Then why are cassette tapes $7.99 or $8.99. Linear media with moving parts is far more expensive to produce than a round piece of plastic with a hole in the center.
Oh. Demand you say? Nobody buys tapes anymore?
Then why haven't CD prices come down if the RIAA is experiencing slow sales?
The RIAA has been screwing us for years. They aren't interrested in giving the people what they want. Hopefully, they will suffer the fate of the corrupt middleman - which they are. Those prices you mentioned are not fair. The popular music being released is not worth it.
The artists are entitled to compenstation for their works of art. The producers are entitled to compensation for production. The stores/sites are entitled to make a fair profit. But $13 or $14 is not fair. Not even close.
The system will work itself out and the RIAA will end up very different than it is today.
"Bringing Down The House" is a book about an MIT blackjack card counting team and their tactics/strategy. I agree - a very good read. I submit this to clarify that the parent is not refering to the recent $100M movie with Steve Martin, Gene Levey, and Queen LaFaFatty.
I have a relative that works for a casting company. Some of the stories he has are just plain sad. The diluted and shallow nature of some of these people make me wonder how they can live with themselves.
Hey! All you self-important brats. Do us a favor and open a vein. Make room for some original material instead of giving us an automatic sequel to every money making hit.
Speaking of which, I wonder how long until "Bringing Down The House - 2" has an IPO on the Hollywood Stock Exchange (the brainless comedy, not the blackjack book)
I live in Boston. It is April. The forecast is for 3 to 6 inches of snow.
I know I know. Warming is not universal, it is the bigger picture scientists are concerned about. Some regions get warmer, but everybody's climate changes, threatening flora and fauna.
But from my point of view, it should be a few degrees warmer, especially this time of year. The Red Sox home opener is Friday. I hope they get the field cleared by then and also hope another storm doesn't dump still more snow.
Warming? I will be shoveling my steps and digging my car out later (tomorrow?). On April 1, 1997 Boston got nailed with 24+ inches of snow. 3rd biggest snowfall ever. EVER! No fooling.
I'm really looking foreward to those 6 weeks of summer - during which the avereage temp will be 100 degress F. Then is is right back to 50 degrees and below for the remaining 10.5 months.
You're right.
And with the UI additions and other extras comes the bloat that *nix user are so critical about when crying about Windows. Of all the criticisms that open sores weenies lay on Windoze lusers, I find this one the most ridiculous.
Of course the *nix OS footprint is small. It doesn't do anything. Along with the bloat comes the instability, not to mention the different distros (read: factions) contributing to the inconsistent look, feel, behavior of *nix. Increased adoption of *nix will lead to more virus and worms.
You think Microsoft has a failed business model? Is that why they are sitting on $40B cash? Windows has already gone through the growing pains that *nix is about to experience. It is going to be ugly. The result will be far worse than Windows because of the disparate natue of the contributors and distros, not better. Open, closed, I dont give a shit... Gimme something I can use. Microsoft has done that.
Flame me all you want. Your collective lack of vision is almost funny. Some of you seem blinded by your hate for the evil empire. The worst thing Linus did was open Linux. Don't you think if he kept it to himself and started a business, Linux would be more mature at this point? Open the API's to encourage development, but close the OS to permit consistency and control the look and feel.
Good riddance you piece of shit with your stompable system32 DLLs and your weak device driver signing requirements. Windows 2000 + is so much better than this relic. I know, I know, ginne a break
Sadly, the glacial pace of the financial service industry's adoption of new technology has left many with this outdated OS. Poor programming techniques (mfc42.dll stomp DLL hell make me wanna pull out my short hairs) combined with upper-mangement risk aversion has led to upgrade paralysis at some companies.
I'm not advocating that everyone immediatley accepts everything comming out of Microsoft's pipeline (if they make a bank-based "agile business" ad i'm gonna puke).
All I'm saying is NT has be hacked to shit. Let it go. Anything that doesn't comply w/ 2000+ should be rewritten/reinstalled/replaced.
DO YOU HEAR ME?!?! YOU GRAY-HAIRED STUFFED SHIRTS IN YOUR CORNER OFFICES! GET A CLUE!
Sorry for the rant. I know many of you are thinking...."Go Linux" or "Thin client". Go0d fucking luck with PHB that can't even navigate his own "Start" menu, nevermind the comprehend the benefits of modern offerings.
Goddamn right!
Especially if that advaincing army had the ability to fly a 1000lb bomb up my nostril from 600 miles away - only to decide "left" or "right" at the very last second.
