Apparently we still need the middle-men between artists and the listening community. Radio, CDs, internet -- all those come from high quality recordings made by, you guessed it, the recording agencies. They have people to scout the artists, people to train the artists, people to record the music, people to market the music, people to run around the stores (brick, radio, or internet) and work deals to fill the "shelves" appropriately with the music, set up concerts, etc. The recording industry is why you have rich musicians, period. I'm pretty ambivalent about the wealth of anyone but myself, but any musician you hear on the radio has stood on the shoulders of a giant industry to get there. You can be a great musician anywhere, anytime. To be a well-paid musician, great or not, that's the trick.
All the interesting info about what percentage the artist gets and all the ways the RIAA tries to make people's lives difficult for the sake of money is another story. I'm in complete agreement musicians need a sponsor with more saavy. The internet has done wonders for artists and will continue to do so.
because once they open up the lines...they're going to see their enormous profits fucking evaporate overnight as customers give these guys the finger and go with someone that isn't gouging the fuck out of them.
Here's how I see that going:
New ISP: Heya Charter, how much you charging for Internet in this area? Charter: An arm and a leg. New ISP: Hmm. We don't have your speeds, so how about WE charge an arm and a leg. You can raise your prices, say add a nose and eyeball, and still advertise you're faster. Charter: Sounds good.
For all those of you who never asked Siri what the best phone was when you first got a 4S, the joking was there from the start. Some update must have removed it and had it actually try to answer the question using Wolfram Alpha. They simply put the joke back in.
That's 100K cars being driven around and boosting your visibility as a company.
$400 x 100,000 = $40,000,000. Let's figure that 100 people see each of those cars' stickers...that's 10,000,000 people you've effectively advertised to. This is 1/8th the potential number of advertisees you could affect through Facebook. For GM to think their Facebook advertising isn't worth it is ridiculous. Advertising is very difficult to track its usefulness aside from gauging sales around the time of a big ad push. And when you have multiple vectors for a push, you're not seeing that it was the Facebook videos, not the local "BUY ALL OF OUR STOCK NOW BEFORE IT'S GONE!" TV commercials, that did the trick.
Here's a way to make an effective ad: instead of screaming, be subtle. Humans, mostly, are smarter than you think, and not nearly as deaf.
The "simple facts" are a pre-requisite for the rest.
Not in the sense you're saying. I can have you memorize the most seen test dictionary words so you'll know the various definitions when they appear on your tests. Or I can teach you latin roots so you can devise the meaning of most words without having seen them before. Math and science are easier: if you have the theory of something, you can generally divine specifics as necessary. Granted, 8th grade math tests only touch upon the most basic algebra, but as long as the students have a simple understanding of equations and the most rudimentary math, they can figure things out. I'm not saying kids are going to be able to plot a bicycle jump from two unequal platforms, but they'll be able to answer: 3x+5 = 20. Solve for x.
The only place you need to truly memorize things (in the 8th grade) is history.
My thoughts exactly. My first CFL back in the 90s was rated for 7 years. I think it lasted 3 months. As with the poster above, I'm not paying significantly more for a CFL, unless it's going to make Saturday appearances at the office and get its damned cover sheets on its damned TPS reports!
Only directly affected people can start a class action suit. Lawyers will try to get more people in on the suit.
Gains of class action suits:
1) "Victims" give the defendants a slap on the wrist (possibly a change in policy, etc) and generally come out with a few dollars 2) Lawyers make ridiculous sums of money
I can only imagine he's saying that each quest is specific and most don't tie into one another. That's not true of course -- Civil War and the dragon storyline can overlap in interesting ways; the Dark Brotherhood can go a number of ways -- I wiped the DB out before I really had heard of it: I didn't participate in any DB quest except for "Destroy the Dark Brotherhood".
From your post: Further, they wanted to take the distressed child to another room, away from and out of sight of all of the adults who were with her, and search her there.
From the article: She also said TSA agents wanted to screen her granddaughter alone in a separate room.
I'm not fan of the TSA and how some of them can act during screening. There's a policy to never take a child out of a parent's sight. Other people in dramatic blogposts have tried to say much the same thing but have been refuted by security cameras. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that the TSA would be breaking their own rules if they did such a thing.
Lately a TSA agent allowed me to pass a 3+ oz jar of Hawaiian mustard through. He took it out of my bag, looked at it, thought about it, then shrugged at me and handed it back. Cuz it was mustard.
The big journals are big because of their review process. I'm guessing that an open publication of research will go something like this:
Black Holes: Not the Center of MY Galaxy Authors: Grad Student Smith, Grad Student Jones, Prof. Haggis
Stephen Hawking and 27 others Likes this
Tony Tyson says The very thought that Black Holes constitute Dark Matter is an egregious error in their hypothesis.
