It was lucrative, it was working at home, it was working with their Client Automation software, formerly Novadigm's "Radia." I have a demonstrated expertise with the software and my company won four customer awards based on my work (including developing a patch management system before they released one).
There wasn't a lot to complain about with the offer, except that it was with a company that had repeatedly shown zero forward vision. The moment they inked the deal to buy Novadigm's product line, they buried the excellent tech support website, let go of the lead architect, and turned the product to a barely-good-enough substitute for what it had formerly been.
HP's hardware, in the meantime, is being removed from our company's data center at a rapid clip to be replaced with Cisco UCS equipment. It's like they simply can't help ruining whatever they put their fingers on. Kind of a shit-Midas touch.
That's called "cost-shifting." Think of all the costs that have now been shifted to those lazy working Americans since we obviously aren't doing our part.
Wait? This saved $50k/year, right? I wonder if South Dakota taxpayers have picked up on just how ridiculous the REAL COST of this bogus 'SAVINGS' is going to be. This has NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY. This is another chapter in the ongoing effort by the Koch brothers and the DeVos family to ruin our country.
Do you have figures on home schooling? Or just vague generalizations.
I continue to associate home schooling with Bible-thumping creationists and other social rejects who refuse to accept the reality of the modern world. And therefore I associate home schooling with NO schooling.
This is part of the DeVos family's assault on public education. Don't assume it has anything to do with fiscal responsiblity or any other logical, explanable reason. It's just another way to fuck America out of everything and leave us at the mercy of con artists and frauds.
The DeVos family are the assholes who conjured up the gigantic scam and fraud that is Amway. They are nothing more than very wealthy snake oil salesmen.
There is no evidence that a 4-day school week makes education worse
There's no evidence that it doesn't. But in order to keep our fucking tax cuts for Fucking Wall Street, we're going to experiment on a generation of young kids and hope we don't set their economic status back a whole century.
You're asking us not to rush to judgment on a decision that was rushed to completion. Thanks. I'll assume the worst, the very absolute worst. I certainly can't see how this kind of non-stop assault on education helps Americans, but I think that train left the station about 30 years ago.
Just in case you're clueless about whose bullshit ideas you are defending, the major forces behind the ongoing assault on our educational system include the ever-useless Koch brothers and their even more useless friends the DeVos family, whose sole (shriveled) contribution to our society is the gigantic scam known as Amway.
Yea, I am having trouble with wireless networking being any easier than regular networking. The wires are only part of the solution -- there still have to be routers and switches and bottlenecks to unblock.
And cloud computing just means you pile up resources in your data center, and what's behind the cloud is no more plug and play than what it replaced . . . virtual desktops require even more expertise to appropriately manage.
IT will look like this in 10 years: smaller devices for end-users, more ubiquitous access to networking. Beyond that who can say?
One of the most aggravating things a game designer can do is force the player into a hunt-the-pixel challenge, where landing on or jumping from exactly the most miniscule and impossible to find position is the only way to proceed in the game. Furthermore, putting the save point miles and miles and miles before that challenge . . . the Banjo Kazooie designers used to do this all the time, which is why I have never finished a BK game and would actually like to fly to England and punch the living shit out of their faces. I invested hours and hours into those games and then came to a point where the fun was just sucked right the fuck out of them. I AM the kind of person who finishes games. I rarely start a game that I do not finish. But if I can't finish it because of something stupid like that (grinding, or near-impossible tasks with long chains of also-perilous events in front of them that must be repeated over and over again), I start to hate the developers with the heat of a thousand supergiant suns.
unbelievable that something cluttered with mundane musings and media links could have anything smart to say about the market
The "market" is not some sort of magic Oracle. It is the result of the cluttered mundane musings and uninformed opinions of a teeming mass of people who are basically GAMBLING.
I really wish people would get off this fetishism, near-worship of "THE MARKET." It is not infallible, and it is sure as hell not the answer to all of our society's problems.
But they have sacks of money stolen from their artists, and they will use every last dime to make sure the musicians who gave this world that music see NOTHING from it for their entire lives.
Just another reason I'm so glad I don't do music for a living. I would be suicidal if I thought I could NEVER get back all that work I'd put into something.
The RIAA is on the verge of complete irrelevance. We don't need your expensive studios when a laptop, some microphones, recording interfaces, and a low-cost but excellent DAW are available to anyone who can save up a couple thousand for them. And we don't need your distribution channels . . . we have facebook, bandcamp, itunes, a million others.
The middleman looks so sad trying to get between his customers and his suppliers after they figure out they don't need his sorry ass.
say, if a song is mixed at high volume and then played at a low volume, the mix won't sound right
Then it wasn't mixed right. That's the whole point of using reference monitors and your ears. You are supposed to mix with loud, quiet, and in-between in your mind, and check your mixes at all of those levels.
