I'd say never. For one thing the name is horrible. It may be meaningless to geeks but to the general population naming is everything. No one even knows how to pronounce it. Just because it sounds better doesn't necessarily mean it IS better.
Its cons like this that make it more and more difficult for legit companies to get the extremely hard to get investor money these days.
Come April 2004 there will be a new press conference showing exactly the same thing and indicating a release in 6 months from then until some sucker of a company buys these guys out and nothing becomes of it because they realize what BS the whole thing is.
"See, you people say you have enough consoles, and a powerful PC, but whenever a new console comes out, you people always buy it."
This statement says to me: "you people are suckers and SOMEONE out there will give us money for this snake-oil"
"The presentation was quality, but it was lean on specs and details, and there was never a moment when anyone in the crowd was blown away. Rob dodged a lot of questions, and the group left without a demonstration of the technology."
And this surprised them? I can type up a spec sheet that looks really impressive and clue a box shut with a blue led on the front of it and make a logo too.
The point he made was that for the release of the new OS the store discounted everything 10%. So if they do the same this time you either buy it now at full price or wait 3 days and get 10% off (maybe).
"The only thing you argue is that you can get specials on the hardware and that you can actually name a couple of HD programs. How is TV not as bad as he makes it out to be?"
Fine, do you want me to go channel by channel listing the hidef shows? Every single show I watch puts up the hidef banner except survivor. If you want to talk about quality then fine, thats your opinion but to say that there are only a few hidef shows or to totally blast it because there is nothing that YOU want to watch is a little off don't you think?
"TV is slowly becomming a popup ridden mess of incompatible standards and minimal quality content overseen by greedy corporations that want to control your actions and drive out competition while making you pay for crap that you don't want anyway."
Oh there we go...thats the true meaning. Its the whole big corporation thats out to swallow your soul arguement. Now I understand where you come from.
Just like the internet and radio, if you don't like whats on...change the channel or don't watch at all. It is totally up to you. But complaining that you can't find anything that YOU like or that the cost is too high for you isn't really their fault now is it? I don't find the cost high at all. I also don't have a problem finding stuff I like to watch. Do I wish everything was hidef? Of course, but its not there yet. But where it is now is pretty cool and it will only get better.
Its entertainment and thats it. If you aren't entertained then oh well, thats your problem.
Your complaints about direct tv and the channels is not direct tvs fault. Its the networks fault. Complain to them. It almost sounds like you've NEVER had cable tv at all. $80 for direct tv or cable is NOT expensive at all. And you don't have to purchase pay per view if you don't want to. I've never used it, but its there if I ever do want to. You can have up to 4 boxes (4 rooms) on a single dish without extra jacks. You need a decoder for each room but there are always specials out there for free boxes. There is an ad on directtv.com 3 room system (3 boxes, and dish) installation, free and 4 months free if you sign up for nfl, total choice premiere and local channels and a year contract. Thats $40 for the channel package but the nfl package is expensive. There are other deals though.
I believe all of CBS's hour long dramas are HD. ABC has a good selection as well as monday night football.
I agree that HDTV is not where it should be and I was expecting it to be further along that it currently is, but its not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
"its pocketable size is likely to make it very popular compared to the GB Player, which actually needs to be bolted onto the bottom of the GameCube."
Its a console. Its not meant to be carried around from room to room or house to house. Who cares if the player is the same size as the gamecube? For stuff like this I'll stick with official devices.
"What's going to happen is they are going to make it impossible for you to use any device to record the shows you are missing because it's inconvenient to be home to watch them."
That is exactly what the big point is. But the public will not only have to choose which show to watch and skip ones they don't have time for but it will also mean less ratings for the networks which leads ot less advertising money. All because people can't watch tv when THEY want to watch tv. I dvr a huge amount of tv and go back on slow tv days to catch up. If they block this kind of habit and don't let me record then there will be a lot of shows that I don't watch because technically I can't.
Quicktime by default does it. Just select its prefs and tell it not to.
I'm playing a 5 minute mp3 right now. Its taking up 15MB of memory and hovering around 5% of cpu. But I've also got outlook, AOL IM, msn messenger and mozilla open and running. This is on a slow-ass Pentium 4 at work (think its a 1.3 or 1.6Ghz).
You can shrink its display down to a very small rectangle, and then grab the window and shrink it smaller to a small square.
I like the brushed metal look. It just blends in with my desktop and doesn't stand out.
