You need to work real hard in an American company when your a coder. Especially if it's a company that saw huge returns on one of their programs. The greed has set in. Get your asses in gear. NOW. Or; or... we'll ship these jobs over to India or China!
This is just more of the same fundamental change going on at CBS. In those days, we were an open; in your face with our fundamental beliefs nation and it was reflected in the broadcasting. CBS along with NBC is on a campaign to remove some of the religious toned stuff that influences what is broadcast. They're not apparently looking to censor religious shows, but the tones that it influences in their shows that they air now. That's a house of cards that will come down eventually; and may already be showing signs. NBC has almost nothing left in it for viewers if you rely solely on the polls. Their news departments have pretty much collapsed them. CBS is hanging on because it has some talent still and they are what is keeping them afloat. It sure isn't Katie Kouric.
The business model by which they are relying has died a couple years ago and isn't coming back. I don't know who is running the show there, but they obviously have a complete and total disconnect from the world. The only possible way to recover from that business model is to exclude all of their stuff from the likes of ITunes, Rhapsody, Napster and others, and try to force everyone to buy through their "chains" or channels. Not going to happen. Artists by which they have contracts with, will have a legal means to break the contracts and move on somewhere else that is supporting them.
This might be the method they use to bury the thing in the sand so that they can simply walk away from it forever. Then it's someone else's headache.
In a sheepish grin kind of way; this is correct. However not all media that I want is available on CD or at least inexpensively. Many times I buy only the tracks I want and skip the rest. But; it is a valid point, and I do have one serious whopper of a music CD collection.:-)
I would "get with the times" however after years of coding experience and software test, we know there are newer things out there but my MP3's are all archived at 320, and stereo, none of the VBR crap, and other stuff. Quite stable, and can be used easily to reproduce a DA track to burn a new CD from if ever necessary.
Granted itms is new and supposed to be the "cat's meow", but I prefer for my archives something known stable and you can't deny that 320 bit MP3 is well stable. Oh; and yeah, look Ma';... No DRM.
Fact is that I like Itunes a lot and have an iPOD. HOWEVER!!!!....
When I purchase from iTunes, I download it, burn it immediately to a CDROM, label it, catalog it, and also use Winamp to re-rip the CD back in; fully titled and all, and store it as a MP3 usable on any device.
Simple solution. Now if Apple takes that feature away, bye bye Apple!!!
I guess this is now where the litigators for the RIAA are beginning to think; Paybacks are hell. Especially since I'm sure that money has moved to offshore banks and other places where the government could not even find it, assuming it came down to some form of mini-anarchy regarding this litigation as a whole.
If it did manage to over take Yahoo, my suspicions are that the only way Microsoft can accomplish that would be to install this as the default search and push it down with Windows mandatory updates and over ride the users default settings. Many users know nothing about their computers and can't change it back without calling a geek, so Microsoft would stand to win here. There's a word for this but it escapes me about now..:-)
The fact is that there are many "coders" out there working on corporate sites that will only work around IE and it's active-X controls. It's no wonder they manually apply updates via managed server, and disallow updates to IE because it breaks their enterprise application code; and we don't want any over-worked enterprise coders now do we??!!:-0
The very next thing that will happen is that they will now begin to deny that it even ever happened at all. It was a news story concocted to make headlines and drum up republican support for President Bush. See the liberals are blaming EVERYTHING on former President Bush.
Now you know why I no longer bank with Capital One. They not only are really not concerned at all with their security, but they really could care less about you; their customer. I had nothing but issues with them and just closed everything up and moved on.
Good luck with that. Simply place your fingers over the speaker holes and fire away. Your fingers muffle just about anything; even the ringers on many phones.
Be careful what you say about "crappy midi-like instruments". Being a musician who uses "crappy midi-like instruments" in the studio, don't assume they are all the same. If someone were to come out with a better version of what this thing is that used real sampled sound synthesis, and some of the other fabulous modeling syths, you quite possibly could come up with something pretty serious. I'll give em that; where trying to "listen" to something, guess what note and instrument its coming from and try to make a MIDI track out of it could be interesting, we have already been doing this for some time. Someone now is maybe trying to take it to the next level -- next Christmas's high demand high tech toy. Just a thought.
The only potential problem with this is that this is Mr. Steve Ballmer we're talking about. The same person who believes that if you own an iPod, you are stealing music illegally even if you purchased it from iTunes! I do not trust anything about Mr. Ballmer, nor anything that emanates from his oral device!
