From the article: "Dr. Booble, who received his doctorate in paleontology from the respected Holy Patriot! Bible University and Correspondence College of Claptrappe, Oklahoma"
It is indeed quite real. I fondly remember Dr. Booble's lectures, and I would like to take this opportunity to wish him, his 3 wives and 27 children all the best. I hope you guys continue to dominate Claptrappe's basket, soccer and football teams!
This might hurt some heads, but really, to have a free market, you need regulations to make sure it stays free. The regulations ensure that all compete on equal terms, and frankly, using bots to buy tickets en masse is not competing on equal terms.
The problem here isn't people reselling tickets, it is allowing them to buy them so much faster than everybody else.
This is clearly a great example of the agile developers of the OSS community. Only months after Microsoft announces similar features in the upcoming Windows version customized for the home user, the OSS movement has once again beat them to it, and implemented features only mentioned with vague release dates by the huge Seattle-based software company. Way to go, guys!
I'd say he spent like one or two days at the most using the computer. There's no way in hell a computer savvy person can't find anything else than the Wordpad-ish editor he used to write the article in "30" days.
Simply stated, I have to work to live, why should someone write songs and do nothing more than live off of royalties?
Or why do we got interest on loans or heck, even a stock market. Its a free world. Come up with some good music of your own, buy DRM-less music or just enjoy the silence.
I got to wonder from where the bands are to get the funds to do these huge tours, really. Have you ANY idea how expensive and risky a tour can be? Do you want all musicians to be pub entertainers? Do you think all music is suitable for touring?
You are jealous for the fact that some people, due to their talent, contacts and marketing ability, are able to make huge amounts of cash, and as a consequence, you are projecting your solution to this on all other musicians.
Why even have a free market? Why not get all on a state payroll?
Criminal can have multiple meanings in a debate about Microsoft.
However, if the discussion is about the RIAA or MPAA, there is only one definition of criminal, one definition of legal, and stealing is a really distinctly defined term.
Back in the wild 90's, the company I worked for built the web pages for the national railway company. This company has a deep blue color as its major color, and it is not possible to get this color on a 16 color display (as was the norm then) without dithering. In one of the preliminary meetings, the person in charge of corporate design/branding at this company had decided to show up.
The branding manager was outraged by the fact that this color could not be displayed properly on all computers, due to the primitive nature of graphics cards available at the time. 15 minutes into the meeting, I heard someone yell "YOU STUBBORN FSCKER," and our designer just left the meeting. This art guy had blamed our poor web designer for the fact that this was not possible.
Unfortunately, it took me 6 years to realize that web programming was a dead-end. No amount of money can convince me that spending one's life adjusting buttons 1 pixel at a time is something I'm going to look back to with joy when I'm retired.
(On a side note: It is amazing that this web 2.0 crap is hyped like hell. I got a book explaining techinques similar to "AJAX" from 1997, and a few of you might even remember Lotus Corp's InfoBus project.)
Just work your way down the tiers, preferably at tier 2 and downwards, and find happiness. Just remember: Life's too short to move pixels for people with sideburns and a highpitched voice.
Actually, this is Darwin's theory hard at work, doing its best to keep the gene pool strong. Watch out for the next Reuter article "The oven, gasoline and you!"
He won't anyway. He is just one of those spineless wankers, doing nothing but complaining of the evils of corporations, yet he is lusting for their content everyday.
If those kind of people had any balls at all, they would just stop leeching the works of others, and instead enjoy a few nice evenings reading books from the Gutenberg project while listening to C64 mods.
First of all, it is My Lai. Second, the massacre was in 1968. Third, the massacre was not done in a an attack on the village, it was done AFTER an initial attack on the village, where the US soldiers had full control of it.
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one of the biggest software companies in the world got not only one, but two unused conference rooms!
I smell a Pulitzer on its way.
From the article: "Dr. Booble, who received his doctorate in paleontology from the respected Holy Patriot! Bible University and Correspondence College of Claptrappe, Oklahoma"
It is indeed quite real. I fondly remember Dr. Booble's lectures, and I would like to take this opportunity to wish him, his 3 wives and 27 children all the best. I hope you guys continue to dominate Claptrappe's basket, soccer and football teams!
BOSE = Buy Other System Eventually
(Yeah yeah, I won't quit my dayjob)
This might hurt some heads, but really, to have a free market, you need regulations to make sure it stays free. The regulations ensure that all compete on equal terms, and frankly, using bots to buy tickets en masse is not competing on equal terms.
The problem here isn't people reselling tickets, it is allowing them to buy them so much faster than everybody else.
