We can only hope that there will be a big wedding, but then Ani will call out the wrong name at the alter! Then Obi will fall in love with Ani's sister and comedy will ensue!
Maybe they can all move in together and we can call it "Three's Jedi Company"
Its about time a movie involved lava surfing. Haven't we suffered long enough without a good lava surfing scene? Think of the character development possibilities!
I completely agree with you on certain points. I can tell you from experience that when I was an intern during the dotbust I never saw it coming. I was offered a full time job making some serious cash but luckily my parents warned me and told me to stay in school. I would have been out of work in 6 months.
Those are the people that I feel sorry for, because they thought it was a great opportunity to get their foot into the door of a big company. Maybe they stayed on too long which is their faults but now what?
Most likely all the techy folks at SCO left awhile ago and all that is left are lawyers and executives.
You mentioned how it is bad to work for a company that has no long term business plan, etc, but for an intern or a recent grad there is no way to really see that. Most interns/new hires dont have that foresight.
Thats all Im saying...Ill pour out a 40 of Jolt for my laid off brothers and sisters.
"SCO and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners."
I completely agree. It is great to hear that SCO is losing their court battles but it is tough to hear people getting laid off. Now all those people have SCO as their last place of employment, that has gotta hurt.
It can be really frightening when you see how far a companies arm can reach into a community. Most people don't realize that Ed Snyder is a really powerful guy.
I would hope comcast-spectacor has a nice box at the Wachovia/FU/CoreStates center, that would be some seriously bad contract negotiations of they didnt.
I actually attended the Flyers/Devils last night, great game!
A day without learning something new really sucks in my opinion. Its only 11am and you are already set!
Go Flyers!
Actually Comcast Spectacor (a division of Comcast) is the owner of the Wachovia Center. Wachovia Bank (FU, CoreStates, et al.) pays for the naming rights to the stadium.
Comcast Spectacor actually is the true owner of the Sixers, Wings, Flyers, my heart, my soul, etc. etc.
I watched the Superbowl on the big screen and TiVo'd the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy marathon for the girlfriend... yea thats it, for the girlfriend...
"19,999 of the households monitored watched the Super Bowl, the other household recorded 5 hours of Queer Eye makeovers. FYI, here is his home address and phone number."
...when you came into my life, my world never looked so bright, my ass!
I live in Philadelphia which is Comcast country. They offer every bell and whistle to their customers since the city is a flagship city for them. My area of the city does not have Comcast, we have Time Warner. Time Warner could care less about Philly so we dont have all the bells and whistles of its flagship city, NYC.
I had DirecTV for a month and dropped it b/c they did not carry the local SportsNet in Philly. But Time warner has been great so far, the Road Runner service has run excellent, the TW digital cable guide is great, as is HDTV.
I would say if the local provider in your city sucks then go with DirecTV. I think the local cable company should be first on your list though.. IMHO
"This is the golden age of the repo-man"
*burns $100 bill to light his cigar*
Rolled out, felt, magnetic dartboard...for my dad.
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My aunt this year gave my father the gift of a magnetic, felt dartboard that rolls up. Ive known my father my entire life and I hvae never heard him mention even the slightest interest in darts. I kept thinking back to that Wayne's world scene:
"Honestly, what am I going to do with a gun rack?"
If I were to think of how I sort/categorize objects/data in my head I would use the example of putting clothes away in my drawers. I tend to put clothes together with similarities. I don't have a chest of t-shirts and then each drawer has a color or style of t-shirts. I put all my white, short sleeved tshirts together. They could be next to my colored polo shirts, or my pants. So the store isn't how I find things, its the "database" in my head.
I dont know where I am going with this but its my two cents on how *we* innately relate to things.
Well first off, thanks for calling me an asshole. It is nice to see that folks are so levelheaded.
To answer your question about me and all my pirate friends, I see your point. I see how all of us pirates are killing the first ammendment right to free speech. And how we are responsible for $10 movie tickets and $18 CDs... not to mention the downfall of an ad free inet.
But my question is simple. How do me and my pirate friends 'fuck it up for the rest of you'... are you going to steal only a few songs for your own personal use? Because, my pirate friends and I think you should join our club if thats the case.
-Redbeard
I agree that the scope of free music over p2p dwarfs that of trading with your friends. And I will agree that recording off of the radio was crap in regards to mp3 technology. I think the best point made was in regards to the idea of the Record companies having the money to create or manipulate laws. I am sure that conversation could go on forever though and touch relatively every aspect of our legal system.
