Many of us in the Autism community (I'm Dx as Aspergers not too long ago)
have been saying since the beginning that it was fraudulent as I've read time
and time again that it was a false claim. I've always used a line: "it was a doctor that
worked for a lawyer that sued pharmaceutical companies that started it" to
explain the whole immunization / Autism fallacy.
Of course the majority of the public still believes that you can catch "a human
virus" from a computer virus. And some even believe that
rainbows in sprinkler water
is proof of pollution.
This is a common attitude towards PWDs (People With Disabilities - like me). Complaints should be about a government that won't provide assistance to businesses (beyond the petty amounts that DO exist like wage reduction assistance I qualify for, etc.) and the public that thinks that no tax money should go to assist businesses and others regarding disability access issues.
If people got what they wanted, all PWDs would be unemployed (instead of the 80% unemployment rate for deaf / hard of hearing, 60% average for all PWDs), homeless, jailed, locked up somewhere else, or just killed off.
Progressive society is about fighting such prejudice and give all people nearly equal opportunities to pursue what is generically call "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness) instead of limiting who can to a precious few.
As noted in the article linked by beetle496 there is plenty of closed captioning like devices out there and the primary one used is rear window captioning: a device that reflects a text display that is in the back of the theater.
Open captioning is rare and usually for showings mainly targeted for the Deaf community.
So don't worry, no one is going to shove open captioning down anyone's throat!;-)
You know your old when you remember "Where's the Beef?".
Anyway, I differ from LWATCDR in that I think that violence on TV & movies is actually far worse and more influential of a person. What's on TV & movies is so realistic plus it involves actual people doing the stunts rather than a bunch of pixels running around a screen. Computer games are just so fake it's very difficult to find any connection to real world violence as easily. All I see when I play is a bunch of colored pixels resembling things and people and until we reach a reality threshold point (I think that's decades away for the average computer & video game, but that's my guess).
But I had a thought earlier today (remembering what I'm sure I heard somewhere) that violent games are a piece of the puzzle of telling when someone is going to go "Columbine" on society (no offense intended Colorado et al). An obsession with playing violent video games AND, and I cannot emphasis the 'and' enough, other things like using guns in a non safe fashion (like shooting BB guns at animals) plus loads of other psychological indicators adding up to violent tendencies that then indicate a serious need for counseling and other help or treatment prevention of trouble with the person.
The problem is that most people focus on a single item as the blame for a given problem and miss out on all the pieces necessary to tell what is really going on.
But instead of using a violent video game obsession as a small piece of the evaluation of the person they miss out on determining whether a person is going to commit a serious act of violence they obsess with it, and other "blame of the moment" things, and don't see who is really going to be violent and who is just playing a computer game.
It's like a variation of the crude example I use that the person like a parent of a child that is obsessed with using violent video games, and not much else in this example, says that their game obsessed child is going to be violent whereas their other child that almost never plays a violent game but does have other indicative obsessions of violence goes out and commits serious acts of violence with the parent saying "he did that? He was never violent...".
They just don't get it. Get rid of the tool to evaluate the person and place false blame. The tax is dumb. I think it should be used to educate the politicians on how to NOT place false blame and do the right thing.
Anyway, in defense of a little bit about the freebee's outrage:
1. the government some decades ago gave land away for free to homesteaders, after having registered as an owner the property the owners would start to have rights though they (except a registration fee?) got the land for free from the government.
2. most of the free hosting sites post (obnoxious) advertising on the 'free' hosted web page(s) so the site is generating an income as a sort of payment of "rent", per the metaphor, so there is a sort of "right" involved, but it's still Caveat Emptore.
But I'm not whining at all but grinning. I've never trusted those free sites and keep a backup of all of them (yea, more than one!) locally. So it's no big whoop to me.
I do think that as a consumer there should be a right (and especially for businesses) for PAID hosting to have a mandatory 60 day period for "evictions" allowing a person to change hosts and maybe an additional 90 days for a forwarding link or service (paid by the host).
