I personally find the advanced tools in Microsoft Antispyware to be quite useful for removing BHO's and restoring browser settings without having the user muck around with the registry.
Once you stop drinking like a fish, you start to mature. People who keep hardcore drinking after their college-era stay at ~18 years old in their maturity.
I've first-hand delivered bad news to these people (outages out of my control, dead hard drives, requests that can't be met due to policies in place, etc, etc) and 95% of the time its the same situation. First you tell the assistant who immediately freaks out and makes you feel like you're a piece of shit. Then you tell the executive/VIP the same information (because an assistant can never properly convey any issue without self-serving FUD) and they are cool about it and figure out alternatives and move on with their day. That is why they are at the top, because they can formulate a plan B and don't let any problem cloud their focus, not because people cater to their needs.
Nah, the real solution they offer is they will just reformat & reinstall (the rookie cop-out), but will keep your computer for 2 weeks before they even do it and charge you out the ass to do something you could have done yourself for free.
I used to work at the studios for a major TV station in NYC and I'll tell you, the "talent" are easygoing and are easy to deal with. Its the over-eager assistants that will drive you insane. I believe that the people right under someone "important" (including people right under executives) make dealing with the "stars" a lot more headache-inducing than it needs to be.
I can't believe these entitled morons. If it weren't for Google, nobody would find your site, read your story, and click on the ads in your site. Maybe if you were more tasteful with your ads and they were relevant to the story, you would be making money like Google does. The fact is is that they have what amounts to as an RSS-like driven portal-style page much like thousands of news style sites (cough..slashdot..cough) and millions of blogs. Why sue them and not everyone else? Its these greedy companies that google is standing in defiance of by their "don't be evil" business model.
You know, you inadvertently bring up a really valid point. Why can't we sell our DRM'ed music?? If I buy a CD and decide I'm sick of it, I can sell it on eBay, or to the local used record shop. Shouldn't I be allowed to do this with my purchased online music. Can we as "netizens" rally together to make these online services offer a way to transfer ownership to another user? Think about it - I invalidate my own drm so I can no longer play the song, and give it to a willing buyer at whatever price I set and the service takes a small percentage of the sale (say 10%).
I used to work with a guy who was the biggest a-hole until about 2 or three hours after he was in. Problem was he didn't start until 11:00am, so by the time he got to work everyone else was bright and chipper. It got so bad that I even a wrote a song to cheer him up (well, make fun of him really): Good Morning Ali
You are on crack only to the degree that any compressed music will not sound as good as the source. If your source happens to be torrent or usenet for music, than I have noticed that sometimes songs are encoded with preset eq's and/or normalization where the bass is too high, which might explain your tinny argument.
I dunno, it seems that they are still going to be running an NTFS based OS, making it more like a patched-up XP instead of a completely new OS (kind of like the upgrade from Windows 95 to 98 are loosely comparable in differences in the upgrade from 2000 to XP). This leads me to believe that instead of being a completely new OS we are going to see a useless ME-style upgrade to tide us over before they finish a WinFS system. So with that mentality I would think they would label it as version 5.3.
Since when is Howard Stern getting sick of broadcasting?
I would say the fact that he is only going to broadcast for 4 days a week live when he moves says he doesn't want to do it anymore.
He really has become a parody of himself in the last 10 years as he slowly shows his "Hollywood" side of himself and claims to own all ideas in broadcasting.
If he plans to be successful in a new medium, he really is going to have to put a lot more effort into it than working 4 days a week. He's basically going to start all over with only a couple hundred thousand listeners at first instead of millions. We'll see how many good celebrity guests will deal with him when he has much less reach - he's really going to have to step up his game.
[i]Not to mention that Clear Channel owns a percentage of XM so even if Howard wasn't on Sirius I wouldn't buy XM because of that connection.[/i]
What makes you think Mel Karmazin is any better? He will eventually blur the lines between commercial radio and satellite with bad programming, ads, censorship, and more ads (just like cable TV). Infinity is just as bad as Clear Channel in those aspects and that is what Mel knows because that is what he has done for Infinity & Viacom. He made Infinity profitable by these methods and will try the same with Sirius.
