I look at Star Trek Deep Space 9 and I say "Got to get me some DVD's.....HOLY SHIT CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT PARAMOUNT WANTS FOR THAT? MIGHTY PROUD OF THE STAR TREK AREN'T WE GUYS?"
I thought about this the other day.
7 Seasons of TNG at $100/season = $700 7 Seasons of DS9 at $100/season = $700 7 Seasons of VOY at $100/season = $700 4 Seasons of ENT at $100/season = $400
$2500 and that doesnt even include TOS or your local sales tax!! Paramount bite my shiny metal ass if they want me to pay $2500+tax for star trek (for about 500 episodes). If the price went below $1,000, I'd be much more inclined to consider it. And think of who your audience is? A bunch of geeks and nerds, you dont think they know how to get a copy of DVD decryptor, a netflix subscription and a 500GB HD? Hell, I saw Sex in the City for $165 for the entire 5 season series (20 discs) in the Best Buy ad this weekend.
$2500 vs $800 in hard drives (2x500 - one for backup) + $200 for a netflix sub to get all the DVDs + free time
My company is a quasi-governmental agency. We actually have been pushing out most of our CRTs in favor of LCDs, especially in departments with 20"+ monitors (engineering, etc).
20" CRT: 180W 20" LCD: 60W
20" CRT cost: $400 20" LCD cost: $700
At 8c/kWH, for a 10 hr day, it saves 9.6c/day. So to pay back the $300 it'll take 3,125 days. At 250 working days/yr, thats over 12 years to pay back the cost.
In other words, people like to act all "green" but its just an excuse to get the new toys. The monitor probably wont last 12 years, and we should have waited another 5 years to implement the strategy, so the price difference and cost of energy makes it work so that it pays back in 5 years not 12+.
I remember one from fourth grade. It went something like...
You need 7 gallons of water, but you only have a 5 gallon and 3 gallon bucket, and a spigot from which to fill them.
Rules: You can not partially fill buckets from the spigot (eg. you cant fill the 3 gallon bucket up 2/3rds the way up).
The solution was having to pour from 5gal bucket into the 3, discard the 3, pour the 2 gallons left into the 3 gallon bucket and then fill the 5 and you have 7.
I swear I just saw an ad for Walgreens or CVS or Rite-Aid or something, where you could upload pics to their website, pay with a CC, and then pick other Walgreens to have them print out at, for people to pick up. Its possible you could send your digital pictures all over the US to friends and relatives (and yourself of course), while still in your pajamas.
Stuff like that will surely hurt in-home printing.
A typical flight from NRT (Tokyo/Narita) to JFK (John F Kenedy Airport, NYC) mapped here.
As you can see, the great circle distance goes over the north pole. Even if you turn on ETOPS-120, most of the ride is north of the 48 contigious states. It does go over Alaska, but I think they would be able to maintain supersonic speeds until it starts to cross over populated areas of Canada (the last 10% of the flight).
What leverage does the music industry have though? Google's video search doesnt actually host that much content - it just links to offsite content, hosted by others. What can the music industry pull from Google that would hurt them? Nothing.
1. New construction - I had no neighbors when I signed the purchase agreement (a new subdivision). 2. There is no way in hell any carrier would agree to such a term - they're the ones making the rules here, not me. They'll go tell me to piss up a rope if I ask for that. 3. Yes, cell phone service should be right up there on the list of things when buying a home. Not quality of construction or customer service, but whether or not I can get cell phone service. Dumbass.
I moved into a new house 6 months ago, and low and behold, my cellphone doesnt work in all but one room of the house (no signal or emergency only). I'm locked into a contract with Cingular until next summer. So should I be charged $300 to get out of the contract because their service sucks at my new house?
Before Maya is as of a high quality like several of Autodesk's other recent product releases, like Raster Design 2005 and Map 3D 2006.::rollseyes::
I'm so sorry for you Maya folk. I really am.
