We used this book for my project management class in grad school. It's very easy to use and seek out specific information. The methodologies it explains are straightforward and easy to implement as well.
Sony Brand films are few and far between? Whaaa? From their website:
IN THEATERS
First Sunday
The Other Boleyn Girl
Saawariya
Southland Tales
This Christmas
Untraceable
Vantage Point
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
COMING SOON
21
88 Minutes
Hancock
Made Of Honor
Pineapple Express
Prom Night
Quantum of Solace
Step Brothers
You Don't Mess With The Zohan
And that doesn't include 17 movies from sony pictures classics.
People talking about Sony's financial woes drive me nuts. Sony is reporting quarterly and annual PROFITS. Go read their annual report before you talk about things you don't understand. The gaming division is posting losses, just like MSFT, but the company as a whole is reporting profits due to strength in their other arenas (notably consumer electronics/tvs and film), again, just like MSFT. Sony is not going bankrupt. They aren't seeing the returns they would have liked on the PS3, but they are FAR from insolvent.
Your summary of the case is incorrect. 6 years ago the *11th Circuit Court of Appeals* ruled that if a company wished to reproduce works done by a freelance photographer on a CD with an executable computer program to access the works, they needed to inform/pay royalties for the new use.
The US Supreme Court, in a separate decision (something like a week later), ruled that freelance writers had to be informed/paid if their work was made accessible in an online database.
In the dicta (notes) of their decision, the Supreme Court mentioned that online databases were dissimilar from microfiche archival copies (which have been allowed in the past). Now this is where it gets fuzzy: From what I can tell, a 2nd Circuit judge decided to take this *note* as "invalidating" the 11th Circuit decision (which disagreed with his own 2nd Circuit decision that he had made earlier) and he reopened it and reversed it, to bring the two appeals courts in line. The decision now says that making the work available on CD/DVD is just like putting it on microfiche, and thus allowed. It was somewhat shady, procedurally, and definitely unprecedented.
I had the exact same issue. The company issuing the Schedule K-1 form was running so late they FAXED it to me on March 31st. I could not complete my taxes until then. Granted I still sent them in a week ago, but aside from the K-1, my forms are fairly simple. If someone had large and varied investments/personal business assets to go through it could be a serious time constraint.
I absolutely love the Indiana Jones movies. I don't think the fact that the originals were made in the 80s will have a whole lot to do with how the new movie holds up as much as how they approach the character now that Harrison Ford is 20 years older.
I read a rumor somewhere (rotten tomatoes I think) that many of the old principals were going to come back, including the females from Raiders & Temple of Doom, which could be cool.
All in all, I hope they don't try to make Ford too much younger like Stallone did with Rocky... there are plenty of things that can be done with the story with an older Indiana Jones, it just means a post-war setting.
Appraisers working for auctions routinely set estimates lower than what they really expect the item will fetch at auction - both to encourage bidders to step up to the plate early on and so the auction can claim to get "much higher prices" than expected
This is ridiculous. Please try to use some common sense. Have you ever worked in an auction house? The Christie's premium name to sellers/estates has to do with 2 things: The amount of money (people) they can bring to bid to an auction and the ACCURACY of their estimates. If an auction house tried to routinely lowball their estimates to generate interest, it would destroy any credibility they might have and it would have the exact opposite effect: People, unable to know whether or not estimates were legitimate or not, would not bid on items. Also, encouraging bidders to "step up to the plate" as you put it is the job of the auctioneer, who sets the opening bid, not the appraisers. Most items have a reserve price set by the seller, separate from the estimate put out by the appraisers, thus ensuring their independence and (when they get it right) their accuracy.
The Star Trek auction generated far more interest than the company expected. I went to Christie's before the auction and looked at all the items, and it is easy to see how they set the estimates where they did. Most of the stuff had very obviously been sitting unattended in a warehouse for an extended period of time, and Star Trek has been on the decline (in terms of viewership) for a while now. How would they know that the 40th anniversary sale would reawaken the inner geek in so many people with so much disposable income?
At least when I was in college, your tuition was somewhat tied to your level of coursework. There were minimum course requirements to be considered "full-time" and pay the full tuition, but there were also maximums on the # of credits you could take with the base full-time student tuition. Anything else cost more. With the number of scholarships and grants he had, it wouldn't have made a difference how long he was there, his cost (not including time) would have still stayed close to zero.
Over at blackboxvoting.org they have some more information about what tests were actually run on the machines, what they found, and what diebold's official response was. Apparently, BBV did not actually do the tests themselves, they arranged for 3rd party security experts to go in and do the analysis.
I agree the that the Eminent Domain ruling was stuuuuupid, but this ruling makes sense. People can still develop products to be used legally. If they happen to be used illegally, so what? As long as they don't promote it as such, they're good to go, as was clarified by the editor. Read before you post.
