What do you do when the song is in a language you don't understand? Pretty hard to remember those lyrics, much less type them into google.
Most of the music I buy is from other parts of the world. I count on altavista to provide me roughly translated lyrics if I can't find them elsewhere, but that wouldn't help me identify the tracks to know what to look for.
Jeez. Do you even know how the web works? I provided links to documentation on TWO different LCD panels (complete with those voltage and timing diagrams you find so mysterious) AND a link to the AD page listing a variety of their RGB to LCD interface controller chips.
There's like five replies down here now, by (I would guess from the usernames), more than one person. And it's obvious by your comments none of you have yet figured out how to click a link and read the information presented - so yeah: it doesn't surpise me that you would find it impossible to even imagine someone being able to accomplish something technical...
Yeesh. Controllers are NOT so freaking hard. They're also NOT "about $400" as one know it all stated, nor are their specs such freakishly closely guarded secrets. In fact, if you are capable of soounding at all like you know what you're talking about you can get a couple of samples for the asking. And who do you ask? Well, Analog Devices is a good start - they have about a dozen different types.
Yes, it would take some time. Yes, it would be a challenge. But it's a long way from impossible, and all it takes is a handfull of off the shelf parts - AD even has application notes. Combine one of their evalkits with the specs for, say, an IBM TFT display (13.3" 1024x768 units are like 80 bucks on ebay and 14" 1280x1024 units are only slightly more) and I''ll wager you could not only make your own display circuit, you could probably offer the pcboards after you design it and make enough money to buy a proper projection hdtv.
Let us know when you have the circuit - I want about four of'em.
All it takes is a tank of Mineral oil. Mineral oil has been used to cool electronic components since there WERE electronic components. I'm surprised no ham has chimed on on this yet - a "dummy load" antenna is little more than a bigass resistor submerged in a gallon pail of mineral oil, and one of those things will take several hundred watts of RF energy before overloading.
I've seen submerged mineral oil cpu boards before. Heck, here's one right here at the very top of the Google.
He's talking about "peer to peer" in the corporatized domain - where you buy an "appliance" and ALSO foor the bill to help "host" the stuff they are trying to sell. You know... standard business as usual: everyone pays except the people with the money...
It's a long way from anonymous. About the closest you might get is to sign up with a fake ID and stolen credit info and never connect without tunneling through a well trusted proxy - hardly a practical channel of "anonymity." The US gov has seen well to it no one is allowed to post these days without being well traceable.
And so far as spamming a p2p service like freenet - well, there's that "demand" thing. So unless you are posting some high demand spam, it's doomed.
Rutan, a guy who has been a pioneer for as ong as I can remember (and I can remember quite a long time back now). Then you got a guy who helped startup the largest software company in the history of the world. They're well on the way to launching a space vehicle that not only represents a huge step up for private space ventures, but does so in a craft that looks and operates substantially unlike anything the largest government in space has ever made operable.
Ten Million is just the beginning. those "bragging rights" are worth Billions nowdays - assuming everything goes well and the prize gets awarded this year, the sportswear licensing alone will probably be worth a Billion dollars next year...
This is why they have moved all the crt plants offshore. I saw on the news just the other day one of those alarmist "special features" about the last CRT plant in the US closing its doors as the plant was moved to the Philipinnes. Of course, in THAT article they didn't mention all the toxic shit that gets dumped out the other end of the plant along with the end product...
I do that all the time. I'd much rather donate my time to a cause I believe in than pay taxes to support bombing the shit of a bunch of poverty stricken brown people I never met.
So your assertion then would be one has less chance of having a failure if one buys an Apple? Maybe that's true if one compares it to an underfed emachine - but then again, since they both use many of the same commodity parts like RAM and hard drives - maybe it don't mean anything at all.
Messing with laptops is my hobby - rebuilding my work system is not. My desktop computer is always 6-12 months behind the upgrade curve (enough to be cost effective). And I never have to worry about migrating shit because I use the same hard drives until they're ready to crap out, then "upgrade" on the replacement. Basically, I've not had a major failure (or even a minor one that prevented my getting work done for more than an hour) in at least two years.
That's one hour in two years. And how much time do you "waste" buying a new computer, setting it up, migrating all your data over a lan...
And don't hand us any more of that high and mighty bullshit about how valuable your time is. You've spent at least two hours of your wednesday evening reading and replying to meaningless shit in a web forum, for chrissake.
