There's really only three CD's I'd be interested in buying:
1) Waylon Jennings, I've always been crazy--probably the only one I"ve ever heard that I'd pay $20 for anyway. I have the vianl, but . .
2) Bobby Bare, THe Winner. Another of the best albums of all time.
3) Tex Ritter, Blood on the saddle. CD Connection has something with this title, but it's a 4 cd, $100 collection--which probably also means it has the wrong cut of Blood on the Saddle. The good one is great; the other sucks. I f you play the original cut at 45, a) it's still slow, b) his voice is still deep.
hawk, who buys very little music (but would spend about $50/month at $8/cd or $8/LP) [and won't buy cassettes]
>That means to compensate, they should LOWER prices.
*shudder*
No, it doesn't That doesn't even guarantee that revenue will increase (which depends upon elasticity). THe correct move is potentially in either direction.
>$3.34 -- Company Overhead, Distribution, and Shipping
>$2.15 -- Marketing and Promotion
>$1.08 -- Signing act/Producing Record
These are all manipulated costs with huge profit margins built in to them. This is the same kind of accounting that lets almost all movies being classified as losing money--such as _Coming to America._ On that one, Art Buchwald won the royalties litigation finding the "accounting" used to be a sham.
Seriously, now. Did anyone *not* expect him to write another book? I just assumed that it wouldn't come hout during his death, but wait until the tax situation cleared . . .
Are you suggesting that Theo *is* charismatic? I thought it was pretty clear that I wasn't referring to specifics, but the notion that he and anyone might not get along . . .
He called open source good competition in general. He then went on, though, to confuse "open source" with the GPL and other viral licenses.
His point was that when the government funds it, it isn't *your* code, but public code. You really don't need to be pro-microsoft to see that . . .
I don'[t find myself agreeing with microsoft a lot, but he's right about this one. If the government is paying for it, it should be public domain, or at least under a free license, not encumbered with te GPL. Under the GPL, you really do have a government subsidy competing with private business.
hawk, who has never (to the best of his knowledge) been called pro-microsoft by anyone of reasonable intelligence
>When i was a kid, we didn?t have cd's to load our
>os's from. we had to toggle the instructions in >by hand on the front of the system t give the >thing enough smarts to talk to the paper tape >drive which
for crying out loud, if you're going to try to make these kind of comments, at the very least don't use those moronic microsoft characters . . .
besides, you're still claiming to be a newbie. Toggle switches indeed. And *paper* punched tape? An unreliable replacement for stone tablets.
not even that sometimes. What is amazing is the number of moderations that actually have the correct label.
I regularly notice the wrong label tacked on after I moderate something--and it's not always even in the right direction (although the direction may be right even if the label is wrong).
hawk, still pushing for a "funny" choice in meta-moderation
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
>THEY misunderstood the license
That's far from clear. WHat he "meant" is not dispositive (or even relevent). The meaning of the license is determined by the words used in the license, possibly modified by context (e.g., the number of nominally GPL licensed projects that have had one or more terms of the GPL revoked by the use of non-assimulable libraries and the invitation to compile and distribute).
Out of context, that license doesn't give permission to modify. Given the standard usage of the words he used and his target audienc, it might well give permission.
From the information currently available, a jury could decide either way.
The moral of the story is to have a lawyer involved when choosing your license. Many projects have come to grief by using words or actions that they didn't mean, or by assuming that the GPL did what they wanted.
hawk, esq., suffering through netscape as slashdot has another anti-lynx day
> Wonder why there are all those diesel fueled backup generators then if
> the engines arn't reliable...
different values of reliable. The hybrids need an engine that can kick on instantly every time. The backup generators need something that can kick on in a matter of minutes (or even seconds), and not very often.
OK, it turns out they should have included a spare cover for those contacts on the top of the screen housing, and fastened the lower pcmcia eject button properly, but what the heck . . .:)
> Then he failed in one or other of those tasks. The most common letters
> used in English are ETAIONSHRDLU - in decreasing order of frequency, a
> quick perusal of the QWERTY keyboard reveals that these aren't 'as far
> frm one another as possible' after all.
No, it doesn't show that. The keys are in columns, and the first time
that any of the letters you list appear in a previoiusly used column is H
. . . this means a minimum of three other bars between any pair
of most commonly used keys.
Besides, as pointed out elsewhere, it's the frequency of pairs, not
of the raw letters, that matters.
When I used to do 100wpm on a manual, I could have gone faster, but
had to slow down over the collisions.
While I'm meandering, Mark Twain was the first author to submit a
manuscript by typewriter.
hawk
btw, who was the low-wattage, humor impaired fool who modded down the
rural legends post? That was one of the funniest things I ever
saw on slashdot (and has a good chance of *becoming* an urban legend . ..)
Final twist: there should be a meta-moderation rating of "funny"--to cover
the case that the moderation is so clueless that it evokes laughter . . .
