I agree with this sentiment. The only reason I might buy music is if I like the band well enough to actually want a copy of their music. Most of what's being produced lately hasn't sounded like music to me -- most if it is just noise made by no-talent hacks with no concept of art, of how to produce something that will make someone go, "WOW!"
So impress me, record labels: Make something pretty that I might like to listen to. Make something interesting enough for me to want to buy your product.
It's the same as soap: If it doesn't do the job I expect, such as clean my clothing, my floors, my bathroom sink, I'm not going to buy that product. If I don't enjoy the product you're selling, you want me to buy?
Artists: What the parent to my post has to say is something to listen to. It costs pennies on the dollar to get your stuff out on the Internet and a fan base set up using even just Facebook or MySpace or even Craig's List. If people like your stuff, they will come find you. Put it out there, then set up shows with local bars. Continue on until you can start setting up your own dates with larger venues. Avoid the big record companies. They're vampire leeches who will suck the soul out of your product.
Someone explain how this works for a person in my situation: I work from home in Detroit transcribing and editing medical reports dictated at a hospital in Anchorage for a company based in Utah. I've never been to the hospital or the company that I work for in person so how would anyone check whether the fingerprints or vein mapping are actually mine? This so Orwellian that it makes me want to vomit.
There are not enough mod points to elevate the parent post to where I'd like to see it. I'm like, "Crack my chest? I'm dead to the world, bub. I don't want to know a thing about it."
After all the fanfare and comradery inspired by P.J. of Groklaw fame, we need to ask whether this is a good idea? It's an EXCELLENT idea. Many eyeballs make a heap of problems very shallow, to coin a phrase from Richard Stallman's work.
But note that I'm free and clear with the photos still of Ralsky's house in my possession and Bradley and Ralsky are both in the can. I'm so sad for them both.
Completely free VNC-based service. You both download a Windows program. Your remote user runs the show my pc part of the program; you use the view remote pc part. The remote party gets a key generated that you use on your side, which then opens a VNC session between the computers. No muss, no fuss at all. Delete the little downloaded app on either side when you're done.
I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I go into my game and decide to say, "Go away, government, go away news, go away famiily, go away anyone and anything that isn't in the game." I escape. I shut down for a couple hours and just veg. And I don't want to be interrupted. If that means I miss some emergency alert that may save my life, well, that's life, ain't it?
Yeah, I said the same thing, only the first thought through my head was, "What's so damned hard about telling these people they should seek professional guidance, like say from a physician or a counselor?"
I feel like I have no faith in the Homeland Security Agency's stated mission. Other than securing airports and border checkpoints such that it makes things even more difficult to get in or out of the country than it is going to visit inmates at your local correctional facility, I have no faith in that agency whatsoever. It was created in a knee jerk reaction to a terrible event that was likely orchestrated if not pulled off entirely by our very own government. Nah, I liked it better when we had much less security in this country and we could come and go as we pleased. I don't think body cavity searches are needed just to get on a bus, do you?
I wish this were done more with free software rather than with help from the Beast from Redmond. I'm certain the faculty at UW are completely familiar enough with free software that they could have made this work without MS's help.
I jumped into WoW back in '05, the summer after its release. I had to experiment with 1 toon at the start and used it for the first few weeks to learn the basics. From there, I threw that one away and created a druid and made him my main. At that time, I was working a pretty decent schedule and could get in 2-3 hours of time most evenings to run. However, I barely made a level in 3 or 4 days, and because I didn't know anyone but 1 or 2 other friends IRL who were into the game, and those 1 or 2 other people already had their toons dozens of levels ahead of mine and played on a completely different schedule, the grind for me on that original main druid, even to level 40, was the longest, most boring game experience of my life.
Meanwhile, I got up with a couple people who were in guilds and who were kind enough to help out by inviting me to their guild and loaned some gold to get mount and some decent armor. I don't know where I'd be today without those people. However, after a time, I was only playing 1-2 hours a night. Work was busier and I was getting more hours. By that time, I had created a couple more toons and leveled those up, while the main got to see MC and some of the other end game content.
But with BC came the first changes that made leveling a bit easier. The breaks that Blizz put in the leveling system really did me well. Soon, all 3 of these toons were 70 and I was at least seeing some good content there.
By the time WotLK came out, I had a new job working 12h shifts staggered 3 and 4 days running per week, and that didn't give me much time at all to play. My guild was raiding on the days I'd spent all day on a 12h shift and had to look forward to (not) pulling another 2 or 3 more 12h shifts on the subsequent days. By the time I was off a 12h shift, the last thing I was interested in was staring at a laptop screen for another 3 or 4 hours trying to get through a raid, all the while fighting to not fall asleep with my finger on the W key and wiping the whole raid. Issuing a game that became easier to level was a godsend to me.
