I will buy only those albums which I have heard and which I enjoy all of. I do not buy albums which have 1 or 2 good songs.
How do you know if an album had *only* good songs? You had to hear it completely before you know you like all the songs, and if I recall well they only play the "best" song of the album on the radio. I actually *do* buy CD's for 1 or 2 good songs, and I often discovered songs on the album which I liked much better than the one I bought it for. Also I noticed that (when playing a CD often) you start to appreciate the "lesser" songs. Besides living in Europe, I have no clue how the RIAA (last A = American, no?) has influence over the music here. Of course there are probably similar institutions here...
I've got kids in my school who can barely use AOL burning CDs for a small profit, and their parents think its a good idea, because its more money for the kid to be buying some crappy Abercrambie & Fitch clothes. Our future is in these young people, who believe that violating IP law isn't a problem, and this worries outfits like the RIAA to no end.
I don't think that those kids are the problem. I mean, they don't have the money anyway to buy all the CD's they want (at least, I didn't when I was a kid) I understand them. I even explained how to burn CD's to my sister, but told her not to make profit (I said she could just ask the value of the raw CD rounded up.)
What really makes me mad are collega's at work that want to borrow your CDs, burn it, copy the cover on the fancy color copier at work and think it is okay. It is *not* okay, those guys *have* the money and should pay for the goods they want.
Even tough I *know* that perhaps only 1% of the price of a CD goes into the pocket of the artist, it is my way to thank them for their work that lightens up my life.
And yes, I know...I'm using two measures for the same thing, but is the way I feel.
Actually I managed to squeezed an OSR-1 version of Win95 into a 50Meg partition. That was a long time ago on a portable with 350Meg disk and it had also an OS/2 partition (god, I loved that operating system). Note to manage this I had to cheat a few things on the W95-installer, because it was always complaining of lack of diskspace. (I don't recall what I did, it's too long ago) I think your 25Meg estimation a bit on the low side but...you *could* be right
Yes, the swapfile was minuscule...and yes, you didn't want to install anything serious because of the registry inflating so fast. It was in my early days of Windows 95 and I did't want to ditch my beloved (and working) OS/2.
If I had known of Linux in those days...perhaps...I never would have been forced to move to W95.
Heh, you are right! I heard that over here in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg they have a Cray which does nothing more than run an Oracle database. They only bought it out of prestige and not because they needed it. It's a rumor...so it could be wrong of course. Crays are getting old nowadays anyway.
Sorry, yes...Thanx for pointing out my lack of accuracy. I should have been more clear. I won't flip my credit card for buying a book I won't enjoy reading (No, I don't like the horror genre) But then my sister loves Stephen Kings and well 1$ wound't be a bad investemnt to make her read more. *grin* Still considering;-)
Well, IMHO a nice initiative, though I won't flip out my creditcard for 1$.
Besides why pay for a book if you can read tons of books that are already in public domain now. Just go an look at Project Gutenberg. I actually paid for the complete works of Shakespear and now I know I could have gotting it for free.
But then nothing compares to reading the dead-tree version:-))))
I don't see the point in buying DVD while the regonal codes are still in effect. (I did't buy one yet and is is very unlikely I will in near future) If no consumer ever bothered buying a DVD-player it would die of a quick death. Considering the huge amount of money put into the development of the DVD technology, I guess that the first thing they would kick out, would be the regional codes...just to save on the $$$ they spent and eventually make it popular. As mentioned in a previous post, it would be easy by encoding region code 0 on all DVD's: no harware changes are hardware needed;-)
I don't understand it. The role of Mulder is crucial to the storyline. They can't replace the character, I mean he is the driving force behind the "search for truth". He openend the X-Files (got kicked of them later, I recon) He can't give up (that woudn't fit to the character) so he must die to be replaced. Besides the X-Files are a pain is his superiors a** and they would not replace him but just close the project down.
Scully woudn't be there without him, she would have probably just be some medical-legist-FBI-agent. I don't think she would continue the X-Files alone.
In summary, replacing Mulder is going to kill the series.
Latest TDI technology in Europe (at least for the Volkswagen A.G.) would be 115HP. You can see the HP by the colors on the letters of the TDI (At least on Audi, which I know most of). No red letter = 90 HP, The "I" of TDI is red = 110 HP and The "DI" of TDI = 115 HP
Does the author of the ars acticle actually knows what for a beast he got as a car;-) I woudn't even try to race him with my Audi TT (225HP)...oh, and that one really sucks on fuel usage:-(((
I actually live in one of the (few?) countries where voting is compulsory. So perhaps one might think this would be the solution because everybody would have to make up his mind and is forced to think about the important things for his/her country. Well, it is how it is meant to work ...But (you knew there would be a "but", didn't you?") It just doesn't work at all: Joe Sixpack hates to get up early on a sunday too vote or even worse perhaps he gets picked to *count* the votes. Oh hell, no! So what will Joe Sixpack do? He'll vote right wing, or green (nothing against the green folks) or another minority without even knowing what he is voting for...and that just to p**s off the established parties.
