I can't recall my sources, but I remember reading that singles don't generate much revenue for the label and/or artist. The whole purpose of a single is to promote an album or tour; where the real revenues are (for the label or artist, respectively).
I remember New Order's Blue Monday best-selling maxi single (world record) actually generated a loss. But that's also partly due the fancy packaging they chose.
Bananarama OTOH came in the fold circa 86 or so. They did they classics like "Shy Boy" and "Robert de Niro is waiting" under other svengalis.
I remember around 87/88 you could tell which "artist" had their songs written by Stock, Aitken, and Waterbuffalo. They had they high-key synth sound somewhere. Mind you, so did most of the other junk back then.
I have collected a bunch of old XT keyboard keys and inserted small magnets in them. We use to leave each other messages on the fridge like "WE NEED MORE MILK", "SEE DENTIST ON MONDAY" or "I HAVE BEEN SLEEPING WITH YOUR SISTER".
What about the Dutch gangs (who used cell phones to arrange fights between fans of Feyenoord and Ajax), Italian ultras (Lazio fans have some clever communication network), Turkish fans, and most of the other countries.
Heck, Canada had its flash mob when the hockey team won the world cup last week. They turned over cabs and made a nuisance of themselves in downtown Toronto.
I consider myself a power user and I have AOL set-up on my notebook.
I travel a lot around the US and Canada, and 99% of the time there is a local number I can dial to connect to the Internet. I couldn't care less for AOL "services" but it's great to check your corporate e-mail, connect through SSL-VPN, and even do some quick FTP uploads.
I haven't found another provider in the US that offers the same. My colleague claims that he was even able to use his account in Germany!
Out of curiosity, how did they handle that problem? Did they cover the "lost" items or did you have to use your insurance policy?
I can relate, even though nothing was actually lost by the screeners, I had an idiot damage my digital video camera once. The hardest thing at the time was to contain my anger and not snap in the airport.
I did get stuff stolen by baggage handlers in the past though.
What I find with the airport staff is they seem to hire the most brainless thugs that never were held by their mothers as childs, and seem to have an utter disregard for the people they are supposed to server. The worst in my opinion are the folks working at Fort Myers, followed closely by the people in Chicago. A solid third is Vancouver.
Maybe I need a hobby since I'm looking at "corporate" images too closely, but it doesn't look like this fellow would really know what to do with (maybe he does reps of 20 or something).
She, on the other hand looks like the go-getter from the 22nd century and uses the keyboard as she waits in line for the CokeMobil food packets.
This lady would probably try to make a call using that device to her friends in Santa Monica.
Nope, XP and 2003 have windowsupdate.microsoft.com as a trusted site. Unless you remove it manually, no setting will affect that.
Mind you, that still leaves the door open for someone clever to put an entry in the HOSTS file and do some nifty DNS man-in-the-middle trick, sending the unaware user somewhere else and trusting that "fake" windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
... cost. The silly device and the licensing and support (those things go out of sync) cost a bundle. They figure that the cost outweighs the benefit, I guess.
A two-factor authentication would be the way to go, for sure. Someone else in this posting thread mentioned that his Finnish bank gives me a one-time use list of passwords (known as a strikelist).
I agree. He's blatantly milking the media in order to make more money. He's never had the best interests of the fan in mind.
He can do all the creative garbage (Eworks, Jar Jar, etc) that he wants, since as an artiste that's his right, but the SW franchise is a billion dollar industry and he has no qualms in hiding that fact.
I didn't buy the Indiana Jones box set and I won't buy this one. I've enjoyed the movies, but I'll wait until they're shown on TV, rent them, or borrow them from a friend. My money he will not see.
The thing is, I don't think Lucas understands his fanbase or cares much for them. All he seems to care is his cash flow. I've read dozens of interviews and seen him blatter endlessly in TV profiles, but he's just a cold bugger. It's not even like his movies have a "message", but instead are pure entertainment. So basically we have tons of frosting, and no nutritious filling, and for that he wants to keep charging us until the folks between 20-50 are too old to operate a VCR/DVD/Holoset.
