Or maybe he just likes the service. There are only so many solutions out there. I hadn't heard of bandcamp until more recently when I found some of Zircon's stuff there, but they're got some decent artists.
Hostess sells a physical product to the supermarket. The supermarket then sells that product to customers. They may or not share demographics to the manufacturers (Hostess etc), who knows.If the product doesn't sell well, Hostess already made their buck off the supermarket (though future revenue may be suspect for a product that doesn't sell).
Now this is plays for online radio. The amount of revenue is somewhat proportional to the plays, so the artist does how a fairly legitimate interest in at least making sure he/she is getting paid for the actual plays. Data beyond that is a bit different, but knowing what types of customers are interested in one's music is often in the interest of both artists and consumers (If an Artist finds the most listeners are in Switzerland, perhaps it's time to schedule a tour there).
I've read and thought, "Wow, this person is stupid."
Strange, I just read this and felt the same way, except that describing this AC as "stupid" would probably be generous.
GirlInTraining. You've got your own personal troll. I guess that means you make enough compelling and intelligent arguments to get yourself on some idiot's harassment list. Probably one of those dinosaurs that is intimidated by the thought of women - especially unavailable women - invading his little coffee-stained paradise.
It would depend on how personal that information is. If the latest albums is found to be most popular amongst 22-year-old me who also like death-metal, perhaps the artist would then tailor to that artist. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Now if she's getting my email address or contact info to send me bulletins about "wonderful new album X," that's not cool.
A certain group (two brothers and their friend) liked to hunt me down in a similar manner. An introduction to a long piece of wood traditionally used in a certain outdoor sport solved that (no I didn't hit them with it, but they got eyes wide and ran when I chased them with it).
Really, it's not the pain that holds off bullies. It's the fear. They're cowards at heart.
I don't recommend baseball bats as a solution, but they're usually something better than curling into a ball and accepting the beating.
One of the more significant differences is the schools' ability to deal with troublemakers. In a public school, it's hard not to accept students, and they have to cause a fairly high degree of trouble before you hit expulsion level (and if the parents challenge it... it's a very political process).
In a private school, it's simpler to permanently expel a problem student (bullies, etc).
However, if your school administration doesn't give a crap... well then neither one is great.
I could see one case where they might be for it: to attach the financial base of the industries that support the Dems. It seems that Dems are closer tied to the entertainment industry, which is closer tied to patents etc.
Outside of the Samsungs, they've all been exceptionally stable
Not so sure about the transform, but about 6-8mo in my GS2 starting having major stability issues. I had originally assumed it was from an update a little earlier, but I noticed that it would start to bog down, then spontaneously reboot shortly after, with a noticeable drop in battery charge after the reboot. After I replaced the battery on the phone, the stability issues mostly went away, and it's been good to go since.
Eh? Why not all of the above. A lot of companies provide RPM and DEB archives, plus a.tar.gz It's not particularly hard to package things up.
If they want to add some ease-of-use to updating, throwing the packages on a public repository would work, but I believe that the application itself was supposed to have self-updating capabilities.
So how will they determine what's piracy and what's legit? Heavy bandwidth/bt users are pirates? Those who use thepiratebay are pirates?
The last few things I downloaded off TPB were legit promo albums given out by bands (one band: "Stockholm" is pretty good). The last few linux ISO's I downloaded, also bittorrent, as well as a few FOSS games. Wow and many games use BT for updates. So how would Verizon determine whether I'm a "dirty pirate" or just a guy who makes use of technology?
As a Canadian, USPS is the only carrier option where I don't have to worry about insane brokerage fees (often 45% and upwards of a package cost). Fedex and UPS both tend to be really horrible for this.
No more USPS, and I'll be ordering less packages from the US. I'd imagine that this won't be particularly good for business in the US.
They are, however, also to some extent controlled by shareholders and a board of directors. While a bad CEO can severely damage a company, a savvy board can hopefully limit the damage by sending said CEO packing.
The problem with jobs is that a lot of Apple's brand-image centered around him. Even if the board recognized that he was going a bit AWOL, canning him would have given them a major PR hit among fanbois and probably done really bad things to their stock on a shorter-term basis.
I don't suppose it had anything to do with how that particular domain is pronounced? Might be suited to adult sites, but it wouldn't work for everyone.
Indeed. I don't think there's anything that prevents people from sharing information/funding on a lawsuit. Fund one or two cases strongly, DON'T SETTLE, and then when precedent is set, the wave of incoming lawsuits is going to cost a lot more than "hand out a $1.99 coupon" penalties that most class-actions end up with.
Did you sign up in some way before you had to send a STOP request? Imagine if everyone you did business with or even just all the random stores in town started texting you constantly with offers, saying it's "opt-out" until you send a stop.
