The whole of the internet should exercise our personal freedom to contact e360, charge them for the call, and voice our opinions on matters from spam to porn, whether or not our calls and the costs to deal with them are wanted.
And if they choose not to take our calls, we take them to court.
Not really true; the hardware will come with a Vista license when you buy it.
So the requried hardware for Vista didn't really cost me anything extra because it was I was going to buy it anyway as part of my system upgrade cycle (I have a system upgrade cycle?!?), and Vista didn't cost me anything because it came "free" with the hardware.
Well that's a relief. I thought that money I was going to spend was real. I can't wait to tell the CFO the money I'm telling he's spending doesn't really cost him anything.
And I guess the good news is that I'm no longer paying this same nothing twice, too.
The three corporations named in this suit - Sony Corporation of America, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. and its subsidiary, Rockstar Games - have filed suit against ABC Television Network. The suit also includes the families who are suing these corporations.
According to the corporations' lawyers, these families watched the show The Practice "obsessively" for several months, and were given the false impression that you can sue anyone for anything and make it an enjoyable and profitable time for all.
They have hinted they may sue ABC again on behalf of same corporations afterwards. They claim that ABC gave them the idea to sue ABC by airing The Practice, which the lawyers also watch "obsessively," casuing them to sue ABC, resulting in financial damage to the corporations in the form of lawyers' fees.
No word yet about whether or not they would sue a third time to recoup the fees incurred during the second suit.
What if it is being in power that causes people to want to indescriminantly kill others?
Then, short of removing all power and becoming a completely anarchic or communal civilization, we are by definition doomed.
Fortunately, your premise is not necessarily completely true, nor does the truth it does hold prevent other saving mechansisms from coming into play.
Inventing a product is different than inventing an industry. The point I was making was that Apple is the company that took the idea, the invention, and the technology known to most as the iPod and made a market out of it.
Perhaps I would have better worded my comment by saying they "created a market" instead of "invented an industry."
So a tech product, wildly successful to be sure, which was introduced a few years ago has started to reach saturation?
Hmmmm.... Fanbois around the world can only hope that Steve Jobs has the ability to foresee this predictable lifespan development. Maybe the guy who invented this industry will be able to come up with a new idea to revive its sales and move it forward. Maybe something like extending the business model to movies, or something like that.
The Expression Web Designer application walks the Web standards walk. One caution: Web Designer currently only supports ASP.NET.
The same attitude that leads MS to believe they can ignore standards (essentially, writing their own) is what leads them to believe they can ignore other "standard" practices, like using a variety of tools, platforms, and development schemes.
In other news, Microsoft has decided to start releasing to the world "air," which will be an alternative to whatever it is you are presently inhaling. MSAir will not contain any oxygen, so it may not be of much use to some users.
The features, at least at first glance are intriguing. At second glance, I wonder how useful the DRM'd version of music sharing will be... "Thanks alot for sharing that music with me, now how would you feel about giving me the few bux you just conviced me to spend." And questions about "promotional copies," security, power, range, and audio quality are valid concerns. Hey, maybe Microsoft got it all right, and people will love the experience (which means no problems, etc.) I mean, Microsoft has a long history of customer satisfaction, right?
No, my biggest argument against the "unseat Apple" question is that this device is coming so late in the game already won (set and match) by Apple. People outside of this web site (and maybe a few others) don't even call their PMP's "Personal Music Players." They call MP3 players "iPods." Many average Joes don't even know there are alternatives to the iPod. And nothing in this device will be enough to unseat that engrained notion in the general public's head. I'm not saying no one will ever unseat Apple's iPod, but this device will certainly not do it in one swoop.
"Organisations have valid concerns about security risks, but all you need is technology to secure the network perimiter properly," Arrigo said. Now this statement isn't true at all. Anyone who has ever worked in network security realizes what a complete nightmare this is and that "technology" is having a hell of a tough time keeping up.
Consider the source... "Microsoft Australia Group Manager of Technical Communities Frank Arrigo"
You don't think he would be trying to sell you some of these technologies, would you? The quote is pure propaganda.
The day I trust Microsoft blindly to provide me with the technology to secure my Microsoft network is about 1.5 days before I lose my job.
Nothing wrong with being a little anti-capitalist. America's present social trend is towards the extremes of free market and capitalism. Your point about public subsidies like health care and unemployment (not to mention public education and emergency services) proves the point that darwinian capitalism is not necesssarily the ideal our neocons would have you believe. Extend the example to the inevitable crime rate increases, and we can fully make the point that whether or not the most self-sufficient like it, we are a soceity. We share successes and misfortunes. Unfortunately, present political trends tend to give too much credit to the argument "what you propose is slightly to the left of pure capitalism, and we all communism didn't work..."
