Now, I'm more liberal than the majority of the population here in the United States, and I'd guess I'm probably more in the line of France and western Germany, but honestly, let the people choose what they want to buy. If they want to buy something that's less than 1/10th the quality of a CD, let them. They're basically over-paying for each song by around 100% anyway, since for the argument's sake, an average CD will consist of 10 songs, and the bitrate of the files they are downloading are less than 10% of a CD's bitrate. So, they're paying $1 for $0.1 worth of music. I'd say that's the biggest rip-off. The only thing I can see anyone slamming Apple for would be if they marketed any form of lossy media (And yes, an m4a or aac file encoded at 320kb/s is still lossy) as "CD-Quality" or something along those lines, then they could be in trouble for false-advertising.
"There must be an on button somewhere? Did you press the apple thing?"
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"Did you find the files?"
"I don't even know what they loo-- What do they look like?"
"They're in the computer."
"They're in the computer?"
"Yeah, they're definitely in there. I don't know how he labled them."
"I got it."
"You gotta figure it out. We're running out of time. You gotta find them and meet me at the show."
"Roger. In the computer. It's so simple." ...
"We got 30 years of files right here in this computer that are gonna bring you down!"
"Oh, no."
"Down! (He smashes the computer) Where did all the files go?"
Granted, you *can* go weight lifting without anyone, but I would strongly recommend against it if you're serious about weight lifting. Also, you *can* go walking or jogging on your own, but it's more beneficial to have somebody with you to encourage you to continue or push yourself, and they can do that simply via body language.
More seriously, studies have proven that sexual intercourse is more productive when done with at least one partner.
"Priced around $999"
Why can't people just say "Priced around $1,000 Because when I read that, I see "Priced around dollar-sign nine nine nine", whereas, the other says "Priced around dollar-sign one comma zero zero zero." Clearly, the former is quicker to read than the latter.
That's like saying 3 weeks and 5 years are the same length of time. This was done to avoid paying taxes...except that it is tax money which is paying both salaries.
What's your point? It's money management. It's like saying "Putting your money into a ROTH IRA is unethical" when you're predicting that when you begin to draw money out of the account that you'll be in a higher tax bracket than you currently are. The whole thing that's appealing about options is that you don't have to execute them right away, and that you can wait until either (A) you need the money, (B) you think, without resorting to insider information, that the price is the highest it's going to be for a while, or (C) you figure a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and that you have no idea what the stock will do, but there's a nice money market account that you can store it in until you find a more worth-while investment.
If you want to exercise options right when you get them instead of holding on to them until their value (hopefully) increases, go ahead. Meanwhile, I'm going to do what anyone with half a brain and some basic financial planning knowledge does and wait until I can maximize my returns on the options. It's like being given a Series EE savings bond and cashing it now for half the value, when you might as well hold onto it for 30 years and sell it on its 30th birthday.
That's like saying that after you leave a company and cash the paycheck 3 weeks later, that the company is still paying you. Cheney "earned" those options while he was still employed with Halliburton, and he's just exercising his options before the expire(assuming that they're still worth anything.)
...that tried to "persuade" companies like Daimler-Chrysler to not use Linux via potential law suits, thus trying to hurt Redhat's and Novell's profits? Granted, for a tort case to succeed there has to be damages, but still, it's like the pot calling the kettle black....
Here's the real question: Which will roll out first, the completion of all US television broadcasts in high definition or this thing being launched, orbiting, and operating?
The company's founders get rich quick plan was to go public and sell all their shares. However their financial statements didn't look stable in a volatile VOIP market. I don't remember the exact numbers but at the time they went public they spent roughly ~$100 of advertising per customer sign-up.
It's incredibly rare for a startup company to have profits in the first few (up to 7-10) years, including at and right after an IPO. The only time that shareholders can expect the company to have profits right after an IPO is if the company was private beforehand and is a more matured company.
But PC's also have updates you can (and usually do) download. Granted, this may be different on the new consoles compared to the old consoles, but traditionally console games have had to be more thoroughly tested before being released.
How is Vonage supposed to have any revenues if an injunction is imposed? I suppose they could write some new code that doesn't infringe on the patent, but how would Verizon have any claim to the revenues?
Add a clause in an omnibus bill that essentially prohibits any new omnibus bills. Then when a congressman sponsors an omnibus bill, they get slammed and the bill dies like people did during the French Revolution.
