Sure, lets blame another down turn in the economy on those crazy arab fellas. Why not? Now if anything doesnt go our way, well, its post-911, thats all we have to do to explain it away.
Sorry, I attended all the Comdex events in Atlanta over the last 10 years. Then they took that away, so we were left with Chicago and Vegas.
Been to Vegas 3x in the last 10 years. Enjoyed it. Vegas = money. Sure you can eat cheap, but the hotels want to rape you, because comp guys dont gamble as much as normal tourists.
Its not terrorism dummies, its a small down turn in the tech industry. Hello! the bubble burst before 911.
When I was young, it was a great thing to go to the library once a week, get a stack of books, and read them through in the next 7 days. The star wars fiction series, Hardy Boys, Star Trek, The Odessey...
College libraries were awesome places. Places to hang out, maybe study a bit, meet young ladies.
Then I moved to Fayetteville, Georgia. Where the publicly funded library is run by the white hair Gestapo. The collection of books there is lacking. So you say, donate some? I did! I offered to donate 8 cases of books. Computer programming manuals, CS theory, even some copies of books I'v written or edited. Not 30 year old books, but fresh books. Books that a young teenager may not be able to afford to buy, but interested in reading. The offer was refused. No strings attached, just take them. No.
Would the old bags in Fayetteville let you know whats going on? No. Odds are THEY'LL call the FBI first.
Ok, thats my rant. If you are in the atlanta area, its worth the drive to the Georgia Tech library downtown if you really are looking for information. Georgia State's isn't too bad off either.
Hello, my name is Wolf, and I'm a recovering phpNuke user. I have been weened from phpNuke with a daily dosage of postnuke. The resultant weight-loss and increased collection of CPU cycles is amazing. The doctors say that within a few more weeks I can replace the postnuke treatment with Xaraya. In initial testing, Xaraya doesn't appear to have the emotional side affects of postnuke.
Ok, in all seriousness, phpnuke contained a lot of bloat. In all fairness, the original postnuke developer team inherited that bloat when they forked. Their roadmap always included serious pruning and their intended.8 target was beginning to look good.
The Xaraya tarballs are looking pretty good. Perfect? Naw, its early code, but the potential can be seen.
www.phpnuke.org www.postnuke.com www.xaraya.co m (www.dinerminor.com) www.cofax.org (not php, not a blog, nice CMS/publishing features)
The proposal is being considered no doubt in response to fears like that of MPAA head Jack Valenti who has said that without proper security measures, the industry won't allow its movies to be broadcast because they don't want viewers to record 'perfect copies' of movies."
Well Jack, you dont show your movies, no one watches them. No one watches them, you dont get paid. Wake up, Jack, better review those business books from college.
As a consumer, I have bought DVDs and VHS tapes of movies that I liked, that had some minor items in them that I didnt want my daughter watching until she was older (language, adult situations). Digitized the video, edited it, and cut it back to VCD. Why? I'm her parent, I'm ultimately responsible for what she watches and sees. In my case, I paid for access to the video. I'd love to see some of these "we rated them PG13 to get more viewer" flics released under alternate ratings, cleaned up a bit.
And that is the markets answer. We dont want it in its current state.
Your arguement implies that HDTV is good so the market needs to be pushed to accept it. And that push is good, because the market hasnt accepted what the market SHOULD be accepting.
That is not the way it works. You make a product, you have an idea, no one wants it? Tough. Go make something people DO want.
The companies that have made investements through flawed hdtv outlooks should suffer. There is no "right" to make a profit. Profit comes because the market (the buying public) determine that your idea/product has some value, and they GRACE you with the profits by buying your idea/product. Not because the Federal government says, "Buying public, you WILL by this product if you want TV, even though the system we have now delivers the quality you desire at this point in time."
We in the US know that you are tired of receiving our worn out (yet often still useful) technology waste. We have a new option for you. Because of mandates put forth by the Federal Committee for Corporations, commonly refered to as the FCC, we will be shipping you, instead of computer components, TELEVISIONS! You see, our old ones will no longer work and we will be forced to buy new ones, so we want to now ship all of our old tv sets to China. You can use them in the base of that new dam you are constructing.
