CES is mainly a bunch of useless consumer crap. The high end of that market, plus all the professional gear is at NAB. It's the same megavendors and the display spaces are almost identical for both shows, but NAB has much cooler stuff on display.
It WAS a piece of shit at the rollout. Sp1 was equally shitty. Sp2 was an improvement, but broke a lot of stuff. By the time it hit SP3, it was rock solid and that's where it stayed. The same thing happen on W2k. The original was barely functional and the first two service packs on made minor improvements. It wasn't stable until SP3. The update roll-up they called SP4 didn't really add much. I still have a copy of 2k SP4 on a Celeron 1ghz laptop in the office that I use as a print server, a stamp machine (with Stamps.com), and a disk printer. It typically runs for 3-4 months between reboots.
When it comes to Windows stability, Microsoft has always been its own worst enemy. A decade ago, I figured out that the way to keep a Windows box stable was to NEVER install any MS applications. No Outlook, no Office, no VB6/NET, no Visio, none of that garbage. The guy(s) writing the OS are clearly a WHOLE lot smarter than the knuckle-draggers on the Office or developer tools teams.
Exactly. I have a closet full of rack-mounted workstations hooked to 32" monitors that run Sony Vegas and Photoshop. I do video, audio, and web graphics production and my "deal-breaker" was the fact that Vista was such a broken piece of shit that it was incapable of moving terabytes of files around the network within my expected lifetime. I tested a transfer when I had to de-crapify a friend's new laptop and Vista's file transfer dialog predicted WEEKS to move a half a terabyte of files to/from an XP machine. It was even worse with a Samba share. The lockdown on spdif and hdmi were just extra-chunky fecal icing on the cake. I stopped caring about Windows at that point and from what I've heard, file transfer is just as abysmal in 7.
For me the question would be "what's keeping me on Windows" and the only answer to that is Sony Vegas Pro. Unfortunately for me, it needs V3 or higher of.NET. (mono is barely on 2) If they made a native Linux version or if it would run perfectly in Wine, I'd be off Windows completely. If MS seriously wanted to keep the business of people like me, they'd split the codebase and make a locked down "appliance" version for throw-away consumer garbage like phones, tablets, & game consoles, then offer a commercial product that came in ONE version but offered several default install configurations such as basic office, A/V workstation, industrial control, web server, and application server.
As it stands now, if Win8 doesn't offer file transfer at near bus & device speed and a clean XP-like professional interface (i.e., not aimed at 14-year-old girls) MS can pretty much kiss my ass for the rest of my working life. I have had racks full of colo servers running Centos for years and I'm fairly proficient with Linux on the command line. If I can't get Vegas running on desktop Linux by 2014, I'll just firewall the XP workstations off the net completely and keep on keepin' on
Prior to the 80's, non-aviation gas was nearly unregulated and was really pretty shitty. Dumping in a bunch of liquid tetra-ethyl lead was a dirt-cheap way to raise the octane level a bunch of points without spending any real money on additional refining processes. Unleaded gasoline initially required a LOT more refining, so it was more expensive.
Even before the popularity of adding ethanol and other stuff to replace the lead, you could spot unleaded by the smell alone. Anyone who spent time cruising the boulevard on Saturday nights back in the 60's and 70's will probably have a sense-memory of the way gasoline used to smell back then. It was nasty and strong, but had a unique character. Modern gasoline smells extremely "sour" compared to Sunoco 104
You DO understand that web applications are not limited to the environments listed above, right? CGIs have been written in Perl, C, and any number of other languages since day one.
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That's why you NEVER do a whois at a registrar unless you are ready to buy right then. On Windows, use something like SamSpade. On Mac or LInux, do a whois from the command line.
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Yes you lose all that money and have to spend it again.
It's the one tactic I hate about godaddy, you get no refunds for anything. It's better to go month to month so you can leave them.
Complete and utter bullshit. All years paid in advance for a domain will always transfer to a new registrar. The minimum registration period for a domain is one year. There is no "month to month" registration possible.
