The only Windows 8 installs I've done have been in VMs. But my Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, XP x64, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2 installs have all needed drivers from the internet, even for standard OEM hardware.
OEMs often restrict their hardware to only work with specific drivers. For instance, if you buy a Dell laptop with an NVidia graphics chip, you have to either use the Dell driver, or modify the INF for your driver to detect your card. They do this with a lot of their hardware. If you think about it, it makes sense from a support standpoint. You know exactly what drivers the end user can use, and what potential problems they have. The downside is that its a pain for anyone with a clue, who doesn't want to install all the bloat from the drivers CD (which almost always includes extras, if you install everything).
This isn't a problem on Linux because there is bound to be at least one Linux savvy developer out there running your exact same OEM laptop, and has already made sure that the driver detects it. However, there have been issues with new hardware being unsupported for some time in Linux. For instance, I know it was at least 6 months before there was a Linux USB 3 driver for my desktop board.
I don't know how it is where you are, but in the US, you pay an extra charge per KW/h of nuclear energy that has to be saved for decommissioning costs. Now its possible that the money gets embezzled (though I think the DoE holds it in trust?), or the costs exceed expectations, but otherwise the people who use the power pay for the decommissioning over the life of the plant.
However, the GP clearly stated that anyone under the age of 27 would have never experienced a colder-than-average month.
So wich word would you have chosen instead of experienced?
As a non native english speaker I had choosen experienced, as in german we would use the same word, regardless whether I'm actually experiencing it while being present or if I experience it while reading it in the newspaper or sitting at a beach somewhere else. The month in question and the fact in question is still present, regardless where on the globe I reside.
I would not word it like that at all. The GP used experience as a verb, which implies:
to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.
The only way to clearly state what the GP meant is to say that "There has not been a record low in the global average in 27 years." Trying to suggest that any one person hasn't experienced a record low, even as a global average doesn't make any sense. The reason being that no one is omnipresent, and therefore cannot experience a global average. They can only experience local climate/weather. The other definitions imply learning through common knowledge or human experience, but that doesn't make much sense in this context either.
But my point is that you can't experience a global average, unless you manage to be omnipresent. So he can't say that a person has never experienced a record low and be referring to the global average, and not the local weather. I am limiting the word experience to its definition:
experience [ik-speer-ee-uhns] Show IPA noun, verb, experienced, experiencing.
Noun
1. a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
2. the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.
3. the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience. [Note that this is a noun and the GP used the verb form]
4. knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience. [again the GP used a verb form of the word]
5. Philosophy . the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered. [again the GP used a verb form of the word]
Verb (used with object)
6. to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea. [This example sentence is exactly like the GP's statement]
7. to learn by experience. [GP's post had nothing to do with learning, as you cannot say "No one under the age of 27 has ever learned a record low temperature"].
I got an Apple TV3 precisely because I am able to buy the NHL Center Ice package for about $130 a season and watch all the games I want. Its cheaper than cable, and the quality is better than playing through a web browser. The quality is better because NHL streams HD content to the Apple TV and does stream that high of a quality over the web viewer. They also have plugins for MLB, and NBA as well. My TV doesn't offer anything but Hulu and Netflix. I wish they had an Amazon Instant Video plugin, but oh well. Maybe I just need to update my Apple TV for that. I have been hesitant to do so with hopes that they would jailbreak. Either way, a set top box will have a longer life period than a TV. I can tell you that there hasn't been a firmware update, or new plugins for my TV in over a year.
Why start out your statement with a meme that makes absolutely no sense? It doesn't strengthen your argument at all, and allows you to be easily dismissed as a global warming wacko. And yes, there are global warming wackos. There are extremists on both sides.
I = V/R so with that argument you could just as accurately say that a low resistance can kill you. I would also assume that they cannot be easily rigged because the system should monitor the pulses and should tell when something foreign comes in contact with the fence. Once the system detects a change, it should result in an alarm. If the owner of the property intentionally rigs it to be fatal, then how is that any different than murder? He could wire up a shotgun to blast the thief when he tries to open the AC unit, too. Both situations are equally fatal and equally illegal.
I understand the fact that local extremes exist, and always will. However, the GP clearly stated that anyone under the age of 27 would have never experienced a colder-than-average month. You cannot experience the global average, because you are not omnipresent. While I am over the age of 27, I have just recently experienced colder than average temperatures, as has any child who was living here in the past 2 years. Therefore the statement is patently false, and absurd. If you start out your entire post with something that is obviously false, why should I even continue reading what you have to say?
