boy, a homey sort of name. The founder got the spelling wrong, though the name stuck. A fun site to check for stuff like this.
It's counting with accountabilty -- effectively a paper trail -- evidence that those who have cast a vote have been counted with 100% certainty.
There oughta be a huge stink if 100 people show up to vote in a precinct and 101 votes are counted and there's a paper trail for 99.
But while the newsmedia rage one about it, we'll be checking out who got booted off some island or out of some industrial park on Survivor.
Lawyers In Love Jackson Browne
I can't keep up with what's been going on I think my heart must just be slowing down Among the human beings in their designer jeans Am I the only one who hears the screams And the strangled cries of lawyers in love
God sends his spaceships to America, the beautiful They land at six o'clock and there we are, the dutiful Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days Waiting for World War III while Jesus slaves To the mating calls of lawyers in love
Last night I watched the news from Washington, the capitol The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them, like Russians will Now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon And I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon As vacation land for lawyers in love
End result: The public won't know or won't care until a massive mistake is uncovered after the person enters office and everyone realizes that they've been living under the authority of a false representative. Of course, that's provided said person doesn't pass a law to protect people in his situation once they're discovered.
You give people too much credit. The level of complacency after the 2000 fiasco, which no doubt some very sharp minds took note of, underscored that people just really as a whole don't give that much of a damn about democracy in the US anymore.
So ironic in the face of what's been happening in Honk Kong, as people vie against the Beijing political machine to retain or advance their democratic cause -- the country which lit a the fire of democracy lacks passion.
It's sad to say, but this system could be hacked 10 ways from Sunday and people would grumble, but you'd hardly see the kind of response it should warrant.
Screen Size Diag: 7.2 ", Resolution: 1280 x 768
But not your eyes!
Indeed. Years ago Sony VAIO had something tiny like this and I opted for 505-TX (or whatever it was) with a larger screen. Still, screen wasn't the problem as much as trying to accomodate typing on such a miniscule, flat keyboard with size XL (glove size) hands.
I use a laptop as my desktop at work, but have opted for a fullsize keyboard. (Still make mistakes, just not as many and with far less frustration.)
There's legal uses, and there's illegal uses. If used illegally, it's the user who's to blame, not the service provider.
Although there's plenty of room for abuse with this service.
Particularly by those who *cough* congress *cough* who will sign just about any damn thing into law, for the commond good, the war on terror or because they don't have time to fully read it before heading home on break.
Please don't tell me you still trust the government...
make the service available only to licensed private investigators...
Yeah, right. Hey, I write out the check and I'm a licensed private investigator. Who the heck ever determined that this should ever be legal, for any entity.
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Ok, I have to weigh in here in the interest of some objectivity. Most DVDs currently are in the $25 or less range. Most of the DVDs I've recently purchased have been $10 to $14. I don't see that as overcharging, particularly since a matinee ticket costs $5.00-$5.50 and as high as $9 for evening showings, and you have to schedule yourself to be at the theater at their showing time, not when best fits your schedule.
Some people apparently missed the Good Old Days when VHS tapes of movies were $30 up to $80 (one studio was always in the $70 to 80 range, while others were much lower) and if you adjust the dollars these would be considerably more in today's bucks.
Blank media may be pricey, but don't confuse that with what's on sale with content.
I think a phone is cheaper, unless it's long distance.
When asked if he was the next Greg LeMond, a young Lance Armstrong replied, "No, I'm the first Lance Armstrong."
Tableau should follow the example and make their own name for themselves.
I've developed an SQL tool (a little improvement here, a little there, as needed) which is getting pretty nice and takes care of 90% of what I do, but there's still enough stuff that's sufficiently weird that some element of coding is required to keep the needed and discard the unneeded and generate the end result. Then there's the bombastic treatment of data as the database designers subject us to which means even more finagling.
Anyone got a demo they've downloaded and tried?
It would be rather amusing if IBM ended up owning SCO and whatever IP they have as a result of SCO being unable to pay the damages and going into default. I suppose it's possible, but who could rule out Microsoft (who certainly may see some stake in this, lord knows they've thrown tons of money at more absurd things) picking up the remains, after all, with 5K patents and planning to have 5K more.
I think that was actually Homer Simpson, but don't recall the episode or why, but the
should echo investor sentiments rather accurately."Me, I invest in beer at least I get something for my money."
What makes you so sure Darl doesn't have a box full of tin foil hats under his desk?
"Nope, doesn't fit..nope, not this one either..maybe this one..ah, can't hear myself thinking, perfect!"
In a nutshell, IBM accuses SCO of not only wrangling the legal process to keep delaying the eventual resolution of this case, but they go so far as to pull the curtain away and show that this table never had any legs to begin with.