Oops....I guess I'm already a "Texing"-junkie. (It's actually called SMS-junkie) I live in Europe and actually it's the only thing I do with my cellphone.
I actually find it a cheap way to communicate with my friends that live in other countries because it is very cheap. (1 SMS = 255 chars or so = 13Euro cent..about 12 US cent) A voice-contact normally lasts longer and thus costs a lot more, even when not using cellphones.
Tough driving and using a cellphone -in any way- should be illegal in any country, IMHO.
Actually it is not that stupid to take a (standard?) work and put a myriad of different language versions on it. The original rosetta stone contained 3 times (or was it 2 times) the same text which ultimately led to deciphring an unknown language since one of the languages was known. Imagine a future where perhaps Swahili still exists in some form, they find the Rosetta-Disk and are able to decipher English and suddenly those awkward paper thingies get readable as the works of Shakespeare... (Okay, paper would have decomposed by then, but you get the idea) Now, that would be cool...for those future archeologists of course;-)
Sorry, but I cannot fathom what's so hard about two buttons. It's pretty simple... the left does all the usual clicking things, the right brings up context menus to select things from. How difficult is that? It takes, what, a few minutes to learn? Maybe a few more to get proficient at? Its use and usability FAR outweighs any alleged 'difficulty' in learning it.
I have a whole cluster of Jane-Sixpacks who call me all the time for really stupid things (well, we consider them stupid). You clearly never had to troubleshoot those kind of users by phone: just to try explain that to format an image in M$ Word they have to right click on it, ("Right Click? What do you mean?") to bring up a context-menu ("What is a contextmenu?") and select "Properties" (Oh, did I mention they use a french Word which makes it only more difficult because I have an English one) I know there is the menu-alternative, but hey...I don't know Word very well anyway;-)
This reminds me of something happened during my CS studies: I had to see the sysadmin for my account and only had the persons name "Chris *whatever*". So I want to the persons office and there only sat a rather attractive girl and I asked if "Is chris *whatever* here? I need *him* to fix my account" - Reply: "I am *chris"....I think I was never more embarrassed! Probably just says how stupid I am.
Hey, I am a geek...well I think I am. And I love to keep my good old P120 running instead of buying (every two months) the latest Thunderbird/Pentium4/Transmeta/whatever.
What you say about cars and women is not true: I drive an Audi TT which is considered a sports car (well where I live) and it didn't help me getting a woman in no way.
Oh, and (I know it is not on this post), what is everyone bitching about personal hygiene of geeks? I shower everyday...the only thing I loathe is shaving.
I don't think opensourcing or even "free" without opensourcing will make any money...and I don't think it is meant that way. I now even get announcements mails (in my corporate mailbox) that staroffice 5.2 is out from our marketing division. (I knew that weeks before, but well), even tough we have an association (Yuk) with the evil empire. People start to *want* free software for their computers, sooner or later they'll take the step! This will only benefit the open-source movement, IMHO.
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How do you know if an album had *only* good songs? You had to hear it completely before you know you like all the songs, and if I recall well they only play the "best" song of the album on the radio.
I actually *do* buy CD's for 1 or 2 good songs, and I often discovered songs on the album which I liked much better than the one I bought it for. Also I noticed that (when playing a CD often) you start to appreciate the "lesser" songs.
Besides living in Europe, I have no clue how the RIAA (last A = American, no?) has influence over the music here. Of course there are probably similar institutions here...
I don't think that those kids are the problem. I mean, they don't have the money anyway to buy all the CD's they want (at least, I didn't when I was a kid) I understand them. I even explained how to burn CD's to my sister, but told her not to make profit (I said she could just ask the value of the raw CD rounded up.)
What really makes me mad are collega's at work that want to borrow your CDs, burn it, copy the cover on the fancy color copier at work and think it is okay. It is *not* okay, those guys *have* the money and should pay for the goods they want.
Even tough I *know* that perhaps only 1% of the price of a CD goes into the pocket of the artist, it is my way to thank them for their work that lightens up my life.
And yes, I know...I'm using two measures for the same thing, but is the way I feel.
Yes, the swapfile was minuscule...and yes, you didn't want to install anything serious because of the registry inflating so fast. It was in my early days of Windows 95 and I did't want to ditch my beloved (and working) OS/2.
If I had known of Linux in those days...perhaps...I never would have been forced to move to W95.
I was...thank you for the translation :-)
Heh, you are right! I heard that over here in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg they have a Cray which does nothing more than run an Oracle database. They only bought it out of prestige and not because they needed it. It's a rumor...so it could be wrong of course.
Crays are getting old nowadays anyway.
...ILOVEYOU virus up there. I bet it's VisualBasic-DNA woudn't deteriorate at all ;-)
But then my sister loves Stephen Kings and well 1$ wound't be a bad investemnt to make her read more. *grin* Still considering
Oh, and for the goldbar? Was that on ebay? ;-)
Besides why pay for a book if you can read tons of books that are already in public domain now. Just go an look at Project Gutenberg. I actually paid for the complete works of Shakespear and now I know I could have gotting it for free.
