2 hours ago, I went to Circuit City and bought Al Green/Greatest Hits. It was on sale for $8.99. Having listened through it, there's some good music on there, and I'm glad I bought it, but I wouldn't have bought it for at the list price ($13-20, depending on where you look). There's a LOT of music I would buy at a lower price. My music purchase dropped off in the past couple years because Amazon.com, CDNow.com, buy.com, etc. stopped offering nice discounts and raised music prices.
I see no other reason to make the compiler binary-compatible with GCC.
Actually, the gcc 3.0 series was changed to use Intel's C++ ABI, so gcc did the changing, not icc. Of course, icc did add support for some of gcc's extensions.
i bet none. AOL outsourced mozilla to the mozilla foundation a while ago. All the people with netscape.com email addresses got dropped so joe schmoes could sign up for netscape.com email addresses. Netscape is a portal and an ISP. Not a browser.
Increasingly, spammers are turning to illegal activities to spam -- using worms/trojans/viruses to infect other computers (to send spam or DDOS anti-spam sites).
I don't consider that to be "just folks doing something annoying to earn a living".
Apple cuts out a lot of middle-men, takes a (large) cut
I don't think Apple's cut is as big as you think it is.
I've seen figures stating the RIAA cut is 60-80 cents/song, leaving 40-20 cents per song to Apple.
I do consulting for several clients that take CCs over the net. A typical example of CC/gateway costs is 2.25% +.30 per transaction. So a.32 of a $1.00 charge is immediately taken by the CC company. The numbers vary a bit, and are lower with larger volumes, but at a minimum they're problably paying 1.25% +.20/transaction.
I suspect very few people buy songs 1 at a time -- gift certificates are $20. I personally buy about 5 songs at a time, but friends of mine might buy 1-2 albums at a time, which minimizes the bite of the transaction fees.
After that they still have to pay for bandwidth, development costs, probably a FTE or 2 for maintainence, etc.
I don't think Apple is growing rich off iTMS, and I don't think BuyMusic, Napster, HPMusic, etc. will either.
they do offer indie music. The indie artist has to be affiliated with a label however (it's easier for Apple to send a label a check for $100 than 100 indie artists a check for $1). There were places to get indie music before iTMS (like mp3 com). Their (lack of) success ought to tell you something.
Napster proved that tens of millions of consumers were eager to download digital music from the Internet. They just weren't inclined to pay for it
Bullshit. Napster didn't prove they weren't inclined to pay for it, even if people wanted to legitimately purchase music downloads, they couldn't.
Napster proved the demand for downloadable music exists. I like iTMS. I use iTMS. I give jobs credit for convincing the suits, not for a prodcust or invention of the year.
Politicians who rose through the ranks based on their
connections with party-elders and got into office due to the intertia
of the voters are, in fact hurt by the internet.
I find it ironic that the bigest politician-politician of them all (Al Gore) created the very thing that would bring them down.
Actually, there's one other good thing about him -- since he was a Governor, he believes in states rights, or at least talks about them (eg, gun control should be up to individual states, not a federal gov't job. Marriage/civil unions should be up to individual states...etc).
Too bad his goal isn't to decrease the size of the federal gov't.
Clinton? Oh yeah. Too bad he was too busy getting his dick sucked by fat hoes to bother doing anything useful when Al Quaida bombed the WTC the first, time, the USS Cole, American embassies, etc.
Kind of odd, given that he had no problems massacring the Branch Davidians.
PS - did you hear that the UN has warned their "peace keepers" might have to leave Afghanistan because it's too hard? Makes you damn glad George Bush didn't waste time with UN approval for Iraq.
You are funny. Let's look at the facts. The average parochial school costs *less* per pupil than does a public school.
$1000 less per pupil, to be exact (Gartner Survey from 2002). If the choice is to spend $5000/student at a public school or spend $4000/student so they can go to a private school of their choice, vouchers save money which can be used in the public school or (god forbid) taxes can be lowered.
I find it amusing that you don't like the idea of people spending their own money (via lower taxes) or given the option of making their own education decisions.
I bought a memorex 3-button mouse for around $5 at best buy a couple months back. It replaced my old logitech mouseman 3-button which had worn out after 5 years of use.
I recall 3-4 other types of traditional 3-button mice available, with varying degree of fanciness (USB, wireless, etc).
The Copyright Board decision comes as the Supreme Court of Canada begins a landmark copyright case that will determine whether Internet service providers must pay a tariff for being a conduit for the rampant downloading of free music.
I don't know anything about Canadian Law, or Canadian internet/music habits, but I'd guess only a minority of users are downloading (copyrighted) music. I think it's absurd the entire industry could be forced to pay a tariff.
It's almost enough to make me glad that in the US, the RIAA has to sue individuals, and haven't (yet) been able to bill ISPs directly.
