Absolutely. My exercise was really one in Devil's Advocacy, because I know how the submitter felt. When I think about that, I suppose if I know what he felt, then there must have been some bias.
...Granted, most of the items currently offered are Japanese in origin, but this is indicative of a record label that realizes how to embrace *some* aspect of the technological revolution!...
--Well, as far as embracing/rejecting technology, record labels HAVE disagreed with a lot of technological developments in the past and have not changed their business/technical model drastically in 10 years. That's a fact. This is radically different from the previous method of distribution. That's a fact.
Various industry types have been espousing this method for years as an antidote to artificial concepts of media supply and demand (e.g. that Big Record Label cannot support small acts as it must press x copies of the album),
--I can't vouch for the veracity of this statement, but it seems like it isn't an opinion, but a fact.
and as Columbia seems to be offering mostly old catalogue items, this is an encouraging solution to the problem of the control of out-of-print recordings.
--I would say that this is very slightly an opinion, but I don't think you could find anyone that thinks it's NOT an encouraging solution to the control of out-of-print recordings. Maybe if you were a business that specialized in rare records. Anyway, there is NOT bias obvious in this text either.
One final note: of course, a system like this is only as useful as its retailer support, and it appears as if both Tower Records Japan and HMV Japan carry these CDR releases."
--This is also a fact.
So, show me the bias. I am not stating this as an end-all be-all, but you got modded up by claiming there's bias in the submission, but I don't see any.
And if you were referring to the "from the slow-march-of-a-clue dept." part, then that's just asinine. That part of the site is nearly ALWAYS used to express an opinion about the story.
But surely you can see that America has more freedoms when it comes to the press, speech, etc., than China, for example, which actively seeks to control these things. Or Pakistan, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
Does this make America better than China or these other nations? Of course not. That is just nationalism. Nationalism stinks like racism or sexism stinks. So maybe we, and this includes you, can move beyond the America sucks/ America is better rhetoric and focus on the issues at hand: basic freedoms, regardless of where in the world we are.
It is not nationalism to think that the structure of our Republic and the freedoms granted to us by the the Constitution are better than the other systems. If we didn't believe that to be true, why not be socialists, etc.? It's not nationalism to notice that oppressive governments are not the correct way to do things. It's nationalism to believe that our systems are better simply because they are American.
The reason I had a problem was not because of privacy. The thing about Radio Shack's policy was that they never required it if you were paying cash. If you were using a credit card, they always required it. My problem, thus, was inconvenience. The fact that they have my credit card information means that if they wanted to be unscrupulous with my information, they could call up and find out my address anyway. It's on my credit card billing information. No, I was instead pissed because all I wanted was a $9 cable for my $ELECTRONICDEVICE and they made me give them my info every time. Even though they already have it, both from my cc number and from the last time I was there!!!
I think it's more complicated than that. Billy Joe Consumer who pickes up his Best Buy circular and sees the Free Spindle of CDRs After Rebate thinks "Hmm. That sounds like a good deal. What else do they have at Best Buy?" Then, he continues to leaf through. He sees an ad for a DVD he wanted to buy anyway, so he decides to drive down to the BB that afternoon. When there, he picks up the spindle, grabs the ($24.95) DVD, and on his way out sees a display of Jabra headsets for his phone and throws one in his cart because he thinks they look neat. This way, Best Buy has controlled his environment. By the way, Billy Joe forgets to send in his rebate.
On the other side of town, Nerd Geekenstein is cruising the discount sites for the cheapest CDRs. Once he sees that Best Buy has 200 blanks for $0.00 after a $49.99 rebate, he hops onto his moped, scoots over there, grabs them, puts them on his MBNA Mastercard with a $500 limit, scoots home, and promptly fills out the rebate form and sends it in before jumping back on the discount sites to find some cheap RAM near him.
It's an attitude. Different kinds of shoppers consume the advertising that stores put out in different ways. The stores like to control that. The store made $0 off of Nerdboy and made $52 off of Billy Joe.
