I cant really say anything I am still miffed at the idea of charging 1.25 per song or more. This is really making me hate music, one side, music should be free, and on the other side you have the RIAA saying that they will charge more because music copyright code is being cracked.
I am about ready to say Fork it, and I will just listen to the radio. and not buy any of the beer thats advertised on the radio commercials! HAH! I just won, I listened to the radio and the music and didnt buy any of the advertised products, HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!....
Yup, I just bought a Ps2 to replace my old one. I had a 3001 from launch, and as everyone knows, they were riddled with problems, and finally mine died.
It took a while, but not being able to finish Socom II, MegaMan x7, GT A-spec got to me and I broke down, I just couldnt wait until september. Now I have a 5001 model.
The thing is, I am a big pro-sony person and love their products, but I wont buy another console system from them at launch, I will wait two years before I buy one again.
But the PS2 was my first DVD Player, and worked great as one for a long time until I got my VHS/DVD combo thingy. I just wish they would release A PS2 LCD screen like they did with the PsOne. My wife got me the PsOneLCD screen combo unit and I love it!! Long Live MegaMan X5! and FF7!
It just might not be a great idea to work with family. From what I have seen in the past with other places, it usually causes rifts in relationships. It just will, because in work you will do things to other people that you might not want to do to a family member, but you need to, or need them to do something in order for something to work.
I love my wife but I would never work with her, because work is work, and in work we do things we dont want to do, and I dont want her to ever blame me for something or me blame her for something or for me to blame myself for anything.
yeah its long winded and dosent sound right, but dont hire family, work only causes relationships to crumble. I bet there is exceptions, but I bet there is a lot more divorces then exceptions
That must be great for Jobs, but wouldn't Pixar be better off using SGI or something on that order instead of consumer based desktop and server systems?
But, I am jealous, I want a Mac, and an Ipod.. just cant justify the price....
Must..work..at..pixar........
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Just do what I do. Gorge and eat as much as you can in the summer, turn the thermostat to 60 in the winter and sleep for 6 months.
Stop being so embarrassed about the stuff you buy people, if you need it you need it. Anyone has a problem with it, bring it on.
Like at the local super Wal-Mart my wife was all embarrassed when I got some regular economy box of Trojans and Flavored Lifestyles. I also got some spermicidal gel and put it in the cart with the rest of the groceries. I don't give a crap, let em know. Hey I think its cool I go through 36 condoms in a week, and if Wal-Mart wants to know, hell they can as long as they keep the cost down I wish I could get even more of a discount on a frequent buyers program because the damn things are expensive.
So let them profile me and keep it in their database, I don't care. Walmart and the world can know I am a 300 pound man who eats meat, frozen pizza, and diet pepsi. They can know I buy 48 condoms a week (36 regular + 12 flavored), and 2 boxes of gel. All of my latest video game purchases have been mature rated (counter strike, Ghost Recon). I buy a role of ductape every month. At the local music stores I buy guitar strings once a month and new tubes for my amps every 6. On Itunes I download Zakk Wylde and other heavy metal bands.
So what does it say? I am over-weight, over-sexed, over-gamed, heavy metal loving hell of a man.
Who cares if they know what you buy? Hell be proud you get to buy and have a need for such items!
Stop being so embarrassed about the stuff you buy people, if you need it you need it. Anyone has a problem with it, bring it on.
Like at the local super Wal-Mart my wife was all embarrassed when I got some regular economy box of Trojans and Flavored Lifestyles. I also got some spermicidal gel and put it in the cart with the rest of the groceries. I don't give a crap, let em know. Hey I think its cool I go through 36 condoms in a week, and if Wal-Mart wants to know, hell they can as long as they keep the cost down I wish I could get even more of a discount on a frequent buyers program because the damn things are expensive.
So let them profile me and keep it in their database, I don't care. Walmart and the world can know I am a 300 pound man who eats meat, frozen pizza, and diet pepsi. They can know I buy 48 condoms a week (36 regular + 12 flavored), and 2 boxes of gel. All of my latest video game purchases have been mature rated (counter strike, Ghost Recon). I buy a role of ductape every month. At the local music stores I buy guitar strings once a month and new tubes for my amps every 6. On Itunes I download Zakk Wylde and other heavy metal bands.
