It wasn't just the salaries if that was the main problem at all. It was more general mis-management of money and lack of responsibility by upper management or project managers. I made 40k right out of the gates, but in about 3 months I expensed nearly that in travel (first class), hotels (The W in SF, HoB in Chicago, etc). I had no limit / per diem for food placed on me. Instead of returning home on the weekends we would take trips to Vegas or Tahoe or LA. Other project managers would fight to goto lunch with us and normally we'd end up with a group of 10 and daily lunch bills of nearly $400. It was one big college party with catered breakfasts and dinners, fully stocked bar and kegs (usually of Guinness) refilled once a week.
I heard stories of people asking for books of cab receipts and filling them out randomly just to get an extra $10 or $20 here and there.
Multiply all that by the 5 or 6 people they would shuffle around to create the team it adds up.
When you add that to all these companies wanting to get the big accounts / clients and ignoring the smaller ones that could keep them afloat, yes, you're going to bleed money. $150 million in funds gone in 17 months. I still can't fathom it.
Simple Machines does a decent job. Usually releasing patch files that you download from their site via the admin panel or uploading them directly and installing them.
Seriously. I broke into my school's voice mail system in 8th grade (teachers would leave homework assignments on them - it was called classroom snapshot) and I got 5 days suspension.
It was late May and absolutely gorgeous outside, so I sat at the pool all day and called the voice mail to get my daily assignments.
They're not reselling the work as their own or selling it at all for that matter.
Except in Russia. My DJ mixes from time to time show up on Russian mp3 sites that charge for a download link, which then downloads directly from my server. Funny how that works.
Well, then get on the labels' ass or the distributor of them to only support WAV or a lossless format.
DJing in a club, most people, even the audiophiles can barely notice. Even on a solid setup that's not hampered by some moron using self-powered mackies and a pioneer mixer (note: use Allen and Heath)
But is that a limitation of the software that changes the tempo from say 128 bpm to 64 bpm? (In Ableton or a CDJ)?
I've actually quite wondered this for a while. I know that there have been times when I've changed the tempo but used the 'pitch-lock' on the first version of the Pioneer CDJ1000 and heard a noticeable distortion as I changed the tempo. (I also heard this on vinyl that I ripped directly to WAV).
The MK3s have been better about this. It has been sometime since I've actually tried changing the tempo drastically.
The man to ask is Arnie Lerma. He runs one of the anti-scientology sites - http://www.lermanet.com
His writing is a bit haggard some time to time, but I guess that's a side-effect of eating nothing but rice and beans on the SeaOrg. I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up in this discussion. You can say his name 3 times in-front of a mirror and he'll appear. Just like Biggie Smalls.
Thankfully, they're a bit more tame in Pittsburgh. I don't even think the people working the store are in a high enough level to understand my "Xenu Built My Hotrod" tshirt. Or on Halloween when I went as Tom Cruise covered in thetans (condoms). I just got some weird looks that day.
I would hope yes and I would hope no. If they're going to release another disappointment then keep it with Vista. I've had several friends who bought laptops / machines in recent months that were shipped with Vista, call and complain to Dell that they absolutely hated it. Two were able to jump through some hoops and ended up with a new copy of XP. This is interesting because the person who sells us our equipment (our leases are from Dell) said he gets a better rate in commission to push Vista (I don't know how truthful he was about this - maybe there were incentives, but not sure about commission...). We told him we weren't interested in Vista and he said that was no surprise that probably only 5% of his sales have been Vista - though his projections were to be 30 or 40% of new sales be Vista over XP.
Granted he sells primarily to businesses - was it this difficult when XP was released? And yes, I know many business are still stuck with Win2000 (the majority of his clients are smaller companies) not huge banks or corporations who seek conformity, but instead companies that traditionally are on the cutting edge of technology.
I'd like less pop-ups with IE 7 (and Vista - but that's another discussion).
I know this might be asking a lot of people / users - but I think a simple one time run / setup of a user's settings would help instead of the pop-ups that hardly make any sense to the common user since they're made up of one or two short sentences with hardly and explanation.
They take enough time to set up Windows, you'd think a one time, initial setup for IE, - in big giant letters - to set up their initial settingswouldn't be so bad. Most people don't even know where their options for IE are located.
Not for those with a clue, but what are you more likely to trust? Some random compiled ActiveX plugin for IE or something that appears on Mozilla.org and has been verified?
Until there's a huge community pushing quality plugins / addons for IE that are easy to install and customize (for those with experience) IE is going to remain way behind.
Those with a lot of experience / know-how can further customize their Firefox extensions since they're mostly written in JavaScript and not compiled.
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You can always settle on roof access.
It wasn't just the salaries if that was the main problem at all. It was more general mis-management of money and lack of responsibility by upper management or project managers. I made 40k right out of the gates, but in about 3 months I expensed nearly that in travel (first class), hotels (The W in SF, HoB in Chicago, etc). I had no limit / per diem for food placed on me. Instead of returning home on the weekends we would take trips to Vegas or Tahoe or LA. Other project managers would fight to goto lunch with us and normally we'd end up with a group of 10 and daily lunch bills of nearly $400. It was one big college party with catered breakfasts and dinners, fully stocked bar and kegs (usually of Guinness) refilled once a week.