I've worked in the printing industry for more than a decade, and specifically the on demand printing industry as it has developed, and am presently bringing the book priner I now work for into the digital "on demand" printing age.
We've already been seeing in the industry a trend towards shorter and more frequent print runs. Instead of printing 10,000 copies, publishers like to print 1,000 copies 10 times. The pressure on existing traditional printers to reduce make ready costs is a direct result of on demand. And yes, this technology can handle one offs already. The toughest part is managng the job: billing one at a time costs more than producing it, especially when the paying clients aren't publishers but end users.
The various technologies already out make for an inevitable change in my industry. I count myself fortunate to be at a company that is making the change to move with the trend, albeit later than I would've done if I were the owner.
One color and two color (1/c and 2/c) digital presses are becoming fast enough and cheap enough to compete with even the most cost effective "zero make ready" traditional presses (which are never truly "zero make ready") at higher and higher volumes. 4/c work is already cost effective for many runs, like only a few hundred of a book with many pages. (Many pages = more forms on press = more make ready costs). The key point in the industry is the cross over point: at what volume does it become more cost effective to print traditionally. That cross over point is getting higher and higher each year, and depending on the work (page counts, quality expectations, book block color specs, etc.) can already be in the thousands on some jobs.
And as for quality, these aren't the office laser copiers and desktop ink jets a previous poster lamented on. Some of the toner presses' "ink" doesn't really "stick to plastic." Xerox's iGen3 is a toner, though their marketing department likes to call their toner "liquid." HP's Indigo line, while technically still a plastic, is suspended in liquid, emulating ink. The inkjets are lagging in image quality, but the ink doesn't run nearly as easily as implied. This isn't the same ink you buy at Office Depot after searching racks for just the right HP cassette number. Instead, the ink jet manufacturers (Kodak Versamark, for example) focus on speed over print quality. Within 5-7 years I would not be surprised at all to see their quality approaching what we see from lower end toner devices today. Wat they do now is already impressive, and their speed is already far better than other technologies, and has more room for increases.
The part of the industry the article doesn't touch on much is the binding. There are some fantastic new perfect binders coming out specifically geared towards the digital market (see Morgana's products for low volume work, Standard Horizon for more high end, as well as traditional binder manufacturer Muller Martini's recent developments in digital workflows). But more to the point of the article, some hard cover case binders are getting more cost effective at low quantity work as well. It's one thing to have an otherwise high quality soft cover book of your own doing. But nothing evokes more pride than the same case bound.
No, high volume publishers need not worry (though this article doesn't touch on the changes digital is already bringing about in their world). Instead, this concept, which practically didn't exist 5 years ago, has already made at least a few friends of mine quite rich, a large number of average joes quite proud (of the personalized hard cover keepsake books they had printed for their wedding or team with their kid's phoe on the front cover), and has kept quite a few printers in business.
using Linux day to day for other than server purposes is like dating a crazy chick. It's a lot of fun and she let's you do stuff with her that other chicks don't, but you often wonder, "Is it worth all the hassle?"
Fscking Brilliant. This has got to be the best description I've ever heard!
And the analogy works so many ways... I'm no longer with the employer where I set up the RH web server/gateway/firewall/wicked-cool-box. I'm now up to my eyeballs in a Windows SBS/IIS/Terminal Services Network (tm), with Mac's relegated to the graphics division. Give me time, I'll be choosing linux for the server when the web apps I intend to offer come to fruition.
But for now, I can only look back wistfully at the chick I used to date and the wicked-cool things I used to do with her...
Much kudo points to this post.
Google's "core business" is not "to provide a search engine."
It is to "make money via ads." To do this, they use the business model of offering innovative, good, attractive, wonderful, great, etc. tools that are provided for "free," in the same way FM radio was once described as "bearing a gift beyond price, almost free."
The first of these tools was the seach engine so successful we now associate the company that provided it with the action it performs.
And as for people who think Google is not doing well to further develop its search engine specifically... Check out the features Google makes available for customization using plugins and extensions. There isn't much available at other engines that can't be found at Google as well, given the user's ability to add the feature to their browser (and their browser's ability to add features!) Seems to me the "core" search engine is continuing to develop well from the user's point of view.
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The whole of the internet should exercise our personal freedom to contact e360, charge them for the call, and voice our opinions on matters from spam to porn, whether or not our calls and the costs to deal with them are wanted.
And if they choose not to take our calls, we take them to court.
