I used to live on a mountain and came down several times a week. It would often start snowing while I was off the mountain and I would call the Highway Patrol to ask about the roads. There were 2 highways I could take and, invariably, the Highway Patrol would tell me that both were unsafe and that I should not drive on either.
Luckily, I only took their word for it the first time. I drove a Geo Metro (the only way I could afford the gas with the mileage I was putting on at the time) and never had any problem whatsoever with either highway.
I hope this system doesn't default to "roads are unsafe" or else people will stop bothering to check.
of what people have imagined it would do and what people have lied about it doing and what people have guessed that it might one day be able to do. People have been doing the same sort of thing Chicken Little was known for: running around screaming "the sky is falling! the sky is falling!".
And it's NOT just healthy skepticism either, I mean, when was the last time you heard some one raising hell about the fact that police officers have guns? Imagine what they could do with those guns! And they HAVE done things with those guns. And they COULD do things to you with them.
now why just apply a patch that has been available for 6 months when you can instead completely change your database system over to a new one? That way you can pretend it wasn't your fault.
at no point did I say "the record company is right". I listed costs that the original post did not include. You can try to say "but that isn't expensive" or whatever, but "not expensive" still has a cost. Even shitty little bands cause every single one of the costs above. Take Band X, a local Charlotte band that signed to Label Y. They drove up to NYC 6 times in 6 months to record bits and pieces of a CD that will never be released. The studio time was paid for, the rooms were paid for, the engineers/producers/etc were paid for, their A&R guy was paid, the janitors still cleaned the floor (and thus were paid) at Label Y's corporate headquarters. The CD was never finished, will never be released and the return on this was $0. Total loss. Some other band will have to make up for this.
Take another band, Buck Cherry. After they finished recording their first CD, a house on Lake Norman (near Charlotte) was rented for them for 6 months (not as expensive as a hotel room, but trust me, it wasn't cheap) and they played shows from DC to Florida for 6 months, presumably to get their shit together as a live band and promote the CD before it came out. So at least 6 people were living at the lake for free for 6 months on the record label's tab before a single had even hit the airwaves.
If they put up a shitty copy of a Britney song and I try to illegally download the song and find out that it's shitty and start whining about it, I AM THE SCUM.
if they put up a shitty copy of a Britney song and I legally download it and find out it's shitty, I will put in my own legal CD and rip and/or listen to the good version.
if they put up a shitty copy of a Britney song and I don't listen to nor download any Britney, they have no effect on my at all.
this IS a Good Thing. Tech companies are not (all completely) stupid. Making sure that the laws are not passed will mean the we, the consumer, will retain our freedom of choice and that laws guaranteeing those freedoms will be much easier to pass.
OF COURSE tech companies are going to take $$$ from the MPAA and RIAA to design DRM systems, but they are also going to continue to release non-protected systems and these systems will be the ones that people buy. If the RIAA only produces copy-protected CDs, they will go out of business in a year.
It's going to be a LONG time before every digital recording and playback device currently in service is broken and replaced.
Studio time (wide range in prices here) Cover Art (graphics are not cheap and occassionally very expensive, not in the $10,000 mark usually, but still a cost) Studio personel (high prices producers will cost up front, especially if they think the project will tank) Hotel/food for band (unless they happen to live near the studio) Tour Support (this is a MAJOR cost) Videosanother MAJOR expense) Payola (yes, it still exists) print marketing (advertising is not cheap, neither to produce or get printed) Cash Advances (most bands get some sort of advance and most bands never fully pay that back. I understand that this is a ruse, but on paper, it is a loss) Bands operating at a loss (which is most recordings. Profit making acts must make up for the ones losing money) Record company expenses (just like liquor must cost more in a bar, music must cost more in a company due to office space, secretaries to A&R people, to executives to janitors) Image consultants (you have to decide how to market any product, it doesn't just 'happen') Cost of CDs (this is a tiny per-unit cost, but some companies have a nice little scam where they pay their own sister/daughter company more than it should cost to produce them and thus increase their losses. BMG was known for this)
The cheapest Lycoris at WalMart.com is $250+ now. I wouldnt' buy a Lycoris machine at $199 anyway because I have a copy of Lycoris here, as well as Redhat8.
