HAHA I love how Clear Channel is always blamed for what the RIAA and record labels have created...oh and 13 years?? 13 years ago Clear Channel owned less than 40 radio stations total across the whole nation. It wasn't until 1998 that Jacor was acquired and ramped up Clear Channel to the large amount of stations it now owns (much of which are going to be divested very soon in fact). They own radio stations, therefore they have driven CD prices up...makes alot of sense. Good to at least look up some facts to go along with the worn out unwarranted Clear Channel nagging.:P
Maybe it's finally time that artists start getting compensation closer to what is deserved. I have always thought that athletes, movie stars, and music artist were ridiculously overpaid. I don't think it's because they necessarily deserve the pay they are getting, I think it's more a case that we have let them get away with it and it has snowballed over time. We are seeing the same thing in hollywood with movie stars injecting politics into everything...and are starting to lose favor.
Maybe the tides are now turning for music artists too. Before anyone gets all upset because they have a basement studio at home with cakewalk and consider themselves to be an incredible artist headed for that lame event south by southwest, I'm talking about the pre-packaged commercialized artists like Timberlake, Spears, Eminem (yes Eminem is commercialized), Clay Aiken, and Kelly Clarkson.
He will have no problem finding a job for a few reasons. He obviously has some talent and creativity, so he will be picked up by someone outside Hilary's camp. Hilary has a lot less power and control than most people would like to think. A presidental candidate pretty much only has one shot at the presidency, after she loses (god willing!), she will have even less influence and power than she does now. I have no problem with a woman president, but not that witch!
First of all if you are gonna start the first sentence of an article by ripping a company or product, give all the facts to make it fair and to give yourself at least a shred of legitimacy. While these next items I mention may actually be in the full report, there is of course no mention in the pathetic VERY BIASED article. Comparing the accuracy of the mouse precision based solely on the operating system without mention of the hardward especially and specifically the mouse...is just rediculous and a waste of time. As far as the menus...same again goes...what video card did they use...what machine specs? The desktop and laptop I am currently running Vista on both have pretty much zero latency on menu/window operation...basically instantaneous. I also beta tested Vista on a laptop that didnt even meet the "minimum video card requirements" and it still loaded Aero and ran it at full speed. Im all for good studies and comparisions...but wow some of the groups and people are doing whatever they can to dig at MS and Vista. At least make your studies look legitimate with the basics I mentioned above!
I would have to agree with you. The comparable XP machines in our organization are considerably more responsive with UI basics as well as program operation.
How is that any different? What if the police had demanded to search him right there, or risk being tasered, and he had simply stayed on the floor? You're telling me that going limp on the floor or not moving is considered "suspicious?" The combination of not producing ID, refusing to leave a public building when asked and going limp instead of leaving is VERY suspicous! They can tase me if, for some reason, I can't move or it hurts to move? Man, dead people must be TERRIBLE for the police. They scream at them to get up, and you tase them, and they STILL don't get up.That makes absolutely no sense and has on bearing on the point. Do some research on what a taser does to muscles after electrical impulse. Amazing he was able to clearly get out his political rants.....
Not providing an ID when asked by authority sounds like he didn't provide ANY ID. He just didn't have his campus ID. Why didn't they ask him for a driver's license or some other form of identification? If he was leaving anyway, as the article said he was, why did they need to grab his arm at all?They were following procedure to have him removed without ID. That wasn't what made him so suspicious...see above reply.
The police are not supposed to be the ones inititalizing a physical confrontation. It's different if the criminal does, or shows intent to (having a weapon). Remember, these people are serving YOU (and everyone around you), you're not serving THEM.Wow what rediculous statements. A criminal showing intent to or having a weapon is NOT the only reason for initiating (not initializing) physical confrontation with a possible criminal. You really need to do some research on taser devices and law.
A man is sitting in an airport, refusing to produce ID and refusing to leave the building. Upon refusal of leaving the building or even getting up, he is tased. After being tased he not only still refuses to leave but starts ranting about the TSA being brutal or corrupt with a scripted-sounding rant. The man is then tased again more than once after each time he refuses to leave the building....ect ect ect. If this happened in an airport I have a feeling people would be singing a different tune rather than calling out TSA brutality.
This guys rants just sounded WAY too scripted to me...it was planned.
I keep hearing people complaining "if he had just listened" or "all he had to do was get up." But seriously, think about it -- should he really have been tased repeatedly or simply arrested? Yes and yes.
1. After being shocked repeatedly, could he even have been ABLE to "just" stand up? After each time of being shocked he had plenty of time to comply instead of his fake act.
