Think about it. A reasonably fast computer will rip a CD in under 5 minutes. Add some overhead for taking the disc out of the case, etc.... say 10 discs an hour.
Pay someone $6 an hour and you get $0.60 a disk - it is not like $1.00 a disk is some order of magnitude rip-off.
Generally stuff costs a certain amount for a reason.
Your 15,000 disks is approching a man-year of labor. What would you work for, for a year. What you can afford and what something is worth has no relationship.
There are a lot of threads about the cost. "do it yourself", "you're lazy", "costs too much".
Well, my friends, there are people on the worlds who value their time at more than $60USD per hour... these services offer ripping services for about $1 a disc, and since YOU can't rip them faster than 1 per minute (it would probably take you about 5 minutes each, be honest), it is a BARGAIN to send them off and have someone else do it.
Lots of people don't wash their own car, clean their own house, etc.
Just shut up - economies work by people paying others what a fair price for services rendered. If your time is not worth $1 for 5mins work, then don't use these services.
Also bear in mind there are lots of folks (call them "users", get my drift) who haven't a clue how to go about getting CDEX or some such.
I am not going to go into the details, but on balance, "guns" have done more "good" for the world than "bad".
Think before you reply.
Oddly, I guess that says there is more "good" in the world than "bad", and thus lends support to the parent post of inherent value (neutral) of objects.
Did the inventor of the gun think "I can get dinner faster with this" or "I can smite my enemies with this"? Did Alfred Nobel create dynamite thinking "We can mine better and safer with this" or "Assholes will blow up people with this"?
(BTW - as far as I can tell, the "purpose" of nuclear bombs depends on who made them; The good guys have them to deter the bad guys from doing bad things. The bad guys have them to threaten the good guys, to cower them into doing nothing about the doing of other bad things.)
I submit to you, in an objective light, you could argue both sides of the question, even for nuclear bombs.
Obviously one can ruin your whole day, if set off in the wrong place. But bear in mind that a couple of thousand of them have been set off on this planet, to date, and have not destroyed it.
One could argue that there are "good" engineering uses of nukes (none, to date), and there are bad uses (random atmospheric testing scatting dust around). The one use in wartime (two incidents, one war) is honestly open to debate whether it was the "greatest good" (100'sK dead vs mayby millions in a continued conventional WWII).
Does the TPM Suck - yeah, most likely. I hope the market will squash it.
Does making flippantly popular (with the right crowd) remarks on/. quickly get you +5 insightful? Yes.
Even if they don't need it - like lots of devices that will have their own IPv6 address, even if there is no reason to! (The proverbial Internet aware toaster will be a big seller!)
We must move to IPv6, because the Internet just doesn't seem to be working right (or at least I tell myself that, because I wouldn't want to fix it if it weren't broken). I look forward to a time that each of my Happy Meal toys will be able to be connected to the Internet, yes we need IPv6 Now!
Bah! As others have pointed out, there will not be much cost, if it rolls out more slowly. As you update hardware, get stuff that can do both IPv4 and IPv6 next time... eventually a critical mass will be reached and the switchover will happen.
I once resigned a nice postion (due to a move out of state, which was better for my family) and included the following in my letter:
...
The timing of this move is awkward. As you know, our bonuses will be distributed on February 28. Coincidentally, I must leave $city$ at the end of February. I have been advised by some that it would be prudent to keep my plans to myself until I had my bonus "in hand." Were I to do this, however, it would put me in the position of potentially quitting with no notice. My sense of honor requires that I give you adequate notice. In the same spirit, I would hope that $large compnay$ will allow me to remain an employee through the end of February, and hopefully beyond.
...
The bonuses mentioned were a dilbert-esq company wide 10-15% of your annual salary, whether you deserved it or not, type of thing, so nothing to sneeze at. I sent this letter a month ahead of time, not just 2 weeks. As it turns out, I collected my bonus check on Feb 28, cordually said my good-byes and left the building by 9:30AM for a cross-country drive. I actually picked up 6 months more of part-time telecomuting work. In general burning bridges is not a good thing.
I dunno, is it always company policy or are personalities involved too?
In my case, I figured I'd either do the right thing and everything would work out, or I'd get a bone-fide right to bitch about being wronged.
5 out of 6 computer displays in my house are now LCD. (My 10 year old iiyama is trying to live up to the little infinity symbol above the "ii", I guess - it still looks great!) I probably save a couple of hundred bucks a year on electricity.
Anyhow, the 38 minute video has not been slashdotted yet.
However, that one guy definately looks like he hasn't washed his hair in a week. (No not the bald guy).
