It's a matter of budget, frankly. Our 27" TV just fizzled out last week. What rotten timing, I had figured on buying a new TV in a few years, once the prices had dropped on HDTV and widescreen, but since I was forced to buy one now, I settled on a 32" regular TV. It's still an upgrade though, and will save me enough money to invest in a nice one, say, around 2007.
Record company execs have been crying about lost profits for years now, due to prolific use of CD-Rs, Nappster, KazaA, etc.
I suppose they'd feel that lowering recording and production costs while maintaining MSRP is one way to balance the financial karma. (Not that I agree!)
I'm looking forward to learning to work with Cubase SX this year, myself.
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"I think you mean "Life after Love". If you believe in Love after Life, then you're pretty twisted."
ROFLMAO, I don't know why, EXACTLY, but I just found that really, really, really, funny.
(Gay necrophelia, no less:-)
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Neither, smid. As alluded to in the originating thread, the Register is rarely kind, but additionally, there seems to be something of an anti-American backlash in the british tabs these days, so it seemed kinda apropo... or funny, take your pick.
To be fair, and show that I didn't think the article was truly slanted because SuSE is german, I admitted that I use it myself, in leiu of Red Hat, for instance.
Well, since SuSE isn't an American product,they probably felt no gratutious need to bash it.
SuSE's been my distro of choice for a couple of years now though, and it'll probably pick up a lot of Mandrake users now that they've fallen by the wayside.
(wonder how the Register felt 'bout them ?)
Are you talking about software development only, or opening a retail shop ?
I can't see zoning being any kind of issue if you're simply going to be developing. The laws will vary from state to state, but I seriously don't think you even have to consider it at this point. How many, if any, employees are you going to hire ?
One good thing anyway, you can write off a room of your house, or appropriate square footage, as work dedicated when tax time comes around.
That's interesting, but I thought balance was mostly felt and controlled by the inner ear, regardless of which body part was making surface contact. Maybe they should study the LF effects there too.
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Don't buy the hype.
There is never only one party in power.
Buchannan (of all people, but it made sense) was saying just last night on an interview that it's great for the minority party when they have a situation like this - the majority party takes the blame and responsiblity for everything, but it takes a 20 vote margin to pass a vote in the senate, a margin the republicans don't have.
The Democrats still have plenty of power to block legislation, but most Americans just want to boil it down to a simple black or white condition, the same mistake they make when they blame or credit a white house administration for the economy.
Besides this, the NYT has a Democrat slant to it anyway, they're a "liberal" publication. I take most of their articles and editorials with a grain of salt.
A little manipulation of the facts can get you everywhere - Forrester lost to Lautenberg primarily because of the women vote, who was made to fear that Forrester wanted to overturn Roe vs. Wade, when actually all Forrester said was that he didn't think taxpayer money should be used to pay for abortions. That doesn't illegalize them. If you want one, just pay for itself yourself, it was your mistake after all - it's not treatment of a disease which you have no control over.
I don't agree with the extreme religious right, but in general republicans are not the big bads the media plays them out to be.
While the idea of distribution via the internet is certainly nothing new, there's a reason why it's experienced only mediocre success: promotion.
That's the other half of the business that often gets overlooked, and yet it's the toughest nut to crack. The record companies have a stanglehold on the radio industry, with the exception of college or publicly funded stations.
No one will buy your album if they don't even know you exist - this argument is one of the more powerful that the record execs will use against you, citing hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in advertising, promotional materials, and incentives to the broadcasting industry and record stores which litter our malls and plazas.
The vast majority of music buying Americans (I can't speak for the rest of the world but I'll assume it's the same) only learn or hear of new music and new bands via the radio. Sure, those of us/.'ers with broadband can get our tunes fix via the 'net, but we'd represent an awfully small demographic.
I'm not trying to say that the internet distribution model is without hope, I'm only trying to point out that it's going to be difficult to move away from the traditional one.
