For a while it was the one true source of bootlegged concerts. For example, it was nice to be able to get my hands on the first night of the most recent Rush tour about 1 1/2 weeks after the show....and it sounds as good as any live album.
Upgrade when the device or software no longer performs it's required function in an acceptable period of time.... or the required function is obsolete.
>>If someone has invested years of development time creating applications using these class libraries, thier discontinuation is a disaster if they are to continue to develop their application without rewriting it from scratch using different libraries, or in a whole new language environment.
There was a huge problem in my shop a few years back when Rouge Wave changed their licensing terms (for the C++ api's) and costs unexpectedly when renewal time came up.
Developers forced to abandon those (somewhat nice) libraries and use the proper STL and OSS libraries to reinvent the Rogue functionality.
Took us about 3 years or so to completely get off the product.... I hope they are enjoying their new $0 revenue stream.
>>New Jerseyans are probably just a little more stubborn in holding on to their old names than people are in other parts of the country. As someone who was born in NYC and has also lived in NJ, I think it's a regional thing - we don't call the amusement park on Coney Island "Astroland" either, we still just call it Coney Island.
And I still call the PNC Bank Arts Center by it's old name "Garden State Arts Center". None of this PNC crap for me, it's still the GSA. And I like it that way.
Bin Laden and his followers have always intended to get rid of the USA...even when we were funding him against the Soviet Union.
Peter Arnett interviewed Bin Laden in the late 90's and he said as much himself.
More chilling is one of his top guys who, during an ABC report, was filmed in Afghanistan in 2000. To the reporter, he said something along the lines of "American society is very open, and that is it's weakness. Take your White House for example, it can be hit with only 2 or 3 lives, and I have may volunteers willing to give their lives for this."
>>Writing off one of those cities and glassing NK once and for all may well be an option on the table.
Totally unacceptable. A couple of million lives it too high a price to pay.
Diplomacy, appeasement will have to suffice until we can find a way to diffuse the problem from the inside. Appease him, get him drunk with his success and then push him off a ledge....or take his toys away while he's paying attention to something else.
Yeah, it's good to find a Rush fan here. There's a few around...every now and then you'll find someone mentioning something about them.
The thing with Camera Eye is this: We're both right.... Geddy and Alex have both described it as being simple and repetetive, and they feel that if they put it in the setlist they'd lose room for 2 other songs. It's a shame, because it really would be a crowd pleaser. Maybe next time around they need to do a 4 hour set.:)
As far as the embarrasing songs, Geds has said that there are some old songs that they will refuse to play, no matter how much the fans ask for them. I assumed that he meant that he was embarrassed by stuff like Lakeside, Rivendell, Bald and Twilight Zone....which are songs that were asked for pretty consistently on the old geddylee.net... though I could be wrong.
I have to mention that I really enjoyed the acoustic set on the last 2 tours. For a band who Alex describes as being 'definitely plugged in', they do some great acousic. Not that I'm surprised given their level of playing, but it was still very nice to hear.
A lot of guys I know got turned on by PW and MP, and lost interest when SIG and eventually P/G came out. Metalheads who thought the albums sounded gay or had too much in the way of keyboards...whatever.
I agree with your other post. They don't go back and re-record their old stuff....they let it stand for what it is. Though they do refuse to play their 'embarrasing' or 'simple' songs live. Which is why we'll never hear Lakeside Park or Camera Eye ever again.
Other acts have been known to hire musicians to replay certain parts of songs before remastering...Ozzy comes to mind...they had guys come in and redo the drums and bass for his first 2 albums. Seems sort of Lucas-Like, eh?
The 30th Anniversary show in NJ was prolly the best I've ever seen them. Rush shows are great, you get to rock out with thousands of other well behaved, mature geeks.
BTW, if sharingthegroove.org ever comes back up you can take a look there for boots from the tour. I got your Hollywood Bowl show, and night 1 in Nashville, from there. It's a torrent site.
>>I think the difference is that, despite what we think of the latest movies, (I believe) George Lucas really cares about the movies he's making.
Kind of reminds me of Rush in a way. Geddy Lee has said more than once that they don't care what the critics say, they just write and record songs that they want to play.
And there are plenty of Rush fanboys (myself included) who will run out and buy their records every 2 years or so, no matter how badly everyone else thinks they sound.
And yet, J. Michael Straczynski who has produced what I think is the best Sci-Fi televison since the Twilight Zone and Trek TOS, can't get any more of his B5 ideas on TV.
It's sad to see Trek limp along while the B5 Universe has so much potential.
Companies aren't in business to do nice things. They are in business to make as much profit as possible.
However if some 'nice thing' is viewed internally as being a path to more profit, then they'll do it. If it doesn't pay off after a time, it will go away, or be sold.
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The Compact Disk or the CD Player.
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Take off to the great white north, it's a beauty way to go.....
Eh?
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Sharing The Groove. Has been gone for a while and I miss it badly.
For a while it was the one true source of bootlegged concerts. For example, it was nice to be able to get my hands on the first night of the most recent Rush tour about 1 1/2 weeks after the show....and it sounds as good as any live album.
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>>Have you been watching Fox News again?
Don't you mean FAUX News?
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Upgrade when the device or software no longer performs it's required function in an acceptable period of time.... or the required function is obsolete.
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>>If someone has invested years of development time creating applications using these class libraries, thier discontinuation is a disaster if they are to continue to develop their application without rewriting it from scratch using different libraries, or in a whole new language environment.
There was a huge problem in my shop a few years back when Rouge Wave changed their licensing terms (for the C++ api's) and costs unexpectedly when renewal time came up.