He probably had to deal with the same crap that most of us do; no proper office space for the IT staff. At some places, IT gets less credit/resources than the janitorial staff.
I had to deal with something similar like that as well. In my case it was a massive PBX telecom box whose EM output was giving me severe headaches if stayed in that room for more than two hours. I just waited until one of the other desks became vacant and just made it my permanent spot.
Spain has ".es", Switzerland has ".ch", Croatia has ".hr", so you're right, why didn't Hungary get theirs? Mind you, Morocco would have been left in the lurch.
Perhaps they should have used the Olympic 3-letter designation for countries?
Had Valve made the code Open Source, none of this would have been necessary and we would have that amazing game to play during the Xmas holidays. Including with Ogg Vorbis support to play your own personal soundtrack.
Such a pity. Hopefully ID Software will learn something from Valve's mistakes and make Doom 3 Open Source. They would be much better for it. It could become a tool of productivity, since the Doom 3 graphics engine would be able to provide a graphical interface for NETSTAT, IFCONFIG and of course, WHOIS.
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I can't recall my sources, but I remember reading that singles don't generate much revenue for the label and/or artist. The whole purpose of a single is to promote an album or tour; where the real revenues are (for the label or artist, respectively).
I remember New Order's Blue Monday best-selling maxi single (world record) actually generated a loss. But that's also partly due the fancy packaging they chose.
And Samantha Fox.
Bananarama OTOH came in the fold circa 86 or so. They did they classics like "Shy Boy" and "Robert de Niro is waiting" under other svengalis.
I remember around 87/88 you could tell which "artist" had their songs written by Stock, Aitken, and Waterbuffalo. They had they high-key synth sound somewhere. Mind you, so did most of the other junk back then.
Anyone else doing something like this?
I have collected a bunch of old XT keyboard keys and inserted small magnets in them. We use to leave each other messages on the fridge like "WE NEED MORE MILK", "SEE DENTIST ON MONDAY" or "I HAVE BEEN SLEEPING WITH YOUR SISTER".
It's all very practical.
What about the Dutch gangs (who used cell phones to arrange fights between fans of Feyenoord and Ajax), Italian ultras (Lazio fans have some clever communication network), Turkish fans, and most of the other countries.
Heck, Canada had its flash mob when the hockey team won the world cup last week. They turned over cabs and made a nuisance of themselves in downtown Toronto.
I consider myself a power user and I have AOL set-up on my notebook.
I travel a lot around the US and Canada, and 99% of the time there is a local number I can dial to connect to the Internet. I couldn't care less for AOL "services" but it's great to check your corporate e-mail, connect through SSL-VPN, and even do some quick FTP uploads.
I haven't found another provider in the US that offers the same. My colleague claims that he was even able to use his account in Germany!
At home I have a high-speed cable connection.
The number is down by one more. There's QMail.
Upon hearing these news, Tom Ridge raised the level of alert to "Amber".
At least this time he had something a tad more substantial to instill fear in the hearts of all patriotic Americans such as myself.
Thank you Department of Homeland Defense! I sleep so much better at night!
Out of curiosity, how did they handle that problem? Did they cover the "lost" items or did you have to use your insurance policy?
I can relate, even though nothing was actually lost by the screeners, I had an idiot damage my digital video camera once. The hardest thing at the time was to contain my anger and not snap in the airport.
I did get stuff stolen by baggage handlers in the past though.
What I find with the airport staff is they seem to hire the most brainless thugs that never were held by their mothers as childs, and seem to have an utter disregard for the people they are supposed to server. The worst in my opinion are the folks working at Fort Myers, followed closely by the people in Chicago. A solid third is Vancouver.
Oh God, are you wrong. And that's certainly your right.