And yes, Autodesk is in deep with Microsoft. They got tons of cash 10 or so years ago to kill off their Unix variants of AutoCAD (not like there was a whole lot of demand anyways). But there is just about no way they could get AutoCAD or any other vertical to run on any non MS OS (tight integration, lots of hooks for.NET and VBA). I've seen an AutoCAD install running on Virtual PC on a Mac, but that was painful. I really wouldnt expect future versions of Maya on linux or mac unless the community revolts.
Its been stated other places (ArsTechnica) that the Manditory Managed Copy functionality is in both Bluray and HD-DVD, but it can be setup so that the user has to pay a fee to store the DVD on their local "home server". The problem is that the movie industry can have the feature, and just charge $100 for it, so that no one can use it. Its stupid, but I wouldnt put it past them (casual piracy, friends swapping DVDs around between each other) is probably their biggest fear. Between me and my friends, we could share each others collection as long as our home media servers have enough harddrive space (at 25GB per disc, thats a lot of space for 100s of DVDs - you're talking 10s of TB).
Rental DVDs (Blockbuster, Netflix) will have different SKUs with Manditory Managed Copy disabled.
Yes, my year long MPAA boycott is at an end due to Serenity. I saw it friday night (yes its good, and no you dont have to see the TV show to get 95% of it) and I'm going to see it again tomorrow with a different group of people.
FF 1.0.7 has locked my laptop and desktop more times than I care to recall. No BSOD, no crash, the entire system just freezes up. The mouse wont move, nothign responds. I've been tempted to switch to Opera lately - FF quality is going down the drain....
I have my home, cell and work numbers on the DNC list. I dont get any unsoclited calls from telemarketers. That part is working well...
My volume of new credit card offers via snail mail has tripled however. On any given day I get 3 or more offers to sign up for a new credit card. And now I'm started to get very aggressive home refinance offers too - I got a real, 100% legitamate cashable check for over $50,000 and on the top it says in big letters "cashing this check will bind you to the terms of the loan described below from FOOBAR Loans LLC". Fucking scary, sending me a check with that much on it, imagine if some asshat steals my mail and cashes that check - I'm on the hook for $50,000 until its all sorted out.
Its not like there arent bad teachers in other majors. I'm sure if you go talk to liberal arts majors you'll find bad apples here and there.
Its really about making engineering interesting (not necessarily easy). One or two bad teachers over say, 45-50 classes to get the BS is ok. But 6 (I can easily figure I had six poor professors/classes for my CompE degree)? Between TAs and professors who didnt care about teaching or fucking powerpoint poisioned us (reading from slides != teaching -- why do I bother showing up???), its enough to make kids want to quit. Unless the kid really likes engineering and doesnt have any better carrer field they're interested in (law, medical, etc), they're going to choose a different path.
And thats the problem. We lack engineers because we scare/chase off everyone except for the ULTRA dedicated. Yea, sit on your high fucking horse and tell this guy how stupid he was. But not everyone learns the same way, and inteligence comes in many forms, and 99.999% of people arent capable of teaching themselves multivariable calculus. They need someone to help them through the final points. Its in the interest of the engineering discipline to make it more available to all types of students. Learning isnt binary - some of the responses here act as if anything other than reading from the book and doing sample problems is "coddlng" the students. Its as if you want the engineering field to be devoid of talent - maybe to reduce supply and raise prices (eg. your salary).
The Las Vegas monorail is far behind its revenue goals. They need something like 40,000 passangers/day to break even. They're getting about 30,000 or so. Plus when they started, they pulled some funny business and have a "charity" tax status.
By this, of course they mean representatives from the RIAA/MPAA. So you know that all sides of the discussion on intellectual property will be treated fairly.
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I look at Star Trek Deep Space 9 and I say "Got to get me some DVD's.....HOLY SHIT CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT PARAMOUNT WANTS FOR THAT? MIGHTY PROUD OF THE STAR TREK AREN'T WE GUYS?"
I thought about this the other day.
