It's a problem because these songs still count towards rankings.
I'd have absolutely no problems if these songs were being played as advertisements, and labeled as advertisements, to not be counted towards overall rankings in the big lists. It's only when you can use money to influence the lists that it gets unfair to musicians who don't have as much money to spend and who depend on real music quality and people actually requesting a station play a song to get up in the rankings... That's what my problem with this is...
The IT worker loses his job and what's the answer for him? What new job skills does he learn? What new career can he hope to maintain a decent living in?
Perhaps somewhere where he creates, rather than blindly writes code following orders. Perhaps a management position. Perhaps a completely different field, such as teaching middle school or high school children so they can one day innovate rather than lose their jobs to cheaper labor.
But you say, "They don't want to do that, they liked working in their IT job." Well, the blue collar textile worker might have liked his job, too. Go to work, press some buttons, move some stuff around the factory, easy to do, no thought involved. Now they told him to get a job where he would have to think a bit more, be more involved in his life... it's the same freaking thing. Adapt, people.. it's the only way to survive...
The solution we finally discovered was to use instant messaging between the sites. We would have conference calls where all the Americans would talk to each other and the Indians would talk to each other, but for communication between the groups, it was all IM.
That's what we have to do, as well, generally. We occasionally have calls with the managers of our various facilities in India, but for day-to-day operational questions, etc. Instant Messaging makes it far easier.
I work for a small start up company right now that makes outsourcing an important part of our overall business plan. From the beginning, hiring foreign labor to do the bulk of the grunt work was part of the plan.
The upside to all this is from the company there have been at least 20 American jobs created, along with 25 or so jobs in India (right now, this is growing all the time).
Our end users may end up laying off an employee or two of theirs, but I doubt it. Instead, those employees will just have more time to do other things that will help the end user's overall business. Pretty much everyone wins, and it's all from outsourcing.
Yes, we could hire Americans to do the same job, but they're over twice as expensive, we have to hire managers to deal with them, and there's a whole lot of overhead for something that makes more sense to ship overseas.
Adaptation is one of the most important traits of a successful person, and those who cannot adapt are going to get set by the wayside.
Here I pay $100 a month for all channels under 100, all the digital channels, and 2 of the 4 movie packages, plus my cable internet... HBO and Showtime are enough for me, really, Starz doesn't seem worth it and Skinemax can be over-pr0ned by the internet:P
Plus, with the digital cable boxes, you only need them if you want the "premium" digital cable channels, just like if you wanted HBO or Showtime or whatever before on the old 'direct-to-tv' system, you had to have a box.. I have one digital box, but the bedroom TV and the PVR are hooked up on the regular channels, so I'm happy...
She bought her own copy, now we play together.. everyone's happy.. I come home from work sometimes and she's already stuck in front of her computer, killing Clockworks....:)
I'm not too opposed to becoming addicted to a large-breasted strong woman who would sweep me off my feet and save me if ever an evil villian had captured me... I think I'd be okay with that
That's because hammocks require a drink in one hand, with only the other hand free to do whatever (hold a book, take notes, etc.). Once you start trying to do things with both hands, where's the drink supposed to go?
I think you misunderstood me. In the hardcore science world, nobody gets paid for the articles they write in journals. It's all prestiege, getting your name out, etc. It would hurt smaller labs, independant researchers, etc., but articles would still get published by the big researchers (all of the people I ever worked for would have paid at some point or another, I'm sure). See my other comments in this thread for what I feel is the real problem.
I'm one example of a person who would love to read these journals but no longer can as I'm not attached to any university or institution. In my undergrad and graduate research I was involved in a very new area of chemistry/materials science and like to see new developments in the field. Since I dropped out of grad school and am working in a completely different field these days, I'm not able to freely read the articles like I could back then.
I realize I'm a minority, but there are plenty of high school kids who are interested in science that would love to have access to this type of stuff.
Actually, in scientific publications, writers never really get paid for their publications, at least I never did. You do however pad your publications list, which helps you get better jobs, more respect in the community, more speaking engagements, etc...
Opening access to scientific journals to a more general population is a good idea. However, having the author pay for publication is a terrible one.
