If you want to sell albums, sell out to a major label. If you don't want to do this then you should not expect to have an easy road ahead of you. After all, that is their business and like it or not they are pretty damned good at it. What ever happened to peddling your album on a street corner? Is that too much work and can't be done sitting in bed in your underwear?
The world is not black and white, sometimes mistakes are made. It's life. Of course, by throwing a big hissy fit he has managed to get more exposure than in his wildest dreams. How artistic.
Considering all of the linux distros are already in an uphill battle, is it really wise for redhat to be taking this on? Short term this can only hurt sales. Afterall, why should I pay for support when there is a chance that Redhat will refuse to give me what I'm paying for simply because they want to prove some point.
Choose your battles, this one just seems silly at this point in time.
Really, why should they go out of there way to help someone enter the country? He could have stayed here, hell he could have stayed here in a nice cozy little jail for free. He decided to post bail and leave the country. With that, it becomes his responsibility to get back. Otherwise people who want to make the trip often would run up parking tickets just so they could speed up there visa process. I know, that's a stretch, but it states my point.
He chose to leave, the day he got back he should have started the process to ensure that it gets done on time. If my kid gets home after curfue I don't care that he got held up at the train tracks and I sure don't expect the train conductor to do his job any differently because of him.
Give me a break. The number of people who cannot get cable is insignificantly small. I back this up with dtv's claim that with only 64 out of over 1000 tv markets they claim to give over a 65% population coverage. And the rest can always go big dish. Up until satellite, I had no choice but cable or big dish, yet that was perfectly fine with everyone. This merger pretty much means I'll never get local channels except over the airwaves whereas I'd probably have to wait a year or so if the merge went through.
I know several of your supposedly 'true engineers' who flunked out of sub nuke school. The people who work with the reactors almost all have eng degrees and have gone through at least 6 months of navy training that puts them at the top of their field. None of them have a problem getting a job when they get out.
Not to mention the training and drills that they go through in dealing with the pressures of saving a ship that is sinking or going through a melt down.
Compare this to the fact that a pretty good percentage of Electrical Engineers work at pretty mediocre jobs or, imagine this, aren't very good engineers.
In a pressure situation I'd put my money on Jimmy Carter any day over someone like Dean Kamen(the segway guy) who for all we know would just wet his pants in a tough situation.
oh, and the people i know who flunked out did so more because they couldn't deal with the pressure than because they couldn't pass technically.
In which case you're gonna crash because you've run out of fuel anyway. It is few and far between that an aircraft returns to base with under 15% fuel, let alone enter combat with so little.
Actually, the F22 and probably at least some other modern fighters use bellows tanks in it's fel tanks to cool engine oil. Basically you pump hot oil from the engine into the tanks which are surrounded by thousands of gallons of fuel in order to cool it down.
Along the same lines it is very common for automobiles to have their fuel pumps inside the fuel tank for the same reason. If you live in a hot area there is a pretty good chance that people who run their cars frequently near empty go through more fuel pumps than those who don't.
Typically you can still get the analog cable channels to record. So you aren't really losing anything, you just aren't gaining the ability to record the extra channels.
This is typically what happens with PIP tv's, you basically have digital cable going into one input, but standard cable from the box going into the second (assuming its not a 2 tuner tv). The result is that you can't PIP 2 channels that are offered only in digital cable, but you can PIP a digital and a standard cable.
Also, this allows you to splice off and run as many standard cable tv's as you like, no extra box per tv needed.
At least this is how it works around here.
Now, what I don't understand is why with directv I have to run a seperate line from the dish to each receiver and can't just use one loop throughout the entire house. I really don't want to drill a new hole in my house for each tv I have so that I can pass another cable to the dish and have to run it all over the place to get to where I need it.
That's great! You've done the most important part, come up with 2 snazzy little names. Now go create a sourceforge project and have it sit there idle for a few years.
For the record, these things actually work pretty well. I use it 2 fold
To watch divx movies from my linux machine that is downstairs in a closet to any tv in the house
Allows me to get rid of all the kludgy vcrs that I used to have attached to each tv. Having a child who has more vcr movies than dvds this is a great thing.
I typically log a lot more listening time on a CD than I do a movie. Movies require much more attention and aren't very usefull in a car for most people.
