its not so much a mater of need as a mater of quality, think, what if we said, whats the point of cd when we have casset tapes
Excellent point. However, I'd like to point out that when CDs first came out, they cost the same or slightly more than tapes/LPs.
Perhaps the original comment was in regards to the quality of the content? With music there is quality content in many different genres available to the consumer. While there is no accounting for taste, there are several excellent arguments that the content:junk ratio on TV hardly justifies the cost of this technical improvement.
Friends isn't any funnier on HDTV but Bach sure does sound better on my CD.
I'd suggest a refurbished Dell from Dell Financial Services. These are machines that were used by businesses as part of a lease program and were returned. Most still have warranties. More importantly, no OS and no OS tax. Check it out.
Communism is a failed experiment, but what people forget is that the problems it was trying to solve were real. And they're still with us.
If the trucks bearing the US flag rolled up to crowds of people to deliver global welfare direct to individuals were accepted, would the problems still exist?
I've read that Sirius has three satellites, where XM has two. Additionally Sirius' satellites are in higher orbits. The result is that Sirius has a more reliable signal and fewer loses of signal.
I'd like to add another point that is probably splitting hairs. Most of the subscribers of these satellite radio services aren't even going to hear it from a direct satellite source. XM and the like had to erect antennas in the major cities to get around that whole skyscraper problem of blocking the signal.
Technology aside, how long do you think it is going to take to introduce 24 minutes of commercials every hour into this format once stockholders realize how much more money they can make? Not long. In fact, they've probably already started boiling the frog.
The only people I can see getting excited about this product are those that live beyond the broadcast range of FM stations. If lived at such a location and had an interest in radio as a medium I'd be all over it. However, I don't and I would imagine that the majority of the millions of subscribers they need to be profitable do live in FM range.
Let's see, crappy reception for commercial filled pop channels with no local news/content for $10/month plus >$200 entry fee versus crappy reception for commercial filled pop channels with local news/content for free. If I had to turn on a radio, I think I'd use FM way before XM. Then again, I don't listen to radio or watch TV so I don't have this dilemma.
It has been my experience (and others that I know) that getting a job is a lot easier if you know someone at the place you want work at. If they have enough swag to put in a good word for you, that foot in the door could push your resume to the top of the stack. Cold calls are a rough way to go.
Have you ever tried going to a bar or a club where live bands play music? I'm not talking about the places you already know about that are frequented by the bands you like. I'm talking about going some place new, that you've never been to before where they play music that you don't think you like.
Fly into Dublin an go lick the tins with me boys down at Temple Bar. There, the patrons play the music. Heck, you may find yourself playing with them.
... not necessarily in the event of a crash or accident, but it might on the next one. Data recorders help engineers determine what went wrong with the related technology and if that information can be used to help save the life of someone in the future by improving the technology, perhaps someone like myself or my loved ones, I'm all for it.
Regarding the privacy issue, I believe the issue of personal data privacy to be our future "civil rights" issue for the next 20 years. Laws need to be written around the use and abuse of this information.
Which do you do first? Save lives now or put it off until some civil rights legislation that make huge corporations less profitable passes?
engineering is the only profession where your value to the company goes down the older you get.
Regarding software engineering, they pay top dollar for decent mainframe/COBOL programmers where I work.. most of which are over the age of 40. Given long term trends, I'd say they are secure in their job for at least another 10 years, probably more like 20.
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The T3 of my imagination is better than this drek. In my T3, we see hubris of man as they give the keys to the kingdom to a machine. Skynet become-self aware and the war starts. John Connor rises up and fights in a dark painful world where the banality of mindless evil crushes everyone's soul and body. His soldiers, friends, and mother die around him.
Sure, he sends Ahnuld back to save his bacon but that is what is so interesting to me about this mind-flick -- what happens after? I'm sure it would have a Millenium type feel with timequakes or something or would the future just instantly change into something more pleasant, too easy, like Ender at the end of Ender's Game. Where do you go next?
I agree with your points. Last I checked, 51% is still a failing grade, whether rottentomatoes.com gives it a "fresh" rating or not.
What rottentomatoes.com and the most of the professional critics quoted there are doing is rating the film as a film. A fan of Star Trek (or perhaps science fiction in general) would probably give the movie a higher rating than someone who saw the film as a stand-alone entity. In other words, how does NEMESIS stand up against films like American Beauty or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Even among films of its own genre, how does it stand up against masterpeices like 2001, Blade Runner, or the Matrix? Probably not very well.
Could someone seriously explain what these people are protesting for? Is it wrong for people to cut down trees?