I loaded Vista Ultimate onto a laptop that gave me a good usability index (per Microsoft), and when it was finished loading and properly configured, Vista is horridly slow compared to XP. There was a site a while back that published some speed tests and comparisons of Vista, and found it to be quite contrary to Microsoft's adverts. I proved it again with my own laptop. So ultimately, the hard drive was pulled and set aside--maybe for some later tests. But in all; I've found that from a usability standpoint, I won't use it because its too slow and sluggish. I wonder how much Windows 7 will be akin to Vista even though Microsoft says it was completely rewritten. Was it really?? I seriously doubt it.
Mr Ballmer himself will absolutely not sit still for this to happen. The "method" will be disclosed as being copyright by Microsoft and that Samba is infringing on Microsofts patented trademark of "Active Directory". You watch. A Quash order will be forthcoming.
Simply put, this is another example of the lawyers polluting their own land. There are stats used to test and validate the devices meet specifications without need of the source code, but apparently the tests and references themselves are now called into question. This is pissing in the same chair that you sit in for the lawyers. This will come back to haunt them.
I put them all into a zip-able anti-static bag, and that then is placed in the side pouch of our camera bag. The only ones not in there are microSD's that are installed in my sticks that stay with the laptops. Not lost one yet.
Its been pretty evident that they (RIAA litigation teams) have been soiling in their own yards for some time. Unfortunately this is going to have undesired consequences to many of us that were not foreseen. Such as the bit where in Texas, you cannot work on a PC for another person without a Private Investigators license. Last I heard, they're still fighting this one. I don't want to have to carry a 4 year degree in criminal justice just so I can fix PC's for clients at some ridiculous low price just to compete with the dumb geeks at Worst Buy. There are others unintended consequences as well.
Who's to say that the RIAA didn't decide in a corporate meeting recently that; "Hay team, it looks like we've gotten as much as we're going to get out of this cash cow. All that we've made thus far has been safely squirreled away in Swiss accounts now so I think it is about time we consider disbanding starting by dropping Media Sentry. We don't want to pay those buffoons any more of our money anyway."
Now that we will soon have President Spend-Thrift Obama in power, Viacom and Time Warner will ultimately have to play fair or be swallowed up in one governmental agency or another for it. Since Viacom was seeking an increase in revenue stream from these particular shows in question, this generally means that Mr. Obama will simply make them pay more taxes. He did say during his campaign that he would be increasing taxes on everyone! So as a result, all you American (socialist) citizens will either get to see your shows, or they will be shut down by the Feds for non compliance of the new tax rules. And; since a contract was now satisfied, you know dang good and well that the cable companies involved here are simply going to pass these hiked costs on to their subscribers. You cannot avoid it. So that might mean soon people will be calling in to lower service tiers or cancel service.
We used to live in a time where if the companies in question raised the rates for services, and you the consumer did not like the new rates, you could cancel it and eventually; given enough cancels, they'd either lower the price back down again to regain subscribers, or go under and out of business. Doesn't seem to be that way any more now. Too bad. We're all soon going to be at the 50% tax rate here in the USA and for what?? So everyone can watch Spongebob, and some of the other dribble they call art on the tube?? Oh; 2009 is going to be an interesting year. How many more companies are going to do the tax-rate hike-tax hike-rate hike thing...
Face it. The only person standing to make any money back out of this class action suit, is the suit!! The lawyer his/her self. Everyone else stands to collect nothing but a bunch of grief and hassle from all of this.
Why not approach it this way. You now know what you are up against. Nothing spells it more loudly than to disconnect from cable providers and go with alternatives; ie Dish Network, RCA, etc.. When they have to resort to out right lies on their advertising trying to get people to come back, then they get sued for false advertising to boot. They'll loose their market simply by loss of customers. Everyone knows already that Comcast's cable internet is a joke. They bring you in for $30 a month for 3 months, then you get zapped for $70 a month after that and for service that many times is not any better than DSL in download. Then ever notice how Comcast NEVER talks about upload speed??!!! There's a reason for that! My DSL has a fairly symmetrical 1.0mb upload to the download 1.5mb. Comcast will never ever talk about that. I can get up to 5Mb here on DSL and others can get even higher.
Comcast's TV has always been a joke and they haven't changed a thing. What makes them think after Feb 17th, I'm going to call them??? Their TV ads here all represent a concept to the consumer that there is no other alternative but Comcast when TV goes digital. I wonder why they haven't been called on the carpet for that.
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You need to work real hard in an American company when your a coder. Especially if it's a company that saw huge returns on one of their programs. The greed has set in. Get your asses in gear. NOW. Or; or... we'll ship these jobs over to India or China!
