As much as I enjoyed Firefly and Serenity, the movie can be considered a commercial failure sadly. According to here at imdb, the film was budgeted at around $40 million USD and only took in around $30 million USD worldwide. That's not to say they won't make it up in DVD sales and actually make a tiny profit but it certainly doesn't bode well for a future movie or a continuation of the series.
the individual people on the inside are decent enough but the higher-ups and board _really_ sucks. I guess we really shouldn't be very suprised since they are after all a telephone company. I feel obligated to tell everyone that telephone companies are second to only the recording industry in their desperation to hold on to a dying business model and spite their customers at every turn because of it.
Honestly, if I were a phone company, I'd seek emotional therapy.
Seriously though, this is not the kind of launch coverage MS had in mind. I imagine if the issue is really this serious then we'll see some major media coverage and then you'll see some serious MS PR splash to make up for it. I wonder if they'd actually make a formal press release about it if the percentage of those with issues is high enough?
Advertising themselves as a search engine for all the copyrighted content on Usenet is not the best business plan. Only a matter of time before the MPAA/RIAA/TV Networks come down on them.
After all, he was the de facto project manager, as well as the company CEO.
Actually, that's not true. Steve was never actually CEO prior to his return to Apple in 1997. The CEO in 1983 was Mike Markkula prior to Steve's hiring of John Sculley for the job later that year.
Oddly enough, I get far more "work" done on a Mac than I ever did on a Windows OR Linux platform. It has nothing to do with the sleekness or cool factor, it has everything to do with the intuitiveness and usefulness of the interface.
You seem like one of those "I hate it because it's getting alot of press" people. While hype can be stupid.. Macs aren't hype. If they were, they would've just faded away years ago.
I like auto-skipping commercials, which is something I haven't seen in other DVRs.
Because SonicBlue got sued for that feature. That made other manufacturers a bit weary of that. Even today, Tivo is extremely touchy with the networks and studios because they don't want the conglomerates to get mad and petition the supreme court to revisit that whole Betamax thing.
They're proprietary pieces of software. Where does it say that all services that perform the same function should be linked and interoperable? I just don't get the logic here.
this kid is nuts! But first let me share my tale...
I started my first job at an ISP in 1998 while I was still in high school. It was a medium-sized ISP in a decent sized city. Everything was well and good and I enjoyed it. But it did have it's moments of annoyance. It did have cubicles and it was fairly successful and was bought out in 1999. After the buyout, things went downhill rapidly. Promises were made about what we (the newly acquired company) would be doing. Those all fell through, after they purchased another ISP in another city to do what they promised us. That's a pretty good sign to leave.
I graduated high school in 1999 and decided not to go in to college immediately since I was gaining good experience and I could endure the times that I wasn't perfectly happy with my job. In 2000, shortly after a third company was bought and was promised what we and the second company were promised. I decided that would be a good time to leave.
From that company, I joined a large corporation that I'm still employed with today... it'll be 5 years next week. And I must say, they had many offices with many many cubicles. Success is not measured by every employee having an office. The bottom-line is that you make your own success by playing politics with the management (this is necessary part of your career, the sooner you learn to play ball, the sooner you'll see advancement), in addition to actually being good at your job.
Being a ninja may be great but if Sensai doesn't like you, you're fucked.
Management does make bad decisions but it's up to you to speak your piece in a way that does not offend them because in the end, you're working for them, not the other way around.
The irony here is that I'm just starting college. I'm 24 and I have over 7 years of experience in the industry. Obviously college doesn't teach you everything and after reading that "article", I'm sure glad I chose the path I did. I chose to get smart in the real world and then go learn about the theory that makes a perfect world, instead of vica versa.
Harvey Danger sticks out in my mind only as the one-hit wonder from the late 90s with the single "Flagpole Sitta". The rest of the album was horrid and pretty much scarred them for life. So I have to think they're just doing this because they really have no other option than this besides maintain their OHW status and keep releasing albums that very few people will buy.
Regardless, I'll issue the standard slashdot "THEY'RE TROOPERS FOR DOING THIS, DOWN WITH THE LABELS" statement, listen to the album and perhaps they'll impress me and I'll stop talking smack about Harvey Danger.