So what does it say? I am over-weight, over-sexed, over-gamed, heavy metal loving hell of a man.
Who cares if they know what you buy? Hell be proud you get to buy and have a need for such items!
Yeah, I hear you. All the morons I went to school with are making a crap load more then I am. While I was busy learning how to get linux and windows to get along, he was shooting his mouth off telling how he likes unix because it was "easy to hack". I think all he knew about unix is that it was used in the movie jurrasic park.
He dosent know crap, dosent know how to replace ram or replace a power supply, let alone make cables or troubleshoot a network connection. Now he is a IT manager of a Fed facility of 3,000 people, and I am on my last month of unemployment. Yeah I'm bitter. We graduated the same time.
Sometimes I think its better to be a skilled bullshitter then to be a skilled tradesman.
Oh well, the blue walmart vest calls me. I think I will be the only Microsoft certified anyone working in the produce dept.
I have to say, I love itunes, and will make it my primary way of buying music. I just wish they would add type-o-negative to their store.
Apple would have a lot more of my money if they could lower their prices a bit. I want an eMAC so bad, and an Ipod, but right now with no job I cant afford them, and chances are when I do get a job they would be a little out of my price range.
Steve, I am telling you dude, if you could lower the prices on a few of your products you would have my money quick. You already have me hooked on itunes. Please make itunes for linux would ya? And if you don't release for linux, how about making the current eMAC like 500 bucks?
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I agree with you whole heartedly. You bring out the learning spirit, the spirit of change and exploration. While I feel those for most all things, my car is where they stop.
Right now while I am unemployed, I don't have any money, and in a month my unemployment runs out, and then I am up $@it creek. But what I am trying to say is, I only have one vehicle. It's a 99 F-150 with 30,000 miles on it. It runs like a dream, and fixing it if I do something stupid to it would put me in some financial dire straits.
I guess what I am saying is fear keeps me from tinkering with it. I have multiple computers, two in my apartment, and a couple in storage at my parents home. If something happened to one of the machines I could always go to another one, and if needed fixing the machines probably wouldn't cost more then 200 bucks or so depending if it was a motherboard, hard drive, or graphics card failure.
My Truck is a different story, I only have one of it, and I depend on it to get me to the interviews I need to get my next job. Simply, its to important for me to tinker with. Now if I had multiple vehicles, like say a 89 S-10 or something that I could play with and not worry about hurting it, that would be a different.
I agree with you about it being a machine and one should learn from it, but I depend to much on it and cannot afford to make mistakes on it that could cost me to fix, and could cost me to miss interviews, basically, I am scared.
I mean seriously, is there some problem this if really fixing, do we need to track paper documents? How many paper documents are just prints of digital documents?
They say it will work well on SKU tags but the article says it has some shortcomings in nasty (industrial environments). Most production factories I have been in were pretty environmentally nasty, so if it cannot stand up to where it would be most used, why have it.
Zebra printers printing bar codes on plastic tags have worked so much better everywhere I have had to put them including some factories that are as close to the depths of hell as I want to get to.
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my wife gave up on sex when she married me. Its like me watching Boston Public, it reminds me of good times, but hurts when I remember they are gone.
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Okay, you are all right, I will leave my Tivo alone...(never hacked it in the first place) I got that 3 year thing from Circuit City on it, so I got three years before i can play with it.
I love my Tivo, I never would have believed it would change my life like it has.
I will just tinker with my Mandrake machine and the wife's computer.
I dont think I would hack my car
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I would tinker with the insides of any computer, or any electronic device.
But on the other hand, if I make a mistake with a car I could hurt or kill myself.
I think I will just leave them alone and keep hacking my Xbox and Tivo, I cant die if I screw up my Tivo.
I see this is your opinion, but yet, I find you made generalizations and your point is rather fuzzy.
