Suicide Kings is a completely sweet movie chocked full of entertainment goodness
But let's get back to that album which probably only has one or at most two decent songs on it.
You're trying *really* hard to compare dissimilar items here, aren't you? If you inject your taste in music/movies into the discussion, sure, an album with two good songs is worth much less than your favorite movie. Then I can give an example of an album with all great songs vs. a movie with "at most one or two decent scenes in it" as you might phrase it. Pointless.
For many films, income from sales and rentals is the income. Bladerunner for instance
You say that as if Blade Runner (1982) hadn't already paid for itself before the huge rental market was more than a blip on the radar. Pick better anecdotal evidence. Or better yet, avoid it.
Suicide Kings for 6 bucks at Target, that is just F'd up.
when it's 20 dollars for some crappy new top forty album
You're comparing what's probably the cheapest single DVD you can buy from a discount retailer, to a top-line CD at or above list price, probably from a high-priced mall store like Sam Goody, FYE, etc. The average prices for both DVDs and CDs fall between your extreme 'apples & oranges' examples.
While CD prices have been rising for the most part, DVD's have been crashing.
CDs don't have millions of dollars in theater ticket revenue to fall back on. Yes, there are other price-influencing factors, but that's a *big* one. For many films, DVD income is icing on the cake.
Stop playing our songs with your little so-called "band members". Just because you call it a "cover" and say it's a "tribute" doesn't mean you're not in criminal violation. (By the way, send us a demo and maybe we'll sign you up for indentured servitude...er, I mean, lucrative arrangements. Heh heh.)
The 'R' in RIAA stands for Recording. A cover song doesn't normally utilize the original recording. You can play covers all day and not be in legal danger from the RIAA. Compositions are generally looked after by other entities (think ASCAP, BMI, NMPA) who represent songwriters and publishing companies.
If we hear you humming one of our songs while walking down the street, it's curtains for you, buddy.
Why record anything when you can be sure that whatever you just heard will be repeated an hour later?
Sure, if you're a pop zombie.
Want interesting radio? If you're in/near a big city, crawl through the FM dial sometime when you're bored, you may be pleasantly surprised. In Chicago I was happy to discover WNUR. Britney who? Linkin what?
Plus, almost everyone can tune in the nearest public radio station. Why would I want to record anything, you ask? This American Life, Echoes, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!, etc...
I don't think the film industry would be happy standardizing on.avi or the music industry on.wav, so why doesn't the business word get it's act together and accept a better format than the crappy.doc?
Because the consumables of the business world are not internal documents. Phone company people don't lose sleep over the format of project charters. They lose sleep over DSL lines, losing customers to upstart rivals, etc.
Film industry people care about video file formats because video is their consumable product. They probably use.doc internally too. [shrug]
Do other people really receive that much spam, or am I an isolated case ?
I've often wondered this too. What the heck do people do to get themselves in the 100+ spams per day situation?
Do people who receive spam purchase things online, or register software and other services with their real names and email ?
I'm guessing yes, and often. I get about 20 spams per day in my years-old seldom used Hotmail account, which I used for plenty of stupid things in the past (in which case, 20 isn't so bad compared to what a lot of people quote).
I get about 3 per week in my personal account, which I use for *tons* of registrations and memberships, albeit with "legit" organizations and businesses.
I get zero in my work account, which is limited strictly to business use.
So again, what the heck are the rest of you doing to get buried in spam? I guess I might consider spam a problem if I got even half of what the vocal spam-haters claim to receive.
it would be nicer if people would spend a day of there life to look at postgresql
It would be nicer if someone had named it differently. This may sound silly, but if you wanna appeal to noobs, it helps to have a meaningful/pronounceable name that people can remember how to spell (for Google purposes) without taking a stab in the dark.
"What the hell does postgre mean? That's weird, I'll check out MySQL."
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The company I work for alone has begun the mass upgrade of computers throughout the building. So far, it's about a 8:2 ratio of LCDs to CRTs.
Jeez, that's a lot! It's only about 4:1 in my building.
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Want interesting radio? If you're in/near a big city, crawl through the FM dial sometime when you're bored, you may be pleasantly surprised. In Chicago I was happy to discover WNUR. Britney who? Linkin what?
Plus, almost everyone can tune in the nearest public radio station. Why would I want to record anything, you ask? This American Life, Echoes, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!, etc...
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Because the consumables of the business world are not internal documents. Phone company people don't lose sleep over the format of project charters. They lose sleep over DSL lines, losing customers to upstart rivals, etc.
Film industry people care about video file formats because video is their consumable product. They probably use .doc internally too. [shrug]
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I get about 3 per week in my personal account, which I use for *tons* of registrations and memberships, albeit with "legit" organizations and businesses.
I get zero in my work account, which is limited strictly to business use.
So again, what the heck are the rest of you doing to get buried in spam? I guess I might consider spam a problem if I got even half of what the vocal spam-haters claim to receive.
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This person has never lived & worked in Chicago.
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It would be nicer if someone had named it differently. This may sound silly, but if you wanna appeal to noobs, it helps to have a meaningful/pronounceable name that people can remember how to spell (for Google purposes) without taking a stab in the dark.
"What the hell does postgre mean? That's weird, I'll check out MySQL."
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