1. Come up with something better than that chintzy MIDI backup. 2. Build a few songsmith boxes 3. Profit from your new crap music empire 4. ???? 5. Die in remorse
??? part goes BEFORE "profit" part. There is no step 5. It is all sex and coke parties after the profit part.
Rainier: My new movie is me, standing in front of a brick wall for 90 minutes. It cost 80 million dollars to make. Jay Sherman: how do you sleep at night? Rainier: On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.
How would it fare with correct settings? Not just as endless videos of people trying on purpose to make the song sound as bad as possible. Granted... With settings like "Happy" and "Jazzy" chances are probably low for a decent Roxanne remake.
What this reminds me of the most are those "rhythm" presets on the synthesizers. Jean Michel Jarre probably never used them, but then again... not everyone is Jean Michel Jarre.
There certainly is a place for something like this in the music world. Expect it's bigger brother to be used on 99% of pop songs and commercial jingles out there in a couple of years. No great loss there. And just as synthesizers didn't eliminate guitars - expect things to stay the same generally.
Do expect things around you to start having more rhythm. And personal theme songs.
What will be of secret underground military bases where they keep all those alien spaceships and huge jars of pickled aliens? How will they be funded now? Where will Will Smith and Vivica A. Fox get married in case of a alien invasion? In a field somewhere?
There WAS a reason US government was spending $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat, you know?
Humans are, generally, idiots. Just think of that IQ curve with an average IQ being around a 100, and then remember that it means that half the humanity is BELLOW that high point.
Applying that to the blog post gives us this:
The Complete Monty Pythons Flying Circus - Collectors Edition Megaset Series: Monty Python's Flying Circus Rating: Format: DVD
List Price: $159.95 Price: $99.99
That is the brand new boxset. 16 DVDs for 100$, quite a bargain.
BUT... the proverbial hare apparently lies in the bush bellow:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,800 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
Popular in these categories: (What's this?) #2 in Movies & TV > Comedy > British > Monty Python Store > Monty Python's Flying Circus: Personal Best #5 in Movies & TV > Comedy > Television > Monty Python's Flying Circus #17 in Movies & TV > Television > A&E Home Video > Megasets
Amazingly, an average idiot apparently believes that number ( # ) and percent ( % ) mean the same. After all... percentage is a number as well, right?
Such cherry picking can leave us with a snail as the fastest recorded animal in the world - if the book it is recorded in is exclusively about snails, disregarding existence of any other creature in the world... Add to that infinite limits of human stupidity and ignorance and...
We get No. 2 in a VERY limited category described as "No. 2 EVAH!!!111elven", and what is really a very low sales rank understood and described as 23000% sales increase.
You, Sir, are apparently equipped with a sense of humour akin to a sloth that just went through the grandad's secret opium stash.
Monty Python was and remains a timeless work of satiric and absurd comedy, regardless if it is in written or in acted form. In the future, I'd recommend that you stick with such comedic shows such as "The Friends", "The American Pie" series of films and "Collected and Abridged Works of Judd Apatow" connect-the-dots-and-paint-by-numbers educational books. Such arrangements should keep us all far happier and in better mood.
When you are a FOUNDER of one of the world's biggest and most successful companies, people tend let slide the fact that you didn't finish your formal college education.
Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen, The Netherlands in 2000,[63] the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2002, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 2005, Harvard University in June 2007,[64] and from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, in January 2008.[65] Gates was also made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005,[66] in addition to having entomologists name the Bill Gates flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor.[67]
In November 2006, he and his wife were awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "Un país de lectores".
Soo... Which wall should Bill Gates take a look at? My guess is he has a whole storage room full of plaques, diplomas and other shiny pieces of paper.
But I'll tell you what he DOES NOT have.
He does not have an H-1B visa. Linus Torvalds, being Finnish and working in the USA - probably does, or has had at one time, though.
