If they did an entirely CG Han Solo, would they have to pay Harrison Ford anything? I mean it would be "Ford's likeness", but the "Han Character" is what they would be depicting...
If you can store craplets on a Zune, then maybe you could squirt them on to Windows.
Maybe the PC OEM's can also install a program called "SqueegeeMan" that will offer to clean off the craplets that were squirted on your Windows, for a fee, of course.
And the vote for music, with much of the slashdot crowd, appears to be... "I'll just download it for FREE!".
Personaly, I do buy music. From Amazon.com, cdbaby.com, and um, maybe, "other sites", all paid for. No "free downloads" for me. Sometimes friends "give" digital music to me... in which case, *I* didn't copy it. (What do you call music you didn't violate the copyright to obtain, but didn't exactly pay for either? Accessory to some tort?)
Anyhow, the point is, that I have spent plenty of money on live performances and recorded music, HOWEVER, there is nothing special about music that makes it any different than any other business. Of course musicians should *market* themselves, and other *stuff*, if need be, if that is how they choose to make a living.
Otherwise, waiting tables is boring, but steady work.
Even for "signed" artists, it is almost a fluke to make a killing. I suspect the current, and future, generations will do just as well as independents as "label" artists, as far as licensing goes. If you have the rare one-in-a-million hit, you'll get paid.
My first thought on reading the parent post was not about champagne, but that, while writing up a treaty to end a fucking war, politicians, and no doubt, lobbyists, had to add language for business considerations...
Sadly, it appears to be true. Several sites confirm it.
Given the history here, I am glad the USA didn't sign the treaty. Now Joe-SixPack can buy American "champagne", even if it isn't Champagne.
Employees are not (necessarily) owners of public companies. "Extra" holiday gifts are just part of the employment package, one way or the other. If you take a job and don't get any more than your agreed salary, how are you hurt? If you take a job and are told you will get a bonus, how is that "special", and not just part of the deal?
Employees of public companies can always become part owners too, just like everyone else. Often even cheaper with stock options and employee purchase plans and the like, now that is a real benefit, if you work for a great corporation.
There is a group of people who think this is a troll, rather than a factual statement of fact. I suspect that group has a large intersection with the set of people who think "sticking it to the man" is a good idea, before the even know who "the man" is.
As an old boss once used to say, when presented with options - "Do Both!"
I read all my e-mail as "plain text". After all, HTML is plain-text too.
95% of the time that is all you need. Yeah, I can see they marked it italics or bold, but they are the same words.
If, after looking at the "raw" text, and I really think the formatting will convey some additional info, I might look at it as "html". Looking at the raw text gives you a pretty good idea if there is anything sinister about it.
In my experience, most HTML mail that "needs" HTML is junk mail, office jokes and the like.
Real business correspondence works on typed pages and plain text. No HTML needed to get your message across. Oh, but please do use a spell checker.
Expensive timepieces are not so much "watches" as they are a status symbol. Jewelry that tells time. In general, status item X can never, by definition, be inexpensive enough for everyone to have one.
In this case, nobody needs a Rolex, and that's the point. Some people need more reliable watches than others, some people don't even need a watch. Some people who don't need a watch want a Rolex - that's marketing.
Our economy produces all kinds of stuff one doesn't need, and on the way, provides jobs for all the people who make that stuff, sell it, ship it, etc.
I'd much rather live in this society, not one that mandates that everyone be able to have the same watch, car, and suit. I think we've seen that before and it doesn't work out too well.
There's all kinds of stuff available in our economy that I personally have no use for, but I appreciate that others do like it, and I don't begrudge anyone their stupidly expensive bling. Nor do I use other more mundane, but equally "useless" items like nail salons, dry cleaning or professional sports. But hey, there are plenty of people who do use those services, as well as buyers for caviar and diamonds. No skin off my nose.
It'd suck if you couldn't afford to buy the watches you make.
Why? I'd much rather work on nice stuff, even if I personally couldn't afford it, rather than work with cheap stuff.
Think about it, would you rather work in a shop turning out finely crafted watches you couldn't afford, or be on an assembly line cranking out plastic watches for Wal-Mart buyers?
I regularly write software that I can't afford, but I enjoy it, and it's a nice living.
What would really suck is working to create a product that you need but can't afford.
If you buy a Windows bundled PC, how much can you actually get back?
I am guessing the average OEM price paid by mfg is <$50, I can get OEM Windows for ~$120... how much does Joe Blow get, if he jumps thru the paperwork hoops with his new Dell/HP/Compaq/Whathaveyou?
What if HP sold PC's with windows, and the first boot dialog box that came up was "Delete Windows? [Y/N]"
There is no discount for hitting "Y".
HP could advertise "Buy this HP PC, Get Windows at no additional Cost!"
If you don't like the price of a PC on that basis don't buy it.
Ever try to buy a new car without a radio or hub caps? You can't. Don't want the $expensive factory upgrades to those items, but plan on upgrading anyhow? Same thing.
Yes, but when Joe Sixpack (or, in this case, Pierre 2 Litres) turns on his new PC and it says:
Reboot and Select proper Boot Device (Réinitialisation et dispositif approprié choisi d'initialisation )
Don't you think he might call HP and say "My PC doesn't work!" ???