Huh. That's funny because where I live, we have received colder than average months two winters in a row. We're talking freezing temperatures in a place that rarely gets frost on the windshields! In fact, I believe we even broke a record low from the 1930s the winter before last.
The point I am trying to make is that if you treat these incidences as assault, you are going to have a lot of kids in juvenile detention. Lets face it, kids are impulsive, and make very rash decisions sometimes. Is bullying a bad thing? Yes. No one should be picked on every single day. But no matter what you do, kids will still be mean to each other, they will still fight, they will still get into trouble. So why do we have to turn schools into little concentration camps?
Your part of the reason IT has such a high churn rate.
30c is NOT an acceptable temperature for an office, sure it can happen during extreme weather from time to time but in normal companies, everybody then works together to make conditions tolerable. Extra ventilators, portable AC's.
No, its not an acceptable temperature for an office under normal conditions. But the fact that the GP was feeling faint due to 30C temperatures in the office reeks of melodramatic exaggeration. That, or a serious health condition that ought to be addressed.
IT needs all the people it can get and being a programmer is NOT supposed to be a stock exchange trader type job. Constant stress is not good for a job that relies a lot on creativity and deep thought.
No job is worth constant stress. I never said that the work place was healthy. I wasn't there, I can't say for sure. All I can tell you is that the GP's post sounded like someone crying because they didn't get their way. So what if you got reassigned to a new project, or you have to maintain someone else's work. That does not mean that you are not a valued or useful employee.
Your arguments don't even hold any water because Autonomy ended up failing. If all their mis management and "though guy" attitude had worked it might have been a different story, but it wasn't. Instead a once promising IT company was middle managed to death. The story has had far more exposure in the British press, the above story might be a bit extreme but it doesn't stand alone.
So you are saying that this person did not seem remotely melodramatic about their situation? And that its not a bit extreme to go to your manager because people are asking you if you have made any progress on your assignment? And its okay that the GP didn't go to their manager when they had nothing to do, and instead started working on their own (on a project they were removed from previously), and then got frustrated with the lack of help? Management is a two way street. If you have nothing to do then you had better ask, in writing. At that point feel free to look for something productive to do until you hear back from management. The GP made no such attempts, at least not that they discussed in their post.
If you ever get to have to manage people and I hope you never do, you will have to learn it involves dealing with all kinds including people who don't think a developers job should involve Seal type hazing. A good manager can manage all kinds, adjust to their needs to get the best performance out of them.
I have managed teams before, and I understand that every single employee is different, and they all have different needs (besides compensation and free time). However, no manager wants someone who requires nothing but hand holding, and gets upset if someone asks you "How's your progress coming?" before they say hi. Maybe it's not the most polite way to start a conversation, but the GP never said they were asked more than three times a day. For all we know, this was the manager's poorly worded attempt to be helpful and supportive. They may have been concerned about the GP's performance and may be proactively looking for issues. Either way, a verbal overview of your progress is not unreasonable if you're in a small team (or as in the GP's case, working solo on a project). And I beg you to demonstrate how the GP was hazed. Everyone was subjected to the same temperature. So what was it? The need for status updates?
These managers obviously couldn't. Hint? Why did you think they went after him? Because they couldn't deal with the spanish and dutch guy so they unloaded on him. It is a typical weak managers solution, put the blame on the employee you can crack, either he fixes it and you look good or he breaks and you got a scapegoat.
There is no indication that there was any problem with the Dutch guy other than the fact th
Hey I didn't say people had to tolerate being treated like slaves. I just said that corporations are out there to make money. The problem is that they forgot what really made them money when they first started: 1) Customer service 2) Taking care of your employees. But I mean, if you read the usenet post, the GP was almost reduced to tears when they were told that their software push was driven by quarterly results. That does sound very sociopathic, doesn't it?
I used to work for Autonomy. I have no sympathy for them.
My little article is here
I hate to seem rude, but you seem a tad bit overly sensitive. You also seemed to be pretty quick to point fingers yourself. Of course Autonomy was chasing the almighty dollar (or pound in your case). That's what corporations do. Certainly some corporations value employees more than others, but you have no employees if you have no money. Would it have made more sense to have the Spaniard fix his own code? Yes. Is it annoying to be asked to debug an issue that you know someone else can fix in 2 minutes? Absolutely. But it's also a great opportunity to learn new parts of the code base. And yes 30C is pretty warm for an office, but if that kind of temperature makes you feel faint I highly recommend you move to Scotland. People go sunbathing there when its about 14C outside. You'd love it.