Why then, we might actually take a step toward being a legitimate site again.
You ever try to operate a flip book with one hand?
The reply made so many arguments against the original post that had nothing to the original poster's arguments it should be mod'd Off Topic.
So the requried hardware for Vista didn't really cost me anything extra because it was I was going to buy it anyway as part of my system upgrade cycle (I have a system upgrade cycle?!?), and Vista didn't cost me anything because it came "free" with the hardware.
Well that's a relief. I thought that money I was going to spend was real. I can't wait to tell the CFO the money I'm telling he's spending doesn't really cost him anything.
And I guess the good news is that I'm no longer paying this same nothing twice, too.
I always thought the Netherlands was the fictional realm that Peter Pan came from? You know... "Second star to the right and straight on til morning."
True, but you know damned well for sure they will not be ignored.
According to the corporations' lawyers, these families watched the show The Practice "obsessively" for several months, and were given the false impression that you can sue anyone for anything and make it an enjoyable and profitable time for all.
They have hinted they may sue ABC again on behalf of same corporations afterwards. They claim that ABC gave them the idea to sue ABC by airing The Practice, which the lawyers also watch "obsessively," casuing them to sue ABC, resulting in financial damage to the corporations in the form of lawyers' fees.
No word yet about whether or not they would sue a third time to recoup the fees incurred during the second suit.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
I've always heard that referred to as spooge.
-500 mod points, off-topic
Fortunately, your premise is not necessarily completely true, nor does the truth it does hold prevent other saving mechansisms from coming into play.
This is slashdot.
No doubt, most people here would like to start breeding by lottery if only to increase the chances we might actually, well, breed.
We do, however, have some ill-tempered sea-bass..
I don't fear Sea Bass, for I have drawn around myself a circle in the sand.
Inventing a product is different than inventing an industry. The point I was making was that Apple is the company that took the idea, the invention, and the technology known to most as the iPod and made a market out of it.
Perhaps I would have better worded my comment by saying they "created a market" instead of "invented an industry."
So a tech product, wildly successful to be sure, which was introduced a few years ago has started to reach saturation?
Hmmmm.... Fanbois around the world can only hope that Steve Jobs has the ability to foresee this predictable lifespan development. Maybe the guy who invented this industry will be able to come up with a new idea to revive its sales and move it forward. Maybe something like extending the business model to movies, or something like that.
The Expression Web Designer application walks the Web standards walk. One caution: Web Designer currently only supports ASP.NET.
The same attitude that leads MS to believe they can ignore standards (essentially, writing their own) is what leads them to believe they can ignore other "standard" practices, like using a variety of tools, platforms, and development schemes.
In other news, Microsoft has decided to start releasing to the world "air," which will be an alternative to whatever it is you are presently inhaling. MSAir will not contain any oxygen, so it may not be of much use to some users.
... to play doom.
The features, at least at first glance are intriguing. At second glance, I wonder how useful the DRM'd version of music sharing will be... "Thanks alot for sharing that music with me, now how would you feel about giving me the few bux you just conviced me to spend." And questions about "promotional copies," security, power, range, and audio quality are valid concerns. Hey, maybe Microsoft got it all right, and people will love the experience (which means no problems, etc.) I mean, Microsoft has a long history of customer satisfaction, right?
No, my biggest argument against the "unseat Apple" question is that this device is coming so late in the game already won (set and match) by Apple. People outside of this web site (and maybe a few others) don't even call their PMP's "Personal Music Players." They call MP3 players "iPods." Many average Joes don't even know there are alternatives to the iPod. And nothing in this device will be enough to unseat that engrained notion in the general public's head. I'm not saying no one will ever unseat Apple's iPod, but this device will certainly not do it in one swoop.
Now this statement isn't true at all. Anyone who has ever worked in network security realizes what a complete nightmare this is and that "technology" is having a hell of a tough time keeping up.
Consider the source... "Microsoft Australia Group Manager of Technical Communities Frank Arrigo"
You don't think he would be trying to sell you some of these technologies, would you? The quote is pure propaganda.
The day I trust Microsoft blindly to provide me with the technology to secure my Microsoft network is about 1.5 days before I lose my job.
Nothing wrong with being a little anti-capitalist. America's present social trend is towards the extremes of free market and capitalism. Your point about public subsidies like health care and unemployment (not to mention public education and emergency services) proves the point that darwinian capitalism is not necesssarily the ideal our neocons would have you believe. Extend the example to the inevitable crime rate increases, and we can fully make the point that whether or not the most self-sufficient like it, we are a soceity. We share successes and misfortunes. Unfortunately, present political trends tend to give too much credit to the argument "what you propose is slightly to the left of pure capitalism, and we all communism didn't work..."