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PS - Walmart is setting up stores in China and kicking the shit out of the Chinese stores.
just invent an artificial pussy that smells like fish and I'll be happy.
The defendents are being "intimidated" into not doing something they don't have a legal right to do.
Where can I get "pretty much any CD" for $7?
Originally, it was a limitation of the recording medium. You could fit 4 minutes (or so) one on side of a record.
Maybe the UK is quite different, but I know Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, etc all did full concept albums in the 60s and 70s.
2 hours ago, I went to Circuit City and bought Al Green/Greatest Hits. It was on sale for $8.99. Having listened through it, there's some good music on there, and I'm glad I bought it, but I wouldn't have bought it for at the list price ($13-20, depending on where you look). There's a LOT of music I would buy at a lower price. My music purchase dropped off in the past couple years because Amazon.com, CDNow.com, buy.com, etc. stopped offering nice discounts and raised music prices.
Actually, the gcc 3.0 series was changed to use Intel's C++ ABI, so gcc did the changing, not icc. Of course, icc did add support for some of gcc's extensions.
i bet none. AOL outsourced mozilla to the mozilla foundation a while ago. All the people with netscape.com email addresses got dropped so joe schmoes could sign up for netscape.com email addresses. Netscape is a portal and an ISP. Not a browser.
I don't consider that to be "just folks doing something annoying to earn a living".
I think it's a much more important question. In this case, I think the answer is Flo Flox.
Since she's not dead yet, you must conclude either there is no God, or God would not, in fact, kill her.
I don't think Apple's cut is as big as you think it is.
I've seen figures stating the RIAA cut is 60-80 cents/song, leaving 40-20 cents per song to Apple.
I do consulting for several clients that take CCs over the net. A typical example of CC/gateway costs is 2.25% + .30 per transaction. So a .32 of a $1.00 charge is immediately taken by the CC company. The numbers vary a bit, and are lower with larger volumes, but at a minimum they're problably paying 1.25% + .20/transaction.
I suspect very few people buy songs 1 at a time -- gift certificates are $20. I personally buy about 5 songs at a time, but friends of mine might buy 1-2 albums at a time, which minimizes the bite of the transaction fees.
After that they still have to pay for bandwidth, development costs, probably a FTE or 2 for maintainence, etc.
I don't think Apple is growing rich off iTMS, and I don't think BuyMusic, Napster, HPMusic, etc. will either.
Already been done.
and remove the entire monetary component out of the industry?
that's not the only thing that's been removed.
When BMG bought Napster, they had plans to migrate it to be a legitimate music distributor, but that never happened.
There were a couple places that sold independent music downloads prior to iTMS, but none of them had music from the major record labels.
they do offer indie music. The indie artist has to be affiliated with a label however (it's easier for Apple to send a label a check for $100 than 100 indie artists a check for $1). There were places to get indie music before iTMS (like mp3 com). Their (lack of) success ought to tell you something.
Bullshit. Napster didn't prove they weren't inclined to pay for it, even if people wanted to legitimately purchase music downloads, they couldn't.
Napster proved the demand for downloadable music exists. I like iTMS. I use iTMS. I give jobs credit for convincing the suits, not for a prodcust or invention of the year.
I find it ironic that the bigest politician-politician of them all (Al Gore) created the very thing that would bring them down.
Too bad his goal isn't to decrease the size of the federal gov't.
Kind of odd, given that he had no problems massacring the Branch Davidians.
PS - did you hear that the UN has warned their "peace keepers" might have to leave Afghanistan because it's too hard? Makes you damn glad George Bush didn't waste time with UN approval for Iraq.
$1000 less per pupil, to be exact (Gartner Survey from 2002). If the choice is to spend $5000/student at a public school or spend $4000/student so they can go to a private school of their choice, vouchers save money which can be used in the public school or (god forbid) taxes can be lowered.
I find it amusing that you don't like the idea of people spending their own money (via lower taxes) or given the option of making their own education decisions.
Instead of teaching Access vs MySQL, why not teach plain SQL and add notes on pecularities of MySQL, Access, db2, oracle, etc?
If students prefer windows, they can use access. If they like unix, they can use mysql.
I recall 3-4 other types of traditional 3-button mice available, with varying degree of fanciness (USB, wireless, etc).
I think they even had some 5-button behemoths.
PS - what's with this 3rd person shit?
'Music' CD-R media do cost more because they include RIAA fees. Standalone consumer CD burners only work with 'Music' CD-R.
I don't know anything about Canadian Law, or Canadian internet/music habits, but I'd guess only a minority of users are downloading (copyrighted) music. I think it's absurd the entire industry could be forced to pay a tariff.
It's almost enough to make me glad that in the US, the RIAA has to sue individuals, and haven't (yet) been able to bill ISPs directly.
You must not be a perl guy.