Any H-1B worker essentially has the following weakness: his ability to remain in U.S. is directly linked to his current job. H-1B holders can change jobs only with difficulty. In some cases, the holders of H-1B visas find their employers have not completely accurately represented the terms of employment; they find themselves in a foreign land with only a limited understanding of the legal system. H-1B workers can be disciplined at any time, by being laid off: the worker then has to leave U.S. within 10 days (and even these 10 days are allowed only at USCIS's discretion, no days are actually guaranteed by law). The employer has, however, the legal obligation to pay for the return transportation of the laid-off worker. The worker can only avoid leaving the country by finding another employer that is willing to sponsor for H-1B, often impossible in the short amount of time available. If unhappy with the workplace, a U.S. citizen or green card holder can simply quit his or her job, whereas a H-1B's right to remain in the U.S. is tied to the job.
Not trying to jinx you or your family or something, I hope that your wife and baby will do great and that the labor will be smooth and the child healthy, but...
and the whole thing will be about $4000
You don't, you can't and you won't know how are things going to play out a month from now. God forbid, labor costs CAN end up the least of your worries. And those 4k MAY be just a drop in a bucket.
Now... Lets be optimistic. Let say you get fired a week from now? Or there is a complication?
Bad things don't wait for you to be ready to happen, but they DO tend to come in battalions.
And just imagine if those 4k were not a drop in a bucket for your family to start with?
Unless the senator somehow owns or runs most of the Microsoft (perhaps as a major shareholder or as a chief of it's board of directors) - about the only thing he can do is talk about it. Unless he wants to make it into some kind of a law or something? You know... like in a democratic society. Not like in the proverbial Soviet Russia.
Didn't people at Microsoft like go to school for whatever it is that they do there, or something? Shouldn't they like... have a tad more idea how to run their business then a senator from Iowa?
Hey! Here is an idea... Feel free to forward it to the good senator. How about a government incentive to hire local workforce? You know... lower taxes, paying for their wages first couple of years, favorable status for government contracts...
What? Sounds much better than just giving away billions to the financial and auto industry...
So they should hire 5000 workers for their cafeteria or 5000 broom-jockeys so they could get 1 or more German, French, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese... Martian IT specialist?
Or should they just ignore what you said and hire people according to their abilities? You know... like a business would do. Not like... say... nationalized company in a communist country somewhere.
Cause aside from despotic tyranny - that is about the only system where a government official can order around a business he/she does not own. You know... without all that proposing of laws and voting on them and all that other democratic bullshit.
Particularly knowing that my former boss and his competition still run only pirated software on all of their computers. Being lazy bastards - most Mac pirating was done by just copying the entire folder of the particular app. No registry, no shared.DLLs... no two computers being able to run the same app cause it's serial was already being used somewhere else on the network.
Parent post, just like this one was posted from space - from third planet orbiting a yellow dwarf star in of the minor spiral arms of this galaxy. Natives call the planet Earth. Star it orbits they call Sun. Spiral arm they call Orion Arm, and the galaxy Milky Way.
If you are reading this - you are probably on that very location yourself.
That would require digitally "flagging" commercials. Or, an online database that would hold "signatures" of known commercials. Slap that on a digital recording system that would recognize commercials either by flag or by signature - and there is your system.
As for how much do your lights drain? Not that much really... You are forgetting that your engine is pushing couple of tons of metal and plastic plus all the contents of the car - on a coke bottle of fuel. As for the dynamo cranking story - you had a very small output dynamo. Just think about all those hand-cranked flashlights and radios that give hours of service from minutes of cranking.
As for how much do all those extra electric appliances in your car spend... Sorry to not have a link for the video... But... I saw a German documentary on the topic last summer. Specifically - how much more do your "little extras" spend. They've loaded the car with a portable refrigerator, blasted music from speakers, air conditioning on with open windows, and various other thingamajigs turned on.
Ended up spending about 10-15% more gas then without all those power drainers.
Your car is generating far more power while moving than it can fit in it's comparatively small battery. Which is there just to start the engine. That is why all the shiny things drain it in a matter of hours. And it takes a long time to load cause it IS a big heavy lead-acid mother.
