This is something that the NASD has been doing for years for people with securities licenses. This isn't something new. However, I don't really see the benefit of doing it. Maybe they are cross referenced with some law enforcement databases.
Certainly they could have come up with a better comparison for the Slashdot crowd than an exercise ball. How about an 18lb turkey or a 128oz belly buster bag of Doritos?
The seat and the lid get shut every time. If I can't win, no one can. Plus it has the added benefit of keeping the kids and cats from playing in the water.
Take any valued development skill like Java, C#, Oracle or SQL Server and add a few years of practical business knowledge such as securities trading, financial analysis or international taxation and these salaries can easily be doubled. I've seen hedge funds in my area looking for C# developers with securities trading system knowledge willing to pay $120k to $150k.
There is a lot of money to be had if you can understand business people and turn there needs into tools and applications quickly.
200 hundred years from now how many people will be able to name any band from the 1980's, Bronski Beat aside? I made no assertion that there would be more or less talented musicians. The premise was that listener interest would be the foundation for success or failure of a band not some team of executives chasing the hot dot. I agree that the truly talented musicians would be less able to support themselves, making only 5-10 million a year instead of 10-15 million would be heartbreak, I know. A few less square feet on Cribs would not make me feel sad.
Without the connection to promotion and distribution labels become simply an ad agency. With promotion their only purpose we may find them as division of large advertising firms. Labels as they are today are rapidly becoming useless and it's only a matter of time before they are dead and gone.
Perhaps the future of music will imitate the past. I doubt if Beethoven or Bach had labels to deal with in their day but rather succeeded primarily through their talent alone. In a world without mega music labels we would have hundreds, perhaps thousands of bands with a strong local or regional following making a comfortable living while the truly talented become national or international stars through word of mouth and their own advertising.
I would prefer this reality than the one today where the labels admittedly spew forth 9/10 of their product as garbage in order to make money on the 1/10 with any substance. Hopefully, it would mean that Britney and Boy Bands would never again have to happen.
When I would run out of 5 1/4 inch Elephant disks and all I had lying around was some floppies with useless software from some vendor, out came the hole punch. A little reformatting and you got yourself another 360k of disk space.
IANAL, but: I've often had to have vendors go through a code review when implementing custom applications in our network. You would think that Sony would require the same thing when putting software like this on millions of CDs. If they did have a policy they should be liable. If they didn't then they are morons for accepting software at face value that goes on their most important product.
I find it interesting that in the areas of the country at the highest risk of terrorism most people voted against Bush. New York City voted almost 5:1 against Bush and D.C. 9:1. However, in rural America people feel he's the best one to take on the terrorists. Funny how things become clearer when it's your ass on the line.
Linux
Alta Vista 12,435,923
Google 96,900,000
msn 365
Yahoo 55,200,000
Dog Pile (Infospace) 102
Lycos 26,838,236
Excite 111
Alltheweb 17,082,765
Jesus
Alta Vista 6,377,521
Google 23,800,000
msn 432
Yahoo 15,900,000
Dog Pile (Infospace) 114
Lycos 34,032,913
Excite 107
Alltheweb 26,131,824
Interesting to note, a search of Infospace and Microsoft on Google comes up with 35,000 hits. Further reading indicates a large number of partnering going on.
I would hope PriceWaterhouseCoopers, as the largest public accounting firm auditing many SEC registrants, wouldn't have their own biased stance. How did this rubish get above the radar?
Slashdot Mirror
This is something that the NASD has been doing for years for people with securities licenses. This isn't something new. However, I don't really see the benefit of doing it. Maybe they are cross referenced with some law enforcement databases.
Certainly they could have come up with a better comparison for the Slashdot crowd than an exercise ball. How about an 18lb turkey or a 128oz belly buster bag of Doritos?
And you can see a photo of Danny here:
http://istockphoto.com/DannyCarlton
The seat and the lid get shut every time. If I can't win, no one can. Plus it has the added benefit of keeping the kids and cats from playing in the water.
Take any valued development skill like Java, C#, Oracle or SQL Server and add a few years of practical business knowledge such as securities trading, financial analysis or international taxation and these salaries can easily be doubled. I've seen hedge funds in my area looking for C# developers with securities trading system knowledge willing to pay $120k to $150k.
There is a lot of money to be had if you can understand business people and turn there needs into tools and applications quickly.
200 hundred years from now how many people will be able to name any band from the 1980's, Bronski Beat aside? I made no assertion that there would be more or less talented musicians. The premise was that listener interest would be the foundation for success or failure of a band not some team of executives chasing the hot dot. I agree that the truly talented musicians would be less able to support themselves, making only 5-10 million a year instead of 10-15 million would be heartbreak, I know. A few less square feet on Cribs would not make me feel sad.
Without the connection to promotion and distribution labels become simply an ad agency. With promotion their only purpose we may find them as division of large advertising firms. Labels as they are today are rapidly becoming useless and it's only a matter of time before they are dead and gone.
Perhaps the future of music will imitate the past. I doubt if Beethoven or Bach had labels to deal with in their day but rather succeeded primarily through their talent alone. In a world without mega music labels we would have hundreds, perhaps thousands of bands with a strong local or regional following making a comfortable living while the truly talented become national or international stars through word of mouth and their own advertising.
I would prefer this reality than the one today where the labels admittedly spew forth 9/10 of their product as garbage in order to make money on the 1/10 with any substance. Hopefully, it would mean that Britney and Boy Bands would never again have to happen.
When I would run out of 5 1/4 inch Elephant disks and all I had lying around was some floppies with useless software from some vendor, out came the hole punch. A little reformatting and you got yourself another 360k of disk space.
IANAL, but: I've often had to have vendors go through a code review when implementing custom applications in our network. You would think that Sony would require the same thing when putting software like this on millions of CDs. If they did have a policy they should be liable. If they didn't then they are morons for accepting software at face value that goes on their most important product.
just the sig I was looking for.
I find it interesting that in the areas of the country at the highest risk of terrorism most people voted against Bush. New York City voted almost 5:1 against Bush and D.C. 9:1. However, in rural America people feel he's the best one to take on the terrorists. Funny how things become clearer when it's your ass on the line.
Linux is more popular than Jesus.
Linux
Alta Vista 12,435,923
Google 96,900,000
msn 365
Yahoo 55,200,000
Dog Pile (Infospace) 102
Lycos 26,838,236
Excite 111
Alltheweb 17,082,765
Jesus
Alta Vista 6,377,521
Google 23,800,000
msn 432
Yahoo 15,900,000
Dog Pile (Infospace) 114
Lycos 34,032,913
Excite 107
Alltheweb 26,131,824
Interesting to note, a search of Infospace and Microsoft on Google comes up with 35,000 hits. Further reading indicates a large number of partnering going on.
Conspiracy or just bad search engines?
I would hope PriceWaterhouseCoopers, as the largest public accounting firm auditing many SEC registrants, wouldn't have their own biased stance. How did this rubish get above the radar?