People have been recording VHS tapes for a long time and watching it.
Television revenue is made from advertisements placed in programs, and from sales (you are still paying for your cable/satellite, aren't you?)
These technologies don't remove the commercials for you, so what exactly would television execs have to make a stink about that they didn't with VHS? The fact that niether of these provide a mechanism to sell stuff to you with (the way VHS does?)
The nieghborhood I grew up in wasn't particularly affluent, and I can't think of a single person there who would pay for internet access while they do laundry. I would pick a different location. If you won't do that, at least offer them a way to earn credits, such as banners or something. NOBODY will pay you even a buck an hour if South Central LA is as poor as I hear it is.
Intel CPUs would cost as much if they didn't sell as many as they do. If the Alpha had the marketshare that the Pentium does, it would be much more reasonably priced.
I'm not being naive. I know how the industry works. $20 for a daggon CD is still unreasonble. Saying "we would prefer you not to use napster" is a little bit less extreme than making a lawsuit over it.
Wow, you're right, I've been in a fantasy world. Except, Metallica ACTUALLY USED TO CARE. Ok? They did, I know. I still like their old stuff. I still like their new stuff. I just don't like how they are marketted. I realize that the recording industry is a business. Gee, I thought that they were just trying to get my drug money. At any rate. I go to real clubs and concerts where the bands DO care that I am there... clubs where afterwards, I hang out with the bands and have a beer or two. I got up on stage and sang with The DropKick Murphys. They actually let their fans come up on stage and sing with them at the end of the show. Unwritten Law thanked everyone, genuinely, for hanging out to listen to them at The Warped Tour, which only cost me $16 and is more memorable than any CD that I own. Oh yeah, these are GOOD BANDS with BIG FOLLOWINGS. Listen to some of UL's stuff and tell me that it isn't better than most of the crap on the radio. BTW, when I am in a car with a CD player, I usually do listen to my CDs.
If you wanna cry and defend Metallica, go ahead. Heck, I gotta tell ya, I still listen to them, I like them, I just wish that they would act cool again, so do a lot of people. At least I don't express my opinions it as an AC.
Funny, none of our Access 97 databases worked under Access 2K until I went and redid a bunch of stuff in all of them... And that's the same product, and only a slightly different platform, that my company paid out the ass for. Strangely, all of my perl scripts and databases survive the move across many unix boxen.
Oh yeah, or I could just run Linux like I do on my PIII. Especially since most of the apps that I actually use work on it. But then, I must be on crack to want to use anything but Win2k, right?
I dunno. A lot of *nix software is extremely portable, and there are a lot of people willing do to the free labor. I think that if M$ were out of the way, people would be more willing to embrace new platforms, and things like the Alpha would have a higher survival rate.
Metallica lives way more comfy than I do and I still haven't gotten my thank you letter yet. In fact, they lashed out at their fans. I figure that even with the fact that they only get a cut of all of their sales, between myself and a handful of my friends, they have made pretty damned good money all the way since I was in elementary school. Still like their music, just wish that this knife wound in my back would heal... and that they'd stop just saying what they're producers tell them to. The second they cut their hair, the damned record companies saw them as about as markettable as a boy band, already a lot of fans, and they had good music, now the cleaner, safer, more cuddly heavy metal band. Sort of like the "tough guy" from boy bands who looks like any good sized high school jock could break him in 2.
Yes, I'd like to make a withdraw. Everyone who sold out or backstabbed their listeners owes me $5 each. Also, if you suck and get played on the radio all of the daggon time because you are what the companies want me to hear, that's $15. Eminem... The Real SlimShady will be $50. Not that I don't like the song, it's just been marketted to death... I liked it the first 50 times I heard it, but when I had to suffer it being played every 3 songs while driving through New Jersey, your daggon company just went too far, bill it to them. Also, RIAA, for being a bunch of pricks, and destroying the industry's dignity and all that was right with it... And for all of the illegal things that you have done... And just because I don't like you... 15 million dollars, and I want you to sign a contract with some bands that don't suck. I have a list of them over here, including the ones that I like that you can keep, and the ones that you keep turning down that you should pick up, come and pick it up any time.
Hell, most people will give into blind madness and bitching, it's pretty hard when someone actually has a case against you and is throwing it at you, they responded with irrational hate and bitching initially, until they saw that they could be outdone by rational people.
I LOVE that idea. I changed screennames and lost touch with a few friends that I really treasure since I didn't want to be bothered by certain other people that I really don't treasure, but would prefer not to be bothered by AT ALL than to let them know that I am on.
I'll try it, but AOL's version for windows doesn't even have some of the features that I treasure under linux such as buddy pounce and individual sounds for everyone who logs on. Of course, I might grab it just so I can transfer files over it.
Yeah, but turning on the wind tunnel doesn't sound like such a hot idea. Perhaps put some sensors on the computer's boards to see when they're about to bust, and bolt the sucker down the the floor. Hehe =)
Much like paying for sex, I don't see why I should pay 80 bucks to get onto gnutella. "COME Use our software that logs into gnutella. Pay 80 bucks to do so! If they cut us off, we'll find a way to get back on."
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All of the sudden, I need a TiVo then ;-)
People have been recording VHS tapes for a long time and watching it.
Television revenue is made from advertisements placed in programs, and from sales (you are still paying for your cable/satellite, aren't you?)
These technologies don't remove the commercials for you, so what exactly would television execs have to make a stink about that they didn't with VHS? The fact that niether of these provide a mechanism to sell stuff to you with (the way VHS does?)
The nieghborhood I grew up in wasn't particularly affluent, and I can't think of a single person there who would pay for internet access while they do laundry. I would pick a different location. If you won't do that, at least offer them a way to earn credits, such as banners or something. NOBODY will pay you even a buck an hour if South Central LA is as poor as I hear it is.
