Ok, good point. It wasn't cash money that disappeared. I should have said 30 billion dollars in stockholder value evaporated. The effect on the stockholder is the same though.
Wow, you sure have a bunch of nice buzzwords packed into that short post. But I don't see how any "synergy" is going to turn the AOL unit into a money-making and growing division like it used to be. They are not going to be "out-competing" my local ISP. If they were to start making T-W content exclusive to AOL, they are only going to be choking off the potential for T-W.
AOL made a sweet deal. They turned a vast amount of very perishable stock value into some real assets by buying T-W. T-W was blinded by dollar signs in their eyes. They looked at the (temporary) value of the stock, instead of (real) value of the AOL company.
I know they are not going to shrivel up and blow away or anything like that, but if I was a T-W stockholder I would be pretty pissed off. There were billions of dollars here last time I looked. Where did it go?
I shouldn't be too hard on them though. Tyco, who has nothing to do with the dot-com bubble, and nothing to do with energy trading, and makes and sells actual products rather than just having intellectual property, has dropped in value by 30 BILLION dollars in the last 2 weeks. Think about that: 30 billion dollars that used to belong to stockholders has EVAPORATED in the last 14 days.
Sadly courts do usually uphold click-through licenses.
That sounds rather ominous, but what are the penalties if I violate the license agreement? Do they revoke my license? Okay. But what if I don't accept the license terms? What legal recourse do they have if I didn't click accept, (maybe my wife or neighbor or 2 year old daughter clicked) and I reverse engineer their product? (Granted, distributing a derivative work would be violating copyright, and they could make me stop that.)
Yes they do mention that. Its at the end of the section that explains how it is different from caffiene and other stimulants.
Caffeine and older prescription stimulants buzz the entire central nervous system, causing jitteriness, insomnia and other unwanted effects. When people who use coffee or amphetamines to stay awake finally doze off, they often remain in bed for much longer than usual, their bodies paralyzed by the need for "rebound sleep." Provigil, meanwhile, seems to target only the part of the brain that keeps us awake. When its effects wear off, the user resumes a normal sleep pattern.
I just timed it, my full 6GB jukebox takes 40 seconds to boot, and I have several playlists.
I think you have a problem with your ID3 tags or corrupt MP3 files.
Another thing you should try is forcing a rebuild of the index. Hold down the right and left softkeys (the top buttons) during the boot to get to the utilities menu.
The existing Nomad Jukebox has scaling. from 0.5x speed to 1.4x speed. You don't have to buy the new one to get this.
BUT, the recording is only in.WAV format.
Quite a few people take them apart and put larger HDD in them. HERE are several pictures of the guts. It looks pretty full to me, because in addition to the HDD, there are 4 AA batteries, the power management and recharging circuitry, the decoding and audio processing stuff, an LCD, buttons, jacks, etc.
The Nomad Jukebox does have Random and Shuffle modes. While playing, go to the DETAILS display by pressing the left softkey. The details display shows you the current song, artist, and album, and the right softkey button is now labeled MODE. Push this button. Shuffle mixes the order up and plays everything once. Random just goes on forever. Neither is actually random. It seems to pick one song from each album/playlist that you have in the queue and then skip to the next branch of the tree. From the same starting point, it will always play the songs in the same order, but pushing the "back" button will move to another song within that album/playlist, so you can mix up the order in real time. When I got my jukebox I thought that I would often put all 1500 songs into the queue and hit shuffle, but I usually just queue a few playlists at a time. Like Jazz+Blues or Alt80s+AltModern+AltGirlRock.
I haven't seen it yet, and I many never see it, but it doesn't look like there are any mummies in the movie, which is why the title is The Scorpion King.
Or Sarcasm.
LOTR is the first and only book that I liked that has turned into a good movie. Perhaps you are right and it will encourage movie people to keep closer to the intent of the book.
But that is not what history has taught me. Puppet Masters. Starship Troopers. Johhny Mnemonic. Etc.
I think the crew that brought you The Mummy Returns will deliver eye candy, and little else.
OTOH, X-Men was true to the original material...
So you think Paramount is paying for exclusive rights to a script? I don't think so. OPTION implies that someone owns the exclusive rights to produce a movie based on the novel. If the story itself is public domain, then the studio could just hire their own scriptwriter and not pay anyone for any "rights". An example would be TOMBSTONE and WYATT EARP coming out the same year, based on the same story, with their own scripts.
I thought copyright lasted for 50 years after death of author now. Does Project Gutenberg ONLY print public domain stuff? Maybe they have been granted right to distribute for free because the author's heirs want people reading the storys. Popularity of the story would promote the value of the movie rights.
Irony is figuratively killing you.
As punishment you much now go get a dictionary and write down the definition of "literally" 10 times. Don't let me catch you doing it again.