Every time I hear people say "my time is worth too much to build a computer" THAT makes ME laugh. You see, because my time IS worth something to me I would rather have the option of just spending an hour (or less, usually) swapping a new part into a box that has failed than have to spend HOURS fucking around with warranty support or (better still) just dragging the goddamn thing to the shop so I can have the pleasure of paying someone else taking three days to do an hour's worth of work.
I hope your son turns out brighter than you.
BTW I also rebuild laptops. I do it because it's fun. Glad you spend time with your kid... maybe he'll introduce you to the concept of hobbies.
Then you just pounded that final nail in the argument they're too damn expensive. I didn't BUY my computer - or any others for the lat several years - nor will I, because I demand the ability to modify and upgrade at will.
When I can buy a reasonably new tech motherboard for 100 bucks, a decent cpu for two thirds that, stick'em all in a box of MY choosing with any other peripherals I want (ie tv tuner card, etc) then we can talk.
Honestly, I hope IBM is able to pull off that "open platform" push they were talking about last week. No matter what Apple says in their stupid shrinkwrap license, if IBM can start selling competetively priced system components that will allow folks to run OSX on machines put together by mom and pop computer stores, I'd be all over that.
I'm 41 and there's not a great deal of music I listened to at 17 that I (and many others) don't still consider great. Of course, when most folks were lapping up Boob Seger and Foreigner and Boston and Journey and Kansas and all that other crap I was grooving with Lene Lovich, Sex Pistols, Phillip Glass, Wire, Cowboys International, Motels, Martha & the Muffins, etc.
I considered most pop music crap twenty years ago and still do today. and guess what? All those hairy palmed dolts who thought Bob Seger was god STILL think Bob Seger is god. Journey still goes on tour from time to time because so many aging stoners still don't have an ear for originality. About the only "pop" music from my youth I can stand is R&B, a genre mercifully spared most of they hype machine back then because the record companies still catered primarily to the white boys and hadn't a clue what to do with "ethnic" demographics of ANY flavor.
The only thing that's changed since twenty years ago is now the music playing on "black" stations (if there is such a thing) sucks just as much as the music on most of the others. Most folks still have no tolerance for originality and most folks don't seem to care about any of this politic - the only reason the record companies are hurting is because their business model is utterly obsolete. You would not believe the number of burned cds trading hands around my office for two bucks each.
Bullshit. those labels were riaa affiliates long before the artists signed to them. what you are saying is pure apologist copout. no one MADE those artists sign with their labels, and there are several alternatives out there now. If these artists are not economically "encouraged" to flee the majors then change will never happen.
Spank the shit out of RIAA signed artists. Beat them until they bleed money - that's the only way change happens in this world.
And if you buy cds at shows you're still just feeding the RIAA - twice in fact, since you also pulled their pud with all that grand cash paid to get in the fucking door... do you think ticketbastard is some artist affiliated non profit organization? Pull your head out of your ass and maybe the sunshine will clear away the industry brainwashing that has befuddled your logical processes.
I disagree with the m0ore general comments. I do think Lindows is an incredibly stupid name created ONLY to raise the ire of MS and to draw lawsuits - which Robertsen then exploits to get his company in the press for free.
But the other names have some basis in classic anti-market marketing. STIFF (the record label) created some classic marketing that still remains so classic as to be collectible - an example being t-shirts that proclaim "IF IT AIN'T STIFF IT AIN'T WORTH A F*CK" This wasn't someone's parody of Stiff's ads - this was Stiff's own marketing. And it worked quite well in that demographic - a market very similar to the one Robertson is trying to draw.
I don't believe for a minute he cares about grandma and her home pc - what he's after is grandma's grandson, who hates MS because it's fashionable. Robertson's folly is that he already alienated most of those folks when he fucked up MP3.com... and "those people" don't forget.
ANY decent modern linux desktop distribution will do exactly what you were talkign about - Mandrake, Redhat (er, I mean Fedora), Suse - they all come with a nice looking desktop in the basic install that will allow anyone to do email and surfing and even some games. "Lindows" sure doesn't have the corner on that... or much else, from what I have seen
I actually signed up for the promotional campaign when they offered me free "Lindows bucks" for signing off on their doomed MS settlement exploit. So I downloaded Lindows 4, then 4.5 - still have the CDs. But I've never really been able to try out their "click and run warehouse" for one silly reason: I've never been able to get Lindows to actually INSTALL on anything except a Sony Vaio laptop that died soon after (from an unrelated illness centered in bad power supply caps).
