Yeah, what a bunch of morons. They cancel a show that earned them next to nothing in advertising revenue, then announced a movie, and fans (you) are "already standing in line" to pay to see it. Buffons, I tell ya! =)
And this is what happens when someone compiles a blazingly-obvious summary of a story, followed by a bit 'o common sense in order to get a +5 Insightful. I'm glad to see this karma whoring was a work of progress rather than a GNAA troll that would get modded down somewhere that no one ever looked at. =)
Don't forget the fact that they suck now! Even if they were champions of p2p and anti-RIAA, I can't see why anyone would buy their CD after releasing the "St. Anger" single. And I *love* Metallica's music, in general. But that song is the single most unmelodic, annoying, crap I've ever heard (and my wife listens to country!) And don't get me started on the lyrics. The guys went from "justice is raped" and "Am I evil, yes I fscking am" to "My anger wants to be healthy." WTF?
Any to make matters worse, despite the fact that a good majority of people hate it, it's still at #1 on every ClearChannel Rock station in the country!
Later, through an RIAA spokeswoman, Sherman said the "issue is not the decline in CDs; it's the decline in people paying for the music that they acquire. We need to get people back into the habit of paying for music, whether it's from record stores or a legal online service."
While I may be somewhat divided on the whole RIAA/Filesharing issues, this statement just gripes me. Why is the attitude always about changing what "everyone else" is doing? Why didn't Sherman say "We need to make a product that people are more willing to pay for with their hard-earned money. We need to create value in the eyes of our customers and address their needs more directly?"
GUI. I'm not a gui-app programmer at all. The other day, I was playing with VC++ and decided to create a small gui app to see how easy it was. I simply chose a dialog-based app with a statically linked library. It created the necessary files for me and I compiled and ran it. It popped up a dialog box with an OK and Cancel buttons. I hit the 'X' and it died.
"Neat," I thought.
Anyway, I checked the executable file size. 2.3MB! Granted, that was probably due to the statically linked library, but still, I'm not surprized that a fairly well-featured, somewhat-stable Windows gui email client takes a 7MB zipped download.
I assume for the same reason that McDonald's can't sue me if I open an IT Consulting business with the same name.
I'm pretty sure trademarks only apply to similiar fields. That is, I'd be ok up until the day I decide to sell a hamburger. Then I'd be up that proverbial creek...
To this day, the fastest I've ever connected to the internet from my house has been 28.8 (usually 26.4).
When I graduated ~3 years ago and moved from BFE, Louisiana to a few miles North of Dallas (Plano), I was so inexperienced with broadband, I just assumed that my $1300/month 2-bedroom apartment would have a fat pipe coming through the wall. Turns out that no, no Cable/DSL for me. Even worse, the phones lines were so noisy, I could only dial-in at about 19.2 kbps. Even worse, 3 months after I had moved, my little rural hometown of about 6000 people got cable internet access!
Basic software skills are always moderately transferable. Yes, you must continue you education and keep up with new technologies, but people that have written "high-performance database software for AS/400 systems for about six years now" are not applying for jobs that require "java and 8 years of Windows 2K experience."
Egads, do you have any idea why we have Unions? They are groups to protect *highly-specialized* jobs. Take commercial airline pilots. They spend their education learning how to fly 747s. That is a non-transferable skill. If the major airlines want to cut their pay by 50% and they didn't have a union to protect them, what would they do? What does an out of work 747 pilot do? Fly crop dusters? Drive a cab? Unions are in place because "the market" can't self-balance certain jobs. There is too much power in the hand of too few employers.
Now engineers are nowhere near that highly specialized. If you design software for IBM and they fire you, what do you do? You go to one of the 1000s of other firms that employ software engineers. The Engineering market can self-balance itself. It's large enough that a group of coorporations can't get together and decide that electrical engineering should be a minimum wage job.
Well then you'd have to add Military spending, Medicare, SS, education, what kind of soda is on Air Force One, etc. Basically, you'd have the entire US Goverment Budget attached.
We already have methods for "voting" for these things. It's called "voting." That's what elected goverment officials are for. Hence the term "representative." Unfortunately, you hardly know what their opinions are on anything except the current "hot topics," but nevertheless, their purpose is to represent you and your wishes. There is no need to re-invent this policy.
