All of us are to blame because we watch, if our tv's would prevent the viewing of unauthorized pieces of music then none of this would ever have happened. This is why we need DRM to keep us from being forced to listen to/see illegal broadcasts!
Finaly this issue is being talked about. I have been out of work for over a year because I cannot find a single job. In part this problem has been caused by H1B's taking the jobs that I am going for, no this is not speculation, I have witnessed it several times. Maybe in time I will have better luck, but first this problem needs to be taken care of.
So a single copyright holder could attempt to take down an entire network because a single song is there? Shutting out thousands and thousands of users? God bless America where the individual has more power then an army of users.
If you don't want to pay the tax for the item then find other ways... like buying from another country. I've been buying DVD's from the UK (I live in the US) because the titles that I buy cost twice as much here. You just need to be willing to bend the law and have the needed hardware.
A few years ago our jack ass governor (the one who for a time got rid of the adopt a highway program to keep a couple of gays from adopting a 2 mile stretch and who is currently in the middle of an embargo against the nation of Canada)... anyway... a few years ago he started a program of wiring ALL of the SD schools, public and private. For the last 3 years, every single grade school, middle school, high school and college have had AT LEAST a T1 as well as video conferencing rooms to allow students to take classes from remote sites... We continue to lay more and more cable and for the last few years have had more buried data cable per square anything then any place on earth. That... and we have a lot of corn!
and it is a move that Gateway regrets to this day... since they moved their main headquarters out there their sales have plummeted. On the plus side though they still have their largest manufacturing facilities, tech support and sales still in Sioux Falls.
Just a warning to all of my fellow South Dakota residence... in this case SDSU is not South Dakota State University in Brookings South Dakota, but sadly is in fact San Diego State University... blast those Californians taking all of our acronyms... in this world if you say SF or SD people think you mean San Francisco or San Diego... when will the world learn that they mean Sioux Falls and South Dakota instead! The FAA and Post Office agree with me... when will the rest of you?
There are no real benefits to the theater to have a digital screen. People still come to see a movie, regardless of what kind of projector is. If the studios really want to have digital projects become standard then they need to help by sharing some of the savings of using digital, help the theaters buy the projectors and then lower the price to run a film.
Molest me not with this talk of Tribes 2. I've played it since day one and it bothers the hell out of me. I cannot stand the sequal. When I go and play a tribes game it's only the original for me.
Come on, I could take pictures and add to them in MS Paint like anyone else... you guys cannot seriously believe this stuff do you? If it looked any more fake you'd see the artists initials in the lower corner of each picture.
This all assumes that you have a job. I along with one of the people I went to see AotC with are both out of work and cannot find jobs (anywhere), thus the day was nothing more then a break from our normal days of job hunting.
I'm a third year computer science students who is searching for work just for the summer, shit jobs do not even exist anymore with in a 2 hour radius of where I live (Madison, SD). Relocation is not much of an option as I will just be back here again in a few months. Being from the Minneapolis area originally you'd think that there would even be great opportunities there. unfortunately if you think that you soon find that you are wrong.
Oh be quiet. I am a college student, my 8 megabit line is already paid for and is part of going to school in the most wired state in the nation (look at some figgures, we have more burried cable per square anything then any area on earth!) so the key is come friday... no money, no rent, no food, no slashdot... I wonder which I am going to miss the most.
Granted South Dakota is not the best place to be looking for a job in the IT sector, but it's where I am, that by no means that anywhere else is any better, I am also looking in LA and Phoenix and still have had no luck. Here is a rather long thought that I wrote up today while extremely frustrated with my job hunt...
It occurs to me, that in this time of economic trouble while people struggle to find gainful employment with which to support themselves and even expand upon their knowledge base and experiences, the business world shies away from hiring inexperienced employees and instead attempt to hire only those with years of experience under their belt. This in theory makes perfect sense, employers wish only to hire the most qualified persons they can for their money. Sadly this method is ultimately self-defeating.
