It's still an underwriter they wouldn't want to piss off.
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Sorry, Preview is quite limited compared to Reader. No searching, and you can't pull text/images (albeit images only at 72 DPI) out of the file like you can with Reader. You can basically just... well... Preview.
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I've always liked (huge random string of letters)@(huge random string of letters).mil
since it's much harder to get a.mil address than a public TLD, there's little chance of colliding with some idiot who registered (long-string-of-letters).com.
There's also the difference between "unemployment", given by the state, on the state's terms, and "severance", given by the company, on the company's terms. You might be eligible for unemployment, but give up a (heftier) severance deal if you quit early or get fired.
Then again, IAN anyone who has experience in this field whatsoever, so take with as much salt as needed.
Subscription music services. Streaming web radio. Promotional CDs. Compilation discs. Reviews in magazines. Free promotional compilation discs in magazines with reviews that you can subscribe to. Friends with CDRs who like to give out comps*. Friends on the Internet who like to mail out comps*. Borrowing. Taking all day sifting through the used rack with a CD walkman.
All of you people who keep crying and complaining that the prices are all too high, and the labels are all unfair, and you'd be fine if they'd just wake up and provide a low-cost alternative. They have. Graciously respect the work of musicians, employees, and everyone else involved, pay the low cost or pay the time and energy, turn of KaZaA, and live a life full of peace and multipart stereophonic harmony.
* Okay, mixtaping is illegal, and you can cite me for hypocracy on that, but I personally feel that the amount of added effort, the small amount of an individual artist's work, and the aspect of some secondary level of creativity make it a legitimate activity, as well as one that gets promotion to good artists.
...and sometimes eloquence is no substitute for yelling or profanity. Sometimes you need a sweet melancholy flute, sometimes you need a violent, angry, overdriven guitar.
As for no one telling you 99 FM is offensive, that's another fine benefit of free, unrestricted speech. You or anyone else is free to shout from the streets, put up a billboard, or distribute "safe listening guides" saying "99 FM is offensive!". If enough people agree with you, the market (or fear of the market) takes effect, and 99 FM might need to start finding out how to pay its bills.
How does the average person even KNOW that some company is outsourced, environment-killing, or composed of greedy directors who take 90% of the money and screw employees out of wages. It's not like they're going to advertise this.
The people aren't lazy or stupid, it's just that people have better things to do. The people who should be raising the red flags... the news media, the politicians... they're either bought-and-paid-for, apathetic, or afraid of the reporcussions, and any actual facts take someone dedicated to looking for the dirt to sift through the waves of useless information to actually find something.
When a plant closes or a company moves, it's seen as lost jobs in the wake of vast, unopposable forces. Nobody's getting pissed. Nobody's calling them out on it. It's just inevitability.
Add to that PR and advertising that's selling the benefits, and the fact that all the above breeds a "well, it's cheaper" apathy, so it's no wonder these companies are raking in the dollars and skipping town without a ripple.
I'm of the mindset that the some government control of business might be necessary. The people, via the government, need a hand to hit back against companies that can easily drown out their own underhandedness with happy smiles and diversionary tactics with the worldwide media megaphone.
Instead of DRM, how about fingerprinting? Match each MP3 that goes out with a username. It wouldn't restrict the files, but it would make a decent deterrent, and would allow action against people who share.
Even a stupid little tag (some nonstandard tag in the M3U, perhaps?) would catch the dumber ones, and the company could still say "better not share, we CAN track you" and make sharers nervous.
You mean once all 65,535 ports are deemed "unsafe", right? I really don't see that happening... there are only so many port numbers that translate well to leetspeak.
Then again, they could just have you get a rebranded "Blizzard Downloader" app, and download.blizzard files that are strikingly similar to.torrent files.
So you can shove factoids and obscure questions down someone's throat, who's there to be a customer assistant and sales help. This makes you fundamentally superior to them *how*?
Without looking it up, do you know the names and relative advantages of the various layouts of Staples stores? Do they still sell those good cheap Koss headphones at Best Buy? What kind of Internet plan do you get with a computer purchase at Circuit City? How about pens? Where would I find pens... those really nice G-2 pens... who makes those? How long do I have until I can return this? I'm looking for portable speakers, but they have to be battery driven. Where are the batteries, anyhow?
All that, ambling for hours on foot, dealing with a steady stream of customers, trying to keep that till within $5 on an all-day $1200 shift, having to deal with customers like you, and STILL they get paid a barely-livable wage.
Simply because a job is replacable does not mean that the workers are dim. Don't be a jerk.
Still, though, in regards to the article, and the popularity (movin' units!) of Linux apps, this is irrelevant.
Personally, though, I agree with you. Leave Linux to the servers and submarines, where high-power high-stability is needed, and let OSX and XP Home help Mom get her email. Makefiles and source distributions suck if you're a home user that just wants to "use". Precompiled black boxes suck if you need razor-sharp precision and utility.
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It's still an underwriter they wouldn't want to piss off.
Sorry, Preview is quite limited compared to Reader. No searching, and you can't pull text/images (albeit images only at 72 DPI) out of the file like you can with Reader. You can basically just... well... Preview.
I've always liked (huge random string of letters)@(huge random string of letters).mil
.mil address than a public TLD, there's little chance of colliding with some idiot who registered (long-string-of-letters).com.
since it's much harder to get a
weoirhowiehroihwe@osdhifoihweofihowieh.mil
There's also the difference between "unemployment", given by the state, on the state's terms, and "severance", given by the company, on the company's terms. You might be eligible for unemployment, but give up a (heftier) severance deal if you quit early or get fired.
Then again, IAN anyone who has experience in this field whatsoever, so take with as much salt as needed.
