And I honestly prefer HD-DVD; I have had less problems with playback. Blu-Ray playback is choppy (varies from disc to disc) unless I use something like AnyDVD to remove the encryption.
Well, at the risk of being mod'ed a troll, I'll play devil's advocate here. Perhaps if more GS employees and Military personnel were more competent at their jobs, they wouldn't need as many contractors. This is particularly a problem in the IT field. From what I've seen, the military personnel are never given the proper time to develop their skills in IT, with all the extraneous BS they have to do. They military aslo has the problem of recruiting people to do the same job as civilians for much less money, so the end result is there aren't many of them . Most of the competent GS personnel jump to contracting to make more money, and what you're left with, for the most part, is deadweight - people waiting around for their retirement pensions who have no interest in becoming better engineers or admins. They figure that technology has passed them by, so why bother. It's damn near impossible to fire a GS employee, so they know they're safe as long as they don't rape or kill someone.
I ran into the same thing in the Intelligence field. In my much-vocalized opinion, nearly half the GS employees at the agency I worked at were dead weight; we could cut them out and still get the mission done. Another reason you see outsourcing is the difficulty of getting people into GS positions that require clearances, and doing so in a timely manner (not 2-3 years). They can short cut through the bureaucracy by using contractors (who are often hired later on as full-time GS employees, after their paperwork has made it's way through the GS hiring process).
Ouch! that is awful, I was actually planning on getting a set of those speakers. I have the ?Z-560's but I want the digital connectivity of the Z-680's. Maybe I will hold off for awhile, or buy them locally so I can just carry them back if I have a problem.
You're not alone. I'm in the same boat; I just recently had to RMA my 9700 Pro (video RAM went bad), and wouldn't you know it, Doom3 goes gold. I really hope I can get it back in a reasonable amount of time.
DOH! You're right about that. But I think you would need an HDTV receiver in both cases. Not sure how the pricing would work under the proposal being talked about but our local cable company charges an extra $7 monthly "rental" fee for their HDTV receiver on top of the $51 a month base charge for digital cable. And they don't offer all the HDTV channels that I'm getting OTA.
It only cost me a one-time $23 investment for my UHF RadioShack antenna that delivers all the OTA HDTV programming I want from ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS.
Why would I want to start paying a monthly fee again for some highly-regulated, monopolized system that will most assuredly introduce a whole new slew of security issues?
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And I honestly prefer HD-DVD; I have had less problems with playback. Blu-Ray playback is choppy (varies from disc to disc) unless I use something like AnyDVD to remove the encryption.
Well, at the risk of being mod'ed a troll, I'll play devil's advocate here. Perhaps if more GS employees and Military personnel were more competent at their jobs, they wouldn't need as many contractors. This is particularly a problem in the IT field. From what I've seen, the military personnel are never given the proper time to develop their skills in IT, with all the extraneous BS they have to do. They military aslo has the problem of recruiting people to do the same job as civilians for much less money, so the end result is there aren't many of them . Most of the competent GS personnel jump to contracting to make more money, and what you're left with, for the most part, is deadweight - people waiting around for their retirement pensions who have no interest in becoming better engineers or admins. They figure that technology has passed them by, so why bother. It's damn near impossible to fire a GS employee, so they know they're safe as long as they don't rape or kill someone. I ran into the same thing in the Intelligence field. In my much-vocalized opinion, nearly half the GS employees at the agency I worked at were dead weight; we could cut them out and still get the mission done. Another reason you see outsourcing is the difficulty of getting people into GS positions that require clearances, and doing so in a timely manner (not 2-3 years). They can short cut through the bureaucracy by using contractors (who are often hired later on as full-time GS employees, after their paperwork has made it's way through the GS hiring process).
One rootkit to rule them all, one rootkit to find them. One rootkit to bring them all and in the kernel bind them.
Ouch! that is awful, I was actually planning on getting a set of those speakers. I have the ?Z-560's but I want the digital connectivity of the Z-680's. Maybe I will hold off for awhile, or buy them locally so I can just carry them back if I have a problem.
You're not alone. I'm in the same boat; I just recently had to RMA my 9700 Pro (video RAM went bad), and wouldn't you know it, Doom3 goes gold. I really hope I can get it back in a reasonable amount of time.
DOH! You're right about that. But I think you would need an HDTV receiver in both cases. Not sure how the pricing would work under the proposal being talked about but our local cable company charges an extra $7 monthly "rental" fee for their HDTV receiver on top of the $51 a month base charge for digital cable. And they don't offer all the HDTV channels that I'm getting OTA.
It only cost me a one-time $23 investment for my UHF RadioShack antenna that delivers all the OTA HDTV programming I want from ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS. Why would I want to start paying a monthly fee again for some highly-regulated, monopolized system that will most assuredly introduce a whole new slew of security issues?
Microsoft's claims courtesy of Sterling Ball, CEO of Ernie Ball Guitar strings.