I remember ripping my CDs to mp3 when it took 12 hours to rip and encode. Just about the time it was getting down to an hour per disc I could purchase mp3/aac online. I've purchased maybe 3 CDs since that time. My 80 GB song library is now about half/half CD rips and online purchase. The CD format is what, 30 years old now? And is the last physical medium for audio. When CD came out it was 10 years before cassette tapes weren't sold alongside them.
Now I rip my DVDs and BluRays to mkv/m2ts. A couple years ago it took 8 hours to rip and encode a bluray. Now I can rip/encode in 1 hour. I can also purchase digital copies of movies and tv shows online. I think the pricing model is still too high for now, and I hate streaming options - I want all my library available without having to pay again. (Amazon mp3 in the cloud sounds better - give me video on there with no storage limit for stuff I purchase from Amazon and we are there!)
Soon, however, we will be thinking back on when BluRay was released as the last physical medium for video.
I felt the same way about 5 years ago. I got into video editing and audio production. I also started working fewer hours - 40-45 instead of 50-60. It helped me optimize my work time, go home and do fun projects - usually with my kids. My day job funds my hobbies and allows me to take vacation with my family. Make the most of that time and grow strong hedges around that time. Don't take work home with you, including mentally.
Balance your time and make your job work for you. It's worked for me for 3 years as it took 2 years to figure out how to make it work.
I'm not so sure that balls have anything to do with it. I'm the IT Director for our County and this year our Sheriff's office implemented Blackberries on the back of a federal grant to improve emergency management. If RIM shuts us down then US tax dollars will have been spent for nothing and I'm sure will not be reimbursed.
Do you want your first responders to be in the field working an emergency and be bothered with returning to their desk to check email for emerging news and case support? Or be interrupted by phone calls? Email is great in these circumstances to give a tiered level of information flow.
Do you want your tax monies to be spent on something that is then taken away due to the intellectual property equivalent of playing grapple-finger? There has got to be a better solution than cease and desist for patent infringement!
Seems that acoustic weapons are up and coming. This reminds me of the LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) that cruise ships are using to drive away pirates. I saw of demo of one of these and it sends a very directed loud noise in a beam much like an acoustic laser. Drives away the pirates.
I wonder how long it will be until teenagers and pirates start wearing earplugs or noise cancelling headphones to counter these non-lethal weapons.
I actually heard SansWire's president at a tech conference. They use these airships but put them up in the stratosphere where the wind and air resistence is almost negligible. With their GPS nav and small electric motors they will be able to hover within 3 feet of the position they program it to stay in.
As far as coverage goes, they said they could get coverage of the continental U.S. with less than 10 airships. It seemed to me at the time that bandwidth would be the big issue - 250M folks serviced by 10 airships = 25M people per airship. My 802.11b access points don't support more than about 10 users very well at all.
The president, however, was not pumping this technology as a national ISP for wireless internet, but more of a wholesale service to be provided to resellers for ad hoc needs - T1 service for places where T1 wasn't available or cost prohibitive. Since SansWire has been bought out, maybe their emphasis has shifted. That's the feel I get from the article, anyway.
Your car analogy is correct, if the mechanic you are taking your car to purchased and owned the car and also purchased and owned your diary.
The company here (or school as it were) owns the computer, the software, purchases the support, and pays for the electricity that runs the dang thing. If they don't have the right to own it (and control it in every aspect), then who does? If I buy something and maintain my ownership of it (don't gift it to someone) then don't I have the right to decide if someone can keep using it - evaluate whether what they are doing with it is in my best interests? At any time take it away at my discrection?
That's what happened here -
They took it away at their discretion
They looked at it - could've done anything to it - reformat, copy the whole disk, launch it off of an aircraft carrier, etc.
They were going to give it back to the employee, but it was fixed and working better
It just so happens that they discovered something illegal in the process and strung the dude up
It's theirs. They can do what they want to with it.
Or can I just come over to your house, stash some of my stuff there and expect you not to look in it since it's "my personal shit"?
It seems quite easy for you to make that decision, but I guess I am humble to the point that I don't consider my life (or decisions) more important than the next person's - any next person's.
I wonder how easy of a decision it would be for you just on premise if it was all made arbitrary - i.e. Should a person hit the button for a million dollars if it meant that someone the person doesn't know would die undetectably? Now what if this person chooses to hit the button and you are the one that dies?
If life is valuable to you, then it seems fair to assume that life is valuable to "the other guy." Any more judgements beyond that that you make are very difficult to keep objective.
No joke. My dad (who lives in TX) has reformatted his hard drive many times - and lost data because of it. He thinks that since he knows how to overhaul his truck engine that this computer thing ought to be about the same.
*sigh* long distance phone calls during my dinner to be his tech support (as opposed to his free 800 number tech support) seem to be much more convenient than just figuring out how to do it properly. Confidence can go a long way for getting you in trouble.
