Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Note that the current Administration spent months denigrating the above mentioned BLS numbers when they made the economy look like it was in bad shape and now that it makes it look good they claim it to be the gold standard.
The "opposition" has been doing the exact reverse, so don't try and claim they're any better.
I know people in many places, including Denver and Silicon Valley who are now at 3-4 years out of work. I know a ton of recruiters, I know a lot of HR people in a lot of states. It's not getting better.
Um, work on NT started in around 87, first release in 93. That's six years. First useable release wasn't until late 94.
Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, I think the idea that you should get a major version iteration every year or so is absurd. If the OS is so poorly written that it takes a major version to handle things that arisen in the past year then you've got a real problem.
Check Salary.com to get a pretty good idea based on your skillset. It doesn't hurt to check with monster/dice/computerjobs/etc but the ranges listed there are often meaningless. Salary.com is generic enough that there will be some flux in rates, but it's a good general guide. For example, in my city Programmer I (entry level programmer, fresh out of college for example) is going to make between $42K and $55K/yr. Frankly, that sounds high for someone right out of college, but in some markets that's the going rate.
To put it in perspective, the median US *household* income (meaning this includes dual income families) is $42K/yr so right out of the gate you're doing better than most people.
Quite simple. Most people believe that their opinions are "correct". Which is in the first place absurd because opinions are neither right nor wrong, but that's a different issue. Most people do not want to think. They do not want to consider challenges to their opinions. They want to be validated and that's it. Any news outlet which tries to be intelligent and analytical and at least somewhat balanced is destined to have a very small part of the market (see: NPR market share -vs- any of the networks).
I agree. The simplistic "Oh you slashdotters are for copyright in one instance and against it in another" is just moronic enough to motivate me to respond. I would argue that the majority of/.'ers aren't so much bothered with the RIAA protecting their IP as they are with the way they're going about it (lying, lying, and more lying).
Someone is going to a record store to buy a CD. A guy selling pirated copies out of the trunk of his car has set up shop two door down from the record store. Person spends a dollar on the CD they were about to spend $15 on in the store.
Yes, the music industry definitely lost money. Whether that is a good or bad thing is a completely different argument.
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Research generally shows that people are more confrontational in email than they are in person, as there is a disconnect between the people that tends to depersonalize.
Gnome and KDE have a long glorious history of competing. Competition = good. Isn't that what the capitalists always say? Hmmm, that must mean that Microsoft is not capitalist. If they aren't capitalist, then they must be... COMMUNISTS! They're UNAMERICAN! Yea, that's it! That's the ticket! Convince the DOJ that MSFT is a commie front and then they'll be all over enforcing the anti-trust settlement!
This went in a direction entirely different from what I'd intended, but I'm going to go with it.
I think there's a fundamental difference between copying a work for personal use and copying a work to turn around and sell it for a profit.
Back In The Day (tm) when I worked in the record industry there were always stories in the trades and mags like Musician about this or that pirate album dealer bust. What struck me most was an extensive investigative report in Musician about the cost of piracy to the music industry (there is no question that some guy selling illegal copies of CDs on the street corner hurts album sales) also had a large sidebar on the topic of bootlegs.
According to both the RIAA rep and the DOJ rep, there was no interest in pursuing tape traders as they weren't considered to be really competing with legit product. The theory being that people interested in tapes and videos of live shows were likely fans who already owned all the legit releases. Speaking as someone who was a tape trader at the time, I can say that that largely mirrors my experience.
So here within the music industry itself you have an example of both damaging and non-damaging copyright infringements...
You would post something like this when I don't have Mod points. Mod parent up, it's probably the single most important thing you will learn in your entire life.
Sigh. To reiterate. Macs are not more expensive than PCs by more than about $100 for any given model. Compare like to like. Don't look at some cheapie eMachines rip-off for $400 at Wal-Mart and complain that a nice dual G5 tower is $2500. Instead look at something like a high end IBM or HP box that is going to have components of comparable quality to those of the Mac, and suddenly the prices are almost identical. I've done casual comparisons of Macs, Dells, and IBMs every quarter for the last 3 years and in some instances the Macs are even cheaper than the PCs.
It's called compliance with export law. Plenty of software companies have this restriction listed (for a long time you had to check the box to download Acrobat Reader until the export restriction were loosened slightly).