I wholeheartedly support what we are doing over there. Have all these protestors forgotten about 9/11? Don;t they understand that Hussein is the biggest supported of terrorism? And he has the money and weapons to make it happen. Palestinian families get thousands of dollars from Iraq when a family member chooses to blow himself up on a crowded bus of citizens. He should pay with his life. He has no honor and no compassion. Burn in hell Saddam.
What we should do is send up Bruce Willis, Steve Buschemi, and Ben Afleck. They could drill and hole and plant a nuke so that we can blow the thing to dust before China gets to...
1. Mine moon dust.
2. ????
3. Proit!!!
Now, if archeologist were allowed to dig up a bit more without Dubya bombing everything into oblivion, maybe we would learn much more about how advance early civilisations got.
I say: "Bomb them back to the stone age"
That way we could actually watch an early civilization evolve via satelite. It could be a new "reality show" seen thru your boob tube.
"Survivor: Mutants of the mid-east"
Windows XP server?
Are you sure?
Take a closer look. There is no such thing. XP is a desktop OS and it comes in two flavors: Professional and Home.
Not "Server"
Hi
Today's (2/23/2003) Boston Globe has a good article on the front page of the "Arts and Entertainment" section:
Five years from now...
It's a speculative view of the near future with (a fundamentally different) RIAA, or no RIAA at all. It fails to mention that the time and money spent by RIAA collective was an utter waste, and perhaps is a big reason for their demise, but nonetheless is an interresting perspective of what's to come.
Of course, if a doomsday asteroid is discovered, the current policy is not to say a word, its to announce that Bruce Willis, Steve Bushemi, and Ben Afleck will be launched to intrecept.
Billy-Bob will coordinate from Earth.
Good Luck and Godspeed Gentlemen. Bruce Rules
C'mon! No news here. So you can gain "root" when booting into the console?
Just go into your Admin Tools - Local Security Policy - Security Options, and set the "Recovry Console" option they way you like. If you're an administrator of AD objects, configure these rules in group policies at appropriate levels in your hierarchy.
Recovery console: Allow automatic adminstrative logon
Recover console: Allow floppy copy and access to all drives
There are administrative templates you can import to expand the number of policy rules. You can build your own templates if you are a complete tool.
I'm gonna follow this "trick" to the letter and see what happens. Stay tuned.
The flow is slow, but steady, and your crusing along at ~25mph during rush hour. You pass an on-ramp with no cars entering the expressway. The same number of packets are still on the wire. Some of the cars in the right lane behind you make use of the "new" right lane (aka the end of the on-ramp) and pass you on the right. They will eventually merge back into bumper-to-bumper traffic becuase of the encroaching guard rail. Everybody slows down as a result. A few greedy motorist, by their actions, slow everybody down because of the artifical bottleneck they have created. There aren't any more cars on the road (packets on the wire), but the route they have chosen proved detrimental to the whole system.
-5 Offtopic. But you just reminded me of a high-ranking exec at a big financial services company near Boston MA.
This guy hired consultants to rewrite the Microsoft DINA so that a single key would suffice to generate the logon prompt, instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del. He spent a lot of money on this. He felt justified becuase he insisted he reduced the number of keystrokes by 66% for that every-day effort of his underlings despite our arguments to the contrary. He was able to make claims of increased productivity and was rewarded for it.
True story - Real life Dilbert PHB episode.
Just send up Bruce Willis, Steve Bushemi, and, Ben Afleck. Billy-Bob will coordinate the whole she-bang from the ground.
Good luck and God speed gentlemen
Rendezvous with Rama
Symbol: RRAMA Status: Active Genre: Sci-Fi Phase: Development
Price: H$23.04 Change: 0 Volume: 1,801,012
Gross: $0
Based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama is the story of a gigantic alien spaceship named Rama which entered our Solar System in the 22nd Century. No one knows where this mysterious craft came from. Earth decides to send out an exploration team to the advancing vessel to determine its intentions. Once onboard the spaceship, which is in the shape of an immense cylindrical tube, the explorers observe a self-contained world, less one thing-living beings. It seems to be abandoned-or so they think.
Director David Fincher and Morgan Freeman are attached to the project.
HSX is a play-money stock exchange of prospective movie projects set up like NYSE stocks. They also offer mutual funds of varios portfolios, (star) bonds if you want to invest in "J Lo" or Rodney Dangrefield or Tom Berringer. Long, Short, Buy, Cover. Options too. It's focus is the movie industry. There is another "market" for the music industry. I know we all dislike the MPAA and RIAA for their shortsighted efforts at futile legilation, but this site is fun to kick around once a day - or week - or whatever.
