She also did many other regular minor characters, including
Helen Lovejoy, Ms Hoover,
Luann Van Houten, and several one-shot chacters, includding Sherry Bobbins, etc.
She was asking for $6,000 per episode- the core cast members are up to $50,000/episode, including Dan Castellaneta.
Actually, the
Sluggy Freelance online comic is going this route- donate ten bucks, and you get the daily comic page without any banner ads, for one year.
I have a healthy respect for the intelligence of the average geek, our at least their ability to smell out a shill site.
If ZD handles the site correctly, and doesn't bias the reviews, then it's one more useful resource. If they do a lousy job and/or are not objective in their reports, then techies will avoid their site in droves.
It's not as if there is such a limited market for hardware review sites that one more entry into the field will kill off the weaker players.... is it?
That's a good point- the 'correct' method for touch typing was invented for optimal speed, not because it is at all comfortable for the touch typist. I learned to type by what worked best for me to operate a computer, my style is a strange personal system where the left hand hovers over the number keys, and the right hand over JKL; -- developed perhaps because I once wrote a lot of C and Pascal.
We've had typewriters since at least 1868, but 'RSI' and 'carpel tunnel' only became news in the last few years... what has changed?
Perhaps there is something unnatural not just with the 'correct' way of touch typing, but also due to the way the computer keyboard and monitor are placed on the desk and operated as oppposed to the way a typewriter is operated.
I can't believe that a place calling itself 'the TiVo underground' would voluntarily pull stuff, without any threatening letters, and ban the discussion of said tool on their site. I mean, what the fuck.
Actually, they would. The 'TiVo Underground' isn't a real underground, it's one of those prettied-up disney-style undergrounds, open to the public and just one of many topic sections on the AVS Forums area for TiVo.
AVS Forum had been subsidized by TiVo, accepts advertising from TiVo (the last ad TiVo purchase from AVS was in January of this year), and is linked to from the official TiVo, Inc. web site. TiVo has employees who answer support questions on the AVS web site.
AVS may have a nice red banner at the top of every page reading 'PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT THIS SITE IS NOT OPERATED BY TiVo, Inc.', and David Bott has stated that TiVo did not request that they remove the information or censor the site, AVS chose self-censorship without direct threats.
New discussion area... Topic banned in AVS forum.
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As AVS forum has
banned the topic entirely from their site, I have set up a tempoary
Yahoo Group for technical issues relating to video and audio extraction.
The functionality you ask for- the ability to highlight a word or phrase, then add an annotation, and other users can view your annotation, is exactly what Third Voice did.
It's not a hard and fast rule that if you accept a counter-offer, your boss will drive you out because of disloyalty.
I havenever taken a counter-offer, only because I was never been unhappy solely based on salary, so unless the offer was 'you can move to a different department and work from home', no counter-offer would have made a difference.
If you plan on job hopping, by all means go the temporary/contract/consultant route. But where I have actively sought a different employer after being in a position at a year or less, it was not something I planned, it was because either I had changed, or the job had changed.
One major difference between 'secret' source and 'published' source is that it can take forever to find the holes if the source code is kept secret. OTOH, I will look carefully at any source or binary I download from Sourceforge, or built on their compile farms...
This applies to both 'white hats' finding, reporting, and fixing the holes, and to 'black hats' finding, exploiting, and sharing the exploits.
In general, intentionally added backdoors in open-source software have a relatively short lifespan, while backdoors in closed-source products can live on indefinitely.
As I was quoted in a print magazine nearly a decade ago "The holes are already there, it's simply a matter of who finds them first".
One advantage of OpenBSD is that a primary goal of the committers is to pre-emptively find and fix problems that have the potential to be holes.
And this sort of extremism in the name of open source gives the rest of us a tarnished image.
If Open Source activists were environmentalists, then GNU would be Earth First!, and RMS would be ELF, out in the woods, spiking trees and torching Aspen ski lodges.
Are there players which refuse to play 'region free' DVDs? This is news to me.
The issue of disks that cannot be played in 'region free' players is actually a cute hack by the DVD consortium where disks are _intentionally_ created in such a way that they confuse 'region free' players, specifically to disable playing the disk on those players. It's no accident.
But any player that refuses to play a non-region-coded disk is itself not in compliance with the standards.
You want to watch American TV with the original soundtracks? Get yourself a fast connection and find an archive of these shows in DiVX format.
Any show that has a rabid fan base will have somebody who puts the time and effort into capturing the episodes, encoding them, and finding sites to host the files.
Or wait a few years and buy the episodes on DVD, such as the X-files sets just now coming out.
There's this one guy who goes to the bars and nightclubs every Friday night, walks up to each single woman in the place, and says "Wanna fuck?".
Each Friday night he propositions over a hundred women, gets slapped in the face dozens of times, receives a couple of death threats from angry boyfriends, and gets banned from at least one bar.
