Great. You still aren't the Neptunes, Puffy, or Missy Elliot, which is why the albums they produce go platinum, and you just record stuff nobody else wants in your basement. Talent cannot be bought.
Wow, cheap recording equipment for the low-budget musician without a G4.
Unfortunately, it still won't produce the kind of album you get from a multimillion dollar staff of producers and engineers, and those are the guys who really make albums that sell.
I and my company have no plan to move to IPV6 until my ISP or customers require it. IPV6 just offers no benefits we will want or need in the forseeable future.
On the upside, at least IPV6 was well-planned and is getting a ton of testing!
1- U.S. Government gets another foothold into internet regulation, this time on email messaging, which will require very broad laws covering many forms of onine communication. Ouch. 2- The already millionare spammers join their servers on secluded islands in the South Pacific, idling away the hours with their grilfriends. Spam flow will continue, with no spammers within reach of U.S. prosecuters. 3- Numerous internet/technology companies join their encryption develping cohorts in moving from the U.S. to Europe/Canada, hurting the U.S. economy.
"...but why aren't the benefits of lower production costs being passed on to the consumer?"
Pro Tools might knock a few tens-of-thousands off the cost of producing an album, but the real cost is the producer himself. Good producers can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for a big album. In short, it doesn't matter what tools Puff Daddy uses to produce an album, all that matters is that Puff Daddy produced it.
Every lab or datacenter I have worked in was connected to some pretty intense air conditioners with filters that took care of the dust. If you guys have separate air-conditioning in the lab, you should check and see if you can get dust-collecting filters.
DMS is the US Government's international secure email implementation. At a glance it looks like a bunch of crappy obsolete code and operating systems trying to do email, but when you stop and think about what is DMS is doing, it is pretty damned impressive.
Is it just me, or is this another great reason to buy cheaper, better network equipment from someone else? If I were running Cisco, I would be a little more concerned with the market share being sucked up by newer companies than with adding the cost of undetectable snooping to the product line.
Now I certainly feel justified in moving my company off of Cisco's overpriced products.
This does not directly answer the question, but it can make life a little easier. When you go shopping, go to your local computer store and play with the best stuff that they have on display. Buy the display there, and if there are problems, you can just return it to the local store. Cheap goods on ebay and PriceWatch seem like a good idea at the time, but when things go wrong, you have to deal with phone calls, email, and shipping to fix the problem, which is almost never worth the savings.
MS can want to take on Google all they want to, but as long as MSN remains a mess of clashing colors, pictues, advertising, pop-ups, and unnrealated information, it will just remain another crappy ISP's attempt to build a portal that can convince AOL.com junkies to switch. And given MSN's history of screwing up pretty much everything, that will not happen.
Would be for them to stop releasing fixes. The same goes for BIND versions 9. These programs are endless thorns in the sides of the internet, and the developers of said programs would be doing us all a favor if they would just stop developing, pull the source off of the internet, and tell the world to use software that was coded to be secure.
Does it ever occur to people that the government is not doing this to keep secrets, but that there just aren't enough resources to get it done? Anyone who has done classified work for ANY government knows that there is always a shortage of individuals cleared to do anything. Civilians contractors for this sort of work do not come cheap, because they know how hard it is to find people. Many government documents are hundreds if not thousands of pages long, and to understand a document, many other relevant documents may need to be consulted.
Is this really a wise use of tax dollars? Paying people to sit around and declassify old documents to satisfy FOIA demands from conspiracy theorists? I can think of better uses for all that money, especially if I got to keep it.
Every time you get paid and see those huge missing chunks of money that go to taxes, think of things like this, where piles of money is flushed away to shut up people who cannot let old documents die.
"As Apple has always been forward thinking to gain market share and attention..."
Apple's current market share is 3% (http://www.google.ca/press/zeitgeist.html), and that is after a two-year rush of sales related to OS X. Even if Apple moves to 64-bit systems, and a rush doubles Apple's market share, Apple will still generally be irrelevant as anything other than a predictor that Microsoft will do the same thing later.
From what I read it seems that Scott McNealy asked a bunch of indian developers to make Linux running Gnome and Mad Hatter the next generation OS. What he did NOT do was state that Sun will be doing anything to help. What he really did was incite a bunch of *NIX geeks with anti-Microsoft sentiment to get their attention, and then turn around and start promoting the Sun Ray, another neat old technology that has never caught on in a big way.
In other words, Scott McNealy stood up in front of a crowd, shot off at the mouth, and beat a dead horse.
When I was working at a dying dotcom that was on its way out, we found plenty of ways to keep out spirits up. "After hours" games of Counterstrike and StarCraft were a must. Some of us went out every night to drink and play pool. Then on weekends we would all go get totally plastered at the local pub, walk to someone's place and crash.
Is it just me, or does it seem that we would be better off if high schools taught a class in things like well-managed protest, writing letters to representatives, contacting the media and generally affecting society without being an asshole?
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Great. You still aren't the Neptunes, Puffy, or Missy Elliot, which is why the albums they produce go platinum, and you just record stuff nobody else wants in your basement. Talent cannot be bought.
Wow, cheap recording equipment for the low-budget musician without a G4.
Unfortunately, it still won't produce the kind of album you get from a multimillion dollar staff of producers and engineers, and those are the guys who really make albums that sell.
Anyone look at the price of a new Apple box lately? The Apple geeks can't afford new ones!
