Adding to the previous post, the Navigator is the programming environment for the future. How many times do you do something from the web and use a web app?! banking?! university notes?! office games?! image download?! bloggin?! The navigator is the new API. Who controls the API, controls where the IT is going.
Maybe is not the ideal situation but languages are made up by the use. The people that get obscesed by the "correctiveness" of a phrase, sentence or the language in general, doesn't get that the rules they are using were improper usage in the past. Language evolves, get over it!.
P.S. and if the people at the other side understand you, does it really matters?
Right on... if microsoft give it away for free... the world is going to be pissed because anticompetitive practices... if it charges... the world is pissed off because it should be free... hmmmm
and the obvious... Buy and download your songs directly to your phone using gprs or whatever cell internet connectivity protocol they got... or in other words... ipod and roaming itunes in a single package...
I don't now where this myth started but is annoying already, outsourced jobs are not exploiting labor from india or other countries. They pay well if you live there (money to eat, housing, and entertainent), of course, comparing those salaries with the US equivalent is pointless. This is the real reason for a few first-world people migrating to the third-world, you got the option of no working at all up there, or working and living well down there. Of course, nobody is talking about savings. Another fact is that many of those outsourced jobs need managers and staff from the original countries, they offer them the same pay but they got to live on india (example). With the US salary in a third world country, you live as big fat ceo any day...
Well, if the energy density of the fuel is enough, it doesnt matter if it gets wasted a little along the way. Consider this, electric cars are more energy efficient than gasoline cars, but batteries are a hell to fit on a standard car (big enough for the car to work right).
Because the internet navigators are the api of the future, if you make the navigator, you control the future of programming in the in computing... There is no new program with a web interface out there, is better that dealing with each of the api's in all the platforms out there... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
Well, i am waiting still for the distribution to make a linux desktop that doesnt feel like a bunch of utilities made by independent people with standard desktop interface, standard cli interface for each command, common config format, user and desktop policies... yeah... i am dreaming...
Maybe linux will get a standard configuration file format, user and desktop policies, a scalable and a standard svg desktop, a standard interface for the desktop, a standard cli interface for all their commands (no 23 ways to ask for help on a command...) bah... is a dream... the price for a community os is to feel the os like a bunch of separate utilities...
Maybe i am getting the situation on a wrong way but maybe this is a blessing in disguise for the windows user base. Yeah, of course, the "i want to buy a new pc for the flashy new OS" market will feel the situation badly, but for the corporate market, they got a long period of stability on the platform they are currently using, they got more than enough time to upgrade the machines, standarize on an OS, develop software without the fear of rapid upgrade cycles that we were seeing recently. Also, the corporate market will see more reason to migrate to 2003 server, because the next version is so far away.
Maybe I am not a linux guru, but for the god's sake, if you dont have a GUI to change everything maybe try to make the command line easier.. WHY every app on CLI universe got a config file with his own format?! a different way to display help!?!? (sometimes -h --h --help -?)... not always got a manual on man... not an standard way to put files on the file system (most got it right... the legacy apps are the worst on this part... afraid of change?!)linux feel like a messy combination of utilities brought together by force... i thought that was something that the time and a good distribution would fix... but no way... why i am so critic about this!? because for everything else a home user needs to do, linux is there, web browsing, email but the not-so-stupid-user and the i-want-to-be-a-power-user types are the one suffering from this void of standards... and those are the ones who push an OS to his companies and friends
"The energy required to break spider silk (its 'toughness') is about ten times that of other natural materials such as cellulose, collagen and chitin. Dragline silk (about.00032 inch (.008 mm) in Nephila) is especially strong - approximately twice that of silk from silkworms." Google to the rescue again.
I just agree... coreldraw is the only package with all features... you will ever need in a single package.. and without sinking to the plugin trap of illustrator... ilustrator looks more like a bare bone plataform to add plugins for... instead of a full featured illustration program... so many versions... and adobe still doesnt match corel... on feature by feature basis...
maybe my english is worse than any posible drawing on that box!... hmmm i just need a really bad spelling on that post to continue the/. tradition of exceptional english quality!
I hope that the illustration of
this
game... was somehow misleading... o not so creative like their atari siblings...
trying to capture the essence of this game in an image... may need help from the
goat.cx photographer
IF the album goes gold, and they got to pay for the promotion and music videos... and those videos doesn't come cheap...
Courtney Love wrote about it (ok... is a b&$@#! but that is not the issue here...)
Courtney Love does the math
The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
By Courtney Love
June 14, 2000 | Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software.
I'm talking about major label recording contracts.
I want to start with a story about rock bands and record companies, and do some recording-contract math:
This story is about a bidding-war band that gets a huge deal with a 20 percent royalty rate and a million-dollar advance. (No bidding-war band ever got a 20 percent royalty, but whatever.) This is my "funny" math based on some reality and I just want to qualify it by saying I'm positive it's better math than what Edgar Bronfman Jr. [the president and CEO of Seagram, which owns Polygram] would provide.
What happens to that million dollars?
