If they had any sense, they would eject Berman and let Nick Meyer run the show. So much of the best of Star Trek films was from him.
His directorial debut was... Star Trek II. He wrote all the script for Star Trek IV that took place in the 20th century. He also directed Star Trek IV and did a great deal of the story, based upon an idea by Nimoy.
He has a sense of the show that Berman lacks utterly.
As I am currently working on my Master's, I've had to spend a ton of bucks on texts.
Each course at my local State U costs me about $390 in tuition. (For a three credit course, that's a bargain!) I've had courses where the texts cost almost as much as the tuition for the course. After my first semester, I said "no way!"
Now I purchase all of my texts from overseas as the International Editions. These are the exact same textbooks published by the exact same publisher and everything is exactly the same, page numbers, problems, colors used in printing, you name it. The only exception is that they come in paperback and they usually say "NOT FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA." on them.
How could you find an international edition? Well I'm glad you asked.
Go to Amazon.com and look up your book. Generally they will have them for the same sales price as your local college bookstore. Here is a popular Finance textbook on sale for about $135. It's packed with useless CDROMS and other stuff that will never be used.
If you notice it has a "Buy New and Used from $34.95" link on the page. That will take you to a page where Amazon will list a lot of zShop vendors who have the book. Some of them will come right out and say "Int'l" or "paperback" edition. If they have the book as "brand new" and it's only around $80 or so, that's an indication that your book will be arriving UPS or Fedex from Singapore or Taiwan as the Int'l Edition. What a deal!
Refuse to pay those outrageous prices at the bookstore! I know in the case of business schools, reading a good business newspaper or magazine will teach you far more about business than any textbook. If you care about learning, spend the savings on that!
I've been using an iPod on Windows for about 4 months now and I love it. The only part I could not stand was the dreadful MusicMatch software package. Lots of people love it, I know, but it wasn't for me.
One thing the review does not mention is that for Windows iPod owners, iTunes completely replaces MusicMatch.
I find that my computer recognizes and synchronizes with my iPod much faster now on iTunes than with MusicMatch. (Warning: I connect over FireWire, I cannot say what USB users will experience.) Frankly, even without the music store, I'd recommend iTunes for any Windows iPod users because of the more seamless support for the device in iTunes.
Once I set up my options, I plug in my iPod and it syncs right away and I'm done in a few seconds. (Usually I'm only updating a few songs I just purchased.) The MusicMatch software used to take 15-20 seconds just to recognize the iPod device.
Of course, my number one complaint is similar to other users. When previewing a song, if you click just about anywhere else, the preview cuts off, even if you are just browsing. I hate that.
When I first booted Elite and I saw that ship rotating in 3-D on my screen with the theme song playing using multiple voices, I thought to myself "There will never be any game cooler than this! The future is here!"
I think that one game made me a gamer and interested in computers. Entering 20 page BASIC programs from the back of Family Computing made me interested in coding. (And debugging! Har!)
Anyone remember huge blocks of code like this?
200 DATA 200,45,45,342,4,6,0,0,0,45,3,45,3,56 210 DATA 316,85,27,55,6,0,1,4,5,0,1,1,1,56,6
I ordered some of the Mozilla coffee (Worldly Lizard Blend).
It arrived via US Mail in a few days and it's very good if you prefer a hearty, strong blend.
I like it.
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That's good, of course, but can you name a reason why they had to sell two different editions to do that? If it's an hour of extra video, it could be stored as an extra track on the DVD, and selected from a menu. There is just no reason to sell the short version, then wait awhile, and tell everyone there is a longer version they should also buy.
The answer to your question is this:
New Line told everyone straight up, BEFORE they released the first DVD that there would two versions. The first DVD would be strictly the threatrical version with no "new" extras. (The extras that are there were previously available on the LOTR Official site.)
The second release, the "Extended" versions was for fans of the books/films.
The reason they broke it up like that was because the video market demands a release on a faster cycle than PJ and New Line could release the Extended version, so they put out the theatrical verion.
It's not any kind of trickery, they came right out and said this before the first one was released. "If you just want to add to your DVD collection, get the first one, if you are a LOTR fan, get the second one."
I work for a hotel chain. We are entirely a resort hotel company, the people staying at our facilities are people on vacation.
Customer service is a big, giant issue for us. We aren't going to hassle our vacationers with grief over losing their room key while they had a drunken walk down the beach. We aren't going to berate someone for being so stupid as to allow their kids to ride the elevators just for fun while unsupervised.
The company exists to support these folks, make them happy and make them want to come back to us again and again. Some of them are clueless, some of them are mean, some of them are thieves. Then again, most of them are nice folks.
