You comment makes me think that the future of most sites will be Open Source Content Management Systems so that updating to provide for numerous browsers and potentially suspect browsers becomes the consistent work of a few. Standardized upgrades will make sure that more websites work and are compliant...
I am trying the free trial and there is no Howard Stern.
Their web app sucks. It is streaming at 32K, far from "CD quality" and has little to no content. If they are only letting me have it for two days, give me more than 5% of what you have to offer. Or at least let me choose what I want to check out.
You don't have to install their plugin to use it. Firefox doesn't recognize their plugin anyway...
After picking through their site, Stern is supposed to fall under the "entertainment" category. All that is in there is Maxim Radio, Cosmo Radio and Martha Stewart. This trial sucks big time...
I have to say as someone who worked in a large mac lab with mac and windows servers, that when I come home, I spend none of my time fixing my pc or my son's pc or my wife's pc.
I did have to spend a few seconds starting ClamWin through VNC on my wife's laptop at one point.
When my dad wanted a computer, I did set him up with a mac. I didn't want to spend time having to fixing it and it was a good thing as his girlfriend's grand kids apparently download all kinds of windows executables that I see littered all over the desktop. That was a good move.
But at home, we all use firefox. My wife and I both use webmail from our own domains. For a long time, I didn't even have ClamWin on any machine (and still don't on my 5 year old's pc as the machine outdates him by 4 years) and have never seen a virus on any of our machines when I would anually run Trend Micro's scanner.
I chalk that up to how one uses the internet, not what platform one uses.
And I have to say that I have seen more problems with 2 year old macs with hardware issues than problems with any of my pcs. In 10 years, I have had to replace one power supply and one SCSI drive...
If this is for a PEG (public / educational / goverment) access channel, you can't go down without running the risk of losing valuable barganing ground at the next cable contract renewal...
You want to find cards that do your video playback decoding through the cards (need to be able to handle your compression scheme, at least 6mbps). You might want more than one card if you find there are instances you want to play out using the same content set to multiple streams (like a feed going out to a cable head end and to an internal tv network). More than one card in one machine can of course confuse control issues, so it might be better to have one machine and one card per channel all hooked up via fiber using SAN software. At that point, you can also hook up editing stations to the SAN too so that you can edit. In my experience, encoding using fiber attached storage is so very pleasing compared to doing in on a single machine's internal hard drive. You want RAID, likely RAID 5. If you want to do device control (which it doesn't sound like you do), there are apps that can help to do so through USB to serial cables which will allow you to do RS422 device control for stuff like dvd players, svhs decks, ect...
The biggest deal is a scheduling system that can also organize device control and multiple channel playback if you are thinking about it.
If that is the case, check out Tightrope ( www.trms.com ). You can get a machine for a couple thousand and hook it up to your storage array and get yourself some MPEG decoder cards in client playout machines, or get the whole thing from them for a bit more (which includes storage and multi head out MPEG decoder card, streaming for the web, ect). I highly recommend them. I don't work for them, but was a happy customer at my last job...
I am not sure if this still the case, but when I took the SATs 15 years ago, the rule was that your SAT score was the best combined score meaning if you took the SATs more than once and scored better on Math the second time you took the test, that second score would be the one that counted. My catholic grade school (grades one through eight) did a poor job at teaching math and when I first took the SATs, I scored poorly on that section. The next time I took the SATs, I spent all of my time doing the math, and even durring parts when I was supposed to the English, I worked on the Math sections. With 20 minutes left in the test, I went back to the English sections and filled in all "B"'s. It didn't matter as I had scored very well on the English sections the first time. My eventual best combined score was great once I did this. Spending extra time on particular sections is NOT ALLOWED, but I did it anyway.
I had known before taking the SATs that I would have trouble with the math section. When taking the PSATs, I had scored perfectly in English but had done poorly in math, so I sat down for a while and thought about what I could do to improve my score in math and had come up with that. Doing this raised my SAT scores by over 400 points overall. Some of the math problems were of things I had never been exposed to, but with the extra time, I was able to reason out the logic.
Also, there were definitely a few advanced algebra, trigonometry and calculus questions on the math portions of the SATs which I did not learn about until I took honors math courses durring my junior year in High School. A couple kids in the school had taken that class by the time they took the SATs but most students never even took that advanced of a math class in high school at all. This was the second largest high school in Massachusetts at the time.