2. After being shocked repeatedly, would be have been in a mental state to understand the cops' commands? Yes, do some research on Taser.
3. He was on the floor. An irritating act, but something deserving electrocution? Yes, he was on the floor by his own choice, becuase of this it's quite suspicious to me why he was behaving like that. I would guess either for political attention (his patriot act comment) or something far worse (terrorist activity ect).
4. What if someone asks for a warrant, should they also get electrocuted. After all "all he had to do was let them search." No, thats different than suspiciously not leaving a public place or providing ID when asked by an authority.
Put simply, this was WRONG. The kid deserves to be arrested, NOT electrocuted. To those of you who say "tasing is non-lethal," well, i dare you to do it to yourself. Post a video on YouTube to prove it. While I dont have a video, I have been tased before. Yes it hurt like HELL, but its still SO suspicious why he wouldn't leave. And before you say it...yes you can stand after being tased..once again that can be easily researched. His little rants between being tased sound VERY rehearsed to me.
Its not a radio station or owner of a radio station thats making radio suck today, its the crappy manufactured digitally processed garbage being passed off as music today. Probably one out of 1000 artists today can actually perform without all of the stage and/or studio processing..we see this most in hip/hop and rap IMO. Its like the saying "everybody wants to be a DJ"...nowdays everyone thinks they are an artist. Im sure some Apple fanboy will mod me down for this next part, but software like Garage Band is adding to the multitudes of crappy bands/artists. It used to be that someone had talent and would be signed to a label and perform/produce. Nowdays someone thinks they have talent...they CREATE a label in mom's basement and make a CD with Garage Band (or insert PC music software)...which has ultimately created more labels out there than actual artists...rediculous! Painful to actually say this because I hate the saying, but it unfortunately fits...hate the player dont hate the game...
Clear Channel stations run the Profit automation system. Google's recent aquisition of dMarc, which makes Scott Studios automation system. I would doubt any CC stations would jump no board with this. There are many other non-CC stations that run on a dMarc system. There is a ton a revenue available to sell.
Actually the name of the automation system is Prophet and your point is kinda moot since data can be moved easily in and out of pretty much every major automation system now (not that there are many left now).
I love how Clear Channel is always the "evil monster"...but never companies like CBS, Univision, XM, or Sirius. Not saying you personally were implying that...just came to mind as I was replying to your post.
If Mac became mainstream...you would have just as many viruses and malware as windows side. It's not a matter of a better or worse OS...its a matter of install base.
Nothing made by Apple would ever hurt anyone or anything...its all about peace and love with you damn hippies!! haha j/k!!
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Let's see they have World of Warcraft, Breakout...Super Breakout..........photoshop....
What is "all the stuff a mac can do"? I use both Mac and PC to keep up with both technologies...but there is not a single task or application that can be done on a Mac that cannot be done comparatively on a PC...often as freeware. There quite a few programs that I use in my industry that are PC only (please dont say emulation...our product is too sensitive for that)...but not a single task that is Mac only...or in any industry for that matter.
Let's see they have World of Warcraft, Breakout...Super Breakout..........photoshop....
To answer your question, probably the biggest reason would be for those of us who will be supporting this in our infrastructure. Installing and testing a beta of ANYTHING you will be using in a production environment is a VERY good idea. There will be many fixes and enhancements before release, but the basic system will be very similar to the current beta. Another reason would be for developers...definitely the time to start looking at developing and porting to Vista right now. On a side note, I have been beta testing Vista for quite a while now...and you should really try it before condemning it...my experience has been NOTHING like the negative posts here. I have actually had VERY good results with it so far...Im quite impressed at this stage of the beta testing. Just my thoughts...
Im not quite sure why Mac people have this impression of having to deal with all kinds of update and security problems...maybe its because they haven't used a PC lately or just bought/built a bad one. I really have no problems...updates happen automatically overnight...I have never had any security problems.
I have played with the iLife suite and really wasn't that impressed with it over the MANY freeware and very inexpensive PC alternatives. As for iTunes..I really dislike that application..its quite limited compared to some of the alternatives out there. Definitely dont want to turn this into a flame war, just figured I would respond back with a perspective as an I am an ex combo Mac/PC user for years converted to PC user.
Or buy a PC to play games AND have a computer that "just works". I have zero problems with my PC and software to fight the malware you mention is free and easy to use. There are also many free apps out there to create any type of content you want on the PC...save a much larger pile of money you mentioned and scratch the Mac!
