Not really. If the stock opened at say 10 dollars a share, hypothetically, then they could by 200 shares. If in the next year the stock price went up to 100 dollars they would only have 20000 minus the 2000 in profit. I wouldnt quite my day job for that.
Thats not true. Stock market is only really gambling if you are an idiot and dont know what you are doing. Then again, it doesnt take much more then common sense to make a lot in the stock market. Invest in an IPO at real cheap, wait for a couple days for it to reach like 80 bucks, and then sell sell sell. =)
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What people dont understand is that the cost of the CD's has nothing to do with productin cost. In only cost a label like Sonya dime or so to make a CD. The cost of cd's are because of promotional cost, markup from the label to distributor, distributor to reseller, and reseller to public. Until the prices of CDs go down, the prices of mp3s shouldnt see a big price drop. Why does software cost so much? Uhh? It doesnt cost 180 dollars to package Windows 98. The cost has nothing to do with packaging.
Ok, I have couple little tidbits to share. First of all, those prices are really closer to what us resellers will be getting them at. Expect $25-50 more from a legit store. You can also exspect that price or probably less from the stores on pricewatch, because they are stolen or not manafactured of they dont deliver. I am not going to tell you where to buy your chips, but just look at the places on pricewatch. A 15 day warrantee? That is obviously not an authorized chip, all AMD chips come with a 3year manafactures warantee, same with Intel. Its no wonder they are cheaper then what us legit resellers can get from our distributors. So when you go out to buy your next chip think about whether you want to save a couple bucks or spend a little more to get a high quality and warenteed product.
Also, comparing K7's to P3's is not realistic. The real comparison is closer to Xeons to K7. And the K7 is faster then any current Intel chip. The pricing is also cheap, considering that it was rumored to cost as much as Xeons do, in the thousands. So be happy.
Actually, you just have to get signed up with a professional banner advertising company. Go check out safe-audit.com. They are very professional, you actually receieve your money. They have ads that pay anything for 5-30 cents a click, or they also have some that pay like 2 dollars or so for 1000 views. Check them out, ocassionally there servers have problems, but overall they are the best I have found.
Where can I download BlackDog linux? Is there an ISO I can download, or just directories? Linux distrobutions are required to be available for download free right? Thanks
ACtually, Most if not all DAM cd's from artist on MP3.com do include tracks not on the website. Quite a few bands only have a 2-4 songs on there page, but the damn cd has like 12 or something. Then again there are also a small selection of bands ( primarirly techno artist, becuase its so easy to make) that have like 30-40 songs on the download page.
I agree with him that it is going to be hard to sell mp3's on cd that you can get free off there site, but I dont about some other things. A way to get the sales up is to spiff up the cd's(are they already fancy loooking? Like something you would by at tower records?) and get them into music stores. There are alot of people out there that dont want to get music online, dont know how, or just havent heard of it before. When MP3.com startss introducing its artist to the general public, they will get more sales.
About MP3.com not havent very good artist, I dont think thats true. Sure, they have a bunch of really bad artist (although I havent found any yet in the Genre's I like), but becuase of the mass of artist (11,000) they have, they have alot more good artist then any other record label. Also, whether a band is good or bad is a matter of opinion. All I know is that there are bands on MP3.com that are much better then some of the stuff I hear on the radio. And dont forgot the big names with Mp3.com, Alanis Morisette, Tori Amos, Ice T, Master P, Snoop Doggy Dog, and whoever else with No Limit Records.
I dont know why people are affiliating me with gnome, and being a gnome/miguel fanatic. First of all, I only run gnome maybe an hour a day now, until I reinstall Debian 2.1 tonight. I certainly dont obsess over Gnome being so cool. The point of throughing in a anti-KDE rant was to get the point across, that everyone is entitled to there own opinion, and what you are doing is not allowing me to have mine and saying that KDE is better.
