Do psychotic killers now average under five feet in height?
If they want them to be less noticable then put them on the bottom shelf. After all, when they put Corn Flakes on the bottom shelf, the sales dropped like 70%.
Then again perhaps they're going for the never look up notion. My sister was never too bright in her youth - if I wanted to hide something from her all I'd have to do is put it slightly above eye level.
It would take too long to explain everything but suffice to say the Band I was in in College had a crew in public loading and unloading instruments from an 18-wheeler truck before a football game, and to get into things this crew (friends of mine, but I wasn't on the crew) had nicknames on their shirts. One was called "Gasmaster" because... he farted a lot. Was his trademark. Could peel paint and clear rooms with it. Another got the name "Gestapo" because he looked a little Aryan (white, blonde hair, blue eyes) and was mean as Hell.
The Band Director got an angry letter from an elterly Jewish woman who nearly had a heart attack when she saw "Gestapo" and the "Gasmaster" standing next to each other. He was going to make them change the names, but since this was sort of a one-time freak occurence in another state, he dropped it.
What, exactly, is the ".NET platform" that you mention twice, and how does it differ from.NET?
I.e., what's the difference between.NET programming and developing using the.NET platform?
Of course, from what we've learned, with major record labels, the label keeps $.80 of the price, so this deal, if every single song is redeemed and done so on a RIAA song (I don't know that all RIAA labels keep the $.80 but it might be a safe assumption), then the RIAA labels make $800,000,000 off of this deal.
And Apple makes $190,000,000. Not chump change, but nowhere near a billion dollars. Plus Apple has to pay for bandwidth and hardware to meet that demand (I think a billion downloads would fry even well-ventilated Beowulf clusters, to say nothing of G5's).
Still, perhaps this is the economy of scale boost needed to finally win over the old RIAA.
And to think it all came from McDonald's and Pepsi.
I say the most nagging problem is those commercials they put out with the napster cat dancing around.
Really? I'd say that was the most interesting part of the whole deal. I've only seen like one or two on TV but at the NapsterBits site, they have all of the commercials. They're surprisingly funny and satirical about the music industry (especially the one where the cat walks in on the record execs trying to kill each other).
I think that once we heard all our favorite ways of pirating music were going away we were all pissed. Now that we're starting to all come around to the idea that perhaps a low cost service wouldn't be so bad, we're more likely to give Napster 2.0 a chance (especially since it looks like no one will pay to have their bandwidth used).
Actually, I'd be willing to bet that WinFX won't be the final name of it - probably.NET 2.0 or something. After all, we all know the next OS won't be called "Longhorn", it'll be Windows XP2 or something. Of course, MS' tendency is to use code names of things like spurs from mountains in the Seattle area, which I'm sure "WinFX" isn't, so perhaps they're serious. For now.
What this moron failed to realize is where terrorist are obsessed on hurting and promoting Fear (uncertainty, and doubt?), Linux zealots are obsessed with making better software, helping people and making the world a better place.
Well since I have karma to burn...
Linux users are just as good as others at spreading FUD. Notice how, despite repeated attempts to inform them of how benign the IRM is in Office 2003 (it's not on by default, it requires Windows Server 2003, it actually is quite useful to businesses and is a feature which makes Office 2003 more attractive than OpenOffice), many are keen to make a big deal out of it, how MS is "deciding your fate for you", how it's only for "the evil corporations like Enron", etc. They take one shred of uninformed evidence and make it into a molehill because they can't stand that MS has the Office marketplace cornered.
Also notice how when a Linux company becomes big and successful, they get turned on (Red Hat, Tivo) Any time a company tries to make Linux a viable mainstream alternative (Lindows, Xandros), they're chastised for charging money or catering to the drooling masses.
Perhaps they want to make the world a better place, but there's no one defined view of that world. They want to help the old lady across the street - unless she wants to cross the street to go buy Microsoft software.
Keep in mind the 2 N64 zelda's were bundled with Wind Waker
Actually the two games bundled with Wind Waker were Ocarina of Time and Ocarina of Time: Master Quest. This disc will have Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, so Master Quest is still exclusive to the earlier disc.