One other reason the traditional model persists:
a number of musicians still have their heads full of rockstar dreams. The visions of limosines, partying, girls, booze, drugs, and cash fuel their greed and they'll wind up selling their souls every time. Curious ethical question this poses, for who is truly to blame when someone sells their soul to the Devil for personal gain ? The Devil, or the seller ? I'd say both.
For the few that actually hit the very top, the financial rewards are currently unmatched by any other music business model.
Being a musician myself, my only goals are to finish the construction of my little home recording studio, master my DAW, burn a couple CDs of my original material, put 'em up on a website, and keep the publishing rights to myself. If I don't sell a thing, I don't really care - I just want to get my songs done before I die someday.
I made mine 2 years ago, after finally breaking down and buying a fog machine.
Great story goes with this:
I had the fogger/chiller setup behind a large rectangular evergreen bush in front of my front porch. A little bare area right between the bush and the steps was decorated with 2 rather convincing headstones, and one of those battery powered hands that wriggles, buried partially and sticking straight up, like someone crawling out of their grave. It was lit by a red floodlight, and looked fairly scary.
I also had tons of other gruesome stuff of course.
I would hide inside by the bedroom window, with the remote, and hit the fog when trick or treaters walked up. My wife would answer the door.
This one little girl walks up, apparently alone, and I hit the fog button. I got a really super nice blast, so thick in fact, that even with the chiller it rose up some and I could no longer see the little girl.. when the smoke cleared, she was gone ! heh.. overkill, oh well.
Hmm.. kinda small for a moon, more like an asteroid.
Aha !! It's a Hemorrhoid !!
Oh Heavens !! MORE oppression from "the man"
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Consider this flamebait if you will, but I'm sick of all the whiners and naysayers who think this government is evil nasty Big Brother. Sure, it has some faults that piss even me off, (inheritance tax , anyone?) but if you really feared for what you said, you all wouldn't be openly posting in the forum. You'd be too scared to.
The truth is, it's a hell of a lot easier to point the finger and complain about our system, which you know isn't going to do anything about it, than it is to look reality in the face and realize there are tens of thousands of fanatical "muslims" running amuck who want you dead for real. Those who constantly rally to the cry of "oppression" here in the US seem much more worried about being able to steal their warez and mp3z than they are about another 9-11. Just bizarre.
Enough of the conspiracy theories already, open your eyes to the real danger.
Has anyone considered whether the probes will even make it safely past the Oort cloud ? Seems navigating that obstacle course (of course, navigation isn't the word, it'll be pure luck at this point) would be of more concern.
I concur completely. These selfish, mealy mouthed paranoids have no concept of what is at stake, and have been so sheltered their whole lives that they believe perhaps that reality in the rest of the world reflects life in the US, and that the danger to us as a country is not real or important enough to warrant a little sacrifice in their lives. This is serious. This is not a game, a movie, or something in a far away land.
Ungrateful for the existence they have here, they can only whine and bitch and live in their fantasy world and believe that they are somehow important enough that the government might bother wasting their time and resources going after them.
I believe that's called paranoid schizophrenia.
People are really showing their true colors in this time of crisis.
I mean, really, those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. Guilty conscience ?
Our citizens, you and me, are being attacked and murdered by terrorists on a grand scale. Wake up already.
To those who say the 128 bit encryption is avail overseas and it will do no good, maybe, but remember Enigma - almost nothing is impossible.
You would suggest we not even try ? Largely, it's a matter of will and need. We now have the will and the need. There will be some strong and damning evidence if we can breach the communications of terrorists, and more importantly, we can perhaps save thousands or even millions of lives. Some sources have reported that bin Laden already has some limited access to nuclear materials/bombs. Surely they are planning more attacks.
Finally, know this :
Success is the greatest motivator. They have now succeeded where none have before. They have set a deadly precedent, and it will fuel them with desire to repeat and escalate what happened Tuesday.
Those of you who distrust our own government more than you fear these terrorists right now should check into a mental institution immediately.
