He means that he makes a profit, but then reinvests it into his business by buying business related stuff like computer hardware and software. He breaks even on paper, and that's where it counts. Since all home businesses itemize their deductions for taxes (or at least they'd be insane not to) he won't pay any taxes on income made from the business if he spent every dollar he made on the business.
If you have more than 100 links in the same page, Google doesn't index it. I've had some pages kept precisely at 50 links and google visited once, then never returned. Content link-advertising would most certainly get the page banned by Google.
Things I miss are the sites where you could get free webspace to do whatever with, and not have to fart around with banner ads, popups, etc. Granted that's moot since I have a friend who hosts one of my sites.
My company, SurveyComplete, sponsors a service called AloofHosting which provides free webspace to people. Signups don't get to do anything they want with the space, it is understood that users are meant to host a website, and not use it as a file-server, but for the most part people seem pretty happy. It's also partially supported by a 2-line text ad placed in the footer of each webpage. So it's not really "free" as in without obligations, but it's very mild when compared with the popups and banners enforced on users of other "free" webpage services.
On the plus side, users do get 50MB of diskspace and 500MB of transfer a month. It's really a pretty good service, reminiscent of GeoCities before they placed the floating G on every page.
For my business, eFax ($12.95/mo) made more sense economically over a year than the cost of purchasing a fax machine (~$8/mo) and leasing a land line (~$25/mo.) I haven't had any problems with the service except for the occasional fax spam, which isn't eFax's fault.
They're supposed to obtain approval from the orignal artist. Often it's easier to simply re-record the same bass line or drum beat themselves to avoid copyright problems like that rapper did with the police "I'll be watching you" bass line a few years back used in the tribute song to the other rapper that was killed in a stupid east vs. west rapper feud. (Vague enough for you?)
Most electronic musicians avoid the hassle by buying huge collections of royalty-free samples. There's a whole industry built up around it. Funny, I'm selling a huge collection of 19 Sample CDs for making electronic music right now on eBay.
I really dig the user-created remakes. They're just so crappy in comparison to the originals.
----------- Since you're here, you should sign up for a banner / pop-up free website on AloofHosting.com. 50MB disk space, 500MB transfer, FTP, and a pissed off monkey comes with each free account.
From the article, "Market researcher IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux' PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple Computer Inc.'s... Macintosh... software."
My company, SurveyComplete, programs online surveys for market research companies. That's all that we do, and we're damn good at it. In fact, I'd say that we're the best in the world at what we do at this point in time and I'm proud of my work. Last year we completed nearly fifty research studies, covering over 800,000 interviews.
This story really ticks me off because we performed an Awareness and Usage study across Internet Users (just two weeks ago) on the topic of Operating Systems and found that Linux is absolutely not overtaking Macintosh.
While 26% of the 1,100 respondents we interviewed were aware of Linux or one of its many distributions, only 1% use it on a daily or weekly basis. Macintosh comes in at a healthy 6%.
One of the most interesting findings in the study came from when we examined techies against the rest of the population and found that "Respondents who are male, aged 35 or more, use broadband, and are college educated (some college or more) are far more likely to be aware of Linux than the rest of the population" to the tune of 43% awareness of Linux in techies versus 15% in the rest of the population. That's a huge gap, a gargantuan gap. When we examined the operating systems respondents currently use, 3% of techies are using Linux versus less than 1% of the general population.
When I read the results, it really shocked me. Why, this means that 2004 is not going to be the year of Linux on the desktop -- this goes against everything I've heard on slashdot! All those hours I've spent reading articles by people in the open-source scene talking about how this year, was going to be it. But this makes more sense: Nobody has really heard about Linux outside of nerds.
Which is probably why the results of our study never appeared on slashdot (even though they were submitted last week.)
It's really frustrating that this pro-linux propaganda gets through onto the front page while articles like ours which have results that make sense, get dropped.
You can read our study results and find out if BSD is truly dead, here:
It's a good idea to download a Linux distribution. I bet the techies would love that. The top brass however, the people with the money who actually make the decisions, would be left wondering what's so special about downloading a CD.
