So in summary you never see them either. Just what I said.
Re:Same with the ipods back when they hit 1 mil.
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I've never seen a Zune in the wild.
At the gym I see a lots of Ipods of course, and a lot of flash based players particularly the old Rios. I'm pretty confident the Forges & such never got to a million.
Look at it this way. If there were a million Zunes in the wild, and you see 200-300 people per day, the odds approach certainty you will see one before a few days are out.
If there are really a million Zunes in the wild. I mean, I actually laughed when I read the headline.
If they put this much effort into making crappy movies not suck instead, they'd save a lot more money than trying to control every customer's lives
You're making the assumption the total effort would result in better movies. But combining an incompetent antipiracy unit with a sucky movie production unit would not equal a good movie production unit. You could have a million people working under that management and still end up with a bunch of suck.
If your car is new, it will take a couple thousand miles before the engine loosens up, it should pick up some MPG once it breaks in. The truck might have been running at peak volumetric efficiency (torque peak) at 75mph in top gear whereas for your Honda might be at 65 in top. You can change the final drive ratio to 4.40:1 to give your car longer "legs", it will accelerate slower however.
AC remarked: They are shit 'cars' for a sick society. If you 'drive' a Hummer, you are - almost by definition - a total asshole with no aesthetic taste, no interest in cars, no basic grasp of physics and no financial sense. You are, for all intets and purposes, an American idiot.
I doubt it has anything to do with Americans being the way they are. Hummer driving, like driving V12 Benzes and BWMs 200kph on the autobahn, is conspicuous consumption. This is a species-wide phenomenon which proves they have the resources to burn & some like Freud would say, proves their fitness for reproduction in attracting the female of the species.
In 1986 most labels listed cd albums at $14.98 while LPs and cassettes listed at $9.98. As today, nobody paid full retail (unless you were idiotic enough to sigh up for one of those 10 Free CD mailorder deals), Tower for instance had the Top 10 billboard albums in each category at $2 off.
When I first checked, just three days ago at the start of the Digg fiasco, that string resulted in less than 9,000 google hits, so the trend is definitely "upward."
There are probably other factors, even if it can be proven people didn't go to the beach 60 years ago (check ebay for vintage swimsuit photos for a 2nd opinion).
In the last century the Western populations have largely moved from rural locations (and working in the the outdoors) to mostly living in the cities (and inside buildings). On the whole exposure to sun has dropped dramatically.
Well, you're talking about removing their common carrier protection.
You need to think long and hard if you actually want that to happen, because this is definitely one of those cases of "be careful what you wish for."
Because a couple years from now you'll be in here bitching "My ISP won't let me use any p2p app, or telnet even ssh, or download exe files etc etc" just because someone *might* sue them.
AC stated: As many "standard" video formats as there are out there, like it or not, none of them are as universal as Flash.
I'd agree with you if you were right. Flash does not come with Macs and Windows - it has to be downloaded from Adobe. You may be confused because the pushy IE plug-in interface annoys you until you finally install it, even if you try to avoid it as many users do, because Flash is used primarily to transport ads. Windows medis player, OTOH, plays just about everything assuming you have the processor speed, this is true for all the multitudes of free video players for all platforms.
The real reason sites force Flash is that many users prefer to right-click a video link, instead of view in the browser - they lose revenue from all the (flash) ads.
Additionally, the argument that Flash is the superior cross-platform standard fails in that Flash is quite possibly the worst "codec" to encode bitmap video to. Flash video is God-Awful in quality compared to every other codec out there.
Simply stated, the music industry derives income from royalty. As licensing is hooked deeply into all media and marketing, it is impossible to participate in today's ecomony without some of your money going to the music industry.
Stopping CD purchases will not put them out of business. You'd have to stop buying ANYTHING advertised on radio. You could never spend money in a store that plays music. You could never eat in a restaurant that has music playing in the background. You can never go to any nightclub -- you might be able to justify going when an unsigned live band plays original tunes, but the club itself still has an ASCAP license to finance. You couldn't use a VISA or Mastercard, or any service that advertises. In fact, you'd have to drop out completely to perform the boycott.
I doubt slowing CD and DVD sales put a major dent in their income. It's just that they fear losing control, for the loss of the retail segment demonstrates people are realizing how badly overpriced music is, and the licensees might be the next to realize this. And that would be the end of one of the most lucrative easy-money gravy trains in history.
Microsoft update was, in it's original incarnation, meant to be *the* portal for drivers/hardware utilities from hardware manufacturers
Maybe not Microsoft Update, but if you try to install mystery hardware invoking the Add New Hardware wizard, one of the options, beside Insert cd or Browse to location of.inf file) is to connect with Windows Update to look for the driver, which usually works if the hardware isn't cutting edge. I don't have WGA & it still works.
