As a few people have already mentioned this; when is the record industry going to realize that the product they are trying to sell isn't worth the money when compared to other items you can buy.
For example, on Amazon.com you can buy Mariah Carey's Glitter cd for 13.28
Even if you're a die hard Mariah fan, there are really only one or two tracks that made it onto the charts. Not to mention that two of the songs on the CD are the same, where one is just a remix.
Hrm.. a cd that probably was thrown together in a month [free nervous break down included] compared to a movie, like LOTR, which I won't even begin to comment on how magnificiently it was created.
Add in the fact that it would take about 10 minutes to download and create your own glitter cd for free. Unless you're buying this as a gift, most people would just download the one or two popular songs and be done with it. Currently, it's a huge pain in the ass to download avi files. It's easier just to buy the dvd.
Anyways, the worst part about this post is now Amazon is reminding me on the left hand side that I looked at the Glitter cd. If it starts recommending...
My Russian Professor in college used to regularly speak about how here we pretended to have freedom but had none while in the Soviet Union they had very little freedom but what there was was all REAL freedom
You're so right! Because of your REAL freedoms, you can print these articles in your national [is there still a nation?] paper.
Yeah, but at least you wasted your life living, perhaps experiencing and interacting with those around you. Not clicking on a mouse hours on end into the night.
I got to level 17 in EQ and came to the realization that I could go all the way to level 60, but at what price? I didn't want to look back when I'm old and gray and kick myself for wasting my youth behind a keyboard for something that adds up to a few bytes of info.
Hack the xbox because it's fun [and free] to get it to run linux [which is free], but then have 3rd party vendors soak you for 59.00 bucks for a mod chip.
It doesn't seem to fit the overall theme of hacking the xbox, but hey, if you're stupid enough to spend 59.00 bucks, go for it.
"Listen child, if I have to tell you one more time to end each line with a semicolon, I'm going to smack you upside the head. And who's idea was to portray me as a Camel and Lama! How's a lady like myself going to get a man, when you look like a damn humped camel!"
This particularly irritates countries like France who still want to think of themselves as a world power.
Look at me, I'm France. My tanker is terrorist bombed by a terrorist suicide bomber and I'm still too fucking stupid to join the Americans on the war on terror.
not to mention that we rebuilt the place after WW/II
People complain that America spreads it's sphere of influence around the world; bullying other countries. Well guess what, you don't get something for nothing.
The secondary school test scores could use some improvement, but University-level education is considered one of the highest in the world.
He clearly states not to look at the public schools, but at the unversities, which you so eloquently put is full of foreigners, who obviously are eager to get an American education.
When you have 250 million people, you are bound to spit out a few intellegent deviants.
Well then, Mr Know It All, wouldn't China have like 10x as many then? I'm sure they're able to "spit" out deviants by the boat load. Or maybe they just save those boats as they try to trek to a free land.
Yeah, there are a lot of stupid people in the US, but there are also a lot of stupid people around the world.
You shouldn't watch the news or think too much about Darwin awards. The reason why it's *on* the news and *printed* in the Darwin awards is because it does NOT happen that often.
If you start thinking that the news is a reflection on everyday life, then you wouldn't leave your house for fear of getting shot by a gang, tree falling on your head or getting hit by some fucking idiot with a rocket attached to his car.
It's refreshing to hear a pro-american point of view on/. these days. Lately it's been filled with so many anti-american comments, that I was begging to think I was on slashdot.ru
During the first two years of the curriculum, about 70 percent of the students' time would be taken up by distance learning, and the remainder by working in a community setting like a clinic or hospital. After that, the proportions would shift to about 30 percent computer-based learning and 70 percent working in a practice setting.
I don't know what's worse, the post or the idiots that modded it up.
Initial financing for the project, amounting to $140,000, came from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council.
$24,917 * 7 = ~175k
Which, ironically, is about the cost of the tuition for the 7 years of med school for only one student. If they get two students, they will already be doubling their money;-)
critical of your employer^H^H^H^H^H^H favorite software vendor isn't necessarilly a troll
MS owns Sun and Oracle now?
Stop the War on Iraq
Bah. There is no debate whether we should go to war with Iraq. It's just the media making it seem like there are a lot of people opposed to it, but I think you'll see when the House and Senate pass the Ok to use military force on Iraq, that it will be an overwhelming vote of unity. I predict 90%+ but I digress.
Actually, I had the phone company call to solicit me to change my long distance. I guess they get around the privacy manager since they provide the service.
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As a few people have already mentioned this; when is the record industry going to realize that the product they are trying to sell isn't worth the money when compared to other items you can buy.
...
For example, on Amazon.com you can buy Mariah Carey's Glitter cd for 13.28
Even if you're a die hard Mariah fan, there are really only one or two tracks that made it onto the charts. Not to mention that two of the songs on the CD are the same, where one is just a remix.
Compare this to the The Lord of the Rings for 17.97.
Hrm.. a cd that probably was thrown together in a month [free nervous break down included] compared to a movie, like LOTR, which I won't even begin to comment on how magnificiently it was created.
Add in the fact that it would take about 10 minutes to download and create your own glitter cd for free. Unless you're buying this as a gift, most people would just download the one or two popular songs and be done with it. Currently, it's a huge pain in the ass to download avi files. It's easier just to buy the dvd.