That's why you should spider the entire internet in real-time. Have a counter oncreen update the number of webpages you've visited. Maybe even flash by the domain names of the sites being indexed.
1 million web page visits a second would be pretty intense.
The problem here is that you'd need a good 100 or more computers to do it. Still, all you'd need would be a simple perl script installed on each of your company's computers.
Paying outrageous fees or investing lots of money into oddball technology is retarded these days. You don't have to look hard to find industrial or commercial areas where high-speed telco access has already been installed by a local government or development authority, or where the state government will give you tax breaks or grants to install such equipment.
Exactly, the city my business is located in, Burbank, CA, laid down something like 2,000 fibre optic lines throughout the commercial areas of the city for businesses to lease. The mayor talked about it quite a bit during her "Mayor on the street" segment on local channel 6. The grid seemed pretty impressive.
Of course, we're probably a special case. They call Burbank "Media City" because we're home to Disney, Warner Bros, DIC, and NBC.
There was a great post on this subject on comp.lang.c back in 1989 by an academic named Rahul Dhesi:
Why languages should be case-sensitive:
People may use |COUNT| and |count| to mean the same thing, but mathematicians don't. In mathematical expressions it's very useful to use case distinctions for related entities. For example,
Consider a graph G(V,E)
for each vertex v in V do
find an edge e in E such that e is incident on v...
Since programming languages are meant for use by technical people, and since computer programming and mathematics are so intimately related, it pays to let computer programmers use the same tools that mathematicians do. Not only should programming languages be case-sensitive, but they should allow the use of subscripts, superscripts, and Greek letters too, to make the notation more powerful and more intuitive. Right now we have to go through some trouble to compact mathematical notation to a verbose format just because the computer's character set is so inadequate.
Hmmm... sounds like you need a big PDA hybrid. In addition to being big, they're also PDAs. Why, funny that, looks like I'm running an ebay auction selling one right now!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em =3072222516&category=38331&sspagename=STRK%3AMESSE %3AIT&rd=1
Seriously though, I've seen people selling T-Mobile Pocket PCs with GPS attachments.
If you have some spare time on your hands, you might want to dump the angelfire account and move to a "more free" hosting service like aloofhosting.com. For advertising, they (uh, we) display a 2-line text ad at the bottom of the screen. There aren't any popups or anything. It's a fun business to run, we get a lot of chinese students setting up home pages.
The shareholders don't want them taking risks with their money. They want Cinderella 3: Rise of the Sisters, they want tie-ins with McDonalds, they want safe, easy, money.
This is one of the main reasons why Roy E. Disney (Chairman of Disney Animation Department and member of the Disney board of directors, and Walt's last remaining relative in the Disney empire) resigned in a big melt down last November.
In his resignation letter (available here) Roy E. Disney blasted Michael Eisner with, "This company under your leadership has failed in many ways:" then of the many things he slams, specifically bombasts Eisner for "The perception by all of our stateholders -- consumers, investors, employees, distributors, and suppliers -- that the company is rapacious, soulless, and always looking for the 'quick buck' rather than long-term value which is leading to a loss of the public trust." and "Your failure to establish and build constructive relationships with creative partners, especially Pixar, Miramax, and the cable companies distributing our products."
All in all, it's a great letter, rather well written, and my brief highlights don't do it justice. He tells the world that Michael Eisner is a no-good egomaniac who's systematically destroying the legacy that Walt built by not taking risks, going for the quick buck, and releasing sequels rather than using the briliant writing talent already available inside the animation complex.
Now here's how the animators feel. There was a letter of support written recently by Disney's top animators Tim Hauser (writer of the OSCAR nominated short Runaway Brain), Steve Moore (director, OSCAR nominated short Redux Riding Hood, Emmy nominated special Olive, the Other Reindeer), and Dave Pruiksma (supervising animator, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lion King, etc.) and it was signed by over 4200 members of the animation community:
"The unique traditions of visual storytelling, humor and personality animation on which the Walt Disney Studio had thrived, gave way to politically correct sloganeering, stale one-liners and film seminar formulas to which audiences have refused to respond.
