So what? He sent you a list of the MP3s/OGGs you had? And what if you had the legit CDs to prove that you've purchase a license for that content? You own the right to play it, big deal. I'm not risking lost/stolen CDs to appease the RIAA.
'If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all'
If thats NASA's attitude with asteroids, why wouldnt it be different for the space shuttle? If they knew columbia was screwed, or had really bad chances... and they couldnt do a damn thing about it, would they say anything??
The problem with some sort of VAT or GST is that local govts often use sales tax to fund local projects. Where I live, in the past few years sales tax has gone from 7.0% and will soon be at 7.5% because we need the money to build new water intake lines from the lake and more higways. If we couldn't adjust the local sales tax, we'd be screwed.
Its a degree of flexability our county most definately needs.
FYI, Nevada has in the worst fiscal shape in the whole of the US, even worse than California. And besides, jobs will never move too much to that state because its a hell hole. They would never be able to attract the talent they are looking for. Some REALLY want to eat at other restaurants besides casinos and Applebees.
Well, the restaurants arguement is right. I'll give you that. Fine dining outside of a casino is hard to find...
But NV does have no corporate or personal income taxes. Thats its strongest point. One of the things that made me proud was that Vegas was home to Westwood Studios. At least until a few weeks ago when EA decided to close down their center here in vegas.
Its weakest point is public education. Parents who treat schools like daycare centers, give teachers no respect, and then complain about their kid not learning.
First, companies arent leaving. The average IT person's job is leaving. And its not that companies are getting taxed to death, its that they want profit. MORE profit than last year. Regardless of what it does to people or the economy. I'm glad I work for someone where profit isnt a motive (a nonprofit quasi-governmental organization). But hey, maybe IT salaries should go down a little. Maybe programming isnt an 70-80K/yr job. I'm happy w/ 60K.
On a smaller scale, we are seeing people leave California due to high taxes and the cost of living.
In California's case, they're all coming to Vegas. And they're pricing me out of the market for my first home. Home prices go up about 10%-15% a year here, thanks to So Cal people selling their 2000 sq ft house for 300K (and having a good amount of equity in it) and getting a 3000 sq house here for the same price (or pay for a 200K home in 75% cash). Their wage might be 30% less, but they have enough equity in their expensive Cali home to pay for a large part of their vegas home.
Interactive ads vs Product placement
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This seems to be the key difference to me. If an advertisement uses a interactive means to get me interesting (keep me oocupied?) to learn about their product, then I dont expect to pay anything for it. Why? Because I'll be damned if I have to start paying twice to buy something (once to learn about it, and once to buy it).
Product placement in videogames has been around for a while, the most recent example I'm framiliar with is Tony Hawk 4. Ads dont dominate and they are just billboards. I dont get extra points for completing a 900 while drinking my mountain dew.
Then there is the middle ground. This is where game companies whore out themselves to advertisers, a la Sims Online, where eating at McDonalds increases your happiness (which is an absolutely horrible message to send to youth). I hope the gaming community doesnt support these titles.
My ISP does this, and it prevents me from using my own domain to send out mail. Since my ISP wants to fuck me in the ass to the tune of $10 *per month* for DNS/rDNS, I use register.com's DNS services (included in the domain reg price) to point to my static IP. But I cant change the rDNS. They refuse to change my rDNS unless I pay them. So if you rDNS my mailserver, it comes back to my ISP's name (foo.bar.cox.net) instead of mail.foo.bar. So a few ISPs wont accept mail from my mailserver.
Hmmm... your windows box got hacked once, now you want to be drinking/drunk while you format/reinstall? It wasnt secure before when you were sober, imagine what happens when you install when drunk...
So what happens if I dont agree with their license? Do I not get to play the CD, or do they just not collect any information. Or do they use misleading language to trick the consusmer into hitting yes?
Las Vegas the only city...
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On lycos's list, Las Vegas (#11) is the only city to be listed (funnily enough, between Pam Anderson and Anna Kournikova).
I say pull a snickers crunch commercial and smash the bobblehead to get rid of your frustrations. In fact, have a party and invite other people from work to smash the bobblehead doll with you. Then drink til you pass out =^)
I saw that as one of their ideas.... wasnt that a simpsons episode with homer's brother??
Re:solution for one of the problems..
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Last time I used it, it broke the visual basic component of our AutoDesk Map installs. Even Autodesk advises against using SMS to install their software... SMS is not a catch all system!! Its good for the simple stuff, but installing 150 CAD workstations by hand sucks monkeys.
The Ariane 5 lifts more than any commercial US rocket; the very latest (Atlas 5, Delta 4) have just matched its performance, though hopefully the 10-ton version will up the bar again in two minutes
Bzzzzt, try again. Ka-boom!! 5 failures in 14 missions. Thats more than 30%. French rockets... blah..
