Also, music takes less money to make than a movie. I.E. I will pay more for a movie.
true, however movies have a MUCH MUCH higher ROI than music cds do. a movie has two major revenue streams: theater release, dvd/vhs release. a music cd has just one (artists touring doesn't necessarily provide revenue to the record company, at least it shouldn't if you have a decent lawyer working on your record contract)
now, for the major difference in the revenue streams. the cd and dvd are basically a wash, both cost about the same or thereabouts. the movie gets shown multiple times per day in thousands of theaters across the country and can remain in theaters for anywhere between 6 months to a year depending on its popularity. a touring band normally plays an average of one show every two days for about three months (some bands do more, some less, it depends on how grueling the tour is you've set up for yourself).
now, take the average quadruple-platinum cd which would sell over 4 million copies and would constitute a blockbuster of a cd release. this nets the record company something in the area of 48 million bux (assuming $12 per cd). now take a blockbuster hit movie, it'll clear 48 million bux on the first weekend after release and will continue to hoover in the money until it doubles or triples that figure, probably more. THEN The dvd comes out.
summary: yes, cds are far cheaper to make than movies (unless you're metallica and yer spending 4 million dollars on making a cd, for some odd reason). cds also make FAR FAR less money than movies do. the entire point of the article is to show how the movie industry made fairly good business decisions and managed to not completely alienate every single one of its customers, unlike the recording industry.
i take it fonixmunkee has never worked at any sort of isp/ipp. hm...let's see...we have client A who pays us X amount a month for bandwidth. we have clients B C D E F who are all paying us 5X a month for bandwidth. A gets attacked and sucks up everyone's bandwidth so BCDEF all want refunds. why in hell should nwlink keep A as a customer when it may (and probably did) cost them other, paying, _good_ customers in addition to having to put out money in refunds to keep customers happy?
i'd have done the same thing in their place, yanked the cat5 out and called them saying "hi, your machine is being attacked and is costing us tens of thousands of dollars. it will remain off until such time as it is no longer a threat to our business. sorry."
ddos attacks are outrageously hard to track and stop if done correctly. the only effective way to quickly restore service to a network that is being crippled by one is to null-route the destination ip at your border router and turn away any/all packets meant for it immediately
as an addendum, since it was mentioned in the title, Star Wars is _not_ sci-fi. it is fantasy. we have no idea how hyperdrive works, how lightsabers are put together, how everyone seems to understand r2d2 and chewie, etc. and we're not supposed to care how they work...we just accept that they do work and move on with the story
a simpler definition to sci-fi and fantasy, and the differences between them, can be found in the preface to David Eddings' book "The Rivan Codex". in it, he writes something along the lines of: science fiction writers take three pages to tell you about the inner workings of a wristwatch, fantasy writers just tell you what time it is and move on.
basically sci-fi is characterized by the presance of explanations and explorations of technology, fantasy is charactarized by the complete lack of same.
why on earth does NOBODY ever mention the Misfits? they formed about the same time as black flag and have had a huge influence on just about every musician i know in the scene out here (nj/nyc scene)
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jokes are one thing...i dig on linux jokes as much as any other os' jokes, it's the bold "i do animation in lightwave so you can't tell me shit" statement i was responding to:)
and the point that i was making is that there are plenty of gui tools in linux so you don't have to use the command line if you don't like it. how, exactly, does a windows user get around bsod's that (s)he doesn't like?
which has nothing to do with why we take credit for the internet. the reason we take credit for the internet is because DARPA BUILT IT. although for nitpicky "we had the idea first" sods like you, i hate to tell you...sorry...you didn't. that's not to say that davis didn't have a huge influence (it _was_ his design that was implemented by DARPA), but if you want to get _really_ nitpicky (which you seem to) all he really did was give it the name packet switching. he even admitted it himself to paul baran, telling him "well, you may have got there first, but I got the name." (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/thomason/cs370/ARP A_People/DonaldDavies.htm)
so, please put the national flag down before you end up making yourself look even sillier
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HAHA YAH!!!!!!!!!!! CUZ EVERY1 KN0Wz THAT LINXU DUN HAEV ANY G00D GRAFICAL INTERFRA....INTEFER....THINGHIEZ!!!!
get real man, seriously the majority of people who use the unix command line functions do so because they _can_ type 160wpm and get work done faster like that. the rest, who can't, use the friggin gui tools like everyone else.
technically it was designed to allow U.S. Government communications route around damage in the event of a nuclear war. (ie. texas explodes, you can still get packets from california to new york if you need to)
why do you think all the fairly complicated protocols for routing and packet delivery were built into the infrastructure of the network _when_it_was_created_
i think the whole point was that they gave it a lower score because of the fact that the interface didn't look like a generic windows interface and the editors felt that this was not necessarily a Good Thing.