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It's a matter of budget, frankly. Our 27" TV just fizzled out last week. What rotten timing, I had figured on buying a new TV in a few years, once the prices had dropped on HDTV and widescreen, but since I was forced to buy one now, I settled on a 32" regular TV. It's still an upgrade though, and will save me enough money to invest in a nice one, say, around 2007.
:-)
Hey, we got similar sigs
If you can hold on just another 5 years, you'll probably be able to transfer the video to holocubes.. or was that iso-linear crystals ? :-)
Record company execs have been crying about lost profits for years now, due to prolific use of CD-Rs, Nappster, KazaA, etc. I suppose they'd feel that lowering recording and production costs while maintaining MSRP is one way to balance the financial karma. (Not that I agree!)
I'm looking forward to learning to work with Cubase SX this year, myself.
ROFLMAO, I don't know why, EXACTLY, but I just found that really, really, really, funny.
(Gay necrophelia, no less
Neither, smid. As alluded to in the originating thread, the Register is rarely kind, but additionally, there seems to be something of an anti-American backlash in the british tabs these days, so it seemed kinda apropo... or funny, take your pick.
To be fair, and show that I didn't think the article was truly slanted because SuSE is german, I admitted that I use it myself, in leiu of Red Hat, for instance.
Well, since SuSE isn't an American product,they probably felt no gratutious need to bash it.
SuSE's been my distro of choice for a couple of years now though, and it'll probably pick up a lot of Mandrake users now that they've fallen by the wayside.
(wonder how the Register felt 'bout them ?)
Or a full life size statue of Buffy .. in the buff, of course! rrrraoww.
Are you talking about software development only, or opening a retail shop ? I can't see zoning being any kind of issue if you're simply going to be developing. The laws will vary from state to state, but I seriously don't think you even have to consider it at this point. How many, if any, employees are you going to hire ?
One good thing anyway, you can write off a room of your house, or appropriate square footage, as work dedicated when tax time comes around.
That's interesting, but I thought balance was mostly felt and controlled by the inner ear, regardless of which body part was making surface contact. Maybe they should study the LF effects there too.
Don't buy the hype.
There is never only one party in power. Buchannan (of all people, but it made sense) was saying just last night on an interview that it's great for the minority party when they have a situation like this - the majority party takes the blame and responsiblity for everything, but it takes a 20 vote margin to pass a vote in the senate, a margin the republicans don't have. The Democrats still have plenty of power to block legislation, but most Americans just want to boil it down to a simple black or white condition, the same mistake they make when they blame or credit a white house administration for the economy.
Besides this, the NYT has a Democrat slant to it anyway, they're a "liberal" publication. I take most of their articles and editorials with a grain of salt.
A little manipulation of the facts can get you everywhere - Forrester lost to Lautenberg primarily because of the women vote, who was made to fear that Forrester wanted to overturn Roe vs. Wade, when actually all Forrester said was that he didn't think taxpayer money should be used to pay for abortions. That doesn't illegalize them. If you want one, just pay for itself yourself, it was your mistake after all - it's not treatment of a disease which you have no control over.
I don't agree with the extreme religious right, but in general republicans are not the big bads the media plays them out to be.
While the idea of distribution via the internet is certainly nothing new, there's a reason why it's experienced only mediocre success: promotion. /.'ers with broadband can get our tunes fix via the 'net, but we'd represent an awfully small demographic.
That's the other half of the business that often gets overlooked, and yet it's the toughest nut to crack. The record companies have a stanglehold on the radio industry, with the exception of college or publicly funded stations. No one will buy your album if they don't even know you exist - this argument is one of the more powerful that the record execs will use against you, citing hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in advertising, promotional materials, and incentives to the broadcasting industry and record stores which litter our malls and plazas.
The vast majority of music buying Americans (I can't speak for the rest of the world but I'll assume it's the same) only learn or hear of new music and new bands via the radio. Sure, those of us
I'm not trying to say that the internet distribution model is without hope, I'm only trying to point out that it's going to be difficult to move away from the traditional one.
