"There is non-RIAA music on iTunes in spades, and I will continue to buy from them".
I don't know if you are most qualified to answer for me but doesn't the RIAA still get money from each sale? My assumption that they do might be wrong but the assumption that they would have signed a contract with Apple without a blanket percentage scheme sounds unlikely. Anyone have an answer to this?
So let me get this straight...
1)If McCartney went techno and sampled some beatles he would owe EMI.
2)If Ringo rerecorded a beatles song he would owe Michael "insane freak" Jackson money.
3)If McCartney and Ringo got together (suspend disbelief) and performed a tribute concert for the anniversary of landing in the US this year they would owe ASCAP money?
Wow, and people think it gets better once you are signed. I don't know how anyone owns the rights to the beatles music besides, well any beatle who is still alive. Once they are all dead wht isn't it all as public domain as Chopin, Albeniz, Mozart, Brahms etc etc. If record companies were trully capitalist in the Western world as we are told to believe then a band would sell the right to press 5000 copies to company A at $x and then 7500 copies to company B at $Y and on like any open economic market. And once they are done selling those 5000 copies or so then the band would re-enter negotiations for the next pressing. That is a market, but this is not how it works.
I am sorry, but techie geek engineers would never be able to manage a project. That is why there are managers out there. I know a lot of techie geek engineers who are very detail orientated. They may get their circuit board design down 100% and the guy doing the software might think he has his down 100% but when you mix the two together they don't work. Now you will have two techie geeks who think they are smarter than eachother not wanting to try to rectify the problem because they are "right". While both are right in their own respects, things have to work together. This is where a good manager comes in and somehow convinces each one that they are both right and then the project moves on, rather than sitting in stalemate for 3 months while two techie geek engineers try to outduel eachother with technobabble. You know the type, you might be the type.
I agree with being underfunded though, but every project could always use more money.
He knows that. That is why if you subtract $200 rebate from $599 you get $399. With the 2400N costing $369 and the Microsoft Dell costing $399, the Microsoft tax is $399 - $369 = $30. This is how I read it.
Bugger the international effort, look where the ISS is. That is a testament to fluff. While it may be a nice idea to some if the US used its abundant food supply to feed all the people starving in the world and it's taxpayer's money to pay other countries engineering and research firms, I don't think it is going to happen. I know people want in on some of these projects, but there is a reason why things are landing on other planets with the US flag on them.
You cite many scientific and technological uses for the budget that a mission to Mars or a base on the Moon would require. However, you fail to acknowledge the advances in science and technology that a mission like this would create. Think of the improvements in the efficiency of electronics that would need to be made in order to make a moon base feasible without using more fuel to get energy to the moon. Even if they wer to use solar power on a moon base you would need to minimise power consumption. This is just one example of many improvements that can be made.
"that and the fact they kicked their ass the last two times they tried but I'm sure the nukes help"
I believe that Israel might have had a little help from the U.S. a few times. Read about the Middle East and proxy nations during the Cold War. Israel wouldn't exist today if the U.S. wasn't at odds with the U.S.S.R. for 40 years.
I think that is because 75% of the slashdot crowd are on an airplane or in their car travelling to university which start up soon. Have I been the only one to notice that regular stories seem to have a much lower post count than during the school year since finals in may?
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:KLNlUqjhDEoJ: balloons.space.edu/habp/project_4/airphotos.html+& hl=en&ie=UTF-8
i imagine such an image intensive page might not handle/. so well?
Now that I've taken a nap and figured out what I was trying to say is that I have friends who scored above me AND below on the SAT. They all have better grades than I. Now in University I have the lowest score even though I was higher in a lot of standardised tests. But the SAT ends up having a HUGE sample size, taking me and my 4 close friends from highschool is exceedingly small, showing that on average what someone achieves at a given score x is what it is meant to do. It sort of worked.
No, they don't hand out As. What I'm saying is I do the minimum. I turn in the assignments and I take the tests. I don't really study and I don't always read the material asked of me. So, I'm lucky. I have a feeling it will creep up and bite my arse sometime though. Until then, happy slacking!
I fall into that same "i don't do anything at school category". On the SAT I received a 1270 after no preparation. I actually came home at 1:30 the night before the test from playing a show with my band. Turns out I get into a top tier school and just go to waste as well. I have a GPA well over 3.0 but I do absolutely NO work compared to most people. I am a waste of space, oh well. I actually have a networking exam in 4 hours and 38 minutes. But I couldn't fall asleep so I thought/. might make me tired. So far it hasn't worked.