This reminds me of the old copy2pc ISA option board you could plug in way back in the day. It didn't take long before the whole card was replaced by an even better software-only solution. This "bird-dog" card seems to be a step backwards to the old hardware cards before the systems and software were powerful enough to get the job done. I imagine it will take about a day or so for numerous good rootkits to be written to sneak right past it natively.
According to the article, this person was fired ultimately for playing solitare on the job after being told to stop surfing the net. I think playing games on the net on company time is a bit different than a quick peek at a news site or something similar....especially after being told not to spend time surfing. I can definitely understand him being fired for this.
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That would be quite inconvenient for 99% of people texting 99% of the time.
I hate to admit...you are correct. LOL photoshop...that puzzle game.
HAHA I love how Clear Channel is always blamed for what the RIAA and record labels have created...oh and 13 years?? 13 years ago Clear Channel owned less than 40 radio stations total across the whole nation. It wasn't until 1998 that Jacor was acquired and ramped up Clear Channel to the large amount of stations it now owns (much of which are going to be divested very soon in fact). They own radio stations, therefore they have driven CD prices up...makes alot of sense. Good to at least look up some facts to go along with the worn out unwarranted Clear Channel nagging. :P
Maybe the tides are now turning for music artists too. Before anyone gets all upset because they have a basement studio at home with cakewalk and consider themselves to be an incredible artist headed for that lame event south by southwest, I'm talking about the pre-packaged commercialized artists like Timberlake, Spears, Eminem (yes Eminem is commercialized), Clay Aiken, and Kelly Clarkson.
He will have no problem finding a job for a few reasons. He obviously has some talent and creativity, so he will be picked up by someone outside Hilary's camp. Hilary has a lot less power and control than most people would like to think. A presidental candidate pretty much only has one shot at the presidency, after she loses (god willing!), she will have even less influence and power than she does now. I have no problem with a woman president, but not that witch!
It's not its..
First of all if you are gonna start the first sentence of an article by ripping a company or product, give all the facts to make it fair and to give yourself at least a shred of legitimacy. While these next items I mention may actually be in the full report, there is of course no mention in the pathetic VERY BIASED article. Comparing the accuracy of the mouse precision based solely on the operating system without mention of the hardward especially and specifically the mouse...is just rediculous and a waste of time. As far as the menus...same again goes...what video card did they use...what machine specs? The desktop and laptop I am currently running Vista on both have pretty much zero latency on menu/window operation...basically instantaneous. I also beta tested Vista on a laptop that didnt even meet the "minimum video card requirements" and it still loaded Aero and ran it at full speed. Im all for good studies and comparisions...but wow some of the groups and people are doing whatever they can to dig at MS and Vista. At least make your studies look legitimate with the basics I mentioned above!
In my case the PCs are basic business class from a major manufacture and the OSX machines are of similar age/class...but were slightly more expensive.
I would have to agree with you. The comparable XP machines in our organization are considerably more responsive with UI basics as well as program operation.
Not providing an ID when asked by authority sounds like he didn't provide ANY ID. He just didn't have his campus ID. Why didn't they ask him for a driver's license or some other form of identification? If he was leaving anyway, as the article said he was, why did they need to grab his arm at all?They were following procedure to have him removed without ID. That wasn't what made him so suspicious...see above reply.
The police are not supposed to be the ones inititalizing a physical confrontation. It's different if the criminal does, or shows intent to (having a weapon). Remember, these people are serving YOU (and everyone around you), you're not serving THEM.Wow what rediculous statements. A criminal showing intent to or having a weapon is NOT the only reason for initiating (not initializing) physical confrontation with a possible criminal. You really need to do some research on taser devices and law.
A man is sitting in an airport, refusing to produce ID and refusing to leave the building. Upon refusal of leaving the building or even getting up, he is tased. After being tased he not only still refuses to leave but starts ranting about the TSA being brutal or corrupt with a scripted-sounding rant. The man is then tased again more than once after each time he refuses to leave the building....ect ect ect. If this happened in an airport I have a feeling people would be singing a different tune rather than calling out TSA brutality. This guys rants just sounded WAY too scripted to me...it was planned.
Yes and yes.
1. After being shocked repeatedly, could he even have been ABLE to "just" stand up?
After each time of being shocked he had plenty of time to comply instead of his fake act.
2. After being shocked repeatedly, would be have been in a mental state to understand the cops' commands?
Yes, do some research on Taser.
3. He was on the floor. An irritating act, but something deserving electrocution?
Yes, he was on the floor by his own choice, becuase of this it's quite suspicious to me why he was behaving like that. I would guess either for political attention (his patriot act comment) or something far worse (terrorist activity ect).