Have you ever considered this; Most people want "Windows" - if PC's didn't come with it would Microsoft make more selling retail copies at retail prices vs the couple of extra bucks they get now, with the de facto "Windows tax".
On the other hand, I guess what you are hoping is that consumers would be so pissed off at having to pay more than the bundled price for Windows that they would try "something else".
There is tons of real data available, without making stuff up. Look here, for example. It's just a few months old.
Here are some more facts; I know several people who own iPods who have never purchased anything from iTunes. Maybe someone should extrapolate from there and say that iTunes has zero sales.
ID cards don't even begin to tackle a core crime prevention challenge: determining a person's unspoken intentions.
There is already legal precedent, which is apparently holding up in court, to punish individuals for their thoughts, and/or words.
It is called "hate crime" punishment - which generally adds time to a sentence for some other criminal act. The whole concept of hate crime is ludicrous; who cares why someone beat me over the head with a stick - give them some jail time for it! If you don't think the sentence for battery is long enough, make it longer, don't make up thought crime penalties! What? some murders are worse than others because the victim was or was not called names just before the deed was done?
Seems to me, "hate crimes" just a step away from "terror crimes", after all, don't the terrorists "hate us"?
How is the following logical?
Scenario 1:
1) Yell racially tinged epithets at someone.
2) don't commit any battery, assault, etc.
3) Nothing happens, it's free speech.
Scenario 2:
1) Yell racially tinged epithets at Apoo...
2)...while robbing the kwik-e-mart.
3) get 10-15 years for robbery.
4) get an additional 5-10 in jail for name-calling??? WTF!
Sometime in the near future...
Scenario 1:
1) Illegal right-turn on red.
2) Almost get a $250 ticket.
3) cute chick gets a date with the police officer.
Scenario 2:
1) Illegal right-turn on red.
2) Get a $250 ticket.
3) Bearded man gets an additional 5-10 years in jail for "hating red lights".
Skip to the chase:
Scenario 1:
1) Get jail time for what we think you think.
Slashdot Mirror
I can only conclude one of two things;
a) Nobody cares about "Canadian Science", unless it is Beer Science.
b) Nobody on Slashdot cares about biological stuff. They only care about stuff stuff.
Unfortunately they were encrypted with Microsoft Hieroglyphics RC-2 and the license key expired when v1.0 came out.
Less freedom = better quality?
Might as well say it.
Peace is War.
Slavery is Freedom.....
Responding to a non-sequitor with other nonsense is nonsense.
But nonsense often passes for Insight, so who am I to judge.
So why wood ewe think a spiel chucker can help quality of posts? Don't be such a podiatrist. Their will still be grammar things rang.
Be confused with multilingual voices in your head for much of your life... or just a concentrated dose for the last four years.
Not too pleasant for a while, compared to how things are now, but far from "blown up".
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Perfect example; Is a company that makes DDT good or bad?
If they did an entirely CG Han Solo, would they have to pay Harrison Ford anything? I mean it would be "Ford's likeness", but the "Han Character" is what they would be depicting...
Maybe the PC OEM's can also install a program called "SqueegeeMan" that will offer to clean off the craplets that were squirted on your Windows, for a fee, of course.
Personaly, I do buy music. From Amazon.com, cdbaby.com, and um, maybe, "other sites", all paid for. No "free downloads" for me. Sometimes friends "give" digital music to me... in which case, *I* didn't copy it. (What do you call music you didn't violate the copyright to obtain, but didn't exactly pay for either? Accessory to some tort?)
Anyhow, the point is, that I have spent plenty of money on live performances and recorded music, HOWEVER, there is nothing special about music that makes it any different than any other business. Of course musicians should *market* themselves, and other *stuff*, if need be, if that is how they choose to make a living.
Otherwise, waiting tables is boring, but steady work.
Even for "signed" artists, it is almost a fluke to make a killing. I suspect the current, and future, generations will do just as well as independents as "label" artists, as far as licensing goes. If you have the rare one-in-a-million hit, you'll get paid.
aMac, aPod, aLife, aTV, aPhone...
Hey AAPL - send me a designer's fee if you use this idea. Thanks!
Plumbing problems, roof problems, heating issues.
Normal bills are probably a real bitch. Special "one-time" maintenance is surly out-of-this-world.
I have no idea what Romanian property taxes are like... You think Vampires suck - you don't want to see the local Tax authority.
So, if you are handy, with a strong back, you might make a good roommate/co-investor. Speaking Romanian probably wouldn't hurt.
Is broadband available there (at that specific castle)?
I'll pass.
My first thought on reading the parent post was not about champagne, but that, while writing up a treaty to end a fucking war, politicians, and no doubt, lobbyists, had to add language for business considerations...
Sadly, it appears to be true. Several sites confirm it.
Given the history here, I am glad the USA didn't sign the treaty. Now Joe-SixPack can buy American "champagne", even if it isn't Champagne.
Live banjo music, played by relatives, close relatives. Very close relatives.