The breakdown of people using Gmail will be close to the same breakdown of the fools using their blogs or regular folks using their search engine.
Here's your small percentage of Linux users.
God, that's funny. How thinking of our crazy guy Steve-o would react to the news.
He probably will be so overwhelmed that MS did something he wanted, he'll set himself on fire and hold a press conference.
Shields Up indeed!
Maybe I need a hobby since I'm looking at "corporate" images too closely, but it doesn't look like this fellow would really know what to do with (maybe he does reps of 20 or something).
She, on the other hand looks like the go-getter from the 22nd century and uses the keyboard as she waits in line for the CokeMobil food packets.
This lady would probably try to make a call using that device to her friends in Santa Monica.
Nope, XP and 2003 have windowsupdate.microsoft.com as a trusted site. Unless you remove it manually, no setting will affect that.
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Mind you, that still leaves the door open for someone clever to put an entry in the HOSTS file and do some nifty DNS man-in-the-middle trick, sending the unaware user somewhere else and trusting that "fake" windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Which is nice.
... cost. The silly device and the licensing and support (those things go out of sync) cost a bundle. They figure that the cost outweighs the benefit, I guess.
A two-factor authentication would be the way to go, for sure. Someone else in this posting thread mentioned that his Finnish bank gives me a one-time use list of passwords (known as a strikelist).
Which is nice.
There's a good explanation of BHO and how malware authors tend to exploit it here.
Maybe this is the kick of the pants that M$ will get now that financial institutions are targetted with a n exploit from a badly-design browser model.
Which is nice.
I think that would be wonderful for society in general.
The ones on the moon? The lens on the Hubble telescope was the only deterrent! Now they will attack us! We are doomed.
Will someone please think of the children!?
Man, I still remember when he rooted my VCR and had it constantly play Space Quest 2 for hours!
I agree. He's blatantly milking the media in order to make more money. He's never had the best interests of the fan in mind.
He can do all the creative garbage (Eworks, Jar Jar, etc) that he wants, since as an artiste that's his right, but the SW franchise is a billion dollar industry and he has no qualms in hiding that fact.
I didn't buy the Indiana Jones box set and I won't buy this one. I've enjoyed the movies, but I'll wait until they're shown on TV, rent them, or borrow them from a friend. My money he will not see.
The thing is, I don't think Lucas understands his fanbase or cares much for them. All he seems to care is his cash flow. I've read dozens of interviews and seen him blatter endlessly in TV profiles, but he's just a cold bugger. It's not even like his movies have a "message", but instead are pure entertainment. So basically we have tons of frosting, and no nutritious filling, and for that he wants to keep charging us until the folks between 20-50 are too old to operate a VCR/DVD/Holoset.
He probably had to deal with the same crap that most of us do; no proper office space for the IT staff. At some places, IT gets less credit/resources than the janitorial staff.
I had to deal with something similar like that as well. In my case it was a massive PBX telecom box whose EM output was giving me severe headaches if stayed in that room for more than two hours. I just waited until one of the other desks became vacant and just made it my permanent spot.
Those are very good points.
Spain has ".es", Switzerland has ".ch", Croatia has ".hr", so you're right, why didn't Hungary get theirs? Mind you, Morocco would have been left in the lurch.
Perhaps they should have used the Olympic 3-letter designation for countries?
Wow. I have a cat as well. Does that change your opinion of my lame post? Please?
Had Valve made the code Open Source, none of this would have been necessary and we would have that amazing game to play during the Xmas holidays. Including with Ogg Vorbis support to play your own personal soundtrack.
Such a pity. Hopefully ID Software will learn something from Valve's mistakes and make Doom 3 Open Source. They would be much better for it. It could become a tool of productivity, since the Doom 3 graphics engine would be able to provide a graphical interface for NETSTAT, IFCONFIG and of course, WHOIS.
This is very bizarre.
I don't know why, but it just seems like a good idea.
Oh wait, this isn't a nerd topic.
Sorry.