So, I wonder how long it'll take to hear the first news report of a plane being grounded early because someone didn't wipe their butt early enough and was a bit *itchy* down there?
Entourage isn't bad, really. If you've ever used Outlook Express and liked it, Entourage is right up your alley.
More or less, this is true. I've been using Ent since Office 2001 came out because I got tired of Eudora constantly coming out with new versions that had few additional features.
However, Ent X does have some weird bugs (as well as bug fixes from Ent 2k1).
I moved my mailbox from Ent 2k1 over to EntX and it corrupted the entire thing to the point where I couldn't trust in anymore. (And this was a mailbox I'd been using since 1997!) If I had more than two attachments on an outbound message, EntX would randomly attach emails from my inbox instead of the items I had chosen.
There was not a solution for this problem other than to start a new Identity and switch back to the corrupted one when I needed to refer to an old email.
The guys at MS (as well as the EntourageTalk:) mailing list were all helpful, but all that could be offered as "help" was to send my mailbox file to Microsoft for them to try to understand the reason for the corruption. Um...yeah. Like I feel comfortable doing that!
Sure, you won't be driving around a ferrari at $14 an hour, but you can still live quite comfortably at that salary.
I beg to differ. If you live in the middle of nowhere with a rent of $325/mo, perhaps it'd be "pretty damn good". But not in a place like the Bay Area, where rents are quite excessive. Mine is $1500/mo for a 2-bedroom/1-bath.
In the Bay Area, entry level jobs that pay $17/hr can be difficult to survive on. And don't forget that rent is only one part of the equation. The cost of living here is much higher than most places, too.
Most are not looking to drive a Ferrari, but would like to see salaries that are a little more on-par with the cost-of-living for an area.
Why? Because many people who've been at large companies for years tend to retire around 55. This isn't to say that all people do that or that it is expected. But many do.
My dad retired as soon as he could (because he spent much of his life working for the same company, only to be treated horribly during the last 5 years).
Now he consults for the company that he retired from and works HIS schedule with better pay AND a pension.
I would think that many mainframe sysadmins would be in a similar position.
I think the general idea is that the 50-something programmer will most likely wish to retire soon. And that there may be a glut in the mainframe sysadmin market.
Who's arguing for theft? I don't go out and shoplift CDs because I think they're too expensive. Neither do I D/L vast numbers of MP3s, either. If I do, I always have the intention of purchasing the album if it is indeed worthwhile to me.
To address your claims, I have to say that the area you live in seems to have an incomparable cost of living. My area is extremely expensive, but I've never paid $13.50 for a movie. That's absurd and I would go elsewhere. Of course, we don't have those "stadium seating" theatres anywhere nearby, either.
Now, addressing the price of CDs, the only time I ever saw a CD selling for more than $13 up until the last 5 years was if I went into a Wherehouse. Now they're selling 'em for $22!
Tower Records, which used to be a decent store, sells nearly everything at the store near me for $17 and up. The Tower Records near my folks' house (500 miles away) nearly always has specials for $10-$14 which my local store NEVER has.
My point is that everyone pays somewhat different amounts for things, yet I've witnessed the prices rising. Does it make me angry? Yes, but I am not hearing a whole lot of new music that makes me want to go buy CDs anyway. And it's not like I have just a few discs. I'm a record collector with a collection of hundreds of CDs, hundreds of vinyl and shellac records, and nearly a thousand cassettes.
I was speaking broadly, not in specific about this particular case. I am not claiming that the MPA sicced lawyers on the site. Sorry it appeared that way.
And, I'm not saying there should be unlimited redistribution while things are worked out. But how long does it take to work out licensing like this? As has been pointed out by someone else, lyrics.ch went through this same crap some years ago.
It's no hoax. As someone else pointed out, this has happened before. lyrics.ch was fantastic but it got killed by this kind of action.
They required that the lyrics not be presented in text, so they had to devise a method that presented the lyrics in some kind of applet so end users couldn't grab 'em all wholesale.
The end result: if you didn't user Windows you couldn't use the site.
I stopped visiting, which, of course, was the point of their actions.
What she means is that "just because nobody is there to sell them the right to redistribute lyrics doesn't give them the right to just do it anyway".
What they're saying by their actions is: We don't have the resources to offer you a license to reproduce the lyrics in a web database that serves our members in a positive manner. Instead, we have plenty of resources to have lawyers to send out threatening letters for not having a license we won't provide to you.
Does this make ANY sense to anyone other than the lawyers who are getting paid, while the artists are not?
This brings up an interesting question in my mind:
What about those of you who are purchasing MP3's, AAC's, and whatnot on the web for $0.99/song. Are you not entitled to the lyrics sheet just because you didn't pay for packaging?
I believe it. It's tough to find a store that sells CDs for less than $18 each nowadays. I refuse to buy a CD for more than $13.
It's just like the theatre company I used to work for. They charged around $38 for the cheapest seats and up to around $75 for the best. They didn't often sell out shows, but had a loyal subscriber base. The question I always wondered, though, is whether it is better to sell out at a slightly lower price that more people can afford or hope you'll sell out at the higher price?
