Anyone else tired of continous "LIVE" coverage of, well nothing? I was home at lunch and they were showing a night vision cam on CNN, just in case something happens at that particular second. Lots of talking heads with really nothing to say, just the same old crap over and over, and then one missile lands and they are all over that.
I think I'm going to resolve to sticking with the 6:00pm news for the most part...get a nice overview with the days events and move on, or possibly look for more info if something has happened.
Well I read the article and I must say that I'm glad I just don't have to bother - I have a 30Hr PVR that is fully integrated with the satellite receiver and can IR blast to control my VCR if necessary. The picture quality is indistinguishable from the live broadcast, it even records high end audiostreams when available (though I keep meaning to expirement and see if it is even recording SAP and other signals...). But most importantly my wife can use it - in fact she loves the system to death...she would get quite anxious if a PC appeared attached to the entertainment system... Pause/Record etc all the standard VCR controls are built into the remote.
Though they seem to have the best settings all ready to go - maybe someone will write software to handle all of this automatically?
Even better will be once DVD-R stereo component style decks become common place and affordable. That would be much nicer for archiving than the VCR!
Well I don't have the title, but I am 'the' computer person MIS/IT/DB Manager etc... for a fair sized process manufacturing business (pushing $100 Million). We are getting bent over left, right, and center by licensing, Microsoft, ERP software, you name it.
We feel trapped in the MS web and would love to break out. We spend $200K easy on licensing costs annually easily...so here's my thinking.
Is there not some way we could use this money to hire a Linux programmer and a Linux admin guru or some combination of consultants, etc and start getting our butts off of the MS shaft? I don't mind Windows on the client so much. I can handle leaving Finance with Excel, but Open Office could replace much of that. I'm sure something could replace Exchange etc... And as for the ERP side, well it's fairly complex but at least if we had an option for something that could run on Linux with say, Oracle or whatever (at least be flexible) database backend...
Where the heck would I start with all of this? I am a Windows/DOS guy, but I don't mind learning Linux...it's just a matter of getting started.
Ugh, maybe this should be an Ask Slashdot question...
I've been wondering about the Canadian Tariff-- I saw CD-R's at like $38 for $50 - that's like $0.76 per disc - how much is the tariff itself supposed to be? The tariffs are BS, can't remember the last time I put music on a CD...
But I still do play them! PS2's graphics and sound are quite good so I think many titles will still do fairly well compared to whatever PS3 does. It's nice to have the option in any case...every so often I just have to play King's Field (and that was a first gen title on PS1).
I truly hope the PS3 will be backwards compatible. Definitely for PS2 games - as there are many I'm sure I will still play for years to come. PS1 would be nice too, but I rarely play any PS1 games anymore - I've got a few kicking around (King's Field, Vandal Hearts, and Frogger for the wife) - but heck it's probably trivial for them to include PS1 compatibility so they'd better do it!!
One thing I would like to see that annoyed me about PS2- I think that they should've included the ability to partition off a small space in the PS2 memory card for a PS1 compatible storage area- it's a pain to swap cards (the PS1 cards don't always seem to like to fit as nice). If the PS3 has a HDD or higher capacity capabilities of some sort, I truly hope they allow this sort of thing for PS2 and PS1 media!
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HEY! those legions are property of MY guild, I found 'em first - go find your own planet to steal soliders from!
Personally I'd rather read things like blogs and news websites than watch video or listen to audio. If you want to know why just play any of a number of video games or computer games where the dialogue track sounds like it was recorded by the programmers...most people just don't have that interesting a voice!
This is slightly off-topic, but it's related. A lot of the crap that goes on whether it be screwing employees out of pay, muddled decisions etc - it seems to me that it most often happens to companies that have publically traded stocks.
I work for a fairly large company ($80-100 million), but it is all privately held. They treat their employees with respect (for the most part, though bad managers tend to not be around for too long), have great benefits, pay overtime, heck they even spend a fair chunk of change on the Christmas party.
My theory is that companies like the one I work for, and others of similar size can work a lot better and can afford to treat their employees better if they so choose etc, because they are not tied into the tempests of the public stock exchange. They don't have share holders to constantly report too (well there are share holders, but all within the company). They don't have to worry about losing millions if a bad report comes out. All the money the company has is 'real'. Sure they didn't have the huge inlay of capital at first, but instead a solid business and careful spending, meant that eventually the company became quite profitable and more importantly, remains profitable.