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Ok, good point. It wasn't cash money that disappeared. I should have said 30 billion dollars in stockholder value evaporated. The effect on the stockholder is the same though.
The New York Post is a competitor for AOL-TW?
Yeah yeah, more buzzwords. Gotta work "core competency" in there somehow.
Wow, you sure have a bunch of nice buzzwords packed into that short post. But I don't see how any "synergy" is going to turn the AOL unit into a money-making and growing division like it used to be. They are not going to be "out-competing" my local ISP. If they were to start making T-W content exclusive to AOL, they are only going to be choking off the potential for T-W.
AOL made a sweet deal. They turned a vast amount of very perishable stock value into some real assets by buying T-W. T-W was blinded by dollar signs in their eyes. They looked at the (temporary) value of the stock, instead of (real) value of the AOL company.
I know they are not going to shrivel up and blow away or anything like that, but if I was a T-W stockholder I would be pretty pissed off. There were billions of dollars here last time I looked. Where did it go?
I shouldn't be too hard on them though. Tyco, who has nothing to do with the dot-com bubble, and nothing to do with energy trading, and makes and sells actual products rather than just having intellectual property, has dropped in value by 30 BILLION dollars in the last 2 weeks. Think about that: 30 billion dollars that used to belong to stockholders has EVAPORATED in the last 14 days.
The Discovery Channel has omniscient narrators? What a waste. They should be curing cancer or something.
bnetd does NOT support WCIII Warforge, which is based on bnetd does.
Its revenue really. I don't hav any idea if it is profit or not.
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Why do people here so often cite FICTION when making a case for why something should not be done?
Why didn't I think of that before. Thank you. "Okay kids, its off to foster homes with you. I can't have you keeping me awake at night any more.
I just timed it, my full 6GB jukebox takes 40 seconds to boot, and I have several playlists. I think you have a problem with your ID3 tags or corrupt MP3 files. Another thing you should try is forcing a rebuild of the index. Hold down the right and left softkeys (the top buttons) during the boot to get to the utilities menu.
The existing Nomad Jukebox has scaling. from 0.5x speed to 1.4x speed. You don't have to buy the new one to get this. BUT, the recording is only in .WAV format.
Unless you want to listen to your music is Creative's own silly 4 speaker format, any MP3's, encoded with any old program work just fine. I used CDex.
Quite a few people take them apart and put larger HDD in them. HERE are several pictures of the guts. It looks pretty full to me, because in addition to the HDD, there are 4 AA batteries, the power management and recharging circuitry, the decoding and audio processing stuff, an LCD, buttons, jacks, etc.
I got a 6GB Nomad Jukebox for $170 including shipping. New in box, not reconditioned, works perfectly.
The Nomad Jukebox does have Random and Shuffle modes. While playing, go to the DETAILS display by pressing the left softkey. The details display shows you the current song, artist, and album, and the right softkey button is now labeled MODE. Push this button. Shuffle mixes the order up and plays everything once. Random just goes on forever. Neither is actually random. It seems to pick one song from each album/playlist that you have in the queue and then skip to the next branch of the tree. From the same starting point, it will always play the songs in the same order, but pushing the "back" button will move to another song within that album/playlist, so you can mix up the order in real time. When I got my jukebox I thought that I would often put all 1500 songs into the queue and hit shuffle, but I usually just queue a few playlists at a time. Like Jazz+Blues or Alt80s+AltModern+AltGirlRock.
I haven't seen it yet, and I many never see it, but it doesn't look like there are any mummies in the movie, which is why the title is The Scorpion King.
Gold AND silver? wow that would be cool.
Yeah, I loved every minute of it. I really loved that jet/rocket powered airship in Returns. Yeah, that was...um....whats the word I'm looking for?
Or Sarcasm. LOTR is the first and only book that I liked that has turned into a good movie. Perhaps you are right and it will encourage movie people to keep closer to the intent of the book. But that is not what history has taught me. Puppet Masters. Starship Troopers. Johhny Mnemonic. Etc. I think the crew that brought you The Mummy Returns will deliver eye candy, and little else. OTOH, X-Men was true to the original material...
So you think Paramount is paying for exclusive rights to a script? I don't think so. OPTION implies that someone owns the exclusive rights to produce a movie based on the novel. If the story itself is public domain, then the studio could just hire their own scriptwriter and not pay anyone for any "rights". An example would be TOMBSTONE and WYATT EARP coming out the same year, based on the same story, with their own scripts.
I thought copyright lasted for 50 years after death of author now. Does Project Gutenberg ONLY print public domain stuff? Maybe they have been granted right to distribute for free because the author's heirs want people reading the storys. Popularity of the story would promote the value of the movie rights.
Irony is figuratively killing you. As punishment you much now go get a dictionary and write down the definition of "literally" 10 times. Don't let me catch you doing it again.