What would stop any new hardware companies cropping up that would build hardware for non palladium enhanced systems? if there is such a market as/. seems to show then it should be profitable, or else there is no market for it.
The question is, would that be allowed to be sold inside the borders or the United Corporations of America? I would doubt it.
This happens every 5~10 years. Witness the big label explosion in the 80s pop/glam rock era which made way for labels like subpop and others to pop out with the grunge fad.
This followed with california punk labels epitaph with the like of offspring and bad religion. Around 1997, indie labels were out, big labels gave us sister third mary blind 7 verve or whatever they were called. Exactly, no one remembers because they were force fed to us down clear channel radio.
This is giving way to more indie computer based music labels. I'm not speaking of "techno" but labels that exist in people's homes. Whether that is dance music, indie rock, jazz, or jam bands. We will see this new wave of independent labels make way in a few years to another big label offering. I could go back before the 70s, but those were pretty much the major trends from my lifetime. Nothing new.
What if you record from MTV/Much Music/CMT/PBS/Sports Channels and so on(Saving the World Cup Final for posterity). You want to put more then just 2 hours on one DVD. If these are in DivX format and you did a proper encoding then average joe won't see the compression anymore then you would notice some FM encoding compression on a VCR. You would also five times as much on one DVD.
In response, if you say that recording TV shows are also illegal, then maybe we shouldn't have VCRs.
On my bike ride home from SXSW tonight I looked at the giant capitol building in Austin and thought about how long that will last. Then riding past campus the main tower and surrounding buildings are all solid stone. I'm not sure about your "metal fatigue" sounds a little like the infamous "bit rot" that audiophiles like to talk about. But we know that stons structures last a LONG time. There are quite a lot of giant stone structures in the US, most federal buildings. In 1000 years I think there will still be some knowledge about the "American Empire". It is in 3000+ years where I think it will be seen in context. Europe from 1500-1900 has a lot of buildings that will stand the tets of time as long as they aren't blown up like a couple were in the past century.
On the other hand historians might *not* wonder why there are so few durable buildings... The industrial revolution and industrial era helped spur the waste of resources and continual cycle of homes/cars/etc. It is a sign of the times.
Up until last semester It was common for the professors to post our grades with our "last 4 letters of SSN". Everyone would play it around as just being the last 4 so its no big deal, until finally one day in November we had one of those mass emailings saying that we could report teachers do that. Teachers have a really hard time giving us our grades now since there are 3 different ways they can post grades electronically so there is no set way. Also, I took a test last week where we put our SSNs on the front of a blue book with our name?
It is not as if it would be hard to in other parts of UT to find them. The teachers and TAs have all of the ID in their grade books for grading purposes. It is probably easier to walk into an unlocked office or when they pop out to use the loo and just steal some tests, quickly send yourself a copy of the excel spreadsheet, or nick a grading book if they are still going about it that way.
My senior year, at a school which I won't name to spare it a/.ing, had one of two computer labs running redhat. This was in England and it was not getting any money from taxes so that might have had something to do with it. But we used netscape for browsing, codewarrior for C++, and the old horrendous AIM on linux. The other lab was a bunch of iMacs. That was my first experience with linux and pretty much my last as of lately. I bought win2k for $5 from UT Austin where I go now and it has given me none of the headaches that various redhat and mandrake installs have given me. But that is $5, which is nothing. For a school to pay $100 per copy of windows is suicide. I would rather see that go to student instruments, which this school had many of. There were 19 out of 240 people in the upper school who were either taking a C++ or javascript class. The rest just cheked email and surfed the web. AIM was not used really since you could just head over to the cafeteria and talk since that is where everyone else was. Much better use of my parents money than spending it on an MS license.
You would think gnu.org might be able to take the/. effect? I'm just downloading some of the 4MB.pngs to see who well their server holds up. There should be about half a million people doing the same in a couple minutes.
I hate to sound like i'm trivialising education but this is why economists believe the market will tend to take its course to move supply and demand to an equilibrium. To be general and short winded thats a good explanation. When governments impose taxes or corporations have monopolies there are outside influences that do not let the market achieve it's own equilibrium. When schools rely on outside money, that which is directly proportional to the quality of research churned out by the school, they won't worry about grades as much since they can measure success with money instead of an arbitrary grade point system. Evaluations, parent's pressure that their $100K should be for As even though their kid doesn't do anything are all like things preventing the market from taking its own course I believe.
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But KDE freedom fighters are KDE terrorists to the Gnome bunch.
