heheh... was thinking exactly the same thing.
Bugatti Veyron or Koenigsegg CCR... I can't decide.
Cash aint a problem - I just want something that'll do the job.
Which is more value for money ? Should I bite the bullet and just get BOTH ??
I was starting to agree with you for a second and then I thought, no - thats bullshit.
I am sick and tired of hearing that in order to fix XYZ we need to simply charge more
for it.
eg. we have a water shortage problem in Australia. We need people to use less water.
Whats the solution ? Make it more expensive. Too many cars on a road ? introduce a toll.
Bandwidth getting hammered ? introduce excess use charges.
ie. *PUNISH* people who can't afford something they shouldn't have to pay for in the
first place. In the above examples - as long as you're well off, you can still use as
much water as you want, drive where you want, surf the net as much as you want.
Its NOT about cost of supply, but a tax designed to control demand. and that sucks.
including Red Hat rhel4ws, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and Apple Mac OS X 10.4 -- did in their first years. And so they f^*&ing should! For the resources, talent, and money Microsoft have at their disposal Vista SHOULD BE an engineering marvel that changes the way we do things - not a will-I-won't-I-take-the-plunge dodgy upgrade.
For most it seems, the answer is - "I won't"
Don't repeat the industry's BS. If you buy an album on CD, you own that album and are ethically, morally, and legally entitled to do anything you want with it Err... Not BS. I'm in Australia, and as far as I'm aware it is illegal in Aus to copy music you own at all. Even to an MP3 player. That may not be the case in the US.
Just because they tolerate people moving music from CDs to Ipods doens't mean its legal. I know this because the Aust. government introduced legislation last year to overturn the legality of that very situation (some MPs kids must have Ipods. who knew ???) - don't know where it ended up tho
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Worse yet, if you sign up for a subscription, you're saying that it's okay for the music service to wipe out your music collection if you cancel. Imagine walking into your living room as all your books disappear because you changed libraries, or your DVD collection disappears because you switched from Blockbuster to Netflix. Its already OK for the music companies to wipe out your music collection. If you buy an album on CD, you have a license to use THAT CD and that CD only. If it gets scratched or damaged with wear and tear (ie. anyone with kids), too bad - you are required to go and buy another physical copy of material that YOU'VE ALREADY LICENSED.
This is what shits me the most with the movie and music mega corps... they can't decide whether they're selling us something physical (the disc) or something ethereal (the content) so they sell us BOTH, and then leverage BOTH.
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Giving up control of content and giving it away free are not rational ideas in a market economy, yet everyone's cheering. Everyone's cheering because the way in which the mega corps have set up the supply and demand chain are also not "rational ideas in a market economy" and in fact, there IS NO market economy. I pay the same $30 for a new Santana CD as I do for the latest (insert your country here) Idol CD.
The music industry, even more so than the movie industry, doesn't operate under a free market economy and that is why the industry is hurting so much. People have chosen to go around them. The industry's is not dead... its reorganising itself.
Bands can, and should make their money touring. The idea that you can get a band to pump out a couple of songs in a studio and live the high life for the rest of your life my be dying, but thats not a bad thing in my book. The "market economy" is squeezing middle man out of the equation because the middle man is no longer doing his job (facilitating supply and demand). So what. Life goes on. Music will still be played.
Back around 1992 I gave a 2 hour long presentation on the World Wide Web to my fellow B.Comp undergrads using Mosaic and showing sites like NASA, and a handful of IT companies who had some limitted content up and running.
I remember thinking, man - this has HUGE potential! Someones going to make a killing on this...
15 years later and I now know that THAT SOMEONE should have been me.
Instead.. with my B.Comp degree in hand and plenty of ideas... I sat back and watched every idea that I'd ever had with my friends over lunch, get implemented by somebody else and take off (even if only for a little while).
Lesson learned.
For every dreamer, you must have someone willing to make it a reality - otherwise you're just a spectator with cool ideas.
You don't need a top end computer, or fancy algorithms... all you need to do is follow this basic principle. Might even have helped in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina, had we followed it...
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heheh... was thinking exactly the same thing. Bugatti Veyron or Koenigsegg CCR... I can't decide. Cash aint a problem - I just want something that'll do the job. Which is more value for money ? Should I bite the bullet and just get BOTH ??
I was starting to agree with you for a second and then I thought, no - thats bullshit. I am sick and tired of hearing that in order to fix XYZ we need to simply charge more for it. eg. we have a water shortage problem in Australia. We need people to use less water. Whats the solution ? Make it more expensive. Too many cars on a road ? introduce a toll. Bandwidth getting hammered ? introduce excess use charges. ie. *PUNISH* people who can't afford something they shouldn't have to pay for in the first place. In the above examples - as long as you're well off, you can still use as much water as you want, drive where you want, surf the net as much as you want. Its NOT about cost of supply, but a tax designed to control demand. and that sucks.
Easy... Mention Cowboy Neal in the interview process. If they stare at you blankly, you're on the right track.
Back around 1992 I gave a 2 hour long presentation on the World Wide Web to my fellow B.Comp undergrads using Mosaic and showing sites like NASA, and a handful of IT companies who had some limitted content up and running. I remember thinking, man - this has HUGE potential! Someones going to make a killing on this... 15 years later and I now know that THAT SOMEONE should have been me. Instead.. with my B.Comp degree in hand and plenty of ideas... I sat back and watched every idea that I'd ever had with my friends over lunch, get implemented by somebody else and take off (even if only for a little while). Lesson learned. For every dreamer, you must have someone willing to make it a reality - otherwise you're just a spectator with cool ideas.
You don't need a top end computer, or fancy algorithms... all you need to do is follow this basic principle. Might even have helped in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina, had we followed it...