Watch this get modded down because it's mac related.
I have mod points to give. I was going to give one, but you had to put that line in.
This is the Apple section. Mac related comments are, well... expected and common place in the Apple section. There are moderators who specifically hit this section because it's not overly moderated and reading at -1 is much easier on the eyes (and on browser load times).
Save your cynicism for a Mac comment in a 'BSD is dead' or 'Windoze blows' article.
Considering the economics of producing an album work, I don't expect much gets back to them. But then, the artist does get an advancement, and the record company pays for promotion and studio time. And if the album bombs, the artist isn't liable for the expenses.
In the case of Dischord and Kill Rock Stars, I expect it to be different because they work more closely with the artist and are there for the music not to make a fortune.
I still don't see how a $10 CD helps get the artist more money. Logically, if you want the artist to get more money per CD, shouldn' t you be in favor of raising prices? No one's going to give up what they're already making, so you much increase the money coming in if you're going to give more out.
For the artist, an album is a gamble. If it makes it big, then they'll be millionaires. If not, they have to make money by touring.
Again, why is $10 - $20 unreasonable for an artistic work? When you work out the cost per song it comes out to about the price of a large cup of good coffee.
Oh, I see now. Someone with a Sam's club card can buy a collection of royalty free music in a niche market that may have been recorded decades ago for about $2 a disc so all music discs should be under $10. I'm blinded by the clarity of your logic.
No, really, why is $10 for 10 songs... Better yet, let's take a real example. I paid $18 for a 12 songs by Flogging Molly. That's $1.50 per song. Why is that ripping me off? "Because it's a fraction of what it cost to produce" isn't a valid answer. Price is determined by what the market will bear. $1.50 is less than a hamburger, almost the price of a large bottle of coke. It's *cheap* for what you're getting.
By you're reasoning, the entire disc should cost as much as a Coke. I'm so glad you value your Mozart as much as a Coke. If artists truly aren't compensated for their work, then I definitely see how lowering the price of CDs help get them paid.
And you're argument about software being a durable good is crap. I use my CDs for years. I have CDs I bought 15 years ago which I still occasionally listen to, many from 10 years ago I listen to on a regular basis. I don't have a single program from five years ago.
Would I buy a book of ten poems for $10 bucks? Hell yah if I liked the poems. A buck a poem. Fuck, I spend more on a large cup of coffee every morning and it's through my body in two hours and down the drain. A good poem will stick with me for Life. I'll recite it at my wedding, to my children, whisper as my wife goes to sleep, give the book to my grandchild.
Same thing with a song. I'll play it to my children explaining it was the song that hooked there mom or it was song my dad played to me, etc...
Would you please explain why $10.00 is too much for an artistic work? While you're at it, name five other mass produced serious artistic works that are sold for under $10.00.
Letsee...
Movie tickets in my area are $7.5, but I can't take the movie home and watch it whenever I want.
Books, if I wait for a paperback, then it might be under $10.00 depending on author, age, and genre.
Umm... That's all I can come up with.
Even Dischord, a well respected independent label, sells their CDs for $10. Kill Rock Stars, another indie, sells 'em for $11 - $13.
Nice metaphor, but it would be more appropriate to say "It's like comparing an apple to a pantry." Apples and pumpkins are both as equally versatile food items.
I was going to say I'm glad I live in an area w/o a record of natural disasters, then I noticed 'Bio/Chem Attack'... How exactly would that kill magnetic and optical media backups? The backups are more likely to survive an anthrax or nerve gas attack than I am.
As far as the first four, I'm glad I live in a part of the US that isn't seismically active, has almost no severe weather, and is rural. The others, like other posters, fuck my backup, i'm glad to live.
Why do we need yet another stream of information vieing for our attention?
The last thing I want is to have a screen on the cart telling me the Dow closed 10 points up and Israel killed Palestinians while it's also trying to sell me Cheerios and Prego. If I want to know the news, I tune to NPR on my way to and from the grocery store. I also don't want to be shopping in a nice peaceful bliss, picking up some Krispy Kremes, splurging on good beer, to find out about the latest tragedy.
