Back in 1995 I had just bought an ATI video capture card. Soon after that Windows 95 came out and the card wouldn't work under 95, only Windows 3.11. ATI refuesed to port their drivers for the card to 95 and discontinued support for the card.
Just look at all the open letters to ATI complaining about their lack of support.
Not at all. Even with the Tivo you still can gather something from the ads that are flying by. When one looks interesting, many people have a tendancy to stop fast forwarding and rewind it to see the comercial. Sometimes I will purposefully watch a good commercial several times before skiping through it.
A good example is the new Jeep/Lora Croft ad. I've rewound it to watch it once and not fast forwarded through it a couple of times just to see it again. In the future when I am fast forwarding through it though I will still know what it is advertising and it will bring both Jeep and Lora to mind, so in a sense even though I will be skipping it, it is still doing its job.
Cartoon Network is doing a great job with their ads as well. The text based ads always get my attention because they are honest and entertaining. They are also using some of their characters in commercials themselves which gets you to take notice.
One thing I hope this brings is more informative commercials, perhaps spaced out over a program. Tell me honestly about your product, what does it offer, why should I want to buy it, what features does it offer, where is it made, etc. Advertisers should take their time as the right people interested in the product will listen.
I was let go too from a company whose new management was (still is) horrible. They had already laid off 15% of my department. I was so looking forward to being next. I really hated it there but didn't want to quit because it had been such a nice place the previous three years, I kept hoping it would get better. It never did. I continued to work my 41 hours a week (while others worked more to make up for the losses) and was finally let go. It was a very happy day indeed.
I spent the next 6 months self training and relaxing. I would send out a couple of resumes a week. One day I received a call from an old friend from work who offered me a new job making more than I made at the last place with a much better work environment.
Of course, I had plenty of savings, no debt (other than house) and was able to collect unemployment. If you are prepared, unemployment can be a very relaxing time.
Don't just quit, it won't have the results you would anticipate anyway. A group of us did this at a large Fruit company one time. With little problems they were able to bring in consultants that had worked there in the past to fill in the gaps until they could hire replacements.
A better solution is to, as a group, stick to a 40 hour work week. This will insure that you are not being too overworked and still will receive a paycheck for a long time to come. If and when they decide you aren't "pulling your load" which probably won't happen if they are as short handed as you say, they will be forced to lay you off (they probably won't fire you unless you give them just cause above and beyond just working your required hours). In this way you will be able to collect unemployment (which they have to foot part of!) and it will not reflect negatively on your resume.
The Archos is the way to go. I've been using mine now for almost a year. The more storage the better as it can be used for general file storage and dumping movies and pictures from digital cameras. The latest one supports video out and mpeg playback and is still cheaper than the latest iPod!
I find it very useful to transfer files to and from work along with my entire music collection.
I couldn't give a rats a@@ about any DRM laden formats such as Apple's new one.
I've worked for several large companies and a couple of small ones. I've always left one job on my own for a better one. I've always worked on salary (i.e. 40 hours a week), even when contracting. In all instances I have found that from time to time upper management sets unrealistic goals that cannot be met without overtime. Very seldom do I work more than 40 hours a week so from time to time upper management finds that the deadlines were missed and they learn not to overestimate timelines otherwise *they* risk embarisment. Its usually not a big deal. A Friday deadline may be pushed back to Tuesday or Wednessday of the next week.
If I set a deadline then I will try to meet it by working some extra during the week (never on weekends though) because I feel that since I set the timeline (and unlike upper management am qualified to estimate programming timelines) I am somewhat obligated to meet it. If the schedule is held up by external factors though (usually the case) then the deadline gets pushed back appropriatly.
I always let management know the progress of the project.
Now, this isn't to say I won't work a 10 or 12 hour day. I may indeed do that for various reasons, usually because I am "in the zone" coding wise. But, I always try to make up for it by leaving early or coming in late other days of the week. Sometimes a very long lunch will easily make up for it.
