I have a ton of business sense. However I have a problem with a company that offers a "service" but not really a service but an over priced gimmick to sell hardware.
I would have a problem if there was an alternative to the TIVO service, but their isnt, so they are linking a hardware product to a service that is not necessary.
please don't tell me that it costs TIVO $10+ a month to license TV listings when yahoo gives it away for free.
I'm becoming very concerned with many companies these days not being satified with making a sale. And instead feel that they are entitled to a monthy cut of your income.
I dont mind monthly charges, but I get pissed when companies get the attitude that once you are their customer, they can do whatever they want (raise prices, break agreements, violate privacy policies)and they are ENTITLED to your money every month.
the ability to download program data directly from a cable broadcast without using the phone line
So what exactly am I paying $9.95 a month for? I could understand the charge before because they had to pay for their 800 number, but now why should I pay for service when the box can do everything itself?
If game companies start seeing the economic benifits of ogg, I would think that in a year or so, after a couple big releases most game soundtracks will use this format.
And if they were smart they'd let everyone know about it, Look another program that uses OOG.]
That'd get people using it.
Also if you could insert your own ogg files as a soundtrack. People would be more likely to use it.
This is complete opposite of the article in Newsweek article I just read. The "welcome back to sillicon valley" issue. Which basically stated that the fall in the economy and the layoff of thousdand of workers in the tech field would allow many people with skills time to mess with current technology. They are predicting an increase in innovation like tech boom in the early to mid 90s. The interesting thing is that sure, there are less magazines dedicated to "tinkering" however I believe they have been replaced by various websites which are much cheaper to produce and maintain.
One example was the 802.11 wireless standard, how over the last few years what was considered junk bandwidth was embraced by radio hobbiests and made cheap by innovative manufacturing.
I believe that while the economy was good, everyone had a "look what I can get for free" mentality. Now that we've seen the downturn, I believe we see a more "What cool things can I do with the tech I already have" attitude.
I know presonally I've found myself doing that recently.
So to say DIY is dead, I believe it was hibernating, and it's about to wake back up for spring.
After three years of development, Apache 2.0 (or, more accurately, Version 2.035) has finally been released. Unix users will find plenty to like in Version 2.0, but the biggest impact will be on Windows servers, where Apache can now perform as a production-level Web server.
I would hope no one was using the windows version for the last 3 years, this gives little reason to trash their unix to jump to windows.
Even though participants in our study were very young, they often had the greatest success using websites intended for adults. Sites such as Amazon and Yahoo! are committed to utter simplicity and compliance with Web design conventions, and have become so easy to use that they support little kids very well. In contrast, many of the children's sites had complex and convoluted interaction designs that stumped our test users. As one first-grade boy said, "The Internet is a lot of times BORING because you can't find anything when you go on to it."
Maybe it's time that we give kids full access, and create dumbed down portals to adults.
Isn't the idea of film making to make a movie that depicts the writer/producter's idea. Well what if his idea is a times square without certain ads. I mean what if the story takes place in a universe without a Samsung corp.
I would have to defend the artists decision to display whatever he chooses, and no one wopuld complain if all the ads were removes, so who cares if only certain ones are.
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Ever heard the idea that if you throw enough "crap" at a wall something is going to stick. With all these companies suddenly forgetting how to treat their customers, it takes a lot of action by informed people to oppose things like this.
I fear that we risk spreading ourselfs thin in the upcoming onslaught of unreasonable software, privacy policies.
No more Portable Monopoly. Dr.Jones writes "...well, not really. It seems Portable Monopoly is being forced to give up their web address 'Due to legal issues with Hasbro over the usage of the word "monopoly"'. Fortunately, they will have a new site up next week (Triton Labs), and they're still on target to ship the lighting kit next month. Seems like a bit of a stretch on Hasbro's part though."
Forced to give up their website? From the news on the site, I would guess that the URL is being changed simply to avoid hassle and pricy legal bills that are necessary to fight this out in court. When will companies realise that going after companies and websites with similar words to their products does nothing but anger techies and bring them a lot of hostile PR.
I would think Portable Monopoly would win in court in this one, it was not registered in bad faith, it has a legit function, and is not confusing to hasbro.com
I suppose hasbro will argue that they have a portable version of their monopoly game.
