Is that true? I am trying to find the final numbers, but coming up with articles predicting the results up through late 2007. It was my understanding that the cut-off date was always planned, and not the result of poor digital sales. I just read that around 12% paid from $8-$12 for in rainbows (the 2nd largest group). Hell, I paid the standard iTunes $9.99 when I could have gotten it for free. Does anyone have some hard numbers here? I see a claim that they made 10 million, but think that was pretty early press.
I wonder how Toyota and their "supposed" attorney Garrett Biggs (anyone have an address) would feel about the onslaught of "Toyota Sucks Balls" desktop wallpapers that might start showing up. I think "Garrett Biggs Sucks Balls" also has a nice ring to it. Nothing wrong about sucking balls. I just wonder how they would react. And for those of you who believe this is childish, yes it is. But so is their behavior, and sometimes the kiddies only respond to name calling.
Damn, this back injury IS making me mean.
It's just another form of taxation. I don't want my tax dollars going towards the "war" but it's going there despite the fact.
Exactly. It would be a tax. That is why I oppose this. Unless the government is collecting this money, not everyone is covered. I do not believe it is the role of government to ensure the health of a commercial entertainment industry through taxation. Why does this country dislike socialized programs for the protection of its citizens, yet encourages socializing the support of whole industries? I thought this was a capitalistic society.
Thanks. Good point. It's just so much easier to justify my distaste when I don't think these things through. I tend to get too caught up on the particular object of worship as a defining element.
I am an atheist who will defend anyone's right to believe in whatever religion they want to. I try not to impose my beliefs onto others. I really do.
That being said, it is my belief that this organization is NOT a religion. I watched Tom Cruise say on national television that you can be a Christian, a Bhuddist, a Muslim or a Jew and be a Scientologist. From my perspective, that is not the definition of a religion. At best it is an expensive Hollywood social club. At worst, it exploits those people looking to hand over some cash to belong to the type of dream Mr. Cruise represents.
To put it bluntly, those fucks should have their tax-exempt status taken away. That is all their classification as a religion is. An economic convenience.
I would put a ban on the use of the phrase "God bless America" at the end of any speech I give. In my opinion, it's just a bunch of hypocritical pandering to a superstitious nation. Believe whatever the hell you want. I'll defend that. I just wouldn't pretend that I do.
Who needs Vista for this? They already had this feature rolled out in Windows XP. I was able to unexpectedly deactivate a valid XP install by updating my ATI drivers. I bet it's a little slicker in Vista, but I'm a bit old school.
All kidding aside, the real bitch was I could not even re-activate it over the phone! I had an Athlon 64 computer and I took advantage of the Windows XP x64 upgrade special they offered a while ago. I had the x64 media and key, but was sitting on the actual install until some driver issues were taken care of. MS support insisted my XP Pro 32-bit key was an x64 one. After trying to explain my situation and the upgrade path to support for over an hour, I gave up. It forced an upgrade to a product that wasn't quite ready for daily use.
My bad for giving them my money. I know. I take full responsibility.
I appreciate that. You are absolutely right. I only take issue with the excessive nature of the response. It could have been handled better. Being irritated is not an excuse for a heavy handed reaction. If he was allowed to finish his rant, and Kerry had answered or asked for the next question, the guy may have stepped away from the mike.
I was a Kerry supporter, and I do believe this person was trying to cause a scene. However, I am continually troubled by the assertion that political figures should always be treated in a certain manner just because they are politicians. Just because the man ran for president, doesn't make a comment or opinion any less valid no matter how annoying or disruptive the average person may view it. We live in a democracy, not a monarchy. In my opinion, dissent is not just a part of a healthy democracy, it is a patriotic exercise. Sure, his comments are annoying and disruptive. Sure, he may not have had a strong political point to make. But this is not my place to decide, and I would prefer it not be up to the police to decide. We are becoming more and more of a police state every day. The thing that disturbs me the most is the way we have accepted it and internalized it to the point of justification.
I think America is suffering from battered wife syndrome.
