Last year when the Sopranos second season arrived on DVD I checked it out on Best Buy's website. They ran a special which was basically: purchase season one and season two together for $114..... when I went to see the price of season two alone (I already owned season one), I was astonished to see the price listed as $57. I went to a local store to purchase it at this price but they had it for $79 so I just went home and bought it over the net for $57 and chose the "In store pickup" method of delivery. These guys seem to chronically have trouble with getting things right with there site.
I think its great that they are combining efforts to produce crap together. More companies should do this. They could merge into one big landfill.
Crap + Crap = double the crap.
Yes,and the minimum requirements will be a 2Ghz Processor and 512M of ram, which will be the bottom of the barrel whenever the "next" generation of windows actually gets released. Any advantage gained won't be discernable from the gain of better hardware. Believe it or not I actually hope they get it done and get it right... I WANT them to make their products better..... based on promises in the past compared to what they have delivered however, there is good reason to be skeptical.
Cities have legal panels that advise them and take care of cases brought against the city by people who did something like fall on the subway etc. I could see this as a use in a chase scenario or other such circumstance but not with a large mass of people, say at a concert. An average Concert crowd of 30,000 or so gets blanketed with a slippery gel.... can you say stampede, trampled, or better yet, lawsuit? You can mop a floor in a grocery shop, mark it clearly with yellow "wet floor" signs and still end up paying some idiot money. I hope they're smarter than this idea implies.
It IS funny how companies are in dispute over this. The idea that MusicCity states they are "looking into this" because federal laws have been broken is so hipocritical when you look at what the technologies are used for. All of these guys need to devote time to helping out the other NON PROPRIETARY protocols out there rather than trying to develop a user base and lock them into something like fasttrack.
I was amazed that the fasttrack clients didn't tap into the Gnutella network when they were first released. I do know its easier said than done, as most things. I believe that MusicCity (Morpheus) had plans on marrying the two networks but obviously they won't be doing that anymore. The whole shutout situation sucks but I don't feel too bad for the people at MusicCity. They chose their route and now what are they gonna do, claim that Gnutella is a better option after orignally opting for FastTrack?? Sucks but they made their bed.
Because increasingly on slashdot, a CS degree gets hated on. Alot of times its not warranted either. For instance, someone inquired a month ago about getting a MS degree in CS during downtime, but got a bunch of replies about how worthless college is and how so and so made it without a degree. Sometimes I wonder what is worse in the eyes of many here, a CS graduate or Windows.
There is nothing wrong with honing your skills or getting some experience with doing some open source work. Its not the route I took (I did a Co-Op) but how could it hurt. Find a project that interest you at Sourceforge or wherever and get to it! Sometimes employers ask for examples of past work and those types of projects wouldn't be bad to show. Plus it shows some initiative on your part. I hope you're not looking for someone to say that you'll get a job or more salary because of it though, no one can predict that. Either way, it never hurts to learn.
My second suggestion is to NOT ask slashdotters! With the obvious exception of those out there who generally want to give good advice or help someone out here... the rest of the posters are either smart asses, off topic, or unconstructively critical. Instead of ANSWERING 'how', we like to ASK 'why the hell'.
Just how many flavors of Linux are there? And how many are worth the money over downloading one for free? Everytime I turn around I hear about a new Linux distibution. Next thing you know there'll be a Linux distro that looks like my Playstation 2, oh wait....
They'll get sick when people stop buying the hardware. Tons of people bought HD sets and add-ons for thousands of dollars. If this sticks there will be a new format making SOME of that older equipment obsolete.... then tons of other people will spend thousands more on the new hardware that isn't.
You don't have to worry about them, they won't let too much happen that keeps them from turning a profit. The big companies with all of the patents won't help us out, but us becoming wiser consumers will.
