if you have "replacement cost" on your apartment or homeowners insurance, your defunct electronics magically turn into brand new equiptment if you happen to have an insurance loss that damages said equiptment.
"Replacement cost is about an extra $75 per month. 20 Years of replacement cost is about as much as the new tv you will get when that 25 year old one gets wet when you have a fire.
Some of you have friends who are insurance agents. Did they recommend you get "replacement cost"? If not, they aren't your friend. They work on a loss ratio for their bonuses from the companies. The larger total of all claims from all customers refered from the agent, the smaller the bonus. The more customers with replacement cost, the larger the total claims from all refered customers.
i think I have heard HAM guys complain about wireless and now BPL for a while and I suppose I will come off as a troll, but WTF?!?!?
I know that many of you do HAM stuff as a fairly serious hobby, but how can you justify the screeching halt of progress so that you can chat with friends across the globe? OK, some of you talk to your columbian distributor that way and I'm sure you make some good dough, but the rest of you are somehow justifying that the doctor on that corner shouldn't have the ability to get xrays back electronically, but everyone's right to speak to Wang Chung in East Timor "BJ and the Bear" style should be protected.
and if it is the neighbor's free internet you want, you will have to simply resort to going over to ask for sugar and sneek a look under their router/keyboard which will surly have a paper with all of their passwords. Tighter technological security means social engineering will be the easier route to hacking someone's wireless internet.
yeah - next they will be complaining that they don't know if two people are looking over my shoulder at my monitor.
Web stat tracking, while not perfect is a hell of a lot more effective than Neilson ratings. At the very least Tivo and ReplayTV and the host of Cable companies providing On Demand should have helped to improve tracking.
Exactly what is Neilson ratings good for at this point ?
unfortunately, many of us still feel that Yahoo isn't far enough removed from their shady past (spamming me once they bought Launch, and changed their privacy policy qhich automatically opted me into a bunch of third party mailings).
I do agree that Yahoo is cleaner than Hotmail, but I will certainly move over to try Google once it is available to me. Google has never struck me as dishonest while Yahoo has.
I have a 7 year old Gateway (PII 300) with XP running on it and it works fine with the RAM maxed out at 3 hundred and something. I added an LCD and a new keyboard and mouse and everyone thinks I bought a kick ass computer for my wife and kid.
7 years old. My mother has one of the IMacs that is a neon color running OS 8.X and I can not find a new printer that will hook up to it.
this is true. I helped build a studio that does 24 tracks simutaneous, with two Echo Laylas which do 8 ins and outs each plus 24 bit optical and coaxial S/PDIF. It has a breakout box that is rack mountable which feeds into their PCI or (get this) a PCMCIA cardbus card.
anyone who is serious about recording and cares about ambient noise will have a control room that is separate from the room where performers are with separate iso booths/rooms. Its all connected with a snake. The mics will pick up mouse clicks and keyboard taps otherwise.
Its all creative accounting that lets them "show" that they are losing money. Its like going to a lawyer and they charge you for research when it is likely that they have charged for the same research 30 different times.
Also, I remember kiosks where you could get custom cd's burnt with different songs from different artists. This was at a major record store chain you can find int he mall. Why did they stop it? Because they don't want you to buy one or two songs from an artist. Which is why you will slowly see labels pulling music from being available for sale online (on a song per song basis).
typically, if the label signs you for multiple albums, and one tanks, the negative balance carries over to the other albums.
Creative accounting is commonplace in the entertainment industry. They need your album to pay from everything from food and janitorial serivices to lawyers fees. We all know how lawyers can come up with high bills after seemingly doing no work.
The bottom line is that the creative part of making entertainment generates very little (5% make 90% of the money). Its the production and distribution of the comodity that is entertainment that makes all of the money. Many artists are happy to make a decent living doing something they enjoy. In the mean time, the rest of us pay outrageous monies for the end result.
I like music. I don't necessarily like to pirate it. But I absolutely refuse to pay a dime for any CD that is label owned. The industry tries hard to keep prices high while providing nothing beyond the artist's music. Hey morons of the music industry! Start adding value to CDs if you want us to not just download it for free or not buy it at all. Make all CDs enhanced and come with membership to our favorite band's specialized content. Why in the world aren't you embracing the online community more when it gives you an infrastructure to track the habits of your listeners better than radio ever could? Its because in your infinite pigginess, you have created a beurocracy that is such a money pit for everyone else that you can't bring yourself to change it.
