I actually did a post awhile back on pcworld (yeah it's kind of my entertainment news of the tech world) about how much a group or artist makes on cd sales vs concerts. I can't recall the actual numbers but it was to the effect of 1.50 per cd (using the rolling stones as an example) where is they sold 1 million copies they had only made 1.5 million while in concert sells it was more around 100 million in revenue thus making cd sells only 1% of the profit an artist or group makes.
Amazing. All this time, I thought I was not being responsible. Come to find out... I'm some sort of a mutant with the amazing ability to blow off everything.
You said liable in court. Not sued. You can not sue an individual under the age of 18 in the US. You can have charges brought against you if you kill someone, but you can't be sued for damages.
I never had a problem seeing a bad before 18. Only reason I can think of you not getting in would be if the venue is a bar, and even then, some places will let you in, but give you a braclet to signify your age. Now of course at 23, I don't worry, but it was never an issue prior to.
I completely agree. I had a few songs I made in my spare time. Now I guess I could try to get a record deal or whatever, but really I just wanted people to listen and enjoy. In the end, if the overhead was to much, then it's reasonable to charge some sort of cost that is well, reasonable. Had I actually really pursued the whole music thing, I would probably give my works away free to promote the listener to see me live. Which is where the real money is, as far as music is concerned. Any who, I think the purpose of art is to share freely with others so they can enjoy your creation. Not try to sell your work for the most profit you can.
The bus. That's like the worst way to travel. I mean, it's cheap but it's worse then a plane. 2 hour trip ends up being more like 6 - 10 hours and the seats are only slighty better then airlines.
Another Indy besides Ford. Yeah, I could see that. But you mentioned Bond, and I tend to enjoy the new Bond, and flame if you will, the latest batman. Much darker and more believable then the neon lights and the batmobile traveling at amazing speeds of 30mph with a jet engine on the back. Any who, I not sure is Shia LaBeouf would make a good Ford, but he did kinda look like his son... sorta, if you squinch your eyes real tight.
I'm pretty sure if Duke Nukem Forever was searched for, found, and released... the universe would implode. Thankfully the developers realized they had accidentally made a doomsday device and have thus since not unleashed it upon the universe.
Ha! That would be nice. Unfortunately they are only looking for interesting information they can use to build a case against you. They could care less about your opinion since most in the US are to scared of the government to do what is ours by decree of the Bill of Rights(The Right to Petition [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_petition ]) although there is this fun little law they added in there. ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002385----000-.html [which basically says we can't without consequences])
Correct me if I am wrong, but a T1 line is 1MB(MegaByte) while most cable companies offer a 6mb(MegaBit) connection which 6mb is not as 1MB. Also T1 offers a syncronis connection or the same bandwidth both up and down while your common consumer cable connection is asyncronis or more down then up.
Further, I have not been stating a 2000-era PC will run Vista *stock* (although a truly high-end one - 1GB+ RAM, dual 1Ghz+ CPUs - would, with the exception of the newer video card necessary for Aero) - I have been saying that with minor upgrades (RAM, video card) and 2000-era PC will run Vista usably. I enjoy your defense, but you are going to have a real problem finding a motherboard from 2000 that will support a videocard from 2008 (no PCI-E slot) and its not really easy to find an AGP one, much less one vista capable. So I guess you could use a PCI card, but the performance on a PCI isn't really great or dx10 capable, but just as hard to find. I realize you could goto newegg.com or something and find one, but the average use, who vista and the eee pc are aimed at, cant walk into best buy and purchase a pci or agp card.
Beyond that, yes 1ghz processor 512mb of memory WILL run vista, the same way a 300mhz 64mb of memory will run XP.... like and completely unusable.
The is too a hardware upgrade cycle... sort of. I'm IT for a billing company with a few thousand employees. After awhile certain computers will decrease in performance from hardware failure or whatever. We will then either upgrade these workstations or swap them for new workstations. But overall you are correct. I'm doing a bit of programming, plus other IT task and usually have 8+ applications going... on a 2.4ghz inter pentium 4 with 1gb of ram and 60GB HDD with very little hit to performance. We actually tested some vista machines and it just was not worth the money for our IT department or our operations department
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The lastest version of Ubuntu (still in beta) actually is perfect for what you want. It from windows and when you reboot gives you the option of which os to load. If you end up hating Ubuntu, load windows back up, goto add remove programs (or programs and features for vista) and click remove, and no more ubuntu. Also look into VMware if you need to use windows often enough that you dont want to keep having to boot back and forth between the two os's
I agree with you. I've done the same thing at a repair shop I worked at. All we did was add the updates to the image. When XP requires the disc, which it shouldn't because how many people add or remove components, it looks for core windows compents that you can find on pre-sp1 oem disc or retail disc. In the entire time I've used XP I can't recall XP asking for the disc. Office yes, but thats when you don't do a complete install. Also I used to keep the XP image on the c: drive and just pointed to the files when ever it did ask.
