once the 64-bit chips start to become mainstream, the price of the 32-bit Athlons will plummet.
Uhh, what? I just bought an XP 2000 box, half a gig of ram, 60 gig drive, shipped, for 400 bucks. You could buy 5 of them, and make a cluster. I'd rather go cheap on the box and get a 21" plasma though. It's easy to upgrade everything else.
It's a horrible place for discussion. You're going to get a bunch of anecdotes about how "My uncle's friend recorded his church band and sold CD's out of his van, and they only costed him like, less than 50 cents a piece, and so you'd save money if you made a million!!!1!" It's moronic.
Put it this way: you can spend however much you want to make an album. If you want it to sound like it wasn't recorded in a bathtub, you'll spend more. If your band is ready to play the songs (instead of writing them in the studio), you'll spend less. Are you loading your own gear? No cartage fees. Do you even own the gear you'd like to play with? Using session players? How many guys in your band? Have they recorded before? Are you recording the parts separately? Are you recording it 8 seconds at a time? Digital? Analog?
If you're "big," 1,000 bucks a day for the studio's about average, not including engineers/producer/etc. Plan for 3 or 4 months in the studio. The first Sabbath album was recorded in a day; Metallica's Black Album took ~8 months.
Are we including promotion? That's a whole new set of equations. Basically what it comes down to is:
It depends,
which is why it's not a good place for discussion.
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: But bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good...
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers. Pigs sleep and root in shit, that's a filthy animal. I don't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
Vincent: How about a dog? A dog eats its own feces.
And that's where you run into a situation like Duke Nukem Whenever, where they're constantly swapping engines out and trying to build a game around it. Unless you're writing the engine yourself (like Carmack), your time is pretty limited. Get the game out, and move on.
the only reason why it died was due to a hardware failure (hard drive died)... the machine was upgraded to an AMD Athlon 2000 system (popped the drive into the new system and was off and running in no time.. try this with W2K)
Lemme get this straight - you put the dead hard drive in the new system, and it worked? Praise the resurrecting power of Linux! Windows can't do that!
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I think as long as the GUIs are just front-ends to modifying text files, it'll be ok. Everytime I have to fiddle around clicking "Next" a hundred times, I wistfully think of something like PF.
Glad that clears that up
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That other Slashdot story that told us what a lot of us already know: Windows IS cheaper than Linux was clearly hokum. This'll finally shut those monkeys up.
Oh wait, the second sentence is Most analysts, if asked whether Linux has a lower TCO than other systems, will answer, "It depends."
I wonder what the open source community's reaction would be if MS threatened not to bring Office to Linux? How badly would we take it? Just how much could Microsoft force us to do using this tactic?
Bah. I apologize. Should have known from the title, but I didn't even read the rest of the page - just came in from Google and saw the quotations at the top.
Secondly, there are TONS of people other than the artist who should be compensated.
That's very true, but then you list a bunch of people who don't get compensated by album sales anyway. Joe Studio Drummer could care less if the albums he's on sell one or a million copies - he won't see any extra cash, other than being able to charge higher prices next album because of his reputation.
Used disc? Even if it's new, check for scratches right near the center - that's where it'll find the tracking info. If it can't, it'll skip the whole disc. Fog it with your breath, and wipe from the center out. Wipe the top too.
I know it sounds like dealing with old Nintendos, but it solves most playing problems.:)
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once the 64-bit chips start to become mainstream, the price of the 32-bit Athlons will plummet.
Uhh, what? I just bought an XP 2000 box, half a gig of ram, 60 gig drive, shipped, for 400 bucks. You could buy 5 of them, and make a cluster. I'd rather go cheap on the box and get a 21" plasma though. It's easy to upgrade everything else.
Seriously. It's only three letters (G, o, and d). How hard is that?
5) ESR
I've considered writing an article basically entitled "Living with a KDE Developer",
I'd read it.