At the end of the day they have a choice on if they want to stay with us or not.
IT support departments have the luxury of having a captive audience. However in a business like ours, we work very hard to spread a customer focused culture throughout the organization.
If you can imagine what it's like to be an immigrant housekeeper working for a bit over minimum wage and having to do manual labor to clean up after folks who earn vast sums more than you and act like you don't exist, and do your job with a smile, then you can see that maybe working at the IT help desk isn't the most difficult thing in the company, talking people through how to get Word to print in landscape or something equally as silly.
The IT folks that I work with are fantastic, and just like the housekeepers, and the front desk staff, and the food & beverage folks, they realize that they too have customers to serve and the purpose of our company isn't to support the IT staff, to buy many l33t Sun boxen or to provide a rationale for a data center, it's to serve customers. And as far as we go in my firm, there's no difference between an internal and external customer.
I'm in the training department for my company. Mostly I develop multimedia CBTs to train reservation agents and front desk staff on how to use their systems. So my PC isn't the standard MS Office/Outlook setup. I have all kinds of weird multimedia programs and development tools that sometimes don't play nice together. Needless to say, I have to get IT help from time to time. (Even as a power user, some installs don't run and so on. Plus we have a training room with multimedia laptops set up as a CBT learning lab and the dongles break, the laptops are old and lousy and require lots of help since they get constant use and abuse.) When I told an IT staffer that I hate to submit lots of tickets he jumped up and down and got mad. "You should submit as many tickets as you need! We have some people that routinely put in 15 tickets every day! The more tickets I can close the more justification I have for IT staff and those are people's jobs! If you need something to get your job done or the laptops aren't working right or whatever it is, don't even hesitate to call us. If i catch you not submitting tickets, I will beat you up."
All I could think was "Wow!" Here is an IT help desk guy that has a customer focus, which is what the whole damn company is about!
So maybe the end users aren't so bright sometimes, or they don't know what OS they are using. Look on the upside. If they don't know what OS they have, it will be easier to transition them to Linux.
Forbes published another article on this topic and I must say, it had a few gems in it. Try this quote on for size... (and no, I'm not joking)
(After SCO sued IBM) Linux geeks howled a bit, but then wrote off SCO as a bunch of sleazebags and went back to playing live-action roleplaying (LARP) games in their mothers' basements, or whatever it is they do when they're not writing device drivers and complaining about clueless end users.
Is that "if you can not afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you" only valid in criminal cases?
IANAL.
In the US, one does not get a lawyer appointed for civil cases. The "one will be appointed to you" line that you see on television is part of the US Miranda warning which is only applicable in criminal cases.
However, there are many advocacy groups such as the ACLU, EFF, FIRE and others that may provide free counsel in civil cases that fit their profile.
The "system" as you refer to it is typical in countries with a common law background. Most European countries follow the Romano-Germanic legal tradition which is entirely different in its approach than the common law.
I like Vivian Mail which is a very lightweight email client that is very simple and straighforward to use. The only downside is that the English version's translation is a little spotty.
I now use Calypso which has one of the best email features I had ever found. I use my popmail client at home and sometimes I use webmail from the same account at school. I sometimes want to leave messages on the server so I can get the message later from webmail and sometimes I want to delete them from the server right away. Calypso has a context menu that allows "Delete from mail server now" or "Mark to Delete from Mail Server at next connection". I use that feature constantly and now I find it necessary in any other client I try.
I was also kicked out of a store. I'm working on a master's degree part time and I had to take a class in marketing.
We were doing a project on the ice cream market. I had to get prices, shelf locations, the numbers or brands and so on.
I got kicked out of two stores before I got enough data to do my project. (Albertson's and Vons kicked me out but Smith's was nice and let me collect data.)
So the answer to the story submitter is that you most certainly cannot walk into a store and record pricing manually.
Point taken. I agree with you that those are ideal candidates for imitation.
However I would suspect that B&B do not have the creativity to make it work.
Assume for a second that they out those two fools were put in charge of Firefly. It's not possible, but let's assume it for a second. I would speculate that there would not be words in English to describe the kind of suckfest it would turn out to be. *shrug*
So earth is in danger and there's one spaceship that has a desperate quest to save the earth before the eeeevil alien plot destroys earth once and for all!
It's Starblazers! Err, no wait, it's Crusade! Wait.. it's Enterprise!
Can we please stop getting old stuff recycled and at least try for something a little less imitative of previous scifi shows?
This is usually the part of the EULA that is in all caps. (It was required to be in all caps by the state of CA in an effort to make sure people read it, but as an aside, I would argue that putting in caps almost guarantees that no one reads it.)