You are too stupid to be giving out advice. Shut the fuck up!
That was an excellent cover story for a lot of the AEE attendees. You could ride the buses or the monorail between the Sands Expo and the LV Convention Center and if you were staying at the Venetian or Palazzo, you had a perfectly good excuse to be in the vicinity of AEE. A lot of those "secret" CES parties were decorated with porn stars who just happened to be there that week already because of AEE/AVN Awards. It was a Win-Win for everyone.
Not sure what the deal is with moving both the AEE show and the AVN Awards to different venues and a different week, but I suspect it has something to do with money. The Hard Rock has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for a few years now so they probably gave AEE a hell of a deal to have both events there. The date change makes it coincide more closely with the InterNext Porn Webmaster and B2B event which is the 3-4 days immediately preceding the new AEE dates.
I think the Shot Show is now going to overlap with CES, but I don't see there being a lot of crossover between the two crowds. I've been to CES for the last couple of years but I'm not going anymore. There really aren't many announcements in January these days. Any prototypes that were shown seemed to always have a release date in June. I always walked right on thru the MS area without a second glance anyway. Personally, I find the NAB and InterOp shows a lot more interesting and I'll continue to go to those.
I would add hydrocodone (vicodin) to that list of worthless crap that gets prescribed way too often. I've had a doctor try to tell me that oxycodone and hydrocodone are chemically nearly identical and that hydrocodone should be adequate for a broken leg. I pointed out that alcohol and ether are "chemically nearly identical" too and I'd be happy to whip him up an ether martini. He wasn't interested.
The problem, I gather, is that the primary selection criterion being used here is "poor'. That's a fairly bad criterion for any medical decision.
The sad part is that there is no good reason for any of the opiates to be terribly expensive. It doesn't help that our government would rather see chronic pain sufferers dead or screaming in agony rather than admit the war on drugs is a failure.
This can't be said often enough. As far as I know, Oxycontin is nothing more than timed-release oxycodone. It must be on a new patent for the particular formulation, because the patent on the base medicine has long since expired. I'm currently dealing with a ruptured disk in my neck and just picked up a refill of generic oxycodone - 30 for $7.90. FWIW, a bottle of 30 cyclobenzaprine (generic form of Flexeril) is $4.00. It's criminal that we allow patents on trivial reformulations of drugs whose original patents expired years or decades ago, especially on basic essentials like opioid pain managers.
More accurately Christmas is a Christian holiday originally timed to coincide and compete with a Pagan holiday which it pushed out though many of the pagan traditions ended up being incorporated by converted followers. There are lots of things Christian about Christmas such as the story, celebrating the birth of Jesus (even tho they don't believe it happened that time of year) ect, but many of the traditions such as the trees and candles are co-opted from Saturnalia.
...and eggnog and mistletoe and yule logs and neighborhood caroling and gifts and feasting and getting drunk. With the exception of tacking on a slightly updated version of a MUCH older fairytale, the early christians did nothing but slap a cheap coat of paint on the annual celebration of a natural event (winter solstice) that already dated back tens of thousands of years.
I prefer to celebrate Festivus and I have a LOT of grievances to air this year!
OK, then they won't use UPS if they want their discs to be intact.
EVERY. SINGLE. THING. that gets sent to me UPS appears to have been intentionally kicked, punched, or slashed. This goes for parcels as well as envelopes.
I got three new 1U servers sent to me via UPS last year. One of the cartons had a TIRE TRACK across the top of it.
Neither will the banks. 100% of all chargebacks/reversals are on the backs of the merchants, who not only lose the original transaction amount but also get saddled with a "chargeback fee" of an additional $20 to $75 for EACH transaction. The card-issuing banks, Visa/MC, and the merchant banks NEVER lose money. The only parties who will be harmed by this will be small businesses.
No one has ever accomplished a goddamn thing by "camping out". You protest during business hours when you can get people's attention and when media bureaus are active and fully staffed, then you go home, take a shower, and sleep in a warm bed. In the morning, you go back and do it again. Rinse, repeat.