Trees are burnt to the ground in forest fires, how come people aren't protesting forest fires? I understand that it would be bad if someone were to cut down all the trees, but that wouldn't make much financial sense for a logging company to do that. Is it an age thing? Like an older tree shouldn't be cut down but it is ok to cut down younger trees? What is the criteria for being an older tree?
BTW, what are their platforms made of? Plastic? Metal? Wood?! What about the food they eat? Even if they are vegan, what makes a tree's "life" more sacred than some bean sprout?
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That's not the right address. That's his old address. I believe the new one is on Minnow Pond in the same city.
Personally, I don't like advertisements tapdancing on the chest of my own free will...What do you think?
If you are in total control of your, as you say, "free will", what do you care if someone attempts to appeal to your interests? Perhaps you are concerned that they are able to make some low-level appeal to your senses below what you can consciously understand but effective enough to influence your behavior? At that point, how would you even know it was happening?
If you don't make yourself available to be targeted by the "tapdancers", then perhaps you won't have to worry about whether or not you are consuming something because you want to or because someone made you think you want to.
Why does everyone bitch about advertising? You don't have to observe it if you don't want to.
From their website, their maojr fear monger cries all contain the word "terrorist". So, their space colony is going to be immune from terrorists? Riiiiiight.
Accepting and immoral and illegal acts is completely indefensible, but then again what should I expect from someone that just defended slavery, and has been rightfuly outlawed under the 13th Amendment. Past crimes do not justify future crimes.
I appreciate your reply and I believe in your sincerity. At the risk of being baited for a flame/troll, I would however ask you to re-read my post. I did not in any way apologize for slavery or say that what the H1B's are going through in the US is acceptable and moral. I was merely stating the mode of thinking as to why companies like IBM Global Services are involved in this practice. My admission that my own family came to the US in a very similar way was included to show that I sympathize with their plight.
What have I done to help out? I believe that all politics are local so I vote for respresentatives in my area that support (among other issues) immigrant rights.
I would answer that with a question. Are there unions of other white collar sallaried professionals? If so, look to why they created a union.
Why is the current practice of laying off your IT staff, then "re-employing" them as contractors (at a lower rate) not illegal?
Because they are not employeed under contractual agreement.
Why is most of the programming work done overseas, where you have to ridiculously overspecify the project to get maintainable/extendable code?
I don't know what being overseas has to do with this question but unless the project scope is very clearly defined, it is difficult to develop and maintain code for it. The example you are thinking of was probably burned on this before and decided to do (in my opinion) the right thing.
Why are our governments allowing Visas for people to do IT work, when there are IT people available for work in their own country?
Availability of IT workers isn't the issue. This is around the cost and quality of the IT workers. They can get them better and cheaper from places like Pakistan, India, and China. They work longer hours for less pay and generally have a higher level of experience and education. The US has a history (hundreds of years) of indentured servatude. That's how my family got here from Europe.
Why do employers/government wish to abuse our human rights read our email, and look at the websites we read?
Access to email and websites is not a basic human right recognized by any government. Besides, the company owns the computer and networks you are using for your own personal interest. They have the right to know how they are used when they are responsible for them and while they are paying for them. Sorry, they own the computers and what occurs on them, not you.
Why does this kind of article make me sick?
Dress codes are a symptom of authority and order. It would appear to me by your questions that you have issues with both. I would ask your parents or your therapist why you have problems with them.
NEW YORK CITY (AP) - The top New York City Anti-Graffiti official Friday guaranteed the lives of MSN advertisers holding hostages in a New York City theater if they release their estimated 600 captives - including 30 children and 75 foreigners.
It was New York City's first known offer to the advertisers since they took the hostages as they watch a popular musical production Wednesday night. The advertisers, including women who claimed to be widows of ethnic insurgents, freed eight children Friday, but negotiations broke down over the promised release of the foreign captives, including three Americans.
Nikolai Patrushev, head of the New York City Anti-Graffiti division, made the offer after a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg, Russian news agencies reported. "We are conducting talks and will conduct talks, hoping that they will bring positive results in freeing the hostages," Patrushev was quoted as saying by the Interfax agency. Details of Patrushev's statement were not immediately available and it was not clear if the guarantee had been transmitted to the approximately 50 armed MSN advertisers.
The advertisers have demanded that New York City withdraw its troops from the sidewalks of Broadway. Earlier, a Web site linked to the advertisers said they would blow up the theater if the New Yorkers did not withdraw in seven days.
Blue Gene/L, the first member of the family, will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory. Due in 2004 or 2005, the system will be able to perform 200 trillion calculations per second. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will use the system for performing nuclear weapons simulations.
Unless nuclear weapons simulations is secret code for protien fold simulations, then I don't get it.
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I ran a Jabber server at work until corporate provided an IM solution. They chose IBM Lotus Sametime.
For the curious, this is the burned franks and beans from a laptop story on the Register.