Less CDs are selling because more of them suck. Yet, the prices are going up while the production costs are NOT.
You'd think by now these people would understand that if you can search a snippet of lyric and the complete lyrics show up, then you'll know who the artist is and can go out and buy the album that may have been unknown to you before.
Um, excuse me? Don't you want to sell more albums and get more royalties?
Wireless microwave works pretty well if you have line-of-sight to the tower, which is not that hard in mostly-flat areas.
Or hilly/mountainous ones - if you put the tower on a high point. Only misses a few local "holes" - at which point you can add a fill-in relay on a local high point.
Yeah, well, there's microwave internet where I live, but nearly everyone I know lives in one of those "holes" because it's so hilly!
Okay, so the ALT disperses sound in all directions. That doesn't stop the acoustic presence of walls, floor, ceiling, and whatnot.
Acoustic reflections are going to happen unless you treat the surfaces that the sound is reflecting off. And to make a room more accurate, absorption is only one of the necessary treatments. Without diffusion, the room will sound very dead and, to many, quite uncomfortable.
The design (and placement) of an audio source is only one small part of making a room sound good.
Been into any hoity-toity restaurants in the past few years and noticed you can't understand the person 2 feet away from you? The popular design of restaurant spaces lately includes big vaulted ceilings and lots of open space, but few use any acoustic treatments in these spaces, causing large, boomy rooms.
It's not the source of the audio that needs to be changed (the talking people or the loudspeaker), it's the room itself.
The ALT simply attempts to remove the focal point (or sweet spot) from speaker placement. I've not heard one of these, but my feeling from looking at their website is the eliptical dispersion simply puts the focal point in a spot where no one actually sits and then tries to relfect that spot to the rest of the room.
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So, I wonder how long it'll take to hear the first news report of a plane being grounded early because someone didn't wipe their butt early enough and was a bit *itchy* down there?
Unless I go to BestBuy, a new CD in most stores around here are $17 + sales tax.
Entourage isn't bad, really. If you've ever used Outlook Express and liked it, Entourage is right up your alley.
More or less, this is true. I've been using Ent since Office 2001 came out because I got tired of Eudora constantly coming out with new versions that had few additional features.
However, Ent X does have some weird bugs (as well as bug fixes from Ent 2k1).
I moved my mailbox from Ent 2k1 over to EntX and it corrupted the entire thing to the point where I couldn't trust in anymore. (And this was a mailbox I'd been using since 1997!) If I had more than two attachments on an outbound message, EntX would randomly attach emails from my inbox instead of the items I had chosen.
There was not a solution for this problem other than to start a new Identity and switch back to the corrupted one when I needed to refer to an old email.
The guys at MS (as well as the EntourageTalk:) mailing list were all helpful, but all that could be offered as "help" was to send my mailbox file to Microsoft for them to try to understand the reason for the corruption. Um...yeah. Like I feel comfortable doing that!
Well, Adobe abandoned hope of any PROs using PageWaster, since it still hasn't changed much since version 4.2.
Rumor has it that Adobe already finished InDesign 3.0 and has been waiting for Quark 6 to ship before unleashing it.
I won't vote for that asshole every again.
An unsupervised teenager with a modem is as dangerous as an unsupervised teenager with a gun.
$14 an hour is pretty damn good.
Sure, you won't be driving around a ferrari at $14 an hour, but you can still live quite comfortably at that salary.
I beg to differ. If you live in the middle of nowhere with a rent of $325/mo, perhaps it'd be "pretty damn good". But not in a place like the Bay Area, where rents are quite excessive. Mine is $1500/mo for a 2-bedroom/1-bath.
In the Bay Area, entry level jobs that pay $17/hr can be difficult to survive on. And don't forget that rent is only one part of the equation. The cost of living here is much higher than most places, too.
Most are not looking to drive a Ferrari, but would like to see salaries that are a little more on-par with the cost-of-living for an area.
Why? Because many people who've been at large companies for years tend to retire around 55. This isn't to say that all people do that or that it is expected. But many do.
My dad retired as soon as he could (because he spent much of his life working for the same company, only to be treated horribly during the last 5 years).
Now he consults for the company that he retired from and works HIS schedule with better pay AND a pension.
I would think that many mainframe sysadmins would be in a similar position.
I think the general idea is that the 50-something programmer will most likely wish to retire soon. And that there may be a glut in the mainframe sysadmin market.
Well, at $14/hr I can hardly blame IT guys for not bothering to learn how to SysAdmin a mainframe!
Who's arguing for theft? I don't go out and shoplift CDs because I think they're too expensive. Neither do I D/L vast numbers of MP3s, either. If I do, I always have the intention of purchasing the album if it is indeed worthwhile to me.
To address your claims, I have to say that the area you live in seems to have an incomparable cost of living. My area is extremely expensive, but I've never paid $13.50 for a movie. That's absurd and I would go elsewhere. Of course, we don't have those "stadium seating" theatres anywhere nearby, either.