I am glad your workplaces have bought you laptops, I am sure you must be proud. However laptops are expensive computers because of the portability. This one here is a rather high price but it is a gaming machine, or one could use it as a portable engineering computer for applications such as AutoCad or maybe Pro/E.
for a traveling engineer that might be the ticket they need.
I am sure you wouldn't buy a laptop with your own money; I wouldn't either at the current time. But times change, and you might indeed have a reason later.
Just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's a waste of money.
Reminds me of a "Three dead trolls in a baggie" song
" Misspell your name so its harder to trace. The government is watching, and walmart is watching too. McDonalds scans your face and there is a chip in your French fry Its all sold and sorted and sent to a database in the sky.....
They can take our privacy, but they cant have the truth!
We, can beat them back with bullshit, we can stick a big ol monkey wrench up their database."
I know Tivo is watching, but hey, if it keeps Good Eats on Food TV on longer, who cares!!!!
I am not a big fan of laptops but they do have their place.
In the field, measurements, data collection and so forth, where sometimes power outlets and mobility and small size can be an advantage. Example, between large industrial machines, where there is no room for a desktop system and hardware, or outdoors taking measurements and tests, where there is no power.
Also, using a serial port to configure a new Cisco device is a lot easier with a laptop in a computer room then using anything else.
In apartments and dorms: Space is limited, and my wife has thankfully let me have my computer desk with my desktop, and also she has let me put my Mandrake machine under one of the end tables with a monitor on top with a mouse and keyboard. Space is pretty limited here, and having a laptop to do what we want would be nice, I would really enjoy not having the mandrake machine under the end-table or having 1/3 of my living room being taken up with my computer desk.
But, I don't have money, I do have however is two tower computers that run..........
Anyhew,
Like I said, laptops have their (expensive) place.
Has anyone tried the books in itunes? I was never a big fan of e-books on the PC or the Ipaq/handheld but I always liked Audio books. There was a time when one of my family members lost their sight for half a year and we had a bunch, so I gave them a try and really liked them.
Has anyone tried them yet and what's your experience?
Okay, that thing is plainly visible on the Nasa website pictures, so I am going to assume that its real.
That's some weird crap there, that isn't a rock like I have ever seen, erosion alone, with all the wind, that thing cannot be too old, otherwise those "horns" would have been worn down a lot, or maybe they have been worn down substantuly allready
That thing is to damn weird not to look at, I am surprised Nasa wont go over to it just to poke it with a stick or something.
Anyhow, that thing is extremely freaky and scares the hell out of me.
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Nod, I am doing the same thing with an Associate degree. the only bad thing is that Unemployment will run out.
-*crossing fingers*-
Hope it goes better for you then it's going for me.
I was a Sys Engineer/Admin of a large Automotive manufacturing plants and a machining plant where we forged items, and then machined them to specs.
I lost my job when a competing forging company in India was able to make a car part for only 1/3 the price of ours, and we were selling ours at cost. They met Ford's specs for quality control and Ford came to us and said "lookie at this" well there is no way we could sell for that price. So,
I am 4 months unemployed. When Ford outsourced to India, my company in a self preservation tactic hired cheap labor from over seas.
Unless you have tried to get a job within the last year, you can't fathom how many people outsource to overseas and elsewhere. I couldn't either until I got laid off. Everyone is outsourcing, and I am not exaggerating, out of 398 resumes I sent and follow ups 284 have downsized and outsourced.
Alive and well? I would ask you to reconsider that statement. Things are not alive and well, they are withering and dying. If you want proof, just come to the unemployment offices and ask for numbers of technical Americans out of work.
I hope you don't have to know the horror of this job market. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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It would be a deal if it came with like discounts on cab rides or local bar coupons or booze shop discounts.
If this server is rocking dont come nocking
I cant really say anything I am still miffed at the idea of charging 1.25 per song or more. This is really making me hate music, one side, music should be free, and on the other side you have the RIAA saying that they will charge more because music copyright code is being cracked.
....
