Paramount has priced themselves OUT of the market with these. I woudl have GLADLY forked over 40-50 PER season. 100 bucks?? 110?? GO TO HELL RICK BERMAN!
Now what I ahve found was a GOOD deal was all of the movies for 110....that is:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Star Trek Generations Star Trek First Contact Star Trek Insurrection Star Trek Nemesis
ALL the Special Editions. I already have some of the Special Editions, but I would gladly pick this up as I do not have any of the Next Gen special editions and am missing a couple of the original crew Special Editions and the singles are getting hard to find. At 19.99 per movie, the price I saw at Best Buy (110) is a steal.
Um, ho wcompletely wrong is this??? Listen, I am in IT and I DO put in overtime....when i tneeds to be done. I don't actively wish for it or try to get it. When I work OT, it's because something fscking needs to be done. When I work overtime it's because your riding my ass during the regular 8 hours because you don't see fit to hire another person to help me out AND you don't help me plan the project. if I am on my own, I can't usually bring to bear the people I need to work with. I need you to get me those resources.....not bitch when I leave after 8 hours.
We DO need management to tell us what is needed specifically. Otherwise w ehave no idea what you mean when you say you need X vague report.....what columns do you want? What kind of sort?? Do you need it everyday at a certain time or do you want to run it on demand? Do you want it via e-mail? Do you want it to include X figure from the ledger? You don't tell us these things and we're supposed to KNOW you want page 3 to be landscaped and in Arial. When we're almost done, we should NOT have to go through and redo it all because you decided you would like it portrait instead of landscaped and in Times instead of Arial. These things take work. When you decide you want to customize some ERP product I can't just stick it into word and make the frickin thing work. When you don't give me proper specs, it's YOU that are at fault not me for being able to read your frickin mind.
Anyone who says this has NO idea what they are saying. MySQL may be enough for some companies, but not for us. If you discount that our application requires is due to support from the application vendor, we depend on Oracle. Oracle is better in every respect then MySQL. We have point in time recovery on our Oracle DB plus Oracle never breaks a sweat. 10g (the g stands for Grid) sets up alot of grid style processing. I hope some day that we can eventualy take over all of our computers at night to increase the processing power available to oracle so we can run those reports fast at night.
For me, my top usage speed is on Mac OS X. The printer issues you state....you CAN work around those. Mac OS X's underlying print archetecture is CUPS. You can use the built in UI which should statisfy most things, but you can go in to a shell in a terminal and hand edit it if you like. I tried doing it that way and it worked fine.
The UI has never slowed me down too much in Mac OS X. UI is a highly opinionated subject. You may like it, you may not. For me, I have no problem using anything.
This is crap. They know demand will be high but they are restricting this anyway? Personally, I would be happy if stores would only let you reserve 1 360 per person to prevent the idiots buying 4 boxes and profit taking from desparate people on eBay. Granted, I don't feel for anyone trying to get this thing AT the launch day or soon thereafter. After Jan, they will be more available.
Well, I personally think the idea has merit. VB is great for bashing up a quick app to do, well, anything you want so long as it's not really complex and even then you can always do parts of things in Vis C and plug them into VB. Alot of corporations have nice little custom apps done up in VB that they depend on and therefore are tied to Windows. I know I know, VB is horrible compared to other languages, however there's a metric tonne of developers that know VB. Would it not be nice to load up Ubuntu an dport your app over?
The real problem is there are some FOSS developers that don't really want to make it easier for users, but then they whine when a user does ask them hey can you make this tweak or it would be nice if it did this and they whine when noone wants to use Linux at work. If the user can't produce the code, they get told to pound sand and that is bullcrap. Sure, you may not get paid, but I sure as hell don't want to hear you whine when noone buys Linux because of the attude you as a developer projects. If you want more users, you have to be open to change too just like Windows users should not expect everything to be hunky dory in Linux land. If we all met somewhere in the middle, then Linux would be a force to reckon with. The developers have to be willing to try to give users what they want with out compromising the system and the users have to accept the differences caused by things like increased security of the UNIX model. So far the only distro I see attempting this is Ubuntu and even they don't have everything right....yet.
