Ok...I've not joined Google+...can someone tell me what at "Google+1 Like" is...? The article didn't explain really clearly....something that has to do with web search rankings was mentioned...
I'm guessing you have to have a Google+ account to see what a +1 like is...?
So you're basically looking for a new device to continue your meaningless, consumer-driven lives?
Err, you say that like there is something wrong with that??
:)
But seriously, why else does one work at all? The ONLY reason I have a job and work to keep it...is to earn as much $$ as I can, so that I can afford to buy and do the things that give me pleasure in life.
I guarantee, if I were to win the powerball tomorrow, I'd never set foot in a place of work again....If I had all the money I needed, was independently wealthy, I would never work again...I've got PLENTY that I like doing with my free time...travel, chase pretty ladies, party around New Orleans and tons of things to tinker with....and yes...BUY toys to play with!!!!
Sure, a honda will get you across town..but a big motorcycle or Vette will do it too, and be 1000% more fun.
Work is nothing more than a conduit towards getting money to allow you to live your life to the fullest extent.
My 2yrs on my 3GS came up last month....so, with me, just figuring time to upgrade.
I've seen my friends' iPHone 4s and I like those...so, guessing the 5 will be a least as good as the 4s, and I want that...
Also, guessing they've at least made improvements in the antenna problem, and from what I read, it should likely have a dual core process in it, so there are other reason to want it "sight unseen".
I know a few people who are working jobs that have nothing to do with their college degree, but many jobs want experience or a degree from applicants.
Hell, I'd say that most of my friends with college degrees work in fields that have nothing to do with their degrees....self included.
My BS is in Biochem...yet I've never worked in that field ever. I tried for med school...got close a few times, then moved on. Been doing DBA work, data modelling...and some slight sys and application admin stuff. During the school years...sold clothes retail, worked restaurants, bartended...head chef in my own place for awhile....so I really don't yet know what I want to be when I 'grow up'...
But, having that degree...sure gets the foot in the door, that and actually having a personality and being able to promote yourself and talk to people helps. Heck one of my first technical jobs...I got hired...and was in a group of software guys...who ALL knew so much more about everything than I did....(and I did learn a lot from them over those years), but I'd hardly been there a week, and the group had to give a presentation to the users we were creating a GUI for to front end an older mainframe system. Well, everyone in the group was petrified to stand up and present in front of what was a small group of maybe 20-30 people tops.
I promptly said I'd do it...if they'd coach me on what to say, etc. I gave the talk, and when I hit something I didn't know or remember, I'd call on one of them to chime in with a quick answer...etc. No problem.
After that...management looked very favorably upon me...and my career has gone up ever since then.
I've found that you don't always have to be the best technical person...but having a gift of gab, being friendly and getting along with all.....having people skills will carry you a LONG way.
This is very good news. I don't mind movies coming out that I don't give a damn about, but when the insufferable quotes start bleeding into conversations it's like second-hand stupid. So it pleases me very much to hear that there's nothing worth quoting from this one.
It's pretty hard to be a new band that sounds like 60s/70s rock without sounding like generic rubbish. There are a few bands that have sort of done it, like Wolfmother and arguably The Darkness. Clutch have pulled out a pretty solid string of blues/rock albums.
Thank you for the info!!
Yeah..I really liked wolfmother...but they stopped at one album...
:(
I saw them at Voodoo fest...and they tore the house down...really reminded me of the great rock concerts in my youth......I wish they would do more...will look at the other groups you mentioned along with them...and the others in your post!
Try some Porcupine Tree. And if you have a surround system, hunt up the 5.1 versions of their albums.
What genre of rock are they? Bluesy rock? Metal?
What is the best album with the greatest number of good songs and less filler?
Hmm...I'll try a pandora channel and see if they're on there...but any advice on what you think is good is appreciated.
I have such a HARD time finding good new rock to listen too. Granted...I love the older 60's-70's guitar driven blues based harder rock (zeppelin, stones, claptons stuff, etc)...but am always wanting new stuff, but since radio isn't a viable option, and work won't let you stream...and no time to dedicate after work 'just' to sift through all the cruft to find stuff I like........I have a hard time finding good current stuff.
