pfft, most of the history of newspapers has been to do precisely as you mention. Only in the past 50 years or so has a thin veneer of "bringing out the truth" been touted as the job of newspapers. But newspapers are profit driven enterprises, just like any other business - always have been.
We know you're having trouble figuring out the whole "grocery store layout" concept and are trying to figure out an effective means to not shit yourself, but here's the newest 10 giga T5635 Garmin electro deluxe (now with 20% more marketing!!) to help you figure out the supermarket layout. Don't forget to check and make sure it's charged, updated with the new layouts, and make sure you angle it right so you can see it.
Of all the crap I've seen on/. I didn't realize we had unprintable expletives around here? Now, I'm curious - what could be so bad that it can't be printed on a/. page?!
What makes you think the NSA would bother to restrict their security holes to a particular operating system? NSA had great influence over the creation of the DES encryption standard, and though not quite as much in the old days, still holds a somewhat important role in developing new security protocols.
I'm also fairly sure the NSA puts a decent amount of research into quantum computing, which can fairly easily break any encryption scheme in use today, if you line up enough qubits for enough time.
I think it's naive to believe we're NOT on the offensive, though I've got to admit our nation's recent incompetence in dealing with IT (defunct air force initiative, losing engineering plans to the F35) gives me a little more doubt.
But we INVENTED a lot of this stuff. What does the NSA do, exactly? Yeah, they intercept international communications and develop systems to do this, but is that really all they do... really?
...the crude reality of war should only be depicted in movies, TV shows and documentary...
As it should be, IMO. The only TV show you see the current war in is appropriately somber and analytical (at least as somber and analytical as most of our journalists can get). If you want realism, watch al-jazeera. If you want to inform the general populace about a war, I don't care how realistic a game is, it'll still be a pale comparison against the real thing.
And despite the seriousness some/.ers equate with gaming, 99% of the population still thinks of gaming as a fancy toy. It's a pretty tough sell to those with kids overseas fighting the real thing.
But inflation is a tax on the financially uneducated. If you're not sure if owning treasuries during inflationary periods is a good or bad idea, you're likely financially uneducated.
That's one of the big reasons why inflation is ok... it doesn't hurt the financially well educated rich people nearly as much as a tax increase would hurt.
When I hear our need for resistors to limit the damage of massive solar flares uttered in the same sentence as "the whole 2012 thing", the credibility for anything either one of these guys says is gone as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, that's cheating. Yes, the cosmic background radiation is a consequence of the event that occurred, but you cannot see an actual, physical "event" along the lines of an exploding star.
goodluckwiththat. No one "allows" me to travel. Countries allow me within their borders, but my right to travel is my own and is not allowed by anybody.
First time I've ever heard of it. Interesting, and definitely unique... I never would've thought of such a thing as a "Christian" based OS. I wonder if they ever got it off the ground.
The only way the Catholic Church is worth a hundred billion of anything is when you calculate its worth in Lira.
Sorry, but nope. Catholic church is very wealthy... here's a pic of the solid gold alter in Cuzco... the picture does it absolutely no justice... and there's probably 5 times more gold than in this pic and an equal amount of silver (this pic is not mine; I don't know who this pic belongs to; they don't let you take pics inside the church, so this person committed a bit of sacrilege by taking this)
And I'd say the items contained in this photo are worth a few bucks.
In terms of net worth, they are very clearly rich.
The Catholic church is widely regarded to be the most wealthy organization in the world, by a long shot.
Personally, I'm happy to see them put it to work a bit, especially after seeing the Cuzco Church of Santo Domingo literally COVERED in gold and silver and the royal grandeur that is Saint Peter's Square. Add together the rest of the real estate, hard assets, art, donations, low cost of labor, etc, etc and you have a truly mighty organization that can do a lot more than it is. I swear, I saw both Cuzco and the Vatican years ago, and the wealth still boggles my mind.
Personally, I'm happy to see that money actually doing something other than contributing to opulence. I think they should be doing much more of this investment.
No problem. Always nice to know my comments have been received and looked at on these types of things.
