They don't want time shifting easily accessible for obvious reasons.
Each of thse networks has select shows available from the iTunes music store and I'm certain there are other avenues to digitally purchase these works.
Why purchase the season pass on "Lost" when you can just time shift it for cheap at your friendly neighborhood cable vision. For me, most things have little replay value and it's usually watch and discard.
The networks are making money from dvd sales, download sales and even from their websites now. Granted, the affiliates are getting butchered in the recent technologies, but that is an issue broadcasters need to take up with their respective networks.
Personally, I like the Cable Vision approach as it retains the local content, but I'm doubting it's going to last the fight without a hefty surcharge in the networks favor.
I'm going to disagree on the userfriendly part with AVG.
I had too many problems with individuals actually understanding what to do once they found a virus from a scan. It's not a bad lightweight av solution, but it seems really dated in terms of how it actually finds infection (ala scan only).
On the flip side, once you install a better skin for aVast it becomes a great deal easier to navigate. That is probably my biggest peeve with avast apart from the in-ability to schedule scans at regular intervals. Though I actually haven't found a virus that wasn't caught by the active scans.
It's dead simple even on the command line. (I came in a bit later, before it was some odd interface).
The GUI's available make it fairly easy as well...
It really is fairly zippy...
Unfortunately, some of us often have to justify a purchase for even 10 or so measly workstations. Do this enough and you will undoubtly run into more questions and reports.
None the less, I've been fairly happy with qemu and I'll probably continue to use it. (That said I probably will look into how vmware is doing now as it's been a while since I've used it)
For simplicity sake, you can introduce them to an IDE on day one, but it's important to cover what is happening.
Case in point, I had a friend who is taking some programming classes and was absolutely baffled on compiling from multiple files. Their instructor apparently likes them to "dig" in and then teach from what I gather. It's a simple matter in the end, to create some header files and segment logical code and make sure they are included under that project hierarchy. However, certain compiler flags and inclusions are essentially hidden from their point of view. I don't know if they planned on covering that, but I pointed them out some resources and gave my fairly rough explanation. (It was already written else where so I didn't feel much need to regouge the wheel)
So while I don't think it's a bad idea to start someone off on a good IDE, I don't think it's entirely a bad idea either to explain whats happening or even show off how things work on the command line.
It's along the same lines of how a past instructor taught VB. (Yes, had one class of VB, but we mostly used it for the GUI side and wrote our dll's in C++) As he taught the programming, even with some dig in approaches, he explained a great deal of things going on behind the scenes. I can say the extra understanding helped me to be a better VB programmer because understanding how things worked helped me optimize my code. (Extra points as well since our end sememester bonus points/work/competition included several pieces of code to optimize for speed. Slammed 3 of the 4 for best speed improvements and I didn't even need it for the A... I'm a bastard.)
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If you live in a larger city like Boston it's generally a pain to own a car.
Chances are that most things are going to be in walking distance anyway and for most everything else there exists mass transportation.
My friend had the zipcar service and oddly enough it was cheaper then my car insurance for a months worth of driving. (I'm assumming because he was a light driver)
Being a non-city dweller it is tough to get my mind around the concept of not owning a gas guzzling beast, but it was very much my plan to abandon the steel chariot if I moved there.
It was a bit different and for my short stay there it wasn't so bad not having a car around.
Which is owned by a different author, in the forums, admits he created the allenpeppers persona to keep his account. (Impersonating was going to get his account banned).
Probably the best ytmnd hoax ever, but it's not exactly difficult to play on peoples emotions.
I've only seen ISP's keep short term backups. ie, mail server storage method completely dies and then backups are restored. I'm not wholly sure how long the rest of the industry keeps these, but I never kept them past a few weeks.
Mail logs are generally kept for much longer...
Now, I think you are refering to the regulations that were pending/passed/speculated regarding business mail for large companies. This is taken from the company rather then the ISP. I believe there were some regulations for our corporate friends as they tend to have rather tasty emails.
From what my friend told me they are rather strict on offensive language.
