Many of us have the same idea. Here was mine in a separate post:
Ok music industry.
Here is what I want:
A service, maybe $5 a month subscription fee, plus $.10 to $.25 for each song I purchase/download. Or you can keep things how they are and I will spend
the money amongst few artists. Seeing as I buy most of my music in the form of used CD's and from truly independant labels you ain't seeing much of my business anyways. The above scenario may just change that.
Wonder if the music companies ever listen. Of course these scenarios mean that musicians can start a unified label to distribute their music in just this fashion and bypass the middle man all together.
A service, maybe $5 a month subscription fee, plus $.10 to $.25 for each song I purchase/download. Or you can keep things how they are and I will spend the money amongst few artists. Seeing as I buy most of my music in the form of used CD's and from truly independant labels you ain't seeing much of my business anyways. The above scenario may just change that.
Not always. Come to Baltimore where the Unions leaned on Politicians not to prosecute a crooked cop caught on camera framing an innocent black man with a bag of crack. It was a police sting and you can read various articles about it in the Baltimore sun. Unions only enforce Discrimination against management. When it is perpetrated by their own members it is ignored.
Maybe workers that desire a union should unite and start their own company that incorporates the values they hold so dear. Then compete with the companies managed by "evil" people.
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It is funny. Every big lawsuit (government antitrust or trial lawyer class action) seems to have a movie released around the same time.
The Insider (Tobacco)
Antitrust (MSFT)
Forget name, but the movie on HBO about the two doctors who did the first breast implants.
What next a Movie about cell phones causing cancer. Godzilla versus the Asbestos creature.
July of 2000 - Not! (Ahhh it is already years late what is an extra few months)
On the verge of fall 2000 Yes! But it is just a beta.
January of 2001 - Nope not yet.
End of March 2001 - we will see?
Anyhow, pay $129; no you can't get it as a preloaded option on a new machine. Just put that new machine purchase off until July 2001 - if you believe that date. Better yet buy OS X in March (if we deliver - we must play with the GUI some more), then get it free with a new machine sometime around July. For your pleasure, we will offer Planet of The Apes Trailers in QuickTime while you wait. The release of the remake will be out before you see OS X preloaded on a new machine.
Just finish the damned OS. Frustrated Mac users, like myself, will be more than pleased.
You are right. The public education system fails more than just African-Americans. I was just trying to highlight the fact that MSFT may have done nothing wrong at all and the root of the problem may be elsewhere.
By the way, I'm white.
You highlight some important points. One is that while there is a positive side to Affirmative Action there are negative implications as well. e.g. he/she got it to that school because of his/her color.
Second, education is a big deal. I went to public school in a city and the quality of education sucked. Consider yourself lucky to have had programming classes. I had zero, zip, nada. I now and taking prog classes on top of a full time job. Fact is, the government is failing the African-American community by providing crappy educations. Probably far more than MSFT may be.
Can the African-American community sue uncle sam for damages or can the king do no wrong?
It is true it does.
Anyways I am still setting up a Linux box on an old IBM Aptiva that I got for free. Linux Mandrake on a Pentium 75mhz. Should be a real screamer.
Personally Chip speed means squat. I want OS stability and so do many others. OS X will spur more mac sales than chip speed alone.
Kudos to the great pro nuclear comments. If the general public would understand nuclear power better and its risks relative to coal they would be more accepting. Furthermore, I believe the environment would be cleaner. Coal is awful for the environ and it accounts for most of the electric capacity. Coal mining pollutes the water and wrecks the land. It emits co2, which is a greenhouse gas. Miners die of black lung disease, mine cave ins, and explosions. Pollution scrubbed out of smokestacks need disposal.
Yes nuclear does produce waste, but it can be contained with less environ impact than that of coal. What represents a pinprick on the map of the US can store a lot of nuclear waste. Coal devastates far more space (eg. a lot of the state of WV).
Lastly, nuclear waste does not spontaneously explode like a nuclear bomb unlike a depiction in a crummy made for tv movie that people probably take for fact. Nor do plants themselves.
You may not have to. I have been the part of three class action suits over the past 5 years. I never signed up for any of them. One was a Blue Cross Blue Shield suit in Maryland. The other was a Sprint Spectrum cell phone suit. The most recent was against my credit card company.
My total lifetime winnings: $1.84 - and yes they sent checks for $1.10 and one for.74 cents. Oh and I got to trade my sprint phone for the same phone using a different standard. I can't wait to hit the mother load one day. Wonder how much the lawyers got? I know my health insurance premiums went up more than $1.10, where the suit subject matter was for overpayment of insurance premiums. Trial lawyers will destroy the world.
It is a little of both. My main gripe is the desktop implementation and the Dock. The new finder is pretty cool as I am getting used to it and figuring out its new powers. The Dev tools are kick butt and I hope certain dev apps are free or cheap when the final version comes out.