I had a BX mbd 450MHz system that I thought might be good, but it didn't like my very standard system, apparently because it had no floppy drive. So then I tried it on one of my IBM thinkpads - again, no success. This time it at least didn't lock everything up, it just gave a repeating "boot error" messsage (actually a number, I think "8080" which means in Lindows-talk "invalid boot image.")
So then I tried it on my newer 1.6ghz athlon system - again it just locked up (I huess because that one also has no floppy?) the installer ran a while, then crashed in the midst of installing/compiling. I chalked it up to a flaky VIA mbd and decided to try again on another AMD system, this one with an SIS mbd. Care to guess what happened?
ALL these system have had no problems installing Red Hat and Mandrake - but they simply refuse to work well with Lindows. If this is their idea of "easy to use" and "easy to install" then naming the silly company is the least of the problems they need to worry about.
So... china is realizing more and more the importance of cooperating internationally on trade issues... India, Spain (and other countries) are installing mega call centers and employing thousands of "new capitalists" all thanks to... the internet.
What do they expect? Massive incursions of angry libertarian geeks? Dissidents armed with plotters and inkjet cartridges? All change takes time, but the fact you can now get employment in a tin shack in Africa making custom goods being sold in the US - and getting a percentage of profit from every item you make WHILE tracking those items yourself - just screams "empowerment thanks to the internet."
What happens when the old guard in china dies? Or in Cuba? Does anyone really think the internet won't play a huge role in helping new political groups organize? What about the reporters in China who got news out on Tianninmin using cellphones, fax machines, email and other tools of the (then) infant internet?
And these countless replies similar to yours are a direct result. The point being that many people - the people of the majority of states, apparently - agree with you on this. Only a handfull of states have laws against government creation of telcos, and it is only those states to which this ruling applies
This was NOT a ruling against "community telcos" - in fact, it is a ruling for states rights. and the people of most states have not forbade their local governments from creating telcos.. whcih means (you guessed it) this ruling doesn't have a damn thing to do with them.
still, I'll reply to your query with an example of why it's a bad thing to allow states to become telcos: here in Starkville MS, back in the mid 90's when the world was making the leap onto the web, we had only one ISP - it was the local college, Miss State University. And the service was free to the community, but you had to pay for the long distance bill yourself if you lived out of town - which most folks do.
And none of those "greedy corporations" like AOL or Compuserve woould move into the area, because they felt they couldn't compete with "free." So, for years, the people in Starkville got free internet dialup service while the rest of us paid about ten cents a minute.
FINALLY the college cut the cord - you didn't get to log into the campus network unless you were a student. Within months there were three ISPs in the area, all of them expanding rapidly out from town into local telco dialing areas. Now you can choose from a variety of ISPs even in the most rural Mississippi communities... all because the local state funded institution FINALLY got out of the business of providing free community access to a valuable service.
And before you go complaining about sending all that money out of state, I'll point out that at least one of those local competitors was a fellow who started with a few phone lines and grew the business into one of the largest ISPs in the area. He's now a retired Millionaire, and he's a local boy who gave a lot of other local folks jobs (and no, this doesn't have anything to do with Worldcom - that's down in the south part of the state).
At the same time, the area has many MORE new jobs because that same organization (the state funded university) is providing infrastructure to businesses who move into the local research park. Which was created on the back of the universtity, but still exists as a private entity which pays the university for services - an option available even to the people in these states where there ARE laws against the state providing telco services.
Dude, I LIVE in a farming community. Thos "young people" who would have faced a lifetime of entrapment in small towns are going off to college, learning different skills, and making their own lives instead of living the lives of their parents.
"the farming industry" has been anything but "decimated." Farming in this country is more efficient than at any time in history we wouldn't be a nation of lardasses if we couldn't buy half pound cheeseburgers for four bucks and a gallon of pickles for two.
People evolve. Remember all that talk like, a year ago, equating the record industry with buggymakers? I guess all that talk around here about the folly of protectionism propping up organisms that refuse to evolve was just so much lip service, huh?
wow, I can't believe someone else here mentioned tchad blake!
Do you know about Tchad and Mitch's early dark days? The vintage porn film "Nightdreams" isn't vintage just for its wonderfully bizarre imagery - if you know of these fellows then you NEED this DVD. This is the movie that introduced me to Wall of Voodoo (yes, "Ring of Fire" is one of the featured tracks - and accompanies a legendary campfire scene... oooh, aaaah...).
