You realize that Microsoft got in trouble for that right? Given the current climate it's okay for Apple to do it legally but if Microsoft included all the apps that Apple does then they'd be back in court the next day.
I think you wildly misunderstand the difference between "This looks great!" and I'm willing to pay more than I've ever spent on a TV before, buy an expensive player, and spend a whole lot more on movies than ever before so I too can have this setup!
The fact of the matter is, when DVDs entered the scene people could take immediate advantage of the picture quality. With BD, you have to buy a new TV and your new player which dramatically increases the cost of adoption. Combine that with the prices of HDMI cables and the lack of competition there making their prices artificially inflated and you have a high cost all around. It is ever harder to transport an LCD when you move than it was for a CRT. So you've got a whole lot of negatives for the positives like high quality video and audio that is higher quality than their receiver and speakers are likely to be able to reproduce.
Because it's not a liberal position? Seriously, gun hating was a democratic line item in the 70s and in the 80's when there was a lot of gun violence in America. This was when the democratic party was considered liberal and when being liberal became a bad word. The democratic party is now more conservative than the republican party on almost all current issues. Of course with the old issues republicans are holding fast ie. Roe v Wade.
As a contrast, I come from a very liberal state where civil unions exist and almost all Vermonters love their guns. Howard Dean, ranks kind of high in the democratic rank was our governor for a great many years and also supports such right advocating education rather than prohibition. In Vermont you learn how to use a gun properly and then surprise surprise you don't wind up with a lot of kids shooting themselves or others by accident.
I'm sorry, but what have you been smoking? I think I need some. People defined as liberal are rarely if ever the ones shouting down the opposition. If anything they like to talk everything out too much so nothing ever gets done. This is why the democratic party is so fragmented and why they frequently lose in elections because they don't have solidarity.
You seem to be describing the current republican party labeling descent as unAmerican or non-patriotic. As Stephen Colbert likes to say, "Why do you hate America?"
There is no mental defect in either way of thinking, there are well reasoned debaters on both sides and there are really bad opinions on both sides. What childish antics are you referring to when referring to "liberals?" I'm honestly curious because it's entirely possible I've been hiding in a cave the last 8 years.
For those of us with NetApp SAN storage we use A-SIS to dedup all of those files so we only store them once even if they are referenced in one hundred locations. This dramatically reduces storage requirements at the cost of cpu cycles at night while it scans all the new files and determines if any are duplicates.
You're also making an assumption that all data is user generated and not automated which could include log files for access times and in the case of my company 100gigs a day of security footage which we don't retain longer than 30 days. Whenever there is an incident that video is retained though.
The cost per gig is on par with what I've seen after deploying a 30tb SAN along side my 60TB SAN. 168 drives in the large SAN, a good number of them are fibre channel drives too which are quite costly.
Add in the cost of fabric switching, HBAs for servers and the cost per gig rises pretty fast in an enterprise environment. Now factor in the cost of tape backup which may or may not be contracted with iron mountain for a year long cycle and the cost rises even more with the cost of a tape library for a 60TB. There is also storage system redundancy if data access is critical to the company which is why I have two SANs instead of one but that doubles the current cost per gig.
$5/gig is actually pretty decent from estimates I've seen, $15/gig wouldn't necessarily be out of the question for those that need to stay up.
Don't forget, there is the cost of cooling, electricity in general, switching equipment, alternate pathing, offsite live backup, offsite offline backup like Iron mountain, and any number of other factors including the cost of backup software and other data management software combined with enterprise antivirus and encryption strategies.
I don't admire Bill in any way, but the parent was stating falsehoods trying to defend republicans.
The growth problem was not caused by Bush alone but he did everything in his power to make it worse, of course congress is really to blame which was republican controlled. Imagine that, now that it's democratically controlled things are getting better in the market. Of course I don't think that particular situation is indicative that democrats are doing a good job right now as they don't seem to be doing anything appreciative at this point.
I think the improved numbers are a result of hope that things will get better because the next president won't do all the same things that Bush did and congress won't spend irresponsibly anymore. Hopefully no more unfunded mandates either.
I think most people would be hard pressed to state local radio stations off the top of their head that aren't controlled by Clear Channel and thus the RIAA.
The other issue is that they've always been up against massive websites with thousands of listeners or even millions so since they didn't get their first they will try whatever means to close it down. In the case of Pandora, it is in no one's best interest to close it down since they already have a large membership but they can't afford increased licensing fees because of the licensing structure. The structure itself is what is screwing Pandora over since every user typically has multiple stations and you have to pay per station. I know my account is no exception but I have over 20 stations just for me. That's already a large amount of money that Pandora must pay just for me let alone all of their other listeners who I'm sure have an even larger number of stations than I.