I've worked in the printing industry for more than a decade, and specifically the on demand printing industry as it has developed, and am presently bringing the book priner I now work for into the digital "on demand" printing age.
We've already been seeing in the industry a trend towards shorter and more frequent print runs. Instead of printing 10,000 copies, publishers like to print 1,000 copies 10 times. The pressure on existing traditional printers to reduce make ready costs is a direct result of on demand. And yes, this technology can handle one offs already. The toughest part is managng the job: billing one at a time costs more than producing it, especially when the paying clients aren't publishers but end users.
The various technologies already out make for an inevitable change in my industry. I count myself fortunate to be at a company that is making the change to move with the trend, albeit later than I would've done if I were the owner.
One color and two color (1/c and 2/c) digital presses are becoming fast enough and cheap enough to compete with even the most cost effective "zero make ready" traditional presses (which are never truly "zero make ready") at higher and higher volumes. 4/c work is already cost effective for many runs, like only a few hundred of a book with many pages. (Many pages = more forms on press = more make ready costs). The key point in the industry is the cross over point: at what volume does it become more cost effective to print traditionally. That cross over point is getting higher and higher each year, and depending on the work (page counts, quality expectations, book block color specs, etc.) can already be in the thousands on some jobs.
And as for quality, these aren't the office laser copiers and desktop ink jets a previous poster lamented on. Some of the toner presses' "ink" doesn't really "stick to plastic." Xerox's iGen3 is a toner, though their marketing department likes to call their toner "liquid." HP's Indigo line, while technically still a plastic, is suspended in liquid, emulating ink. The inkjets are lagging in image quality, but the ink doesn't run nearly as easily as implied. This isn't the same ink you buy at Office Depot after searching racks for just the right HP cassette number. Instead, the ink jet manufacturers (Kodak Versamark, for example) focus on speed over print quality. Within 5-7 years I would not be surprised at all to see their quality approaching what we see from lower end toner devices today. Wat they do now is already impressive, and their speed is already far better than other technologies, and has more room for increases.
The part of the industry the article doesn't touch on much is the binding. There are some fantastic new perfect binders coming out specifically geared towards the digital market (see Morgana's products for low volume work, Standard Horizon for more high end, as well as traditional binder manufacturer Muller Martini's recent developments in digital workflows). But more to the point of the article, some hard cover case binders are getting more cost effective at low quantity work as well. It's one thing to have an otherwise high quality soft cover book of your own doing. But nothing evokes more pride than the same case bound.
No, high volume publishers need not worry (though this article doesn't touch on the changes digital is already bringing about in their world). Instead, this concept, which practically didn't exist 5 years ago, has already made at least a few friends of mine quite rich, a large number of average joes quite proud (of the personalized hard cover keepsake books they had printed for their wedding or team with their kid's phoe on the front cover), and has kept quite a few printers in business.
Forgive the shameless plug for a friend and former business client, but check out
http://ourweddingstorybook.com/
and its partner company
http://www.teammemories.com/
using Linux day to day for other than server purposes is like dating a crazy chick. It's a lot of fun and she let's you do stuff with her that other chicks don't, but you often wonder, "Is it worth all the hassle?"
Fscking Brilliant. This has got to be the best description I've ever heard!
And the analogy works so many ways... I'm no longer with the employer where I set up the RH web server/gateway/firewall/wicked-cool-box. I'm now up to my eyeballs in a Windows SBS/IIS/Terminal Services Network (tm), with Mac's relegated to the graphics division. Give me time, I'll be choosing linux for the server when the web apps I intend to offer come to fruition.
But for now, I can only look back wistfully at the chick I used to date and the wicked-cool things I used to do with her...
Which rule is "Don't talk about fight club"?
*slap*
I can't tell you.
Heads are going to roll down at the Seattle Times.
You misspelled "chairs are going to fly."
Much kudo points to this post.
Google's "core business" is not "to provide a search engine."
It is to "make money via ads." To do this, they use the business model of offering innovative, good, attractive, wonderful, great, etc. tools that are provided for "free," in the same way FM radio was once described as "bearing a gift beyond price, almost free."
The first of these tools was the seach engine so successful we now associate the company that provided it with the action it performs.
And as for people who think Google is not doing well to further develop its search engine specifically... Check out the features Google makes available for customization using plugins and extensions. There isn't much available at other engines that can't be found at Google as well, given the user's ability to add the feature to their browser (and their browser's ability to add features!) Seems to me the "core" search engine is continuing to develop well from the user's point of view.