It was a hell of a lot more than not understanding his audience. For one thing, the RIAA jacked up the cost of CDs to mom and pop shops like his, mean while letting Walmart sell the same CDs at cost or a loss. That's just evil. Also, they were pushing bands tailored for singles while foisting full albums on the shops. That's just dumb. Besides, the author wasn't lamenting that he couldn't make a living, he was lamenting he couldn't make a living running a record store anymore.
I buy bottled water because I want the water and the bottle, to put more water in it.
And going off on a tangent here, the recording industry's scared shitless the music market is going to fragment, with everyone and his brother listening to exactly the music they like. Right now they can pump out Britney Spears CDs by the millions and rake in the dough with economies of scale. You couldn't do that in a fractured market. That's why the shut down Napster and (more so) mp3.com. That's why they move so slow on digital downloads. They're trying to do it w/o breaking up the market they've spent the last few decades consolidating.
Oh, and I miss mp3.com so much. emusic is kinda neat, but there were so many bands that put their music up there that I would never have heard of. Frostweaver, Powerquest, Dragonforce, Saboten, Ravenlords. Myspace just doesn't attract the bands the same way, nothing does. Sucks. I hate the RIAA.
doesn't the quality of onboard graphics suffer from being directly on the mobo? I know there's a thriving market for sub $70 dollar graphics cards that replace onboard graphics for the sake of better image quality. Wouldn't having it on chip make this worse? I'd love to have onboard graphics (especially if I could get good tv out with it ) to save on heat/noise, but the stuff I've seen has been pretty lame.
Wonder how this'll affect the server variants. It would just be funny as heck if Microsoft died in the server market because they had to put in all this DRM nonsense.
the only people getting killed are insurgents and American Soldiers, who are almost exclusively from the lower classes. As far as the upper classes, who are profiting handsomely from this war, are concerned, the Wars going great.
some time ago. Didn't you notice everything I wrote was in paste tense?
You can't really start a Union in a minimum wage job with 90% turnover in a down turned economy. Heck, thanks to outsourcing and people taking on mortgage loans they can't afford desperately seeking second and third jobs to keep their homes, the entire staff could quite every day for a week and it'd hardly matter.
Unions are more or less dead, the ability for capital to move freely across the globe killed them.
not a general purpose one anyway, Sony's got too large a PC division to let that happen. Too bad too, $600 bucks for a solid general purpose computer and game console is pretty good.
especially since being bought out by AMD. A while back I stopping playing games on the PC, and I wanted good tv out since I use my computer for a home entertainment system, so I switched to ATI, figuring I'd have nothing but trouble with games but at least I'd get decent tv out ( Nvidia's tv out, at least on their cards from the TI 4600 line and back, suck). Anyway, I've been pleasantly surprised. It's played everything I've thrown at it out of my older games, and plenty of newer games just fine, and I haven't had a driver crash yet. Yeah, I've got a 9600, which is older and probably more stable, but I've heard good things about the x1300 and x1600 line too. Frankly, if I were Nvidia, I'd be worried.
If I could replace my OS drive with one of these really large flash drives to cut down on heat/noise, but I know there's a limited # of writes you can do with these drives...
Already if you want quirky and offbeat games, you have to go to a game shop. Walmarts and Best Buys Seldom carry something as obscure as that. Heck, I was surprised to see Valkyrie Profile 2 there.
What's the second Turbographx-16? Unless you mean the Duo, or the Japanese version. As far as I knew, there was only ever one form factor/design of the TG-16 in the States. Or was there more than one release in Europe/South America/etc?
by 'poor', I mean we had food and such, but we didn't have a lot of money for extraneous things like toys. From the standpoint of Middle Class America, I was poor, from the standpoint of, say, Mexico, I was pretty well off. Still, if you're a kid that only occasionally gets a new toy, the point still stands.
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when I was a kid, getting a $20 dollar videogame was like getting a whole box of toys, what with all the characters and features in games.
but if the party wronged in a criminal case declines to press charges, there's not a hell of a lot prosecutors can do. So, yeah, if Gates calls the prosecutor and says "Do it because I'm Rich", that's a banana republic, but if he calls and says his company's not pressing charges (which, as the head of the company he can do), then the prosecutor has to back off.
Still, I'm not too worried for the teacher. After all the attention, he won't get sent to prison. And on the plus side, this is so going to backfire on Microsoft.
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It was a hell of a lot more than not understanding his audience. For one thing, the RIAA jacked up the cost of CDs to mom and pop shops like his, mean while letting Walmart sell the same CDs at cost or a loss. That's just evil. Also, they were pushing bands tailored for singles while foisting full albums on the shops. That's just dumb. Besides, the author wasn't lamenting that he couldn't make a living, he was lamenting he couldn't make a living running a record store anymore.