In heaven....
The French are the chefs....
The Germans are the engineers...
The British are the policemen...
The Italians are the lovers...
And the Swiss organize everything.
In hell...
The British are the chefs...
The French are the engineers...
The Germans are the policemen...
The Swiss are the lovers...
And the Italians organize everything.
There were two satellites on board, a Hotbird TM7 spacecraft, which would have served TV and music. It was supposed to replace Hotbird 3 at 13.0EL, though now that obviouosly wont happen.
Also the Stentor spacecraft was on board, this satellite was equiped with six Ku transponders, and was destined for 11.0WL.
Why not engineer your stuff to last only 5 years or less. Number one, it costs less than to engineer it to last for more time, two is it will increase the overall amount of units bought (ie buying three $50 DVD player that lasts 3-5 years vs one $150 DVD player that lasts 10 years). And if units moved is your metric, then you do better to make the units with a shorter life. As long as its not obscenely short (ie less that two years), consumers arent going to care after about three years is something craps out on them (assuming it didnt cost a lot of money).
To me it comes down to this, Americans have an average of $5000+ in debt. They are willing to buy buy buy and deal with the consequences later. In this case, the consequences are the unit having a shorter lifespan for being so cheap.
Thats what ReplayTV is doing right? I thought I heard of a company that was planning on releasing a PVR/DVD burner.
Remember, the Cable Cos are the people who say that consumer control is "the napster of the future" where people pick and choose what they like, instead of being led up to the trough to gorge themsevles.
"you can now order your cable TV BY THE SHOW instead of by the channel. The cost is $XX.XX per season, or $X.XX per show."
Isnt that called DVDs? Yea you have to wait a while for the show to come out on DVD (if at all), but people would much rather own a DVD than a digital copy, at least right now. I can lend a DVD to a friend, or watch it in multiple places.
The HOA can frown on it, but they cant stop it. The FCC has mandated that there is no way a HOA or anyone else can stop you from putting up a dish less than 1 meter in size. I'd give ya the link for the ruling but I cant quite find it right now... somone wants to give you crap, they can take it up with the feds...
That Jewel girl is really cute. I'm gunna have to go download all the eps now =^/ damn fox for killing good shows.. Family Guy, Futurama, now Firefly..
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So what? He sent you a list of the MP3s/OGGs you had? And what if you had the legit CDs to prove that you've purchase a license for that content? You own the right to play it, big deal. I'm not risking lost/stolen CDs to appease the RIAA.
Not to disrespect the 7 people who died, but..
'If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all'
If thats NASA's attitude with asteroids, why wouldnt it be different for the space shuttle? If they knew columbia was screwed, or had really bad chances... and they couldnt do a damn thing about it, would they say anything??
http://www.visiontek.com
Make sure you have your speakers on..
The problem with some sort of VAT or GST is that local govts often use sales tax to fund local projects. Where I live, in the past few years sales tax has gone from 7.0% and will soon be at 7.5% because we need the money to build new water intake lines from the lake and more higways. If we couldn't adjust the local sales tax, we'd be screwed.
Its a degree of flexability our county most definately needs.
FYI, Nevada has in the worst fiscal shape in the whole of the US, even worse than California. And besides, jobs will never move too much to that state because its a hell hole. They would never be able to attract the talent they are looking for. Some REALLY want to eat at other restaurants besides casinos and Applebees.
Well, the restaurants arguement is right. I'll give you that. Fine dining outside of a casino is hard to find...
But NV does have no corporate or personal income taxes. Thats its strongest point. One of the things that made me proud was that Vegas was home to Westwood Studios. At least until a few weeks ago when EA decided to close down their center here in vegas.
Its weakest point is public education. Parents who treat schools like daycare centers, give teachers no respect, and then complain about their kid not learning.
First, companies arent leaving. The average IT person's job is leaving. And its not that companies are getting taxed to death, its that they want profit. MORE profit than last year. Regardless of what it does to people or the economy. I'm glad I work for someone where profit isnt a motive (a nonprofit quasi-governmental organization). But hey, maybe IT salaries should go down a little. Maybe programming isnt an 70-80K/yr job. I'm happy w/ 60K.
On a smaller scale, we are seeing people leave California due to high taxes and the cost of living.
In California's case, they're all coming to Vegas. And they're pricing me out of the market for my first home. Home prices go up about 10%-15% a year here, thanks to So Cal people selling their 2000 sq ft house for 300K (and having a good amount of equity in it) and getting a 3000 sq house here for the same price (or pay for a 200K home in 75% cash). Their wage might be 30% less, but they have enough equity in their expensive Cali home to pay for a large part of their vegas home.
This seems to be the key difference to me. If an advertisement uses a interactive means to get me interesting (keep me oocupied?) to learn about their product, then I dont expect to pay anything for it. Why? Because I'll be damned if I have to start paying twice to buy something (once to learn about it, and once to buy it).