Mr. Eisner's rejection of Walt Disney's heritage has been a colossal failure. Yet this is a man who has been paid over $700 million in compensation since 1996, while the Feature Animation department has been decimated by pink slips.
Now, skilled craftsmen go unemployed while the executive ranks swell. A unique American art form, the Disney cartoon feature, hangs precariously in the balance - - reduced to the production of cheap direct-to-video franchise extensions made by committee.
Without Roy, who will protect the 70-year Disney legacy from becoming no more than a hollow brand?"
The whole scandal is great reading. I recommend checking out savedisney.com (Roy E. Disney's website.) Then while you're feeling indignant that the little spark that Disney still had was purposefully extinguished, go sign the petition then if you're still feeling indignant, purchase some "Roy was right." messenger bags and wear them to Disneyland or Disneyworld the next time you go as a show of support, cause the appropriate behavior to news like this -- a boycott -- just isn't going to happen. So buy the bags, and be obnoxious at the parks.
Don't try to make a point by changing a group's proper name to something insulting. This just makes you look stupid (e.g. Demicrooks, RepubliCONS, CONgress.)
You may have good points in your exclamation point-rich post, but I'd never know. You blew your tenuous credibility in the fourth sentence.
Least valuable??? or least expensive.... My computer doesn't work without the power cord, so while it is inexpensive... it's value is measureless.
Good point. By this (insightful) logic, a screw in an engine block is the most valuable part of the car. Without the fifty-cent screw, the car is rendered useless. Life is funny like that.
It's amusing how often we forget that value is relative.
In my view, this statement is almost laughable. What's the purpose of it? To justify theft? That's a very, very slippery slope indeed.
You know, this statement really makes me think.
Lots of people here on slashdot like to say, "It's not theft, it's copyright infringement." As if this minor difference in terms means much, as if I were to write a book and someone scanned each page then put it up on the internet, I wouldn't feel like I had been ripped off.
So why do we (as a community, culture, subculture, everybody but you, whatever) continue to justify the act of stealing music? Hell, I understand that it's wrong. Yet I have a 30gb MP3 player. I didn't pay for any of the music on there. Why doesn't it cause me guilt?
It's not like I'm an amoral person. A cashier at Wetzel's Pretzels gave me back too much change last weekend, and as I was putting it away, I thought about how that cashier might get fired if their register came up short. So I gave the money back. A lady there looked at me and said, "You're a really nice person." Whatever. $10 isn't worth the hit to my karma.
Hell, I can't remember the last time I shoplifted anything. I must have been a little kid. If I stole something today, I'd feel bad about it, and since there's plenty of other things in life that I've done to feel bad about, why complicate things? Most people feel this way, I think. That's the way that a conscience works.
My pet theory as to why we can steal music (and movies occasionally) without guilt is that we're so used to receiving it for free that it has no intristic value. So our conscience has nothing to feel guilty about.
Hear me out for a second or two. You or I could go outside right now to our car (if we're lucky enough to have a car that is) turn on the radio and most likely hear some fairly good music -- for free. It likely won't be our favorite song on the radio, or our favorite type of music either, but it won't be offensive. It's still pretty good. I don't really like the Rolling Stones for instance, but hell, it's at least interesting in rhythm and structure. And they give this music away free!
(Sure, radio is paid for by commercials, but experientially, it's still free.)
Movies are pretty much free too. If you have cable, you can watch as many movies as you like for a monthly fee. No real commercials even. It's like movies on tap. You just hit the power button and they come on. If you're like me, sometimes you'll sit through a bad movie just because it's on and you don't have to pay for it. Of course, you really are paying for it, but it's not tied in to the experience. Movies on tap! Wow! Wait around long enough and a good movie that you liked in the past like Pulp Fiction or Trainspotting will probably come on.
It's not a new thing, this giving away stuff for free so the people who really like it will buy it to listen/watch at their convenience. Hell, they've been doing this with music long before most of us were born. I grew up watching "The World of Disney" on broadcast television for free, every week they played great movies for free.