I just _hate_ the fact that the studios believe that year after year, the revenue MUST be higher than the year before. There is no other option. Even if the revenue is less than 1% less than the year before, THE WORLD IS OVER!@#
I don't get it, what other industry is there nothing but a steady upwards growth? Besides the fact that the movie industry is based on MOVIES. Things that are nowhere near constant... There's what, 150-200 movies released per year? Each of them may be good or bad depending upon 50 or more variables. How is this mathmatically possible to put into a formula that can equal nothing but a vertical sloping line on a chart?
Greed execs just need to come down off their high horse and now that they're doing that, I'm still not satisfied. It's ridiculous that they can say "You know what, it wasn't the piracy that we were accusing OUR CUSTOMERS of. It was just that we were stupid shits." and everyone just shrugs it off by saying "Those crazy movie execs!".
Ugh, it makes me fucking sick.
This is why being a whistle-blower sucks...
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You're doing the morally right thing but you'll get the shaft every time...
Mangan said he was looking for a new job. He has contacted dozens of aerospace firms in the U.S. and Europe, but none have returned his calls. "Nobody wants to touch me," he said.
It's not really shocking that nobody wants to touch you after you've potentially cost your former employer, in the same field no less, millions of dollars. It's amazing to me though that the US has some of the best protection laws when it comes to this sort of thing.
I remember Time Trax when it was the show preceding... Babylon 5! Back when there were still "independent" TV stations. If I remember correctly, it went something like:
7PM Time Trax 8PM Babylon 5 9PM Kung-fu: The legend continues
They even had the "PTEN" logo before the programming block. I think it was a failed attempt to make a UPN-like "netlet". Thankfully, Babylon 5 made it out of that debacle in-tact for the most part.
The phone uses TransFlash. Yet another flash memory format. At this time, 512MB is the largest denomination of T-Flash. Assumingly, there will be a 1GB chip sooner or later but there were reports that the phone itself limited the number of songs in the library to 100 REGARDLESS of free space available. At least, that's what the report was on the "preview" version of the phone given to some reviewers.
I haven't seen a report one way or another if the final version of phone does this.
Sadly, the site designer wants to pop up a new window and have me view the video in my web browser. They're so aggressive about that desire that they demand I break my proxy to allow them to script my system rather than just providing me a download link.
The link popup contains a link to download the video, Genius.
We want our cell phones to do everything and we want to market PCs and content to everybody on the planet. I think that's a decent summary of all the "ideas" there.
Is it just me or did everything sound incredibly boring?
Because then it's that much easier to hack. A proprietary memory storage unit would be a good amount more difficult, I'd imagine. You can bet that 2.5" removable drive will be significantly encased and modified also.
Reboot, and you're done. The indexing service won't even load at boot. The spotlight icon will still be in the corner but will do absolutely nothing when you type in a string.
And by the way, a watched pot also never boils. I think you're just imagining that it's sucking up all your battery. But hey, it may use a few extra cycles and use up your battery a little quicker.
You might be able to tell me at what speed an object falls to the earth, but can you tell me why it falls? Something as simple as gravity? Science is observing events and trying to predict what will happen. Science does not purport to understand why something happens.
Um, science _does_ attempt to explain to the best of our ability why things happen. Is "gravity" not a perfectly valid answer to your question? If you want to recursively ask "Why?" to every explanation, then I challenge you to explain your faith and allow me to extend the same courtesy. I guarantee you will run out of productive statements long before I will.
The fact that you refeer to soul and "some such shit" in the same sentance leads me to believe you believe you are right and everyone else is wrong, and that you should be the one who decides where my tax dollars are spent.
Blah, blah, blah. Vica versa. Ad nausem.
All that Bush did was listen to his constituents, who said they don't want their tax dollars being spent on embryos that came from abortions.
Woah, Woah! Hold it right there. This is where you demonstrate a complete lack of understanding. Embryos that came from abortions? From the wikipedia...