When one smells aren't they absorbing tiny particles of whatever the "object" that is being "smelled" is releasing? Couldn't the plant be reacting to particles of what is it's food that happens to be floating in the air from a particular direction?
Sanpper didn't "Stand up" to Walmart so much as made a smart decision:
"Now, at the price I'm selling to you today, I'm not making any money on it. And if we do what you want next year, I'll lose money. I could do that and not go out of business. But we have this independent-dealer channel. And 80% of our business is over here with them. And I can't put them at a competitive disadvantage. If I do that, I lose everything. So this just isn't a compatible fit."
Uh yeah, I do. My wife's theisis was on Walmart's Distribution. Regardless of their prices on digital ditributed products, they don't make the same margin from that as they do physically distributed products. They would much rather compete on the physical end and will "encourage" manufacturers to continue to push forward more so int he physical areana for now.
Walmart fights whomever it wants when they sell that company's stuff in their stores. Walmart is the biggest retailer in the country. Getting your stuff sold in Walmart can make or break your company's sucess and Walmart knows that. Disney could have said they didn't care what Walmart thought but my money is on that they absolutely crapped their pants when Walmart hinted they might slow or stop sales.
It wasn't about halting technological change so much as it was that Walmart would want "dibs" on a new logistical paradigm. Walmart has their logistics to a point where they automatically make 2% more than anyone else selling a product at the same cost. They do not have a stranglehold on digital delivery and thus they owe it to their stockholders to take whatever moves they can to "encourage" manufacturers to not screw with Walmart.
Unfortunately for Apple, Disney would sooner tell them to jump off a bridge than to ruin a relationship with Walmart.
Walmart has gotten their logistics to the point where they automatically make 2 to 3 percent more than anyone else for the same product even if Walmart and say Sears sell at cost. That means that no matter what Walmart makes more selling the same product.
Walmart can't make the same money when the distribution model isn't physical, at least not yet.
Walmart uses their selling power to get what they want from manufacturers. If your DVD doesn't get sold in Walmart, you automatically lose something like 15% of potential sales. Disney needs Walmart. Amazon doesn't.
Step 1 - Keep using machine when user isn't around Step 2 - Running all of the time will ensure a standard MTBF causing users to buy new units Step 3 - Profit!
In the mean time, its people who sit in front of their computer for 14 hours a day who are smarmily telling the rest to read a book. That's like yelling to people who are using a Segway that they should ride a bike FROM THEIR CAR.
Playing fantasy sports does the same thing for giving one a broader sense of a sport. Being a Red Sox fan, I used to be fairly boston centric in my sports knowledge of players. But one finds themselves rooting for individual players rather than only for teams when the success of one's fantasy team might rely upon a Yankee player's individual performance *shudder*.
for a large company, like say Citibank, it saves miliions and millions of dollars a year. They figure out what most people are calling about (say with a credit card its balance inquiries and making payments over the phone) and tries to get you do that in an automated fashion.
Yes, its annoying to many of us. Most places, you can press "0" or in the case of listening for your voice, you can say operator and go right to a live person. Some systems are so advanced that if you sound angry, you are pushed up in the que.
Try calling Experian some time. There is absolutely no way to speak to a human. They refer you to their website which then refers you back to the same phone number. You can ONLY contact them by writing for many things. Now THAT is infuriating...
I wasn't suggesting that Apple has a tough time getting help in the retail stores. But having worked for a few years in retail in Levi stores, Structure and Express while in college, I know that GOOD help is hard to find and that I feel that the offense they committed (and yes I agree that there was an offense, just am debating the severity of it) did not warrant their termination especially given that had they done something like attend WWDC, they could have received a free copy.
Now, would it be a bit rediculous for them to attend WWDC? Sure. I know they are retailers and not developers. But I know that every trade show and conference I attend, I manage free admission. And I feel that if there WAS a way to finagle free admission, it likely would have taken less time to do so than download the beta.
That given, I think that most retail apple employee OS X users, driven enough to do something fairly mundane like download the beta or crazy enough (and apparently the sarcasm about them going to WWDC in my last post escaped you) to go to WWDC, would be enough of a "fan"-atic to know the differences between OS versions. I certainly didn't mean to demean WWDC or your occupation by suggesting an Apple Store employee attend WWDC. Just that HAD they done so, they could have gotten their copy and avoided getting fired. If Aplpe gives it out for free to someone who simply says they are a developer (and I am making assumptions, it seems harsh to fire them, rules or not.
