TuneCore passes 100 percent of Amazon's payout to the artist - about 40 percent of the retail price.
So they don't take a 60% cut...that's what amazon takes. However, that makes it sound like they take their $31 upfront and that's it. Nothing per disk. So if you sell 1 million CDs, they just get $31. No way. They've got to be getting something back from amazon. Their take is buried somewhere in that 60% cut that amazon takes.
Still, that's a good deal for someone getting started.
$31 for pressed CDs? That's pretty darn cheap if you are going to be doing small runs. Granted you can do a lot better than their 60% cut if you get decently popular and sell a lot of discs, but for someone just getting started that's pretty good (and more professional than going the CD-R route).
i can tell you of many times pulling a boat down the highway and it would start to fishtail.. depending on whats around you and your options.. some times speeding up to stop it is your only option.
I'm calling BS on this one. I pull a trailer often and have never had anything like this happen. I can't even imagine how it could happen. Fishtailing happens when you have more power in the rear than the front will allow, so the rear swings off to the side, like it's trying to pass the front. In what case could you get more power to the trailer than the tow vehicle will allow? I can think of a few 1) Sudden stopping (ie: jackknifing). In this case, if you are trying to stop very suddenly, I think the last thing you want to do is accelerate. 2) Going downhill. However, I can't see this being an issue as the towing vehicle will experience similar force and the difference wouldn't be enough to fishtail. 3) Hurricane force winds. I'm thinking you probably shouldn't be driving so fast.
Of course, now that I think about it a little more, there is another possibility. You've severely misloaded your trailer, and the shifting/unbalanced cargo is causing the effect. In this case, you don't need to speed up. You need to carefully stop and learn how to reload your trailer properly.
Also don't forget trade ins - many console owners I know (myself included) will trade old games for money off new ones, often allowing us to buy more NEW games then we would have done otherwise. Why not embrace this?
I'm not taking any side here, but I think the way they'd look at it is as follows. Some person goes and spends $40 buying a used game. In exchange, the store skims off $20 and passes the other $20 to you so that you have an additional $20 to invest in the new games market. However, if the used market didn't exist, presumably that person would only buy games 2/3 as often (as he'd have to spend $60 each time instead of $40) but it would be invested in the new games market. Granted you'd also only buy your new games 2/3 as often (as you'd need to come up with that additional $20), but the net result is an extra $20 being put into the new game market.
Of course, that's assuming that the limiting factor in purchases is money to buy. If instead buyers had more cash to spend than games they were interested in spending it on, it would be even more favorable to the game companies. You'd still buy your games just as often and that other guy that was buying used would buy just as often, except now he'd be buying new instead of used.
Of course, that's overlooking several other issues that make the issue more cloudy, such DLC, or that fact that maybe people would actually buy even fewer new games if there weren't a used game market.
To be fair to Guitar Hero: Actually, this is some stuff that Rock Band doesn't have. I've wished before that Rock Band let you do dual vocalists.
To be fair to Rock Band: Everything? Well for starters, since they've explicitly said you can play GHWT DLC in GH5, I'm taking that to mean you still can't export GHWT songs to GH5, like RB1 did for RB2.
Actually, I can play drums incredibly well (30 years experience), and I'm pretty decent at bass, too. Despite that, I find playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero to be fun. It's a game. It's a totally different experience.
A social norm is different from a private belief or private practice. It's just like all those elected officials who run a crusade against homosexuality, and then it turn they've been closet homos all along. The social norm is the behavior you display publicly because you feel it is what is socially acceptable, but it often doesn't represent what you do privately. You might swear up a storm in your own house, but go into a more public setting (such as at work or someplace where a bunch of kids are around) and you'll probably hold back on such colorful language.
Try to find incidents of Restless Leg Syndrome (by that name or any other) prior to the advertising campaign. See for yourself how difficult that is
You are right. It's nearly impossible. For instance,
1) Open browser to wikipedia. 2) Search for RLS 3) Scan down to the History section
"Earlier studies were done by Thomas Willis (1622â"1675) and by Theodor Wittmaack.[54] Another early description of the disease and its symptoms were made by George Miller Beard (1839-1883).[54] In a 1945 publication titled 'Restless Legs', Swedish neurologist Karl-Axel Ekbom (1907-1977)[54] described the disease and presented eight cases used for his studies.[55]"
So you are absolutely correct, provided, of course, that you can show us that the advertising campaign for RLS began in the early 1600s or earlier.