So because of peer-to-peer networks, we have the opportunity to get this music that they're still giving away for free and listen to it at our convenience. Suddenly there's a huge uproar, "You're stealing music! Don't take that, you didn't pay for it!" Well, yes. But it's not like I would have bought the CD anyway, and you'll give it away for free if I wait around long enough on the radio, so what's the big deal?
Of course, it is wrong. By the laws of the land, radio music is free and you're welcome to partake, but you're welcome to free music only when listening to the radio -- and when you're on hold, and when you're in a store, and when you're in an elevator, and when you're in someone else's home and they're playing the music that they legally purchased from the rightful manufacturer. There's all these exceptions where the music is free. The
I was pretty happy about that too. Did you notice that it came in a western union envelope though? I was like, "Whoa. I've never received a telegram before."
What kind of bizarro-world do we live in where a high-speed communications company sends letters from companys that were famous for their telegrams?
Nope, power steering and brakes (like the air conditioner) work off of hydrolic pumps getting power from the engine. No electricity involved. If the engine isn't turning, they aren't working.
This poster is correct. It's especially important to know this if you drive a manual transmission, because if you're like me, you often don't push the clutch in while braking until just before you stop (save wear and tear on your brakes and all that.) The problem is, if you lock up the brakes without pushing the clutch in, then the engine will stall and the brake pedal will get all mushy, so when you start pumping it, you won't stop. Bad stuff!
Happened to me once on the freeway. I tapped the bumper of a guy in front of me after decelerating from 70mph to 0 in a messy skidding stop. If I had pushed the clutch in then I wouldn't have hit him.
6 of the 8 who voted against this were from states centrally located in the U.S.
It makes sense because long distance rates are cheaper there. A few cents a minute savings really adds up when you've got a phone room filled with hundreds of people working the phones.
I own a business programming online surveys and a lot of my work comes from research studies that used to be conducted by huge phone centers out in the midwest. I like to think that I'm helping put them out of business. Too bad that telephone surveys aren't affected by the do not call list. It would earn me more work!:)
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He means that he makes a profit, but then reinvests it into his business by buying business related stuff like computer hardware and software. He breaks even on paper, and that's where it counts. Since all home businesses itemize their deductions for taxes (or at least they'd be insane not to) he won't pay any taxes on income made from the business if he spent every dollar he made on the business.
It's just part of being a smart business owner.
If you have more than 100 links in the same page, Google doesn't index it. I've had some pages kept precisely at 50 links and google visited once, then never returned. Content link-advertising would most certainly get the page banned by Google.
The hosting industry is turbulent and over-saturated. I really don't see your point.
Should he have pretended that he's not competing in a cut-throat business?
I don't see why this is marked up as insightful. Maybe you've never built your own website and shopped around for a place to put it.
Things I miss are the sites where you could get free webspace to do whatever with, and not have to fart around with banner ads, popups, etc. Granted that's moot since I have a friend who hosts one of my sites.
My company, SurveyComplete, sponsors a service called AloofHosting which provides free webspace to people. Signups don't get to do anything they want with the space, it is understood that users are meant to host a website, and not use it as a file-server, but for the most part people seem pretty happy. It's also partially supported by a 2-line text ad placed in the footer of each webpage. So it's not really "free" as in without obligations, but it's very mild when compared with the popups and banners enforced on users of other "free" webpage services.
On the plus side, users do get 50MB of diskspace and 500MB of transfer a month. It's really a pretty good service, reminiscent of GeoCities before they placed the floating G on every page.
For my business, eFax ($12.95/mo) made more sense economically over a year than the cost of purchasing a fax machine (~$8/mo) and leasing a land line (~$25/mo.) I haven't had any problems with the service except for the occasional fax spam, which isn't eFax's fault.
The package signup buttons on Webslum.net don't work in Mozilla FireFox. I wasn't really signing up, just checking out the site. Interesting approach.
They're supposed to obtain approval from the orignal artist. Often it's easier to simply re-record the same bass line or drum beat themselves to avoid copyright problems like that rapper did with the police "I'll be watching you" bass line a few years back used in the tribute song to the other rapper that was killed in a stupid east vs. west rapper feud. (Vague enough for you?)