With the acception of a few models like yours most SACD or DVD-Audio players with many of the great features like bass management, 6 or more outputs for multi-channel listening, etc. are on the high end side and are well over $1000. You have made a good choice though, you are getting most of the benefits of the technology for what you paid. Should the standards change which appears to be what will happen, you may not have whats top of the line but you will have gotten your $239.00 worth.
Obviously this sucks but these types of things are precisely why people need to research expensive investments. Spending thousands of dollars on a piece of equipment and not knowing about the format wars and issues is asinine. Home theater enthusiast are used to this type of thing. You spend $3000 on a tuner and processor and two years later 5.1 outputs can be 9.1. thats why they have upgradeable components now.
Honestly I don't think this will stick but if it does, the average consumer will have learned a valuable lesson. This really sucks, I def. agree but I also think it could be avoided if buyers were more intelligent.
On a side note, any of you thinking of spending $1500 on certain SACD and/or DVD-Audio players right now, might wanna do some reading too:)
Amen, XML is a solution but not necessarily one that is the best. Example... I had enough trouble with EJB's as it was going, I didn't need XML config files required for each server vendor to add to the headache.
Could the Unix configuration be made easier? Obviously yes, but that isn't the same as needing to be easier. One of the exciting things about venturing outside of the "user friendly" world of MS is finding out what all of those dot files are for. I'm not a Unix know it all or anything but I know my way around it pretty damn good. I wonder if I'd know more or less about the OS if the install and config were as easy as MS products
Some might be afraid to admit it but there is also a novelty to it.
I guess you can't argue that someone shouldn't make the configuration process easier.... I guess that while people like me get their experience from drudging through scripts and text files, people who just want the benefits of Unix can get straight to the point if I install it for them.
I'm selfish though, I hope it gets "harder". Lets weed some people out.
No laws like this won't prevent 13 year olds from Grand theft Auto 3.
Yes events like Columbine will occur in the future.
No laws cannot replace parental responsibility.
How do either of these facts make an argument that laws similar to this shouldn't exist? Consistantly people who post here, post out of personal experience and nothing else. I've read post here that state things like, "I parent my daughter", "Who needs ratings on movies"... some of you seem to miss the point that some of the laws in place facilitate you in being a good parent. SO why don't we just get rid of drinking ages, driving laws, whatever.
Some of you parents apparently don't remember what its like to be a kid. Don't mistake the effects of your child rearing with good fortune. Still don't understand my point?? Take five girls, all different parents. Lets say they all have protected, premarital sex. One gets pregnant, the others don't. Does this make four sets of parents "good parents" while the future grandparents aren't?? No it makes four of them fortunate.
Just because kids can get there hands on violent games even if you police the sale of them, doesn't mean you should give them all access to it. I love playing these games.... but in the future when my son or daughter is old enough to even know what a game like GTA3 is, I don't want them to play it. Hopefully that will be enough, but if not, I certainly would rather have them jump through hoops to get their hands on it, rather than having it handed to them.
I'm an avid video gamer and I don't know what to think. I went and picked up my copy of State of Emergency yesterday and noticed the ID check sticker on the box, plus EB had informed me when they called to tell me it was in that I had to present an ID stating I was at least 18 tears of age. I think its def. a good idea. I used to be one of those people who said "Video games aren't the problem".... to which I still think is the case.
What made me realize there was an issue however, was playing Rockstar's earlier release "Grand Theft Auto". I loved that game and it was instant action but I just kept thinking how bad it was, how I would hope no parent would let their child play this game. I dunno about putting people in jail and all but I think some sort of measure should be taken to make sure parents have a little more control over what their kids are playing.
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I was with you until your last comments... this all dates back to a few previous threads here, "to have or not to have a CS degree". What do you suggest people do if they want to be a part of this industry, listen to you rather than professors? Your comment seems to generalize all of us who have a CS degree to be stuck in problematic practices and out of date. 2+ years out of date as opposed to what, a person who works and doesn't have a degree?? You seem to make the assumption that no learning is done outside of the classroom? Have you forgotten the fact that many CS degree candidates Co-Op in order to get the experience you talk about? So what, is a CS degree gonna be the second hated thing to Slashdotters next to to MS??