"There is non-RIAA music on iTunes in spades, and I will continue to buy from them".
I don't know if you are most qualified to answer for me but doesn't the RIAA still get money from each sale? My assumption that they do might be wrong but the assumption that they would have signed a contract with Apple without a blanket percentage scheme sounds unlikely. Anyone have an answer to this?
So let me get this straight... 1)If McCartney went techno and sampled some beatles he would owe EMI. 2)If Ringo rerecorded a beatles song he would owe Michael "insane freak" Jackson money. 3)If McCartney and Ringo got together (suspend disbelief) and performed a tribute concert for the anniversary of landing in the US this year they would owe ASCAP money? Wow, and people think it gets better once you are signed. I don't know how anyone owns the rights to the beatles music besides, well any beatle who is still alive. Once they are all dead wht isn't it all as public domain as Chopin, Albeniz, Mozart, Brahms etc etc. If record companies were trully capitalist in the Western world as we are told to believe then a band would sell the right to press 5000 copies to company A at $x and then 7500 copies to company B at $Y and on like any open economic market. And once they are done selling those 5000 copies or so then the band would re-enter negotiations for the next pressing. That is a market, but this is not how it works.
I am sorry, but techie geek engineers would never be able to manage a project. That is why there are managers out there. I know a lot of techie geek engineers who are very detail orientated. They may get their circuit board design down 100% and the guy doing the software might think he has his down 100% but when you mix the two together they don't work. Now you will have two techie geeks who think they are smarter than eachother not wanting to try to rectify the problem because they are "right". While both are right in their own respects, things have to work together. This is where a good manager comes in and somehow convinces each one that they are both right and then the project moves on, rather than sitting in stalemate for 3 months while two techie geek engineers try to outduel eachother with technobabble. You know the type, you might be the type.
I agree with being underfunded though, but every project could always use more money.
He knows that. That is why if you subtract $200 rebate from $599 you get $399. With the 2400N costing $369 and the Microsoft Dell costing $399, the Microsoft tax is $399 - $369 = $30. This is how I read it.
Bugger the international effort, look where the ISS is. That is a testament to fluff. While it may be a nice idea to some if the US used its abundant food supply to feed all the people starving in the world and it's taxpayer's money to pay other countries engineering and research firms, I don't think it is going to happen. I know people want in on some of these projects, but there is a reason why things are landing on other planets with the US flag on them.
You cite many scientific and technological uses for the budget that a mission to Mars or a base on the Moon would require. However, you fail to acknowledge the advances in science and technology that a mission like this would create. Think of the improvements in the efficiency of electronics that would need to be made in order to make a moon base feasible without using more fuel to get energy to the moon. Even if they wer to use solar power on a moon base you would need to minimise power consumption. This is just one example of many improvements that can be made.
Exactly!
"that and the fact they kicked their ass the last two times they tried but I'm sure the nukes help"
I believe that Israel might have had a little help from the U.S. a few times. Read about the Middle East and proxy nations during the Cold War. Israel wouldn't exist today if the U.S. wasn't at odds with the U.S.S.R. for 40 years.
Somebody set us up the Operating System
I think that is because 75% of the slashdot crowd are on an airplane or in their car travelling to university which start up soon. Have I been the only one to notice that regular stories seem to have a much lower post count than during the school year since finals in may?
I'm really smart how about this... Google's cache
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:KLNlUqjhDEoJ: balloons.space.edu/habp/project_4/airphotos.html+& hl=en&ie=UTF-8
i imagine such an image intensive page might not handle /. so well?
Now that I've taken a nap and figured out what I was trying to say is that I have friends who scored above me AND below on the SAT. They all have better grades than I. Now in University I have the lowest score even though I was higher in a lot of standardised tests. But the SAT ends up having a HUGE sample size, taking me and my 4 close friends from highschool is exceedingly small, showing that on average what someone achieves at a given score x is what it is meant to do. It sort of worked.
No, they don't hand out As. What I'm saying is I do the minimum. I turn in the assignments and I take the tests. I don't really study and I don't always read the material asked of me. So, I'm lucky. I have a feeling it will creep up and bite my arse sometime though. Until then, happy slacking!
I fall into that same "i don't do anything at school category". On the SAT I received a 1270 after no preparation. I actually came home at 1:30 the night before the test from playing a show with my band. Turns out I get into a top tier school and just go to waste as well. I have a GPA well over 3.0 but I do absolutely NO work compared to most people. I am a waste of space, oh well. I actually have a networking exam in 4 hours and 38 minutes. But I couldn't fall asleep so I thought /. might make me tired. So far it hasn't worked.