Mac Minis can only drive certain resolution screens. One must make sure it can acomodate your intended monitor hardware. Not sure where, but I read an article talking about trying to play back full screen HD and even a maxed out Mini chuggs at times... I also think I remember that you need a dual proc dual core to run 1080i full screen HD on a mac...
It just strikes me that Apple seems to have been sending out mixed messages at times. Good retail help is hard to find and its sad that these folks were canned getting software they could have gotten for free and without fear of termination had they been able to attend WWDC. Perhaps if Apple paid them more, they could have made it out there.:D
I read the article and the author seemed to have trouble saying, "why in the world would you buy this?" And really.... is a heated toilet seat with a built in bidet worth at least $800? He says the dryer on it is worthless. I wonder why they wouldn't have linked to a review of a techy seat that actually worked? The seat isn't worth the money and the article says so. B-O-R-I-N-G
I live in a town that is 80% Portuguese and so many homes have bidets in them. You don't need a seat that will only allow water usage if there is over 30 lbs. You simply beat your kid within an inch of his or her life if they turn on the bidet and get water all over the floor. The rest of the kids will never make the same mistake.
Never mind that most men have no desire to douche themselves after taking a crap...
"I'm in the process of setting up my own mail server right now, which MTA would you recommend for a low volume mailserver?"
These are two complete thoughts and thus should be two complete sentences. The fact that one part is a statememnt and the other is a question means that they should be separated by punctuation that ends a sentence. Thus, it could say, "I'm in the process of setting up my own mail server right now. Which MTA would you recommend for a low volume mailserver?"
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My computer or my values?
You comment makes me think that the future of most sites will be Open Source Content Management Systems so that updating to provide for numerous browsers and potentially suspect browsers becomes the consistent work of a few. Standardized upgrades will make sure that more websites work and are compliant...
Yahoo turned Launchcast to crap when they bought it...
I am trying the free trial and there is no Howard Stern.
Their web app sucks. It is streaming at 32K, far from "CD quality" and has little to no content. If they are only letting me have it for two days, give me more than 5% of what you have to offer. Or at least let me choose what I want to check out.
You don't have to install their plugin to use it. Firefox doesn't recognize their plugin anyway...
After picking through their site, Stern is supposed to fall under the "entertainment" category. All that is in there is Maxim Radio, Cosmo Radio and Martha Stewart. This trial sucks big time...
I have to say as someone who worked in a large mac lab with mac and windows servers, that when I come home, I spend none of my time fixing my pc or my son's pc or my wife's pc.
I did have to spend a few seconds starting ClamWin through VNC on my wife's laptop at one point.
When my dad wanted a computer, I did set him up with a mac. I didn't want to spend time having to fixing it and it was a good thing as his girlfriend's grand kids apparently download all kinds of windows executables that I see littered all over the desktop. That was a good move.
But at home, we all use firefox. My wife and I both use webmail from our own domains. For a long time, I didn't even have ClamWin on any machine (and still don't on my 5 year old's pc as the machine outdates him by 4 years) and have never seen a virus on any of our machines when I would anually run Trend Micro's scanner.
I chalk that up to how one uses the internet, not what platform one uses.
And I have to say that I have seen more problems with 2 year old macs with hardware issues than problems with any of my pcs. In 10 years, I have had to replace one power supply and one SCSI drive...
forgot some stuff...
Do you worry about reporting?
Redundancy?
If this is for a PEG (public / educational / goverment) access channel, you can't go down without running the risk of losing valuable barganing ground at the next cable contract renewal...
You want to find cards that do your video playback decoding through the cards (need to be able to handle your compression scheme, at least 6mbps). You might want more than one card if you find there are instances you want to play out using the same content set to multiple streams (like a feed going out to a cable head end and to an internal tv network). More than one card in one machine can of course confuse control issues, so it might be better to have one machine and one card per channel all hooked up via fiber using SAN software. At that point, you can also hook up editing stations to the SAN too so that you can edit. In my experience, encoding using fiber attached storage is so very pleasing compared to doing in on a single machine's internal hard drive.
You want RAID, likely RAID 5.
