I agree that the early MTV rocked and it's simply shameful how it was then driven into the ground with all of the non-music video tripe. Unfortunately, I don't think YouTube will bring back the VJ or Music News segments.
I'd actually pay good money to get tapes/discs of old MTV broadcasts.
The industry is starting to view music videos as a potential revenue stream? I'm pretty sure music videos distributed on VHS tapes and DVD discs have been a revenue stream for several decades.
Why is this conference still being held in the United States? To me, it would make much more sense to host it somwhere where law enforcement is less likely to hassle people.
Whoah, I saw Chicago in that list, so I'm officially offended. Many people in Chicago attend church, especially in the Pilsen neighborhood. The crime problems in Chicago are a result of the ill-advised War on Some Drugs combined with the prohibition on law-abiding citizens carrying handguns along with cramming a lot of poor people into a small area, also known as projects or "the homes". That being said, crime is _way_ down in Chicago compared to the 80's.
Going to a Christian church doesn't make you Christian; your thoughts and deeds do. I would hazard a guess that the majority of Americans who call themselves Christians are definitely not. The fact that someone tries to prostitute their religious affiliation to win points with others (*ahem* Bush) is a sure sign that they're not a true believer.
Fortunately as far as I can tell, the label is intact. Thanks for the safety reminder, I'm aware of that issue, typically wear goggles and stay far away from the player. I just need to read the damn thing _once_...
I have a DVD that I managed to crack while trying in vain to get the case to relinquish its death-grip on the disc.
The disc has a small crack that runs from the outer edge to the center, but the label is still intact. I've attempted to line everything back up and put tape on the label-side, but that didn't seem to work. Should I just try filling in the crack on the other side? I'm just trying to get something to read the disc so that I can rip it and burn to a new DVD-R.
I'm looking to do pretty much the same thing. I want a voice recorder that can do something like 8 hours along with a hidden camera that I either wear around my neck, of that attaches to my shirt. I hadn't really considered trying to get data off the thing while I'm out. That's not a bad idea to prevent your tapes, memory cards, etc. from being "accidentally" erased.
I suppose being illegally detained and searched as well as having seen driving while black (DWB) police stops first-hand has something to do with it.
Mistake? There was no mistake. The cops simply got pissed off and decided to arrest the person to "teach them a lesson". It's a common tactic, they take you to the station for a few hours and then let you go. You're also left with pretty much no recourse since no judge is going to hear a case about civil liberty violations if there were no economic damages.
It's happened to me, although I wasn't arrested, just illegally searched. I watched two cops shaking a girl down near a public housing complex in Chicago; they let her go and then proceeded to stop me to demand what I was doing. Cuffed me, threw me in the back of the squad car, searched my backpack without my consent and then let me go.
A friend of mine just moved into a new building and he receives almost no signal on his cellphone; fortunately he has a Cisco SIP phone too. I suggested attaching an antenna to a ballon and floating it to the top of the building (his only window faces an alley and he's basically surrounded by brick and concrete), but I like the article's solution better.
Half the time when I dial it says 'connecting' for 15 seconds and then the bars dissappear and I get the main screen on my phone back like nothing happend.
Consider yourself lucky. I have a Samsung i500 with service through Sprint and if the thing doesn't have a signal, it jacks up the power and keeps trying to connect until the battery is drained. I discovered this after a few times of driving to my parents' house and spending the night only to find my phone dead the next morning.
Unless you're some kind of Zen master you're going to run into this sooner or later. When you reach the point where you can't perform up to your potential, even your potential as defined by the less than perfect work situation you're in, it's time to move on. This is probably why academia, infamous for its harsh and pointless politics, evolved the institution of the sabbatical. But for the rest of us, this means quitting and getting a new job.
Wow, I find this to be so true as I've been struggling with this exact issue for the past three months or so. I just have no motivation towards my work anymore and working on different things (I wear many hats) doesn't help either. I think I've finally realized that I simply cannot reach my potential as a techie with my current employer. Fortunately a very good friend of mine works for a very technical company with a Google-like atmosphere and extremely talented engineers, so I'll most likely get hired on there.