And you know...this probably wouldn't be a terrible way of doing things if you can somehow set your reputation level based on your education/experience/PhD/etc, ignore non-relevant posts and likes....All probably less hassle than trying to convince faculty to spend time on peer reviews every week.
basically whoever does the first post basically directs the conversation.
Sadly, one of the first posts was that this article doesn't belong on Slashdot. It's actually an interesting premise and one of the things I do enjoy about Slashdot is the variety of actually intelligent input from the posters. People have views and opinions that naturally conflict with others'. This drive discussion and education. The best part of this is when this happens:
1) Someone says something flippant and it appears to shut someone's argument down. 2) A leveled response to the remark is posted and it clarifies both sides and does a fair job of making sense of the issues. 3) Awesome: A third person, with years of experience in the topic, provides an even clearer view of the topic which dismisses what you were about to believe was correct.
That is rare anywhere, but it happens more on Slashdot than on pretty much any other News/Comment site. Technical news or just stuff that matters, I'd rather spend my time here than on Fark, Reddit, etc.
I played all the way through Skyrim on the PC -- dragon quest, companions quest, dark brotherhood, civil war, etc etc. Not one bug. Never crashed, never ran into anything strange.
You, my friend, seem to hunt for problems. Instead of telling everyone AFTER the game is released, you'd probably make a great beta tester. And yes, even though this is the internet, I'm serious.
Not all, and mostly its nurture. Employees are trained to build numbers, oversell, say things like, "Welcome to Best Buy, is there anything in particular you're looking for" even if you know they've been asked that 6 times by other staff members. Like in most retail places, it's about the dollar amounts. So you get poorly paid employees who go through some training but not enough. Then when they've actually answered enough questions to have useful experience, they leave because they're "raise" was 5 cents an hour, up to $8.27. You can't keep good, knowledgeable salespeople for that price. This is why in suburbia, the Best Buy salespeople are all 18 year old chatting in the corner. It's all they can get.
3) Your prices suck
True, they're Newegg's showroom floor. Costs more money for their real estate. They should offer better services for cheaper. "Your $400 HDTV can included a $450 2 year service plan!" Those Black Tie plans are 100% profit for them. And they sell fewer than they could because they price them so extravagantly. Tighten down the requirements to manufacturer's defect and charge 1/3 what you do and you'll sell more and have to actually provide less service. "Accidental" damage coverage can be more to prevent people from dropping their TV with 3 days left on the contract.
5) Selection is pathetic
Also true. Difficult to find computer components, video cameras, etc. TVs, audio, Apple stuff (which is limited selection anyway) is all good.
I hate the management of Best Buy. They need to work it out. I don't know who creates their ridiculous policies thinking they'll help generate revenue but THAT is the person that needs to be fired.
I am curious have you even seen a Windows Phone before declaring it is a "bad OS"?
1) You're new here 2) That was rhetorical 3) You work for Microsoft 4) You've actually used WP7 and realized it's not nearly as bad as Palm or older Android OSes
Manager: Well, with this new cloud technology, we're saving $100K/year on hardware maintenance and replacement. Now, with that saving I propose we put the money toward some new IT projects..." CEO: My pocket. Manager: What? CEO: That's money in my pocket. We can keep the status quo and still make me richer. Manager: Really. We could put that money towards web development -- purchasing has been crying for a decent inventory application. CEO: My pocket. Manager: Or we could use it to hire someone else and give our current IT staff time for vacation and not working 80 hours per week. CEO: Overtime exempt? Manager: Well, yes. CEO: My pocket.
While a bionic arm might be able to move faster, would possibly be more durable, and could be designed to crush those really formidable keg cans between bicep and forearm, it won't convey the owner with the power to lift cars. Connected merely to bone and muscle, a mere human anatomy wouldn't support a car's weight, and the arm would likely just tear itself free (that being said, consider that people *have* lifted cars and it goes to show just how amazing our own body is). You would need support to the floor, perhaps running down the back connected to bionic legs, etc. Still, getting punched by a bunch of metal can't be good, and all you future Dr. Doom's should be wary.
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Like Star Trek, every other number is good. Starting, in Microsoft's case, with X. Or something.
Apparently we still need the middle-men between artists and the listening community. Radio, CDs, internet -- all those come from high quality recordings made by, you guessed it, the recording agencies. They have people to scout the artists, people to train the artists, people to record the music, people to market the music, people to run around the stores (brick, radio, or internet) and work deals to fill the "shelves" appropriately with the music, set up concerts, etc. The recording industry is why you have rich musicians, period. I'm pretty ambivalent about the wealth of anyone but myself, but any musician you hear on the radio has stood on the shoulders of a giant industry to get there. You can be a great musician anywhere, anytime. To be a well-paid musician, great or not, that's the trick.