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Microsoft's Windows 9x operating systems aren't that great for much other than running legacy DOS apps.
Yeah but it is supporting Windows 95. I think the original poster found it odd that 98/ME was excluded, seemingly specifically. How 95 could be better is anyone's guess.
Don't put DRM that could screw over the systems of unsuspecting customers, your biggest market? (since every American has to pay taxes) Ok, fair enough. Some DRM goes too far.
But if the lesson is "don't use copy protection - embrace rampant piracy" then I have to disagree. We have a double edged sword here - digital mediums are easy to use and easy to abuse. I see copy protection as a reminder that you have to pay for each copy of something you use, unless the EULA says otherwise (and theirs will be amended, I see). I don't see it as a presumption of guilt. There were like 15 million TurboTax returns in 2001 - and 5.5 million copies of TurboTax sold.
And because I didn't want to have to unhose my Wife's PC I pointed her to TaxCut. She hated it. She cursed me for making her use it. Parts of it weren't even on the CD and wouldn't be available online for months when we did our taxes (January or so). When I told her of what TurboTax could do, she didn't care. She said it would be worth the risk. Fortunately most people don't think like her.
Could you ever? These movie theaters keep like 10% of the ticket, so the concession stand is their bread and butter (no pun intended). As much as people bitch about their prices and tactics in this area, if people didn't bite then they'd go out of business.
How are you supposed to tell me that a linux iso isn't going to overload your "high bandwidth"?
Yeah but isn't what hoses bandwidth not so much downloading but uploading? I download something at 180k and my Wife on our same network doesn't notice much, but when I open up a BitTorrent session that also uploads at 25k, things crawl. Downloading a Linux ISO isn't uploading (unless you use a BT to do that, too). Besides, you don't download Linux ISO's 24x7, but people do with music.
The main thing is the number of people who do it. If you have cable or DSL, the odds are really good that not everyone else in your neighboorhood is doing P2P. But at a college campus, nearly every kid is doing P2P. That's the rate of incidence that creates a problem. Those who really dislike it can move off campus. Plus, notice how it's really bad at the beginning of a year - all the freshmen are used to doing P2P at home with no problem.
The ones I'm thinking of have JEJ, but now that I think about it some of the recent ones probably have someone else. Yeah since JEJ is the voice of CNN I presume MS could find his price (these are the guys who forked over the millions to the Rolling Stones for the Windows 95 campaign).
Well remember the PS2's "PS9" commercials? Everyone was like "WTF?". Still, PS2 is the #1 console today.
To me, Nintendo is marketing the fact that they're still Nintendo after all these years. People oftentimes are unhappy in the present, and the future is a scary proposition, so they generally take solace in the past. Look at all the 80's revival shows on VH1, the new Garbage Pail Kids cards, retrogaming, etc. People love being reminded of all the cool stuff about their youth (as opposed to the crappy things) and that, to me, is what Nintendo is selling. They're saying "Hi, we're Nintendo, and we still make games with Mario, Donkey Kong, the Princess, etc. Come buy a GameCube for $99 and remember what these games are like."
Plus to me the Nintendo ads have style. Xbox ads are always MTV music videos with James Earl Jones at the end. Nintendo's ads are like those pieces of art most people don't get. Besides, everyone talks about them and remembers them - and remembers Nintendo. Pretty effective ads if you ask me.
Then again Sega's consoles always had pretty cool ads....
It's one thing for a headhunter/recruiter/placement firm to get your resume, say "well we'll keep your resume on file and keep in touch" and you never hear from them again. Perhaps they've tossed it or neglected you. Perhaps they really never come across anything you'd be qualified for. Perhaps they're incompetent. In any event, some would describe this as "dishonest" (the dishonesty being that they will call you back)
I guess the other side of the coin is headhunters who lie to get people in positions they have no business being in. Since so many in IT complain about being employed or what I described in the previous paragraph, I assume this isn't usually the case.
