Is that meta-meta-whining or post-post-modern...(silly link shit)...
No asswipe, it's called redundant. And you're like redundant, squared. Ask Mom for an advance on next week's allowance, and go buy an idea you can call your own.
I'm using the Flip4Mac 1.2, QT Pro 7.0.4, OS X 10.4.4, no QT crashes at all with any wmv files, all exporting to.mov files, no probs. I don't understand where the issue with the numerous, reported crashes is arising. Not saying they don't exist, they must, why else would many report them, and the company come out with the update statement, but for some reason they aren't happening here. Strange.
I bet Mac users think fullscreen playback is some sort of extremely hard to do feature worth paying for.
I realize you're just a troll, but, were you a born idiot, or did you go to school for that? And here's a safer bet: You got your head up your ass. Put your allowance on that one.. Meanwhile, who in their right mind wants to watch shitty audio-tracked, butchered aspect ratio wmv files on a Mac? Shit dude, strike three on shit for brains, eh?
In summary, you are the main reason that myself and many others will never own a Mac.
Let me guess, you're a kid Gamer? Ha ha ha, hey, all I can say is, if you let your choice of work tools be determined by the alleged 'attitude' of a statistically insignificant number of a certain group of users...you are a bonafide, clinical moron, and we should be glad your decisions and thoughts are probably about role-playing games and when Mom's coming home with the Doritos, instead of, say, investment analysis/advice, nuclear power plant security, medicine...well...you get my drift, right, Asswipe?
Some of you people crack me up. Anyway...back to work, now [Aluminum Powerbook, OS X, VPC, ubuntu Linux dual-boot]....enjoy your Xbox, too, junior...asshole.
wake me up when they have driver for the airport extremes and the spanned desktiops on the Powerbooks, that can be run right off the install of Linux on a mac. So far, that's the showstopper for me. To get even a user-friendly install like ubuntu, or a debian install to even recognize an external monitor is like pulling teeth barehanded. When Apple, or broadcom, gets through blaming 'the other guy' for why the Airport Extreme chip can't be ported oiver to Linux, well, then they're onto something. But dashboard? who gives a fuck?
My wife can't hear me in noisy places like the supermarket anymore. It makes things quite difficult. I tend to yell and then she gets pissed off at me.
It sounds like your wife has a 'notched' hearing loss. That's the case, commonly, when the frequencies associated with the sibilants in human speech are affected, but hearing ability, in general is unaffected. It is like hearing, but not comprehending.
It's most pronounced on the very beginning of consonants. [the 'attack' portion of the sound, with the body of the sound being a vowel sound]. The 'attack' is a very rapid ['transient'] peak that is usually quite a bit higher in frequency than the 'body' of the sound which follows.
That peak transient serves to identify which consonant is actually being articulated. An example, using a 'long e' vowel in a consonant made up of letters, d, p, g, t, v, etc. Your wife probably has no problem hearing the long e vowel sound, but the problem is the differentiation: is it a "b", a "d", a "t" sound that identifies the syllable? So, as a result, yelling, or 'turning up the volume" doesn't usually work to make speech decipherable, or, if it does work, it works due to the uncomfortably loud nature of the material being listened to: speech, TV, music, whatever.
I've got the same thing. On my Mac, I use audio plugins [usually simple AU versions of parametric equalizers], in series, each attuned to a very narrow bandwidth around a few pairs of frequencies in the 2500 to 3500 hertz range.
This works far better than just 'turning it up", because the transients missing in my hearing are just that, very transient, so there's no prolonged exposure to these rapidly occuring peaks. And the bottom line is I can hear very well that way. In 'real life', of course [whatever that is] the same result would require state-of-the-art tunable hearing aids. It isn't really about volume, so much as frequency, with a very rapid tweak of amplitude at the points of 'notched' hearing loss. In sampling synthesizers, this same thing is employed to give a 'bowed' instrument [for example], the characteristics of a percussive one: The 'attack' from a piano note is followed by the body and 'decay' from a cello. Clever.
Open Document XML and browsers capable of reading it.
