Whether or not you agree with how they handle the issue regarding homosexuals, they are a private organization and entitled to run their organization accordingly.
Besides, allowing gays into their organization most certainly stop the financial support of two of their strongest supporters, the Catholic and LDS churches, among many others. The BSA couldn't survive without the support of religious institutions.
I would love to see a huge sign outside Seagate Headquarters similar to that of McDonald's.
Anybody with Photoshop skills and in the mood to waste their time? I would love to see this.
I know not everyone will agree with me on this, and they are entitled to stick it to me after they read this post. That being said, I have been an XM subscriber for a year now and am excited about this.
Radio needs Satellite radio! For the last decade, I have been striving to find quality programming on radio that wasn't lacking the polished professionalism of most college radio stations and at the same time wasn't the over-researched, payola driven, target market homogenization of your typical Clear Channel station. That was found in Satellite radio for me.
The key differences with satellite radio and AM/FM these days is this. AM/FM is losing listeners every day. Advertising is down 15% in the last few years and listeners are turning off the AM/FM radio for other mediums. Instead of taking a chance with formats like in years past, stations owned by large corporations and disappointed shareholders instead become more conservative and try to be less distinguishable than before to attract the largest number of listeners. What happens is a large number of stations in a given market end up with eerily familiar formats, with little to no variance in station programming.
Satellite radio has taken a different approach. With such a comparatively smaller audience nationwide when compared to there traditional counterparts, Satellite radio will do anything to attract listeners, and that has been through offering dozens of niche stations with specific programming. It's fantastic sitting in my car and listening to Deep House music in one station, NCAA March Madness another, and obscure underground classic from another. It's what FM used to be 13-40 years ago in my opinion.
In short, FM is playing conservative to keep what listeners they have and are losing daily, while Satellite is taking chances to draw whatever listeners they can get.
Why is this merger good? Both stations are fiscally hurting, and a quality medium like Satellite radio needs to be strengthened against not only AM/FM/HD radio, but iPods/Podcasting, and streaming radio online.
(Sitting in my RV reading Slashdot while it drives down the interstate)
Silly people, my car ALREADY drives on its own! Hello! Cruise Control . . . . Oh crap!
As far as I am concerned, Digg can beat slashdot from here on out. Slashdot caters to a specific crowd, one that happens to cross over and be smaller than Digg, which is fine by me:)
Geez, guys, fix the product FIRST, and THEN add features!
I ran MMJB back from 2000-2002. I liked it but I had the exact same complaint. When the new version came out, it got bigger and slower. When you're a big company, and you are aiming at end users, the assumption is people want more and more features to compete with the other guys. The problem is this is a product run by marketing, not a department of programmers.
I completely agree. The article was a nice read for information only, but I feel the statement of opinion as fact is always poor journalism. It's like reading Rolling Stone every 5 years and seeing a new "best of" list and it has 20 different albums than it did before. I am sure a new 50 best list will come out in a few years so the newest gadgets won't be left out.
At least the headline stated "PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time" as opposed to the same headline posted without PC World at the beginning that one would likely see on Digg.
That was supposed to be funny! How many of us remember being kids and your "friends" at school would invite you over just so you could watch them play Nintendo?
Before you label Republicans as the only guilty party for the consolidation of radio, let me remind you as to who was in the White House when the Telecommunications act of 1996 was passed. I don't recall seeing President Clinton putting up a fight about this one.
This seems like a good concept. The search feature on sourceforge and other software sites always seems a little dated. Searching for video editing software brings every file with the words "video" and "editing". Not really very helpful. For example, It took quite some time to find some OCR software on there two weeks ago. Sorting and arranging these programs by type should streamline the process.