Hold on there buddy. I've reloaded tons of New Laptops with Vista on them of varying prices and types. The only problems I've had are the XP install finding the HDD since a lot are sATA. To wo0rk around this you can get the raid drivers for the MB Manufacture to be able to see the drive or alternatively you can image the drive using all sorts of ways and insert the drive back in and 90% of the time it has worked perfectly fine for me.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
So, they aren't actually doing to bad seeing as 2000 was the best year as far as price per stock went and they are up today. Funny though if you look at the chart, After the holiday season they started to drop, then in march they began to climb back up. Which is interesting considering they had announced the extension on XP in march.
I'm going to agree with that. I ave 2007 Enterprise with all the bells and all the whistles and its only 624mb. 2007 Basic or 2007 Standard would be even smaller with 2000 and 2003 having an even smaller footprint. So yes, office 2007 could easily fit on an EEE.
Worse, makers of peripherals such as printers, scanners, network cards, TV input cards, and the like have used the Windows Vista driver model transition as a way to make their customers repurchase all their peripherals.
Rubbish.
Not complete rubbish. Check out Creative and their Vista driver fiasco on their forums. A lot of hardware manufactures are intentionally not support older hardware. When Vista first came out my Creative Audigy 2 had no drivers and none were planned to come out... ever. Printers and other peripherals also are suffering the same fate.
So simple hardware upgrades aren't always possible, sometimes you may have to buy completely new systems that are vista capable or vista ready and insure there are drivers for the devices. Although its somewhat important to note, this was not the case with XP as it has a very extensive driver support, well at least as far as getting things to work.
I call BS. I don't know what kind of crap you have on your XP machine. I'm sure you have some 30 odd programs set to startup when you login (msconfig or autoruns will fix this) but from off to opening firefox on mine it takes a little over a minute, most of that time is at the XP loading screen, which is considerably fast then Vista. And this is on a machine that was Vista Ready and came with Home Premium.
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I actually did a post awhile back on pcworld (yeah it's kind of my entertainment news of the tech world) about how much a group or artist makes on cd sales vs concerts. I can't recall the actual numbers but it was to the effect of 1.50 per cd (using the rolling stones as an example) where is they sold 1 million copies they had only made 1.5 million while in concert sells it was more around 100 million in revenue thus making cd sells only 1% of the profit an artist or group makes.
Amazing. All this time, I thought I was not being responsible. Come to find out... I'm some sort of a mutant with the amazing ability to blow off everything.
You said liable in court. Not sued. You can not sue an individual under the age of 18 in the US. You can have charges brought against you if you kill someone, but you can't be sued for damages.
I never had a problem seeing a bad before 18. Only reason I can think of you not getting in would be if the venue is a bar, and even then, some places will let you in, but give you a braclet to signify your age. Now of course at 23, I don't worry, but it was never an issue prior to.
I completely agree. I had a few songs I made in my spare time. Now I guess I could try to get a record deal or whatever, but really I just wanted people to listen and enjoy. In the end, if the overhead was to much, then it's reasonable to charge some sort of cost that is well, reasonable. Had I actually really pursued the whole music thing, I would probably give my works away free to promote the listener to see me live. Which is where the real money is, as far as music is concerned. Any who, I think the purpose of art is to share freely with others so they can enjoy your creation. Not try to sell your work for the most profit you can.
The bus. That's like the worst way to travel. I mean, it's cheap but it's worse then a plane. 2 hour trip ends up being more like 6 - 10 hours and the seats are only slighty better then airlines.
I love that game! Gametap has it, but if you get the real version, you get multiplayer.
Another Indy besides Ford. Yeah, I could see that. But you mentioned Bond, and I tend to enjoy the new Bond, and flame if you will, the latest batman. Much darker and more believable then the neon lights and the batmobile traveling at amazing speeds of 30mph with a jet engine on the back. Any who, I not sure is Shia LaBeouf would make a good Ford, but he did kinda look like his son... sorta, if you squinch your eyes real tight.