Lastly, I try to keep my time sheets consistant. Always right around 40 hours and always around 8 hours a day. Even if I do put in a 10 hour day one day and a 6 the next I just even it out to 8 and 8.
If I were going to do this I would implement a few proceduress...
1) Each drive being used as a backup gets a full check disk/defrag once a month. You could have an old dedicated machine that just sat around doing this.
2) Older drives would by cycled out with newer/bigger drives. Price/size/performance would probably make this justifiable in the 3-5 year range. I would keep the older drives for 6 months or so which would insure that the new drives had passed their burn in time. This would give you duplicate backups while the new backup drive proved itself.
3) Critical data would be moved to CD or DVD storage.
...DOES NOT include the theatrical cut of the film on a separate disc or via seamless branching.
If you want the theatrical cut, you have to buy
the August 2-disc set. If you want the longer cut, you buy the November 4-disc edition.
Some people may feel that this is an effort to
milk consumers...
This is milking if I have ever seen it! If they use seamless branching to add in the extra footage then you could choose which version of the film you wanted to see. Both on one disc without any duplication of footage. What a lie. I don't care if companies do this, just be up front and don't lie about it.
Hopefully they mean "The Last Battle" which is the big one shown at the begining of the movie. I.E. the last *great* battle. This is how it was refered to in the books.
You missed the point. The site itself wants to be indexed. It is the Scientology group that doesn't want it listed. It is an anti-scientology website.
I wonder if I can use the DMCA to keep my home telephone number from being listed in the phone book. The phone company wanted to charge me $1.50 to be "unlisted". I told them that was a rip and that if it wasn't for my TiVo I wouldn't even have a home phone!
I have two DirectTivo units and one regular Tivo unit. I primarily use my cell phone for everything and work did pay for my home phone line. When I lost my job I didn't replace the phone line thinking I could just program the one TiVo and let the DirectTivos get their information from the DirectTV. When I got a new job or Tivo released an update I figured I would get another phone line.
This worked fine for the standard TiVo. I had to program it to record like a VCR by time, but it continued to record manually. The DirectTivos however after 30 days of not connecting to the TiVo service refused to record anything even though they had TV listings! I was/am very mad at this and ended up having to get a phone line. They wouldn't even record manually. How stupid. I love my Tivos, but this was uncalled for.
I plan on writing Tivo but I doubt they will listen.
Perhaps not enough people on/. are interested enough in the Microsoft World to think about VBits (http://www.vbits.com) There will be three this year and they are all HUGE.
(Hmm, Neptune in 10 minutes means a light-hour per minute, so about a light-year per week. I hope they brought board games.)
Forgive me but I haven't seen the show yet (it is waiting on my TiVO;) so my comment may be off. But wouldn't your calculations depend on the current orbit of Neptune and where the ship traveling to Neptune was located? I'm assuming we are talking about the Enterprise traveling from Earth passing Neptune. If this is the case then it is conceivable that Neptune is on the far side of the Sun from the Earth which would mean the Enterprise would have to travel the entire diamiter of the Earth's orbit farther than if Neptune was on the same side of the Sun. I believe the Earth is about 8 light minutes away from the sun which would throw your calculations off by 16 light minutes! OK, so maybe it isn't that big of a deal when you take into account just how much further Neptune is away from the Sun than Earth;)
I thought it was a great idea to spin off the gunmen when I first heard about it. I was encouraged by the original commercials they ran. I was utterly disappointed when I witnessed the first episode. I gave it one more chance for the following episode and it got a little better. And the next episode a little better, and so on. I think the show was original and had some real potential. You can run a show for part of a season and then just cancel it! Characters, writers, and actors all need adequate time to find their nitch. Granted I think they needed to do more research into their technobable... but that could have come if it had been given time to mature.
The Family Guy is not funny, sorry.
The X-Files was fine up until season 5 or so. I was a big fan but just got tired of plots never being tied up and conspiracies never being revealed. This is a good example of a show that either needed to grow and change or be canceled.
