Ten million is a lot of CDs. Platinum is only one million.
I don't think people will pay $15-20 for CDs much longer. I'm thinking the numbers for an independent artist might be more like $5 per CD x 30,000 CDs = $150,000. But 30,000 is still a lot of albums to sell. That would be a very successful indie artist.
No matter. I like the local bands better anyway.
Wolff points out that 'where before you'd be happy only at gold and platinum levels, soon you'll be grateful if you have a release that sells 30,000 or 40,000 units -- that will be your bread and butter. You'll sweat every sale and dollar.
If I were an artist, I think I would be more than happy to sell 30,000 copies of an album... provided I got more than the $0.14 a copy or whatever the labels are paying their artists these days.
The original UN resolution that created the state of Israel also created a Palestinian state with similar territory. Jerusalem was designated an international city.
Within 24 hours of its creation, Israel was brutally attacked by the combined armies of its Arab neighbors as well as a wave of Palestinian terrorists.
Israel's ragtag military emerged victorious. The battered nation reorganized its army and began seizing Palestinian territory as a buffer zone against further attacks.
If the Palestinians want their territory back, they must be the first to lay down their arms and make a sincere commitment to peace. They started it, they must end it.
Intentionally hilarious, but as it says, "checking for unmaintainable design patterns is a rapid way to defend against malicious or inadvertent sloppiness."
Seriously though... If you link to a comment you still end up getting a banner ad.
Holy macaroni, you're right! I guess I've been stealing Slashdot articles ever since I installed that ad filter on my optic nerve.
Hear, hear! You've expressed my sentiments far more succunctly than my lack of experience allows me. I am just entering the workforce (after a few years of not-exactly-real-life in the military) and I see this everywhere I look. I find myself wondering where this new management philosophy comes from. Can it be traced to a screwball economics professor at some prestigious business school somewhere?
Sure, corporations have a responsibility to their shareholders. But it must be acknowledged that investment is a risk undertaken by those who can afford to lose. Lately the risk seems to be borne only by the workers.
And a typical company will make a few charitable donations to doctor their public image, but in the end they only make decisions based on ethics when there's no clear profit in the alternatives. They don't take into consideration that corporations form the pillars of communities, and that their business decisions can affect people much more directly than any action of government.
I could rant all night but I don't think I have anything else coherent to say. Just wanted to let you know this is a really important issue to me and, I hope, plenty of other people my age.
Get a grip. Nothing is local any more. Any Wal Mart driving out inefficient mom-and-pop stores, well, too bad, but that's how progress works. The downside is the newly unemployed have to find a new job. The upside is costs drop, and society finds other uses for previously inefficient workers. They have been fred upt o do something NEW. Got a problem with that?
Yeah, I got a problem with that. That isn't progress. Progress is when the newly unemployed don't need to find a new job. When wealth & privelege quits grabbing and hoarding and enslaving. Technology is sufficiently advanced that none of us need ever work another day in our lives. So why do we still have to suffer through the daily grind? Simple: Filthy Capitalist Greed.
Slashdot posts something newsworthy, every news site and mailing list in the world mirrors it, and 10,000 people submit the same story back to Slashdot, not realizing that's where it originated. Inevitably, one editor is having a slow day...
Or maybe the editors' spinal cords just aren't terminated properly.
There used to be a board called The Dwelling Place in my hometown. Every now and then, the sysop invited all the callers for a potluck dinner at his house. It always felt like Thanksgiving with the family, even though some of us had just got done flaming each other in the Politics & Religion forum.
So yeah, it's possible. I can see it happening today if there were bulletin boards and suchlike on the community freenets, accessible only to members of the local community.
Radical advances in technology can destroy industries. It has happened before. It will happen again. The only way to stop it is to hold back the technology, and that's exactly what they're trying to do.
If this is true it is exceptionaly cool.
(or not case depending)
LOL.
It's true. Special Agent Summerville even gave me his business card. The thing was, they also called a bunch of my co-workers and asked questions about me before they came to my house. Later it became a joke, but I can see how if I had been a civilian at the time, I could have been fired or something. Very not cool.
In an email to my father, I called Janet Reno "the domestic enemy I swore to defend against when I took my oath of enlistment." The FBI was at my door two days later, with a copy of my email in hand. Interestingly, they only had the lines I wrote; the lines I quoted were blanked out.
