Note, not all of the shops are partaking, and some are even charging for the free comic books.
Diamond (the distributor) decided not to eat the distribution costs just because Marvel was eating the production costs. This leaves it up to each shop-owner to decide whether or not they're going to give away for free (beer?) something that they had to pay for. Not every shop (including successful ones) have the budget to be able to give away something that they didn't get for free.
By all means, do check out the shops, but don't be too surprised if you're asked to pony up at the register.
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Of note, not all the comic books are being distributed as free... depends on the shop, really.
Diamond (the distributor) wouldn't eat the costs, so they got passed along to the shops. It's up to each shop to decide whether or not they're going to eat the costs like Marvel did. Most of the shops I know of simply can't afford to.
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Well, "Watchmen" is unfilmable, but if you have somewhat less stringent-standards, "Authority" would adapt almost perfectly to HBO, specifically the Mark Millar run (No, I'm not knocking Ellis).
"Transmetropolitan" or "100 Bullets" would do spectacularly on HBO, as would "Preacher", but it's only recently that comic books have been able to do well again in movies. I think both of the bigger publishing houses (read: Marvel and DC) are still a bit sketchy on how to distribute things to the small screen. TWarner does an okay job with Smallville, but the WB is hardly an appropriate environment for any of the above-mentioned books, and frankly, I doubt that TWarner is going to put something like that out there that they can't control (excepting cartoons, of course).
Note, given my lack of a rackmountable server, and the rather underpowered dedicated boxes, I probably won't be switching hosts anytime soon, but these were things that left me feeling somewhat discomforted anyway. I mention them to you because it might help you to revamp the site to include this information, and potentially, turn away other potential customers.
The rackspace fee, is that monthly? one time? etc.
On the dedicated servers, what other software is included? Is Apache pre-configured with php, perl, mod_perl, etc? Is mySQL installed? Oracle? Postgres?
Do the dedicated servers have any hardware reboot devices, or if the system should hang, or eth0 go down, would I have to pay a per-incident support cost to have it rebooted manually?
In all fairness, it looks like a decent deal. I'd have to say that Rackshack has you beat, specifically in the dedicated server department (316 gigs with tier = $287/month vs. 400 gigs with rackshack = $100/month), but Rackshack (to my knowledge) doesn't do colo services.
Again, it looks like a decent deal, but for those already with Rackshack, I see no incentive to switch, unless they just want colo services.
And you would prefer what? That the editor censored it because it wasn't a publicly accepted/acceptable viewpoint? Moved on to another post that didn't contain the offending remark?
The editor was submitted a story that should appeal to the editor's intended audience. The submitter made statements that the editor may or may not disagree with. The editor approved the story as it was, as opposed to censoring it in any way.
It's my humble opinion that the editor did right by the submitter, and right by the audience.
Question, is the 5% guarantee ALWAYS good? (And yes, I do realize that slashdot isn't the place to be conducting this... mark offtopic if you like) IE: Is the 5% price guarantee
For the first month?
As long as I'm hosting with you?
As long as I can continually prove that there are cheaper rates?
If they migrate off of Windows later, then they simply stop paying the Campus license fee, which (if I'm not mistaken), is yearly. After they stop paying, they are no longer able to enjoy the benefits of it, which means that they'll have to KEEP every Windows purchase order, receipt, and license agreement for every piece of software installed on their computers... Oh yeah, and have it ready for presentation should Microsoft try and audit them again.
The campus agreement, at best, could buy them longer than 60 days to get things in order, and when it expires, simply opt out of renewing. Hopefully, by that time, they'll be readily able to provide audit information should Microsoft threaten them again.
This might work out to the school's advantage... while I'm sure it's not legally "sound", per se, if the computers were donated with Windows 95, and the model of the computer shipped with Windows, then the OEM license agreement would pretty much be in place, whether or not the license was transferred. If, for example, the computer is a Dell model whatever, and that Dell model computer shipped with the same version of Windows running on it currently, wouldn't Microsoft's bundling of the PC and license prove the school system right in this case?
In the high school I graduated from, the IT needs of the school were provided by the MIS teacher (a wonderful lady) who had previously done systems administration freelance for large companies. She received a significantly higher pay rate than the average teacher, as, in addition to pulling "double-duty", her qualifications pretty much necessitated that the school pony up.
