The fact is that it's not what you are marketing, but *how* you market it. This is a spin on an old tried and true method. I don't envision it going away soon either. It used to be that laser printers were cheaper to operate than ink jets. Now these playing fields appear to be leveling off. Damned cartridges for my older HP are costing more than those for newer printers.
I'd like to hope this would change but unless the retail/distribution channels are changed somehow, it's only going to get stranger.
I wonder how long it will be before two things will happen;...
1: Pro Microsoft bigots will appear and begin to trash your reply and that of all other posters here in/.
2: Mr. Ballmer himself will personally call up the corporate legal team and look for ways to approach you about settling out of court over your "assertions of his product".
The fact is that programming by and large has gotten lazy, shiftless and sloppy over time and not any better or faster. They really did rely on processing and memory architectures getting faster to overcome their coding bottlenecks. The words; "optimized code" have little or no significance in todays programming shops because of budgets. Because of the push to get stuff out the door as quickly as possible, corners are cut all over the place on many things.
There once was time when debugging was part of your job. Now; someone else does that and at most, the better coders do some unit testing to ensure their code snippet does what it is supposed to. There generally isn't any "standard" with regard to processes except in some houses that follow *recommended coding guidelines* but these are few and far between. Old school coders had a process in mind to fit a project as a whole and could see the end running program. Many times now, you are to code an algorithm without any regard or concept as to how it might be used. A lot of strange stuff going on out there in the business world with this!
If there is a fundamental change in the base for C++, et al., this is going to possibly have a detrimental effect on the employment market as there will be many who cannot conceptualize multi-threading methodologies much less modeling some existing processing in this paradigm; and leave the markets.
I left the programming markets because of the clash of bean counters vs quality, and maybe this will have a telling change in that curve. I always did enjoy some coding over the years and maybe this would make an interesting re-introduction. I have personally not coded in a multi-threading project but have the concepts down. Might be fun!
You didn't do so well in grammar and English did you??? Sentence structure man. The two are in the same context of that sentence which makes them together inclusive. This is very much news worthy!!
This is another sick ploy by the record industry to abolish companies such as Apple's iTunes, Microsoft is just as guilty then by producing the Zune, and every other MP3 player out there is designed to encourage copyright theft. The very presence of XM and Serius radio is violation because of the conversion that takes place to broadcast.
Another dirty ploy by the RIAA to cloud up things enough to help guarantee them a win because of the confusion of terms to the jury. Or; at least that is what they are hoping for.
Depending on where you are in the country and/or county, you might not have a lot of choice and are bound by what the district mandates you teach and work with. In many districts, you are at the whim of direct management, district management, et al. and do not have a lot of input here. I do not know where you are, only you do.
If I had my druthers, you'd probably find most of your student body is already aware of Linux and would be happy to "play" with it. On the other hand, there is no commercial activity going on right now in major business and enterprise except under Windows and on Mac format equipment. And; the Mac stuff is spendy! Windows software is at times pointless because of the frequent crashing and one-up's-manship compatibility issues going on with Microsoft vs. the rest of the world.
You missed the context somehow. The thing is referring to being INSIDE a Worst Buy store where you don't want to talk to a geek. And when I am talking to people, most of these "people" are lay people who would be more than likely to talk to one of these so-called "geeks" and take their word as gospel.
I do know the difference as I am one of those that went quite a ways past what we all know to be "geek".
I wouldn't sent my worst enemy to a geek! My standard line to anyone who asks is; "Do go down to Worst-Buy and look over the merchandise and the particular model your looking for. If the price is right, buy it. Whatever you do, don't take any extended warranties, service programs or allow any geek install. And for Gods' sake; don't talk to a geek!":-)
There is a much bigger picture going here. Between this issue being discussed, and the teacher that was muzzled, thrown in jail and threatened with being lashed and all has given pause to ask the question; "Why are we still doing business with these nations then?". I am beginning to see how two-faced many of us are when we are more interested in their oil and ability to fly over their country when we're defending ours, etc.
If you really want to put an end to this mess, stop buying large SUV's, trucks, and things that use a lot of gas, and get something efficient or non-petroleum based. The sudden down-turn in the income of the Saudis, Egypt, Sudan, and lots of those places will put their economy into a downward spiral. Knowing what I know about these countries, I would never go there as a tourist because being a Christian is against the law in many of those places. I don't see why my money has to keep going there to support that 2nd century mindset that rules the day there.
