"One trip to the non-matinee movies for my family, plus a large pop, large popcorn and some candy for each, plus parking: ($8.50 ticket + $3 pop + $2.50 popcorn + $2 candy + $1 share of parking) x 6 = $102."
You got off easy. A combo deal -- two pops and one popcorn -- here is $14 after the $2 combo discount. I couldn't imagine having to feed a pack of kids at those prices.
Two teriyaki dinners in front of my 62" television is $9.90. Between the cost and the audience participation, there are very few movies that can drag me into a theatre these days.
(And the wife figures that a movie includes dinner out, making theatre visits doubly expensive.)
"I doubt he is seriously contemplating it, he would be almost sure to be hit by a class action law suit from his investors if he did and would probably lose such a suit."
And not just the investors. The artists would probably have grounds to sue since the label is not acting in their best interest and thus voiding their contracts.
The original Skycar was a disk, held aloft by pure exhaust. I'm not sure how he made the jump to the current design, the aerodynamics (if any) are completely different.
Only one overlord? Think of all the money we'd lose from betting on the Overlord Championships. The small toy market alone would collapse overnight if we pulled all the Overlord action figures from the shelves. Think of the children!
"...why can't these people understand that 1,000,000 KB = 1,000 MB = 1 GB..."
Try dealing with finance people who can't agree on which letter stands for what. They use M for 1000, MM for a million, and have no idea what a K is for. (I've also seen G used for "grand" or 1000.) Kilo and mega are completely foreign words to them. A $15M project is big money to one department and petty cash to another.
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But is that a full-voyage Titanic, or only the historical half-voyage unit? It's a common mistake.
"What they are trying todo, it seems, is replace the defective mitochondria of the mother with the mitochondria from a healthy donor. Thus preventing the transmission of this disease."
What they are doing is replacing the nucleus of a healthy donor with the nucleus from a defective egg. The original healthy nucleus is removed and discarded.
In order for the nucleus of a defective egg to live, a healthy nucleus had to die. Healthy donors, beware.
"You are responsible for the design and implementation of the entire system, and yet you allow a huge, honking unreliable single point of failure that can bring the entire operation to its knees - you. That doesn't smack of good systems design to me."
Single-person IT shops usually aren't IT Managers - since there's no one to manage, you don't get the title or the HR budget that comes with it. I fought with my company for five years to get more IT people, but it was their decision to stay with one person. The point of failure is often by executive design.
Now, when the parent company comes charging in claiming they can run everything remotely from headquarters and hands me my pink slip, then the single point of failure gets the last laugh.
"Or better yet... learn from your prior mistake and backup what you own on CD-R or DVD-R. This way if your collection gets stolen.. they steal a bunch of worthless discs."
And if it's a DRM'd disk, then what? You no longer have bought the right to listen to that song, but the right to listen to that song on that unique disk.
I've seen it done the other way, too. If you use a large enough hammer, it is possible to put a 3.5" disk into a 5.25" drive. (One of the reasons the new computers for the office were ordered sans floppy drives.)
"300 people using the same single user registration key/serial number is a pretty damn good indication."
Actually, my network was set up that way at one time. I had fifty copies of Windows 2000 (and Office 2000) in shrinkwrap in the closet, but every copy on the floor was installed from the same disk using the same serial numbers. (This was all pre-Activation.)
I would have passed a physical audit, but an online validation page would had killed me. I do hope there will be a way to re-enter legit serial codes without having to reinstall.
"Legally speaking, Cohen is as guilty as a gun manufacturer."
Except that they are going after Cohen personally. The gun manufacturer is a corporate entity, and it would be extremely difficult to target the individual officers or shareholders for this type of case.
I think this is where it is important to seperate your private life from your business presence. If BitTorrent, Inc. had purchased the software from Cohen -- or had hired Cohen as a contractor to produce the software as work-for-hire -- then it would serve to seperate each other from legal liabilties or youthful indescretions. (The fact the Cohen is the only shareholder is purely cooincidental.)
Proving that BotTorrent, Inc. has an improper product and can be shut down or fined is one thing. Going after the personal assets of an unpaid BitTorrent contractor would be much more difficult.
"So all the guys who know how to do this stuff are retiring, or were laid off when their jobs were offshored. Even if we as a country somehow woke up and paid attention, it will take a decade or two to recover from our current insanity."
I am one of those laid-off machinists. Fifteen years of training, and they pack the plant up and send it overseas. The few remaining manufacturing positions left in the states go to the cheap 18-year olds who just finished a six-week training program - the experienced journeymen sit around until their unemployment runs out, then the sell their tools and move to a different field.
(And then we switched to a career in IT. Brilliant timing, eh?)
"I upgraded my GF4 MX400 to a 9800XT and got 200% performance increase. I submitted the story and my links which had benchmarks to show the increase, my story was rejected."
Maybe if you had put the 9800XT in an external enclosure?
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"One trip to the non-matinee movies for my family, plus a large pop, large popcorn and some candy for each, plus parking: ($8.50 ticket + $3 pop + $2.50 popcorn + $2 candy + $1 share of parking) x 6 = $102."
You got off easy. A combo deal -- two pops and one popcorn -- here is $14 after the $2 combo discount. I couldn't imagine having to feed a pack of kids at those prices.
Two teriyaki dinners in front of my 62" television is $9.90. Between the cost and the audience participation, there are very few movies that can drag me into a theatre these days.