Yes but would a standard installation tool, whatever it may be, be enough? I have seen enough differences in both file structures and availble utilitie4s in standard installs that would cause this to fail. I thought this is what the Linux Standard Base tried to establish. Unfortunately, making FOSS developers do what it logical is a bit like herding cats....they all want to do it different ways.
As was one of the companies that SBC bought up, Ameritech. SBC is almost what AT&T was back in the day. They bought up a BUNCH of the baby bells if not all of them.
This isn't outside of the box thinking. This is idiotic. For LESS then the cost of a iPod, they can get some external hard drives that would suffice. Here's a nice one that that can be had for less then 200:
In any case, I will agree with you, HIPPA is a PITA. Patient record privacy could have been done much better with out it, but the feds decided to muck it up even further with HIPPA. Also, these images are basically being sneakernetted all around the hospital. Does the hospital not have a secure network (no internet on the image machines)? Why not store these on a secured SAN volume or do a NFS share or something of that nature?? The thign is with external devices of any type is they can grow legs. A iPod or external hard disk can be stuffed in the lab coat and walk right out of the hospital. This type of info should no t be allowed to leave the hospital except via secure means. VPN to the hospital image network from the off campus office can achieve this. Storing them on a external device is not outside of the box thinking.
The N1 was incredibly unstable and very complex BECAUSE of all of the engines. Sometimes the NASA approach works better. Also, if I remember right, the USSR used only one vehicle rather then a separate CSM and LEM like the US did. This made the man vehicle very heavy because it had to have everything including the engine capable of deorbiting the moon and for the course back to Earth. The engines and the much bigger vehicle was ultimately what did the N1 in. The first stage of the N1 had 30 engines! Invariably, a good chunk of the engines would not fire. NASA took the N+1 approach with at least the first stage....the first stage could achieve Earth orbit with only 4 engines, but it had 5 and fired 5, yet they were throttled down. If one failed, raise the throttle on the remaining 4 and you still made it to orbit.
No.....the market requires this. If Walmart decided let's just sell Linux boxes, they would choose to switch back to Microsoft or stop selling computers altogether. I am SURE Microsoft DOES have contractual obligations in the contracts of HP and what not, but the real truth is they don't need these in thier contract....HP would rather sell a PC with Windows on it rather then not sell a PC with Linux on it. Until Linux is so compelling that you must make the switch, most people will not switch.
You have to understand that for HP to hire a guy that is knowledgable enough (not that it takes much) costs HP money in both the position as well as training costs. Look, I like Linux as much as the next guy, but is it worth the extra money to HP for doing your custom partitioning?? No it isn't. Is it worth HP's money and time to do a custom job on your laptop? No, they can't do thatas they would be bombarded with many requests to do the same thing.
Is HP right for not including REAL Windows install disks?? NO. HP should realize....hard disks fail. To a regular AOL/Joe Sixpack type of user, mailing the laptop back to HP or taking it to a service center is perfectly acceptable when replacing a hard disk. To us, we look on it as a opportunity to upgrade the feeble disk it came with. In any case, HP and many other manufacturers SHOULD ship REAL install media....not this crap that accesses a windows recovery partition. They should also stop shipping SPYWARE with there machine as well.
HP's website itself works FINE in Firefox. The website itself is Linux friendly. Not being able to ship you a custom solution should not be a judgement of thier site. Face it....Windows DOES have the marketshare. If you don't like the website that they make you use, then you are free to go to a dealer that IS able to satisfy you. Being mad at them because they won't do your custom job is stupid. Finding a manufacturer that will do whaty you want and supporting them rather then HP is the sure fire way to get HP to change thier ways. What you did by buying from them anyway is VALIDATE thier planning! If a company can't do what I want, I tell them to pound sand.
In future, when you buy a subscription, either they send you a book full of this ePaper with a embedded cpu/EVDO radio, or you have only one device. You give them the address of your device and once a month or once a day the magazine or newpaper gets downloaded to your device. You could also have it just accessable through the EVDO. Somethng smaller, yet similar couild also be used for shelf tags in the grocery store.