Developers forced to abandon those (somewhat nice) libraries and use the proper STL and OSS libraries to reinvent the Rogue functionality.
Took us about 3 years or so to completely get off the product.... I hope they are enjoying their new $0 revenue stream.
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No, but Nimoy will need a beard for the Priceline commercial.
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>>New Jerseyans are probably just a little more stubborn in holding on to their old names than people are in other parts of the country. As someone who was born in NYC and has also lived in NJ, I think it's a regional thing - we don't call the amusement park on Coney Island "Astroland" either, we still just call it Coney Island.
And I still call the PNC Bank Arts Center by it's old name "Garden State Arts Center". None of this PNC crap for me, it's still the GSA. And I like it that way.
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From New York City here....
Everyone I have ever heard in my life talk about this park calls it Great Adventure.
Jersey people, Brooklyn People, Philadelphia people..... It's Great Adventure.
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Your post gives me visions of Red Dawn.....
WOLVERIENES!!!!
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>>Jabba the Hutt: Luke....
Luke: "I've got a bad feeling about this...."
Luke: "Admiral Ackbar, you are my dinner!"
Ackbar: "Nooooooooooo!"
>>Security through $$$
You mean "a false sense of security through $$$", right?
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Nope.
Bin Laden and his followers have always intended to get rid of the USA...even when we were funding him against the Soviet Union.
Peter Arnett interviewed Bin Laden in the late 90's and he said as much himself.
More chilling is one of his top guys who, during an ABC report, was filmed in Afghanistan in 2000. To the reporter, he said something along the lines of "American society is very open, and that is it's weakness. Take your White House for example, it can be hit with only 2 or 3 lives, and I have may volunteers willing to give their lives for this."
>>they can't threaten anyone with it.
Dude, what are you smoking?
Japan... China.... South Korea.... Seattle.... Anchorage
>>Writing off one of those cities and glassing NK once and for all may well be an option on the table.
Totally unacceptable. A couple of million lives it too high a price to pay.
Diplomacy, appeasement will have to suffice until we can find a way to diffuse the problem from the inside. Appease him, get him drunk with his success and then push him off a ledge....or take his toys away while he's paying attention to something else.
wbs.
Personally, I think that someone took a preemptive strike at this enrichment facility...maybe with some Bunker Busters, or maybe a Micro-Nuke.
Oh yeah, and there was an additional message to Kim Jong Looney-bin by timing it with that annivarsary..
I'm probably wrong, but I can only hope..
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>>- I'm not going to say it had a blast radius of 2km, but then again that's only 1.2 miles and yes may very well have.
Only 1.2 miles?
Only...... jesus f*n christ..... that's still huge.. imageine the loss of life and destruction that would come from an explosion of 'only' that size.
In this case my friend, bigger is not better.
Dude,
Where are you from?
New York City here.
Hey!
:)
Yeah, it's good to find a Rush fan here. There's a few around...every now and then you'll find someone mentioning something about them.
The thing with Camera Eye is this: We're both right.... Geddy and Alex have both described it as being simple and repetetive, and they feel that if they put it in the setlist they'd lose room for 2 other songs. It's a shame, because it really would be a crowd pleaser. Maybe next time around they need to do a 4 hour set.
As far as the embarrasing songs, Geds has said that there are some old songs that they will refuse to play, no matter how much the fans ask for them. I assumed that he meant that he was embarrassed by stuff like Lakeside, Rivendell, Bald and Twilight Zone....which are songs that were asked for pretty consistently on the old geddylee.net... though I could be wrong.
I have to mention that I really enjoyed the acoustic set on the last 2 tours. For a band who Alex describes as being 'definitely plugged in', they do some great acousic. Not that I'm surprised given their level of playing, but it was still very nice to hear.
Peace to ya'.
A lot of guys I know got turned on by PW and MP, and lost interest when SIG and eventually P/G came out. Metalheads who thought the albums sounded gay or had too much in the way of keyboards...whatever.
I agree with your other post. They don't go back and re-record their old stuff....they let it stand for what it is. Though they do refuse to play their 'embarrasing' or 'simple' songs live. Which is why we'll never hear Lakeside Park or Camera Eye ever again.
Other acts have been known to hire musicians to replay certain parts of songs before remastering...Ozzy comes to mind...they had guys come in and redo the drums and bass for his first 2 albums. Seems sort of Lucas-Like, eh?
The 30th Anniversary show in NJ was prolly the best I've ever seen them. Rush shows are great, you get to rock out with thousands of other well behaved, mature geeks.
BTW, if sharingthegroove.org ever comes back up you can take a look there for boots from the tour. I got your Hollywood Bowl show, and night 1 in Nashville, from there. It's a torrent site.
wbs.
>>I think the difference is that, despite what we think of the latest movies, (I believe) George Lucas really cares about the movies he's making.
Kind of reminds me of Rush in a way. Geddy Lee has said more than once that they don't care what the critics say, they just write and record songs that they want to play.
And there are plenty of Rush fanboys (myself included) who will run out and buy their records every 2 years or so, no matter how badly everyone else thinks they sound.
wbs.
And yet, J. Michael Straczynski who has produced what I think is the best Sci-Fi televison since the Twilight Zone and Trek TOS, can't get any more of his B5 ideas on TV.
It's sad to see Trek limp along while the B5 Universe has so much potential.
wbs.
Companies aren't in business to do nice things. They are in business to make as much profit as possible.
However if some 'nice thing' is viewed internally as being a path to more profit, then they'll do it. If it doesn't pay off after a time, it will go away, or be sold.
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How about: Wile E. Coyote Super Genius ?
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