I'm already waaaay ahead of you, my friend. My idea is better...I got rid of my television outright.
Last year, I sold my NTSC television (36" Sony Trinitron) on eBay for $200 with pedestal. I figure I was out about $1000 over the 6 years I owned it.
Guess what I did next?
Wrong. I didn't replace it. My wife and I have no television. No ads. None of the soundbytes. No cable bill. No TiVo bill. No MythTV Mayhem. No equipment to keep thinking about upgrading. No worries about the broadcast flag. Nobody trying to push my buttons over the screen.
All that and more free space in my living room for the couch.
The funny thing is...we don't really miss TV and that gives us time to pursue other things. We'll catch a glimse of a show or a movie on the tube if we're out with friends or whatnot, but that's about it. Even then, most of the time we just turn the thing off.
We have survived our first year without a television in the house (as of 10/10!) and our lives have become much more enriched as a result.
At the time, it was not Genuity, it was GTE Internetworking...and the problem wasn't just Exodus. There were other people on free "peering" arrangements that were then using the arrangements to transit their traffic over the larger network The idea in a free peer is that the traffic transiting in both directions should be about equal. Companies who chose to abuse this relationship had their peering turned off and they had to sign up as transit customers in order to continue.
My money is on Cogent trying to run transit over the Level 3 backbone...so they shut them off. Contrary to the popular opinion on Slashdot, I think L3 made the right call.
CDBaby already put a lot of their artists' catalog on iTunes...but there is some paperwork the artists need to fill out before they can do that. (i.e. assurring that the material is original, etc.) CDBaby even has its own ISRC identifier that it tacks on all the digital tracks that they sell. Check out their digital distribution info here: http://www.cdbaby.net/dd They also don't limit themselves to iTunes...and they take a 9% cut of whatever they get after fees. Not too shabby.
Magnatune goes direct...and lets the listener set the price per disc...which is an entirely different concept. Very cool indeed, but they're more selective about what goes up on their site. Plus, you can play the stuff before you buy it. Once it's bought...pick your distribution format.
I know there's nothing wrong with the proven tech, but why do CDs still run $16 a pop?
I remember $15 CDs from the end of the 80s when I bought my first real CD, remember those really long cardboard boxes they came in? Anyway...
The fact that the prices are largely similar in 2005 is somewhat cool. Using an inflation calculator at http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ the cost of a $15 CD in 1988 would be equivalent to $24.34 today. If pricing pressures can keep the price around the same, it'll continue to gradually decrease.
Nobody I know will spend more than $16 on a given disc...much less $24.
All you need is a linking factor among several government databases...and it might as well be a one-stop shop. That's where the problem lies.
While a lot of information is public, the ease of gathering where you are/were is now to the point of painless. Tracking an individual used to involve a lot of work and traditional gumshoeing. Technologies like this make it easier only to track your law-abiding people.
Those who are intent to dodge the system for nefarious purposes are going to slip through much more easily. Imagine how much easier it could be to frame someone for murder if they just "borrow" a plate from a similar vehicle that's running idle. You'll go broke paying for an attorney who can prove this magical system the state has just installed is utterly useless.
CS is a lot more theoretical, and has a much larger emphasis on algorithms and underlying system operations. It's a hard science and requires, at times, some pretty hard classes. From my point of view, it's a lot more about direct problem solving and analysis than IT.
IT is more about making stuff that CS people write fit together. It's not even close to a pure science or engineering field. I'd liken it to more of an implemntation type of thing. And yes, it's definitely easier than CS.
MIT, CalTech, WPI, etc...this is science. DeVry...that's IT.
I absolutely hate it when people think that the two are one in the same, because they're not.
This isn't to say I would _not_ recommend either IT or CS as a major, however. One thing I do suggest to everyone is to study what you love to do. Going into ANY field for the money is just insane. Also, always think about a minor or doing a double major in something else you like as a backup.
The thing about iTunes that I like is that if I choose to rip a CD that I already own so I can use it in an iPod, then those files are free and clear to be copied as I see fit...or played on any other player. The encryption only follows the stuff I've purchased on the site (which have been sourced from codes from pepsi and stuff).
I spend most of my iTunes time previewing tracks to see if the actual CD is worth buying. No sense in paying actual money for compressed content.