Anyways, the worst part about this post is now Amazon is reminding me on the left hand side that I looked at the Glitter cd. If it starts recommending
My Russian Professor in college used to regularly speak about how here we pretended to have freedom but had none while in the Soviet Union they had very little freedom but what there was was all REAL freedom
You're so right! Because of your REAL freedoms, you can print these articles in your national [is there still a nation?] paper.
Secret Chinese Pyramids Evidence of Alien Visitors?
mysterious vampire
UFO PREVENTS BLAST AT CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT
No offense, we thank you for all your Russian Brides!
Oh yeah?
s/Canadians/Americans/gi;
s/Canada/America/gi;
s/Assholes/pasty white french men/gi;
You'll probably never get on CNN saying that slavery is a good idea
Unless, of course, you're Harry Belafonte.
How cool would this be with support for a wireless protocol?"
Good luck. I seriously doubt logitech would provide information on developing such a driver for this device.
Boycott Logitech
However, if you want to be ranked in search engines, then you definately want to use alt tags that describe the content of your site.
Yeah, but at least you wasted your life living, perhaps experiencing and interacting with those around you. Not clicking on a mouse hours on end into the night.
I got to level 17 in EQ and came to the realization that I could go all the way to level 60, but at what price? I didn't want to look back when I'm old and gray and kick myself for wasting my youth behind a keyboard for something that adds up to a few bytes of info.
I think it was best said in Braveheart:
"Every man dies; not every man really lives."
For a second I thought it read they were selling uranium
*phew*
That's just crazy talk. Of course everyone wants broadband over dialup.
That's like saying I would rather eat a shitty hamburger over a filet migon.
Hack the xbox because it's fun [and free] to get it to run linux [which is free], but then have 3rd party vendors soak you for 59.00 bucks for a mod chip.
It doesn't seem to fit the overall theme of hacking the xbox, but hey, if you're stupid enough to spend 59.00 bucks, go for it.
thus freeing the user from the tedium of playing with ... er ... for ... himself
Why bother playing at all? I gave up playing mud for Progress Quest
Nobody can beat my level 66 battle finch!
"Listen child, if I have to tell you one more time to end each line with a semicolon, I'm going to smack you upside the head. And who's idea was to portray me as a Camel and Lama! How's a lady like myself going to get a man, when you look like a damn humped camel!"
This particularly irritates countries like France who still want to think of themselves as a world power.
Look at me, I'm France. My tanker is terrorist bombed by a terrorist suicide bomber and I'm still too fucking stupid to join the Americans on the war on terror.
not to mention that we rebuilt the place after WW/II
People complain that America spreads it's sphere of influence around the world; bullying other countries. Well guess what, you don't get something for nothing.
good post.
First, it's college.
2nd, you're just proved his point; he said:
The secondary school test scores could use some improvement, but University-level education is considered one of the highest in the world.
He clearly states not to look at the public schools, but at the unversities, which you so eloquently put is full of foreigners, who obviously are eager to get an American education.
When you have 250 million people, you are bound to spit out a few intellegent deviants.
Well then, Mr Know It All, wouldn't China have like 10x as many then? I'm sure they're able to "spit" out deviants by the boat load. Or maybe they just save those boats as they try to trek to a free land.
Yeah, there are a lot of stupid people in the US, but there are also a lot of stupid people around the world.
You shouldn't watch the news or think too much about Darwin awards. The reason why it's *on* the news and *printed* in the Darwin awards is because it does NOT happen that often.
If you start thinking that the news is a reflection on everyday life, then you wouldn't leave your house for fear of getting shot by a gang, tree falling on your head or getting hit by some fucking idiot with a rocket attached to his car.
It's refreshing to hear a pro-american point of view on /. these days. Lately it's been filled with so many anti-american comments, that I was begging to think I was on slashdot.ru
Did you even read the article?
During the first two years of the curriculum, about 70 percent of the students' time would be taken up by distance learning, and the remainder by working in a community setting like a clinic or hospital. After that, the proportions would shift to about 30 percent computer-based learning and 70 percent working in a practice setting.
I don't know what's worse, the post or the idiots that modded it up.
Initial financing for the project, amounting to $140,000, came from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council.
;-)
$24,917 * 7 = ~175k
Which, ironically, is about the cost of the tuition for the 7 years of med school for only one student. If they get two students, they will already be doubling their money
HowTo become a doctor
Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this year reported they were free from any virus attack
100-16 = 80%
Must have a loose nut on the old abacus.
I didn't realize computers were so sexual. I guess after all the pr0n you put on em, they're finally getting hard up.
Once inside a computer, they can do malicious tasks like erase data or reproduce
80% of computers in China have been touched [in the private parts] by a computer virus.
"All your computers are belong to us"
The days of reading an HTML/Java book and going to a $65,000/year job with a startup are behind us.
And thank god! I hated when my friends who barely knew how to start a web browser were making only slightly less than a computer guru like myself.
critical of your employer^H^H^H^H^H^H favorite software vendor isn't necessarilly a troll
MS owns Sun and Oracle now?
Stop the War on Iraq
Bah. There is no debate whether we should go to war with Iraq. It's just the media making it seem like there are a lot of people opposed to it, but I think you'll see when the House and Senate pass the Ok to use military force on Iraq, that it will be an overwhelming vote of unity. I predict 90%+ but I digress.
Actually, I had the phone company call to solicit me to change my long distance. I guess they get around the privacy manager since they provide the service.
Laf! Sounds like my Tivo recordings. Except add a crap load of Seinfelds.