Why sure. Israel has been dropping pamphlets into neighborhoods before they drop bombs, warning civilians to leave the area because an air raid is about to commence.
Yes, and they've then allegedly been attacking said civilians when they flee.
This thing totally rocks! I bought a couple of them many years ago and they're still going strong. I'm baffled at why Logitech discontinued the model considering they've actually appreciated in value over the years.
I can't help but laugh when I see these sorts of funky new mouse designs intended to help people with RSI problems. Why not just get a trackball like Logitech's excellent TrackMan Marble FX? It requires much less desk space than a mouse and you hardly have to move your hand to use it.
I keep hearing this thing about the PSP not having many games, but the last time I was at a Fry's or a Best Buy I saw dozens. The problem is that the PSP is basically a portable Playstation; meaning that it gets the same sorts of games that I already have at home. The DS, on the other hand, offers a unique gaming experience. I own both systems (actually two DS's, the old and new) and I find that I only use my PSP when I'm flying somewhere, mostly to watch the few UMDs I own or play Hot Shots Golf. The DS gets almost daily use (unfortunately I have a real job or I'd play for hours every day) and I'm buying new games every month or so, while I haven't bought a new game for the PSP since Metal Gear Acid 2 came out.
I'm guessing that you don't live in the United States? I believe that every state in the Union requires that one pass a certification test before they can legally call themselves an engineer. I somehow doubt that certified engineers use guestimates on projects.
I'm surprised that it took you until the last paragraph to mention that you're raising a child; how much does that cost? I don't have any kids myself and am not too comfortable alone around younger children (I'm sure a psychiatrist would have a field day with that one), so I know I'm not the norm, but I just don't understand why people in general take raising kids as a given despite their financial situation. This is not directed at you, but I know several people that are in their mid-twenties, living with their parents, working a minimum wage job and raising a child. I can't help but wonder why they decided to have (or decided to risk having) a child.
I struggle with this just about every day. Go have a nice lunch, get out of the office and spend ten to sixty dollars (I'm a big fan of fine dining), or bring something to work that doesn't require much preparation (there's no real kitchen, just a room with tables, a sink, microwaves and a fridge) and stay in the office all day. I try to limit myself to one really nice lunch a week, and otherwise stick to the cheap (non-greasy spoon) diners. Frankly, I don't know how some people can bring their lunch every day; I'd go mad from being in the office all day. I used to work in downtown Chicago, so we'd get to go walk around the city at lunchtime. I find that I really need that time out of the office to clear my head in the middle of the day.
For some reason, I was just reminded of those old fish tank shoes. Someone should mod an iPod to have one of those with a little plastic fish bouncing around.
Agreed, VOD rocks, but how would Netflix deliver the content? Cable companies (Comcast in my area) that are doing VOD own the infrastructure. I just don't see how Netflix could compete with them.
Copyright concerns aside, have you considered an Easynews membership?
I've worked in organizations like this; they know something's a problem, but they think they can continue delaying remediation because they've not experienced any pain. Typically things get fixed pretty quickly once there's a problem, but it takes an incident to force change.
In my case it was a development team that was not using revision control for their web based application. I had been complaining for six months that it was a disaster waiting to happen and we needed to install a revision control system. Nothing happened. Eventually the lead developer got married, went on his honeymoon and scheduled an update to the production application without telling anyone. This update was a disaster; he had mixed up old and new versions of various files (big surprise with no RCS) and there was no known good version to revert to. Various execs were angry, the department head was reprimanded and I was told to install a solution post-haste.
The moral of the story? Sometimes it takes a disaster and at times it can be very tempting to create one.
When SGI announced their x86 based line of servers I can remember thinking the same thing, "why would I buy this $3,500 dollar PC from SGI for $6,000?" It seemed to me as if they had the same problem that Sun currently has, not being able to decide what business they're in.
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Isn't that a bit of overkill for an entity-relationship diagram? Have you considered something like Graphviz?
As for batch processing with GIMP, I'm pretty sure it's supported. If you don't like that, you can always use ImageMagick. If you're complaining that GIMP's batch mode won't execute a script against X number of images, have you considered a tiny shell script? Something like: FILES=`find . -type f -name "image[0-9][0-9].gif"`; for FILE in $FILES; do...; done
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GIMP can do everything that Photoshop can but in some cases might require the workaround skills you learned in Photoshop 3.x and up.