I understand why she is asking for it. I am just agreeing with the GP that she is definitely not entitled to it. The argument I am trying to make is that Pandora and the artists both would be better off if that information was available to the artists.
She sells a product, TO THE RADIOSTATION, who then sells it to us. I am quite sure that say, Hostess, would like to have the demographic data from each supermarket, but they can't have it because it is NOT their data.
Except that Hostess probably DOES have that data. Why? Because for one thing, supermarkets are often regional. Secondly, Hostess stocks the products and puts up advertising materials and promos in the individual stores. Third of all, why wouldn't the supermarket want to share that data with hostess? If Hostess can take that data and use it to sell more Twinkies in that supermarket, why wouldn't they help their supplier help them sell more goods? What Hostess doesn't have is the information on how many Little Debbie cakes, or who is buying them (not without paying for it). As Hostess sells more volume through a chain, they offer discounts and other benefits. Its a mutually beneficial relationship.
It is only the odd nature of content (infinitely replicatable unlike physical products) and bought laws that even has music being counted (number of times played). Physical product makers sell X amount to resellers and that is all the data they get. Why do you THINK they hold product promotions requiring you to send in your address? To get some data on were their products end up because the supermarkets are NOT just going to tell them for the fun of it. The product maker delivers his goods to the supermarket and his involvement ends there. He wants more, he pays for it. Through the nose.
They do want your address, yes. You're right the supermarket doesn't give it to their suppliers without cost. But suppliers ship their goods to regional warehouses and that also helps them determine how their goods sell, and where they need to focus their efforts. I know someone who works at an alcohol distributor (in the US alcohol manufacturers cannot sell directly to stores). They are constantly working with the stores and their suppliers to sell product. Again the more volume they sell, the more money they make, and the better prices they get from their suppliers.
A supermarket has no obligation, legal or moral to even record, let alone report, how that pallet of cookies was distributed amongst its shops let alone its customers. The amount of entitlement in this Zoe the Freeloading cellist demand is staggering. You want to get in touch with your customers, engage them yourself. It is NOT a broadcasters job to do that for you. Setup a youtube channel or whatever and get people to give them your details, expecting a radiostation to do that for you is everything that is wrong with the content industry today.
I agree that she has no entitlement to this data, but if Pandora were smart, they would provide it. It would certainly increase the number of people who work with Pandora, providing more selection for customers, and would therefore increase the value of the Pandora brand.
Content is a product nothing more, I buy it the same as toilet paper and frankly I be a lot more upset running out of toilet paper then out of commercial content.
It's a digital product. She has no way of knowing what happens to it once it leaves her hands. It's not like she is a bakery. She has no clue where Pandora ships this because she does not have to supply more than one digital copy of the media. Your toilet paper manufacturer knows where it ships everything, and uses that to help determine sales.
What next, MP3 players have to upload logs of the play history, so the bills can be send correctly? She wants to force the use of kinect with Pandora to count the number of listeners?
She wants private consumer data from a commercial entity for free. If it wasn't the content industry this would be instantly discarded in the waste basket of bloody stupid ideas. Really, would you be okay with Hostess getting your address from the supermarket that they got fr
I know I go pigeon hunting to mount their tiny little bird heads on my wall. I can't imagine why you would want to hunt pigeon and not eat it. I suppose you could be using it as practice for duck season. However, in my experience, most hunters are also conservationists. They donate money to funds that specifically conserve animals. If they weren't conservationists, they'd eventually run out of things to hunt.
Roger that. We will no longer be able to stock lakes and rivers if you become a lawyer. I guess that means that the fish industry is going to die out now (a lot of your supermarket fish is raised in captivity).
Actually, most states specifically require that you kill bucks with a certain number of points. The purpose behind that is to keep the population in check, but not to destroy it completely. It's much easier to find a doe in hunting season than a buck. I believe that in California, only junior hunters are allowed to take a doe period (children under either 18 or 16, I can't remember). There may be an exception for bow / black powder, but I am pretty sure that is accurate. Anyway, the bucks do provide more meat, and it prevents the population from dying out completely due to lack of females.
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The only Windows 8 installs I've done have been in VMs. But my Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, XP x64, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2 installs have all needed drivers from the internet, even for standard OEM hardware.