A second issue is that the listening environment is changing - music is being played on portable devices in noisy environments - this isn't a fine listening room. As a result, this may be a case where too much dynamic range is lost on the listening audience, as the listener just wants to be able to hear everything without having to fiddle with the volume every few seconds.
Well, that's why I prefer to buy things in say, lossless formats...good for the good living room stereo, and I can also rip them to lossy formats for portable players in poor environments (gym,car, etc)....maybe they could give 2x versions..one for portable and one for proper home audio system?
Or, does NO one anymore care for quality home sound reproduction? Geez, when I was a kid...we all wanted to eventually have a good sound system...I've been building mine since I was a pre-teen saving money from neighborhood jobs...etc.
I bet that even in hardware considered "old" there is more ability to boot from USB than from floppy. It's been around a decade or so that USB has been around.
Not my good old Compaq Proliant 7000....gotta have a floppy to boot it at times...Had to use it to boot up enough to reset the RAID controller before...
The big win for streaming for me and my kids is that I get to decide what I want to watch -right now-, not two days from now when I can get turnaround of my latest DVD from Netflix. Yes, it's mostly back catalog, but so what: it's not like I've already seen every movie ever made. There are dozens of flicks from the past 5 years I still haven't seen. And my daughter is gobbling up the tween-age series available like she's never had TV before.
I'll be dropping the DVD subscription when the price goes up. For the occasional desire to see a recent release, I'll go Redbox.
I can see it for kids..keeping them entertained...but man, my other problem with streaming was...the lack of content I wanted to see, and I"m quite TV junkie and still had problems finding stuff that was interesting and hadn't see 1000x times before. I saw lots of what I'd call 'b' rated stuff...MST3K fodder.
And well my trouble with renting from redbox, like any other rental...is late fees.
I'm returning 2x bluray rentals from redbox I picked up on impulse last Friday....just got to watching them last 2x nights..so, paid rental on them that whole time...*sigh*
Why would you want to do that? (I'll make an exception if you work for a charity or something that won't waste donations on modern hardware).
Older hardware has it uses. I mean, you don't need a brand new, screaming i7 multi-core box with SLI graphics cards to run a home firewall with iptables, etc....you don't need it to make a nice little audio server for the home stereo to host your music collection ripped to flac, etc.
I am by NO stretch of the imagination a 'green' person, tree hugger or someone who has ever bothered with recycling anything...BUT, hey, if something is still useful, why spend money on something new if the old will keep working reliably for awhile longer?
I don't get it...I'm surprised I see as many people as I do opting for streaming over the disks from Netflix with this price rise. Is this mainly people that do not have a nice HD tv to watch on.....?
I mean, I've been with netflix since 2000. I've always been on the 3 out at a time...and upgraded to bluray.
The streaming, was a nice add on...for free.
However, I pretty much only used streaming (when I could find something good in the very limited selection) for older shows or movies that weren't very high quality source material.
But for newer movies or shows...I'm always opting for bluray rental. I mean, I didn't shell out over $2K for a 59" plasma HD tv (and I have a sound system to back up the great image) to just watch substandard source material on. I mean, streaming can't match the quality video/audio that I get on a bluray disk.
*sigh*....are there really that few people today that care about quality audio and video? I guess. Then again, I"m one of those that has refused to buy music online until it comes in a lossless format with no DRM. I buy CD's....and rip them myself to lossy formats for portable players in lesser listening environments (gym, car)...but I'd rather have the best source I can get for my living room where I have spent years since my childhood building a quality audio/video system. I'm not talking about the crazy audiophile stuff you hear about (frozen cables for $1K/ft, etc)...but solid equipment.
Ok...enough said...I ramble...but if you do ignore the audio aspect of it...most of the good HD tv's coming out today DO present an awesome picture, so, just wondering...why so many people settle for streaming when they spent so much $$ on a quality HDTV?