Paycheck is a thriller based on a story by Philip K. Dick. After an engineer agrees to have his memory erased after working on a top-secret project, he decides to stick around and piece together the mystery. John Woo directs the film scripted by Stuart Hazeldine and Dean Georgaris
I'm not completely sure the name of the story is indeed "Paycheck". I've only read a handuful of Dick's work and some short stories, but some movies based on his stuff make up at least 2 of my all-time top ten favs: "Bladerunner" and "Total Recall".
I speak from experience.
Many people, including myself have brewed beer. I couldn't get it right. Friends have had great batches, but mine always tasted like piss or worse. You really don't need to stir the yeast very much, and certainly not at "hot water" temeratures. Still and clean and quiet is the prope way to brew.
Kids, don't try this at home. The washing machine is the LAST place you want to brew beer.
Get a 5 gal. bucket (sterilized) with a air tihts lid, and an "air-lock" water stopper from your chemestry set in the attic. Boil a gallon of water and stir in 32 oz of malt. Continue stirring and boiling for 15 minutes to release the sugar in the malt. Cool and pour into 5 gal bucket that has ~4 gal of tap water waiting. Gently add the yeast when mixture is luke warm - not hot. stir once with sterile utensile and fasten lid. Leave it alone for 5 days and siphon into sterilized bottles. Cap them at once. Gently always gently, set them aside for a week and good luck.
Or, just got to the packie and drop $50 for a coupla cases of your fav micro-brew.
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Microsoft puzzles can be divided into two types
1. [OK] [Cancel]
2. [Back] [Next] [Finish]
Closing it.
Nice paradox!
Would those laws of physics you advocate be classical Netownian laws, or the strange and charming laws of particle physics?
In either case, don't we implicitly abide by both?
Are you saying "any law that can be broken is no longer a law at all." ?
I think I bent my brain banana
So I think $12.99 is more than fair. Even $14.99.
Then why are cassette tapes $7.99 or $8.99. Linear media with moving parts is far more expensive to produce than a round piece of plastic with a hole in the center.
Oh. Demand you say? Nobody buys tapes anymore?
Then why haven't CD prices come down if the RIAA is experiencing slow sales?
The RIAA has been screwing us for years. They aren't interrested in giving the people what they want. Hopefully, they will suffer the fate of the corrupt middleman - which they are. Those prices you mentioned are not fair. The popular music being released is not worth it.
The artists are entitled to compenstation for their works of art. The producers are entitled to compensation for production. The stores/sites are entitled to make a fair profit. But $13 or $14 is not fair. Not even close.
The system will work itself out and the RIAA will end up very different than it is today.
"Bringing Down The House" is a book about an MIT blackjack card counting team and their tactics/strategy. I agree - a very good read.
I submit this to clarify that the parent is not refering to the recent $100M movie with Steve Martin, Gene Levey, and Queen LaFaFatty.
I have a relative that works for a casting company. Some of the stories he has are just plain sad. The diluted and shallow nature of some of these people make me wonder how they can live with themselves.
Hey! All you self-important brats. Do us a favor and open a vein. Make room for some original material instead of giving us an automatic sequel to every money making hit.
Speaking of which, I wonder how long until "Bringing Down The House - 2" has an IPO on the Hollywood Stock Exchange (the brainless comedy, not the blackjack book)
I live in Boston. It is April. The forecast is for 3 to 6 inches of snow.
I know I know. Warming is not universal, it is the bigger picture scientists are concerned about. Some regions get warmer, but everybody's climate changes, threatening flora and fauna.
But from my point of view, it should be a few degrees warmer, especially this time of year. The Red Sox home opener is Friday. I hope they get the field cleared by then and also hope another storm doesn't dump still more snow.
Warming? I will be shoveling my steps and digging my car out later (tomorrow?). On April 1, 1997 Boston got nailed with 24+ inches of snow. 3rd biggest snowfall ever. EVER! No fooling.
I'm really looking foreward to those 6 weeks of summer - during which the avereage temp will be 100 degress F. Then is is right back to 50 degrees and below for the remaining 10.5 months.
You're right.
And with the UI additions and other extras comes the bloat that *nix user are so critical about when crying about Windows. Of all the criticisms that open sores weenies lay on Windoze lusers, I find this one the most ridiculous.