I'm not a graphic artist, so be gentle... AFAIK, GIMP lacks a lot of Photoshop's features, though you'll probably have to be doing production work (we do product packaging here, among other things) to miss them. The biggest issue I'm thinking of is the color support. Does GIMP do Pantone?
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I agree that the early MTV rocked and it's simply shameful how it was then driven into the ground with all of the non-music video tripe. Unfortunately, I don't think YouTube will bring back the VJ or Music News segments.
I'd actually pay good money to get tapes/discs of old MTV broadcasts.
The industry is starting to view music videos as a potential revenue stream? I'm pretty sure music videos distributed on VHS tapes and DVD discs have been a revenue stream for several decades.
Why is this conference still being held in the United States? To me, it would make much more sense to host it somwhere where law enforcement is less likely to hassle people.
Going to a Christian church doesn't make you Christian; your thoughts and deeds do. I would hazard a guess that the majority of Americans who call themselves Christians are definitely not. The fact that someone tries to prostitute their religious affiliation to win points with others (*ahem* Bush) is a sure sign that they're not a true believer.
Fortunately as far as I can tell, the label is intact. Thanks for the safety reminder, I'm aware of that issue, typically wear goggles and stay far away from the player. I just need to read the damn thing _once_...
I have a DVD that I managed to crack while trying in vain to get the case to relinquish its death-grip on the disc. The disc has a small crack that runs from the outer edge to the center, but the label is still intact. I've attempted to line everything back up and put tape on the label-side, but that didn't seem to work. Should I just try filling in the crack on the other side? I'm just trying to get something to read the disc so that I can rip it and burn to a new DVD-R.
I'm looking to do pretty much the same thing. I want a voice recorder that can do something like 8 hours along with a hidden camera that I either wear around my neck, of that attaches to my shirt. I hadn't really considered trying to get data off the thing while I'm out. That's not a bad idea to prevent your tapes, memory cards, etc. from being "accidentally" erased.
I suppose being illegally detained and searched as well as having seen driving while black (DWB) police stops first-hand has something to do with it.
Mistake? There was no mistake. The cops simply got pissed off and decided to arrest the person to "teach them a lesson". It's a common tactic, they take you to the station for a few hours and then let you go. You're also left with pretty much no recourse since no judge is going to hear a case about civil liberty violations if there were no economic damages.
It's happened to me, although I wasn't arrested, just illegally searched. I watched two cops shaking a girl down near a public housing complex in Chicago; they let her go and then proceeded to stop me to demand what I was doing. Cuffed me, threw me in the back of the squad car, searched my backpack without my consent and then let me go.
A friend of mine just moved into a new building and he receives almost no signal on his cellphone; fortunately he has a Cisco SIP phone too. I suggested attaching an antenna to a ballon and floating it to the top of the building (his only window faces an alley and he's basically surrounded by brick and concrete), but I like the article's solution better.
Consider yourself lucky. I have a Samsung i500 with service through Sprint and if the thing doesn't have a signal, it jacks up the power and keeps trying to connect until the battery is drained. I discovered this after a few times of driving to my parents' house and spending the night only to find my phone dead the next morning.
You pay about 33% on your _earnings_, if you add up sales and miscellaneous taxes I think you'll find that you spend closer to 50%.
Wow, I find this to be so true as I've been struggling with this exact issue for the past three months or so. I just have no motivation towards my work anymore and working on different things (I wear many hats) doesn't help either. I think I've finally realized that I simply cannot reach my potential as a techie with my current employer. Fortunately a very good friend of mine works for a very technical company with a Google-like atmosphere and extremely talented engineers, so I'll most likely get hired on there.
Yes, and they've then allegedly been attacking said civilians when they flee.
This thing totally rocks! I bought a couple of them many years ago and they're still going strong. I'm baffled at why Logitech discontinued the model considering they've actually appreciated in value over the years.