As I read your arguments you basically want to keep the commercial music scene strong and healthy
I wouldn't say that, exactly. What I would say is that as a consumer I don't really care one way or the other, and neither does 99% of the consumer base out there. I had a friend once that had an independent label. They had some cool bands; great bar bands... cool guys.... fun to hang out with, and I had an awesome time every night I went to a local show! But out of all of the music I ever saw at any local show, was any of it good enough to be on the radio during normal (i.e. non-local) station programming? Honestly... no, not really. And I feel bad saying that because the band members were all totally cool... but that's the fact. The bands were all good, but they didn't have that extra something that it takes. After reflecting on it occasionally, I think the thing that differentiates those bands that make it from those that don't is a very unique sound while still maintaining a mass appeal. Read: Layne Staley's (sp?) voice, Santana's guitar, Tool's... well, everything I guess
I have no idea what kind of music you're into, but I like Rock/Alternative/Metal stuff (not 80s metal though - puke). I saw a pretty good number of bands that were good (and yeah, some shitty ones too) and had some pretty good sounding mass appeal, but they didn't have that little bit of extra whatever it takes to stand above and hit the big time. On the flip side, you've got some supposedly awesome musicians (musicians have told me they're awesome, but I don't have the ear for it, I guess) who, in terms of musical skill beat the hell out of most commercial bands on the radio, but have never made it big. And they never will make it big because they have no appeal to the musically uneducated drecks like me. I have yet to hear an independent musical artist where I have *truly* thought... yeah, I can definitely picture this band on my favorite rock station as a superstar. In this sense, it's almost bad that those in music have such a good ear. They can't really appreciate the fact that those who don't live and breathe music often don't see the point of the music from extremely talented individuals.
Now, as somebody that loves music, you may have found the term "mass appeal" slightly disgusting, but it's my opinion that if you did, you're probably going to have a difficult time building a business you can live off of. You need mass appeal to make sales, and sales is what keeps the lights on. (I've got an MBA by the way... can you tell yet?)
Anyway, sorry, I've just been rambling. To my main point... record/movie companies, news organizations, phone companies, etc, etc are all victims of old men. These old men running these legacy companies do not understand computers AT ALL. Many of them don't have a computer on their desk and never intend to have one. This is the reason for the push back, asinine decisions, mixed signals, all of these retard companies are putting out. Because of that, unless they straighten their act up, someone will beat them. In fact, I'm honestly surprised no one has yet. Every one of those industries I've previously mentioned is now an information technology company - they just don't realize it yet. They need to know how to write and develop in house applications at their companies as a *core competency*. Right now, computing is just another cost center for these old men.
Therefore, the company that can develop, promote, and continually enhance a system for delivering music AND develop and maintain musical talent will take the whole market (currently, Apple does only 50% of this). One way to do this would be micro-royalty (no, I'm not aware of anything on this topic, but I don't spend any time on this, so I'm not a good person to ask), another would be the Richard Branson method and find one major act (I think his was the Sex
Corporate music almost always sounds good (in the genre of your preference), indie music almost always sounds mediocre or poor. That's the simple truth of the matter.
Even a band who managed to stay independent and relatively popular for a while (example: Rage Against the Machine), eventually ends up going corporate - and why wouldn't they? There's more in it for them, even if they become a major part of "the machine"
If independents want to really compete with the big boys, they need to market *creatively* and be innovative, and use some business sense - lots of independents lack this last component. You'll never beat the big guys if you play their same marketing game, even with them being beat up as much as they are, they'll still outspend you 100 to 1.
I think the market is RIPE for an upstart independent to eat the lunch of the big guys. They don't know what the hell they're doing. They're completely lost! If an independent could put together some kind of workable micro-royalty system where consumers could conveniently and easily download a song for, say 5 cents, I think even the completely broke college students would come over to the micro-royalty system, because it's more convenient and worth the small amount of money.
The market is in complete disarray. When this level of creative destruction occurs, a new competitor almost always takes the market by the balls. The future dominant force isn't going to be the person who complains about how the labels still have the advantage in the old world, it'll be the person that has the business discipline and knowledge to create a new world.
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heh, good point; I stand corrected!
pfft, most of the history of newspapers has been to do precisely as you mention. Only in the past 50 years or so has a thin veneer of "bringing out the truth" been touted as the job of newspapers. But newspapers are profit driven enterprises, just like any other business - always have been.