If Netflix actually offered a good selection for streaming, then the need for DVDs would not be necessary.
Not in my case.
I've had 3 discs out at a time since about 2000. The streaming was a nice add on for free....BUT, I pretty much only used it (when I could find something I actually wanted out of the limited streaming choices) for older shows or movies. I shelled out over $2K recently for a big plasma HD tv...and I have a sound system to match it....so, when I want to watch a newer movie..I want the best audio and visual source I can get....and streaming sure can't keep up with what I get on Bluray.
To keep the streaming will cost me $8/mo...I'm dropping that and just keeping the disks
Well, with a Democrat in the White House I am finding it hard to believe that this one will happen. If it was a Republican in the White House and if the Republicans controlled Congress, it might happen, but even then I'm not so sure. Given the amount of budget cuts coming soon and the high domestic unemployment, a freebie for IT companies that won't result in any extra American jobs would seem to be political suicide, but that wouldn't stop some Tea Party supporters from thinking it's a great idea.
I dunno why you can possibly imagine the Dems treat this any different than the Reps.
Neither of them are responsive to what "the people" want...only to the corporate re-election donators have sway over them.
Everyone I know is buzzing about this shit - Murdoch's wife had only just lunged at that guy 10 minutes before I left my office (with everyone watching it live at their PC's), and when I got on the bus everyone was chatting about it, showing strangers the video on the their phones.
I can understand people getting arrested for doing illegal stuff. But what I don't understand is...just because of a scandal, why did the entire newspaper fold?
Did everyone in the UK simultaneously say "we're not buying you anymore" and they ran out of money?
I'm just not understanding why a newspaper folds on day one of a scandal...never heard of that before.
Now would be a good time to bring this up with your home owners association so you can make the best choice when that time finally comes.
Ah....'tis nice to live in the land of NO homeowners associations.
If I buy MY own house, I should own it, and not be able to be told by a bunch of neighbors what I can and cannot do with it (short of city wide ordinances for safety, etc).
I can't believe how those Homeowners associations have proliferated so greatly, and why so many people out up with this.
Once you buy the land...shouldn't it be YOURs to do with as you please? I'm surprised someone with enough spare $$ and time hasn't had many of those agreements thrown the fuck out.
I assume they wouldn't have just one data center... but they'd consolidate all military data under one collective of centers distributed throughout the nation, buried in non-disclosed locations.
LIkely impossible. Each branch has systems, of systems of systems....many undocumented (no, they don't actually know how they all really interract)...many of them stove pipe systems with maybe special interfaces (and yes, sometimes even these are still sneakernet) to talk to each other. Old OSes and hardware....it is a mess. There is no standardized version of data between the branches....do a little research on DIMHRS, which didn't work out too very well trying to get all of them to just get manpower and pay on a single system.
And, you can't change a lot of these things either...because many times they way the do things isn't just policy, it is mandated by laws or a set of laws....going WAY back in history.
Consolidation? Sure, it would be a good modern way of doing things...but damned near impossible in reality with the old service branches.
And I've not even gotten into the red tape, bureaucracy, or "we've done it this way always" mentality in each branch.
But his larger point of knowing how to use the system and apply for the contracts...is what keeps the major few companies as being the only IT companies doing business with the feds.
The hoops you have to jump through are many. The larger contract houses have staff devoted to NOTHING but writing proposals. The small guy, cannot compete with this.
And even when there are contracts dedicated to SM's....the only way that truly works, is, the larger contract houses, *back* the small business and join to them...basically using them as a front to get the bids on the small business contracts.
They generally find a small company, it must be female or minority owned about 99% of the time, to get federal consideration.....then, the big guys basically do most of the proposal work, and the so call PRIME contractor that wins...gets a good kick of money in, but they really aren't in control of anything.
Happens all the time.
You'd need to rewrite the oversite rules...somehow...to try to prevent this. To make the application process simpler....but I don't see that happening any time soon. But, ever since they've been trying to make mandates that the Federal govt workers be more oversite and managers, rather than hands-on tech, you're gonna see more and more of this.