If you use a tool like Red Carpet you get exactly that. And it works like a charm. Subscribe to the service and you get access to a few nice extras and priority bandwidth. I've been a satisfied customer of Ximian for about a year now and plan to renew simply because it makes application installation a fire and forget process.
Since I got a TiVO I watch way more TV than ever before. Shows are never on at a time when it's convenient for me to watch, or on the rare occasion that they are there are multiple things I'm interested in. With TiVO I get shows that are on after I go to bed (I get up for work at 5am) like Daily Show and Crank Yankers, and I pick up tons of cool stuff from Discovery and History channel that are on during the day when I'm at work.
Some days I can't get started Wondering which shoe to put on first Or should I brush my teeth Before or after I put on my shirt So many big decisions Boiled or scrambled, fried or even raw I'm so damn open-minded Used to think I'm lucky but I'm cursed
I hate this supermarket But I have to say it makes me think A hundred mineral waters It's fun to guess which ones are safe to drink Two hundred brands of cookies 87 kinds of chocolate chip They say that choice is freedom I'm so free it drives me to the brink
And you know why - it's all too much
It's all too much for me to bear What kind of shampoo suits my hair It's all too much for me to do Especially without you Won't you please come home Honey please come home
I read the morning paper But it all changes by the evening news The world got so much smaller I don't know which piece of it to choose I'd like to fight apartheid Wish that I could fight the guy upstairs I'd solve a dozen cases If only there weren't so many clues
What shall we do this evening Send out for some sushi and champagne Stay in and watch TV 50 channels can't all be the same Maybe go to a movie 50 films on 50 tiny screens They say that choice is freedom I'm so free it's driving me insane
And you know why - it's all too much
It's all too much for me to stand So much supply and no demand There's just too much to struggle through Especially without you Won't you please come home Honey please come home
I'd like to get to know All the many people I could be If I just had the time I'm sure I could find out which one is me Maybe I need religion Or meditation 'til I disappear They say that choice is freedom I'm so free I'm stuck in therapy
I think the point, however, is that participation in things like NAFTA, GATT, WTO, etc subject ALL of the laws of the US to claims of "barrier to free trade". Any country that doesn't like one of our environmental laws can have it overridden (which has already happened with local laws passed by a popular majority in places like Oregon).
The US has never protested these actions (usually because the third world countries originating these claims are doing so at the behest of US based multi-nationals that can't come out against these laws publicly in this country for fear of public backlash). Suddenly some of the third world countries realized they could do more than be cut-outs in the war against the environment and could actually use the process to promote their own best interests. That is a clear violation of US policies.
I hate to break it to you, but Dell still sells Linux based PC's. They backed off on promoting them under threats from MSFT, but they are actively selling and supporting them. Check out linux.dell.com. Also check out the precision workstations. Select a model, then click the right side nav for getting it with linux.
Wal-Mart has a LOT of clout with their vendors. They have forced vendors to change what software they use for communicating with WM, among many other things. Add to this the fact that they are quite happy to lose money on a product line for several years if it means putting their competition out of business.
Wal-Mart already does issue their own credit cards.
You have got to be kidding me. Back in the dotcom era when ISPs and colos were charging ridiculous rates because they could we didn't pay anywhere near 100,000/year.
Dedicated T1 + 100G/month bandwidth plus colo/management fees: 1100/month in the Denver market. We ate up the bandwidth several times (lots of large file traffic) and even with overage charges we never went over $2000/month. 2000x33= 66000. So he's saying that his work on the site was worth $90,000/year? I don't think so. Not for one site, and a relatively small one at that.
If you just want to know what happened on the show, why not grab the closed caption stream and pipe it to a text file and speed read it?
On some shows eliminating pauses, laugh tracks, and speeding it up would be fine (talk shows, cooking shows, sports, reality shows) but for any work of fiction (movies, dramas, even sitcoms) timing and pacing are a significant part of what makes the show good or bad (sit through a poorly edited movie sometime, or watch any of the last several seasons of Friends and you'll see what I mean). Eliminating these subtle touches greatly affects the perception of the quality of the show.
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I installed fc2 on an Gateway Solo (PIII-500 model, not exactly new hardware) and it dual boots without any problems...
Pick up any magazine targeted at a particular audience and there will be dozens of ads touting their "professional quality [product or service]".
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Note that the current Administration spent months denigrating the above mentioned BLS numbers when they made the economy look like it was in bad shape and now that it makes it look good they claim it to be the gold standard.