Why would I choose to do this? Let's assume that their copy protection scheme works as planned and it is only good for 24 hours. What exactly is the value added against going to a video store
Even on a broadband connection we're talking hours before it's downloaded and viewable. I can practically run to the video store and back before the popcorn is done popping.
Quality wise it is inferior in both video and audio. Compare the video display on an hdtv (or standard for that matter) and a 5:1 surround sound system.
Price wise, well, it gets me nothing. At least with videos my money is going towards supporting a local economy.
This is a lot like a father giving his permission for a daughter to marry someone. Is it needed, no, but it's nice to have a show of support. This also probably opens the door for a better relationship between Transorbital and NASA
Aside from that, being an american company, it falls under US jurisdiction as far as environmental and public safety concearns (even tho the launch is in russia) as well as possible exporting of technology concearns.
I guess I don't follow why this is necesarrily the case. Granted, both are lossy, but if I take a wav -> 128 bit mp3 -> 192 bit mp3 is the result of the 192 bit any worse than the 128? If, as seems to be the common believe on here, that ogg is a better format than mp3 why wouldn't you be able to produce an ogg from an mp3 that is no worse than the mp3? Sure, it may not have an optimum size, but it seems like you should be able to get a 'lossless' version, at least compared to the mp3.
Now, this isn't to say I don't believe it in this case, I just don't buy the blanket argument that lossy -> lossy has to produce even more lossy.
Because you don't have to make it, it comes in these nice portable self contained bottles, and it tastes much better once it's gotten warm than coffee does once it's cooled down.
Actually, it's more along the lines of trying to reduce slander and a ensuring that the company controls the public image, not some web site. Take the Shell example. Imagine some pro green website making up all sorts of jibberish that is completely unproven and then linking to various web pages at Shell that taken out of context can support this.
Or take your Cancer Society example. I could make a website claiming I've discovered some new herb that reduces cancer. All over the page I can have links to various web pages which although they have nothing to do with my product, when taken out of context can give the appearance to web surfers that it is actually endorsed by the ACS.
What is it about Slashdot that makes everyone hyper react and blow things so out of proportion (Not that you are, I'm just giving another reason why some companies don't want linking)? While for some sites it is an issue with bandwith, for the majority it's all about ensuring that they know how their company is being presented to the public.
Go open a lemonade stand. Given your experience (or lack of it) that's about all you are ready for. It's pretty obvious that you haven't the first clue on starting/running a business and 3 years java/c++ experience isn't going to impress too many people.
How about just hanging a sign around your neck that says, 'will code for food'. Sometimes the truth hurts....
Do you really believe in a great conspiracy by the rest of the world that aims bringing the USA down and that other countries are incapable of setting up fair trials?
You don't read this site very much, do you? It is riddled with comments about hoping that American's 'get what they deserve', whatever that may be. And supposedly this site is supposed to cater to the more enlightened masses.
As a general rule the US does not allow its armed forces to be commanded by non American's. The reasoning behind this is that it's been shown that American troops are more effective this way. Part of this is also that it's troops are responsible to US military courts as well. Having US soldiers brought before a different court system would be a blow to one of the fundamentals of the US military and hurt combat effectiveness.
Besides this, we in the US believe in a 'jury by your peers'. A world courty is hardly that.
Personally, I think nationalism is rather fun. In most cases it's what makes this site tolerable to read. I suppose you are the type of person who goes to a soccer/football/baseball/chess match hoping for a tie so that nobody's feelings are hurt?
Of course it works, but it isn't at least what I would call the correct model (My opinion only).
Using the typical ISA/HASA comparison between inheritance and composition a flyingboat IS A plane and IS A boat. It's not an object that HAS A plane and HAS A boat.
Sure, you've created an object that works the same but doesn't really model the objects at hand.
try this call with the above: class airport { takoff(plane); }
.. .. airport.takeoff(flyingboat);
it won't work real well. Multiple inheritance is really my only gripe with java.
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Your/you're and then/than is not that difficult to master. It is pretty sad when both are the span of a few sentence submittal.