What the hell are you talking about. Movies don't cost $20. Beer is one of the best things to attract hot girls in the right social situation -- which I suspect does not include being behind the keyboard posting Slashdot.
This brings up the question of what wga really costs Microsoft, from installing the corporate wga backend to handling these inevitable calls. If techs worldwide have similar experiences to you, let's assume they only call 10 times/year for activation & not 50-100 like you, the callcenter cost to MS still must easily be in the tens of millions, even if they're outsourcing to overseas scriptmonkeys.
This loss does not include the losses from sales resistance as a result of badwill, etc from customer annoyance. If the receipts of sales keys does not balance, I would expect MS to soften up on this.
If everybody stopped buying CDs, the RIAA would still be in business because of its parasitical derivation or royalties from just about everything you buy and every bar/restaurant/club you go to. This is ASCAP/BMI if you want to look into it further - the same people you legally owe if you sing "Happy Birthday," to someone at a birthday party, a song which was written in 1921 and is copyrighted by Time Warner.
I always wondered if hearing-impaired persons should get a refund of their portion of the fee when buying products at ASCAP-licensed establishments because they were paying for music they were not able to "enjoy."
It can't be made to run like win2k. There are a couple of things XP does better than Win2K, many worse, and activation is the deal killer.
Thankfully we have pirates to repair XP and/or post corporate versions of it online. How anyone pays for the wga "experience" is just one of those modern mysteries.
ISPs are protected as common carriers, if they were to be assigned responsibility for their customer's actions they would also be liable for their customer's p2p copyright violations, or their sending death threats, lame haxoring attempts, etc.
I doubt the answer is making ISPs adopt a "profit-last" business model or whatever your solution may be, you'd just end up with a lame-ass soviet style inefficient bureaucracy that would be down half the time and slow when it's not. ISPs already figured out how to packet-shape to throttle p2p bandwidth, once they realize the cost of the bots (both as outgoing bandwidth and overhead handling the incoming spam) they'll come up with a solution.
There are no LEMs on the moon. After launching and lunar orbit docking with the CSM, they were ejected and impacted into the lunar surface. The lower stages remain at the landing sites, they are platforms maybe 2m in height.
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So in summary you never see them either. Just what I said.
I've never seen a Zune in the wild.
At the gym I see a lots of Ipods of course, and a lot of flash based players particularly the old Rios. I'm pretty confident the Forges & such never got to a million.
Look at it this way. If there were a million Zunes in the wild, and you see 200-300 people per day, the odds approach certainty you will see one before a few days are out.
If there are really a million Zunes in the wild. I mean, I actually laughed when I read the headline.
If they put this much effort into making crappy movies not suck instead, they'd save a lot more money than trying to control every customer's lives
You're making the assumption the total effort would result in better movies. But combining an incompetent antipiracy unit with a sucky movie production unit would not equal a good movie production unit. You could have a million people working under that management and still end up with a bunch of suck.
If your car is new, it will take a couple thousand miles before the engine loosens up, it should pick up some MPG once it breaks in. The truck might have been running at peak volumetric efficiency (torque peak) at 75mph in top gear whereas for your Honda might be at 65 in top. You can change the final drive ratio to 4.40:1 to give your car longer "legs", it will accelerate slower however.
AC remarked: They are shit 'cars' for a sick society. If you 'drive' a Hummer, you are - almost by definition - a total asshole with no aesthetic taste, no interest in cars, no basic grasp of physics and no financial sense. You are, for all intets and purposes, an American idiot.
I doubt it has anything to do with Americans being the way they are. Hummer driving, like driving V12 Benzes and BWMs 200kph on the autobahn, is conspicuous consumption. This is a species-wide phenomenon which proves they have the resources to burn & some like Freud would say, proves their fitness for reproduction in attracting the female of the species.
More like 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640
In 1986 most labels listed cd albums at $14.98 while LPs and cassettes listed at $9.98. As today, nobody paid full retail (unless you were idiotic enough to sigh up for one of those 10 Free CD mailorder deals), Tower for instance had the Top 10 billboard albums in each category at $2 off.
When I first checked, just three days ago at the start of the Digg fiasco, that string resulted in less than 9,000 google hits, so the trend is definitely "upward."
There are probably other factors, even if it can be proven people didn't go to the beach 60 years ago (check ebay for vintage swimsuit photos for a 2nd opinion).
In the last century the Western populations have largely moved from rural locations (and working in the the outdoors) to mostly living in the cities (and inside buildings). On the whole exposure to sun has dropped dramatically.
Well, you're talking about removing their common carrier protection.
You need to think long and hard if you actually want that to happen, because this is definitely one of those cases of "be careful what you wish for."
Because a couple years from now you'll be in here bitching "My ISP won't let me use any p2p app, or telnet even ssh, or download exe files etc etc" just because someone *might* sue them.