Embryonic stem cells are stem cells derived from the undifferentiated inner mass cells of a blastocyst, an early stage embryo consisting of 50-150 cells. They are pluripotent, meaning they are able to grow into any of the 200 cell types in the body. Embryonic stem cells can be obtained from a cloned blastocyst, created by fusing a denucleated egg cell with a patient's cell. The blastocyst produced is allowed to grow to the size of a few tens of cells, and stem cells are then extracted. Because they are obtained from a clone, they are genetically compatible with the patient.
200 cells is not a fetus by any stretch of the imagination. Nor is a blastocyst a fetus. These is very much a lab created process and trying to apply your morality via rubber stamp doesn't exactly line up.
Honestly though, why is every human life precious? Have you ever eaten eggs before? That's one life that will never have a chance to experience this wonderful beautiful world, all because of your senseless "hunger".
Even if you don't, if you mean to tell me that you've never killed anything ever? What makes the life of a fly or ant that you've most certainly killed less precious than the frozen embryo that never developed into a human? What gives you the right to decide that?
You can call this rationalization but I call it using your damn brain. I will choose to help the people that are suffering over bringing another life into the world any day of the week.
Like you said, the frozen embryos and the stem cells taken from them aren't ours to screw around with like this. They do (and should) belong to the organism they were taken from.
Wonderful, said organism is frozen and 99% likely never to see any functional life.
When it comes to human stem cells, that organism is another human life. It's a simple path from "We want the paraplegic to walk again" to "we will kill humans to allow others to walk again".
Do tell, Anonymous Coward, why is taking stem cells from a donated and otherwise perpetually frozen embryo equal to killing a human?
*shrug*. and people wonder why this country is going downhill
Oh, that's right... the frozen embryos have souls or some such shit. Yes, this is a hateful post because I simply can't fathom why this scientific area can't be advanced without controversy in the US. I really, really don't get it. I'd love for somebody to explain it to me. Please!
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As much as I enjoyed Firefly and Serenity, the movie can be considered a commercial failure sadly. According to here at imdb, the film was budgeted at around $40 million USD and only took in around $30 million USD worldwide. That's not to say they won't make it up in DVD sales and actually make a tiny profit but it certainly doesn't bode well for a future movie or a continuation of the series.
the individual people on the inside are decent enough but the higher-ups and board _really_ sucks. I guess we really shouldn't be very suprised since they are after all a telephone company. I feel obligated to tell everyone that telephone companies are second to only the recording industry in their desperation to hold on to a dying business model and spite their customers at every turn because of it.
Honestly, if I were a phone company, I'd seek emotional therapy.
X-Box 360 overheats YOU!
Seriously though, this is not the kind of launch coverage MS had in mind. I imagine if the issue is really this serious then we'll see some major media coverage and then you'll see some serious MS PR splash to make up for it. I wonder if they'd actually make a formal press release about it if the percentage of those with issues is high enough?
I'm confused... what industry is "Software Engineering" in again?
Advertising themselves as a search engine for all the copyrighted content on Usenet is not the best business plan. Only a matter of time before the MPAA/RIAA/TV Networks come down on them.
IRC is _ALL_ about ego!
After all, he was the de facto project manager, as well as the company CEO.
Actually, that's not true. Steve was never actually CEO prior to his return to Apple in 1997. The CEO in 1983 was Mike Markkula prior to Steve's hiring of John Sculley for the job later that year.
Oddly enough, I get far more "work" done on a Mac than I ever did on a Windows OR Linux platform. It has nothing to do with the sleekness or cool factor, it has everything to do with the intuitiveness and usefulness of the interface.
You seem like one of those "I hate it because it's getting alot of press" people. While hype can be stupid.. Macs aren't hype. If they were, they would've just faded away years ago.
I like auto-skipping commercials, which is something I haven't seen in other DVRs.
Because SonicBlue got sued for that feature. That made other manufacturers a bit weary of that. Even today, Tivo is extremely touchy with the networks and studios because they don't want the conglomerates to get mad and petition the supreme court to revisit that whole Betamax thing.