The only attention these knoblickers are attracting by sleeping in a New York park is from the rats and the homeless.
About 20 years ago, I had a hand-held device roughly the size of a smart phone but twice as thick that did distance measuring all by itself. It was infrared and as I recall, it was something like $25.00 from Rat Shack or Home Depot or some place like that. A 30 foot tape measure is about $8.00 and works a lot better.
This is square peg/ round hole stuff. It's generally not cost effective to force machinery into a role that was defined by the task itself to be done by human labor. "Farming", as it has existed for thousands of years, is the problem here. The solution is to throw away the entire process and build it from scratch to be handled entirely by machinery. Then it's simply not necessary to worry about "humanoid" machinery and its inherent problems and weaknesses.
Build hydroponic beds in layers a hundred feet high. Make infrastructure weigh tons if that's more efficient and resilient. Machinery and hydraulics are orders of magnitude faster and more powerful than mere humans. Use those strengths to redefine the entire food and organic materials production industries the way it redefined the heavy industries of the 20th century. Ever watch a robot stuff tiny components into a machine-made PC board? Ever watch a wave-soldering machine? The electronics we are all using right now to participate in this forum wouldn't even be possible if millions of our devices had to be built by hand using microscopes and tweezers, regardless of how little the workers were paid. The entire modern electronic age was built with machines. It's time for the production of our food to be automated too.
Go watch that video carefully. The wife is playing "mediator" by taking the belt from the judge and claiming that it's her turn. He tries unsuccessfully to take it back a few times but she won't give it up. Also be aware that the wife left the judge and took the kids sometime after this incident because he beat the shit out of her regularly too. This piece of garbage is a sadistic animal who terrorized everyone in his family for years before they were able to break away. He has no business being a judge and every family law case he ever handled should be re-tried. As for him, he deserves to be dragged behind a pickup truck for a few (hundred) miles.
I've been thinking about switching my money from my primary checking account over to a credit union, though if i do i may very well keep my BoA account with a minimal amount of money in it and just not use it. It's the same account my parents helped me set up as a teen at what was then our local Seafirst bank. Despite having been bought out by BoA decades ago (or maybe because i felt like it was killed rather than having the chance to become disenamored of it like BoA later) i still feel rather attached to the account. But i'm strangely sentimental like that.
You're probably being sentimental about BOA then. Unless you are fairly old, you never really had a Seattle First Bank account. BOA bought them in 1985. They just didn't bother to change the signs out front until 2000. It has taken them another decade to actually bring them into the fold completely. Did you notice that online banking for Washington and Idaho accounts was down or limited a few weeks ago, and then when it came back up it was completely different? We're now on the national systems.
I slapped a 750 gig drive in my Lenovo over a year ago for about 80 bucks (Newegg). There's really no excuse to be running out of space when you could triple your storage for the equivalent of a week's worth of Lattes and junk food lunches. If even that pittance is out of reach, you need to think about the wisdom of your past career choices and maybe rethink your future plans.
There's absolutely a molecular difference. Refined sugar (sucrose) is about 50/50 glucose and fructose. HFCS is roughly 45/55. Glucose is body & brain fuel. Fructose turns to fat. The people arguing the difference don't see 5% as significant, but over time it can be.
Clearly no one in the "pro pagination" camp is over the age of 30. I look forward to the day these people get fitted with their first pair of bifocals or trifocals and realize that paginated information is inconvenient as hell when you have to move your entire head to "scroll" a page instead of being able to bring the current line of text to the optimum viewing position with a mouse wheel or similar device.
Who files everything manually? I have about 300 folders and the majority of my mail is routed to folders by sender, recipient, or subject via rules. I also have hundreds of forwarders to a handful of primary POP accounts, which is much easier than managing hundreds of individual POP accounts. The only thing in my inbox are a few messages from people who email me directly instead of using my customer service mailto links that pre-populate the subject line with my routing keywords. FWIW I still use Forte Agent as my client.
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If you have ANY servers listening on port 22, you need to go back to admin school.
