Because if you time shift, they can't sell the episode to you from HBO OnDemand which costs an additional $5.99 per month over and above the base HBO cost, at least in my neighborhood (Cablevision).
HBO hates, hates, hates time-shifting and anything else that replicates their content without paying them tribute. It was not in their best interest to put on a great show that would be Tivoed and passed around the internet.
It has been stated many times that Chase filmed several endings. He did not do that to keep the actors and writers from knowing the ending.
He did that so that HBO could put the better, alternate endings onto highly marked up "collector's edition" DRM'ed DVDs for us to buy.
Here's my belated Sopranos prediction: Within a few short months, certainly in time for Christmas, the alternate endings will appear on DVD. This will be heavily advertised. The base price DVDs will be a piece of crap. Ysou'll have to buy the collector's edition to get the alternate endings plus other "exclusive" content. The DVD will use a "better" encryption than ever before, followed by the inevitable posting of the decryption key or keys by some geek on digg.
The slow-track only happens if the people you work with and your bosses aren't telecommuting.
Here in IBM, 40% of the workforce is classified as "mobile" or "at home". The difference in classification is really just the percentage of time that you travel or work at customer sites. My boss and his boss telecommute. My department consists of people scattered around the globe, some telecommuting, some not. So, there's no real hit to the career for to anyone for telecommuting. In fact, you have to justify having an office these days.
The important thing to remember is not to cut yourself off. Keep an IM session (in IBM it's Sametime) alive while you're around, keep your cell phone on if you're at a customer site, get a good speakerphone, and get the best broadband you can get (for me it's FiOS). Have weekly teleconferences with team members (or more often if needed). Set clear agendas for meetings so they don't drag on and for pity's sake, learn to use the mute button, especially if you are a mouth breather or have kids/dogs in the room.
Telecommuting can work very well if there's a culture for it.
"After all, the 50's era (a time that conservatives like yourself laud as being the American ideal) was a time where you could get a good job with great security and live well for the rest of your life."....if you were white....and male.
PJ's desire for privacy is well known. So, I'm thinking SCO's move to depose her was a no-brainer for them. At worst, they correctly surmised that she'd "take a break" for a while trying to avoid the subpoena and trying to keep her privacy intact. At best for them, she gets deposed and they gag her from talking about the IBM and Novell cases.
Of course, I don't think they foresaw Mathfox keeping Groklaw going. Groklaw is wounded but not down thanks to him.
Hopefully the judge in Novell-SCO will put an end to this nonsense and call off the deposition.
I've kicked the tires on the web 2.0 office stuff that you get with Gmail but I guess I still don't see much of a point to these.
Virtually every computer I use in business and at home already has an office suite built in, whether it be Office, OpenOffice, or whatever-Dell-is-shipping-these-days.
At home, my office use consists of writing sick day excuse notes for my kids.
At the office, all my customers and colleagues use and have Office and most of the documents eventually end up in PDF form anyway. Versioning and sharing can be done using wikis or other web spaces.
So why use this? What's the added value over the tools that are out there now?
At IBM, 40% of us work at home or are "mobile" (visiting customers or working from home during down times). I'm not sure this theory applies when my manager, his manager, and his manager, etc. up the chain are all either working from home or are people in different timezones than me. These days at IBM, you have to justify why you are taking up precious office space.
What telecommuting has done is to allow me to compromise on my "no travel please" deal. I agreed to do some travel when I made the deal to work from home. So, while I travel maybe once a month for a couple of days, I end up having more family time because on the non-travel days, I'm home when they leave for and return from school/work. Meanwhile, I'm saving a bundle of cash on what had been a 40 mile daily commute and after school care.
So dollarwise I'm doing better and careerwise I'm doing better.
But even with all that, I still think it makes sense to get out and see people face-to-face. There's a bunch of us local to the area (all but 2 are telecommuters) that do a once-a-month lunch. It's good to keep the networking lines open and frankly, it keeps us sane.
Yup, there is a setting, at least on mine which has my company's version of 4.1. Use Options->Security->General Settings->Lock Handheld Upon Holstering.
If one were to write into the Wikipedia entry the following, "Wikipedia was practically shut down by Stephen Colbert", would that make it true?
Of course, I was being facetious....still am. My entry got +5, yours +2, so does that make my original comment on Slashdot more valid? Nah, it's just the tyrrany of the masses at work. And that was Colbert's very valid, not backfired-at-all point.
On the contrary, it proved exactly what Colbert's point was. Wikipedia's very nature makes it prone to misttatements and error. Wikipedia practically had to shut itself down after Colbert proved his point.