In my view, Babylon 5 is probably the greatest show that has ever graced the air waves. It was original, it had a vision, it had a dedicated run time. It presented basically what its creator wanted and then it ended. We may never see the ending to the season finally of The Lone Gunmen. Much like Gilligan stuck on the isle for so many years.
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Well actually I decided on Computer Science but wondered what I could be missing out on in Computer Information Systems so I decided to get a minor in CIS and Math and then majored in Computer Science. Needless to say I learned a lot and job hunting was very easy. I would highly recommend CS over CIS. CIS seemed much too easy from the programming side and delved too deeply into the business side for my liking. If this is what you want I would recommend a CS degree with a business minor.
It looks like they will be doing some heavy digital editing because, "the folks at CN want the channel to be a safe place to go to [for kids]."
The article says that "This allows them to keep the show intact, and it makes everyone associated with the show very happy. (note: It also makes the fans very happy)." Well, it doesn't make me happy nor the fans in my local anime clubs.
And... "They split the costs with the producer of the anime." This could mean the producers sensing a growing market in America may begin self censorship in future productions. That is bad.
For cross platform HTML concerns I like PHP. It is very powerful and easy to use, though speed wise it is slightly slower than ASP/VBS, and much slower than Perl (I've done tests). If you are familiar with the language it is as quick as VBS or Perl as far as development time is concerned.
If there is more program than HTML though, I think Perl is more appropriate than either PHP or ASP. However, I wouldn't discount Python either. If your code needs to be *very* solid then Python would be a very good choice as it tends to lend itself to better written code.
I think the trailer looked very good and have heard good things about the book (especially before Scientology took off). Baring any bad reviews of the movie I'm going to see it because I don't discriminate on religion.
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Back in 1995 I had just bought an ATI video capture card. Soon after that Windows 95 came out and the card wouldn't work under 95, only Windows 3.11. ATI refuesed to port their drivers for the card to 95 and discontinued support for the card.
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Just look at all the open letters to ATI complaining about their lack of support.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=open+letter+a
I will never buy an ATI product because of this.
A good example is the new Jeep/Lora Croft ad. I've rewound it to watch it once and not fast forwarded through it a couple of times just to see it again. In the future when I am fast forwarding through it though I will still know what it is advertising and it will bring both Jeep and Lora to mind, so in a sense even though I will be skipping it, it is still doing its job.
Cartoon Network is doing a great job with their ads as well. The text based ads always get my attention because they are honest and entertaining. They are also using some of their characters in commercials themselves which gets you to take notice.
One thing I hope this brings is more informative commercials, perhaps spaced out over a program. Tell me honestly about your product, what does it offer, why should I want to buy it, what features does it offer, where is it made, etc. Advertisers should take their time as the right people interested in the product will listen.
Furthermore, someone might download a copy of a song they already own in a different format for a backup copy. This sounds perfectly legal to me.
Hello, have you not heard of VB Script that ships with Windows and is a perfect replacement for Batch?
I was let go too from a company whose new management was (still is) horrible. They had already laid off 15% of my department. I was so looking forward to being next. I really hated it there but didn't want to quit because it had been such a nice place the previous three years, I kept hoping it would get better. It never did. I continued to work my 41 hours a week (while others worked more to make up for the losses) and was finally let go. It was a very happy day indeed.
I spent the next 6 months self training and relaxing. I would send out a couple of resumes a week. One day I received a call from an old friend from work who offered me a new job making more than I made at the last place with a much better work environment.
Of course, I had plenty of savings, no debt (other than house) and was able to collect unemployment. If you are prepared, unemployment can be a very relaxing time.
Don't just quit, it won't have the results you would anticipate anyway. A group of us did this at a large Fruit company one time. With little problems they were able to bring in consultants that had worked there in the past to fill in the gaps until they could hire replacements.