Most electronic musicians avoid the hassle by buying huge collections of royalty-free samples. There's a whole industry built up around it. Funny, I'm selling a huge collection of 19 Sample CDs for making electronic music right now on eBay.
Plugging slashdot rocks.
Just last week I bought Dungeon Siege, the first computer game I've bought in a year, just so I could play the fan-based remake of Ultima V featured on slashdot the other day. It was a neat concept to remake an old (but loved) game.
There's also a user created Wing Commander mod for Vega Strike.
I really dig the user-created remakes. They're just so crappy in comparison to the originals.
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Since you're here, you should sign up for a banner / pop-up free website on AloofHosting.com. 50MB disk space, 500MB transfer, FTP, and a pissed off monkey comes with each free account.
* Monkey may not be available in your state. *
From the article, "Market researcher IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux' PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple Computer Inc.'s... Macintosh... software."
My company, SurveyComplete, programs online surveys for market research companies. That's all that we do, and we're damn good at it. In fact, I'd say that we're the best in the world at what we do at this point in time and I'm proud of my work. Last year we completed nearly fifty research studies, covering over 800,000 interviews.
This story really ticks me off because we performed an Awareness and Usage study across Internet Users (just two weeks ago) on the topic of Operating Systems and found that Linux is absolutely not overtaking Macintosh.
While 26% of the 1,100 respondents we interviewed were aware of Linux or one of its many distributions, only 1% use it on a daily or weekly basis. Macintosh comes in at a healthy 6%.
One of the most interesting findings in the study came from when we examined techies against the rest of the population and found that "Respondents who are male, aged 35 or more, use broadband, and are college educated (some college or more) are far more likely to be aware of Linux than the rest of the population" to the tune of 43% awareness of Linux in techies versus 15% in the rest of the population. That's a huge gap, a gargantuan gap. When we examined the operating systems respondents currently use, 3% of techies are using Linux versus less than 1% of the general population.
When I read the results, it really shocked me. Why, this means that 2004 is not going to be the year of Linux on the desktop -- this goes against everything I've heard on slashdot! All those hours I've spent reading articles by people in the open-source scene talking about how this year, was going to be it. But this makes more sense: Nobody has really heard about Linux outside of nerds.
Which is probably why the results of our study never appeared on slashdot (even though they were submitted last week.)
It's really frustrating that this pro-linux propaganda gets through onto the front page while articles like ours which have results that make sense, get dropped.
You can read our study results and find out if BSD is truly dead, here:
2004 SurveyComplete Operating System Awareness and Usage Study
It's a good idea to download a Linux distribution. I bet the techies would love that. The top brass however, the people with the money who actually make the decisions, would be left wondering what's so special about downloading a CD.
That's why you should spider the entire internet in real-time. Have a counter oncreen update the number of webpages you've visited. Maybe even flash by the domain names of the sites being indexed.
1 million web page visits a second would be pretty intense.
The problem here is that you'd need a good 100 or more computers to do it. Still, all you'd need would be a simple perl script installed on each of your company's computers.
Paying outrageous fees or investing lots of money into oddball technology is retarded these days. You don't have to look hard to find industrial or commercial areas where high-speed telco access has already been installed by a local government or development authority, or where the state government will give you tax breaks or grants to install such equipment.
Exactly, the city my business is located in, Burbank, CA, laid down something like 2,000 fibre optic lines throughout the commercial areas of the city for businesses to lease. The mayor talked about it quite a bit during her "Mayor on the street" segment on local channel 6. The grid seemed pretty impressive.
Of course, we're probably a special case. They call Burbank "Media City" because we're home to Disney, Warner Bros, DIC, and NBC.
Link to the original post
...And that's why you should sign up for free hosting with aloofhosting.com.
Life sucks. After selling out and trying to pimp my auction, I posted the wrong link.