OS X Dock Summary = move mouse pointer to bottom of screen -- move mouse pointer to top of screen -- move mouse pointer to bottom of screen -- move mouse pointer to top of screen -- you will repeat until blue in the face or what may become known as the BFOD (Blue Face of Death). Maybe there is an easier way, I will try and find it. But I miss the app switcher.
It will only make sense if Apple sells their software to other manufacturers to put on x86 machines. Much higher margins on software. Plus Apple could kick butt in the mid price to expensive PC arena with their industrial design skills. Though it might be difficult to fit huge Intel chips inside an 8 inch cube.
Ok so we should yank money away from the top 10% (which includes incomes of about $90 - 100k a year >> hardly rich if you work 60 hours a week to get it) and give it to the bottom and middle rungs? I think the system is fine and am not in the richest 10%. I could care less how rich some in the top are.
Because Gore holds out hope that I can finally be lazy. I can't wait for free government health insurance, which will be one less barrier to my semi-retirment at age 32. Then I just need the government to pay my mortagage, cable TV bill, and cable internet bill. Then I will have near zero incentive to do anything but work two days out of the week. That way I will have a little spending money for the finer things in life like beer and gas. Oh, and I think they should provide everyone with a car because it is only fair and it will benefit the woman and children.
Isn't Capitalism trickle-down at it's very core? I have capital, and start a company. If successful I can conduct more business and hire more employees thus creating jobs. That is wealth trickling down no matter how you look at it. Then all of the employees at that company go to McDonald's for lunch thus supporting the people that work there. Seems like this trickle down thing has been working for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Agreed. It would have been more useful to put a comparision there to other forms of radiation exposure. For example, you are subjected to radiation just by hanging out in Grand Central Station in NYC. The radiation comes from the granite. The list goes on flying, x-rays etc...
I am a mac user and just loaded OS X PB. It is not the same experience as the old GUI. The biggest thing to get used to is how you work through the file structure in the finder. It is not the same as I am used to on OS 8.6 and 9. This is because it follows the UNIX file structure. We may hear some complaints in this area. On one window where I was trying to open a file there is the GUI with the pop-down menu, but I could not get to the file which was in my OS 9 folder. My OS 9 folder was hire up in the file tree near root. The open file window started at my Home~ directory with no apparent easy GUI way to move up. Well there is a box beneath this theat has "Go To:____". I typed in / and it moved me up to the root directory and lo and behold there was my OS 9 folder.
So yes there may be some very confused Mac users. I need to do more exploration as I just loaded it last night.
Look for a review on my website which may be up late tonight or tomorrow. >> uJoda.com
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Here is what I want:
A service, maybe $5 a month subscription fee, plus $.10 to $.25 for each song I purchase/download. Or you can keep things how they are and I will spend the money amongst few artists. Seeing as I buy most of my music in the form of used CD's and from truly independant labels you ain't seeing much of my business anyways. The above scenario may just change that.
Wonder if the music companies ever listen. Of course these scenarios mean that musicians can start a unified label to distribute their music in just this fashion and bypass the middle man all together.
Here is what I want:
A service, maybe $5 a month subscription fee, plus $.10 to $.25 for each song I purchase/download. Or you can keep things how they are and I will spend the money amongst few artists. Seeing as I buy most of my music in the form of used CD's and from truly independant labels you ain't seeing much of my business anyways. The above scenario may just change that.
No manhatten style, clams have the right to smile
It is funny. Every big lawsuit (government antitrust or trial lawyer class action) seems to have a movie released around the same time. The Insider (Tobacco) Antitrust (MSFT) Forget name, but the movie on HBO about the two doctors who did the first breast implants. What next a Movie about cell phones causing cancer. Godzilla versus the Asbestos creature.
On the verge of fall 2000 Yes! But it is just a beta.
January of 2001 - Nope not yet.
End of March 2001 - we will see?
Anyhow, pay $129; no you can't get it as a preloaded option on a new machine. Just put that new machine purchase off until July 2001 - if you believe that date. Better yet buy OS X in March (if we deliver - we must play with the GUI some more), then get it free with a new machine sometime around July. For your pleasure, we will offer Planet of The Apes Trailers in QuickTime while you wait. The release of the remake will be out before you see OS X preloaded on a new machine.
Just finish the damned OS. Frustrated Mac users, like myself, will be more than pleased.
You are right. The public education system fails more than just African-Americans. I was just trying to highlight the fact that MSFT may have done nothing wrong at all and the root of the problem may be elsewhere. By the way, I'm white.