If you want to do device control (which it doesn't sound like you do), there are apps that can help to do so through USB to serial cables which will allow you to do RS422 device control for stuff like dvd players, svhs decks, ect...
The biggest deal is a scheduling system that can also organize device control and multiple channel playback if you are thinking about it.
If that is the case, check out Tightrope ( www.trms.com ). You can get a machine for a couple thousand and hook it up to your storage array and get yourself some MPEG decoder cards in client playout machines, or get the whole thing from them for a bit more (which includes storage and multi head out MPEG decoder card, streaming for the web, ect). I highly recommend them. I don't work for them, but was a happy customer at my last job...
I ran a multi-head peg station for a few years...
I am not sure if this still the case, but when I took the SATs 15 years ago, the rule was that your SAT score was the best combined score meaning if you took the SATs more than once and scored better on Math the second time you took the test, that second score would be the one that counted. My catholic grade school (grades one through eight) did a poor job at teaching math and when I first took the SATs, I scored poorly on that section. The next time I took the SATs, I spent all of my time doing the math, and even durring parts when I was supposed to the English, I worked on the Math sections. With 20 minutes left in the test, I went back to the English sections and filled in all "B"'s. It didn't matter as I had scored very well on the English sections the first time. My eventual best combined score was great once I did this. Spending extra time on particular sections is NOT ALLOWED, but I did it anyway.
I had known before taking the SATs that I would have trouble with the math section. When taking the PSATs, I had scored perfectly in English but had done poorly in math, so I sat down for a while and thought about what I could do to improve my score in math and had come up with that. Doing this raised my SAT scores by over 400 points overall. Some of the math problems were of things I had never been exposed to, but with the extra time, I was able to reason out the logic.
Also, there were definitely a few advanced algebra, trigonometry and calculus questions on the math portions of the SATs which I did not learn about until I took honors math courses durring my junior year in High School. A couple kids in the school had taken that class by the time they took the SATs but most students never even took that advanced of a math class in high school at all. This was the second largest high school in Massachusetts at the time.
When one smells aren't they absorbing tiny particles of whatever the "object" that is being "smelled" is releasing? Couldn't the plant be reacting to particles of what is it's food that happens to be floating in the air from a particular direction?
I would expect Disney to tell Steve Jobs to jump off a bridge if they had to choose between Apple and Walmart. Walmart has that kind of leverage.
And you are mistaken. 99% of manufacturers of lower priced consumer products out there either desperately need Walmart or deperately want Walmart.
I don't shop there myself. Its just fact.
Sanpper didn't "Stand up" to Walmart so much as made a smart decision:
"Now, at the price I'm selling to you today, I'm not making any money on it. And if we do what you want next year, I'll lose money. I could do that and not go out of business. But we have this independent-dealer channel. And 80% of our business is over here with them. And I can't put them at a competitive disadvantage. If I do that, I lose everything. So this just isn't a compatible fit."
Uh yeah, I do. My wife's theisis was on Walmart's Distribution. Regardless of their prices on digital ditributed products, they don't make the same margin from that as they do physically distributed products. They would much rather compete on the physical end and will "encourage" manufacturers to continue to push forward more so int he physical areana for now.
Walmart fights whomever it wants when they sell that company's stuff in their stores. Walmart is the biggest retailer in the country. Getting your stuff sold in Walmart can make or break your company's sucess and Walmart knows that. Disney could have said they didn't care what Walmart thought but my money is on that they absolutely crapped their pants when Walmart hinted they might slow or stop sales.
It wasn't about halting technological change so much as it was that Walmart would want "dibs" on a new logistical paradigm. Walmart has their logistics to a point where they automatically make 2% more than anyone else selling a product at the same cost. They do not have a stranglehold on digital delivery and thus they owe it to their stockholders to take whatever moves they can to "encourage" manufacturers to not screw with Walmart.
Unfortunately for Apple, Disney would sooner tell them to jump off a bridge than to ruin a relationship with Walmart.
Walmart has gotten their logistics to the point where they automatically make 2 to 3 percent more than anyone else for the same product even if Walmart and say Sears sell at cost. That means that no matter what Walmart makes more selling the same product.
Walmart can't make the same money when the distribution model isn't physical, at least not yet.
Walmart uses their selling power to get what they want from manufacturers. If your DVD doesn't get sold in Walmart, you automatically lose something like 15% of potential sales. Disney needs Walmart. Amazon doesn't.