That will never happen. The article doesn't go into much detail aside from the press releases from the DivX group, but as far as I can tell, it still doesn't support multiple audio streams, like OGM and it's not open source either.
There will always be multiple codecs and file formats that correspond to different uses. DivX will be great for what the company is positioning it to do, which is provide a smaller, easier to transfer format with enough bells and whistles to cut into the highly-profitable DVD market.
Good Lord, who crapped in your cheerios this morning? A couple notes to your tirade:
1) Counterfeit versions of prescription drugs != drugs from Canada; that should be fairly obvious.
2) Clicking on a link that says it will take you to one thing, then takes you to another is most certainly doing something "unwittingly". Whether or not that person is a nitwit is irrelevant.
3) I would absolutely classify shutting down a spam gangs ring of websites as "bringing the hammer down". They are no longer operational, and are in court. The only thing left to do is to convict them and make them pay monetary damages.
Sheesh, mellow out, you should be happy you might actually start getting less spam.
You'll notice that every article talking about possible routes for the A380 refers to very long distance flights (US to Asia, US to India, etc) where point to point does not make sense. Point to point works extremely well for US travel, but once you need to go international, the hub and spoke system is a necessity, since you can't fill a plane daily with people who want to go from Albequerque(sp?) to Singapore.
I'll admit, I was paying attention to what you said in the first two paragraphs, but then you had to go and ruin it in the third.
It would take too long to go line by line, but basically everything you say therein is false. My personal favorite? "Bankrupt out of those nasty medical bills." Do you not read the news?
Needless to say, anyone can avoid "paying the bills" if they want to live like a hermit. Most, however, would prefer to live in comfort, and thus work to do so.
Then it sounds like you were watching it on a really crappy projector. The movie theater around the corner from my apartment has a digital projector in one of its theaters, and its absolutely fantastic. The image is crisp, unmarked, and *NOT* pixelated. At some theaters, they have garbage advertisements digitally projected at the beginning, and THOSE are crap quality, looking like a VCD blown up onto a movie screen, but the actual films on the new digital projectors are amazing.
Uh, you need to clarify that statement a bit. IIRC (I moved away 6 months ago) the super-duper freebox service from free.fr was only available in large metropolitan areas... basically Paris, and even then, not the entire city, just the majority of it. France is a lot more than just Paris. Your statement is the equivalent of me saying "Here in the US we have optimum online, which is 10mbps down and 4mbps up for only $XX a month", when in fact it is only available to customers in the Tri-State area that cablevision serves.
IANAL, but I believe you are wrong from the law classes I have taken, here's why:
You are correct that in most states, employment is at-will, but they cannot fire you for ANY reason.
At-will employment means that they can fire you for GOOD reason or for NO reason, but they cannot fire you for BAD reasons. Firing you for wearing a red shirt or for not getting it up with the wife are bad reasons, and you CANNOT be fired for them.
The key, however, is being able to prove that you were fired for a bad reason. If you were able to prove that your employer fired you for wearing a red shirt that was not against company policy, then you would be entitled to sue for wrongful termination. It's not just limited to the biggies (race, sex, whistleblowing).
Correct me if you have more information, but this is how my law textbook/professor explained it to us.
Reading back through the articles, it seems as if little effort/research was put into the articles. In the first one, the Creative Zen Micro, was listed as being "like the iPod Mini, [coming] in ten colors and [offering] 5GB of capacity." The iPod mini comes in 5 colors and offers 4GB of capacity. They also have the micro listed as retailing for $280 when it retails for $250. I only happen to know this because I just bought one, but if they can get so much wrong in one little blurb, I have little faith in the quality of the articles overall.
I don't know about other people, but for me, the radio is something that helps to pass the time when I'm doing something else. I listen to the radio when I'm driving my car, when I'm cleaning my house, when I'm having dinner, occassionally. Granted, I wish I could catch "Prairie Home Companion" more often, but oftentimes many broadcasts that are one-time appearances like that are available online after the fact anyway. Do people see a strong demand for an item like this? At $70? Only available as hookup to your PC?
Actually, I think the concept for MST3K was originally pulled from a 1941 Ole Olson and Chic Johnson flick called "Hellzapoppin". In the beginning of the film it shows two or three silhouetted characters sitting in front of a movie screen making wisecracks about what is going on for a couple minutes before the movie reverts back to being a non-commentated film.
This seems very interesting and useful... yet it only won second place. What form of earth-shattering ingenuity won first place? I can't find it anywhere.
How is falsely inflating banner views and click-throughs not fraud? You are defrauding the company in order that they will pay you for advertising that was never "aired" to the public.