Yet more trivia: Nightdreams was directed by Francois Delia, who also directed the Wall of Voodoo video "Mexican Radio" and assisted photography on the Andy Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon."
NOT fidelity or extra features, but to migrate a DVD based audio format to the market ASAP so as to close that really giant sized, mack truck fitting hole they created when they made CDs without encryption.
How much you want to bet those "lossy, lower fidelity" AAC files will also be encrypted on the discs?
If the industry got it at all they wouldn't worry about a "low fidelity" format on the disc - they'd just give the damn things away (or nearly so) on the artist's record label sponsored website. Release a new track each week before the DVD release date and track the hits and file sharing patterns to predict which markets they need to move the most physical product to on opening day; schedule release parties with the bands appearing in the cities that generate the most buzz; reward independant web based publicists for driving traffic to the band's websites...
In short, they could do everything they do now with expensive radio... without expensive radio.
uhhh... that is, if they got it. Which they don't and probably never will... so.. uh, never mind.
And farming jobs are about one tenth what they were just a generation or two ago. So does that mean the farming industry is also "devastated" like the auto industry?
and ie5 ships with win2k. Some of us refuse to update ie, we just disable it as much as possible and use it only when absolutely needed (like when some dickhead admin thinks no ohter browser deserves to visit their banking site, or some other such nonsense)
Basically, that 6% of ie5 users are either lazy win2k users, people using servers with incompetent admins, people using ie on linux who just don't give a shit what version they use so long as they have a working ie in their WINE environment, or people using ie "for the moment" because the goddamn website won't let them in with mozilla.
AT&T's Advanced Speech Recognition, c. 2004
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Laid out of work due to a chronic sinus infection, fearless leader calls information for a recommended Dr's phone number...
<cough...> dialing...
AT&T operator assistance... if you need a phone number, please press or say "one" now...
"One"
Thank You. What City?
<Hoarsley...> "Atlanta"
Thank You. What State?
"Georgia"
Thank You. Please hold for the number..
<Cough...>
Thank You. Goodbye!
Oh yeah... they're really making progress in natural language processing and speech recognition!
Let's look at this just a teeny bit closer: this technology would also allow (for example) a DVD player application to run in its own dedicated window (or even on its own dedicated screen) WITHOUT providing ANY ABILITY AT ALL to interact with other applications!
OMG I cannot believe you are all so blind! THIS IS THE EVIL TECHNOLOGY! RUN AWAY! NOCONA WILL KILL LINUX! NO MORE RIPPING DVDS! OH NOOOOOOO!
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Most of the music I buy is from other parts of the world. I count on altavista to provide me roughly translated lyrics if I can't find them elsewhere, but that wouldn't help me identify the tracks to know what to look for.
Google "ooooh, oooh, oooh, oooh, willa happy oooh, willa happy garrrl, willa happy ooohhh..."
Only in russian. Got any ideas?*
*See popular dance club track "Arabika" by Hi-Fi
There's like five replies down here now, by (I would guess from the usernames), more than one person. And it's obvious by your comments none of you have yet figured out how to click a link and read the information presented - so yeah: it doesn't surpise me that you would find it impossible to even imagine someone being able to accomplish something technical...
Yes, it would take some time. Yes, it would be a challenge. But it's a long way from impossible, and all it takes is a handfull of off the shelf parts - AD even has application notes. Combine one of their evalkits with the specs for, say, an IBM TFT display (13.3" 1024x768 units are like 80 bucks on ebay and 14" 1280x1024 units are only slightly more) and I''ll wager you could not only make your own display circuit, you could probably offer the pcboards after you design it and make enough money to buy a proper projection hdtv.
Let us know when you have the circuit - I want about four of'em.
I've seen submerged mineral oil cpu boards before. Heck, here's one right here at the very top of the Google.
And so far as spamming a p2p service like freenet - well, there's that "demand" thing. So unless you are posting some high demand spam, it's doomed.
Ten Million is just the beginning. those "bragging rights" are worth Billions nowdays - assuming everything goes well and the prize gets awarded this year, the sportswear licensing alone will probably be worth a Billion dollars next year...
I do that all the time. I'd much rather donate my time to a cause I believe in than pay taxes to support bombing the shit of a bunch of poverty stricken brown people I never met.
Messing with laptops is my hobby - rebuilding my work system is not. My desktop computer is always 6-12 months behind the upgrade curve (enough to be cost effective). And I never have to worry about migrating shit because I use the same hard drives until they're ready to crap out, then "upgrade" on the replacement. Basically, I've not had a major failure (or even a minor one that prevented my getting work done for more than an hour) in at least two years.