Yeah, and it's not like you could use Gamespy Arcade for free!
Nosirree, you'd rather prance about in your fanboy-ness...
Personally, I appreciate that MS is controlling the user experience so much. That makes it that much higher quality.
Oh, and don't compare the online play system for a console to elections in Iraq. That's just stupid. There's three major console systems, each with a good chunk of market share, in good competition with each other, each with plans for online play, two of which have working online systems.
therefore for the extreme dexterity of the middle finger of my right hand....hmmm, this is Slashdot, so... I gotta assume you're giving your girlfriend the finger on a daily basis and her low self-esteem causes her to appreciate even this small, rude token of attention.
Whatever-- If I post nothing but a link and that post gets modded up, I didn't do anything. ANYTHING BUT FIND THE LINK AND POST IT!!! Information is everything, but it's nothing if you can't find it.
No. I think that the market assumes that when you buy Product B, designed for Product A, you will be using an unmodified version of Product A, and if you have modified it beyond normal functionality (which I know is debatable with backups and imports, so don't kill me with modchip ethics lessons), you shouldn't expect it to work.
See, the thing is, Billy, Marvel Entertainment didn't make a Spider-Man movie.
It's a little more complex than that. It's the same reason you wouldn't reasonably claim that a band made $15 million in profits because their $20 cd sold a million copies and cost $5 million to make. Columbia/Tristar or whoever the fuck made the movie bought the movie rights from Marvel Entertainment for $12 million or so. So, even if that were mostly profit, they would owe Mr. Lee a cool million, or exactly what they've paid him every year since he signed his contract.
So you're the guy who actually thinks this is useful. If you actually think it probable that a random unconscious person you encounter in time to save them will randomly have some deadly, communicable disease, probable enough that you should carry the mask, you ought to be buying lottery tickets nonstop.
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
It has to cover the expenses in finding and developing talent, recording and touring, marketing and advertising. These expenses far exceed the costs of pressing a CD. OK, point noted. But pray, tell me how is it that audio cassettes (that costs more to produce) are actually cheaper than CDs?
I think the previous poster hit on the answer... Do you know how hard it is to market tapes? You try convincing people that cassette tapes are good...;)
I knew things were bad in the PC universe regarding power consumption, sleep and wake, and state preservation, but is it really that bad? Has battery life really not improved for PC laptops since 1993?
Yeah. My Gateway 450x has a great battery, about 2.5 or so hours watching a movie, maybe 3 just doing whatever. That "dumps the whole state to disk" feature is the same as Windows' "Hibernate" function. I LOVE hibernate. You can set your power settings to hibernate at 3% power or something so that you never ever lose anything. Hibernation is awesome because it writes all of the ram and settings to disk and completely shuts off the computer, requiring absolutely no power at all. Time back up from hibernation is a little higher, maybe 15-25 seconds, but it's worth it to have unlimited hibernation time. I never even shut off the computer any more because the hibernation is much faster than my 2.5 minute boot time. The only thing remaining for me to do is to create a partition specifically for the hibernate data so it isn't constantly swapped out and fragmenting all my data.
I thought that that was pretty dumb until I realized that he did it so all correspondence with a student could be kept in one file. Upon learning that, it made a lot more sense.
Right. Putting all the emails from a student into a file/folder is a LOT easier if you print it up than if you do it on a computer, right? Suuuure.
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That would be about as ridiculous as the movie having a talking tree.
That 15 people had it is a litmus test, if it was purely bogus, would 15 people have the same thing?
You've obviously never used Kazaa before.
Absolutely. My exercise was really one in Devil's Advocacy, because I know how the submitter felt. When I think about that, I suppose if I know what he felt, then there must have been some bias.
Let's examine the submission, shall we?
--Well, as far as embracing/rejecting technology, record labels HAVE disagreed with a lot of technological developments in the past and have not changed their business/technical model drastically in 10 years. That's a fact. This is radically different from the previous method of distribution. That's a fact.
