Erm wait. . . How will this show them again? This seems like a pretty empty threat. Are they under the impression that pirates care if the song is available for sale or not?
I'm not saying this isn't a smart move in that it might sway die-hard U2 fans (if there is such a thing) from the temptation of downloading the tracks from kazaa early -- though I bet most of them who did download them for free early would still buy the cd anyways. ..
Still, I hardly see how this qualifies as news, or why this seems to be worded as an ultimatum to the pirates.
I prefer to buy the Japanese anyways. What's really shocking is, the price of the North American releases. These manga volumes come with a price of 300 yen or so -- in the past that would have been about 2 bucks, now its more like 3. Shipping, unfortunately, runs much deeper and will cost you 3-4 dollars per book depending on how many your shipping at once.
Here's the thing: Even though more than half of the cost is shipping, it's still cheaper to buy the original Japanese. The mark up on the North American translations is INSANE -- 10 dollars for a book that would cost 3 in Japan.
Another advantage to buying the original Japanese is that you don't have to rely on someone else's translation. When you watch subtitled anime, you still hear the original audio -- so if the subtitles aren't great, you can simply ignore them (assuming of course you can understand Japanese).
But with scanslations and North American manga releases your stuck with their translation and you can't see the original text. If they completley make stuff up (as some of the anime dubs have been known to do) then you're stuck with it.
I can't do without tactile feedback in my keyboard. Mushy keys simply will not do. If I can't hear what I'm typing, my brain tells me I'm not actually typing it. In fact, It's getting harder and harder to find a keyboard that sports a nice loud "click" on keypresses. The companies that make keyboards seem to be suffering from the misconception that I *WANT* quietter keys.
How hard would it be to write a program to do this? Hell, you could make one using AutoIT. Seems kinda silly to pay a person when a program would do it for free. . .
Yeah its definately confirmed that family guy is coming back. They're working on new episodes now to begin airing in January of '05 on Cartoon Network. Fox has an option to air those episodes or sell them directly into syndication without ever airing them.
I've heard speculation recently that Fox may indeed exercise thier option to show them first -- so we might get new family guy *THIS* year.
But as for futurama, this sounds more like wishful thinking than anything substantiated. I think Futurama cost alot more to produce per episode than family guy (I could be wrong), so there might not be any profit to be had by making new episodes for syndication. Moreover, I don't think Futurama has had quite the same level of success in DVD sales that family guy had.
The key to Family Guy's ressurection was not only beating letterman and leno in it's time slot on adult swim, but also being the number #1 selling dvd/dvd set in the country for several weeks.
Don't you think that's more than a little unrealistic? Fifty cents a track means a total cost of less than six dollars for most albums. You can pay more than that for a six-pack of decent beer, and it certainly won't last as long as a good album.
I've never understood what people's problem is with paying $10-15 per CD. I have at least a hundred that I bought ten years ago that I still like. How many products in that price range deliver that kind of long-term value, besides film and music?
If I were a professional musician, and my alleged "fans" would only pay fifty cents for their favourite track, I would pack up and quit because it would be so insulting. You can't even buy a soda pop from a vending machine for that little anymore.
I wouldn't want to listen to music from anyone who's in it for the money anyways -- I would consider your departure from the music world a healthful cleansing.
But just so we're clear, artists get very little from cd-sales as it is. If artists could get 50 cents per track, that would be a huge increase.
Also, lets be reasonable. There are significantly lower overhead costs associated with selling music online than there are when you have to create a physical product, ship it to stores, etc.
Tivo knows what I watch, but TV networks don't depend on that data to determine what shows live and die. I figured Tivo already knows, why not let someone else know too -- at least that way I get some say in which shows are cancelled.
But, as I discovered, the Nielsen's ratings completely ignore the "guy with tivo" demographic -- which may be why all my shows are getting cancelled in the first place.
So their sales went from 32.2 billion to 32 billion and I'm supposed to shed a tear for them? Give me a damn break. It's been on the rise now for so many years that a tiny drop like this one still means they made alot more this year than they did just a couple of years ago.
Not to mention that popular music this year has just been twice as awful as normal. They're lucky they got what they got. They should bow down before P2P services and chant "We're not worthy!" for making it possible for them to have a good year despite having only crap to sell.
I'm amazed about the attitude so many people on Slashdot take towards Apple. You honestly think this company can do no wrong. It reminds me of new Parents who have just gotten their baby home from the hospital who dote on everything it does. Oohh! He made a poopy! How cute!