neither do I. of course there is something to be said about consistency between platforms and using native widgets and all, but really....on linux I use mozilla because it's the best browser on linux, i like the interface and have no problems switching between linux-mozilla and windows-ie. both are fairly intuitive
i mean seriously...it's a friggin browser people how non-standard an interface can it really be? back button, forward button, reload button, stop button, address bar, throbber, bookmarks, home button... yep looks like a pretty damn standard browser interface to me
i think we're just objecting to changing our money because tourists complain that they're either a) too dumb to actually read the bigass number printed in the corners, b) in too much of a rush to read the bigass number printed in the corners, c) from a country somewhere that does not use the same numbering system and can't understand the meaning of the bigass number printed in the corner (maybe there's some ancient romans out there that were preserved in ice or somethin....) and finally d) blind and unable to see the bigass number printed in the corner.
now. in the case of the blind i agree with what canada has done, put the denomination on the note in braille...it's not exactly a huge modification and would certainly help the blind and vision impaired immensely. in the case of C i don't think there's a whole lot of these happening...how many people visiting the US can't comprehend the numerals we use? in the case of B: suck it up, you can deal with the.4 miliseconds you lose having to actually look at and process the number in the corner. in the case of A: you are absolutely beyond help, please remove yourself from the gene pool immediately.
it's not as if this is hard people. i've never been to england in my life but i'm fairly sure i wouldn't ask someone what effin color a 10 pound note is, i'd just look for the _bigass_ "10" printed in the corner and get on with my day
furthermore, the standard anti-american stereotypes make you sound dumber than you probably are. we're not objecting to the way the rest of the world works, we're objecting to changing the way we run our country to suit the rest of the world when it's absolutely un-fucking-necessary. there's nothing wrong with the way everyone else prints their money, we just don't feel the need to do it that way. no americans have problems telling the money apart at home and i've never heard of any having problems telling money apart abroad even in countries where the denominations are *gasp* _all_ the same color.
killall on solaris is used literall to kill all processes (like in shutdowns and reboots) , the util you are looking for (the analogue to linux's killall) is a util called pkill that appears in solaris 2.7 and up. of course kill -9 `ps -efad |grep | awk '{print $1}'` works just as well
businesses don't need government regulations, nor does society (on this matter). businesses need to extract their head from their ass and stop using unsafe products.
how hard is that to understand? i bet even 90 year old mr. smith knows not to drive an edsel, or use certain firestone tires. microsoft's security flaws are fairly well publicised in popular media and i'd like to see businesses take a little more responsibility for the software they choose. "but i didn't know it was unsafe because i'm not a mechanic" doesn't cut it when your tires de-tread at 65mph and flip your car 17 times before turning you into a greasy patch on the highway and it shouldn't cut it in the IT section of the business world.
i'd also like to see software manufacturers take a bit of the heat as well. how about some class action lawsuits to recover some of the monetary damage done to businesses because the software they use isn't up to spec.
[quote]If they buy computer systems, they leave the passwords blank and expect people to not use them. That's not bad programming, it's stupid users. [/quote]
that's both bad programming AND stupid users.
seriously guys, how hard is it to put a default password in your app and prominently display in the manual that you need to change this immediately?
i can't tell you how many apps i've used with blank default passwords or with default passwords that were not properly documented (the old free ubb comes immediately to mind)
well, as has been said before, I still have my 15 year old commodore c64 kicking around as well. so why should i get taxed because some people are jerks? granted i'm not recycling, but i'm ALSO not "consuming" (buying then disposing of).
If I had the choice of paying $25 to recycle or paying nothing to leave my old stuff in a college dorm parking lot then I would probably do the wrong thing.
so punishing the good people is the answer?
having a 5c bottle tax is just fine, most people don't bother to collect that even when they do recycle em. but $30 is something altogether different.
has it not occurred to you that perhaps the intelligence in the human mind that has led us to be able to screen for this stuff is part of natural selection? what most people don't realize about natural selection is that it's not really that selective (pardon the pun) when it comes to what traits are used for the selection process. EVERYTHING is part of natural selection.
smart mammals who learn to screen out bad traits have healthier children who go on to procreate and that sort of thing.