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http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Forward-Project-Management-Portable/dp/0470247894
We used this book for my project management class in grad school. It's very easy to use and seek out specific information. The methodologies it explains are straightforward and easy to implement as well.
Sony Brand films are few and far between? Whaaa? From their website:
IN THEATERS
First Sunday
The Other Boleyn Girl
Saawariya
Southland Tales
This Christmas
Untraceable
Vantage Point
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
COMING SOON
21
88 Minutes
Hancock
Made Of Honor
Pineapple Express
Prom Night
Quantum of Solace
Step Brothers
You Don't Mess With The Zohan
And that doesn't include 17 movies from sony pictures classics.
People talking about Sony's financial woes drive me nuts. Sony is reporting quarterly and annual PROFITS. Go read their annual report before you talk about things you don't understand. The gaming division is posting losses, just like MSFT, but the company as a whole is reporting profits due to strength in their other arenas (notably consumer electronics/tvs and film), again, just like MSFT. Sony is not going bankrupt. They aren't seeing the returns they would have liked on the PS3, but they are FAR from insolvent.
Your summary of the case is incorrect. 6 years ago the *11th Circuit Court of Appeals* ruled that if a company wished to reproduce works done by a freelance photographer on a CD with an executable computer program to access the works, they needed to inform/pay royalties for the new use.
The US Supreme Court, in a separate decision (something like a week later), ruled that freelance writers had to be informed/paid if their work was made accessible in an online database.
In the dicta (notes) of their decision, the Supreme Court mentioned that online databases were dissimilar from microfiche archival copies (which have been allowed in the past). Now this is where it gets fuzzy: From what I can tell, a 2nd Circuit judge decided to take this *note* as "invalidating" the 11th Circuit decision (which disagreed with his own 2nd Circuit decision that he had made earlier) and he reopened it and reversed it, to bring the two appeals courts in line. The decision now says that making the work available on CD/DVD is just like putting it on microfiche, and thus allowed. It was somewhat shady, procedurally, and definitely unprecedented.
I had the exact same issue. The company issuing the Schedule K-1 form was running so late they FAXED it to me on March 31st. I could not complete my taxes until then. Granted I still sent them in a week ago, but aside from the K-1, my forms are fairly simple. If someone had large and varied investments/personal business assets to go through it could be a serious time constraint.
I absolutely love the Indiana Jones movies. I don't think the fact that the originals were made in the 80s will have a whole lot to do with how the new movie holds up as much as how they approach the character now that Harrison Ford is 20 years older.
I read a rumor somewhere (rotten tomatoes I think) that many of the old principals were going to come back, including the females from Raiders & Temple of Doom, which could be cool.
All in all, I hope they don't try to make Ford too much younger like Stallone did with Rocky... there are plenty of things that can be done with the story with an older Indiana Jones, it just means a post-war setting.
This is ridiculous. Please try to use some common sense. Have you ever worked in an auction house? The Christie's premium name to sellers/estates has to do with 2 things: The amount of money (people) they can bring to bid to an auction and the ACCURACY of their estimates. If an auction house tried to routinely lowball their estimates to generate interest, it would destroy any credibility they might have and it would have the exact opposite effect: People, unable to know whether or not estimates were legitimate or not, would not bid on items. Also, encouraging bidders to "step up to the plate" as you put it is the job of the auctioneer, who sets the opening bid, not the appraisers. Most items have a reserve price set by the seller, separate from the estimate put out by the appraisers, thus ensuring their independence and (when they get it right) their accuracy.
The Star Trek auction generated far more interest than the company expected. I went to Christie's before the auction and looked at all the items, and it is easy to see how they set the estimates where they did. Most of the stuff had very obviously been sitting unattended in a warehouse for an extended period of time, and Star Trek has been on the decline (in terms of viewership) for a while now. How would they know that the 40th anniversary sale would reawaken the inner geek in so many people with so much disposable income?
At least when I was in college, your tuition was somewhat tied to your level of coursework. There were minimum course requirements to be considered "full-time" and pay the full tuition, but there were also maximums on the # of credits you could take with the base full-time student tuition. Anything else cost more. With the number of scholarships and grants he had, it wouldn't have made a difference how long he was there, his cost (not including time) would have still stayed close to zero.
Over at blackboxvoting.org they have some more information about what tests were actually run on the machines, what they found, and what diebold's official response was. Apparently, BBV did not actually do the tests themselves, they arranged for 3rd party security experts to go in and do the analysis.
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Here's the link:
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-aut
It's on black box voting's website, so obviously it will be biased, but at least it gives more detail than the gloss-over provided by the tribune.
I agree the that the Eminent Domain ruling was stuuuuupid, but this ruling makes sense. People can still develop products to be used legally. If they happen to be used illegally, so what? As long as they don't promote it as such, they're good to go, as was clarified by the editor. Read before you post.