* The traded-in vehicles must have a fuel economy of no more than 18 miles per gallon;
* Auto needs to be in be in drivable condition, and have been registered for at least the past 120 days;
* The voucher needs to be used towards the purchase of a vehicle that has value of less than $45,000, is model year 2004 or later, and meets or exceeds federal emissions standards; * Vouchers could also be redeemed for transit fares for participating local public transportation agencies.
For traded-in vehicles that are model year 2002 and later, drivers would receive a voucher for: The purchase of a new vehicle: $4,500; the purchase of a used vehicle: $3,000; a transit fare credit: $3,000.
For traded-in vehicles that are model year 1999 - 2001, drivers would receive a voucher for: The purchase of a new vehicle: $3,000; the purchase of a used vehicle: $2,000; a transit fare credit: $2,000.
For traded-in vehicles that are model year 1998 and earlier, drivers would receive a voucher for: The purchase of a new vehicle: $2,000; the purchase of a used vehicle: $1,500; a transit fare credit: $1,500.
So... you are free to buy a USED car as well - only you get less cash for that. Then again - a used car WILL be cheaper. And you can even use the money for public transport - if you want to go really green and give up your car completely.
...but the data stored on them can often be priceless.
Also...
Many users can't just pick up a screwdriver and replace the failed hard drive. Many users are not allowed to. Many users will void warranty if doing so. For many users it involves a trip to a service center and a waiting period to get their laptops to work again. WITHOUT all their lost data.
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YES HE CAN!
...and if Justin Long was pushing it, preferably wearing a (black) turtleneck - it would be hailed as the second coming of Christ.
1. Come up with something better than that chintzy MIDI backup.
2. Build a few songsmith boxes
3. Profit from your new crap music empire
4. ????
5. Die in remorse
??? part goes BEFORE "profit" part.
There is no step 5.
It is all sex and coke parties after the profit part.
Rainier: My new movie is me, standing in front of a brick wall for 90 minutes. It cost 80 million dollars to make.
Jay Sherman: how do you sleep at night?
Rainier: On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.
How would it fare with correct settings?
Not just as endless videos of people trying on purpose to make the song sound as bad as possible.
Granted... With settings like "Happy" and "Jazzy" chances are probably low for a decent Roxanne remake.
What this reminds me of the most are those "rhythm" presets on the synthesizers.
Jean Michel Jarre probably never used them, but then again... not everyone is Jean Michel Jarre.
There certainly is a place for something like this in the music world.
Expect it's bigger brother to be used on 99% of pop songs and commercial jingles out there in a couple of years.
No great loss there.
And just as synthesizers didn't eliminate guitars - expect things to stay the same generally.
Do expect things around you to start having more rhythm.
And personal theme songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN9pGgg8YlQ
But what does it do do if you don't (or like me, can't) sing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN9pGgg8YlQ
What if you just talk or make random hooting noises?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7qyjLuWVU8
What will be of secret underground military bases where they keep all those alien spaceships and huge jars of pickled aliens?
How will they be funded now? Where will Will Smith and Vivica A. Fox get married in case of a alien invasion? In a field somewhere?
There WAS a reason US government was spending $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat, you know?
Humans are, generally, idiots.
Just think of that IQ curve with an average IQ being around a 100, and then remember that it means that half the humanity is BELLOW that high point.
Applying that to the blog post gives us this:
The Complete Monty Pythons Flying Circus - Collectors Edition Megaset
Series: Monty Python's Flying Circus Rating: Format: DVD
List Price: $159.95
Price: $99.99
That is the brand new boxset. 16 DVDs for 100$, quite a bargain.
BUT... the proverbial hare apparently lies in the bush bellow:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,800 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#2 in Movies & TV > Comedy > British > Monty Python Store > Monty Python's Flying Circus: Personal Best
#5 in Movies & TV > Comedy > Television > Monty Python's Flying Circus
#17 in Movies & TV > Television > A&E Home Video > Megasets
Amazingly, an average idiot apparently believes that number ( # ) and percent ( % ) mean the same.
After all... percentage is a number as well, right?