My friend's son, was apparently using the term "gay" inappropriately. So he was reported and warned. Happened again and maybe a third time? BAN! Account terminated just like that.
Now there were some other things that happened too.
Too bad his son was bright enough to remove the warning messages before his father read them.
None the less, he learned a very valuable lesson: No matter how angry you get, if you talk trash in an inappropriate way... you get to start over from scratch.
That is one of the things that didn't read correctly in the article. They make it sound as if it is a world of discrimination and dominated by bashing. However, from the tales I hear, all it takes is to file a report when something like that happens.
Still, some bias is to be expected or perhaps this was a rather unique situation for my friend.
They had intel engineer the board differently with the power connectors are goobled up on the ATX connector. Indeed, they even moved off some of the lines to seperate connectors!
There are a few choices for using a standard ATX power supply with these units. a) Rewire the PSU b) buy an expensive adapter or c) purchase a new power supply from Dell.
Nice huh!
Thankfully, they seemed to have stopped that practice, but it was fairly interesting the first time I ran into it.
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They don't want time shifting easily accessible for obvious reasons.
Each of thse networks has select shows available from the iTunes music store and I'm certain there are other avenues to digitally purchase these works.
Why purchase the season pass on "Lost" when you can just time shift it for cheap at your friendly neighborhood cable vision. For me, most things have little replay value and it's usually watch and discard.
The networks are making money from dvd sales, download sales and even from their websites now. Granted, the affiliates are getting butchered in the recent technologies, but that is an issue broadcasters need to take up with their respective networks.
Personally, I like the Cable Vision approach as it retains the local content, but I'm doubting it's going to last the fight without a hefty surcharge in the networks favor.
I'm going to disagree on the userfriendly part with AVG.
I had too many problems with individuals actually understanding what to do once they found a virus from a scan. It's not a bad lightweight av solution, but it seems really dated in terms of how it actually finds infection (ala scan only).
On the flip side, once you install a better skin for aVast it becomes a great deal easier to navigate. That is probably my biggest peeve with avast apart from the in-ability to schedule scans at regular intervals. Though I actually haven't found a virus that wasn't caught by the active scans.
Have you tried qemu?
It's dead simple even on the command line. (I came in a bit later, before it was some odd interface).
The GUI's available make it fairly easy as well...
It really is fairly zippy...
Unfortunately, some of us often have to justify a purchase for even 10 or so measly workstations. Do this enough and you will undoubtly run into more questions and reports.
None the less, I've been fairly happy with qemu and I'll probably continue to use it. (That said I probably will look into how vmware is doing now as it's been a while since I've used it)
For simplicity sake, you can introduce them to an IDE on day one, but it's important to cover what is happening.
Case in point, I had a friend who is taking some programming classes and was absolutely baffled on compiling from multiple files. Their instructor apparently likes them to "dig" in and then teach from what I gather. It's a simple matter in the end, to create some header files and segment logical code and make sure they are included under that project hierarchy. However, certain compiler flags and inclusions are essentially hidden from their point of view. I don't know if they planned on covering that, but I pointed them out some resources and gave my fairly rough explanation. (It was already written else where so I didn't feel much need to regouge the wheel)
So while I don't think it's a bad idea to start someone off on a good IDE, I don't think it's entirely a bad idea either to explain whats happening or even show off how things work on the command line.
It's along the same lines of how a past instructor taught VB. (Yes, had one class of VB, but we mostly used it for the GUI side and wrote our dll's in C++) As he taught the programming, even with some dig in approaches, he explained a great deal of things going on behind the scenes. I can say the extra understanding helped me to be a better VB programmer because understanding how things worked helped me optimize my code. (Extra points as well since our end sememester bonus points/work/competition included several pieces of code to optimize for speed. Slammed 3 of the 4 for best speed improvements and I didn't even need it for the A... I'm a bastard.)
I call that a bar tab...
I one click the bar tender all the time... works like a charm.
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Chuck kills everyone at the gym after they give his co-host a lethal injection of some drug.
Best Chuck Norris quote ever, "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer! Too bad he doesn't cry."