Yea! I finally found comments with someone talking about the railroad side of the equation. It was good reading about the SUV opinions but not what was asked / suggested.
Detroit building RR equipment? Not likely to happen (EMD* was the exception). Bad management doesn't build railway equipment well. Since the customer is the railroads who are (snigger) more intelligent and pickier buyers than us citizens who will take crap there would be no buyer for GM/Chrysler/Ford railway equipment NOT done by EMD or GE. Yea, I'm driving a falling apart '86 Chrysler Clunker.;-)
*GM BTW used to own EMD (Electro Motive Division), a loco builder. I had missed out on it or forgot but I just looked it up and found out that the dumb*** GM sold of that division in 2005!
But that doesn't mean Detroit can get into railway equipment manufacturing. The assembly of locomotives and railcars is radically different and would require an insane amount of money to rebuild the buildings or build new ones to do railway equipment that most likely wouldn't sell well due to the anti-rail climate in the U.S. A Chrysler equivalent of an AC4400 engine? Who'd buy it?;-)
And starting from scratch building complex and radically different equipment from the automobile (rolling stock or loco) would be nightmarishly impossible as well and can fail easily. Just look at Colorado Railcar.
Right now the railroads are parking a massive amount of locomotives not because they are being replaced but more likely because of slowing need. And there is a horrendous amount of anti-rail opinion out there. As an example right now there is a lot of anger about talk of opening back up to normal use ("hundreds of trains a day", yea right was more like a dozen at most and a long way down the road after fixing up the track) of a rail line near where I live! The line was never abandoned but everyone was stupid enough to think it was or believe the real estate agents so their angry. And there was a big legal fight in a nearby county to stop the rail line there from being rebuilt and put back into operation for a commute line.
I just don't think it will happen in many, many decades. A lot of people are making excuses about how the rail lines would fail (passenger or otherwise) or other reasons to keep it from happening. I was very surprised the high speed rail initiative here in California passed! And barely the BART extension to San Jose.
And worse for the most part the government doesn't subsidize the tracks like they do with freeways. The rail lines own the tracks and you'd hear a horrible complaining noise from the public about using tax dollars to build or buy rail lines. Let alone equipment.
The fight and complaints about Amtrak is a good example of the problems of passenger service. Mass transit is a bad word in the United States.
Oh come on! MOST companies are like this with most customers. Even those with 'good' service have this happen occasionally too. And get away with it.
"All" MBA's are 'taught' that customer support is a low priority. So is my field: QA (software).
Yea, I'm no fan of Palm either. Their handling of the lawsuit replacement of the ridiculous defect of my antique M125 didn't help my feelings towards them.
I wish PDA's weren't "dying" as I hate cell phones and have no use for them with my hearing problems and lack of TDD/TTY support.
Um, not the computer TTY, it's the name now used commonly for the text telephone. And I hate thumb keyboards and the resulting thumb injuries on the Blackberrys.;-)
All this is giving me a headache. Ok, not really but I sure can't decode that sort of thing. And someone did mention billboards with simply crypted text which was for job openings at the company. Not a good filter as people will talk.
At least I got the code at the bottom of the slashdot page (bunch of letters about a job as.. programming - I won't reveal ) as I can decode a few things (file names, variable names, such like that) but not this dang letter!
I can just imagine the original writer reading all this and laughing is a** off. I think the translations are correct and the names, initials in the middle of the page, etc. will make sense to someone at Fermilab but not really important.
I think it may be a conspiracy to make people spend all their time decoding for almost nothing just for the amusement of the writer. Or maybe even to cause masses of good programmers to bury their time decrypting it and not getting work done for some purpose.
I've been "lazy" reading everyone's attempt to decode just to see what it might be about as I shouldn't spend so much time on such things except to exercise my brain? That's where I got the name and initials, otherwise I haven't done decoding but looking back at the image to see if it rings true. And no, the random dots are not a code as it is a fax and oh I know noise on faxes all too well from a company I worked for that did a product using ICR. The dots would have to be on the original and most all faxes will get noise (if not 100%).