I learned quite a bit in high school, and still respect that teacher more highly than any of the others (for obvious geek-related reasons I'm sure), but things always ran smoothly.
Pardon my ignorance, but I have to ask here... isn't it Blizzard's burden to prove that Bnetd looked at the source code, as opposed to Bnetd's burden to proving that they didn't?
:( I liked Blade II. Of course, it was every bit exactly what I was expecting, and a surprise or two couldn't have hurt, but I thought it was a relatively nice way to spend two mindless hours.
I can't, for the life of me, figure out why this isn't on the front page. I know I'm not here very often, but did slash implement some sort of section only posting?
You really think Merrill Lynch is going to just "go it alone" in their migration?
It's not at all unlikely really. They likely have a rather large IT staff, and, depending on the servers and whatnot, they likely wouldn't need RedHat. Hell, when my company recompiled RedHat 6.0 to run on a formerly Solaris-driven server, and rewrote (in instances) and recompiled the applications that we needed to run on it, we didn't call RedHat once. Of note, this was three guys and a server, messing around. Now, that server is production box, and externally facing well over 30,000 users, without a hiccup.
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That's kind of funny really, since when I signed up (perhaps 8 or 9 months ago), I put Cowboy Bebop on my list and received it almost instantaneously.
If there's a movie you REALLY want to see, and don't mind waiting until it becomes available, simply unqueue all other items except for movies you really want. Less disappointment.
It's worked out very well for me, as my wife recently had a baby, and we had to plan for two weeks to be able to see Lord of the Rings in the theater, but even before then, it was a great convenience, and I'm on the delayed delivery east coast as well.
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Note, not all of the shops are partaking, and some are even charging for the free comic books.
Diamond (the distributor) decided not to eat the distribution costs just because Marvel was eating the production costs. This leaves it up to each shop-owner to decide whether or not they're going to give away for free (beer?) something that they had to pay for. Not every shop (including successful ones) have the budget to be able to give away something that they didn't get for free.
By all means, do check out the shops, but don't be too surprised if you're asked to pony up at the register.
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Of note, not all the comic books are being distributed as free... depends on the shop, really.
Diamond (the distributor) wouldn't eat the costs, so they got passed along to the shops. It's up to each shop to decide whether or not they're going to eat the costs like Marvel did. Most of the shops I know of simply can't afford to.
-9mm-
Well, "Watchmen" is unfilmable, but if you have somewhat less stringent-standards, "Authority" would adapt almost perfectly to HBO, specifically the Mark Millar run (No, I'm not knocking Ellis).
"Transmetropolitan" or "100 Bullets" would do spectacularly on HBO, as would "Preacher", but it's only recently that comic books have been able to do well again in movies. I think both of the bigger publishing houses (read: Marvel and DC) are still a bit sketchy on how to distribute things to the small screen. TWarner does an okay job with Smallville, but the WB is hardly an appropriate environment for any of the above-mentioned books, and frankly, I doubt that TWarner is going to put something like that out there that they can't control (excepting cartoons, of course).
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Hmmm... questions I couldn't find answers to.
Note, given my lack of a rackmountable server, and the rather underpowered dedicated boxes, I probably won't be switching hosts anytime soon, but these were things that left me feeling somewhat discomforted anyway. I mention them to you because it might help you to revamp the site to include this information, and potentially, turn away other potential customers.
The rackspace fee, is that monthly? one time? etc.
On the dedicated servers, what other software is included? Is Apache pre-configured with php, perl, mod_perl, etc? Is mySQL installed? Oracle? Postgres?
Do the dedicated servers have any hardware reboot devices, or if the system should hang, or eth0 go down, would I have to pay a per-incident support cost to have it rebooted manually?
In all fairness, it looks like a decent deal. I'd have to say that Rackshack has you beat, specifically in the dedicated server department (316 gigs with tier = $287/month vs. 400 gigs with rackshack = $100/month), but Rackshack (to my knowledge) doesn't do colo services.
Again, it looks like a decent deal, but for those already with Rackshack, I see no incentive to switch, unless they just want colo services.
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And you would prefer what? That the editor censored it because it wasn't a publicly accepted/acceptable viewpoint? Moved on to another post that didn't contain the offending remark?