I can't help but laugh when I see these sorts of funky new mouse designs intended to help people with RSI problems. Why not just get a trackball like Logitech's excellent TrackMan Marble FX? It requires much less desk space than a mouse and you hardly have to move your hand to use it.
I keep hearing this thing about the PSP not having many games, but the last time I was at a Fry's or a Best Buy I saw dozens. The problem is that the PSP is basically a portable Playstation; meaning that it gets the same sorts of games that I already have at home. The DS, on the other hand, offers a unique gaming experience. I own both systems (actually two DS's, the old and new) and I find that I only use my PSP when I'm flying somewhere, mostly to watch the few UMDs I own or play Hot Shots Golf. The DS gets almost daily use (unfortunately I have a real job or I'd play for hours every day) and I'm buying new games every month or so, while I haven't bought a new game for the PSP since Metal Gear Acid 2 came out.
I'm guessing that you don't live in the United States? I believe that every state in the Union requires that one pass a certification test before they can legally call themselves an engineer. I somehow doubt that certified engineers use guestimates on projects.
I'm surprised that it took you until the last paragraph to mention that you're raising a child; how much does that cost? I don't have any kids myself and am not too comfortable alone around younger children (I'm sure a psychiatrist would have a field day with that one), so I know I'm not the norm, but I just don't understand why people in general take raising kids as a given despite their financial situation. This is not directed at you, but I know several people that are in their mid-twenties, living with their parents, working a minimum wage job and raising a child. I can't help but wonder why they decided to have (or decided to risk having) a child.
I struggle with this just about every day. Go have a nice lunch, get out of the office and spend ten to sixty dollars (I'm a big fan of fine dining), or bring something to work that doesn't require much preparation (there's no real kitchen, just a room with tables, a sink, microwaves and a fridge) and stay in the office all day. I try to limit myself to one really nice lunch a week, and otherwise stick to the cheap (non-greasy spoon) diners. Frankly, I don't know how some people can bring their lunch every day; I'd go mad from being in the office all day. I used to work in downtown Chicago, so we'd get to go walk around the city at lunchtime. I find that I really need that time out of the office to clear my head in the middle of the day.
For some reason, I was just reminded of those old fish tank shoes. Someone should mod an iPod to have one of those with a little plastic fish bouncing around.
Agreed, VOD rocks, but how would Netflix deliver the content? Cable companies (Comcast in my area) that are doing VOD own the infrastructure. I just don't see how Netflix could compete with them.
Copyright concerns aside, have you considered an Easynews membership?
I've worked in organizations like this; they know something's a problem, but they think they can continue delaying remediation because they've not experienced any pain. Typically things get fixed pretty quickly once there's a problem, but it takes an incident to force change.
In my case it was a development team that was not using revision control for their web based application. I had been complaining for six months that it was a disaster waiting to happen and we needed to install a revision control system. Nothing happened. Eventually the lead developer got married, went on his honeymoon and scheduled an update to the production application without telling anyone. This update was a disaster; he had mixed up old and new versions of various files (big surprise with no RCS) and there was no known good version to revert to. Various execs were angry, the department head was reprimanded and I was told to install a solution post-haste.
The moral of the story? Sometimes it takes a disaster and at times it can be very tempting to create one.
When SGI announced their x86 based line of servers I can remember thinking the same thing, "why would I buy this $3,500 dollar PC from SGI for $6,000?" It seemed to me as if they had the same problem that Sun currently has, not being able to decide what business they're in.
Maybe you should look at the Johnny Lightning, American Muscle or Racing Champions brand of vehicles?RC2.
Isn't that a bit of overkill for an entity-relationship diagram? Have you considered something like Graphviz?
As for batch processing with GIMP, I'm pretty sure it's supported. If you don't like that, you can always use ImageMagick. If you're complaining that GIMP's batch mode won't execute a script against X number of images, have you considered a tiny shell script? Something like: ...; done
FILES=`find . -type f -name "image[0-9][0-9].gif"`; for FILE in $FILES; do
I'm not a graphic artist, so be gentle... AFAIK, GIMP lacks a lot of Photoshop's features, though you'll probably have to be doing production work (we do product packaging here, among other things) to miss them. The biggest issue I'm thinking of is the color support. Does GIMP do Pantone?