I live in the Raleigh and telecommute for one of the big three universities here in NC. I feel for many in the triangle. I Co-op'ed for Fujitsu just under two years and then returned to school to finish my last year out. The semester before I was done, I got word that they were closing the new facility here. I've seen a few of the engineers out around town and some have good jobs, some are doing tech support, and some are about to be laidoff from their second job. I can't imagine raking in close to 6 figures or better with a family and going to nill.
I was extremely fortunate to get a student job on the development team which I work for now. The pay is about 10K less than what I could have expected two years ago but I am nonetheless very thankful to my boss. Its a state job but I'm not too worried about layoffs ya know.
I don't know about you guys but doesn't it make you sick to see/hear those adds for "Computer training school" which have a 100% hire rate upon graduation??? "Microsoft, CNA, Cisco certified" blah blah blah...... People need think more and read between the lines. Furthermore, crap like that saturating the market with programmer wanna-be's doesn't help the situation. Good luck to both of you guys, the sooner the industry can go back to the normalcy it had before the dot.com boom, I'm sure there will be plenty'o work for good engineers.
Odd for me that this story was on slashdot today. I've spent the last 24 hrs lurking around the net trying to find books that'll give me a little info on bioinformatics. Anyways, I have a CS degree and I am kicking around the idea of taking Biology classes. I know a tiny bit about Biology but not any significant amount at all. I was wondering if you guys could recommend some books for a programmer in terms of bioinformatics?? I've seen the recommendations on bioinformatics.org but I want some feedback from some of you knowledgeable slashdotters. Feel free to send email.....
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Does anyone know if the mouse is porn friendly?? It'll be tough for this to beat the Logitech wireless, complete with back button and scroll wheel.
Last year when the Sopranos second season arrived on DVD I checked it out on Best Buy's website. They ran a special which was basically: purchase season one and season two together for $114..... when I went to see the price of season two alone (I already owned season one), I was astonished to see the price listed as $57. I went to a local store to purchase it at this price but they had it for $79 so I just went home and bought it over the net for $57 and chose the "In store pickup" method of delivery. These guys seem to chronically have trouble with getting things right with there site.
I think its great that they are combining efforts to produce crap together. More companies should do this. They could merge into one big landfill.
Crap + Crap = double the crap.
Yes,and the minimum requirements will be a 2Ghz Processor and 512M of ram, which will be the bottom of the barrel whenever the "next" generation of windows actually gets released. Any advantage gained won't be discernable from the gain of better hardware. Believe it or not I actually hope they get it done and get it right... I WANT them to make their products better..... based on promises in the past compared to what they have delivered however, there is good reason to be skeptical.
Cities have legal panels that advise them and take care of cases brought against the city by people who did something like fall on the subway etc. I could see this as a use in a chase scenario or other such circumstance but not with a large mass of people, say at a concert. An average Concert crowd of 30,000 or so gets blanketed with a slippery gel.... can you say stampede, trampled, or better yet, lawsuit? You can mop a floor in a grocery shop, mark it clearly with yellow "wet floor" signs and still end up paying some idiot money. I hope they're smarter than this idea implies.
It IS funny how companies are in dispute over this. The idea that MusicCity states they are "looking into this" because federal laws have been broken is so hipocritical when you look at what the technologies are used for. All of these guys need to devote time to helping out the other NON PROPRIETARY protocols out there rather than trying to develop a user base and lock them into something like fasttrack.
I was amazed that the fasttrack clients didn't tap into the Gnutella network when they were first released. I do know its easier said than done, as most things. I believe that MusicCity (Morpheus) had plans on marrying the two networks but obviously they won't be doing that anymore. The whole shutout situation sucks but I don't feel too bad for the people at MusicCity. They chose their route and now what are they gonna do, claim that Gnutella is a better option after orignally opting for FastTrack?? Sucks but they made their bed.