Such cherry picking can leave us with a snail as the fastest recorded animal in the world - if the book it is recorded in is exclusively about snails, disregarding existence of any other creature in the world...
Add to that infinite limits of human stupidity and ignorance and...
We get No. 2 in a VERY limited category described as "No. 2 EVAH!!!111elven", and what is really a very low sales rank understood and described as 23000% sales increase.
Ho-ho-ho-ho.
You, Sir, are apparently equipped with a sense of humour akin to a sloth that just went through the grandad's secret opium stash.
Monty Python was and remains a timeless work of satiric and absurd comedy, regardless if it is in written or in acted form.
In the future, I'd recommend that you stick with such comedic shows such as "The Friends", "The American Pie" series of films and "Collected and Abridged Works of Judd Apatow" connect-the-dots-and-paint-by-numbers educational books.
Such arrangements should keep us all far happier and in better mood.
Oh, and one last thing...
SOD OFF!
When you are a FOUNDER of one of the world's biggest and most successful companies, people tend let slide the fact that you didn't finish your formal college education.
They even give you a couple of diplomas without the need for you to even come to classes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_gates#Recognition
Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen, The Netherlands in 2000,[63] the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2002, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 2005, Harvard University in June 2007,[64] and from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, in January 2008.[65]
Gates was also made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005,[66] in addition to having entomologists name the Bill Gates flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor.[67]
In November 2006, he and his wife were awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "Un país de lectores".
Soo... Which wall should Bill Gates take a look at?
My guess is he has a whole storage room full of plaques, diplomas and other shiny pieces of paper.
But I'll tell you what he DOES NOT have.
He does not have an H-1B visa.
Linus Torvalds, being Finnish and working in the USA - probably does, or has had at one time, though.
I have no idea if the visas stop working if one lose ones job and if one have to leave and become the responsibility of the country you came from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1B#An_H-1B_worker_faces_additional_obstacles_at_his.2Fher_workplace
Any H-1B worker essentially has the following weakness:
his ability to remain in U.S. is directly linked to his current job.
H-1B holders can change jobs only with difficulty. In some cases, the holders of H-1B visas find their employers have not completely accurately represented the terms of employment; they find themselves in a foreign land with only a limited understanding of the legal system.
H-1B workers can be disciplined at any time, by being laid off: the worker then has to leave U.S. within 10 days (and even these 10 days are allowed only at USCIS's discretion, no days are actually guaranteed by law).
The employer has, however, the legal obligation to pay for the return transportation of the laid-off worker.
The worker can only avoid leaving the country by finding another employer that is willing to sponsor for H-1B, often impossible in the short amount of time available.
If unhappy with the workplace, a U.S. citizen or green card holder can simply quit his or her job, whereas a H-1B's right to remain in the U.S. is tied to the job.
Not trying to jinx you or your family or something, I hope that your wife and baby will do great and that the labor will be smooth and the child healthy, but...
and the whole thing will be about $4000
You don't, you can't and you won't know how are things going to play out a month from now.
God forbid, labor costs CAN end up the least of your worries. And those 4k MAY be just a drop in a bucket.
Now... Lets be optimistic.
Let say you get fired a week from now?
Or there is a complication?
Bad things don't wait for you to be ready to happen, but they DO tend to come in battalions.
And just imagine if those 4k were not a drop in a bucket for your family to start with?
Exactly!
Unless the senator somehow owns or runs most of the Microsoft (perhaps as a major shareholder or as a chief of it's board of directors) - about the only thing he can do is talk about it.
Unless he wants to make it into some kind of a law or something?
You know... like in a democratic society. Not like in the proverbial Soviet Russia.
Didn't people at Microsoft like go to school for whatever it is that they do there, or something?
Shouldn't they like... have a tad more idea how to run their business then a senator from Iowa?
Hey! Here is an idea... Feel free to forward it to the good senator.
How about a government incentive to hire local workforce?
You know... lower taxes, paying for their wages first couple of years, favorable status for government contracts...
What? Sounds much better than just giving away billions to the financial and auto industry...