Exactly. It's amazing everyone's talking about more devices and html. html is yesterday, XML is what's up, and 'more devices'? Come on...Pretty soon we'd all have little crowded rooms that looked like the Sony showroom on the Ginza, back in the days of 300 models of the Walkman. Stupid, in other words, not to mention redundant, wasteful, etc.
Content can all be straight up XML, [no fucking 'binary' XML], and let the publishers supply each subscriber/user with a bundle of XSLT style sheets or good old css, and the end user could read the same content on the phone, the laptop, the spanned desktops, in print [at his/her own expense], as a pdf or even a re-purposed xhtml doc in a browser. No problemo.
but the RIAA is talking about what? Lousy music, worse movies?
No kidding...When, obviously, they should be pressuring the Russians to deal with that guy in the baseball cap that kept getting up to get popcorn during the 'filming' of King Kong. Sheesh, where are their priorities?
Insightful. Eliot Spitzer's office has been going after soft targets, often painstakingly struggling to interpret particular corporate actions as "crimes".
If Spitzer were truly an outstanding AG, he'd be going after organized crime, which has to be costing the country a lot more than these vaguely unethical insurance company "accepted practices" and so-called price fixing.
You are a clueless moron, and I will explain why in the simplest manner: Spitzer went after Merril Lynch and other investment banks that the SEC had turned a blind eye to. Soft targets? You're soft in the head.
Organized crime? Sure. Guess where most of that is concentrated in the State of New York...The City, asshole, and that means it comes under the jurisdiction of the DA, or the Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Manhattan. Yeah, it is a problem that goes across the country, but a State Attorney General's jurisdiction remains within the State, not cross-country.
And once again, you are a poorly-read, under-educated moron. Go back to your fucking Xbox or Fox News, whatever.
I did have to drive a bit to see Serenity, but 150 miles? Wow.
Not to argue your point, but, I drove from Montreal to New York to see Albert King playing his guitar at the Lonestar, once upon a time... so, it's about the degree of fandom,I guess.
Meanwhile, the people talking about "I'd pay this if they did that..." are a good illustration of a biz I was in, selling Private Placements. Let's say Mr. Whedon comes out and says, "Yeah, if we had twenty million to work with we'd cobble together an abbreviated season of new stories."
Then, a Bank is chosen to hold any cash raised in escrow. A lawyer gets the 'blue-sky' ruling from the SEC. You divide the $20 miilion into 'units' representing a certain percentage of the profits of any positive outcome of the fund-raising and broadcast [say, 10% of the net].
You create 2 million units @ $20 per unit, sell all the units, give Whedon's people their $20 million, split the other $20 million between the middlemen, lawyers, and sales guys...heheh, this happens all the time,by the way, and if it hits the big time, everybody laughs on the way to the bank AND has the show for a season. I'm in:)
i>I'd be picking it up today even if it wasn't my first VFX film job.... I just watched the last of the Firefly TV series last night, having not discovered it until work on the film wrapped up, and I'm pissed I won't see more of these characters.
I first heard of Firefly here on Slashdot. I don't watch a lot of TV. I got curious and downloaded the whole series, and an early TC of the film, off the Usenet.
I was knocked out. Flawed heroes, villains with a bit of depth, terrific music in the series [so-so in the film, IMHO], and the 'cowboy' thing juxtaposed against the 'futuristic' environment was realistic. [think about it, the World and all of its people will never be on anything like the same wavelength, technologically speaking]. Example: The Russian peasants didn't fight the Panzer divisions, in the early 40s, with sticks and pitchforks out of some innate urge to live out 'cowboy' romanticism.
I bought the series in DVD form as a birthday gift for my daughter. And the DVD of the film will go out to her as a holiday gift, also. It was a terrific series, well-written, the crew obviously took their work seriously, the cast was marvelous, and the story was a nice post-Enlightenment look at people, flawed and heroically fabulous, in crises. Very well done, and I'll miss it like old friends, like family, as corny as that sounds. [and I'm old enough to know better...but...]
I'll help you: the whole communist block in Europe until the 90's, Russia, Cambodia. Is that enough?
Sure, that should be more than enough, for an ignoramus who has no knowledge of the Russian economy from 1917-1945, and the difference between then and post-democratization.