Dis esplains why I can't get not programming work! I dun not knows hows to read the bin dump.
Never mind my engwish is bwad.;-)
I'm joking about my English though I need to take a class on "English as a Programming Language" geared for us techies as I'm not very proficient in English as I was in C.
I've never modified a binary nor have I read a core dump since that is all in Hex and I can't even "read" binary as it takes MINUTES for me to calculate ONE 16 bit binary into a ASCII number. I have looked at a core dump file (I think, it's been a long time, what UNIX program did I use?) but without Assembler (or such) experience I couldn't make any sense of it as the "last lines" with translated ASCII of my recognizable string text from the source code was not really a pointer to the problem. I needed to read the 'code' itself (as in Assembler like stuff if I knew it) and variables information if present to see the pointer to the place where the code started to go wrong.
But I will be going for a BS degree and I hope that whatever University I can get into (being poverty stricken and old it's going to be a major problem) would teach that.
Wait... What they don't teach reading core dumps and modifying executables? Bummer...
Of course NEVER admit you can read core dumps, etc. to a pointy haired hiring manager or their cohorts!!!
I was so proud of my programming and SQA skills and now I feel like a smuck!
Since the domain services allow 3 letters I think.sue is better.
So.su me.:-) Of course I don't want Dot or her lawyers suing me so this is just a joke, please don't sue me Dot.
I wonder if anyone is going to start acronym top level domains? Like if 4 letters were allowed: www.hard-drives.scsi.
And last but not least: I think that the top level domain names like.su can have changing meanings per owners and the public opinion unless ICANN forces them to only be used for a certain registered group like.gov for only real legitimate government agencies.
I don't think anyone brought this up: those stores missed out on sales oppurtunities! They should have been pushing the converters with the TV sets.
"Now that you've bought the [analog] TV, you realize that in over a year it won't receive antennae broadcasts? Buy this [overpriced] converter for it." And also a power line conditioner, and gold cables, and dust covers, and cleaners, and warrenty, and so on. The consumer walks out with a $150 TV and $200 of extras!
Talk about missing sales by not stating that ALL analog TV's purchased there "must" have a converter sold with it! Of course with "persuasive" sales pitch wording!
I always thought Wikipedia was "old tech". I'd love to work at that place to develop "new tech". If I had time to read this garbage;-) posted here I'd know what was going on there. Time and money. I have neither!:-|
Imagine hardware parts like those 5 cent washers with RFID chips on them! Or other items where it can be knocked or worn off while packing & shipping to the retailers!
Costs will go up to make RFID work! Hardware better for manual counting by clerks. Groceries are for RFID!
Oh? You mean like Altos computers? Funny, I don't remember them being all that big!;-)
Ok, wise guys, Altos 1086 / 2086 were still single CPU systems with multiple slot style 10" X 12" phenolic boards of which ONE was CPU, 2 were RAM, 1 or more serial ports, etc. I just had to get my meetoo.
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I'm still trying to find "entry level" positions while I go for a BA degree that seems to be "required". BTW I'm 46. Not one of this dipstick kids these days that have an 'easy' time getting jobs if they just knew what I know about job hunting!!!
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I'm always swamped with work to do whether employed or NOT and desperate for money and yet all this dipwads have time for this?
Sheesh! I wish I was so well employed! Right now I'm fighting for housing and hoping I can keep a job if I can ever get one again!
"Oh! Your too disabled to work here!" and other B.S. disguised by: "we found someone more qualified".
The Beta Vs. VHS wars was because the PHYSICAL formats of the cartridges were incompatible! What we have is that a bit of 'programming' can have a player the supports BOTH formats (Blu-ray vs HD-DVD) so both companies can produce thier own discs and "my format only" players but other companies can produce players that support BOTH formats so neither can "win" early on.
Then either company makes money on making the disks and getting royalties on that disk format from the companies that buy the disks that they produce or from the production of the disk format itself.