I dread WalMart getting these - all the red, white, and blue fake patriotism while they advertise the latest crap movie now available on DVD.
For the Americans who live far enough away from a video store (something that is rather rare now), there's also Netflix. Since it's delivered by the USPS, every American household has access to the latest movies.
To the person replying saying there are no mom and pop vid stores, you just need to get out of the suburb where there's no mom & pop *anything*. Many cities, towns, and villages have independant video stores.
In the picture, you can see the yellow composite (video) cable, and a white RCA sound (left and mono) cable. No stereo in these games, so the left is all you need.
My bad. Didn't see the 'Next Page' links at the bottom. On the 4th page, it's explained that the orbit of Tempel-Tuttle changes a little on it's next pass or two. We will probably miss the new trail.
However, there's a slight change we'll hit an old trail or two in 2033 or 2034.
This probably is the last chance till late this century for a Leonid storm. The Leonid shower still occurs every year, though.
You're a little wrong. The Leonid shower happens every year. Typically, the shower is 10 an hour. This is the last year we will probably seen an amazing show of up to 1000 an hour.
And the Tempel-Tuttle comes every 1/3 of a century. That's 33 years. The next should be around 2033.
It could be worse. You could have pointed out that there are no such things NSR-420Z plasma injectors or the junk yard dealer in episode 22F33 was a purple skinned asexual.
As far as wondering why they were shiny and yellow, no, I never did. I was pulling things from my ass. Years ago I'd pass out on the couch watching X-files reruns after a night out on the town. Deep Space 9 would come on afterwards. Guess my sleeping mind picked up on a few terms.
Personally, I think 'cold pressed' sounds better, more like a type of forging.
Ah, yes, but what happens when you're out on the edge of the Federation, you've had to dump your warp core, and when you take your shuttle craft to the local non-Federation trading post looking the a new core, the green-skinned junk yard dealer with the right model warp core wants two NSR-420Z plasma injectors and all you have is a NSR-350 injector, and she doesn't accept American Express?
These are the times when a few bars of cold pressed latinum would save your butt. But nooooooo, you're from The Federation. You don't believe in money.
As one of those people who commented on PhysicsGenius's mistake, it does essentially invalidate his first paragraph. It shows he doesn't understand Dune's place. Really, not a big deal, but to make such an obvious mistake in essentially a first post - he might as well have claimed that Winston Churchill stole policies from George W. Bush.
The rest of his thesis is a naive, too. The original Dune series was five books long. That was the series. The four new books, and up to six more, are the serialization of the Dune universe akin to what's happened with Star Wars and Star Trek novels. They're novels which can't be taken too seriously.
and what crack are you smoking? People had hacked the iPod to work with Windows shortly after it's release. To boot, Apple now sells a Windows version.
PS - Even if Apple moved OS X to the x86 family, you'd still have to buy an Apple PC.
It'd be planned obsolesence but for a small fact: manufacturers make replacement parts. On top of that, it's cheaper to replace parts than to buy a new car.
Personally, my car is running fine, has never required any major work, and is going on a decade old.
what a silly article. it's an interview all about one man's opinion that DVDs hurt the box office because people don't go see movies four or five times like they used to. the journalist is completely uncritical of McCallum's ideas.
How many movies do inspire people to go see a movie four or five times in the theatre? Personally I saw Army of Darkness six times (mostly at the local second run). Closest runner ups are Star Wars, Fellowship of the Ring, and The Empire Strikes Back at three or four times. Other movies just aren't the kind of movie to go see several times.
Also, this is McCallum talking. None of my Star Wars geek friends went to see AotC more than three times. It just wasn't worth it. Most of them did go see Spider-Man three or four times. I think it says something. Make a good, entertaining movie, people will come.
He also raises the point that Hollywood can't survive on box office receipts. Hollywood needs to look at how much they spend on movies then. Use fewer expensive effects, spend less on marketing, pay actors less, stop flooding the market with crap. People still go to see movies in the the theater. Make movies to fit the money coming in.
Of course none of this matters. The rental market is a perfectly valid market, and back in the 80s McCallum's way of thinking went the way of the dodo. Hollywood thought the rental market would kill the box office. Nope, all it's done is add a repeat market.
