You speak as if Intel and nVidia are teaming against ATI when Intel would love nothing more than to eliminate nVidia so customers have to put up with their shitty GMA bullshit...
Fish farms accumulate lots of heavy metals, which accumulate in the fish. That's the non-healthy part. If we can solve that, it'll definitely be beneficial.
I'm more concerned that the advertising (for all carriers) shows how awesome it will be to stream movies, music, and media, and yet severely penalize the users who actually take them up on their advertising.
Meh. I subscribed to AOL because my roomate wanted an easy way to get online. AOL had a huge bank of dial-in numbers, unlike a lot of other ISPs (you guys do remember that pre-broadband, we used telephones, connected with actual wires, and there were limited spots to dial in otherwise you got a busy signal). I didn't really care because I logged into AOL, minimized the client and went about my business as usual (IRC, mostly) and through flirting in the AOL chatrooms (real girls! Real... big.. girls) got dragged into AIM eventually. Once we got cable broadband, AOL got cancelled, but I continue to use my AIM screen name, although it's very rare I login to that account anymore.
Yes. In fact, most "other" music stores (such as Napster, Rhapsody, etc) have ways to automatically put purchases music into your iTunes collection for this purpose.
Speaking as a 37 year old, the same criticisms could be made for all the shitty sci-fi films I loved as a kid. Ever try to go back and watch that shit now, 30 years later? Megaforce, Solar Babies, Road Warrior, Deathrace 2000, Logan's Run, The Last Starfighter, millions of others. Most of those were pure fluff, exactly as now, and I'll still watch it. What you're seeing is the latest versions of this stuff and in 30 years, some other 30-40 somethings will be bitching about the state of "sci fi" today and go back to watching their "classics" that you deride today.
Hindsight is always 20/20 and you forget that many of us have been ripping CDs since the mid 90s back when disk space was nowhere as cheap as it is now (although it was massive and cheap for the time). 200mb drives. How many FLACS can that hold? Don't worry, in 10 or so years, you'll be looking at your FLAC collection wondering why you just didn't rip to whatever format du jour is prevalent and someone will tell you "Well, your problem is that you didn't rip to " where may or or not even be in development right now.
With XP, you have a point. However, for shits and giggles I downloaded the Win7 RC last year and tried installing it on: Thinkpad X31 Sony Vaio R505JLK
Thinkpad went flawless, everything was found and if not found, got itself on the internet and automagically installed all the drivers. Very smooth. Vaio R505JLK - not as smooth, but it also found almost all of my hardware and let me know that Intel no longer supported the i845 (I think?) chipset and had no plans to write drivers for it, which meant my video was pretty crappy (640x480, limited palette), BUT it was usable. Compare this to the fact that Linux won't install at all on this laptop due to an APIC issue of some sort and hangs on boot with all distro CDs, including live CDs that I tried, Win7 kinda wins by default on this one.
I was very impressed with Win7, but not enough to fork out the cash for upgrades.
Now, recently my dad's computer took a shit. He got hit with some sort of malware, the fix made it worse, and then from what I could tell, the hard-drive was potentially going bad (5 year old machine) and me being across the country, i couldn't really diagnose over the phone (and didn't really want to try). He was going to drop $500 on a new computer when I told him to wait for me for my yearly trip home in a couple weeks, in the meantime, I mailed him a copy of the latest Ubuntu. Five years ago, he had ambitions of recording music (he's a musician) and the like and I was loathe to recommend Linux to him because I didn't like the idea of him trying to figure out ALSA, JACK or whatever else was around back then. However, we've identified that his entire online experience is 1) Firefox (that's the internet to him. Actually, Google is the internet to him, but whatever). 2) Several forums he loves to read and troll. What the fuck does he need a $500 computer for? Anyway, he got the CD, plopped it in the tray, booted the machine, and the liveCD comes up, detects everything perfectly, and now he's online. Who cares if someone hits his machine with malware? He reboots and it's back to normal. Kudos for Linux for finally become "dad friendly", at least in my household.
That's pretty much my feeling on the matter. Maybe it's time for books to go the way of the CD/Album. Physical products will become limited, niche products catering to hardcore fans with extras, like maybe an interview CD or a sketchbook (I'd totally love to see what Neil Gaiman sketches out), character studies, plot iterations, even rough drafts and the like. I'm tired of physical products, for the most part, though. Give me my digital download with the ability to download it again later if I lose my device, give me a reasonable price (and 99 cents is more than reasonable... impulse, more like it) and I'm good to go. Otherwise, if you price it up there with the physical product, I won't purchase it at all and would rather find it at the library. Give me a reason to give you my money. Price and/or features, please.
