If the Corporate Masters are making you use IE, you really should toss SlimBrowser and it's nifty popup killing on top of it. (Standard disclaimer, I just like the product, etc)
Is this the result of the US losing their position as main providers of R&D? What will be left afterwards? An economy of service?
That's pretty much it, yes. Manufacturers have been bailing out of the US before the ink was dry on NAFTA, in the name of competitive balance. (Thanks a bunch Bill Clinton! Couldn't you have stuck to shafting interns instead of the rest of the country?) H1-B is going to cease to be an issue because the Fortune 500 doesn't need programmers to actually live in the States. Now's the time to find your niche before your job gets outsourced, unless the prospect of dining on cat food during your retirement years appeals to you.
I wonder if there would still be a Bloom County or Outland if Breathed was allowed to publish once every two weeks or once a month...
So why can't he do that now? Couldn't BB get a deal with a monthly (Playboy, Popular Science, Ladies' Home Journal, whatever) and do four strips an issue?
It's too much to hope for Bloom County to return and snuff Cathy out of the dailies, yes?
Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side made the comics page a great place to visit every day. Nothing's come close to replacing them (sorry Zits and Bizarro).
Imagine wandering the streets of Prague or Athens, looking at some wonderful old building, and being able to find out who built it and when without having to dig out the guidebook and hunt through the index.
Imagine the advertisements you'll be fed at these sites: "Welcome to The US Capitol Building, brought to you by Otis Elevator - Shafting the Public since 1854."
You could try fruitlessly competing for programming jobs, but more and more are being farmed out to overseas programmers. Forget about technical support, the first place everyone made budget cuts was on the service side. There's always sysadmin/netadmin, but all the big firms that might pay a halfway decent salary have outsourced a lot of their hardware.
So stop fighting the system. Find a niche, find some capital (small business loans, family, rich friends), and fill it. Use your computer education to supplement a career instead of beating yourself up with rejection letters in a bone dry job market. You'll be happier if you're the boss.
CC'ing somebody's f***** boss as if the recipient is going to think "Ah, he's CC'd my boss, i'd better get a move on with this."
Especially when that someone happens to be fscking the boss, and the boss wants to make sure that the someone in question stays happy at work so she'll make him happy after work.
The BBC radio version was a masterpiece, and still available from bbcshop.com in a collector's edition. All a movie version will do is bomb at the box office and piss off every geek who loved the book.
I won't speak to Pearl Jam since you don't find their music listenable at all
BZZT! That's not what I said. Try reading the whole post next time. I said Pearl Jam has recorded nothing listenable since Ten, which I still love. I stood in line at midnight waiting for Versus along with a lot of people, and there were a lot of pissed-off PJ fans the next morning on campus after listening to that dreck. And I've seen Tori live a couple of times over the years, in addition to having all the recordings. She's very good, and still is, but she's lost a bit of her game too, not nearly as much as Eddie Vedder. Hands down, songs from "Little Earthquakes" were much better.
Of course, music is a subjective taste, like any other art form. YMMV.
My theory is that Pearl Jam and Tori Amos promote the kind of music that the industry hates - music they intend to sell on its own merits.
A good theory, but flawed by time. Pearl Jam has recorded nothing listenable since "Ten." Tori's best work was on "Little Earthquakes." Both CDs/records were released a decade ago.
By punishing Pearl Jam and Tori Amos, they are trying to hold back a possible new wave of rebellious acts that don't cooperate with their agenda.
Not hardly. "Their" agenda is to make money for their shareholders. Do you think the Evil Five will shunt aside the next Nirvana because the band might not behave?
Jack
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The Net should supplement a solid touring schedule. Heck, just keeping your site up to date with venues and times will put you ahead of a lot of the other bands out here. Any extra content won't hurt.
I'll go against the grain on the topic of fan taping. The Dead, Phish, etc, had massive followings because they played out so much. The taping was a bonus, but I doubt anyone needing a miracle would have attached a "free taping" rider to scoring tickets. Your discretion here.
I know you're looking for an online "silver bullet." But the music industry, assuming you wish to be part of that gleeful snakepit, doesn't seem to care much for the Internet's potential. Go figure.
Tour. Write more great songs and record them. Sell CDs and t-shirts. Your online push will come from your fanbase. Ride it like a wave, baby.
Then They all gathered in the shape of a Heart...That's pretty screwed up...
In some cultures, particularly those that notice St. Valentine's Day, the heart represents love. I'm willing to bet what little karma I have the mourners meant no offense.
Are there ways of communicating to management that long hours to rush a project to completion is not the way to complete a successful project?
Only if management happens to be steeped in coding. If they're strictly bean-counting brown-nosing suits (a.k.a 99.9% of them) then no ways of communicating exist. They see deadlines and budgets, whereas the coder only sees silly little issues like writing the application so it doesn't kill 50% of life on Earth at compile time.