OEMs often restrict their hardware to only work with specific drivers. For instance, if you buy a Dell laptop with an NVidia graphics chip, you have to either use the Dell driver, or modify the INF for your driver to detect your card. They do this with a lot of their hardware. If you think about it, it makes sense from a support standpoint. You know exactly what drivers the end user can use, and what potential problems they have. The downside is that its a pain for anyone with a clue, who doesn't want to install all the bloat from the drivers CD (which almost always includes extras, if you install everything).
This isn't a problem on Linux because there is bound to be at least one Linux savvy developer out there running your exact same OEM laptop, and has already made sure that the driver detects it. However, there have been issues with new hardware being unsupported for some time in Linux. For instance, I know it was at least 6 months before there was a Linux USB 3 driver for my desktop board.
What about Ted Kaczynski? He lived off the land.... Oh wait, he used the Postal Service...
I don't know how it is where you are, but in the US, you pay an extra charge per KW/h of nuclear energy that has to be saved for decommissioning costs. Now its possible that the money gets embezzled (though I think the DoE holds it in trust?), or the costs exceed expectations, but otherwise the people who use the power pay for the decommissioning over the life of the plant.
However, the GP clearly stated that anyone under the age of 27 would have never experienced a colder-than-average month. So wich word would you have chosen instead of experienced? As a non native english speaker I had choosen experienced, as in german we would use the same word, regardless whether I'm actually experiencing it while being present or if I experience it while reading it in the newspaper or sitting at a beach somewhere else. The month in question and the fact in question is still present, regardless where on the globe I reside.
I would not word it like that at all. The GP used experience as a verb, which implies:
to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.
The only way to clearly state what the GP meant is to say that "There has not been a record low in the global average in 27 years." Trying to suggest that any one person hasn't experienced a record low, even as a global average doesn't make any sense. The reason being that no one is omnipresent, and therefore cannot experience a global average. They can only experience local climate/weather. The other definitions imply learning through common knowledge or human experience, but that doesn't make much sense in this context either.
experience [ik-speer-ee-uhns] Show IPA noun, verb, experienced, experiencing.
Noun
1. a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
2. the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.
3. the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience. [Note that this is a noun and the GP used the verb form]
4. knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience. [again the GP used a verb form of the word]
5. Philosophy . the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered. [again the GP used a verb form of the word]
Verb (used with object)
6. to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea. [This example sentence is exactly like the GP's statement]
7. to learn by experience. [GP's post had nothing to do with learning, as you cannot say "No one under the age of 27 has ever learned a record low temperature"].
I got an Apple TV3 precisely because I am able to buy the NHL Center Ice package for about $130 a season and watch all the games I want. Its cheaper than cable, and the quality is better than playing through a web browser. The quality is better because NHL streams HD content to the Apple TV and does stream that high of a quality over the web viewer. They also have plugins for MLB, and NBA as well. My TV doesn't offer anything but Hulu and Netflix. I wish they had an Amazon Instant Video plugin, but oh well. Maybe I just need to update my Apple TV for that. I have been hesitant to do so with hopes that they would jailbreak. Either way, a set top box will have a longer life period than a TV. I can tell you that there hasn't been a firmware update, or new plugins for my TV in over a year.
Why start out your statement with a meme that makes absolutely no sense? It doesn't strengthen your argument at all, and allows you to be easily dismissed as a global warming wacko. And yes, there are global warming wackos. There are extremists on both sides.
I = V/R so with that argument you could just as accurately say that a low resistance can kill you. I would also assume that they cannot be easily rigged because the system should monitor the pulses and should tell when something foreign comes in contact with the fence. Once the system detects a change, it should result in an alarm. If the owner of the property intentionally rigs it to be fatal, then how is that any different than murder? He could wire up a shotgun to blast the thief when he tries to open the AC unit, too. Both situations are equally fatal and equally illegal.
No, no it's not. As the AC above you says, it is amperage that kills and not voltage. See Ohio state Physics for more info.
Given the affected spelling, I'm going with European.
That was a reference to Monty Python's African or European Sparrows in The Quest For The Holy Grail... Or as the locals say: "Woooosh!"
I understand the fact that local extremes exist, and always will. However, the GP clearly stated that anyone under the age of 27 would have never experienced a colder-than-average month. You cannot experience the global average, because you are not omnipresent. While I am over the age of 27, I have just recently experienced colder than average temperatures, as has any child who was living here in the past 2 years. Therefore the statement is patently false, and absurd. If you start out your entire post with something that is obviously false, why should I even continue reading what you have to say?