They're proprietary pieces of software. Where does it say that all services that perform the same function should be linked and interoperable? I just don't get the logic here.
this kid is nuts! But first let me share my tale...
I started my first job at an ISP in 1998 while I was still in high school. It was a medium-sized ISP in a decent sized city. Everything was well and good and I enjoyed it. But it did have it's moments of annoyance. It did have cubicles and it was fairly successful and was bought out in 1999. After the buyout, things went downhill rapidly. Promises were made about what we (the newly acquired company) would be doing. Those all fell through, after they purchased another ISP in another city to do what they promised us. That's a pretty good sign to leave.
I graduated high school in 1999 and decided not to go in to college immediately since I was gaining good experience and I could endure the times that I wasn't perfectly happy with my job. In 2000, shortly after a third company was bought and was promised what we and the second company were promised. I decided that would be a good time to leave.
From that company, I joined a large corporation that I'm still employed with today... it'll be 5 years next week. And I must say, they had many offices with many many cubicles. Success is not measured by every employee having an office. The bottom-line is that you make your own success by playing politics with the management (this is necessary part of your career, the sooner you learn to play ball, the sooner you'll see advancement), in addition to actually being good at your job.
Being a ninja may be great but if Sensai doesn't like you, you're fucked.
Management does make bad decisions but it's up to you to speak your piece in a way that does not offend them because in the end, you're working for them, not the other way around.
The irony here is that I'm just starting college. I'm 24 and I have over 7 years of experience in the industry. Obviously college doesn't teach you everything and after reading that "article", I'm sure glad I chose the path I did. I chose to get smart in the real world and then go learn about the theory that makes a perfect world, instead of vica versa.
Harvey Danger sticks out in my mind only as the one-hit wonder from the late 90s with the single "Flagpole Sitta". The rest of the album was horrid and pretty much scarred them for life. So I have to think they're just doing this because they really have no other option than this besides maintain their OHW status and keep releasing albums that very few people will buy.
Regardless, I'll issue the standard slashdot "THEY'RE TROOPERS FOR DOING THIS, DOWN WITH THE LABELS" statement, listen to the album and perhaps they'll impress me and I'll stop talking smack about Harvey Danger.
I just _hate_ the fact that the studios believe that year after year, the revenue MUST be higher than the year before. There is no other option. Even if the revenue is less than 1% less than the year before, THE WORLD IS OVER!@#
I don't get it, what other industry is there nothing but a steady upwards growth? Besides the fact that the movie industry is based on MOVIES. Things that are nowhere near constant... There's what, 150-200 movies released per year? Each of them may be good or bad depending upon 50 or more variables. How is this mathmatically possible to put into a formula that can equal nothing but a vertical sloping line on a chart?
Greed execs just need to come down off their high horse and now that they're doing that, I'm still not satisfied. It's ridiculous that they can say "You know what, it wasn't the piracy that we were accusing OUR CUSTOMERS of. It was just that we were stupid shits." and everyone just shrugs it off by saying "Those crazy movie execs!".
Ugh, it makes me fucking sick.
You're doing the morally right thing but you'll get the shaft every time...
Mangan said he was looking for a new job. He has contacted dozens of aerospace firms in the U.S. and Europe, but none have returned his calls. "Nobody wants to touch me," he said.
It's not really shocking that nobody wants to touch you after you've potentially cost your former employer, in the same field no less, millions of dollars. It's amazing to me though that the US has some of the best protection laws when it comes to this sort of thing.
I remember Time Trax when it was the show preceding... Babylon 5! Back when there were still "independent" TV stations. If I remember correctly, it went something like:
7PM Time Trax
8PM Babylon 5
9PM Kung-fu: The legend continues
They even had the "PTEN" logo before the programming block. I think it was a failed attempt to make a UPN-like "netlet". Thankfully, Babylon 5 made it out of that debacle in-tact for the most part.
The phone uses TransFlash. Yet another flash memory format. At this time, 512MB is the largest denomination of T-Flash. Assumingly, there will be a 1GB chip sooner or later but there were reports that the phone itself limited the number of songs in the library to 100 REGARDLESS of free space available. At least, that's what the report was on the "preview" version of the phone given to some reviewers.