Headline: Google "Hires" Porn Viewers to Transcribe Your Mail
So, you can take the music away from the house, but you can't take the House away from the music?
>50% saturation?
Correlation != Causation.
Subscription music services. Streaming web radio. Promotional CDs. Compilation discs. Reviews in magazines. Free promotional compilation discs in magazines with reviews that you can subscribe to. Friends with CDRs who like to give out comps*. Friends on the Internet who like to mail out comps*. Borrowing. Taking all day sifting through the used rack with a CD walkman.
All of you people who keep crying and complaining that the prices are all too high, and the labels are all unfair, and you'd be fine if they'd just wake up and provide a low-cost alternative. They have. Graciously respect the work of musicians, employees, and everyone else involved, pay the low cost or pay the time and energy, turn of KaZaA, and live a life full of peace and multipart stereophonic harmony.
* Okay, mixtaping is illegal, and you can cite me for hypocracy on that, but I personally feel that the amount of added effort, the small amount of an individual artist's work, and the aspect of some secondary level of creativity make it a legitimate activity, as well as one that gets promotion to good artists.
'The connection was refused when attempting to contact stopfcc.com.'
CONSPIRACY?!?
Or just a crappy DSL modem that needs another powercycle? Probably the latter, but still...
Hmm... Fucking Fascism...
I tried lassiez-faire capitalism, communism, socialism, and everything in between... but my sex life isn't just what it used to be. What can I do?
VO: Is your economic system lacking the sexual power and stamina you need from your government? Try Fucking Fascism!
...and sometimes eloquence is no substitute for yelling or profanity. Sometimes you need a sweet melancholy flute, sometimes you need a violent, angry, overdriven guitar.
As for no one telling you 99 FM is offensive, that's another fine benefit of free, unrestricted speech. You or anyone else is free to shout from the streets, put up a billboard, or distribute "safe listening guides" saying "99 FM is offensive!". If enough people agree with you, the market (or fear of the market) takes effect, and 99 FM might need to start finding out how to pay its bills.
How does the average person even KNOW that some company is outsourced, environment-killing, or composed of greedy directors who take 90% of the money and screw employees out of wages. It's not like they're going to advertise this.
The people aren't lazy or stupid, it's just that people have better things to do. The people who should be raising the red flags... the news media, the politicians... they're either bought-and-paid-for, apathetic, or afraid of the reporcussions, and any actual facts take someone dedicated to looking for the dirt to sift through the waves of useless information to actually find something.
When a plant closes or a company moves, it's seen as lost jobs in the wake of vast, unopposable forces. Nobody's getting pissed. Nobody's calling them out on it. It's just inevitability.
Add to that PR and advertising that's selling the benefits, and the fact that all the above breeds a "well, it's cheaper" apathy, so it's no wonder these companies are raking in the dollars and skipping town without a ripple.
I'm of the mindset that the some government control of business might be necessary. The people, via the government, need a hand to hit back against companies that can easily drown out their own underhandedness with happy smiles and diversionary tactics with the worldwide media megaphone.
Instead of DRM, how about fingerprinting? Match each MP3 that goes out with a username. It wouldn't restrict the files, but it would make a decent deterrent, and would allow action against people who share.
Even a stupid little tag (some nonstandard tag in the M3U, perhaps?) would catch the dumber ones, and the company could still say "better not share, we CAN track you" and make sharers nervous.
Keep the important stuff on an external HDD, and handcuff it to your wrist.
(Note: this is not meant to be a constructive idea)
How about compulsory licensing for generic drug companies? Same sort of solution as to the whole music-sharing thing.
You mean once all 65,535 ports are deemed "unsafe", right? I really don't see that happening... there are only so many port numbers that translate well to leetspeak.
Then again, they could just have you get a rebranded "Blizzard Downloader" app, and download .blizzard files that are strikingly similar to .torrent files.
What about using a lookup table? Granted, if anyone got a hold of the lookup table, it would be big problems, but it would be a good place to start.
...and the resultant inability to wiretap will make encryption illegal.
Google page with error, 0.4k.
So you can shove factoids and obscure questions down someone's throat, who's there to be a customer assistant and sales help. This makes you fundamentally superior to them *how*?
Without looking it up, do you know the names and relative advantages of the various layouts of Staples stores? Do they still sell those good cheap Koss headphones at Best Buy? What kind of Internet plan do you get with a computer purchase at Circuit City? How about pens? Where would I find pens... those really nice G-2 pens... who makes those? How long do I have until I can return this? I'm looking for portable speakers, but they have to be battery driven. Where are the batteries, anyhow?
All that, ambling for hours on foot, dealing with a steady stream of customers, trying to keep that till within $5 on an all-day $1200 shift, having to deal with customers like you, and STILL they get paid a barely-livable wage.
Simply because a job is replacable does not mean that the workers are dim. Don't be a jerk.
The industrial revolution happened. The specs are all the same. We need the warm fuzzy slogans!
-- "perceive"? have you read the first thirty or so posts? the level downright sexist jokes that rely on stereotypes about women is insane! --
And note the lack of sexist jokes on a Slashdot post about... say... computers in Soviet Russia.
The product and article distinguish between the sexes. Does the fact that most of the jokes distinguish between the sexes seem out of place?
Still, though, in regards to the article, and the popularity (movin' units!) of Linux apps, this is irrelevant.
Personally, though, I agree with you. Leave Linux to the servers and submarines, where high-power high-stability is needed, and let OSX and XP Home help Mom get her email. Makefiles and source distributions suck if you're a home user that just wants to "use". Precompiled black boxes suck if you need razor-sharp precision and utility.