I think stores should be able to sell what they want to who ever wants to buy it (as long as the product is legal). Why should the store be responsible for what the purchaser does with the product? They are just the middleman. I decide to give them money, they give me a product. It ends there.
Its just one more example of parents not willing to be parents and wanting the gov't and industry to babysit their kids for them.
I could care less how many hours people put in, but if management is going to complain about how many hours people work or what they do and then don't set an example they aren't being good managers. I've seen it many times, people come in late but get their work done. Manager complains about it but also comes in late. Why the hell should employees follow management rules if the management can't follow the rules as well.
Its not about the job or the work, its about respect. In a work place if the employees don't respect the management or the owners then they will not be productive, no matter how much stuff you toss at them.
Sounds like you've never held a real job or are just trolling...i'll bet on both.
Yes depends on your line of work. I would say that any programmer needs complete access to the internet. There is no better source of online help and books and information.
And thats just for projects and R&D work. A web browser, outlook, and 2 instant messaging applications are open the entire time I am at work. Messaging is not only useful for planning lunch and contacting people for personal reasons but also excellent for inside the office to exchange files or quick messages. Much faster than email and the phone.
Now if your job was sitting at the front desk answering the phone then no, you don't need the internet. If your job is answering the phone or providing tech support then you also don't need it. Unfortunately about 99.9% of the admins convince their bosses that most of the employees don't need access and make up BS problems and scarey scenarios to trick their bosses into tightening the reins so that they will have less work to do and more time for themselves to play around online.
I'm assuming that you, being the boss and wanting to set a good example, work the entire day. If you are there for 10 hours you are working for the entire 10 hours, non-stop. No personal business at all. I'll let you take a 30 minute lunch but other than that you are on the job the ENTIRE time.
I call BS.
You filter because you want people to work the entire time and run the business like a factory. I wonder what your turn-over rate is.
If my company censored my incoming messages, websites, or email I would do a few things.
First I would stop any "above and beyond" performance. I would do my job as it was expected of me but I surely wouldn't work weekend or late hours anymore. The office is a 2 way street. I supply my abilities and do the work, they pay me. Thats the usual way it goes. But I also am willing to go above and beyond without complaining because I'm given the leeway in my internet and personal time while at work. If that went away so would the extra stuff. I give them more, they should give me more as well.
Then I would start looking for a new job. Its easier to find a job when you have one.
I think the point is if you want to be taken seriously in the initial impression you should have taken the 10-15 minutes to proofread your reply. If you don't have the ability to do this you should have found someone to do it for you. Then go take some writing classes. Even programmers need to be able to write and speak correctly.
I think just about all the latest cases are so damn ugly. Stupid window panels, layered on plastic to make it "look" hi-tech. Stupid full front doors. Ughh.
Give me back the days of the normal mini-tower cases. There was nothing wrong with the old cases except the materials they were made out of, sharp edges steel, not very good circulation, hard to remove drive bay and pci slot covers, no front access USB/firewire/sound connectors, and all the same color. But the overall look of the minitower cases was just fine. My new pc will be a basic black case made out of aluminum. It is so hard to find basic black cases that are built well though.
That is one of the points I made to him when I wrote the other day. I mentioned that he is yet another CEO of a technology company that really doesn't have a clue as to how anything works. I told him to stop wasting investors money on something that they will never be able to protect. As long as it can be heard it can be copied.
AT&T doesn't change your plan or price either at the end of the contract. You get something in the mail saying your contract is up and would you like to sign up for a new one. If you don't you just keep going at your current rate.
I have AT&T also. Have been with them for a long time. At first I was paying more than every other carrier. Then I went back and changed my plan, lowering it to what I want. Now whenever they get the new motorola T725 phone I'll upgrade again but lower my plan further down saving myself even more money.
Sprint in my area doesn't have very good coverage even though their maps show they do. AT&T seems to have the best coverage but it is more expensive (not as much as it used to be though).
Uhhh the recruiters don't advertise violence. They advertise serving your country. Being part of a big team to do what is right. Learning new skills that will help you in life and learn discipline.
Does violence come from that? Sure it does, its part of the job. But people don't join the military to get a chance to kill another human. They do it because they feel it is their duty.
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I'd say never. For one thing the name is horrible. It may be meaningless to geeks but to the general population naming is everything. No one even knows how to pronounce it. Just because it sounds better doesn't necessarily mean it IS better.
Its cons like this that make it more and more difficult for legit companies to get the extremely hard to get investor money these days.