I beg to differ. I don't recall a part in the first 3 close to trying to get laughs from "bathroom humor." There were a few funny and cute scenes in the first 3, but no scenes similar to right before the pod race when the beast of burden - pulling the pod racer(?) - farts in the face of Jar Jar.
Lucas should release a new version of ANH.
....
C3PO: No one ever worries about beating a droid.
Solo: That's because droid's farts don't dissolve metal and flesh faster than a light saber.
Cut to Chewbacca raising his hands behind his head. He leans onto his left cheek and pinches out a small peep of a fart.
Cut to closeup of Chewbacca's hips and see a small purple cloud eek out between his legs and disappate immediately. Follow movement of where the cloud should come into contact with the chess table where the chess table discolors slightly as if it were being burnt.
C3PO to R2D2: I suggest a new strategy R2.... let the wookie win.
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I remember ripping my CDs to mp3 when it took 12 hours to rip and encode. Just about the time it was getting down to an hour per disc I could purchase mp3/aac online. I've purchased maybe 3 CDs since that time. My 80 GB song library is now about half/half CD rips and online purchase. The CD format is what, 30 years old now? And is the last physical medium for audio. When CD came out it was 10 years before cassette tapes weren't sold alongside them.
Now I rip my DVDs and BluRays to mkv/m2ts. A couple years ago it took 8 hours to rip and encode a bluray. Now I can rip/encode in 1 hour. I can also purchase digital copies of movies and tv shows online. I think the pricing model is still too high for now, and I hate streaming options - I want all my library available without having to pay again. (Amazon mp3 in the cloud sounds better - give me video on there with no storage limit for stuff I purchase from Amazon and we are there!)
Soon, however, we will be thinking back on when BluRay was released as the last physical medium for video.
I felt the same way about 5 years ago. I got into video editing and audio production. I also started working fewer hours - 40-45 instead of 50-60. It helped me optimize my work time, go home and do fun projects - usually with my kids. My day job funds my hobbies and allows me to take vacation with my family. Make the most of that time and grow strong hedges around that time. Don't take work home with you, including mentally. Balance your time and make your job work for you. It's worked for me for 3 years as it took 2 years to figure out how to make it work.
Do you want your first responders to be in the field working an emergency and be bothered with returning to their desk to check email for emerging news and case support? Or be interrupted by phone calls? Email is great in these circumstances to give a tiered level of information flow.
Do you want your tax monies to be spent on something that is then taken away due to the intellectual property equivalent of playing grapple-finger? There has got to be a better solution than cease and desist for patent infringement!
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I wonder how long it will be until teenagers and pirates start wearing earplugs or noise cancelling headphones to counter these non-lethal weapons.
"Excuse me, I speak jive."
As far as coverage goes, they said they could get coverage of the continental U.S. with less than 10 airships. It seemed to me at the time that bandwidth would be the big issue - 250M folks serviced by 10 airships = 25M people per airship. My 802.11b access points don't support more than about 10 users very well at all.
The president, however, was not pumping this technology as a national ISP for wireless internet, but more of a wholesale service to be provided to resellers for ad hoc needs - T1 service for places where T1 wasn't available or cost prohibitive. Since SansWire has been bought out, maybe their emphasis has shifted. That's the feel I get from the article, anyway.
The company here (or school as it were) owns the computer, the software, purchases the support, and pays for the electricity that runs the dang thing. If they don't have the right to own it (and control it in every aspect), then who does? If I buy something and maintain my ownership of it (don't gift it to someone) then don't I have the right to decide if someone can keep using it - evaluate whether what they are doing with it is in my best interests? At any time take it away at my discrection?
That's what happened here -
It's theirs. They can do what they want to with it.
Or can I just come over to your house, stash some of my stuff there and expect you not to look in it since it's "my personal shit"?
I wonder how easy of a decision it would be for you just on premise if it was all made arbitrary - i.e. Should a person hit the button for a million dollars if it meant that someone the person doesn't know would die undetectably? Now what if this person chooses to hit the button and you are the one that dies?
If life is valuable to you, then it seems fair to assume that life is valuable to "the other guy." Any more judgements beyond that that you make are very difficult to keep objective.
"You couldn't fool anyone even if it was your foolingest day and you had an automatic fooling machine"
*sigh* long distance phone calls during my dinner to be his tech support (as opposed to his free 800 number tech support) seem to be much more convenient than just figuring out how to do it properly. Confidence can go a long way for getting you in trouble.
Lucas should release a new version of ANH.
C3PO: No one ever worries about beating a droid.
Solo: That's because droid's farts don't dissolve metal and flesh faster than a light saber.
Cut to Chewbacca raising his hands behind his head. He leans onto his left cheek and pinches out a small peep of a fart.
Cut to closeup of Chewbacca's hips and see a small purple cloud eek out between his legs and disappate immediately. Follow movement of where the cloud should come into contact with the chess table where the chess table discolors slightly as if it were being burnt.
C3PO to R2D2: I suggest a new strategy R2.... let the wookie win.