"I'm not so sure about that. A large portion of the typical portable player audience is probably geeks."
This is strickly anecdotal. I'm in the tech field. I have plenty of friends who are tech workers. The only person I know with a portable MP3 player is my sis-in-law. She works in local professional and high school theatre, no where near a geek.
The article is down right so I'm pulling this from memory late last night after a looong weekend.
I interpreted RMS's comments as politicizing the kernel. RMS seemed to be saying the Linux kernel is such a bastion of the Free Software belief system it shouldn't use closed source tools. Torvalds, the creator and maintainer of the project, has said it isn't a political project. I see RMS attempting to co-opt the kernel, an apolitical project, for his political reasons.
Again, on the moral side of it, Torvalds doesn't hold those morals, that's why I see it as relevant that the kernel is his project. RMS is preaching his morals and pushing his morals on an amoral project. Torvalds doesn't hold your Free Software beliefs. He has no moral responsibility to suffer with lacking software (CVS or subversion).
RMS needs to recognize the pragmatists out there. Instead of attacking a pragmatic non-believer's blasphemous choice, he needs to see that his community is lacking the tools to support and convert the non-beliver.
Sorry, I just don't agree that insults are innapropriate. (As an American it could be cultura - we've been insulting politicians, business owners, and kings since day one). Okay, sure, we shouldn't say RMS's mom smells. Calling the man a fruit-cake is different as it expresses an opinion much like you're 'information-nazi.'
Valenti has the respect of Hollywood and holds more influence than you do. He has the respect of politicians. He has done more in the motion picture rating movement than any of us. He probably has a higher intelligence than most of us, too. You have no problem comparing him to Nazis, though.
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Watch this get modded down because it's mac related.
I have mod points to give. I was going to give one, but you had to put that line in.
This is the Apple section. Mac related comments are, well... expected and common place in the Apple section. There are moderators who specifically hit this section because it's not overly moderated and reading at -1 is much easier on the eyes (and on browser load times).
Save your cynicism for a Mac comment in a 'BSD is dead' or 'Windoze blows' article.
Considering the economics of producing an album work, I don't expect much gets back to them. But then, the artist does get an advancement, and the record company pays for promotion and studio time. And if the album bombs, the artist isn't liable for the expenses.
In the case of Dischord and Kill Rock Stars, I expect it to be different because they work more closely with the artist and are there for the music not to make a fortune.
I still don't see how a $10 CD helps get the artist more money. Logically, if you want the artist to get more money per CD, shouldn' t you be in favor of raising prices? No one's going to give up what they're already making, so you much increase the money coming in if you're going to give more out.
For the artist, an album is a gamble. If it makes it big, then they'll be millionaires. If not, they have to make money by touring.
Again, why is $10 - $20 unreasonable for an artistic work? When you work out the cost per song it comes out to about the price of a large cup of good coffee.
Oh, I see now. Someone with a Sam's club card can buy a collection of royalty free music in a niche market that may have been recorded decades ago for about $2 a disc so all music discs should be under $10. I'm blinded by the clarity of your logic.
No, really, why is $10 for 10 songs... Better yet, let's take a real example. I paid $18 for a 12 songs by Flogging Molly. That's $1.50 per song. Why is that ripping me off? "Because it's a fraction of what it cost to produce" isn't a valid answer. Price is determined by what the market will bear. $1.50 is less than a hamburger, almost the price of a large bottle of coke. It's *cheap* for what you're getting.
By you're reasoning, the entire disc should cost as much as a Coke. I'm so glad you value your Mozart as much as a Coke. If artists truly aren't compensated for their work, then I definitely see how lowering the price of CDs help get them paid.
And you're argument about software being a durable good is crap. I use my CDs for years. I have CDs I bought 15 years ago which I still occasionally listen to, many from 10 years ago I listen to on a regular basis. I don't have a single program from five years ago.
Would I buy a book of ten poems for $10 bucks? Hell yah if I liked the poems. A buck a poem. Fuck, I spend more on a large cup of coffee every morning and it's through my body in two hours and down the drain. A good poem will stick with me for Life. I'll recite it at my wedding, to my children, whisper as my wife goes to sleep, give the book to my grandchild.
