I've been associated with the book publishing business for more than 10 years. Self-publishing has been thriving even though the toughest nut to crack is distribution.
I think that any band that signs up for a recording contract is committing suicide. How come so many bands won't think outside of the limited, furmula-based, corrupt BOX of expensive studio time, expensive post production, expensive MTV videos, expensive kickbacks to radio stations, expensive lame coreography, on-stage fireworks, etc. etc?
Compared to publishing your own books, quality recording, mastering and pressing 1,000 CDs or so to start is extremely cheap. Literally chicken feed. We've been enabled by computer tech which should have put the big studios out of business by now. Distribution is widely available compared to what the struggling self-publishing author faces in the book industry.
Maybe it is simply a question of aesthetics, but I'd rather listen to a straight-on live/studio without stupid 'major label' sound effects and extreme overdub overlayed. A good band can make good money selling their CDs at concerts, websites and through the many distributors. Musicians must think outside the box and drop the MTV videos and fake-sounding, expensive post production.
Out of the box means a band sells a high-quality recording of them performing their music. No record company is needed for something so simple. Courtney Love finally got free from her record contract, didn't she?
No foolin'. I love to bait the Mac Nazis with my (absolutely true) trolls.
Apple as a business entity is not dying in the same sense that AOL-Time-Warner is, they're in perpetual hibernation like Western Union. Remember Western Union? Imagine that... a high-tech company of the 19th century! A telegraph monopoly. Swimming in dollars! Yes, they still survive as a tiny send-cash outfit. They even show a profit.
I'm giving this example because Apple will probably continue to mostly show a profit, even if their sales hit $100,000 and their market share goes from today's 2.3% down to.00023%.
That said, the Apple Way depends on huge margins, which is why their market share IS at 2.3%. So what if they only sell three computers, they still have huge profit margins!
The latest yuk, yuk, yuk I had was reading that the ECS/PCCHIPS conglomerate makes Apple's iBooks. I love to read Apple fan's NewSpeak comments about how they believe Apple's products are of outstanding quality! I bet most haven't ever heard of PCCHIPS.
I'm in the process of buying a used Mac on ebay these last few weeks. The prices are very high, showing to me (at least) that there is plenty of demand for Macs out there, but the supply of new, manufactured Macs is so overpriced that Apple continues to lose market share. Who woulda thunk? Apple's ridiculous high-margin business model will be taught in universities some day.
The preference setting for 'selling below cost' wasn't necessary because the FCC was happy to oblige without having to resort to that particular bit of NewSpeak.
However, the preference setting for the NewSpeak term 'Deregulation' was activated for general media purposes because the public does not respond positively if the term 'monopolization' is used without authorization.
In the US, no civil contract can superceed the Bill of Rights. In order for the BSA to bust down your doors looking for software, they must obtain a legitimite search warrant, based on evidence.
The first step when getting a BSA letter is to either write them back declining their invitation, or ignore it.
If a BSA person comes to your door, send them away and call your lawyer immediately. Never talk to a BSA goon face-to-face without the counsel of a lawyer. Never.
In the meantime, if you do own commercial software, never register it with the publisher. Never give them your name, address or serial number.
If you run a shop that doesn't use commercial software, take the initiative and waste the BSA's time as much as possible.
Don't have a standardized way of netbooting - MS's PXE is closed, but people have tried to hack it into use
PXE is Intel's, and it is open, although they no longer support their Linux sdk.
I think if I was going to re-use my poopoo, I'd get one of those SunMar composting toilets. They're quite sanitary. You shovel your shit out after it stews for 5 years or so.
Maybe Joseph Jenkins hasn't had any disintery outbreaks in his home, but what if everybody in the neighborhood did the night soil thing? Liver flukes from the cukes, drops from the crops!
Three cheers, perhaps, but I don't think AMD has much to cheer about their profitability this year.
SiS and VIA have already shopped around engineering sample motherboards for all the manufacturers, so this indicates the Athlon64 delay is a complete disaster.
1. What if your competition doesn't spend $500,000 per year on software? That makes your expenses more and therefore your profitability less. The competition with the lower software costs can also sell their products for less money. They win, you lose because you stuck with the PC/Windows way.
2. If a software provider demands you perform an expensive internal audit of your precious commercial software, you've just spend even more money! Your competitor thumbs their nose at the BSA, while you are stuck collating all your stupid licenses. They win, you lose.
I've seen this argument time and time again, but it falls flat on it's MS Luddite
A little harsh, wouldn't you say?
Not at all. My dictionary says that a Luddite is "an opponent of technological progress". Specifically, your argument is laced with a rather vague fear of a future without the MS tit.
That's also a fairly trivial item that's similar between the two. What about importing data from a spreadsheet. What about how/where to save files, and what names you can use. What about whether open files can be deleted? That's off the top of my head...there are lots of quirks in an MS system. If a user is likely to have to interact with an MS system, knowing how to deal with one is valuable. I came from the Mac, which actually maintains proper metadate on files -- the whole idea of file associations on Windows seems marvously inane to me, and something that I had to adapt to. Yet it's something that, sure enough, I had to learn to deal with.