You you fetchmail, but how many others out of the 11million linux users use it. And I am not new. I have been using Linux since before 1.0, and free software tools since before that. And with ESR I think I would still have those shiny Gnome buttons that I dont even play with. And I dont whine, the purpose of writing that was to make a few points, not whine over ESR or RMS or anyone for that matter. What have I dont for the GNU community? Not nearly as much as RMS, or Linus, but I help run the Linux in the Classroom organization that is working hard to get linux into schools. I helped get the creation of the book Open Sources started, look in the Acknowledgement section. I and a leader in the open sourced ReactOS project. To name a few things. Its not like I sit here and use linux and take advantage of it.
Once Again, dont call me a gnome fanatic, I dont even know Migeul's title or whatever he does. All I know is that he is part of the gnome project, and I could care less, as long as quality software is produced. As to why you have to flame me is another question. Once again you must not of read my little part on how people are allowed to have there own opinions, I even put down that they might be ignorant and am not claiming to be some wise guy who knows all these things.
BTW, Is it cool to hide behind AC? You talk about Miguel hiding, what about you?
I think you took my message wrong. The intention wasnt as much to bash them, as to point out that they are not doing alot and are not the leaders they claim to be. And I dont worship wannabe leaders like Miguel. If I was to worship anyone it would be Linus Torvalds.
Why do you feel you have to post as Anonymous Coward. The goverment isnt going to get you, and if it is so what. If I am going to comment I am going to stand up for what I am saying, and not hide behind AC. As for Miguel, I have noticed his name around the media lately, I just dont follow who actually developes gnome that closely so I wasnt sure what exactly he is claiming to be. Thanks for the contribution.
Yes, Stallman has done quite a bit. Thats why I primarily spoke about Eric S. But like I said above in a previous reply, I dont like how he goes around saying and thinking that he should control the open source movement. I dont like it politics and way of handling things.
I didnt say he didnt do anything. I just said he didnt do anything significant. Sure, people use fetch mail, but out of the 11million linux users, how many do you even think have fetchmail installed? As for the Jargon file/howtos, The Jargon file would of most likely been maintained by someone else if he hadnt stepped upto the job. I cant say that for sure though. Ncurses, well, that is somewhat usefull, I doubt I use any software that uses it, except for make menuconfig when compiling the kernel. I am just saying overall here, his contributions are nothing compared to people like Linus, but yet he thinks he is the poster child for open source.
True, My rant against big names of people with not much stuff was slanted more towards Eric S Raymond, and other people. Stallman has contributed quiet a bit, but I dont like his politics and how he goes about handling things.
If your parents are divorced you get a grant? Do you have any resources to back this up. My parents are divorced and we have some income, but it all goes bye bye. I wish places wouldnt judge how much you can afford just by looking at your income before cost. My mother has to pay out 6-7 thousand a year for my brothers medical bills, and we have 3 other kids in the family, but all they see is that she makes a descent sum of money. If only places took a look at other things such as medical cost before they decided how much grant/finanicial aid you are worthy of. Same thing in high schools, and every where else.The IRS is the only company/group/agency/etc.. that gives you good breaks.
That is ridiculous. You are severely confused about intellectual property. The property you are talking about is concrete. If someone stills your video game you are working on, that is concrete theft, just like stealing your car. If someone steals a video tape of movie, thats concrete theft. If someone steals your itellectual property they are stealing your idea, and creating or using your idea to make a product or for other use. They are not stealing your physical product.
Running an ISP would of been easy a few years ago. But its almost impossible to establish an ISP that will last very long, especially in a city. Cable modems and ADSL is fastly taking over and soon everyone will jump on the bandwagon with everything on one line and fast internet. So unless you live in a smaller town without hope for cable or adsl service soon, I suggest not even starting. Find something else internet related, like webhosting, etc...
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Not really. If the stock opened at say 10 dollars a share, hypothetically, then they could by 200 shares. If in the next year the stock price went up to 100 dollars they would only have 20000 minus the 2000 in profit. I wouldnt quite my day job for that.
According to the excite quote on the stock, there Market Cap is 271 million.
