I would gladly pay for TV torrents, if I wasn't already paying for DirecTV, TiVo, Charter cable TV (its "free" with my internet) and had an antenna on my roof. I don't see a problem with downloading any show since I have plenty of other ways to get it commercial free with my paid services. Torrents just make it easier.....no studio/service provider is missing any money from me.
Same could be said for cash. Checks are just a variable value cash bill if you think about it.
I prefer using my debit card for everything (unless I want to float a payment) because A) I only have to carry the one item and B) it costs me nothing to use it as debit/credit any place I go.
I upload firmware and program various devices at work via USB or TCP/IP - and it is great because the connections are fast. However, when something goes very wrong with the devices, the RS232 port always works. Also, being able to get serial data just by listening to a couple pins is far easier than trying to deal with USB connections/drivers you have no clue about.
When it comes down to it, serial works, its easy and it's a life saver.
No kidding. I once called Adobe to activate my new version of Premiere on a machine that wasn't connected to the internet. The person that was on the phone kept telling me to go to a website and do XYZ. I kept telling her over and over again I didn't have internet access on the machine. I eventually just hung up on her because she kept repeating the same script over and over and over.
Before my employer was bought by a larger company, asset tags were both the tracking tag and computer name. Two letter country and 6 digit number - pretty darn simple and I HOPE we would never exceed 1million computers (workstations/laptops only) in the country.
When we were bought, the new owning company went with separate asset tags and then a much longer computer name consisting of: country, site, workstation type, serial and other numbers. Pretty darn annoying to read AMRNYCWL3A57989 when US013456 is MUCH easier. Not to mention you now have the computer name in windows only, the asset tag on the machine (diff number) and usually the service tag on the back. \
I have done plenty of business driving and the only time I need to provide a receipt is with gas going into rented vehicles. Otherwise, business use of a personal vehicle is done by miles and I will gladly take the federal rate of $0.55/mile.
For all other utilities, this works. You very rarely have the power go out because everyone turned their AC on at once, or the water run out (or the sewers overflow) because everyone flushed at once (the mythic "superbowl flush", as busted on MythBusters).
Funny, I know of several places in the US that enforce water usage limitations even though the customer pays for it. I am also reminded every year where power grids fluctuate every summer when it gets hot.
While computer networks are not like other utilities (consuming limited resources), other utilities suffer from the same limitations as computer networks.
MM/DD makes more sense. How do you verbally say a date? Every person I know says "March fourteenth two thousand nine", not "fourteenth March two thousand nine".
Many years ago I found an article about how dates SHOULD be written. Since time is always largest to smallest, HH/MM/SS, dates should be formatted the same way. Likewise, UNIX time is the same way with the smaller values to the right and larger ones to the left.
Knowing all of this, and to be a slight pain, when I purchased my home I signed all dates in YY/MM/DD format. The mortgage company said that the person that had to review and file the paper work was going to be driven nuts;)
Heck, look at notepad. I would venture to say that notepad has a fairly large market for HTML editing. QUICK! Someone cry wolf to the EU and have notepad stripped out of Windows!!!!
And to further compound this, during a storm earlier this year, it took out my digitals all together. I have a 60+ element antenna on my roof and receive all of my stations in 90-95% signal quality. When the storm came through I lost all my digitals, but still had my analogs. Sure, the analogs were degraded in service, but I was able to watch shows and more importantly, the news showing the big giant red storm coming to my house. I didn't have DirecTV at the time, but based on my experience with dish services is that I would not have that service either.
So we are moving to an all digital era where a storm comes through and wipes out everything and everyone. Radio is the last major service to be in the analog stages but they are even moving to digital, slowly. I guess we will have to leave it to the HAM operators.
For example, I am the only person that does my job at my work site. My boss has zero ability to take over for me, she only understands what I do at a high level. She leaves me be, trusts me and pretty much lets me do what I want.
My counter part at a different work site has a boss that sort of understands what he does and can sort of step in if he leaves. His boss also wants him to record everything he does, justify his job day in and day out and questions most things he does.
I am happy with my job, the job gets done and the customers are happy.
The same cant be said for my coworker.
Same job. Different managers. Different workers. Different outcomes.
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I would gladly pay for TV torrents, if I wasn't already paying for DirecTV, TiVo, Charter cable TV (its "free" with my internet) and had an antenna on my roof. I don't see a problem with downloading any show since I have plenty of other ways to get it commercial free with my paid services. Torrents just make it easier.....no studio/service provider is missing any money from me.
I just bought a 1TB Western Digital Black Edition hard drive from Best Buy for $99. I don't what the MPAA is thinking....
Same could be said for cash. Checks are just a variable value cash bill if you think about it.
