MS really tries to be user-friendly; regardless of the headaches we as tech-savvy professionals must endure to help them stay happy. Just about everyone gives away demo or time-limited trials of software to get you hooked so you will buy it. I personally love trying things out then going out to buy the full copy. On the other hand; will the music industry ever get this through their collective thick skull? I seriously doubt it.
**"We want to hit fans with the message that downloading music illegally is, as Britney Spears explains, the same as going into a CD store and stealing the CD," said Hilary Rosen **
I wish there were a polite way to say it, but "fuck you and the horse you rode in on..." I reiterate, for the MILLIONTH TIME, that cassette copies of music proliferated throughout the world caused astronimical profits 20 years ago; internet music should be given that same consideration. The amount of illegal copying is nowhere near as catastrophic as the industry claims; and could not be or they'd be in the unemployment line with the other 400,000 people that signed up last night. That's right; you're still making a profit while all my neighbors sold their houses and moved into shelters [they're mostly factory laborers but they're people too]. I don't buy music; I don't download music unless it is legal [and free, at least until I like an artist enough to use my wife's BMG account or buy directly from them]. If they'd do REAL RESEARCH they'd see that people are very likely to pay $11 for an album once they've gotten a sample of it than $18-25 for something they'll never hear unless they manage to get a halfway decent radio station in their town. To top that off, they hardly consider all the people they've turned off with their 'ooooh, the megaplatinum star can't buy another limo' spiel. Long, long before this issue came to a head I started listening to alternative (not genre just off-mainstream) music and put parental blocks on MTV, VH1 and BET. Long live local lix and samples from the 'net.
they already were 98% MS, 2% Novell. They had a big requirement that you needed to be Novell certified to support their MS systems. On the other hand; you also couldn't get a government job doing actual support work; you had to be a contractor. Only management got the cushy government tech jobs - at least as far as the department-level was concerned. Not all sure about the Secretary (as in Cabinet Secretary) level positions.
windows media player from a few weeks ago; my broadband makes little difference in looking at the porn because you get so many burped downloads it takes just as long as 52 - oh I mean 56 - K.
[You do know about the FCC mandated 52K data transmission limit for phone lines, right? Or was I bullshitted by a dial-up provider's tech support since every provider we tested for our home inspectors only got 52 max?]
Those people will still get AOL because they'll be conned into paying almost what they paid for regular dial-up AOL to get AOL over their broadband connection; or still paying the $25 a month [or even for those people they've still managed to sucker into a per hour contract, $90-$300]. I remember back in 1994ish when I had AOL for a brief period; I could access my whole account from any LAN by telnetting or using some client software they provided for getting into your AOL from "work" (as they said back then because you often didn't have high-speed connections from home or even small business).
I got broadband because my employer paid for it; and because I needed to host demonstrations of software that would not be viable over a dialup. I had to dink with the ports and other settings to get around my provider's blocking of outbound web ports "for virus/security reasons" - unless of course you pay the corporate rates for cable and let them assist you with the web hosting - and oftentimes there are still issues with the local routers going down and the (1st tier) support staff needing me to tell them exactly what they should do to rectify the problem. I love calling them and politely letting them know I've done all of the basic steps to reset my modem, refresh my DHCP; and make sure the splice they had to make two blocks up (because someone cut the one inch of cable exposed in a sinkhole no one else would have found) next to the neighborhood box is still in place. They start telling me again so I just go do personal things and nod and say yes until they go "OK, it's upstream from you." Duh.
I'm keeping it and paying the fee now because my wife enjoys the performance difference; and I can do small projects, play online games and look for work a little bit easier without cutting into our phone line. (I always refused to waste money on a second number just for internet or faxes, etc. I can dial *500 on any phone in the house and kick my fax machine on just fine if it doesn't get the transmission on its own - it's a smart little Sharp device.)
You're right and I am interested in getting an Apex because I have heard good things about 'em... but they aren't multisystem or 'region free' off the shelf
On the OTHER HAND, it doesn't matter whether the software or firmware on the DVD player costs; what is likely costing is the import/export- or tariff-related fees. It's something that I'm kind of getting myself motivated to start researching.
They just aren't $40-at-Wally World cheap. That's the real clincher: if you aren't paying tariffs and exorbitant fees for your international media; then The Powers That Be get pissed off. Maybe, just maybe we should start considering the regulations that make it difficult for us (in any country) to access foreign-produced media; and then the technology itself won't matter quite as much anymore.