We live in a market economy. There are producers and consumers. Most companies are both, producing goods or services while consuming resources with which to provide those goods and services. What happens when the resources dry up? With out adequate resources any business will cease to be. For instance a shortage of rubber would help to shut down tire manufactures, do you think car manufactures could exist with out an adequate supply of tires? What about all of the employees? All suffering companies would both have to lay off vast amount of employees to keep from going under right away. These new members of the unemployment line become consumers who have no method of production with which to adequately support themselves with. Suddenly, a large number of consumers no longer can afford to buy as they once did. A shortage in buying will help to destabilize the entire market where producers would not be able produce as much because they cannot sell as much of their products.
A farmer who wants to succeed in farming does not do so by salting his fields, a schoolteacher does not help the school system succeed by burning her school to the ground. Why does business think that by eliminating one of their vital methods of production do they still expect to stay in business?
When businesses refuse to hire those with out large amounts of relevant industry experience they do nothing but hurt their ability to hire qualified people down the line. If job experienced is measured in steps of a ladder, how can a business expect to hire persons who are near the middle or top of the ladder when they prevent anyone from ever setting foot on their lowest rung? Either they hope that someone else will permit that first step or worse... they are not paying attention to what will happen in the future when they shoot themselves in the foot.
Both are equally evil and both are going on as we speak. Isn't it time to allow that first step to occur so that that climber can be brought into the upper levels? The expectation that others will create these quality employees for you is ludicrous. As the old line says "God helps those who help themselves." In no way do I mean that God or anyone else will swoop down and save those who make reasonable attempts towards progress and advancement, I mean that unless one is willing to take steps towards improvement and investment are never going to get anywhere while sitting still will simply cease to be. Those who stand still deserve to perish; with out allowing the first step all there will be is stagnation and an end to all we know and cherish.
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All of us are to blame because we watch, if our tv's would prevent the viewing of unauthorized pieces of music then none of this would ever have happened. This is why we need DRM to keep us from being forced to listen to/see illegal broadcasts!
Finaly this issue is being talked about. I have been out of work for over a year because I cannot find a single job. In part this problem has been caused by H1B's taking the jobs that I am going for, no this is not speculation, I have witnessed it several times. Maybe in time I will have better luck, but first this problem needs to be taken care of.
I thought they were dead.
Now that Halo will be out (or so they say) for the PC we can all go back to waiting for Team Fortress 2... 4 years over due now.
So a single copyright holder could attempt to take down an entire network because a single song is there? Shutting out thousands and thousands of users? God bless America where the individual has more power then an army of users.
If you don't want to pay the tax for the item then find other ways... like buying from another country. I've been buying DVD's from the UK (I live in the US) because the titles that I buy cost twice as much here. You just need to be willing to bend the law and have the needed hardware.
A few years ago our jack ass governor (the one who for a time got rid of the adopt a highway program to keep a couple of gays from adopting a 2 mile stretch and who is currently in the middle of an embargo against the nation of Canada)... anyway... a few years ago he started a program of wiring ALL of the SD schools, public and private. For the last 3 years, every single grade school, middle school, high school and college have had AT LEAST a T1 as well as video conferencing rooms to allow students to take classes from remote sites... We continue to lay more and more cable and for the last few years have had more buried data cable per square anything then any place on earth. That... and we have a lot of corn!
Don't forget the world's largest petrified wood forest in lemmon.
Madison here. God bless DSU (formerly General Beadle State Teachers College)
For bonus points ... where did the Gateway founder grow up? (I will accept the state)
and it is a move that Gateway regrets to this day... since they moved their main headquarters out there their sales have plummeted. On the plus side though they still have their largest manufacturing facilities, tech support and sales still in Sioux Falls.
Just a warning to all of my fellow South Dakota residence... in this case SDSU is not South Dakota State University in Brookings South Dakota, but sadly is in fact San Diego State University... blast those Californians taking all of our acronyms... in this world if you say SF or SD people think you mean San Francisco or San Diego... when will the world learn that they mean Sioux Falls and South Dakota instead! The FAA and Post Office agree with me... when will the rest of you?
There are no real benefits to the theater to have a digital screen. People still come to see a movie, regardless of what kind of projector is. If the studios really want to have digital projects become standard then they need to help by sharing some of the savings of using digital, help the theaters buy the projectors and then lower the price to run a film.