What will happen:
You will get a new device every month and many of these will stackup just like they used when we had paper mags except the images will move instead of be static. At first, the eInk pages will just be for adverts, but eventually the whole magazine will be full of ePaper.
That's nice, but this should work OUT OF THE BOX! It's 2005 and we're still all having issues getting stuff to sync with other stuff. Even with pocket pc's it isn't perfect. Activesync SUCKS. The Linux plugins that let you sync a Pocket PC do work, but I still have issues....mostly with Evolution. Apple pioneered SyncML and they are STILL the only ones that use it...other then some phone manufacturers and then not on every phone they sell. There's NO standard for synchronization of calendar/contacts/tasks. I don't care what ANYONE says. If a standard isn't chosen soon, the standard might just be activesync.
Whoops....just found it (VZW site SUCKS!) the 59.99 plan is ONLY with a (qualified)voice plan. Otherwise, if you JUST want the EVDO card it's 79 a month.
1XRTT has been at the same price (almost) since it's introduction. Verizon's network has been rock solid. ALSO....they MARKET unlimited bandwidth. Apparantly it's unlimited until you go to USE IT. The word UNLIMITED seems to have taken on new meanings as of late but to me, unlimited means:
I can use it 24 hours a day IF I WANT TO... I can use it anyway I see fit.
I guess I can...until I go to use it.
How can they tell if the card is plugged into a NAT router? Should they not be spending time to beef up the network instead of time trying to figure out how NOT to give me what I pay for??
Roadrunner has been consistently lower then the wireless stuff. Granted, the technology is different, however the amount of cable that needs run in this case has to be much lower then what had to be done to make Cable modems work. Isn't alot of this done? How many towers are needed?? 1,000 per a metro area? I doubt that!
No, Verizon is charing way to much for what's offered. If they just lowered the price to say 30 a month, I bet that subscriptions would go through the roof.
Will I be able to just continue from the point I have been with the preview release? Anyone ran dist-upgrade and have it work yet??
Ubuntu by FAR has been the BEST Linux distro for me. I just want to work on it I don't want to have to compile a bunch of crap (Gentoo anyone) or put up with RPM dependencies (SuSe, Fedora, Red Hat and Madriva). RPM based distros may have yum and apt now, but Debian based distros do it right.
They are packing them in Blades for thier bladecenter. We're probably going to look at them in the near future for webservers. JS520. Take a look. 2 970's into a single blade. Cool stuff.
Why don't they just enable OBEX file transfer, syncing and basically give you all features of a phone with bluetooth?? Why should they have to hack the replacement phone either?? Verizion is just screwed up on a great many things. Why must I pay 79 bucks or even 59 for 1XRTT or even EVDO?? Can't they have a unlimited plan that's a little more economical? How come I can get a GPRS connection via T-Mobile for HALF of Verizon's 1XRTT?? If they would just look at the POTENTIAL market, they could definitely lower thier price.
Also,with regards to EVDO, they SHOULD allow you to plug the card into that switch unit(forget the name of it). IF Verizon did this, then some people just might use this as thier ONLY connection to the web. When at home, plug it into the switch, when on the road, take another switch or just plug it into the laptop. Verizon could make TONS of cash if they were to do this, however they want to FORCE you to do things their way because they are afraid the network may not be able to handle it or some other stupid reason.
This is more then enough for me to stick with AIX. Granted, lots of times the LPAR's Never change, but if you had spare memory and you want to allocate it without taking it down, you can't do it with Linux...yet. AIX is nice like that....
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Paramount has priced themselves OUT of the market with these. I woudl have GLADLY forked over 40-50 PER season. 100 bucks?? 110?? GO TO HELL RICK BERMAN!