The justification of lack of server support is twofold. First it's that you shouldn't make money off of their service unless you overpay for a "business" connection. (Which is BS. Bandwidth is bandwidth.) The second is that you'll use up everyone else's bandwidth, which is also BS. If they can provide 100Mbps downstream, I'll take 50Mbps BOTH WAYS for the same price. Fair's fair, right?
But of course, everyone using bittorrent and other file-sharing software is fine...but your podunk web server is cause for immediate concern!
And maybe the US is afraid to 'cooperate', as you put it, because we do all the work, spend all the money, and then get screwed by those we 'cooperate' with, when they don't cooperate back. Just look at the Human Rights commission!
Now...if the U.S. had gone with a GPL-style license instead of BSD, we wouldn't have this problem!
I have to agree with this to a degree...but there's something far more important that I've seen that's overlooked.
Everyone wants to hire the expert on everything that they need. On the other hand, nobody wants to grow an employee into what they need. The effect is that this leaves your high-level expertise employed, and comamnding a wondefully high salary. On the other hand, if a candidate isn't that all-in-one expert, nobody wants to train them...or even hire them.
I spent the last 7 years of my professional career as a service-provider network analyst, so I can tackle most stuff from layers 1-3, and am generally pretty good at it. I run a linux firewall at home and have a small Windows AD just for grins and storing my music on.
I had a job interview last week which was supposed to be largely centered on the LAN/WAN side, which I'm good at. However, I got a lot of grilling on the security side and on how to setup a multi-level Active Directory forest. Nothing for nothing, high-end PIX and IDS experience and creating an actual AD forest isn't something that most people can just pick up w/o a home lab of some sorts (which costs a ton of legitimate dollars)...and even with a home lab, w/o experience on the resume, it's a tough sell.
Maybe it's a character flaw, but I just can't bullshit my way through an interview.
This is 2005...and if you aren't painfully aware...the dot.com boom has been long over...and if you want to be treated professionally, then you need to act AND look professionally. The do-whatever-you-want-club is almost closed at every location it popped up in.
Here is a simple guide:
* Hide the tats. * Save the piercings for the goth club. * Use a natural hair color. (man...I wish I could do green at work...)
I'm disappointed with the Ogg portion of this review. Ogg glitches...with what exactly? I expect if he was throwing it some 320k rips, well...duh. Now, if they were lower bitrate like 128k or something, that would cause for significant cause for concern. However, there is no indication to that effect...and based on the specifications, that is an important factor.
I don't care how the music gets stored on these players and is used natively...and if that's where the DRM is, then I can live with that...so long as I can retain my source material in whatever format I choose.
I'd love to see more of the portable players support a transcoding interface. I store all my music as 320k oggs, and if there were something that could convert them to 96k mp3s on the fly as I want to upload them, then I'd be cool with that.
If Apple built that capability into their iTunes/iPod software, I'd go buy one. However, I don't want to do any extra rips or transcodes myself. It seems like this Sony player is already halfway there.
So far as I have seen, the only time when it is necesarry to kill another in-game character is when the plot has morally justified their extermination to the gamer, you are not obligated nor rewarded for killing "non-guilty" NPCs.
That's not entirely true...when I used to play GTA:VC, it was my wife that suggested I beat the snot out of the prostitute when I got my health back and lay low for a bit. After all, I got the "services" I needed, and I got my money back!
XP is slow enough as it is...and now we want to do all kinds of useless fancy junk with this kind of window manager?
It looks like someone saw Minority Report one time too many.
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Solaris 10 is just beautiful on my Ultra 10. I've got a 20gig drive and 256mb of RAM, so I know that it suffers. Unfortunately, memory for the damn thing costs more than the system is worth.:(
That said, I think the OS is nice...but consider that the U5 and U10 boxes are over 6 years old at this point. Regardless, I find the performance acceptable for my needs.
Now, as soon as Sun's servers unclog, I might be able to download a copy.
...because I'm a stickler for quality and don't feel like monopolizing my connection for so long to get it.
The more I read about this, though, the more it pisses me off...so there's little seed in the back of my head that tells me not to waste my time with movies...and I don't. Gouging for a ticket is bad enough, but the additional gouging for food and beverage just adds insult to injury anyway.
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I'm already waaaay ahead of you, my friend. My idea is better...I got rid of my television outright.
