Front Range HEAT is being phased out and they are pushing their new Service Management platform, Front Range ITSM. My company is partnering with them and we had a tech demo of it. Seems pretty nice and flexible. Last week, one of your Remedy Devs went to training on the platform and seemed to be impressed. Find more here.
This isn't far from the truth. Microsoft was delayed in NT5 (Windows 2000) but we had the Y2K bug to drive sales.
The delay for Vista is actually longer and no date sensitive bug this time. Add to that the fact the consoles are providing gamers their fix for the high end and we can see a slower market until Vista ships.
Hmmm.... I think your exposure to these bands must be a little shallow to make the comparisons (and dismissals) that you make.
Adam Again - granted, somewhat Live-ish if not less poppy and cheeseball lyrics makes me think you were only listening to instrumental tracks. Their last studio album (Perfecta) is nothing but angst spurred mostly by the divorce of 2 of the band members. (There must be somewhere that you need to be/ Don't make it here with me)
The 77's - At times (once an album?) they might sound like The Judybats. They really explore so many different facets of rock that you could just as easily compare them to Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Chuck Berry or Simple Minds. Live shows are definitely where they excel. Define Cheeseball?
Starflyer - your basic shoegazer sound though they have popped it up a bit in recent years. The thing that a lot of people confuse sadly is that a band made up of Christians doesn't make the music Christian. Most of these bands are reflective of that.
Michael Knott - What you really want to say is Peter Murphy.
Wow Argyle Park, you must have never heard. Not really within 100 miles of Gwar. Much more kmfdm/nine inch nails/godsmack
Circle of Dust - again nin/kmfdm. And not religious at all (after the eponymous release). The main force behind Argyle Park/Circle of Dust (and for that matter Klank and Chatterbox) is Scott Albert who is now fronting Celldweller who you have heard in movie trailers for Spiderman2, Doom, Constantine, XXX2, Punisher and Paycheck.
Scaterd-few - when you say 80's bands you give the impression of Tears for Fears or Flock of Seagulls. Actually they are very much Bad Brains and probably the most overtly religious lyrically of the list.
Lost Dogs don't really try for a sound. It's a side project for frontmen from four bands (77's Adam Again, The Choir and DA) just pretty much playing around with their favorite genres ranging from bluegrass to surfer rock. This is where you could say cheeseball lyrics with no argument (mostly due to Terry Taylor's influence).
Poor Old Lu and Stavesacre I can't disagree with.
Again, the sad thing is that musicians who have faith used to feel compelled to make evangelical music and could only get picked up on Christian record labels. Then they decide to throw some grittier reality into their music and get ostracized from the religious side and can't get past the religious label elsewhere. The majority of these bands won't preach at you in their lyrics. They really deserved to be heard and not dismissed out of hand because they got a Christian label slapped on them at some point.
Hey now. As a fan of Christian rock you really shouldn't shortchange by lumping it all with Stryper, Petra and Creed. Some of the best rock music available anywhere comes from the following bands:
Adam Again
The 77's
Starflyer 59
Michael Knott/L.S.U
Argyle Park/Circle of Dust
Scaterd-few
Lost Dogs
Massivivid
Poor Old Lu
Stavesacre
If you are a fan of music at all, do yourself a favor and find these bands' works
And the award for Rhetorical Question of the Year is:
"Has Hollywood run out of ideas?"
"Has Hollywood run out of ideas?" couldn't be here to accept as he is on location for The Transformer's Movie
Uhhh... yeah. Because Hollywood and record companies are the major contributors to the right wing. I'm sure Republicans feel indebted to MGM for... what? Legally Blonde 2?
Future historians will be employed by the United Corporations of America and all individual rights will merely be the stuff of fable whispered about in the deep forests (away from the VidScreens). Our era will be hailed as the great revolution when, for the common good, the subversive ideas of individual liberty were eradicated by the freedom fighters of our benefactors the RI/MP-AA
I have to say, I've been in more than a few IT departments that use their position and their management's ignorance to host everything from game servers to MP3 servers. Ordinary users can't even think of attempting these activities.