I believe that the FDA did not approve the implants, but rather decided that they are not medical and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the FDA. There's a big difference between being unregulated by the FDA and being approved by the FDA.
Why do people keep buying into the myth that artists need CD sales to survive?
Here's an example, the band Gorillaz, first of all I love them because of the concept and the attitude of the characters.
Well, I didn't but the Gorillaz CD, I got a copy from a friend of a friend. I've listened to that CD 100's of times in the last 5 months. It's become my favorite CD of 2001.
So I'm now a huge fan of a band because I was able to listen to their whole record. So guess what? I went out and purchased they're new release G-sides yesterday, and I bought concert tickets to see them in Chicago this sunday night. I'll probably buy a t-shirt there, that'll probably put more money into the band's pocket then the CD's ever would.
I would have never done that without first coming to love their music.
My point is sometimes you have to put the product where it's easily accessable and the people will come and support you if it's good.
If not, hell you can always jump in MTV's pocket and have them put you on TRL and make a shitty motion picture that grosses 14 million *cough* brittney *cough*.
Real artists should wake up to the reality that perhaups the support they so desperately need from other channels than CD's.
If an artist is truely an artist, then other ideas to support yourself will come.
In defense of Cowboy Bebop, the English dub is the best anime dub....ever. It's extremely well done and very smart.
Also the episode (cowboy funk) that was not did in fact air, it was aired last thursday, it was pulled during the season's first run in october, after the 9/11 attacks.
Due to the nature of the episode and the similarities of 9/11 (two skyscrapers as a target, terrorists, etc.) it was in the best interest to not air it then. This rotation, every episode was set to air, when we got to cowboy funk, the tape was misplaced and Jupiter Jazz Part I was shown as a last minute replacement. However during the encore the following thursday, the tape was found and cowboy funk did air.
As for people wanting completely uncut anime. It's neve going to happen on cable, maybe premium channels, but the FCC will not allow the S-word F-word or nudity still. So certain elements must be altered/changed/ommitted I do believe some of the editing is excessive and that the shows should stay as original as possible without landing the broadcaster some hefty fines.
Um, I average around 3000K a month, and I have single days with 300K+, it's really easy to do with a webbrowser like DPweb or even the one in the myplam application because it downloads graphics too.
I believe that for optimal success, a person must learn a little about a lot. By doing this a person is better able to connect various subjects and ideas in a much more dynamic setting.
I believe for schools, specialization is necessary for preparation for the workplace, however, to be a leader, and not a follower, one must aquire knowledge from various subjects. Only then can the "whole picture" be revealed.
In high school, I made a conscience decision to learn a little about everything I could. Because of this, I have found myself with many more ideas and theories for problems I encounter.
I also believe people's response to this is also influenced by their left brain or right brain.
I believe, left brain (I hope I'm correct) is more mathematically inclined, and are more likely to require organization and definite dimentions in their work.
The right brain, is more creative and artistic, and more free than the left brain.
I believe people who are left brain dominate would prefer learning more about one topic, whereas right brain people would rather have some background in many fields. I also believe to persue this, a person must be more open minded to foriegn concepts and ideas, that don't always agree with the information they have learned from other fields.
Personally, I feel that it depends on what someone's goals are. If you are set on being a scientist you probably are better off learning all you can about science rather then learning all subjects equally.
However, other fields like communication, marketing, design, and media production, would benifit from broad influences. I would think a filmmaker who has small backgrounds in Shakespere, design, speech, and music would produce a better film than someone who only studied film.
Everything I stated here is my own opinion, and is only based on my own experiences, no scientific data.
Even if the compatibility issues can be solved, the Slashdot crowd will protest that the very idea of copy protection infringes their fair-use rights. (The industry responds that fair use of music does not include the right to make entire backup CDs, and that consumers will still be able to make cassette copies.)
Since when does fair use have to do with what media the content is being copied to?
Let's see, copy a CD to a tape or a CD to a CD?
why does fair use force us to downgrade our content? It doesnt .
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I have a ton of business sense. However I have a problem with a company that offers a "service" but not really a service but an over priced gimmick to sell hardware.
I would have a problem if there was an alternative to the TIVO service, but their isnt, so they are linking a hardware product to a service that is not necessary.
please don't tell me that it costs TIVO $10+ a month to license TV listings when yahoo gives it away for free.
