the difference is that ASCAP gets a lot more per 'play' from radio stations than they get from streaming sites like Pandora which just isn't fair. Just because a 'play' on terrestrial radio could be head by half the population of Chicago and a streaming 'play' is usually heard by a single person should not be a reason that they shouldn't be paying the same per-play rates right?
If you make your own version of a web site the NSA is monitoring is only a matter of time before they show up with a NSL and force you to spy for them as well.
This is assuming they can't just get what they want by tapping your upstream provider of course.
White middle aged male. I love a good indie flick that I have to watch in subtitles.
Take something simple and recent. the girl with a dragon tattoo. The original swedish movies are awesome. The james bond remake are a joke in comparison. Changing who is even the star.
I call it hollywoodifcation. when they take a good story and make it fit into hollywood story board.
Noomi Rapace was asked to star in the remake but declined, From IMDB:
Noomi Rapace's performance as Lisbeth Salander in the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was so well received, a campaign to have her reprise the role in the English language version gained wide attention in the media, championed by film critic Roger Ebert, among others. Ultimately Rapace declined to reprise the role, saying that after playing the character for three years (during the filming of the original film and its sequels), she couldn't play the role again in the same stories.
in Hollywood, sharks fleeing hurricanes get caught in a tornado speaking havoc on Los Angeles. (despite that hurricanes and tornadoes are both extremely rare in Southern California. and if never heard of a shark being sucked up in a tornado...)
I know it's a drag, but if you actually take the time to read the Kickstarter page, you will see that they have worked out the math. Furthermore, these are actual rocket scientists so they should be better than the average slashdotter.
Assuming they didn't mess up a Imperial/Metric conversion in there somewhere...
According to Sandia Labs' Dale Murray, the ideomotor effect is so persuasive that for anyone who wants or needs to believe in it, even conclusive scientific evidence undermining the technology it exploits has little power."
That explains a LOT about how the US Congress thinks/works.
People who have something better to do with their lives than digging ditches.
Actually a backhoe operator makes pretty good money.
There is very little demand for manual ditch digging anymore. Even if you could find workers willing to accept minimum wage it isn't cost effective compared to a backhoe.
Actually, Steve Ballmer, wearing an Amanda Bynes wig . . . would look frighteningly like Amanda Bynes . . . wearing an Amanda Bynes wig.
Recently I saw a picture of Amanda Bynes on the cover of a supermarket checkout gossip rag and my first reaction is she looked like Eddie from the Iron Maiden album covers.
Ballmer will make you want to take back those nasty things you said about Bill Gates in the late '90s.
Quite the opposite. Although I disagree with his business practices at least Gates had an occasional original idea. All Balmer does is ape whatever Apple (and to a lesser extent Google) is doing.
I read horrible reviews about that new Dyson's cyclone blabla, it sucks everything but dust.
Apparently Microsoft secretly bought out Dyson.
Obviously, they hardcoded DRM into the vacuum cleaner's BIOS then, cause it's borderline useless as a vacuum cleaner. If it indeed did suck, it would be a good design.
There is an old joke: The only way Microsoft could make a product that doesn't suck is if they made a vacuum cleaner.
Audiophiles? Spending half the price of what Bose charges for better quality makes one an audiophile?
No, Spending double or more what Bose equipment costs for worse quality and then bragging about the quality of your hyper-expensive equipment makes you an audiophile.
No, Not even close. Oracle has a lot of enterprise-grade functionality that does not and probably never will exist in PostgreSQL.
If you actually need that functionality it will probably be worth the exorbitant prices Oracle charges for it.
Perhaps a better question is what does Oracle do that PostgreSQL doesn't and is it necessary for your business?
(Disclaimer: I am not a DBA and I go out of my way to avoid working with Oracle, however I often run in to Oracle DBAs that know less about databases in general and sometimes Oracle specifically than I do.)
apparently you aren't aware of how much penguin on penguin violence goes on in Antarctica. Much of it the result of arguments over which Linux distro is best.
(Will Smith) Look over here please. The rocket exploded due to sensors being installed incorrectly. There was no extraterrestrial interference involved in this incident.
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the difference is that ASCAP gets a lot more per 'play' from radio stations than they get from streaming sites like Pandora which just isn't fair. Just because a 'play' on terrestrial radio could be head by half the population of Chicago and a streaming 'play' is usually heard by a single person should not be a reason that they shouldn't be paying the same per-play rates right?