Thats my thought exactly. I have DishNetwork. Even with the 150 channels, there are still tons of time I'd rather be surfing the net then surfing the sats.
The "broadcast" channels in Atlanta bore me. The news is crap, the local programming is crap. As far as network programming, I watch CSI. The other regular programs I watch are "cable network" programs (Farscape, Nero Wolf, SGSG1).
"$200" more for a new tv is not a negligible barrier for my entry into the market. It, along with lack of quality programming, and marginal quality, are the barriers for my entry.
"Force me" to move to HDTV? I dont think so. I dont need TV as badly as the feds seem to think I do.
The airlines like this "unwritten" policy. Blame the FEDs if anyone gets upset. Force tickets to only be used by the name put on them at purchase time.
I buy a Braves ticket, I can give it to the homeless man on Peachtree street, and he can go to the game.
I buy a Delta ticket, and put my name on it, ONLY I can fly in that seat. (or pay a huge transfer fee).
If the Delta employee makes a mistake, and puts my name on the ticket wrong, I'm screwed (been there, had it happened, took 6 months of threatening to get money back).
"If something doesnt feel right, follow the money..."
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What???? Thats NOT the Chinese Embassy???
omg, you wasted laying time drinking?
Hahaha, came back. Yeah, this year they tried to tag Interop onto the Comdex name. Didnt work. 2002 show was still a crappy Interop.
Sure, lets blame another down turn in the economy on those crazy arab fellas. Why not? Now if anything doesnt go our way, well, its post-911, thats all we have to do to explain it away.
Sorry, I attended all the Comdex events in Atlanta over the last 10 years. Then they took that away, so we were left with Chicago and Vegas.
Been to Vegas 3x in the last 10 years. Enjoyed it. Vegas = money. Sure you can eat cheap, but the hotels want to rape you, because comp guys dont gamble as much as normal tourists.
Its not terrorism dummies, its a small down turn in the tech industry. Hello! the bubble burst before 911.
When I was young, it was a great thing to go to the library once a week, get a stack of books, and read them through in the next 7 days. The star wars fiction series, Hardy Boys, Star Trek, The Odessey...
College libraries were awesome places. Places to hang out, maybe study a bit, meet young ladies.
Then I moved to Fayetteville, Georgia. Where the publicly funded library is run by the white hair Gestapo. The collection of books there is lacking. So you say, donate some? I did! I offered to donate 8 cases of books. Computer programming manuals, CS theory, even some copies of books I'v written or edited. Not 30 year old books, but fresh books. Books that a young teenager may not be able to afford to buy, but interested in reading. The offer was refused. No strings attached, just take them. No.
Would the old bags in Fayetteville let you know whats going on? No. Odds are THEY'LL call the FBI first.
Ok, thats my rant. If you are in the atlanta area, its worth the drive to the Georgia Tech library downtown if you really are looking for information. Georgia State's isn't too bad off either.
Hello, my name is Wolf, and I'm a recovering phpNuke user. I have been weened from phpNuke with a daily dosage of postnuke. The resultant weight-loss and increased collection of CPU cycles is amazing. The doctors say that within a few more weeks I can replace the postnuke treatment with Xaraya. In initial testing, Xaraya doesn't appear to have the emotional side affects of postnuke.
.8 target was beginning to look good.
o m (www.dinerminor.com)
Ok, in all seriousness, phpnuke contained a lot of bloat. In all fairness, the original postnuke developer team inherited that bloat when they forked. Their roadmap always included serious pruning and their intended
The Xaraya tarballs are looking pretty good. Perfect? Naw, its early code, but the potential can be seen.
www.phpnuke.org
www.postnuke.com
www.xaraya.c
www.cofax.org (not php, not a blog, nice CMS/publishing features)
This isn't a sales transaction. This is a licensing.
That would be Target, land of the draconian return policies?
No receipt, buggar off.
Have a receipt, replacement only.
Sorry, no business checks.
Not blindly nor stupidly.
AOL pays them for action.
No action, no billing.
Law is all about the MONEY.
The politicians who make the laws.
The lawyers who argue the law.
Judges who rule on the law.
Have enough money to get started, you can get into law. Once in law, you have enough money to continue.
Those were FAKE?