It is interesting to me that technology is the cause of so much legal strife lately. It seems every piece of technology comes out and conjures up this large tidal wave of legal crap. It reall is a shame b/c lost in all this copyright banter is the fact that music has become so accessable and so broad that new people are listening to new music every day. I can't imagine any musician or artist who is against anything that makes his or her art accessable to as many people as possible. Even if it is only to stroke their own ego.
Oh well, I enjoyed reading the rebuttles to my question. Thanks/.er's.
I always thought taping and mixing off the radio and selling the tapes was illegal?
I always think the funny thing about mp3's are the people who go nuts with "free" music. I have friends who love they get to hear new bands and listen to new music for free, but when the band comes around and tours they are the first person to buy tickets and a $30 tshirt.
I don't want to get into a big argument over this stuff again, but it still makes no sense to me in either direction.
I dont get why so many people pay per song when they can get them for free on Kazaa. Is this the moral line we are going to draw in the sand?
I never understood the reasoning behind the idea of mp3's and p2p being illegal. Before the internet I used to tape songs off the radio and make mix tapes and trade them with friends. If thats not illegal how is this illegal? Because of quality? How can the output and not the act be the sole difference between something being illegal and something not.
I don't get it. Am I being glib here?
I was a freshman in college in 1998 and we (the techy's) were sat down and told to not *serve up* illegal, copyrighted materials. They went as far as monitoring specific rooms and actually dismissed a student for having an mp3 ftp site. Back in those days *ahem* an mp3 ftp site consisted of a 3gb hard drive with 50-100 songs. Now, god knows what students are doing. I can only imagine that mp3 piracy is second to movie and DVD piracy now. The problem then becomes the U.'s are dealing with Hollywood and all their pull. The question must become, when does it end?
God knows if I know the answer to that.
"You don't know what its like to work in the private sector. It's not like college, they expect results."
-Ghostbusters.
BTW I am a recent college grad with a sysadmin job, most of my CS, CE, EE and ME friends are unemployed/under employed. The only thing I realized is that these things are cyclical (the economy that is) and if you are really talented and enjoy what you do, eventually someone will see that in you and hire you.(if you are lucky/know someone.)
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We can only hope that there will be a big wedding, but then Ani will call out the wrong name at the alter! Then Obi will fall in love with Ani's sister and comedy will ensue!
Maybe they can all move in together and we can call it "Three's Jedi Company"
Brilliant!
Its about time a movie involved lava surfing. Haven't we suffered long enough without a good lava surfing scene? Think of the character development possibilities!
Lava surfing = Oscar.
I completely agree with you on certain points. I can tell you from experience that when I was an intern during the dotbust I never saw it coming. I was offered a full time job making some serious cash but luckily my parents warned me and told me to stay in school. I would have been out of work in 6 months.
Those are the people that I feel sorry for, because they thought it was a great opportunity to get their foot into the door of a big company. Maybe they stayed on too long which is their faults but now what?
Most likely all the techy folks at SCO left awhile ago and all that is left are lawyers and executives.
You mentioned how it is bad to work for a company that has no long term business plan, etc, but for an intern or a recent grad there is no way to really see that. Most interns/new hires dont have that foresight.
Thats all Im saying...Ill pour out a 40 of Jolt for my laid off brothers and sisters.
"SCO and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners."
man is that easier said then done, huh?
I completely agree. It is great to hear that SCO is losing their court battles but it is tough to hear people getting laid off. Now all those people have SCO as their last place of employment, that has gotta hurt.
It can be really frightening when you see how far a companies arm can reach into a community. Most people don't realize that Ed Snyder is a really powerful guy.
I would hope comcast-spectacor has a nice box at the Wachovia/FU/CoreStates center, that would be some seriously bad contract negotiations of they didnt.
I actually attended the Flyers/Devils last night, great game!
A day without learning something new really sucks in my opinion. Its only 11am and you are already set!
Go Flyers!
Actually Comcast Spectacor (a division of Comcast) is the owner of the Wachovia Center. Wachovia Bank (FU, CoreStates, et al.) pays for the naming rights to the stadium.
Comcast Spectacor actually is the true owner of the Sixers, Wings, Flyers, my heart, my soul, etc. etc.
See below:
Comcast Spectacor General Info
...they also own the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL and the Philadelphia Sixers of the NBA not to mention the arena they both use.
I watched the Superbowl on the big screen and TiVo'd the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy marathon for the girlfriend... yea thats it, for the girlfriend...
...when you came into my life, my world never looked so bright, my ass!