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Also, music takes less money to make than a movie. I.E. I will pay more for a movie.
true, however movies have a MUCH MUCH higher ROI than music cds do. a movie has two major revenue streams: theater release, dvd/vhs release. a music cd has just one (artists touring doesn't necessarily provide revenue to the record company, at least it shouldn't if you have a decent lawyer working on your record contract)
now, for the major difference in the revenue streams. the cd and dvd are basically a wash, both cost about the same or thereabouts. the movie gets shown multiple times per day in thousands of theaters across the country and can remain in theaters for anywhere between 6 months to a year depending on its popularity. a touring band normally plays an average of one show every two days for about three months (some bands do more, some less, it depends on how grueling the tour is you've set up for yourself).
now, take the average quadruple-platinum cd which would sell over 4 million copies and would constitute a blockbuster of a cd release. this nets the record company something in the area of 48 million bux (assuming $12 per cd). now take a blockbuster hit movie, it'll clear 48 million bux on the first weekend after release and will continue to hoover in the money until it doubles or triples that figure, probably more. THEN The dvd comes out.
summary: yes, cds are far cheaper to make than movies (unless you're metallica and yer spending 4 million dollars on making a cd, for some odd reason). cds also make FAR FAR less money than movies do. the entire point of the article is to show how the movie industry made fairly good business decisions and managed to not completely alienate every single one of its customers, unlike the recording industry.
i take it fonixmunkee has never worked at any sort of isp/ipp. hm...let's see...we have client A who pays us X amount a month for bandwidth. we have clients B C D E F who are all paying us 5X a month for bandwidth. A gets attacked and sucks up everyone's bandwidth so BCDEF all want refunds. why in hell should nwlink keep A as a customer when it may (and probably did) cost them other, paying, _good_ customers in addition to having to put out money in refunds to keep customers happy?
i'd have done the same thing in their place, yanked the cat5 out and called them saying "hi, your machine is being attacked and is costing us tens of thousands of dollars. it will remain off until such time as it is no longer a threat to our business. sorry."
ddos attacks are outrageously hard to track and stop if done correctly. the only effective way to quickly restore service to a network that is being crippled by one is to null-route the destination ip at your border router and turn away any/all packets meant for it immediately
as an addendum, since it was mentioned in the title, Star Wars is _not_ sci-fi. it is fantasy. we have no idea how hyperdrive works, how lightsabers are put together, how everyone seems to understand r2d2 and chewie, etc. and we're not supposed to care how they work...we just accept that they do work and move on with the story
a simpler definition to sci-fi and fantasy, and the differences between them, can be found in the preface to David Eddings' book "The Rivan Codex". in it, he writes something along the lines of: science fiction writers take three pages to tell you about the inner workings of a wristwatch, fantasy writers just tell you what time it is and move on.
basically sci-fi is characterized by the presance of explanations and explorations of technology, fantasy is charactarized by the complete lack of same.
why on earth does NOBODY ever mention the Misfits?
they formed about the same time as black flag and have had a huge influence on just about every musician i know in the scene out here (nj/nyc scene)
jokes are one thing...i dig on linux jokes as much as any other os' jokes, it's the bold "i do animation in lightwave so you can't tell me shit" statement i was responding to :)
and the point that i was making is that there are plenty of gui tools in linux so you don't have to use the command line if you don't like it. how, exactly, does a windows user get around bsod's that (s)he doesn't like?
actually, paul baran had the idea first in 1959 with "hot potato routing"
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which has nothing to do with why we take credit for the internet. the reason we take credit for the internet is because DARPA BUILT IT. although for nitpicky "we had the idea first" sods like you, i hate to tell you...sorry...you didn't. that's not to say that davis didn't have a huge influence (it _was_ his design that was implemented by DARPA), but if you want to get _really_ nitpicky (which you seem to) all he really did was give it the name packet switching. he even admitted it himself to paul baran, telling him "well, you may have got there first, but I got the name." (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/thomason/cs370/AR
so, please put the national flag down before you end up making yourself look even sillier
HAHA YAH!!!!!!!!!!!
CUZ EVERY1 KN0Wz THAT LINXU DUN HAEV ANY G00D GRAFICAL INTERFRA....INTEFER....THINGHIEZ!!!!
get real man, seriously
the majority of people who use the unix command line functions do so because they _can_ type 160wpm and get work done faster like that. the rest, who can't, use the friggin gui tools like everyone else.
technically it was designed to allow U.S. Government communications route around damage in the event of a nuclear war. (ie. texas explodes, you can still get packets from california to new york if you need to)
why do you think all the fairly complicated protocols for routing and packet delivery were built into the infrastructure of the network _when_it_was_created_
we do, it's called the Internet (nee ARPAnet)
i think the whole point was that they gave it a lower score because of the fact that the interface didn't look like a generic windows interface and the editors felt that this was not necessarily a Good Thing.