Various industry types have been espousing this method for years as an antidote to artificial concepts of media supply and demand (e.g. that Big Record Label cannot support small acts as it must press x copies of the album),
--I can't vouch for the veracity of this statement, but it seems like it isn't an opinion, but a fact.
and as Columbia seems to be offering mostly old catalogue items, this is an encouraging solution to the problem of the control of out-of-print recordings.
--I would say that this is very slightly an opinion, but I don't think you could find anyone that thinks it's NOT an encouraging solution to the control of out-of-print recordings. Maybe if you were a business that specialized in rare records. Anyway, there is NOT bias obvious in this text either.
One final note: of course, a system like this is only as useful as its retailer support, and it appears as if both Tower Records Japan and HMV Japan carry these CDR releases."
--This is also a fact.
So, show me the bias. I am not stating this as an end-all be-all, but you got modded up by claiming there's bias in the submission, but I don't see any. And if you were referring to the "from the slow-march-of-a-clue dept." part, then that's just asinine. That part of the site is nearly ALWAYS used to express an opinion about the story.
But surely you can see that America has more freedoms when it comes to the press, speech, etc., than China, for example, which actively seeks to control these things. Or Pakistan, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
Does this make America better than China or these other nations? Of course not. That is just nationalism. Nationalism stinks like racism or sexism stinks. So maybe we, and this includes you, can move beyond the America sucks/ America is better rhetoric and focus on the issues at hand: basic freedoms, regardless of where in the world we are.
It is not nationalism to think that the structure of our Republic and the freedoms granted to us by the the Constitution are better than the other systems. If we didn't believe that to be true, why not be socialists, etc.? It's not nationalism to notice that oppressive governments are not the correct way to do things. It's nationalism to believe that our systems are better simply because they are American.
How many politicians are there on the various Jovian moons?
Not enough.
Take their broadband away and put them back on a 56k dialup connection again for a few days.
Dude, it's Thanksgiving. That just happened for all of us geeks stuck at our parents' house.
(posting from AOL. God this sucks.)
Gotta wonder what kind of pinhead marketer figured advertising anti-pop-up software using pop-up ads would make a positive impression.
Think about it. Not a single person who already blocks popups and doesn't need their software will see this ad. I call it effective.
The reason I had a problem was not because of privacy. The thing about Radio Shack's policy was that they never required it if you were paying cash. If you were using a credit card, they always required it. My problem, thus, was inconvenience. The fact that they have my credit card information means that if they wanted to be unscrupulous with my information, they could call up and find out my address anyway. It's on my credit card billing information.
No, I was instead pissed because all I wanted was a $9 cable for my $ELECTRONICDEVICE and they made me give them my info every time. Even though they already have it, both from my cc number and from the last time I was there!!!
Modding does not necessarily equal cheating.
Yes, but not modding necessarily implies not cheating, by all of the methods we know of.
I think it's more complicated than that. Billy Joe Consumer who pickes up his Best Buy circular and sees the Free Spindle of CDRs After Rebate thinks "Hmm. That sounds like a good deal. What else do they have at Best Buy?"
Then, he continues to leaf through. He sees an ad for a DVD he wanted to buy anyway, so he decides to drive down to the BB that afternoon.
When there, he picks up the spindle, grabs the ($24.95) DVD, and on his way out sees a display of Jabra headsets for his phone and throws one in his cart because he thinks they look neat.
This way, Best Buy has controlled his environment.
By the way, Billy Joe forgets to send in his rebate.
On the other side of town, Nerd Geekenstein is cruising the discount sites for the cheapest CDRs. Once he sees that Best Buy has 200 blanks for $0.00 after a $49.99 rebate, he hops onto his moped, scoots over there, grabs them, puts them on his MBNA Mastercard with a $500 limit, scoots home, and promptly fills out the rebate form and sends it in before jumping back on the discount sites to find some cheap RAM near him.
It's an attitude. Different kinds of shoppers consume the advertising that stores put out in different ways. The stores like to control that. The store made $0 off of Nerdboy and made $52 off of Billy Joe.