But you're still describing tasks. I've never used the OpenOffice spreadsheet, and I've only used MS's Excel on the Mac a couple of times, but I just now fired up OpenOffice Calc and there wasn't a menu item unter File for "Import data". But there is an Insert Menu and under that Insert menu is an External Data... item. Even though I've never imported data into a spreadsheet, your description of the task of importing data was enough for me to be able to figure it out. Office-type applications are all task-based, and if each application supports the same task, it is trivial to figure out how each app implements their own version of the task.
* We know that, no matter what, there still *will* be pretty significant market penetration by MS for a few years. Even if MS screws up monumentally and commits suicide, they still have enough inertia to be around for a while. I'd say that if you have to familiarize everyone with one product, do so with Office -- it's a more likely bet than any one of KWord, AbiWord, Open Office, etc.
I've seen this argument time and time again, but it falls flat on it's MS Luddite face because even MS alters their own products considerably with each release (especially the user interface). And all that your argument points too is the difference in interface.
It really isn't about the interface, it is about the task. Every word processor has the ability to change the page margins, and the interface to do so changes with each iteration of MS's Word. Funny how those legions of pathetic, unteachable masses are able to adapt to every new release of MS Word, but none of them would be able to figure out how to change their page margins if they had previously been using OpenOffice. I DON'T THINK SO!
I noticed the part about 20 separate computers, each with it's own disk drive and probably a cdrom too. It must have been a pain installing Linux 20 times on those new computers. Now they have to maintain 20 different Linux installs. That's the Windows Way(tm) and totally unnessary. Although his plunge into Linux is laudable, schools and government offices can save even more money and spend much less time maintaining their installations.
User apps don't take much power, but only cause occasional jumps in cpu usage, such as when somebody launches an app. But when everybody is running their own Xterminal, those jumps in the App server's CPU usage are rarely noticed by the other users
They could have easily done their setup with something like an Athlon XP2600 server, 1 gb memory in it and a bunch of Xterminals each running something like a 1.3 Duron.
I agree with you, but I see how keeping a standing 1.4 million Armed forces out of the battlefield is a waste of money when the political agenda calls for oversea's projection of power.
So then you agree that the regular Army is a club of fat-assed cowardly pussies?
That's what the Army is supposed to be, but I see so much evidence to the contrary -- especially how many reservists went overseas while the regular Army yokels stayed home playing with trucks and pushing paper.
It seems the regular Army is ill-prepared to project power overseas quickly because they always have to wait for the reserves to get called up, assigned and shipped out.
I think the Army would do a lot better and a lot cheaper if they had farmed out the job to the people at Monster Garage. But then it wouldn't be so much fun for them, I suppose.
Personally, I think the regular army is full of cowardly, fat-assed pussys. Everytime something dangerous comes up, such as the war with Afghanistan and the ever-pending war with Iraq, the Army calls up reserves and National Guard to do the real fighting. There are 1.4 million people in the regular armed forces, but when they need a force of 20,000 on the ground in Afghanistan, they call up the reserves. Most of the people in the reserves and National Guard are married with kids, etc. What's up with that?
You can order one here. Prices have been slashed! Free ground shipping! This is a CPU for High-End Computing(tm) in High-End Machines! (Go away kid, you bother me)
There is NOTHING that prevents Micros**t from adding their 'embrace & extend' junk to any GPL product and then charging money for it. Nothing. Their only beef is that they can't get free source code, then 'embrace & extend', release it for money and then prevent other people from 'embracing and extending' their stuff.
Microsoft is lazy, they want free code but they don't want anybody else profiting from it.
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I think that any band that signs up for a recording contract is committing suicide. How come so many bands won't think outside of the limited, furmula-based, corrupt BOX of expensive studio time, expensive post production, expensive MTV videos, expensive kickbacks to radio stations, expensive lame coreography, on-stage fireworks, etc. etc?
Compared to publishing your own books, quality recording, mastering and pressing 1,000 CDs or so to start is extremely cheap. Literally chicken feed. We've been enabled by computer tech which should have put the big studios out of business by now. Distribution is widely available compared to what the struggling self-publishing author faces in the book industry.
Maybe it is simply a question of aesthetics, but I'd rather listen to a straight-on live/studio without stupid 'major label' sound effects and extreme overdub overlayed. A good band can make good money selling their CDs at concerts, websites and through the many distributors. Musicians must think outside the box and drop the MTV videos and fake-sounding, expensive post production.
Out of the box means a band sells a high-quality recording of them performing their music. No record company is needed for something so simple. Courtney Love finally got free from her record contract, didn't she?
Apple as a business entity is not dying in the same sense that AOL-Time-Warner is, they're in perpetual hibernation like Western Union. Remember Western Union? Imagine that... a high-tech company of the 19th century! A telegraph monopoly. Swimming in dollars! Yes, they still survive as a tiny send-cash outfit. They even show a profit.