Same thing with a song. I'll play it to my children explaining it was the song that hooked there mom or it was song my dad played to me, etc...
For $1.50, that song is a steal.
Would you please explain why $10.00 is too much for an artistic work? While you're at it, name five other mass produced serious artistic works that are sold for under $10.00.
Letsee...
Movie tickets in my area are $7.5, but I can't take the movie home and watch it whenever I want.
Books, if I wait for a paperback, then it might be under $10.00 depending on author, age, and genre.
Umm... That's all I can come up with.
Even Dischord, a well respected independent label, sells their CDs for $10. Kill Rock Stars, another indie, sells 'em for $11 - $13.
Nice metaphor, but it would be more appropriate to say "It's like comparing an apple to a pantry." Apples and pumpkins are both as equally versatile food items.
I was going to say I'm glad I live in an area w/o a record of natural disasters, then I noticed 'Bio/Chem Attack'... How exactly would that kill magnetic and optical media backups? The backups are more likely to survive an anthrax or nerve gas attack than I am.
As far as the first four, I'm glad I live in a part of the US that isn't seismically active, has almost no severe weather, and is rural. The others, like other posters, fuck my backup, i'm glad to live.
Why do we need yet another stream of information vieing for our attention?
The last thing I want is to have a screen on the cart telling me the Dow closed 10 points up and Israel killed Palestinians while it's also trying to sell me Cheerios and Prego. If I want to know the news, I tune to NPR on my way to and from the grocery store. I also don't want to be shopping in a nice peaceful bliss, picking up some Krispy Kremes, splurging on good beer, to find out about the latest tragedy.
I dread WalMart getting these - all the red, white, and blue fake patriotism while they advertise the latest crap movie now available on DVD.
That link should be http://www.netflix.com.
For the Americans who live far enough away from a video store (something that is rather rare now), there's also Netflix. Since it's delivered by the USPS, every American household has access to the latest movies.
To the person replying saying there are no mom and pop vid stores, you just need to get out of the suburb where there's no mom & pop *anything*. Many cities, towns, and villages have independant video stores.
$$/Gigaflop :: back of the envelope calcs ::
33 machines x $7200 per machine = $238,000
$238,000 for 217 gigaflops = $1100/gigaflop
I don't have quickascii and know nothing about it so this is just a wild guess. Try put a ./ infront of quickascii thus: ./quickascii entrapment.mov
./ to give you shell the path to the program.
Why? Quickascii (and './') may not be in your path, so you must put
In the picture, you can see the yellow composite (video) cable, and a white RCA sound (left and mono) cable. No stereo in these games, so the left is all you need.
My bad. Didn't see the 'Next Page' links at the bottom. On the 4th page, it's explained that the orbit of Tempel-Tuttle changes a little on it's next pass or two. We will probably miss the new trail.
However, there's a slight change we'll hit an old trail or two in 2033 or 2034.
This probably is the last chance till late this century for a Leonid storm. The Leonid shower still occurs every year, though.
You're a little wrong. The Leonid shower happens every year. Typically, the shower is 10 an hour. This is the last year we will probably seen an amazing show of up to 1000 an hour.
And the Tempel-Tuttle comes every 1/3 of a century. That's 33 years. The next should be around 2033.
It could be worse. You could have pointed out that there are no such things NSR-420Z plasma injectors or the junk yard dealer in episode 22F33 was a purple skinned asexual.
As far as wondering why they were shiny and yellow, no, I never did. I was pulling things from my ass. Years ago I'd pass out on the couch watching X-files reruns after a night out on the town. Deep Space 9 would come on afterwards. Guess my sleeping mind picked up on a few terms.
Personally, I think 'cold pressed' sounds better, more like a type of forging.
Ah, yes, but what happens when you're out on the edge of the Federation, you've had to dump your warp core, and when you take your shuttle craft to the local non-Federation trading post looking the a new core, the green-skinned junk yard dealer with the right model warp core wants two NSR-420Z plasma injectors and all you have is a NSR-350 injector, and she doesn't accept American Express?
These are the times when a few bars of cold pressed latinum would save your butt. But nooooooo, you're from The Federation. You don't believe in money.