Gross National Product in Bolshevik/Communist Russia/USSR was four times what it has been since the fall of communism. The economies of Eastern Europe were not helped by being the [historically business-as-usual] arena for the larger powers to fight their wars in. Read some fucking economics history. Turn off Fox News and pick up a book, for fuck's sake.
Oh yeah? When? Maybe on Windows it did, haven't looked. Try looking under the "Opera" menu item on a Mac running Opera 8.5.1, and guess what? Same as always, choices to view as Mozilla or Explorer, on-the-fly.
Check your fucking facts. "...a while ago..." hey, a 'while ago you dropped your crack pipe, that's what happened...'a while ago.'
The guy is a bullshitter. Ha ha ha. I've had no problems dealing with, in the last three years: Bank of America [in Boca], Toronto Dominion [Montreal], HSBC [New York], M&T [New York], US Bank Minneapolis], ScotiaBank [Montreal],Orchard Bank [Texas, I think], and Household...all on a Macintosh.
On various Mac-oriented LISTSERVs I see folks, every year or so, griping about 'but I need to use IE for my Bank!" This usually comes from mentally challenged ladies, and users of the most fucked-with setups imaginable [not 'hacked' fucked-with, just retarded 'fucked-with'].
My guess is that rich boy was handed a cashier's check for his balance and offered his choice of a cooler or a backpack on his way out the door. Oh yeah, serious clout, unh huh.
Consider as an example the Periodic Table of Elements - here the arrangement is content.
So, in SGML/XML one declares an element, 'table', with attributes like, 'column', etc, which includes an element, 'row', which includes, 'entry', etc, etc. Each entry can have its own elements [no pun intended], like 'name', 'symbol' [cross-reffed to a "declared" png, for example]...So what's the issue with XML and a Table of Elements? Color of the various element groups? Just another non-printed 'tag' to be referenced by the XHTML, or CSS, or pdf style sheet, whatever, etc.
That keeps your table searchable, and allows it to be printed, streamed, pdf'd, whatever.
I've seen 'verbatim' tags in well thoughtout DTDs that allow for multiple white spaces and all sorts of stuff that might seem 'formatted' to the eye [normally a no-no in good SGML].
Apple and Microsoft, and anyone else that fucks around with popping binary crap into otherwise pure XML is doing it for one reason only, and it is NOT to speed up XML code going through CPUs...they are simply fucking with it to make the format proprietary. Utter bullshit, a pox on all their houses.
What? You must be new to the World Wide Web. It's all about yellow text on white backgrounds, blink tags, and making the user envision whatever godawful chaos is in the web 'designers'' minds.
Yes, that is insightful, as duly modded, but it's also, easily, one of the most hilarious descriptions of the 'state of things' out 'there' that I've seen. thanks.
And old? yeah, I remember sending a simple note to a fellow up at the school, and then going outside to shoot a few baskets and have a smoke while the 'reply' came back, on the telex. Fun stuff, back in the day.
This sounds unfair. But actually, it's an economic necessity to enable a technical necessity.
What the Fuck? With the whole world only using less than 10% of the installed fiber? You are way out of your tree, pal. Economic necessity? In a land of gullible mental midgets, perhaps.
I am taking economics this semester(micro & macro) so I am looking at it from a businessman's perspective.
WTF?? Hello, sonny, uh, you're looking at it from a newbie student's point of view. Get a fucking grip. From the paragraphs that follow your opening delusions, it looks like you have a long row to hoe, also.
I like that bit, "When things are expensive you can steal until the price becomes cheaper." Run that one past your professor before you act out on it, though, for your own good. Although, the sentiment kinda reminds me of Old Mexico, in a way...okay, old Tijuana on Navy payday weekend, but thanks just the same.
The notion you mangled, oops, I mean, were fishing for, is called 'supply and demand', and those two things are at the heart of price points, and inflation, hey??!?! And the more people become aware of the existence of freely-obtainable software/musicreality TV, Mexican soaps, etc, well, if the demand runs flat with population growth/demographics, and the supply is, theoretically, 'unlimited', ouchie. You don't need differential calc to see that the price point is looking at a freefall, at some point in the future, eh wot?
