And you pay the crew directly? No didn't think so.
Then you'd be wrong. I don't remember exactly with IATSE chapter it was, but I was presented with their bill.
Although I still use IATSE labor quite often, I enjoy the luxury of living in a right-to-work state, so the don't have me by the balls like they do in other states.
Don't blame the workers for being better at bargaining than you appear to be.
Bargaining? What's that? Is that where I get shouted at by a steward when I pull up to a dock, and then get my equipment vandalized until I pay the ransom? Then you're right, they are much better at this bargaining stuff than I am.
That is utter crap. It isn't Union labor that is responsible for the conference hall charging $20/day for an $8 chair. The conference hall charges have nothing at all to do with what they pay their employees, they are simply gouging on the part of the conference hall operators.
You're right, it isn't the union's fault the chair is so expensive. It's the union's fault that I have to pay a 4 man crew a minimum of 4 hours pay each to unload 3 cases from my personal vehicle. It's the union's fault I have to pay a separate 4 man crew to carry the cases to my booth. (You see, the first ones were "loaders", the second crew were "hands".) It's the union's fault that I have to wait an hour for the last case to go back into my vehicle because it took them until 11:59 am to get the first two pieces in.
No, it's not entirely the union's fault. They only get half the blame.
I do agree, though, with previous posters who rail against paying $25 to rent a $3.99 power strip, and other such atrocities. How someone can go bankrupt doing this is beyond me.
It's not the promoters of these conventions that get that money. It's the "decorating companies" and unions that hold exclusive service contracts with the venue that can get away with charging that kind of money.
The Exclusive Service Contract (and the Exclusive Labor Contract) is a license to steal. However, it eventually drives off the venue's customers.
Don't worry, the decorating companies aren't going bankrupt, just the promoters and venues.
Ever exhibit at a convention? Ever seen the bills you have to pay? The convention support firms (Freeman decorators, various unions, et al.) are killing the business.
Just a few of the typical expenses (daily rates):
$20 to rent an $8 table.
$25 for access to an electrical outlet. Don't plug anything in yourself, though, or some teamster will break your fingers.
$200 for access to a fractional T1 (a very small fraction, most times).
$10 to rent a $4 chair.
Want carpet? That'll be $100. Want that carpet unrolled?...
Bring your own equipment? Too bad, you've got to pay a fee to be allowed to use it.
You haven't dealt with monopolies until you've tried to exhibit at a convention. One company controls all access, labor, and equipment, and you've got no say over how any of it is handled.
A manufacturer's money is much better spent sending out press releases and designing an infomative web presence.
How often do you upgrade your computers? One of the big selling points of a Mac is it's stability. Yet, they release new products all the time.
I bought a G3 desktop (the very first generation G3 Mac) back in Spring of '98. Since that time I've:
Overclocked the processor and the buss. (Was 233Mhz, now 292Mhz)
Added a Voodoo3 card.
Swapped-out the hard drive for something larger.
Added a USB card.
Added RAM, added RAM, added RAM. (It started at 32Meg, is now 512Meg.)
How often do I replace my Macs? Not very. I just add to the inventory.
I come from a PC world where the next gen of OS and Games usually means I have to upgrade my PC or I can't run these applications. I'd like to switch(tm), but I don't want to spend $3500 for a Powerbook just to find out that it breaks down in a year and parts cost a bundle. I'd rather spend $1200 on an iBook. See if the wife and I like it.
I'm running OSX 10.2.3 on the G3, and it runs just fine. Yes, it's not at snappy as I'd like sometimes, but many apps actually run faster now than their OS9 versions did.
Buy the Applecare service contract if you're worried about early hardware failures. Best investment ever. Saved me a bundle on an iMac whose ethernet had been zapped.
Do these new machines mean that much to Apple users, or can they happily chug away on their old iBook or Powerbook?
Pretty much the same as new cars, really. Sure, I'd like that new shiny one that just arrived on the dealer's lot, but my old one still gets me to work reliably.