"...when Microsoft finally adds it to Windows 7 (it's not in there yet)"
Also regarding the trim support on the Vertex:
"The Indilinx guys have gone ahead and implemented a draft form of TRIM and OCZ has released a (very) beta version of a TRIM tool for use with their Vertex series drives...As of this writing the tool causes severe data corruption in 64 bit environments."
So it is still very much a work in progress (though again, that is almost a month old, so I can't say how it has progressed since then)
Actually, SSDs don't currently support TRIM. The last I read, the manufacturers can't agree on a common way to do it (there are 2 competing ideas about how to implement it). They are actually trying to do the right thing by working out their differences and implementing it all the same, rather than both doing their own thing. Until they come to an agreement, they can't release any firmware supporting TRIM. For the same reason, Windows 7 doesn't support TRIM either, and it is supposed to be shipping without TRIM support. That support is supposed to come shortly after Win7 is released.
Yeah, but the SSD wear leveling sits at a level below RAID. When you write to a specific area of the SSD, the wear leveling can remap that to whereever it needs.
Even so, I was still impressed by some of the info turned up by WA, particularly the "Sydney New York" info and all the comparisons (GM/Ford, Asprin/Tylenol, etc). So his queries may have been unsuited for WA, but (assuming WA does what it is supposed to and handles natural language decently), this article at least sets a lower bound for what we can expect of it, and I found it quite impressive.
I wish I had mod points for you. You are right. This guy apparently doesn't know. From his post, it appears that he thinks a page fault is something like a blue screen error or GPF. The truth is, page fault is the technical term for what people commonly refer to as swapping. The program tried to access a page of memory that is no longer resident in physical memory and has been swapped out to the virtual memory swap file. It is treated much like any other invalid memory access, in that the program is suspended and the OS exception handler is invoked to decide how to respond, except that in the case of a page fault, the OS knows how to handle it. It determines what part of memory it should swap out, and swaps in the needed page.
I found the article. Limit your google search to the chicago tribune website. Search for:
site:chicagotribune.com soy based laser toner
It's the first result, but the page doesn't appear to be there anymore (the website says articles are only available for 2 weeks, but it hasn't quite been 2 weeks yet, so I'm not sure why it's gone). Google cache has it for now.
Not a whole lot of info in the article. There's no studies cited. It states that "Newspaper, magazine and book publishers have shifted to soy-based ink in recent years" but nothing more specific. It says "It's easier to recycle paper printed with soy" but nothing more on that. It says nothing at all about longevity. Much of the article talks about the SoyPrint company, so it's hard to gauge the authenticity of the article. I get the impression the article could very well have been written based around some talking points distributed by SoyPrint.
I'm not saying there's no merit here...just that the Chicago Tribune article doesn't appear to contribute much to the discussion.
Mexico's response has been so disorganized they have no CLUE who "patient zero" is.
Yeah, the part I found especially interesting is, you've got this 5 year old with the swine flu, yet they test others in the town and it turns out this kid was the only person in town that contracted swine flu. Then they go and test the pig farm where they believe the kid may have contracted it from, and all the tests come back negative.
So you've got the original infection vector, but no identifiable source it could have been contracted from, and no identifiable recipients it could have been passed on to. Seems odd to me.
Don't worry. Gmail only block linked images. The ones you saw were surely just embedded image. No outbound connection (except to gmail) is required to display those, so nobody (other than gmail) will even know you looked at them.
Actually, I'll be waiting for someone to screw up the wording and accidentally make it outlaw things like having a pig valve transplanted into your heart (a very common procedure).
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Yes, massive fail...ON YOUR PART. That $31 is upfront, not per disc. Try RTFA.
They are NOT pressed CD's.
If that is the case, then the article blatently lied:
Upon rereading:
So they don't take a 60% cut...that's what amazon takes. However, that makes it sound like they take their $31 upfront and that's it. Nothing per disk. So if you sell 1 million CDs, they just get $31. No way. They've got to be getting something back from amazon. Their take is buried somewhere in that 60% cut that amazon takes.
