In small town America, people have a bad habbit of keeping all their old broken or useless things around for no apparent reason. My landlord keeps 5 dead cars on the property I'm renting from her in return for a slight rent break.
The same applies to their computer hardware. I fix their newer machines and in return, I convince them that their old hardware is of no use to them.
In return for my services, I can ofen walk away with various car and computer parts that have proven to be of great use to me. The best deal I've ever struck landed me with a working P4 and motherboard from a computer with a bad harddrive for the simple task of eliminating Sasser.B from another machine.
Turning off the lights and playing SS2 at 3 in the morning got me in alot of trouble one night.
I'd been playing for a few hours and upon reaching the command deck, I was so into the game that everything disappeared around me. I had a large pair of ear-devouring Sony headphones that didn't help much either. My roomate, a rather petite woman, came out of her room at this time for something (I never did find out what) and decided to tap me on the shoulder just as I was running backwards unloading everything I had at one of those rumblers. The contact startled me so much that I jumped out of my chair, swung around, and landed an elbow right across her nose. I ended up driving her to the hospital, paying her medical bills, and losing a roomate. I still havn't figured out where she hid my wireless keyboard and mouse either.
I too mourn the demise of Looking Glass Studios. A sad day for the video game industry.
CD sales are not the only source of income that the artist and record companies have to look forward too. Other sources include, but are not limited to:
- Radio Licensing - Corporate Licensing (Ambient music you hear in various stores) - Concert/Tour income - Merchandising (People actually pay for Kiss dolls) - Video game / Movie Licensing (other forms of entertainment) - Special Appearances (Music Awards etc...)
This list, of course, applies for the most part to popular music artists. Smaller and underground artists don't usually rake in the kind of figures the big boys do but their recording costs are usually alot smaller.
Didn't slashdot have something about this, pertaining to the RIAA of course, posted in the last week or so?
It's probably a good thing that the iSmell didn't make it last year. I can see a whole new world of disasterous hacking in the works. The ability to make somebody's iSmell give off an iFart whenever you felt like it would probably cost companies billions as all their employees begin bickering and taking constant fresh-air breaks.
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In small town America, people have a bad habbit of keeping all their old broken or useless things around for no apparent reason. My landlord keeps 5 dead cars on the property I'm renting from her in return for a slight rent break.
The same applies to their computer hardware. I fix their newer machines and in return, I convince them that their old hardware is of no use to them.
In return for my services, I can ofen walk away with various car and computer parts that have proven to be of great use to me. The best deal I've ever struck landed me with a working P4 and motherboard from a computer with a bad harddrive for the simple task of eliminating Sasser.B from another machine.
Turning off the lights and playing SS2 at 3 in the morning got me in alot of trouble one night.
I'd been playing for a few hours and upon reaching the command deck, I was so into the game that everything disappeared around me. I had a large pair of ear-devouring Sony headphones that didn't help much either. My roomate, a rather petite woman, came out of her room at this time for something (I never did find out what) and decided to tap me on the shoulder just as I was running backwards unloading everything I had at one of those rumblers. The contact startled me so much that I jumped out of my chair, swung around, and landed an elbow right across her nose. I ended up driving her to the hospital, paying her medical bills, and losing a roomate. I still havn't figured out where she hid my wireless keyboard and mouse either.
I too mourn the demise of Looking Glass Studios. A sad day for the video game industry.
CD sales are not the only source of income that the artist and record companies have to look forward too. Other sources include, but are not limited to:
- Radio Licensing
- Corporate Licensing (Ambient music you hear in various stores)
- Concert/Tour income
- Merchandising (People actually pay for Kiss dolls)
- Video game / Movie Licensing (other forms of entertainment)
- Special Appearances (Music Awards etc...)
This list, of course, applies for the most part to popular music artists. Smaller and underground artists don't usually rake in the kind of figures the big boys do but their recording costs are usually alot smaller.
Didn't slashdot have something about this, pertaining to the RIAA of course, posted in the last week or so?
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As any Mac to PC convert can tell you, Counterstrike is the only reason we ever made the switch.
It's probably a good thing that the iSmell didn't make it last year. I can see a whole new world of disasterous hacking in the works. The ability to make somebody's iSmell give off an iFart whenever you felt like it would probably cost companies billions as all their employees begin bickering and taking constant fresh-air breaks.