(And the wife figures that a movie includes dinner out, making theatre visits doubly expensive.)
"I doubt he is seriously contemplating it, he would be almost sure to be hit by a class action law suit from his investors if he did and would probably lose such a suit."
And not just the investors. The artists would probably have grounds to sue since the label is not acting in their best interest and thus voiding their contracts.
The original Skycar was a disk, held aloft by pure exhaust. I'm not sure how he made the jump to the current design, the aerodynamics (if any) are completely different.
http://www.moller.com/skycar/m200x/
Only one overlord? Think of all the money we'd lose from betting on the Overlord Championships. The small toy market alone would collapse overnight if we pulled all the Overlord action figures from the shelves. Think of the children!
"...why can't these people understand that 1,000,000 KB = 1,000 MB = 1 GB..."
Try dealing with finance people who can't agree on which letter stands for what. They use M for 1000, MM for a million, and have no idea what a K is for. (I've also seen G used for "grand" or 1000.) Kilo and mega are completely foreign words to them. A $15M project is big money to one department and petty cash to another.
But is that a full-voyage Titanic, or only the historical half-voyage unit? It's a common mistake.
That sounds like my company. They're on step 2 right now.
Somewhere there are managers reading TFA and deciding that eliminating the IT department is the answer to all their problems.
And a box of large paperclips, for getting forgotten CD's out of a drive.
"What they are trying todo, it seems, is replace the defective mitochondria of the mother with the mitochondria from a healthy donor. Thus preventing the transmission of this disease."
What they are doing is replacing the nucleus of a healthy donor with the nucleus from a defective egg. The original healthy nucleus is removed and discarded.
In order for the nucleus of a defective egg to live, a healthy nucleus had to die. Healthy donors, beware.
"You are responsible for the design and implementation of the entire system, and yet you allow a huge, honking unreliable single point of failure that can bring the entire operation to its knees - you. That doesn't smack of good systems design to me."
Single-person IT shops usually aren't IT Managers - since there's no one to manage, you don't get the title or the HR budget that comes with it. I fought with my company for five years to get more IT people, but it was their decision to stay with one person. The point of failure is often by executive design.
Now, when the parent company comes charging in claiming they can run everything remotely from headquarters and hands me my pink slip, then the single point of failure gets the last laugh.
"Or better yet... learn from your prior mistake and backup what you own on CD-R or DVD-R. This way if your collection gets stolen.. they steal a bunch of worthless discs."
And if it's a DRM'd disk, then what? You no longer have bought the right to listen to that song, but the right to listen to that song on that unique disk.
I've seen it done the other way, too. If you use a large enough hammer, it is possible to put a 3.5" disk into a 5.25" drive. (One of the reasons the new computers for the office were ordered sans floppy drives.)
"Oh boy, I'm already wishing to for 2008 to arrive..."
Are you that impatient to start eight years under Jeb Bush? Wake me for 2016.
"It sounds like we won't be exploring Mars until we have a population of would-be explorers that...led by a captain with a penchant for the lash..."
Given a low-gravity environment and some revealing outfits, I'm sure they'll have no problems finding people to serve under such a captain.
Undercover CIA agents feel the same way: No amount of technological security will help if you are betrayed by your own people.
"Honestly, who counts in multiples of twelve, when your not buying eggs?"
Network engineers. Switch ports come in blocks of 12, with the occasional 16 tossed in.
"300 people using the same single user registration key/serial number is a pretty damn good indication."
Actually, my network was set up that way at one time. I had fifty copies of Windows 2000 (and Office 2000) in shrinkwrap in the closet, but every copy on the floor was installed from the same disk using the same serial numbers. (This was all pre-Activation.)
I would have passed a physical audit, but an online validation page would had killed me. I do hope there will be a way to re-enter legit serial codes without having to reinstall.
"Legally speaking, Cohen is as guilty as a gun manufacturer."
Except that they are going after Cohen personally. The gun manufacturer is a corporate entity, and it would be extremely difficult to target the individual officers or shareholders for this type of case.
I think this is where it is important to seperate your private life from your business presence. If BitTorrent, Inc. had purchased the software from Cohen -- or had hired Cohen as a contractor to produce the software as work-for-hire -- then it would serve to seperate each other from legal liabilties or youthful indescretions. (The fact the Cohen is the only shareholder is purely cooincidental.)
Proving that BotTorrent, Inc. has an improper product and can be shut down or fined is one thing. Going after the personal assets of an unpaid BitTorrent contractor would be much more difficult.
"So all the guys who know how to do this stuff are retiring, or were laid off when their jobs were offshored. Even if we as a country somehow woke up and paid attention, it will take a decade or two to recover from our current insanity."
I am one of those laid-off machinists. Fifteen years of training, and they pack the plant up and send it overseas. The few remaining manufacturing positions left in the states go to the cheap 18-year olds who just finished a six-week training program - the experienced journeymen sit around until their unemployment runs out, then the sell their tools and move to a different field.
(And then we switched to a career in IT. Brilliant timing, eh?)
"I upgraded my GF4 MX400 to a 9800XT and got 200% performance increase. I submitted the story and my links which had benchmarks to show the increase, my story was rejected."
Maybe if you had put the 9800XT in an external enclosure?
In Canada, they probably assumed that people knew how to read.