All the Tigers are running wild! Someone let T-Rex out of his pen...
I guess I'll need to re write that line...
Divx 5 is needed sadly.
Molest me not with this talk of Tribes 2. I've played it since day one and it bothers the hell out of me. I cannot stand the sequal. When I go and play a tribes game it's only the original for me.
What can I say? I like the look and feel of it. I've waited this long for it's PC release... I think I can wait a little longer.
for me to buy an xbox. 199 price and mod chips on the horizon, is there anything better?
Yes there is, Halo for the PC... the absence of which is going to force me to buy an xbox.
Come on, I could take pictures and add to them in MS Paint like anyone else... you guys cannot seriously believe this stuff do you? If it looked any more fake you'd see the artists initials in the lower corner of each picture.
This all assumes that you have a job. I along with one of the people I went to see AotC with are both out of work and cannot find jobs (anywhere), thus the day was nothing more then a break from our normal days of job hunting.
* I am unemployed so took the day off from job hunting to see the movie.
Where do I sign on?
I'm a third year computer science students who is searching for work just for the summer, shit jobs do not even exist anymore with in a 2 hour radius of where I live (Madison, SD). Relocation is not much of an option as I will just be back here again in a few months. Being from the Minneapolis area originally you'd think that there would even be great opportunities there. unfortunately if you think that you soon find that you are wrong.
Oh be quiet. I am a college student, my 8 megabit line is already paid for and is part of going to school in the most wired state in the nation (look at some figgures, we have more burried cable per square anything then any area on earth!) so the key is come friday... no money, no rent, no food, no slashdot... I wonder which I am going to miss the most.
Granted South Dakota is not the best place to be looking for a job in the IT sector, but it's where I am, that by no means that anywhere else is any better, I am also looking in LA and Phoenix and still have had no luck. Here is a rather long thought that I wrote up today while extremely frustrated with my job hunt...
It occurs to me, that in this time of economic trouble while people struggle to find gainful employment with which to support themselves and even expand upon their knowledge base and experiences, the business world shies away from hiring inexperienced employees and instead attempt to hire only those with years of experience under their belt. This in theory makes perfect sense, employers wish only to hire the most qualified persons they can for their money. Sadly this method is ultimately self-defeating.
We live in a market economy. There are producers and consumers. Most companies are both, producing goods or services while consuming resources with which to provide those goods and services. What happens when the resources dry up? With out adequate resources any business will cease to be. For instance a shortage of rubber would help to shut down tire manufactures, do you think car manufactures could exist with out an adequate supply of tires? What about all of the employees? All suffering companies would both have to lay off vast amount of employees to keep from going under right away. These new members of the unemployment line become consumers who have no method of production with which to adequately support themselves with. Suddenly, a large number of consumers no longer can afford to buy as they once did. A shortage in buying will help to destabilize the entire market where producers would not be able produce as much because they cannot sell as much of their products.
A farmer who wants to succeed in farming does not do so by salting his fields, a schoolteacher does not help the school system succeed by burning her school to the ground. Why does business think that by eliminating one of their vital methods of production do they still expect to stay in business?
When businesses refuse to hire those with out large amounts of relevant industry experience they do nothing but hurt their ability to hire qualified people down the line. If job experienced is measured in steps of a ladder, how can a business expect to hire persons who are near the middle or top of the ladder when they prevent anyone from ever setting foot on their lowest rung? Either they hope that someone else will permit that first step or worse... they are not paying attention to what will happen in the future when they shoot themselves in the foot.
Both are equally evil and both are going on as we speak. Isn't it time to allow that first step to occur so that that climber can be brought into the upper levels? The expectation that others will create these quality employees for you is ludicrous. As the old line says "God helps those who help themselves." In no way do I mean that God or anyone else will swoop down and save those who make reasonable attempts towards progress and advancement, I mean that unless one is willing to take steps towards improvement and investment are never going to get anywhere while sitting still will simply cease to be. Those who stand still deserve to perish; with out allowing the first step all there will be is stagnation and an end to all we know and cherish.
Are you ready to allow it?