BTW, this is also why I use Napster and the like. I don't mind spending a few bucks a month on a subscription to streaming music I like. I'm loathe to spend $10 on a digital download of something I can buy for $10 at the store. I know I lose access to streaming music if I don't pay, and I'm okay with that. But, make albums $2 or $3, I'd buy a whole lot more.
I find it amusing that if this were an "entertainment" type story, you'd have the usual suspects doing the "it's not stealing!" semantics dance. "Unauthorized copying != theft!" After all, the canadians still have their documents, right?
My buddy is an ex-bike messenger from the late 80s-90s. While what you write is technically true these days, the origins were really from a more practical standpoint. Fixies made from old beater bikes were the absolute cheapest way to get on the road and start making money that same day. You could literally walk into a bike shop and pick up a beat up frame, add some beat up wheels, a chain, and a fixed gear and be working an hour later for less than $100. Most bike messengers in Manhattan, however, rode traditional geared bikes. Sometimes skateboards.
Fixie resale value, though, is not what it used to be. Cruising CL in LA for fixies, you'll see people asking for $300+ for a $50 bike.
Not even close. As long as the group did the research, the presentation, and the conclusions, a professional editor is only going to clean up grammar, suggest paper flows, etc. When I was in high school and in college, we were ENCOURAGED to get other people to proof-read our papers. If my mom or dad happened to be a professional writer, you damn well better believe I'd ask them to read my paper. Cheating is paying someone to write your paper for you, without doing any research or anything yourself.
As someone who has done time working for those "large, old-school companies", fuck them. I keep hearing people say that working for a Fortune 500 is some sort of status symbol. It's not. It might be somewhat stable (it's not, see layoffs), it might have more people to hide behind when you fuck up, but ultimately, they're souless jobs in cubicle hell (see Dilbert). If the worst that can happen is you can't get a job with Megacorp tomorrow because you dropped out today, drop the fuck out. You can keep your old-school, conservative business bullshit.
Yes, seriously. For a primer, read Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and if you're still interested, check out the *extensive* bibliography and go do your own research if you're still not convinced.
Eight years after "liberation" and the Taliban still operates without fear? What a great job we're doing.
Based on your links, no one has "forgotten" the kind of place Afghanistan was under the Taliban, because it seems like they never lost control except in name.
Also, the overwhelming majority of our radioactive shipments were radioactive medicines. If a package misses sort, FedEx will actually charter a flight to ship rads out at times, that's how important the rads are. They usually have a very short lifespan and a delay of a day means the medicine is worthless). I hated to see rads left behind because someone's life could be depending on that medicine. Same with organs, etc. I can't speak for the other ramp agents/DG specialists, but I took it as a point of pride to get this stuff out.
erm, not quite. The link you pointed to is for the Custom Critical services, which is a separate division from FedEx Ground and FedEx Express. FedEx Express also accepts "dangerous goods". Certain classes of DG is loaded into special containers and placed in a crew accessible position and hooked up to a fire extinguisher in case of in-flight fire. Radioactives are generally loaded further aft in the load to protect the crew from errant radiation. there are limits on the amount of Radioactive material, the classes of radiactive material (IIRC: class 1 1.0 rads), and total flight rad load. So, radioactive shipments are sorta kept separate from the regular sorting process (these are considered to be non-conveyable and are hand sorted and then moved to the flight area where they can be processed by the line DG agent or a Ramp Agent and loaded into a container containing regular freight. Once it's at the destination, a courier will deliver the package as normal, but with some consideration for time/distance from the driver's seat.
(I was a memphis ramp agent/dg specialist for ~8 years)
I disagree. Most of the reactions on/. sound like they're not against immigration, they're against the current corporate masters from abusing the H1B and what not programs to ARTIFICIALLY DEFLATE the salaries of citizens and, if anything, fast-tracking PhD candidates to citizenship would do wonders to help alleviate those salary discrepancies.
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I find it presumptuous that you would pretend to know the motivations behind my intentions as an artist. I just got off of tour a couple of weeks ago. Your idea of what touring is completely fabricated fantasy. All property rights is rooted in Intellectual Property, by the way.
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You speak as if Intel and nVidia are teaming against ATI when Intel would love nothing more than to eliminate nVidia so customers have to put up with their shitty GMA bullshit...