One thing that was overlooked here or at least not explained is what happened to all the Bots??? I would be willing to bet that control of these Bots was handed over to another cohort or co-conspirator before being removed from access.
So it begs the question who now has all those Bots??? Are they or how do they plan to notify these people that their machines are infected and that they need to be cleaned...???
If you see them as bad as I do, if one of these bozo's put up a popup or popunder, I rightclick on it and grab the offending domain of the advertiser, and add it to the host list and pipe them into the bitbucket never to be seen from again. I've rather sanitized my Firefox fairly well with this technique, use of some other plugins for Firefox and it's own builtin blocking.
Does anyone here remember Prodigy??? You have a full screen GUI that had about 10% of the screen with usable content on it, and the other 90 was made up of interface control and lots of Ads. I couldn't stand that then, and I sure as hell can't stand that now. If I have to, I will bail for a OSS version of a reader so I don't have to be bothered with that crap. I see enough of that in the web browser and now those idiots want to invade everything else we do offline?? Forget it! Crap; I was printing to PDF a lot of documentation that I wanted to keep around so I wouldn't use up paper. I surely am not going to stand still and have some stupid porn ad, or some ad for that Viagra crap show up when I'm trying to look at a technical document I printed in PDF earlier in the year.
And pouring over several of these back up when the initial question was raised about these "costs", and as you read forward from then on, you begin to see a pattern emerge. One of a multitude of attorneys beginning to feed and feast one one another. Some of the language used in these documents speaks volumes of the profanity and cursing bantering on in several 5th avenue offices and apartments.
Good for you Ernie Ball!! I will continue to buy your strings and probably even more as they are fabulous. I'll have to look at your catalog soon as I'm in the market for another bass too!!
But; If I remember correctly, and getting back to basic science and physics, you can't have a bacteria that can consume methane without producing some other by-product or consequence of the consumption. Everything produces some *conversion* of what ever it binds with. So it begs the question; what is it genuinely producing as a convert of the methane? I am not sure about a complete conversion to oxygen so there has to be something else coming out of this.
The whole issue of banner ads, spam in your inbox, etc., is DON'T CLICK THE LINKS! DON'T PATRONIZE THEM! You donkoft!
I think the video said it rather succinctly by demonstrating the idiot went and clicked on a banner ad. Sorry I didn't see anything unusual that I don't normally see and I click the RED X to get rid of it.... or better yet; stop using Internet Exploder!!!
I know the feeling man. I am also a musician and have a 16 channel audio production machine set up now with 2000 only because the drivers in Linux have too much of a latency issue and are unreliable. And; yea, I'm also a Cakewalk user as well as MOTU, and others and it stinks that I'm still stuck. I hear soon tho we'll finally be able to ditch Windows for some of this. Someone claims to have gotten Cakewalk working in WINE I think thou I have yet to find out who and how.
However my other machines are now Ubuntu and Fedora Core and I do own an iMac so it has MacOSX on it. I think I'm reasonably covered for all the stuff I do.
You'd think by now people would have begin to move over to something non-microsoft but this too shall be not true. Too many sheep in the fields and Mr. Ballmer seems to be herding his sheep rather well.
The fact is that these kids are in school and paying huge sums of money in tuition, books, et al., and the RIAA apparently feels that they are entitled to a part of that money regardless of deservedness. I guess they feel they will have a better financial yield scoopin' kids at school than they would trying to hang some single mother on an AOL dial-up connection that uses it for email only.
This stuff seems like it always begins to surface round the same time every year. It's now the coming onslaught of the Christmas shopping season, and Microsoft's sales of Vista loaded PC's is dwindling, and worse yet, individual upgrades to Vista. They need to prop up sales in the EU to pay for those heavy fines, so lets make sure that only Windows users can play media with news orgs. Next will come US news sites converting over to new format that only works on Windows media player because all major US news sites are only reporting.002% of users have something non-windows...
Come on people. How much more cannon fodder do you need here???:-)
You assume to much. You obviously have not yet raised children or you'd know what the line is referring to;.... "Teach your children".
Its the same thing as don't touch the hot stove, and you are doing everything you can to keep the younger child away from the stove until such a time comes that the child begins to understand what the stove is, what it can do, and then they learn how to handle it.
Did you assume that when we come out of the womb, we are already knowledgeable?? Nope. You have to be taught. Your parents taught you what they know and understand, and you will eventually pass that on to your children. It's worked that way for thousands of years.