Thank you for replying more eloquently than I would. I was just going to ask if he had gotten out on the crazy side of the bed this morning. I am sick of people implying some type of agreement or contract is in effect every time you visit a site. I like the Walmart example. This is at most an inconvenience for those people who choose to make revenue this way, not theft or an immoral activity. Killing thousands of innocent civilians in an unprovoked war is what I call immoral.
You are right on about Heroes. I love watching it, but wouldn't feel cheated in the least if there was only 1 season with a really good story arc and conclusion. Boy, that would be cutting-edge TV.
I think it is about time we got over the expectation that any well-loved TV series should stay on the air for an open-ended run. I love BSG. I even get enjoyment out of the filler episodes. But I would love a tight, well-though out story arc with a good series conclusion even more. What is the problem with telling a good story and wrapping things up when you are done?
For example, I watched every episode of Carnivàle, and was actually quite pissed off that they did not plan on wrapping things up at the end of the 2nd season. I would have been quite happy with that. Instead, they added a last-minute twist that made me feel even more cheated after HBO dropped their ass. It could have been brought to a logical conclusion in 2 seasons.
Perhaps this is an American problem. As a country, we seem to have a media oral fixation that makes us act like more product is always better. Wake up. It is not.
We just dropped an appliance from Caymas Systems in place at our firm and it has changed the way we think about remote access to applications. Not all applications really require access to a full remote desktop, especially when many systems have web based front-ends. The money we were considering spending on a Citrix server has been used to provide a solution that is more flexible for our environment, fairly easy to set up, and plays well with users of non-windows operating systems. One plus is that for web based apps, home users become responsible for their own printers. No struggling to get them working with our windows terminal server.
I'm not really sure about your exact needs, but this is worth looking at.
I work at a law firm that has roughly 250 users. Users are restricted to 75MB for their Exchange storage. Once they hit 75MB, they start receiving messages stating that they have gone over their storage limit and they need to clean out their inbox before their account is locked down. At 80MB, their account is restricted from sending outgoing email.
I know this sounds very strict, but unless you have a policy that the powers that be are aware of and support, you will be storing everyone's favorite Will Farrell clips. Nothing against a little more cowbell, but this does not help your business work efficiently. The Executive committee is aware of and in support of this policy. I believe that much of this had to do with my previous boss telling them, "you want better performance, spend more money". Attorneys are notoriously cheap. That is also why we have a staff of four. Ugh.
We try to train people how to keep their inbox clean, how to actually empty their deleted items folder, and how to check and clean out their sent items. Those who complain too much, we direct to one of the executive partners so they can really address the issue with someone with some power. Most are too cowardly to take it any further.
I do however wish we had a better solution to having people create and backup to a PST file. The problem with backing up to a PST is that if they do not put their PST on a network share such as a redirected home directory, eventually someone's computer will blow up with a huge important PST on their local hard drive. While we are not held accountable for anything they save to their local computer, it's never any fun explaining to someone they are SOL when it comes to recovering that PST. Also, Microsoft does not recommend or support using PST files located on a network share. They become prone to corruption. I also suspect that the use of so many PST files over our network is degrading the overall performance of things. Please note that I have only recently started to consider this idea and have yet to do the research to support it, so do not take this as fully educated information. It is just a hunch right now.
I really do feel for you though. Best of luck working things out.
Is it just me, or do others find it interesting that this happens shortly after Google refuses to give the DOJ access to their search logs. I guess investigating a company like Google is way more important than investigating a company like Haliburton.
At our office, we roll out a ghost image to the whole firm. When we build the image, we create a local administrator account named BUILD to install and configure all of the applications. After everything is seasoned to taste, we log back in as the regular Administrator account, and copy the BUILD profile over the Default Users profile (grant the everyone group access to it in the process).
Sysprep, then start rolling out the image. As each new user logs in, their new profile is based off the pre-configured Default Users profile.
I am unsure how well OOo would work doing things this way, but it would be interesting to see.
Nothing new about this besides Gaiman's name. My wife bought and listened to Storm Front by Jim Butcher on an MP3 disk. It is one of the Dresden Files books read by James Marsters. Yes, I am married to a Spike fanatic.