If you want to sell albums, sell out to a major label. If you don't want to do this then you should not expect to have an easy road ahead of you. After all, that is their business and like it or not they are pretty damned good at it. What ever happened to peddling your album on a street corner? Is that too much work and can't be done sitting in bed in your underwear?
The world is not black and white, sometimes mistakes are made. It's life. Of course, by throwing a big hissy fit he has managed to get more exposure than in his wildest dreams. How artistic.
Considering all of the linux distros are already in an uphill battle, is it really wise for redhat to be taking this on? Short term this can only hurt sales. Afterall, why should I pay for support when there is a chance that Redhat will refuse to give me what I'm paying for simply because they want to prove some point.
Choose your battles, this one just seems silly at this point in time.
Really, why should they go out of there way to help someone enter the country? He could have stayed here, hell he could have stayed here in a nice cozy little jail for free. He decided to post bail and leave the country. With that, it becomes his responsibility to get back. Otherwise people who want to make the trip often would run up parking tickets just so they could speed up there visa process. I know, that's a stretch, but it states my point.
He chose to leave, the day he got back he should have started the process to ensure that it gets done on time. If my kid gets home after curfue I don't care that he got held up at the train tracks and I sure don't expect the train conductor to do his job any differently because of him.
Give me a break. The number of people who cannot get cable is insignificantly small. I back this up with dtv's claim that with only 64 out of over 1000 tv markets they claim to give over a 65% population coverage. And the rest can always go big dish. Up until satellite, I had no choice but cable or big dish, yet that was perfectly fine with everyone. This merger pretty much means I'll never get local channels except over the airwaves whereas I'd probably have to wait a year or so if the merge went through.
I know several of your supposedly 'true engineers' who flunked out of sub nuke school. The people who work with the reactors almost all have eng degrees and have gone through at least 6 months of navy training that puts them at the top of their field. None of them have a problem getting a job when they get out.
Not to mention the training and drills that they go through in dealing with the pressures of saving a ship that is sinking or going through a melt down.
Compare this to the fact that a pretty good percentage of Electrical Engineers work at pretty mediocre jobs or, imagine this, aren't very good engineers.
In a pressure situation I'd put my money on Jimmy Carter any day over someone like Dean Kamen(the segway guy) who for all we know would just wet his pants in a tough situation.
oh, and the people i know who flunked out did so more because they couldn't deal with the pressure than because they couldn't pass technically.
I know, the point was simply that using fuel as a cooling system is not uncommon.
In which case you're gonna crash because you've run out of fuel anyway. It is few and far between that an aircraft returns to base with under 15% fuel, let alone enter combat with so little.
Actually, the F22 and probably at least some other modern fighters use bellows tanks in it's fel tanks to cool engine oil. Basically you pump hot oil from the engine into the tanks which are surrounded by thousands of gallons of fuel in order to cool it down.
Along the same lines it is very common for automobiles to have their fuel pumps inside the fuel tank for the same reason. If you live in a hot area there is a pretty good chance that people who run their cars frequently near empty go through more fuel pumps than those who don't.
Typically you can still get the analog cable channels to record. So you aren't really losing anything, you just aren't gaining the ability to record the extra channels.
This is typically what happens with PIP tv's, you basically have digital cable going into one input, but standard cable from the box going into the second (assuming its not a 2 tuner tv). The result is that you can't PIP 2 channels that are offered only in digital cable, but you can PIP a digital and a standard cable.
Also, this allows you to splice off and run as many standard cable tv's as you like, no extra box per tv needed.
At least this is how it works around here.
Now, what I don't understand is why with directv I have to run a seperate line from the dish to each receiver and can't just use one loop throughout the entire house. I really don't want to drill a new hole in my house for each tv I have so that I can pass another cable to the dish and have to run it all over the place to get to where I need it.
That's great! You've done the most important part, come up with 2 snazzy little names. Now go create a sourceforge project and have it sit there idle for a few years.
For the record, these things actually work pretty well. I use it 2 fold
To watch divx movies from my linux machine that is downstairs in a closet to any tv in the house
Allows me to get rid of all the kludgy vcrs that I used to have attached to each tv. Having a child who has more vcr movies than dvds this is a great thing.
I typically log a lot more listening time on a CD than I do a movie. Movies require much more attention and aren't very usefull in a car for most people.