I've seen 'roving information' like with token-based network access for people who sometimes telecommute (or have to due to the nature of their work - like military officers who may have more than one physical location they are assigned to); and PDF (yes, PDF)-based information management via webservers that allow people to access certain things from home or in the field so that they always have a common reference point.
I can't completely fit in the "work" vis-a-vis "home" bookmarks since at this time I have been working from home; and when I worked away from home I didn't use the same bookmarks in either place - but if I could easily maintain some 'work location' data and take it with me to home or field locations without having to haul along several pieces of electronics I'm all for it.
I would propose one of two ways to synergize these things: your PDA or you cell phone maintains the central repository of 'profile' and allows certain elements - perhaps done up with XML - to be accessed depending on what subset of your profile you determine when you access a computer terminal, network appliance, ATM(!), etc. Or, like the Sony memory stick or a smartcard; you carry it with you and it is passed on to all devices.
This sort of thing will not be produced for the masses until a few things occur: we as a society can manage the privacy implications (I read comics and chat on non-tech bulletin boards when I'm not working; and should be unable to access those from work but if a worker saw this profile data I would not be happy); we reach a 'trust threshold' with regards to said privacy, encryption and self-assurance of each profile subset; and manfucturers are willing to take the chance that the public will go for it. We (or at least those of us/. readers that are) technologically savvy people could probably hack something together that would work for us (as individuals and for some of our contemporaries), but would Joe User utilize it? I can remember the learning curve getting people to use VPN tokens - essentially where the password changed every 17 seconds but used your chosen password as a root of the whole every time.
I have been searching for a full-time job near DC/in the NorthEast for several months and during my research I have found a lot of jobs that have been moved to Jacksonville from places like Citibank in Maryland. Don't ask me why; it's just one of the 'patterns' I've seen - no concrete evidence on my part but it is just something I've noticed looking at online and newspaper job lists.
First let's answer the question: Look up www.tjobs.com and also 'telecommute' on your favorite search engine.
Second, I worked for a company for about a year before they laid off their entire engineering division (which were telecommuters). Having a home office is great; and may surprise your employer with your productivity; but be careful not to put yourself into 7a-8p workdays because you think you aren't doing enough because you are working at home.
Third, many of the people that were laid off went back to - you guessed it - working for themselves. It seems that self-employment or small organizations are the best way to telecommute. If you have industry contacts that do consulting work; talk with them. They may not telecommute but they will have insight because you most likely will be working like them - home office or not.
At one point I was asked for a fee to enter parts of it; or at least to get the word-format print version which is what I'd usually do and take on the train home over the weekend (and back again on Monday).
The original was invented at Xerox PARC. I learned this five years ago as a Docutech Production Publisher technician. You can still see them - old blocky looking things - attached to those big 1500 'aircraft carrier' looking machines. Some of the earliest "desktop publishing" concepts came from the Docutech, from what I've read, learned and heard.
It would be enormously cheaper; and has been done hundreds of times over already http://www.microimagesys.com
There are a few specialized (very) small businesses out there; this being one, that do this type of work for inventories, workflows, invoice cataloging, ad infinitum. Mr. Lunglhofer happens to do a lot of this with DocuShare and (*gasp* don't hurt us please) SharePoint in mind, but it is good stuff. If you have any $100 MFD out there in Wal-Mart or OfficeMax you should be able to find a cheap or free barcode reader for it. I have a few here [but I won't share - I don't work for or even with MIS right now but I have great respect for them].
I've been reading Slate for many years; and often printed it before they charged a subscription fee (at one point - which I do believe was shortly after being taken over by MSN). It may be an MSN-centric publication in some ways but I've always found it to be pretty interesting.
Of course, regardless of what the numbers say; and irrespectful of the fact that we ARE IN A RECESSION, it will be the music-swappers' faults this happened. Just like it was cassette tapes back in the day, right?
in places as 'backwoods' as Martinsburg, WV that were nothing more than regular computer video games with "VR Goggles" attached to the video output. The one here seems to be doing OK business, but apparently mostly among the 8-13 year old kids whose parents won't buy them high-end gaming systems. They spend what would have been their regular arcade money in this eight-unit place now, which is fine because the arcade has pretty much the same games it had five years ago and will probably continue to do so.
as soon as they kill off the time traveler character and settle into episodes that have nothing to do with this 'cold war' thing they flaunt every few episodes. Seriously; even with some of the things that are irksome like the ship always being at the mercy of every other blasted species out there (were *we* the only ones the Vulcans kept technology from???) and a desire to 'invent' everything that showed up on the other series; I'm enjoying it very much. And I even like the 80's style 'rock ballad' theme song unlike many other Trek fans out there. Let's see if they outdo themselves in the tradition of ST:II.