Fish farms accumulate lots of heavy metals, which accumulate in the fish. That's the non-healthy part. If we can solve that, it'll definitely be beneficial.
I'm more concerned that the advertising (for all carriers) shows how awesome it will be to stream movies, music, and media, and yet severely penalize the users who actually take them up on their advertising.
Meh. I subscribed to AOL because my roomate wanted an easy way to get online. AOL had a huge bank of dial-in numbers, unlike a lot of other ISPs (you guys do remember that pre-broadband, we used telephones, connected with actual wires, and there were limited spots to dial in otherwise you got a busy signal). I didn't really care because I logged into AOL, minimized the client and went about my business as usual (IRC, mostly) and through flirting in the AOL chatrooms (real girls! Real... big.. girls) got dragged into AIM eventually. Once we got cable broadband, AOL got cancelled, but I continue to use my AIM screen name, although it's very rare I login to that account anymore.
Yes. In fact, most "other" music stores (such as Napster, Rhapsody, etc) have ways to automatically put purchases music into your iTunes collection for this purpose.
Speaking as a 37 year old, the same criticisms could be made for all the shitty sci-fi films I loved as a kid. Ever try to go back and watch that shit now, 30 years later? Megaforce, Solar Babies, Road Warrior, Deathrace 2000, Logan's Run, The Last Starfighter, millions of others. Most of those were pure fluff, exactly as now, and I'll still watch it. What you're seeing is the latest versions of this stuff and in 30 years, some other 30-40 somethings will be bitching about the state of "sci fi" today and go back to watching their "classics" that you deride today.
I'll be seeing at least 3 of the above. :)
Hindsight is always 20/20 and you forget that many of us have been ripping CDs since the mid 90s back when disk space was nowhere as cheap as it is now (although it was massive and cheap for the time). 200mb drives. How many FLACS can that hold? Don't worry, in 10 or so years, you'll be looking at your FLAC collection wondering why you just didn't rip to whatever format du jour is prevalent and someone will tell you "Well, your problem is that you didn't rip to " where may or or not even be in development right now.
With XP, you have a point. However, for shits and giggles I downloaded the Win7 RC last year and tried installing it on:
Thinkpad X31
Sony Vaio R505JLK
Thinkpad went flawless, everything was found and if not found, got itself on the internet and automagically installed all the drivers. Very smooth.
Vaio R505JLK - not as smooth, but it also found almost all of my hardware and let me know that Intel no longer supported the i845 (I think?) chipset and had no plans to write drivers for it, which meant my video was pretty crappy (640x480, limited palette), BUT it was usable. Compare this to the fact that Linux won't install at all on this laptop due to an APIC issue of some sort and hangs on boot with all distro CDs, including live CDs that I tried, Win7 kinda wins by default on this one.
I was very impressed with Win7, but not enough to fork out the cash for upgrades.
Now, recently my dad's computer took a shit. He got hit with some sort of malware, the fix made it worse, and then from what I could tell, the hard-drive was potentially going bad (5 year old machine) and me being across the country, i couldn't really diagnose over the phone (and didn't really want to try). He was going to drop $500 on a new computer when I told him to wait for me for my yearly trip home in a couple weeks, in the meantime, I mailed him a copy of the latest Ubuntu. Five years ago, he had ambitions of recording music (he's a musician) and the like and I was loathe to recommend Linux to him because I didn't like the idea of him trying to figure out ALSA, JACK or whatever else was around back then. However, we've identified that his entire online experience is 1) Firefox (that's the internet to him. Actually, Google is the internet to him, but whatever). 2) Several forums he loves to read and troll. What the fuck does he need a $500 computer for? Anyway, he got the CD, plopped it in the tray, booted the machine, and the liveCD comes up, detects everything perfectly, and now he's online. Who cares if someone hits his machine with malware? He reboots and it's back to normal. Kudos for Linux for finally become "dad friendly", at least in my household.
That's pretty much my feeling on the matter. Maybe it's time for books to go the way of the CD/Album. Physical products will become limited, niche products catering to hardcore fans with extras, like maybe an interview CD or a sketchbook (I'd totally love to see what Neil Gaiman sketches out), character studies, plot iterations, even rough drafts and the like. I'm tired of physical products, for the most part, though. Give me my digital download with the ability to download it again later if I lose my device, give me a reasonable price (and 99 cents is more than reasonable... impulse, more like it) and I'm good to go. Otherwise, if you price it up there with the physical product, I won't purchase it at all and would rather find it at the library. Give me a reason to give you my money. Price and/or features, please.