All failures occurred when there was only a single passenger in the car. In all the rollover cases, there was nothing substational in the trunk as well.
Then how did whole families die in some of the rollovers?
And where did you get the "implode" aspect? They disintegrated from the excessive heat created by underinflation/overloading. The hot summer asphalt took things past the threshold.
Ford never suggested "deflating" a tire. Apparently they did recommend lower-than-normal operating pressures, and there is still debate over whose fault that is. However, I'll guarantee that every single tire that failed did so due to overheating (see above reasons).
I'm still surprised the lawyers haven't sued the asphalt crews and the local weathermen, but it's still early.
The Ford Explorer tragedies were horrible. My friend's cousin was the fourth documented case in the state of Florida. If implementing technology like this can save one life, I say go for it!
The Explorer tragedies were horrible. However, as someone who's had tires blow out at 70MPH, I can tell you that there is only one place for the blame: The driver.
Air the damn tires up, and check them. Even the best-built tire will blow when overloaded and underinflated.
Sorry, but this "Blame the manufacturers!" shit pisses me off. You pile the whole family in the car and don't bother to check the tires, you gets what you deserve.
I can deal with all the new paperwork (business cards, invoices, etc.) that I'll be buying, but that's the least of my problems.
I'm in the rental business, and my phone number (including area code) is printed/painted/etched multiple times on every item in my rental stock. That's a few hundred items to scrap and repaint. And it'll always look like crap.
Oh well, I had nothing better to do with my summer.
First off, your joke is barely even laughable. Secondly, it's downright innappropriate for any kids or young teenagers to be reading on a site like this.
Yes. Words are bad. Children should be kept as far away as possible from words.
If mere words are so harmful to your children, then I fear for their future.
My children have been taught not to fear words or thoughts. I hope they're not too progressive for your world.
Why release an API if you don't plan to allow anyone to develop to it?
They do allow development. It's a device API. Devices, ya know. Hardware. They want other mp3 players to be compatible with iTunes. Kinda shoots the conspiracy theorists down when there's proof that Apple encourages access by competing hardware (ie: competitors to the iPod).
Every time I forget about Mac OS X being proprietary, Apple does something to remind me.
This has nothing to do with OSX being proprietary, and everything to do with violating the license for the Device Plug-in API. Sorry, but the rules were there in writing before iCommune ever started.
Seems to me this would be like rebuildign the World Trade Centers exactly like they were, and noone is suggesting that, so why would monuments be different?
A couple of definitions might help:
Monument 1. A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial. 2. An inscribed marker placed at a grave; a tombstone. 3. Something venerated for its enduring historic significance or association with a notable past person or thing: the architectural monuments of ancient Rome; traditions that are monuments to an earlier era. 4 a. An outstanding enduring achievement: a translation that is a monument of scholarship. b. An exceptional example: "Thousands of them wrote texts, some of them monuments of dullness" (Robert L. Heilbroner). 5. An object, such as a post or stone, fixed in the ground so as to mark a boundary or position. 6. A written document, especially a legal one.
I just finished an economics course in college, and ISPs are probably what can be termed "price searchers." I imagine there is certainly some extra cost per extra unit of bandwidth, but largely I imagine this is negligible--the bandwidth is there whether or not it is used.
In other words, you just don't know.
Thanks.
As a few other posters have noted, ISPs are out to make money.
That's what businesses do. Didn't they discuss that in your economics course?
I know a person that makes a healthy sum of money (enough to support a family easily) to sit and watch people dig near buried fiber runs. That right, he just sits in his truck and watches.
It's cheaper for the fiber owner to pay him to be on-site than it is for them to lose the money on lost bandwidth should the cable be cut and communication be down for an hour or two of response time.
He does have to re-certify on his splicing ability a few times a year, but that's about all he really does.
"12. Hope for the future More than 300 physicists from around the world -- most of them women -- met in Paris in March for the first International Conference on Women in Physics."
When does the 'first international Conference on Men in Physics' take place? Is it likely that most of the attendees will be men?