Two months later, they testified before Congress that they only monitor the email of people who are already under surveillance for other reasons. I guess they found out about that parking ticket...
It seems there are 3 options:
1.) Develop CIFS software outside the US, ignore the patent for use within the US.
2.) Develop a CIFS module for Samba under the BSD license (license compatibility?)
3.) Develop CIFS software at will and ignore M$ altogether.
4.) Develop CIFS software and license it commercially to comply with Microsoft's patent license. Charge $0.02 for a 1000-year license.
(This idea came either from/. or my LUG, I forget which, but it isn't mine, much as I'd like to claim it.)
I immediately wondered the same thing – won't all the oxygen we combine with this hydrogen be permanently locked up as water? Maybe the other posters are right about plants breaking down H2O during photosynthesis. But more interesting is this:
According to Professor Friedemann Freund and colleagues at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, the gas is produced when water molecules trapped inside molten rock break down to release hydrogen.
"In the top 20 kilometres of the Earth's crust, the conditions are right to produce a nearly inexhaustible supply of hydrogen," said Professor Freund.
This seems to imply that the hydrogen is not just there, it's being produced by the action of Earth's internal heat on the water that seeps down there. So where is the oxygen going? Into mineral compounds? Is it ever making its way back into the atmosphere, and if so, at what rate?
Most of them. There's ongoing discussion on the Cooker mailing list about the conflict between retailers, directors and investors who want things done according to the schedule, and the needs of developers who always have just a few more bugs to fix. The release is going out with some (minor) known issues. But all in all, it rocks. I used betas 1 and 4, and I think Mandrake 8.2 is the release that's finally going to free this neophyte hacker from Microsoft hell.
The sensible thing would be to lay off those emplyees not contributing to the core of Mandrake's business and save some money in those non revenue generating areas.
You call that sensible? That's exactly what's wrong with capitalism today: profit has become the motive for every decision. Never mind the social, cultural, environmental, or long-term economic implications. Never mind that there are already 700,000 people sleeping on the streets of America every night. Never mind that the pursuit of U.S. "interests" around the globe pisses people off enough to kill thousands of our citizens! What is it going to take before people like you get a freaking clue?
Because most people who embrace Free Software spend too much time philospohizing about the virtues of free-as-in-freedom and not enough time weighing the realities of free-as-in-beer. Personally, I think Linux is a mess. I wish there were some big software shop doing a line-by-line edit of everything that makes up a basic Linux installation, cleaning up the inconsistencies caused by decentralized development. The big companies who are making a show of supporting Linux ought to do this. There should be an unwritten rule in the open source community: If you use Free Software, you should dedicate n% (where n is some small number) of the programmers employed by your company to maintaining and improving it.
Slashdot Mirror
What? Where? I never noticed them.
A native Linux version! It's about time one of the MMORPGs figured it out.
Go ahead, mod me redundant. I'm so excited I just had to post.
Isn't this just a new take on the Podkletnov effect?
Ten million is a lot of CDs. Platinum is only one million. I don't think people will pay $15-20 for CDs much longer. I'm thinking the numbers for an independent artist might be more like $5 per CD x 30,000 CDs = $150,000. But 30,000 is still a lot of albums to sell. That would be a very successful indie artist. No matter. I like the local bands better anyway.
If I were an artist, I think I would be more than happy to sell 30,000 copies of an album... provided I got more than the $0.14 a copy or whatever the labels are paying their artists these days.
The original UN resolution that created the state of Israel also created a Palestinian state with similar territory. Jerusalem was designated an international city.
Within 24 hours of its creation, Israel was brutally attacked by the combined armies of its Arab neighbors as well as a wave of Palestinian terrorists.
Israel's ragtag military emerged victorious. The battered nation reorganized its army and began seizing Palestinian territory as a buffer zone against further attacks.
If the Palestinians want their territory back, they must be the first to lay down their arms and make a sincere commitment to peace. They started it, they must end it.
Intentionally hilarious, but as it says, "checking for unmaintainable design patterns is a rapid way to defend against malicious or inadvertent sloppiness."
Seriously though... If you link to a comment you still end up getting a banner ad. Holy macaroni, you're right! I guess I've been stealing Slashdot articles ever since I installed that ad filter on my optic nerve.