Why would I choose to do this? Let's assume that their copy protection scheme works as planned and it is only good for 24 hours. What exactly is the value added against going to a video store
Even on a broadband connection we're talking hours before it's downloaded and viewable. I can practically run to the video store and back before the popcorn is done popping.
Quality wise it is inferior in both video and audio. Compare the video display on an hdtv (or standard for that matter) and a 5:1 surround sound system.
Price wise, well, it gets me nothing. At least with videos my money is going towards supporting a local economy.
This is a lot like a father giving his permission for a daughter to marry someone. Is it needed, no, but it's nice to have a show of support. This also probably opens the door for a better relationship between Transorbital and NASA
Aside from that, being an american company, it falls under US jurisdiction as far as environmental and public safety concearns (even tho the launch is in russia) as well as possible exporting of technology concearns.
Heretic! This is from the BBC, not some US news outlet. How dare you question it.
I guess I don't follow why this is necesarrily the case. Granted, both are lossy, but if I take a wav -> 128 bit mp3 -> 192 bit mp3 is the result of the 192 bit any worse than the 128? If, as seems to be the common believe on here, that ogg is a better format than mp3 why wouldn't you be able to produce an ogg from an mp3 that is no worse than the mp3? Sure, it may not have an optimum size, but it seems like you should be able to get a 'lossless' version, at least compared to the mp3.
Now, this isn't to say I don't believe it in this case, I just don't buy the blanket argument that lossy -> lossy has to produce even more lossy.
The real problem is when you try to pay the fine and they throw you in jail because all you have is Republic money.
Because you don't have to make it, it comes in these nice portable self contained bottles, and it tastes much better once it's gotten warm than coffee does once it's cooled down.
Actually, it's more along the lines of trying to reduce slander and a ensuring that the company controls the public image, not some web site. Take the Shell example. Imagine some pro green website making up all sorts of jibberish that is completely unproven and then linking to various web pages at Shell that taken out of context can support this.
Or take your Cancer Society example. I could make a website claiming I've discovered some new herb that reduces cancer. All over the page I can have links to various web pages which although they have nothing to do with my product, when taken out of context can give the appearance to web surfers that it is actually endorsed by the ACS.
What is it about Slashdot that makes everyone hyper react and blow things so out of proportion (Not that you are, I'm just giving another reason why some companies don't want linking)? While for some sites it is an issue with bandwith, for the majority it's all about ensuring that they know how their company is being presented to the public.
Go open a lemonade stand. Given your experience (or lack of it) that's about all you are ready for. It's pretty obvious that you haven't the first clue on starting/running a business and 3 years java/c++ experience isn't going to impress too many people.
How about just hanging a sign around your neck that says, 'will code for food'. Sometimes the truth hurts....
Do you really believe in a great conspiracy by the rest of the world that aims bringing the USA down and that other countries are incapable of setting up fair trials?
You don't read this site very much, do you? It is riddled with comments about hoping that American's 'get what they deserve', whatever that may be. And supposedly this site is supposed to cater to the more enlightened masses.
As a general rule the US does not allow its armed forces to be commanded by non American's. The reasoning behind this is that it's been shown that American troops are more effective this way. Part of this is also that it's troops are responsible to US military courts as well. Having US soldiers brought before a different court system would be a blow to one of the fundamentals of the US military and hurt combat effectiveness.
Besides this, we in the US believe in a 'jury by your peers'. A world courty is hardly that.
Personally, I think nationalism is rather fun. In most cases it's what makes this site tolerable to read. I suppose you are the type of person who goes to a soccer/football/baseball/chess match hoping for a tie so that nobody's feelings are hurt?
Rather than European jealousy, I detect American arrogance
Actually, I think it's European arrogance not allowing you to detect your jealousy.
Let the flames begin....
Of course it works, but it isn't at least what I would call the correct model (My opinion only).
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Using the typical ISA/HASA comparison between inheritance and composition a flyingboat IS A plane and IS A boat. It's not an object that HAS A plane and HAS A boat.
Sure, you've created an object that works the same but doesn't really model the objects at hand.
try this call with the above:
class airport {
takoff(plane);
}
airport.takeoff(flyingboat);
it won't work real well.
Multiple inheritance is really my only gripe with java.