"19,999 of the households monitored watched the Super Bowl, the other household recorded 5 hours of Queer Eye makeovers. FYI, here is his home address and phone number."
I live in Philadelphia which is Comcast country. They offer every bell and whistle to their customers since the city is a flagship city for them. My area of the city does not have Comcast, we have Time Warner. Time Warner could care less about Philly so we dont have all the bells and whistles of its flagship city, NYC.
I had DirecTV for a month and dropped it b/c they did not carry the local SportsNet in Philly. But Time warner has been great so far, the Road Runner service has run excellent, the TW digital cable guide is great, as is HDTV.
I would say if the local provider in your city sucks then go with DirecTV. I think the local cable company should be first on your list though.. IMHO
"This is the golden age of the repo-man" *burns $100 bill to light his cigar*
My aunt this year gave my father the gift of a magnetic, felt dartboard that rolls up. Ive known my father my entire life and I hvae never heard him mention even the slightest interest in darts. I kept thinking back to that Wayne's world scene: "Honestly, what am I going to do with a gun rack?"
If I were to think of how I sort/categorize objects/data in my head I would use the example of putting clothes away in my drawers. I tend to put clothes together with similarities. I don't have a chest of t-shirts and then each drawer has a color or style of t-shirts. I put all my white, short sleeved tshirts together. They could be next to my colored polo shirts, or my pants. So the store isn't how I find things, its the "database" in my head.
I dont know where I am going with this but its my two cents on how *we* innately relate to things.
Well first off, thanks for calling me an asshole. It is nice to see that folks are so levelheaded.
To answer your question about me and all my pirate friends, I see your point. I see how all of us pirates are killing the first ammendment right to free speech. And how we are responsible for $10 movie tickets and $18 CDs... not to mention the downfall of an ad free inet.
But my question is simple. How do me and my pirate friends 'fuck it up for the rest of you'... are you going to steal only a few songs for your own personal use? Because, my pirate friends and I think you should join our club if thats the case.
-Redbeard
I agree that the scope of free music over p2p dwarfs that of trading with your friends. And I will agree that recording off of the radio was crap in regards to mp3 technology. I think the best point made was in regards to the idea of the Record companies having the money to create or manipulate laws. I am sure that conversation could go on forever though and touch relatively every aspect of our legal system. /.er's.
It is interesting to me that technology is the cause of so much legal strife lately. It seems every piece of technology comes out and conjures up this large tidal wave of legal crap. It reall is a shame b/c lost in all this copyright banter is the fact that music has become so accessable and so broad that new people are listening to new music every day. I can't imagine any musician or artist who is against anything that makes his or her art accessable to as many people as possible. Even if it is only to stroke their own ego. Oh well, I enjoyed reading the rebuttles to my question. Thanks
I always thought taping and mixing off the radio and selling the tapes was illegal?
I always think the funny thing about mp3's are the people who go nuts with "free" music. I have friends who love they get to hear new bands and listen to new music for free, but when the band comes around and tours they are the first person to buy tickets and a $30 tshirt.
I don't want to get into a big argument over this stuff again, but it still makes no sense to me in either direction.
I dont get why so many people pay per song when they can get them for free on Kazaa. Is this the moral line we are going to draw in the sand? I never understood the reasoning behind the idea of mp3's and p2p being illegal. Before the internet I used to tape songs off the radio and make mix tapes and trade them with friends. If thats not illegal how is this illegal? Because of quality? How can the output and not the act be the sole difference between something being illegal and something not. I don't get it. Am I being glib here?
na-na-na-na-leader.... leader... leader!
I was a freshman in college in 1998 and we (the techy's) were sat down and told to not *serve up* illegal, copyrighted materials. They went as far as monitoring specific rooms and actually dismissed a student for having an mp3 ftp site. Back in those days *ahem* an mp3 ftp site consisted of a 3gb hard drive with 50-100 songs. Now, god knows what students are doing. I can only imagine that mp3 piracy is second to movie and DVD piracy now. The problem then becomes the U.'s are dealing with Hollywood and all their pull. The question must become, when does it end? God knows if I know the answer to that.
I say, stay in college for as long as possible.
"You don't know what its like to work in the private sector. It's not like college, they expect results."
-Ghostbusters.
BTW I am a recent college grad with a sysadmin job, most of my CS, CE, EE and ME friends are unemployed/under employed. The only thing I realized is that these things are cyclical (the economy that is) and if you are really talented and enjoy what you do, eventually someone will see that in you and hire you.(if you are lucky/know someone.)
Good luck all!