IMHO, humans need interaction with others. At least with some form of nature. Some people are more adept to being alone for an extended period of time and other aren't.
I do quite a bit of value of working from home: - One gets to sleep in later. - Coworkers can't come over to your cube and bother you. - One can be working on some important project, blasting some music, and be buck naked and there's no one around to care.
I still feel that one must get out of their place of residence. I've worked from home before and it was great for a time. However I got depressed and just needed to get out of the house. I'm mentally better if I get up and go to work. Yes, ther is more BS here at the office, but I'm better.
I haven't tried the avenue of renting some other place to work. I think it would be ok, but it would be quite better to have people there to interact with.
I refuse to buy a CD unless most of the tracks are songs I like. I have only purchased a few CDs in my lifetime and most of them were bought with this motto. Most of the new music these days just plain sucks. Even if an artist has one good song, I'm not suprised that the rest of the album is just crap. Heck, I rarely listen to radio the local radio stations.
If they quit putting out crap, over playing the good stuff, and learn to embrace technology, their numbers may just go up.
The US Military already has it. All their new recruits get a tiny chip put under their skin in their right hand. They can track them pretty much anywhere at any time.
Thank you. I don't view BlueTooth as a pure networking medium as WiFi is. Yes it can push TCP/IP packets around, but that isn't its primary design. It was designed, IMO, to connect various devices together wirelessly. Keyboard, mouse, PDA, mobile phone, desktop computer, headset, printer, ect.
With my BlueTooth devices, I usually use them in a Personal Area Network. That small area doesn't need to be connecting with other devices 100 feet away.
BlueTooth was designed for a purpose; WiFi was designed for a different one.
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That's why you get a regionless DVD player or get the firmware that makes it regionless.
My sentaments exactly. I've seen it time and time again with anti-piracy. If you copy protect it, then someone will find a way around it. Please don't get me wrong; I veiw piracy as stealing. I encourage compaines to protect their intelectual property from being stolen, but not to the point that it gives us the shaft.
If you're going to make a copy protected CD, then don't call it a CD. Lable it as something else, so we know that it probably wont be playable in our computers or CD/MP3 players without some modifications. The basic user will probably not know about the ways around it and will just get shafted.
I'm a "try before you buy" customer. I usually download it first and try it out. Yes, that can be construed as stealing. If it's junk, then it's not worth my money. If it is woth it, then I go and buy a legit copy.
IMHO, copy protection only slows down some piraters. However, it screws the legit people and I don't feel that is not fair. If it's a copy protected CD, it should say so. If it does not follow the CD specifications and industry standards, then it shouldn't be labled as CDs. If they can find an anti-piracy scheme that doesn't give the legit people the shaft, then great. Otherwise don't bother, you wont be getting my money.
Agreed. I stopped listening to the radio because most of the music that is "popular" really is terible music. I refuse to buy a CD unless most of the tracks are songs I like. I feel that we're getting ripped when we drop $20 on a CD with 18 songs, but only two of them are worth listening too.
I can barely justify $15 for a CD that has a good amount of music. Ususally I just buy them used for $6-$11. That's a price I can justify, but I rarely buy.
The whole copy protection issue is also BS and I'm not going to go into it now.
Sad, but true. Quality of today's products are just not where it should be. Companies are sacrificing quality so they can push out more for less money and turn a profit in this brutal market.
Most of the stuff that I got 5, 10, 15 years ago are still going strong. Today I'd be luck if the thing lasted another year past its expired warranty. One of my motherboards from one of the top manufactures in the world started glitching a couple of months after the warranty wore out.
I've noticed more and more these days that I'm getting an exchange on a product because it was defective. That time wasted getting the exchange is better spent elsewhere.
I'm willing to spen a few extra bucks if it means getting a product at a higher quality. That investment could mean the difference between the product failing right after the warranty goes out or failing eight years after the warranty goes out.
On some products, I'm starting to judge how long it will last. I've noticed some products are nortorious for crapping out right after the warranty expires. I still thing that it's BS for a consumer electronic to only last a year.
AMD stopping competition with Intel was utter BS in the first place. If you've followed their roadmap at all, they've got the Barton core comming out in a couple of months closely followed by ClawHammer and SledgeHammer.
They have new cores on the horizon and are researching new technologies. They aren't going anywhere.
Forbes is going on my "Company with Idiot Writers List." They're there along with CNet and some other ZD Net and Internet.com companies.