Of course the *nix OS footprint is small. It doesn't do anything. Along with the bloat comes the instability, not to mention the different distros (read: factions) contributing to the inconsistent look, feel, behavior of *nix. Increased adoption of *nix will lead to more virus and worms.
You think Microsoft has a failed business model? Is that why they are sitting on $40B cash? Windows has already gone through the growing pains that *nix is about to experience. It is going to be ugly. The result will be far worse than Windows because of the disparate natue of the contributors and distros, not better. Open, closed, I dont give a shit... Gimme something I can use. Microsoft has done that.
Flame me all you want. Your collective lack of vision is almost funny. Some of you seem blinded by your hate for the evil empire. The worst thing Linus did was open Linux. Don't you think if he kept it to himself and started a business, Linux would be more mature at this point? Open the API's to encourage development, but close the OS to permit consistency and control the look and feel.
Because I had to
Good riddance you piece of shit with your stompable system32 DLLs and your weak device driver signing requirements. Windows 2000 + is so much better than this relic. I know, I know, ginne a break
Sadly, the glacial pace of the financial service industry's adoption of new technology has left many with this outdated OS. Poor programming techniques (mfc42.dll stomp DLL hell make me wanna pull out my short hairs) combined with upper-mangement risk aversion has led to upgrade paralysis at some companies.
I'm not advocating that everyone immediatley accepts everything comming out of Microsoft's pipeline (if they make a bank-based "agile business" ad i'm gonna puke).
All I'm saying is NT has be hacked to shit. Let it go. Anything that doesn't comply w/ 2000+ should be rewritten/reinstalled/replaced.
DO YOU HEAR ME?!?! YOU GRAY-HAIRED STUFFED SHIRTS IN YOUR CORNER OFFICES! GET A CLUE!
Sorry for the rant. I know many of you are thinking...."Go Linux" or "Thin client". Go0d fucking luck with PHB that can't even navigate his own "Start" menu, nevermind the comprehend the benefits of modern offerings.
Goddamn right!
Especially if that advaincing army had the ability to fly a 1000lb bomb up my nostril from 600 miles away - only to decide "left" or "right" at the very last second.
I wholeheartedly support what we are doing over there. Have all these protestors forgotten about 9/11? Don;t they understand that Hussein is the biggest supported of terrorism? And he has the money and weapons to make it happen. Palestinian families get thousands of dollars from Iraq when a family member chooses to blow himself up on a crowded bus of citizens. He should pay with his life. He has no honor and no compassion. Burn in hell Saddam.
Like I said before...
Bruce Rules Again
And before that...
Bruce Rules
What we should do is send up Bruce Willis, Steve Buschemi, and Ben Afleck. They could drill and hole and plant a nuke so that we can blow the thing to dust before China gets to...
1. Mine moon dust.
2. ????
3. Proit!!!
Now, if archeologist were allowed to dig up a bit more without Dubya bombing everything into oblivion, maybe we would learn much more about how advance early civilisations got.
I say: "Bomb them back to the stone age"
That way we could actually watch an early civilization evolve via satelite. It could be a new "reality show" seen thru your boob tube.
"Survivor: Mutants of the mid-east"
They hate us. We hate them. Ain't war a bitch?
Windows XP server?
Are you sure?
Take a closer look. There is no such thing. XP is a desktop OS and it comes in two flavors: Professional and Home.
Not "Server"
Start making some sense or STFU.
Hi ...
Today's (2/23/2003) Boston Globe has a good article on the front page of the "Arts and Entertainment" section: Five years from now
It's a speculative view of the near future with (a fundamentally different) RIAA, or no RIAA at all. It fails to mention that the time and money spent by RIAA collective was an utter waste, and perhaps is a big reason for their demise, but nonetheless is an interresting perspective of what's to come.
Of course, if a doomsday asteroid is discovered, the current policy is not to say a word, its to announce that Bruce Willis, Steve Bushemi, and Ben Afleck will be launched to intrecept.
Billy-Bob will coordinate from Earth.
Good Luck and Godspeed Gentlemen.
Bruce Rules
C'mon! No news here. So you can gain "root" when booting into the console?
Just go into your Admin Tools - Local Security Policy - Security Options, and set the "Recovry Console" option they way you like. If you're an administrator of AD objects, configure these rules in group policies at appropriate levels in your hierarchy.
Recovery console: Allow automatic adminstrative logon
Recover console: Allow floppy copy and access to all drives
There are administrative templates you can import to expand the number of policy rules. You can build your own templates if you are a complete tool.