Neither format should be totally exclusive. It's possible that both require a separate laser as the color may be different but even that cost is so low now that it may not make players of both formats more expensive at all!
Of course these companies can shoot themselves in the foot and require EXCLUSIVE contracts for their format excluding the competing format of ALL companies that buy a license to produce and then it's anybody's guess who wins!
So both companies can produce and support their format in these so called 'wars' and make money IF they don't do the exclusive B.S. and we can support and use ANY format supported by multi-format players. There never was (AFAIK) a Beta AND VHS player unit (that sold well)!
By the way: does anybody know who won the DVD-RW DVD+RW format wars? I didn't keep track.
Bam! Right on the money! I too am in desperate need of getting
laid! Hey that guy in the movie "Forty Year Old Virgin" still has a long
way to catch up with me!
I remember. It's an old lesson in consumerism. Consumerism is
"fashion-ability" based. But "dead" is just a fashion term. Tight western shirts
were declared "dead" and now they are making a comeback for the moment in youth
fashion (whatever).
The item never fully goes away as "dead" implies. It just is going into
disfavor. The writer is stating that it's peaked and going on a downslide.
VHS is on a downslide. Technically 8-track is at the end of the downslide.
Hmmm, I wonder if 8-tracks are coming back? Unique analog sound like 33
1/3 phonographs are in their own way!
HD-DVD is a recording format change from the standard DVD video recording
format. I think DVD's format may need some updating. And the
capacity also needs to be increased but the new 'DVD' format drives & players
should be backwards compatible playing the standard DVD's. We'll see.
I'm not on any of those 'standards' committees yet!
"Oh! Lets try this concept in the new format...":-)
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Many of us in the Autism community (I'm Dx as Aspergers not too long ago) have been saying since the beginning that it was fraudulent as I've read time and time again that it was a false claim. I've always used a line: "it was a doctor that worked for a lawyer that sued pharmaceutical companies that started it" to explain the whole immunization / Autism fallacy.
Of course the majority of the public still believes that you can catch "a human virus" from a computer virus. And some even believe that rainbows in sprinkler water is proof of pollution.
This is a common attitude towards PWDs (People With Disabilities - like me). Complaints should be about a government that won't provide assistance to businesses (beyond the petty amounts that DO exist like wage reduction assistance I qualify for, etc.) and the public that thinks that no tax money should go to assist businesses and others regarding disability access issues.
If people got what they wanted, all PWDs would be unemployed (instead of the 80% unemployment rate for deaf / hard of hearing, 60% average for all PWDs), homeless, jailed, locked up somewhere else, or just killed off.
Progressive society is about fighting such prejudice and give all people nearly equal opportunities to pursue what is generically call "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness) instead of limiting who can to a precious few.
As noted in the article linked by beetle496 there is plenty of closed captioning like devices out there and the primary one used is rear window captioning: a device that reflects a text display that is in the back of the theater.
Open captioning is rare and usually for showings mainly targeted for the Deaf community.
So don't worry, no one is going to shove open captioning down anyone's throat! ;-)
You know your old when you remember "Where's the Beef?".
Anyway, I differ from LWATCDR in that I think that violence on TV & movies is actually far worse and more influential of a person. What's on TV & movies is so realistic plus it involves actual people doing the stunts rather than a bunch of pixels running around a screen. Computer games are just so fake it's very difficult to find any connection to real world violence as easily. All I see when I play is a bunch of colored pixels resembling things and people and until we reach a reality threshold point (I think that's decades away for the average computer & video game, but that's my guess).
But I had a thought earlier today (remembering what I'm sure I heard somewhere) that violent games are a piece of the puzzle of telling when someone is going to go "Columbine" on society (no offense intended Colorado et al). An obsession with playing violent video games AND, and I cannot emphasis the 'and' enough, other things like using guns in a non safe fashion (like shooting BB guns at animals) plus loads of other psychological indicators adding up to violent tendencies that then indicate a serious need for counseling and other help or treatment prevention of trouble with the person.
The problem is that most people focus on a single item as the blame for a given problem and miss out on all the pieces necessary to tell what is really going on.