Definitely too low. Given that I used to be able to do 100 on a *manual*, I am unwilling to believe that a 30% improvementby a professional with an electric keyboard would be exciting . . .
*smirk* But he mentioned dvorak. Maybe that's the record for that over-rated and over-hyped monstrosity:)
>Maybe ISPs shouldn't advertise 56k service if they know full well that
>the technology precludes it.
If that were the case, maybe. It's not the technology; the phone system and the modems *are* capable of the 56k connection. In fact, this is the connection they use for 52k. It's the FCC that prohibits them from pumping data that fast.
If the other companies would start advertising 52K rather than 56k*, they could do it. Doing it alone would be suicidal, and getting together so that they could all do it simultaneeously would violate antitrust law . . .
Yikes. I've watched modem speeds go up, and once wrote a central monitoring/MIS system that used 300 baud modemsw (just a couple of years before they became affordable)>
At 1200, I could read the text, and would wait impatiently.
At 2400, I could barely keep up--and only if I had scrooling by pixel rather than line (otherwiseit kept jumping).
but 256? At that speed, you can just watch the 1's & 0's and manually convert to ASCII . . .
:)
hawk
But it can *both live and die under its physics...
on
Voyager Eulogy
·
· Score: 2
Beware of spoilers, but none should be surprises . .
1) As usual, much of the episode didn't happen. OK, the fact that much *did* happen is unusual:)
2) So there's that "other" voyager still going out.
3) They blew their sophomoric time "paradoxes" worse than usual: "If you die, none of this will have happened." OK, then why doesn't the Borg dying have the same effect?
4) the fast warp stuff. I missed any notion of a "ban" on hi8gh warp. It comes and goes inconsistently. The Enterprise (the real one) could cruise at 6 and hit 8, though 8 was stressful. Unless it was one of the episodes where each fraction above 7 was tough. Or where it could get to 9. Or where aliens took over (ok, so that was as common as the modern "didn't happen" episodes) and take it to 13. Up until they make a movie with the Excelsior and it's warp 13+ transwarp--which is dropped immediately after that movie. Up until voyager does an episode centered around hitting warp 10, the "theoretical maximum" (with instantaneous travel?). Star Trek never was consistent. BUt originally, they didn't worry about it, rather than making fools of themselves trying to be consistent about it. (Shades of Quayle's, "I stand behind all my misstatement.")
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1) Waylon Jennings, I've always been crazy--probably the only one I"ve ever heard that I'd pay $20 for anyway. I have the vianl, but . .
2) Bobby Bare, THe Winner. Another of the best albums of all time.
3) Tex Ritter, Blood on the saddle. CD Connection has something with this title, but it's a 4 cd, $100 collection--which probably also means it has the wrong cut of Blood on the Saddle. The good one is great; the other sucks. I f you play the original cut at 45, a) it's still slow, b) his voice is still deep.
hawk, who buys very little music (but would spend about $50/month at $8/cd or $8/LP) [and won't buy cassettes]
*shudder*
No, it doesn't That doesn't even guarantee that revenue will increase (which depends upon elasticity). THe correct move is potentially in either direction.
>And these people have business degrees??
Maybe they've taken microeconomics . . .
hawk
>$2.15 -- Marketing and Promotion
>$1.08 -- Signing act/Producing Record
These are all manipulated costs with huge profit margins built in to them. This is the same kind of accounting that lets almost all movies being classified as losing money--such as _Coming to America._ On that one, Art Buchwald won the royalties litigation finding the "accounting" used to be a sham.
hawk
Can anyone tell me why the U.S. trade office hasn't retaliated for Shania Twain?
:)
hawk
ooh, please! As the scond head. Detach it and surgically attach to, ahh, hell, anyone!
Oh, it didn't work. MY apologies to the Carrey estate. Somehow we'll have to get along without those "masterpieces" . . .
hawk
someone implemented IP over spoon . . .
Seriously, now. Did anyone *not* expect him to write another book? I just assumed that it wouldn't come hout during his death, but wait until the tax situation cleared . . .
Are you suggesting that Theo *is* charismatic? I thought it was pretty clear that I wasn't referring to specifics, but the notion that he and anyone might not get along . . .
hawk
hawk
His point was that when the government funds it, it isn't *your* code, but public code. You really don't need to be pro-microsoft to see that . . .
I don'[t find myself agreeing with microsoft a lot, but he's right about this one. If the government is paying for it, it should be public domain, or at least under a free license, not encumbered with te GPL. Under the GPL, you really do have a government subsidy competing with private business.
hawk, who has never (to the best of his knowledge) been called pro-microsoft by anyone of reasonable intelligence
>os's from. we had to toggle the instructions in >by hand on the front of the system t give the >thing enough smarts to talk to the paper tape >drive which
for crying out loud, if you're going to try to make these kind of comments, at the very least don't use those moronic microsoft characters . . .
besides, you're still claiming to be a newbie. Toggle switches indeed. And *paper* punched tape? An unreliable replacement for stone tablets.
hawk
I find this hard to blieve, given the charismatic leader of the project . . .
hawk
>them is some kind of new technological
>invention.