Employees of public companies can always become part owners too, just like everyone else. Often even cheaper with stock options and employee purchase plans and the like, now that is a real benefit, if you work for a great corporation.
There is a group of people who think this is a troll, rather than a factual statement of fact. I suspect that group has a large intersection with the set of people who think "sticking it to the man" is a good idea, before the even know who "the man" is.
I read all my e-mail as "plain text". After all, HTML is plain-text too.
95% of the time that is all you need. Yeah, I can see they marked it italics or bold, but they are the same words.
If, after looking at the "raw" text, and I really think the formatting will convey some additional info, I might look at it as "html". Looking at the raw text gives you a pretty good idea if there is anything sinister about it.
In my experience, most HTML mail that "needs" HTML is junk mail, office jokes and the like.
Real business correspondence works on typed pages and plain text. No HTML needed to get your message across. Oh, but please do use a spell checker.
Expensive timepieces are not so much "watches" as they are a status symbol. Jewelry that tells time. In general, status item X can never, by definition, be inexpensive enough for everyone to have one.
In this case, nobody needs a Rolex, and that's the point. Some people need more reliable watches than others, some people don't even need a watch. Some people who don't need a watch want a Rolex - that's marketing.
Our economy produces all kinds of stuff one doesn't need, and on the way, provides jobs for all the people who make that stuff, sell it, ship it, etc.
I'd much rather live in this society, not one that mandates that everyone be able to have the same watch, car, and suit. I think we've seen that before and it doesn't work out too well.
There's all kinds of stuff available in our economy that I personally have no use for, but I appreciate that others do like it, and I don't begrudge anyone their stupidly expensive bling. Nor do I use other more mundane, but equally "useless" items like nail salons, dry cleaning or professional sports. But hey, there are plenty of people who do use those services, as well as buyers for caviar and diamonds. No skin off my nose.
Why? I'd much rather work on nice stuff, even if I personally couldn't afford it, rather than work with cheap stuff.
Think about it, would you rather work in a shop turning out finely crafted watches you couldn't afford, or be on an assembly line cranking out plastic watches for Wal-Mart buyers?
I regularly write software that I can't afford, but I enjoy it, and it's a nice living.
What would really suck is working to create a product that you need but can't afford.
as they demonstrate browsing the web with FireFox - Look, your honor, there are not green/white/yellow/red indicators!
If you buy a Windows bundled PC, how much can you actually get back?
I am guessing the average OEM price paid by mfg is <$50, I can get OEM Windows for ~$120... how much does Joe Blow get, if he jumps thru the paperwork hoops with his new Dell/HP/Compaq/Whathaveyou?
Bonus Question, where do you get "the paperwork?"
I am guessing the average OEM price paid by mfg is
Bonus Question, where do you get "the paperwork?"
There is no discount for hitting "Y".
HP could advertise "Buy this HP PC, Get Windows at no additional Cost!"
If you don't like the price of a PC on that basis don't buy it.
Ever try to buy a new car without a radio or hub caps? You can't. Don't want the $expensive factory upgrades to those items, but plan on upgrading anyhow? Same thing.
Reboot and Select proper Boot Device (Réinitialisation et dispositif approprié choisi d'initialisation )
Don't you think he might call HP and say "My PC doesn't work!" ???
Have you ever considered this; Most people want "Windows" - if PC's didn't come with it would Microsoft make more selling retail copies at retail prices vs the couple of extra bucks they get now, with the de facto "Windows tax".
On the other hand, I guess what you are hoping is that consumers would be so pissed off at having to pay more than the bundled price for Windows that they would try "something else".
Here are some more facts; I know several people who own iPods who have never purchased anything from iTunes. Maybe someone should extrapolate from there and say that iTunes has zero sales.
There is already legal precedent, which is apparently holding up in court, to punish individuals for their thoughts, and/or words.
It is called "hate crime" punishment - which generally adds time to a sentence for some other criminal act. The whole concept of hate crime is ludicrous; who cares why someone beat me over the head with a stick - give them some jail time for it! If you don't think the sentence for battery is long enough, make it longer, don't make up thought crime penalties! What? some murders are worse than others because the victim was or was not called names just before the deed was done?
Seems to me, "hate crimes" just a step away from "terror crimes", after all, don't the terrorists "hate us"?
How is the following logical?
Scenario 1:
1) Yell racially tinged epithets at someone.
2) don't commit any battery, assault, etc.
3) Nothing happens, it's free speech.
Scenario 2: ...while robbing the kwik-e-mart.
1) Yell racially tinged epithets at Apoo...
2)
3) get 10-15 years for robbery.
4) get an additional 5-10 in jail for name-calling??? WTF!
Sometime in the near future...
Scenario 1:
1) Illegal right-turn on red.
2) Almost get a $250 ticket.
3) cute chick gets a date with the police officer.
Scenario 2:
1) Illegal right-turn on red.
2) Get a $250 ticket.
3) Bearded man gets an additional 5-10 years in jail for "hating red lights".
Skip to the chase:
Scenario 1:
1) Get jail time for what we think you think.
Gee, that slope wasn't slippery a minute ago...