Where are you getting your unemployment numbers from? Clinton started with high unemployment and ended with the lowest unemployment. Growth was consistent. Compare that with Bush where there was a clear increase in unemployment when he took office and even now hasn't recovered.
I won't make you take my word for it though. Link here
All of this also coincides with salary decreases which are only now starting to recover although when adjusted for the fact that the dollar is worth 30% less now than it was four years ago and reality doesn't seem to reflect your statements. Can you please support it in some way? Carter and Reagan years were definitely not the era of responsible spending but Clinton left office with a balanced budget with a projected surplus so it is hard for anyone to take your argument seriously off hand.
Please enlighten me as I'm clearly missing some key information.
Are you seriously suggesting that it is a good thing that people are buying food over luxuries like mp3s?
Do you understand what that implies? It means that everything is more expensive so people can't afford the luxuries anymore and have to buy the necessities to keep living.
Anyone having to choose between food and crappy newspapers is not doing well and this does not serve your point well if you believe "change" isn't necessary at this point. There is no global change back to commodities, the dollar is weaker and so it doesn't get us as much in trade which is why oil prices have skyrocketed for those us out in the real world.
With a stance like that I perhaps just fed a troll, that's just incredible, well done!
Depends on whether they are using iTunes 7 first. If they were already an iTunes user they are familiar with the suck that it is and will place the blame squarely on Apple.
Of course since the Slashdot folk don't seem to agree on who is to blame I would think that the public at large would also be split.
This was not my experience with any recent ipod especially if it wasn't setup for USB storage to begin with like 99% of the people out there have not done.
I'll agree letting pictures being taken is not the brightest but in some circles some actions are innocuous while other people might take offense to them.
As for the company they keep, the only way you can tell anything about them is by getting to know them. Just because one picture or even a dozen pictures were taken with a bad crowd doesn't mean you always hang out with that crowd. Friends are usually the result of convenience, the people that live around you or the people you work with or some combination there of. That philosophy was never a good way to judge people. How many of us nice guys have been around bad people trying to help them get better?
Honestly, when I go out drinking on Friday or Saturday night my head is much clearer on Monday as I've had proper time to unwind.
I don't think anyone is saying that they shouldn't look but that it is unwise to disqualify them because of something that is probably being taken out of context. How many guys on myspace post pics of them at parties to make it look like they are fun even if they only go out once every six months?
Your leap doesn't work. I know hundreds of people that smoke pot and wouldn't steal. No, you cannot infer anything about their work performance from their personal life.
Personal lives affect everyone's job performance, how many parents have been stressed out because of their kids while at work? How many have had arguments with their significant others that impact their job performance.
Most jobs in our world take up significant portions of our lives. Routinely my job consumes my life as I work excessive amounts of overtime before, during, and after events that we put on. This obviously causes stress on relationships which impacts job performance, of course so does the fact that I work on the job site until 4am returning to work at 6am the same morning. When a company takes that much out of you, you kind of develop strong feelings about what little personal life you have left. The company has no business asking anything of me during my time away. If I can't perform my job there is a problem, if I can, then there isn't. My work speaks for itself which is why job history and an interview are all you really need to hire someone.
Sorry but some people don't think smoking pot is irresponsible even if it is illegal. Technically destroying a penny is illegal, how many have smashed as part of science experiments?
It is also worth noting that what people do while they are away on vacation does not reflect how they will behave in the work place. The pictures also may look like the person is out of control when in fact it is quite the opposite.
I know in one instance for me personally there was a picture of me dancing with a girl and I was annoyed that night specifically because I was DD so I couldn't drink and I had to be responsible, nevertheless, the picture showed they were drinking.
In short, a worker's personal life is no business of the company unless it is impacting work performance.
Work history and interview performance is all you really need to determine if they are a good fit for the vast majority of companies out there.
Amazing what happens when Microsoft becomes militant and requires strict driver guidelines for XP Media Center. Many people have had similar experiences as you. Vista Media Center is much improved but it is more intensive on the hardware. It's more friendly if you can support it though.
Also worth noting. iTunes 7 works just fine on Vista. These kinds of issues are always going to happen with dealing with the proprietary world of Apple.
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Came with XP SP1, SP2, and SP3 retail and OEM releases.
I think you are referring to Outlook Express as Windows Mail is actually a new product and is far superior.
You realize that Microsoft got in trouble for that right? Given the current climate it's okay for Apple to do it legally but if Microsoft included all the apps that Apple does then they'd be back in court the next day.