How about the GP not make broad statements about local weather. As you cannot experience weather on a global scale, you only experience local weather.
Your post says:
If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month
That sounds like my local temperature to me.
Huh. That's funny because where I live, we have received colder than average months two winters in a row. We're talking freezing temperatures in a place that rarely gets frost on the windshields! In fact, I believe we even broke a record low from the 1930s the winter before last.
The point I am trying to make is that if you treat these incidences as assault, you are going to have a lot of kids in juvenile detention. Lets face it, kids are impulsive, and make very rash decisions sometimes. Is bullying a bad thing? Yes. No one should be picked on every single day. But no matter what you do, kids will still be mean to each other, they will still fight, they will still get into trouble. So why do we have to turn schools into little concentration camps?
Your part of the reason IT has such a high churn rate.
30c is NOT an acceptable temperature for an office, sure it can happen during extreme weather from time to time but in normal companies, everybody then works together to make conditions tolerable. Extra ventilators, portable AC's.
No, its not an acceptable temperature for an office under normal conditions. But the fact that the GP was feeling faint due to 30C temperatures in the office reeks of melodramatic exaggeration. That, or a serious health condition that ought to be addressed.
IT needs all the people it can get and being a programmer is NOT supposed to be a stock exchange trader type job. Constant stress is not good for a job that relies a lot on creativity and deep thought.
No job is worth constant stress. I never said that the work place was healthy. I wasn't there, I can't say for sure. All I can tell you is that the GP's post sounded like someone crying because they didn't get their way. So what if you got reassigned to a new project, or you have to maintain someone else's work. That does not mean that you are not a valued or useful employee.
Your arguments don't even hold any water because Autonomy ended up failing. If all their mis management and "though guy" attitude had worked it might have been a different story, but it wasn't. Instead a once promising IT company was middle managed to death. The story has had far more exposure in the British press, the above story might be a bit extreme but it doesn't stand alone.
So you are saying that this person did not seem remotely melodramatic about their situation? And that its not a bit extreme to go to your manager because people are asking you if you have made any progress on your assignment? And its okay that the GP didn't go to their manager when they had nothing to do, and instead started working on their own (on a project they were removed from previously), and then got frustrated with the lack of help? Management is a two way street. If you have nothing to do then you had better ask, in writing. At that point feel free to look for something productive to do until you hear back from management. The GP made no such attempts, at least not that they discussed in their post.
If you ever get to have to manage people and I hope you never do, you will have to learn it involves dealing with all kinds including people who don't think a developers job should involve Seal type hazing. A good manager can manage all kinds, adjust to their needs to get the best performance out of them.
I have managed teams before, and I understand that every single employee is different, and they all have different needs (besides compensation and free time). However, no manager wants someone who requires nothing but hand holding, and gets upset if someone asks you "How's your progress coming?" before they say hi. Maybe it's not the most polite way to start a conversation, but the GP never said they were asked more than three times a day. For all we know, this was the manager's poorly worded attempt to be helpful and supportive. They may have been concerned about the GP's performance and may be proactively looking for issues. Either way, a verbal overview of your progress is not unreasonable if you're in a small team (or as in the GP's case, working solo on a project). And I beg you to demonstrate how the GP was hazed. Everyone was subjected to the same temperature. So what was it? The need for status updates?
These managers obviously couldn't. Hint? Why did you think they went after him? Because they couldn't deal with the spanish and dutch guy so they unloaded on him. It is a typical weak managers solution, put the blame on the employee you can crack, either he fixes it and you look good or he breaks and you got a scapegoat.
There is no indication that there was any problem with the Dutch guy other than the fact th
Hey I didn't say people had to tolerate being treated like slaves. I just said that corporations are out there to make money. The problem is that they forgot what really made them money when they first started: 1) Customer service 2) Taking care of your employees. But I mean, if you read the usenet post, the GP was almost reduced to tears when they were told that their software push was driven by quarterly results. That does sound very sociopathic, doesn't it?
I used to work for Autonomy. I have no sympathy for them. My little article is here
I hate to seem rude, but you seem a tad bit overly sensitive. You also seemed to be pretty quick to point fingers yourself. Of course Autonomy was chasing the almighty dollar (or pound in your case). That's what corporations do. Certainly some corporations value employees more than others, but you have no employees if you have no money. Would it have made more sense to have the Spaniard fix his own code? Yes. Is it annoying to be asked to debug an issue that you know someone else can fix in 2 minutes? Absolutely. But it's also a great opportunity to learn new parts of the code base. And yes 30C is pretty warm for an office, but if that kind of temperature makes you feel faint I highly recommend you move to Scotland. People go sunbathing there when its about 14C outside. You'd love it.