Yeah, but they must be feeling foolish about buying out Jaguar now that the government has paid them to develop a simlar technology . . .
Acdtually, a friend of mine solved that oil leak problem on an XJ12. Amazing what you can do with a Chevy 400 . . .
hawk, still missing his Impala 400
>outside the US
ahah! At long last, we've found the rumored developer of commercial BeOS applications. "If it sells just one ticket . .
:)
> and the US has absolutely no gun-toting
> warlords of its own. and the US has absolutely > no gun-toting warlords of its own.
1) she wan't a warlord, but had a legal office.
2) She left town with Bill & Co. in January
hawk
not even that sometimes. What is amazing is the number of moderations that actually have the correct label.
I regularly notice the wrong label tacked on after I moderate something--and it's not always even in the right direction (although the direction may be right even if the label is wrong).
hawk, still pushing for a "funny" choice in meta-moderation
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
>THEY misunderstood the license
That's far from clear. WHat he "meant" is not dispositive (or even relevent). The meaning of the license is determined by the words used in the license, possibly modified by context (e.g., the number of nominally GPL licensed projects that have had one or more terms of the GPL revoked by the use of non-assimulable libraries and the invitation to compile and distribute).
Out of context, that license doesn't give permission to modify. Given the standard usage of the words he used and his target audienc, it might well give permission.
From the information currently available, a jury could decide either way.
The moral of the story is to have a lawyer involved when choosing your license. Many projects have come to grief by using words or actions that they didn't mean, or by assuming that the GPL did what they wanted.
hawk, esq., suffering through netscape as slashdot has another anti-lynx day
hawk
hawk
> the engines arn't reliable...
different values of reliable. The hybrids need an engine that can kick on instantly every time. The backup generators need something that can kick on in a matter of minutes (or even seconds), and not very often.
hawk
OK, it turns out they should have included a spare cover for those contacts on the top of the screen housing, and fastened the lower pcmcia eject button properly, but what the heck . . .
hawk
> used in English are ETAIONSHRDLU - in decreasing order of frequency, a
> quick perusal of the QWERTY keyboard reveals that these aren't 'as far
> frm one another as possible' after all.
No, it doesn't show that. The keys are in columns, and the first time
that any of the letters you list appear in a previoiusly used column is H
. . . this means a minimum of three other bars between any pair
of most commonly used keys.
Besides, as pointed out elsewhere, it's the frequency of pairs, not
of the raw letters, that matters.
When I used to do 100wpm on a manual, I could have gone faster, but
had to slow down over the collisions.
While I'm meandering, Mark Twain was the first author to submit a
manuscript by typewriter.
hawk
btw, who was the low-wattage, humor impaired fool who modded down the
rural legends post? That was one of the funniest things I ever
saw on slashdot (and has a good chance of *becoming* an urban legend . .
Final twist: there should be a meta-moderation rating of "funny"--to cover
the case that the moderation is so clueless that it evokes laughter . . .
*smirk* But he mentioned dvorak. Maybe that's the record for that over-rated and over-hyped monstrosity
hawk
>the technology precludes it.
If that were the case, maybe. It's not the technology; the phone system and the modems *are* capable of the 56k connection. In fact, this is the connection they use for 52k. It's the FCC that prohibits them from pumping data that fast.
If the other companies would start advertising 52K rather than 56k*, they could do it. Doing it alone would be suicidal, and getting together so that they could all do it simultaneeously would violate antitrust law . . .
hawk
At 1200, I could read the text, and would wait impatiently.
At 2400, I could barely keep up--and only if I had scrooling by pixel rather than line (otherwiseit kept jumping).
but 256? At that speed, you can just watch the 1's & 0's and manually convert to ASCII . . .
:)
hawk
1) As usual, much of the episode didn't happen. OK, the fact that much *did* happen is unusual
2) So there's that "other" voyager still going out.
3) They blew their sophomoric time "paradoxes" worse than usual: "If you die, none of this will have happened." OK, then why doesn't the Borg dying have the same effect?
4) the fast warp stuff. I missed any notion of a "ban" on hi8gh warp. It comes and goes inconsistently. The Enterprise (the real one) could cruise at 6 and hit 8, though 8 was stressful. Unless it was one of the episodes where each fraction above 7 was tough. Or where it could get to 9. Or where aliens took over (ok, so that was as common as the modern "didn't happen" episodes) and take it to 13. Up until they make a movie with the Excelsior and it's warp 13+ transwarp--which is dropped immediately after that movie. Up until voyager does an episode centered around hitting warp 10, the "theoretical maximum" (with instantaneous travel?). Star Trek never was consistent. BUt originally, they didn't worry about it, rather than making fools of themselves trying to be consistent about it. (Shades of Quayle's, "I stand behind all my misstatement.")
hawk