That's one hour in two years. And how much time do you "waste" buying a new computer, setting it up, migrating all your data over a lan...
And don't hand us any more of that high and mighty bullshit about how valuable your time is. You've spent at least two hours of your wednesday evening reading and replying to meaningless shit in a web forum, for chrissake.
I hope your son turns out brighter than you.
BTW I also rebuild laptops. I do it because it's fun. Glad you spend time with your kid... maybe he'll introduce you to the concept of hobbies.
When I can buy a reasonably new tech motherboard for 100 bucks, a decent cpu for two thirds that, stick'em all in a box of MY choosing with any other peripherals I want (ie tv tuner card, etc) then we can talk.
Honestly, I hope IBM is able to pull off that "open platform" push they were talking about last week. No matter what Apple says in their stupid shrinkwrap license, if IBM can start selling competetively priced system components that will allow folks to run OSX on machines put together by mom and pop computer stores, I'd be all over that.
I considered most pop music crap twenty years ago and still do today. and guess what? All those hairy palmed dolts who thought Bob Seger was god STILL think Bob Seger is god. Journey still goes on tour from time to time because so many aging stoners still don't have an ear for originality. About the only "pop" music from my youth I can stand is R&B, a genre mercifully spared most of they hype machine back then because the record companies still catered primarily to the white boys and hadn't a clue what to do with "ethnic" demographics of ANY flavor.
The only thing that's changed since twenty years ago is now the music playing on "black" stations (if there is such a thing) sucks just as much as the music on most of the others. Most folks still have no tolerance for originality and most folks don't seem to care about any of this politic - the only reason the record companies are hurting is because their business model is utterly obsolete. You would not believe the number of burned cds trading hands around my office for two bucks each.
Burn, baby, burn. Fuck'em into the floor.
Spank the shit out of RIAA signed artists. Beat them until they bleed money - that's the only way change happens in this world.
And if you buy cds at shows you're still just feeding the RIAA - twice in fact, since you also pulled their pud with all that grand cash paid to get in the fucking door... do you think ticketbastard is some artist affiliated non profit organization? Pull your head out of your ass and maybe the sunshine will clear away the industry brainwashing that has befuddled your logical processes.
But the other names have some basis in classic anti-market marketing. STIFF (the record label) created some classic marketing that still remains so classic as to be collectible - an example being t-shirts that proclaim "IF IT AIN'T STIFF IT AIN'T WORTH A F*CK" This wasn't someone's parody of Stiff's ads - this was Stiff's own marketing. And it worked quite well in that demographic - a market very similar to the one Robertson is trying to draw.
I don't believe for a minute he cares about grandma and her home pc - what he's after is grandma's grandson, who hates MS because it's fashionable. Robertson's folly is that he already alienated most of those folks when he fucked up MP3.com... and "those people" don't forget.
I actually signed up for the promotional campaign when they offered me free "Lindows bucks" for signing off on their doomed MS settlement exploit. So I downloaded Lindows 4, then 4.5 - still have the CDs. But I've never really been able to try out their "click and run warehouse" for one silly reason: I've never been able to get Lindows to actually INSTALL on anything except a Sony Vaio laptop that died soon after (from an unrelated illness centered in bad power supply caps).
I had a BX mbd 450MHz system that I thought might be good, but it didn't like my very standard system, apparently because it had no floppy drive. So then I tried it on one of my IBM thinkpads - again, no success. This time it at least didn't lock everything up, it just gave a repeating "boot error" messsage (actually a number, I think "8080" which means in Lindows-talk "invalid boot image.")
So then I tried it on my newer 1.6ghz athlon system - again it just locked up (I huess because that one also has no floppy?) the installer ran a while, then crashed in the midst of installing/compiling. I chalked it up to a flaky VIA mbd and decided to try again on another AMD system, this one with an SIS mbd. Care to guess what happened?
ALL these system have had no problems installing Red Hat and Mandrake - but they simply refuse to work well with Lindows. If this is their idea of "easy to use" and "easy to install" then naming the silly company is the least of the problems they need to worry about.
What do they expect? Massive incursions of angry libertarian geeks? Dissidents armed with plotters and inkjet cartridges? All change takes time, but the fact you can now get employment in a tin shack in Africa making custom goods being sold in the US - and getting a percentage of profit from every item you make WHILE tracking those items yourself - just screams "empowerment thanks to the internet."