That and the situation that really kills the small companies off....is the hesitance of the feds to hire individual contractors as 1099's directly....they'd rather hire a large IT company which then wires the 'contractors' as W2 employees....giving you essentially the worst of both worlds.
You don't get the bill rate you should get as a true contractor, but you do get the lack of stability of a contractor. This bastardization of the contracting paradigm has really hurt things....
Great....so, now we're moving basically to where you have to buy a special travel permit for air travel?
Geez...can't someone have some sense and at least suggest all we really need is maybe a metal detector, and on the other side, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs....no need for special irradiation machines to step through, no need for the latest TSA grope...and likely less TSA personnel to man each site.
[slaps head]
Sorry...was starting to make some sense there...that just doesn't work on the Govt (especially Federal) level.
So, if you have only an e-mail domain (e.g., a domain purchased solely to allow you to have your own GMail domain), then you can't use this service.
I've never heard of an email only domain..?
I think a domain is a domain is a domain. Just associating basically a name with an IP address....who is imposing this 'limit' on you for a domain you purchased? I've never seen this at place you buy domains at like GoDaddy...etc. You purchase the name, it is yours to do, or not do as you wish...?
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I'm guessing you have to have a Google+ account to see what a +1 like is...?
Err, you say that like there is something wrong with that??
But seriously, why else does one work at all? The ONLY reason I have a job and work to keep it...is to earn as much $$ as I can, so that I can afford to buy and do the things that give me pleasure in life.
I guarantee, if I were to win the powerball tomorrow, I'd never set foot in a place of work again....If I had all the money I needed, was independently wealthy, I would never work again...I've got PLENTY that I like doing with my free time...travel, chase pretty ladies, party around New Orleans and tons of things to tinker with....and yes...BUY toys to play with!!!!
Sure, a honda will get you across town..but a big motorcycle or Vette will do it too, and be 1000% more fun.
Work is nothing more than a conduit towards getting money to allow you to live your life to the fullest extent.
I've seen my friends' iPHone 4s and I like those...so, guessing the 5 will be a least as good as the 4s, and I want that...
Also, guessing they've at least made improvements in the antenna problem, and from what I read, it should likely have a dual core process in it, so there are other reason to want it "sight unseen".
Hell, I'd say that most of my friends with college degrees work in fields that have nothing to do with their degrees....self included.
My BS is in Biochem...yet I've never worked in that field ever. I tried for med school...got close a few times, then moved on. Been doing DBA work, data modelling...and some slight sys and application admin stuff. During the school years...sold clothes retail, worked restaurants, bartended...head chef in my own place for awhile....so I really don't yet know what I want to be when I 'grow up'...
But, having that degree...sure gets the foot in the door, that and actually having a personality and being able to promote yourself and talk to people helps. Heck one of my first technical jobs...I got hired...and was in a group of software guys...who ALL knew so much more about everything than I did....(and I did learn a lot from them over those years), but I'd hardly been there a week, and the group had to give a presentation to the users we were creating a GUI for to front end an older mainframe system. Well, everyone in the group was petrified to stand up and present in front of what was a small group of maybe 20-30 people tops.
I promptly said I'd do it...if they'd coach me on what to say, etc. I gave the talk, and when I hit something I didn't know or remember, I'd call on one of them to chime in with a quick answer...etc. No problem.
After that...management looked very favorably upon me...and my career has gone up ever since then.
I've found that you don't always have to be the best technical person...but having a gift of gab, being friendly and getting along with all.....having people skills will carry you a LONG way.
When I see footage of Africa, that's what I see the most of...flies all over the people there, so maybe the auto-flyflicker thing would help out.
Bueller?
Bueller?
Thank you for the info!!
Yeah..I really liked wolfmother...but they stopped at one album...
I saw them at Voodoo fest...and they tore the house down...really reminded me of the great rock concerts in my youth......I wish they would do more...will look at the other groups you mentioned along with them...and the others in your post!