Seems William Shatner should have been their spokesman, IIRC as a kid he cut the legs off his parents dining table and should have some experience here...
"It's more doomed than we thought, Scotty, beam us up NOW!"
At first glance I thought you said Fry's something [I'll leave the other word up to other imaginations]
If you're looking for a job, here's their online app.
A smaller pop will have more radical swings with change. There are fewer positions to move among.
Back in 1997 there were so many positions and so many IT people (including pseudo IT people, those with arts degrees who self taught themselves html and such) they changed employers frequently. It was exciting and sad (sad because I saw so many friends leave the company.) Now there are fewer shops and most have much leaner staffing levels.
Yeah, but the Valley is what I know and the entire Bay Area accounted for a lot of businesses on the leading edge of IT deployment.
Raise your hand if your boss doesn't have the most powerful PC in the place on his desk, while the people who actually perform the critical day to day fuctions make do with a clunker.
Where once great herds of IT professionals roamed the valley, only a few clusters remain here and there, each skittish any remote lightning flash of resource realignment or rumble of offshoring.
It is worth considering tho, that Information work is a relatively new thing and where many businesses once spent nothing on it they now would have a staff or contractor responsible for making sure all their technology continues to go and many businesses are still getting a grip on what the right size of commitment should be for their IT needs. As long as staff have improper technology for their particular function thanks to poor assessment of need, there will still be wiggle room for more (or less) tech staffing.
With the RIAA Microsoft already in bed with is!
In WMP DRM by design is.
"Always two there are, a master and an apprentice."
"Which is the master and which is the apprentice?"
There's always this!
Meaning the only parts of the knife that will actually see any use. I'm still carrying an old knife I received as a gift and also have one I received at highschool graduation (a long while back) and the screwdriver and big blade are what I use the most.
Not that the travel version is necessary, since the USB drive is removable.
Really, since that's probably the only part you could carry onto a plane. Be a shame to chuck a pricey toy because you have to catch your flight and that toy has your latest architectural drawings on it. Hopefully the drive is upgradable as what ought to be good enough for anybody, today, will be laughably inadequate in a few years time.
"Hey, I'm listening to Mack the Knife!"
You then go on to prove that the RIAA is actually behind p2p music sharing and the clampdown on copying and sharing among normally innocent people.
Gad! How arcane!
I always assumed this was why DJ's talked over the intro to tunes, to mess up anyone recording, lord knows they could save their breath because who cares what DJ's have to say when your tune starts to play (you actually want them to shut the fsck up!)
'Sony' was meant to be Sonny, as in Sonny Boy, a homey sort of name. The founder got the spelling wrong, though the name stuck. A fun site to check for stuff like this.
It's counting with accountabilty -- effectively a paper trail -- evidence that those who have cast a vote have been counted with 100% certainty.
There oughta be a huge stink if 100 people show up to vote in a precinct and 101 votes are counted and there's a paper trail for 99.
But while the newsmedia rage one about it, we'll be checking out who got booted off some island or out of some industrial park on Survivor.
You give people too much credit. The level of complacency after the 2000 fiasco, which no doubt some very sharp minds took note of, underscored that people just really as a whole don't give that much of a damn about democracy in the US anymore.
So ironic in the face of what's been happening in Honk Kong, as people vie against the Beijing political machine to retain or advance their democratic cause -- the country which lit a the fire of democracy lacks passion.
It's sad to say, but this system could be hacked 10 ways from Sunday and people would grumble, but you'd hardly see the kind of response it should warrant.
Indeed. Years ago Sony VAIO had something tiny like this and I opted for 505-TX (or whatever it was) with a larger screen. Still, screen wasn't the problem as much as trying to accomodate typing on such a miniscule, flat keyboard with size XL (glove size) hands.
I use a laptop as my desktop at work, but have opted for a fullsize keyboard. (Still make mistakes, just not as many and with far less frustration.)
Don't suppose they got the spelling mixed up for m_o_bius, like that other famous gaffe s-o-n-y.
Aaaaaarrrggghhhhh!!! A curse! A curse upon thee! It's in my head and it won't go away!
ringringringringbananaphoneringringringringringban anaphone!!!
Although there's plenty of room for abuse with this service.
Particularly by those who *cough* congress *cough* who will sign just about any damn thing into law, for the commond good, the war on terror or because they don't have time to fully read it before heading home on break.
Please don't tell me you still trust the government...
make the service available only to licensed private investigators ...
Yeah, right. Hey, I write out the check and I'm a licensed private investigator. Who the heck ever determined that this should ever be legal, for any entity.