a) negotiated better deal to increase their margins on each song sold b) songs priced $1.49 instead of $.99 c) do what ever they can to increase the volume of song sales(i.e. different formats, working with all kind of MP3 hardware, etc).
Numbers like installed base for MP3 hardware, rate at which MP3 hardware is selling(for projection), etc. helps determine if they are going to make any money or not.
But Apple has a different goal: if iTMS is breaking even -- then that's good as the whole infrastructure for iPods is self-sustaining. In other words, in order to attract people to buy iPods they use iTMS which costs Apple nothing.
- People who change ISPs frequently - Or people who used to change ISPs frequently and used hotmail, and now continue to use hotmail because everyone knows their email address - Easy way to avoid viruses / worms - easy to create multiple accounts to register at websites, shop, etc.
The question should be: why NOT use free webmail services? Less control & organization of your email. Lack of integration with desktop email clients(I think Outlook 2k+ can dl mail from hotmail).
That's what we do in Canadian Banks - ensures a check won't bounce. That's why personal checks are no longer accepted around here(that and the fact debit cards are very widespread - making checks only necessary for business people).
On one corner I hear people saying if you don't want Redhat Support for Advanced Server - don't buy support.
On the other corner according to EULA, you have to buy support for *each* machine you have Advanced Server installed on. I mean isn't this just another form of 'per-seat' licensing where Redhat can throw any type of costs it wants into the 'support figure'?
Or the muddy question - suppose you buy support from them and Get Advanced Server - what restrictions to you have on copying? You should be able to copy the GPL portions of AS without restrictions - but pretty much all of AS is open source no?
Or suppose you just get AS and don't install it on any system for operational use, but rip it up and distribute the GPL portions, and provide binary RPMS by recompiling the SRPMS.
1) Apply for a new credit card(you don't wanna do this with your existing CC) 2) Once you receive your CC and have activated it, report that you lost your CC after some time. 3) Your CC Company will mark your old CC as lost/stolen(they take this issue very seriously and will ensure your CC is marked invalid). 4) Give this the now 'stolen' CC number to email scammers...an include the three digit security number on the back.
Now its upto the CC company to track fraudulent CC use. Don't know what the CC company will do if they do find their hitman.
"Unless we plan to invade and liberate them then there's nothing we can do about it"
Man fuck! Why do you give a flying fuck about "fixing" other countries? As we all know, America technique is to "build public support through media, invade & bomb like crazy, and put spin doctors to handle questions later on".
Go here: http://www.holocaustnow.org/main.html. And see how many fucking people die while big companies benefit. I mean there are more people dying in your country using guns(25,000/year according to "Opera"), alcohol, tobacco, etc.
Let me tell you one thing and one thing only: US never invades a country for morality/beliefs. Go read your history - such as why US invaded Cuba. Anything against the 'interest' of US and it's private industries will be met with "Shock & Awe".
If you believe your country is there to fight for you on the international front, then my friend you are the biggest fool of all time, who doesn't even read American history books and see otherwise. Hell, you prolly believe all the crap news agencies spew out these days with a daily 'Al queda' report.
-- conspiracy mode on -- How do you know who made the decision to go with Apple? Maybe Apple is offering the decision makers 10% of 5.2 million dollars under the table provided they don't get a discount. Heck, maybe Apple went upto them and gave the managers the offer, and VT managers couldn't lose.
Apple wins. Decision make wins. VT loses 330K. But no one knows about it.
-- consiparcy mode off --
The above scenario is very real in today's world. It happens all the time, and not very hard to believe. And who's gonna notice the 330K distributed to all managers? It's prolly locked up in some swiss account -- away from prying gov't eyes.
Just so you know, your local Malls also have a policy of NO PICTURE TAKING ALLOWED within their premises. Why? Not security related, but they don't want other would-be merchants taking pictures of store designs and merchandise store-owners are keeping.
If you were a merchant, would you like someone coming in and taking pictures or making a comprehensive list of what your selling and for how much?
Why do people by SUVs? People are greedy and like to buy the next sexiest in-the-fad type of thing. They don't buy it because they need it, they buy it to show off, or they think they want extra power, etc. The first thing I read in a marketing text book is that not everyone is like Ghandi - meaning there is a very strong potential to make 'I would like to have' to 'I really *need*'.
It's the same thing about video games - these days people just play games because 'it's cool and their friends do play it'. But very few can appreciate the magic that goes into making video games. Man when I saw Half-life2's AI in the video mpegs released, it inspired me more than the guy who said, "wow wiked graphics d00d".