Seems like the submitter couldn't see the beauty of the satire. Just like Dave Barry's "Dog Ate My Toes" poetry project, it gave us all a good laugh, which is the entire point of humor and satire.
Backfired? No way. We all got a great laugh from this.
I don't know if things are different now but I do have to say that 25 years ago, it wasn't the men that were trying to keep me out of a career in computer science, it was the women. It was the female teachers at my middle school who couldn't understand why I wanted to take shop instead of sewing class, nuns at my all girl's school trying to talk me out of advanced math classes and into the humanities and older female relatives who on hearing that I was going to engineering school congratulated me because I'd find a husband there.
I never really saw a lot of "real" sexism from the men in my college. Yeah, I got good-natured ribbing from the guys but it never felt malicious, more like I was among friends. I only heard malicious stuff from women who resented my pursuing a job that could be construed as earning a living.
My daughter who is 7 now, will NEVER hear that shit from me.
But, that said, if she's interested in geeky stuff, great. If not, then that's okay too.
I can see it being good for those "Mom, I took a wrong turn out of Yankee Stadium and I have no idea where I am" kinds of calls.
Maybe it's cheaper than putting the GPS in the car.
Otherwise, meh.....if you want to know where they are, call them and ask. Or do what my mom did, "Where are you going? Who are you going to be with? Call me if you go somewhere else."
The running joke between my husband and I is that the budgeting wizards at the LV CSI office have spent all their money on amazing digital photographic magic resolution fixing tools but they can't afford a to hire a DBA to index their fingerprint database.
Really no difference between this and the Florida swamplands that people were sold many years ago. The "online" part just makes it a little easier to reach out to the pigeons.
Slashdot Mirror
Because if you time shift, they can't sell the episode to you from HBO OnDemand which costs an additional $5.99 per month over and above the base HBO cost, at least in my neighborhood (Cablevision).
HBO hates, hates, hates time-shifting and anything else that replicates their content without paying them tribute. It was not in their best interest to put on a great show that would be Tivoed and passed around the internet.
It has been stated many times that Chase filmed several endings. He did not do that to keep the actors and writers from knowing the ending.
He did that so that HBO could put the better, alternate endings onto highly marked up "collector's edition" DRM'ed DVDs for us to buy.
Here's my belated Sopranos prediction: Within a few short months, certainly in time for Christmas, the alternate endings will appear on DVD. This will be heavily advertised. The base price DVDs will be a piece of crap. Ysou'll have to buy the collector's edition to get the alternate endings plus other "exclusive" content. The DVD will use a "better" encryption than ever before, followed by the inevitable posting of the decryption key or keys by some geek on digg.
It's not personal, it's just business.
Turtles all the way down.
You forgot that it was all spearheaded by a guy who can't pronounce the word "nuclear".
The slow-track only happens if the people you work with and your bosses aren't telecommuting.
Here in IBM, 40% of the workforce is classified as "mobile" or "at home". The difference in classification is really just the percentage of time that you travel or work at customer sites. My boss and his boss telecommute. My department consists of people scattered around the globe, some telecommuting, some not. So, there's no real hit to the career for to anyone for telecommuting. In fact, you have to justify having an office these days.
The important thing to remember is not to cut yourself off. Keep an IM session (in IBM it's Sametime) alive while you're around, keep your cell phone on if you're at a customer site, get a good speakerphone, and get the best broadband you can get (for me it's FiOS). Have weekly teleconferences with team members (or more often if needed). Set clear agendas for meetings so they don't drag on and for pity's sake, learn to use the mute button, especially if you are a mouth breather or have kids/dogs in the room.
Telecommuting can work very well if there's a culture for it.
Being an IBMer I was quite alarmed by this headline. But if you read the linked story, you'll see that Cringely is quoting his "many friends" at IBM.
That's not what news people would term a reliable source.
It's not to say that this might not be true but I'd like to hear it from something a little more reliable than Cringely's watercooler.
Anonymous. Coward.
"After all, the 50's era (a time that conservatives like yourself laud as being the American ideal) was a time where you could get a good job with great security and live well for the rest of your life." ....if you were white....and male.
Details, details.
PJ's desire for privacy is well known. So, I'm thinking SCO's move to depose her was a no-brainer for them. At worst, they correctly surmised that she'd "take a break" for a while trying to avoid the subpoena and trying to keep her privacy intact. At best for them, she gets deposed and they gag her from talking about the IBM and Novell cases.
Of course, I don't think they foresaw Mathfox keeping Groklaw going. Groklaw is wounded but not down thanks to him.
Hopefully the judge in Novell-SCO will put an end to this nonsense and call off the deposition.
JoAnn
Makes me wonder how they fire the security guards.