I watched this last night (the short they released, not the trailer) saw some thing on it while my wife was watching Access Hollywood or ET...), it was neat animation and all, although the large format wasn't working, but the story wasn't that great. In fact it was actually quite disillusioning (is that a word?)- it seems like the humans were very mean to the robots - there was a robot holocaust and they were just defending themselves, trying to be free etc...so really what rights do the humans in The Matrix have to complain??? According to the short, they brought it on themselves.
Oh well, I'm just going to pretend I didn't watch it...
I agree, I'd always thought that this would be a perfect thing to include on a DVD. A lot of people do like to watch the cleaned up versions, even if only for their kids. You can have multiple angles, languages, soundtrack encoding types, heck even alternate endings. Why not a PG13 version of the movie??
My brother-in-law was a great mechanic for many years, was laid off and decided to go into IT. He ended up being a similarily excellent IT guy (could learn and diagnose just about anything I think), but couldn't stand his job after sevenish years - now he's a mechanic again and is making more money than in IT.
If nothing else it just shows that being able to do more than one trade is a very useful thing!
I think almost more than anything else, that the PS2's DVD playing capabilities catapaulted it ahead of the good old Dreamcast (which truly was a fine system in its own right); PS2 appeared at just the right time - people were starting to look around for DVD options and many ended up with PS2's because they might as well get the latest and coolest game system (lots of marketing and PS1 had a good fanbase), when they bought a DVD player.
DVD really helped Sony past the chicken and the egg problem many consoles faced, add to that the fact that it could play the vast library of PS1 games and Sony trampled all over Sega.
Given your library you've probably read John Dalmas (The Regiment, The Three Cornered War), but if you haven't you may wish to check out his writing.
How about Terry Goodkind (Wizard's First Rule...)- though, heh in both cases sometimes it *seems* like they are new - but then I realize I've actually been reading them for 5-10 years - ugh time flies too fast...
I'm interested to see what people come up with though - I walk into Chapters and they have 4 or 5 shelves of Sci-Fi and Fantasy - not that I'm complaining mind you, but my eyes sort of glaze over as I try to pull out one book out of thousands - shamefully cover art is hard to ignore (but I do try and lead the synopsis and flip through a few pages to gauge style).
Hmmm, how about Christian Jacq's Ramses series? It's somewhat interesting - it's not really new, although it's somewhat new to North America being a French book originally.
Exactly! But don't forget Air! I mean the criminals must be using air right? Especially if they make their escape on foot - without air they could run.
You hit the nail on the head though. In Canada there's a tariff on CD-R's just because they *might* be used to copy music. Not sure about DVD-R tariffs though...it's all so stupid!
How does it work in legal systems in general? Usually it seems to me that the defendant does the appealing if they are found guilty etc. It seems unfair that the government can just keep attempting to prosecute the same person over and over. What about the effect on their lives? And couldn't the defendant point to the old trial - I mean if a judge already found you not guilty is that enough to create a reasonable doubt? It's kind of scary, guess I just never thought of it before - say for example, you beat Microsoft, defending yourself in some sort of trial - if MS remains PO'd with you could they not just keep appealing forcing you to return to court again and again? Until finally you are completely broke and your life is ruined and whatever you were defending against is completely irrelevant.
It may be completely different in his country anyways...
As opposed to rushing crap out the door before it's finished? Yeah, that is great actually. The last thing we need is more unfinished, buggy games. Not to say that 3 years==a bug free game, but the more time spent debugging the better.
It's really only useful under certain conditions - think any situation that you might need to use a walkie-talkie - but the cell phone typically has a much better range.
Two IT workers could go back and forth in different cities, troubleshooting a connection or something without tying up their phone the entire time.
"Seriously, there should be laws saying that all cellphones can operate in vibrate-mode only if in any public place."
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? You think we need *more* laws for stupid crap like this? What is your justification? Because it annoys you? That's a justification for a new law? A noise made in public? What's next laws against talking in public? After all that might just annoying someone else - so they should be forced to write notes to each other, or work out a serious of winks and body groping or something.
WTF, I can't belive that there are truly people that stupid in this world. It truly boggles the mind. I can only hope that you're a troll...please tell me your just a troll...
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Anyone else tired of continous "LIVE" coverage of, well nothing? I was home at lunch and they were showing a night vision cam on CNN, just in case something happens at that particular second. Lots of talking heads with really nothing to say, just the same old crap over and over, and then one missile lands and they are all over that.