I think you wildly misunderstand the difference between "This looks great!" and I'm willing to pay more than I've ever spent on a TV before, buy an expensive player, and spend a whole lot more on movies than ever before so I too can have this setup!
The fact of the matter is, when DVDs entered the scene people could take immediate advantage of the picture quality. With BD, you have to buy a new TV and your new player which dramatically increases the cost of adoption. Combine that with the prices of HDMI cables and the lack of competition there making their prices artificially inflated and you have a high cost all around. It is ever harder to transport an LCD when you move than it was for a CRT. So you've got a whole lot of negatives for the positives like high quality video and audio that is higher quality than their receiver and speakers are likely to be able to reproduce.
Well said, I think there is a lot of truth to this as well.
Because it's not a liberal position? Seriously, gun hating was a democratic line item in the 70s and in the 80's when there was a lot of gun violence in America. This was when the democratic party was considered liberal and when being liberal became a bad word. The democratic party is now more conservative than the republican party on almost all current issues. Of course with the old issues republicans are holding fast ie. Roe v Wade.
As a contrast, I come from a very liberal state where civil unions exist and almost all Vermonters love their guns. Howard Dean, ranks kind of high in the democratic rank was our governor for a great many years and also supports such right advocating education rather than prohibition. In Vermont you learn how to use a gun properly and then surprise surprise you don't wind up with a lot of kids shooting themselves or others by accident.
I'm sorry, but what have you been smoking? I think I need some. People defined as liberal are rarely if ever the ones shouting down the opposition. If anything they like to talk everything out too much so nothing ever gets done. This is why the democratic party is so fragmented and why they frequently lose in elections because they don't have solidarity.
You seem to be describing the current republican party labeling descent as unAmerican or non-patriotic. As Stephen Colbert likes to say, "Why do you hate America?"
There is no mental defect in either way of thinking, there are well reasoned debaters on both sides and there are really bad opinions on both sides. What childish antics are you referring to when referring to "liberals?" I'm honestly curious because it's entirely possible I've been hiding in a cave the last 8 years.
I had the same question and stumbled upon WICD and never looked back. It's fantastic. Install Instructions
If it's all live storage then it makes all the more sense at 10GB total would be 5GB across both units in my case.
For those of us with NetApp SAN storage we use A-SIS to dedup all of those files so we only store them once even if they are referenced in one hundred locations. This dramatically reduces storage requirements at the cost of cpu cycles at night while it scans all the new files and determines if any are duplicates.
You're also making an assumption that all data is user generated and not automated which could include log files for access times and in the case of my company 100gigs a day of security footage which we don't retain longer than 30 days. Whenever there is an incident that video is retained though.
The cost per gig is on par with what I've seen after deploying a 30tb SAN along side my 60TB SAN. 168 drives in the large SAN, a good number of them are fibre channel drives too which are quite costly.
Add in the cost of fabric switching, HBAs for servers and the cost per gig rises pretty fast in an enterprise environment. Now factor in the cost of tape backup which may or may not be contracted with iron mountain for a year long cycle and the cost rises even more with the cost of a tape library for a 60TB. There is also storage system redundancy if data access is critical to the company which is why I have two SANs instead of one but that doubles the current cost per gig.
$5/gig is actually pretty decent from estimates I've seen, $15/gig wouldn't necessarily be out of the question for those that need to stay up.
Don't forget, there is the cost of cooling, electricity in general, switching equipment, alternate pathing, offsite live backup, offsite offline backup like Iron mountain, and any number of other factors including the cost of backup software and other data management software combined with enterprise antivirus and encryption strategies.
Besides the fact that the two are long time partners due to the nature of their respective business there is also this.
I don't admire Bill in any way, but the parent was stating falsehoods trying to defend republicans.
The growth problem was not caused by Bush alone but he did everything in his power to make it worse, of course congress is really to blame which was republican controlled. Imagine that, now that it's democratically controlled things are getting better in the market. Of course I don't think that particular situation is indicative that democrats are doing a good job right now as they don't seem to be doing anything appreciative at this point.
I think the improved numbers are a result of hope that things will get better because the next president won't do all the same things that Bush did and congress won't spend irresponsibly anymore. Hopefully no more unfunded mandates either.
I think most people would be hard pressed to state local radio stations off the top of their head that aren't controlled by Clear Channel and thus the RIAA.