I'm becoming very concerned with many companies these days not being satified with making a sale. And instead feel that they are entitled to a monthy cut of your income.
Phone, Cable, Internet, Tivo, XM, Wireless, Blackberry.
I dont mind monthly charges, but I get pissed when companies get the attitude that once you are their customer, they can do whatever they want (raise prices, break agreements, violate privacy policies)and they are ENTITLED to your money every month.
I have a problem with that.
the ability to download program data directly from a cable broadcast without using the phone line
So what exactly am I paying $9.95 a month for? I could understand the charge before because they had to pay for their 800 number, but now why should I pay for service when the box can do everything itself?
If game companies start seeing the economic benifits of ogg, I would think that in a year or so, after a couple big releases most game soundtracks will use this format.
And if they were smart they'd let everyone know about it, Look another program that uses OOG.]
That'd get people using it.
Also if you could insert your own ogg files as a soundtrack. People would be more likely to use it.
I wonder if then being an employee automatically consents to all the aspects of this proposed law.
If employers had to get employee's concent to tape them secretly and the employee had the right to say no, then what's the point?
http://216.239.35.100/search?sourceid=navclient&q= cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perlbox.org%2Fscreenshots.s html
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here's the images page, the page is already bogged down.
I mean in the real world you're never allowed to consult with co-workers on projects.
I'm buying a bunch then going to sell them to canadians to avoid their tariff on blank media.
$Ch-ching$
This is complete opposite of the article in Newsweek article I just read. The "welcome back to sillicon valley" issue. Which basically stated that the fall in the economy and the layoff of thousdand of workers in the tech field would allow many people with skills time to mess with current technology. They are predicting an increase in innovation like tech boom in the early to mid 90s. The interesting thing is that sure, there are less magazines dedicated to "tinkering" however I believe they have been replaced by various websites which are much cheaper to produce and maintain.
One example was the 802.11 wireless standard, how over the last few years what was considered junk bandwidth was embraced by radio hobbiests and made cheap by innovative manufacturing.
I believe that while the economy was good, everyone had a "look what I can get for free" mentality. Now that we've seen the downturn, I believe we see a more "What cool things can I do with the tech I already have" attitude.
I know presonally I've found myself doing that recently.
So to say DIY is dead, I believe it was hibernating, and it's about to wake back up for spring.
After three years of development, Apache 2.0 (or, more accurately, Version 2.035) has finally been released. Unix users will find plenty to like in Version 2.0, but the biggest impact will be on Windows servers, where Apache can now perform as a production-level Web server.
I would hope no one was using the windows version for the last 3 years, this gives little reason to trash their unix to jump to windows.
Even though participants in our study were very young, they often had the greatest success using websites intended for adults. Sites such as Amazon and Yahoo! are committed to utter simplicity and compliance with Web design conventions, and have become so easy to use that they support little kids very well. In contrast, many of the children's sites had complex and convoluted interaction designs that stumped our test users. As one first-grade boy said, "The Internet is a lot of times BORING because you can't find anything when you go on to it."
Maybe it's time that we give kids full access, and create dumbed down portals to adults.
I was finally going to trash that old thing.....
Isn't the idea of film making to make a movie that depicts the writer/producter's idea. Well what if his idea is a times square without certain ads. I mean what if the story takes place in a universe without a Samsung corp.
I would have to defend the artists decision to display whatever he chooses, and no one wopuld complain if all the ads were removes, so who cares if only certain ones are.
Ever heard the idea that if you throw enough "crap" at a wall something is going to stick. With all these companies suddenly forgetting how to treat their customers, it takes a lot of action by informed people to oppose things like this.
I fear that we risk spreading ourselfs thin in the upcoming onslaught of unreasonable software, privacy policies.
No more Portable Monopoly. Dr.Jones writes "...well, not really. It seems Portable Monopoly is being forced to give up their web address 'Due to legal issues with Hasbro over the usage of the word "monopoly"'. Fortunately, they will have a new site up next week (Triton Labs), and they're still on target to ship the lighting kit next month. Seems like a bit of a stretch on Hasbro's part though."
Forced to give up their website? From the news on the site, I would guess that the URL is being changed simply to avoid hassle and pricy legal bills that are necessary to fight this out in court. When will companies realise that going after companies and websites with similar words to their products does nothing but anger techies and bring them a lot of hostile PR.