Intel CPUs would cost as much if they didn't sell as many as they do. If the Alpha had the marketshare that the Pentium does, it would be much more reasonably priced.
We're both arguing pretty much the same point.
I don't purchase CD's.
It would be a smart move, but generally industry hypes something and doesn't want to let go of the hype, regardless of it's destructive path.
I'm not being naive. I know how the industry works. $20 for a daggon CD is still unreasonble. Saying "we would prefer you not to use napster" is a little bit less extreme than making a lawsuit over it.
What would the reason for being an AC be?
Wow, you're right, I've been in a fantasy world. Except, Metallica ACTUALLY USED TO CARE. Ok? They did, I know. I still like their old stuff. I still like their new stuff. I just don't like how they are marketted. I realize that the recording industry is a business. Gee, I thought that they were just trying to get my drug money. At any rate. I go to real clubs and concerts where the bands DO care that I am there... clubs where afterwards, I hang out with the bands and have a beer or two. I got up on stage and sang with The DropKick Murphys. They actually let their fans come up on stage and sing with them at the end of the show. Unwritten Law thanked everyone, genuinely, for hanging out to listen to them at The Warped Tour, which only cost me $16 and is more memorable than any CD that I own. Oh yeah, these are GOOD BANDS with BIG FOLLOWINGS. Listen to some of UL's stuff and tell me that it isn't better than most of the crap on the radio. BTW, when I am in a car with a CD player, I usually do listen to my CDs.
If you wanna cry and defend Metallica, go ahead. Heck, I gotta tell ya, I still listen to them, I like them, I just wish that they would act cool again, so do a lot of people. At least I don't express my opinions it as an AC.
Funny, none of our Access 97 databases worked under Access 2K until I went and redid a bunch of stuff in all of them... And that's the same product, and only a slightly different platform, that my company paid out the ass for. Strangely, all of my perl scripts and databases survive the move across many unix boxen.
Oh yeah, or I could just run Linux like I do on my PIII. Especially since most of the apps that I actually use work on it. But then, I must be on crack to want to use anything but Win2k, right?
I dunno. A lot of *nix software is extremely portable, and there are a lot of people willing do to the free labor. I think that if M$ were out of the way, people would be more willing to embrace new platforms, and things like the Alpha would have a higher survival rate.
As much as I love Intel (kinda a love-hate thing), and you guys. And I am typing this on a PIII.
X86 Architecture is played out and breathed its last a long time ago.
How about they quit just raising the bus speeds, and give us some new technology.
Metallica lives way more comfy than I do and I still haven't gotten my thank you letter yet. In fact, they lashed out at their fans. I figure that even with the fact that they only get a cut of all of their sales, between myself and a handful of my friends, they have made pretty damned good money all the way since I was in elementary school. Still like their music, just wish that this knife wound in my back would heal... and that they'd stop just saying what they're producers tell them to. The second they cut their hair, the damned record companies saw them as about as markettable as a boy band, already a lot of fans, and they had good music, now the cleaner, safer, more cuddly heavy metal band. Sort of like the "tough guy" from boy bands who looks like any good sized high school jock could break him in 2.
Look mom! We're rebelling!
Yes, I'd like to make a withdraw. Everyone who sold out or backstabbed their listeners owes me $5 each. Also, if you suck and get played on the radio all of the daggon time because you are what the companies want me to hear, that's $15. Eminem... The Real SlimShady will be $50. Not that I don't like the song, it's just been marketted to death... I liked it the first 50 times I heard it, but when I had to suffer it being played every 3 songs while driving through New Jersey, your daggon company just went too far, bill it to them. Also, RIAA, for being a bunch of pricks, and destroying the industry's dignity and all that was right with it... And for all of the illegal things that you have done... And just because I don't like you... 15 million dollars, and I want you to sign a contract with some bands that don't suck. I have a list of them over here, including the ones that I like that you can keep, and the ones that you keep turning down that you should pick up, come and pick it up any time.
Hell, most people will give into blind madness and bitching, it's pretty hard when someone actually has a case against you and is throwing it at you, they responded with irrational hate and bitching initially, until they saw that they could be outdone by rational people.
Good for the rational people.
It was meant as a joke about the earlier article, not an attack on Columbia, which is an institution that I actually find rather respectable.
Perhaps it will be Colombia?
PSSST. FBI, I'll tell the world that your software is harmless if you slip me a $20 and a nice review.
I got someone who yelled at me for doing that, but I was avoiding this REALLY creepy guy for a while like that, while not blocking him entirely.
I LOVE that idea. I changed screennames and lost touch with a few friends that I really treasure since I didn't want to be bothered by certain other people that I really don't treasure, but would prefer not to be bothered by AT ALL than to let them know that I am on.
I'll try it, but AOL's version for windows doesn't even have some of the features that I treasure under linux such as buddy pounce and individual sounds for everyone who logs on. Of course, I might grab it just so I can transfer files over it.
Yeah, but turning on the wind tunnel doesn't sound like such a hot idea. Perhaps put some sensors on the computer's boards to see when they're about to bust, and bolt the sucker down the the floor. Hehe =)
80 bucks for a mod that returns spam to any search. I could write that in an afternoon, and it's still lame.
Much like paying for sex, I don't see why I should pay 80 bucks to get onto gnutella. "COME Use our software that logs into gnutella. Pay 80 bucks to do so! If they cut us off, we'll find a way to get back on."
Cool... And I care because?
I dunno, there was a big fan on that case... Cute idea, but does it run? If it does.
MAGNETIC OUTPUT!
and HEAT FROM IT'S MOTOR!