4. What if someone asks for a warrant, should they also get electrocuted. After all "all he had to do was let them search."
No, thats different than suspiciously not leaving a public place or providing ID when asked by an authority.
Put simply, this was WRONG. The kid deserves to be arrested, NOT electrocuted. To those of you who say "tasing is non-lethal," well, i dare you to do it to yourself. Post a video on YouTube to prove it.
While I dont have a video, I have been tased before. Yes it hurt like HELL, but its still SO suspicious why he wouldn't leave. And before you say it...yes you can stand after being tased..once again that can be easily researched. His little rants between being tased sound VERY rehearsed to me.
Such a shame there are so many lemmings...
Its not a radio station or owner of a radio station thats making radio suck today, its the crappy manufactured digitally processed garbage being passed off as music today. Probably one out of 1000 artists today can actually perform without all of the stage and/or studio processing..we see this most in hip/hop and rap IMO. Its like the saying "everybody wants to be a DJ"...nowdays everyone thinks they are an artist. Im sure some Apple fanboy will mod me down for this next part, but software like Garage Band is adding to the multitudes of crappy bands/artists. It used to be that someone had talent and would be signed to a label and perform/produce. Nowdays someone thinks they have talent...they CREATE a label in mom's basement and make a CD with Garage Band (or insert PC music software)...which has ultimately created more labels out there than actual artists...rediculous! Painful to actually say this because I hate the saying, but it unfortunately fits...hate the player dont hate the game...
Clear Channel stations run the Profit automation system. Google's recent aquisition of dMarc, which makes Scott Studios automation system. I would doubt any CC stations would jump no board with this. There are many other non-CC stations that run on a dMarc system. There is a ton a revenue available to sell.
Actually the name of the automation system is Prophet and your point is kinda moot since data can be moved easily in and out of pretty much every major automation system now (not that there are many left now).
I love how Clear Channel is always the "evil monster"...but never companies like CBS, Univision, XM, or Sirius. Not saying you personally were implying that...just came to mind as I was replying to your post.
If Mac became mainstream...you would have just as many viruses and malware as windows side. It's not a matter of a better or worse OS...its a matter of install base.
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Let's see they have World of Warcraft, Breakout...Super Breakout.... ... ...photoshop....
What is "all the stuff a mac can do"? I use both Mac and PC to keep up with both technologies...but there is not a single task or application that can be done on a Mac that cannot be done comparatively on a PC...often as freeware. There quite a few programs that I use in my industry that are PC only (please dont say emulation...our product is too sensitive for that)...but not a single task that is Mac only...or in any industry for that matter.
... ...photoshop....
Let's see they have World of Warcraft, Breakout...Super Breakout....
To answer your question, probably the biggest reason would be for those of us who will be supporting this in our infrastructure. Installing and testing a beta of ANYTHING you will be using in a production environment is a VERY good idea. There will be many fixes and enhancements before release, but the basic system will be very similar to the current beta. Another reason would be for developers...definitely the time to start looking at developing and porting to Vista right now. On a side note, I have been beta testing Vista for quite a while now...and you should really try it before condemning it...my experience has been NOTHING like the negative posts here. I have actually had VERY good results with it so far...Im quite impressed at this stage of the beta testing. Just my thoughts...
Im not quite sure why Mac people have this impression of having to deal with all kinds of update and security problems...maybe its because they haven't used a PC lately or just bought/built a bad one. I really have no problems...updates happen automatically overnight...I have never had any security problems. I have played with the iLife suite and really wasn't that impressed with it over the MANY freeware and very inexpensive PC alternatives. As for iTunes..I really dislike that application..its quite limited compared to some of the alternatives out there. Definitely dont want to turn this into a flame war, just figured I would respond back with a perspective as an I am an ex combo Mac/PC user for years converted to PC user.
Or buy a PC to play games AND have a computer that "just works". I have zero problems with my PC and software to fight the malware you mention is free and easy to use. There are also many free apps out there to create any type of content you want on the PC...save a much larger pile of money you mentioned and scratch the Mac!
This reminds me of the old copy2pc ISA option board you could plug in way back in the day. It didn't take long before the whole card was replaced by an even better software-only solution. This "bird-dog" card seems to be a step backwards to the old hardware cards before the systems and software were powerful enough to get the job done. I imagine it will take about a day or so for numerous good rootkits to be written to sneak right past it natively.
According to the article, this person was fired ultimately for playing solitare on the job after being told to stop surfing the net. I think playing games on the net on company time is a bit different than a quick peek at a news site or something similar....especially after being told not to spend time surfing. I can definitely understand him being fired for this.