Come April 2004 there will be a new press conference showing exactly the same thing and indicating a release in 6 months from then until some sucker of a company buys these guys out and nothing becomes of it because they realize what BS the whole thing is.
"See, you people say you have enough consoles, and a powerful PC, but whenever a new console comes out, you people always buy it."
This statement says to me: "you people are suckers and SOMEONE out there will give us money for this snake-oil"
"The presentation was quality, but it was lean on specs and details, and there was never a moment when anyone in the crowd was blown away. Rob dodged a lot of questions, and the group left without a demonstration of the technology."
And this surprised them? I can type up a spec sheet that looks really impressive and clue a box shut with a blue led on the front of it and make a logo too.
I have been telling people since mario sunshine came out that the loading screens were exactly what I am looking for in a new mario game.
The point he made was that for the release of the new OS the store discounted everything 10%. So if they do the same this time you either buy it now at full price or wait 3 days and get 10% off (maybe).
"The only thing you argue is that you can get specials on the hardware and that you can actually name a couple of HD programs. How is TV not as bad as he makes it out to be?"
Fine, do you want me to go channel by channel listing the hidef shows? Every single show I watch puts up the hidef banner except survivor. If you want to talk about quality then fine, thats your opinion but to say that there are only a few hidef shows or to totally blast it because there is nothing that YOU want to watch is a little off don't you think?
"TV is slowly becomming a popup ridden mess of incompatible standards and minimal quality content overseen by greedy corporations that want to control your actions and drive out competition while making you pay for crap that you don't want anyway."
Oh there we go...thats the true meaning. Its the whole big corporation thats out to swallow your soul arguement. Now I understand where you come from.
Just like the internet and radio, if you don't like whats on...change the channel or don't watch at all. It is totally up to you. But complaining that you can't find anything that YOU like or that the cost is too high for you isn't really their fault now is it? I don't find the cost high at all. I also don't have a problem finding stuff I like to watch. Do I wish everything was hidef? Of course, but its not there yet. But where it is now is pretty cool and it will only get better.
Its entertainment and thats it. If you aren't entertained then oh well, thats your problem.
Your complaints about direct tv and the channels is not direct tvs fault. Its the networks fault. Complain to them. It almost sounds like you've NEVER had cable tv at all. $80 for direct tv or cable is NOT expensive at all. And you don't have to purchase pay per view if you don't want to. I've never used it, but its there if I ever do want to. You can have up to 4 boxes (4 rooms) on a single dish without extra jacks. You need a decoder for each room but there are always specials out there for free boxes. There is an ad on directtv.com 3 room system (3 boxes, and dish) installation, free and 4 months free if you sign up for nfl, total choice premiere and local channels and a year contract. Thats $40 for the channel package but the nfl package is expensive. There are other deals though.
I believe all of CBS's hour long dramas are HD. ABC has a good selection as well as monday night football.
I agree that HDTV is not where it should be and I was expecting it to be further along that it currently is, but its not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
"its pocketable size is likely to make it very popular compared to the GB Player, which actually needs to be bolted onto the bottom of the GameCube."
Its a console. Its not meant to be carried around from room to room or house to house. Who cares if the player is the same size as the gamecube? For stuff like this I'll stick with official devices.
"What's going to happen is they are going to make it impossible for you to use any device to record the shows you are missing because it's inconvenient to be home to watch them."
That is exactly what the big point is. But the public will not only have to choose which show to watch and skip ones they don't have time for but it will also mean less ratings for the networks which leads ot less advertising money. All because people can't watch tv when THEY want to watch tv. I dvr a huge amount of tv and go back on slow tv days to catch up. If they block this kind of habit and don't let me record then there will be a lot of shows that I don't watch because technically I can't.
Quicktime by default does it. Just select its prefs and tell it not to.
I'm playing a 5 minute mp3 right now. Its taking up 15MB of memory and hovering around 5% of cpu. But I've also got outlook, AOL IM, msn messenger and mozilla open and running. This is on a slow-ass Pentium 4 at work (think its a 1.3 or 1.6Ghz).
You can shrink its display down to a very small rectangle, and then grab the window and shrink it smaller to a small square.
I like the brushed metal look. It just blends in with my desktop and doesn't stand out.
After i installed it i got a dll missing error...do you get any error? I don't know if it was related or not though.
People actually use windows media player to play mp3's? Ughhh...nasty.
Because you don't hear people saying: "I'm going to rip the cd I just bought into WMA so I can play it at work."