I think I'm going to resolve to sticking with the 6:00pm news for the most part...get a nice overview with the days events and move on, or possibly look for more info if something has happened.
Well I read the article and I must say that I'm glad I just don't have to bother - I have a 30Hr PVR that is fully integrated with the satellite receiver and can IR blast to control my VCR if necessary. The picture quality is indistinguishable from the live broadcast, it even records high end audiostreams when available (though I keep meaning to expirement and see if it is even recording SAP and other signals...). But most importantly my wife can use it - in fact she loves the system to death...she would get quite anxious if a PC appeared attached to the entertainment system... Pause/Record etc all the standard VCR controls are built into the remote.
Though they seem to have the best settings all ready to go - maybe someone will write software to handle all of this automatically?
Even better will be once DVD-R stereo component style decks become common place and affordable. That would be much nicer for archiving than the VCR!
Well I don't have the title, but I am 'the' computer person MIS/IT/DB Manager etc... for a fair sized process manufacturing business (pushing $100 Million). We are getting bent over left, right, and center by licensing, Microsoft, ERP software, you name it.
We feel trapped in the MS web and would love to break out. We spend $200K easy on licensing costs annually easily...so here's my thinking.
Is there not some way we could use this money to hire a Linux programmer and a Linux admin guru or some combination of consultants, etc and start getting our butts off of the MS shaft? I don't mind Windows on the client so much. I can handle leaving Finance with Excel, but Open Office could replace much of that. I'm sure something could replace Exchange etc... And as for the ERP side, well it's fairly complex but at least if we had an option for something that could run on Linux with say, Oracle or whatever (at least be flexible) database backend...
Where the heck would I start with all of this? I am a Windows/DOS guy, but I don't mind learning Linux...it's just a matter of getting started.
Ugh, maybe this should be an Ask Slashdot question...
I've been wondering about the Canadian Tariff-- I saw CD-R's at like $38 for $50 - that's like $0.76 per disc - how much is the tariff itself supposed to be? The tariffs are BS, can't remember the last time I put music on a CD...
But I still do play them! PS2's graphics and sound are quite good so I think many titles will still do fairly well compared to whatever PS3 does. It's nice to have the option in any case...every so often I just have to play King's Field (and that was a first gen title on PS1).
I truly hope the PS3 will be backwards compatible. Definitely for PS2 games - as there are many I'm sure I will still play for years to come. PS1 would be nice too, but I rarely play any PS1 games anymore - I've got a few kicking around (King's Field, Vandal Hearts, and Frogger for the wife) - but heck it's probably trivial for them to include PS1 compatibility so they'd better do it!!
One thing I would like to see that annoyed me about PS2- I think that they should've included the ability to partition off a small space in the PS2 memory card for a PS1 compatible storage area- it's a pain to swap cards (the PS1 cards don't always seem to like to fit as nice). If the PS3 has a HDD or higher capacity capabilities of some sort, I truly hope they allow this sort of thing for PS2 and PS1 media!
HEY! those legions are property of MY guild, I found 'em first - go find your own planet to steal soliders from!
Personally I'd rather read things like blogs and news websites than watch video or listen to audio. If you want to know why just play any of a number of video games or computer games where the dialogue track sounds like it was recorded by the programmers...most people just don't have that interesting a voice!
This is slightly off-topic, but it's related. A lot of the crap that goes on whether it be screwing employees out of pay, muddled decisions etc - it seems to me that it most often happens to companies that have publically traded stocks.
I work for a fairly large company ($80-100 million), but it is all privately held. They treat their employees with respect (for the most part, though bad managers tend to not be around for too long), have great benefits, pay overtime, heck they even spend a fair chunk of change on the Christmas party.
My theory is that companies like the one I work for, and others of similar size can work a lot better and can afford to treat their employees better if they so choose etc, because they are not tied into the tempests of the public stock exchange. They don't have share holders to constantly report too (well there are share holders, but all within the company). They don't have to worry about losing millions if a bad report comes out. All the money the company has is 'real'. Sure they didn't have the huge inlay of capital at first, but instead a solid business and careful spending, meant that eventually the company became quite profitable and more importantly, remains profitable.
Does this make any sense?
Actually don't they have illegally imported Playstation 2 super computers??
