Today, the limiting factor is creativity, not money.
No, it is still money. How do you get your record on Clear Channel? Get tickets to your show on Ticket Master? Get your record in stores (that no one goes to anyway)? Get people to listen to your album? Compete with the latest and greatest "manufactured" band from LA?
Takes money, and lots of it to get it through the marketing noise.
Thanks, but I'll stick with my 100% uptime phone system for now. Not that VoIP is terribly useful for residential situations right now.
Your phone system is only 99.999% up. This equates to about 10 minutes unscheduled downtime per year, per line. Of course this is an agragate number for all phones on the network.
Cell phone towers usually have space (bays) to rent out. Water towers have been used forever for police repeaters and the like. Even though there are no hills nearby, there are plenty of high places in FL. Some of them may not even cost much, and offer proper accomidations.
Phantom power doesn't make anything sound better or worse. It provides +48vdc to a microphone to charge the condenser plates so that it will work. It can actually ruin some types (ribbon) mics.
Generally condenser mics (such as the Rode NT series), are higher quality and will produce superior recordings.
Too many people take that way, way too literally. While it is true you should cycle between building up and cutting fat, it doen't mean you should completely stop doing one or the other. You've got to maintain.
They also have the best tier I tech support folks I've ever delt with.
Not only did they trust that I've already done the usual power cycle type steps before calling, they were more than happy to get me a replacement unit based on what I told them.
Cell phone sales people don't use computers. They don't understand why the hell anyone would want to use a laptop. To them, it is nothing more than a Powerpoint viewer, used by the trainer.
Cell Phone execs want to sell your eyeballs to a web site. To them, a laptop is an expensive thing that workers want so that they can screw off working at home.
It's the same attitude that the wireline folks had in the late 70's and early 80's (why would anyone want to connect a modem to their phone?).
display their cell numbers on a bumper sticker on their cars
Been done. Anyone remember FreeJack? The movie was terrible, but had a few intresting communications technologies, one of which was a barcode system on cars that could be used to call and scream at each other.
Also, you got to see Mick Jagger in his finest acting roll ever!
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So this move from lobbies and corporations who felt that TiVo was cutting into their advertising pie, seriously hampered the ability of producers to put out better, cheaper, open devices.
The thing that the advertiser hates is the 30 sec. skip. All Tivos still have the 30 sec skip disabled. To enable it, press select, play, select, 3, 0, select. The Tivo will chime 3 times. Now, when you hit the the key marked ->|, instead of going to the end of the show, you get a 30 second skip. I don't see any indicator that it will go away any time soon, and you don't need backdoors enabled to use it.
I doubt anyone in Hollywood is very realistic in hoping they will get PVRs outlawed anytime soon. That seems like it is just doing what they have to do to defend their copyrights, and copyright lawyers earning their retainer.
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How could it be that 13" LCD panels are the cost factor. If companies can sell 14.1" LCDs for $149 now and laptop makers can sell Tablet PC 13"-15" for $1400 total, then what is making this $4000?
The answer is, of course, VOLUME! The other's commercials are much louder than Estari's.
How much money would GE save if they didn't have to license a piece of the spectrum?
Actually, NBC doesn't license any spectrum, other than for the Owned and Operated (O&O) stations. NBC is a broadcast network. They rent transponder space. Before that, they rented a network from AT&T.
And, besides that, none of the stations in the network pay a cent for the right to broadcast 6MHz (now X2) television channels, by far the largest chunk of spectrum out there. They got it for free in exchange for serving the "public intrest."
Load your credit card, punch your PIN, wait until the bank answer, withdraw your card, load your cashcard, deposit, remove cash card, load it again, buy item - about 5 minutes for the average persone
That's one thing that really bothers me about the credit card machines. If I buy something at Walmart using a credit card, the transaction is usually faster than cash, depending on the cashier's ability. Yet, when I go to the small store in the same strip mall and pay the same way, I have to wait for the machine to dial out, authenticate, transmit, recieve, print. Takes forever, and there's always that uneasy feeling waiting to make sure it goes through.