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Now what I ahve found was a GOOD deal was all of the movies for 110....that is:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Insurrection
Star Trek Nemesis
ALL the Special Editions. I already have some of the Special Editions, but I would gladly pick this up as I do not have any of the Next Gen special editions and am missing a couple of the original crew Special Editions and the singles are getting hard to find. At 19.99 per movie, the price I saw at Best Buy (110) is a steal.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A6T262/102-0
Um, ho wcompletely wrong is this??? Listen, I am in IT and I DO put in overtime....when i tneeds to be done. I don't actively wish for it or try to get it. When I work OT, it's because something fscking needs to be done. When I work overtime it's because your riding my ass during the regular 8 hours because you don't see fit to hire another person to help me out AND you don't help me plan the project. if I am on my own, I can't usually bring to bear the people I need to work with. I need you to get me those resources.....not bitch when I leave after 8 hours.
We DO need management to tell us what is needed specifically. Otherwise w ehave no idea what you mean when you say you need X vague report.....what columns do you want? What kind of sort?? Do you need it everyday at a certain time or do you want to run it on demand? Do you want it via e-mail? Do you want it to include X figure from the ledger? You don't tell us these things and we're supposed to KNOW you want page 3 to be landscaped and in Arial. When we're almost done, we should NOT have to go through and redo it all because you decided you would like it portrait instead of landscaped and in Times instead of Arial. These things take work. When you decide you want to customize some ERP product I can't just stick it into word and make the frickin thing work. When you don't give me proper specs, it's YOU that are at fault not me for being able to read your frickin mind.
Anyone who says this has NO idea what they are saying. MySQL may be enough for some companies, but not for us. If you discount that our application requires is due to support from the application vendor, we depend on Oracle. Oracle is better in every respect then MySQL. We have point in time recovery on our Oracle DB plus Oracle never breaks a sweat. 10g (the g stands for Grid) sets up alot of grid style processing. I hope some day that we can eventualy take over all of our computers at night to increase the processing power available to oracle so we can run those reports fast at night.
For me, my top usage speed is on Mac OS X. The printer issues you state....you CAN work around those. Mac OS X's underlying print archetecture is CUPS. You can use the built in UI which should statisfy most things, but you can go in to a shell in a terminal and hand edit it if you like. I tried doing it that way and it worked fine.
The UI has never slowed me down too much in Mac OS X. UI is a highly opinionated subject. You may like it, you may not. For me, I have no problem using anything.
This is crap. They know demand will be high but they are restricting this anyway? Personally, I would be happy if stores would only let you reserve 1 360 per person to prevent the idiots buying 4 boxes and profit taking from desparate people on eBay. Granted, I don't feel for anyone trying to get this thing AT the launch day or soon thereafter. After Jan, they will be more available.
Well, I personally think the idea has merit. VB is great for bashing up a quick app to do, well, anything you want so long as it's not really complex and even then you can always do parts of things in Vis C and plug them into VB. Alot of corporations have nice little custom apps done up in VB that they depend on and therefore are tied to Windows. I know I know, VB is horrible compared to other languages, however there's a metric tonne of developers that know VB. Would it not be nice to load up Ubuntu an dport your app over?
The real problem is there are some FOSS developers that don't really want to make it easier for users, but then they whine when a user does ask them hey can you make this tweak or it would be nice if it did this and they whine when noone wants to use Linux at work. If the user can't produce the code, they get told to pound sand and that is bullcrap. Sure, you may not get paid, but I sure as hell don't want to hear you whine when noone buys Linux because of the attude you as a developer projects. If you want more users, you have to be open to change too just like Windows users should not expect everything to be hunky dory in Linux land. If we all met somewhere in the middle, then Linux would be a force to reckon with. The developers have to be willing to try to give users what they want with out compromising the system and the users have to accept the differences caused by things like increased security of the UNIX model. So far the only distro I see attempting this is Ubuntu and even they don't have everything right....yet.
Yes but would a standard installation tool, whatever it may be, be enough? I have seen enough differences in both file structures and availble utilitie4s in standard installs that would cause this to fail. I thought this is what the Linux Standard Base tried to establish. Unfortunately, making FOSS developers do what it logical is a bit like herding cats....they all want to do it different ways.
Dies not pass acid 2, however, they ain't the only ones. That company in Redmond has issues too.