7 Seasons of TNG at $100/season = $700
7 Seasons of DS9 at $100/season = $700
7 Seasons of VOY at $100/season = $700
4 Seasons of ENT at $100/season = $400
$2500 and that doesnt even include TOS or your local sales tax!! Paramount bite my shiny metal ass if they want me to pay $2500+tax for star trek (for about 500 episodes). If the price went below $1,000, I'd be much more inclined to consider it. And think of who your audience is? A bunch of geeks and nerds, you dont think they know how to get a copy of DVD decryptor, a netflix subscription and a 500GB HD? Hell, I saw Sex in the City for $165 for the entire 5 season series (20 discs) in the Best Buy ad this weekend.
$2500 vs $800 in hard drives (2x500 - one for backup) + $200 for a netflix sub to get all the DVDs + free time
I always figured the backlight to be the primary source of failure. Or an exploding capacitor or something.
My company is a quasi-governmental agency. We actually have been pushing out most of our CRTs in favor of LCDs, especially in departments with 20"+ monitors (engineering, etc).
20" CRT: 180W
20" LCD: 60W
20" CRT cost: $400
20" LCD cost: $700
At 8c/kWH, for a 10 hr day, it saves 9.6c/day. So to pay back the $300 it'll take 3,125 days. At 250 working days/yr, thats over 12 years to pay back the cost.
In other words, people like to act all "green" but its just an excuse to get the new toys. The monitor probably wont last 12 years, and we should have waited another 5 years to implement the strategy, so the price difference and cost of energy makes it work so that it pays back in 5 years not 12+.
I think I should be appointde to run the internet. I'll be a benevolent dictator. And I got lots of guns.
I remember one from fourth grade. It went something like...
You need 7 gallons of water, but you only have a 5 gallon and 3 gallon bucket, and a spigot from which to fill them.
Rules: You can not partially fill buckets from the spigot (eg. you cant fill the 3 gallon bucket up 2/3rds the way up).
The solution was having to pour from 5gal bucket into the 3, discard the 3, pour the 2 gallons left into the 3 gallon bucket and then fill the 5 and you have 7.
I swear I just saw an ad for Walgreens or CVS or Rite-Aid or something, where you could upload pics to their website, pay with a CC, and then pick other Walgreens to have them print out at, for people to pick up. Its possible you could send your digital pictures all over the US to friends and relatives (and yourself of course), while still in your pajamas.
Stuff like that will surely hurt in-home printing.
A typical flight from NRT (Tokyo/Narita) to JFK (John F Kenedy Airport, NYC) mapped here.
As you can see, the great circle distance goes over the north pole. Even if you turn on ETOPS-120, most of the ride is north of the 48 contigious states. It does go over Alaska, but I think they would be able to maintain supersonic speeds until it starts to cross over populated areas of Canada (the last 10% of the flight).
What leverage does the music industry have though? Google's video search doesnt actually host that much content - it just links to offsite content, hosted by others. What can the music industry pull from Google that would hurt them? Nothing.
I cant believe this. Its absurd. Are they going to be demanding money when I whistle a tune in my local supermarket while I'm shopping for groceries?
Whats even worse is that some dumbass company is going to capitulate and then they'll all be forced to cave.
1. New construction - I had no neighbors when I signed the purchase agreement (a new subdivision).
2. There is no way in hell any carrier would agree to such a term - they're the ones making the rules here, not me. They'll go tell me to piss up a rope if I ask for that.
3. Yes, cell phone service should be right up there on the list of things when buying a home. Not quality of construction or customer service, but whether or not I can get cell phone service. Dumbass.
I moved into a new house 6 months ago, and low and behold, my cellphone doesnt work in all but one room of the house (no signal or emergency only). I'm locked into a contract with Cingular until next summer. So should I be charged $300 to get out of the contract because their service sucks at my new house?
when you hear Howard Stern complain about not getting emails and whatnot.
Before Maya is as of a high quality like several of Autodesk's other recent product releases, like Raster Design 2005 and Map 3D 2006. ::rollseyes::
.NET and VBA). I've seen an AutoCAD install running on Virtual PC on a Mac, but that was painful. I really wouldnt expect future versions of Maya on linux or mac unless the community revolts.