Money to me is not something which has morales attached to it at all.
Speak for yourself, pal. When money is tight, morale is low, where I come from.
Oh, did you mean morals? Well, that's different. You have lots of company here, I recommend a grammar checker, or run your text past someone who did something besides play gameboys or smoke in the bathroom during early school years.
However, there are a few other factors to consider:
1) Would these misers have been willing to splash out for the product anyway? Probably not. For example, a copyright infringer with 1,000 albums on his/her hard drive would never have been able to afford more than a couple of percent of that. In fact, being miserly, they probably wouldn't have bought more than five albums, if that, coming to a grand total of $15*5 = $75 lost sales at absolute maximum. Of course, the RIAA would count this as $15*1,000 = £15,000 of lost sales.
I seriously doubt a person with 1,000 LPs on a drive would only buy 15 LPs, everything else being considered equal.
Here's an example: Me. I collected records, for years. I also worked for WEA for a while, out of Burbank, and played in bands, and worked on both sides in recording contract negotiations, etc.
But records? Shit. I invested big cash in a retail startup. The two partners are millionaires today. I did what their banks balked at. I took a salary: 450 LPs a week. I was already on several big 5 record company's B-list for advance copies of new stuff, and still managed to buy wholesale from jobbers, go to swap meets, hit flea markets and deal with japanese guys from Tokyo with their briefcases and lines like, "I heard you found an Elvis 7 1/2 EP picture sleeve in El Cajon two weeks ago." Heheh, that's collecting.I bought thousands of records from people who were selling, re-selling, and re-re-selling the same article...in other words, exceeding the so-called 'fair use', first sale thing. Was I taking money out the pockets of artists? Gee, I don't know, let's ask a record company lawyer/accountant. Hang on, we'll have the answer as soon as he stops laughing.
Now I collect software, have for years. It's a hobby, and it gets expensive, too. I don't pay for too much, up front. I buy everything I use day-to-day, and got roped into buying Photoshop [by my own relativist 'ethics', wouldn't you know] when I started making money in a DTP situation and realized P-Shop had become 'day-to-day'. Ouch. Believe me, there are tons of software collectors out there. Where they fit into this moralistic thing about depriving middlemen and oligopolists their extra 'cheese', I wouldn't know. I'm a hobbyist.
That isn't flamebait...might be a bit inaccurate though. Quick, when's the last time anyone saw a cat running around in Chinatown? Hint: Spring rolls.
I'm not eating animals these days, but the historical justification for the keeping of animals [including dogs and cats], was a source of food when times went crappy. Check a little detailed history of, say, the Roman Empire. An 'emergency' diet that included cats, there, would, no doubt, have ticked off a citizen of old Cairo. Just a point of view, culturally speaking.
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No asswipe, it's called redundant. And you're like redundant, squared. Ask Mom for an advance on next week's allowance, and go buy an idea you can call your own.
I'm using the Flip4Mac 1.2, QT Pro 7.0.4, OS X 10.4.4, no QT crashes at all with any wmv files, all exporting to .mov files, no probs. I don't understand where the issue with the numerous, reported crashes is arising. Not saying they don't exist, they must, why else would many report them, and the company come out with the update statement, but for some reason they aren't happening here. Strange.
I realize you're just a troll, but, were you a born idiot, or did you go to school for that? And here's a safer bet: You got your head up your ass. Put your allowance on that one.. Meanwhile, who in their right mind wants to watch shitty audio-tracked, butchered aspect ratio wmv files on a Mac? Shit dude, strike three on shit for brains, eh?
Awwww, come on...care....We all really give a shit.
Let me guess, you're a kid Gamer? Ha ha ha, hey, all I can say is, if you let your choice of work tools be determined by the alleged 'attitude' of a statistically insignificant number of a certain group of users...you are a bonafide, clinical moron, and we should be glad your decisions and thoughts are probably about role-playing games and when Mom's coming home with the Doritos, instead of, say, investment analysis/advice, nuclear power plant security, medicine...well...you get my drift, right, Asswipe?