CES is mainly a bunch of useless consumer crap. The high end of that market, plus all the professional gear is at NAB. It's the same megavendors and the display spaces are almost identical for both shows, but NAB has much cooler stuff on display.
It WAS a piece of shit at the rollout. Sp1 was equally shitty. Sp2 was an improvement, but broke a lot of stuff. By the time it hit SP3, it was rock solid and that's where it stayed. The same thing happen on W2k. The original was barely functional and the first two service packs on made minor improvements. It wasn't stable until SP3. The update roll-up they called SP4 didn't really add much. I still have a copy of 2k SP4 on a Celeron 1ghz laptop in the office that I use as a print server, a stamp machine (with Stamps.com), and a disk printer. It typically runs for 3-4 months between reboots.
When it comes to Windows stability, Microsoft has always been its own worst enemy. A decade ago, I figured out that the way to keep a Windows box stable was to NEVER install any MS applications. No Outlook, no Office, no VB6/NET, no Visio, none of that garbage. The guy(s) writing the OS are clearly a WHOLE lot smarter than the knuckle-draggers on the Office or developer tools teams.
Exactly. I have a closet full of rack-mounted workstations hooked to 32" monitors that run Sony Vegas and Photoshop. I do video, audio, and web graphics production and my "deal-breaker" was the fact that Vista was such a broken piece of shit that it was incapable of moving terabytes of files around the network within my expected lifetime. I tested a transfer when I had to de-crapify a friend's new laptop and Vista's file transfer dialog predicted WEEKS to move a half a terabyte of files to/from an XP machine. It was even worse with a Samba share. The lockdown on spdif and hdmi were just extra-chunky fecal icing on the cake. I stopped caring about Windows at that point and from what I've heard, file transfer is just as abysmal in 7.
.NET. (mono is barely on 2) If they made a native Linux version or if it would run perfectly in Wine, I'd be off Windows completely. If MS seriously wanted to keep the business of people like me, they'd split the codebase and make a locked down "appliance" version for throw-away consumer garbage like phones, tablets, & game consoles, then offer a commercial product that came in ONE version but offered several default install configurations such as basic office, A/V workstation, industrial control, web server, and application server.
For me the question would be "what's keeping me on Windows" and the only answer to that is Sony Vegas Pro. Unfortunately for me, it needs V3 or higher of
As it stands now, if Win8 doesn't offer file transfer at near bus & device speed and a clean XP-like professional interface (i.e., not aimed at 14-year-old girls) MS can pretty much kiss my ass for the rest of my working life. I have had racks full of colo servers running Centos for years and I'm fairly proficient with Linux on the command line. If I can't get Vegas running on desktop Linux by 2014, I'll just firewall the XP workstations off the net completely and keep on keepin' on
Prior to the 80's, non-aviation gas was nearly unregulated and was really pretty shitty. Dumping in a bunch of liquid tetra-ethyl lead was a dirt-cheap way to raise the octane level a bunch of points without spending any real money on additional refining processes. Unleaded gasoline initially required a LOT more refining, so it was more expensive.
Even before the popularity of adding ethanol and other stuff to replace the lead, you could spot unleaded by the smell alone. Anyone who spent time cruising the boulevard on Saturday nights back in the 60's and 70's will probably have a sense-memory of the way gasoline used to smell back then. It was nasty and strong, but had a unique character. Modern gasoline smells extremely "sour" compared to Sunoco 104
You DO understand that web applications are not limited to the environments listed above, right? CGIs have been written in Perl, C, and any number of other languages since day one.
That's why you NEVER do a whois at a registrar unless you are ready to buy right then. On Windows, use something like SamSpade. On Mac or LInux, do a whois from the command line.
Yes you lose all that money and have to spend it again.
It's the one tactic I hate about godaddy, you get no refunds for anything. It's better to go month to month so you can leave them.
Complete and utter bullshit. All years paid in advance for a domain will always transfer to a new registrar. The minimum registration period for a domain is one year. There is no "month to month" registration possible.
You are too stupid to be giving out advice. Shut the fuck up!