But at least once a month, he gets laid.
This is the same law of averages by which spam 'works'..
It costs next to nothing (except your self-respect) to walk up to every strange woman you meet and ask "Wanna fuck?". It also costs next to nothing to spam tens of thousands of e-mail addresses.
But neither is socially acceptable behavior. And neither approach works in the long run- you will permanently piss off thousands of people, ruin your reputation, kick you kicked out of every establishment you frequent, and destroy any chance you might of had for long-term relationships.
And those are just the consequences of spamming- the "wanna fuck" approach can get you STD's, stomped, or even killed.
I do not want them to regulate spam, I want them to give me the right to collect a fine from any company which sends unsolicited email.
We have laws against trespassing on a person's land, but that doesn't keep me from visiting my friend's house, with their invitation and permission. Spam is just another form of trespass, and anti-spam laws are just another form of anti-trespass law.
The point of trespass is that you are only in violation of the law if you are acting without permission- nobody suggests that anti-trespassing law restricts our freedom to travel. And anti-spam laws do not restrict our freedom to send or receive email.
If you walk on a person's land without their invitation, without their permission, after they put up 'No trespassing' signs, you are open to prosecution. I want the same protection and the same prosecution after you send me unsolicited email despite the 'NO UCE' banner on my SMTP server.
There are no 'freedom of speech' issues here, as the first amendment does not apply to private property.
Your right to free speech ends at my SMTP server.
Congress may make laws restricting your ability to trespass on my property for the purpose of 'excercising your freedom of speech' without violating the first amendment. Many anti-spam claims are based on the concept of 'trespess to chattel', all we need to do is codify that.
There are many, many good reasons for offering a Command Line Interface or full-screen textual interface (TUI).
A CLI is the lowest common denominator for a user interface to a software package. A textual interface with few or no cursor control sequences guarantees accessibility, without any concerns about incompatibility, 8-bit clean transport path issues, or dependencies on functionality (such as certain X display calls) which may be omitted on certain client implementations, or which may be ambiguously defined in the specs and implemented differently on different clients.
For low-level configuration of a system, a CLI is mandatory. This is why Cisco and every successful router and switch company offers a command-line interface that gives access to all facets of device configuration.
With a CLI, I can control my system from anywhere, with the most minimal of interface hardware and software, and no nasty suprises.
More and more American tech workers are being classified as 'exempt'. The laws vary from state to state, but in a nutshell, this means you are paid straight salary- you do not receive overtime for hours worked beyond 40 hours a week, your pay cannot be docked in hourly increments.
It is generally recognized that management is clearly 'Exempt Administrative'- but these days most large employers include programmers, admins, and other skilled workers as 'Exempt Professionals', a controversial move.
Being exempt, If you leave work two hours early on friday , your pay cannot be docked
If you work 12 hours on Wednesday (say, because of a production problem), you do not receive overtime, and you do not get 4 hours off on Thursday. In fact, if your company offers any hour-for-hour compensation (pay, bonuses, comp time), they
risk losing your 'exempt' status.
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That's worth $40 right there.
She also did many other regular minor characters, including Helen Lovejoy, Ms Hoover, Luann Van Houten, and several one-shot chacters, includding Sherry Bobbins, etc.
She was asking for $6,000 per episode- the core cast members are up to $50,000/episode, including Dan Castellaneta.
I'm disappointed that there is only ONE consumer tuner+MPEG encoder card on the market, and none with any hope of BSD drivers.
Actually, the Sluggy Freelance online comic is going this route- donate ten bucks, and you get the daily comic page without any banner ads, for one year.
If ZD handles the site correctly, and doesn't bias the reviews, then it's one more useful resource. If they do a lousy job and/or are not objective in their reports, then techies will avoid their site in droves.
It's not as if there is such a limited market for hardware review sites that one more entry into the field will kill off the weaker players.... is it?
What typing method do you use?
Have you read the article on Dvorak keyboards in the latest 'The Perl Journal' ?
We've had typewriters since at least 1868, but 'RSI' and 'carpel tunnel' only became news in the last few years... what has changed?
Perhaps there is something unnatural not just with the 'correct' way of touch typing, but also due to the way the computer keyboard and monitor are placed on the desk and operated as oppposed to the way a typewriter is operated.
Actually, they would. The 'TiVo Underground' isn't a real underground, it's one of those prettied-up disney-style undergrounds, open to the public and just one of many topic sections on the AVS Forums area for TiVo.
AVS Forum had been subsidized by TiVo, accepts advertising from TiVo (the last ad TiVo purchase from AVS was in January of this year), and is linked to from the official TiVo, Inc. web site. TiVo has employees who answer support questions on the AVS web site.