I am about ready to say Fork it, and I will just listen to the radio. and not buy any of the beer thats advertised on the radio commercials! HAH! I just won, I listened to the radio and the music and didnt buy any of the advertised products, HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!
okay I feel better
Yup, I just bought a Ps2 to replace my old one. I had a 3001 from launch, and as everyone knows, they were riddled with problems, and finally mine died.
It took a while, but not being able to finish Socom II, MegaMan x7, GT A-spec got to me and I broke down, I just couldnt wait until september. Now I have a 5001 model.
The thing is, I am a big pro-sony person and love their products, but I wont buy another console system from them at launch, I will wait two years before I buy one again.
But the PS2 was my first DVD Player, and worked great as one for a long time until I got my VHS/DVD combo thingy. I just wish they would release A PS2 LCD screen like they did with the PsOne. My wife got me the PsOneLCD screen combo unit and I love it!! Long Live MegaMan X5! and FF7!
I hope Sony drops the price as well.
I just bought a PS2 Yesterday to replace my fallen scph-3001 I hope they drop the price so I can get some cash back.
It just might not be a great idea to work with family. From what I have seen in the past with other places, it usually causes rifts in relationships. It just will, because in work you will do things to other people that you might not want to do to a family member, but you need to, or need them to do something in order for something to work.
I love my wife but I would never work with her, because work is work, and in work we do things we dont want to do, and I dont want her to ever blame me for something or me blame her for something or for me to blame myself for anything.
yeah its long winded and dosent sound right, but dont hire family, work only causes relationships to crumble. I bet there is exceptions, but I bet there is a lot more divorces then exceptions
That must be great for Jobs, but wouldn't Pixar be better off using SGI or something on that order instead of consumer based desktop and server systems?
But, I am jealous, I want a Mac, and an Ipod.. just cant justify the price....
Must..work..at..pixar........
Just do what I do. Gorge and eat as much as you can in the summer, turn the thermostat to 60 in the winter and sleep for 6 months.
Works for bears, works for me.
True,
But be proud of what your buying!!! Let em know!
Stop being so embarrassed about the stuff you buy people, if you need it you need it. Anyone has a problem with it, bring it on.
Like at the local super Wal-Mart my wife was all embarrassed when I got some regular economy box of Trojans and Flavored Lifestyles. I also got some spermicidal gel and put it in the cart with the rest of the groceries. I don't give a crap, let em know. Hey I think its cool I go through 36 condoms in a week, and if Wal-Mart wants to know, hell they can as long as they keep the cost down I wish I could get even more of a discount on a frequent buyers program because the damn things are expensive.
So let them profile me and keep it in their database, I don't care. Walmart and the world can know I am a 300 pound man who eats meat, frozen pizza, and diet pepsi. They can know I buy 48 condoms a week (36 regular + 12 flavored), and 2 boxes of gel. All of my latest video game purchases have been mature rated (counter strike, Ghost Recon). I buy a role of ductape every month. At the local music stores I buy guitar strings once a month and new tubes for my amps every 6. On Itunes I download Zakk Wylde and other heavy metal bands.
So what does it say?
I am over-weight, over-sexed, over-gamed, heavy metal loving hell of a man.
Who cares if they know what you buy? Hell be proud you get to buy and have a need for such items!
True,
But be proud of what your buying!!! Let em know!
Stop being so embarrassed about the stuff you buy people, if you need it you need it. Anyone has a problem with it, bring it on.
Like at the local super Wal-Mart my wife was all embarrassed when I got some regular economy box of Trojans and Flavored Lifestyles. I also got some spermicidal gel and put it in the cart with the rest of the groceries. I don't give a crap, let em know. Hey I think its cool I go through 36 condoms in a week, and if Wal-Mart wants to know, hell they can as long as they keep the cost down I wish I could get even more of a discount on a frequent buyers program because the damn things are expensive.
So let them profile me and keep it in their database, I don't care. Walmart and the world can know I am a 300 pound man who eats meat, frozen pizza, and diet pepsi. They can know I buy 48 condoms a week (36 regular + 12 flavored), and 2 boxes of gel. All of my latest video game purchases have been mature rated (counter strike, Ghost Recon). I buy a role of ductape every month. At the local music stores I buy guitar strings once a month and new tubes for my amps every 6. On Itunes I download Zakk Wylde and other heavy metal bands.