The other issue is that they've always been up against massive websites with thousands of listeners or even millions so since they didn't get their first they will try whatever means to close it down. In the case of Pandora, it is in no one's best interest to close it down since they already have a large membership but they can't afford increased licensing fees because of the licensing structure. The structure itself is what is screwing Pandora over since every user typically has multiple stations and you have to pay per station. I know my account is no exception but I have over 20 stations just for me. That's already a large amount of money that Pandora must pay just for me let alone all of their other listeners who I'm sure have an even larger number of stations than I.
Hate to reply to my own post but I neglected to reference my salary statement. Reference here
Where are you getting your unemployment numbers from? Clinton started with high unemployment and ended with the lowest unemployment. Growth was consistent. Compare that with Bush where there was a clear increase in unemployment when he took office and even now hasn't recovered.
I won't make you take my word for it though. Link here
All of this also coincides with salary decreases which are only now starting to recover although when adjusted for the fact that the dollar is worth 30% less now than it was four years ago and reality doesn't seem to reflect your statements. Can you please support it in some way? Carter and Reagan years were definitely not the era of responsible spending but Clinton left office with a balanced budget with a projected surplus so it is hard for anyone to take your argument seriously off hand.
Please enlighten me as I'm clearly missing some key information.
Are you seriously suggesting that it is a good thing that people are buying food over luxuries like mp3s?
Do you understand what that implies? It means that everything is more expensive so people can't afford the luxuries anymore and have to buy the necessities to keep living.
Anyone having to choose between food and crappy newspapers is not doing well and this does not serve your point well if you believe "change" isn't necessary at this point. There is no global change back to commodities, the dollar is weaker and so it doesn't get us as much in trade which is why oil prices have skyrocketed for those us out in the real world.
With a stance like that I perhaps just fed a troll, that's just incredible, well done!
Depends on whether they are using iTunes 7 first. If they were already an iTunes user they are familiar with the suck that it is and will place the blame squarely on Apple.
Of course since the Slashdot folk don't seem to agree on who is to blame I would think that the public at large would also be split.
It sounds like we agree on principle then. You weren't advocating that it is fair but that it is likely to happen and I agree with that.
This was not my experience with any recent ipod especially if it wasn't setup for USB storage to begin with like 99% of the people out there have not done.
I'll agree letting pictures being taken is not the brightest but in some circles some actions are innocuous while other people might take offense to them.
As for the company they keep, the only way you can tell anything about them is by getting to know them. Just because one picture or even a dozen pictures were taken with a bad crowd doesn't mean you always hang out with that crowd. Friends are usually the result of convenience, the people that live around you or the people you work with or some combination there of. That philosophy was never a good way to judge people. How many of us nice guys have been around bad people trying to help them get better?
Honestly, when I go out drinking on Friday or Saturday night my head is much clearer on Monday as I've had proper time to unwind.
I don't think anyone is saying that they shouldn't look but that it is unwise to disqualify them because of something that is probably being taken out of context. How many guys on myspace post pics of them at parties to make it look like they are fun even if they only go out once every six months?
Your leap doesn't work. I know hundreds of people that smoke pot and wouldn't steal. No, you cannot infer anything about their work performance from their personal life.
Personal lives affect everyone's job performance, how many parents have been stressed out because of their kids while at work? How many have had arguments with their significant others that impact their job performance.
Most jobs in our world take up significant portions of our lives. Routinely my job consumes my life as I work excessive amounts of overtime before, during, and after events that we put on. This obviously causes stress on relationships which impacts job performance, of course so does the fact that I work on the job site until 4am returning to work at 6am the same morning. When a company takes that much out of you, you kind of develop strong feelings about what little personal life you have left. The company has no business asking anything of me during my time away. If I can't perform my job there is a problem, if I can, then there isn't. My work speaks for itself which is why job history and an interview are all you really need to hire someone.
Sorry but some people don't think smoking pot is irresponsible even if it is illegal. Technically destroying a penny is illegal, how many have smashed as part of science experiments?
It is also worth noting that what people do while they are away on vacation does not reflect how they will behave in the work place. The pictures also may look like the person is out of control when in fact it is quite the opposite.
I know in one instance for me personally there was a picture of me dancing with a girl and I was annoyed that night specifically because I was DD so I couldn't drink and I had to be responsible, nevertheless, the picture showed they were drinking.
In short, a worker's personal life is no business of the company unless it is impacting work performance.
Work history and interview performance is all you really need to determine if they are a good fit for the vast majority of companies out there.
Amazing what happens when Microsoft becomes militant and requires strict driver guidelines for XP Media Center. Many people have had similar experiences as you. Vista Media Center is much improved but it is more intensive on the hardware. It's more friendly if you can support it though.
Also worth noting. iTunes 7 works just fine on Vista. These kinds of issues are always going to happen with dealing with the proprietary world of Apple.