I heard stories of people asking for books of cab receipts and filling them out randomly just to get an extra $10 or $20 here and there.
Multiply all that by the 5 or 6 people they would shuffle around to create the team it adds up.
When you add that to all these companies wanting to get the big accounts / clients and ignoring the smaller ones that could keep them afloat, yes, you're going to bleed money. $150 million in funds gone in 17 months. I still can't fathom it.
The stations should just become number stations for the day.
I knew they got it wrong. Tinfoil does not stop the transmissions to my teeth!
Well, report back to us when your contrails are plaid.
Simple Machines does a decent job. Usually releasing patch files that you download from their site via the admin panel or uploading them directly and installing them.
Seriously. I broke into my school's voice mail system in 8th grade (teachers would leave homework assignments on them - it was called classroom snapshot) and I got 5 days suspension.
It was late May and absolutely gorgeous outside, so I sat at the pool all day and called the voice mail to get my daily assignments.
Well, what they end up finding is a 80 meg tiff of goatse...
Because most people are doing just that sharing.
They're not reselling the work as their own or selling it at all for that matter.
Except in Russia. My DJ mixes from time to time show up on Russian mp3 sites that charge for a download link, which then downloads directly from my server. Funny how that works.
Was it todd?
Well, then get on the labels' ass or the distributor of them to only support WAV or a lossless format.
DJing in a club, most people, even the audiophiles can barely notice. Even on a solid setup that's not hampered by some moron using self-powered mackies and a pioneer mixer (note: use Allen and Heath)
But is that a limitation of the software that changes the tempo from say 128 bpm to 64 bpm? (In Ableton or a CDJ)?
I've actually quite wondered this for a while. I know that there have been times when I've changed the tempo but used the 'pitch-lock' on the first version of the Pioneer CDJ1000 and heard a noticeable distortion as I changed the tempo. (I also heard this on vinyl that I ripped directly to WAV).
The MK3s have been better about this. It has been sometime since I've actually tried changing the tempo drastically.
Have you been watching GI Joe reruns?
Read Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Everything is formatted like this - it's not poetry but has a rhythm all its own. Not sure if that's an after-effect of the formatting or not.
Just read it in the voice of Walken or Shatner.
Writing in Haiku form for a while.
The names change, the problem stays the same.
Let's not get crazy now.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/soulglo/475741724/in
The man to ask is Arnie Lerma. He runs one of the anti-scientology sites - http://www.lermanet.com
His writing is a bit haggard some time to time, but I guess that's a side-effect of eating nothing but rice and beans on the SeaOrg. I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up in this discussion. You can say his name 3 times in-front of a mirror and he'll appear. Just like Biggie Smalls.
He was recently summoned here: Scientology thread on SomethignAwful
Thankfully, they're a bit more tame in Pittsburgh. I don't even think the people working the store are in a high enough level to understand my "Xenu Built My Hotrod" tshirt. Or on Halloween when I went as Tom Cruise covered in thetans (condoms). I just got some weird looks that day.
God Needs Booze
I would hope yes and I would hope no. If they're going to release another disappointment then keep it with Vista. I've had several friends who bought laptops / machines in recent months that were shipped with Vista, call and complain to Dell that they absolutely hated it. Two were able to jump through some hoops and ended up with a new copy of XP. This is interesting because the person who sells us our equipment (our leases are from Dell) said he gets a better rate in commission to push Vista (I don't know how truthful he was about this - maybe there were incentives, but not sure about commission...). We told him we weren't interested in Vista and he said that was no surprise that probably only 5% of his sales have been Vista - though his projections were to be 30 or 40% of new sales be Vista over XP.
Granted he sells primarily to businesses - was it this difficult when XP was released? And yes, I know many business are still stuck with Win2000 (the majority of his clients are smaller companies) not huge banks or corporations who seek conformity, but instead companies that traditionally are on the cutting edge of technology.
I'd like less pop-ups with IE 7 (and Vista - but that's another discussion).
I know this might be asking a lot of people / users - but I think a simple one time run / setup of a user's settings would help instead of the pop-ups that hardly make any sense to the common user since they're made up of one or two short sentences with hardly and explanation.
They take enough time to set up Windows, you'd think a one time, initial setup for IE, - in big giant letters - to set up their initial settingswouldn't be so bad. Most people don't even know where their options for IE are located.
Not for those with a clue, but what are you more likely to trust? Some random compiled ActiveX plugin for IE or something that appears on Mozilla.org and has been verified?
Until there's a huge community pushing quality plugins / addons for IE that are easy to install and customize (for those with experience) IE is going to remain way behind.
Those with a lot of experience / know-how can further customize their Firefox extensions since they're mostly written in JavaScript and not compiled.
I hate replying to my own comment, but "IE's handling of the tag" should be "IE's handling of the OBJECT tag", for clarification.