DRM is a bad thing no matter where it comes from. My fair use rights should be considered unwaivable. Either you're willing to sell me a copy of this music for my own enjoyment in anyway I see fit, or you're not.
It's times like this that I wish the Nielsen's people had a box compatabile with TiVo. We were actually asked by them to be one of the families with a box (I think it's what, 2000 families?) But we had to decline because it wouldn't play nicely with TiVo. On the one hand, I'm not thrilled with the idea of someone knowing everything I watch on TV, but on the other hand I imagine it would be worth it if they'd stop cancelling the shows I like. . .
The show wasn't cancelled for poor ratings (it was one of thier highest rated shows), Sci-fi just decided that with it's very high production costs about to increase, it would be best to turn to some cheaper programming.
If you can get ratings with cheap crap like Scare Tactics (come on, I could produce that show for 5 bucks an episode), then why shell out 3 million an episode for some quality programming?
I imagine this miniseries would have to get some pretty spectacular ratings to sway Sci-Fi on this.
Translation: Preserving our monopoly by any means necessary.
But I suppose dirty tactics are fair game when you're competeting with Microsoft. ..
Still, I wouldn't let any Real software touch my computer with a ten-foot pole. It's disgusting how it takes over once you give it a foot in the door. I use the Real Alternative.
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Erm wait. . . How will this show them again? This seems like a pretty empty threat. Are they under the impression that pirates care if the song is available for sale or not?
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I'm not saying this isn't a smart move in that it might sway die-hard U2 fans (if there is such a thing) from the temptation of downloading the tracks from kazaa early -- though I bet most of them who did download them for free early would still buy the cd anyways. .
Still, I hardly see how this qualifies as news, or why this seems to be worded as an ultimatum to the pirates.
Recyles monitors and some other stuff -- for each monitor you bring in, you get a 10 dollar gift card.
It should be worth it if anyone was just gonna toss it/take it to OD anyways.
I thought it would be about porn or something.
"Degrading to whom? Oh!"
I prefer to buy the Japanese anyways. What's really shocking is, the price of the North American releases. These manga volumes come with a price of 300 yen or so -- in the past that would have been about 2 bucks, now its more like 3. Shipping, unfortunately, runs much deeper and will cost you 3-4 dollars per book depending on how many your shipping at once.
Here's the thing:
Even though more than half of the cost is shipping, it's still cheaper to buy the original Japanese. The mark up on the North American translations is INSANE -- 10 dollars for a book that would cost 3 in Japan.
Another advantage to buying the original Japanese is that you don't have to rely on someone else's translation. When you watch subtitled anime, you still hear the original audio -- so if the subtitles aren't great, you can simply ignore them (assuming of course you can understand Japanese).
But with scanslations and North American manga releases your stuck with their translation and you can't see the original text. If they completley make stuff up (as some of the anime dubs have been known to do) then you're stuck with it.
I'll take their free hardware and run my free software on it.
Am I the ONLY one having troubles visualizing what this would look like?
So many questions, what powers it, how thick/heavy is it, what's the resolution of the screen.
Without pictures I just can't make anything out of this story.
Improved tongue-eye coordination could be useful in so many non-gaming pursuits. . .
Or are we all going to change our stance because its Apple?
It'll be interesting to see how the opinions on Slashdot differ from if any other company tried this sort of garbage.
I can't do without tactile feedback in my keyboard. Mushy keys simply will not do. If I can't hear what I'm typing, my brain tells me I'm not actually typing it. In fact, It's getting harder and harder to find a keyboard that sports a nice loud "click" on keypresses. The companies that make keyboards seem to be suffering from the misconception that I *WANT* quietter keys.
How hard would it be to write a program to do this? Hell, you could make one using AutoIT. Seems kinda silly to pay a person when a program would do it for free. . .
Isn't IUPUI kind of a ghetto thing in many regards? Do Purdue and IU really send their best to IUPUI?
Just asking, cuz I'm new to the state. (sitting within arms reach of computer gear I bought at the IUPUI surplus equipment auction, actually).
Meh. It's not bad. It's not great, just so long as you can find a place to park.
IU and Purdue are numbers one and two, so how come the wireless access at IUPUI (combined IU and Purdue campus in downtown Indianapolis) sucks?
That hardly seems fair. . .
Beating Letterman and Leno is pretty impressive if your talking about a tv show in syndication on BASIC CABLE.
If this is news now, why wasn't it news when I submitted it like 3 weeks ago?