I buy bottled water because I want the water and the bottle, to put more water in it.
And going off on a tangent here, the recording industry's scared shitless the music market is going to fragment, with everyone and his brother listening to exactly the music they like. Right now they can pump out Britney Spears CDs by the millions and rake in the dough with economies of scale. You couldn't do that in a fractured market. That's why the shut down Napster and (more so) mp3.com. That's why they move so slow on digital downloads. They're trying to do it w/o breaking up the market they've spent the last few decades consolidating.
Oh, and I miss mp3.com so much. emusic is kinda neat, but there were so many bands that put their music up there that I would never have heard of. Frostweaver, Powerquest, Dragonforce, Saboten, Ravenlords. Myspace just doesn't attract the bands the same way, nothing does. Sucks. I hate the RIAA.
Sony sells PDAs and laptops, you know :).
doesn't the quality of onboard graphics suffer from being directly on the mobo? I know there's a thriving market for sub $70 dollar graphics cards that replace onboard graphics for the sake of better image quality. Wouldn't having it on chip make this worse? I'd love to have onboard graphics (especially if I could get good tv out with it ) to save on heat/noise, but the stuff I've seen has been pretty lame.
Wonder how this'll affect the server variants. It would just be funny as heck if Microsoft died in the server market because they had to put in all this DRM nonsense.
the only people getting killed are insurgents and American Soldiers, who are almost exclusively from the lower classes. As far as the upper classes, who are profiting handsomely from this war, are concerned, the Wars going great.
FF doesn't matter as much as it did in the face of God of War, which has broader appeal and is simply an amazing game.
some time ago. Didn't you notice everything I wrote was in paste tense?
You can't really start a Union in a minimum wage job with 90% turnover in a down turned economy. Heck, thanks to outsourcing and people taking on mortgage loans they can't afford desperately seeking second and third jobs to keep their homes, the entire staff could quite every day for a week and it'd hardly matter.
Unions are more or less dead, the ability for capital to move freely across the globe killed them.
They cost half buying them new, and I can find out of print stuff.
It's a right to work state, so no Unions. If you'd asked the employer about it, they'd just say "It's a right to work state" and that's that.
if it's Fed Law. I worked in one for years, and seldom got a break.
not a general purpose one anyway, Sony's got too large a PC division to let that happen. Too bad too, $600 bucks for a solid general purpose computer and game console is pretty good.
especially since being bought out by AMD. A while back I stopping playing games on the PC, and I wanted good tv out since I use my computer for a home entertainment system, so I switched to ATI, figuring I'd have nothing but trouble with games but at least I'd get decent tv out ( Nvidia's tv out, at least on their cards from the TI 4600 line and back, suck). Anyway, I've been pleasantly surprised. It's played everything I've thrown at it out of my older games, and plenty of newer games just fine, and I haven't had a driver crash yet. Yeah, I've got a 9600, which is older and probably more stable, but I've heard good things about the x1300 and x1600 line too. Frankly, if I were Nvidia, I'd be worried.
is speakers. What good does a $200 dollar sound card do without a good set of speakers, which are not cheap or even easy to come by.
they're the primary market for new CDs, since there the ones that can afford $21 bucks a CD. Good luck getting them to boycott the RIAA though.
Tuxracer.
If I could replace my OS drive with one of these really large flash drives to cut down on heat/noise, but I know there's a limited # of writes you can do with these drives...
Already if you want quirky and offbeat games, you have to go to a game shop. Walmarts and Best Buys Seldom carry something as obscure as that. Heck, I was surprised to see Valkyrie Profile 2 there.
What's the second Turbographx-16? Unless you mean the Duo, or the Japanese version. As far as I knew, there was only ever one form factor/design of the TG-16 in the States. Or was there more than one release in Europe/South America/etc?
that's the second biggest squid I've ever seen.
that nobody's even considering the possibility that cell phone companies could charge off-peak fees during peak hours. That just doesn't happen.
by 'poor', I mean we had food and such, but we didn't have a lot of money for extraneous things like toys. From the standpoint of Middle Class America, I was poor, from the standpoint of, say, Mexico, I was pretty well off. Still, if you're a kid that only occasionally gets a new toy, the point still stands.
when I was a kid, getting a $20 dollar videogame was like getting a whole box of toys, what with all the characters and features in games.
but if the party wronged in a criminal case declines to press charges, there's not a hell of a lot prosecutors can do. So, yeah, if Gates calls the prosecutor and says "Do it because I'm Rich", that's a banana republic, but if he calls and says his company's not pressing charges (which, as the head of the company he can do), then the prosecutor has to back off.
Still, I'm not too worried for the teacher. After all the attention, he won't get sent to prison. And on the plus side, this is so going to backfire on Microsoft.
Big Gloves.