The download price would seemingly have to be teered. When I was up at Blockbuster yesterday, they had movies for $7, $10, and 2 for $20 (and probably other pricing as well).
The last time I was in walmart there were bins of movies, priced anywhere from $2-$10.
My point is that they may be able to charge high $10-$20 for new movies, but eventually it seems 95% of those movies end up selling for $5-$12, and the crappier movies even less.
So a movie-download service has to make sure that their pricing is less-then ( local-pricing - time/effort to goto local store and buy the dvd).
For me, it'd have to be significantly less. Otherwise, I go buy the DVD, rip it, put the rip on the shelf and put the DVD away (I kid-proof my originals).
Aren't all HD devices supposed to have firewire ports on them?
So all the tv's of the future would have f/w on them, no?
And if my above understanding is incorrect- if you have a cable-card interface (whether is via a pcmcia adaptor, a pci card, a usb adaptor or a firewire adaptor) that's all your MythTV (or other roll-it-yourself PVR) would need. No more set top box needed. Get the cablecard w/ adaptor, plug into MythTV setup and go.
What db software and hardware are you using to serve all this to your users?
For your scans, are you saving them as {insert graphics format} in a blob?
I worked for a hospital for a number of years, mostly doing networking stuff. Now I do less of that, and more coding. Your post has my curiosity going.
Same here. The older I get, the more I see this happening. They settle down, get married, get the house, the kids. How priorities seem to change through those years with all that happening is amazing:)
The longer I've worked, the more I see employers trying to hire younger, single IT'ers (on the cheap). They promise them big raises over the next few years to compensate on the low-starting-salary. And the naive kids fall into the trap.:(
The union's generally become an entity of their own. And they work to solidify the *union* first. They end up not doing what they were originally intended to do - protect the *worker*.
Personally, I'm thinking of the UAW as I type this.
The problem, however, is that most people don't have enough common sense to know this. So the school's end up with a large chunk of the responsibility of raising them.
And if you really want to see this first hand, volunteer at any lower-income school district. It's sad.
Privacy may be a fundamental right to an adult, but not a child. Not where the parents are concerned.
My parents had the right to meddle in my life as much as they liked. Looking back, they didn't as much as they could have. But the fact that they did bugged the hell out of me at the time. Now I look back and realize it was just them caring, and it was good parenting to be asking, who, when, where, what and why.
A kid may equate "being checked up on" at the time with "being treated like shit", but more often then not, that's really not the case. When most kids grow up, and have kids of their own, they realize this. It's hard to admit.
Oppressors always think they're doing the oppressed a favor
I suppose that's true. It makes sense.
makes them completely irrational when it comes to their children
Yeah, my mom had that. I think it was called "over-worrying" because of this thing called "love".
Consider that you may be more concerned with your own interests than that of your children.
No, that's not the case. However, you bring up a valid point. In the US, until a child is 18, the parent is legally responsible for that child, and for that child's actions. So would I not want my kids to go on a rampage and throw some rocks threw some store windows only to be caught and myself sued to fix the store?
hell no.
So you'd be correct. I do worry about us being responsible for them. But that's the way things are, and I hope they don't screw up that bad.
One would think (or like to) that the school system would restrict look-up access for a particular student to the student's parent(s) or legal guardian(s).
I don't think it's the case that Susie shouldn't. Far from it. I think the problem is most schools don't have the resources to perpetuate her further along in front of the rest of the kids.
So they have to play the odds game and keep all the students learning the same thing in the relative same period of time.
They'll start on employees next, move it up to registered drivers, you'll see.
Where've you been? Onstar? Truck drivers. Employee ID tags - that you swipe whenever you come and go. It's all been done for years.
Of course tagging children has nothing to do with their safety. Anyone who says so is a liar or an idiot.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Effectively tagging children is a form of control, and an extreamly invasive one at that.
How is this much different from fingerprinting children? Yes, I realize RFID would yield much more instantaneous results. But in essence they're unique identifiers on each child.
I don't care what age I am, or who you are. No-one should know and have a documented record of my exact movements. Period.
If you're a adult, I agree with you. If you're not, your parents certainly *should* know where you are, what you're doing, etc.
Sit down and talk with them once in a while. Find out where they go rather than right clicking on a toolbar icon to see where they are.
I wish this wouldn't need to be said. It's sad that it does. But kids lie, so therein the RFID helps.
I fail to see whether or not the location of a youth is being monitored with RFID, or not, how that directly would impeed on a child learning responsibility.
Maybe you can be more specific?
Generally, for my kids, we'd set small goals, give them something they would need to be responsible with (say, a house key, and ID card). Then as they progess, you give them rewards and eventually additional responsibility. When they screw up you take some of that away, only to try again soon enough.
And if you're lucky enough they'll grow up to become responsible adults.
Missing school is generally against the law in most states. Age depends on the state, I believe.
This is the real issue. School is for training obedient workers/consumers who don't care to think for themselves.
What a bunch of BS. School are intended to educate. Parents should be teaching their kids work ethics and how to be a common-sense consumer. Parents should definitely be teaching their children how to think before any school does!!!