I bought some $5 anti-slip pads from the local shoe store and they wanted my phone #. I asked why, and they said it's for "customer service, but you don't need to give it." Customer service my ass. I wonder how many suckers just hand over their personal info and then are surprised when they end up with spam calls and texts like this.
The PQ is only really a "major" party except in Quebec. While they do have a good amount of influence in that province, at a federal level their influence mostly comes in making demands for Quebec (usually succession, but that seems a ploy to get more "keep them happy" handouts from the fed) and from reducing the number of seats the other major parties can have.
Green is growing but they're not a "major" party (in terms of votes/seats) yet either. The big boys are the Conservatives, Liberals, and New Democrats.
but if it was private individuals reselling items at a market price then I don't see a real case here for prosecution
So "Bob's hardware" sells a few dozen generators to "Bob" at regular price, who then sells them as a private individual at the currently inflated market-price...
Sure, they'll wipe out the same and address, but if you can associate that "random person X" bought pizza at [location X] regularly, gets gas/petrol as [station x], etc etc you're going to have a pretty good finger on where that person lives or works. If you associate purchases to a weekend you'll more likely have a home location.
Now add in that person X goes to a female-only gym, and you've got gender. Tie in times of purchases and you've got a regular schedule. Even if you don't know the person's name yet, it isn't going to be that hard for things to go bad with creepy stalker types.
For stuff made in the N America, when you buy the DVD or whatever you usually get either 20 or 40 minutes per episodes (essentially what was on TV in a 30-min/hour slot, minus the commercials)
My co-workers like some British-origin shows like "Top Gear." They noticed that the versions here have commercials, but in the UK there are none and the episodes are still an hour long. That means not only are you getting about 25-30% ads (15-20 minutes), but you're LOSING 25-30% of the actual programming so that the ads can be displayed.
It's hard to cut over a quarter of a show each episode and not lose important content. What a waste of time ads are.
Oftimes, when you have to find a new - more profitable - direction, it's because you're not very competitive/good at what you're currently doing. When most people can get what they need from a regular Wine install (or sometimes more than Cedega), why buy the subscription?
There are - of course - alternatives. My concern is when the "industry" starts moving in a given directly, all the "alternatives" tend to gravitate there, and suddenly there's no so much choice after all.
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Or maybe he just likes the service. There are only so many solutions out there. I hadn't heard of bandcamp until more recently when I found some of Zircon's stuff there, but they're got some decent artists.
Hostess sells a physical product to the supermarket. The supermarket then sells that product to customers. They may or not share demographics to the manufacturers (Hostess etc), who knows.If the product doesn't sell well, Hostess already made their buck off the supermarket (though future revenue may be suspect for a product that doesn't sell).
Now this is plays for online radio. The amount of revenue is somewhat proportional to the plays, so the artist does how a fairly legitimate interest in at least making sure he/she is getting paid for the actual plays. Data beyond that is a bit different, but knowing what types of customers are interested in one's music is often in the interest of both artists and consumers (If an Artist finds the most listeners are in Switzerland, perhaps it's time to schedule a tour there).
I've read and thought, "Wow, this person is stupid."
Strange, I just read this and felt the same way, except that describing this AC as "stupid" would probably be generous.
GirlInTraining. You've got your own personal troll. I guess that means you make enough compelling and intelligent arguments to get yourself on some idiot's harassment list. Probably one of those dinosaurs that is intimidated by the thought of women - especially unavailable women - invading his little coffee-stained paradise.
It would depend on how personal that information is. If the latest albums is found to be most popular amongst 22-year-old me who also like death-metal, perhaps the artist would then tailor to that artist. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Now if she's getting my email address or contact info to send me bulletins about "wonderful new album X," that's not cool.
I can probably get 100% of things done in windows, but with 60-75% efficiency. Getting things done isn't always the same as getting them done well.
A certain group (two brothers and their friend) liked to hunt me down in a similar manner. An introduction to a long piece of wood traditionally used in a certain outdoor sport solved that (no I didn't hit them with it, but they got eyes wide and ran when I chased them with it).
Really, it's not the pain that holds off bullies. It's the fear. They're cowards at heart.
I don't recommend baseball bats as a solution, but they're usually something better than curling into a ball and accepting the beating.
One of the more significant differences is the schools' ability to deal with troublemakers. In a public school, it's hard not to accept students, and they have to cause a fairly high degree of trouble before you hit expulsion level (and if the parents challenge it... it's a very political process).
In a private school, it's simpler to permanently expel a problem student (bullies, etc).
However, if your school administration doesn't give a crap... well then neither one is great.
I could see one case where they might be for it: to attach the financial base of the industries that support the Dems. It seems that Dems are closer tied to the entertainment industry, which is closer tied to patents etc.
Outside of the Samsungs, they've all been exceptionally stable
Not so sure about the transform, but about 6-8mo in my GS2 starting having major stability issues. I had originally assumed it was from an update a little earlier, but I noticed that it would start to bog down, then spontaneously reboot shortly after, with a noticeable drop in battery charge after the reboot. After I replaced the battery on the phone, the stability issues mostly went away, and it's been good to go since.