All the interesting info about what percentage the artist gets and all the ways the RIAA tries to make people's lives difficult for the sake of money is another story. I'm in complete agreement musicians need a sponsor with more saavy. The internet has done wonders for artists and will continue to do so.
I run it on 100% of my two machines!
because once they open up the lines...they're going to see their enormous profits fucking evaporate overnight as customers give these guys the finger and go with someone that isn't gouging the fuck out of them.
Here's how I see that going:
New ISP: Heya Charter, how much you charging for Internet in this area?
Charter: An arm and a leg.
New ISP: Hmm. We don't have your speeds, so how about WE charge an arm and a leg. You can raise your prices, say add a nose and eyeball, and still advertise you're faster.
Charter: Sounds good.
The other 84% is likely speeding and/or reckless driving (ie, doing fun stuff in the wrong place with your car).
For all those of you who never asked Siri what the best phone was when you first got a 4S, the joking was there from the start. Some update must have removed it and had it actually try to answer the question using Wolfram Alpha. They simply put the joke back in.
That's 100K cars being driven around and boosting your visibility as a company.
$400 x 100,000 = $40,000,000. Let's figure that 100 people see each of those cars' stickers...that's 10,000,000 people you've effectively advertised to. This is 1/8th the potential number of advertisees you could affect through Facebook. For GM to think their Facebook advertising isn't worth it is ridiculous. Advertising is very difficult to track its usefulness aside from gauging sales around the time of a big ad push. And when you have multiple vectors for a push, you're not seeing that it was the Facebook videos, not the local "BUY ALL OF OUR STOCK NOW BEFORE IT'S GONE!" TV commercials, that did the trick.
Here's a way to make an effective ad: instead of screaming, be subtle. Humans, mostly, are smarter than you think, and not nearly as deaf.
The "simple facts" are a pre-requisite for the rest.
Not in the sense you're saying. I can have you memorize the most seen test dictionary words so you'll know the various definitions when they appear on your tests. Or I can teach you latin roots so you can devise the meaning of most words without having seen them before. Math and science are easier: if you have the theory of something, you can generally divine specifics as necessary. Granted, 8th grade math tests only touch upon the most basic algebra, but as long as the students have a simple understanding of equations and the most rudimentary math, they can figure things out. I'm not saying kids are going to be able to plot a bicycle jump from two unequal platforms, but they'll be able to answer: 3x+5 = 20. Solve for x.
The only place you need to truly memorize things (in the 8th grade) is history.
The lifetime is not for 24/7/365 usage, or for being turned on/off 10,000 times per day.
I'm behind my light-flipping quota merely by answering your post. I was going to say...oh...never mind, I have to get back to the switch.
My thoughts exactly. My first CFL back in the 90s was rated for 7 years. I think it lasted 3 months. As with the poster above, I'm not paying significantly more for a CFL, unless it's going to make Saturday appearances at the office and get its damned cover sheets on its damned TPS reports!
"Meh. No biggie. We'll put the money towards education and healthcare. Maybe build a better train system. It's all good."
Only directly affected people can start a class action suit. Lawyers will try to get more people in on the suit.
Gains of class action suits:
1) "Victims" give the defendants a slap on the wrist (possibly a change in policy, etc) and generally come out with a few dollars
2) Lawyers make ridiculous sums of money
I can only imagine he's saying that each quest is specific and most don't tie into one another. That's not true of course -- Civil War and the dragon storyline can overlap in interesting ways; the Dark Brotherhood can go a number of ways -- I wiped the DB out before I really had heard of it: I didn't participate in any DB quest except for "Destroy the Dark Brotherhood".
So yes, the AC doesn't have a point.
They certainly wouldn't hit each other quite as hard. Unless they are trying to hurt themselves.
No.
#apt-get install gnome-panel
Logout, chose fallback session (or whatever it's called). Was that so hard?
Okay, so what does Twitter have to do with this? And where's the Install menu?
God, you think they'd make these toasters more straightforward.
From your post: Further, they wanted to take the distressed child to another room, away from and out of sight of all of the adults who were with her, and search her there.
From the article: She also said TSA agents wanted to screen her granddaughter alone in a separate room.
I'm not fan of the TSA and how some of them can act during screening. There's a policy to never take a child out of a parent's sight. Other people in dramatic blogposts have tried to say much the same thing but have been refuted by security cameras. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying that the TSA would be breaking their own rules if they did such a thing.
Lately a TSA agent allowed me to pass a 3+ oz jar of Hawaiian mustard through. He took it out of my bag, looked at it, thought about it, then shrugged at me and handed it back. Cuz it was mustard.