Well, #1 I think it is a delusion that you get more "bits" out of the music if you use all of them. I've never heard music get clearer or richer using that philosophy.
#2, this isn't about peak volume. It's about compressing so that the peaks are leveled out, and all sounds are nearly the same volume. If you overdo compression you start hearing this pumping thing where it sounds like the entire mix is flying into your face and then away again with every bass drum hit. It's very unpleasant if you care about anything but the drum hits (which take those peaks well above what the guitar and bass and vocal and whatever else do).
Music that has no valleys is tiresome on the ears, and eventually people just tune it out.
Cyber "warfare" is not warfare in any traditional sense of the term. The military's entire mentality and organizational structure is completely unsuited for such a task. They should get the fuck out of the business and governments should form teams of actual white-hat hackers to do this kind of thing.
Want to rent time and the equipment to record your album?
No longer necessary. With some skill and hard work, and about $3-4,000 in equipment, you can have a recording studio that is every bit as capable of producing a very well-recorded album as anything the RIAA can offer you.
What a fucking stretch there, dunbai. I guess you'd have to be a head-crushing dumbass to make the leap from "treating drug use is cheaper than the drug war" to this.
But, I suppose no idiocy is too fucking stupid for someone like you to manufacture out of your partisanship.
I have a simple answer for you: Palin is not, nor has she ever been, an authoritative resource for history. Maybe that part of the equation that escaped you?
Yea, this has been pretty sad. I mean, last time I paid money for a DN game, I had a toddler in my house.
That same toddler is now 3 years from HS graduation, and could now kick my ass sideways in a DN deathmatch, and I'm more interested in the fate of my 401k than I am in blasting pixelated aliens to pixelated fragments.
It's going to have to be one hell of a game to pick up fans who got tired of waiting after almost FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS, or who have never heard of the original in the first place.
I suspect we'll have a pre-WWI England/Germany type race, where the US outspends china for a long time to the great expense of both nations,
No, I don't think we will. At least not if you are talking militarily. The defense budget needs to be drastically cut, and it needs to be done soon. We are militarizing ourselves into serfdom and permanent bankruptcy if we do not begin to regin in our completely unjustified 10x the rest of the world military spending.
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It was lucrative, it was working at home, it was working with their Client Automation software, formerly Novadigm's "Radia." I have a demonstrated expertise with the software and my company won four customer awards based on my work (including developing a patch management system before they released one).
There wasn't a lot to complain about with the offer, except that it was with a company that had repeatedly shown zero forward vision. The moment they inked the deal to buy Novadigm's product line, they buried the excellent tech support website, let go of the lead architect, and turned the product to a barely-good-enough substitute for what it had formerly been.
HP's hardware, in the meantime, is being removed from our company's data center at a rapid clip to be replaced with Cisco UCS equipment. It's like they simply can't help ruining whatever they put their fingers on. Kind of a shit-Midas touch.
I'm so glad I didn't take that offer.
I got this game. Learned how to put a rocket into orbit. Pretty cool.
Could the Russians use a little sim training, perhaps? Orbital insertion is really not that hard, once you get the hang of it.
That's called "cost-shifting." Think of all the costs that have now been shifted to those lazy working Americans since we obviously aren't doing our part.
Wait? This saved $50k/year, right? I wonder if South Dakota taxpayers have picked up on just how ridiculous the REAL COST of this bogus 'SAVINGS' is going to be. This has NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY. This is another chapter in the ongoing effort by the Koch brothers and the DeVos family to ruin our country.
Yeah, more Tea Party austerity -- austere for me and thee, but never for Wall Street.
Fuck that shit. I say we pre-emptively grab the $2T in cash that Corporate America is hoarding, and spend it on rebuilding our country.
Do you have figures on home schooling? Or just vague generalizations.
I continue to associate home schooling with Bible-thumping creationists and other social rejects who refuse to accept the reality of the modern world. And therefore I associate home schooling with NO schooling.
So, show me figures.
Follow the money. Follow the movement. Koch Brothers and the DeVos family. Con artists and snake oil salesmen.
We're being rooked out of our very nation by these shysters.
This is part of the DeVos family's assault on public education. Don't assume it has anything to do with fiscal responsiblity or any other logical, explanable reason. It's just another way to fuck America out of everything and leave us at the mercy of con artists and frauds.
The DeVos family are the assholes who conjured up the gigantic scam and fraud that is Amway. They are nothing more than very wealthy snake oil salesmen.
There's no evidence that it doesn't. But in order to keep our fucking tax cuts for Fucking Wall Street, we're going to experiment on a generation of young kids and hope we don't set their economic status back a whole century.
You're asking us not to rush to judgment on a decision that was rushed to completion. Thanks. I'll assume the worst, the very absolute worst. I certainly can't see how this kind of non-stop assault on education helps Americans, but I think that train left the station about 30 years ago.