I watched this last night (the short they released, not the trailer) saw some thing on it while my wife was watching Access Hollywood or ET...), it was neat animation and all, although the large format wasn't working, but the story wasn't that great. In fact it was actually quite disillusioning (is that a word?)- it seems like the humans were very mean to the robots - there was a robot holocaust and they were just defending themselves, trying to be free etc...so really what rights do the humans in The Matrix have to complain??? According to the short, they brought it on themselves.
Oh well, I'm just going to pretend I didn't watch it...
Also, even if you own a company, it's always good to hedge your bets and have a wide range of investments. Just good personal business sense.
I agree, I'd always thought that this would be a perfect thing to include on a DVD. A lot of people do like to watch the cleaned up versions, even if only for their kids. You can have multiple angles, languages, soundtrack encoding types, heck even alternate endings. Why not a PG13 version of the movie??
My brother-in-law was a great mechanic for many years, was laid off and decided to go into IT. He ended up being a similarily excellent IT guy (could learn and diagnose just about anything I think), but couldn't stand his job after sevenish years - now he's a mechanic again and is making more money than in IT.
If nothing else it just shows that being able to do more than one trade is a very useful thing!
Personally, I embrace global warming! Bring it on already! It's fricking freezing here!
I think almost more than anything else, that the PS2's DVD playing capabilities catapaulted it ahead of the good old Dreamcast (which truly was a fine system in its own right); PS2 appeared at just the right time - people were starting to look around for DVD options and many ended up with PS2's because they might as well get the latest and coolest game system (lots of marketing and PS1 had a good fanbase), when they bought a DVD player.
DVD really helped Sony past the chicken and the egg problem many consoles faced, add to that the fact that it could play the vast library of PS1 games and Sony trampled all over Sega.
In Canada anyways, Ontario long ago gave up the idea of photo-radar because the tickets never held up and basically everyone contested them.
I think I have the answer to everyone's questions about this machine: the whole thing is B.S. - B.S. hoping for some V.C.
Given your library you've probably read John Dalmas (The Regiment, The Three Cornered War), but if you haven't you may wish to check out his writing.
How about Terry Goodkind (Wizard's First Rule...)- though, heh in both cases sometimes it *seems* like they are new - but then I realize I've actually been reading them for 5-10 years - ugh time flies too fast...
I'm interested to see what people come up with though - I walk into Chapters and they have 4 or 5 shelves of Sci-Fi and Fantasy - not that I'm complaining mind you, but my eyes sort of glaze over as I try to pull out one book out of thousands - shamefully cover art is hard to ignore (but I do try and lead the synopsis and flip through a few pages to gauge style).
Hmmm, how about Christian Jacq's Ramses series? It's somewhat interesting - it's not really new, although it's somewhat new to North America being a French book originally.
Exactly! But don't forget Air! I mean the criminals must be using air right? Especially if they make their escape on foot - without air they could run.
You hit the nail on the head though. In Canada there's a tariff on CD-R's just because they *might* be used to copy music. Not sure about DVD-R tariffs though...it's all so stupid!
I am not from the US.
How does it work in legal systems in general? Usually it seems to me that the defendant does the appealing if they are found guilty etc. It seems unfair that the government can just keep attempting to prosecute the same person over and over. What about the effect on their lives? And couldn't the defendant point to the old trial - I mean if a judge already found you not guilty is that enough to create a reasonable doubt? It's kind of scary, guess I just never thought of it before - say for example, you beat Microsoft, defending yourself in some sort of trial - if MS remains PO'd with you could they not just keep appealing forcing you to return to court again and again? Until finally you are completely broke and your life is ruined and whatever you were defending against is completely irrelevant.
It may be completely different in his country anyways...
As opposed to rushing crap out the door before it's finished? Yeah, that is great actually. The last thing we need is more unfinished, buggy games. Not to say that 3 years==a bug free game, but the more time spent debugging the better.
It's really only useful under certain conditions - think any situation that you might need to use a walkie-talkie - but the cell phone typically has a much better range.
Two IT workers could go back and forth in different cities, troubleshooting a connection or something without tying up their phone the entire time.
"Seriously, there should be laws saying that all cellphones can operate in vibrate-mode only if in any public place."
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? You think we need *more* laws for stupid crap like this? What is your justification? Because it annoys you? That's a justification for a new law? A noise made in public? What's next laws against talking in public? After all that might just annoying someone else - so they should be forced to write notes to each other, or work out a serious of winks and body groping or something.
WTF, I can't belive that there are truly people that stupid in this world. It truly boggles the mind. I can only hope that you're a troll...please tell me your just a troll...