Or: "Did you hear the new mp3 of ?"
I think stores should be able to sell what they want to who ever wants to buy it (as long as the product is legal). Why should the store be responsible for what the purchaser does with the product? They are just the middleman. I decide to give them money, they give me a product. It ends there.
Its just one more example of parents not willing to be parents and wanting the gov't and industry to babysit their kids for them.
One more reason not to shop at walmart. I'm surprised they even sell R rated movies anymore.
I could care less how many hours people put in, but if management is going to complain about how many hours people work or what they do and then don't set an example they aren't being good managers. I've seen it many times, people come in late but get their work done. Manager complains about it but also comes in late. Why the hell should employees follow management rules if the management can't follow the rules as well.
Its not about the job or the work, its about respect. In a work place if the employees don't respect the management or the owners then they will not be productive, no matter how much stuff you toss at them.
Sounds like you've never held a real job or are just trolling...i'll bet on both.
Yes depends on your line of work. I would say that any programmer needs complete access to the internet. There is no better source of online help and books and information.
And thats just for projects and R&D work. A web browser, outlook, and 2 instant messaging applications are open the entire time I am at work. Messaging is not only useful for planning lunch and contacting people for personal reasons but also excellent for inside the office to exchange files or quick messages. Much faster than email and the phone.
Now if your job was sitting at the front desk answering the phone then no, you don't need the internet. If your job is answering the phone or providing tech support then you also don't need it. Unfortunately about 99.9% of the admins convince their bosses that most of the employees don't need access and make up BS problems and scarey scenarios to trick their bosses into tightening the reins so that they will have less work to do and more time for themselves to play around online.
I'm assuming that you, being the boss and wanting to set a good example, work the entire day. If you are there for 10 hours you are working for the entire 10 hours, non-stop. No personal business at all. I'll let you take a 30 minute lunch but other than that you are on the job the ENTIRE time.
I call BS.
You filter because you want people to work the entire time and run the business like a factory. I wonder what your turn-over rate is.
If my company censored my incoming messages, websites, or email I would do a few things.
First I would stop any "above and beyond" performance. I would do my job as it was expected of me but I surely wouldn't work weekend or late hours anymore. The office is a 2 way street. I supply my abilities and do the work, they pay me. Thats the usual way it goes. But I also am willing to go above and beyond without complaining because I'm given the leeway in my internet and personal time while at work. If that went away so would the extra stuff. I give them more, they should give me more as well.
Then I would start looking for a new job. Its easier to find a job when you have one.
I think the point is if you want to be taken seriously in the initial impression you should have taken the 10-15 minutes to proofread your reply. If you don't have the ability to do this you should have found someone to do it for you. Then go take some writing classes. Even programmers need to be able to write and speak correctly.
I think just about all the latest cases are so damn ugly. Stupid window panels, layered on plastic to make it "look" hi-tech. Stupid full front doors. Ughh.
Give me back the days of the normal mini-tower cases. There was nothing wrong with the old cases except the materials they were made out of, sharp edges steel, not very good circulation, hard to remove drive bay and pci slot covers, no front access USB/firewire/sound connectors, and all the same color. But the overall look of the minitower cases was just fine. My new pc will be a basic black case made out of aluminum. It is so hard to find basic black cases that are built well though.
That is one of the points I made to him when I wrote the other day. I mentioned that he is yet another CEO of a technology company that really doesn't have a clue as to how anything works. I told him to stop wasting investors money on something that they will never be able to protect. As long as it can be heard it can be copied.
Its already happened. I've received letters from my carriers stating a price increase to cover the cost of number portability.
AT&T doesn't change your plan or price either at the end of the contract. You get something in the mail saying your contract is up and would you like to sign up for a new one. If you don't you just keep going at your current rate.
I have AT&T also. Have been with them for a long time. At first I was paying more than every other carrier. Then I went back and changed my plan, lowering it to what I want. Now whenever they get the new motorola T725 phone I'll upgrade again but lower my plan further down saving myself even more money.
Sprint in my area doesn't have very good coverage even though their maps show they do. AT&T seems to have the best coverage but it is more expensive (not as much as it used to be though).
Uhhh the recruiters don't advertise violence. They advertise serving your country. Being part of a big team to do what is right. Learning new skills that will help you in life and learn discipline.
Does violence come from that? Sure it does, its part of the job. But people don't join the military to get a chance to kill another human. They do it because they feel it is their duty.