So what does it say?
I am over-weight, over-sexed, over-gamed, heavy metal loving hell of a man.
Who cares if they know what you buy? Hell be proud you get to buy and have a need for such items!
Yeah, I hear you. All the morons I went to school with are making a crap load more then I am. While I was busy learning how to get linux and windows to get along, he was shooting his mouth off telling how he likes unix because it was "easy to hack". I think all he knew about unix is that it was used in the movie jurrasic park.
He dosent know crap, dosent know how to replace ram or replace a power supply, let alone make cables or troubleshoot a network connection. Now he is a IT manager of a Fed facility of 3,000 people, and I am on my last month of unemployment. Yeah I'm bitter. We graduated the same time.
Sometimes I think its better to be a skilled bullshitter then to be a skilled tradesman.
Oh well, the blue walmart vest calls me. I think I will be the only Microsoft certified anyone working in the produce dept.
I have to say, I love itunes, and will make it my primary way of buying music. I just wish they would add type-o-negative to their store.
Apple would have a lot more of my money if they could lower their prices a bit. I want an eMAC so bad, and an Ipod, but right now with no job I cant afford them, and chances are when I do get a job they would be a little out of my price range.
Steve, I am telling you dude, if you could lower the prices on a few of your products you would have my money quick. You already have me hooked on itunes. Please make itunes for linux would ya? And if you don't release for linux, how about making the current eMAC like 500 bucks?
I agree with you whole heartedly. You bring out the learning spirit, the spirit of change and exploration. While I feel those for most all things, my car is where they stop.
Right now while I am unemployed, I don't have any money, and in a month my unemployment runs out, and then I am up $@it creek. But what I am trying to say is, I only have one vehicle. It's a 99 F-150 with 30,000 miles on it. It runs like a dream, and fixing it if I do something stupid to it would put me in some financial dire straits.
I guess what I am saying is fear keeps me from tinkering with it. I have multiple computers, two in my apartment, and a couple in storage at my parents home. If something happened to one of the machines I could always go to another one, and if needed fixing the machines probably wouldn't cost more then 200 bucks or so depending if it was a motherboard, hard drive, or graphics card failure.
My Truck is a different story, I only have one of it, and I depend on it to get me to the interviews I need to get my next job. Simply, its to important for me to tinker with. Now if I had multiple vehicles, like say a 89 S-10 or something that I could play with and not worry about hurting it, that would be a different.
I agree with you about it being a machine and one should learn from it, but I depend to much on it and cannot afford to make mistakes on it that could cost me to fix, and could cost me to miss interviews, basically, I am scared.
I mean seriously, is there some problem this if really fixing, do we need to track paper documents? How many paper documents are just prints of digital documents?
They say it will work well on SKU tags but the article says it has some shortcomings in nasty (industrial environments). Most production factories I have been in were pretty environmentally nasty, so if it cannot stand up to where it would be most used, why have it.
Zebra printers printing bar codes on plastic tags have worked so much better everywhere I have had to put them including some factories that are as close to the depths of hell as I want to get to.
my wife gave up on sex when she married me. Its like me watching Boston Public, it reminds me of good times, but hurts when I remember they are gone.
Okay, you are all right, I will leave my Tivo alone...(never hacked it in the first place) I got that 3 year thing from Circuit City on it, so I got three years before i can play with it.
I love my Tivo, I never would have believed it would change my life like it has.
I will just tinker with my Mandrake machine and the wife's computer.
I would tinker with the insides of any computer, or any electronic device.
But on the other hand, if I make a mistake with a car I could hurt or kill myself.
I think I will just leave them alone and keep hacking my Xbox and Tivo, I cant die if I screw up my Tivo.
I would rather wait for a good game.
Lets look at MegaMan X7, I love megaman, but this was rushed, and it sucked.
MegaMan Zero2, unrushed and wonderful.
Nintendo took their time on the Metriod games and they are wonderful to play.