1. sometimes, you get what you pay for
2. SQL Server is a lot cheaper than Oracle, for many apps that use SQL Server, MySQL is not an appropriate substitue.
3. I must assume that he wasn't lying and know the situation better than you and does actually need Tivoli/whatever and that building his own would cost more in hours and lost productivity than would be worth it.
4. I agree with you here.
5. see number 1
6. Why waste manhours creating yet another mediocre reinvention of the wheel?
and a Linux admin can administer MANY more Linux boxes versus the number of Windows boxes a Windows admin can manage.
yes, and circle wieghs MUCH more than a triangle.
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maybe most dotcoms didn't have real business types in them (maybe) but the banks that loaned them millions did. The VCs that invested in them did. The Stock Brokers than conned people into investing did.
Over-eager entrepenuers [damn that must be spelled wrong] are not totally to blame, just like a kid is a candy store isn't totally to blame when he asks for one of each and his dad says "sure!"
it's been over 2 years since we were forced to start dialing 10 digits with every call. It was supposedly due to the fact that our area code (704)was full, but I have yet to see the 'new' area code used. In fact, even though you 'have' to say "704" when telling someone your number, it's pretty annoying, since 704 is still the only zipcode used here.
actually the "bang for the buck" is WAY off. For $250, I get a machine with an LindowsOS installed. For $250 I get nothing if I go the Mandrake way. The cheapest they have with Mandrake installed is $391, which defeats my whole purpose.
because I am writing off of the.NET platform, usually using a combination of VB.Net and C#. It's easier to explain as just ".NET", because that's really all that matters.
Just like I used to say my web apps were written in "ASP" instead of saying "HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, T-SQL, and Visual Basic"
Why the hell do they make winter coats puffy?... Because the jacket's padding traps air.
notice the word "padding". That "padding" is insulation (i.e. feathers). Sure, there is some air inside the jacket as well, but the insulation padding is what keeps you warm, not the air around it.
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words will do it no justice.
find one. eat it. love it.
I used to live on a mountain and came down several times a week. It would often start snowing while I was off the mountain and I would call the Highway Patrol to ask about the roads. There were 2 highways I could take and, invariably, the Highway Patrol would tell me that both were unsafe and that I should not drive on either.
Luckily, I only took their word for it the first time. I drove a Geo Metro (the only way I could afford the gas with the mileage I was putting on at the time) and never had any problem whatsoever with either highway.
I hope this system doesn't default to "roads are unsafe" or else people will stop bothering to check.
of what people have imagined it would do and what people have lied about it doing and what people have guessed that it might one day be able to do. People have been doing the same sort of thing Chicken Little was known for: running around screaming "the sky is falling! the sky is falling!".
And it's NOT just healthy skepticism either, I mean, when was the last time you heard some one raising hell about the fact that police officers have guns? Imagine what they could do with those guns! And they HAVE done things with those guns. And they COULD do things to you with them.
what about shared web hosting companies that run SQL as part of their business?
now why just apply a patch that has been available for 6 months when you can instead completely change your database system over to a new one? That way you can pretend it wasn't your fault.
at no point did I say "the record company is right". I listed costs that the original post did not include. You can try to say "but that isn't expensive" or whatever, but "not expensive" still has a cost. Even shitty little bands cause every single one of the costs above. Take Band X, a local Charlotte band that signed to Label Y. They drove up to NYC 6 times in 6 months to record bits and pieces of a CD that will never be released. The studio time was paid for, the rooms were paid for, the engineers/producers/etc were paid for, their A&R guy was paid, the janitors still cleaned the floor (and thus were paid) at Label Y's corporate headquarters. The CD was never finished, will never be released and the return on this was $0. Total loss. Some other band will have to make up for this.
Take another band, Buck Cherry. After they finished recording their first CD, a house on Lake Norman (near Charlotte) was rented for them for 6 months (not as expensive as a hotel room, but trust me, it wasn't cheap) and they played shows from DC to Florida for 6 months, presumably to get their shit together as a live band and promote the CD before it came out. So at least 6 people were living at the lake for free for 6 months on the record label's tab before a single had even hit the airwaves.
The Machine does not run on air. It burns money.
If they put up a shitty copy of a Britney song and I try to illegally download the song and find out that it's shitty and start whining about it, I AM THE SCUM.
if they put up a shitty copy of a Britney song and I legally download it and find out it's shitty, I will put in my own legal CD and rip and/or listen to the good version.
if they put up a shitty copy of a Britney song and I don't listen to nor download any Britney, they have no effect on my at all.
this IS a Good Thing. Tech companies are not (all completely) stupid. Making sure that the laws are not passed will mean the we, the consumer, will retain our freedom of choice and that laws guaranteeing those freedoms will be much easier to pass.
