You may call that nonexpensive classic music CDs - royality free. The music may have been compused by people who lived and died centuries ago. However, the music is perform by living performance artists. Do you now how much musical education, training, and talent it takes before one is able to play Chopin well?
The price is what the market can bear. However, that applies to the free market only. Not in the market where RIAA can tell retailer not to go beyond certain price.
I never used Napster. I don't use Kazaa but I will not pay $10 for a CD. I'll rather sutck with Chopin.
And yeah, once you show your grandkids your $18 CD they will most likely say - Oh, grandpa, again that borning music from the beginning of the century.
For the years Microsoft had been naming its product with simple and pronoucanble names, like Windows, Office, Word, etc.
After reading slashdot for a while, the company executives decided that the/. community was right and so the company will not longer use generic names. And now, for something completely different... MSFT is naming its products:.NET, C#, J#. What's next - MS %^&-_-34?
Imagine I create a software company and name it Moo Software, create a digital photo album program, and then start it selling as MS Photos, would it be right? Microsoft probably does not hold a trademark on MS but still would I make a confusion?
If I create a RDBMS for OS X and call it Oracle for Mac (oracle is a common word), would it be right?
If Microsoft names its next OS GNU/Windows (gnu is a common word), would it be right? What would slashdotters say?
If I name my product SYWYXOQ, get a trademark on it, and then it turns out, that sywyxoq is a common word in some Polinesian language, does it invalidate my trademark?
Of course in Australia. Those things were always performed downthere. What do you think how kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, and other strange animals originated?
Yes, I would.
I've bought (in Sam's Club) a collection of 10 CDs of the greatest composers of classis music(Mozart, Bethowen, J.S. Bach, at al) for $20. (Yes $2/CD).
And that is a serious artwork. One can argue that is's because that's public domain music. However, I doubt that modern composers get $8 per sold CD. Where is the difference?
You may buy CD with thousands of fonts, images, clip arts, etc for a few bucks.
It's not fair to compare with the prices of movies. It takes millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie.
It's not fair to compare with books. Would you ever buy a poetry book that contains only 10 poems for $10.
It's not fair to compare with software. How much more resources spent MS, or Corel to make a wordprocessor, than NSync to make their album? Beside that, software is a durable good. Once you buy a worprocessor you will use it for at least a couple of years. Once you buy a NSync album you just wait for the new one.
No,thanks. I will not spend $10 for 10 songs. I'll keep listening to Mozart.
A CD is still $9.99 (too expensive) and you even have to download it. The argumet is that one does not have to go to a store on winter. What's the problme to go to amazon.com, wal-mart.com, or similar stores on winter?
It's not the problem is your are asked for your name, address, or zip code. You can always say no and they will sell you anyway. (That's negotiation, right?)
The real problems are customers cards. For example I shop in a grocery shop chain Kroger, and I do have Kroger Plus Card. The prices on some products are marked twice w/ and w/o card. So, something is $3 w/o card and only $2.5 w/ the card. They have inflated the prices and now are claiming that you save with the card. Every time I got the receipt I can see how much I saved that day and also year to day. (I've save something above $300 YTD and that is the price for which I sold my privacy to them).
Now eveyone else is following. So you have a choice - privacy or not - but the choice may cost.
"If man creates a new life form by definition man is the "Creator" of that life form. If somehow in a distance future man builds on this knowledge and creates an intelligent life form, from scratch, would man be it's "Creator"? If so, could one say that man is it's God?"
No. To claim divinity man is not to create a bacteria but a Universe.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has discovered (prepare to be amazed!) that revealing your email address in chat rooms can get you spammed. It claims to have taken action against spammers who harvest email addresses and use them to send fraudulent spam.
Was Al Gore in that commission?
Right now Earth's magnetic North Pole is located at the geographic South Pole (precisely close to it) and magnetic South Pole is located at geographic North Pole.
So the flip will just fix the bug.
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Beside that, the article does not tell us about Einsteins' coolest invention - refrigirator.