Now I'm back on a more normal 8x5 work schedule. I get in 2 or 3 hours a night again. My 3 mains are almost all 80, and I've managed to get a DK up to 80 to boot. With all of these toons, I'm seeing a variety of content in Northrend. Heck, the youngest toons are seeing stuff that the older ones didn't.
Thanks, Blizz, for having the sense to remove the long grind. I know what that grind was like -- it hurt! I don't feel in any way robbed that some players weren't required to fight up the same long sets of quest lines I had to. I'm glad that some of the stuff that I ground those first toons through could be skipped while leveling my younger toons. I'd already experienced it once, so I really didn't miss it.
I'm just glad that Blizz gave everyone a fair shake at getting somewhere at least close to end game content. And my guild has benefitted, too, for it. Because if they need dps, I can switch to my dps toon. If they need heals, I can drag out a healer. If they need a tank, I have one of those, too. It's a win-win all the way around from my perspective after Blizz cut out the long grind.
OP is very much in touch with reality. I have worked in field service repairing PCs for hundreds of companies in Southeast Michigan. All I care about is fixing your problem and moving on to the next customer. Your data? You think I got time to futz around with that? Yeah, there's that small 1% or less of assholes who might pull something like that but ever since '94 of my working in the field and knowing people who still work out there, I've never heard personal recount of the experiences you fear.
You'd be much smarter to distrust any idiot you'd overpay to sit on his ass to lord over your equipment and play Minesweeper all day long.
Answer the following: I have a total of 8 computers turned on and active in my home. Two of those computers are virtualized on one server. Including me, I have 3 adults living here at home. Please tell me specifically which one of us 3 adults is at which computer, whether or not they are using a virtual machine, a laptop or one of my servers, and at what time of day we're using the PC based only on the IP address leased by my router.
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It's either Terminator or Cylons from hell.
I agree with this sentiment. The only reason I might buy music is if I like the band well enough to actually want a copy of their music. Most of what's being produced lately hasn't sounded like music to me -- most if it is just noise made by no-talent hacks with no concept of art, of how to produce something that will make someone go, "WOW!"
So impress me, record labels: Make something pretty that I might like to listen to. Make something interesting enough for me to want to buy your product.
It's the same as soap: If it doesn't do the job I expect, such as clean my clothing, my floors, my bathroom sink, I'm not going to buy that product. If I don't enjoy the product you're selling, you want me to buy?
Artists: What the parent to my post has to say is something to listen to. It costs pennies on the dollar to get your stuff out on the Internet and a fan base set up using even just Facebook or MySpace or even Craig's List. If people like your stuff, they will come find you. Put it out there, then set up shows with local bars. Continue on until you can start setting up your own dates with larger venues. Avoid the big record companies. They're vampire leeches who will suck the soul out of your product.
... in the rest of the world rejoiced. Thank you, EU.
Someone explain how this works for a person in my situation: I work from home in Detroit transcribing and editing medical reports dictated at a hospital in Anchorage for a company based in Utah. I've never been to the hospital or the company that I work for in person so how would anyone check whether the fingerprints or vein mapping are actually mine? This so Orwellian that it makes me want to vomit.
UPSET CHINESE INVESTORS? WTF???
Who owns this country? Yeah, it's pretty self-evident from that statement. The Chinese do.
Welcome to the Communist States of China,folks, and let's all salute our leaders for pissing away the farm. Huzzah!!
See subject. Sorry, I've not even bothered looking at Bing, so no further comment.
There are not enough mod points to elevate the parent post to where I'd like to see it. I'm like, "Crack my chest? I'm dead to the world, bub. I don't want to know a thing about it."
After all the fanfare and comradery inspired by P.J. of Groklaw fame, we need to ask whether this is a good idea? It's an EXCELLENT idea. Many eyeballs make a heap of problems very shallow, to coin a phrase from Richard Stallman's work.
And to think, I'm sitting here watching Young Frankenstein on AMC. Good show.
But note that I'm free and clear with the photos still of Ralsky's house in my possession and Bradley and Ralsky are both in the can. I'm so sad for them both.
Completely free VNC-based service. You both download a Windows program. Your remote user runs the show my pc part of the program; you use the view remote pc part. The remote party gets a key generated that you use on your side, which then opens a VNC session between the computers. No muss, no fuss at all. Delete the little downloaded app on either side when you're done.
I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I go into my game and decide to say, "Go away, government, go away news, go away famiily, go away anyone and anything that isn't in the game." I escape. I shut down for a couple hours and just veg. And I don't want to be interrupted. If that means I miss some emergency alert that may save my life, well, that's life, ain't it?
So what invasion of privacy is next?