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"Anime" merely the Japanese word for animation. It's not a genre. It's not a style. Use of the word "anime" refers to the source, and nothing else.
WarnerBros is just trying to ride the fad, and you're falling for it.
Although I still use IATSE labor quite often, I enjoy the luxury of living in a right-to-work state, so the don't have me by the balls like they do in other states.
Bargaining? What's that? Is that where I get shouted at by a steward when I pull up to a dock, and then get my equipment vandalized until I pay the ransom? Then you're right, they are much better at this bargaining stuff than I am.No, it's not entirely the union's fault. They only get half the blame.
The Exclusive Service Contract (and the Exclusive Labor Contract) is a license to steal. However, it eventually drives off the venue's customers.
Don't worry, the decorating companies aren't going bankrupt, just the promoters and venues.
Just a few of the typical expenses (daily rates):
- $20 to rent an $8 table.
- $25 for access to an electrical outlet. Don't plug anything in yourself, though, or some teamster will break your fingers.
- $200 for access to a fractional T1 (a very small fraction, most times).
- $10 to rent a $4 chair.
- Want carpet? That'll be $100. Want that carpet unrolled?...
- Bring your own equipment? Too bad, you've got to pay a fee to be allowed to use it.
You haven't dealt with monopolies until you've tried to exhibit at a convention. One company controls all access, labor, and equipment, and you've got no say over how any of it is handled.A manufacturer's money is much better spent sending out press releases and designing an infomative web presence.
- Overclocked the processor and the buss. (Was 233Mhz, now 292Mhz)
- Added a Voodoo3 card.
- Swapped-out the hard drive for something larger.
- Added a USB card.
- Added RAM, added RAM, added RAM. (It started at 32Meg, is now 512Meg.)
How often do I replace my Macs? Not very. I just add to the inventory. I'm running OSX 10.2.3 on the G3, and it runs just fine. Yes, it's not at snappy as I'd like sometimes, but many apps actually run faster now than their OS9 versions did.Buy the Applecare service contract if you're worried about early hardware failures. Best investment ever. Saved me a bundle on an iMac whose ethernet had been zapped.
Pretty much the same as new cars, really. Sure, I'd like that new shiny one that just arrived on the dealer's lot, but my old one still gets me to work reliably.And where did you get the "implode" aspect? They disintegrated from the excessive heat created by underinflation/overloading. The hot summer asphalt took things past the threshold.
Ford never suggested "deflating" a tire. Apparently they did recommend lower-than-normal operating pressures, and there is still debate over whose fault that is. However, I'll guarantee that every single tire that failed did so due to overheating (see above reasons).
I'm still surprised the lawyers haven't sued the asphalt crews and the local weathermen, but it's still early.
Air the damn tires up, and check them. Even the best-built tire will blow when overloaded and underinflated.
Sorry, but this "Blame the manufacturers!" shit pisses me off. You pile the whole family in the car and don't bother to check the tires, you gets what you deserve.
I can deal with all the new paperwork (business cards, invoices, etc.) that I'll be buying, but that's the least of my problems.
I'm in the rental business, and my phone number (including area code) is printed/painted/etched multiple times on every item in my rental stock. That's a few hundred items to scrap and repaint. And it'll always look like crap.
Oh well, I had nothing better to do with my summer.
I guess it depends upon the load, eh?
If mere words are so harmful to your children, then I fear for their future.
My children have been taught not to fear words or thoughts. I hope they're not too progressive for your world.
Also according to IDC: "Apple Computer, the fifth-largest manufacturer in the United States, saw its U.S. market share rise from 2.9 percent to 3 percent in the fourth quarter."
Lies, damn lies, and statistics, I suppose.
And why would I want one on my Truck?
I'm running on an even older beige G3, no problem.
Thanks.
That's what businesses do. Didn't they discuss that in your economics course?It's cheaper for the fiber owner to pay him to be on-site than it is for them to lose the money on lost bandwidth should the cable be cut and communication be down for an hour or two of response time.
He does have to re-certify on his splicing ability a few times a year, but that's about all he really does.