You may call that nonexpensive classic music CDs - royality free. The music may have been compused by people who lived and died centuries ago. However, the music is perform by living performance artists. Do you now how much musical education, training, and talent it takes before one is able to play Chopin well? The price is what the market can bear. However, that applies to the free market only. Not in the market where RIAA can tell retailer not to go beyond certain price. I never used Napster. I don't use Kazaa but I will not pay $10 for a CD. I'll rather sutck with Chopin. And yeah, once you show your grandkids your $18 CD they will most likely say - Oh, grandpa, again that borning music from the beginning of the century.
For the years Microsoft had been naming its product with simple and pronoucanble names, like Windows, Office, Word, etc. After reading slashdot for a while, the company executives decided that the /. community was right and so the company will not longer use generic names. And now, for something completely different ... MSFT is naming its products: .NET, C#, J#. What's next - MS %^&-_-34?
Imagine I create a software company and name it Moo Software, create a digital photo album program, and then start it selling as MS Photos, would it be right? Microsoft probably does not hold a trademark on MS but still would I make a confusion?
If I create a RDBMS for OS X and call it Oracle for Mac (oracle is a common word), would it be right?
If Microsoft names its next OS GNU/Windows (gnu is a common word), would it be right? What would slashdotters say?
If I name my product SYWYXOQ, get a trademark on it, and then it turns out, that sywyxoq is a common word in some Polinesian language, does it invalidate my trademark?
Stalin would have taken Lenin's face - then Khrushchov would do the same. So Lenin would live forever.
Yes, three. The mouse chief and two deputies.
Of course in Australia. Those things were always performed downthere. What do you think how kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, and other strange animals originated?
Yes, I would. I've bought (in Sam's Club) a collection of 10 CDs of the greatest composers of classis music(Mozart, Bethowen, J.S. Bach, at al) for $20. (Yes $2/CD). And that is a serious artwork. One can argue that is's because that's public domain music. However, I doubt that modern composers get $8 per sold CD. Where is the difference? You may buy CD with thousands of fonts, images, clip arts, etc for a few bucks. It's not fair to compare with the prices of movies. It takes millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie. It's not fair to compare with books. Would you ever buy a poetry book that contains only 10 poems for $10. It's not fair to compare with software. How much more resources spent MS, or Corel to make a wordprocessor, than NSync to make their album? Beside that, software is a durable good. Once you buy a worprocessor you will use it for at least a couple of years. Once you buy a NSync album you just wait for the new one. No,thanks. I will not spend $10 for 10 songs. I'll keep listening to Mozart.
A CD is still $9.99 (too expensive) and you even have to download it. The argumet is that one does not have to go to a store on winter. What's the problme to go to amazon.com, wal-mart.com, or similar stores on winter?
"Kind of makes you wonder if he was named after Linux. :-)"
Yes he was named afer Linux and it was wrong. His parent should have named him GNU/Linus Torvalds.
It's not the problem is your are asked for your name, address, or zip code. You can always say no and they will sell you anyway. (That's negotiation, right?) The real problems are customers cards. For example I shop in a grocery shop chain Kroger, and I do have Kroger Plus Card. The prices on some products are marked twice w/ and w/o card. So, something is $3 w/o card and only $2.5 w/ the card. They have inflated the prices and now are claiming that you save with the card. Every time I got the receipt I can see how much I saved that day and also year to day. (I've save something above $300 YTD and that is the price for which I sold my privacy to them). Now eveyone else is following. So you have a choice - privacy or not - but the choice may cost.
"If man creates a new life form by definition man is the "Creator" of that life form. If somehow in a distance future man builds on this knowledge and creates an intelligent life form, from scratch, would man be it's "Creator"? If so, could one say that man is it's God?"
No. To claim divinity man is not to create a bacteria but a Universe.
Windows will run fast enough
Beat the thing.
OK, I haven't played the game since the original SimCity, so I don't know all the details but my question is
How do you organize (simulated) protest in Sims?
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has discovered (prepare to be amazed!) that revealing your email address in chat rooms can get you spammed. It claims to have taken action against spammers who harvest email addresses and use them to send fraudulent spam. Was Al Gore in that commission?
Right now Earth's magnetic North Pole is located at the geographic South Pole (precisely close to it) and magnetic South Pole is located at geographic North Pole. So the flip will just fix the bug.
A system error that should never happen has happened.