Yeah,
.45 and send if off with the message, "You know what needs to be done."
We are going to setup a paypal fund for a Colt
All in all, I think the simplest solution is often the best.
Gosh,
Sounds like a pyramid....
I want to investigate already!
If you live in a larger city like Boston it's generally a pain to own a car.
Chances are that most things are going to be in walking distance anyway and for most everything else there exists mass transportation.
My friend had the zipcar service and oddly enough it was cheaper then my car insurance for a months worth of driving. (I'm assumming because he was a light driver)
Being a non-city dweller it is tough to get my mind around the concept of not owning a gas guzzling beast, but it was very much my plan to abandon the steel chariot if I moved there.
It was a bit different and for my short stay there it wasn't so bad not having a car around.
I did see a yahoo blog as a link farm.
Reported the issue and blammo... content erased...
Which means someone out there does listen.
Mine still does...
Never see many people in that section though...
Yes, yes you are.
Burn the mother #$%@#$@# down!
He who controls the spice, controls the universe!
Completely irks me to mate, but I'm guessing some ass hat involved in making the show really likes it.
Nail/Head prety much with your entire statement.
Actually,
I think it's ugly.
You sir, stand corrected!
What's sad...
At a 1.50... I would own every movie I watch...
WALLS... WALLS... OF DVD!
Did I mention walls?
Could you imagine the harm to the rental business even at 2.50?
WALLS I SAY!
And the allen peppers original allen peppers ....
http://imallenpeppers.ytmnsfw.com/
Which is owned by a different author, in the forums, admits he created the allenpeppers persona to keep his account. (Impersonating was going to get his account banned).
Probably the best ytmnd hoax ever, but it's not exactly difficult to play on peoples emotions.
Um, that Allen Peppers stuff was all discredited....
He has another one too
http://allenpeppersfinal.ytmnd.com/
Now, if you watch it for 1 minute, it reveals the whole thing.
I think the forum/commenter goons all figured the Allen Peppers deal was a hoax anyway a while before the fellow decided to give up his hoax.
So, to the story has been twisted and skewed so many times... who knows the real truth.
Yeah,
Guess who owns dem dar ground holding up yer poles?
You don't like it, you can take your copper back!
Oh well, at least it looks like they are fighting amongst themselves for now.
Generally speaking...
I've only seen ISP's keep short term backups. ie, mail server storage method completely dies and then backups are restored. I'm not wholly sure how long the rest of the industry keeps these, but I never kept them past a few weeks.
Mail logs are generally kept for much longer...
Now, I think you are refering to the regulations that were pending/passed/speculated regarding business mail for large companies. This is taken from the company rather then the ISP. I believe there were some regulations for our corporate friends as they tend to have rather tasty emails.
From what my friend told me they are rather strict on offensive language.
My friend's son, was apparently using the term "gay" inappropriately. So he was reported and warned. Happened again and maybe a third time? BAN! Account terminated just like that.
Now there were some other things that happened too.
Too bad his son was bright enough to remove the warning messages before his father read them.
None the less, he learned a very valuable lesson: No matter how angry you get, if you talk trash in an inappropriate way... you get to start over from scratch.
That is one of the things that didn't read correctly in the article. They make it sound as if it is a world of discrimination and dominated by bashing. However, from the tales I hear, all it takes is to file a report when something like that happens.
Still, some bias is to be expected or perhaps this was a rather unique situation for my friend.
I've got an Dell/Intel board to prove you wrong!
They had intel engineer the board differently with the power connectors are goobled up on the ATX connector. Indeed, they even moved off some of the lines to seperate connectors!
There are a few choices for using a standard ATX power supply with these units. a) Rewire the PSU b) buy an expensive adapter or c) purchase a new power supply from Dell.
Nice huh!
Thankfully, they seemed to have stopped that practice, but it was fairly interesting the first time I ran into it.
Unfortunately, they can be moderators as well...
Who do you call when you can't trust the moderators...
Me, I'm calling the A-Team *que A-Team theme song*