You highlight some important points. One is that while there is a positive side to Affirmative Action there are negative implications as well. e.g. he/she got it to that school because of his/her color. Second, education is a big deal. I went to public school in a city and the quality of education sucked. Consider yourself lucky to have had programming classes. I had zero, zip, nada. I now and taking prog classes on top of a full time job. Fact is, the government is failing the African-American community by providing crappy educations. Probably far more than MSFT may be. Can the African-American community sue uncle sam for damages or can the king do no wrong?
It is true it does. Anyways I am still setting up a Linux box on an old IBM Aptiva that I got for free. Linux Mandrake on a Pentium 75mhz. Should be a real screamer. Personally Chip speed means squat. I want OS stability and so do many others. OS X will spur more mac sales than chip speed alone.
My high school had no programming or computer classes. Zip, nada, zero. Granted it was the dark ages; I graduated in 86'.
You are right, and I left that out. Breeder reactors are a very nice piece of technology.
Kudos to the great pro nuclear comments. If the general public would understand nuclear power better and its risks relative to coal they would be more accepting. Furthermore, I believe the environment would be cleaner. Coal is awful for the environ and it accounts for most of the electric capacity. Coal mining pollutes the water and wrecks the land. It emits co2, which is a greenhouse gas. Miners die of black lung disease, mine cave ins, and explosions. Pollution scrubbed out of smokestacks need disposal.
Yes nuclear does produce waste, but it can be contained with less environ impact than that of coal. What represents a pinprick on the map of the US can store a lot of nuclear waste. Coal devastates far more space (eg. a lot of the state of WV).
Lastly, nuclear waste does not spontaneously explode like a nuclear bomb unlike a depiction in a crummy made for tv movie that people probably take for fact. Nor do plants themselves.
You may not have to. I have been the part of three class action suits over the past 5 years. I never signed up for any of them. One was a Blue Cross Blue Shield suit in Maryland. The other was a Sprint Spectrum cell phone suit. The most recent was against my credit card company.
.74 cents. Oh and I got to trade my sprint phone for the same phone using a different standard. I can't wait to hit the mother load one day. Wonder how much the lawyers got? I know my health insurance premiums went up more than $1.10, where the suit subject matter was for overpayment of insurance premiums. Trial lawyers will destroy the world.
My total lifetime winnings: $1.84 - and yes they sent checks for $1.10 and one for
It is a little of both. My main gripe is the desktop implementation and the Dock. The new finder is pretty cool as I am getting used to it and figuring out its new powers. The Dev tools are kick butt and I hope certain dev apps are free or cheap when the final version comes out.
OS X Dock Summary = move mouse pointer to bottom of screen -- move mouse pointer to top of screen -- move mouse pointer to bottom of screen -- move mouse pointer to top of screen -- you will repeat until blue in the face or what may become known as the BFOD (Blue Face of Death). Maybe there is an easier way, I will try and find it. But I miss the app switcher.
You could have linked to the Bull argument just as well article. My iMac and PowerBook have worked great. OS X PB on my powerbook has been awesome.
I installed OS X PB, it did not take up 1.5GB. While you may need that much free the install usurped about 800MB (69MB for awesome dev tools).
It will only make sense if Apple sells their software to other manufacturers to put on x86 machines. Much higher margins on software. Plus Apple could kick butt in the mid price to expensive PC arena with their industrial design skills. Though it might be difficult to fit huge Intel chips inside an 8 inch cube.
That is ok by me, burn it down. Just don't infect us with Canada's obscene tax rates in the process.
Ok so we should yank money away from the top 10% (which includes incomes of about $90 - 100k a year >> hardly rich if you work 60 hours a week to get it) and give it to the bottom and middle rungs? I think the system is fine and am not in the richest 10%. I could care less how rich some in the top are.
Because Gore holds out hope that I can finally be lazy. I can't wait for free government health insurance, which will be one less barrier to my semi-retirment at age 32. Then I just need the government to pay my mortagage, cable TV bill, and cable internet bill. Then I will have near zero incentive to do anything but work two days out of the week. That way I will have a little spending money for the finer things in life like beer and gas. Oh, and I think they should provide everyone with a car because it is only fair and it will benefit the woman and children.
Isn't Capitalism trickle-down at it's very core? I have capital, and start a company. If successful I can conduct more business and hire more employees thus creating jobs. That is wealth trickling down no matter how you look at it. Then all of the employees at that company go to McDonald's for lunch thus supporting the people that work there. Seems like this trickle down thing has been working for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Agreed. It would have been more useful to put a comparision there to other forms of radiation exposure. For example, you are subjected to radiation just by hanging out in Grand Central Station in NYC. The radiation comes from the granite. The list goes on flying, x-rays etc...
So yes there may be some very confused Mac users. I need to do more exploration as I just loaded it last night.
Look for a review on my website which may be up late tonight or tomorrow. >> uJoda.com