What would stop any new hardware companies cropping up that would build hardware for non palladium enhanced systems? if there is such a market as /. seems to show then it should be profitable, or else there is no market for it.
The question is, would that be allowed to be sold inside the borders or the United Corporations of America? I would doubt it.
meatwad, we smoke as we shoot the finger.
This happens every 5~10 years. Witness the big label explosion in the 80s pop/glam rock era which made way for labels like subpop and others to pop out with the grunge fad.
This followed with california punk labels epitaph with the like of offspring and bad religion. Around 1997, indie labels were out, big labels gave us sister third mary blind 7 verve or whatever they were called. Exactly, no one remembers because they were force fed to us down clear channel radio.
This is giving way to more indie computer based music labels. I'm not speaking of "techno" but labels that exist in people's homes. Whether that is dance music, indie rock, jazz, or jam bands. We will see this new wave of independent labels make way in a few years to another big label offering. I could go back before the 70s, but those were pretty much the major trends from my lifetime. Nothing new.
What if you record from MTV/Much Music/CMT/PBS/Sports Channels and so on(Saving the World Cup Final for posterity). You want to put more then just 2 hours on one DVD. If these are in DivX format and you did a proper encoding then average joe won't see the compression anymore then you would notice some FM encoding compression on a VCR. You would also five times as much on one DVD.
In response, if you say that recording TV shows are also illegal, then maybe we shouldn't have VCRs.
On my bike ride home from SXSW tonight I looked at the giant capitol building in Austin and thought about how long that will last. Then riding past campus the main tower and surrounding buildings are all solid stone. I'm not sure about your "metal fatigue" sounds a little like the infamous "bit rot" that audiophiles like to talk about. But we know that stons structures last a LONG time. There are quite a lot of giant stone structures in the US, most federal buildings. In 1000 years I think there will still be some knowledge about the "American Empire". It is in 3000+ years where I think it will be seen in context. Europe from 1500-1900 has a lot of buildings that will stand the tets of time as long as they aren't blown up like a couple were in the past century.
On the other hand historians might *not* wonder why there are so few durable buildings... The industrial revolution and industrial era helped spur the waste of resources and continual cycle of homes/cars/etc. It is a sign of the times.
Up until last semester It was common for the professors to post our grades with our "last 4 letters of SSN". Everyone would play it around as just being the last 4 so its no big deal, until finally one day in November we had one of those mass emailings saying that we could report teachers do that. Teachers have a really hard time giving us our grades now since there are 3 different ways they can post grades electronically so there is no set way. Also, I took a test last week where we put our SSNs on the front of a blue book with our name?
It is not as if it would be hard to in other parts of UT to find them. The teachers and TAs have all of the ID in their grade books for grading purposes. It is probably easier to walk into an unlocked office or when they pop out to use the loo and just steal some tests, quickly send yourself a copy of the excel spreadsheet, or nick a grading book if they are still going about it that way.
My senior year, at a school which I won't name to spare it a /.ing, had one of two computer labs running redhat. This was in England and it was not getting any money from taxes so that might have had something to do with it. But we used netscape for browsing, codewarrior for C++, and the old horrendous AIM on linux. The other lab was a bunch of iMacs. That was my first experience with linux and pretty much my last as of lately. I bought win2k for $5 from UT Austin where I go now and it has given me none of the headaches that various redhat and mandrake installs have given me. But that is $5, which is nothing. For a school to pay $100 per copy of windows is suicide. I would rather see that go to student instruments, which this school had many of. There were 19 out of 240 people in the upper school who were either taking a C++ or javascript class. The rest just cheked email and surfed the web. AIM was not used really since you could just head over to the cafeteria and talk since that is where everyone else was. Much better use of my parents money than spending it on an MS license.
You would think gnu.org might be able to take the /. effect? I'm just downloading some of the 4MB .pngs to see who well their server holds up. There should be about half a million people doing the same in a couple minutes.
I hate to sound like i'm trivialising education but this is why economists believe the market will tend to take its course to move supply and demand to an equilibrium. To be general and short winded thats a good explanation. When governments impose taxes or corporations have monopolies there are outside influences that do not let the market achieve it's own equilibrium. When schools rely on outside money, that which is directly proportional to the quality of research churned out by the school, they won't worry about grades as much since they can measure success with money instead of an arbitrary grade point system. Evaluations, parent's pressure that their $100K should be for As even though their kid doesn't do anything are all like things preventing the market from taking its own course I believe.