Just in case you're clueless about whose bullshit ideas you are defending, the major forces behind the ongoing assault on our educational system include the ever-useless Koch brothers and their even more useless friends the DeVos family, whose sole (shriveled) contribution to our society is the gigantic scam known as Amway.
What I'm wondering is . . . don't they have only like 3 years left on those patents?
Yea, I am having trouble with wireless networking being any easier than regular networking. The wires are only part of the solution -- there still have to be routers and switches and bottlenecks to unblock.
And cloud computing just means you pile up resources in your data center, and what's behind the cloud is no more plug and play than what it replaced . . . virtual desktops require even more expertise to appropriately manage.
IT will look like this in 10 years: smaller devices for end-users, more ubiquitous access to networking. Beyond that who can say?
One of the most aggravating things a game designer can do is force the player into a hunt-the-pixel challenge, where landing on or jumping from exactly the most miniscule and impossible to find position is the only way to proceed in the game. Furthermore, putting the save point miles and miles and miles before that challenge . . . the Banjo Kazooie designers used to do this all the time, which is why I have never finished a BK game and would actually like to fly to England and punch the living shit out of their faces. I invested hours and hours into those games and then came to a point where the fun was just sucked right the fuck out of them. I AM the kind of person who finishes games. I rarely start a game that I do not finish. But if I can't finish it because of something stupid like that (grinding, or near-impossible tasks with long chains of also-perilous events in front of them that must be repeated over and over again), I start to hate the developers with the heat of a thousand supergiant suns.
But they have sacks of money stolen from their artists, and they will use every last dime to make sure the musicians who gave this world that music see NOTHING from it for their entire lives.
Just another reason I'm so glad I don't do music for a living. I would be suicidal if I thought I could NEVER get back all that work I'd put into something.
The RIAA is on the verge of complete irrelevance. We don't need your expensive studios when a laptop, some microphones, recording interfaces, and a low-cost but excellent DAW are available to anyone who can save up a couple thousand for them. And we don't need your distribution channels . . . we have facebook, bandcamp, itunes, a million others.
The middleman looks so sad trying to get between his customers and his suppliers after they figure out they don't need his sorry ass.
Then it wasn't mixed right. That's the whole point of using reference monitors and your ears. You are supposed to mix with loud, quiet, and in-between in your mind, and check your mixes at all of those levels.
At least, that's how I do it.
My presonus has a headphone volume knob that DOES in fact go to 11. And they tell you in the documentation that it's PRETTY FUCKIN' LOUD.
Well, #1 I think it is a delusion that you get more "bits" out of the music if you use all of them. I've never heard music get clearer or richer using that philosophy.
#2, this isn't about peak volume. It's about compressing so that the peaks are leveled out, and all sounds are nearly the same volume. If you overdo compression you start hearing this pumping thing where it sounds like the entire mix is flying into your face and then away again with every bass drum hit. It's very unpleasant if you care about anything but the drum hits (which take those peaks well above what the guitar and bass and vocal and whatever else do).
Music that has no valleys is tiresome on the ears, and eventually people just tune it out.
Cyber "warfare" is not warfare in any traditional sense of the term. The military's entire mentality and organizational structure is completely unsuited for such a task. They should get the fuck out of the business and governments should form teams of actual white-hat hackers to do this kind of thing.
No longer necessary. With some skill and hard work, and about $3-4,000 in equipment, you can have a recording studio that is every bit as capable of producing a very well-recorded album as anything the RIAA can offer you.
What a fucking stretch there, dunbai. I guess you'd have to be a head-crushing dumbass to make the leap from "treating drug use is cheaper than the drug war" to this.
But, I suppose no idiocy is too fucking stupid for someone like you to manufacture out of your partisanship.
Show your evidence. Palin doesn't need trolls to make her stupid opinions look even dumber. She can do that all on her own.
Also, the people doing this are turning up on Palin's fan page on Wikipedia as major contributors.
I'd say you already owe me $20. Pay up, bitch. Or shut up.
I have a simple answer for you: Palin is not, nor has she ever been, an authoritative resource for history. Maybe that part of the equation that escaped you?
It appears that any dipshit can lay claim to what Revere did and said, as long as he/she has a gaggle of imbeciles in the media following her around.
Yea, this has been pretty sad. I mean, last time I paid money for a DN game, I had a toddler in my house.
That same toddler is now 3 years from HS graduation, and could now kick my ass sideways in a DN deathmatch, and I'm more interested in the fate of my 401k than I am in blasting pixelated aliens to pixelated fragments.
It's going to have to be one hell of a game to pick up fans who got tired of waiting after almost FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS, or who have never heard of the original in the first place.
No, I don't think we will. At least not if you are talking militarily. The defense budget needs to be drastically cut, and it needs to be done soon. We are militarizing ourselves into serfdom and permanent bankruptcy if we do not begin to regin in our completely unjustified 10x the rest of the world military spending.