But instead of using a violent video game obsession as a small piece of the evaluation of the person they miss out on determining whether a person is going to commit a serious act of violence they obsess with it, and other "blame of the moment" things, and don't see who is really going to be violent and who is just playing a computer game.
It's like a variation of the crude example I use that the person like a parent of a child that is obsessed with using violent video games, and not much else in this example, says that their game obsessed child is going to be violent whereas their other child that almost never plays a violent game but does have other indicative obsessions of violence goes out and commits serious acts of violence with the parent saying "he did that? He was never violent...".
They just don't get it. Get rid of the tool to evaluate the person and place false blame. The tax is dumb. I think it should be used to educate the politicians on how to NOT place false blame and do the right thing.
Um, BTW, it's "ludicrous speed"...
Anyway, in defense of a little bit about the freebee's outrage:
1. the government some decades ago gave land away for free to homesteaders, after having registered as an owner the property the owners would start to have rights though they (except a registration fee?) got the land for free from the government.
2. most of the free hosting sites post (obnoxious) advertising on the 'free' hosted web page(s) so the site is generating an income as a sort of payment of "rent", per the metaphor, so there is a sort of "right" involved, but it's still Caveat Emptore.
But I'm not whining at all but grinning. I've never trusted those free sites and keep a backup of all of them (yea, more than one!) locally. So it's no big whoop to me.
I do think that as a consumer there should be a right (and especially for businesses) for PAID hosting to have a mandatory 60 day period for "evictions" allowing a person to change hosts and maybe an additional 90 days for a forwarding link or service (paid by the host).
Yea! I finally found comments with someone talking about the railroad side of the equation. It was good reading about the SUV opinions but not what was asked / suggested.
Detroit building RR equipment? Not likely to happen (EMD* was the exception). Bad management doesn't build railway equipment well. Since the customer is the railroads who are (snigger) more intelligent and pickier buyers than us citizens who will take crap there would be no buyer for GM/Chrysler/Ford railway equipment NOT done by EMD or GE. Yea, I'm driving a falling apart '86 Chrysler Clunker. ;-)
*GM BTW used to own EMD (Electro Motive Division), a loco builder. I had missed out on it or forgot but I just looked it up and found out that the dumb*** GM sold of that division in 2005!
But that doesn't mean Detroit can get into railway equipment manufacturing. The assembly of locomotives and railcars is radically different and would require an insane amount of money to rebuild the buildings or build new ones to do railway equipment that most likely wouldn't sell well due to the anti-rail climate in the U.S. A Chrysler equivalent of an AC4400 engine? Who'd buy it? ;-)
And starting from scratch building complex and radically different equipment from the automobile (rolling stock or loco) would be nightmarishly impossible as well and can fail easily. Just look at Colorado Railcar.
Right now the railroads are parking a massive amount of locomotives not because they are being replaced but more likely because of slowing need. And there is a horrendous amount of anti-rail opinion out there. As an example right now there is a lot of anger about talk of opening back up to normal use ("hundreds of trains a day", yea right was more like a dozen at most and a long way down the road after fixing up the track) of a rail line near where I live! The line was never abandoned but everyone was stupid enough to think it was or believe the real estate agents so their angry. And there was a big legal fight in a nearby county to stop the rail line there from being rebuilt and put back into operation for a commute line.
I just don't think it will happen in many, many decades. A lot of people are making excuses about how the rail lines would fail (passenger or otherwise) or other reasons to keep it from happening. I was very surprised the high speed rail initiative here in California passed! And barely the BART extension to San Jose.
And worse for the most part the government doesn't subsidize the tracks like they do with freeways. The rail lines own the tracks and you'd hear a horrible complaining noise from the public about using tax dollars to build or buy rail lines. Let alone equipment.
The fight and complaints about Amtrak is a good example of the problems of passenger service. Mass transit is a bad word in the United States.
Almost makes me want to move to Switzerland.