Yeah, I said the same thing, only the first thought through my head was, "What's so damned hard about telling these people they should seek professional guidance, like say from a physician or a counselor?"
Make them switch to Linux. You now only provide support for computers running a secure operating system that's impervious to the malware threat.
Computers only do what the programmer tells them to do. Way to go, Sven, you fubared that script, eh?
Who proofreads these article submissions, anyway? Does anyone?
I feel like I have no faith in the Homeland Security Agency's stated mission. Other than securing airports and border checkpoints such that it makes things even more difficult to get in or out of the country than it is going to visit inmates at your local correctional facility, I have no faith in that agency whatsoever. It was created in a knee jerk reaction to a terrible event that was likely orchestrated if not pulled off entirely by our very own government. Nah, I liked it better when we had much less security in this country and we could come and go as we pleased. I don't think body cavity searches are needed just to get on a bus, do you?
Dissolvable is the proper spelling. I can be a moderator nao?
I wish this were done more with free software rather than with help from the Beast from Redmond. I'm certain the faculty at UW are completely familiar enough with free software that they could have made this work without MS's help.
I jumped into WoW back in '05, the summer after its release. I had to experiment with 1 toon at the start and used it for the first few weeks to learn the basics. From there, I threw that one away and created a druid and made him my main. At that time, I was working a pretty decent schedule and could get in 2-3 hours of time most evenings to run. However, I barely made a level in 3 or 4 days, and because I didn't know anyone but 1 or 2 other friends IRL who were into the game, and those 1 or 2 other people already had their toons dozens of levels ahead of mine and played on a completely different schedule, the grind for me on that original main druid, even to level 40, was the longest, most boring game experience of my life.
Meanwhile, I got up with a couple people who were in guilds and who were kind enough to help out by inviting me to their guild and loaned some gold to get mount and some decent armor. I don't know where I'd be today without those people. However, after a time, I was only playing 1-2 hours a night. Work was busier and I was getting more hours. By that time, I had created a couple more toons and leveled those up, while the main got to see MC and some of the other end game content.
But with BC came the first changes that made leveling a bit easier. The breaks that Blizz put in the leveling system really did me well. Soon, all 3 of these toons were 70 and I was at least seeing some good content there.
By the time WotLK came out, I had a new job working 12h shifts staggered 3 and 4 days running per week, and that didn't give me much time at all to play. My guild was raiding on the days I'd spent all day on a 12h shift and had to look forward to (not) pulling another 2 or 3 more 12h shifts on the subsequent days. By the time I was off a 12h shift, the last thing I was interested in was staring at a laptop screen for another 3 or 4 hours trying to get through a raid, all the while fighting to not fall asleep with my finger on the W key and wiping the whole raid. Issuing a game that became easier to level was a godsend to me.
Now I'm back on a more normal 8x5 work schedule. I get in 2 or 3 hours a night again. My 3 mains are almost all 80, and I've managed to get a DK up to 80 to boot. With all of these toons, I'm seeing a variety of content in Northrend. Heck, the youngest toons are seeing stuff that the older ones didn't.
Thanks, Blizz, for having the sense to remove the long grind. I know what that grind was like -- it hurt! I don't feel in any way robbed that some players weren't required to fight up the same long sets of quest lines I had to. I'm glad that some of the stuff that I ground those first toons through could be skipped while leveling my younger toons. I'd already experienced it once, so I really didn't miss it.
I'm just glad that Blizz gave everyone a fair shake at getting somewhere at least close to end game content. And my guild has benefitted, too, for it. Because if they need dps, I can switch to my dps toon. If they need heals, I can drag out a healer. If they need a tank, I have one of those, too. It's a win-win all the way around from my perspective after Blizz cut out the long grind.
Better question: Instead of worrying over them leaving, why continue to buy their products/services? I say boycotts are in order here.
OP is very much in touch with reality. I have worked in field service repairing PCs for hundreds of companies in Southeast Michigan. All I care about is fixing your problem and moving on to the next customer. Your data? You think I got time to futz around with that? Yeah, there's that small 1% or less of assholes who might pull something like that but ever since '94 of my working in the field and knowing people who still work out there, I've never heard personal recount of the experiences you fear.
You'd be much smarter to distrust any idiot you'd overpay to sit on his ass to lord over your equipment and play Minesweeper all day long.
Didn't they go bankrupt very soon, within just a few years of opening all those stores?
Rofl. MS is on the way out, eh?
Answer the following: I have a total of 8 computers turned on and active in my home. Two of those computers are virtualized on one server. Including me, I have 3 adults living here at home. Please tell me specifically which one of us 3 adults is at which computer, whether or not they are using a virtual machine, a laptop or one of my servers, and at what time of day we're using the PC based only on the IP address leased by my router.