A better solution is to, as a group, stick to a 40 hour work week. This will insure that you are not being too overworked and still will receive a paycheck for a long time to come. If and when they decide you aren't "pulling your load" which probably won't happen if they are as short handed as you say, they will be forced to lay you off (they probably won't fire you unless you give them just cause above and beyond just working your required hours). In this way you will be able to collect unemployment (which they have to foot part of!) and it will not reflect negatively on your resume.
The Archos is the way to go. I've been using mine now for almost a year. The more storage the better as it can be used for general file storage and dumping movies and pictures from digital cameras. The latest one supports video out and mpeg playback and is still cheaper than the latest iPod!
I find it very useful to transfer files to and from work along with my entire music collection.
I couldn't give a rats a@@ about any DRM laden formats such as Apple's new one.
The soundtrack was awesome too.
Yes! I've been looking for this movie on DVD or VHS for years now. I do have fond memories of Super Fuzz though, also with Terence Hill I think:)
I laughed, I laughed, I laughed, I cryed a little, then laughed some more. The sequal wasn't as good but not too bad. Highly recommended.
I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise but I must agree this movie holds a special place in my heart. I think it is very underappreciated.
I've worked for several large companies and a couple of small ones. I've always left one job on my own for a better one. I've always worked on salary (i.e. 40 hours a week), even when contracting. In all instances I have found that from time to time upper management sets unrealistic goals that cannot be met without overtime. Very seldom do I work more than 40 hours a week so from time to time upper management finds that the deadlines were missed and they learn not to overestimate timelines otherwise *they* risk embarisment. Its usually not a big deal. A Friday deadline may be pushed back to Tuesday or Wednessday of the next week.
If I set a deadline then I will try to meet it by working some extra during the week (never on weekends though) because I feel that since I set the timeline (and unlike upper management am qualified to estimate programming timelines) I am somewhat obligated to meet it. If the schedule is held up by external factors though (usually the case) then the deadline gets pushed back appropriatly.
I always let management know the progress of the project.
Now, this isn't to say I won't work a 10 or 12 hour day. I may indeed do that for various reasons, usually because I am "in the zone" coding wise. But, I always try to make up for it by leaving early or coming in late other days of the week. Sometimes a very long lunch will easily make up for it.
Lastly, I try to keep my time sheets consistant. Always right around 40 hours and always around 8 hours a day. Even if I do put in a 10 hour day one day and a 6 the next I just even it out to 8 and 8.
If I were going to do this I would implement a few proceduress...
1) Each drive being used as a backup gets a full check disk/defrag once a month. You could have an
old dedicated machine that just sat around doing this.
2) Older drives would by cycled out with newer/bigger drives. Price/size/performance would probably make this justifiable in the 3-5 year range. I would keep the older drives for 6 months or so which would insure that the new drives had passed their burn in time. This would give you duplicate backups while the new backup drive proved itself.
3) Critical data would be moved to CD or DVD storage.
If you want the theatrical cut, you have to buy the August 2-disc set. If you want the longer cut, you buy the November 4-disc edition.
Some people may feel that this is an effort to milk consumers...
This is milking if I have ever seen it! If they use seamless branching to add in the extra footage then you could choose which version of the film you wanted to see. Both on one disc without any duplication of footage. What a lie. I don't care if companies do this, just be up front and don't lie about it.
Hopefully they mean "The Last Battle" which is the big one shown at the begining of the movie. I.E. the last *great* battle. This is how it was refered to in the books.
You missed the point. The site itself wants to be indexed. It is the Scientology group that doesn't want it listed. It is an anti-scientology website.
I wonder if I can use the DMCA to keep my home telephone number from being listed in the phone book. The phone company wanted to charge me $1.50 to be "unlisted". I told them that was a rip and that if it wasn't for my TiVo I wouldn't even have a home phone!