The best thing about scientific journals is that within each discipline, there are journals that carry more weight than others. These are journals that are harder to get published in. By limiting the amount of information they publish, they're telling the reader that, "this information was important enough that we, a high-profile journal, felt it was worth publishing." If these journals switched to an author-pays method of publishing, my fear is that this filter would be turned off, as money tends to do.
"Here's $50,000, publish my article, even though it's based on bad data and is in fact a near-copy of something published years ago."
The best journals require peer reviewing of any submitted articles before they are accepted, and these peers are generally people working in not only the same field but in the same area as the submitter. These are the people most likely to know if the data presented makes sense, could happen, has been published before, etc.
I guess my fear is just that allowing authors to pay for articles to get published opens up a new area of question in terms of an article's weight. No longer will you have to only look at the journal to know if the material is worth reading, but you'll have to check and see if (and how much) the author paid to have it published.
Having published a couple of articles on chemistry in the past, I would much rather see some other type of method in which information would be free. I just have great doubts about allowing people to buy their way into having more things published (and increasing their publication list)
Good to see good ole Okaloosa County doin' something grand...
In that county school system (my old one, I was at Niceville High), Fort Walton Beach high school would get the "less desirable" kids.. I guess they were just tryin' to help some of 'em get through school, w/out failing in PE, as they have enough problems already
And yes, in Okaloosa County, we had to take 2 years of PE classes, and they were in fact graded, A-F.. one semister was a dual health education/PE class, but the others generally used "improvement" methods.. so however well you did at the beginning of the semister in running a mile, push-ups, sit ups, long jumps.. You damn well do better by the end of the semister, or you would in fact get a crappy grade, or worse.. and I knew people who failed PE, which then in fact seriously affected their lives (one of whom dropped out)
actually, final scratch is making it's way into the DJ world, at least when i was out in california, and at least in the drum and bass community..
and i can really understand, having dragged 50+ pounds of vinyl around, just in case i want to play that *one* song that i know people will go crazy over.. instead, carrying 4 pieces of vinyl (2 and 2 backups), plus perhaps a few extra records in order to play something while setting up.. score... laptops are simple, and the extra hardware is nothin'...
This argument is a very flogged horse, but the fact remains. The dollar to entertainment value of video games is superior to music CDs. If the average game is 10 hours (and that's being very generous), that's $5 per hour. A regular CD is $12-15 for an hour, even shorter some of the time. I'd say the magic price point is around $7-8 for CDs. If I were a betting man, I would wager that the RIAA would see a massive increase in sales. But they've never done anything logical before, so why start now?
do you listen to your music CDs only once and then put them on a shelf, never to be listened to again? I know I don't. However, I do often buy a game, play it for a while, beat it, and then let it sit, perhaps dragging it out once in a while if it's a multi-player game, but really not replaying them if it's all single-player stuff. So while the first time through the game might be at $5 an hour and the first time through a CD might be $15 an hour, once you listen to that CD 10 or 15 times, you've decreased that cost significantly... Not that I love the RIAA, I'm just saying/disclaimer
it makes you lose weight.. perhaps it's true..
it's a healthy diet to maintain for the rest of your life (which you have to do, unless you want to gain that weight back plus more).. it's not.. not healthy at all..
here's a good basic chart for calories burned/hour, approximately..
then again, you have to realize you burn between 1200-2600 or so calories per day just by living (depends on fitness level, weight, etc).. without doing anything else.. just sitting on your ass..
Except that you can't. They won't let you move over there to work. They've got plenty of people already willing to work there, and they don't need some fat-assed, lazy American coming over there expecting things to go his way.
If I had to guess, it should take about as long as a normal installation would in windows, being that it's nearly the same idea.
As far as installation choices.. that's a good one. Since the CD is in there, it could, of course, get the data off the CDs if needed, ie FMV. Guess it's a wait-and-see...
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Because the Super Sucker 4000 isn't going to get a place in the Neilson (Neilsen??) ratings just because they paid more than the Ab Whacker 5000...
It's a problem because these songs still count towards rankings.
I'd have absolutely no problems if these songs were being played as advertisements, and labeled as advertisements, to not be counted towards overall rankings in the big lists. It's only when you can use money to influence the lists that it gets unfair to musicians who don't have as much money to spend and who depend on real music quality and people actually requesting a station play a song to get up in the rankings... That's what my problem with this is...