I'm pretty sure if Duke Nukem Forever was searched for, found, and released... the universe would implode. Thankfully the developers realized they had accidentally made a doomsday device and have thus since not unleashed it upon the universe.
That reminds me of the www.donotreply.com thing. Which oddly enough, I can't get to today.
Ha! That would be nice. Unfortunately they are only looking for interesting information they can use to build a case against you. They could care less about your opinion since most in the US are to scared of the government to do what is ours by decree of the Bill of Rights(The Right to Petition [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_petition ]) although there is this fun little law they added in there. ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002385----000-.html [which basically says we can't without consequences])
Correct me if I am wrong, but a T1 line is 1MB(MegaByte) while most cable companies offer a 6mb(MegaBit) connection which 6mb is not as 1MB. Also T1 offers a syncronis connection or the same bandwidth both up and down while your common consumer cable connection is asyncronis or more down then up.
Sure... Nothing X Nothing = 2x Nothing... wait no...
Or a frozen chicken
So your taking the wikipedia definition of shill over the Merriam-Webster one?
The is too a hardware upgrade cycle... sort of. I'm IT for a billing company with a few thousand employees. After awhile certain computers will decrease in performance from hardware failure or whatever. We will then either upgrade these workstations or swap them for new workstations. But overall you are correct. I'm doing a bit of programming, plus other IT task and usually have 8+ applications going... on a 2.4ghz inter pentium 4 with 1gb of ram and 60GB HDD with very little hit to performance. We actually tested some vista machines and it just was not worth the money for our IT department or our operations department
Caseyscrib The lastest version of Ubuntu (still in beta) actually is perfect for what you want. It from windows and when you reboot gives you the option of which os to load. If you end up hating Ubuntu, load windows back up, goto add remove programs (or programs and features for vista) and click remove, and no more ubuntu. Also look into VMware if you need to use windows often enough that you dont want to keep having to boot back and forth between the two os's
I agree with you. I've done the same thing at a repair shop I worked at. All we did was add the updates to the image. When XP requires the disc, which it shouldn't because how many people add or remove components, it looks for core windows compents that you can find on pre-sp1 oem disc or retail disc. In the entire time I've used XP I can't recall XP asking for the disc. Office yes, but thats when you don't do a complete install. Also I used to keep the XP image on the c: drive and just pointed to the files when ever it did ask.
Hold on there buddy. I've reloaded tons of New Laptops with Vista on them of varying prices and types. The only problems I've had are the XP install finding the HDD since a lot are sATA. To wo0rk around this you can get the raid drivers for the MB Manufacture to be able to see the drive or alternatively you can image the drive using all sorts of ways and insert the drive back in and 90% of the time it has worked perfectly fine for me.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= So, they aren't actually doing to bad seeing as 2000 was the best year as far as price per stock went and they are up today. Funny though if you look at the chart, After the holiday season they started to drop, then in march they began to climb back up. Which is interesting considering they had announced the extension on XP in march.
I'm going to agree with that. I ave 2007 Enterprise with all the bells and all the whistles and its only 624mb. 2007 Basic or 2007 Standard would be even smaller with 2000 and 2003 having an even smaller footprint. So yes, office 2007 could easily fit on an EEE.
Worse, makers of peripherals such as printers, scanners, network cards, TV input cards, and the like have used the Windows Vista driver model transition as a way to make their customers repurchase all their peripherals.
Rubbish.
Not complete rubbish. Check out Creative and their Vista driver fiasco on their forums. A lot of hardware manufactures are intentionally not support older hardware. When Vista first came out my Creative Audigy 2 had no drivers and none were planned to come out... ever. Printers and other peripherals also are suffering the same fate. So simple hardware upgrades aren't always possible, sometimes you may have to buy completely new systems that are vista capable or vista ready and insure there are drivers for the devices. Although its somewhat important to note, this was not the case with XP as it has a very extensive driver support, well at least as far as getting things to work.XP SP3 Beta seems to work just fine and the OS is a bit faster now too with less hiccups overall
I call BS. I don't know what kind of crap you have on your XP machine. I'm sure you have some 30 odd programs set to startup when you login (msconfig or autoruns will fix this) but from off to opening firefox on mine it takes a little over a minute, most of that time is at the XP loading screen, which is considerably fast then Vista. And this is on a machine that was Vista Ready and came with Home Premium.