Still, that's a good deal for someone getting started.
$31 for pressed CDs? That's pretty darn cheap if you are going to be doing small runs. Granted you can do a lot better than their 60% cut if you get decently popular and sell a lot of discs, but for someone just getting started that's pretty good (and more professional than going the CD-R route).
I think the stationary pedestrian hit by a 60MPH vehicle would like to disagree with you.
(I know it was a joke...sorry for ruining it)
You can still steer the vehicle even after the power steering is cut off. Same with braking.
Besides, it's very possible to cut drive train power without shutting off the engine. How about forcing the transmission to switch into neutral.
I'm calling BS on this one. I pull a trailer often and have never had anything like this happen. I can't even imagine how it could happen. Fishtailing happens when you have more power in the rear than the front will allow, so the rear swings off to the side, like it's trying to pass the front. In what case could you get more power to the trailer than the tow vehicle will allow? I can think of a few
1) Sudden stopping (ie: jackknifing). In this case, if you are trying to stop very suddenly, I think the last thing you want to do is accelerate.
2) Going downhill. However, I can't see this being an issue as the towing vehicle will experience similar force and the difference wouldn't be enough to fishtail.
3) Hurricane force winds. I'm thinking you probably shouldn't be driving so fast.
Of course, now that I think about it a little more, there is another possibility. You've severely misloaded your trailer, and the shifting/unbalanced cargo is causing the effect. In this case, you don't need to speed up. You need to carefully stop and learn how to reload your trailer properly.
Also don't forget trade ins - many console owners I know (myself included) will trade old games for money off new ones, often allowing us to buy more NEW games then we would have done otherwise. Why not embrace this?
I'm not taking any side here, but I think the way they'd look at it is as follows. Some person goes and spends $40 buying a used game. In exchange, the store skims off $20 and passes the other $20 to you so that you have an additional $20 to invest in the new games market. However, if the used market didn't exist, presumably that person would only buy games 2/3 as often (as he'd have to spend $60 each time instead of $40) but it would be invested in the new games market. Granted you'd also only buy your new games 2/3 as often (as you'd need to come up with that additional $20), but the net result is an extra $20 being put into the new game market.
Of course, that's assuming that the limiting factor in purchases is money to buy. If instead buyers had more cash to spend than games they were interested in spending it on, it would be even more favorable to the game companies. You'd still buy your games just as often and that other guy that was buying used would buy just as often, except now he'd be buying new instead of used.
Of course, that's overlooking several other issues that make the issue more cloudy, such DLC, or that fact that maybe people would actually buy even fewer new games if there weren't a used game market.
To be fair to Guitar Hero: Actually, this is some stuff that Rock Band doesn't have. I've wished before that Rock Band let you do dual vocalists.
To be fair to Rock Band: Everything? Well for starters, since they've explicitly said you can play GHWT DLC in GH5, I'm taking that to mean you still can't export GHWT songs to GH5, like RB1 did for RB2.
Actually, I can play drums incredibly well (30 years experience), and I'm pretty decent at bass, too. Despite that, I find playing Rock Band/Guitar Hero to be fun. It's a game. It's a totally different experience.
And the best part is, if the cows get out of control, we've already got effective (and tasty) methods of dealing with that problem.
A social norm is different from a private belief or private practice. It's just like all those elected officials who run a crusade against homosexuality, and then it turn they've been closet homos all along. The social norm is the behavior you display publicly because you feel it is what is socially acceptable, but it often doesn't represent what you do privately. You might swear up a storm in your own house, but go into a more public setting (such as at work or someplace where a bunch of kids are around) and you'll probably hold back on such colorful language.
Uh...the definition ALSO mean:
"To destroy or kill a large part of".
Guess what...languages evolve. We have a lot of words that don't mean the same thing they did back in the era of the Roman Empire. Try to keep up.
You are right. It's nearly impossible. For instance,
1) Open browser to wikipedia.