When I went switching jobs recently I ran across a number of headhunters that were either difficult to work with or were shady. Some, I'm convinced, took the attitude that it would be easier to point people to real jobs than hold one themselves. One person even called me a few times and when I didn't pan out to his position's needs, he asked if I knew anyone else who would - like I was going to help him do his job and get someone else employed in the meantime.
But the answer to "have I personally used an honest headhunter" is yes. A company called Robert Half Technology. I had applied for a CarrerBuilder post of theirs and they had me come in and take some tests. Then they pitched me to jobs based off of that. Though it took a couple months, they would call me every week or so with progress on their search - which meant little to me at the time since I wasn't relying on them. But then one day they called to ask if I could interview the next day. The company handed me the job on the spot and I was employed via contract the next week. I'm still working the gig and going permanent next month.
Well that would be Metallica. And why? Well it's because they have a good record contract - they stand to see more than $1 or $2 from a CD sale. TMBG on the other hand left their label (Elektra, oddly enough Metallica's label) over a contract dispute.
TMBG goes on to reissue old albums through eMusic and signs to a smaller label, while Metallica sets up a desparate MP3 bootleg site.
I didn't mean to imply that TMBG can't fill a concert - I know they're fanatically popular (I'm a fan myself). I just mean to say that for one thing I don't see them being able to fill, for example, Texas Stadium. They're not the kind of group that can fill arenas. A group like KISS is. For another thing, TMBG doesn't strike me as a group that would translate well to a massively large venue. Metallica has furious noise and pyrotechnics, TMBG has (had) giant thumbs and occasionally a full group. Does anyone remember the Behind the Music with Styx? Remember when Styx tried to do the entire Killroy Was Here show (a theater drama) in an arena? Mind boggling.
I won't lie and say I've completely kept up with this SCO thing, but I was always under the impression it was a handful of lines of code in question - like maybe IBM put them there by accident. SCO is telling Renaissance that all of Linux is a branch of UNIX. So is SCO really alleging that there's tons and tons of lines of UNIX code? Or was that just a lie for Renaissance, and they're giving a different story as to why they need $699 from everyone?
An artist to play for the public, to have tours around the world, yes!
The Rolling Stones have made $1.5 Billion since 1989, and you can bet it's not through album sales - it's from concerts with $75 tickets. The flaw in this plan though is that the reason they can sell tix at $75 a pop is because they're the Rolling Stones.
And not everyone can go this route - some acts don't translate well to the live stage. Metallica fills arenas - They Might Be Giants don't. Plus it's hardly a guarantee - I'm a huge music fan and have yet to go to a concert in my life.
...the kids are told that the best way to sell their albums is to tounge-kiss someone of the same sex on stage.
Or maybe they're told that they wouldn't get much from the sale of their album anyway and they're not much worse off.
Or maybe they're told that the only way to make money would be to whore themselves out to cola companies for their commercials, or to be a member of a preassembled boy/girl group.
Bottom line - perhaps it needs to be emphasized that pirating music is wrong, but it's not like the record industry is a bastion of morality.
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Then again perhaps they're going for the never look up notion. My sister was never too bright in her youth - if I wanted to hide something from her all I'd have to do is put it slightly above eye level.
It would take too long to explain everything but suffice to say the Band I was in in College had a crew in public loading and unloading instruments from an 18-wheeler truck before a football game, and to get into things this crew (friends of mine, but I wasn't on the crew) had nicknames on their shirts. One was called "Gasmaster" because... he farted a lot. Was his trademark. Could peel paint and clear rooms with it. Another got the name "Gestapo" because he looked a little Aryan (white, blonde hair, blue eyes) and was mean as Hell.
The Band Director got an angry letter from an elterly Jewish woman who nearly had a heart attack when she saw "Gestapo" and the "Gasmaster" standing next to each other. He was going to make them change the names, but since this was sort of a one-time freak occurence in another state, he dropped it.
Well let's see:
1,000,000,000 songs at $.99 each is $990,000,000
Of course, from what we've learned, with major record labels, the label keeps $.80 of the price, so this deal, if every single song is redeemed and done so on a RIAA song (I don't know that all RIAA labels keep the $.80 but it might be a safe assumption), then the RIAA labels make $800,000,000 off of this deal.