DM: "Uh, no, but you yelled out 'Die scumsucking winged lizard!' and told me you were running towards it with your +5 Holy Avenger drawn."
Player: "Yeah, but how do you know the dragon interpreted that as a hostile act?"
Gosh, you had Bill Clinton as a player in your game?
Unless she drags you to a jeweler and points out a sapphire/emerald/other stone and says that's what she wants, she wants a diamond. Unless you want to hear for the rest of your married life her sadly sighing to family and friends about how it's ok that *she* never had a diamond, here's your shirt, now follow the herd to the mall and get her one.
Heh. I bet you think this is the worst of it. Does she have long beautiful hair? Say bye-bye to it by the third year. Enjoying a regular sex life? Watch that vanish like free tchotchkes at a convention.
Got any interests of your own? Fuggedaboutit.
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Ahem. Are you really sure about that?
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Yup, here it is.
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That's pretty much it, yes. Manufacturers have been bailing out of the US before the ink was dry on NAFTA, in the name of competitive balance. (Thanks a bunch Bill Clinton! Couldn't you have stuck to shafting interns instead of the rest of the country?)
H1-B is going to cease to be an issue because the Fortune 500 doesn't need programmers to actually live in the States. Now's the time to find your niche before your job gets outsourced, unless the prospect of dining on cat food during your retirement years appeals to you.
Jack
So why can't he do that now? Couldn't BB get a deal with a monthly (Playboy, Popular Science, Ladies' Home Journal, whatever) and do four strips an issue?
It's too much to hope for Bloom County to return and snuff Cathy out of the dailies, yes?
Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side made the comics page a great place to visit every day. Nothing's come close to replacing them (sorry Zits and Bizarro).
Jack
Imagine the advertisements you'll be fed at these sites: "Welcome to The US Capitol Building, brought to you by Otis Elevator - Shafting the Public since 1854."
Jack
So stop fighting the system. Find a niche, find some capital (small business loans, family, rich friends), and fill it. Use your computer education to supplement a career instead of beating yourself up with rejection letters in a bone dry job market. You'll be happier if you're the boss.
Jack
Especially when that someone happens to be fscking the boss, and the boss wants to make sure that the someone in question stays happy at work so she'll make him happy after work.
Jack
...only 15 originated outside of AOHell in the first place.
HG isn't LotR. Not by a long shot.
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BZZT! That's not what I said. Try reading the whole post next time. I said Pearl Jam has recorded nothing listenable since Ten, which I still love. I stood in line at midnight waiting for Versus along with a lot of people, and there were a lot of pissed-off PJ fans the next morning on campus after listening to that dreck. And I've seen Tori live a couple of times over the years, in addition to having all the recordings. She's very good, and still is, but she's lost a bit of her game too, not nearly as much as Eddie Vedder. Hands down, songs from "Little Earthquakes" were much better.
Of course, music is a subjective taste, like any other art form. YMMV.
Jack
A good theory, but flawed by time. Pearl Jam has recorded nothing listenable since "Ten." Tori's best work was on "Little Earthquakes." Both CDs/records were released a decade ago.
Not hardly. "Their" agenda is to make money for their shareholders. Do you think the Evil Five will shunt aside the next Nirvana because the band might not behave?
Jack
Try it without the apostrophe next time, please.
Jack
I'll go against the grain on the topic of fan taping. The Dead, Phish, etc, had massive followings because they played out so much. The taping was a bonus, but I doubt anyone needing a miracle would have attached a "free taping" rider to scoring tickets. Your discretion here.
Have you been in south by southwest yet?
I know you're looking for an online "silver bullet." But the music industry, assuming you wish to be part of that gleeful snakepit, doesn't seem to care much for the Internet's potential. Go figure.
Tour. Write more great songs and record them. Sell CDs and t-shirts. Your online push will come from your fanbase. Ride it like a wave, baby.
Jack
In some cultures, particularly those that notice St. Valentine's Day, the heart represents love. I'm willing to bet what little karma I have the mourners meant no offense.
Jack
Only if management happens to be steeped in coding. If they're strictly bean-counting brown-nosing suits (a.k.a 99.9% of them) then no ways of communicating exist. They see deadlines and budgets, whereas the coder only sees silly little issues like writing the application so it doesn't kill 50% of life on Earth at compile time.
Jack
How many people do you think even cared Betamax is being discontinued?
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1) Twenty
2) Twelve
3) Seven
4) 500,000 cuz it was on
5) CowboyNealoMax
Gosh, you had Bill Clinton as a player in your game?
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Heh. I bet you think this is the worst of it. Does she have long beautiful hair? Say bye-bye to it by the third year. Enjoying a regular sex life? Watch that vanish like free tchotchkes at a convention. Got any interests of your own? Fuggedaboutit.
Jack