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The fact is that it's not what you are marketing, but *how* you market it. This is a spin on an old tried and true method. I don't envision it going away soon either. It used to be that laser printers were cheaper to operate than ink jets. Now these playing fields appear to be leveling off. Damned cartridges for my older HP are costing more than those for newer printers.
I'd like to hope this would change but unless the retail/distribution channels are changed somehow, it's only going to get stranger.
I must be missing something...
:-)
I never once thought that everything in life revolved around getting laid!
Is this for real???
:-)
Come on people. It's a damned game. Get a life. Come back to planet earth where you originated from. What on earth are these people thinking???
I wonder how long it will be before two things will happen;...
/.
1: Pro Microsoft bigots will appear and begin to trash your reply and that of all other posters here in
2: Mr. Ballmer himself will personally call up the corporate legal team and look for ways to approach you about settling out of court over your "assertions of his product".
The fact is that programming by and large has gotten lazy, shiftless and sloppy over time and not any better or faster. They really did rely on processing and memory architectures getting faster to overcome their coding bottlenecks. The words; "optimized code" have little or no significance in todays programming shops because of budgets. Because of the push to get stuff out the door as quickly as possible, corners are cut all over the place on many things.
There once was time when debugging was part of your job. Now; someone else does that and at most, the better coders do some unit testing to ensure their code snippet does what it is supposed to. There generally isn't any "standard" with regard to processes except in some houses that follow *recommended coding guidelines* but these are few and far between. Old school coders had a process in mind to fit a project as a whole and could see the end running program. Many times now, you are to code an algorithm without any regard or concept as to how it might be used. A lot of strange stuff going on out there in the business world with this!
If there is a fundamental change in the base for C++, et al., this is going to possibly have a detrimental effect on the employment market as there will be many who cannot conceptualize multi-threading methodologies much less modeling some existing processing in this paradigm; and leave the markets.
I left the programming markets because of the clash of bean counters vs quality, and maybe this will have a telling change in that curve. I always did enjoy some coding over the years and maybe this would make an interesting re-introduction. I have personally not coded in a multi-threading project but have the concepts down. Might be fun!
How come they didn't also try to silence Slash-dot??? What is this? Are they cowards??? Dirty lawyers!!!
You didn't do so well in grammar and English did you??? Sentence structure man. The two are in the same context of that sentence which makes them together inclusive. This is very much news worthy!!
This is another sick ploy by the record industry to abolish companies such as Apple's iTunes, Microsoft is just as guilty then by producing the Zune, and every other MP3 player out there is designed to encourage copyright theft. The very presence of XM and Serius radio is violation because of the conversion that takes place to broadcast.
Another dirty ploy by the RIAA to cloud up things enough to help guarantee them a win because of the confusion of terms to the jury. Or; at least that is what they are hoping for.
If I had my druthers, you'd probably find most of your student body is already aware of Linux and would be happy to "play" with it. On the other hand, there is no commercial activity going on right now in major business and enterprise except under Windows and on Mac format equipment. And; the Mac stuff is spendy! Windows software is at times pointless because of the frequent crashing and one-up's-manship compatibility issues going on with Microsoft vs. the rest of the world.
You have a hefty decision on your hands!
You missed the context somehow. The thing is referring to being INSIDE a Worst Buy store where you don't want to talk to a geek. And when I am talking to people, most of these "people" are lay people who would be more than likely to talk to one of these so-called "geeks" and take their word as gospel.
I do know the difference as I am one of those that went quite a ways past what we all know to be "geek".
I wouldn't sent my worst enemy to a geek! My standard line to anyone who asks is; "Do go down to Worst-Buy and look over the merchandise and the particular model your looking for. If the price is right, buy it. Whatever you do, don't take any extended warranties, service programs or allow any geek install. And for Gods' sake; don't talk to a geek!" :-)
There is a much bigger picture going here. Between this issue being discussed, and the teacher that was muzzled, thrown in jail and threatened with being lashed and all has given pause to ask the question; "Why are we still doing business with these nations then?". I am beginning to see how two-faced many of us are when we are more interested in their oil and ability to fly over their country when we're defending ours, etc.
If you really want to put an end to this mess, stop buying large SUV's, trucks, and things that use a lot of gas, and get something efficient or non-petroleum based. The sudden down-turn in the income of the Saudis, Egypt, Sudan, and lots of those places will put their economy into a downward spiral. Knowing what I know about these countries, I would never go there as a tourist because being a Christian is against the law in many of those places. I don't see why my money has to keep going there to support that 2nd century mindset that rules the day there.