Authors should give away their books, and instead earn their money giving seminars and lectures.
And, as I'm told, earn top dollar from merchandise like t-shirts, mouse pads and coffee mugs.
This is clearly a great example of the agile developers of the OSS community. Only months after Microsoft announces similar features in the upcoming Windows version customized for the home user, the OSS movement has once again beat them to it, and implemented features only mentioned with vague release dates by the huge Seattle-based software company. Way to go, guys!
How much do musicians and composers get from a typical sale/download at mp3sparks.com?
Disclaimer: I own an iPod.
This must be one of the worst OS reviews ever.
I'd say he spent like one or two days at the most using the computer. There's no way in hell a computer savvy person can't find anything else than the Wordpad-ish editor he used to write the article in "30" days.
So true! It is not theft or stealing, it is copyright infringement!
No, they are not.
Social liberalism is pretty far away from socialism.
Why don't you just write "I'd like someone else to pay for my entertainment." Much shorter and saves network traffic.
You could also say that having the cost of energy increasing from 10-25% is an incentive to make the manufacturing processes etc more effective.
Simply stated, I have to work to live, why should someone write songs and do nothing more than live off of royalties?
Or why do we got interest on loans or heck, even a stock market. Its a free world. Come up with some good music of your own, buy DRM-less music or just enjoy the silence.
I got to wonder from where the bands are to get the funds to do these huge tours, really. Have you ANY idea how expensive and risky a tour can be? Do you want all musicians to be pub entertainers? Do you think all music is suitable for touring?
You are jealous for the fact that some people, due to their talent, contacts and marketing ability, are able to make huge amounts of cash, and as a consequence, you are projecting your solution to this on all other musicians.
Why even have a free market? Why not get all on a state payroll?
Criminal can have multiple meanings in a debate about Microsoft.
However, if the discussion is about the RIAA or MPAA, there is only one definition of criminal, one definition of legal, and stealing is a really distinctly defined term.
Welcome to Slashdot!
If you take care of the JavaScript bunch, I'll make the rest use cracker and hacker appropriately. :)
Back in the wild 90's, the company I worked for built the web pages for the national railway company. This company has a deep blue color as its major color, and it is not possible to get this color on a 16 color display (as was the norm then) without dithering. In one of the preliminary meetings, the person in charge of corporate design/branding at this company had decided to show up.
The branding manager was outraged by the fact that this color could not be displayed properly on all computers, due to the primitive nature of graphics cards available at the time. 15 minutes into the meeting, I heard someone yell "YOU STUBBORN FSCKER," and our designer just left the meeting. This art guy had blamed our poor web designer for the fact that this was not possible.
Unfortunately, it took me 6 years to realize that web programming was a dead-end. No amount of money can convince me that spending one's life adjusting buttons 1 pixel at a time is something I'm going to look back to with joy when I'm retired.
(On a side note: It is amazing that this web 2.0 crap is hyped like hell. I got a book explaining techinques similar to "AJAX" from 1997, and a few of you might even remember Lotus Corp's InfoBus project.)
Just work your way down the tiers, preferably at tier 2 and downwards, and find happiness. Just remember: Life's too short to move pixels for people with sideburns and a highpitched voice.
1. Build timemachine
2. Set machine from 1. to 1995
3. Silence the Netscape jerk that coined the JavaScript name
4. Party like its 1999!
The retard that moded you offtopic should be hit several times with a 500 pound kringle.
I smell a rat, or at least a fried sponge.
Actually, this is Darwin's theory hard at work, doing its best to keep the gene pool strong. Watch out for the next Reuter article "The oven, gasoline and you!"
He won't anyway. He is just one of those spineless wankers, doing nothing but complaining of the evils of corporations, yet he is lusting for their content everyday.
If those kind of people had any balls at all, they would just stop leeching the works of others, and instead enjoy a few nice evenings reading books from the Gutenberg project while listening to C64 mods.
I got one friend who's 40 and got a myspace account. He claims to be 34 on his myspace page, though. ;-)
By your train of thought. Let's hurry for wikipedia and every open source project is gonna crash.
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We often hear about the might of the pen, but the train of thought hits pretty hard as well
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1
It was 1968, not 1972. Get it?
And it is only in the US army you can get away with a few years of prison for killing a hundred "gooks." Gz with a great miliary! Be proud!
First of all, it is My Lai. Second, the massacre was in 1968. Third, the massacre was not done in a an attack on the village, it was done AFTER an initial attack on the village, where the US soldiers had full control of it.
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre for more details.