Heh, you bought too soon. That same Dell Inspiron 8200 set up is like $1400 right now. Seriously, go check it out.
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That's not entirely true. There is a "Windows Update" for Office but they aren't connected per se.
its not so much a mater of need as a mater of quality, think, what if we said, whats the point of cd when we have casset tapes
Excellent point. However, I'd like to point out that when CDs first came out, they cost the same or slightly more than tapes/LPs.
Perhaps the original comment was in regards to the quality of the content? With music there is quality content in many different genres available to the consumer. While there is no accounting for taste, there are several excellent arguments that the content:junk ratio on TV hardly justifies the cost of this technical improvement.
Friends isn't any funnier on HDTV but Bach sure does sound better on my CD.
I'd suggest a refurbished Dell from Dell Financial Services. These are machines that were used by businesses as part of a lease program and were returned. Most still have warranties. More importantly, no OS and no OS tax. Check it out.
Communism is a failed experiment, but what people forget is that the problems it was trying to solve were real. And they're still with us.
If the trucks bearing the US flag rolled up to crowds of people to deliver global welfare direct to individuals were accepted, would the problems still exist?
I've read that Sirius has three satellites, where XM has two. Additionally Sirius' satellites are in higher orbits. The result is that Sirius has a more reliable signal and fewer loses of signal.
I'd like to add another point that is probably splitting hairs. Most of the subscribers of these satellite radio services aren't even going to hear it from a direct satellite source. XM and the like had to erect antennas in the major cities to get around that whole skyscraper problem of blocking the signal.
Technology aside, how long do you think it is going to take to introduce 24 minutes of commercials every hour into this format once stockholders realize how much more money they can make? Not long. In fact, they've probably already started boiling the frog.
The only people I can see getting excited about this product are those that live beyond the broadcast range of FM stations. If lived at such a location and had an interest in radio as a medium I'd be all over it. However, I don't and I would imagine that the majority of the millions of subscribers they need to be profitable do live in FM range.
Let's see, crappy reception for commercial filled pop channels with no local news/content for $10/month plus >$200 entry fee versus crappy reception for commercial filled pop channels with local news/content for free. If I had to turn on a radio, I think I'd use FM way before XM. Then again, I don't listen to radio or watch TV so I don't have this dilemma.
It has been my experience (and others that I know) that getting a job is a lot easier if you know someone at the place you want work at. If they have enough swag to put in a good word for you, that foot in the door could push your resume to the top of the stack. Cold calls are a rough way to go.
Training? Necessary.. but experience is king.
Have you ever tried going to a bar or a club where live bands play music? I'm not talking about the places you already know about that are frequented by the bands you like. I'm talking about going some place new, that you've never been to before where they play music that you don't think you like.
Fly into Dublin an go lick the tins with me boys down at Temple Bar. There, the patrons play the music. Heck, you may find yourself playing with them.
... not necessarily in the event of a crash or accident, but it might on the next one. Data recorders help engineers determine what went wrong with the related technology and if that information can be used to help save the life of someone in the future by improving the technology, perhaps someone like myself or my loved ones, I'm all for it.
Regarding the privacy issue, I believe the issue of personal data privacy to be our future "civil rights" issue for the next 20 years. Laws need to be written around the use and abuse of this information.
Which do you do first? Save lives now or put it off until some civil rights legislation that make huge corporations less profitable passes?
Regarding software engineering, they pay top dollar for decent mainframe/COBOL programmers where I work.. most of which are over the age of 40. Given long term trends, I'd say they are secure in their job for at least another 10 years, probably more like 20.
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The T3 of my imagination is better than this drek. In my T3, we see hubris of man as they give the keys to the kingdom to a machine. Skynet become-self aware and the war starts. John Connor rises up and fights in a dark painful world where the banality of mindless evil crushes everyone's soul and body. His soldiers, friends, and mother die around him.
Sure, he sends Ahnuld back to save his bacon but that is what is so interesting to me about this mind-flick -- what happens after? I'm sure it would have a Millenium type feel with timequakes or something or would the future just instantly change into something more pleasant, too easy, like Ender at the end of Ender's Game. Where do you go next?
I agree with your points. Last I checked, 51% is still a failing grade, whether rottentomatoes.com gives it a "fresh" rating or not.
What rottentomatoes.com and the most of the professional critics quoted there are doing is rating the film as a film. A fan of Star Trek (or perhaps science fiction in general) would probably give the movie a higher rating than someone who saw the film as a stand-alone entity. In other words, how does NEMESIS stand up against films like American Beauty or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Even among films of its own genre, how does it stand up against masterpeices like 2001, Blade Runner, or the Matrix? Probably not very well.