I have two DirectTivo units and one regular Tivo unit. I primarily use my cell phone for everything and work did pay for my home phone line. When I lost my job I didn't replace the phone line thinking I could just program the one TiVo and let the DirectTivos get their information from the DirectTV. When I got a new job or Tivo released an update I figured I would get another phone line.
This worked fine for the standard TiVo. I had to program it to record like a VCR by time, but it continued to record manually. The DirectTivos however after 30 days of not connecting to the TiVo service refused to record anything even though they had TV listings! I was/am very mad at this and ended up having to get a phone line. They wouldn't even record manually. How stupid. I love my Tivos, but this was uncalled for.
I plan on writing Tivo but I doubt they will listen.
There is no MicrosoftWorld.
/. are interested enough in the Microsoft World to think about VBits (http://www.vbits.com) There will be three this year and they are all HUGE.
Perhaps not enough people on
Forgive me but I haven't seen the show yet (it is waiting on my TiVO;) so my comment may be off. But wouldn't your calculations depend on the current orbit of Neptune and where the ship traveling to Neptune was located? I'm assuming we are talking about the Enterprise traveling from Earth passing Neptune. If this is the case then it is conceivable that Neptune is on the far side of the Sun from the Earth which would mean the Enterprise would have to travel the entire diamiter of the Earth's orbit farther than if Neptune was on the same side of the Sun. I believe the Earth is about 8 light minutes away from the sun which would throw your calculations off by 16 light minutes! OK, so maybe it isn't that big of a deal when you take into account just how much further Neptune is away from the Sun than Earth;)
I thought it was a great idea to spin off the gunmen when I first heard about it. I was encouraged by the original commercials they ran. I was utterly disappointed when I witnessed the first episode. I gave it one more chance for the following episode and it got a little better. And the next episode a little better, and so on. I think the show was original and had some real potential. You can run a show for part of a season and then just cancel it! Characters, writers, and actors all need adequate time to find their nitch. Granted I think they needed to do more research into their technobable... but that could have come if it had been given time to mature.
The Family Guy is not funny, sorry.
The X-Files was fine up until season 5 or so. I was a big fan but just got tired of plots never being tied up and conspiracies never being revealed. This is a good example of a show that either needed to grow and change or be canceled.
In my view, Babylon 5 is probably the greatest show that has ever graced the air waves. It was original, it had a vision, it had a dedicated run time. It presented basically what its creator wanted and then it ended. We may never see the ending to the season finally of The Lone Gunmen. Much like Gilligan stuck on the isle for so many years.
Well actually I decided on Computer Science but wondered what I could be missing out on in Computer Information Systems so I decided to get a minor in CIS and Math and then majored in Computer Science. Needless to say I learned a lot and job hunting was very easy. I would highly recommend CS over CIS. CIS seemed much too easy from the programming side and delved too deeply into the business side for my liking. If this is what you want I would recommend a CS degree with a business minor.
What the hell are you talking about? To me, this *is* news. You know, "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters". This definitely fits in both categories.
It looks like they will be doing some heavy digital editing because, "the folks at CN want the channel to be a safe place to go to [for kids]."
The article says that "This allows them to keep the show intact, and it makes everyone associated with the show very happy. (note: It also makes the fans very happy)." Well, it doesn't make me happy nor the fans in my local anime clubs.
And... "They split the costs with the producer of the anime." This could mean the producers sensing a growing market in America may begin self censorship in future productions. That is bad.
For cross platform HTML concerns I like PHP. It is very powerful and easy to use, though speed wise it is slightly slower than ASP/VBS, and much slower than Perl (I've done tests). If you are familiar with the language it is as quick as VBS or Perl as far as development time is concerned.
If there is more program than HTML though, I think Perl is more appropriate than either PHP or ASP. However, I wouldn't discount Python either. If your code needs to be *very* solid then Python would be a very good choice as it tends to lend itself to better written code.
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I think the trailer looked very good and have heard good things about the book (especially before Scientology took off). Baring any bad reviews of the movie I'm going to see it because I don't discriminate on religion.
It's just that simple.