I'm giving this example because Apple will probably continue to mostly show a profit, even if their sales hit $100,000 and their market share goes from today's 2.3% down to .00023%.
That said, the Apple Way depends on huge margins, which is why their market share IS at 2.3%. So what if they only sell three computers, they still have huge profit margins!
The latest yuk, yuk, yuk I had was reading that the ECS/PCCHIPS conglomerate makes Apple's iBooks. I love to read Apple fan's NewSpeak comments about how they believe Apple's products are of outstanding quality! I bet most haven't ever heard of PCCHIPS.
I'm in the process of buying a used Mac on ebay these last few weeks. The prices are very high, showing to me (at least) that there is plenty of demand for Macs out there, but the supply of new, manufactured Macs is so overpriced that Apple continues to lose market share. Who woulda thunk? Apple's ridiculous high-margin business model will be taught in universities some day.
Troll on, baby.
However, the preference setting for the NewSpeak term 'Deregulation' was activated for general media purposes because the public does not respond positively if the term 'monopolization' is used without authorization.
Is this what a Good Citizen thinks about these days?
Not even Steve Jobs believes his own hype about AltiVec being the holy grail of computing. This is not a troll!
The first step when getting a BSA letter is to either write them back declining their invitation, or ignore it.
If a BSA person comes to your door, send them away and call your lawyer immediately. Never talk to a BSA goon face-to-face without the counsel of a lawyer. Never.
In the meantime, if you do own commercial software, never register it with the publisher. Never give them your name, address or serial number.
If you run a shop that doesn't use commercial software, take the initiative and waste the BSA's time as much as possible.
Right. Simply put your cdr into the drive, copy over some files and do "lilo".
Don't have a standardized way of netbooting - MS's PXE is closed, but people have tried to hack it into use PXE is Intel's, and it is open, although they no longer support their Linux sdk.
Maybe Joseph Jenkins hasn't had any disintery outbreaks in his home, but what if everybody in the neighborhood did the night soil thing? Liver flukes from the cukes, drops from the crops!
SiS and VIA have already shopped around engineering sample motherboards for all the manufacturers, so this indicates the Athlon64 delay is a complete disaster.
1. What if your competition doesn't spend $500,000 per year on software? That makes your expenses more and therefore your profitability less. The competition with the lower software costs can also sell their products for less money. They win, you lose because you stuck with the PC/Windows way.
2. If a software provider demands you perform an expensive internal audit of your precious commercial software, you've just spend even more money! Your competitor thumbs their nose at the BSA, while you are stuck collating all your stupid licenses. They win, you lose.
Not at all. My dictionary says that a Luddite is "an opponent of technological progress". Specifically, your argument is laced with a rather vague fear of a future without the MS tit.
But you're still describing tasks. I've never used the OpenOffice spreadsheet, and I've only used MS's Excel on the Mac a couple of times, but I just now fired up OpenOffice Calc and there wasn't a menu item unter File for "Import data". But there is an Insert Menu and under that Insert menu is an External Data... item. Even though I've never imported data into a spreadsheet, your description of the task of importing data was enough for me to be able to figure it out. Office-type applications are all task-based, and if each application supports the same task, it is trivial to figure out how each app implements their own version of the task.
I've seen this argument time and time again, but it falls flat on it's MS Luddite face because even MS alters their own products considerably with each release (especially the user interface). And all that your argument points too is the difference in interface.
It really isn't about the interface, it is about the task. Every word processor has the ability to change the page margins, and the interface to do so changes with each iteration of MS's Word. Funny how those legions of pathetic, unteachable masses are able to adapt to every new release of MS Word, but none of them would be able to figure out how to change their page margins if they had previously been using OpenOffice. I DON'T THINK SO!
User apps don't take much power, but only cause occasional jumps in cpu usage, such as when somebody launches an app. But when everybody is running their own Xterminal, those jumps in the App server's CPU usage are rarely noticed by the other users
They could have easily done their setup with something like an Athlon XP2600 server, 1 gb memory in it and a bunch of Xterminals each running something like a 1.3 Duron.
Does OSX have a usenet news client? Are their 3rd party news clients?
So then you agree that the regular Army is a club of fat-assed cowardly pussies?
It seems the regular Army is ill-prepared to project power overseas quickly because they always have to wait for the reserves to get called up, assigned and shipped out.
Personally, I think the regular army is full of cowardly, fat-assed pussys. Everytime something dangerous comes up, such as the war with Afghanistan and the ever-pending war with Iraq, the Army calls up reserves and National Guard to do the real fighting. There are 1.4 million people in the regular armed forces, but when they need a force of 20,000 on the ground in Afghanistan, they call up the reserves. Most of the people in the reserves and National Guard are married with kids, etc. What's up with that?
You can order one here. Prices have been slashed! Free ground shipping! This is a CPU for High-End Computing(tm) in High-End Machines! (Go away kid, you bother me)
Microsoft is lazy, they want free code but they don't want anybody else profiting from it.