Oh come on! MOST companies are like this with most customers. Even those with 'good' service have this happen occasionally too. And get away with it.
"All" MBA's are 'taught' that customer support is a low priority. So is my field: QA (software).
Yea, I'm no fan of Palm either. Their handling of the lawsuit replacement of the ridiculous defect of my antique M125 didn't help my feelings towards them.
I wish PDA's weren't "dying" as I hate cell phones and have no use for them with my hearing problems and lack of TDD/TTY support.
Um, not the computer TTY, it's the name now used commonly for the text telephone. And I hate thumb keyboards and the resulting thumb injuries on the Blackberrys. ;-)
So did you go back to buying and selling exclusively on eBay in protest?!
All this is giving me a headache. Ok, not really but I sure can't decode that sort of thing. And someone did mention billboards with simply crypted text which was for job openings at the company. Not a good filter as people will talk.
At least I got the code at the bottom of the slashdot page (bunch of letters about a job as .. programming - I won't reveal ) as I can decode a few things (file names, variable names, such like that) but not this dang letter!
I can just imagine the original writer reading all this and laughing is a** off. I think the translations are correct and the names, initials in the middle of the page, etc. will make sense to someone at Fermilab but not really important.
I think it may be a conspiracy to make people spend all their time decoding for almost nothing just for the amusement of the writer. Or maybe even to cause masses of good programmers to bury their time decrypting it and not getting work done for some purpose.
I've been "lazy" reading everyone's attempt to decode just to see what it might be about as I shouldn't spend so much time on such things except to exercise my brain? That's where I got the name and initials, otherwise I haven't done decoding but looking back at the image to see if it rings true. And no, the random dots are not a code as it is a fax and oh I know noise on faxes all too well from a company I worked for that did a product using ICR. The dots would have to be on the original and most all faxes will get noise (if not 100%).
Dis esplains why I can't get not programming work! I dun not knows hows to read the bin dump.
Never mind my engwish is bwad. ;-)
I'm joking about my English though I need to take a class on "English as a Programming Language" geared for us techies as I'm not very proficient in English as I was in C.
I've never modified a binary nor have I read a core dump since that is all in Hex and I can't even "read" binary as it takes MINUTES for me to calculate ONE 16 bit binary into a ASCII number. I have looked at a core dump file (I think, it's been a long time, what UNIX program did I use?) but without Assembler (or such) experience I couldn't make any sense of it as the "last lines" with translated ASCII of my recognizable string text from the source code was not really a pointer to the problem. I needed to read the 'code' itself (as in Assembler like stuff if I knew it) and variables information if present to see the pointer to the place where the code started to go wrong.
But I will be going for a BS degree and I hope that whatever University I can get into (being poverty stricken and old it's going to be a major problem) would teach that.
Wait... What they don't teach reading core dumps and modifying executables? Bummer...
Of course NEVER admit you can read core dumps, etc. to a pointy haired hiring manager or their cohorts!!!
I was so proud of my programming and SQA skills and now I feel like a smuck!
I couldn't resist.
The posting says that the fuel could be made from "anything that grows". Could that be inorganic crystals too?
Since the domain services allow 3 letters I think .sue is better.
So .su me. :-)
Of course I don't want Dot or her lawyers suing me so this is just a joke, please don't sue me Dot.
I wonder if anyone is going to start acronym top level domains? Like if 4 letters were allowed: www.hard-drives.scsi.
And last but not least: I think that the top level domain names like .su can have changing meanings per owners and the public opinion unless ICANN forces them to only be used for a certain registered group like .gov for only real legitimate government agencies.
I don't think anyone brought this up: those stores missed out on sales oppurtunities! They should have been pushing the converters with the TV sets. "Now that you've bought the [analog] TV, you realize that in over a year it won't receive antennae broadcasts? Buy this [overpriced] converter for it." And also a power line conditioner, and gold cables, and dust covers, and cleaners, and warrenty, and so on. The consumer walks out with a $150 TV and $200 of extras!
Talk about missing sales by not stating that ALL analog TV's purchased there "must" have a converter sold with it! Of course with "persuasive" sales pitch wording!