In general, when I download stuff from MSFT (usually big, bloated stuff) it does saturate my 4Mbs cable link - sometimes even more than advertised!
Judge: Eolas, how much were your sales before Microsoft infringed?
Eolas: $0.00
Judge: And how much are sales of products using your technology now?
Eolas: $0.00
Judge: Guilty! Defendant, please work around the issues, and pay the plantif actual damages. Next case!
I am not sure if this is exactly your question, since you could check it yourself in 10 seconds, if you have Windows and Firefox... but "file:///C://" coughs up the contents just fine in FireFox.
More a statement of the US Tax system than anything else.
BTW - you are not screwing the government, you're stealing from your business!
For all you other whiners in this thread - have you declared State "use tax" if applicable to out-of-state purchases (e.g. Internet) which didn't collect your local sales tax? I thought so.
I keep a "PMB" (AKA mailbox at someplace like mailboxes, etc.)
What is so personal about a hired mail drop and an @yahoo.com email?
I get hundreds of dollars worth of rebates each year (most recently $150 + $50 for a color laser printer) with not much hassle at all.
I don't delude myself that this "hides me", but you are totally out to lunch if you think you can "hide" in this day and age. "They" know damn well who you are.
I find two mailing addresses help sort crap from friends and relatives, but never for one minute do I not think that "the man" has correlated my addresses. Everyone is happy.
I am just guessing, but I'd put money on the side of nature vs man in the "heat" dept.
Let's see... solar warming of the surface of earth, plus volcanic activity + other natural heat (including nuclear decay) + true wild fires, etc. >= sumof (humanity's stupid SUVs, and other stuff that seems hot...)
Again, stipulating "greeenhouse" gasses as a negative toward humanity, but that is probably arguable too. I just read where the Salton Sea burps up more Hyrdrogen Sulfide than all California industry combined. So much for that "wetland".
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I don't remember the story, but I do remember that part.
Anyhow, isn't "what goes up, must come down" one of the basic laws of physics? ;-)
Is a peak on one of those graphs dozens of searchs or millions?
I know google is just being nice in showing this data at all.
Does anyone know;
Are the numbers available for free or for a fee?
Are they considered a trade secret?
Normally graphs have a scale on them... on both axes.
Position 1 could be orders of magnitude more searched for than position 2.
On the other hand, position 1000 could have nearly as many searches as position 10...
You know, the key feature of an autobiography is for one to write about one's self.
No logos or labels slapped on it that make it ugly.
Just functionality at a fair price.
No marketer driven add-ons, subscriptions, embedded into something else, etc.
Wait, someone is slapping me awake.
It is ALL outsourcing. Why separate IT from, say back-office banking, insurance and other tasks...
Heh, or are they trying to distinguish "IT" from trivial paper-pushing.
I am in my [mumblesomthing] mid-40's, and even I think of COBOL as for "old timers"!
That was to help recoup the $2500 cost of the 4.77Mhz (yes, kids, not Ghz) dual floppy (no HDD) computer.
It was really cool - it was an "all-in-one" Televideo, with 4-shades of green, emulating CGA!
w00t!
w00t, in this context, means "we owned q'bert"!
I only regret not retrieving the system from my sister-in-law, who had it in her attic as recently as 2 years ago. Lost forever now...
Pay someone $6 an hour and you get $0.60 a disk - it is not like $1.00 a disk is some order of magnitude rip-off.
Generally stuff costs a certain amount for a reason.
Your 15,000 disks is approching a man-year of labor. What would you work for, for a year. What you can afford and what something is worth has no relationship.
Sorry, that's life.
Seagate 7200.7 200GByte drives. Qty (6). 1 Failure in 11 months of use. (2 per system, 3 systems, running 24/7).
Well, my friends, there are people on the worlds who value their time at more than $60USD per hour... these services offer ripping services for about $1 a disc, and since YOU can't rip them faster than 1 per minute (it would probably take you about 5 minutes each, be honest), it is a BARGAIN to send them off and have someone else do it.
Lots of people don't wash their own car, clean their own house, etc.
Just shut up - economies work by people paying others what a fair price for services rendered. If your time is not worth $1 for 5mins work, then don't use these services.
Also bear in mind there are lots of folks (call them "users", get my drift) who haven't a clue how to go about getting CDEX or some such.
Chill out.
I have nothing more to say at this time.
Think before you reply.
Oddly, I guess that says there is more "good" in the world than "bad", and thus lends support to the parent post of inherent value (neutral) of objects.