But they are speaking of online versions of these, not the kind you install on your Dell, eMachine, or Gateway.
So I still say...meh...
The copy of MS Office I got with my machine was "free" in the sense that my company shelled out for it, not me.
The copy of OpenOffice or Corel I have on my home systems is free.
So why should I use these online versions?
I've kicked the tires on the web 2.0 office stuff that you get with Gmail but I guess I still don't see much of a point to these.
Virtually every computer I use in business and at home already has an office suite built in, whether it be Office, OpenOffice, or whatever-Dell-is-shipping-these-days.
At home, my office use consists of writing sick day excuse notes for my kids.
At the office, all my customers and colleagues use and have Office and most of the documents eventually end up in PDF form anyway. Versioning and sharing can be done using wikis or other web spaces.
So why use this? What's the added value over the tools that are out there now?
At IBM, 40% of us work at home or are "mobile" (visiting customers or working from home during down times). I'm not sure this theory applies when my manager, his manager, and his manager, etc. up the chain are all either working from home or are people in different timezones than me. These days at IBM, you have to justify why you are taking up precious office space.
What telecommuting has done is to allow me to compromise on my "no travel please" deal. I agreed to do some travel when I made the deal to work from home. So, while I travel maybe once a month for a couple of days, I end up having more family time because on the non-travel days, I'm home when they leave for and return from school/work. Meanwhile, I'm saving a bundle of cash on what had been a 40 mile daily commute and after school care.
So dollarwise I'm doing better and careerwise I'm doing better.
But even with all that, I still think it makes sense to get out and see people face-to-face. There's a bunch of us local to the area (all but 2 are telecommuters) that do a once-a-month lunch. It's good to keep the networking lines open and frankly, it keeps us sane.
Remind me to never borrow your PDA.
Correlation != Causality
I wonder when the newspapers are going to get that.
JoAnn
Yup, there is a setting, at least on mine which has my company's version of 4.1. Use Options->Security->General Settings->Lock Handheld Upon Holstering.
JoAnn
That's EXACTLY the first image that came into to my mind after seeing the headline.
My BB 7130e with the hefty extended life battery has even more theft deterrent than those wimpy Sprint phones.
JoAnn
It also helps that IBM cannot possibly block the internet to the 40% of employees who are mobile or at home workers.
JoAnn
If one were to write into the Wikipedia entry the following, "Wikipedia was practically shut down by Stephen Colbert", would that make it true?
Of course, I was being facetious....still am. My entry got +5, yours +2, so does that make my original comment on Slashdot more valid? Nah, it's just the tyrrany of the masses at work. And that was Colbert's very valid, not backfired-at-all point.
JoAnn
On the contrary, it proved exactly what Colbert's point was. Wikipedia's very nature makes it prone to misttatements and error. Wikipedia practically had to shut itself down after Colbert proved his point.
Seems like the submitter couldn't see the beauty of the satire. Just like Dave Barry's "Dog Ate My Toes" poetry project, it gave us all a good laugh, which is the entire point of humor and satire.
Backfired? No way. We all got a great laugh from this.
JoAnn
I don't know if things are different now but I do have to say that 25 years ago, it wasn't the men that were trying to keep me out of a career in computer science, it was the women. It was the female teachers at my middle school who couldn't understand why I wanted to take shop instead of sewing class, nuns at my all girl's school trying to talk me out of advanced math classes and into the humanities and older female relatives who on hearing that I was going to engineering school congratulated me because I'd find a husband there.
I never really saw a lot of "real" sexism from the men in my college. Yeah, I got good-natured ribbing from the guys but it never felt malicious, more like I was among friends. I only heard malicious stuff from women who resented my pursuing a job that could be construed as earning a living.
My daughter who is 7 now, will NEVER hear that shit from me.
But, that said, if she's interested in geeky stuff, great. If not, then that's okay too.
JoAnn
I can see it being good for those "Mom, I took a wrong turn out of Yankee Stadium and I have no idea where I am" kinds of calls.
Maybe it's cheaper than putting the GPS in the car.
Otherwise, meh.....if you want to know where they are, call them and ask. Or do what my mom did, "Where are you going? Who are you going to be with? Call me if you go somewhere else."
JoAnn
Relax went out the window the day they started publicizing the locations of local sex offenders on the internet.
Sad but true. Ignorance was bliss.
JoAnn
The running joke between my husband and I is that the budgeting wizards at the LV CSI office have spent all their money on amazing digital photographic magic resolution fixing tools but they can't afford a to hire a DBA to index their fingerprint database.
JoAnn
Really no difference between this and the Florida swamplands that people were sold many years ago. The "online" part just makes it a little easier to reach out to the pigeons.
JoAnn