*chuckle*
Technically...
Nonprofit status can be put at risk by promoting political candidates...
And the pansies that they are, they would sell out in a heartbeat to a big corp.
OMG, Henry Ford invented this thing called a Model T, so why would any one improve on that?
8086 was a computer, who needs to improve on that?
As a consumer, I have bought DVDs and VHS tapes of movies that I liked, that had some minor items in them that I didnt want my daughter watching until she was older (language, adult situations). Digitized the video, edited it, and cut it back to VCD. Why? I'm her parent, I'm ultimately responsible for what she watches and sees. In my case, I paid for access to the video. I'd love to see some of these "we rated them PG13 to get more viewer" flics released under alternate ratings, cleaned up a bit.
So, I click to read a story about flaws in the Win32 API and what embedded doubleclick ad do I see? One for Visual Studio .NET.
Gah, slashdot is continuing to suck.
Er, maybe its the total control by the government in TV matters that should be a warning to the US.
Wait, dont let them see British TV at work, they will want a piece of that pie also.
And that is the markets answer.
We dont want it in its current state.
Your arguement implies that HDTV is good so the market needs to be pushed to accept it. And that push is good, because the market hasnt accepted what the market SHOULD be accepting.
That is not the way it works. You make a product, you have an idea, no one wants it? Tough. Go make something people DO want.
The companies that have made investements through flawed hdtv outlooks should suffer. There is no "right" to make a profit. Profit comes because the market (the buying public) determine that your idea/product has some value, and they GRACE you with the profits by buying your idea/product. Not because the Federal government says, "Buying public, you WILL by this product if you want TV, even though the system we have now delivers the quality you desire at this point in time."
Dear China,
We in the US know that you are tired of receiving our worn out (yet often still useful) technology waste. We have a new option for you. Because of mandates put forth by the Federal Committee for Corporations, commonly refered to as the FCC, we will be shipping you, instead of computer components, TELEVISIONS! You see, our old ones will no longer work and we will be forced to buy new ones, so we want to now ship all of our old tv sets to China. You can use them in the base of that new dam you are constructing.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Screwed over Americans.
Mmmm....Jennifer Aniston's four foot brea.....
Thats my thought exactly.
I have DishNetwork. Even with the 150 channels, there are still tons of time I'd rather be surfing the net then surfing the sats.
The "broadcast" channels in Atlanta bore me. The news is crap, the local programming is crap. As far as network programming, I watch CSI. The other regular programs I watch are "cable network" programs (Farscape, Nero Wolf, SGSG1).
"$200" more for a new tv is not a negligible barrier for my entry into the market. It, along with lack of quality programming, and marginal quality, are the barriers for my entry.
"Force me" to move to HDTV? I dont think so. I dont need TV as badly as the feds seem to think I do.
Pay to watch advertising? You got to be kidding...
Wait, there is advertising on cable and satellite now....We are already paying for ads....
Since 9/11 I have been pulled out and checked on every flight I have taken.
6'2", 175lbs, white male. Oh, did I mentioned that my head is shaved? And I carry a hella lot of electronics with me?
That being said, I stand with a lot of dark skinned folks...I'm probably the token white guy...
Ways I have found to have fun with the gate area checks
1. Wear socks with a huge hole over the big toes. Freaks out an airline employee when they ask you to take your shoes off.
2. Fill your pockets (ALL OF THEM) with loose change.
3. Put a LOT of womens panties in the little side pockets of your carry on garment bag. Tiger stripes, neons work best.
Mr Gilmore, you are suing to stop the secret federal dictates, is that right?
Yes, your honor, I am.
I dont see any dictates. Case Dismissed.
The airlines like this "unwritten" policy.
Blame the FEDs if anyone gets upset.
Force tickets to only be used by the name put on them at purchase time.
I buy a Braves ticket, I can give it to the homeless man on Peachtree street, and he can go to the game.
I buy a Delta ticket, and put my name on it, ONLY I can fly in that seat. (or pay a huge transfer fee).
If the Delta employee makes a mistake, and puts my name on the ticket wrong, I'm screwed (been there, had it happened, took 6 months of threatening to get money back).
"If something doesnt feel right, follow the money..."