I absolutely welcome this change. It is my belief that all of the My This and My That nonsense in the computer industry has created a kind of computer selfishness among the average user. I don't know how many times I have wanted to poke my eyes out after a secretary called up and said "My Word isn't working" or "My Excel crashed". It's a very subtle thing, but I believe that kind of mindset diminishes one's capacity to grasp the bigger picture every now and then.
Really? In what way, beyond the vague generalization that all politicians are out for the same thing? I really want to know because I think this myth that they're all alike so what's the point is extremely dangerous. You suggest voting for a third party, but there are greater things at stake here than saying, "well don't blame me, I voted for Nader!" at the dinner table. C'mon people! There are bigger things at stake in this election than even DVD fair use, all due respect to the Slashdot audience. Ask the family of a soldier who hasn't seen the end of his tour of duty in Iraq, or a member of their family. Ask a couple who are in love, but are continuously discriminated against publicly because they happen to be of the same sex and it happens to be any easy wedge issue to get Bible thumpers to perk their ears up to. Ask anyone who doesn't like the way the wind has been blowing in this country since 9/11--some good people crippled in the head because they've started to believe that any voice of discent might seem un-American. Ask a muslim child what it's like to go to public school in middle America in this day and age. Or at least ask yourself if you have done a reasonable job yourself looking at the wrecklessness of misguided flag-waving and the folly of playing Coyboys and Indians in the world theatre. Please. Let's move beyond this all politicians are alike myth and take a stand for change in this desperate time. I am begging you. And if you think I am a crazy asshole fuck up too late trying to fix his wife's laptop who's off on a tirade, fine. Sure, that sounds like me. Write me off. But before you do, download Barack Obamma's Democratic convention keynote from the iTunes music store (free), then tell me that is the same voice of the Republican party. Man, that guy makes me proud to be a Democrat. I used to subscribe to that, "i'm really an independent Anti-Republican" bullshit. Never again, folks.
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Is that true? I am trying to find the final numbers, but coming up with articles predicting the results up through late 2007. It was my understanding that the cut-off date was always planned, and not the result of poor digital sales. I just read that around 12% paid from $8-$12 for in rainbows (the 2nd largest group). Hell, I paid the standard iTunes $9.99 when I could have gotten it for free. Does anyone have some hard numbers here? I see a claim that they made 10 million, but think that was pretty early press.
Good point. Thanks.
Could this be the result of the outbound TCP connection limit imposed after XP SP2?
Just because someone is a great scientist does not mean the person is a good administrator or a good politician.
Out of curiosity; do you think current politicians make good politicians?
Brilliant. How do I post a rim-shot?
I wonder how Toyota and their "supposed" attorney Garrett Biggs (anyone have an address) would feel about the onslaught of "Toyota Sucks Balls" desktop wallpapers that might start showing up. I think "Garrett Biggs Sucks Balls" also has a nice ring to it. Nothing wrong about sucking balls. I just wonder how they would react. And for those of you who believe this is childish, yes it is. But so is their behavior, and sometimes the kiddies only respond to name calling. Damn, this back injury IS making me mean.
It's just another form of taxation. I don't want my tax dollars going towards the "war" but it's going there despite the fact.
Exactly. It would be a tax. That is why I oppose this. Unless the government is collecting this money, not everyone is covered. I do not believe it is the role of government to ensure the health of a commercial entertainment industry through taxation. Why does this country dislike socialized programs for the protection of its citizens, yet encourages socializing the support of whole industries? I thought this was a capitalistic society.
Thanks. Good point. It's just so much easier to justify my distaste when I don't think these things through. I tend to get too caught up on the particular object of worship as a defining element.
I am an atheist who will defend anyone's right to believe in whatever religion they want to. I try not to impose my beliefs onto others. I really do. That being said, it is my belief that this organization is NOT a religion. I watched Tom Cruise say on national television that you can be a Christian, a Bhuddist, a Muslim or a Jew and be a Scientologist. From my perspective, that is not the definition of a religion. At best it is an expensive Hollywood social club. At worst, it exploits those people looking to hand over some cash to belong to the type of dream Mr. Cruise represents. To put it bluntly, those fucks should have their tax-exempt status taken away. That is all their classification as a religion is. An economic convenience.