...except that these people would be interested in things like RHEE, rather than Fedora Core.... Take a wild guess at the total profits made off of all the copies of the FC editions that are out there
That would only work if the people working on said project thought they were going to be participants in the final stage of the project. Once they realize that there's no chance that they can partake in said colony, they're going to stay away from the project and enjoy themselves for the rest of their shortened life.
one thing that Linux needs to do is develop some features that aren't available anywhere else that makes people demand it on the desktop
Let's make a list of things that it already has/supports, and see what's marketable. Odds are I'm going to get modded 'troll' or 'redundant', but hell, I have plenty of Karma left:
More supported filesystems - This doesn't sound big, but speed, reliability, and security are huge. Just remember that this was one of the original selling points for Vista, except we're already delivering Legacy (hardware) support - Granted, I don't think this is terribly important, since the only thing that will push Linux into being a major competitor is it being provided on new hardware via OEM. Level of "customer" support - Sure, there aren't many phone numbers to call (which could be a problem if you can't connect to the internet), but assuming you're able to connect to the internet and need help getting scanner ABC and printer XYZ to work, you'll get support. Multimedia support - Sure, MythTV can be a pain in the ass to install, but if a distribution cares about this enough, they'll make it as simple as two clicks; click one - select MythTV from package manager, click two - install
Things to not evangelize very much: Lack of viruses - You can make a passing reference to this, but this gets overplayed too much It's (perfect) for everyone - There's no such thing as a "One-Size-Fits-All". Not for Apple, Microsoft, Linux, or Amiga.
C:\? What's C:\? I think I remember something about A:\ and C:\, but that was back in 1993 and Windows 3.1... Fortunately, all my media is stored in/home/Media/, and if the right precautions are made, it can even look like there *is* no/home/Media/, only a/home/!
I have a friend that got an email from our University saying that some movie industry threatened them because he downloaded Babel. He also said that it included instructions. He didn't tell me what these instructions were, but I seriously doubt that they could be followed by any OS other than Windows or OSX....
Fortunately, however, I've discovered Jamendo, and now I'm listening to music that never gets on the radio, and all of the music on there is protected by Creative Commons. I much prefer their philosophy over the RIAA's and the MPAA's.
It's not like Windows where you can count on most of the users being no smarter than a tech-support person with a script to read....
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I found Microsoft's support much better than Dell's. Although, maybe that's because I got their customer support for corporate users.... Even still, that's comparing it to Dell's customer support for corporate users as well....
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Now, I'm more liberal than the majority of the population here in the United States, and I'd guess I'm probably more in the line of France and western Germany, but honestly, let the people choose what they want to buy. If they want to buy something that's less than 1/10th the quality of a CD, let them. They're basically over-paying for each song by around 100% anyway, since for the argument's sake, an average CD will consist of 10 songs, and the bitrate of the files they are downloading are less than 10% of a CD's bitrate. So, they're paying $1 for $0.1 worth of music. I'd say that's the biggest rip-off. The only thing I can see anyone slamming Apple for would be if they marketed any form of lossy media (And yes, an m4a or aac file encoded at 320kb/s is still lossy) as "CD-Quality" or something along those lines, then they could be in trouble for false-advertising.
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"Did you find the files?""I don't even know what they loo-- What do they look like?"
"They're in the computer."
"They're in the computer?"
"Yeah, they're definitely in there. I don't know how he labled them."
"I got it."
"You gotta figure it out. We're running out of time. You gotta find them and meet me at the show."
"Roger. In the computer. It's so simple."
"Oh, no."
"Down! (He smashes the computer) Where did all the files go?"
More seriously, studies have proven that sexual intercourse is more productive when done with at least one partner.
Why can't people just say "Priced around $1,000
Because when I read that, I see "Priced around dollar-sign nine nine nine", whereas, the other says "Priced around dollar-sign one comma zero zero zero." Clearly, the former is quicker to read than the latter.
And what about those accidents caused by the sun rising and setting? It kind of creates a gigantic blind spot.
What's your point? It's money management. It's like saying "Putting your money into a ROTH IRA is unethical" when you're predicting that when you begin to draw money out of the account that you'll be in a higher tax bracket than you currently are. The whole thing that's appealing about options is that you don't have to execute them right away, and that you can wait until either (A) you need the money, (B) you think, without resorting to insider information, that the price is the highest it's going to be for a while, or (C) you figure a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and that you have no idea what the stock will do, but there's a nice money market account that you can store it in until you find a more worth-while investment.