As was one of the companies that SBC bought up, Ameritech. SBC is almost what AT&T was back in the day. They bought up a BUNCH of the baby bells if not all of them.
This isn't outside of the box thinking. This is idiotic. For LESS then the cost of a iPod, they can get some external hard drives that would suffice. Here's a nice one that that can be had for less then 200:
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http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?
In any case, I will agree with you, HIPPA is a PITA. Patient record privacy could have been done much better with out it, but the feds decided to muck it up even further with HIPPA. Also, these images are basically being sneakernetted all around the hospital. Does the hospital not have a secure network (no internet on the image machines)? Why not store these on a secured SAN volume or do a NFS share or something of that nature?? The thign is with external devices of any type is they can grow legs. A iPod or external hard disk can be stuffed in the lab coat and walk right out of the hospital. This type of info should no t be allowed to leave the hospital except via secure means. VPN to the hospital image network from the off campus office can achieve this. Storing them on a external device is not outside of the box thinking.
3-4 % is not even a cost of living raise when:
We see gas prices spiking periodically (200-300% increase in last 10 years..anyone remember 98 cent gas? How about 78-87 cent gas?)
Health insurance rates have been increasing for most(in US) at double digit increments....anywhere from 15-35 percent!
They only thing that has suprisingly stayed low has been food costs.
3-4% is CRAP when you have these kinds of increases. Copst of licing in my book should have given me a 10-15% raise.
The N1 was incredibly unstable and very complex BECAUSE of all of the engines. Sometimes the NASA approach works better. Also, if I remember right, the USSR used only one vehicle rather then a separate CSM and LEM like the US did. This made the man vehicle very heavy because it had to have everything including the engine capable of deorbiting the moon and for the course back to Earth. The engines and the much bigger vehicle was ultimately what did the N1 in. The first stage of the N1 had 30 engines! Invariably, a good chunk of the engines would not fire. NASA took the N+1 approach with at least the first stage....the first stage could achieve Earth orbit with only 4 engines, but it had 5 and fired 5, yet they were throttled down. If one failed, raise the throttle on the remaining 4 and you still made it to orbit.
No.....the market requires this. If Walmart decided let's just sell Linux boxes, they would choose to switch back to Microsoft or stop selling computers altogether. I am SURE Microsoft DOES have contractual obligations in the contracts of HP and what not, but the real truth is they don't need these in thier contract....HP would rather sell a PC with Windows on it rather then not sell a PC with Linux on it. Until Linux is so compelling that you must make the switch, most people will not switch.
You have to understand that for HP to hire a guy that is knowledgable enough (not that it takes much) costs HP money in both the position as well as training costs. Look, I like Linux as much as the next guy, but is it worth the extra money to HP for doing your custom partitioning?? No it isn't. Is it worth HP's money and time to do a custom job on your laptop? No, they can't do thatas they would be bombarded with many requests to do the same thing.
Is HP right for not including REAL Windows install disks?? NO. HP should realize....hard disks fail. To a regular AOL/Joe Sixpack type of user, mailing the laptop back to HP or taking it to a service center is perfectly acceptable when replacing a hard disk. To us, we look on it as a opportunity to upgrade the feeble disk it came with. In any case, HP and many other manufacturers SHOULD ship REAL install media....not this crap that accesses a windows recovery partition. They should also stop shipping SPYWARE with there machine as well.
HP's website itself works FINE in Firefox. The website itself is Linux friendly. Not being able to ship you a custom solution should not be a judgement of thier site. Face it....Windows DOES have the marketshare. If you don't like the website that they make you use, then you are free to go to a dealer that IS able to satisfy you. Being mad at them because they won't do your custom job is stupid. Finding a manufacturer that will do whaty you want and supporting them rather then HP is the sure fire way to get HP to change thier ways. What you did by buying from them anyway is VALIDATE thier planning! If a company can't do what I want, I tell them to pound sand.
I want this for my windshield.