Monkey's typing on a typewriter as Mr. Burn's is working on the next great american novel:
Burns: This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon they'll have written the greatest novel known to man. (monkey smoking cigar typing on a typewriter) Burns: Lets see. It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times! You stupid monkey! (Smacks monkey upside his head)
I submitted before finishing my comments. Any sort of penetration into the Windows world through Linux is a great step in the right direction. It's just not ready to replace windows on all levels yet.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next slashdotter, but being an IT manager, I wouldn't want the headache of using one OS.
Linux has its advantages. I was able to scale an old Windows 2000 server, Windows NT Server, and a useless company proxy server into a single, consolidated Gentoo System. Does that mean I want to switch everything else, including our accounting databases over to Linux? I couldn't handle the headache. Microsoft's AD is easy to use, we have 2 2003 DC's, including one Terminal server. There is no way I would use something line Wine to get Great Plains working with any sort of consistency. They work reliably as they are now, upgrading to service pack 1 was easy, and managing user accounts is simple (not saying account management in linux isn't).
To the company's that switched from one OS to another, mixed environments are easier, at least for me. Each OS plays an important role, and has advantages/disadvantages. Sure, you had to pay $1,000's to buy Windows software, but you would probably spend that much hiring Linux guys to come in and support your system because there isn't enough expertise to handle these systems. It's a two way street I have found.
Mozilla Thunderbird has a great RSS reader, supporting downloading of podcasts onto your computer. Unfortunately, it won't send to your MP3 player, but that's not very difficult to do with another app.
It's not all piracy people. That is such a cop out.
When many of the industry's most popular games are available on Xbox and Playstation, why on earth would I spend $600 for a top of the line video card and at least another $1500 on a gaming system, when I can play the same game on an Xbox that costs less than $200?
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Whether or not you agree with how they handle the issue regarding homosexuals, they are a private organization and entitled to run their organization accordingly.
Besides, allowing gays into their organization most certainly stop the financial support of two of their strongest supporters, the Catholic and LDS churches, among many others. The BSA couldn't survive without the support of religious institutions.
I would love to see a huge sign outside Seagate Headquarters similar to that of McDonald's. Anybody with Photoshop skills and in the mood to waste their time? I would love to see this.
I know not everyone will agree with me on this, and they are entitled to stick it to me after they read this post. That being said, I have been an XM subscriber for a year now and am excited about this.
Radio needs Satellite radio! For the last decade, I have been striving to find quality programming on radio that wasn't lacking the polished professionalism of most college radio stations and at the same time wasn't the over-researched, payola driven, target market homogenization of your typical Clear Channel station. That was found in Satellite radio for me.
The key differences with satellite radio and AM/FM these days is this. AM/FM is losing listeners every day. Advertising is down 15% in the last few years and listeners are turning off the AM/FM radio for other mediums. Instead of taking a chance with formats like in years past, stations owned by large corporations and disappointed shareholders instead become more conservative and try to be less distinguishable than before to attract the largest number of listeners. What happens is a large number of stations in a given market end up with eerily familiar formats, with little to no variance in station programming.
Satellite radio has taken a different approach. With such a comparatively smaller audience nationwide when compared to there traditional counterparts, Satellite radio will do anything to attract listeners, and that has been through offering dozens of niche stations with specific programming. It's fantastic sitting in my car and listening to Deep House music in one station, NCAA March Madness another, and obscure underground classic from another. It's what FM used to be 13-40 years ago in my opinion.
In short, FM is playing conservative to keep what listeners they have and are losing daily, while Satellite is taking chances to draw whatever listeners they can get.
Why is this merger good? Both stations are fiscally hurting, and a quality medium like Satellite radio needs to be strengthened against not only AM/FM/HD radio, but iPods/Podcasting, and streaming radio online.
(Sitting in my RV reading Slashdot while it drives down the interstate) Silly people, my car ALREADY drives on its own! Hello! Cruise Control . . . . Oh crap!
As far as I am concerned, Digg can beat slashdot from here on out. Slashdot caters to a specific crowd, one that happens to cross over and be smaller than Digg, which is fine by me :)
Am I the only one who thought he saw "Sony Sues Rootkit Maker for Copyright Infringement?"