Huge industries are established for oil. Until new industries + new energy source that is more profitable and easier to work with come, there won't be a need to replace oil. And the more things that use the new energy source, will cause more investing and R&D in the new source(where everyone will want to do it because they don't wanna miss out for the chance to become the next billion-dollar company for 50 years).
Dark Age of Camelot Everquest:(the version with the new graphic models and textures--the name escapes me).
For $10 each, provided you live in Canada.
Why Do i want to get rid of 'em? For the same reason the parent poster described: I can't be bothered with killing little furry animals for 3 hours 'just to level up' and maybe acquire rare items. The missions suck and have no scope other than do "a) b) and c) then you'll get this shiny new ring" and I can't get past playing MMORPGs for man than a week.
I thought MMORPGS would have been more episodic with grand enemies and problems to solve-- a higher level than single RPGS. But it turns out its full of teens and pre-teens, who do nothing but chat and tell people how 'cool their new item is'.
While I respect more of your comments KFG, I simply don't agree that a normal user would get dll with all but shitty shareware or Windows 98 designed programs.
I mean all normal users have some flavour of Windows, Office, some Games, IE, WMP, Winamp, some CD burning software, Outlook Express or just Hotmail, a bunch of drivers for there little gizmos(camera,etc).
And last time I noticed a.DLL problem was Windows 98. I guess you could get the problem if you have a lot of third party apps doing dumb things.
I can log into any Unix workstation via ssh or a dedicated xterm and load Mozilla. When I do, my "home" directory contains all the setting for every application including Mozilla. So my bookmarks, app settings, desktop environment, etc. are all centralized and apply to any station.
Then as a professor, you wouldn't believe how many students photocopy textbooks. Especially for all the shitty courses we have to take, and have no interest in the subject.
Of course, I'd happily pay for good, solid CS text books.
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Suprising, I found paper:
"Finding Naked People - Forsyth, Fleck (1996) (Correct)"
"Fedora you really are just beta testing Red Hat Enterprise edition for them"
And so, by using Debian, you are beta-testing for Lindows, since Lindows is based on Debian. Such logic is very flawed.
P.S. Why has everyone seem to have forgotten Mandrake?
then they would have:
a) negotiated better deal to increase their margins on each song sold
b) songs priced $1.49 instead of $.99
c) do what ever they can to increase the volume of song sales(i.e. different formats, working with all kind of MP3 hardware, etc).
Numbers like installed base for MP3 hardware, rate at which MP3 hardware is selling(for projection), etc. helps determine if they are going to make any money or not.
But Apple has a different goal: if iTMS is breaking even -- then that's good as the whole infrastructure for iPods is self-sustaining. In other words, in order to attract people to buy iPods they use iTMS which costs Apple nothing.
- People who change ISPs frequently
- Or people who used to change ISPs frequently and used hotmail, and now continue to use hotmail because everyone knows their email address
- Easy way to avoid viruses / worms
- easy to create multiple accounts to register at websites, shop, etc.
The question should be: why NOT use free webmail services? Less control & organization of your email. Lack of integration with desktop email clients(I think Outlook 2k+ can dl mail from hotmail).
10 years from now. We can only hope:)
That's what we do in Canadian Banks - ensures a check won't bounce. That's why personal checks are no longer accepted around here(that and the fact debit cards are very widespread - making checks only necessary for business people).
Kashif
MS's stock fell down $1 or so where Microsoft sited it was concentrating on security issues and viruses.
So they did lose actual money.
On one corner I hear people saying if you don't want Redhat Support for Advanced Server - don't buy support.
On the other corner according to EULA, you have to buy support for *each* machine you have Advanced Server installed on. I mean isn't this just another form of 'per-seat' licensing where Redhat can throw any type of costs it wants into the 'support figure'?
Or the muddy question - suppose you buy support from them and Get Advanced Server - what restrictions to you have on copying? You should be able to copy the GPL portions of AS without restrictions - but pretty much all of AS is open source no?
Or suppose you just get AS and don't install it on any system for operational use, but rip it up and distribute the GPL portions, and provide binary RPMS by recompiling the SRPMS.
Can anyone answer these questions?
Kashif
If you can do that, I'll give you a shiny medal.
If they modify version x.y.z, and distributes x.y.z-10.rpm, then x.y.z-10.srpm also has to be distributed.
The problem with diets is...I would like to have meat, veggie, etc at lunch -- but to keep them varied is hard.
clusters!
You could do something:
1) Apply for a new credit card(you don't wanna do this with your existing CC)
2) Once you receive your CC and have activated it, report that you lost your CC after some time.
3) Your CC Company will mark your old CC as lost/stolen(they take this issue very seriously and will ensure your CC is marked invalid).