"The day after it's deployed, every legitimate mailing list on the planet will get challenges from all the Earthlink subscribers..."
The challenge response system is opt-in. Earthlink customers who use mailing lists don't need to use it.
This will work for about five minutes, after which lists of every camera location will have been posted online.
I and my company have no plan to move to IPV6 until my ISP or customers require it. IPV6 just offers no benefits we will want or need in the forseeable future.
On the upside, at least IPV6 was well-planned and is getting a ton of testing!
1- U.S. Government gets another foothold into internet regulation, this time on email messaging, which will require very broad laws covering many forms of onine communication. Ouch.
2- The already millionare spammers join their servers on secluded islands in the South Pacific, idling away the hours with their grilfriends. Spam flow will continue, with no spammers within reach of U.S. prosecuters.
3- Numerous internet/technology companies join their encryption develping cohorts in moving from the U.S. to Europe/Canada, hurting the U.S. economy.
"...but why aren't the benefits of lower production costs being passed on to the consumer?"
Pro Tools might knock a few tens-of-thousands off the cost of producing an album, but the real cost is the producer himself. Good producers can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for a big album. In short, it doesn't matter what tools Puff Daddy uses to produce an album, all that matters is that Puff Daddy produced it.
Every lab or datacenter I have worked in was connected to some pretty intense air conditioners with filters that took care of the dust. If you guys have separate air-conditioning in the lab, you should check and see if you can get dust-collecting filters.
http://www.lmcdms.com/
DMS is the US Government's international secure email implementation. At a glance it looks like a bunch of crappy obsolete code and operating systems trying to do email, but when you stop and think about what is DMS is doing, it is pretty damned impressive.
Is it just me, or is this another great reason to buy cheaper, better network equipment from someone else? If I were running Cisco, I would be a little more concerned with the market share being sucked up by newer companies than with adding the cost of undetectable snooping to the product line.
Now I certainly feel justified in moving my company off of Cisco's overpriced products.
How about giant seismic vibration grabbing machines built around fault lines? They might not be efficient, but they would be cool!
This does not directly answer the question, but it can make life a little easier. When you go shopping, go to your local computer store and play with the best stuff that they have on display. Buy the display there, and if there are problems, you can just return it to the local store. Cheap goods on ebay and PriceWatch seem like a good idea at the time, but when things go wrong, you have to deal with phone calls, email, and shipping to fix the problem, which is almost never worth the savings.
What else needs to be said?
MS can want to take on Google all they want to, but as long as MSN remains a mess of clashing colors, pictues, advertising, pop-ups, and unnrealated information, it will just remain another crappy ISP's attempt to build a portal that can convince AOL.com junkies to switch. And given MSN's history of screwing up pretty much everything, that will not happen.
Even better, the source for Quake II, the original engine for Duke Nukem forever, was released several years ago.
I am going to be distributing this at the office tomorrow and announcing that all of our hardware is going evil-bit-compliant. This is going to rock!
Would be for them to stop releasing fixes. The same goes for BIND versions 9. These programs are endless thorns in the sides of the internet, and the developers of said programs would be doing us all a favor if they would just stop developing, pull the source off of the internet, and tell the world to use software that was coded to be secure.
Does it ever occur to people that the government is not doing this to keep secrets, but that there just aren't enough resources to get it done? Anyone who has done classified work for ANY government knows that there is always a shortage of individuals cleared to do anything. Civilians contractors for this sort of work do not come cheap, because they know how hard it is to find people. Many government documents are hundreds if not thousands of pages long, and to understand a document, many other relevant documents may need to be consulted.
Is this really a wise use of tax dollars? Paying people to sit around and declassify old documents to satisfy FOIA demands from conspiracy theorists? I can think of better uses for all that money, especially if I got to keep it.
Every time you get paid and see those huge missing chunks of money that go to taxes, think of things like this, where piles of money is flushed away to shut up people who cannot let old documents die.
"As Apple has always been forward thinking to gain market share and attention..."
Apple's current market share is 3% (http://www.google.ca/press/zeitgeist.html), and that is after a two-year rush of sales related to OS X. Even if Apple moves to 64-bit systems, and a rush doubles Apple's market share, Apple will still generally be irrelevant as anything other than a predictor that Microsoft will do the same thing later.
From what I read it seems that Scott McNealy asked a bunch of indian developers to make Linux running Gnome and Mad Hatter the next generation OS. What he did NOT do was state that Sun will be doing anything to help. What he really did was incite a bunch of *NIX geeks with anti-Microsoft sentiment to get their attention, and then turn around and start promoting the Sun Ray, another neat old technology that has never caught on in a big way.
In other words, Scott McNealy stood up in front of a crowd, shot off at the mouth, and beat a dead horse.
When I was working at a dying dotcom that was on its way out, we found plenty of ways to keep out spirits up. "After hours" games of Counterstrike and StarCraft were a must. Some of us went out every night to drink and play pool. Then on weekends we would all go get totally plastered at the local pub, walk to someone's place and crash.
It worked really, really well.
Is it just me, or does it seem that we would be better off if high schools taught a class in things like well-managed protest, writing letters to representatives, contacting the media and generally affecting society without being an asshole?
Is it just me, or does anyone else remember Yahoo making money with advertising before there even was an Amazon?
It seems to me that the origin of spam deserves a really good goatse.cx link, but I've trolled enough this week.