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We know you're having trouble figuring out the whole "grocery store layout" concept and are trying to figure out an effective means to not shit yourself, but here's the newest 10 giga T5635 Garmin electro deluxe (now with 20% more marketing!!) to help you figure out the supermarket layout. Don't forget to check and make sure it's charged, updated with the new layouts, and make sure you angle it right so you can see it.
Aren't we helpful???
Of all the crap I've seen on /. I didn't realize we had unprintable expletives around here? Now, I'm curious - what could be so bad that it can't be printed on a /. page?!
What makes you think the NSA would bother to restrict their security holes to a particular operating system? NSA had great influence over the creation of the DES encryption standard, and though not quite as much in the old days, still holds a somewhat important role in developing new security protocols.
I'm also fairly sure the NSA puts a decent amount of research into quantum computing, which can fairly easily break any encryption scheme in use today, if you line up enough qubits for enough time.
I think it's naive to believe we're NOT on the offensive, though I've got to admit our nation's recent incompetence in dealing with IT (defunct air force initiative, losing engineering plans to the F35) gives me a little more doubt.
But we INVENTED a lot of this stuff. What does the NSA do, exactly? Yeah, they intercept international communications and develop systems to do this, but is that really all they do... really?
I sure as hell hope not...
Awesome comment...
/me tips hat
...the crude reality of war should only be depicted in movies, TV shows and documentary...
As it should be, IMO. The only TV show you see the current war in is appropriately somber and analytical (at least as somber and analytical as most of our journalists can get). If you want realism, watch al-jazeera. If you want to inform the general populace about a war, I don't care how realistic a game is, it'll still be a pale comparison against the real thing.
/.ers equate with gaming, 99% of the population still thinks of gaming as a fancy toy. It's a pretty tough sell to those with kids overseas fighting the real thing.
And despite the seriousness some
And if you still want realism, join the Army.
But inflation is a tax on the financially uneducated. If you're not sure if owning treasuries during inflationary periods is a good or bad idea, you're likely financially uneducated.
That's one of the big reasons why inflation is ok... it doesn't hurt the financially well educated rich people nearly as much as a tax increase would hurt.
Inflation is a tax on the poor and middle class.
In that case, let's buy these damn things, right now!
When I hear our need for resistors to limit the damage of massive solar flares uttered in the same sentence as "the whole 2012 thing", the credibility for anything either one of these guys says is gone as far as I'm concerned.
I don't think they know what "science" is.
pfft, you didn't receive your wacky foreheads yet. This is TOS, remember???
Oh, that's cheating. Yes, the cosmic background radiation is a consequence of the event that occurred, but you cannot see an actual, physical "event" along the lines of an exploding star.
Could still very easily been a biohack gone wrong. However, I agree with you that this is unlikely.
goodluckwiththat. No one "allows" me to travel. Countries allow me within their borders, but my right to travel is my own and is not allowed by anybody.
We've got about 20 years (tops) before these things become better than human hands (more powerful, less fatigue, etc).
Singularity, baby!!
WOW... Jesusx.
First time I've ever heard of it. Interesting, and definitely unique... I never would've thought of such a thing as a "Christian" based OS. I wonder if they ever got it off the ground.
I'm really curious... what bank?
The only way the Catholic Church is worth a hundred billion of anything is when you calculate its worth in Lira.
Sorry, but nope. Catholic church is very wealthy... here's a pic of the solid gold alter in Cuzco... the picture does it absolutely no justice ... and there's probably 5 times more gold than in this pic and an equal amount of silver (this pic is not mine; I don't know who this pic belongs to; they don't let you take pics inside the church, so this person committed a bit of sacrilege by taking this)
And I'd say the items contained in this photo are worth a few bucks.
In terms of net worth, they are very clearly rich.
The Catholic church is widely regarded to be the most wealthy organization in the world, by a long shot.
Personally, I'm happy to see them put it to work a bit, especially after seeing the Cuzco Church of Santo Domingo literally COVERED in gold and silver and the royal grandeur that is Saint Peter's Square. Add together the rest of the real estate, hard assets, art, donations, low cost of labor, etc, etc and you have a truly mighty organization that can do a lot more than it is. I swear, I saw both Cuzco and the Vatican years ago, and the wealth still boggles my mind.
Personally, I'm happy to see that money actually doing something other than contributing to opulence. I think they should be doing much more of this investment.