2) Search for RLS
3) Scan down to the History section
"Earlier studies were done by Thomas Willis (1622â"1675) and by Theodor Wittmaack.[54] Another early description of the disease and its symptoms were made by George Miller Beard (1839-1883).[54] In a 1945 publication titled 'Restless Legs', Swedish neurologist Karl-Axel Ekbom (1907-1977)[54] described the disease and presented eight cases used for his studies.[55]"
So you are absolutely correct, provided, of course, that you can show us that the advertising campaign for RLS began in the early 1600s or earlier.
Pardom my knowledge for being ever so slightly out of date. As of less than a month ago, that wasn't the case:
April 13, 2009
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=691&type=expert&pid=8
"...when Microsoft finally adds it to Windows 7 (it's not in there yet)"
Also regarding the trim support on the Vertex:
"The Indilinx guys have gone ahead and implemented a draft form of TRIM and OCZ has released a (very) beta version of a TRIM tool for use with their Vertex series drives...As of this writing the tool causes severe data corruption in 64 bit environments."
So it is still very much a work in progress (though again, that is almost a month old, so I can't say how it has progressed since then)
Actually, SSDs don't currently support TRIM. The last I read, the manufacturers can't agree on a common way to do it (there are 2 competing ideas about how to implement it). They are actually trying to do the right thing by working out their differences and implementing it all the same, rather than both doing their own thing. Until they come to an agreement, they can't release any firmware supporting TRIM. For the same reason, Windows 7 doesn't support TRIM either, and it is supposed to be shipping without TRIM support. That support is supposed to come shortly after Win7 is released.
Yeah, but the SSD wear leveling sits at a level below RAID. When you write to a specific area of the SSD, the wear leveling can remap that to whereever it needs.
Even so, I was still impressed by some of the info turned up by WA, particularly the "Sydney New York" info and all the comparisons (GM/Ford, Asprin/Tylenol, etc). So his queries may have been unsuited for WA, but (assuming WA does what it is supposed to and handles natural language decently), this article at least sets a lower bound for what we can expect of it, and I found it quite impressive.
I wish I had mod points for you. You are right. This guy apparently doesn't know. From his post, it appears that he thinks a page fault is something like a blue screen error or GPF. The truth is, page fault is the technical term for what people commonly refer to as swapping. The program tried to access a page of memory that is no longer resident in physical memory and has been swapped out to the virtual memory swap file. It is treated much like any other invalid memory access, in that the program is suspended and the OS exception handler is invoked to decide how to respond, except that in the case of a page fault, the OS knows how to handle it. It determines what part of memory it should swap out, and swaps in the needed page.
I found the article. Limit your google search to the chicago tribune website. Search for:
site:chicagotribune.com soy based laser toner
It's the first result, but the page doesn't appear to be there anymore (the website says articles are only available for 2 weeks, but it hasn't quite been 2 weeks yet, so I'm not sure why it's gone). Google cache has it for now.
Not a whole lot of info in the article. There's no studies cited. It states that "Newspaper, magazine and book publishers have shifted to soy-based ink in recent years" but nothing more specific. It says "It's easier to recycle paper printed with soy" but nothing more on that. It says nothing at all about longevity. Much of the article talks about the SoyPrint company, so it's hard to gauge the authenticity of the article. I get the impression the article could very well have been written based around some talking points distributed by SoyPrint.
I'm not saying there's no merit here...just that the Chicago Tribune article doesn't appear to contribute much to the discussion.
Mexico's response has been so disorganized they have no CLUE who "patient zero" is.
Yeah, the part I found especially interesting is, you've got this 5 year old with the swine flu, yet they test others in the town and it turns out this kid was the only person in town that contracted swine flu. Then they go and test the pig farm where they believe the kid may have contracted it from, and all the tests come back negative.
So you've got the original infection vector, but no identifiable source it could have been contracted from, and no identifiable recipients it could have been passed on to. Seems odd to me.
Yeah, but if you've install Ubuntu on a separate partition on your Zune:
1) Congrats
2) Why?
Don't worry. Gmail only block linked images. The ones you saw were surely just embedded image. No outbound connection (except to gmail) is required to display those, so nobody (other than gmail) will even know you looked at them.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't blaming he customer who hired the company, but the manager who hired the employee.
Actually, I'll be waiting for someone to screw up the wording and accidentally make it outlaw things like having a pig valve transplanted into your heart (a very common procedure).