Again circumvention; not outright removal
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Haiku will not save you. Spam is cancer, always changed. Its heart we must take.
Then again commercially copying DVDs for financial gain is not illegal or you wouldn't see them in stores. He'd have to carefully craft a statement identifying what he'd consider 'legal copying' - and I'm sure you, I or any of a thousand others could find flaws in those statements too. I hate pompous windbags.
http://www.therecord.com/news/news_0208179293.html
"You are setting a dangerous precedent..."
Like refusing to support a school because it doesn't rabidly support your worldview isn't a dangerous precedent in and of itself.
Ooooooh, better bring back FORTRAN and COBOL and RPG like they still have in at least one community college I know of... but wait that's because several facilities in the area are still *using them*...
Fire away folks, but because it has been 1994 since I did any programming school and because Docushare and Sharepoint can make me money if I work hard enough at it and help out the people I like working with; I'm going to pick up what I can regardless of platform - that is, Java since Docushare is moving from Python to Java with its next release and C#/.Net because Sharepoint and such will be utilizing them - and continue to work with whatever technology is being used by that particular client at the time; without using "anti-capitalism/monopoly/whatever the buzzword is this week", "embrace and extend", or "viva la [bleeping] revolution!" tactics to do so. That's right everyone uses tactics and I often disagree with the ethics of both sides.
Since when was only Microsoft a 'proprietary' format? I seem to think that each individual *nix version; whether or not its software can be shared amongst its counterparts, is proprietary in that I can't run it on my Macintosh or Windows systems. Often the stuff is specifically designed *gasp* just like Microsoft! to be impossible to use on Windows.
You were banned for using a word that could get you hurt for being racist; the 'N' word - not the 'M' word. I could imagine you being upset if you were nailed for saying something nice about Microsoft. I freely admit to using Microsoft products; but I use a lot of other products too when I have the capacity to use them.
And I can't use the 'N' word in person either - I'm Native American; if that accounts for anything.
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MS really tries to be user-friendly; regardless of the headaches we as tech-savvy professionals must endure to help them stay happy. Just about everyone gives away demo or time-limited trials of software to get you hooked so you will buy it. I personally love trying things out then going out to buy the full copy. On the other hand; will the music industry ever get this through their collective thick skull? I seriously doubt it.
**"We want to hit fans with the message that downloading music illegally is, as Britney Spears explains, the same as going into a CD store and stealing the CD," said Hilary Rosen **
I wish there were a polite way to say it, but "fuck you and the horse you rode in on..." I reiterate, for the MILLIONTH TIME, that cassette copies of music proliferated throughout the world caused astronimical profits 20 years ago; internet music should be given that same consideration. The amount of illegal copying is nowhere near as catastrophic as the industry claims; and could not be or they'd be in the unemployment line with the other 400,000 people that signed up last night. That's right; you're still making a profit while all my neighbors sold their houses and moved into shelters [they're mostly factory laborers but they're people too]. I don't buy music; I don't download music unless it is legal [and free, at least until I like an artist enough to use my wife's BMG account or buy directly from them]. If they'd do REAL RESEARCH they'd see that people are very likely to pay $11 for an album once they've gotten a sample of it than $18-25 for something they'll never hear unless they manage to get a halfway decent radio station in their town. To top that off, they hardly consider all the people they've turned off with their 'ooooh, the megaplatinum star can't buy another limo' spiel. Long, long before this issue came to a head I started listening to alternative (not genre just off-mainstream) music and put parental blocks on MTV, VH1 and BET. Long live local lix and samples from the 'net.
they already were 98% MS, 2% Novell. They had a big requirement that you needed to be Novell certified to support their MS systems. On the other hand; you also couldn't get a government job doing actual support work; you had to be a contractor. Only management got the cushy government tech jobs - at least as far as the department-level was concerned. Not all sure about the Secretary (as in Cabinet Secretary) level positions.
windows media player from a few weeks ago; my broadband makes little difference in looking at the porn because you get so many burped downloads it takes just as long as 52 - oh I mean 56 - K. [You do know about the FCC mandated 52K data transmission limit for phone lines, right? Or was I bullshitted by a dial-up provider's tech support since every provider we tested for our home inspectors only got 52 max?]