It's great to be in IT!!!:D
To answer your question in short... yes.
As a recent switcher from Win to Mac, I'm loathe to pay for software, but the number of Mac app torrents is so much less than Windows apps. So, against my instincts, I'm considering the need to budget for software on the Mac.
You know, this makes perfect sense. I've often thought I'd like to sell my time on ebay. Think "10 hours of Computer Support" Bids start at $300, BuyItNow for $500. Or something along those lines. The problem is of course geography and the prices get spendy quick. But an auction of "60 Minutes of Computer Phone Support" Bidding starts at $30, BuyItNow for $60 makes more sense. The winner gets the pre-paid minutes to my number credited to their skype account and off we go. Now your ebay feedback score gets augmented by your expertise score. And the +5 Funny A++++!111111 comment starts to make sense.
The only downside of this advance would be a stifling of free support on forum message boards.
n00b:"Hey how do I hack my TiVo?"
1337d00d:"For $50, you can call me for a complete walkthrough."
This is my plan for making the world a better place. If we are going to have more DST, let's also have more uniformity in our months. 13 months with 4 weeks of 7 days each. Every year has 1 day equivalent to a leap day. It can be the last/first day of the year. It doesn't count as a day (like Monday-Sunday) but just helps to keep things together.
With this idea, you have the ease of knowing that the first of the month is always on Monday (or Sunday) no matter what month it is. Each month is uniform and no more of these 31 days? 28? 30? How many days in April? August? January? All that just seems to be needlessly complex.
Anyway, that's what this change of DST makes me think of...
I actually got an email from a friend of mine on the redmond campus warning me to be careful since I use that dangerous firefox browser about 3 hours ago.
I told him I wouldn't believe it until I saw it on slashdot!:D
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Front Range HEAT is being phased out and they are pushing their new Service Management platform, Front Range ITSM. My company is partnering with them and we had a tech demo of it. Seems pretty nice and flexible. Last week, one of your Remedy Devs went to training on the platform and seemed to be impressed. Find more here.
Even the Firefox exploit(s?) don't work.
This isn't far from the truth. Microsoft was delayed in NT5 (Windows 2000) but we had the Y2K bug to drive sales. The delay for Vista is actually longer and no date sensitive bug this time. Add to that the fact the consoles are providing gamers their fix for the high end and we can see a slower market until Vista ships.
Just askin'...
"We are just too pretty for God to let us die"
Mal Reynolds - Firefly Episode 1 - Serenity
Hmmm.... I think your exposure to these bands must be a little shallow to make the comparisons (and dismissals) that you make.
Adam Again - granted, somewhat Live-ish if not less poppy and cheeseball lyrics makes me think you were only listening to instrumental tracks. Their last studio album (Perfecta) is nothing but angst spurred mostly by the divorce of 2 of the band members. (There must be somewhere that you need to be/ Don't make it here with me)
The 77's - At times (once an album?) they might sound like The Judybats. They really explore so many different facets of rock that you could just as easily compare them to Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Chuck Berry or Simple Minds. Live shows are definitely where they excel. Define Cheeseball?
Starflyer - your basic shoegazer sound though they have popped it up a bit in recent years. The thing that a lot of people confuse sadly is that a band made up of Christians doesn't make the music Christian. Most of these bands are reflective of that.
Michael Knott - What you really want to say is Peter Murphy.
Wow Argyle Park, you must have never heard. Not really within 100 miles of Gwar. Much more kmfdm/nine inch nails/godsmack
Circle of Dust - again nin/kmfdm. And not religious at all (after the eponymous release). The main force behind Argyle Park/Circle of Dust (and for that matter Klank and Chatterbox) is Scott Albert who is now fronting Celldweller who you have heard in movie trailers for Spiderman2, Doom, Constantine, XXX2, Punisher and Paycheck.
Scaterd-few - when you say 80's bands you give the impression of Tears for Fears or Flock of Seagulls. Actually they are very much Bad Brains and probably the most overtly religious lyrically of the list.