Sounds good in theory (you'd probably need your own domain, as each group of 3 numbers probably needs a unique email addy), but it would probably do more harm than good. It would probably be obvious that someone "cheated" and the TM's would petition the gov that the list is invalid and can't be used at all.
Why not just sign up all the numbers that affect you personally, and let eveyone else do the same?
Having used the xLC compiler (on AIX 4 and 5), I can say that it is a very nice compiler. It's probably one of the most strict ANSI-compliant compilers I've used. It also has some nice architecture tuning optimizations. If this new version speeds up the G5, then you can count on future versions giving even better increases.
Because businesses have a financial stake in research and development. They have to pay both employees and contractors for labor.
I bet a Lear Jet doesn't contain 10s of millions in raw material, most of the cost is in the salaries of researchers.
I'm sure Photoshop and Outlook cost a ton of money of develop. Does that mean nobody should use Gimp and Evolution? It's the difference between a business and a hobby. And that difference is $$.
LOL! That was good, I haven't seen one of these trolls in a while. I was wondering for a moment what kind of article would make gratuitous use of the work "cock." You even got some mod points! Nice job.
Actually the paper address defense mechanisms, such as randomly varying the time out interval, but it turns out that the performance lost in TCP efficiently nulls any benefits. Interesting paaper.
If that's the case then most Linux distros suffer from this problem 10X. I consider myself a pretty savy user, but I'm often befuddled by each new RedHat and Mandrake release, as the configuration utilties change everytime. Even after using one for weeks, I still end up spending too much time figuring out where to go to change themes or resolutions.
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Fox execs are morons
Yeah, what a bunch of morons. They cancel a show that earned them next to nothing in advertising revenue, then announced a movie, and fans (you) are "already standing in line" to pay to see it. Buffons, I tell ya! =)
What? Read the article? That would break Slashdot edicate.
As would spellcheck. =)
And this is what happens when someone compiles a blazingly-obvious summary of a story, followed by a bit 'o common sense in order to get a +5 Insightful. I'm glad to see this karma whoring was a work of progress rather than a GNAA troll that would get modded down somewhere that no one ever looked at. =)
I, for one, welcome our new twister overlords.
+1 Informative?!?
Does that mean that some moderator actually believes that we have, indeed, been conquered by twisters?
Don't forget the fact that they suck now! Even if they were champions of p2p and anti-RIAA, I can't see why anyone would buy their CD after releasing the "St. Anger" single. And I *love* Metallica's music, in general. But that song is the single most unmelodic, annoying, crap I've ever heard (and my wife listens to country!) And don't get me started on the lyrics. The guys went from "justice is raped" and "Am I evil, yes I fscking am" to "My anger wants to be healthy." WTF?
Any to make matters worse, despite the fact that a good majority of people hate it, it's still at #1 on every ClearChannel Rock station in the country!
Later, through an RIAA spokeswoman, Sherman said the "issue is not the decline in CDs; it's the decline in people paying for the music that they acquire. We need to get people back into the habit of paying for music, whether it's from record stores or a legal online service."
While I may be somewhat divided on the whole RIAA/Filesharing issues, this statement just gripes me. Why is the attitude always about changing what "everyone else" is doing? Why didn't Sherman say "We need to make a product that people are more willing to pay for with their hard-earned money. We need to create value in the eyes of our customers and address their needs more directly?"
GUI. I'm not a gui-app programmer at all. The other day, I was playing with VC++ and decided to create a small gui app to see how easy it was. I simply chose a dialog-based app with a statically linked library. It created the necessary files for me and I compiled and ran it. It popped up a dialog box with an OK and Cancel buttons. I hit the 'X' and it died.
"Neat," I thought.
Anyway, I checked the executable file size. 2.3MB! Granted, that was probably due to the statically linked library, but still, I'm not surprized that a fairly well-featured, somewhat-stable Windows gui email client takes a 7MB zipped download.
I assume for the same reason that McDonald's can't sue me if I open an IT Consulting business with the same name.
I'm pretty sure trademarks only apply to similiar fields. That is, I'd be ok up until the day I decide to sell a hamburger. Then I'd be up that proverbial creek...
To this day, the fastest I've ever connected to the internet from my house has been 28.8 (usually 26.4).