Again...thank you!
Oh man...I gotta go find my Nick Danger now....
What genre of rock are they? Bluesy rock? Metal?
What is the best album with the greatest number of good songs and less filler?
Hmm...I'll try a pandora channel and see if they're on there...but any advice on what you think is good is appreciated.
I have such a HARD time finding good new rock to listen too. Granted...I love the older 60's-70's guitar driven blues based harder rock (zeppelin, stones, claptons stuff, etc)...but am always wanting new stuff, but since radio isn't a viable option, and work won't let you stream...and no time to dedicate after work 'just' to sift through all the cruft to find stuff I like........I have a hard time finding good current stuff.
Well, that's why I prefer to buy things in say, lossless formats...good for the good living room stereo, and I can also rip them to lossy formats for portable players in poor environments (gym,car, etc)....maybe they could give 2x versions..one for portable and one for proper home audio system?
Or, does NO one anymore care for quality home sound reproduction? Geez, when I was a kid...we all wanted to eventually have a good sound system...I've been building mine since I was a pre-teen saving money from neighborhood jobs...etc.
Now..trouble is...if they remaster them properly...I'll have to buy the collection of many things ALL over again....
Oh well...its only money.
Not my good old Compaq Proliant 7000....gotta have a floppy to boot it at times...Had to use it to boot up enough to reset the RAID controller before...
I can see it for kids..keeping them entertained...but man, my other problem with streaming was...the lack of content I wanted to see, and I"m quite TV junkie and still had problems finding stuff that was interesting and hadn't see 1000x times before. I saw lots of what I'd call 'b' rated stuff...MST3K fodder.
And well my trouble with renting from redbox, like any other rental...is late fees.
I'm returning 2x bluray rentals from redbox I picked up on impulse last Friday....just got to watching them last 2x nights..so, paid rental on them that whole time...*sigh*
I guess different models for everyone...
Older hardware has it uses. I mean, you don't need a brand new, screaming i7 multi-core box with SLI graphics cards to run a home firewall with iptables, etc....you don't need it to make a nice little audio server for the home stereo to host your music collection ripped to flac, etc.
I am by NO stretch of the imagination a 'green' person, tree hugger or someone who has ever bothered with recycling anything...BUT, hey, if something is still useful, why spend money on something new if the old will keep working reliably for awhile longer?
I don't get it...I'm surprised I see as many people as I do opting for streaming over the disks from Netflix with this price rise. Is this mainly people that do not have a nice HD tv to watch on.....?
I mean, I've been with netflix since 2000. I've always been on the 3 out at a time...and upgraded to bluray.
The streaming, was a nice add on...for free.
However, I pretty much only used streaming (when I could find something good in the very limited selection) for older shows or movies that weren't very high quality source material.
But for newer movies or shows...I'm always opting for bluray rental. I mean, I didn't shell out over $2K for a 59" plasma HD tv (and I have a sound system to back up the great image) to just watch substandard source material on. I mean, streaming can't match the quality video/audio that I get on a bluray disk.
*sigh*....are there really that few people today that care about quality audio and video? I guess. Then again, I"m one of those that has refused to buy music online until it comes in a lossless format with no DRM. I buy CD's....and rip them myself to lossy formats for portable players in lesser listening environments (gym, car)...but I'd rather have the best source I can get for my living room where I have spent years since my childhood building a quality audio/video system. I'm not talking about the crazy audiophile stuff you hear about (frozen cables for $1K/ft, etc)...but solid equipment.
Ok...enough said...I ramble...but if you do ignore the audio aspect of it...most of the good HD tv's coming out today DO present an awesome picture, so, just wondering...why so many people settle for streaming when they spent so much $$ on a quality HDTV?
Not in my case.
I've had 3 discs out at a time since about 2000. The streaming was a nice add on for free....BUT, I pretty much only used it (when I could find something I actually wanted out of the limited streaming choices) for older shows or movies. I shelled out over $2K recently for a big plasma HD tv...and I have a sound system to match it....so, when I want to watch a newer movie..I want the best audio and visual source I can get....and streaming sure can't keep up with what I get on Bluray.