Did the inventor of the gun think "I can get dinner faster with this" or "I can smite my enemies with this"? Did Alfred Nobel create dynamite thinking "We can mine better and safer with this" or "Assholes will blow up people with this"?
(BTW - as far as I can tell, the "purpose" of nuclear bombs depends on who made them; The good guys have them to deter the bad guys from doing bad things. The bad guys have them to threaten the good guys, to cower them into doing nothing about the doing of other bad things.)
Obviously one can ruin your whole day, if set off in the wrong place. But bear in mind that a couple of thousand of them have been set off on this planet, to date, and have not destroyed it.
One could argue that there are "good" engineering uses of nukes (none, to date), and there are bad uses (random atmospheric testing scatting dust around). The one use in wartime (two incidents, one war) is honestly open to debate whether it was the "greatest good" (100'sK dead vs mayby millions in a continued conventional WWII).
Does the TPM Suck - yeah, most likely. I hope the market will squash it.
Does making flippantly popular (with the right crowd) remarks on /. quickly get you +5 insightful? Yes.
Where will this post end up? I don't really care.
Discuss among yourselves.
We must move to IPv6, because the Internet just doesn't seem to be working right (or at least I tell myself that, because I wouldn't want to fix it if it weren't broken). I look forward to a time that each of my Happy Meal toys will be able to be connected to the Internet, yes we need IPv6 Now!
Bah! As others have pointed out, there will not be much cost, if it rolls out more slowly. As you update hardware, get stuff that can do both IPv4 and IPv6 next time... eventually a critical mass will be reached and the switchover will happen.
The timing of this move is awkward. As you know, our bonuses will be distributed on February 28. Coincidentally, I must leave $city$ at the end of February. I have been advised by some that it would be prudent to keep my plans to myself until I had my bonus "in hand." Were I to do this, however, it would put me in the position of potentially quitting with no notice. My sense of honor requires that I give you adequate notice. In the same spirit, I would hope that $large compnay$ will allow me to remain an employee through the end of February, and hopefully beyond.
The bonuses mentioned were a dilbert-esq company wide 10-15% of your annual salary, whether you deserved it or not, type of thing, so nothing to sneeze at. I sent this letter a month ahead of time, not just 2 weeks. As it turns out, I collected my bonus check on Feb 28, cordually said my good-byes and left the building by 9:30AM for a cross-country drive. I actually picked up 6 months more of part-time telecomuting work. In general burning bridges is not a good thing.
I dunno, is it always company policy or are personalities involved too?
In my case, I figured I'd either do the right thing and everything would work out, or I'd get a bone-fide right to bitch about being wronged.
Anyhow, the 38 minute video has not been slashdotted yet.
However, that one guy definately looks like he hasn't washed his hair in a week. (No not the bald guy).
In general, when I download stuff from MSFT (usually big, bloated stuff) it does saturate my 4Mbs cable link - sometimes even more than advertised!
The trick to longevity has a lot to do with picking the right parents!
So, what's a reasonable royalty for a free-giveaway product, like IE?
Eolas: $0.00
Judge: And how much are sales of products using your technology now?
Eolas: $0.00
Judge: Guilty! Defendant, please work around the issues, and pay the plantif actual damages. Next case!
Firefox will also show "file:///C://<path>/<asciifile>" contents...
I am not sure if this is exactly your question, since you could check it yourself in 10 seconds, if you have Windows and Firefox... but "file:///C://" coughs up the contents just fine in FireFox.
More a statement of the US Tax system than anything else.
BTW - you are not screwing the government, you're stealing from your business!
For all you other whiners in this thread - have you declared State "use tax" if applicable to out-of-state purchases (e.g. Internet) which didn't collect your local sales tax? I thought so.
What is so personal about a hired mail drop and an @yahoo.com email?
I get hundreds of dollars worth of rebates each year (most recently $150 + $50 for a color laser printer) with not much hassle at all.
I don't delude myself that this "hides me", but you are totally out to lunch if you think you can "hide" in this day and age. "They" know damn well who you are.
I find two mailing addresses help sort crap from friends and relatives, but never for one minute do I not think that "the man" has correlated my addresses. Everyone is happy.
Let's see... solar warming of the surface of earth, plus volcanic activity + other natural heat (including nuclear decay) + true wild fires, etc. >= sumof (humanity's stupid SUVs, and other stuff that seems hot...)
Again, stipulating "greeenhouse" gasses as a negative toward humanity, but that is probably arguable too. I just read where the Salton Sea burps up more Hyrdrogen Sulfide than all California industry combined. So much for that "wetland".