So they should hire 5000 workers for their cafeteria or 5000 broom-jockeys so they could get 1 or more German, French, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese... Martian IT specialist?
Or should they just ignore what you said and hire people according to their abilities?
You know... like a business would do.
Not like... say... nationalized company in a communist country somewhere.
Cause aside from despotic tyranny - that is about the only system where a government official can order around a business he/she does not own.
You know... without all that proposing of laws and voting on them and all that other democratic bullshit.
We had a simpler and cheaper solution.
Just reach behind the case and plug out the network cable when you need to use that particular piece of "cloned" software. :P
Me neither.
Particularly knowing that my former boss and his competition still run only pirated software on all of their computers. .DLLs... no two computers being able to run the same app cause it's serial was already being used somewhere else on the network.
Being lazy bastards - most Mac pirating was done by just copying the entire folder of the particular app.
No registry, no shared
Parent post, just like this one was posted from space - from third planet orbiting a yellow dwarf star in of the minor spiral arms of this galaxy.
Natives call the planet Earth.
Star it orbits they call Sun.
Spiral arm they call Orion Arm, and the galaxy Milky Way.
If you are reading this - you are probably on that very location yourself.
That would require digitally "flagging" commercials. Or, an online database that would hold "signatures" of known commercials.
Slap that on a digital recording system that would recognize commercials either by flag or by signature - and there is your system.
Hey! Chill... OK...
As for how much do your lights drain? Not that much really...
You are forgetting that your engine is pushing couple of tons of metal and plastic plus all the contents of the car - on a coke bottle of fuel.
As for the dynamo cranking story - you had a very small output dynamo.
Just think about all those hand-cranked flashlights and radios that give hours of service from minutes of cranking.
As for how much do all those extra electric appliances in your car spend...
Sorry to not have a link for the video... But... I saw a German documentary on the topic last summer.
Specifically - how much more do your "little extras" spend.
They've loaded the car with a portable refrigerator, blasted music from speakers, air conditioning on with open windows, and various other thingamajigs turned on.
Ended up spending about 10-15% more gas then without all those power drainers.
Your car is generating far more power while moving than it can fit in it's comparatively small battery.
Which is there just to start the engine. That is why all the shiny things drain it in a matter of hours.
And it takes a long time to load cause it IS a big heavy lead-acid mother.
...to a blind person.
What? Blind people need their porn too.
I fail to see what is so funny about that.
Windows 7 is literally putting lipstick on a pig!
What is it with you and the pigs? You a farmer or something?
From TFA:
The catches:
* The traded-in vehicles must have a fuel economy of no more than 18 miles per gallon;
* Auto needs to be in be in drivable condition, and have been registered for at least the past 120 days;
* The voucher needs to be used towards the purchase of a vehicle that has value of less than $45,000, is model year 2004 or later, and meets or exceeds federal emissions standards;
* Vouchers could also be redeemed for transit fares for participating local public transportation agencies.
For traded-in vehicles that are model year 2002 and later, drivers would receive a voucher for: The purchase of a new vehicle: $4,500; the purchase of a used vehicle: $3,000; a transit fare credit: $3,000.
For traded-in vehicles that are model year 1999 - 2001, drivers would receive a voucher for: The purchase of a new vehicle: $3,000; the purchase of a used vehicle: $2,000; a transit fare credit: $2,000.
For traded-in vehicles that are model year 1998 and earlier, drivers would receive a voucher for: The purchase of a new vehicle: $2,000; the purchase of a used vehicle: $1,500; a transit fare credit: $1,500.
So... you are free to buy a USED car as well - only you get less cash for that. Then again - a used car WILL be cheaper.
And you can even use the money for public transport - if you want to go really green and give up your car completely.
...but the data stored on them can often be priceless.
Also...
Many users can't just pick up a screwdriver and replace the failed hard drive.
Many users are not allowed to.
Many users will void warranty if doing so.
For many users it involves a trip to a service center and a waiting period to get their laptops to work again. WITHOUT all their lost data.