This is just more of the same fundamental change going on at CBS. In those days, we were an open; in your face with our fundamental beliefs nation and it was reflected in the broadcasting. CBS along with NBC is on a campaign to remove some of the religious toned stuff that influences what is broadcast. They're not apparently looking to censor religious shows, but the tones that it influences in their shows that they air now. That's a house of cards that will come down eventually; and may already be showing signs. NBC has almost nothing left in it for viewers if you rely solely on the polls. Their news departments have pretty much collapsed them. CBS is hanging on because it has some talent still and they are what is keeping them afloat. It sure isn't Katie Kouric.
So; what you are suggesting is that once these are sold to an end user, they go to the grave with that user??? How silly a model that is.
The business model by which they are relying has died a couple years ago and isn't coming back. I don't know who is running the show there, but they obviously have a complete and total disconnect from the world. The only possible way to recover from that business model is to exclude all of their stuff from the likes of ITunes, Rhapsody, Napster and others, and try to force everyone to buy through their "chains" or channels. Not going to happen. Artists by which they have contracts with, will have a legal means to break the contracts and move on somewhere else that is supporting them.
This might be the method they use to bury the thing in the sand so that they can simply walk away from it forever. Then it's someone else's headache.
If Steve Ballmer is still at Microsoft, everything they say and do is a lie!
In a sheepish grin kind of way; this is correct. However not all media that I want is available on CD or at least inexpensively. Many times I buy only the tracks I want and skip the rest. But; it is a valid point, and I do have one serious whopper of a music CD collection. :-)
I would "get with the times" however after years of coding experience and software test, we know there are newer things out there but my MP3's are all archived at 320, and stereo, none of the VBR crap, and other stuff. Quite stable, and can be used easily to reproduce a DA track to burn a new CD from if ever necessary.
Granted itms is new and supposed to be the "cat's meow", but I prefer for my archives something known stable and you can't deny that 320 bit MP3 is well stable. Oh; and yeah, look Ma';... No DRM.
Fact is that I like Itunes a lot and have an iPOD. HOWEVER!!!!....
When I purchase from iTunes, I download it, burn it immediately to a CDROM, label it, catalog it, and also use Winamp to re-rip the CD back in; fully titled and all, and store it as a MP3 usable on any device.
Simple solution. Now if Apple takes that feature away, bye bye Apple!!!
I guess this is now where the litigators for the RIAA are beginning to think; Paybacks are hell. Especially since I'm sure that money has moved to offshore banks and other places where the government could not even find it, assuming it came down to some form of mini-anarchy regarding this litigation as a whole.
If it did manage to over take Yahoo, my suspicions are that the only way Microsoft can accomplish that would be to install this as the default search and push it down with Windows mandatory updates and over ride the users default settings. Many users know nothing about their computers and can't change it back without calling a geek, so Microsoft would stand to win here. There's a word for this but it escapes me about now.. :-)
The fact is that there are many "coders" out there working on corporate sites that will only work around IE and it's active-X controls. It's no wonder they manually apply updates via managed server, and disallow updates to IE because it breaks their enterprise application code; and we don't want any over-worked enterprise coders now do we??!! :-0
The very next thing that will happen is that they will now begin to deny that it even ever happened at all. It was a news story concocted to make headlines and drum up republican support for President Bush. See the liberals are blaming EVERYTHING on former President Bush.
Now you know why I no longer bank with Capital One. They not only are really not concerned at all with their security, but they really could care less about you; their customer. I had nothing but issues with them and just closed everything up and moved on.
And all those silly little electro-magnetic devices under the craps and roulette tables are legal???
Good luck with that. Simply place your fingers over the speaker holes and fire away. Your fingers muffle just about anything; even the ringers on many phones.
Be careful what you say about "crappy midi-like instruments". Being a musician who uses "crappy midi-like instruments" in the studio, don't assume they are all the same. If someone were to come out with a better version of what this thing is that used real sampled sound synthesis, and some of the other fabulous modeling syths, you quite possibly could come up with something pretty serious. I'll give em that; where trying to "listen" to something, guess what note and instrument its coming from and try to make a MIDI track out of it could be interesting, we have already been doing this for some time. Someone now is maybe trying to take it to the next level -- next Christmas's high demand high tech toy. Just a thought.
The only potential problem with this is that this is Mr. Steve Ballmer we're talking about. The same person who believes that if you own an iPod, you are stealing music illegally even if you purchased it from iTunes! I do not trust anything about Mr. Ballmer, nor anything that emanates from his oral device!