Yes, schooling should, and hopefully does, promote all that and help further it.
But it's not a school district's job to raise the kids.
School children are taught that the quality/safety/usefullness of the school is secondary to their obedience to its demands including attendence
Look, rules are rules. Local cities generally get to make the rules up for their school district. But I can't imagine a district that doesn't have a "must attend" high on their rules-list. It seems fairly obvious to me that rule needs to be there, and must be abided. If they're not attending they have no chance to learn what that city (and state, and no-child-left-behind...ugh) has deemed they need to learn.
...all those useless days with a substitute where you literally did nothing but had to be there.
What school district were you in? Sounds pretty shitty to me.
That said, this is a really sad indication of the neo-conservative movement sweeping through America
I don't agree with you there. I'm not conservative, I don't live in the South. I'd love it if our local school system had this.
The reason that I would love it is that we've dealt with one of our teenagers skipping school. Everything from faking parental calls, to fake #'s, to friend's cell phone numbers.
It would be nice to see that the kids are there, and are where they are supposed to be at the click of a mouse.
Now they're teaching kids that humiliation and bold invasions of privacy should be expected
humiliation? How is it humiliating for your parents to be able to check up on where you are?
bold face invasions? That's BS. Most students are never searched, lockers never searched, cars never searched. Those that are, from what I've seen, whatever contraband they're looking for is found.
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Like Wall Street really rewards companies that burn up cash by selling products at a loss.
The XBox is sold at a loss, no?
is it really that hard to make a selection of new release movies that you wanna watch tomorrow before you go to bed?
Reminds me of queuing up movies in Netflix. As one's sent back, another one arrives.
So as one's watched and removed from the system, the next 2 would be downloading and waiting to be drm-activated so they could be watched.
($10 per download, for example)
The download price would seemingly have to be teered. When I was up at Blockbuster yesterday, they had movies for $7, $10, and 2 for $20 (and probably other pricing as well).
The last time I was in walmart there were bins of movies, priced anywhere from $2-$10.
My point is that they may be able to charge high $10-$20 for new movies, but eventually it seems 95% of those movies end up selling for $5-$12, and the crappier movies even less.
So a movie-download service has to make sure that their pricing is less-then ( local-pricing - time/effort to goto local store and buy the dvd).
For me, it'd have to be significantly less. Otherwise, I go buy the DVD, rip it, put the rip on the shelf and put the DVD away (I kid-proof my originals).
Isn't firewire written into the HD spec?
Aren't all HD devices supposed to have firewire ports on them?
So all the tv's of the future would have f/w on them, no?
And if my above understanding is incorrect- if you have a cable-card interface (whether is via a pcmcia adaptor, a pci card, a usb adaptor or a firewire adaptor) that's all your MythTV (or other roll-it-yourself PVR) would need. No more set top box needed. Get the cablecard w/ adaptor, plug into MythTV setup and go.
Congress issued bonds against what was the big Social Security cash hoard a while back, no?
So those bonds (or loans, if I'm thinking incorrectly) will come calling sometime in the 2030's?
I think that is the point where many analysts are saying that SS will be calling for the replayment on that.
But who pays it?
The US Taxpayer. Somehow, somewhere, the $ to repay the $ which was taken against the social security funds will need to be repaid.
I think THIS is the bulk of the problem.
Solve this, and make it so that we can't pass expenditures that aren't already funded.... basically cut those government credit cards up.
do you have any clue how much data we push in an average day?
No idea. Please tell us.
How many mysql clusters do you have? I'm assuming one cluster is the db-writer, and there'd be a few read-only's slaving from that master?
How many machines are running memcached?
How many webheads? Are you using NFS for file dispersal to all the webheads ala slashdot?
Which Dell laptop are you referring to at that price?
We just bought a new iBook - the base model was $899 from amazon (this is the 1.2GHz).
I wonder how it compares with your Dell. Personally, at $899, I consider this iBook to the a portable-mini with screen.
So how many of you emailed your parents telling them to ebay all the old pc's you've built them over the years?
I figure if they sell them they can pickup a couple hundred and then buying a new mac-mini isn't such a big hit in the checkbook for them.
So what is your software written in?
What db software and hardware are you using to serve all this to your users?
For your scans, are you saving them as {insert graphics format} in a blob?
I worked for a hospital for a number of years, mostly doing networking stuff. Now I do less of that, and more coding. Your post has my curiosity going.
Not yet, I'm looking to purchase one though. You got one forsale? ;)
I think I would have called that "Use The Fuckin' Search Engine"
Same here. The older I get, the more I see this happening. They settle down, get married, get the house, the kids. How priorities seem to change through those years with all that happening is amazing :)
:(
The longer I've worked, the more I see employers trying to hire younger, single IT'ers (on the cheap). They promise them big raises over the next few years to compensate on the low-starting-salary. And the naive kids fall into the trap.
read that like this - calcification == greed
The union's generally become an entity of their own. And they work to solidify the *union* first. They end up not doing what they were originally intended to do - protect the *worker*.
Personally, I'm thinking of the UAW as I type this.