And Apple makes $190,000,000. Not chump change, but nowhere near a billion dollars. Plus Apple has to pay for bandwidth and hardware to meet that demand (I think a billion downloads would fry even well-ventilated Beowulf clusters, to say nothing of G5's).
Still, perhaps this is the economy of scale boost needed to finally win over the old RIAA.
And to think it all came from McDonald's and Pepsi.
I think that once we heard all our favorite ways of pirating music were going away we were all pissed. Now that we're starting to all come around to the idea that perhaps a low cost service wouldn't be so bad, we're more likely to give Napster 2.0 a chance (especially since it looks like no one will pay to have their bandwidth used).
Actually, I'd be willing to bet that WinFX won't be the final name of it - probably .NET 2.0 or something. After all, we all know the next OS won't be called "Longhorn", it'll be Windows XP2 or something. Of course, MS' tendency is to use code names of things like spurs from mountains in the Seattle area, which I'm sure "WinFX" isn't, so perhaps they're serious. For now.
Linux users are just as good as others at spreading FUD. Notice how, despite repeated attempts to inform them of how benign the IRM is in Office 2003 (it's not on by default, it requires Windows Server 2003, it actually is quite useful to businesses and is a feature which makes Office 2003 more attractive than OpenOffice), many are keen to make a big deal out of it, how MS is "deciding your fate for you", how it's only for "the evil corporations like Enron", etc. They take one shred of uninformed evidence and make it into a molehill because they can't stand that MS has the Office marketplace cornered.
Also notice how when a Linux company becomes big and successful, they get turned on (Red Hat, Tivo) Any time a company tries to make Linux a viable mainstream alternative (Lindows, Xandros), they're chastised for charging money or catering to the drooling masses.
Perhaps they want to make the world a better place, but there's no one defined view of that world. They want to help the old lady across the street - unless she wants to cross the street to go buy Microsoft software.
Perhaps he was referring to the forthcoming Napster 2.0 which is essentially using MS' DRM for WMA.
It's Xbox. Not X-Box.
(you insensitive clod)
Don't put DRM that could screw over the systems of unsuspecting customers, your biggest market? (since every American has to pay taxes) Ok, fair enough. Some DRM goes too far.
But if the lesson is "don't use copy protection - embrace rampant piracy" then I have to disagree. We have a double edged sword here - digital mediums are easy to use and easy to abuse. I see copy protection as a reminder that you have to pay for each copy of something you use, unless the EULA says otherwise (and theirs will be amended, I see). I don't see it as a presumption of guilt. There were like 15 million TurboTax returns in 2001 - and 5.5 million copies of TurboTax sold.
And because I didn't want to have to unhose my Wife's PC I pointed her to TaxCut. She hated it. She cursed me for making her use it. Parts of it weren't even on the CD and wouldn't be available online for months when we did our taxes (January or so). When I told her of what TurboTax could do, she didn't care. She said it would be worth the risk. Fortunately most people don't think like her.
Just use the online version of TurboTax, I say.
Probably the same urge that makes people want to see which famous old movies Pink Floyd albums synchronize with.
Ideal Director: Terry Gilliam
Ideal Narrrarator: John Cleese
Ideal Arthur Dent: Cary Elwes
Ideal Ford Prefect: Tony Slattery (watch old Whose Line Is It Anyway? episodes on Comedy Central to see what I mean)
Ideal Slartibartfast: Sean Connery (imagine "It was made from the rib cage of a stegosaurus!" in a Scottish accent)
Everyone else is negotiable.
The main thing is the number of people who do it. If you have cable or DSL, the odds are really good that not everyone else in your neighboorhood is doing P2P. But at a college campus, nearly every kid is doing P2P. That's the rate of incidence that creates a problem. Those who really dislike it can move off campus. Plus, notice how it's really bad at the beginning of a year - all the freshmen are used to doing P2P at home with no problem.