One thing that was overlooked here or at least not explained is what happened to all the Bots??? I would be willing to bet that control of these Bots was handed over to another cohort or co-conspirator before being removed from access.
So it begs the question who now has all those Bots??? Are they or how do they plan to notify these people that their machines are infected and that they need to be cleaned...???
Actually;
If you see them as bad as I do, if one of these bozo's put up a popup or popunder, I rightclick on it and grab the offending domain of the advertiser, and add it to the host list and pipe them into the bitbucket never to be seen from again. I've rather sanitized my Firefox fairly well with this technique, use of some other plugins for Firefox and it's own builtin blocking.
Does anyone here remember Prodigy??? You have a full screen GUI that had about 10% of the screen with usable content on it, and the other 90 was made up of interface control and lots of Ads. I couldn't stand that then, and I sure as hell can't stand that now. If I have to, I will bail for a OSS version of a reader so I don't have to be bothered with that crap. I see enough of that in the web browser and now those idiots want to invade everything else we do offline?? Forget it! Crap; I was printing to PDF a lot of documentation that I wanted to keep around so I wouldn't use up paper. I surely am not going to stand still and have some stupid porn ad, or some ad for that Viagra crap show up when I'm trying to look at a technical document I printed in PDF earlier in the year.
And pouring over several of these back up when the initial question was raised about these "costs", and as you read forward from then on, you begin to see a pattern emerge. One of a multitude of attorneys beginning to feed and feast one one another. Some of the language used in these documents speaks volumes of the profanity and cursing bantering on in several 5th avenue offices and apartments.
Good for you Ernie Ball!! I will continue to buy your strings and probably even more as they are fabulous. I'll have to look at your catalog soon as I'm in the market for another bass too!!
But;
If I remember correctly, and getting back to basic science and physics, you can't have a bacteria that can consume methane without producing some other by-product or consequence of the consumption. Everything produces some *conversion* of what ever it binds with. So it begs the question; what is it genuinely producing as a convert of the methane? I am not sure about a complete conversion to oxygen so there has to be something else coming out of this.
The jig is up. Better get your ducks in order now as your pyramid scheme is about to crumble.
The whole issue of banner ads, spam in your inbox, etc., is DON'T CLICK THE LINKS! DON'T PATRONIZE THEM! You donkoft!
I think the video said it rather succinctly by demonstrating the idiot went and clicked on a banner ad. Sorry I didn't see anything unusual that I don't normally see and I click the RED X to get rid of it.... or better yet; stop using Internet Exploder!!!
Firefox rulz!!
I know the feeling man. I am also a musician and have a 16 channel audio production machine set up now with 2000 only because the drivers in Linux have too much of a latency issue and are unreliable. And; yea, I'm also a Cakewalk user as well as MOTU, and others and it stinks that I'm still stuck. I hear soon tho we'll finally be able to ditch Windows for some of this. Someone claims to have gotten Cakewalk working in WINE I think thou I have yet to find out who and how.
However my other machines are now Ubuntu and Fedora Core and I do own an iMac so it has MacOSX on it. I think I'm reasonably covered for all the stuff I do.
You'd think by now people would have begin to move over to something non-microsoft but this too shall be not true. Too many sheep in the fields and Mr. Ballmer seems to be herding his sheep rather well.
The fact is that these kids are in school and paying huge sums of money in tuition, books, et al., and the RIAA apparently feels that they are entitled to a part of that money regardless of deservedness. I guess they feel they will have a better financial yield scoopin' kids at school than they would trying to hang some single mother on an AOL dial-up connection that uses it for email only.
This stuff seems like it always begins to surface round the same time every year. It's now the coming onslaught of the Christmas shopping season, and Microsoft's sales of Vista loaded PC's is dwindling, and worse yet, individual upgrades to Vista. They need to prop up sales in the EU to pay for those heavy fines, so lets make sure that only Windows users can play media with news orgs. Next will come US news sites converting over to new format that only works on Windows media player because all major US news sites are only reporting .002% of users have something non-windows...
:-)
Come on people. How much more cannon fodder do you need here???
You assume to much. You obviously have not yet raised children or you'd know what the line is referring to;.... "Teach your children".
Its the same thing as don't touch the hot stove, and you are doing everything you can to keep the younger child away from the stove until such a time comes that the child begins to understand what the stove is, what it can do, and then they learn how to handle it.
Did you assume that when we come out of the womb, we are already knowledgeable?? Nope. You have to be taught. Your parents taught you what they know and understand, and you will eventually pass that on to your children. It's worked that way for thousands of years.