Why are the labels pushing for a higher fee? Because RIAA members owe musicians a whole bunch of royalty money.
Not that I am into Metallica, especially after their efforts against file sharing, but they made it huge without radio play. How? By handing out free tapes of and encouraging folks to share their music. Then people showed up to their shows which is the only real money making part of creating music these days.
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter that I am totally right. There is no vehicle that will easily drive ears to your music without marketing money, without payola to give to DJs, without Walmart and without MTV. The internet is great. How do you get 1.5 million folks to click over to your music when you can't get on the welcome page of AOL without being one whatever labels that Time Warner own. Without being on a label that Viacom owns. Without being on a label that Disney/ABC owns.
good luck - you can't. Clear CHannel is buying up every radio station they can now that the Bush regime (I say this as a republican) has changed the rules and is letting Clear Channel edge toward monopolism. They won much of the radio industry and now every billboard I see in Southeastern MA is owned by them. Fewer and fewer media sources aren't controled by the same handful of people and there is a definitive censorism that has gone on sice Hollywood blackballed supposed communists.
Its all bullshit and I am tired of it.
I WILL NOT BUY ANY MORE MUSIC. I WILL PIRATE THE RECORDINGS AND PAY TO SEE SHOWS. I WILL PAY THE ARTIST CASH FOR THEIR CD AND IN PERSON.
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i meant $75 a year
if you have "replacement cost" on your apartment or homeowners insurance, your defunct electronics magically turn into brand new equiptment if you happen to have an insurance loss that damages said equiptment.
"Replacement cost is about an extra $75 per month. 20 Years of replacement cost is about as much as the new tv you will get when that 25 year old one gets wet when you have a fire.
Some of you have friends who are insurance agents. Did they recommend you get "replacement cost"? If not, they aren't your friend. They work on a loss ratio for their bonuses from the companies. The larger total of all claims from all customers refered from the agent, the smaller the bonus. The more customers with replacement cost, the larger the total claims from all refered customers.
get it?
My father in law has Direct Tivo and I have an old Replay TV. I see just as much atifacting with the Direct Tivo as the 4 year oild Replay TV.
Fot those of you who talk of ease of use, my 3 year old son can start his kiddie shows on either one.
What casino?
What do you do? Is it fun?
my wife is away for another two weeks and I so badly want to go to Vegas...
i think you get a free bowl of soup with it too...
how come evry other company seems not to care about storage space?
maybe they need to get themselves a few GMAIL accounts and give you a temporary password when you buy the song...
i think I have heard HAM guys complain about wireless and now BPL for a while and I suppose I will come off as a troll, but WTF?!?!?
I know that many of you do HAM stuff as a fairly serious hobby, but how can you justify the screeching halt of progress so that you can chat with friends across the globe? OK, some of you talk to your columbian distributor that way and I'm sure you make some good dough, but the rest of you are somehow justifying that the doctor on that corner shouldn't have the ability to get xrays back electronically, but everyone's right to speak to Wang Chung in East Timor "BJ and the Bear" style should be protected.
Can someone please explain to me why this is?
there is already two films planned to counter this one. There are also two businessmen in Arizona that are planning conservative film festivals...
and if it is the neighbor's free internet you want, you will have to simply resort to going over to ask for sugar and sneek a look under their router/keyboard which will surly have a paper with all of their passwords. Tighter technological security means social engineering will be the easier route to hacking someone's wireless internet.
"GMail came in and broke the cartel's artificial shortage"
can Google get into the diamond business and make DeBeers stop charging us so much for blood diamonds???
yeah - next they will be complaining that they don't know if two people are looking over my shoulder at my monitor.
Web stat tracking, while not perfect is a hell of a lot more effective than Neilson ratings. At the very least Tivo and ReplayTV and the host of Cable companies providing On Demand should have helped to improve tracking.
Exactly what is Neilson ratings good for at this point ?
unfortunately, many of us still feel that Yahoo isn't far enough removed from their shady past (spamming me once they bought Launch, and changed their privacy policy qhich automatically opted me into a bunch of third party mailings).
I do agree that Yahoo is cleaner than Hotmail, but I will certainly move over to try Google once it is available to me. Google has never struck me as dishonest while Yahoo has.