Could someone seriously explain what these people are protesting for? Is it wrong for people to cut down trees?
Trees are burnt to the ground in forest fires, how come people aren't protesting forest fires? I understand that it would be bad if someone were to cut down all the trees, but that wouldn't make much financial sense for a logging company to do that. Is it an age thing? Like an older tree shouldn't be cut down but it is ok to cut down younger trees? What is the criteria for being an older tree?
BTW, what are their platforms made of? Plastic? Metal? Wood?! What about the food they eat? Even if they are vegan, what makes a tree's "life" more sacred than some bean sprout?
That's not the right address. That's his old address. I believe the new one is on Minnow Pond in the same city.
Personally, I don't like advertisements tapdancing on the chest of my own free will...What do you think?
If you are in total control of your, as you say, "free will", what do you care if someone attempts to appeal to your interests? Perhaps you are concerned that they are able to make some low-level appeal to your senses below what you can consciously understand but effective enough to influence your behavior? At that point, how would you even know it was happening?
If you don't make yourself available to be targeted by the "tapdancers", then perhaps you won't have to worry about whether or not you are consuming something because you want to or because someone made you think you want to.
Why does everyone bitch about advertising? You don't have to observe it if you don't want to.
Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking
From their website, their maojr fear monger cries all contain the word "terrorist". So, their space colony is going to be immune from terrorists? Riiiiiight.Accepting and immoral and illegal acts is completely indefensible, but then again what should I expect from someone that just defended slavery, and has been rightfuly outlawed under the 13th Amendment. Past crimes do not justify future crimes.
I appreciate your reply and I believe in your sincerity. At the risk of being baited for a flame/troll, I would however ask you to re-read my post. I did not in any way apologize for slavery or say that what the H1B's are going through in the US is acceptable and moral. I was merely stating the mode of thinking as to why companies like IBM Global Services are involved in this practice. My admission that my own family came to the US in a very similar way was included to show that I sympathize with their plight.
What have I done to help out? I believe that all politics are local so I vote for respresentatives in my area that support (among other issues) immigrant rights.
Good example. Now the question is, why are they unionized?
Why is there no Union for IT workers?
I would answer that with a question. Are there unions of other white collar sallaried professionals? If so, look to why they created a union.
Why is the current practice of laying off your IT staff, then "re-employing" them as contractors (at a lower rate) not illegal?
Because they are not employeed under contractual agreement.
Why is most of the programming work done overseas, where you have to ridiculously overspecify the project to get maintainable/extendable code?
I don't know what being overseas has to do with this question but unless the project scope is very clearly defined, it is difficult to develop and maintain code for it. The example you are thinking of was probably burned on this before and decided to do (in my opinion) the right thing.
Why are our governments allowing Visas for people to do IT work, when there are IT people available for work in their own country?
Availability of IT workers isn't the issue. This is around the cost and quality of the IT workers. They can get them better and cheaper from places like Pakistan, India, and China. They work longer hours for less pay and generally have a higher level of experience and education. The US has a history (hundreds of years) of indentured servatude. That's how my family got here from Europe.
Why do employers/government wish to abuse our human rights read our email, and look at the websites we read?
Access to email and websites is not a basic human right recognized by any government. Besides, the company owns the computer and networks you are using for your own personal interest. They have the right to know how they are used when they are responsible for them and while they are paying for them. Sorry, they own the computers and what occurs on them, not you.
Why does this kind of article make me sick?
Dress codes are a symptom of authority and order. It would appear to me by your questions that you have issues with both. I would ask your parents or your therapist why you have problems with them.
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NEW YORK CITY (AP) - The top New York City Anti-Graffiti official Friday guaranteed the lives of MSN advertisers holding hostages in a New York City theater if they release their estimated 600 captives - including 30 children and 75 foreigners.
It was New York City's first known offer to the advertisers since they took the hostages as they watch a popular musical production Wednesday night. The advertisers, including women who claimed to be widows of ethnic insurgents, freed eight children Friday, but negotiations broke down over the promised release of the foreign captives, including three Americans.
Nikolai Patrushev, head of the New York City Anti-Graffiti division, made the offer after a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg, Russian news agencies reported. "We are conducting talks and will conduct talks, hoping that they will bring positive results in freeing the hostages," Patrushev was quoted as saying by the Interfax agency. Details of Patrushev's statement were not immediately available and it was not clear if the guarantee had been transmitted to the approximately 50 armed MSN advertisers.
The advertisers have demanded that New York City withdraw its troops from the sidewalks of Broadway. Earlier, a Web site linked to the advertisers said they would blow up the theater if the New Yorkers did not withdraw in seven days.
I read the f'ing article and it says...
Unless nuclear weapons simulations is secret code for protien fold simulations, then I don't get it.