Yeah, and it's not like you could use Gamespy Arcade for free!
Nosirree, you'd rather prance about in your fanboy-ness...
Personally, I appreciate that MS is controlling the user experience so much. That makes it that much higher quality.
Oh, and don't compare the online play system for a console to elections in Iraq. That's just stupid. There's three major console systems, each with a good chunk of market share, in good competition with each other, each with plans for online play, two of which have working online systems.
therefore for the extreme dexterity of the middle finger of my right hand. ...hmmm, this is Slashdot, so... I gotta assume you're giving your girlfriend the finger on a daily basis and her low self-esteem causes her to appreciate even this small, rude token of attention.
Whatever-- If I post nothing but a link and that post gets modded up, I didn't do anything. ANYTHING BUT FIND THE LINK AND POST IT!!!
Information is everything, but it's nothing if you can't find it.
No. I think that the market assumes that when you buy Product B, designed for Product A, you will be using an unmodified version of Product A, and if you have modified it beyond normal functionality (which I know is debatable with backups and imports, so don't kill me with modchip ethics lessons), you shouldn't expect it to work.
See, the thing is, Billy, Marvel Entertainment didn't make a Spider-Man movie.
It's a little more complex than that. It's the same reason you wouldn't reasonably claim that a band made $15 million in profits because their $20 cd sold a million copies and cost $5 million to make. Columbia/Tristar or whoever the fuck made the movie bought the movie rights from Marvel Entertainment for $12 million or so.
So, even if that were mostly profit, they would owe Mr. Lee a cool million, or exactly what they've paid him every year since he signed his contract.
At one time I also carried a face shield for CPR,
So you're the guy who actually thinks this is useful.
If you actually think it probable that a random unconscious person you encounter in time to save them will randomly have some deadly, communicable disease, probable enough that you should carry the mask, you ought to be buying lottery tickets nonstop.
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
...
Then of course there is my mother's handbag
Your repair kit includes your mother's handbag?
sicko.
Well, that was SUPPOSED to be a Jack Chick link and it was SUPPOSED to be funny.
But I'm stupid.
only 10,000 years old!
It has been 800,000 years since the last time the poles flipped.
But... but... the earth is only 10,000 years old! How could this have happened 800,000 years ago??!?!?
It has to cover the expenses in finding and developing talent, recording and touring, marketing and advertising. These expenses far exceed the costs of pressing a CD.
;)
OK, point noted. But pray, tell me how is it that audio cassettes (that costs more to produce) are actually cheaper than CDs?
I think the previous poster hit on the answer... Do you know how hard it is to market tapes? You try convincing people that cassette tapes are good...
I knew things were bad in the PC universe regarding power consumption, sleep and wake, and state preservation, but is it really that bad? Has battery life really not improved for PC laptops since 1993?
Yeah. My Gateway 450x has a great battery, about 2.5 or so hours watching a movie, maybe 3 just doing whatever.
That "dumps the whole state to disk" feature is the same as Windows' "Hibernate" function. I LOVE hibernate. You can set your power settings to hibernate at 3% power or something so that you never ever lose anything. Hibernation is awesome because it writes all of the ram and settings to disk and completely shuts off the computer, requiring absolutely no power at all. Time back up from hibernation is a little higher, maybe 15-25 seconds, but it's worth it to have unlimited hibernation time. I never even shut off the computer any more because the hibernation is much faster than my 2.5 minute boot time. The only thing remaining for me to do is to create a partition specifically for the hibernate data so it isn't constantly swapped out and fragmenting all my data.
I thought that that was pretty dumb until I realized that he did it so all correspondence with a student could be kept in one file. Upon learning that, it made a lot more sense.
Right. Putting all the emails from a student into a file/folder is a LOT easier if you print it up than if you do it on a computer, right?
Suuuure.
This repeat was predicted by ari_j.
Weird.
Though, you could say that for every article and have a pretty good success rate.
If it were all economic worth though, you'd find many people with negative value - liabilities, as opposed to assets. Then what to do?
Let them battle each other for sport.