The editor was submitted a story that should appeal to the editor's intended audience. The submitter made statements that the editor may or may not disagree with. The editor approved the story as it was, as opposed to censoring it in any way.
It's my humble opinion that the editor did right by the submitter, and right by the audience.
-9mm-
I'm looking into your services right now.
Question, is the 5% guarantee ALWAYS good? (And yes, I do realize that slashdot isn't the place to be conducting this... mark offtopic if you like) IE: Is the 5% price guarantee
For the first month?
As long as I'm hosting with you?
As long as I can continually prove that there are cheaper rates?
Danke.
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I hate to break it to you, but that isn't the "cheapest bandwidth anywhere". Rackshack's rates are around 25 cents a gig.
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If they migrate off of Windows later, then they simply stop paying the Campus license fee, which (if I'm not mistaken), is yearly. After they stop paying, they are no longer able to enjoy the benefits of it, which means that they'll have to KEEP every Windows purchase order, receipt, and license agreement for every piece of software installed on their computers... Oh yeah, and have it ready for presentation should Microsoft try and audit them again.
The campus agreement, at best, could buy them longer than 60 days to get things in order, and when it expires, simply opt out of renewing. Hopefully, by that time, they'll be readily able to provide audit information should Microsoft threaten them again.
-9mm-
This might work out to the school's advantage... while I'm sure it's not legally "sound", per se, if the computers were donated with Windows 95, and the model of the computer shipped with Windows, then the OEM license agreement would pretty much be in place, whether or not the license was transferred. If, for example, the computer is a Dell model whatever, and that Dell model computer shipped with the same version of Windows running on it currently, wouldn't Microsoft's bundling of the PC and license prove the school system right in this case?
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In the high school I graduated from, the IT needs of the school were provided by the MIS teacher (a wonderful lady) who had previously done systems administration freelance for large companies. She received a significantly higher pay rate than the average teacher, as, in addition to pulling "double-duty", her qualifications pretty much necessitated that the school pony up.
I learned quite a bit in high school, and still respect that teacher more highly than any of the others (for obvious geek-related reasons I'm sure), but things always ran smoothly.
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Who paid for this?
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Unless of course this plugin were available now, and I could just hit the "F" key and have you reported MISTER!
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That would be okay if Microsoft did sue me for my proof of concept, as I'd simply countersue citing "del" as "malicious code".
Hell, if we recruited every person that ever accidentally deleted a file under Windows, we'd have one hell of a class action suit.
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Pardon my ignorance, but I have to ask here... isn't it Blizzard's burden to prove that Bnetd looked at the source code, as opposed to Bnetd's burden to proving that they didn't?
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:( I liked Blade II. Of course, it was every bit exactly what I was expecting, and a surprise or two couldn't have hurt, but I thought it was a relatively nice way to spend two mindless hours.
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I can't, for the life of me, figure out why this isn't on the front page. I know I'm not here very often, but did slash implement some sort of section only posting?
Truly baffled,
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"a consortium of companies is more likely to have an neutral outcome."
The RIAA/MPAA must not have gotten that memo.
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Well, the only other way I can think of that wouldn't warrant turning on the air conditioner would make him pretty stupid for wearing underwear.
Perhaps I'm missing something?
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Mononoke wasn't that bad a dub, and it was Disney. I don't know who did the dubbing, but overall it was pretty good.
I didn't much care for the usage of star actors and actresses doing the voices, really, but I guess it was warranted.
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If I'm not mistaken, CD-R and RW manufacturers already pay the "rip" tax as mentioned in the AHRA.
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but I am compelled to share with everyone how I misread the caption...
All but three RC base bugs are belong to us.
:(
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what the February Security Cleanup at Microsoft is all about... making the source code look less obviously unfriendly to other applications.
Note, above post complete bullshit.
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That's kind of funny really, since when I signed up (perhaps 8 or 9 months ago), I put Cowboy Bebop on my list and received it almost instantaneously.
If there's a movie you REALLY want to see, and don't mind waiting until it becomes available, simply unqueue all other items except for movies you really want. Less disappointment.
It's worked out very well for me, as my wife recently had a baby, and we had to plan for two weeks to be able to see Lord of the Rings in the theater, but even before then, it was a great convenience, and I'm on the delayed delivery east coast as well.
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