Last year, I sold my NTSC television (36" Sony Trinitron) on eBay for $200 with pedestal. I figure I was out about $1000 over the 6 years I owned it.
Guess what I did next?
Wrong. I didn't replace it. My wife and I have no television. No ads. None of the soundbytes. No cable bill. No TiVo bill. No MythTV Mayhem. No equipment to keep thinking about upgrading. No worries about the broadcast flag. Nobody trying to push my buttons over the screen.
All that and more free space in my living room for the couch.
The funny thing is...we don't really miss TV and that gives us time to pursue other things. We'll catch a glimse of a show or a movie on the tube if we're out with friends or whatnot, but that's about it. Even then, most of the time we just turn the thing off.
We have survived our first year without a television in the house (as of 10/10!) and our lives have become much more enriched as a result.
At the time, it was not Genuity, it was GTE Internetworking...and the problem wasn't just Exodus. There were other people on free "peering" arrangements that were then using the arrangements to transit their traffic over the larger network The idea in a free peer is that the traffic transiting in both directions should be about equal. Companies who chose to abuse this relationship had their peering turned off and they had to sign up as transit customers in order to continue.
My money is on Cogent trying to run transit over the Level 3 backbone...so they shut them off. Contrary to the popular opinion on Slashdot, I think L3 made the right call.
CDBaby already put a lot of their artists' catalog on iTunes...but there is some paperwork the artists need to fill out before they can do that. (i.e. assurring that the material is original, etc.) CDBaby even has its own ISRC identifier that it tacks on all the digital tracks that they sell. Check out their digital distribution info here: http://www.cdbaby.net/dd They also don't limit themselves to iTunes...and they take a 9% cut of whatever they get after fees. Not too shabby.
Magnatune goes direct...and lets the listener set the price per disc...which is an entirely different concept. Very cool indeed, but they're more selective about what goes up on their site. Plus, you can play the stuff before you buy it. Once it's bought...pick your distribution format.
The question is though... ...Does it support Ogg Vorbis?
The fact that the prices are largely similar in 2005 is somewhat cool. Using an inflation calculator at http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ the cost of a $15 CD in 1988 would be equivalent to $24.34 today. If pricing pressures can keep the price around the same, it'll continue to gradually decrease.
Nobody I know will spend more than $16 on a given disc...much less $24.
All you need is a linking factor among several government databases...and it might as well be a one-stop shop. That's where the problem lies.
While a lot of information is public, the ease of gathering where you are/were is now to the point of painless. Tracking an individual used to involve a lot of work and traditional gumshoeing. Technologies like this make it easier only to track your law-abiding people.
Those who are intent to dodge the system for nefarious purposes are going to slip through much more easily. Imagine how much easier it could be to frame someone for murder if they just "borrow" a plate from a similar vehicle that's running idle. You'll go broke paying for an attorney who can prove this magical system the state has just installed is utterly useless.
There is a _huge_ difference between CS and IT.
CS is a lot more theoretical, and has a much larger emphasis on algorithms and underlying system operations. It's a hard science and requires, at times, some pretty hard classes. From my point of view, it's a lot more about direct problem solving and analysis than IT.
IT is more about making stuff that CS people write fit together. It's not even close to a pure science or engineering field. I'd liken it to more of an implemntation type of thing. And yes, it's definitely easier than CS.
MIT, CalTech, WPI, etc...this is science. DeVry...that's IT.
I absolutely hate it when people think that the two are one in the same, because they're not.
This isn't to say I would _not_ recommend either IT or CS as a major, however. One thing I do suggest to everyone is to study what you love to do. Going into ANY field for the money is just insane. Also, always think about a minor or doing a double major in something else you like as a backup.
The thing about iTunes that I like is that if I choose to rip a CD that I already own so I can use it in an iPod, then those files are free and clear to be copied as I see fit...or played on any other player. The encryption only follows the stuff I've purchased on the site (which have been sourced from codes from pepsi and stuff).
I spend most of my iTunes time previewing tracks to see if the actual CD is worth buying. No sense in paying actual money for compressed content.
With the thickness of some of the flat screens, you've got a substantial risk of ricochet at a close distance if you use a small caliber.
I sold my TV last October, and while I missed it initially, I don't care to have one now...and won't get one any time soon, I expect.