The big journals are big because of their review process. I'm guessing that an open publication of research will go something like this:
Black Holes: Not the Center of MY Galaxy
Authors: Grad Student Smith, Grad Student Jones, Prof. Haggis
Stephen Hawking and 27 others Likes this
Tony Tyson says The very thought that Black Holes constitute Dark Matter is an egregious error in their hypothesis.
And you know...this probably wouldn't be a terrible way of doing things if you can somehow set your reputation level based on your education/experience/PhD/etc, ignore non-relevant posts and likes....All probably less hassle than trying to convince faculty to spend time on peer reviews every week.
basically whoever does the first post basically directs the conversation.
Sadly, one of the first posts was that this article doesn't belong on Slashdot. It's actually an interesting premise and one of the things I do enjoy about Slashdot is the variety of actually intelligent input from the posters. People have views and opinions that naturally conflict with others'. This drive discussion and education. The best part of this is when this happens:
1) Someone says something flippant and it appears to shut someone's argument down.
2) A leveled response to the remark is posted and it clarifies both sides and does a fair job of making sense of the issues.
3) Awesome: A third person, with years of experience in the topic, provides an even clearer view of the topic which dismisses what you were about to believe was correct.
That is rare anywhere, but it happens more on Slashdot than on pretty much any other News/Comment site. Technical news or just stuff that matters, I'd rather spend my time here than on Fark, Reddit, etc.
I played all the way through Skyrim on the PC -- dragon quest, companions quest, dark brotherhood, civil war, etc etc. Not one bug. Never crashed, never ran into anything strange.
You, my friend, seem to hunt for problems. Instead of telling everyone AFTER the game is released, you'd probably make a great beta tester. And yes, even though this is the internet, I'm serious.
The people. That is why the US has the second amendment.
I rather thought this was a case for the first amendment.
1) Your Employees are jerks
Not all, and mostly its nurture. Employees are trained to build numbers, oversell, say things like, "Welcome to Best Buy, is there anything in particular you're looking for" even if you know they've been asked that 6 times by other staff members. Like in most retail places, it's about the dollar amounts. So you get poorly paid employees who go through some training but not enough. Then when they've actually answered enough questions to have useful experience, they leave because they're "raise" was 5 cents an hour, up to $8.27. You can't keep good, knowledgeable salespeople for that price. This is why in suburbia, the Best Buy salespeople are all 18 year old chatting in the corner. It's all they can get.
3) Your prices suck
True, they're Newegg's showroom floor. Costs more money for their real estate. They should offer better services for cheaper. "Your $400 HDTV can included a $450 2 year service plan!" Those Black Tie plans are 100% profit for them. And they sell fewer than they could because they price them so extravagantly. Tighten down the requirements to manufacturer's defect and charge 1/3 what you do and you'll sell more and have to actually provide less service. "Accidental" damage coverage can be more to prevent people from dropping their TV with 3 days left on the contract.
5) Selection is pathetic
Also true. Difficult to find computer components, video cameras, etc. TVs, audio, Apple stuff (which is limited selection anyway) is all good.
I hate the management of Best Buy. They need to work it out. I don't know who creates their ridiculous policies thinking they'll help generate revenue but THAT is the person that needs to be fired.
That reply was like a horse femur for that troll. He won't need to eat for a week!
I am curious have you even seen a Windows Phone before declaring it is a "bad OS"?
1) You're new here
2) That was rhetorical
3) You work for Microsoft
4) You've actually used WP7 and realized it's not nearly as bad as Palm or older Android OSes
Pick one?
Manager: Well, with this new cloud technology, we're saving $100K/year on hardware maintenance and replacement. Now, with that saving I propose we put the money toward some new IT projects..."
CEO: My pocket.
Manager: What?
CEO: That's money in my pocket. We can keep the status quo and still make me richer.
Manager: Really. We could put that money towards web development -- purchasing has been crying for a decent inventory application.
CEO: My pocket.
Manager: Or we could use it to hire someone else and give our current IT staff time for vacation and not working 80 hours per week.
CEO: Overtime exempt?
Manager: Well, yes.
CEO: My pocket.
While a bionic arm might be able to move faster, would possibly be more durable, and could be designed to crush those really formidable keg cans between bicep and forearm, it won't convey the owner with the power to lift cars. Connected merely to bone and muscle, a mere human anatomy wouldn't support a car's weight, and the arm would likely just tear itself free (that being said, consider that people *have* lifted cars and it goes to show just how amazing our own body is). You would need support to the floor, perhaps running down the back connected to bionic legs, etc. Still, getting punched by a bunch of metal can't be good, and all you future Dr. Doom's should be wary.