One other reason the traditional model persists: a number of musicians still have their heads full of rockstar dreams. The visions of limosines, partying, girls, booze, drugs, and cash fuel their greed and they'll wind up selling their souls every time. Curious ethical question this poses, for who is truly to blame when someone sells their soul to the Devil for personal gain ? The Devil, or the seller ? I'd say both. For the few that actually hit the very top, the financial rewards are currently unmatched by any other music business model.
Being a musician myself, my only goals are to finish the construction of my little home recording studio, master my DAW, burn a couple CDs of my original material, put 'em up on a website, and keep the publishing rights to myself. If I don't sell a thing, I don't really care - I just want to get my songs done before I die someday.
Great story goes with this:
I had the fogger/chiller setup behind a large rectangular evergreen bush in front of my front porch. A little bare area right between the bush and the steps was decorated with 2 rather convincing headstones, and one of those battery powered hands that wriggles, buried partially and sticking straight up, like someone crawling out of their grave. It was lit by a red floodlight, and looked fairly scary. I also had tons of other gruesome stuff of course.
I would hide inside by the bedroom window, with the remote, and hit the fog when trick or treaters walked up. My wife would answer the door.
This one little girl walks up, apparently alone, and I hit the fog button. I got a really super nice blast, so thick in fact, that even with the chiller it rose up some and I could no longer see the little girl.. when the smoke cleared, she was gone ! heh.. overkill, oh well.
Hmm.. kinda small for a moon, more like an asteroid. Aha !! It's a Hemorrhoid !!
Consider this flamebait if you will, but I'm sick of all the whiners and naysayers who think this government is evil nasty Big Brother. Sure, it has some faults that piss even me off, (inheritance tax , anyone?) but if you really feared for what you said, you all wouldn't be openly posting in the forum. You'd be too scared to.
The truth is, it's a hell of a lot easier to point the finger and complain about our system, which you know isn't going to do anything about it, than it is to look reality in the face and realize there are tens of thousands of fanatical "muslims" running amuck who want you dead for real. Those who constantly rally to the cry of "oppression" here in the US seem much more worried about being able to steal their warez and mp3z than they are about another 9-11. Just bizarre. Enough of the conspiracy theories already, open your eyes to the real danger.
Has anyone considered whether the probes will even make it safely past the Oort cloud ?
Seems navigating that obstacle course (of course, navigation isn't the word, it'll be pure luck at this point) would be of more concern.
Thank you for that AC !!
I concur completely. These selfish, mealy mouthed paranoids have no concept of what is at stake, and have been so sheltered their whole lives that they believe perhaps that reality in the rest of the world reflects life in the US, and that the danger to us as a country is not real or important enough to warrant a little sacrifice in their lives. This is serious. This is not a game, a movie, or something in a far away land.
Ungrateful for the existence they have here, they can only whine and bitch and live in their fantasy world and believe that they are somehow important enough that the government might bother wasting their time and resources going after them.
I believe that's called paranoid schizophrenia.
People are really showing their true colors in this time of crisis.
I mean, really, those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. Guilty conscience ?
Our citizens, you and me, are being attacked and murdered by terrorists on a grand scale. Wake up already.
To those who say the 128 bit encryption is avail overseas and it will do no good, maybe, but remember Enigma - almost nothing is impossible.
You would suggest we not even try ? Largely, it's a matter of will and need. We now have the will and the need. There will be some strong and damning evidence if we can breach the communications of terrorists, and more importantly, we can perhaps save thousands or even millions of lives. Some sources have reported that bin Laden already has some limited access to nuclear materials/bombs. Surely they are planning more attacks.
Finally, know this :
Success is the greatest motivator. They have now succeeded where none have before. They have set a deadly precedent, and it will fuel them with desire to repeat and escalate what happened Tuesday.
Those of you who distrust our own government more than you fear these terrorists right now should check into a mental institution immediately.