Thats not true. Stock market is only really gambling if you are an idiot and dont know what you are doing. Then again, it doesnt take much more then common sense to make a lot in the stock market. Invest in an IPO at real cheap, wait for a couple days for it to reach like 80 bucks, and then sell sell sell. =)
What people dont understand is that the cost of the CD's has nothing to do with productin cost. In only cost a label like Sonya dime or so to make a CD. The cost of cd's are because of promotional cost, markup from the label to distributor, distributor to reseller, and reseller to public. Until the prices of CDs go down, the prices of mp3s shouldnt see a big price drop. Why does software cost so much? Uhh? It doesnt cost 180 dollars to package Windows 98. The cost has nothing to do with packaging.
Ok, I have couple little tidbits to share. First of all, those prices are really closer to what us resellers will be getting them at. Expect $25-50 more from a legit store. You can also exspect that price or probably less from the stores on pricewatch, because they are stolen or not manafactured of they dont deliver. I am not going to tell you where to buy your chips, but just look at the places on pricewatch. A 15 day warrantee? That is obviously not an authorized chip, all AMD chips come with a 3year manafactures warantee, same with Intel. Its no wonder they are cheaper then what us legit resellers can get from our distributors. So when you go out to buy your next chip think about whether you want to save a couple bucks or spend a little more to get a high quality and warenteed product.
Also, comparing K7's to P3's is not realistic. The real comparison is closer to Xeons to K7. And the K7 is faster then any current Intel chip. The pricing is also cheap, considering that it was rumored to cost as much as Xeons do, in the thousands. So be happy.
Anyway, thats all. Good Day.
Actually, you just have to get signed up with a professional banner advertising company. Go check out safe-audit.com. They are very professional, you actually receieve your money. They have ads that pay anything for 5-30 cents a click, or they also have some that pay like 2 dollars or so for 1000 views. Check them out, ocassionally there servers have problems, but overall they are the best I have found.
Where can I download BlackDog linux? Is there an ISO I can download, or just directories? Linux distrobutions are required to be available for download free right? Thanks
Umm, Thats refering to the quality of the music. Not the file compression of mp3. He is saying most of the music sucks.
ACtually, Most if not all DAM cd's from artist on MP3.com do include tracks not on the website. Quite a few bands only have a 2-4 songs on there page, but the damn cd has like 12 or something. Then again there are also a small selection of bands ( primarirly techno artist, becuase its so easy to make) that have like 30-40 songs on the download page.
I agree with him that it is going to be hard to sell mp3's on cd that you can get free off there site, but I dont about some other things. A way to get the sales up is to spiff up the cd's(are they already fancy loooking? Like something you would by at tower records?) and get them into music stores. There are alot of people out there that dont want to get music online, dont know how, or just havent heard of it before. When MP3.com startss introducing its artist to the general public, they will get more sales.
About MP3.com not havent very good artist, I dont think thats true. Sure, they have a bunch of really bad artist (although I havent found any yet in the Genre's I like), but becuase of the mass of artist (11,000) they have, they have alot more good artist then any other record label. Also, whether a band is good or bad is a matter of opinion. All I know is that there are bands on MP3.com that are much better then some of the stuff I hear on the radio. And dont forgot the big names with Mp3.com, Alanis Morisette, Tori Amos, Ice T, Master P, Snoop Doggy Dog, and whoever else with No Limit Records.
I dont know why people are affiliating me with gnome, and being a gnome/miguel fanatic. First of all, I only run gnome maybe an hour a day now, until I reinstall Debian 2.1 tonight. I certainly dont obsess over Gnome being so cool. The point of throughing in a anti-KDE rant was to get the point across, that everyone is entitled to there own opinion, and what you are doing is not allowing me to have mine and saying that KDE is better.