Regardless, what the original poster doesn't mention is that this device is a perpetual motion machine. That makes the whole thing somewhat doubtful.
Minato has done demonstrations where he hooks up one of his motors to a generator, and the power output exceeds the input.
We should all be very skeptical of anyone who claims to have created a device which violates a very basic tenet of modern physics. . .
. . . look at a street sign.
Yeah its definately confirmed that family guy is coming back. They're working on new episodes now to begin airing in January of '05 on Cartoon Network. Fox has an option to air those episodes or sell them directly into syndication without ever airing them.
I've heard speculation recently that Fox may indeed exercise thier option to show them first -- so we might get new family guy *THIS* year.
But as for futurama, this sounds more like wishful thinking than anything substantiated. I think Futurama cost alot more to produce per episode than family guy (I could be wrong), so there might not be any profit to be had by making new episodes for syndication. Moreover, I don't think Futurama has had quite the same level of success in DVD sales that family guy had.
The key to Family Guy's ressurection was not only beating letterman and leno in it's time slot on adult swim, but also being the number #1 selling dvd/dvd set in the country for several weeks.
Don't you think that's more than a little unrealistic? Fifty cents a track means a total cost of less than six dollars for most albums. You can pay more than that for a six-pack of decent beer, and it certainly won't last as long as a good album.
I've never understood what people's problem is with paying $10-15 per CD. I have at least a hundred that I bought ten years ago that I still like. How many products in that price range deliver that kind of long-term value, besides film and music?
If I were a professional musician, and my alleged "fans" would only pay fifty cents for their favourite track, I would pack up and quit because it would be so insulting. You can't even buy a soda pop from a vending machine for that little anymore.
I wouldn't want to listen to music from anyone who's in it for the money anyways -- I would consider your departure from the music world a healthful cleansing.
But just so we're clear, artists get very little from cd-sales as it is. If artists could get 50 cents per track, that would be a huge increase.
Also, lets be reasonable. There are significantly lower overhead costs associated with selling music online than there are when you have to create a physical product, ship it to stores, etc.
This exploit can be used to run ANY code. So while virus scanners may detect some variations, I doubt they can detect them all.
Tivo knows what I watch, but TV networks don't depend on that data to determine what shows live and die. I figured Tivo already knows, why not let someone else know too -- at least that way I get some say in which shows are cancelled.
But, as I discovered, the Nielsen's ratings completely ignore the "guy with tivo" demographic -- which may be why all my shows are getting cancelled in the first place.
So their sales went from 32.2 billion to 32 billion and I'm supposed to shed a tear for them? Give me a damn break. It's been on the rise now for so many years that a tiny drop like this one still means they made alot more this year than they did just a couple of years ago.
Not to mention that popular music this year has just been twice as awful as normal. They're lucky they got what they got. They should bow down before P2P services and chant "We're not worthy!" for making it possible for them to have a good year despite having only crap to sell.
I'm amazed about the attitude so many people on Slashdot take towards Apple. You honestly think this company can do no wrong. It reminds me of new Parents who have just gotten their baby home from the hospital who dote on everything it does. Oohh! He made a poopy! How cute!
DRM is a bad thing no matter where it comes from. My fair use rights should be considered unwaivable. Either you're willing to sell me a copy of this music for my own enjoyment in anyway I see fit, or you're not.
It's times like this that I wish the Nielsen's people had a box compatabile with TiVo. We were actually asked by them to be one of the families with a box (I think it's what, 2000 families?) But we had to decline because it wouldn't play nicely with TiVo. On the one hand, I'm not thrilled with the idea of someone knowing everything I watch on TV, but on the other hand I imagine it would be worth it if they'd stop cancelling the shows I like. . .
The show wasn't cancelled for poor ratings (it was one of thier highest rated shows), Sci-fi just decided that with it's very high production costs about to increase, it would be best to turn to some cheaper programming.
If you can get ratings with cheap crap like Scare Tactics (come on, I could produce that show for 5 bucks an episode), then why shell out 3 million an episode for some quality programming?
I imagine this miniseries would have to get some pretty spectacular ratings to sway Sci-Fi on this.
Seems to me that since Pilot now has all John's wormhole knowledge, they'll just go back in time and stop it from ever happening.
Translation: Preserving our monopoly by any means necessary.
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But I suppose dirty tactics are fair game when you're competeting with Microsoft. .
Still, I wouldn't let any Real software touch my computer with a ten-foot pole. It's disgusting how it takes over once you give it a foot in the door. I use the Real Alternative.