But then nothing compares to reading the dead-tree version :-))))
- Actually it is often referred to as "SI", which means "Système International". Well we called it that way in Physics class...long time ago tough
;-) - True...Never tell a Scotsman he his English
;-) Nor a Welsh ;-) - Agree... IIRCC, the www was "invented" in a swiss institution (CERN) which is clearly not American. (Tough it is an international institute)
I tried to find who defined the current system of domain-naming but coudn't find anything.I don't see the point in buying DVD while the regonal codes are still in effect. (I did't buy one yet and is is very unlikely I will in near future) If no consumer ever bothered buying a DVD-player it would die of a quick death. Considering the huge amount of money put into the development of the DVD technology, I guess that the first thing they would kick out, would be the regional codes...just to save on the $$$ they spent and eventually make it popular. ;-)
As mentioned in a previous post, it would be easy by encoding region code 0 on all DVD's: no harware changes are hardware needed
They can't replace the character, I mean he is the driving force behind the "search for truth". He openend the X-Files (got kicked of them later, I recon) He can't give up (that woudn't fit to the character) so he must die to be replaced. Besides the X-Files are a pain is his superiors a** and they would not replace him but just close the project down.
Scully woudn't be there without him, she would have probably just be some medical-legist-FBI-agent. I don't think she would continue the X-Files alone.
In summary, replacing Mulder is going to kill the series.
You can see the HP by the colors on the letters of the TDI (At least on Audi, which I know most of). No red letter = 90 HP, The "I" of TDI is red = 110 HP and The "DI" of TDI = 115 HP
Does the author of the ars acticle actually knows what for a beast he got as a car ;-) I woudn't even try to race him with my Audi TT (225HP)...oh, and that one really sucks on fuel usage :-(((
-> Lives in Europe and fuel is EXPENSIVE!
Where can I get those pins? I need a 6-pack of them...now! :-P
I actually live in one of the (few?) countries where voting is compulsory. So perhaps one might think this would be the solution because everybody would have to make up his mind and is forced to think about the important things for his/her country. Well, it is how it is meant to work
...But (you knew there would be a "but", didn't you?") It just doesn't work at all: Joe Sixpack hates to get up early on a sunday too vote or even worse perhaps he gets picked to *count* the votes. Oh hell, no! So what will Joe Sixpack do? He'll vote right wing, or green (nothing against the green folks) or another minority without even knowing what he is voting for...and that just to p**s off the established parties.
You forgot the animated paperclip ;-)
Al Bundy would love those ;-)
God! I want to live in Japan... ;-)
Beeeeeep! Oh, great a message!...Oh no, again that boring Tamagotchi
I actually find it a cheap way to communicate with my friends that live in other countries because it is very cheap. (1 SMS = 255 chars or so = 13Euro cent..about 12 US cent) A voice-contact normally lasts longer and thus costs a lot more, even when not using cellphones.
Tough driving and using a cellphone -in any way- should be illegal in any country, IMHO.
Actually it is not that stupid to take a (standard?) work and put a myriad of different language versions on it. The original rosetta stone contained 3 times (or was it 2 times) the same text which ultimately led to deciphring an unknown language since one of the languages was known. ;-)
Imagine a future where perhaps Swahili still exists in some form, they find the Rosetta-Disk and are able to decipher English and suddenly those awkward paper thingies get readable as the works of Shakespeare... (Okay, paper would have decomposed by then, but you get the idea)
Now, that would be cool...for those future archeologists of course
I have a whole cluster of Jane-Sixpacks who call me all the time for really stupid things (well, we consider them stupid). You clearly never had to troubleshoot those kind of users by phone: just to try explain that to format an image in M$ Word they have to right click on it, ("Right Click? What do you mean?") to bring up a context-menu ("What is a contextmenu?") and select "Properties" (Oh, did I mention they use a french Word which makes it only more difficult because I have an English one) ;-)
I know there is the menu-alternative, but hey...I don't know Word very well anyway
This reminds me of something happened during my CS studies: I had to see the sysadmin for my account and only had the persons name "Chris *whatever*". So I want to the persons office and there only sat a rather attractive girl and I asked if "Is chris *whatever* here? I need *him* to fix my account" - Reply: "I am *chris"....I think I was never more embarrassed!
Probably just says how stupid I am.
Hey, I am a geek...well I think I am. And I love to keep my good old P120 running instead of buying (every two months) the latest Thunderbird/Pentium4/Transmeta/whatever.
What you say about cars and women is not true: I drive an Audi TT which is considered a sports car (well where I live) and it didn't help me getting a woman in no way.
Oh, and (I know it is not on this post), what is everyone bitching about personal hygiene of geeks? I shower everyday...the only thing I loathe is shaving.
I don't think opensourcing or even "free" without opensourcing will make any money...and I don't think it is meant that way.
I now even get announcements mails (in my corporate mailbox) that staroffice 5.2 is out from our marketing division. (I knew that weeks before, but well), even tough we have an association (Yuk) with the evil empire.
People start to *want* free software for their computers, sooner or later they'll take the step! This will only benefit the open-source movement, IMHO.