Don't sweat it, Google kicks the shit out of them by not indexing Flash pages.
AC stated: As many "standard" video formats as there are out there, like it or not, none of them are as universal as Flash.
I'd agree with you if you were right. Flash does not come with Macs and Windows - it has to be downloaded from Adobe. You may be confused because the pushy IE plug-in interface annoys you until you finally install it, even if you try to avoid it as many users do, because Flash is used primarily to transport ads. Windows medis player, OTOH, plays just about everything assuming you have the processor speed, this is true for all the multitudes of free video players for all platforms.
The real reason sites force Flash is that many users prefer to right-click a video link, instead of view in the browser - they lose revenue from all the (flash) ads.
Additionally, the argument that Flash is the superior cross-platform standard fails in that Flash is quite possibly the worst "codec" to encode bitmap video to. Flash video is God-Awful in quality compared to every other codec out there.
Yah, I bet you also just LOOOOVE the Webshots interface where they use Flash to display photos.
I can hear you now... "FLASH is a lot more standard than Jpeg, Gif, PNG, What would you use instead???"
Flash. To display Photos.
Simply stated, the music industry derives income from royalty. As licensing is hooked deeply into all media and marketing, it is impossible to participate in today's ecomony without some of your money going to the music industry.
Stopping CD purchases will not put them out of business. You'd have to stop buying ANYTHING advertised on radio. You could never spend money in a store that plays music. You could never eat in a restaurant that has music playing in the background. You can never go to any nightclub -- you might be able to justify going when an unsigned live band plays original tunes, but the club itself still has an ASCAP license to finance. You couldn't use a VISA or Mastercard, or any service that advertises. In fact, you'd have to drop out completely to perform the boycott.
I doubt slowing CD and DVD sales put a major dent in their income. It's just that they fear losing control, for the loss of the retail segment demonstrates people are realizing how badly overpriced music is, and the licensees might be the next to realize this. And that would be the end of one of the most lucrative easy-money gravy trains in history.
The optimizer is get posted on Salshdot, receive hits, collect ad revenue.
Microsoft update was, in it's original incarnation, meant to be *the* portal for drivers/hardware utilities from hardware manufacturers
.inf file) is to connect with Windows Update to look for the driver, which usually works if the hardware isn't cutting edge. I don't have WGA & it still works.
Maybe not Microsoft Update, but if you try to install mystery hardware invoking the Add New Hardware wizard, one of the options, beside Insert cd or Browse to location of
True enough, but I notice the R series all have their USB ports falling out after only a couple years of use.
What the hell are you talking about. Movies don't cost $20. Beer is one of the best things to attract hot girls in the right social situation -- which I suspect does not include being behind the keyboard posting Slashdot.
We still fly the Shuttle with Z-80's & those can reach orbital velocities.
This brings up the question of what wga really costs Microsoft, from installing the corporate wga backend to handling these inevitable calls. If techs worldwide have similar experiences to you, let's assume they only call 10 times/year for activation & not 50-100 like you, the callcenter cost to MS still must easily be in the tens of millions, even if they're outsourcing to overseas scriptmonkeys.
This loss does not include the losses from sales resistance as a result of badwill, etc from customer annoyance. If the receipts of sales keys does not balance, I would expect MS to soften up on this.
If everybody stopped buying CDs, the RIAA would still be in business because of its parasitical derivation or royalties from just about everything you buy and every bar/restaurant/club you go to. This is ASCAP/BMI if you want to look into it further - the same people you legally owe if you sing "Happy Birthday," to someone at a birthday party, a song which was written in 1921 and is copyrighted by Time Warner.
I always wondered if hearing-impaired persons should get a refund of their portion of the fee when buying products at ASCAP-licensed establishments because they were paying for music they were not able to "enjoy."
I hope so, we have a 100 year reg with them.
It can't be made to run like win2k. There are a couple of things XP does better than Win2K, many worse, and activation is the deal killer.
Thankfully we have pirates to repair XP and/or post corporate versions of it online. How anyone pays for the wga "experience" is just one of those modern mysteries.
ISPs are protected as common carriers, if they were to be assigned responsibility for their customer's actions they would also be liable for their customer's p2p copyright violations, or their sending death threats, lame haxoring attempts, etc.
I doubt the answer is making ISPs adopt a "profit-last" business model or whatever your solution may be, you'd just end up with a lame-ass soviet style inefficient bureaucracy that would be down half the time and slow when it's not. ISPs already figured out how to packet-shape to throttle p2p bandwidth, once they realize the cost of the bots (both as outgoing bandwidth and overhead handling the incoming spam) they'll come up with a solution.
There are no LEMs on the moon. After launching and lunar orbit docking with the CSM, they were ejected and impacted into the lunar surface. The lower stages remain at the landing sites, they are platforms maybe 2m in height.