Halo 2 keeps getting pushed back, but I rather wait a few months and love it then to have it early and be sorry I bought it.
Yeah delays suck, but I would rather have a delay then a crappy-ass game that was rushed to market.
I see this is your opinion, but yet, I find you made generalizations and your point is rather fuzzy.
I am glad your workplaces have bought you laptops, I am sure you must be proud.
However laptops are expensive computers because of the portability. This one here is a rather high price but it is a gaming machine, or one could use it as a portable engineering computer for applications such as AutoCad or maybe Pro/E.
for a traveling engineer that might be the ticket they need.
I am sure you wouldn't buy a laptop with your own money; I wouldn't either at the current time. But times change, and you might indeed have a reason later.
Just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's a waste of money.
Reminds me of a "Three dead trolls in a baggie" song
" Misspell your name so its harder to trace.
The government is watching, and walmart is watching too.
McDonalds scans your face and there is a chip in your French fry
Its all sold and sorted and sent to a database in the sky.....
They can take our privacy, but they cant have the truth!
We, can beat them back with bullshit, we can stick a big ol monkey wrench up their database."
I know Tivo is watching, but hey, if it keeps Good Eats on Food TV on longer, who cares!!!!
"IMO, buying a laptop is the height of stupidity"
I am not a big fan of laptops but they do have their place.
In the field, measurements, data collection and so forth, where sometimes power outlets and mobility and small size can be an advantage. Example, between large industrial machines, where there is no room for a desktop system and hardware, or outdoors taking measurements and tests, where there is no power.
Also, using a serial port to configure a new Cisco device is a lot easier with a laptop in a computer room then using anything else.
In apartments and dorms: Space is limited, and my wife has thankfully let me have my computer desk with my desktop, and also she has let me put my Mandrake machine under one of the end tables with a monitor on top with a mouse and keyboard. Space is pretty limited here, and having a laptop to do what we want would be nice, I would really enjoy not having the mandrake machine under the end-table or having 1/3 of my living room being taken up with my computer desk.
But, I don't have money, I do have however is two tower computers that run..........
Anyhew,
Like I said, laptops have their (expensive) place.
Has anyone tried the books in itunes? I was never a big fan of e-books on the PC or the Ipaq/handheld but I always liked Audio books. There was a time when one of my family members lost their sight for half a year and we had a bunch, so I gave them a try and really liked them.
Has anyone tried them yet and what's your experience?
Okay, that thing is plainly visible on the Nasa website pictures, so I am going to assume that its real.
That's some weird crap there, that isn't a rock like I have ever seen, erosion alone, with all the wind, that thing cannot be too old, otherwise those "horns" would have been worn down a lot, or maybe they have been worn down substantuly allready
That thing is to damn weird not to look at, I am surprised Nasa wont go over to it just to poke it with a stick or something.
Anyhow, that thing is extremely freaky and scares the hell out of me.
Nod, I am doing the same thing with an Associate degree. the only bad thing is that Unemployment will run out.
-*crossing fingers*-
Hope it goes better for you then it's going for me.
That may be nice, but your company is a minority.
I was a Sys Engineer/Admin of a large Automotive manufacturing plants and a machining plant where we forged items, and then machined them to specs.
I lost my job when a competing forging company in India was able to make a car part for only 1/3 the price of ours, and we were selling ours at cost. They met Ford's specs for quality control and Ford came to us and said "lookie at this" well there is no way we could sell for that price. So,
I am 4 months unemployed. When Ford outsourced to India, my company in a self preservation tactic hired cheap labor from over seas.
Unless you have tried to get a job within the last year, you can't fathom how many people outsource to overseas and elsewhere. I couldn't either until I got laid off. Everyone is outsourcing, and I am not exaggerating, out of 398 resumes I sent and follow ups 284 have downsized and outsourced.
Alive and well? I would ask you to reconsider that statement. Things are not alive and well, they are withering and dying. If you want proof, just come to the unemployment offices and ask for numbers of technical Americans out of work.
I hope you don't have to know the horror of this job market. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.