Hmmm... sounds like you need a big PDA hybrid. In addition to being big, they're also PDAs. Why, funny that, looks like I'm running an ebay auction selling one right now!
t em =3072222516&category=38331&sspagename=STRK%3AMESSE %3AIT&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i
Seriously though, I've seen people selling T-Mobile Pocket PCs with GPS attachments.
Oh angelfire and geocities, I miss you so.
If you have some spare time on your hands, you might want to dump the angelfire account and move to a "more free" hosting service like aloofhosting.com. For advertising, they (uh, we) display a 2-line text ad at the bottom of the screen. There aren't any popups or anything. It's a fun business to run, we get a lot of chinese students setting up home pages.
Lets party like it's 1996 again!
This is one of the main reasons why Roy E. Disney (Chairman of Disney Animation Department and member of the Disney board of directors, and Walt's last remaining relative in the Disney empire) resigned in a big melt down last November.
In his resignation letter (available here) Roy E. Disney blasted Michael Eisner with, "This company under your leadership has failed in many ways:" then of the many things he slams, specifically bombasts Eisner for "The perception by all of our stateholders -- consumers, investors, employees, distributors, and suppliers -- that the company is rapacious, soulless, and always looking for the 'quick buck' rather than long-term value which is leading to a loss of the public trust." and "Your failure to establish and build constructive relationships with creative partners, especially Pixar, Miramax, and the cable companies distributing our products."
All in all, it's a great letter, rather well written, and my brief highlights don't do it justice. He tells the world that Michael Eisner is a no-good egomaniac who's systematically destroying the legacy that Walt built by not taking risks, going for the quick buck, and releasing sequels rather than using the briliant writing talent already available inside the animation complex.
Now here's how the animators feel. There was a letter of support written recently by Disney's top animators Tim Hauser (writer of the OSCAR nominated short Runaway Brain), Steve Moore (director, OSCAR nominated short Redux Riding Hood, Emmy nominated special Olive, the Other Reindeer), and Dave Pruiksma (supervising animator, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lion King, etc.) and it was signed by over 4200 members of the animation community:
The whole scandal is great reading. I recommend checking out savedisney.com (Roy E. Disney's website.) Then while you're feeling indignant that the little spark that Disney still had was purposefully extinguished, go sign the petition then if you're still feeling indignant, purchase some "Roy was right." messenger bags and wear them to Disneyland or Disneyworld the next time you go as a show of support, cause the appropriate behavior to news like this -- a boycott -- just isn't going to happen. So buy the bags, and be obnoxious at the parks.
Anyway, Roy's email address is on the web. You can email him here.
Don't try to make a point by changing a group's proper name to something insulting. This just makes you look stupid (e.g. Demicrooks, RepubliCONS, CONgress.)
You may have good points in your exclamation point-rich post, but I'd never know. You blew your tenuous credibility in the fourth sentence.
Least valuable??? or least expensive.... My computer doesn't work without the power cord, so while it is inexpensive... it's value is measureless.
Good point. By this (insightful) logic, a screw in an engine block is the most valuable part of the car. Without the fifty-cent screw, the car is rendered useless. Life is funny like that.
It's amusing how often we forget that value is relative.
In my view, this statement is almost laughable. What's the purpose of it? To justify theft? That's a very, very slippery slope indeed.
You know, this statement really makes me think.
Lots of people here on slashdot like to say, "It's not theft, it's copyright infringement." As if this minor difference in terms means much, as if I were to write a book and someone scanned each page then put it up on the internet, I wouldn't feel like I had been ripped off.
So why do we (as a community, culture, subculture, everybody but you, whatever) continue to justify the act of stealing music? Hell, I understand that it's wrong. Yet I have a 30gb MP3 player. I didn't pay for any of the music on there. Why doesn't it cause me guilt?
It's not like I'm an amoral person. A cashier at Wetzel's Pretzels gave me back too much change last weekend, and as I was putting it away, I thought about how that cashier might get fired if their register came up short. So I gave the money back. A lady there looked at me and said, "You're a really nice person." Whatever. $10 isn't worth the hit to my karma.
Hell, I can't remember the last time I shoplifted anything. I must have been a little kid. If I stole something today, I'd feel bad about it, and since there's plenty of other things in life that I've done to feel bad about, why complicate things? Most people feel this way, I think. That's the way that a conscience works.