Some of you people crack me up. Anyway...back to work, now [Aluminum Powerbook, OS X, VPC, ubuntu Linux dual-boot]....enjoy your Xbox, too, junior...asshole.
you forgot the best part. He says, "hey Lady, ya know what this is???" And she says, "Sure it's like a penis, only smaller."
wake me up when they have driver for the airport extremes and the spanned desktiops on the Powerbooks, that can be run right off the install of Linux on a mac. So far, that's the showstopper for me. To get even a user-friendly install like ubuntu, or a debian install to even recognize an external monitor is like pulling teeth barehanded. When Apple, or broadcom, gets through blaming 'the other guy' for why the Airport Extreme chip can't be ported oiver to Linux, well, then they're onto something. But dashboard? who gives a fuck?
It sounds like your wife has a 'notched' hearing loss. That's the case, commonly, when the frequencies associated with the sibilants in human speech are affected, but hearing ability, in general is unaffected. It is like hearing, but not comprehending.
It's most pronounced on the very beginning of consonants. [the 'attack' portion of the sound, with the body of the sound being a vowel sound]. The 'attack' is a very rapid ['transient'] peak that is usually quite a bit higher in frequency than the 'body' of the sound which follows.
That peak transient serves to identify which consonant is actually being articulated. An example, using a 'long e' vowel in a consonant made up of letters, d, p, g, t, v, etc. Your wife probably has no problem hearing the long e vowel sound, but the problem is the differentiation: is it a "b", a "d", a "t" sound that identifies the syllable? So, as a result, yelling, or 'turning up the volume" doesn't usually work to make speech decipherable, or, if it does work, it works due to the uncomfortably loud nature of the material being listened to: speech, TV, music, whatever.
I've got the same thing. On my Mac, I use audio plugins [usually simple AU versions of parametric equalizers], in series, each attuned to a very narrow bandwidth around a few pairs of frequencies in the 2500 to 3500 hertz range.
This works far better than just 'turning it up", because the transients missing in my hearing are just that, very transient, so there's no prolonged exposure to these rapidly occuring peaks. And the bottom line is I can hear very well that way. In 'real life', of course [whatever that is] the same result would require state-of-the-art tunable hearing aids. It isn't really about volume, so much as frequency, with a very rapid tweak of amplitude at the points of 'notched' hearing loss. In sampling synthesizers, this same thing is employed to give a 'bowed' instrument [for example], the characteristics of a percussive one: The 'attack' from a piano note is followed by the body and 'decay' from a cello. Clever.
Exactly. It's amazing everyone's talking about more devices and html. html is yesterday, XML is what's up, and 'more devices'? Come on...Pretty soon we'd all have little crowded rooms that looked like the Sony showroom on the Ginza, back in the days of 300 models of the Walkman. Stupid, in other words, not to mention redundant, wasteful, etc.
Content can all be straight up XML, [no fucking 'binary' XML], and let the publishers supply each subscriber/user with a bundle of XSLT style sheets or good old css, and the end user could read the same content on the phone, the laptop, the spanned desktops, in print [at his/her own expense], as a pdf or even a re-purposed xhtml doc in a browser. No problemo.
One body of content, any number of formats.
Solved. Next.
No kidding...When, obviously, they should be pressuring the Russians to deal with that guy in the baseball cap that kept getting up to get popcorn during the 'filming' of King Kong. Sheesh, where are their priorities?
If Spitzer were truly an outstanding AG, he'd be going after organized crime, which has to be costing the country a lot more than these vaguely unethical insurance company "accepted practices" and so-called price fixing.
You are a clueless moron, and I will explain why in the simplest manner: Spitzer went after Merril Lynch and other investment banks that the SEC had turned a blind eye to. Soft targets? You're soft in the head.
Organized crime? Sure. Guess where most of that is concentrated in the State of New York...The City, asshole, and that means it comes under the jurisdiction of the DA, or the Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Manhattan. Yeah, it is a problem that goes across the country, but a State Attorney General's jurisdiction remains within the State, not cross-country.
And once again, you are a poorly-read, under-educated moron. Go back to your fucking Xbox or Fox News, whatever.