Now, could you imagine if you were about to drive over a bridge and there was a sign saying "By driving over this bridge, you acknowledge that this bridge is not warranteed for any particular purpose and the owner makes no guarantees whatsoever that it may do or not do anything."
Essentially translated: "This bridge should not be driven over by anyone for any reason whatsoever. If you still want to do that, stop and pay a toll!"
I don't think people would stand for that. Yet people accept denials of merchantability and fitness all the time in software. Those terms in EULAs were put there specifically because software makers back in the day were getting sued under product liability laws. It's rather shocking that people put up with it.
Ballmer or Bahgdad Bob? Allow me to translate the article...
"There are no Linux infidels in server rooms! Never!"
"My feelings - as usual - Microsoft will slaughter them all"
"Our initial assessment is that Linux will die"
"I blame Slashdot - they are marketing for the open-source community!"
"God will roast their rpms/aptgets/portage in hell at the hands of Microsoft."
"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their cron jobs."
"No I am not scared of Linux, and neither should you be!"
"Be assured. Windows Server 2003 is safe, protected"
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that Linux has started to commit loss of market share under the walls of Windows Server. We will encourage them to commit more loss of market share more quickly."
"Now even the Kernel.org command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
"I triple guarantee you, there are no open source programmers in Redmond."
"They're not even within 100 miles of secure. They are not in any place. They hold no place in server stability. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
"Yes, the open source coders have advanced further. This will only make it easier for us to defeat them"
It's not just a scam to get money out of you either. The theatrical DVD has just that: the theatrical version. There are no special commentaries or anything fabulous on them.
The bonus disc only contained material that was previously available on the official web site. The only reason that they have this release is that the video market demands that a film be available within a certain time frame from original release. They just don't have time to finish the special extended versions in time, so they release the "regular" theatrical DVD on time.
The Special Extended version will have all the nice stuff like super-duper commentary tracks and loads of special features.
All this holds true only if they follow the same procedure with TTT as they did with FOTR.
If the TTT Special Extended DVD is similar to the FOTR Special Extended version, it's well worth it.
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Actually that was a typo. I meant VI, not IV. (I blame the ancients for their annoying numeric scheme!) Good catch.
The director's commentary on the Super Special Star Trek II DVD led me to believe it was his debut. Oh well.
If they had any sense, they would eject Berman and let Nick Meyer run the show. So much of the best of Star Trek films was from him.
His directorial debut was... Star Trek II. He wrote all the script for Star Trek IV that took place in the 20th century. He also directed Star Trek IV and did a great deal of the story, based upon an idea by Nimoy.
He has a sense of the show that Berman lacks utterly.
You can also get "Computer Riders" on home insurance policies which specifically cover losses and damage to your home computers/laptops.
I have one and it cost about an extra $12.00 per year on my renter's insurance.
A pretty fair deal for the amount of gear I have.
As I am currently working on my Master's, I've had to spend a ton of bucks on texts.
Each course at my local State U costs me about $390 in tuition. (For a three credit course, that's a bargain!) I've had courses where the texts cost almost as much as the tuition for the course. After my first semester, I said "no way!"
Now I purchase all of my texts from overseas as the International Editions. These are the exact same textbooks published by the exact same publisher and everything is exactly the same, page numbers, problems, colors used in printing, you name it. The only exception is that they come in paperback and they usually say "NOT FOR SALE IN NORTH AMERICA." on them.
How could you find an international edition? Well I'm glad you asked.
Go to Amazon.com and look up your book. Generally they will have them for the same sales price as your local college bookstore. Here is a popular Finance textbook on sale for about $135. It's packed with useless CDROMS and other stuff that will never be used.
If you notice it has a "Buy New and Used from $34.95" link on the page. That will take you to a page where Amazon will list a lot of zShop vendors who have the book. Some of them will come right out and say "Int'l" or "paperback" edition. If they have the book as "brand new" and it's only around $80 or so, that's an indication that your book will be arriving UPS or Fedex from Singapore or Taiwan as the Int'l Edition. What a deal!
Refuse to pay those outrageous prices at the bookstore! I know in the case of business schools, reading a good business newspaper or magazine will teach you far more about business than any textbook. If you care about learning, spend the savings on that!
You do not understand what the parent poster is talking about.
He purchased his "iPod for Windows" in May 2003. iTunes for Windows was not available yet.
The worthless and bloated MusicMatch was the prepackaged software that all Windows iPod users were suppose to use at that time.
Now that iTunes for Windows is available, this has changed.
I've been using an iPod on Windows for about 4 months now and I love it. The only part I could not stand was the dreadful MusicMatch software package. Lots of people love it, I know, but it wasn't for me.