I understand why she is asking for it. I am just agreeing with the GP that she is definitely not entitled to it. The argument I am trying to make is that Pandora and the artists both would be better off if that information was available to the artists.
American or European?
She sells a product, TO THE RADIOSTATION, who then sells it to us. I am quite sure that say, Hostess, would like to have the demographic data from each supermarket, but they can't have it because it is NOT their data.
Except that Hostess probably DOES have that data. Why? Because for one thing, supermarkets are often regional. Secondly, Hostess stocks the products and puts up advertising materials and promos in the individual stores. Third of all, why wouldn't the supermarket want to share that data with hostess? If Hostess can take that data and use it to sell more Twinkies in that supermarket, why wouldn't they help their supplier help them sell more goods? What Hostess doesn't have is the information on how many Little Debbie cakes, or who is buying them (not without paying for it). As Hostess sells more volume through a chain, they offer discounts and other benefits. Its a mutually beneficial relationship.
It is only the odd nature of content (infinitely replicatable unlike physical products) and bought laws that even has music being counted (number of times played). Physical product makers sell X amount to resellers and that is all the data they get. Why do you THINK they hold product promotions requiring you to send in your address? To get some data on were their products end up because the supermarkets are NOT just going to tell them for the fun of it. The product maker delivers his goods to the supermarket and his involvement ends there. He wants more, he pays for it. Through the nose.
They do want your address, yes. You're right the supermarket doesn't give it to their suppliers without cost. But suppliers ship their goods to regional warehouses and that also helps them determine how their goods sell, and where they need to focus their efforts. I know someone who works at an alcohol distributor (in the US alcohol manufacturers cannot sell directly to stores). They are constantly working with the stores and their suppliers to sell product. Again the more volume they sell, the more money they make, and the better prices they get from their suppliers.
A supermarket has no obligation, legal or moral to even record, let alone report, how that pallet of cookies was distributed amongst its shops let alone its customers. The amount of entitlement in this Zoe the Freeloading cellist demand is staggering. You want to get in touch with your customers, engage them yourself. It is NOT a broadcasters job to do that for you. Setup a youtube channel or whatever and get people to give them your details, expecting a radiostation to do that for you is everything that is wrong with the content industry today.
I agree that she has no entitlement to this data, but if Pandora were smart, they would provide it. It would certainly increase the number of people who work with Pandora, providing more selection for customers, and would therefore increase the value of the Pandora brand.
Content is a product nothing more, I buy it the same as toilet paper and frankly I be a lot more upset running out of toilet paper then out of commercial content.
It's a digital product. She has no way of knowing what happens to it once it leaves her hands. It's not like she is a bakery. She has no clue where Pandora ships this because she does not have to supply more than one digital copy of the media. Your toilet paper manufacturer knows where it ships everything, and uses that to help determine sales.
What next, MP3 players have to upload logs of the play history, so the bills can be send correctly? She wants to force the use of kinect with Pandora to count the number of listeners?
She wants private consumer data from a commercial entity for free. If it wasn't the content industry this would be instantly discarded in the waste basket of bloody stupid ideas. Really, would you be okay with Hostess getting your address from the supermarket that they got fr
I know I go pigeon hunting to mount their tiny little bird heads on my wall. I can't imagine why you would want to hunt pigeon and not eat it. I suppose you could be using it as practice for duck season. However, in my experience, most hunters are also conservationists. They donate money to funds that specifically conserve animals. If they weren't conservationists, they'd eventually run out of things to hunt.
Roger that. We will no longer be able to stock lakes and rivers if you become a lawyer. I guess that means that the fish industry is going to die out now (a lot of your supermarket fish is raised in captivity).
Actually, most states specifically require that you kill bucks with a certain number of points. The purpose behind that is to keep the population in check, but not to destroy it completely. It's much easier to find a doe in hunting season than a buck. I believe that in California, only junior hunters are allowed to take a doe period (children under either 18 or 16, I can't remember). There may be an exception for bow / black powder, but I am pretty sure that is accurate. Anyway, the bucks do provide more meat, and it prevents the population from dying out completely due to lack of females.
Cool. Lets start throwing all those 5-18 year old kids in jail. I'll open my own private prison and retire in 10 years or less.