Not to argue your point, but, I drove from Montreal to New York to see Albert King playing his guitar at the Lonestar, once upon a time... so, it's about the degree of fandom,I guess.
Meanwhile, the people talking about "I'd pay this if they did that..." are a good illustration of a biz I was in, selling Private Placements. Let's say Mr. Whedon comes out and says, "Yeah, if we had twenty million to work with we'd cobble together an abbreviated season of new stories."
Then, a Bank is chosen to hold any cash raised in escrow. A lawyer gets the 'blue-sky' ruling from the SEC. You divide the $20 miilion into 'units' representing a certain percentage of the profits of any positive outcome of the fund-raising and broadcast [say, 10% of the net].
You create 2 million units @ $20 per unit, sell all the units, give Whedon's people their $20 million, split the other $20 million between the middlemen, lawyers, and sales guys...heheh, this happens all the time,by the way, and if it hits the big time, everybody laughs on the way to the bank AND has the show for a season. I'm in :)
I first heard of Firefly here on Slashdot. I don't watch a lot of TV. I got curious and downloaded the whole series, and an early TC of the film, off the Usenet.
I was knocked out. Flawed heroes, villains with a bit of depth, terrific music in the series [so-so in the film, IMHO], and the 'cowboy' thing juxtaposed against the 'futuristic' environment was realistic. [think about it, the World and all of its people will never be on anything like the same wavelength, technologically speaking]. Example: The Russian peasants didn't fight the Panzer divisions, in the early 40s, with sticks and pitchforks out of some innate urge to live out 'cowboy' romanticism.
I bought the series in DVD form as a birthday gift for my daughter. And the DVD of the film will go out to her as a holiday gift, also. It was a terrific series, well-written, the crew obviously took their work seriously, the cast was marvelous, and the story was a nice post-Enlightenment look at people, flawed and heroically fabulous, in crises. Very well done, and I'll miss it like old friends, like family, as corny as that sounds. [and I'm old enough to know better...but...]
DVD sales represented 48% of feature sales in 2004. So far in 2005 they represent 59%.
Is that enough?
Sure, that should be more than enough, for an ignoramus who has no knowledge of the Russian economy from 1917-1945, and the difference between then and post-democratization.
Gross National Product in Bolshevik/Communist Russia/USSR was four times what it has been since the fall of communism. The economies of Eastern Europe were not helped by being the [historically business-as-usual] arena for the larger powers to fight their wars in. Read some fucking economics history. Turn off Fox News and pick up a book, for fuck's sake.
Oh yeah? When? Maybe on Windows it did, haven't looked. Try looking under the "Opera" menu item on a Mac running Opera 8.5.1, and guess what? Same as always, choices to view as Mozilla or Explorer, on-the-fly.
Check your fucking facts. "...a while ago..." hey, a 'while ago you dropped your crack pipe, that's what happened...'a while ago.'
The guy is a bullshitter. Ha ha ha. I've had no problems dealing with, in the last three years: Bank of America [in Boca], Toronto Dominion [Montreal], HSBC [New York], M&T [New York], US Bank Minneapolis], ScotiaBank [Montreal],Orchard Bank [Texas, I think], and Household...all on a Macintosh.
On various Mac-oriented LISTSERVs I see folks, every year or so, griping about 'but I need to use IE for my Bank!" This usually comes from mentally challenged ladies, and users of the most fucked-with setups imaginable [not 'hacked' fucked-with, just retarded 'fucked-with'].
My guess is that rich boy was handed a cashier's check for his balance and offered his choice of a cooler or a backpack on his way out the door. Oh yeah, serious clout, unh huh.
So, in SGML/XML one declares an element, 'table', with attributes like, 'column', etc, which includes an element, 'row', which includes, 'entry', etc, etc. Each entry can have its own elements [no pun intended], like 'name', 'symbol' [cross-reffed to a "declared" png, for example]...So what's the issue with XML and a Table of Elements? Color of the various element groups? Just another non-printed 'tag' to be referenced by the XHTML, or CSS, or pdf style sheet, whatever, etc.
That keeps your table searchable, and allows it to be printed, streamed, pdf'd, whatever.