I thought only the 4000 series did that and that they removed the eature from the 5000 series.
Akamai or something like freecache.org
exactly
It takes about 15 seconds to activate the guest account which will not allow the guest user to install anything.
you wont bother to read this, spineless greaseball, but you can't upgrade the candy imacs to osx
if you are going to be a real zealot, then know what you are talking about
I have a 7 year old Gateway (PII 300) with XP running on it and it works fine with the RAM maxed out at 3 hundred and something. I added an LCD and a new keyboard and mouse and everyone thinks I bought a kick ass computer for my wife and kid.
7 years old. My mother has one of the IMacs that is a neon color running OS 8.X and I can not find a new printer that will hook up to it.
this is true. I helped build a studio that does 24 tracks simutaneous, with two Echo Laylas which do 8 ins and outs each plus 24 bit optical and coaxial S/PDIF. It has a breakout box that is rack mountable which feeds into their PCI or (get this) a PCMCIA cardbus card.
anyone who is serious about recording and cares about ambient noise will have a control room that is separate from the room where performers are with separate iso booths/rooms. Its all connected with a snake. The mics will pick up mouse clicks and keyboard taps otherwise.
Its all creative accounting that lets them "show" that they are losing money. Its like going to a lawyer and they charge you for research when it is likely that they have charged for the same research 30 different times.
Also, I remember kiosks where you could get custom cd's burnt with different songs from different artists. This was at a major record store chain you can find int he mall. Why did they stop it? Because they don't want you to buy one or two songs from an artist. Which is why you will slowly see labels pulling music from being available for sale online (on a song per song basis).
"The optical cordless mouse works great on the arm of the couch."
His couch is armless, you insensitive clod!
So how does every other software manufacturer make money without proprietary hardware?
= waking up with your car parked in a fountain
"We might as well be discussing a rule for eliminating "dubious" entries "
so I am disqualified? damned screen name
typically, if the label signs you for multiple albums, and one tanks, the negative balance carries over to the other albums.
Creative accounting is commonplace in the entertainment industry. They need your album to pay from everything from food and janitorial serivices to lawyers fees. We all know how lawyers can come up with high bills after seemingly doing no work.
The bottom line is that the creative part of making entertainment generates very little (5% make 90% of the money). Its the production and distribution of the comodity that is entertainment that makes all of the money. Many artists are happy to make a decent living doing something they enjoy. In the mean time, the rest of us pay outrageous monies for the end result.
I like music. I don't necessarily like to pirate it. But I absolutely refuse to pay a dime for any CD that is label owned. The industry tries hard to keep prices high while providing nothing beyond the artist's music. Hey morons of the music industry! Start adding value to CDs if you want us to not just download it for free or not buy it at all. Make all CDs enhanced and come with membership to our favorite band's specialized content. Why in the world aren't you embracing the online community more when it gives you an infrastructure to track the habits of your listeners better than radio ever could? Its because in your infinite pigginess, you have created a beurocracy that is such a money pit for everyone else that you can't bring yourself to change it.
Why are the labels pushing for a higher fee? Because RIAA members owe musicians a whole bunch of royalty money.
Not that I am into Metallica, especially after their efforts against file sharing, but they made it huge without radio play. How? By handing out free tapes of and encouraging folks to share their music. Then people showed up to their shows which is the only real money making part of creating music these days.
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter that I am totally right. There is no vehicle that will easily drive ears to your music without marketing money, without payola to give to DJs, without Walmart and without MTV. The internet is great. How do you get 1.5 million folks to click over to your music when you can't get on the welcome page of AOL without being one whatever labels that Time Warner own. Without being on a label that Viacom owns. Without being on a label that Disney/ABC owns.
good luck - you can't. Clear CHannel is buying up every radio station they can now that the Bush regime (I say this as a republican) has changed the rules and is letting Clear Channel edge toward monopolism. They won much of the radio industry and now every billboard I see in Southeastern MA is owned by them. Fewer and fewer media sources aren't controled by the same handful of people and there is a definitive censorism that has gone on sice Hollywood blackballed supposed communists.
Its all bullshit and I am tired of it.
I WILL NOT BUY ANY MORE MUSIC. I WILL PIRATE THE RECORDINGS AND PAY TO SEE SHOWS. I WILL PAY THE ARTIST CASH FOR THEIR CD AND IN PERSON.