4) Give this the now 'stolen' CC number to email scammers...an include the three digit security number on the back.
Now its upto the CC company to track fraudulent CC use. Don't know what the CC company will do if they do find their hitman.
"Unless we plan to invade and liberate them then there's nothing we can do about it"
Man fuck! Why do you give a flying fuck about "fixing" other countries? As we all know, America technique is to "build public support through media, invade & bomb like crazy, and put spin doctors to handle questions later on".
Go here: http://www.holocaustnow.org/main.html. And see how many fucking people die while big companies benefit. I mean there are more people dying in your country using guns(25,000/year according to "Opera"), alcohol, tobacco, etc.
Let me tell you one thing and one thing only: US never invades a country for morality/beliefs. Go read your history - such as why US invaded Cuba. Anything against the 'interest' of US and it's private industries will be met with "Shock & Awe".
If you believe your country is there to fight for you on the international front, then my friend you are the biggest fool of all time, who doesn't even read American history books and see otherwise. Hell, you prolly believe all the crap news agencies spew out these days with a daily 'Al queda' report.
I think it's canadian prices...that's roughly how much iPods cost here in the great igloo of the north.
-- conspiracy mode on --
How do you know who made the decision to go with Apple? Maybe Apple is offering the decision makers 10% of 5.2 million dollars under the table provided they don't get a discount. Heck, maybe Apple went upto them and gave the managers the offer, and VT managers couldn't lose.
Apple wins. Decision make wins. VT loses 330K. But no one knows about it.
-- consiparcy mode off --
The above scenario is very real in today's world. It happens all the time, and not very hard to believe. And who's gonna notice the 330K distributed to all managers? It's prolly locked up in some swiss account -- away from prying gov't eyes.
Kashif
Just so people know...
Daemon stands for Disk And Execution MONitor.
Just so you know, your local Malls also have a policy of NO PICTURE TAKING ALLOWED within their premises. Why? Not security related, but they don't want other would-be merchants taking pictures of store designs and merchandise store-owners are keeping.
If you were a merchant, would you like someone coming in and taking pictures or making a comprehensive list of what your selling and for how much?
I don't think so.
Why do people by SUVs? People are greedy and like to buy the next sexiest in-the-fad type of thing. They don't buy it because they need it, they buy it to show off, or they think they want extra power, etc. The first thing I read in a marketing text book is that not everyone is like Ghandi - meaning there is a very strong potential to make 'I would like to have' to 'I really *need*'.
It's the same thing about video games - these days people just play games because 'it's cool and their friends do play it'. But very few can appreciate the magic that goes into making video games. Man when I saw Half-life2's AI in the video mpegs released, it inspired me more than the guy who said, "wow wiked graphics d00d".
Huge industries are established for oil. Until new industries + new energy source that is more profitable and easier to work with come, there won't be a need to replace oil. And the more things that use the new energy source, will cause more investing and R&D in the new source(where everyone will want to do it because they don't wanna miss out for the chance to become the next billion-dollar company for 50 years).
I'm willing to let you have my copy of:
Dark Age of Camelot
Everquest:(the version with the new graphic models and textures--the name escapes me).
For $10 each, provided you live in Canada.
Why Do i want to get rid of 'em? For the same reason the parent poster described: I can't be bothered with killing little furry animals for 3 hours 'just to level up' and maybe acquire rare items. The missions suck and have no scope other than do "a) b) and c) then you'll get this shiny new ring" and I can't get past playing MMORPGs for man than a week.
I thought MMORPGS would have been more episodic with grand enemies and problems to solve-- a higher level than single RPGS. But it turns out its full of teens and pre-teens, who do nothing but chat and tell people how 'cool their new item is'.
While I respect more of your comments KFG, I simply don't agree that a normal user would get dll with all but shitty shareware or Windows 98 designed programs.
.DLL problem was Windows 98. I guess you could get the problem if you have a lot of third party apps doing dumb things.
I mean all normal users have some flavour of Windows, Office, some Games, IE, WMP, Winamp, some CD burning software, Outlook Express or just Hotmail, a bunch of drivers for there little gizmos(camera,etc).
And last time I noticed a
$20 bucks for free!
Well hanky panky guy,
I can log into any Unix workstation via ssh or a dedicated xterm and load Mozilla. When I do, my "home" directory contains all the setting for every application including Mozilla. So my bookmarks, app settings, desktop environment, etc. are all centralized and apply to any station.
Then as a professor, you wouldn't believe how many students photocopy textbooks. Especially for all the shitty courses we have to take, and have no interest in the subject.
Of course, I'd happily pay for good, solid CS text books.
Kashif