The IT worker loses his job and what's the answer for him? What new job skills does he learn? What new career can he hope to maintain a decent living in?
Perhaps somewhere where he creates, rather than blindly writes code following orders. Perhaps a management position. Perhaps a completely different field, such as teaching middle school or high school children so they can one day innovate rather than lose their jobs to cheaper labor.
But you say, "They don't want to do that, they liked working in their IT job." Well, the blue collar textile worker might have liked his job, too. Go to work, press some buttons, move some stuff around the factory, easy to do, no thought involved. Now they told him to get a job where he would have to think a bit more, be more involved in his life... it's the same freaking thing. Adapt, people.. it's the only way to survive...
The solution we finally discovered was to use instant messaging between the sites. We would have conference calls where all the Americans would talk to each other and the Indians would talk to each other, but for communication between the groups, it was all IM.
That's what we have to do, as well, generally. We occasionally have calls with the managers of our various facilities in India, but for day-to-day operational questions, etc. Instant Messaging makes it far easier.
I work for a small start up company right now that makes outsourcing an important part of our overall business plan. From the beginning, hiring foreign labor to do the bulk of the grunt work was part of the plan.
The upside to all this is from the company there have been at least 20 American jobs created, along with 25 or so jobs in India (right now, this is growing all the time).
Our end users may end up laying off an employee or two of theirs, but I doubt it. Instead, those employees will just have more time to do other things that will help the end user's overall business. Pretty much everyone wins, and it's all from outsourcing.
Yes, we could hire Americans to do the same job, but they're over twice as expensive, we have to hire managers to deal with them, and there's a whole lot of overhead for something that makes more sense to ship overseas.
Adaptation is one of the most important traits of a successful person, and those who cannot adapt are going to get set by the wayside.
Wow, that's pretty high for a top package...
:P
Here I pay $100 a month for all channels under 100, all the digital channels, and 2 of the 4 movie packages, plus my cable internet... HBO and Showtime are enough for me, really, Starz doesn't seem worth it and Skinemax can be over-pr0ned by the internet
Plus, with the digital cable boxes, you only need them if you want the "premium" digital cable channels, just like if you wanted HBO or Showtime or whatever before on the old 'direct-to-tv' system, you had to have a box.. I have one digital box, but the bedroom TV and the PVR are hooked up on the regular channels, so I'm happy...
Got girlfriend to play City of Heroes...
:)
She bought her own copy, now we play together.. everyone's happy.. I come home from work sometimes and she's already stuck in front of her computer, killing Clockworks....
I'm not too opposed to becoming addicted to a large-breasted strong woman who would sweep me off my feet and save me if ever an evil villian had captured me... I think I'd be okay with that
That's because hammocks require a drink in one hand, with only the other hand free to do whatever (hold a book, take notes, etc.). Once you start trying to do things with both hands, where's the drink supposed to go?
Ouch. That hurts. Over in chemistry we were never that mean to our people, at least in journals I sent stuff off to. :)
I think you misunderstood me. In the hardcore science world, nobody gets paid for the articles they write in journals. It's all prestiege, getting your name out, etc. It would hurt smaller labs, independant researchers, etc., but articles would still get published by the big researchers (all of the people I ever worked for would have paid at some point or another, I'm sure). See my other comments in this thread for what I feel is the real problem.
I'm one example of a person who would love to read these journals but no longer can as I'm not attached to any university or institution. In my undergrad and graduate research I was involved in a very new area of chemistry/materials science and like to see new developments in the field. Since I dropped out of grad school and am working in a completely different field these days, I'm not able to freely read the articles like I could back then.
I realize I'm a minority, but there are plenty of high school kids who are interested in science that would love to have access to this type of stuff.
Actually, in scientific publications, writers never really get paid for their publications, at least I never did. You do however pad your publications list, which helps you get better jobs, more respect in the community, more speaking engagements, etc...
Opening access to scientific journals to a more general population is a good idea. However, having the author pay for publication is a terrible one.