AVS may have a nice red banner at the top of every page reading 'PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT THIS SITE IS NOT OPERATED BY TiVo, Inc.', and David Bott has stated that TiVo did not request that they remove the information or censor the site, AVS chose self-censorship without direct threats.
As AVS forum has banned the topic entirely from their site, I have set up a tempoary Yahoo Group for technical issues relating to video and audio extraction.
They shut down on April 2, 2001.
I havenever taken a counter-offer, only because I was never been unhappy solely based on salary, so unless the offer was 'you can move to a different department and work from home', no counter-offer would have made a difference.
If you plan on job hopping, by all means go the temporary/contract/consultant route. But where I have actively sought a different employer after being in a position at a year or less, it was not something I planned, it was because either I had changed, or the job had changed.
Just a satisified customer
This applies to both 'white hats' finding, reporting, and fixing the holes, and to 'black hats' finding, exploiting, and sharing the exploits.
In general, intentionally added backdoors in open-source software have a relatively short lifespan, while backdoors in closed-source products can live on indefinitely.
As I was quoted in a print magazine nearly a decade ago "The holes are already there, it's simply a matter of who finds them first".
One advantage of OpenBSD is that a primary goal of the committers is to pre-emptively find and fix problems that have the potential to be holes.
If Open Source activists were environmentalists, then GNU would be Earth First!, and RMS would be ELF, out in the woods, spiking trees and torching Aspen ski lodges.
The issue of disks that cannot be played in 'region free' players is actually a cute hack by the DVD consortium where disks are _intentionally_ created in such a way that they confuse 'region free' players, specifically to disable playing the disk on those players. It's no accident.
But any player that refuses to play a non-region-coded disk is itself not in compliance with the standards.
Too bad nobody here is showing reruns of the animated series...
Any show that has a rabid fan base will have somebody who puts the time and effort into capturing the episodes, encoding them, and finding sites to host the files.
Or wait a few years and buy the episodes on DVD, such as the X-files sets just now coming out.
There's this one guy who goes to the bars and nightclubs every Friday night, walks up to each single woman in the place, and says "Wanna fuck?".
Each Friday night he propositions over a hundred women, gets slapped in the face dozens of times, receives a couple of death threats from angry boyfriends, and gets banned from at least one bar.
But at least once a month, he gets laid.
This is the same law of averages by which spam 'works'..
It costs next to nothing (except your self-respect) to walk up to every strange woman you meet and ask "Wanna fuck?". It also costs next to nothing to spam tens of thousands of e-mail addresses.
But neither is socially acceptable behavior. And neither approach works in the long run- you will permanently piss off thousands of people, ruin your reputation, kick you kicked out of every establishment you frequent, and destroy any chance you might of had for long-term relationships.
And those are just the consequences of spamming- the "wanna fuck" approach can get you STD's, stomped, or even killed.
We have laws against trespassing on a person's land, but that doesn't keep me from visiting my friend's house, with their invitation and permission. Spam is just another form of trespass, and anti-spam laws are just another form of anti-trespass law.
The point of trespass is that you are only in violation of the law if you are acting without permission- nobody suggests that anti-trespassing law restricts our freedom to travel. And anti-spam laws do not restrict our freedom to send or receive email.
If you walk on a person's land without their invitation, without their permission, after they put up 'No trespassing' signs, you are open to prosecution. I want the same protection and the same prosecution after you send me unsolicited email despite the 'NO UCE' banner on my SMTP server.
Your right to free speech ends at my SMTP server.
Congress may make laws restricting your ability to trespass on my property for the purpose of 'excercising your freedom of speech' without violating the first amendment. Many anti-spam claims are based on the concept of 'trespess to chattel', all we need to do is codify that.
One would think that the unique 'catalog number' for each CD would be available in CD-TEXT or some related format on all new music CD's...
A CLI is the lowest common denominator for a user interface to a software package. A textual interface with few or no cursor control sequences guarantees accessibility, without any concerns about incompatibility, 8-bit clean transport path issues, or dependencies on functionality (such as certain X display calls) which may be omitted on certain client implementations, or which may be ambiguously defined in the specs and implemented differently on different clients.
For low-level configuration of a system, a CLI is mandatory. This is why Cisco and every successful router and switch company offers a command-line interface that gives access to all facets of device configuration.
With a CLI, I can control my system from anywhere, with the most minimal of interface hardware and software, and no nasty suprises.
Just find an existing, failing ISP and buy them out for pennies on the dollar.
It is generally recognized that management is clearly 'Exempt Administrative'- but these days most large employers include programmers, admins, and other skilled workers as 'Exempt Professionals', a controversial move.
Being exempt, If you leave work two hours early on friday , your pay cannot be docked
If you work 12 hours on Wednesday (say, because of a production problem), you do not receive overtime, and you do not get 4 hours off on Thursday. In fact, if your company offers any hour-for-hour compensation (pay, bonuses, comp time), they risk losing your 'exempt' status.