Between blogs and indy news sources at least your information will be stripped of the shock sensationalism the major news sources try to rope you in with.
A toy your child may be playing with right now could kill him. We'll tell you about it at 11.../hates mainstream media tactics
I was thinking the same thing. Let 'em go, its not like we can't find the same articles ad nauseam on the ole internets. The NY Times lost its credibility years ago and there is nothing that separates them from the rest of the pack. So bon voyage on your trip towards internet obscurity.
I know most players have had this feature forever, but the radio list in iTunes is just great. It makes listening to internet radio a pleasure because its so seemless with the rest of the player and there are multiple bitsreams of many of the stations - a 128 stream is just as good if not better than FM!
I prefer this method only for the reason that unless you own every plug-in for pro tools that NIN used, the tracks would be a mess. This way he can created loops out of each track that are there own entity. If you have access to a Mac, you can just get the aiff files from the GB package and add them to the DAW of your choice.
Now, if only more artists did this... It would make mash-ups nice and easy if consumers had access to the raw files!
Now we just have to wait and see how the RIAA overlords handle this since major label artists are giving back to their fans. Shame on you artists for being creative without a pricing model! SHAAAMMMEEE!!
Not for nothing, but I've converted 4 video files with PSPVideo9 with no problems. 2 were.mpg's, 1 was.wmv and the other was the "Jack Jack Attack" short ripped from The Incredibles DVD. I'm not sure what kind of videos you're converting, but it seems to do a very good job for me./my $0.02
Sooooo, why not include a link to mirrordot.org in the front page article? Isn't that all I'm asking? As an editor, they should know the media file would get killed immediately and provide a solution for the casual reader who does not want to read all of the fanatical replies to find the media that was reported on on the front page. Their current policy is flawed and I for one would like to see steps taken to enhance the reader's experience.
Slashdot Mirror
I personally find the advanced tools in Microsoft Antispyware to be quite useful for removing BHO's and restoring browser settings without having the user muck around with the registry.
Once you stop drinking like a fish, you start to mature. People who keep hardcore drinking after their college-era stay at ~18 years old in their maturity.
I've first-hand delivered bad news to these people (outages out of my control, dead hard drives, requests that can't be met due to policies in place, etc, etc) and 95% of the time its the same situation. First you tell the assistant who immediately freaks out and makes you feel like you're a piece of shit. Then you tell the executive/VIP the same information (because an assistant can never properly convey any issue without self-serving FUD) and they are cool about it and figure out alternatives and move on with their day. That is why they are at the top, because they can formulate a plan B and don't let any problem cloud their focus, not because people cater to their needs.
Nah, the real solution they offer is they will just reformat & reinstall (the rookie cop-out), but will keep your computer for 2 weeks before they even do it and charge you out the ass to do something you could have done yourself for free.
I used to work at the studios for a major TV station in NYC and I'll tell you, the "talent" are easygoing and are easy to deal with. Its the over-eager assistants that will drive you insane. I believe that the people right under someone "important" (including people right under executives) make dealing with the "stars" a lot more headache-inducing than it needs to be.
That was a quick and painless death to a server.
I can't believe these entitled morons. If it weren't for Google, nobody would find your site, read your story, and click on the ads in your site. Maybe if you were more tasteful with your ads and they were relevant to the story, you would be making money like Google does. The fact is is that they have what amounts to as an RSS-like driven portal-style page much like thousands of news style sites (cough..slashdot..cough) and millions of blogs. Why sue them and not everyone else? Its these greedy companies that google is standing in defiance of by their "don't be evil" business model.
You know, you inadvertently bring up a really valid point. Why can't we sell our DRM'ed music?? If I buy a CD and decide I'm sick of it, I can sell it on eBay, or to the local used record shop. Shouldn't I be allowed to do this with my purchased online music. Can we as "netizens" rally together to make these online services offer a way to transfer ownership to another user? Think about it - I invalidate my own drm so I can no longer play the song, and give it to a willing buyer at whatever price I set and the service takes a small percentage of the sale (say 10%).