Now, addressing the price of CDs, the only time I ever saw a CD selling for more than $13 up until the last 5 years was if I went into a Wherehouse. Now they're selling 'em for $22!
Tower Records, which used to be a decent store, sells nearly everything at the store near me for $17 and up. The Tower Records near my folks' house (500 miles away) nearly always has specials for $10-$14 which my local store NEVER has.
My point is that everyone pays somewhat different amounts for things, yet I've witnessed the prices rising. Does it make me angry? Yes, but I am not hearing a whole lot of new music that makes me want to go buy CDs anyway. And it's not like I have just a few discs. I'm a record collector with a collection of hundreds of CDs, hundreds of vinyl and shellac records, and nearly a thousand cassettes.
a piece of paper and a 29 cent stamp!
You mean a 37 cent stamp.
Oh wait...37 cents is too low. We better raise it to 39 cents. After all, that has been the price for nearly a whole year now!
Reminiscing: ah, remember days when a sending an envelope through the USPS stayed the same price for YEARS instead of months?
I was speaking broadly, not in specific about this particular case. I am not claiming that the MPA sicced lawyers on the site. Sorry it appeared that way.
And, I'm not saying there should be unlimited redistribution while things are worked out. But how long does it take to work out licensing like this? As has been pointed out by someone else, lyrics.ch went through this same crap some years ago.
It's no hoax. As someone else pointed out, this has happened before. lyrics.ch was fantastic but it got killed by this kind of action.
They required that the lyrics not be presented in text, so they had to devise a method that presented the lyrics in some kind of applet so end users couldn't grab 'em all wholesale.
The end result: if you didn't user Windows you couldn't use the site.
I stopped visiting, which, of course, was the point of their actions.
What she means is that "just because nobody is there to sell them the right to redistribute lyrics doesn't give them the right to just do it anyway".
What they're saying by their actions is: We don't have the resources to offer you a license to reproduce the lyrics in a web database that serves our members in a positive manner. Instead, we have plenty of resources to have lawyers to send out threatening letters for not having a license we won't provide to you.
Does this make ANY sense to anyone other than the lawyers who are getting paid, while the artists are not?
This brings up an interesting question in my mind:
What about those of you who are purchasing MP3's, AAC's, and whatnot on the web for $0.99/song. Are you not entitled to the lyrics sheet just because you didn't pay for packaging?
I believe it. It's tough to find a store that sells CDs for less than $18 each nowadays. I refuse to buy a CD for more than $13.
It's just like the theatre company I used to work for. They charged around $38 for the cheapest seats and up to around $75 for the best. They didn't often sell out shows, but had a loyal subscriber base. The question I always wondered, though, is whether it is better to sell out at a slightly lower price that more people can afford or hope you'll sell out at the higher price?
Less CDs are selling because more of them suck. Yet, the prices are going up while the production costs are NOT.
That's how the FCC finally shut down the micro-broadcasting of Free Radio Berkeley.
The FCC won on a technicality that since FRB never applied for a non-existent micro-broadcast license, they were in violation of FCC rules.
You'd think by now these people would understand that if you can search a snippet of lyric and the complete lyrics show up, then you'll know who the artist is and can go out and buy the album that may have been unknown to you before.
Um, excuse me? Don't you want to sell more albums and get more royalties?
I guess not.
Wireless microwave works pretty well if you have line-of-sight to the tower, which is not that hard in mostly-flat areas.
Or hilly/mountainous ones - if you put the tower on a high point. Only misses a few local "holes" - at which point you can add a fill-in relay on a local high point.
Yeah, well, there's microwave internet where I live, but nearly everyone I know lives in one of those "holes" because it's so hilly!
They're not RCA connectors; they're interconnects.
Or the guys with the magic marker to run around the edge of your CDs to make them sound better.
Sounds like you need some bumperstickers for the cause!
Here's my first contribution:
Use vials, not tubes!
Okay, so the ALT disperses sound in all directions. That doesn't stop the acoustic presence of walls, floor, ceiling, and whatnot.
Acoustic reflections are going to happen unless you treat the surfaces that the sound is reflecting off. And to make a room more accurate, absorption is only one of the necessary treatments. Without diffusion, the room will sound very dead and, to many, quite uncomfortable.
The design (and placement) of an audio source is only one small part of making a room sound good.
Been into any hoity-toity restaurants in the past few years and noticed you can't understand the person 2 feet away from you? The popular design of restaurant spaces lately includes big vaulted ceilings and lots of open space, but few use any acoustic treatments in these spaces, causing large, boomy rooms.
It's not the source of the audio that needs to be changed (the talking people or the loudspeaker), it's the room itself.
The ALT simply attempts to remove the focal point (or sweet spot) from speaker placement. I've not heard one of these, but my feeling from looking at their website is the eliptical dispersion simply puts the focal point in a spot where no one actually sits and then tries to relfect that spot to the rest of the room.
: One way to tell is by the amount of stuff that gets attracted to the TV screen; not much.
Damn. I got rid of all my CRTs and replaced them with flat panels. I guess I should have kept one around as a dust magnet!