That, combined with the unreasonably high transaction costs (for the retailer) associated with with cards has me opting for carying a little more cash lately.
having groceries delivered to me, and the second time for a payment I do not want connected to me -- in person at a porn shop, say. Now, the porn shop can learn my identity if it is cooperating with the grocery store.
Well, that can happen now, at least in the United States. Every paper bill has a serial number on it already. As you can see, there already is a database of dollars out there. In fact, I remember seeing a show on PBS years ago where they followed a $100 bill around NYC for the day.
All they really have to do to match you up is follow security cameras' timecode/stamps with the cash in the drawer. Piece of cake. I could even see the Office of Homeland Security or other such agency tracking money this way. It would be somewhat easy to establish, given the centralized nature of our banking system, and the facial recognition systems in place.
I'm sure you had plenty of advice on how to quit, but I'll go ahead and tell you how I did it anyway. First some background... A few years ago a device was introduced that would help you quit based on patterns (you pressed a button every time you lit up) and it would "scientifically" develop a program for you to quit. A friend of mine used it, it didn't work for him, but borrowed it and it almost worked for me. The big thing it did was divide number of times per day you smoke by how many hours you are awake.
When I quit this time, I decided to go on the patch, but before I did, I started counting how many times a day I smoked, then set a timer on my watch to go off when I should smoke. Luckly I had a boss who understood, and it was usually easy for me to get away when the timer went off. I slowly increased the time every day (and decreased the number of cigarettes to just a few a day). Then, on my quit day, I went on the strongest patch I could find. This helped me prepare for the withdrawl, and the constant interuption became another modivation to quit.
The only other thing I'll say is that it really does take 3 months for your body to adjust. I remember saying and doing strange things for weeks after I was off the patch. Later on I realized that it was withdrawl and associated depression, but at the time, I was really freaked out (but suprisingly I didn't make the connection until long after).
The best part was that Saturday morning after the first good night's sleep in years, and the fried rice at the Orential Buffet that was SO good.
Unfortunately, these are all priced far above the cost of nicotine delivered in a cigarette, so only those who can justify the cost as an aid to quitting will use these products.
Walmart had the best prices on patches when I quit. They were almost the same price as the same number of day's cigarettes. With the latest increases in taxes here, I'm sure they are cheaper now.
BTW, I think that these will be a good way to disconnect the habit from the adiction.
I kept looking for captions like "change is the only constant" and "new tools make the impossible possible." Reminds me of the annual report of any large company in the 60s and 70s.
So don't buy one... Let's see what other choices you have... Replay TV - $300 more (assuming a lifetime Tivo subscription), not easy to find, and the company is being sued. Roxio media machine - cool tech, where can I get one? Oh, I can't because they'd rather wait for cable companies to buy them. Why would a cable company buy this $500-$1000 box, maintain it, warehouse it, and attempt to collect their investment when you take it with you when you move out (and sell it at a flea market for $20).
I tried to roll my own with an ATI all in wonder. It never really worked right - sound being the biggest problem. I couldn't put big fonts on their menu screens, so I had to pick programs on my desktop box using netmeeting remote desktop. Tivo's software works much better. It controls my cable box without any problems, and is much quieter (no PS fans).
If ATI would actually look at what Tivo is doing (and hire some real programers), maybe they could get a useable product. The main advantages they have are price and video capture quality.
They remembered to include left handed people this time. My I-Paq is great, but every time I scroll down with the stylus, I have to cover up the text I'm trying to read.
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No, it is still money. How do you get your record on Clear Channel? Get tickets to your show on Ticket Master? Get your record in stores (that no one goes to anyway)? Get people to listen to your album? Compete with the latest and greatest "manufactured" band from LA?
Takes money, and lots of it to get it through the marketing noise.
Your phone system is only 99.999% up. This equates to about 10 minutes unscheduled downtime per year, per line. Of course this is an agragate number for all phones on the network.
Generally condenser mics (such as the Rode NT series), are higher quality and will produce superior recordings.
Not only did they trust that I've already done the usual power cycle type steps before calling, they were more than happy to get me a replacement unit based on what I told them.
select, play, select, 3, 0, select. Tivo will respond with 3 chimes.