That was an excellent cover story for a lot of the AEE attendees. You could ride the buses or the monorail between the Sands Expo and the LV Convention Center and if you were staying at the Venetian or Palazzo, you had a perfectly good excuse to be in the vicinity of AEE. A lot of those "secret" CES parties were decorated with porn stars who just happened to be there that week already because of AEE/AVN Awards. It was a Win-Win for everyone.
Not sure what the deal is with moving both the AEE show and the AVN Awards to different venues and a different week, but I suspect it has something to do with money. The Hard Rock has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy for a few years now so they probably gave AEE a hell of a deal to have both events there. The date change makes it coincide more closely with the InterNext Porn Webmaster and B2B event which is the 3-4 days immediately preceding the new AEE dates.
I think the Shot Show is now going to overlap with CES, but I don't see there being a lot of crossover between the two crowds. I've been to CES for the last couple of years but I'm not going anymore. There really aren't many announcements in January these days. Any prototypes that were shown seemed to always have a release date in June. I always walked right on thru the MS area without a second glance anyway. Personally, I find the NAB and InterOp shows a lot more interesting and I'll continue to go to those.
I would add hydrocodone (vicodin) to that list of worthless crap that gets prescribed way too often. I've had a doctor try to tell me that oxycodone and hydrocodone are chemically nearly identical and that hydrocodone should be adequate for a broken leg. I pointed out that alcohol and ether are "chemically nearly identical" too and I'd be happy to whip him up an ether martini. He wasn't interested.
The problem, I gather, is that the primary selection criterion being used here is "poor'. That's a fairly bad criterion for any medical decision.
The sad part is that there is no good reason for any of the opiates to be terribly expensive. It doesn't help that our government would rather see chronic pain sufferers dead or screaming in agony rather than admit the war on drugs is a failure.
This can't be said often enough. As far as I know, Oxycontin is nothing more than timed-release oxycodone. It must be on a new patent for the particular formulation, because the patent on the base medicine has long since expired. I'm currently dealing with a ruptured disk in my neck and just picked up a refill of generic oxycodone - 30 for $7.90. FWIW, a bottle of 30 cyclobenzaprine (generic form of Flexeril) is $4.00. It's criminal that we allow patents on trivial reformulations of drugs whose original patents expired years or decades ago, especially on basic essentials like opioid pain managers.
Seems like a modest proposal to me.
More accurately Christmas is a Christian holiday originally timed to coincide and compete with a Pagan holiday which it pushed out though many of the pagan traditions ended up being incorporated by converted followers. There are lots of things Christian about Christmas such as the story, celebrating the birth of Jesus (even tho they don't believe it happened that time of year) ect, but many of the traditions such as the trees and candles are co-opted from Saturnalia.
...and eggnog and mistletoe and yule logs and neighborhood caroling and gifts and feasting and getting drunk. With the exception of tacking on a slightly updated version of a MUCH older fairytale, the early christians did nothing but slap a cheap coat of paint on the annual celebration of a natural event (winter solstice) that already dated back tens of thousands of years.
I prefer to celebrate Festivus and I have a LOT of grievances to air this year!
OK, then they won't use UPS if they want their discs to be intact.
EVERY. SINGLE. THING. that gets sent to me UPS appears to have been intentionally kicked, punched, or slashed. This goes for parcels as well as envelopes.
I got three new 1U servers sent to me via UPS last year. One of the cartons had a TIRE TRACK across the top of it.
Neither will the banks. 100% of all chargebacks/reversals are on the backs of the merchants, who not only lose the original transaction amount but also get saddled with a "chargeback fee" of an additional $20 to $75 for EACH transaction. The card-issuing banks, Visa/MC, and the merchant banks NEVER lose money. The only parties who will be harmed by this will be small businesses.
No one has ever accomplished a goddamn thing by "camping out". You protest during business hours when you can get people's attention and when media bureaus are active and fully staffed, then you go home, take a shower, and sleep in a warm bed. In the morning, you go back and do it again. Rinse, repeat.