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IMHO, humans need interaction with others. At least with some form of nature. Some people are more adept to being alone for an extended period of time and other aren't.
I do quite a bit of value of working from home:
- One gets to sleep in later.
- Coworkers can't come over to your cube and bother you.
- One can be working on some important project, blasting some music, and be buck naked and there's no one around to care.
I still feel that one must get out of their place of residence. I've worked from home before and it was great for a time. However I got depressed and just needed to get out of the house. I'm mentally better if I get up and go to work. Yes, ther is more BS here at the office, but I'm better.
I haven't tried the avenue of renting some other place to work. I think it would be ok, but it would be quite better to have people there to interact with.
Thank you.
I refuse to buy a CD unless most of the tracks are songs I like. I have only purchased a few CDs in my lifetime and most of them were bought with this motto. Most of the new music these days just plain sucks. Even if an artist has one good song, I'm not suprised that the rest of the album is just crap. Heck, I rarely listen to radio the local radio stations.
If they quit putting out crap, over playing the good stuff, and learn to embrace technology, their numbers may just go up.
Errr...no?
The US Military already has it. All their new recruits get a tiny chip put under their skin in their right hand. They can track them pretty much anywhere at any time.
Thank you. I don't view BlueTooth as a pure networking medium as WiFi is. Yes it can push TCP/IP packets around, but that isn't its primary design. It was designed, IMO, to connect various devices together wirelessly. Keyboard, mouse, PDA, mobile phone, desktop computer, headset, printer, ect. With my BlueTooth devices, I usually use them in a Personal Area Network. That small area doesn't need to be connecting with other devices 100 feet away. BlueTooth was designed for a purpose; WiFi was designed for a different one.
That's why you get a regionless DVD player or get the firmware that makes it regionless.
My sentaments exactly. I've seen it time and time again with anti-piracy. If you copy protect it, then someone will find a way around it. Please don't get me wrong; I veiw piracy as stealing. I encourage compaines to protect their intelectual property from being stolen, but not to the point that it gives us the shaft. If you're going to make a copy protected CD, then don't call it a CD. Lable it as something else, so we know that it probably wont be playable in our computers or CD/MP3 players without some modifications. The basic user will probably not know about the ways around it and will just get shafted. I'm a "try before you buy" customer. I usually download it first and try it out. Yes, that can be construed as stealing. If it's junk, then it's not worth my money. If it is woth it, then I go and buy a legit copy. IMHO, copy protection only slows down some piraters. However, it screws the legit people and I don't feel that is not fair. If it's a copy protected CD, it should say so. If it does not follow the CD specifications and industry standards, then it shouldn't be labled as CDs. If they can find an anti-piracy scheme that doesn't give the legit people the shaft, then great. Otherwise don't bother, you wont be getting my money.
Agreed. I stopped listening to the radio because most of the music that is "popular" really is terible music. I refuse to buy a CD unless most of the tracks are songs I like. I feel that we're getting ripped when we drop $20 on a CD with 18 songs, but only two of them are worth listening too.
I can barely justify $15 for a CD that has a good amount of music. Ususally I just buy them used for $6-$11. That's a price I can justify, but I rarely buy.
The whole copy protection issue is also BS and I'm not going to go into it now.
Sad, but true. Quality of today's products are just not where it should be. Companies are sacrificing quality so they can push out more for less money and turn a profit in this brutal market. Most of the stuff that I got 5, 10, 15 years ago are still going strong. Today I'd be luck if the thing lasted another year past its expired warranty. One of my motherboards from one of the top manufactures in the world started glitching a couple of months after the warranty wore out. I've noticed more and more these days that I'm getting an exchange on a product because it was defective. That time wasted getting the exchange is better spent elsewhere. I'm willing to spen a few extra bucks if it means getting a product at a higher quality. That investment could mean the difference between the product failing right after the warranty goes out or failing eight years after the warranty goes out. On some products, I'm starting to judge how long it will last. I've noticed some products are nortorious for crapping out right after the warranty expires. I still thing that it's BS for a consumer electronic to only last a year.
2k300 makes sense, but why do it? 2300 is what it means and it's shorter.
AMD stopping competition with Intel was utter BS in the first place. If you've followed their roadmap at all, they've got the Barton core comming out in a couple of months closely followed by ClawHammer and SledgeHammer. They have new cores on the horizon and are researching new technologies. They aren't going anywhere. Forbes is going on my "Company with Idiot Writers List." They're there along with CNet and some other ZD Net and Internet.com companies.