I haven't seen a report one way or another if the final version of phone does this.
You can find it here: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3380389
Sadly, the site designer wants to pop up a new window and have me view the video in my web browser. They're so aggressive about that desire that they demand I break my proxy to allow them to script my system rather than just providing me a download link.
The link popup contains a link to download the video, Genius.
We want our cell phones to do everything and we want to market PCs and content to everybody on the planet. I think that's a decent summary of all the "ideas" there.
Is it just me or did everything sound incredibly boring?
Because then it's that much easier to hack. A proprietary memory storage unit would be a good amount more difficult, I'd imagine. You can bet that 2.5" removable drive will be significantly encased and modified also.
Add this to /etc/hostconfig:
SPOTLIGHT=-NO-
Reboot, and you're done. The indexing service won't even load at boot. The spotlight icon will still be in the corner but will do absolutely nothing when you type in a string.
And by the way, a watched pot also never boils. I think you're just imagining that it's sucking up all your battery. But hey, it may use a few extra cycles and use up your battery a little quicker.
Skipping the theological mellodrama..
You might be able to tell me at what speed an object falls to the earth, but can you tell me why it falls? Something as simple as gravity? Science is observing events and trying to predict what will happen. Science does not purport to understand why something happens.
Um, science _does_ attempt to explain to the best of our ability why things happen. Is "gravity" not a perfectly valid answer to your question? If you want to recursively ask "Why?" to every explanation, then I challenge you to explain your faith and allow me to extend the same courtesy. I guarantee you will run out of productive statements long before I will.
The fact that you refeer to soul and "some such shit" in the same sentance leads me to believe you believe you are right and everyone else is wrong, and that you should be the one who decides where my tax dollars are spent.
Blah, blah, blah. Vica versa. Ad nausem.
All that Bush did was listen to his constituents, who said they don't want their tax dollars being spent on embryos that came from abortions.
Woah, Woah! Hold it right there. This is where you demonstrate a complete lack of understanding. Embryos that came from abortions? From the wikipedia...
Embryonic stem cells are stem cells derived from the undifferentiated inner mass cells of a blastocyst, an early stage embryo consisting of 50-150 cells. They are pluripotent, meaning they are able to grow into any of the 200 cell types in the body. Embryonic stem cells can be obtained from a cloned blastocyst, created by fusing a denucleated egg cell with a patient's cell. The blastocyst produced is allowed to grow to the size of a few tens of cells, and stem cells are then extracted. Because they are obtained from a clone, they are genetically compatible with the patient.
200 cells is not a fetus by any stretch of the imagination. Nor is a blastocyst a fetus. These is very much a lab created process and trying to apply your morality via rubber stamp doesn't exactly line up.
Answer that. WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO DECIDE.
Well, for starters, I post with my user account.
Honestly though, why is every human life precious? Have you ever eaten eggs before? That's one life that will never have a chance to experience this wonderful beautiful world, all because of your senseless "hunger".
Even if you don't, if you mean to tell me that you've never killed anything ever? What makes the life of a fly or ant that you've most certainly killed less precious than the frozen embryo that never developed into a human? What gives you the right to decide that?
You can call this rationalization but I call it using your damn brain. I will choose to help the people that are suffering over bringing another life into the world any day of the week.
Like you said, the frozen embryos and the stem cells taken from them aren't ours to screw around with like this. They do (and should) belong to the organism they were taken from.
Wonderful, said organism is frozen and 99% likely never to see any functional life.
When it comes to human stem cells, that organism is another human life. It's a simple path from "We want the paraplegic to walk again" to "we will kill humans to allow others to walk again".
Do tell, Anonymous Coward, why is taking stem cells from a donated and otherwise perpetually frozen embryo equal to killing a human?
*shrug*. and people wonder why this country is going downhill
Obviously, because of MTV.
Oh, that's right... the frozen embryos have souls or some such shit. Yes, this is a hateful post because I simply can't fathom why this scientific area can't be advanced without controversy in the US. I really, really don't get it. I'd love for somebody to explain it to me. Please!