They spend half a million to record their album. That leaves the band with $500,000. They pay $100,000 to their manager for 20 percent commission. They pay $25,000 each to their lawyer and business manager.
That leaves $350,000 for the four band members to split. After $170,000 in taxes, there's $180,000 left. That comes out to $45,000 per person.
That's $45,000 to live on for a year until the record gets released.
The record is a big hit and sells a million copies. (How a bidding-war band sells a million copies of its debut record is another rant entirely, but it's based on any basic civics-class knowledge that any of us have about cartels. Put simply, the antitrust laws in this country are basically a joke, protecting us just enough to not have to re-name our park service the Phillip Morris National Park Service.)
So, this band releases two singles and makes two videos. The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties.
The band gets $200,000 in tour support, which is 100 percent recoupable.
The record company spends $300,000 on independent radio promotion. You have to pay independent promotion to get your song on the radio; independent promotion is a system where the record companies use middlemen so they can pretend not to know that radio stations -- the unified broadcast system -- are getting paid to play their records.
All of those independent promotion costs are charged to the band.
Since the original million-dollar advance is also recoupable, the band owes $2 million to the record company.
If all of the million records are sold at full price with no discounts or record clubs, the band earns $2 million in royalties, since their 20 percent royalty works out to $2 a record.
Two million dollars in royalties minus $2 million in recoupable expenses equals... zero!
How much does the record company make?
They grossed $11 million.
It costs $500,000 to manufacture the CDs and they advanced the band $1 million. Plus there were $1 million in video costs, $300,000 in radio promotion and $200,000 in tour support.
The company also paid $750,000 in music publishing royalties.
They spent $2.2 million on marketing. That's mostly retail advertising, but marketing also pays for those huge posters of Marilyn Manson in Times Square and the street scouts who drive around in vans handing out black Korn T-shirts and backwards baseball caps. Not to mention trips to Scores and cash for tips for all and sundry.
Add it up and the record company has spent about $4.4 million.
So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
Of course, they had fun. Hearing yourself on the ra
EPROM?!?! damn... there are more easy ways to accomplish that... using the rom backup units or floppy adapters for each console you can dump the rom image on a floppy o hdd... more info!? read http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/backup/index.html
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/alcohol/pa-157.html for the people out there with doubts about the increase in alcohol compsumption during the prohibition...
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Adding to the previous post, the Navigator is the programming environment for the future. How many times do you do something from the web and use a web app?! banking?! university notes?! office games?! image download?! bloggin?! The navigator is the new API. Who controls the API, controls where the IT is going.
Maybe is not the ideal situation but languages are made up by the use. The people that get obscesed by the "correctiveness" of a phrase, sentence or the language in general, doesn't get that the rules they are using were improper usage in the past. Language evolves, get over it!.
P.S. and if the people at the other side understand you, does it really matters?
and what about the project to make torrents decentralized? Decentralizing bittorrent...
Why not distribute .torrents by using emule or irc... lets go underground...
Right on... if microsoft give it away for free... the world is going to be pissed because anticompetitive practices... if it charges... the world is pissed off because it should be free... hmmmm
and the obvious... Buy and download your songs directly to your phone using gprs or whatever cell internet connectivity protocol they got... or in other words... ipod and roaming itunes in a single package...
The desktop on those pc's could be like this..!!
Icon Story
I don't now where this myth started but is annoying already, outsourced jobs are not exploiting labor from india or other countries. They pay well if you live there (money to eat, housing, and entertainent), of course, comparing those salaries with the US equivalent is pointless. This is the real reason for a few first-world people migrating to the third-world, you got the option of no working at all up there, or working and living well down there. Of course, nobody is talking about savings. Another fact is that many of those outsourced jobs need managers and staff from the original countries, they offer them the same pay but they got to live on india (example). With the US salary in a third world country, you live as big fat ceo any day...
Well, if the energy density of the fuel is enough, it doesnt matter if it gets wasted a little along the way. Consider this, electric cars are more energy efficient than gasoline cars, but batteries are a hell to fit on a standard car (big enough for the car to work right).
Yeap, and after this tech is developed... who will be the next to deploy it!?!! US religious fundamentalism?!?!...
Because the internet navigators are the api of the future, if you make the navigator, you control the future of programming in the in computing... There is no new program with a web interface out there, is better that dealing with each of the api's in all the platforms out there... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
Why support web standards, when they are the defacto standard browser... There is no reasoning behind a decision like that...
486 sx came with the buit in floating point unit disable for marketing and price control reasons...
But it came anyway... (well on the early releases)
No DVD+R DL support?!?! naaa... speed is not an issue if you still got to rip a dvd to copy it...
Well, i am waiting still for the distribution to make a linux desktop that doesnt feel like a bunch of utilities made by independent people with standard desktop interface, standard cli interface for each command, common config format, user and desktop policies... yeah... i am dreaming...
Maybe linux will get a standard configuration file format, user and desktop policies, a scalable and a standard svg desktop, a standard interface for the desktop, a standard cli interface for all their commands (no 23 ways to ask for help on a command...) bah... is a dream... the price for a community os is to feel the os like a bunch of separate utilities...