My pet theory as to why we can steal music (and movies occasionally) without guilt is that we're so used to receiving it for free that it has no intristic value. So our conscience has nothing to feel guilty about.
Hear me out for a second or two. You or I could go outside right now to our car (if we're lucky enough to have a car that is) turn on the radio and most likely hear some fairly good music -- for free. It likely won't be our favorite song on the radio, or our favorite type of music either, but it won't be offensive. It's still pretty good. I don't really like the Rolling Stones for instance, but hell, it's at least interesting in rhythm and structure. And they give this music away free!
(Sure, radio is paid for by commercials, but experientially, it's still free.)
Movies are pretty much free too. If you have cable, you can watch as many movies as you like for a monthly fee. No real commercials even. It's like movies on tap. You just hit the power button and they come on. If you're like me, sometimes you'll sit through a bad movie just because it's on and you don't have to pay for it. Of course, you really are paying for it, but it's not tied in to the experience. Movies on tap! Wow! Wait around long enough and a good movie that you liked in the past like Pulp Fiction or Trainspotting will probably come on.
It's not a new thing, this giving away stuff for free so the people who really like it will buy it to listen/watch at their convenience. Hell, they've been doing this with music long before most of us were born. I grew up watching "The World of Disney" on broadcast television for free, every week they played great movies for free.
So because of peer-to-peer networks, we have the opportunity to get this music that they're still giving away for free and listen to it at our convenience. Suddenly there's a huge uproar, "You're stealing music! Don't take that, you didn't pay for it!" Well, yes. But it's not like I would have bought the CD anyway, and you'll give it away for free if I wait around long enough on the radio, so what's the big deal?
Of course, it is wrong. By the laws of the land, radio music is free and you're welcome to partake, but you're welcome to free music only when listening to the radio -- and when you're on hold, and when you're in a store, and when you're in an elevator, and when you're in someone else's home and they're playing the music that they legally purchased from the rightful manufacturer. There's all these exceptions where the music is free. The
becuase your stupid ?
Christ man! You misspelled "because" and "you're."
I was pretty happy about that too. Did you notice that it came in a western union envelope though? I was like, "Whoa. I've never received a telegram before."
What kind of bizarro-world do we live in where a high-speed communications company sends letters from companys that were famous for their telegrams?
Nope, power steering and brakes (like the air conditioner) work off of hydrolic pumps getting power from the engine. No electricity involved. If the engine isn't turning, they aren't working.
This poster is correct. It's especially important to know this if you drive a manual transmission, because if you're like me, you often don't push the clutch in while braking until just before you stop (save wear and tear on your brakes and all that.) The problem is, if you lock up the brakes without pushing the clutch in, then the engine will stall and the brake pedal will get all mushy, so when you start pumping it, you won't stop. Bad stuff!
Happened to me once on the freeway. I tapped the bumper of a guy in front of me after decelerating from 70mph to 0 in a messy skidding stop. If I had pushed the clutch in then I wouldn't have hit him.
Anybody have an idea as to what the "industrial controller" is? I'd love a device like that which I could plug into the serial port and read sensors.
6 of the 8 who voted against this were from states centrally located in the U.S.
:)
It makes sense because long distance rates are cheaper there. A few cents a minute savings really adds up when you've got a phone room filled with hundreds of people working the phones.
I own a business programming online surveys and a lot of my work comes from research studies that used to be conducted by huge phone centers out in the midwest. I like to think that I'm helping put them out of business. Too bad that telephone surveys aren't affected by the do not call list. It would earn me more work!
Here's a fairly comprehensive list of CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) phone centers in the U.S. sorted by state.
Yep, understood. Hope you understood that my post was too.
Clear as crystal.
I dated a girl with such eccentricities and what happened? She's now my wife and we're expecting our second kid any day now..
Congratulations on your second kid.
My girlfriend and I have been dating for a few years now, and we're to be married in November. Good things all around.
Kind regards,
Michael Judge
SurveyComplete