The ones I'm thinking of have JEJ, but now that I think about it some of the recent ones probably have someone else. Yeah since JEJ is the voice of CNN I presume MS could find his price (these are the guys who forked over the millions to the Rolling Stones for the Windows 95 campaign).
To me, Nintendo is marketing the fact that they're still Nintendo after all these years. People oftentimes are unhappy in the present, and the future is a scary proposition, so they generally take solace in the past. Look at all the 80's revival shows on VH1, the new Garbage Pail Kids cards, retrogaming, etc. People love being reminded of all the cool stuff about their youth (as opposed to the crappy things) and that, to me, is what Nintendo is selling. They're saying "Hi, we're Nintendo, and we still make games with Mario, Donkey Kong, the Princess, etc. Come buy a GameCube for $99 and remember what these games are like."
Plus to me the Nintendo ads have style. Xbox ads are always MTV music videos with James Earl Jones at the end. Nintendo's ads are like those pieces of art most people don't get. Besides, everyone talks about them and remembers them - and remembers Nintendo. Pretty effective ads if you ask me.
Then again Sega's consoles always had pretty cool ads....
It's one thing for a headhunter/recruiter/placement firm to get your resume, say "well we'll keep your resume on file and keep in touch" and you never hear from them again. Perhaps they've tossed it or neglected you. Perhaps they really never come across anything you'd be qualified for. Perhaps they're incompetent. In any event, some would describe this as "dishonest" (the dishonesty being that they will call you back)
I guess the other side of the coin is headhunters who lie to get people in positions they have no business being in. Since so many in IT complain about being employed or what I described in the previous paragraph, I assume this isn't usually the case.
When I went switching jobs recently I ran across a number of headhunters that were either difficult to work with or were shady. Some, I'm convinced, took the attitude that it would be easier to point people to real jobs than hold one themselves. One person even called me a few times and when I didn't pan out to his position's needs, he asked if I knew anyone else who would - like I was going to help him do his job and get someone else employed in the meantime.
But the answer to "have I personally used an honest headhunter" is yes. A company called Robert Half Technology. I had applied for a CarrerBuilder post of theirs and they had me come in and take some tests. Then they pitched me to jobs based off of that. Though it took a couple months, they would call me every week or so with progress on their search - which meant little to me at the time since I wasn't relying on them. But then one day they called to ask if I could interview the next day. The company handed me the job on the spot and I was employed via contract the next week. I'm still working the gig and going permanent next month.
TMBG goes on to reissue old albums through eMusic and signs to a smaller label, while Metallica sets up a desparate MP3 bootleg site.
I didn't mean to imply that TMBG can't fill a concert - I know they're fanatically popular (I'm a fan myself). I just mean to say that for one thing I don't see them being able to fill, for example, Texas Stadium. They're not the kind of group that can fill arenas. A group like KISS is. For another thing, TMBG doesn't strike me as a group that would translate well to a massively large venue. Metallica has furious noise and pyrotechnics, TMBG has (had) giant thumbs and occasionally a full group. Does anyone remember the Behind the Music with Styx? Remember when Styx tried to do the entire Killroy Was Here show (a theater drama) in an arena? Mind boggling.
I won't lie and say I've completely kept up with this SCO thing, but I was always under the impression it was a handful of lines of code in question - like maybe IBM put them there by accident. SCO is telling Renaissance that all of Linux is a branch of UNIX. So is SCO really alleging that there's tons and tons of lines of UNIX code? Or was that just a lie for Renaissance, and they're giving a different story as to why they need $699 from everyone?
And not everyone can go this route - some acts don't translate well to the live stage. Metallica fills arenas - They Might Be Giants don't. Plus it's hardly a guarantee - I'm a huge music fan and have yet to go to a concert in my life.
Or maybe they're told that they wouldn't get much from the sale of their album anyway and they're not much worse off.
Or maybe they're told that the only way to make money would be to whore themselves out to cola companies for their commercials, or to be a member of a preassembled boy/girl group.
Bottom line - perhaps it needs to be emphasized that pirating music is wrong, but it's not like the record industry is a bastion of morality.