I would think Portable Monopoly would win in court in this one, it was not registered in bad faith, it has a legit function, and is not confusing to hasbro.com
I suppose hasbro will argue that they have a portable version of their monopoly game.
I believe that the FDA did not approve the implants, but rather decided that they are not medical and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the FDA. There's a big difference between being unregulated by the FDA and being approved by the FDA.
Maybe a small update could clear things up.
wait wait wait, Angelia Jolie is not a super l33t haxor?
Damn.
Why do people keep buying into the myth that artists need CD sales to survive?
Here's an example, the band Gorillaz, first of all I love them because of the concept and the attitude of the characters.
Well, I didn't but the Gorillaz CD, I got a copy from a friend of a friend. I've listened to that CD 100's of times in the last 5 months. It's become my favorite CD of 2001.
So I'm now a huge fan of a band because I was able to listen to their whole record. So guess what? I went out and purchased they're new release G-sides yesterday, and I bought concert tickets to see them in Chicago this sunday night. I'll probably buy a t-shirt there, that'll probably put more money into the band's pocket then the CD's ever would.
I would have never done that without first coming to love their music.
My point is sometimes you have to put the product where it's easily accessable and the people will come and support you if it's good.
If not, hell you can always jump in MTV's pocket and have them put you on TRL and make a shitty motion picture that grosses 14 million *cough* brittney *cough*.
Real artists should wake up to the reality that perhaups the support they so desperately need from other channels than CD's.
If an artist is truely an artist, then other ideas to support yourself will come.
In defense of Cowboy Bebop, the English dub is the best anime dub....ever. It's extremely well done and very smart.
...See You Space Cowboy
Also the episode (cowboy funk) that was not did in fact air, it was aired last thursday, it was pulled during the season's first run in october, after the 9/11 attacks.
Due to the nature of the episode and the similarities of 9/11 (two skyscrapers as a target, terrorists, etc.) it was in the best interest to not air it then. This rotation, every episode was set to air, when we got to cowboy funk, the tape was misplaced and Jupiter Jazz Part I was shown as a last minute replacement. However during the encore the following thursday, the tape was found and cowboy funk did air.
As for people wanting completely uncut anime. It's neve going to happen on cable, maybe premium channels, but the FCC will not allow the S-word F-word or nudity still. So certain elements must be altered/changed/ommitted I do believe some of the editing is excessive and that the shows should stay as original as possible without landing the broadcaster some hefty fines.
Um, I average around 3000K a month, and I have single days with 300K+, it's really easy to do with a webbrowser like DPweb or even the one in the myplam application because it downloads graphics too.
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I believe that for optimal success, a person must learn a little about a lot. By doing this a person is better able to connect various subjects and ideas in a much more dynamic setting.
I believe for schools, specialization is necessary for preparation for the workplace, however, to be a leader, and not a follower, one must aquire knowledge from various subjects. Only then can the "whole picture" be revealed.
In high school, I made a conscience decision to learn a little about everything I could. Because of this, I have found myself with many more ideas and theories for problems I encounter.
I also believe people's response to this is also influenced by their left brain or right brain.
I believe, left brain (I hope I'm correct) is more mathematically inclined, and are more likely to require organization and definite dimentions in their work.
The right brain, is more creative and artistic, and more free than the left brain.
I believe people who are left brain dominate would prefer learning more about one topic, whereas right brain people would rather have some background in many fields. I also believe to persue this, a person must be more open minded to foriegn concepts and ideas, that don't always agree with the information they have learned from other fields.
Personally, I feel that it depends on what someone's goals are. If you are set on being a scientist you probably are better off learning all you can about science rather then learning all subjects equally.
However, other fields like communication, marketing, design, and media production, would benifit from broad influences. I would think a filmmaker who has small backgrounds in Shakespere, design, speech, and music would produce a better film than someone who only studied film.
Everything I stated here is my own opinion, and is only based on my own experiences, no scientific data.
So be sure to have some salt ready.
Even if the compatibility issues can be solved, the Slashdot crowd will protest that the very idea of copy protection infringes their fair-use rights. (The industry responds that fair use of music does not include the right to make entire backup CDs, and that consumers will still be able to make cassette copies.) Since when does fair use have to do with what media the content is being copied to? Let's see, copy a CD to a tape or a CD to a CD? why does fair use force us to downgrade our content? It doesnt .