The "opposition" has been doing the exact reverse, so don't try and claim they're any better.
I know people in many places, including Denver and Silicon Valley who are now at 3-4 years out of work. I know a ton of recruiters, I know a lot of HR people in a lot of states. It's not getting better.
Um, work on NT started in around 87, first release in 93. That's six years. First useable release wasn't until late 94.
Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, I think the idea that you should get a major version iteration every year or so is absurd. If the OS is so poorly written that it takes a major version to handle things that arisen in the past year then you've got a real problem.
Check Salary.com to get a pretty good idea based on your skillset. It doesn't hurt to check with monster/dice/computerjobs/etc but the ranges listed there are often meaningless. Salary.com is generic enough that there will be some flux in rates, but it's a good general guide. For example, in my city Programmer I (entry level programmer, fresh out of college for example) is going to make between $42K and $55K/yr. Frankly, that sounds high for someone right out of college, but in some markets that's the going rate. To put it in perspective, the median US *household* income (meaning this includes dual income families) is $42K/yr so right out of the gate you're doing better than most people.
You obviously are not an MBA or marketing type. I can tell, because you used the word "paradigm" properly.
Quite simple. Most people believe that their opinions are "correct". Which is in the first place absurd because opinions are neither right nor wrong, but that's a different issue. Most people do not want to think. They do not want to consider challenges to their opinions. They want to be validated and that's it. Any news outlet which tries to be intelligent and analytical and at least somewhat balanced is destined to have a very small part of the market (see: NPR market share -vs- any of the networks).
I agree. The simplistic "Oh you slashdotters are for copyright in one instance and against it in another" is just moronic enough to motivate me to respond. I would argue that the majority of /.'ers aren't so much bothered with the RIAA protecting their IP as they are with the way they're going about it (lying, lying, and more lying).
Consider the situation:
Someone is going to a record store to buy a CD. A guy selling pirated copies out of the trunk of his car has set up shop two door down from the record store. Person spends a dollar on the CD they were about to spend $15 on in the store.
Yes, the music industry definitely lost money. Whether that is a good or bad thing is a completely different argument.
Research generally shows that people are more confrontational in email than they are in person, as there is a disconnect between the people that tends to depersonalize.
Gnome and KDE have a long glorious history of competing. Competition = good. Isn't that what the capitalists always say? Hmmm, that must mean that Microsoft is not capitalist. If they aren't capitalist, then they must be... COMMUNISTS! They're UNAMERICAN! Yea, that's it! That's the ticket! Convince the DOJ that MSFT is a commie front and then they'll be all over enforcing the anti-trust settlement!
This went in a direction entirely different from what I'd intended, but I'm going to go with it.
I think there's a fundamental difference between copying a work for personal use and copying a work to turn around and sell it for a profit.
Back In The Day (tm) when I worked in the record industry there were always stories in the trades and mags like Musician about this or that pirate album dealer bust. What struck me most was an extensive investigative report in Musician about the cost of piracy to the music industry (there is no question that some guy selling illegal copies of CDs on the street corner hurts album sales) also had a large sidebar on the topic of bootlegs.
According to both the RIAA rep and the DOJ rep, there was no interest in pursuing tape traders as they weren't considered to be really competing with legit product. The theory being that people interested in tapes and videos of live shows were likely fans who already owned all the legit releases. Speaking as someone who was a tape trader at the time, I can say that that largely mirrors my experience.
So here within the music industry itself you have an example of both damaging and non-damaging copyright infringements...
You would post something like this when I don't have Mod points. Mod parent up, it's probably the single most important thing you will learn in your entire life.
Nope, just L.A. and San Francisco, two notoriously affordable markets.
Just to pick nits, no one who is poor is paying 900/month rent.
Sigh. To reiterate. Macs are not more expensive than PCs by more than about $100 for any given model. Compare like to like. Don't look at some cheapie eMachines rip-off for $400 at Wal-Mart and complain that a nice dual G5 tower is $2500. Instead look at something like a high end IBM or HP box that is going to have components of comparable quality to those of the Mac, and suddenly the prices are almost identical. I've done casual comparisons of Macs, Dells, and IBMs every quarter for the last 3 years and in some instances the Macs are even cheaper than the PCs.
It's called compliance with export law. Plenty of software companies have this restriction listed (for a long time you had to check the box to download Acrobat Reader until the export restriction were loosened slightly).