What happens when the old guard in china dies? Or in Cuba? Does anyone really think the internet won't play a huge role in helping new political groups organize? What about the reporters in China who got news out on Tianninmin using cellphones, fax machines, email and other tools of the (then) infant internet?
This was NOT a ruling against "community telcos" - in fact, it is a ruling for states rights. and the people of most states have not forbade their local governments from creating telcos.. whcih means (you guessed it) this ruling doesn't have a damn thing to do with them.
still, I'll reply to your query with an example of why it's a bad thing to allow states to become telcos: here in Starkville MS, back in the mid 90's when the world was making the leap onto the web, we had only one ISP - it was the local college, Miss State University. And the service was free to the community, but you had to pay for the long distance bill yourself if you lived out of town - which most folks do.
And none of those "greedy corporations" like AOL or Compuserve woould move into the area, because they felt they couldn't compete with "free." So, for years, the people in Starkville got free internet dialup service while the rest of us paid about ten cents a minute.
FINALLY the college cut the cord - you didn't get to log into the campus network unless you were a student. Within months there were three ISPs in the area, all of them expanding rapidly out from town into local telco dialing areas. Now you can choose from a variety of ISPs even in the most rural Mississippi communities... all because the local state funded institution FINALLY got out of the business of providing free community access to a valuable service.
And before you go complaining about sending all that money out of state, I'll point out that at least one of those local competitors was a fellow who started with a few phone lines and grew the business into one of the largest ISPs in the area. He's now a retired Millionaire, and he's a local boy who gave a lot of other local folks jobs (and no, this doesn't have anything to do with Worldcom - that's down in the south part of the state).
At the same time, the area has many MORE new jobs because that same organization (the state funded university) is providing infrastructure to businesses who move into the local research park. Which was created on the back of the universtity, but still exists as a private entity which pays the university for services - an option available even to the people in these states where there ARE laws against the state providing telco services.
"the farming industry" has been anything but "decimated." Farming in this country is more efficient than at any time in history we wouldn't be a nation of lardasses if we couldn't buy half pound cheeseburgers for four bucks and a gallon of pickles for two.
People evolve. Remember all that talk like, a year ago, equating the record industry with buggymakers? I guess all that talk around here about the folly of protectionism propping up organisms that refuse to evolve was just so much lip service, huh?
And when was the last time YOU shopped wal-mart?
Do you know about Tchad and Mitch's early dark days? The vintage porn film "Nightdreams" isn't vintage just for its wonderfully bizarre imagery - if you know of these fellows then you NEED this DVD. This is the movie that introduced me to Wall of Voodoo (yes, "Ring of Fire" is one of the featured tracks - and accompanies a legendary campfire scene... oooh, aaaah...).
Yet more trivia: Nightdreams was directed by Francois Delia, who also directed the Wall of Voodoo video "Mexican Radio" and assisted photography on the Andy Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon."
How much you want to bet those "lossy, lower fidelity" AAC files will also be encrypted on the discs?
If the industry got it at all they wouldn't worry about a "low fidelity" format on the disc - they'd just give the damn things away (or nearly so) on the artist's record label sponsored website. Release a new track each week before the DVD release date and track the hits and file sharing patterns to predict which markets they need to move the most physical product to on opening day; schedule release parties with the bands appearing in the cities that generate the most buzz; reward independant web based publicists for driving traffic to the band's websites...
In short, they could do everything they do now with expensive radio... without expensive radio.
uhhh... that is, if they got it. Which they don't and probably never will... so.. uh, never mind.
Basically, that 6% of ie5 users are either lazy win2k users, people using servers with incompetent admins, people using ie on linux who just don't give a shit what version they use so long as they have a working ie in their WINE environment, or people using ie "for the moment" because the goddamn website won't let them in with mozilla.
<cough...> dialing...
AT&T operator assistance... if you need a phone number, please press or say "one" now...
"One"
Thank You. What City?
<Hoarsley...> "Atlanta"
Thank You. What State?
"Georgia"
Thank You. Please hold for the number..
<Cough...>
Thank You. Goodbye!
Oh yeah... they're really making progress in natural language processing and speech recognition!OMG I cannot believe you are all so blind! THIS IS THE EVIL TECHNOLOGY! RUN AWAY! NOCONA WILL KILL LINUX! NO MORE RIPPING DVDS! OH NOOOOOOO!