The creator can set worth. Everything else can be based on a percentage that declines over time.
If it's set too high, congratulations, you have a copyright on something nobody can buy/afford.
Eh? Why not all of the above. A lot of companies provide RPM and DEB archives, plus a .tar.gz
It's not particularly hard to package things up.
If they want to add some ease-of-use to updating, throwing the packages on a public repository would work, but I believe that the application itself was supposed to have self-updating capabilities.
So how will they determine what's piracy and what's legit?
Heavy bandwidth/bt users are pirates?
Those who use thepiratebay are pirates?
The last few things I downloaded off TPB were legit promo albums given out by bands (one band: "Stockholm" is pretty good).
The last few linux ISO's I downloaded, also bittorrent, as well as a few FOSS games.
Wow and many games use BT for updates.
So how would Verizon determine whether I'm a "dirty pirate" or just a guy who makes use of technology?
As a Canadian, USPS is the only carrier option where I don't have to worry about insane brokerage fees (often 45% and upwards of a package cost).
Fedex and UPS both tend to be really horrible for this.
No more USPS, and I'll be ordering less packages from the US. I'd imagine that this won't be particularly good for business in the US.
They are, however, also to some extent controlled by shareholders and a board of directors. While a bad CEO can severely damage a company, a savvy board can hopefully limit the damage by sending said CEO packing.
The problem with jobs is that a lot of Apple's brand-image centered around him. Even if the board recognized that he was going a bit AWOL, canning him would have given them a major PR hit among fanbois and probably done really bad things to their stock on a shorter-term basis.
I don't suppose it had anything to do with how that particular domain is pronounced?
Might be suited to adult sites, but it wouldn't work for everyone.
Indeed. I don't think there's anything that prevents people from sharing information/funding on a lawsuit. Fund one or two cases strongly, DON'T SETTLE, and then when precedent is set, the wave of incoming lawsuits is going to cost a lot more than "hand out a $1.99 coupon" penalties that most class-actions end up with.
Did you sign up in some way before you had to send a STOP request?
Imagine if everyone you did business with or even just all the random stores in town started texting you constantly with offers, saying it's "opt-out" until you send a stop.
I bought some $5 anti-slip pads from the local shoe store and they wanted my phone #. I asked why, and they said it's for "customer service, but you don't need to give it."
Customer service my ass. I wonder how many suckers just hand over their personal info and then are surprised when they end up with spam calls and texts like this.
The PQ is only really a "major" party except in Quebec. While they do have a good amount of influence in that province, at a federal level their influence mostly comes in making demands for Quebec (usually succession, but that seems a ploy to get more "keep them happy" handouts from the fed) and from reducing the number of seats the other major parties can have.
Green is growing but they're not a "major" party (in terms of votes/seats) yet either. The big boys are the Conservatives, Liberals, and New Democrats.
but if it was private individuals reselling items at a market price then I don't see a real case here for prosecution
So "Bob's hardware" sells a few dozen generators to "Bob" at regular price, who then sells them as a private individual at the currently inflated market-price...
Seems a bit easy to abuse.
Sure, they'll wipe out the same and address, but if you can associate that "random person X" bought pizza at [location X] regularly, gets gas/petrol as [station x], etc etc you're going to have a pretty good finger on where that person lives or works. If you associate purchases to a weekend you'll more likely have a home location.
Now add in that person X goes to a female-only gym, and you've got gender.
Tie in times of purchases and you've got a regular schedule. Even if you don't know the person's name yet, it isn't going to be that hard for things to go bad with creepy stalker types.
For stuff made in the N America, when you buy the DVD or whatever you usually get either 20 or 40 minutes per episodes (essentially what was on TV in a 30-min/hour slot, minus the commercials)
My co-workers like some British-origin shows like "Top Gear." They noticed that the versions here have commercials, but in the UK there are none and the episodes are still an hour long. That means not only are you getting about 25-30% ads (15-20 minutes), but you're LOSING 25-30% of the actual programming so that the ads can be displayed.
It's hard to cut over a quarter of a show each episode and not lose important content. What a waste of time ads are.
It wouldn't be hard.
Oftimes, when you have to find a new - more profitable - direction, it's because you're not very competitive/good at what you're currently doing.
When most people can get what they need from a regular Wine install (or sometimes more than Cedega), why buy the subscription?
Yes, because recent versions of Ubuntu don't have ads at all.
Oh... wait.
There are - of course - alternatives. My concern is when the "industry" starts moving in a given directly, all the "alternatives" tend to gravitate there, and suddenly there's no so much choice after all.
Well, I get I know from whom my next video card will be purchased. Thanks ATI, for making the decision easier.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot
I don't think that it was the "GDP growth" sucking that got Clinton knocked out.