I just checked, and www.KSlashdot.org is available.
troll#1: "Bastards! They're trying to leech off of the name of Slashdot!"
troll#2: "Bastards! Slashdot is trying to crush innovation! 'Kay'-Slashdot is obviously very different than just 'Slashdot'!"
The rest of the Michael Moore/Nike experience was that Michael asked Phil if he would build a plant in the US if Michael could find 500 workers who would want to make Nike shoes. Phil said he'd consider it, so Michael when back to Flint and videotaped hundreds of folks who would LOVE to have a job making shoes.
When presented with this video footage, Phil said "People will say anything to get a job".
The whole story, plus a lot more interesting reading, can be found in Moore's book "Downsize This!".
"Note that it was unianimous, and the FTC extracted a promise that the new behemoth would 'protect consumer choice.'"
And then the fox assured the farmer that putting it in charge of the hen house was a Good Idea®.
4:30am. If I had realized that it was such a big deal I would have had them put 4:28 for the time of birth. That would have even been better yet! Happy Birthday, Lily. You make your Papa proud.
Unless there is a massive bidding war between music labels for a particular artist, most new artists make a painfully small percentage of the sales of their songs. The artists make more money on the concert tours by far. So, lets say that 10% of the musicians target age group really likes the music that they make. If they get their music into more people's hands, then there are naturally going to be more people who are going to go to the concerts and potentially buy the T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, etc. And if their fan base grows, then the next contract that they sign will most likely be more favorable towards the musician. This is how the Madonna's and Garth Brooks' of the world sign these amazingly large contracts. A lot of folks heard their music and (for some reason) liked it. In my mind mp3's are just another way to get small artists heard by the masses.
Something that I discovered recently about my Pinnacle Systems DC10+ is that any DVD signals passed through it on the way to the VCR or hard drive end up having the Macrovision signal disabled. So in theory I can save the DVD audio and video stream onto my hard drive in the native MJPEG.avi format and then later convert it to MPEG with little loss of quality. Now since Pinnacle also offers a card that goes straight to MPEG, I would have to wonder if this "capability" is still possible. Or even if owners of other video-editing cards can do this. While I know that this process won't take you from DVD to DVD flawlessly, it does open the possibility of making acceptable-quality MPEG copies of these DVD's for "pirate" distribution.
Then the big bad attorneys had better go after some of the video editing card manufacturers that are out there.
I own a consumer-level video editing card distributed by Pinnacle called the DC10+ that, if I run the DVD video signal through the card, will allow me to either copy it to VHS (the card disables macrovision) or to hard drive as a low-compression.avi file. Conversion to either MPEG1 or MPEG2 standards is a piece of cake from there.
DVD's are too inexpensive to buy to make it worth the money to try and pirate. VHS movies are still sold at $60+ retail if they aren't sold at sell-through prices of $19.95 each. THERE is where the money is, folks.
Quit bothering those fine folks who are trying to make the movie industry more money by opening the DVD-viewing and using possibilities up to the Linux crowd. SuSE already comes on DVD, and as Linux users we cannot use it unless we install Windows first. That's stupid. Go back to busting those backroom VHS copiers where you will be much more successful and recover much more of your valuable money.
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I just checked, and www.KSlashdot.org is available.
troll#1: "Bastards! They're trying to leech off of the name of Slashdot!"
troll#2: "Bastards! Slashdot is trying to crush innovation! 'Kay'-Slashdot is obviously very different than just 'Slashdot'!"
Extend the axle of the handle out the other side and with some added blades I can turn my failed potato-powered web server into tasty hash browns.
Damn, I'm suddenly very curious about the samples they provide in this job.
The rest of the Michael Moore/Nike experience was that Michael asked Phil if he would build a plant in the US if Michael could find 500 workers who would want to make Nike shoes. Phil said he'd consider it, so Michael when back to Flint and videotaped hundreds of folks who would LOVE to have a job making shoes.
When presented with this video footage, Phil said "People will say anything to get a job".
The whole story, plus a lot more interesting reading, can be found in Moore's book "Downsize This!".
Since Bruce Willis did so well on the last space rock, would it be possible to load him on this rocket too?
Please?
What lessons did we learn from the movie "The Fly"?
Don't go using that fly-gene stuff on ME!
"Note that it was unianimous, and the FTC extracted a promise that the new behemoth would 'protect consumer choice.'" And then the fox assured the farmer that putting it in charge of the hen house was a Good Idea®.
Me thinks that someone has been compiling...
4:30am. If I had realized that it was such a big deal I would have had them put 4:28 for the time of birth. That would have even been better yet! Happy Birthday, Lily. You make your Papa proud.
Unless there is a massive bidding war between music labels for a particular artist, most new artists make a painfully small percentage of the sales of their songs. The artists make more money on the concert tours by far. So, lets say that 10% of the musicians target age group really likes the music that they make. If they get their music into more people's hands, then there are naturally going to be more people who are going to go to the concerts and potentially buy the T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, etc. And if their fan base grows, then the next contract that they sign will most likely be more favorable towards the musician. This is how the Madonna's and Garth Brooks' of the world sign these amazingly large contracts. A lot of folks heard their music and (for some reason) liked it. In my mind mp3's are just another way to get small artists heard by the masses.
Something that I discovered recently about my Pinnacle Systems DC10+ is that any DVD signals passed through it on the way to the VCR or hard drive end up having the Macrovision signal disabled. So in theory I can save the DVD audio and video stream onto my hard drive in the native MJPEG .avi format and then later convert it to MPEG with little loss of quality. Now since Pinnacle also offers a card that goes straight to MPEG, I would have to wonder if this "capability" is still possible. Or even if owners of other video-editing cards can do this. While I know that this process won't take you from DVD to DVD flawlessly, it does open the possibility of making acceptable-quality MPEG copies of these DVD's for "pirate" distribution.
Then the big bad attorneys had better go after some of the video editing card manufacturers that are out there.
.avi file. Conversion to either MPEG1 or MPEG2 standards is a piece of cake from there.
I own a consumer-level video editing card distributed by Pinnacle called the DC10+ that, if I run the DVD video signal through the card, will allow me to either copy it to VHS (the card disables macrovision) or to hard drive as a low-compression
DVD's are too inexpensive to buy to make it worth the money to try and pirate. VHS movies are still sold at $60+ retail if they aren't sold at sell-through prices of $19.95 each. THERE is where the money is, folks.
Quit bothering those fine folks who are trying to make the movie industry more money by opening the DVD-viewing and using possibilities up to the Linux crowd. SuSE already comes on DVD, and as Linux users we cannot use it unless we install Windows first. That's stupid. Go back to busting those backroom VHS copiers where you will be much more successful and recover much more of your valuable money.