I prefer using my debit card for everything (unless I want to float a payment) because A) I only have to carry the one item and B) it costs me nothing to use it as debit/credit any place I go.
I upload firmware and program various devices at work via USB or TCP/IP - and it is great because the connections are fast. However, when something goes very wrong with the devices, the RS232 port always works. Also, being able to get serial data just by listening to a couple pins is far easier than trying to deal with USB connections/drivers you have no clue about.
When it comes down to it, serial works, its easy and it's a life saver.
poop from a golden duck is still stinky poop
While this is really moot in the home, its funny how they pretty much make it wrong to watch the Superbowl in 6.1, 7.1 or 9.1 home theater systems.
A shuttle that never makes it to space is just that, a shuttle. Not a "space shuttle" ;)
Prescriptions are controlled substances...otherwise you wouldn't need a prescription to get them!
Ouch! That hurt!
Except mininova filters/removes torrents now.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/08/0512246
No kidding. I once called Adobe to activate my new version of Premiere on a machine that wasn't connected to the internet. The person that was on the phone kept telling me to go to a website and do XYZ. I kept telling her over and over again I didn't have internet access on the machine. I eventually just hung up on her because she kept repeating the same script over and over and over.
Before my employer was bought by a larger company, asset tags were both the tracking tag and computer name. Two letter country and 6 digit number - pretty darn simple and I HOPE we would never exceed 1million computers (workstations/laptops only) in the country.
When we were bought, the new owning company went with separate asset tags and then a much longer computer name consisting of: country, site, workstation type, serial and other numbers. Pretty darn annoying to read AMRNYCWL3A57989 when US013456 is MUCH easier. Not to mention you now have the computer name in windows only, the asset tag on the machine (diff number) and usually the service tag on the back. \
I have done plenty of business driving and the only time I need to provide a receipt is with gas going into rented vehicles. Otherwise, business use of a personal vehicle is done by miles and I will gladly take the federal rate of $0.55/mile.
How about Star Wars then....
For all other utilities, this works. You very rarely have the power go out because everyone turned their AC on at once, or the water run out (or the sewers overflow) because everyone flushed at once (the mythic "superbowl flush", as busted on MythBusters).
Funny, I know of several places in the US that enforce water usage limitations even though the customer pays for it. I am also reminded every year where power grids fluctuate every summer when it gets hot.
While computer networks are not like other utilities (consuming limited resources), other utilities suffer from the same limitations as computer networks.
4th of July is a holiday name. July 4th is a date. So no, us "americans" don't say 4th of July for the date.
MM/DD makes more sense. How do you verbally say a date? Every person I know says "March fourteenth two thousand nine", not "fourteenth March two thousand nine".
Many years ago I found an article about how dates SHOULD be written. Since time is always largest to smallest, HH/MM/SS, dates should be formatted the same way. Likewise, UNIX time is the same way with the smaller values to the right and larger ones to the left.
Knowing all of this, and to be a slight pain, when I purchased my home I signed all dates in YY/MM/DD format. The mortgage company said that the person that had to review and file the paper work was going to be driven nuts ;)
Heck, look at notepad. I would venture to say that notepad has a fairly large market for HTML editing. QUICK! Someone cry wolf to the EU and have notepad stripped out of Windows!!!!
Their prices aren't high for mainstream stuff....shipping, yes, sort of.
Newegg.com had their 'black Friday' last week. If you didn't get all your stuff from NewEgg, you didn't shop very well ;)
And to further compound this, during a storm earlier this year, it took out my digitals all together. I have a 60+ element antenna on my roof and receive all of my stations in 90-95% signal quality. When the storm came through I lost all my digitals, but still had my analogs. Sure, the analogs were degraded in service, but I was able to watch shows and more importantly, the news showing the big giant red storm coming to my house. I didn't have DirecTV at the time, but based on my experience with dish services is that I would not have that service either.
So we are moving to an all digital era where a storm comes through and wipes out everything and everyone. Radio is the last major service to be in the analog stages but they are even moving to digital, slowly. I guess we will have to leave it to the HAM operators.
Cant we just unfold the LHC and launch ourselves into space?
something insightful PLEASE!
Some jobs/people need management, others dont.
For example, I am the only person that does my job at my work site. My boss has zero ability to take over for me, she only understands what I do at a high level. She leaves me be, trusts me and pretty much lets me do what I want.
My counter part at a different work site has a boss that sort of understands what he does and can sort of step in if he leaves. His boss also wants him to record everything he does, justify his job day in and day out and questions most things he does.
I am happy with my job, the job gets done and the customers are happy.
The same cant be said for my coworker.
Same job. Different managers. Different workers. Different outcomes.
With Bizrate right behind it.