Step 1 - Keep using machine when user isn't around
Step 2 - Running all of the time will ensure a standard MTBF causing users to buy new units
Step 3 - Profit!
In the mean time, its people who sit in front of their computer for 14 hours a day who are smarmily telling the rest to read a book. That's like yelling to people who are using a Segway that they should ride a bike FROM THEIR CAR.
Playing fantasy sports does the same thing for giving one a broader sense of a sport. Being a Red Sox fan, I used to be fairly boston centric in my sports knowledge of players. But one finds themselves rooting for individual players rather than only for teams when the success of one's fantasy team might rely upon a Yankee player's individual performance *shudder*.
whatever files people put on them after they stole my last 2...
for a large company, like say Citibank, it saves miliions and millions of dollars a year. They figure out what most people are calling about (say with a credit card its balance inquiries and making payments over the phone) and tries to get you do that in an automated fashion.
Yes, its annoying to many of us. Most places, you can press "0" or in the case of listening for your voice, you can say operator and go right to a live person. Some systems are so advanced that if you sound angry, you are pushed up in the que.
Try calling Experian some time. There is absolutely no way to speak to a human. They refer you to their website which then refers you back to the same phone number. You can ONLY contact them by writing for many things. Now THAT is infuriating...
I wasn't suggesting that Apple has a tough time getting help in the retail stores. But having worked for a few years in retail in Levi stores, Structure and Express while in college, I know that GOOD help is hard to find and that I feel that the offense they committed (and yes I agree that there was an offense, just am debating the severity of it) did not warrant their termination especially given that had they done something like attend WWDC, they could have received a free copy.
Now, would it be a bit rediculous for them to attend WWDC? Sure. I know they are retailers and not developers. But I know that every trade show and conference I attend, I manage free admission. And I feel that if there WAS a way to finagle free admission, it likely would have taken less time to do so than download the beta.
That given, I think that most retail apple employee OS X users, driven enough to do something fairly mundane like download the beta or crazy enough (and apparently the sarcasm about them going to WWDC in my last post escaped you) to go to WWDC, would be enough of a "fan"-atic to know the differences between OS versions. I certainly didn't mean to demean WWDC or your occupation by suggesting an Apple Store employee attend WWDC. Just that HAD they done so, they could have gotten their copy and avoided getting fired. If Aplpe gives it out for free to someone who simply says they are a developer (and I am making assumptions, it seems harsh to fire them, rules or not.
Mac Minis can only drive certain resolution screens. One must make sure it can acomodate your intended monitor hardware. Not sure where, but I read an article talking about trying to play back full screen HD and even a maxed out Mini chuggs at times... I also think I remember that you need a dual proc dual core to run 1080i full screen HD on a mac...
It just strikes me that Apple seems to have been sending out mixed messages at times. Good retail help is hard to find and its sad that these folks were canned getting software they could have gotten for free and without fear of termination had they been able to attend WWDC. Perhaps if Apple paid them more, they could have made it out there. :D
ya but they did not leak it
they went home and downloaded it.
they didn't re-share it
they wanted to see it early
it sounds like they are sales people
find the developer who leaked and shared it and sue them
geesh
I read the article and the author seemed to have trouble saying, "why in the world would you buy this?" And really.... is a heated toilet seat with a built in bidet worth at least $800? He says the dryer on it is worthless. I wonder why they wouldn't have linked to a review of a techy seat that actually worked? The seat isn't worth the money and the article says so. B-O-R-I-N-G
I live in a town that is 80% Portuguese and so many homes have bidets in them. You don't need a seat that will only allow water usage if there is over 30 lbs. You simply beat your kid within an inch of his or her life if they turn on the bidet and get water all over the floor. The rest of the kids will never make the same mistake.
Never mind that most men have no desire to douche themselves after taking a crap...
Per your grammar nazi request....
:)
"I'm in the process of setting up my own mail server right now, which MTA would you recommend for a low volume mailserver?"
These are two complete thoughts and thus should be two complete sentences. The fact that one part is a statememnt and the other is a question means that they should be separated by punctuation that ends a sentence. Thus, it could say, "I'm in the process of setting up my own mail server right now. Which MTA would you recommend for a low volume mailserver?"
Anyway, you asked.