Lost Dogs don't really try for a sound. It's a side project for frontmen from four bands (77's Adam Again, The Choir and DA) just pretty much playing around with their favorite genres ranging from bluegrass to surfer rock. This is where you could say cheeseball lyrics with no argument (mostly due to Terry Taylor's influence).
Poor Old Lu and Stavesacre I can't disagree with.
Again, the sad thing is that musicians who have faith used to feel compelled to make evangelical music and could only get picked up on Christian record labels. Then they decide to throw some grittier reality into their music and get ostracized from the religious side and can't get past the religious label elsewhere. The majority of these bands won't preach at you in their lyrics. They really deserved to be heard and not dismissed out of hand because they got a Christian label slapped on them at some point.
Hey now. As a fan of Christian rock you really shouldn't shortchange by lumping it all with Stryper, Petra and Creed. Some of the best rock music available anywhere comes from the following bands: Adam Again The 77's Starflyer 59 Michael Knott/L.S.U Argyle Park/Circle of Dust Scaterd-few Lost Dogs Massivivid Poor Old Lu Stavesacre If you are a fan of music at all, do yourself a favor and find these bands' works
And the award for Rhetorical Question of the Year is: "Has Hollywood run out of ideas?" "Has Hollywood run out of ideas?" couldn't be here to accept as he is on location for The Transformer's Movie
What is this Netware 3.x that you speak of?
Uhhh... yeah. Because Hollywood and record companies are the major contributors to the right wing. I'm sure Republicans feel indebted to MGM for... what? Legally Blonde 2?
Future historians will be employed by the United Corporations of America and all individual rights will merely be the stuff of fable whispered about in the deep forests (away from the VidScreens). Our era will be hailed as the great revolution when, for the common good, the subversive ideas of individual liberty were eradicated by the freedom fighters of our benefactors the RI/MP-AA
I have to say, I've been in more than a few IT departments that use their position and their management's ignorance to host everything from game servers to MP3 servers. Ordinary users can't even think of attempting these activities. It's great to be in IT!!! :D
To answer your question in short... yes. As a recent switcher from Win to Mac, I'm loathe to pay for software, but the number of Mac app torrents is so much less than Windows apps. So, against my instincts, I'm considering the need to budget for software on the Mac.
You know, this makes perfect sense. I've often thought I'd like to sell my time on ebay. Think "10 hours of Computer Support" Bids start at $300, BuyItNow for $500. Or something along those lines. The problem is of course geography and the prices get spendy quick. But an auction of "60 Minutes of Computer Phone Support" Bidding starts at $30, BuyItNow for $60 makes more sense. The winner gets the pre-paid minutes to my number credited to their skype account and off we go. Now your ebay feedback score gets augmented by your expertise score. And the +5 Funny A++++!111111 comment starts to make sense. The only downside of this advance would be a stifling of free support on forum message boards. n00b:"Hey how do I hack my TiVo?" 1337d00d:"For $50, you can call me for a complete walkthrough."
umm.. am I just obtuse or does the parent really think that John C. Dvorak is responsible for the Dvorak keyboard?
I believe Mon Mothma mentions Palpatine by name during the briefing before the attack on the second death star. I'll have to double-check.
This is my plan for making the world a better place. If we are going to have more DST, let's also have more uniformity in our months. 13 months with 4 weeks of 7 days each. Every year has 1 day equivalent to a leap day. It can be the last/first day of the year. It doesn't count as a day (like Monday-Sunday) but just helps to keep things together. With this idea, you have the ease of knowing that the first of the month is always on Monday (or Sunday) no matter what month it is. Each month is uniform and no more of these 31 days? 28? 30? How many days in April? August? January? All that just seems to be needlessly complex. Anyway, that's what this change of DST makes me think of...
I actually got an email from a friend of mine on the redmond campus warning me to be careful since I use that dangerous firefox browser about 3 hours ago. I told him I wouldn't believe it until I saw it on slashdot! :D
I saw the Memo
Look at how Microsoft is going to handle their exploit problems compared to how Firefox did. I've analyzed this over at http://hawks5999.blogspot.com/
Credible Experts?
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