Those people will still get AOL because they'll be conned into paying almost what they paid for regular dial-up AOL to get AOL over their broadband connection; or still paying the $25 a month [or even for those people they've still managed to sucker into a per hour contract, $90-$300]. I remember back in 1994ish when I had AOL for a brief period; I could access my whole account from any LAN by telnetting or using some client software they provided for getting into your AOL from "work" (as they said back then because you often didn't have high-speed connections from home or even small business).
I got broadband because my employer paid for it; and because I needed to host demonstrations of software that would not be viable over a dialup. I had to dink with the ports and other settings to get around my provider's blocking of outbound web ports "for virus/security reasons" - unless of course you pay the corporate rates for cable and let them assist you with the web hosting - and oftentimes there are still issues with the local routers going down and the (1st tier) support staff needing me to tell them exactly what they should do to rectify the problem. I love calling them and politely letting them know I've done all of the basic steps to reset my modem, refresh my DHCP; and make sure the splice they had to make two blocks up (because someone cut the one inch of cable exposed in a sinkhole no one else would have found) next to the neighborhood box is still in place. They start telling me again so I just go do personal things and nod and say yes until they go "OK, it's upstream from you." Duh.
I'm keeping it and paying the fee now because my wife enjoys the performance difference; and I can do small projects, play online games and look for work a little bit easier without cutting into our phone line. (I always refused to waste money on a second number just for internet or faxes, etc. I can dial *500 on any phone in the house and kick my fax machine on just fine if it doesn't get the transmission on its own - it's a smart little Sharp device.)
You're right and I am interested in getting an Apex because I have heard good things about 'em... but they aren't multisystem or 'region free' off the shelf
On the OTHER HAND, it doesn't matter whether the software or firmware on the DVD player costs; what is likely costing is the import/export- or tariff-related fees. It's something that I'm kind of getting myself motivated to start researching.
They just aren't $40-at-Wally World cheap. That's the real clincher: if you aren't paying tariffs and exorbitant fees for your international media; then The Powers That Be get pissed off. Maybe, just maybe we should start considering the regulations that make it difficult for us (in any country) to access foreign-produced media; and then the technology itself won't matter quite as much anymore.
I've seen 'roving information' like with token-based network access for people who sometimes telecommute (or have to due to the nature of their work - like military officers who may have more than one physical location they are assigned to); and PDF (yes, PDF)-based information management via webservers that allow people to access certain things from home or in the field so that they always have a common reference point. I can't completely fit in the "work" vis-a-vis "home" bookmarks since at this time I have been working from home; and when I worked away from home I didn't use the same bookmarks in either place - but if I could easily maintain some 'work location' data and take it with me to home or field locations without having to haul along several pieces of electronics I'm all for it. I would propose one of two ways to synergize these things: your PDA or you cell phone maintains the central repository of 'profile' and allows certain elements - perhaps done up with XML - to be accessed depending on what subset of your profile you determine when you access a computer terminal, network appliance, ATM(!), etc. Or, like the Sony memory stick or a smartcard; you carry it with you and it is passed on to all devices. This sort of thing will not be produced for the masses until a few things occur: we as a society can manage the privacy implications (I read comics and chat on non-tech bulletin boards when I'm not working; and should be unable to access those from work but if a worker saw this profile data I would not be happy); we reach a 'trust threshold' with regards to said privacy, encryption and self-assurance of each profile subset; and manfucturers are willing to take the chance that the public will go for it. We (or at least those of us /. readers that are) technologically savvy people could probably hack something together that would work for us (as individuals and for some of our contemporaries), but would Joe User utilize it? I can remember the learning curve getting people to use VPN tokens - essentially where the password changed every 17 seconds but used your chosen password as a root of the whole every time.
I have been searching for a full-time job near DC/in the NorthEast for several months and during my research I have found a lot of jobs that have been moved to Jacksonville from places like Citibank in Maryland. Don't ask me why; it's just one of the 'patterns' I've seen - no concrete evidence on my part but it is just something I've noticed looking at online and newspaper job lists.
First let's answer the question: Look up www.tjobs.com and also 'telecommute' on your favorite search engine. Second, I worked for a company for about a year before they laid off their entire engineering division (which were telecommuters). Having a home office is great; and may surprise your employer with your productivity; but be careful not to put yourself into 7a-8p workdays because you think you aren't doing enough because you are working at home. Third, many of the people that were laid off went back to - you guessed it - working for themselves. It seems that self-employment or small organizations are the best way to telecommute. If you have industry contacts that do consulting work; talk with them. They may not telecommute but they will have insight because you most likely will be working like them - home office or not.