To keep the streaming will cost me $8/mo...I'm dropping that and just keeping the disks
No, because they are working a job that an American should be working and paying into the system.
The missing American is still going to need help at retirement when the Indian is gone.
Why should they bother...MUCH easier to just parrot the governments press releases pretty much verbatim.
I dunno why you can possibly imagine the Dems treat this any different than the Reps.
Neither of them are responsive to what "the people" want...only to the corporate re-election donators have sway over them.
I can understand people getting arrested for doing illegal stuff. But what I don't understand is...just because of a scandal, why did the entire newspaper fold?
Did everyone in the UK simultaneously say "we're not buying you anymore" and they ran out of money?
I'm just not understanding why a newspaper folds on day one of a scandal...never heard of that before.
Ah....'tis nice to live in the land of NO homeowners associations.
If I buy MY own house, I should own it, and not be able to be told by a bunch of neighbors what I can and cannot do with it (short of city wide ordinances for safety, etc).
I can't believe how those Homeowners associations have proliferated so greatly, and why so many people out up with this.
Once you buy the land...shouldn't it be YOURs to do with as you please? I'm surprised someone with enough spare $$ and time hasn't had many of those agreements thrown the fuck out.
LIkely impossible. Each branch has systems, of systems of systems....many undocumented (no, they don't actually know how they all really interract)...many of them stove pipe systems with maybe special interfaces (and yes, sometimes even these are still sneakernet) to talk to each other. Old OSes and hardware....it is a mess. There is no standardized version of data between the branches....do a little research on DIMHRS, which didn't work out too very well trying to get all of them to just get manpower and pay on a single system.
And, you can't change a lot of these things either...because many times they way the do things isn't just policy, it is mandated by laws or a set of laws....going WAY back in history.
Consolidation? Sure, it would be a good modern way of doing things...but damned near impossible in reality with the old service branches.
And I've not even gotten into the red tape, bureaucracy, or "we've done it this way always" mentality in each branch.
But his larger point of knowing how to use the system and apply for the contracts...is what keeps the major few companies as being the only IT companies doing business with the feds.
The hoops you have to jump through are many. The larger contract houses have staff devoted to NOTHING but writing proposals. The small guy, cannot compete with this.
And even when there are contracts dedicated to SM's....the only way that truly works, is, the larger contract houses, *back* the small business and join to them...basically using them as a front to get the bids on the small business contracts.
They generally find a small company, it must be female or minority owned about 99% of the time, to get federal consideration.....then, the big guys basically do most of the proposal work, and the so call PRIME contractor that wins...gets a good kick of money in, but they really aren't in control of anything.
Happens all the time.
You'd need to rewrite the oversite rules...somehow...to try to prevent this. To make the application process simpler....but I don't see that happening any time soon. But, ever since they've been trying to make mandates that the Federal govt workers be more oversite and managers, rather than hands-on tech, you're gonna see more and more of this.
That and the situation that really kills the small companies off....is the hesitance of the feds to hire individual contractors as 1099's directly....they'd rather hire a large IT company which then wires the 'contractors' as W2 employees....giving you essentially the worst of both worlds.
You don't get the bill rate you should get as a true contractor, but you do get the lack of stability of a contractor. This bastardization of the contracting paradigm has really hurt things....
Geez...can't someone have some sense and at least suggest all we really need is maybe a metal detector, and on the other side, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs....no need for special irradiation machines to step through, no need for the latest TSA grope...and likely less TSA personnel to man each site.
[slaps head]
Sorry...was starting to make some sense there...that just doesn't work on the Govt (especially Federal) level.
I've never heard of an email only domain..?
I think a domain is a domain is a domain. Just associating basically a name with an IP address....who is imposing this 'limit' on you for a domain you purchased? I've never seen this at place you buy domains at like GoDaddy...etc. You purchase the name, it is yours to do, or not do as you wish...?