I'm so sorry for you Maya folk. I really am.
And yes, Autodesk is in deep with Microsoft. They got tons of cash 10 or so years ago to kill off their Unix variants of AutoCAD (not like there was a whole lot of demand anyways). But there is just about no way they could get AutoCAD or any other vertical to run on any non MS OS (tight integration, lots of hooks for
Its been stated other places (ArsTechnica) that the Manditory Managed Copy functionality is in both Bluray and HD-DVD, but it can be setup so that the user has to pay a fee to store the DVD on their local "home server". The problem is that the movie industry can have the feature, and just charge $100 for it, so that no one can use it. Its stupid, but I wouldnt put it past them (casual piracy, friends swapping DVDs around between each other) is probably their biggest fear. Between me and my friends, we could share each others collection as long as our home media servers have enough harddrive space (at 25GB per disc, thats a lot of space for 100s of DVDs - you're talking 10s of TB).
Rental DVDs (Blockbuster, Netflix) will have different SKUs with Manditory Managed Copy disabled.
and ended up having to use google cache's of the pages I needed to read. Oh well. Poor SFF.
Yes, my year long MPAA boycott is at an end due to Serenity. I saw it friday night (yes its good, and no you dont have to see the TV show to get 95% of it) and I'm going to see it again tomorrow with a different group of people.
On both my laptop and my desktop? Everything else runs fine, without errors....
FF 1.0.7 has locked my laptop and desktop more times than I care to recall. No BSOD, no crash, the entire system just freezes up. The mouse wont move, nothign responds. I've been tempted to switch to Opera lately - FF quality is going down the drain....
Yea, I make sure to crosscut shread all those credit card offers. Especially those legit checks. Thats just dangerous.
I have my home, cell and work numbers on the DNC list. I dont get any unsoclited calls from telemarketers. That part is working well...
My volume of new credit card offers via snail mail has tripled however. On any given day I get 3 or more offers to sign up for a new credit card. And now I'm started to get very aggressive home refinance offers too - I got a real, 100% legitamate cashable check for over $50,000 and on the top it says in big letters "cashing this check will bind you to the terms of the loan described below from FOOBAR Loans LLC". Fucking scary, sending me a check with that much on it, imagine if some asshat steals my mail and cashes that check - I'm on the hook for $50,000 until its all sorted out.
Its not like there arent bad teachers in other majors. I'm sure if you go talk to liberal arts majors you'll find bad apples here and there.
Its really about making engineering interesting (not necessarily easy). One or two bad teachers over say, 45-50 classes to get the BS is ok. But 6 (I can easily figure I had six poor professors/classes for my CompE degree)? Between TAs and professors who didnt care about teaching or fucking powerpoint poisioned us (reading from slides != teaching -- why do I bother showing up???), its enough to make kids want to quit. Unless the kid really likes engineering and doesnt have any better carrer field they're interested in (law, medical, etc), they're going to choose a different path.
And thats the problem. We lack engineers because we scare/chase off everyone except for the ULTRA dedicated. Yea, sit on your high fucking horse and tell this guy how stupid he was. But not everyone learns the same way, and inteligence comes in many forms, and 99.999% of people arent capable of teaching themselves multivariable calculus. They need someone to help them through the final points. Its in the interest of the engineering discipline to make it more available to all types of students. Learning isnt binary - some of the responses here act as if anything other than reading from the book and doing sample problems is "coddlng" the students. Its as if you want the engineering field to be devoid of talent - maybe to reduce supply and raise prices (eg. your salary).
Computer Engineering ;) I started around 70K out of college.
Coz all my govt cares about is blowing other people's nukes out of the sky.
The Las Vegas monorail is far behind its revenue goals. They need something like 40,000 passangers/day to break even. They're getting about 30,000 or so. Plus when they started, they pulled some funny business and have a "charity" tax status.
By this, of course they mean representatives from the RIAA/MPAA. So you know that all sides of the discussion on intellectual property will be treated fairly.