I've had this problem a lot on sites that use some of the more intense flash based ads.
If you use a tool like Red Carpet you get exactly that. And it works like a charm. Subscribe to the service and you get access to a few nice extras and priority bandwidth. I've been a satisfied customer of Ximian for about a year now and plan to renew simply because it makes application installation a fire and forget process.
Since I got a TiVO I watch way more TV than ever before. Shows are never on at a time when it's convenient for me to watch, or on the rare occasion that they are there are multiple things I'm interested in. With TiVO I get shows that are on after I go to bed (I get up for work at 5am) like Daily Show and Crank Yankers, and I pick up tons of cool stuff from Discovery and History channel that are on during the day when I'm at work.
Better summary of the article:
Some days I can't get started Wondering which shoe to put on first
Or should I brush my teeth Before or after I put on my shirt
So many big decisions Boiled or scrambled, fried or even raw
I'm so damn open-minded Used to think I'm lucky but I'm cursed
I hate this supermarket But I have to say it makes me think
A hundred mineral waters It's fun to guess which ones are safe to drink
Two hundred brands of cookies 87 kinds of chocolate chip
They say that choice is freedom I'm so free it drives me to the brink
And you know why - it's all too much
It's all too much for me to bear What kind of shampoo suits my hair
It's all too much for me to do Especially without you
Won't you please come home Honey please come home
I read the morning paper But it all changes by the evening news
The world got so much smaller I don't know which piece of it to choose
I'd like to fight apartheid Wish that I could fight the guy upstairs
I'd solve a dozen cases If only there weren't so many clues
What shall we do this evening Send out for some sushi and champagne
Stay in and watch TV 50 channels can't all be the same
Maybe go to a movie 50 films on 50 tiny screens
They say that choice is freedom I'm so free it's driving me insane
And you know why - it's all too much
It's all too much for me to stand So much supply and no demand
There's just too much to struggle through Especially without you
Won't you please come home Honey please come home
I'd like to get to know All the many people I could be
If I just had the time I'm sure I could find out which one is me
Maybe I need religion Or meditation 'til I disappear
They say that choice is freedom I'm so free I'm stuck in therapy
And you know why - it's all too much
Joe Jackson "Laughter and Lust" 1992.
I think the point, however, is that participation in things like NAFTA, GATT, WTO, etc subject ALL of the laws of the US to claims of "barrier to free trade". Any country that doesn't like one of our environmental laws can have it overridden (which has already happened with local laws passed by a popular majority in places like Oregon).
The US has never protested these actions (usually because the third world countries originating these claims are doing so at the behest of US based multi-nationals that can't come out against these laws publicly in this country for fear of public backlash). Suddenly some of the third world countries realized they could do more than be cut-outs in the war against the environment and could actually use the process to promote their own best interests. That is a clear violation of US policies.
I hate to break it to you, but Dell still sells Linux based PC's. They backed off on promoting them under threats from MSFT, but they are actively selling and supporting them. Check out linux.dell.com. Also check out the precision workstations. Select a model, then click the right side nav for getting it with linux.
Wal-Mart has a LOT of clout with their vendors. They have forced vendors to change what software they use for communicating with WM, among many other things. Add to this the fact that they are quite happy to lose money on a product line for several years if it means putting their competition out of business.
Wal-Mart already does issue their own credit cards.
You have got to be kidding me. Back in the dotcom era when ISPs and colos were charging ridiculous rates because they could we didn't pay anywhere near 100,000/year.
Dedicated T1 + 100G/month bandwidth plus colo/management fees: 1100/month in the Denver market. We ate up the bandwidth several times (lots of large file traffic) and even with overage charges we never went over $2000/month. 2000x33= 66000. So he's saying that his work on the site was worth $90,000/year? I don't think so. Not for one site, and a relatively small one at that.
If you just want to know what happened on the show, why not grab the closed caption stream and pipe it to a text file and speed read it?
On some shows eliminating pauses, laugh tracks, and speeding it up would be fine (talk shows, cooking shows, sports, reality shows) but for any work of fiction (movies, dramas, even sitcoms) timing and pacing are a significant part of what makes the show good or bad (sit through a poorly edited movie sometime, or watch any of the last several seasons of Friends and you'll see what I mean). Eliminating these subtle touches greatly affects the perception of the quality of the show.