I am having flashbacks to that Oliver Stone mini-series Wild Palms.
I would put a ban on the use of the phrase "God bless America" at the end of any speech I give. In my opinion, it's just a bunch of hypocritical pandering to a superstitious nation. Believe whatever the hell you want. I'll defend that. I just wouldn't pretend that I do.
Who needs Vista for this? They already had this feature rolled out in Windows XP. I was able to unexpectedly deactivate a valid XP install by updating my ATI drivers. I bet it's a little slicker in Vista, but I'm a bit old school. All kidding aside, the real bitch was I could not even re-activate it over the phone! I had an Athlon 64 computer and I took advantage of the Windows XP x64 upgrade special they offered a while ago. I had the x64 media and key, but was sitting on the actual install until some driver issues were taken care of. MS support insisted my XP Pro 32-bit key was an x64 one. After trying to explain my situation and the upgrade path to support for over an hour, I gave up. It forced an upgrade to a product that wasn't quite ready for daily use. My bad for giving them my money. I know. I take full responsibility.
I appreciate that. You are absolutely right. I only take issue with the excessive nature of the response. It could have been handled better. Being irritated is not an excuse for a heavy handed reaction. If he was allowed to finish his rant, and Kerry had answered or asked for the next question, the guy may have stepped away from the mike.
I was a Kerry supporter, and I do believe this person was trying to cause a scene. However, I am continually troubled by the assertion that political figures should always be treated in a certain manner just because they are politicians. Just because the man ran for president, doesn't make a comment or opinion any less valid no matter how annoying or disruptive the average person may view it. We live in a democracy, not a monarchy. In my opinion, dissent is not just a part of a healthy democracy, it is a patriotic exercise. Sure, his comments are annoying and disruptive. Sure, he may not have had a strong political point to make. But this is not my place to decide, and I would prefer it not be up to the police to decide. We are becoming more and more of a police state every day. The thing that disturbs me the most is the way we have accepted it and internalized it to the point of justification. I think America is suffering from battered wife syndrome.
Thank you for replying more eloquently than I would. I was just going to ask if he had gotten out on the crazy side of the bed this morning. I am sick of people implying some type of agreement or contract is in effect every time you visit a site. I like the Walmart example. This is at most an inconvenience for those people who choose to make revenue this way, not theft or an immoral activity. Killing thousands of innocent civilians in an unprovoked war is what I call immoral.
You are right on about Heroes. I love watching it, but wouldn't feel cheated in the least if there was only 1 season with a really good story arc and conclusion. Boy, that would be cutting-edge TV.
I think it is about time we got over the expectation that any well-loved TV series should stay on the air for an open-ended run. I love BSG. I even get enjoyment out of the filler episodes. But I would love a tight, well-though out story arc with a good series conclusion even more. What is the problem with telling a good story and wrapping things up when you are done? For example, I watched every episode of Carnivàle, and was actually quite pissed off that they did not plan on wrapping things up at the end of the 2nd season. I would have been quite happy with that. Instead, they added a last-minute twist that made me feel even more cheated after HBO dropped their ass. It could have been brought to a logical conclusion in 2 seasons. Perhaps this is an American problem. As a country, we seem to have a media oral fixation that makes us act like more product is always better. Wake up. It is not.
We just dropped an appliance from Caymas Systems in place at our firm and it has changed the way we think about remote access to applications. Not all applications really require access to a full remote desktop, especially when many systems have web based front-ends. The money we were considering spending on a Citrix server has been used to provide a solution that is more flexible for our environment, fairly easy to set up, and plays well with users of non-windows operating systems. One plus is that for web based apps, home users become responsible for their own printers. No struggling to get them working with our windows terminal server. I'm not really sure about your exact needs, but this is worth looking at.
I work at a law firm that has roughly 250 users. Users are restricted to 75MB for their Exchange storage. Once they hit 75MB, they start receiving messages stating that they have gone over their storage limit and they need to clean out their inbox before their account is locked down. At 80MB, their account is restricted from sending outgoing email.