The only attention these knoblickers are attracting by sleeping in a New York park is from the rats and the homeless.
About 20 years ago, I had a hand-held device roughly the size of a smart phone but twice as thick that did distance measuring all by itself. It was infrared and as I recall, it was something like $25.00 from Rat Shack or Home Depot or some place like that. A 30 foot tape measure is about $8.00 and works a lot better.
This is square peg/ round hole stuff. It's generally not cost effective to force machinery into a role that was defined by the task itself to be done by human labor. "Farming", as it has existed for thousands of years, is the problem here. The solution is to throw away the entire process and build it from scratch to be handled entirely by machinery. Then it's simply not necessary to worry about "humanoid" machinery and its inherent problems and weaknesses.
Build hydroponic beds in layers a hundred feet high. Make infrastructure weigh tons if that's more efficient and resilient. Machinery and hydraulics are orders of magnitude faster and more powerful than mere humans. Use those strengths to redefine the entire food and organic materials production industries the way it redefined the heavy industries of the 20th century. Ever watch a robot stuff tiny components into a machine-made PC board? Ever watch a wave-soldering machine? The electronics we are all using right now to participate in this forum wouldn't even be possible if millions of our devices had to be built by hand using microscopes and tweezers, regardless of how little the workers were paid. The entire modern electronic age was built with machines. It's time for the production of our food to be automated too.
Go watch that video carefully. The wife is playing "mediator" by taking the belt from the judge and claiming that it's her turn. He tries unsuccessfully to take it back a few times but she won't give it up. Also be aware that the wife left the judge and took the kids sometime after this incident because he beat the shit out of her regularly too. This piece of garbage is a sadistic animal who terrorized everyone in his family for years before they were able to break away. He has no business being a judge and every family law case he ever handled should be re-tried. As for him, he deserves to be dragged behind a pickup truck for a few (hundred) miles.
I've been thinking about switching my money from my primary checking account over to a credit union, though if i do i may very well keep my BoA account with a minimal amount of money in it and just not use it. It's the same account my parents helped me set up as a teen at what was then our local Seafirst bank. Despite having been bought out by BoA decades ago (or maybe because i felt like it was killed rather than having the chance to become disenamored of it like BoA later) i still feel rather attached to the account. But i'm strangely sentimental like that.
You're probably being sentimental about BOA then. Unless you are fairly old, you never really had a Seattle First Bank account. BOA bought them in 1985. They just didn't bother to change the signs out front until 2000. It has taken them another decade to actually bring them into the fold completely. Did you notice that online banking for Washington and Idaho accounts was down or limited a few weeks ago, and then when it came back up it was completely different? We're now on the national systems.
I slapped a 750 gig drive in my Lenovo over a year ago for about 80 bucks (Newegg). There's really no excuse to be running out of space when you could triple your storage for the equivalent of a week's worth of Lattes and junk food lunches. If even that pittance is out of reach, you need to think about the wisdom of your past career choices and maybe rethink your future plans.
There's absolutely a molecular difference. Refined sugar (sucrose) is about 50/50 glucose and fructose. HFCS is roughly 45/55. Glucose is body & brain fuel. Fructose turns to fat. The people arguing the difference don't see 5% as significant, but over time it can be.
Clearly no one in the "pro pagination" camp is over the age of 30. I look forward to the day these people get fitted with their first pair of bifocals or trifocals and realize that paginated information is inconvenient as hell when you have to move your entire head to "scroll" a page instead of being able to bring the current line of text to the optimum viewing position with a mouse wheel or similar device.
Who files everything manually? I have about 300 folders and the majority of my mail is routed to folders by sender, recipient, or subject via rules. I also have hundreds of forwarders to a handful of primary POP accounts, which is much easier than managing hundreds of individual POP accounts. The only thing in my inbox are a few messages from people who email me directly instead of using my customer service mailto links that pre-populate the subject line with my routing keywords. FWIW I still use Forte Agent as my client.
UV vision would let you see semen stains more easily but I'm not sure if that's a superpower or not.
It would be handy in the average strip club, especially in the VIP room