That will never happen. The article doesn't go into much detail aside from the press releases from the DivX group, but as far as I can tell, it still doesn't support multiple audio streams, like OGM and it's not open source either.
There will always be multiple codecs and file formats that correspond to different uses. DivX will be great for what the company is positioning it to do, which is provide a smaller, easier to transfer format with enough bells and whistles to cut into the highly-profitable DVD market.
Good Lord, who crapped in your cheerios this morning? A couple notes to your tirade:
1) Counterfeit versions of prescription drugs != drugs from Canada; that should be fairly obvious.
2) Clicking on a link that says it will take you to one thing, then takes you to another is most certainly doing something "unwittingly". Whether or not that person is a nitwit is irrelevant.
3) I would absolutely classify shutting down a spam gangs ring of websites as "bringing the hammer down". They are no longer operational, and are in court. The only thing left to do is to convict them and make them pay monetary damages.
Sheesh, mellow out, you should be happy you might actually start getting less spam.
You'll notice that every article talking about possible routes for the A380 refers to very long distance flights (US to Asia, US to India, etc) where point to point does not make sense. Point to point works extremely well for US travel, but once you need to go international, the hub and spoke system is a necessity, since you can't fill a plane daily with people who want to go from Albequerque(sp?) to Singapore.
I'll admit, I was paying attention to what you said in the first two paragraphs, but then you had to go and ruin it in the third. It would take too long to go line by line, but basically everything you say therein is false. My personal favorite? "Bankrupt out of those nasty medical bills." Do you not read the news? Needless to say, anyone can avoid "paying the bills" if they want to live like a hermit. Most, however, would prefer to live in comfort, and thus work to do so.
Then it sounds like you were watching it on a really crappy projector. The movie theater around the corner from my apartment has a digital projector in one of its theaters, and its absolutely fantastic. The image is crisp, unmarked, and *NOT* pixelated. At some theaters, they have garbage advertisements digitally projected at the beginning, and THOSE are crap quality, looking like a VCD blown up onto a movie screen, but the actual films on the new digital projectors are amazing.
Uh, you need to clarify that statement a bit. IIRC (I moved away 6 months ago) the super-duper freebox service from free.fr was only available in large metropolitan areas... basically Paris, and even then, not the entire city, just the majority of it. France is a lot more than just Paris. Your statement is the equivalent of me saying "Here in the US we have optimum online, which is 10mbps down and 4mbps up for only $XX a month", when in fact it is only available to customers in the Tri-State area that cablevision serves.
IANAL, but I believe you are wrong from the law classes I have taken, here's why: You are correct that in most states, employment is at-will, but they cannot fire you for ANY reason. At-will employment means that they can fire you for GOOD reason or for NO reason, but they cannot fire you for BAD reasons. Firing you for wearing a red shirt or for not getting it up with the wife are bad reasons, and you CANNOT be fired for them. The key, however, is being able to prove that you were fired for a bad reason. If you were able to prove that your employer fired you for wearing a red shirt that was not against company policy, then you would be entitled to sue for wrongful termination. It's not just limited to the biggies (race, sex, whistleblowing). Correct me if you have more information, but this is how my law textbook/professor explained it to us.
Mood: Gossipy Listening to: Rumours by Keith Sweat You won't believe what I heard today...
Reading back through the articles, it seems as if little effort/research was put into the articles. In the first one, the Creative Zen Micro, was listed as being "like the iPod Mini, [coming] in ten colors and [offering] 5GB of capacity." The iPod mini comes in 5 colors and offers 4GB of capacity. They also have the micro listed as retailing for $280 when it retails for $250. I only happen to know this because I just bought one, but if they can get so much wrong in one little blurb, I have little faith in the quality of the articles overall.
I don't know about other people, but for me, the radio is something that helps to pass the time when I'm doing something else. I listen to the radio when I'm driving my car, when I'm cleaning my house, when I'm having dinner, occassionally. Granted, I wish I could catch "Prairie Home Companion" more often, but oftentimes many broadcasts that are one-time appearances like that are available online after the fact anyway. Do people see a strong demand for an item like this? At $70? Only available as hookup to your PC?
Actually, I think the concept for MST3K was originally pulled from a 1941 Ole Olson and Chic Johnson flick called "Hellzapoppin". In the beginning of the film it shows two or three silhouetted characters sitting in front of a movie screen making wisecracks about what is going on for a couple minutes before the movie reverts back to being a non-commentated film.
Neat, Thank you.
This seems very interesting and useful... yet it only won second place. What form of earth-shattering ingenuity won first place? I can't find it anywhere.
How is falsely inflating banner views and click-throughs not fraud? You are defrauding the company in order that they will pay you for advertising that was never "aired" to the public.