BTW, this is also why I use Napster and the like. I don't mind spending a few bucks a month on a subscription to streaming music I like. I'm loathe to spend $10 on a digital download of something I can buy for $10 at the store. I know I lose access to streaming music if I don't pay, and I'm okay with that. But, make albums $2 or $3, I'd buy a whole lot more.
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I find it amusing that if this were an "entertainment" type story, you'd have the usual suspects doing the "it's not stealing!" semantics dance. "Unauthorized copying != theft!" After all, the canadians still have their documents, right?
My buddy is an ex-bike messenger from the late 80s-90s. While what you write is technically true these days, the origins were really from a more practical standpoint. Fixies made from old beater bikes were the absolute cheapest way to get on the road and start making money that same day. You could literally walk into a bike shop and pick up a beat up frame, add some beat up wheels, a chain, and a fixed gear and be working an hour later for less than $100. Most bike messengers in Manhattan, however, rode traditional geared bikes. Sometimes skateboards.
Fixie resale value, though, is not what it used to be. Cruising CL in LA for fixies, you'll see people asking for $300+ for a $50 bike.
As long as that professional editor is not the one writing the actual paper and doing the research, there's no foul here.
It makes no fucking difference.
Not even close. As long as the group did the research, the presentation, and the conclusions, a professional editor is only going to clean up grammar, suggest paper flows, etc. When I was in high school and in college, we were ENCOURAGED to get other people to proof-read our papers. If my mom or dad happened to be a professional writer, you damn well better believe I'd ask them to read my paper. Cheating is paying someone to write your paper for you, without doing any research or anything yourself.
I took typing in high school. Twenty girls, 2 dudes. Just sayin'.
As someone who has done time working for those "large, old-school companies", fuck them. I keep hearing people say that working for a Fortune 500 is some sort of status symbol. It's not. It might be somewhat stable (it's not, see layoffs), it might have more people to hide behind when you fuck up, but ultimately, they're souless jobs in cubicle hell (see Dilbert). If the worst that can happen is you can't get a job with Megacorp tomorrow because you dropped out today, drop the fuck out. You can keep your old-school, conservative business bullshit.
Yes, seriously. For a primer, read Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and if you're still interested, check out the *extensive* bibliography and go do your own research if you're still not convinced.
Eight years after "liberation" and the Taliban still operates without fear? What a great job we're doing.
Based on your links, no one has "forgotten" the kind of place Afghanistan was under the Taliban, because it seems like they never lost control except in name.
Also, the overwhelming majority of our radioactive shipments were radioactive medicines. If a package misses sort, FedEx will actually charter a flight to ship rads out at times, that's how important the rads are. They usually have a very short lifespan and a delay of a day means the medicine is worthless). I hated to see rads left behind because someone's life could be depending on that medicine. Same with organs, etc. I can't speak for the other ramp agents/DG specialists, but I took it as a point of pride to get this stuff out.
erm, not quite. The link you pointed to is for the Custom Critical services, which is a separate division from FedEx Ground and FedEx Express. FedEx Express also accepts "dangerous goods". Certain classes of DG is loaded into special containers and placed in a crew accessible position and hooked up to a fire extinguisher in case of in-flight fire. Radioactives are generally loaded further aft in the load to protect the crew from errant radiation. there are limits on the amount of Radioactive material, the classes of radiactive material (IIRC: class 1 1.0 rads), and total flight rad load. So, radioactive shipments are sorta kept separate from the regular sorting process (these are considered to be non-conveyable and are hand sorted and then moved to the flight area where they can be processed by the line DG agent or a Ramp Agent and loaded into a container containing regular freight. Once it's at the destination, a courier will deliver the package as normal, but with some consideration for time/distance from the driver's seat.
(I was a memphis ramp agent/dg specialist for ~8 years)
I disagree. Most of the reactions on /. sound like they're not against immigration, they're against the current corporate masters from abusing the H1B and what not programs to ARTIFICIALLY DEFLATE the salaries of citizens and, if anything, fast-tracking PhD candidates to citizenship would do wonders to help alleviate those salary discrepancies.
I find it presumptuous that you would pretend to know the motivations behind my intentions as an artist. I just got off of tour a couple of weeks ago. Your idea of what touring is completely fabricated fantasy. All property rights is rooted in Intellectual Property, by the way.
Swastika, then???
OMG the ancients were right!