As I read your arguments you basically want to keep the commercial music scene strong and healthy
I wouldn't say that, exactly. What I would say is that as a consumer I don't really care one way or the other, and neither does 99% of the consumer base out there. I had a friend once that had an independent label. They had some cool bands; great bar bands... cool guys.... fun to hang out with, and I had an awesome time every night I went to a local show! But out of all of the music I ever saw at any local show, was any of it good enough to be on the radio during normal (i.e. non-local) station programming? Honestly... no, not really. And I feel bad saying that because the band members were all totally cool... but that's the fact. The bands were all good, but they didn't have that extra something that it takes. After reflecting on it occasionally, I think the thing that differentiates those bands that make it from those that don't is a very unique sound while still maintaining a mass appeal. Read: Layne Staley's (sp?) voice, Santana's guitar, Tool's... well, everything I guess
I have no idea what kind of music you're into, but I like Rock/Alternative/Metal stuff (not 80s metal though - puke). I saw a pretty good number of bands that were good (and yeah, some shitty ones too) and had some pretty good sounding mass appeal, but they didn't have that little bit of extra whatever it takes to stand above and hit the big time. On the flip side, you've got some supposedly awesome musicians (musicians have told me they're awesome, but I don't have the ear for it, I guess) who, in terms of musical skill beat the hell out of most commercial bands on the radio, but have never made it big. And they never will make it big because they have no appeal to the musically uneducated drecks like me. I have yet to hear an independent musical artist where I have *truly* thought... yeah, I can definitely picture this band on my favorite rock station as a superstar. In this sense, it's almost bad that those in music have such a good ear. They can't really appreciate the fact that those who don't live and breathe music often don't see the point of the music from extremely talented individuals.
Now, as somebody that loves music, you may have found the term "mass appeal" slightly disgusting, but it's my opinion that if you did, you're probably going to have a difficult time building a business you can live off of. You need mass appeal to make sales, and sales is what keeps the lights on. (I've got an MBA by the way... can you tell yet?)
Anyway, sorry, I've just been rambling. To my main point... record/movie companies, news organizations, phone companies, etc, etc are all victims of old men. These old men running these legacy companies do not understand computers AT ALL. Many of them don't have a computer on their desk and never intend to have one. This is the reason for the push back, asinine decisions, mixed signals, all of these retard companies are putting out. Because of that, unless they straighten their act up, someone will beat them. In fact, I'm honestly surprised no one has yet. Every one of those industries I've previously mentioned is now an information technology company - they just don't realize it yet. They need to know how to write and develop in house applications at their companies as a *core competency*. Right now, computing is just another cost center for these old men.
Therefore, the company that can develop, promote, and continually enhance a system for delivering music AND develop and maintain musical talent will take the whole market (currently, Apple does only 50% of this). One way to do this would be micro-royalty (no, I'm not aware of anything on this topic, but I don't spend any time on this, so I'm not a good person to ask), another would be the Richard Branson method and find one major act (I think his was the Sex
Choose two
Hmm, I actually thought they were talking about the Chief of Control (1960s era Get Smart TV show).
Corporate music almost always sounds good (in the genre of your preference), indie music almost always sounds mediocre or poor. That's the simple truth of the matter.
Even a band who managed to stay independent and relatively popular for a while (example: Rage Against the Machine), eventually ends up going corporate - and why wouldn't they? There's more in it for them, even if they become a major part of "the machine"
If independents want to really compete with the big boys, they need to market *creatively* and be innovative, and use some business sense - lots of independents lack this last component. You'll never beat the big guys if you play their same marketing game, even with them being beat up as much as they are, they'll still outspend you 100 to 1.
I think the market is RIPE for an upstart independent to eat the lunch of the big guys. They don't know what the hell they're doing. They're completely lost! If an independent could put together some kind of workable micro-royalty system where consumers could conveniently and easily download a song for, say 5 cents, I think even the completely broke college students would come over to the micro-royalty system, because it's more convenient and worth the small amount of money.
The market is in complete disarray. When this level of creative destruction occurs, a new competitor almost always takes the market by the balls. The future dominant force isn't going to be the person who complains about how the labels still have the advantage in the old world, it'll be the person that has the business discipline and knowledge to create a new world.