Do a search on the topic. They've had so many people using the validator to hit the site that they've blocked it.
If you want to run it through the validator, grab the HTML src and put it into the validator yourself.
It's the templates. The code is good. If you want complete HTML3.2 then whip up a theme with different templates.
Exactly!
The problem, however, is that most people don't have enough common sense to know this. So the school's end up with a large chunk of the responsibility of raising them.
And if you really want to see this first hand, volunteer at any lower-income school district. It's sad.
Privacy may be a fundamental right to an adult, but not a child. Not where the parents are concerned.
My parents had the right to meddle in my life as much as they liked. Looking back, they didn't as much as they could have. But the fact that they did bugged the hell out of me at the time. Now I look back and realize it was just them caring, and it was good parenting to be asking, who, when, where, what and why.
A kid may equate "being checked up on" at the time with "being treated like shit", but more often then not, that's really not the case. When most kids grow up, and have kids of their own, they realize this. It's hard to admit.
Oppressors always think they're doing the oppressed a favor
I suppose that's true. It makes sense.
makes them completely irrational when it comes to their children
Yeah, my mom had that. I think it was called "over-worrying" because of this thing called "love".
Consider that you may be more concerned with your own interests than that of your children.
No, that's not the case. However, you bring up a valid point. In the US, until a child is 18, the parent is legally responsible for that child, and for that child's actions. So would I not want my kids to go on a rampage and throw some rocks threw some store windows only to be caught and myself sued to fix the store?
hell no.
So you'd be correct. I do worry about us being responsible for them. But that's the way things are, and I hope they don't screw up that bad.
If I could mod your post up, I would. Excellent...
One would think (or like to) that the school system would restrict look-up access for a particular student to the student's parent(s) or legal guardian(s).
Why shouldn't Susie get too far ahead of Johnny?
I don't think it's the case that Susie shouldn't. Far from it. I think the problem is most schools don't have the resources to perpetuate her further along in front of the rest of the kids.
So they have to play the odds game and keep all the students learning the same thing in the relative same period of time.
They'll start on employees next, move it up to registered drivers, you'll see.
Where've you been? Onstar? Truck drivers. Employee ID tags - that you swipe whenever you come and go. It's all been done for years.
Of course tagging children has nothing to do with their safety. Anyone who says so is a liar or an idiot.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Effectively tagging children is a form of control, and an extreamly invasive one at that.
How is this much different from fingerprinting children? Yes, I realize RFID would yield much more instantaneous results. But in essence they're unique identifiers on each child.
I don't care what age I am, or who you are. No-one should know and have a documented record of my exact movements. Period.
If you're a adult, I agree with you. If you're not, your parents certainly *should* know where you are, what you're doing, etc.
Sit down and talk with them once in a while. Find out where they go rather than right clicking on a toolbar icon to see where they are.
I wish this wouldn't need to be said. It's sad that it does. But kids lie, so therein the RFID helps.
I fail to see whether or not the location of a youth is being monitored with RFID, or not, how that directly would impeed on a child learning responsibility.
Maybe you can be more specific?
Generally, for my kids, we'd set small goals, give them something they would need to be responsible with (say, a house key, and ID card). Then as they progess, you give them rewards and eventually additional responsibility. When they screw up you take some of that away, only to try again soon enough.
And if you're lucky enough they'll grow up to become responsible adults.
Well the kids would have to take their badge to school day in and day out and not misplace it - that'll teach them responsibility.
Missing school is generally against the law in most states. Age depends on the state, I believe.
...all those useless days with a substitute where you literally did nothing but had to be there.
This is the real issue. School is for training obedient workers/consumers who don't care to think for themselves.
What a bunch of BS. School are intended to educate. Parents should be teaching their kids work ethics and how to be a common-sense consumer. Parents should definitely be teaching their children how to think before any school does!!!
Yes, schooling should, and hopefully does, promote all that and help further it.
But it's not a school district's job to raise the kids.
School children are taught that the quality/safety/usefullness of the school is secondary to their obedience to its demands including attendence
Look, rules are rules. Local cities generally get to make the rules up for their school district. But I can't imagine a district that doesn't have a "must attend" high on their rules-list. It seems fairly obvious to me that rule needs to be there, and must be abided. If they're not attending they have no chance to learn what that city (and state, and no-child-left-behind...ugh) has deemed they need to learn.
What school district were you in? Sounds pretty shitty to me.
That said, this is a really sad indication of the neo-conservative movement sweeping through America
I don't agree with you there. I'm not conservative, I don't live in the South. I'd love it if our local school system had this.
The reason that I would love it is that we've dealt with one of our teenagers skipping school. Everything from faking parental calls, to fake #'s, to friend's cell phone numbers.
It would be nice to see that the kids are there, and are where they are supposed to be at the click of a mouse.
Now they're teaching kids that humiliation and bold invasions of privacy should be expected
humiliation? How is it humiliating for your parents to be able to check up on where you are?
bold face invasions? That's BS. Most students are never searched, lockers never searched, cars never searched. Those that are, from what I've seen, whatever contraband they're looking for is found.
Just my $.02, from a parent in Ohio.