I used to work with a guy who was the biggest a-hole until about 2 or three hours after he was in. Problem was he didn't start until 11:00am, so by the time he got to work everyone else was bright and chipper. It got so bad that I even a wrote a song to cheer him up (well, make fun of him really): Good Morning Ali
Sounds good - What about a Mac solution (sidebar style widget)?
You are on crack only to the degree that any compressed music will not sound as good as the source. If your source happens to be torrent or usenet for music, than I have noticed that sometimes songs are encoded with preset eq's and/or normalization where the bass is too high, which might explain your tinny argument.
I am no expert, but I think the problem lies with the record labels who submit the songs to the ITMS and don't check the information, not Apple.
So can you go to Start.com to shut down? :)
I dunno, it seems that they are still going to be running an NTFS based OS, making it more like a patched-up XP instead of a completely new OS (kind of like the upgrade from Windows 95 to 98 are loosely comparable in differences in the upgrade from 2000 to XP). This leads me to believe that instead of being a completely new OS we are going to see a useless ME-style upgrade to tide us over before they finish a WinFS system. So with that mentality I would think they would label it as version 5.3.
A floating laptop on a sunken webserver!
Cousin' Brucie says the oldie games are the best!
Since when is Howard Stern getting sick of broadcasting?
I would say the fact that he is only going to broadcast for 4 days a week live when he moves says he doesn't want to do it anymore.
He really has become a parody of himself in the last 10 years as he slowly shows his "Hollywood" side of himself and claims to own all ideas in broadcasting.
If he plans to be successful in a new medium, he really is going to have to put a lot more effort into it than working 4 days a week. He's basically going to start all over with only a couple hundred thousand listeners at first instead of millions. We'll see how many good celebrity guests will deal with him when he has much less reach - he's really going to have to step up his game.
[i]Not to mention that Clear Channel owns a percentage of XM so even if Howard wasn't on Sirius I wouldn't buy XM because of that connection.[/i]
What makes you think Mel Karmazin is any better? He will eventually blur the lines between commercial radio and satellite with bad programming, ads, censorship, and more ads (just like cable TV). Infinity is just as bad as Clear Channel in those aspects and that is what Mel knows because that is what he has done for Infinity & Viacom. He made Infinity profitable by these methods and will try the same with Sirius.
Between blogs and indy news sources at least your information will be stripped of the shock sensationalism the major news sources try to rope you in with.
/hates mainstream media tactics
A toy your child may be playing with right now could kill him. We'll tell you about it at 11...
I was thinking the same thing. Let 'em go, its not like we can't find the same articles ad nauseam on the ole internets. The NY Times lost its credibility years ago and there is nothing that separates them from the rest of the pack. So bon voyage on your trip towards internet obscurity.
I know most players have had this feature forever, but the radio list in iTunes is just great. It makes listening to internet radio a pleasure because its so seemless with the rest of the player and there are multiple bitsreams of many of the stations - a 128 stream is just as good if not better than FM!
I prefer this method only for the reason that unless you own every plug-in for pro tools that NIN used, the tracks would be a mess. This way he can created loops out of each track that are there own entity. If you have access to a Mac, you can just get the aiff files from the GB package and add them to the DAW of your choice.
Now, if only more artists did this... It would make mash-ups nice and easy if consumers had access to the raw files!
Now we just have to wait and see how the RIAA overlords handle this since major label artists are giving back to their fans. Shame on you artists for being creative without a pricing model! SHAAAMMMEEE!!
Not for nothing, but I've converted 4 video files with PSPVideo9 with no problems. 2 were .mpg's, 1 was .wmv and the other was the "Jack Jack Attack" short ripped from The Incredibles DVD. I'm not sure what kind of videos you're converting, but it seems to do a very good job for me. /my $0.02
Sooooo, why not include a link to mirrordot.org in the front page article? Isn't that all I'm asking? As an editor, they should know the media file would get killed immediately and provide a solution for the casual reader who does not want to read all of the fanatical replies to find the media that was reported on on the front page. Their current policy is flawed and I for one would like to see steps taken to enhance the reader's experience.