Product placement in videogames has been around for a while, the most recent example I'm framiliar with is Tony Hawk 4. Ads dont dominate and they are just billboards. I dont get extra points for completing a 900 while drinking my mountain dew.
Then there is the middle ground. This is where game companies whore out themselves to advertisers, a la Sims Online, where eating at McDonalds increases your happiness (which is an absolutely horrible message to send to youth). I hope the gaming community doesnt support these titles.
My ISP does this, and it prevents me from using my own domain to send out mail. Since my ISP wants to fuck me in the ass to the tune of $10 *per month* for DNS/rDNS, I use register.com's DNS services (included in the domain reg price) to point to my static IP. But I cant change the rDNS. They refuse to change my rDNS unless I pay them. So if you rDNS my mailserver, it comes back to my ISP's name (foo.bar.cox.net) instead of mail.foo.bar. So a few ISPs wont accept mail from my mailserver.
Hmmm... your windows box got hacked once, now you want to be drinking/drunk while you format/reinstall? It wasnt secure before when you were sober, imagine what happens when you install when drunk...
I thought thats how the IBM Deskstar-45 series drives worked???
If it is, I've got the original XCOM and well as TFTD. Maybe its time to hit up ebay.
So what happens if I dont agree with their license? Do I not get to play the CD, or do they just not collect any information. Or do they use misleading language to trick the consusmer into hitting yes?
On lycos's list, Las Vegas (#11) is the only city to be listed (funnily enough, between Pam Anderson and Anna Kournikova).
I say pull a snickers crunch commercial and smash the bobblehead to get rid of your frustrations. In fact, have a party and invite other people from work to smash the bobblehead doll with you. Then drink til you pass out =^)
I saw that as one of their ideas.... wasnt that a simpsons episode with homer's brother??
Last time I used it, it broke the visual basic component of our AutoDesk Map installs. Even Autodesk advises against using SMS to install their software... SMS is not a catch all system!! Its good for the simple stuff, but installing 150 CAD workstations by hand sucks monkeys.
The Ariane 5 lifts more than any commercial US rocket; the very latest (Atlas 5, Delta 4) have just matched its performance, though hopefully the 10-ton version will up the bar again in two minutes
Bzzzzt, try again. Ka-boom!! 5 failures in 14 missions. Thats more than 30%. French rockets... blah..
Its like the old joke...
In heaven....
The French are the chefs....
The Germans are the engineers...
The British are the policemen...
The Italians are the lovers...
And the Swiss organize everything.
In hell...
The British are the chefs...
The French are the engineers...
The Germans are the policemen...
The Swiss are the lovers...
And the Italians organize everything.
(BTW, this was a french made rocket)
There were two satellites on board, a Hotbird TM7 spacecraft, which would have served TV and music. It was supposed to replace Hotbird 3 at 13.0EL, though now that obviouosly wont happen.
Also the Stentor spacecraft was on board, this satellite was equiped with six Ku transponders, and was destined for 11.0WL.
Why not engineer your stuff to last only 5 years or less. Number one, it costs less than to engineer it to last for more time, two is it will increase the overall amount of units bought (ie buying three $50 DVD player that lasts 3-5 years vs one $150 DVD player that lasts 10 years). And if units moved is your metric, then you do better to make the units with a shorter life. As long as its not obscenely short (ie less that two years), consumers arent going to care after about three years is something craps out on them (assuming it didnt cost a lot of money).
To me it comes down to this, Americans have an average of $5000+ in debt. They are willing to buy buy buy and deal with the consequences later. In this case, the consequences are the unit having a shorter lifespan for being so cheap.
So I guess this means its Command PinkTaco for the next few days eh? =^) At least someone is getting laid around here...
Congrats...
Thats what ReplayTV is doing right? I thought I heard of a company that was planning on releasing a PVR/DVD burner.
Remember, the Cable Cos are the people who say that consumer control is "the napster of the future" where people pick and choose what they like, instead of being led up to the trough to gorge themsevles.
"you can now order your cable TV BY THE SHOW instead of by the channel. The cost is $XX.XX per season, or $X.XX per show."
Isnt that called DVDs? Yea you have to wait a while for the show to come out on DVD (if at all), but people would much rather own a DVD than a digital copy, at least right now. I can lend a DVD to a friend, or watch it in multiple places.
The HOA can frown on it, but they cant stop it. The FCC has mandated that there is no way a HOA or anyone else can stop you from putting up a dish less than 1 meter in size. I'd give ya the link for the ruling but I cant quite find it right now... somone wants to give you crap, they can take it up with the feds...
That Jewel girl is really cute. I'm gunna have to go download all the eps now =^/ damn fox for killing good shows.. Family Guy, Futurama, now Firefly..