I loaded Vista Ultimate onto a laptop that gave me a good usability index (per Microsoft), and when it was finished loading and properly configured, Vista is horridly slow compared to XP. There was a site a while back that published some speed tests and comparisons of Vista, and found it to be quite contrary to Microsoft's adverts. I proved it again with my own laptop. So ultimately, the hard drive was pulled and set aside--maybe for some later tests. But in all; I've found that from a usability standpoint, I won't use it because its too slow and sluggish. I wonder how much Windows 7 will be akin to Vista even though Microsoft says it was completely rewritten. Was it really?? I seriously doubt it.
Mr Ballmer himself will absolutely not sit still for this to happen. The "method" will be disclosed as being copyright by Microsoft and that Samba is infringing on Microsofts patented trademark of "Active Directory". You watch. A Quash order will be forthcoming.
This is blatantly a troll article. Plain and simple. Such utter nonsense.
Simply put, this is another example of the lawyers polluting their own land. There are stats used to test and validate the devices meet specifications without need of the source code, but apparently the tests and references themselves are now called into question. This is pissing in the same chair that you sit in for the lawyers. This will come back to haunt them.
I put them all into a zip-able anti-static bag, and that then is placed in the side pouch of our camera bag. The only ones not in there are microSD's that are installed in my sticks that stay with the laptops. Not lost one yet.
Its been pretty evident that they (RIAA litigation teams) have been soiling in their own yards for some time. Unfortunately this is going to have undesired consequences to many of us that were not foreseen. Such as the bit where in Texas, you cannot work on a PC for another person without a Private Investigators license. Last I heard, they're still fighting this one. I don't want to have to carry a 4 year degree in criminal justice just so I can fix PC's for clients at some ridiculous low price just to compete with the dumb geeks at Worst Buy. There are others unintended consequences as well.
Who's to say that the RIAA didn't decide in a corporate meeting recently that; "Hay team, it looks like we've gotten as much as we're going to get out of this cash cow. All that we've made thus far has been safely squirreled away in Swiss accounts now so I think it is about time we consider disbanding starting by dropping Media Sentry. We don't want to pay those buffoons any more of our money anyway."
Now that we will soon have President Spend-Thrift Obama in power, Viacom and Time Warner will ultimately have to play fair or be swallowed up in one governmental agency or another for it. Since Viacom was seeking an increase in revenue stream from these particular shows in question, this generally means that Mr. Obama will simply make them pay more taxes. He did say during his campaign that he would be increasing taxes on everyone! So as a result, all you American (socialist) citizens will either get to see your shows, or they will be shut down by the Feds for non compliance of the new tax rules. And; since a contract was now satisfied, you know dang good and well that the cable companies involved here are simply going to pass these hiked costs on to their subscribers. You cannot avoid it. So that might mean soon people will be calling in to lower service tiers or cancel service.
We used to live in a time where if the companies in question raised the rates for services, and you the consumer did not like the new rates, you could cancel it and eventually; given enough cancels, they'd either lower the price back down again to regain subscribers, or go under and out of business. Doesn't seem to be that way any more now. Too bad. We're all soon going to be at the 50% tax rate here in the USA and for what?? So everyone can watch Spongebob, and some of the other dribble they call art on the tube?? Oh; 2009 is going to be an interesting year. How many more companies are going to do the tax-rate hike-tax hike-rate hike thing...
Face it. The only person standing to make any money back out of this class action suit, is the suit!! The lawyer his/her self. Everyone else stands to collect nothing but a bunch of grief and hassle from all of this.
Why not approach it this way. You now know what you are up against. Nothing spells it more loudly than to disconnect from cable providers and go with alternatives; ie Dish Network, RCA, etc.. When they have to resort to out right lies on their advertising trying to get people to come back, then they get sued for false advertising to boot. They'll loose their market simply by loss of customers. Everyone knows already that Comcast's cable internet is a joke. They bring you in for $30 a month for 3 months, then you get zapped for $70 a month after that and for service that many times is not any better than DSL in download. Then ever notice how Comcast NEVER talks about upload speed??!!! There's a reason for that! My DSL has a fairly symmetrical 1.0mb upload to the download 1.5mb. Comcast will never ever talk about that. I can get up to 5Mb here on DSL and others can get even higher.
Comcast's TV has always been a joke and they haven't changed a thing. What makes them think after Feb 17th, I'm going to call them??? Their TV ads here all represent a concept to the consumer that there is no other alternative but Comcast when TV goes digital. I wonder why they haven't been called on the carpet for that.