OF COURSE tech companies are going to take $$$ from the MPAA and RIAA to design DRM systems, but they are also going to continue to release non-protected systems and these systems will be the ones that people buy. If the RIAA only produces copy-protected CDs, they will go out of business in a year.
It's going to be a LONG time before every digital recording and playback device currently in service is broken and replaced.
Studio time (wide range in prices here)
Cover Art (graphics are not cheap and occassionally very expensive, not in the $10,000 mark usually, but still a cost)
Studio personel (high prices producers will cost up front, especially if they think the project will tank)
Hotel/food for band (unless they happen to live near the studio)
Tour Support (this is a MAJOR cost)
Videosanother MAJOR expense)
Payola (yes, it still exists)
print marketing (advertising is not cheap, neither to produce or get printed)
Cash Advances (most bands get some sort of advance and most bands never fully pay that back. I understand that this is a ruse, but on paper, it is a loss)
Bands operating at a loss (which is most recordings. Profit making acts must make up for the ones losing money)
Record company expenses (just like liquor must cost more in a bar, music must cost more in a company due to office space, secretaries to A&R people, to executives to janitors)
Image consultants (you have to decide how to market any product, it doesn't just 'happen')
Cost of CDs (this is a tiny per-unit cost, but some companies have a nice little scam where they pay their own sister/daughter company more than it should cost to produce them and thus increase their losses. BMG was known for this)
The cheapest Lycoris at WalMart.com is $250+ now. I wouldnt' buy a Lycoris machine at $199 anyway because I have a copy of Lycoris here, as well as Redhat8.
I kicked the drug habit years ago.
What about Mono?
I wish.
But hey, what do I know
Not much about WMP if you
a) think that it's "DRM'ing-you-and-all-your-files" and/or
b) don't know how to turn that feature off.
1. sometimes, you get what you pay for 2. SQL Server is a lot cheaper than Oracle, for many apps that use SQL Server, MySQL is not an appropriate substitue. 3. I must assume that he wasn't lying and know the situation better than you and does actually need Tivoli/whatever and that building his own would cost more in hours and lost productivity than would be worth it. 4. I agree with you here. 5. see number 1 6. Why waste manhours creating yet another mediocre reinvention of the wheel?
and a Linux admin can administer MANY more Linux boxes versus the number of Windows boxes a Windows admin can manage.
yes, and circle wieghs MUCH more than a triangle.
maybe most dotcoms didn't have real business types in them (maybe) but the banks that loaned them millions did. The VCs that invested in them did. The Stock Brokers than conned people into investing did.
Over-eager entrepenuers [damn that must be spelled wrong] are not totally to blame, just like a kid is a candy store isn't totally to blame when he asks for one of each and his dad says "sure!"
it's been over 2 years since we were forced to start dialing 10 digits with every call. It was supposedly due to the fact that our area code (704)was full, but I have yet to see the 'new' area code used. In fact, even though you 'have' to say "704" when telling someone your number, it's pretty annoying, since 704 is still the only zipcode used here.
actually the "bang for the buck" is WAY off. For $250, I get a machine with an LindowsOS installed. For $250 I get nothing if I go the Mandrake way. The cheapest they have with Mandrake installed is $391, which defeats my whole purpose.
and I plan to use it to surf slashdot daily.
if it works, that is...
you're exactly right about the reason why I'm buying it: it's cheaper than most pocket PCs. I can always use another toy...
because I am writing off of the .NET platform, usually using a combination of VB.Net and C#. It's easier to explain as just ".NET", because that's really all that matters.
Just like I used to say my web apps were written in "ASP" instead of saying "HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, T-SQL, and Visual Basic"
shouldn't Apple be the monopoly?
since when does the general public know what the DMCA is or that it even exists? The "general public" I know has never heard of it.
where did you get this info? Not saying it's wrong, just that I've only heard otherwise.
that is actually number one on the list, validating User input.
Why the hell do they make winter coats puffy? ... Because the jacket's padding traps air.
notice the word "padding". That "padding" is insulation (i.e. feathers). Sure, there is some air inside the jacket as well, but the insulation padding is what keeps you warm, not the air around it.