Dune takes place 10,000 years after the Jihad.
The Jihad is sometime in the future.
Star Wars was "a long time ago."
Perhaps Arrakis == Tattoine!
As one of those people who commented on PhysicsGenius's mistake, it does essentially invalidate his first paragraph. It shows he doesn't understand Dune's place. Really, not a big deal, but to make such an obvious mistake in essentially a first post - he might as well have claimed that Winston Churchill stole policies from George W. Bush.
The rest of his thesis is a naive, too. The original Dune series was five books long. That was the series. The four new books, and up to six more, are the serialization of the Dune universe akin to what's happened with Star Wars and Star Trek novels. They're novels which can't be taken too seriously.
Plus it seems like a lot of the ambience was stolen from Star Wars (Tatooine anyone?).
Read Dune's copyright. Dune was published twelve years before Star Wars was released.
and what crack are you smoking? People had hacked the iPod to work with Windows shortly after it's release. To boot, Apple now sells a Windows version.
PS - Even if Apple moved OS X to the x86 family, you'd still have to buy an Apple PC.
Yep, parts break.
It'd be planned obsolesence but for a small fact: manufacturers make replacement parts. On top of that, it's cheaper to replace parts than to buy a new car.
Personally, my car is running fine, has never required any major work, and is going on a decade old.
what a silly article. it's an interview all about one man's opinion that DVDs hurt the box office because people don't go see movies four or five times like they used to. the journalist is completely uncritical of McCallum's ideas.
How many movies do inspire people to go see a movie four or five times in the theatre? Personally I saw Army of Darkness six times (mostly at the local second run). Closest runner ups are Star Wars, Fellowship of the Ring, and The Empire Strikes Back at three or four times. Other movies just aren't the kind of movie to go see several times.
Also, this is McCallum talking. None of my Star Wars geek friends went to see AotC more than three times. It just wasn't worth it. Most of them did go see Spider-Man three or four times. I think it says something. Make a good, entertaining movie, people will come.
He also raises the point that Hollywood can't survive on box office receipts. Hollywood needs to look at how much they spend on movies then. Use fewer expensive effects, spend less on marketing, pay actors less, stop flooding the market with crap. People still go to see movies in the the theater. Make movies to fit the money coming in.
Of course none of this matters. The rental market is a perfectly valid market, and back in the 80s McCallum's way of thinking went the way of the dodo. Hollywood thought the rental market would kill the box office. Nope, all it's done is add a repeat market.
"I'm not so sure about that. A large portion of the typical portable player audience is probably geeks."
This is strickly anecdotal. I'm in the tech field. I have plenty of friends who are tech workers. The only person I know with a portable MP3 player is my sis-in-law. She works in local professional and high school theatre, no where near a geek.
The article is down right so I'm pulling this from memory late last night after a looong weekend.
I interpreted RMS's comments as politicizing the kernel. RMS seemed to be saying the Linux kernel is such a bastion of the Free Software belief system it shouldn't use closed source tools. Torvalds, the creator and maintainer of the project, has said it isn't a political project. I see RMS attempting to co-opt the kernel, an apolitical project, for his political reasons.
Again, on the moral side of it, Torvalds doesn't hold those morals, that's why I see it as relevant that the kernel is his project. RMS is preaching his morals and pushing his morals on an amoral project. Torvalds doesn't hold your Free Software beliefs. He has no moral responsibility to suffer with lacking software (CVS or subversion).
RMS needs to recognize the pragmatists out there. Instead of attacking a pragmatic non-believer's blasphemous choice, he needs to see that his community is lacking the tools to support and convert the non-beliver.
Sorry, I just don't agree that insults are innapropriate. (As an American it could be cultura - we've been insulting politicians, business owners, and kings since day one). Okay, sure, we shouldn't say RMS's mom smells. Calling the man a fruit-cake is different as it expresses an opinion much like you're 'information-nazi.'
Valenti has the respect of Hollywood and holds more influence than you do. He has the respect of politicians. He has done more in the motion picture rating movement than any of us. He probably has a higher intelligence than most of us, too. You have no problem comparing him to Nazis, though.