One thing the review does not mention is that for Windows iPod owners, iTunes completely replaces MusicMatch.
I find that my computer recognizes and synchronizes with my iPod much faster now on iTunes than with MusicMatch. (Warning: I connect over FireWire, I cannot say what USB users will experience.) Frankly, even without the music store, I'd recommend iTunes for any Windows iPod users because of the more seamless support for the device in iTunes.
Once I set up my options, I plug in my iPod and it syncs right away and I'm done in a few seconds. (Usually I'm only updating a few songs I just purchased.) The MusicMatch software used to take 15-20 seconds just to recognize the iPod device.
Of course, my number one complaint is similar to other users. When previewing a song, if you click just about anywhere else, the preview cuts off, even if you are just browsing. I hate that.
When I first booted Elite and I saw that ship rotating in 3-D on my screen with the theme song playing using multiple voices, I thought to myself "There will never be any game cooler than this! The future is here!"
I think that one game made me a gamer and interested in computers. Entering 20 page BASIC programs from the back of Family Computing made me interested in coding. (And debugging! Har!)
Anyone remember huge blocks of code like this?
200 DATA 200,45,45,342,4,6,0,0,0,45,3,45,3,56
210 DATA 316,85,27,55,6,0,1,4,5,0,1,1,1,56,6
Libby Hoeler is an "accidental" internet celeb.
There's a write up about it at kuro5hin.
I ordered some of the Mozilla coffee (Worldly Lizard Blend).
It arrived via US Mail in a few days and it's very good if you prefer a hearty, strong blend.
I like it.
The second release, the "Extended" versions was for fans of the books/films.
The reason they broke it up like that was because the video market demands a release on a faster cycle than PJ and New Line could release the Extended version, so they put out the theatrical verion.
It's not any kind of trickery, they came right out and said this before the first one was released. "If you just want to add to your DVD collection, get the first one, if you are a LOTR fan, get the second one."
I work for a hotel chain. We are entirely a resort hotel company, the people staying at our facilities are people on vacation.
Customer service is a big, giant issue for us. We aren't going to hassle our vacationers with grief over losing their room key while they had a drunken walk down the beach. We aren't going to berate someone for being so stupid as to allow their kids to ride the elevators just for fun while unsupervised.
The company exists to support these folks, make them happy and make them want to come back to us again and again. Some of them are clueless, some of them are mean, some of them are thieves. Then again, most of them are nice folks.
At the end of the day they have a choice on if they want to stay with us or not.
IT support departments have the luxury of having a captive audience. However in a business like ours, we work very hard to spread a customer focused culture throughout the organization.
If you can imagine what it's like to be an immigrant housekeeper working for a bit over minimum wage and having to do manual labor to clean up after folks who earn vast sums more than you and act like you don't exist, and do your job with a smile, then you can see that maybe working at the IT help desk isn't the most difficult thing in the company, talking people through how to get Word to print in landscape or something equally as silly.
The IT folks that I work with are fantastic, and just like the housekeepers, and the front desk staff, and the food & beverage folks, they realize that they too have customers to serve and the purpose of our company isn't to support the IT staff, to buy many l33t Sun boxen or to provide a rationale for a data center, it's to serve customers. And as far as we go in my firm, there's no difference between an internal and external customer.
I'm in the training department for my company. Mostly I develop multimedia CBTs to train reservation agents and front desk staff on how to use their systems. So my PC isn't the standard MS Office/Outlook setup. I have all kinds of weird multimedia programs and development tools that sometimes don't play nice together. Needless to say, I have to get IT help from time to time. (Even as a power user, some installs don't run and so on. Plus we have a training room with multimedia laptops set up as a CBT learning lab and the dongles break, the laptops are old and lousy and require lots of help since they get constant use and abuse.) When I told an IT staffer that I hate to submit lots of tickets he jumped up and down and got mad. "You should submit as many tickets as you need! We have some people that routinely put in 15 tickets every day! The more tickets I can close the more justification I have for IT staff and those are people's jobs! If you need something to get your job done or the laptops aren't working right or whatever it is, don't even hesitate to call us. If i catch you not submitting tickets, I will beat you up."
All I could think was "Wow!" Here is an IT help desk guy that has a customer focus, which is what the whole damn company is about!
So maybe the end users aren't so bright sometimes, or they don't know what OS they are using. Look on the upside. If they don't know what OS they have, it will be easier to transition them to Linux.
Perhaps if you find Winzip annoying, you might like to try a nice OSS alternative zip program without annoying nag screens?