Thank you for getting a FIVE when your comment was moderately offtopic. HAS ANYONE PLACED ANY LINKS TO HISTORIES OF CONNECTORS YET???
they sure make it hard for you to view websites or utilize apps with it if you have Windows XP.
At one point I was asked for a fee to enter parts of it; or at least to get the word-format print version which is what I'd usually do and take on the train home over the weekend (and back again on Monday).
The original was invented at Xerox PARC. I learned this five years ago as a Docutech Production Publisher technician. You can still see them - old blocky looking things - attached to those big 1500 'aircraft carrier' looking machines. Some of the earliest "desktop publishing" concepts came from the Docutech, from what I've read, learned and heard.
It would be enormously cheaper; and has been done hundreds of times over already http://www.microimagesys.com
There are a few specialized (very) small businesses out there; this being one, that do this type of work for inventories, workflows, invoice cataloging, ad infinitum. Mr. Lunglhofer happens to do a lot of this with DocuShare and (*gasp* don't hurt us please) SharePoint in mind, but it is good stuff. If you have any $100 MFD out there in Wal-Mart or OfficeMax you should be able to find a cheap or free barcode reader for it. I have a few here [but I won't share - I don't work for or even with MIS right now but I have great respect for them].
I've been reading Slate for many years; and often printed it before they charged a subscription fee (at one point - which I do believe was shortly after being taken over by MSN). It may be an MSN-centric publication in some ways but I've always found it to be pretty interesting. Of course, regardless of what the numbers say; and irrespectful of the fact that we ARE IN A RECESSION, it will be the music-swappers' faults this happened. Just like it was cassette tapes back in the day, right?
in places as 'backwoods' as Martinsburg, WV that were nothing more than regular computer video games with "VR Goggles" attached to the video output. The one here seems to be doing OK business, but apparently mostly among the 8-13 year old kids whose parents won't buy them high-end gaming systems. They spend what would have been their regular arcade money in this eight-unit place now, which is fine because the arcade has pretty much the same games it had five years ago and will probably continue to do so.
as soon as they kill off the time traveler character and settle into episodes that have nothing to do with this 'cold war' thing they flaunt every few episodes. Seriously; even with some of the things that are irksome like the ship always being at the mercy of every other blasted species out there (were *we* the only ones the Vulcans kept technology from???) and a desire to 'invent' everything that showed up on the other series; I'm enjoying it very much. And I even like the 80's style 'rock ballad' theme song unlike many other Trek fans out there. Let's see if they outdo themselves in the tradition of ST:II.
Haiku will not save you.
Spam is cancer, always changed.
Its heart we must take.
Then again commercially copying DVDs for financial gain is not illegal or you wouldn't see them in stores. He'd have to carefully craft a statement identifying what he'd consider 'legal copying' - and I'm sure you, I or any of a thousand others could find flaws in those statements too. I hate pompous windbags.
Didn't we see this one a little while ago, thus making it 'redundant'?
http://www.therecord.com/news/news_0208179293.html
"You are setting a dangerous precedent..."
Like refusing to support a school because it doesn't rabidly support your worldview isn't a dangerous precedent in and of itself.
Ooooooh, better bring back FORTRAN and COBOL and RPG like they still have in at least one community college I know of... but wait that's because several facilities in the area are still *using them*...
Fire away folks, but because it has been 1994 since I did any programming school and because Docushare and Sharepoint can make me money if I work hard enough at it and help out the people I like working with; I'm going to pick up what I can regardless of platform - that is, Java since Docushare is moving from Python to Java with its next release and C#/.Net because Sharepoint and such will be utilizing them - and continue to work with whatever technology is being used by that particular client at the time; without using "anti-capitalism/monopoly/whatever the buzzword is this week", "embrace and extend", or "viva la [bleeping] revolution!" tactics to do so. That's right everyone uses tactics and I often disagree with the ethics of both sides.
Since when was only Microsoft a 'proprietary' format? I seem to think that each individual *nix version; whether or not its software can be shared amongst its counterparts, is proprietary in that I can't run it on my Macintosh or Windows systems. Often the stuff is specifically designed *gasp* just like Microsoft! to be impossible to use on Windows.
You were banned for using a word that could get you hurt for being racist; the 'N' word - not the 'M' word. I could imagine you being upset if you were nailed for saying something nice about Microsoft. I freely admit to using Microsoft products; but I use a lot of other products too when I have the capacity to use them. And I can't use the 'N' word in person either - I'm Native American; if that accounts for anything.