My apologies....... I dunno why but I'll come in from a long night of beer and still read/reply on slashdot.... I have less Karma to show for it too :)
and now the URL is invisible.
Maybe someone has created a virus that f*cks with the JRE, you'll find out Oct. 18th.............
Because increasingly on slashdot, a CS degree gets hated on. Alot of times its not warranted either. For instance, someone inquired a month ago about getting a MS degree in CS during downtime, but got a bunch of replies about how worthless college is and how so and so made it without a degree. Sometimes I wonder what is worse in the eyes of many here, a CS graduate or Windows.
There is nothing wrong with honing your skills or getting some experience with doing some open source work. Its not the route I took (I did a Co-Op) but how could it hurt. Find a project that interest you at Sourceforge or wherever and get to it! Sometimes employers ask for examples of past work and those types of projects wouldn't be bad to show. Plus it shows some initiative on your part. I hope you're not looking for someone to say that you'll get a job or more salary because of it though, no one can predict that. Either way, it never hurts to learn.
My second suggestion is to NOT ask slashdotters!
With the obvious exception of those out there who generally want to give good advice or help someone out here... the rest of the posters are either smart asses, off topic, or unconstructively critical. Instead of ANSWERING 'how', we like to ASK 'why the hell'.
Just how many flavors of Linux are there? And how many are worth the money over downloading one for free? Everytime I turn around I hear about a new Linux distibution. Next thing you know there'll be a Linux distro that looks like my Playstation 2, oh wait....
They'll get sick when people stop buying the hardware. Tons of people bought HD sets and add-ons for thousands of dollars. If this sticks there will be a new format making SOME of that older equipment obsolete.... then tons of other people will spend thousands more on the new hardware that isn't.
You don't have to worry about them, they won't let too much happen that keeps them from turning a profit. The big companies with all of the patents won't help us out, but us becoming wiser consumers will.
With the acception of a few models like yours most SACD or DVD-Audio players with many of the great features like bass management, 6 or more outputs for multi-channel listening, etc. are on the high end side and are well over $1000. You have made a good choice though, you are getting most of the benefits of the technology for what you paid. Should the standards change which appears to be what will happen, you may not have whats top of the line but you will have gotten your $239.00 worth.
Obviously this sucks but these types of things are precisely why people need to research expensive investments. Spending thousands of dollars on a piece of equipment and not knowing about the format wars and issues is asinine. Home theater enthusiast are used to this type of thing. You spend $3000 on a tuner and processor and two years later 5.1 outputs can be 9.1. thats why they have upgradeable components now.
:)
Honestly I don't think this will stick but if it does, the average consumer will have learned a valuable lesson. This really sucks, I def. agree but I also think it could be avoided if buyers were more intelligent.
On a side note, any of you thinking of spending $1500 on certain SACD and/or DVD-Audio players right now, might wanna do some reading too
*Earthquake*
Amen, XML is a solution but not necessarily one that is the best. Example... I had enough trouble with EJB's as it was going, I didn't need XML config files required for each server vendor to add to the headache.
Could the Unix configuration be made easier? Obviously yes, but that isn't the same as needing to be easier. One of the exciting things about venturing outside of the "user friendly" world of MS is finding out what all of those dot files are for. I'm not a Unix know it all or anything but I know my way around it pretty damn good. I wonder if I'd know more or less about the OS if the install and config were as easy as MS products Some might be afraid to admit it but there is also a novelty to it.
I guess you can't argue that someone shouldn't make the configuration process easier.... I guess that while people like me get their experience from drudging through scripts and text files, people who just want the benefits of Unix can get straight to the point if I install it for them.
I'm selfish though, I hope it gets "harder". Lets weed some people out.
No laws like this won't prevent 13 year olds from Grand theft Auto 3.
