I would really dig having wireless available along western Lake Michigan shoreline....constant radar updates would be excellent as conditions change rapidly and passages are up to 30 miles.
Rather than pumping the porn in harbor wireless is more useful when boats are underway.
If 1/2 of the microsoft crashes are results of 3rd party code then this statement is true
If someone writes some bad code the HP/UX server will bluescreen and reboot.
mod this up...400 to 21 vote will preclude a white house veto as it will surely be overridden and result in embarrassment to WH.
Oh wait! I forgot the WH is never embarrassed for the stupid mistakes they make....nevermind...
I don't think so.
Try doing some "real world" work with a Windows box and see how long it stays up. Games and loads of other stuff you use are stable and well written and NOONE would buy them OR use them if they weren't. In the business world software sales is about making money not stability. Crappy programming practice should'nt bring a whole system down....and it does when it comes to Windows.
Blame Microsoft for the culture they created that thinks it is OKAY to reboot once a week.
Crappy MS crap combined with crappy development and selling the "sizzle" and never delivering the bacon creamed "high paying tech jobs". Cheap offshore labor has also driven salaries down.
I too made snow. At a small resort in Northern WIsconsin. I was on the early season crew. Then when the hill opened I was on the Ski Patrol.
Making snow late at night atop a hill with the guns blazing in the clear night sky was one of the most strangely peaceful moments in my life. I stood watching spray from the gun in sub-zero weather. Completely bundled in a heavy parka, air force bunny boots etc.
We had a problem in that we had no holding pond. The water temp was at 50 degrees out of the nozzles and it put us at a distinct disadvantage in that we had to have significantly colder air temps to make good snow. We did'nt get good results until it was below 10 degrees f...
There is a bit of art to making good snow...balancing the air pressure, water temp and pressure...you can't just mix them all and expect to make quality snow...
Also it has to cure...after making it it needs to drain the excess water of and setup for a day or so.
Copyright protection and compensation of the copyright holder is justified. (wait for the big but...)
BUT!
As a recording and performing musician I find that RIAA is not really working for the artists but the media companies. They are using their vast resources to make sure that no new companies emerge to challenge them in the market place. There is no doubt collusion exists between the media giants in respect to music. They are attacking any alternative to the media distribution already inplace until they can contol it. Using the copyright laws is just a "legal" manuver to to crush sites like AudioGalaxy....look back to a couple years ago to what happened to mp3.com.
The end result is big media wins, independant artists lose....again.....the listening public get less choice and less quality.
Back in the 90's when "alternative" hit into mainstream (I used to call it hardcore back in the mid 80's) the media companies saw that is was really profitable but risky. The music media scene was diverse and growing. New independants poping up and making money. They saw that though there was a large amount diversity in the music scene the problem they saw was the pie was getting sliced up too thinly. So what they did was regroup and start marketing canned pop to pre-teens. They abandoned the x-gens, lost generation (myself) and boomers to preteens. they marketed to a very impressionable, vulnerab le market. One that the tobacco industry marketed to for years before people caught wind of it. Those little kids are cash cows for the fat white pigs. Look at the guy who created N'Synch and tell me he's not the typical example of a crooked, sleazy producer.
The big media folks can afford to search, choose and train cookie cutter pop stars for years. they found a willing market in the 9-13 year olds whose parent fork over hundreds of dollars per year to them to buy this crappy music.
it all comes down to the change in America after the 2000 elections. The Bush administration has worked hard to alter policies and reward corporations to do what ever it takes consolidate wealth. You may scoff. But when you start to look at it big media's unethical behavior it just relefct on a growing trend across all industries. Mergers, CEO's pay, accounting practices, tax cuts for the rich, etc, etc...
It is up to us as music fans to take back the music industry by boycotting ALL MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISCS. Only buy local music from local artists that really need the support. Music that is self produced or from a locally owned record company.
Listen local, buy local.....go see a live band tonight, start a band. Anything but continue to encourage the media giants.
YOu won't buy any Microsoft products, why not add Sony to your list....??
Peace.
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According to the demographic market research it was determined this is what American's want.
Bit off topic but related and inllustrates the extent to which these powerful organizations are reaching.
I have heard word that BMI has launched a campaign to extract a fee from small businesses that have a CD player or television. One small sandwich shop owner told me that BMI has been harassing them each day over the phone and threating litigation if they don't pay them $300. Because they have a TV and have played music CD's over the stereo while customers were in the small shop.