Cell Phone execs want to sell your eyeballs to a web site. To them, a laptop is an expensive thing that workers want so that they can screw off working at home.
It's the same attitude that the wireline folks had in the late 70's and early 80's (why would anyone want to connect a modem to their phone?).
Been done. Anyone remember FreeJack? The movie was terrible, but had a few intresting communications technologies, one of which was a barcode system on cars that could be used to call and scream at each other.
Also, you got to see Mick Jagger in his finest acting roll ever!
The thing that the advertiser hates is the 30 sec. skip. All Tivos still have the 30 sec skip disabled. To enable it, press select, play, select, 3, 0, select. The Tivo will chime 3 times. Now, when you hit the the key marked ->|, instead of going to the end of the show, you get a 30 second skip. I don't see any indicator that it will go away any time soon, and you don't need backdoors enabled to use it.
I doubt anyone in Hollywood is very realistic in hoping they will get PVRs outlawed anytime soon. That seems like it is just doing what they have to do to defend their copyrights, and copyright lawyers earning their retainer.
The answer is, of course, VOLUME! The other's commercials are much louder than Estari's.
Actually, NBC doesn't license any spectrum, other than for the Owned and Operated (O&O) stations. NBC is a broadcast network. They rent transponder space. Before that, they rented a network from AT&T.
And, besides that, none of the stations in the network pay a cent for the right to broadcast 6MHz (now X2) television channels, by far the largest chunk of spectrum out there. They got it for free in exchange for serving the "public intrest."
That's one thing that really bothers me about the credit card machines. If I buy something at Walmart using a credit card, the transaction is usually faster than cash, depending on the cashier's ability. Yet, when I go to the small store in the same strip mall and pay the same way, I have to wait for the machine to dial out, authenticate, transmit, recieve, print. Takes forever, and there's always that uneasy feeling waiting to make sure it goes through.
That, combined with the unreasonably high transaction costs (for the retailer) associated with with cards has me opting for carying a little more cash lately.
Well, that can happen now, at least in the United States. Every paper bill has a serial number on it already. As you can see, there already is a database of dollars out there. In fact, I remember seeing a show on PBS years ago where they followed a $100 bill around NYC for the day.
All they really have to do to match you up is follow security cameras' timecode/stamps with the cash in the drawer. Piece of cake. I could even see the Office of Homeland Security or other such agency tracking money this way. It would be somewhat easy to establish, given the centralized nature of our banking system, and the facial recognition systems in place.
The RCA home of tomorrow at the end of Space Mountain was, by far, the best HOT ever.
When I quit this time, I decided to go on the patch, but before I did, I started counting how many times a day I smoked, then set a timer on my watch to go off when I should smoke. Luckly I had a boss who understood, and it was usually easy for me to get away when the timer went off. I slowly increased the time every day (and decreased the number of cigarettes to just a few a day). Then, on my quit day, I went on the strongest patch I could find. This helped me prepare for the withdrawl, and the constant interuption became another modivation to quit.
The only other thing I'll say is that it really does take 3 months for your body to adjust. I remember saying and doing strange things for weeks after I was off the patch. Later on I realized that it was withdrawl and associated depression, but at the time, I was really freaked out (but suprisingly I didn't make the connection until long after).
The best part was that Saturday morning after the first good night's sleep in years, and the fried rice at the Orential Buffet that was SO good.
Walmart had the best prices on patches when I quit. They were almost the same price as the same number of day's cigarettes. With the latest increases in taxes here, I'm sure they are cheaper now.
BTW, I think that these will be a good way to disconnect the habit from the adiction.
And nothing will protect you if your company goes out of business.
Why the heck is the paper copy cheaper than the e-copy?
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I don't know about that... The blonde in the picture is hot! I had no idea that dominos attracted women like that.
I tried to roll my own with an ATI all in wonder. It never really worked right - sound being the biggest problem. I couldn't put big fonts on their menu screens, so I had to pick programs on my desktop box using netmeeting remote desktop. Tivo's software works much better. It controls my cable box without any problems, and is much quieter (no PS fans).
If ATI would actually look at what Tivo is doing (and hire some real programers), maybe they could get a useable product. The main advantages they have are price and video capture quality.