What SHOULD happen:
In future, when you buy a subscription, either they send you a book full of this ePaper with a embedded cpu/EVDO radio, or you have only one device. You give them the address of your device and once a month or once a day the magazine or newpaper gets downloaded to your device. You could also have it just accessable through the EVDO. Somethng smaller, yet similar couild also be used for shelf tags in the grocery store.
What will happen:
You will get a new device every month and many of these will stackup just like they used when we had paper mags except the images will move instead of be static. At first, the eInk pages will just be for adverts, but eventually the whole magazine will be full of ePaper.
That's nice, but this should work OUT OF THE BOX! It's 2005 and we're still all having issues getting stuff to sync with other stuff. Even with pocket pc's it isn't perfect. Activesync SUCKS. The Linux plugins that let you sync a Pocket PC do work, but I still have issues....mostly with Evolution. Apple pioneered SyncML and they are STILL the only ones that use it...other then some phone manufacturers and then not on every phone they sell. There's NO standard for synchronization of calendar/contacts/tasks. I don't care what ANYONE says. If a standard isn't chosen soon, the standard might just be activesync.
Whoops....just found it (VZW site SUCKS!) the 59.99 plan is ONLY with a (qualified)voice plan. Otherwise, if you JUST want the EVDO card it's 79 a month.
It's explictly in thier contract. How they intend on finding out what is behind a NAT is anyones guess.
The 60 dollar plan is ONLY for a limted time which that time is now over. It's still 79.99 currently (JUST checked).
1XRTT has been at the same price (almost) since it's introduction. Verizon's network has been rock solid. ALSO....they MARKET unlimited bandwidth. Apparantly it's unlimited until you go to USE IT. The word UNLIMITED seems to have taken on new meanings as of late but to me, unlimited means:
I can use it 24 hours a day IF I WANT TO...
I can use it anyway I see fit.
I guess I can...until I go to use it.
How can they tell if the card is plugged into a NAT router? Should they not be spending time to beef up the network instead of time trying to figure out how NOT to give me what I pay for??
Roadrunner has been consistently lower then the wireless stuff. Granted, the technology is different, however the amount of cable that needs run in this case has to be much lower then what had to be done to make Cable modems work. Isn't alot of this done? How many towers are needed?? 1,000 per a metro area? I doubt that!
No, Verizon is charing way to much for what's offered. If they just lowered the price to say 30 a month, I bet that subscriptions would go through the roof.
Will I be able to just continue from the point I have been with the preview release? Anyone ran dist-upgrade and have it work yet??
Ubuntu by FAR has been the BEST Linux distro for me. I just want to work on it I don't want to have to compile a bunch of crap (Gentoo anyone) or put up with RPM dependencies (SuSe, Fedora, Red Hat and Madriva). RPM based distros may have yum and apt now, but Debian based distros do it right.
They are packing them in Blades for thier bladecenter. We're probably going to look at them in the near future for webservers. JS520. Take a look. 2 970's into a single blade. Cool stuff.
Why don't they just enable OBEX file transfer, syncing and basically give you all features of a phone with bluetooth?? Why should they have to hack the replacement phone either?? Verizion is just screwed up on a great many things. Why must I pay 79 bucks or even 59 for 1XRTT or even EVDO?? Can't they have a unlimited plan that's a little more economical? How come I can get a GPRS connection via T-Mobile for HALF of Verizon's 1XRTT?? If they would just look at the POTENTIAL market, they could definitely lower thier price.
Also,with regards to EVDO, they SHOULD allow you to plug the card into that switch unit(forget the name of it). IF Verizon did this, then some people just might use this as thier ONLY connection to the web. When at home, plug it into the switch, when on the road, take another switch or just plug it into the laptop. Verizon could make TONS of cash if they were to do this, however they want to FORCE you to do things their way because they are afraid the network may not be able to handle it or some other stupid reason.
The HMC on a Power 5 machine uses a modified Linux distro and also uses Fluxbox for the Window Manager. Good stuff.
This is more then enough for me to stick with AIX. Granted, lots of times the LPAR's Never change, but if you had spare memory and you want to allocate it without taking it down, you can't do it with Linux...yet. AIX is nice like that....