Now the sandwhich shop has tunred off the TV and only plays CD's that contain public domain songs or orginal music from local artists who are not registered with BM. The funny thing is it really won't effect their bottom line at all. But BMI has effectivly denied the owners of this shop rights to listen to certain music while they are at work.
They have refused to pay this "extortion" and have removed any CD that has BMI or ASCAP on any songs on the disk.
I found this shocking. That these royalty hounds are getting so aggressive to the point of strong arming mom and pop operations.
I could see if they were a dance club or had DJ's and the vast majority of profit comes from people enjoying music from national artists. But this is not the case. They make money on sandwiches and some beers on friday night.
... completely changed their software architecture to a completely Internet-centric model....
Thats great!.NET - An architecture complete with annoying advertising, spam, hackers, pornographers, propaganda, stalkers and the odd bit of useful functionality just like today but only better, its internal...
Where are you going to find a company that doesn't have it's head up its ass that has a cable running inot your house..? The phone company? Satellite TV? Time Warner is a local monopoly and will do what ever they please when it comes to providing broadband internet connections. So you better download as much porn and warez as you can. Because it will all be taken away soon. Anyway FBI/Homeland Facist software will be slowing everything down as it snoops into every packet sent on the internet and loaded into some big-ass background check database.....better worry about having a job to pay for food in the future much less worroy about downloading 300 mp3's to your player.
Excellent. I could see all the wingnuts with a screen saver computing damage estimates and estimated kill ratios.....
Kill ratio's BTW is the ratio of cost of the weapon to how many people it can kill (or vice versa) I saw this on an advertisement for a torpedo created by Honeywell.
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Shoot those dipsticks really have flaked up HDTV...
EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE!!
I would really dig having wireless available along western Lake Michigan shoreline....constant radar updates would be excellent as conditions change rapidly and passages are up to 30 miles. Rather than pumping the porn in harbor wireless is more useful when boats are underway.
Lawyers, SCO and money.
I fire up the G-Force visual in iTunes while listening to Groove Salad at 128k and I'm in the twighligt zone babay...
Problem is getting past that first detonation.... Come on baby. BOOM! Damn, vaporized again.
If 1/2 of the microsoft crashes are results of 3rd party code then this statement is true If someone writes some bad code the HP/UX server will bluescreen and reboot.
To make sure it is up...
That famous country music star....
Great now I'll have to wait even longer to get through airport security as those Cyborgs get screened manually. Crap.
Chicks look hot in Gartners. Totally off topic... Cracking myself up again...sorry
mod this up...400 to 21 vote will preclude a white house veto as it will surely be overridden and result in embarrassment to WH. Oh wait! I forgot the WH is never embarrassed for the stupid mistakes they make....nevermind...
I'm going to buy a fleet robots and hire them out for big bucks and hire displaced human workers to polish and oil them.
I don't think so. Try doing some "real world" work with a Windows box and see how long it stays up. Games and loads of other stuff you use are stable and well written and NOONE would buy them OR use them if they weren't. In the business world software sales is about making money not stability. Crappy programming practice should'nt bring a whole system down....and it does when it comes to Windows. Blame Microsoft for the culture they created that thinks it is OKAY to reboot once a week.
Simpsons, Futurama, Hank Hill... It's the only block 90 block of TV the whole family watches...
Crappy MS crap combined with crappy development and selling the "sizzle" and never delivering the bacon creamed "high paying tech jobs". Cheap offshore labor has also driven salaries down.
I too made snow. At a small resort in Northern WIsconsin. I was on the early season crew. Then when the hill opened I was on the Ski Patrol. Making snow late at night atop a hill with the guns blazing in the clear night sky was one of the most strangely peaceful moments in my life. I stood watching spray from the gun in sub-zero weather. Completely bundled in a heavy parka, air force bunny boots etc. We had a problem in that we had no holding pond. The water temp was at 50 degrees out of the nozzles and it put us at a distinct disadvantage in that we had to have significantly colder air temps to make good snow. We did'nt get good results until it was below 10 degrees f... There is a bit of art to making good snow...balancing the air pressure, water temp and pressure...you can't just mix them all and expect to make quality snow... Also it has to cure...after making it it needs to drain the excess water of and setup for a day or so.