If you want to exercise options right when you get them instead of holding on to them until their value (hopefully) increases, go ahead. Meanwhile, I'm going to do what anyone with half a brain and some basic financial planning knowledge does and wait until I can maximize my returns on the options. It's like being given a Series EE savings bond and cashing it now for half the value, when you might as well hold onto it for 30 years and sell it on its 30th birthday.
That's like saying that after you leave a company and cash the paycheck 3 weeks later, that the company is still paying you. Cheney "earned" those options while he was still employed with Halliburton, and he's just exercising his options before the expire(assuming that they're still worth anything.)
...that tried to "persuade" companies like Daimler-Chrysler to not use Linux via potential law suits, thus trying to hurt Redhat's and Novell's profits? Granted, for a tort case to succeed there has to be damages, but still, it's like the pot calling the kettle black....
Here's the real question: Which will roll out first, the completion of all US television broadcasts in high definition or this thing being launched, orbiting, and operating?
It's incredibly rare for a startup company to have profits in the first few (up to 7-10) years, including at and right after an IPO. The only time that shareholders can expect the company to have profits right after an IPO is if the company was private beforehand and is a more matured company.
But PC's also have updates you can (and usually do) download. Granted, this may be different on the new consoles compared to the old consoles, but traditionally console games have had to be more thoroughly tested before being released.
They've been doing this for a while. I can recall billboards being placed for Jeep in some of the Tony Hawk games.
How is Vonage supposed to have any revenues if an injunction is imposed? I suppose they could write some new code that doesn't infringe on the patent, but how would Verizon have any claim to the revenues?
Soo.... royalty are parasites?
So Woot finally has a purpose?
Add a clause in an omnibus bill that essentially prohibits any new omnibus bills. Then when a congressman sponsors an omnibus bill, they get slammed and the bill dies like people did during the French Revolution.
Place a big-ass ad on the splash page of dell.com and your problem is solved.
...except that these people would be interested in things like RHEE, rather than Fedora Core.... Take a wild guess at the total profits made off of all the copies of the FC editions that are out there
That would only work if the people working on said project thought they were going to be participants in the final stage of the project. Once they realize that there's no chance that they can partake in said colony, they're going to stay away from the project and enjoy themselves for the rest of their shortened life.
Let's make a list of things that it already has/supports, and see what's marketable. Odds are I'm going to get modded 'troll' or 'redundant', but hell, I have plenty of Karma left:
More supported filesystems - This doesn't sound big, but speed, reliability, and security are huge. Just remember that this was one of the original selling points for Vista, except we're already delivering
Legacy (hardware) support - Granted, I don't think this is terribly important, since the only thing that will push Linux into being a major competitor is it being provided on new hardware via OEM.
Level of "customer" support - Sure, there aren't many phone numbers to call (which could be a problem if you can't connect to the internet), but assuming you're able to connect to the internet and need help getting scanner ABC and printer XYZ to work, you'll get support.
Multimedia support - Sure, MythTV can be a pain in the ass to install, but if a distribution cares about this enough, they'll make it as simple as two clicks; click one - select MythTV from package manager, click two - install
Things to not evangelize very much:
Lack of viruses - You can make a passing reference to this, but this gets overplayed too much
It's (perfect) for everyone - There's no such thing as a "One-Size-Fits-All". Not for Apple, Microsoft, Linux, or Amiga.
I'm willing to put money down that it wasn't months after XP came out.
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Frankly, the RIAA won't have my respect until Mr. Scruff McGruff protects them.
I would call for this being modded up, were it not filled with homophobic hate language that I disapprove of.
I have a friend that got an email from our University saying that some movie industry threatened them because he downloaded Babel. He also said that it included instructions. He didn't tell me what these instructions were, but I seriously doubt that they could be followed by any OS other than Windows or OSX....
Fortunately, however, I've discovered Jamendo, and now I'm listening to music that never gets on the radio, and all of the music on there is protected by Creative Commons. I much prefer their philosophy over the RIAA's and the MPAA's.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I found Microsoft's support much better than Dell's. Although, maybe that's because I got their customer support for corporate users.... Even still, that's comparing it to Dell's customer support for corporate users as well....