None of these countries are/were actually communist, though. There is a reason the full name of the Russian hegemony was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Except that the admonishment is not 'Thou shalt not kill.' That is a mistranslation that noone bothers to point out because the incorrect absolute is more useful as an example than the correct 'Thou shalt not murder,' which provides room for justification.
I used to have access to a method to predict the entire ID number. I knew my Florida state driver's license number five months before I got my learner's permit.
The radio stations pay for that music based on how many listeners are expected.
Recording music off the radio is legal because it's already been paid for by the time you hear it (and because the law already specifically addresses that case).
For all of you p2p users, you are doing the right thing, anyone complaining about the price of a CD (which btw costs about $.43 for the EXPENSIVE media, and if you assume recording costs (reasonable) of $15,000, and sales of 100,000 or more, $.15 for productoin, for a grand total of $.58) should not complain about p2p users, but, the grand ole' RIAA.
Something you missed: The master disc by itself costs a good bit of money, over and above all the other production costs. It has to undergo alot more punishment than the media you actually see is expected to, and as a result is made of much more expensive materiels.
An honest baseline estimate of production costs for a lot of 1,000,000 discs is roughly $500,000, plus upkeep on the machinery and equipment, storage space, and shipping costs.
You also missed the advertising costs, which is the one service the RIAA performs that couldn't be duplicated by the average performing artist on any scale remotely resembling that of the production labels until just recently. Advertising isn't cheap either: this is actually where most of the costs come from. A conservative estimate for advertising costs via traditional media is somewhere in the area of $8-10 million.
An accurate baseline estimate for the actual costs is around $9,000,000 or about $9 per disc. Running larger lots of discs brings down the cost per disc, but only if they all sell, and that rarely happens. Now do you see the problem involved in lowering costs?
By the time Wal*Mart has the disc, it's picked up a 70% markup, but Wal*Mart itself is responsible for about 40% of that.
There's nothing wrong with it for creating documents in most other formats, and at least for me, it's good enough so I can read MS Office documents not available in other formats, which is all that I need MS compatibility for.
I can show you a lot of MS documents that got so corrupted as to be unusable. This will be an issue of how complex a word processor you need, of course - but if you only need something simple, then I can recommend a lot of WP's that are faster and smaller than 00. Put it this way - it doesn't have the functionality or interoperability of office, and it doesn't have the speed of other options, so it doesn't win in any case.
And I can show you Microsoft Word messing up the same document when written in Word 95 or Word 2000 and read in Word XP. MS Office compatability is meaningless when MS Office isn't even compatible with itself.
Incidentally, MS Office itself doesn't even support it's own Word for Windows formats anymore, yet StarOffice and OpenOffice.org does support WfW4 and Word(Mac) 2 documents.
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None of these countries are/were actually communist, though. There is a reason the full name of the Russian hegemony was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Except that the admonishment is not 'Thou shalt not kill.' That is a mistranslation that noone bothers to point out because the incorrect absolute is more useful as an example than the correct 'Thou shalt not murder,' which provides room for justification.
I used to have access to a method to predict the entire ID number. I knew my Florida state driver's license number five months before I got my learner's permit.
The radio stations pay for that music based on how many listeners are expected. Recording music off the radio is legal because it's already been paid for by the time you hear it (and because the law already specifically addresses that case).
For all of you p2p users, you are doing the right thing, anyone complaining about the price of a CD (which btw costs about $.43 for the EXPENSIVE media, and if you assume recording costs (reasonable) of $15,000, and sales of 100,000 or more, $.15 for productoin, for a grand total of $.58) should not complain about p2p users, but, the grand ole' RIAA. Something you missed: The master disc by itself costs a good bit of money, over and above all the other production costs. It has to undergo alot more punishment than the media you actually see is expected to, and as a result is made of much more expensive materiels. An honest baseline estimate of production costs for a lot of 1,000,000 discs is roughly $500,000, plus upkeep on the machinery and equipment, storage space, and shipping costs. You also missed the advertising costs, which is the one service the RIAA performs that couldn't be duplicated by the average performing artist on any scale remotely resembling that of the production labels until just recently. Advertising isn't cheap either: this is actually where most of the costs come from. A conservative estimate for advertising costs via traditional media is somewhere in the area of $8-10 million. An accurate baseline estimate for the actual costs is around $9,000,000 or about $9 per disc. Running larger lots of discs brings down the cost per disc, but only if they all sell, and that rarely happens. Now do you see the problem involved in lowering costs? By the time Wal*Mart has the disc, it's picked up a 70% markup, but Wal*Mart itself is responsible for about 40% of that.
There's nothing wrong with it for creating documents in most other formats, and at least for me, it's good enough so I can read MS Office documents not available in other formats, which is all that I need MS compatibility for. I can show you a lot of MS documents that got so corrupted as to be unusable. This will be an issue of how complex a word processor you need, of course - but if you only need something simple, then I can recommend a lot of WP's that are faster and smaller than 00. Put it this way - it doesn't have the functionality or interoperability of office, and it doesn't have the speed of other options, so it doesn't win in any case. And I can show you Microsoft Word messing up the same document when written in Word 95 or Word 2000 and read in Word XP. MS Office compatability is meaningless when MS Office isn't even compatible with itself. Incidentally, MS Office itself doesn't even support it's own Word for Windows formats anymore, yet StarOffice and OpenOffice.org does support WfW4 and Word(Mac) 2 documents.