When I graduated ~3 years ago and moved from BFE, Louisiana to a few miles North of Dallas (Plano), I was so inexperienced with broadband, I just assumed that my $1300/month 2-bedroom apartment would have a fat pipe coming through the wall. Turns out that no, no Cable/DSL for me. Even worse, the phones lines were so noisy, I could only dial-in at about 19.2 kbps. Even worse, 3 months after I had moved, my little rural hometown of about 6000 people got cable internet access!
I thought it was explosions that made a "boom"; what sound does an implosion make?
*moob!*
Basic software skills are always moderately transferable. Yes, you must continue you education and keep up with new technologies, but people that have written "high-performance database software for AS/400 systems for about six years now" are not applying for jobs that require "java and 8 years of Windows 2K experience."
I think one answer is UNION
Egads, do you have any idea why we have Unions? They are groups to protect *highly-specialized* jobs. Take commercial airline pilots. They spend their education learning how to fly 747s. That is a non-transferable skill. If the major airlines want to cut their pay by 50% and they didn't have a union to protect them, what would they do? What does an out of work 747 pilot do? Fly crop dusters? Drive a cab? Unions are in place because "the market" can't self-balance certain jobs. There is too much power in the hand of too few employers.
Now engineers are nowhere near that highly specialized. If you design software for IBM and they fire you, what do you do? You go to one of the 1000s of other firms that employ software engineers. The Engineering market can self-balance itself. It's large enough that a group of coorporations can't get together and decide that electrical engineering should be a minimum wage job.
Viva la capitalism!
Well then you'd have to add Military spending, Medicare, SS, education, what kind of soda is on Air Force One, etc. Basically, you'd have the entire US Goverment Budget attached.
We already have methods for "voting" for these things. It's called "voting." That's what elected goverment officials are for. Hence the term "representative." Unfortunately, you hardly know what their opinions are on anything except the current "hot topics," but nevertheless, their purpose is to represent you and your wishes. There is no need to re-invent this policy.
You're actually lucky. Mine says:
"Failure is Always an Option - Lotus Notes"
Sounds good in theory (you'd probably need your own domain, as each group of 3 numbers probably needs a unique email addy), but it would probably do more harm than good. It would probably be obvious that someone "cheated" and the TM's would petition the gov that the list is invalid and can't be used at all.
Why not just sign up all the numbers that affect you personally, and let eveyone else do the same?
"Which way do you mean: the right one or the wrong one? "
The "+3 Funny" one..
"I feel that the Internet is our last source of un-censored and un-biased information."
I think you're forgetting about Fox News...
Having used the xLC compiler (on AIX 4 and 5), I can say that it is a very nice compiler. It's probably one of the most strict ANSI-compliant compilers I've used. It also has some nice architecture tuning optimizations. If this new version speeds up the G5, then you can count on future versions giving even better increases.
This is very good news for Apple-people.
Because businesses have a financial stake in research and development. They have to pay both employees and contractors for labor.
I bet a Lear Jet doesn't contain 10s of millions in raw material, most of the cost is in the salaries of researchers.
I'm sure Photoshop and Outlook cost a ton of money of develop. Does that mean nobody should use Gimp and Evolution? It's the difference between a business and a hobby. And that difference is $$.
LOL! That was good, I haven't seen one of these trolls in a while. I was wondering for a moment what kind of article would make gratuitous use of the work "cock." You even got some mod points! Nice job.
".Net is trying to become Java, and so is Java.."
Yep, I hear that the next version of Java will be 98% Java. Then they just have to focus on removing that last 2% of Fortran... =)
2400 baud? Back in my day, I had to run back and forth to my ISP yelling in binary.
"101010100010100"
Uh, click on the word "paper" in the story, then click on "This paper is available in Adobe PDF format."
Or Cick Here
Actually the paper address defense mechanisms, such as randomly varying the time out interval, but it turns out that the performance lost in TCP efficiently nulls any benefits. Interesting paaper.
If that's the case then most Linux distros suffer from this problem 10X. I consider myself a pretty savy user, but I'm often befuddled by each new RedHat and Mandrake release, as the configuration utilties change everytime. Even after using one for weeks, I still end up spending too much time figuring out where to go to change themes or resolutions.