I know this sounds very strict, but unless you have a policy that the powers that be are aware of and support, you will be storing everyone's favorite Will Farrell clips. Nothing against a little more cowbell, but this does not help your business work efficiently. The Executive committee is aware of and in support of this policy. I believe that much of this had to do with my previous boss telling them, "you want better performance, spend more money". Attorneys are notoriously cheap. That is also why we have a staff of four. Ugh.
We try to train people how to keep their inbox clean, how to actually empty their deleted items folder, and how to check and clean out their sent items. Those who complain too much, we direct to one of the executive partners so they can really address the issue with someone with some power. Most are too cowardly to take it any further.
I do however wish we had a better solution to having people create and backup to a PST file. The problem with backing up to a PST is that if they do not put their PST on a network share such as a redirected home directory, eventually someone's computer will blow up with a huge important PST on their local hard drive. While we are not held accountable for anything they save to their local computer, it's never any fun explaining to someone they are SOL when it comes to recovering that PST. Also, Microsoft does not recommend or support using PST files located on a network share. They become prone to corruption. I also suspect that the use of so many PST files over our network is degrading the overall performance of things. Please note that I have only recently started to consider this idea and have yet to do the research to support it, so do not take this as fully educated information. It is just a hunch right now.
I really do feel for you though. Best of luck working things out.
Good to see work still being done on this, but I had to install something to make it easier on the eyes. Glad I found this theme.
Is it just me, or do others find it interesting that this happens shortly after Google refuses to give the DOJ access to their search logs. I guess investigating a company like Google is way more important than investigating a company like Haliburton.
Wow! I just tested this and it is surprisingly better in Opera. Thanks.
At our office, we roll out a ghost image to the whole firm. When we build the image, we create a local administrator account named BUILD to install and configure all of the applications. After everything is seasoned to taste, we log back in as the regular Administrator account, and copy the BUILD profile over the Default Users profile (grant the everyone group access to it in the process).
Sysprep, then start rolling out the image. As each new user logs in, their new profile is based off the pre-configured Default Users profile.
I am unsure how well OOo would work doing things this way, but it would be interesting to see.
Nothing new about this besides Gaiman's name. My wife bought and listened to Storm Front by Jim Butcher on an MP3 disk . It is one of the Dresden Files books read by James Marsters. Yes, I am married to a Spike fanatic.
I absolutely welcome this change. It is my belief that all of the My This and My That nonsense in the computer industry has created a kind of computer selfishness among the average user. I don't know how many times I have wanted to poke my eyes out after a secretary called up and said "My Word isn't working" or "My Excel crashed". It's a very subtle thing, but I believe that kind of mindset diminishes one's capacity to grasp the bigger picture every now and then.
Really? In what way, beyond the vague generalization that all politicians are out for the same thing? I really want to know because I think this myth that they're all alike so what's the point is extremely dangerous. You suggest voting for a third party, but there are greater things at stake here than saying, "well don't blame me, I voted for Nader!" at the dinner table. C'mon people! There are bigger things at stake in this election than even DVD fair use, all due respect to the Slashdot audience. Ask the family of a soldier who hasn't seen the end of his tour of duty in Iraq, or a member of their family. Ask a couple who are in love, but are continuously discriminated against publicly because they happen to be of the same sex and it happens to be any easy wedge issue to get Bible thumpers to perk their ears up to. Ask anyone who doesn't like the way the wind has been blowing in this country since 9/11--some good people crippled in the head because they've started to believe that any voice of discent might seem un-American. Ask a muslim child what it's like to go to public school in middle America in this day and age. Or at least ask yourself if you have done a reasonable job yourself looking at the wrecklessness of misguided flag-waving and the folly of playing Coyboys and Indians in the world theatre. Please. Let's move beyond this all politicians are alike myth and take a stand for change in this desperate time. I am begging you. And if you think I am a crazy asshole fuck up too late trying to fix his wife's laptop who's off on a tirade, fine. Sure, that sounds like me. Write me off. But before you do, download Barack Obamma's Democratic convention keynote from the iTunes music store (free), then tell me that is the same voice of the Republican party. Man, that guy makes me proud to be a Democrat. I used to subscribe to that, "i'm really an independent Anti-Republican" bullshit. Never again, folks.