It's a horrible place for discussion. You're going to get a bunch of anecdotes about how "My uncle's friend recorded his church band and sold CD's out of his van, and they only costed him like, less than 50 cents a piece, and so you'd save money if you made a million!!!1!" It's moronic.
Put it this way: you can spend however much you want to make an album. If you want it to sound like it wasn't recorded in a bathtub, you'll spend more. If your band is ready to play the songs (instead of writing them in the studio), you'll spend less. Are you loading your own gear? No cartage fees. Do you even own the gear you'd like to play with? Using session players? How many guys in your band? Have they recorded before? Are you recording the parts separately? Are you recording it 8 seconds at a time? Digital? Analog?
If you're "big," 1,000 bucks a day for the studio's about average, not including engineers/producer/etc. Plan for 3 or 4 months in the studio. The first Sabbath album was recorded in a day; Metallica's Black Album took ~8 months.
Are we including promotion? That's a whole new set of equations. Basically what it comes down to is:
It depends,
which is why it's not a good place for discussion.
Know of any escrow services that would be willing and able to work with many small payments for one item?
Write one. I'll throw in a buck to, uhh, wait...
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: But bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good...
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers. Pigs sleep and root in shit, that's a filthy animal. I don't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
Vincent: How about a dog? A dog eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
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Google's cache of the page they're talking about is here.
And that's where you run into a situation like Duke Nukem Whenever, where they're constantly swapping engines out and trying to build a game around it. Unless you're writing the engine yourself (like Carmack), your time is pretty limited. Get the game out, and move on.
the only reason why it died was due to a hardware failure (hard drive died)... the machine was upgraded to an AMD Athlon 2000 system (popped the drive into the new system and was off and running in no time.. try this with W2K)
Lemme get this straight - you put the dead hard drive in the new system, and it worked? Praise the resurrecting power of Linux! Windows can't do that!
I think as long as the GUIs are just front-ends to modifying text files, it'll be ok. Everytime I have to fiddle around clicking "Next" a hundred times, I wistfully think of something like PF.
That other Slashdot story that told us what a lot of us already know: Windows IS cheaper than Linux was clearly hokum. This'll finally shut those monkeys up.
Oh wait, the second sentence is Most analysts, if asked whether Linux has a lower TCO than other systems, will answer, "It depends."
Glad they wrote a whole article about it.
I wonder what the open source community's reaction would be if MS threatened not to bring Office to Linux? How badly would we take it? Just how much could Microsoft force us to do using this tactic?
How is that different from what we have now?
Duke3D ruled in multiplayer. The laser trip bomb is one of the greatest weapons ever.
It's ok, they can just wait until Doom 3 comes out, and use that one (with some minor tweaks).
It's a dirty little secret, but they actually showed those videos on a 9700 Pro. Sorry.
What it does do is give you the same quality at a better bitrate, so you can have more songs. That's the advantage I see.
Bah. I apologize. Should have known from the title, but I didn't even read the rest of the page - just came in from Google and saw the quotations at the top.
Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius.
http://www.racialcompact.com/whomgodsdestroy.html
I'll bet yours does, since I'm using MSN with 0.59.1 just fine. You just have to load the plugin. Try this: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q9
Secondly, there are TONS of people other than the artist who should be compensated.
That's very true, but then you list a bunch of people who don't get compensated by album sales anyway. Joe Studio Drummer could care less if the albums he's on sell one or a million copies - he won't see any extra cash, other than being able to charge higher prices next album because of his reputation.
Used disc? Even if it's new, check for scratches right near the center - that's where it'll find the tracking info. If it can't, it'll skip the whole disc. Fog it with your breath, and wipe from the center out. Wipe the top too.
:)
I know it sounds like dealing with old Nintendos, but it solves most playing problems.
The Church of GNU/Linux, you heathen! Death to the infidels!
That's pretty lame, not to mention that a 'degraded' OO client still uploads faster than 90% of everybody else who's on P2P.