I'm gonna follow this "trick" to the letter and see what happens. Stay tuned.
Consider the popular analogy of highway traffic.
The flow is slow, but steady, and your crusing along at ~25mph during rush hour. You pass an on-ramp with no cars entering the expressway. The same number of packets are still on the wire. Some of the cars in the right lane behind you make use of the "new" right lane (aka the end of the on-ramp) and pass you on the right. They will eventually merge back into bumper-to-bumper traffic becuase of the encroaching guard rail. Everybody slows down as a result. A few greedy motorist, by their actions, slow everybody down because of the artifical bottleneck they have created. There aren't any more cars on the road (packets on the wire), but the route they have chosen proved detrimental to the whole system.
There is a big difference.
We are the only nation ever to have actually used these weapons on our enemies.
-5 Offtopic. But you just reminded me of a high-ranking exec at a big financial services company near Boston MA.
This guy hired consultants to rewrite the Microsoft DINA so that a single key would suffice to generate the logon prompt, instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del. He spent a lot of money on this. He felt justified becuase he insisted he reduced the number of keystrokes by 66% for that every-day effort of his underlings despite our arguments to the contrary. He was able to make claims of increased productivity and was rewarded for it.
True story - Real life Dilbert PHB episode.
strategies for exterminating asteroids
Just send up Bruce Willis, Steve Bushemi, and, Ben Afleck. Billy-Bob will coordinate the whole she-bang from the ground.
Good luck and God speed gentlemen
A possible solution to this would be to have a secret algorithm to generate the watermarks
Would this be anything like the super-secret Lan Manager hash that IBM leak^H^H^H^H invented?
Aside from the obvious "2001: A Space Oddesey" (sp?)
I hate to admt I am not familiar with Clarke's works.
Are there an existing movies based on Arthur C. Clarke's work?
From Hollywood Stock Exchange
Rendezvous with Rama
Symbol: RRAMA
Status: Active
Genre: Sci-Fi
Phase: Development
Price: H$23.04 Change: 0 Volume: 1,801,012
Gross: $0
Based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama is the story of a gigantic alien spaceship named Rama which entered our Solar System in the 22nd Century. No one knows where this mysterious craft came from. Earth decides to send out an exploration team to the advancing vessel to determine its intentions. Once onboard the spaceship, which is in the shape of an immense cylindrical tube, the explorers observe a self-contained world, less one thing-living beings. It seems to be abandoned-or so they think. Director David Fincher and Morgan Freeman are attached to the project.
HSX is a play-money stock exchange of prospective movie projects set up like NYSE stocks. They also offer mutual funds of varios portfolios, (star) bonds if you want to invest in "J Lo" or Rodney Dangrefield or Tom Berringer. Long, Short, Buy, Cover. Options too. It's focus is the movie industry. There is another "market" for the music industry. I know we all dislike the MPAA and RIAA for their shortsighted efforts at futile legilation, but this site is fun to kick around once a day - or week - or whatever.
BTW - I'm invested in a Phillip K. Dick story.
Again from: Hollywood Stock Exchange
Paycheck is a thriller based on a story by Philip K. Dick. After an engineer agrees to have his memory erased after working on a top-secret project, he decides to stick around and piece together the mystery. John Woo directs the film scripted by Stuart Hazeldine and Dean Georgaris
I'm not completely sure the name of the story is indeed "Paycheck". I've only read a handuful of Dick's work and some short stories, but some movies based on his stuff make up at least 2 of my all-time top ten favs: "Bladerunner" and "Total Recall".
I speak from experience.
Many people, including myself have brewed beer. I couldn't get it right. Friends have had great batches, but mine always tasted like piss or worse. You really don't need to stir the yeast very much, and certainly not at "hot water" temeratures. Still and clean and quiet is the prope way to brew.
Kids, don't try this at home. The washing machine is the LAST place you want to brew beer.
Get a 5 gal. bucket (sterilized) with a air tihts lid, and an "air-lock" water stopper from your chemestry set in the attic. Boil a gallon of water and stir in 32 oz of malt. Continue stirring and boiling for 15 minutes to release the sugar in the malt. Cool and pour into 5 gal bucket that has ~4 gal of tap water waiting. Gently add the yeast when mixture is luke warm - not hot. stir once with sterile utensile and fasten lid. Leave it alone for 5 days and siphon into sterilized bottles. Cap them at once. Gently always gently, set them aside for a week and good luck.
Or, just got to the packie and drop $50 for a coupla cases of your fav micro-brew.