I've seen 'verbatim' tags in well thoughtout DTDs that allow for multiple white spaces and all sorts of stuff that might seem 'formatted' to the eye [normally a no-no in good SGML].
Apple and Microsoft, and anyone else that fucks around with popping binary crap into otherwise pure XML is doing it for one reason only, and it is NOT to speed up XML code going through CPUs...they are simply fucking with it to make the format proprietary. Utter bullshit, a pox on all their houses.
Yes, that is insightful, as duly modded, but it's also, easily, one of the most hilarious descriptions of the 'state of things' out 'there' that I've seen. thanks.
And old? yeah, I remember sending a simple note to a fellow up at the school, and then going outside to shoot a few baskets and have a smoke while the 'reply' came back, on the telex. Fun stuff, back in the day.
What the Fuck? With the whole world only using less than 10% of the installed fiber? You are way out of your tree, pal. Economic necessity? In a land of gullible mental midgets, perhaps.
WTF?? Hello, sonny, uh, you're looking at it from a newbie student's point of view. Get a fucking grip. From the paragraphs that follow your opening delusions, it looks like you have a long row to hoe, also.
I like that bit, "When things are expensive you can steal until the price becomes cheaper." Run that one past your professor before you act out on it, though, for your own good. Although, the sentiment kinda reminds me of Old Mexico, in a way...okay, old Tijuana on Navy payday weekend, but thanks just the same.
The notion you mangled, oops, I mean, were fishing for, is called 'supply and demand', and those two things are at the heart of price points, and inflation, hey??!?! And the more people become aware of the existence of freely-obtainable software/musicreality TV, Mexican soaps, etc, well, if the demand runs flat with population growth/demographics, and the supply is, theoretically, 'unlimited', ouchie. You don't need differential calc to see that the price point is looking at a freefall, at some point in the future, eh wot?
Speak for yourself, pal. When money is tight, morale is low, where I come from.
Oh, did you mean morals? Well, that's different. You have lots of company here, I recommend a grammar checker, or run your text past someone who did something besides play gameboys or smoke in the bathroom during early school years.
I seriously doubt a person with 1,000 LPs on a drive would only buy 15 LPs, everything else being considered equal.
Here's an example: Me. I collected records, for years. I also worked for WEA for a while, out of Burbank, and played in bands, and worked on both sides in recording contract negotiations, etc.
But records? Shit. I invested big cash in a retail startup. The two partners are millionaires today. I did what their banks balked at. I took a salary: 450 LPs a week. I was already on several big 5 record company's B-list for advance copies of new stuff, and still managed to buy wholesale from jobbers, go to swap meets, hit flea markets and deal with japanese guys from Tokyo with their briefcases and lines like, "I heard you found an Elvis 7 1/2 EP picture sleeve in El Cajon two weeks ago." Heheh, that's collecting.I bought thousands of records from people who were selling, re-selling, and re-re-selling the same article...in other words, exceeding the so-called 'fair use', first sale thing. Was I taking money out the pockets of artists? Gee, I don't know, let's ask a record company lawyer/accountant. Hang on, we'll have the answer as soon as he stops laughing.Now I collect software, have for years. It's a hobby, and it gets expensive, too. I don't pay for too much, up front. I buy everything I use day-to-day, and got roped into buying Photoshop [by my own relativist 'ethics', wouldn't you know] when I started making money in a DTP situation and realized P-Shop had become 'day-to-day'. Ouch. Believe me, there are tons of software collectors out there. Where they fit into this moralistic thing about depriving middlemen and oligopolists their extra 'cheese', I wouldn't know. I'm a hobbyist.
I sleep fine, thanks.
That isn't flamebait...might be a bit inaccurate though. Quick, when's the last time anyone saw a cat running around in Chinatown? Hint: Spring rolls.
I'm not eating animals these days, but the historical justification for the keeping of animals [including dogs and cats], was a source of food when times went crappy. Check a little detailed history of, say, the Roman Empire. An 'emergency' diet that included cats, there, would, no doubt, have ticked off a citizen of old Cairo. Just a point of view, culturally speaking.
50% off for blind TV 'viewers'.... ha ha ha, I get it...jesus, Brit humor, eh?