The best thing about scientific journals is that within each discipline, there are journals that carry more weight than others. These are journals that are harder to get published in. By limiting the amount of information they publish, they're telling the reader that, "this information was important enough that we, a high-profile journal, felt it was worth publishing." If these journals switched to an author-pays method of publishing, my fear is that this filter would be turned off, as money tends to do.
"Here's $50,000, publish my article, even though it's based on bad data and is in fact a near-copy of something published years ago."
The best journals require peer reviewing of any submitted articles before they are accepted, and these peers are generally people working in not only the same field but in the same area as the submitter. These are the people most likely to know if the data presented makes sense, could happen, has been published before, etc.
I guess my fear is just that allowing authors to pay for articles to get published opens up a new area of question in terms of an article's weight. No longer will you have to only look at the journal to know if the material is worth reading, but you'll have to check and see if (and how much) the author paid to have it published.
Having published a couple of articles on chemistry in the past, I would much rather see some other type of method in which information would be free. I just have great doubts about allowing people to buy their way into having more things published (and increasing their publication list)
Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands
/. paranoia is just too freaking much...
They only know if you buy their beer, not if you buy something else... sheesh... sometimes
Good to see good ole Okaloosa County doin' something grand...
In that county school system (my old one, I was at Niceville High), Fort Walton Beach high school would get the "less desirable" kids.. I guess they were just tryin' to help some of 'em get through school, w/out failing in PE, as they have enough problems already
And yes, in Okaloosa County, we had to take 2 years of PE classes, and they were in fact graded, A-F.. one semister was a dual health education/PE class, but the others generally used "improvement" methods.. so however well you did at the beginning of the semister in running a mile, push-ups, sit ups, long jumps.. You damn well do better by the end of the semister, or you would in fact get a crappy grade, or worse.. and I knew people who failed PE, which then in fact seriously affected their lives (one of whom dropped out)
actually, final scratch is making it's way into the DJ world, at least when i was out in california, and at least in the drum and bass community..
and i can really understand, having dragged 50+ pounds of vinyl around, just in case i want to play that *one* song that i know people will go crazy over.. instead, carrying 4 pieces of vinyl (2 and 2 backups), plus perhaps a few extra records in order to play something while setting up.. score... laptops are simple, and the extra hardware is nothin'...
Ya forgot Sega: Mastersystem. A fine console for it's time, that just got it's ass handed to it by Nintendo's NES
This argument is a very flogged horse, but the fact remains. The dollar to entertainment value of video games is superior to music CDs. If the average game is 10 hours (and that's being very generous), that's $5 per hour. A regular CD is $12-15 for an hour, even shorter some of the time. I'd say the magic price point is around $7-8 for CDs. If I were a betting man, I would wager that the RIAA would see a massive increase in sales. But they've never done anything logical before, so why start now?
/disclaimer
do you listen to your music CDs only once and then put them on a shelf, never to be listened to again? I know I don't. However, I do often buy a game, play it for a while, beat it, and then let it sit, perhaps dragging it out once in a while if it's a multi-player game, but really not replaying them if it's all single-player stuff. So while the first time through the game might be at $5 an hour and the first time through a CD might be $15 an hour, once you listen to that CD 10 or 15 times, you've decreased that cost significantly...
Not that I love the RIAA, I'm just saying
it makes you lose weight.. perhaps it's true.. it's a healthy diet to maintain for the rest of your life (which you have to do, unless you want to gain that weight back plus more).. it's not.. not healthy at all..
here's a good basic chart for calories burned/hour, approximately.. then again, you have to realize you burn between 1200-2600 or so calories per day just by living (depends on fitness level, weight, etc).. without doing anything else.. just sitting on your ass..
Except that you can't. They won't let you move over there to work. They've got plenty of people already willing to work there, and they don't need some fat-assed, lazy American coming over there expecting things to go his way.
If I had to guess, it should take about as long as a normal installation would in windows, being that it's nearly the same idea.
As far as installation choices.. that's a good one. Since the CD is in there, it could, of course, get the data off the CDs if needed, ie FMV. Guess it's a wait-and-see...
Nothing says "don't steal me" like your name blazened across the back
how about getting "don't steal me" laser engraved on there?
umm.. okay.. now what? do we get a prize or something?