Well I wonder if Google sold it all and jumped off a cliff if M$ would blindly do the same?? What is up with this rampant battle to out do each other?? If Google started making washing machines would M$ follow suit??
You are spot on about the resolution but at what cost? $20-$30 a disc is IMHO TOO HIGH to modivate Joe Average Consumer to take the leap. Not to mention the cost of the player itself.
I'm gonna join the others and sit on the fence with my beverage of choice and watch this whole thing play out before diving in.
Do "ANY" of us presently own a player for Blue-Ray????????????? Is there even a player currently on the market at say Best Buy etc??? How much might said bleeding edge toy cost????
It seems pure silliness to release this if NONE of the consumer world can actuallly go buy a disk and PLAY it!!!
Other than the player itself I have everything I think I need to get the full benefit (whatever that ends up being) of Blue-Ray but I'm in NO hurry to go there... None at all...
Meet the new terrorists: the RIAA & MPAA. Anybody want a buggy whip with their CD? The paradigm has shifted and the new terrorists will go to any length to protect their revenue stream. The only way to revolt is to stop buying their products. Let them whither away without a customer base. Free Market at it's best.
Dude, your comment about the apartment complex screwing the phone trunk has sparked a similar issue that I am suffering. Please, if you have any information concnering this, I'm all ears... I am close enough to the CO to get 1.5Mbit DSL but for some reason our complex phone system is screwing things up for delivering DSL to my humble home.
Thanks!
PS. I too once had Ricochet in the Seattle area, and yes it ROX!!
Well, I live inbetween two local phone providers (too far from the Central Office...) and cable modems have not made it to Bellevue WA (city won't let AT&T tear up their precious potholed streets, read - STUPID). So, in comparison to 56Kbps dialup, 128Kbps and mobility starts to look good. I once had Ricochet when I lived closer to a Central Office. Once DSL was available, of course I switched. But while I was on Ricochet with my handy laptop, it rocked being able to drive to the waterfront in Seattle and surf the mighty internet. Being stuck in the "No Broadband Zone" really sux. So I'm open to anything that will boost my surfing joy....
I worked for a dot com at my last job. I was the only IT/IS dude to support all the servers and all the desktops. I was on call 24/7. My cellphone rang constantly at all hours. I was a flat salary employee. I went on vacation to Vegas and they called me there 4 times in four days. They actually got upset with me because "I wasn't very helpful" while on vacation. It was then that I knew I needed a change. I left for a job at a large global Aerospace Company here in Seattle (you figure it out). I'm only on call one week out of 40. I get paid for all hours logged of actual hands on work. Plus my regular hours, plus overtime. And I'm salaried. Odd mix indeed eh? I'm smiling all the way to the bank.
My peers here are asking for pay while sitting at home waiting for the pager to go off. It's a reasonable request IMHO. We can't go out of town. We can't go out in town without risking bailing in the middle of a movie to make a mad dash to a dialup to log onto the network to figure out what broke this time. And doing that on dialup sux! I don't dare go out on the town in downtown Seattle and leave the laptop (ball & chain) in my truck. It'll get ripped off in a flash. I'm happy with my job but it only seems reasonable to ask for fair pay to babysit a pager and laptop 24/7 for a week straight.
On the good side my employer pays for all my education needs, and that's about $6,000.00 a year these days with the rate M$ is cranking out new server OS's. I get kudo's for my efforts and it's rather kewl flying in our product to Technet each year, all expenses paid of course.
If you're stuck in a place that eats you up for free, start looking because Nirvana is out there!
A satisfied IT Dude.
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Well I wonder if Google sold it all and jumped off a cliff if M$ would blindly do the same?? What is up with this rampant battle to out do each other?? If Google started making washing machines would M$ follow suit??
You are spot on about the resolution but at what cost? $20-$30 a disc is IMHO TOO HIGH to modivate Joe Average Consumer to take the leap. Not to mention the cost of the player itself. I'm gonna join the others and sit on the fence with my beverage of choice and watch this whole thing play out before diving in.
Do "ANY" of us presently own a player for Blue-Ray????????????? Is there even a player currently on the market at say Best Buy etc??? How much might said bleeding edge toy cost????
It seems pure silliness to release this if NONE of the consumer world can actuallly go buy a disk and PLAY it!!!
Other than the player itself I have everything I think I need to get the full benefit (whatever that ends up being) of Blue-Ray but I'm in NO hurry to go there... None at all...
Sony are ya reading this???!!!
I remember back in the day when "Privacy" actually MEANT something!!!!
CueCat!? I remember getting one of those in the mail! Laughed my butt off then tossed it into the trash! What a stupid idea.
Meet the new terrorists: the RIAA & MPAA. Anybody want a buggy whip with their CD? The paradigm has shifted and the new terrorists will go to any length to protect their revenue stream. The only way to revolt is to stop buying their products. Let them whither away without a customer base. Free Market at it's best.
I was being wondefully facetious! In reply to you well done prose!
Thank you! You just made my day! Well done sir!!! I almost choked on my pbj I was laughing so hard!
Dude, your comment about the apartment complex screwing the phone trunk has sparked a similar issue that I am suffering. Please, if you have any information concnering this, I'm all ears... I am close enough to the CO to get 1.5Mbit DSL but for some reason our complex phone system is screwing things up for delivering DSL to my humble home.
Thanks!
PS. I too once had Ricochet in the Seattle area, and yes it ROX!!
Well, I live inbetween two local phone providers (too far from the Central Office...) and cable modems have not made it to Bellevue WA (city won't let AT&T tear up their precious potholed streets, read - STUPID). So, in comparison to 56Kbps dialup, 128Kbps and mobility starts to look good. I once had Ricochet when I lived closer to a Central Office. Once DSL was available, of course I switched. But while I was on Ricochet with my handy laptop, it rocked being able to drive to the waterfront in Seattle and surf the mighty internet. Being stuck in the "No Broadband Zone" really sux. So I'm open to anything that will boost my surfing joy....
I worked for a dot com at my last job. I was the only IT/IS dude to support all the servers and all the desktops. I was on call 24/7. My cellphone rang constantly at all hours. I was a flat salary employee. I went on vacation to Vegas and they called me there 4 times in four days. They actually got upset with me because "I wasn't very helpful" while on vacation. It was then that I knew I needed a change. I left for a job at a large global Aerospace Company here in Seattle (you figure it out). I'm only on call one week out of 40. I get paid for all hours logged of actual hands on work. Plus my regular hours, plus overtime. And I'm salaried. Odd mix indeed eh? I'm smiling all the way to the bank. My peers here are asking for pay while sitting at home waiting for the pager to go off. It's a reasonable request IMHO. We can't go out of town. We can't go out in town without risking bailing in the middle of a movie to make a mad dash to a dialup to log onto the network to figure out what broke this time. And doing that on dialup sux! I don't dare go out on the town in downtown Seattle and leave the laptop (ball & chain) in my truck. It'll get ripped off in a flash. I'm happy with my job but it only seems reasonable to ask for fair pay to babysit a pager and laptop 24/7 for a week straight. On the good side my employer pays for all my education needs, and that's about $6,000.00 a year these days with the rate M$ is cranking out new server OS's. I get kudo's for my efforts and it's rather kewl flying in our product to Technet each year, all expenses paid of course. If you're stuck in a place that eats you up for free, start looking because Nirvana is out there! A satisfied IT Dude.