I like 7-zip, it's free, has a context menu, supports tar.gz (which the native WinXP unzipper doesn't do) and it's light-weight.
In the US, one does not get a lawyer appointed for civil cases. The "one will be appointed to you" line that you see on television is part of the US Miranda warning which is only applicable in criminal cases.
However, there are many advocacy groups such as the ACLU, EFF, FIRE and others that may provide free counsel in civil cases that fit their profile.
The "system" as you refer to it is typical in countries with a common law background. Most European countries follow the Romano-Germanic legal tradition which is entirely different in its approach than the common law.
India follows the rules for English as it is practiced in the UK. "Labour" is a perfectly valid word, IIRC.
"Leeching clients? They are all leeching clients and must be jailed immediately! Call the FBI!"
I now use Calypso which has one of the best email features I had ever found. I use my popmail client at home and sometimes I use webmail from the same account at school. I sometimes want to leave messages on the server so I can get the message later from webmail and sometimes I want to delete them from the server right away. Calypso has a context menu that allows "Delete from mail server now" or "Mark to Delete from Mail Server at next connection". I use that feature constantly and now I find it necessary in any other client I try.
I was also kicked out of a store. I'm working on a master's degree part time and I had to take a class in marketing.
We were doing a project on the ice cream market. I had to get prices, shelf locations, the numbers or brands and so on.
I got kicked out of two stores before I got enough data to do my project. (Albertson's and Vons kicked me out but Smith's was nice and let me collect data.)
So the answer to the story submitter is that you most certainly cannot walk into a store and record pricing manually.
Point taken. I agree with you that those are ideal candidates for imitation.
However I would suspect that B&B do not have the creativity to make it work.
Assume for a second that they out those two fools were put in charge of Firefly. It's not possible, but let's assume it for a second. I would speculate that there would not be words in English to describe the kind of suckfest it would turn out to be. *shrug*
So earth is in danger and there's one spaceship that has a desperate quest to save the earth before the eeeevil alien plot destroys earth once and for all!
It's Starblazers! Err, no wait, it's Crusade! Wait.. it's Enterprise!
Can we please stop getting old stuff recycled and at least try for something a little less imitative of previous scifi shows?
There might be something to the idea that consumers are to blame.
Disclaimer: IANAL
Most EULAs include denials of Merchantability and denials of Fitness.
This is usually the part of the EULA that is in all caps. (It was required to be in all caps by the state of CA in an effort to make sure people read it, but as an aside, I would argue that putting in caps almost guarantees that no one reads it.)
Now, could you imagine if you were about to drive over a bridge and there was a sign saying "By driving over this bridge, you acknowledge that this bridge is not warranteed for any particular purpose and the owner makes no guarantees whatsoever that it may do or not do anything."
Essentially translated: "This bridge should not be driven over by anyone for any reason whatsoever. If you still want to do that, stop and pay a toll!"
I don't think people would stand for that. Yet people accept denials of merchantability and fitness all the time in software. Those terms in EULAs were put there specifically because software makers back in the day were getting sued under product liability laws. It's rather shocking that people put up with it.
Genesis? Is planet forbidden!
Ballmer or Bahgdad Bob? Allow me to translate the article...
... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
"There are no Linux infidels in server rooms! Never!"
"My feelings - as usual - Microsoft will slaughter them all"
"Our initial assessment is that Linux will die"
"I blame Slashdot - they are marketing for the open-source community!"
"God will roast their rpms/aptgets/portage in hell at the hands of Microsoft."
"They're coming to surrender or be burned in their cron jobs."
"No I am not scared of Linux, and neither should you be!"
"Be assured. Windows Server 2003 is safe, protected"
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that Linux has started to commit loss of market share under the walls of Windows Server. We will encourage them to commit more loss of market share more quickly."
"Now even the Kernel.org command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
"I triple guarantee you, there are no open source programmers in Redmond."
"They're not even within 100 miles of secure. They are not in any place. They hold no place in server stability. This is an illusion
"Yes, the open source coders have advanced further. This will only make it easier for us to defeat them"
It's not just a scam to get money out of you either. The theatrical DVD has just that: the theatrical version. There are no special commentaries or anything fabulous on them.
The bonus disc only contained material that was previously available on the official web site. The only reason that they have this release is that the video market demands that a film be available within a certain time frame from original release. They just don't have time to finish the special extended versions in time, so they release the "regular" theatrical DVD on time.
The Special Extended version will have all the nice stuff like super-duper commentary tracks and loads of special features.
All this holds true only if they follow the same procedure with TTT as they did with FOTR.
If the TTT Special Extended DVD is similar to the FOTR Special Extended version, it's well worth it.