Yea, and I wish my friend would pay MORE attention to the road and stop signing with me! Can't anybody focus on their driving anymore?!
I always thought Wikipedia was "old tech". I'd love to work at that place to develop "new tech". If I had time to read this garbage ;-) posted here I'd know what was going on there. Time and money. I have neither! :-|
Imagine hardware parts like those 5 cent washers with RFID chips on them! Or other items where it can be knocked or worn off while packing & shipping to the retailers!
Costs will go up to make RFID work! Hardware better for manual counting by clerks. Groceries are for RFID!
Yay! Someone else knows "The Tao Of Programming" or "...Objects"
Anyway, ALL 'new' software developers do click, click, click. Hand coding is for us "old fogies".
Yea, right, like punch card programming is ancient history too? Um....
Oh? You mean like Altos computers? Funny, I don't remember them being all that big! ;-)
Ok, wise guys, Altos 1086 / 2086 were still single CPU systems with multiple slot style 10" X 12" phenolic boards of which ONE was CPU, 2 were RAM, 1 or more serial ports, etc. I just had to get my meetoo.
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I'm still trying to find "entry level" positions while I go for a BA degree that seems to be "required". BTW I'm 46. Not one of this dipstick kids these days that have an 'easy' time getting jobs if they just knew what I know about job hunting!!!
I'm always swamped with work to do whether employed or NOT and desperate for money and yet all this dipwads have time for this?
Sheesh! I wish I was so well employed! Right now I'm fighting for housing and hoping I can keep a job if I can ever get one again!
"Oh! Your too disabled to work here!" and other B.S. disguised by: "we found someone more qualified".
The Beta Vs. VHS wars was because the PHYSICAL formats of the cartridges were incompatible! What we have is that a bit of 'programming' can have a player the supports BOTH formats (Blu-ray vs HD-DVD) so both companies can produce thier own discs and "my format only" players but other companies can produce players that support BOTH formats so neither can "win" early on.
Then either company makes money on making the disks and getting royalties on that disk format from the companies that buy the disks that they produce or from the production of the disk format itself.
Neither format should be totally exclusive. It's possible that both require a separate laser as the color may be different but even that cost is so low now that it may not make players of both formats more expensive at all!
Of course these companies can shoot themselves in the foot and require EXCLUSIVE contracts for their format excluding the competing format of ALL companies that buy a license to produce and then it's anybody's guess who wins!
So both companies can produce and support their format in these so called 'wars' and make money IF they don't do the exclusive B.S. and we can support and use ANY format supported by multi-format players. There never was (AFAIK) a Beta AND VHS player unit (that sold well)!
By the way: does anybody know who won the DVD-RW DVD+RW format wars? I didn't keep track.
Ok, so I'm not respectable.
When the blazes was anyone going to "inform" me of Trillian?
I just recently switched to Firefox after so much B.S. on Slash Dot as if it were "all that" and more!
THAT'S IT!
Bam! Right on the money! I too am in desperate need of getting laid! Hey that guy in the movie "Forty Year Old Virgin" still has a long way to catch up with me!
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, eh, kiddo?!
I remember. It's an old lesson in consumerism. Consumerism is "fashion-ability" based. But "dead" is just a fashion term. Tight western shirts were declared "dead" and now they are making a comeback for the moment in youth fashion (whatever).
The item never fully goes away as "dead" implies. It just is going into disfavor. The writer is stating that it's peaked and going on a downslide. VHS is on a downslide. Technically 8-track is at the end of the downslide.
Hmmm, I wonder if 8-tracks are coming back? Unique analog sound like 33 1/3 phonographs are in their own way!
HD-DVD is a recording format change from the standard DVD video recording format. I think DVD's format may need some updating. And the capacity also needs to be increased but the new 'DVD' format drives & players should be backwards compatible playing the standard DVD's. We'll see. I'm not on any of those 'standards' committees yet!
"Oh! Lets try this concept in the new format..." :-)