A clever hoax at that too...
:)
I, however, don't like my neighbors...so I'd gladly let people flicker the lights on all day and night.
Granted, that wouldn't include the stuff inside...the constant clicking of the X-10 modules would surely get me going into a murderous rage.
This is why I hate residential service.
Tadpole is still around. Lots of goodies here:
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http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/products/mobi
No prices listed, but they have SPARC laptops!
I have to agree with this to a degree...but there's something far more important that I've seen that's overlooked.
Everyone wants to hire the expert on everything that they need. On the other hand, nobody wants to grow an employee into what they need. The effect is that this leaves your high-level expertise employed, and comamnding a wondefully high salary. On the other hand, if a candidate isn't that all-in-one expert, nobody wants to train them...or even hire them.
I spent the last 7 years of my professional career as a service-provider network analyst, so I can tackle most stuff from layers 1-3, and am generally pretty good at it. I run a linux firewall at home and have a small Windows AD just for grins and storing my music on.
I had a job interview last week which was supposed to be largely centered on the LAN/WAN side, which I'm good at. However, I got a lot of grilling on the security side and on how to setup a multi-level Active Directory forest. Nothing for nothing, high-end PIX and IDS experience and creating an actual AD forest isn't something that most people can just pick up w/o a home lab of some sorts (which costs a ton of legitimate dollars)...and even with a home lab, w/o experience on the resume, it's a tough sell.
Maybe it's a character flaw, but I just can't bullshit my way through an interview.
This is 2005...and if you aren't painfully aware...the dot.com boom has been long over...and if you want to be treated professionally, then you need to act AND look professionally. The do-whatever-you-want-club is almost closed at every location it popped up in.
Here is a simple guide:
* Hide the tats.
* Save the piercings for the goth club.
* Use a natural hair color. (man...I wish I could do green at work...)
I'm sure you can think of other examples.
I'm disappointed with the Ogg portion of this review. Ogg glitches...with what exactly? I expect if he was throwing it some 320k rips, well...duh. Now, if they were lower bitrate like 128k or something, that would cause for significant cause for concern. However, there is no indication to that effect...and based on the specifications, that is an important factor.
Yes, I rip at 320k...simply because I want to.
The live coverage is going to start at 1p EDT from the floor on MMORadio. The E3 calendar of events is located here:
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http://www.mmoradio.com/modules/piCal/index.php?c
The streaming server are going to be setup to take a slashdot-style beating...or that's what we're hoping.
I don't care how the music gets stored on these players and is used natively...and if that's where the DRM is, then I can live with that...so long as I can retain my source material in whatever format I choose.
I'd love to see more of the portable players support a transcoding interface. I store all my music as 320k oggs, and if there were something that could convert them to 96k mp3s on the fly as I want to upload them, then I'd be cool with that.
If Apple built that capability into their iTunes/iPod software, I'd go buy one. However, I don't want to do any extra rips or transcodes myself. It seems like this Sony player is already halfway there.
It has to be said...but 640mb ought to be enough for anybody!
That's not entirely true...when I used to play GTA:VC, it was my wife that suggested I beat the snot out of the prostitute when I got my health back and lay low for a bit. After all, I got the "services" I needed, and I got my money back!
XP is slow enough as it is...and now we want to do all kinds of useless fancy junk with this kind of window manager?
It looks like someone saw Minority Report one time too many.
Solaris 10 is just beautiful on my Ultra 10. I've got a 20gig drive and 256mb of RAM, so I know that it suffers. Unfortunately, memory for the damn thing costs more than the system is worth. :(
That said, I think the OS is nice...but consider that the U5 and U10 boxes are over 6 years old at this point. Regardless, I find the performance acceptable for my needs.
Now, as soon as Sun's servers unclog, I might be able to download a copy.
And MMORadio, formerly Paragon Radio, is open to themes and ideas from more than just CoH, but SWG, WoW, EQ/EQ2, MxO, etc.
Definitely worth spending time listening to, and staffed 'round the clock.
...because I'm a stickler for quality and don't feel like monopolizing my connection for so long to get it.
The more I read about this, though, the more it pisses me off...so there's little seed in the back of my head that tells me not to waste my time with movies...and I don't. Gouging for a ticket is bad enough, but the additional gouging for food and beverage just adds insult to injury anyway.