Hear, hear! You've expressed my sentiments far more succunctly than my lack of experience allows me. I am just entering the workforce (after a few years of not-exactly-real-life in the military) and I see this everywhere I look. I find myself wondering where this new management philosophy comes from. Can it be traced to a screwball economics professor at some prestigious business school somewhere?
Sure, corporations have a responsibility to their shareholders. But it must be acknowledged that investment is a risk undertaken by those who can afford to lose. Lately the risk seems to be borne only by the workers.
And a typical company will make a few charitable donations to doctor their public image, but in the end they only make decisions based on ethics when there's no clear profit in the alternatives. They don't take into consideration that corporations form the pillars of communities, and that their business decisions can affect people much more directly than any action of government.
I could rant all night but I don't think I have anything else coherent to say. Just wanted to let you know this is a really important issue to me and, I hope, plenty of other people my age.
Slashdot posts something newsworthy, every news site and mailing list in the world mirrors it, and 10,000 people submit the same story back to Slashdot, not realizing that's where it originated. Inevitably, one editor is having a slow day... Or maybe the editors' spinal cords just aren't terminated properly.
There used to be a board called The Dwelling Place in my hometown. Every now and then, the sysop invited all the callers for a potluck dinner at his house. It always felt like Thanksgiving with the family, even though some of us had just got done flaming each other in the Politics & Religion forum. So yeah, it's possible. I can see it happening today if there were bulletin boards and suchlike on the community freenets, accessible only to members of the local community.
Is that going to be jargon now?
Radical advances in technology can destroy industries. It has happened before. It will happen again. The only way to stop it is to hold back the technology, and that's exactly what they're trying to do.
It's true. Special Agent Summerville even gave me his business card. The thing was, they also called a bunch of my co-workers and asked questions about me before they came to my house. Later it became a joke, but I can see how if I had been a civilian at the time, I could have been fired or something. Very not cool.
In an email to my father, I called Janet Reno "the domestic enemy I swore to defend against when I took my oath of enlistment." The FBI was at my door two days later, with a copy of my email in hand. Interestingly, they only had the lines I wrote; the lines I quoted were blanked out. Two months later, they testified before Congress that they only monitor the email of people who are already under surveillance for other reasons. I guess they found out about that parking ticket...
It seems there are 3 options: 1.) Develop CIFS software outside the US, ignore the patent for use within the US. 2.) Develop a CIFS module for Samba under the BSD license (license compatibility?) 3.) Develop CIFS software at will and ignore M$ altogether. 4.) Develop CIFS software and license it commercially to comply with Microsoft's patent license. Charge $0.02 for a 1000-year license. (This idea came either from /. or my LUG, I forget which, but it isn't mine, much as I'd like to claim it.)
Mozilla 1.0
Yeah right.
Just type "rescue" at the LILO prompt of installation CD #1...
Uh, I think that's supposed to be OpenOffice. Oops.
Most of them. There's ongoing discussion on the Cooker mailing list about the conflict between retailers, directors and investors who want things done according to the schedule, and the needs of developers who always have just a few more bugs to fix. The release is going out with some (minor) known issues. But all in all, it rocks. I used betas 1 and 4, and I think Mandrake 8.2 is the release that's finally going to free this neophyte hacker from Microsoft hell.
You call that sensible? That's exactly what's wrong with capitalism today: profit has become the motive for every decision. Never mind the social, cultural, environmental, or long-term economic implications. Never mind that there are already 700,000 people sleeping on the streets of America every night. Never mind that the pursuit of U.S. "interests" around the globe pisses people off enough to kill thousands of our citizens! What is it going to take before people like you get a freaking clue?
Because most people who embrace Free Software spend too much time philospohizing about the virtues of free-as-in-freedom and not enough time weighing the realities of free-as-in-beer. Personally, I think Linux is a mess. I wish there were some big software shop doing a line-by-line edit of everything that makes up a basic Linux installation, cleaning up the inconsistencies caused by decentralized development. The big companies who are making a show of supporting Linux ought to do this. There should be an unwritten rule in the open source community: If you use Free Software, you should dedicate n% (where n is some small number) of the programmers employed by your company to maintaining and improving it.