To go with my banjo...GOD! how could I have been SO shortsighted...
Copyright protection and compensation of the copyright holder is justified. (wait for the big but...) BUT! As a recording and performing musician I find that RIAA is not really working for the artists but the media companies. They are using their vast resources to make sure that no new companies emerge to challenge them in the market place. There is no doubt collusion exists between the media giants in respect to music. They are attacking any alternative to the media distribution already inplace until they can contol it. Using the copyright laws is just a "legal" manuver to to crush sites like AudioGalaxy....look back to a couple years ago to what happened to mp3.com.
The end result is big media wins, independant artists lose....again.....the listening public get less choice and less quality.
Back in the 90's when "alternative" hit into mainstream (I used to call it hardcore back in the mid 80's) the media companies saw that is was really profitable but risky. The music media scene was diverse and growing. New independants poping up and making money. They saw that though there was a large amount diversity in the music scene the problem they saw was the pie was getting sliced up too thinly. So what they did was regroup and start marketing canned pop to pre-teens. They abandoned the x-gens, lost generation (myself) and boomers to preteens. they marketed to a very impressionable, vulnerab le market. One that the tobacco industry marketed to for years before people caught wind of it. Those little kids are cash cows for the fat white pigs. Look at the guy who created N'Synch and tell me he's not the typical example of a crooked, sleazy producer.
The big media folks can afford to search, choose and train cookie cutter pop stars for years. they found a willing market in the 9-13 year olds whose parent fork over hundreds of dollars per year to them to buy this crappy music.
it all comes down to the change in America after the 2000 elections. The Bush administration has worked hard to alter policies and reward corporations to do what ever it takes consolidate wealth. You may scoff. But when you start to look at it big media's unethical behavior it just relefct on a growing trend across all industries. Mergers, CEO's pay, accounting practices, tax cuts for the rich, etc, etc...
It is up to us as music fans to take back the music industry by boycotting ALL MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISCS. Only buy local music from local artists that really need the support. Music that is self produced or from a locally owned record company.
Listen local, buy local.....go see a live band tonight, start a band. Anything but continue to encourage the media giants.
YOu won't buy any Microsoft products, why not add Sony to your list....??
Peace.
According to the demographic market research it was determined this is what American's want.
Bit off topic but related and inllustrates the extent to which these powerful organizations are reaching.
I have heard word that BMI has launched a campaign to extract a fee from small businesses that have a CD player or television. One small sandwich shop owner told me that BMI has been harassing them each day over the phone and threating litigation if they don't pay them $300. Because they have a TV and have played music CD's over the stereo while customers were in the small shop.
Now the sandwhich shop has tunred off the TV and only plays CD's that contain public domain songs or orginal music from local artists who are not registered with BM. The funny thing is it really won't effect their bottom line at all. But BMI has effectivly denied the owners of this shop rights to listen to certain music while they are at work.
They have refused to pay this "extortion" and have removed any CD that has BMI or ASCAP on any songs on the disk.
I found this shocking. That these royalty hounds are getting so aggressive to the point of strong arming mom and pop operations.
I could see if they were a dance club or had DJ's and the vast majority of profit comes from people enjoying music from national artists. But this is not the case. They make money on sandwiches and some beers on friday night.
... completely changed their software architecture to a completely Internet-centric model....
.NET - An architecture complete with annoying advertising, spam, hackers, pornographers, propaganda, stalkers and the odd bit of useful functionality just like today but only better, its internal...
Thats great!
Where are you going to find a company that doesn't have it's head up its ass that has a cable running inot your house..? The phone company? Satellite TV? Time Warner is a local monopoly and will do what ever they please when it comes to providing broadband internet connections. So you better download as much porn and warez as you can. Because it will all be taken away soon. Anyway FBI/Homeland Facist software will be slowing everything down as it snoops into every packet sent on the internet and loaded into some big-ass background check database.....better worry about having a job to pay for food in the future much less worroy about downloading 300 mp3's to your player.
Excellent. I could see all the wingnuts with a screen saver computing damage estimates and estimated kill ratios.....
Kill ratio's BTW is the ratio of cost of the weapon to how many people it can kill (or vice versa) I saw this on an advertisement for a torpedo created by Honeywell.
It was perfectly simulated ahead of time in real time in 3d.