80% of suicides are committed by males.
Read The Myth of Male Power, it'll change your perception of gender roles in society forever.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425 181448/qid=1081503958/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-665175 2-5707229?v=glance&s=books
(Sorry for the non-html link. I'm a nerd-in-training)
As far as I know, the companies pay these costs.. but artists must pay them back when they start pulling in money. The companies are loaning the artists money, is all.
Things like the records companies shoving $100 million into Mariah Carey's comeback.. followed by her going nuts and trying to slit her wrists. Heads rolled at the record companies... but we're to blame for them losing money, somehow.
1)You own the media to the extent that if it breaks, you have no choice but to buy another.
2)You down't own the media so therefore we can tell you what to do with it. See DVD region coding, making backups and transferring to other media for personal use (MD, MP3 etc)
From the article: "Here are both of them side to side, see they are almost the same except for the label."... My first reaction was 'just switch the labels and Bobs your dad's brother'.. 8)
"Anyway, at least he swears by WP. He's in the other room, using it right now, in fact."
So he's swearing like a sailor while typing away? Why the profanity? 8)
Check out mympc, a 14 meg version of media player classic that plays EVERY video file I've ever encountered.. RealPlayer, Quicktime, every Divx variant and includes all the sound/video filters I've ever seen. Works like a charm, and the bonus is you can uninstall the annoying 3rd party players like RP and QT.
It all began as an effort to be able to watch entire seasons of Simpsons, Futurama or Black Adder in one go without having to change discs....
You sir, are a nerd! Not that theres anything wrong with that. 8)
..grey imported machines, fully modded with two original controllers and 5 free games (which only cost 6RMB a pop anyway) cost 1800RMB.
The offical non-modded Chinese PS2's with only one controller and no games cost 2300RMB.
In two cities where the average income is below 1500RMB per month, who would buy the official version?
From the article:
"With the textbook-buying season upon us, many universities and student organizations are attempting to combat the on-campus bookstore's overcharging..."
In a lot of Australian universities the bookstores, university admin and student unions are in cahoots, making cheap textbook purchases on campus very difficult. A state-wide used-textbook sourcing site would be the perfect solution, but it would have to be organised by someone other than the university or the 'student' union.
Slashdot Mirror
..until I realised it said node volunteers. Node with an 'o', not a 'u'.
Damn.
1980's:
copying off the radio
1990's-2003:
copying off websites, napster, gnutella, kazaa, limewire, audiogalaxy, ftp sites, irc, bearshare, bittorrent, winmx, edonkey, overnet etc etc
2004:
copying off the radio
How far we've come! 8)
Everyone else complains about Clear Channel.
It is the musicians themselves that have killed the album.
Does the term 'musicians' include NSync, Britney, Christina etc?
Went to a party a couple weeks ago and cleaned 550+ bits of spyware off the hosts' machine.
Happening party eh? Forget chicks and getting pissed like a newt, cleaning spyware is where its at. 8)
80% of suicides are committed by males. Read The Myth of Male Power, it'll change your perception of gender roles in society forever. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425 181448/qid=1081503958/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-665175 2-5707229?v=glance&s=books
(Sorry for the non-html link. I'm a nerd-in-training)
As far as I know, the companies pay these costs.. but artists must pay them back when they start pulling in money. The companies are loaning the artists money, is all.
Things like the records companies shoving $100 million into Mariah Carey's comeback.. followed by her going nuts and trying to slit her wrists. Heads rolled at the record companies... but we're to blame for them losing money, somehow.
Knew I shouldn't have used that name.
-Taxevader
Education is being geared towards females, therefore there is a lot less emphasis on maths and science.
and not to mention the destroyed reputation...
(in heavy Aussie accent): Nice one, mate! What bloody reputation?
They want it both ways:
1)You own the media to the extent that if it breaks, you have no choice but to buy another.
2)You down't own the media so therefore we can tell you what to do with it. See DVD region coding, making backups and transferring to other media for personal use (MD, MP3 etc)
Hey, watch the insults, pal!
From the article: "Here are both of them side to side, see they are almost the same except for the label."... My first reaction was 'just switch the labels and Bobs your dad's brother'.. 8)
"Anyway, at least he swears by WP. He's in the other room, using it right now, in fact." So he's swearing like a sailor while typing away? Why the profanity? 8)
Check out mympc, a 14 meg version of media player classic that plays EVERY video file I've ever encountered.. RealPlayer, Quicktime, every Divx variant and includes all the sound/video filters I've ever seen. Works like a charm, and the bonus is you can uninstall the annoying 3rd party players like RP and QT.
It all began as an effort to be able to watch entire seasons of Simpsons, Futurama or Black Adder in one go without having to change discs.... You sir, are a nerd! Not that theres anything wrong with that. 8)
Speaking of Sonny Bono.. presenting my sig:
My question is, between hacking DeCSS and ITunes, how does he find the time to tour Antarctica??
From the article: "With the textbook-buying season upon us, many universities and student organizations are attempting to combat the on-campus bookstore's overcharging..." In a lot of Australian universities the bookstores, university admin and student unions are in cahoots, making cheap textbook purchases on campus very difficult. A state-wide used-textbook sourcing site would be the perfect solution, but it would have to be organised by someone other than the university or the 'student' union.