If you make your own version of a web site the NSA is monitoring is only a matter of time before they show up with a NSL and force you to spy for them as well.
This is assuming they can't just get what they want by tapping your upstream provider of course.
I don't care about philosophy. I just wanna learn Kung Fu.
Traditionally Kung Fu is is at least as much about philosophy as martial arts.
Come on down to Crazy Stevie's Tablets where Everything is ON SALE!!!! Prices so low we loose money on each sale but we make up for it in volume!
Easy. Imagrate to India and get a job at Wipro.
exactly.
White middle aged male. I love a good indie flick that I have to watch in subtitles.
Take something simple and recent. the girl with a dragon tattoo. The original swedish movies are awesome. The james bond remake are a joke in comparison. Changing who is even the star.
I call it hollywoodifcation. when they take a good story and make it fit into hollywood story board.
Noomi Rapace was asked to star in the remake but declined, From IMDB:
I wouldn't call a Ouija board high tech.
Bullsht Bingo!!!
Fluid dynamics has little to do with it. I often scream before I now my top as well.
in Hollywood, sharks fleeing hurricanes get caught in a tornado speaking havoc on Los Angeles. (despite that hurricanes and tornadoes are both extremely rare in Southern California. and if never heard of a shark being sucked up in a tornado...)
I disagree. Windows 8 is far worse than Vista.
I know it's a drag, but if you actually take the time to read the Kickstarter page, you will see that they have worked out the math. Furthermore, these are actual rocket scientists so they should be better than the average slashdotter.
Assuming they didn't mess up a Imperial/Metric conversion in there somewhere...
According to Sandia Labs' Dale Murray, the ideomotor effect is so persuasive that for anyone who wants or needs to believe in it, even conclusive scientific evidence undermining the technology it exploits has little power."
That explains a LOT about how the US Congress thinks/works.
...And those who elect them.
People who have something better to do with their lives than digging ditches.
Actually a backhoe operator makes pretty good money.
There is very little demand for manual ditch digging anymore. Even if you could find workers willing to accept minimum wage it isn't cost effective compared to a backhoe.
Actually, Steve Ballmer, wearing an Amanda Bynes wig . . . would look frighteningly like Amanda Bynes . . . wearing an Amanda Bynes wig.
Recently I saw a picture of Amanda Bynes on the cover of a supermarket checkout gossip rag and my first reaction is she looked like Eddie from the Iron Maiden album covers.
Ballmer will make you want to take back those nasty things you said about Bill Gates in the late '90s.
Quite the opposite. Although I disagree with his business practices at least Gates had an occasional original idea. All Balmer does is ape whatever Apple (and to a lesser extent Google) is doing.
I read horrible reviews about that new Dyson's cyclone blabla, it sucks everything but dust.
Apparently Microsoft secretly bought out Dyson.
Obviously, they hardcoded DRM into the vacuum cleaner's BIOS then, cause it's borderline useless as a vacuum cleaner. If it indeed did suck, it would be a good design.
There is an old joke: The only way Microsoft could make a product that doesn't suck is if they made a vacuum cleaner.
Audiophiles? Spending half the price of what Bose charges for better quality makes one an audiophile?
No, Spending double or more what Bose equipment costs for worse quality and then bragging about the quality of your hyper-expensive equipment makes you an audiophile.
I read horrible reviews about that new Dyson's cyclone blabla, it sucks everything but dust.
Apparently Microsoft secretly bought out Dyson.
No, Not even close. Oracle has a lot of enterprise-grade functionality that does not and probably never will exist in PostgreSQL.
If you actually need that functionality it will probably be worth the exorbitant prices Oracle charges for it.
Perhaps a better question is what does Oracle do that PostgreSQL doesn't and is it necessary for your business?
(Disclaimer: I am not a DBA and I go out of my way to avoid working with Oracle, however I often run in to Oracle DBAs that know less about databases in general and sometimes Oracle specifically than I do.)
That is because Apple isn't doing those things. Of course Apple doesn't need to.
What DO you do with a drunken sailor?
apparently you aren't aware of how much penguin on penguin violence goes on in Antarctica. Much of it the result of arguments over which Linux distro is best.
(Will Smith) Look over here please. The rocket exploded due to sensors being installed incorrectly. There was no extraterrestrial interference involved in this incident.
sounds like a one line summary of an Ayn Rand book.