You you fetchmail, but how many others out of the 11million linux users use it. And I am not new. I have been using Linux since before 1.0, and free software tools since before that. And with ESR I think I would still have those shiny Gnome buttons that I dont even play with. And I dont whine, the purpose of writing that was to make a few points, not whine over ESR or RMS or anyone for that matter. What have I dont for the GNU community? Not nearly as much as RMS, or Linus, but I help run the Linux in the Classroom organization that is working hard to get linux into schools. I helped get the creation of the book Open Sources started, look in the Acknowledgement section. I and a leader in the open sourced ReactOS project. To name a few things. Its not like I sit here and use linux and take advantage of it.
Once Again, dont call me a gnome fanatic, I dont even know Migeul's title or whatever he does. All I know is that he is part of the gnome project, and I could care less, as long as quality software is produced. As to why you have to flame me is another question. Once again you must not of read my little part on how people are allowed to have there own opinions, I even put down that they might be ignorant and am not claiming to be some wise guy who knows all these things.
BTW, Is it cool to hide behind AC? You talk about Miguel hiding, what about you?
I think you took my message wrong. The intention wasnt as much to bash them, as to point out that they are not doing alot and are not the leaders they claim to be. And I dont worship wannabe leaders like Miguel. If I was to worship anyone it would be Linus Torvalds.
Why do you feel you have to post as Anonymous Coward. The goverment isnt going to get you, and if it is so what. If I am going to comment I am going to stand up for what I am saying, and not hide behind AC. As for Miguel, I have noticed his name around the media lately, I just dont follow who actually developes gnome that closely so I wasnt sure what exactly he is claiming to be. Thanks for the contribution.
Yes, Stallman has done quite a bit. Thats why I primarily spoke about Eric S. But like I said above in a previous reply, I dont like how he goes around saying and thinking that he should control the open source movement. I dont like it politics and way of handling things.
I didnt say he didnt do anything. I just said he didnt do anything significant. Sure, people use fetch mail, but out of the 11million linux users, how many do you even think have fetchmail installed? As for the Jargon file/howtos, The Jargon file would of most likely been maintained by someone else if he hadnt stepped upto the job. I cant say that for sure though. Ncurses, well, that is somewhat usefull, I doubt I use any software that uses it, except for make menuconfig when compiling the kernel. I am just saying overall here, his contributions are nothing compared to people like Linus, but yet he thinks he is the poster child for open source.
True, My rant against big names of people with not much stuff was slanted more towards Eric S Raymond, and other people. Stallman has contributed quiet a bit, but I dont like his politics and how he goes about handling things.
Linus Torvalds?
If your parents are divorced you get a grant? Do you have any resources to back this up. My parents are divorced and we have some income, but it all goes bye bye. I wish places wouldnt judge how much you can afford just by looking at your income before cost. My mother has to pay out 6-7 thousand a year for my brothers medical bills, and we have 3 other kids in the family, but all they see is that she makes a descent sum of money. If only places took a look at other things such as medical cost before they decided how much grant/finanicial aid you are worthy of. Same thing in high schools, and every where else.The IRS is the only company/group/agency/etc.. that gives you good breaks.
Hey,
Isnt the startwars bootleg supposed to be playing tonight at veronica.nl? ANyone know what time in est or pst, and what the url will be? Thanks.
Jeff
I plan on grabbing it with xfileget, and watching it after i see it in theaters, just so it doesnt ruin it.
That is ridiculous. You are severely confused about intellectual property. The property you are talking about is concrete. If someone stills your video game you are working on, that is concrete theft, just like stealing your car. If someone steals a video tape of movie, thats concrete theft. If someone steals your itellectual property they are stealing your idea, and creating or using your idea to make a product or for other use. They are not stealing your physical product.
Is there anywhere where i can download and ISO image of the LinuxPPC cd?
Running an ISP would of been easy a few years ago. But its almost impossible to establish an ISP that will last very long, especially in a city. Cable modems and ADSL is fastly taking over and soon everyone will jump on the bandwagon with everything on one line and fast internet. So unless you live in a smaller town without hope for
cable or adsl service soon, I suggest not even starting. Find something else internet related, like webhosting, etc...