... yep looks like a pretty damn standard browser interface to me
neither do I. of course there is something to be said about consistency between platforms and using native widgets and all, but really....on linux I use mozilla because it's the best browser on linux, i like the interface and have no problems switching between linux-mozilla and windows-ie. both are fairly intuitive
i mean seriously...it's a friggin browser people how non-standard an interface can it really be? back button, forward button, reload button, stop button, address bar, throbber, bookmarks, home button
i think we're just objecting to changing our money because tourists complain that they're either a) too dumb to actually read the bigass number printed in the corners, b) in too much of a rush to read the bigass number printed in the corners, c) from a country somewhere that does not use the same numbering system and can't understand the meaning of the bigass number printed in the corner (maybe there's some ancient romans out there that were preserved in ice or somethin....) and finally d) blind and unable to see the bigass number printed in the corner.
.4 miliseconds you lose having to actually look at and process the number in the corner. in the case of A: you are absolutely beyond help, please remove yourself from the gene pool immediately.
now. in the case of the blind i agree with what canada has done, put the denomination on the note in braille...it's not exactly a huge modification and would certainly help the blind and vision impaired immensely. in the case of C i don't think there's a whole lot of these happening...how many people visiting the US can't comprehend the numerals we use? in the case of B: suck it up, you can deal with the
it's not as if this is hard people. i've never been to england in my life but i'm fairly sure i wouldn't ask someone what effin color a 10 pound note is, i'd just look for the _bigass_ "10" printed in the corner and get on with my day
furthermore, the standard anti-american stereotypes make you sound dumber than you probably are. we're not objecting to the way the rest of the world works, we're objecting to changing the way we run our country to suit the rest of the world when it's absolutely un-fucking-necessary. there's nothing wrong with the way everyone else prints their money, we just don't feel the need to do it that way. no americans have problems telling the money apart at home and i've never heard of any having problems telling money apart abroad even in countries where the denominations are *gasp* _all_ the same color.
goddamn angle brackets, that should read
kill -9 `ps -efad |grep (app name here) | awk '{print $1}'`
killall on solaris is used literall to kill all processes (like in shutdowns and reboots) , the util you are looking for (the analogue to linux's killall) is a util called pkill that appears in solaris 2.7 and up. of course
kill -9 `ps -efad |grep | awk '{print $1}'`
works just as well
same way you deal with tubes in amps when they burn out. simple 3-step process:
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1) buy new tube
2) remove old tube
3) insert new tube
entire operation takes about 30 minutes (assuming you live 10 minutes from a music store with tubes
i've got an ampeg bass head (1200 watts (!)) that i can re-tube completely in about 10 minutes total...not really that hard an operation
businesses don't need government regulations, nor does society (on this matter). businesses need to extract their head from their ass and stop using unsafe products.
how hard is that to understand? i bet even 90 year old mr. smith knows not to drive an edsel, or use certain firestone tires. microsoft's security flaws are fairly well publicised in popular media and i'd like to see businesses take a little more responsibility for the software they choose. "but i didn't know it was unsafe because i'm not a mechanic" doesn't cut it when your tires de-tread at 65mph and flip your car 17 times before turning you into a greasy patch on the highway and it shouldn't cut it in the IT section of the business world.
i'd also like to see software manufacturers take a bit of the heat as well. how about some class action lawsuits to recover some of the monetary damage done to businesses because the software they use isn't up to spec.
[quote]If they buy computer systems, they leave the passwords blank and expect people to not use them. That's not bad programming, it's stupid users. [/quote]
that's both bad programming AND stupid users.
seriously guys, how hard is it to put a default password in your app and prominently display in the manual that you need to change this immediately?
i can't tell you how many apps i've used with blank default passwords or with default passwords that were not properly documented (the old free ubb comes immediately to mind)
that's a key point that nobody seems to catch when talking about easy installations
No it's not an oxymoron--running dog. dink
really? wow...
ya learn something new every day
ugh
"proudly canadian"
isn't that an oxymoron?
/me runs
and apparently the local LA critics are having trouble spelling "insipid"
well, as has been said before, I still have my 15 year old commodore c64 kicking around as well. so why should i get taxed because some people are jerks? granted i'm not recycling, but i'm ALSO not "consuming" (buying then disposing of).
If I had the choice of paying $25 to recycle or paying nothing to leave my old stuff in a college dorm parking lot then I would probably do the wrong thing.
so punishing the good people is the answer?
having a 5c bottle tax is just fine, most people don't bother to collect that even when they do recycle em. but $30 is something altogether different.
Heh. And I seriously hope you don't take anything on this site seriously.
you serious?
has it not occurred to you that perhaps the intelligence in the human mind that has led us to be able to screen for this stuff is part of natural selection? what most people don't realize about natural selection is that it's not really that selective (pardon the pun) when it comes to what traits are used for the selection process. EVERYTHING is part of natural selection.
smart mammals who learn to screen out bad traits have healthier children who go on to procreate and that sort of thing.