Yes events like Columbine will occur in the future.
No laws cannot replace parental responsibility.
How do either of these facts make an argument that laws similar to this shouldn't exist? Consistantly people who post here, post out of personal experience and nothing else. I've read post here that state things like, "I parent my daughter", "Who needs ratings on movies"... some of you seem to miss the point that some of the laws in place facilitate you in being a good parent. SO why don't we just get rid of drinking ages, driving laws, whatever.
Some of you parents apparently don't remember what its like to be a kid. Don't mistake the effects of your child rearing with good fortune. Still don't understand my point?? Take five girls, all different parents. Lets say they all have protected, premarital sex. One gets pregnant, the others don't. Does this make four sets of parents "good parents" while the future grandparents aren't?? No it makes four of them fortunate.
Just because kids can get there hands on violent games even if you police the sale of them, doesn't mean you should give them all access to it. I love playing these games.... but in the future when my son or daughter is old enough to even know what a game like GTA3 is, I don't want them to play it. Hopefully that will be enough, but if not, I certainly would rather have them jump through hoops to get their hands on it, rather than having it handed to them.
I'm an avid video gamer and I don't know what to think. I went and picked up my copy of State of Emergency yesterday and noticed the ID check sticker on the box, plus EB had informed me when they called to tell me it was in that I had to present an ID stating I was at least 18 tears of age. I think its def. a good idea. I used to be one of those people who said "Video games aren't the problem".... to which I still think is the case.
What made me realize there was an issue however, was playing Rockstar's earlier release "Grand Theft Auto". I loved that game and it was instant action but I just kept thinking how bad it was, how I would hope no parent would let their child play this game. I dunno about putting people in jail and all but I think some sort of measure should be taken to make sure parents have a little more control over what their kids are playing.
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I was with you until your last comments... this all dates back to a few previous threads here, "to have or not to have a CS degree". What do you suggest people do if they want to be a part of this industry, listen to you rather than professors? Your comment seems to generalize all of us who have a CS degree to be stuck in problematic practices and out of date. 2+ years out of date as opposed to what, a person who works and doesn't have a degree?? You seem to make the assumption that no learning is done outside of the classroom? Have you forgotten the fact that many CS degree candidates Co-Op in order to get the experience you talk about? So what, is a CS degree gonna be the second hated thing to Slashdotters next to to MS??
I live in the Raleigh and telecommute for one of the big three universities here in NC. I feel for many in the triangle. I Co-op'ed for Fujitsu just under two years and then returned to school to finish my last year out. The semester before I was done, I got word that they were closing the new facility here. I've seen a few of the engineers out around town and some have good jobs, some are doing tech support, and some are about to be laidoff from their second job. I can't imagine raking in close to 6 figures or better with a family and going to nill.
/hear those adds for "Computer training school" which have a 100% hire rate upon graduation??? "Microsoft, CNA, Cisco certified" blah blah blah...... People need think more and read between the lines. Furthermore, crap like that saturating the market with programmer wanna-be's doesn't help the situation. Good luck to both of you guys, the sooner the industry can go back to the normalcy it had before the dot.com boom, I'm sure there will be plenty'o work for good engineers.
I was extremely fortunate to get a student job on the development team which I work for now. The pay is about 10K less than what I could have expected two years ago but I am nonetheless very thankful to my boss. Its a state job but I'm not too worried about layoffs ya know.
I don't know about you guys but doesn't it make you sick to see
Odd for me that this story was on slashdot today. I've spent the last 24 hrs lurking around the net trying to find books that'll give me a little info on bioinformatics. Anyways, I have a CS degree and I am kicking around the idea of taking Biology classes. I know a tiny bit about Biology but not any significant amount at all. I was wondering if you guys could recommend some books for a programmer in terms of bioinformatics?? I've seen the recommendations on bioinformatics.org but I want some feedback from some of you knowledgeable slashdotters. Feel free to send email.....