Maybe i am getting the situation on a wrong way but maybe this is a blessing in disguise for the windows user base. Yeah, of course, the "i want to buy a new pc for the flashy new OS" market will feel the situation badly, but for the corporate market, they got a long period of stability on the platform they are currently using, they got more than enough time to upgrade the machines, standarize on an OS, develop software without the fear of rapid upgrade cycles that we were seeing recently. Also, the corporate market will see more reason to migrate to 2003 server, because the next version is so far away.
Maybe I am not a linux guru, but for the god's sake, if you dont have a GUI to change everything maybe try to make the command line easier.. WHY every app on CLI universe got a config file with his own format?! a different way to display help!?!? (sometimes -h --h --help -?)... not always got a manual on man... not an standard way to put files on the file system (most got it right... the legacy apps are the worst on this part... afraid of change?!)linux feel like a messy combination of utilities brought together by force... i thought that was something that the time and a good distribution would fix... but no way... why i am so critic about this!? because for everything else a home user needs to do, linux is there, web browsing, email but the not-so-stupid-user and the i-want-to-be-a-power-user types are the one suffering from this void of standards... and those are the ones who push an OS to his companies and friends
"The energy required to break spider silk (its 'toughness') is about ten times that of other natural materials such as cellulose, collagen and chitin. Dragline silk (about .00032 inch (.008 mm) in Nephila) is especially strong - approximately twice that of silk from silkworms." Google to the rescue again.
I just agree... coreldraw is the only package with all features... you will ever need in a single package.. and without sinking to the plugin trap of illustrator... ilustrator looks more like a bare bone plataform to add plugins for... instead of a full featured illustration program... so many versions... and adobe still doesnt match corel... on feature by feature basis...
maybe my english is worse than any posible drawing on that box!... hmmm i just need a really bad spelling on that post to continue the /. tradition of exceptional english quality!
I hope that the illustration of this game... was somehow misleading... o not so creative like their atari siblings... trying to capture the essence of this game in an image... may need help from the goat.cx photographer
IF the album goes gold, and they got to pay for the promotion and music videos... and those videos doesn't come cheap...
... zero!
Courtney Love wrote about it (ok... is a b&$@#! but that is not the issue here...)
Courtney Love does the math
The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
By Courtney Love
June 14, 2000 | Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software.
I'm talking about major label recording contracts.
I want to start with a story about rock bands and record companies, and do some recording-contract math:
This story is about a bidding-war band that gets a huge deal with a 20 percent royalty rate and a million-dollar advance. (No bidding-war band ever got a 20 percent royalty, but whatever.) This is my "funny" math based on some reality and I just want to qualify it by saying I'm positive it's better math than what Edgar Bronfman Jr. [the president and CEO of Seagram, which owns Polygram] would provide.
What happens to that million dollars?
They spend half a million to record their album. That leaves the band with $500,000. They pay $100,000 to their manager for 20 percent commission. They pay $25,000 each to their lawyer and business manager.
That leaves $350,000 for the four band members to split. After $170,000 in taxes, there's $180,000 left. That comes out to $45,000 per person.
That's $45,000 to live on for a year until the record gets released.
The record is a big hit and sells a million copies. (How a bidding-war band sells a million copies of its debut record is another rant entirely, but it's based on any basic civics-class knowledge that any of us have about cartels. Put simply, the antitrust laws in this country are basically a joke, protecting us just enough to not have to re-name our park service the Phillip Morris National Park Service.)
So, this band releases two singles and makes two videos. The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties.
The band gets $200,000 in tour support, which is 100 percent recoupable.
The record company spends $300,000 on independent radio promotion. You have to pay independent promotion to get your song on the radio; independent promotion is a system where the record companies use middlemen so they can pretend not to know that radio stations -- the unified broadcast system -- are getting paid to play their records.
All of those independent promotion costs are charged to the band.
Since the original million-dollar advance is also recoupable, the band owes $2 million to the record company.
If all of the million records are sold at full price with no discounts or record clubs, the band earns $2 million in royalties, since their 20 percent royalty works out to $2 a record.
Two million dollars in royalties minus $2 million in recoupable expenses equals
How much does the record company make?
They grossed $11 million.
It costs $500,000 to manufacture the CDs and they advanced the band $1 million. Plus there were $1 million in video costs, $300,000 in radio promotion and $200,000 in tour support.
The company also paid $750,000 in music publishing royalties.
They spent $2.2 million on marketing. That's mostly retail advertising, but marketing also pays for those huge posters of Marilyn Manson in Times Square and the street scouts who drive around in vans handing out black Korn T-shirts and backwards baseball caps. Not to mention trips to Scores and cash for tips for all and sundry.
Add it up and the record company has spent about $4.4 million.
So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
Of course, they had fun. Hearing yourself on the ra
EPROM?!?! damn... there are more easy ways to accomplish that... using the rom backup units or floppy adapters for each console you can dump the rom image on a floppy o hdd... more info!? read http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/backup/index.html
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/alcohol/pa-157 .html for the people out there with doubts about the increase in alcohol compsumption during the prohibition...