I ran MMJB back from 2000-2002. I liked it but I had the exact same complaint. When the new version came out, it got bigger and slower. When you're a big company, and you are aiming at end users, the assumption is people want more and more features to compete with the other guys. The problem is this is a product run by marketing, not a department of programmers.
Looks a lot like a Digg post.
It's the Digg effect on Slashdot.
I completely agree. The article was a nice read for information only, but I feel the statement of opinion as fact is always poor journalism. It's like reading Rolling Stone every 5 years and seeing a new "best of" list and it has 20 different albums than it did before. I am sure a new 50 best list will come out in a few years so the newest gadgets won't be left out.
At least the headline stated "PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time" as opposed to the same headline posted without PC World at the beginning that one would likely see on Digg.
That was supposed to be funny! How many of us remember being kids and your "friends" at school would invite you over just so you could watch them play Nintendo?
Before you label Republicans as the only guilty party for the consolidation of radio, let me remind you as to who was in the White House when the Telecommunications act of 1996 was passed. I don't recall seeing President Clinton putting up a fight about this one.
This clearly is a joke, a funny one at that, why on earth is it modded interesting? Is it that slow of a day for you moderators?
Rob Lowe's character: Did you eat paint chips when you were a child?
Chris Farley (Tommy): Hahahaha . . . why?
This seems like a good concept. The search feature on sourceforge and other software sites always seems a little dated. Searching for video editing software brings every file with the words "video" and "editing". Not really very helpful. For example, It took quite some time to find some OCR software on there two weeks ago. Sorting and arranging these programs by type should streamline the process.
The SCO Lawyers must have learned a thing or two from Lionel Hutz:
"Don't worry, Mister Simpson! I saw Matlock in a bar last night. The sound wasn't on, but I think I got the gist of it."
"The MacBook is clearly a space heater."
Now with magic GROWING battery!
Obligatory Simpson's Quote
Monkey's typing on a typewriter as Mr. Burn's is working on the next great american novel:
Burns: This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon they'll have written the greatest novel known to man.
(monkey smoking cigar typing on a typewriter)
Burns: Lets see. It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times! You stupid monkey! (Smacks monkey upside his head)
How about a paper detector that will decide between 1 and 2 ply?
I submitted before finishing my comments. Any sort of penetration into the Windows world through Linux is a great step in the right direction. It's just not ready to replace windows on all levels yet.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next slashdotter, but being an IT manager, I wouldn't want the headache of using one OS.
Linux has its advantages. I was able to scale an old Windows 2000 server, Windows NT Server, and a useless company proxy server into a single, consolidated Gentoo System. Does that mean I want to switch everything else, including our accounting databases over to Linux? I couldn't handle the headache. Microsoft's AD is easy to use, we have 2 2003 DC's, including one Terminal server. There is no way I would use something line Wine to get Great Plains working with any sort of consistency. They work reliably as they are now, upgrading to service pack 1 was easy, and managing user accounts is simple (not saying account management in linux isn't).
To the company's that switched from one OS to another, mixed environments are easier, at least for me. Each OS plays an important role, and has advantages/disadvantages. Sure, you had to pay $1,000's to buy Windows software, but you would probably spend that much hiring Linux guys to come in and support your system because there isn't enough expertise to handle these systems. It's a two way street I have found.
Any sort of penetration into
Am I the only one who has wasted the last 15 years of my life for a sequel to Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island?
Mozilla Thunderbird has a great RSS reader, supporting downloading of podcasts onto your computer. Unfortunately, it won't send to your MP3 player, but that's not very difficult to do with another app.
Check this out. This may answer some of your questions regarding that issue
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/00974It's not all piracy people. That is such a cop out.
When many of the industry's most popular games are available on Xbox and Playstation, why on earth would I spend $600 for a top of the line video card and at least another $1500 on a gaming system, when I can play the same game on an Xbox that costs less than $200?