Except that artists on traditional labels hardly make any money off of music sales, be it on CD or digitally distributed. Artists make most of their money from touring. That's why essentially defunct bands (pick an 80's hair metal band and you've got your example) can stay afloat financially by playing small events and venues, but without bothering to write or release new material.
And last I checked, there wasn't a reliable way to attend a concert for free via any existing P2P network. So buying music really isn't doing your favorite bands much of a favor, short of keeping their RIAA-affiliated record label signing them back on each time their contract nears expiration.
Besides, what kind of tool looks to TV and radio to find new music these days?
Except that nobody will be calling Google for customer service in this case, just as I don't call Access (the current owners of the Palm OS) if I have a problem with my Treo. I call Verizon (the service provider) or Palm (the phone manufacturer) depending on the nature of the issue. I strongly suspect that this will end up being the same sort of thing. You have a problem with your Motorola phone that happens to be running Android? You call Motorola.
Seriously, think about what you're saying. Do you really think that Symbian is fielding support calls from all of the people who are using phones that are running Symbian's OS? I'm pretty sure that work is left up to the Customer Support teams of the handset manufacturers. After all, how many average Joes and Janes out there could tell you what OS their phone is running?
Yeah, as long as soldiers are going to be forced to get the "high and tight" haircut, it's good that they can at least choose the color of their remaining hair.
As awesome as I find the concept of making anything possible from a plant as hearty and fast-growing as hemp, it's been proven time and time again that hemp is just not feasible for all applications. Hemp paper, for example, does not bond as tightly as wood-pulp paper, and tends to shred and gum up printing machinery. So it may be great for a spiral notebook, but it's useless for newspapers, magazines, printers, fax machines, and copiers.
I'd love to see us using hemp more often for materials for which it is really a reasonable alternative, though.
If you would like to read articles in which people opine over various legal and civil rights matters as "revolutionary", perhaps you need to look to a blog or news aggregator that caters to such whims.
You wouldn't go to a sushi restaurant and then complain that they won't serve you a hamburger, would you?
people is not complaining about Apple iTunes not supporting wma.
This has little to do with the presence of "Apple lovers" and everything to do with the fact that WMA-encoded audio tends to sound like pure ass.
To complain about not being able to purchase WMA-encoded files from the iTunes store would be roughly equivalent to complaining that Red Lobster does not offer horse feces on their menu.
Okay, okay, so the study is inherently flawed, a thing likely arranged by friends of Big Oil to make gas-guzzlers look slightly less abominable, and of course this is going to cause a flap amongst hybrid vehicle owners, because without being able to claim the self-righteous air that currently comes with hybrid vehicle ownership, they're just as wasteful as the Joneses: throwing recyclables in the trash, running water while they brush their teeth, leaving lights on when they're not home, even buying non-fair-trade coffee. Shock, horror!
But even with the true purpose of the study revealed, and the resultant discussion dismissed as obvious, at least we can all agree on two very basic truths: that Hummers are for arrogant pricks with self-esteem issues and tiny penises, and that Priuses are for smug, hippie-cum-yuppie douchebags who want to look environmentally-conscious, but are far too self-absorbed and lazy to actually make any lifestyle changes that could potentially inconvenience them.
he speeds because he can, not because he is on some evil power trip.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that that might be the very definition of a "power trip". He gets away with speeding because, as a cop, he has the power to do so. Where does this stop, then? If he gets caught driving while intoxicated, would his crime be similarly dismissed? What if he was caught shoplifting? What if he assaulted someone while off-duty? What if he killed someone, and, as an officer of the law, was in a position to taint or destroy any evidence that could link him to the case? Wouldn't any of these be a matter of him doing thing X because he can?
I'm glad that your friend is a great guy, but it stands that "being a great guy" and "abusing power" are not mutually exclusive.
Since the Core system is, by definition, a Premium system minus the hard drive and wireless controller, and the hard drive is required for this game, this game will not run on the Core system.
Since this game will not run on the Core system, the statement, "all games will run on the core system" is false.
On the other hand of course, is the fact that if MS had bothered with proper QA of the product in the first place, they wouldn't need to code, QA, and publish a patch.
How on earth are you managing six months on rechargeable batteries? If memory serves, NiMH cells naturally discharge at approximately 1% per day... so a fully charged NiMH battery should completely discharge in under four months even if you just leave it sitting on a shelf.
Oh, come on. Anything you can sell is "a legitimate product". If I drop a deuce in a box, and you are willing to give me any amount of money for it, congratulations, you have just legitimized my personal excrement as a product.
So yes, this is a legitimate product. That doesn't make it legitimate as a tool for RSI prevention, however. That's not to say that it necessarily doesn't help, just that nobody has proven that it does. And there's the rub.
Besides, wrist movement is not the sole cause of RSI and related injuries. The "R" is for repetitive -- as in movements -- so unless this device somehow relieves the user of his or her mouse-clicking duties, it's still a vector for RSI.
Netscape readers will change from the baby-boomers of yester-year to a younger audience more interested in Jessica Alba's Bikini or Britney Spears than real intellectual news.
Maybe it's just the fact that it's the end of the day on a Friday, but I can tell you that, between the two, I am way more interested in Jessica Alba's bikini than in the latest round of unrest in Iraq at the moment.
I'd estimate that 80% of Playstation 2s are hooked up to a small TV in some teenageers bedroom.
Considering that the average age of gamers these days is ~30 years old, either your numbers or wrong, or you're estimating that a lot of adults live in teenagers' bedrooms.
Engineers are the ones coming up with the technical ways in which everything fits together and physically functions on the inside. You know, determining which hinge mechanisms are more likely to suffer breakage from lateral force or repeated use, etc.
Designers are the ones who decide what the whole deal looks like. Aesthetic and ergonomic design, useability, etc.
In short, designers would be the ones who drew a picture of what they wanted the iPod to look like. Engineers would be the ones who made it work. So, unless you're an Apple zealot who has had severely bad experiences with the physical quality of Sony's PCs, there's little to complain about here.
This isn't finding something else to do with the console, it's finding something entertaining to do with it, period. There's only so much high-definition Shaq-sweat a man can watch before the novelty wears off.
I like Bejeweled. I do. I play it on my Treo when I'm away from a computer and I'm waiting on something. You know, waiting to see a doctor, or while having my car serviced, whatever. It's an open-ended game that is instantly engaging, yet can be put down at any point. It's a good distraction for up to 15 minutes or so.
But who in the hell wants to play it at home, in their living room, on their TV? Moreover, who can afford to drop $400 on an Xbox 360 (and, if the cycle continues as it has been, an increasing amount of cash for a new console every five years) in order to play Bejeweled?
Once the fuel ignited outside of the tanks, the shuttle itself slid sideways, and given that the orbiter was not intended to withstand lateral force, it broke into pieces. There are photographs floating around that show what many to be the cabin, intact, falling back towards the earth.
In case you hadn't heard, Robert Rodriguez probably won't be doing many major-studio pictures any time soon. His decision to share directing credit with Frank Miller (and, to a certain extent, Tarantino) forced him to drop out of the Director's Guild of America.
And AFAIK, it works kind of like a union thing, the major studios only hiring directors from the DGA.
Rodriguez will no doubt have little trouble finding work... but expect it to be via indie studios.
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Except that artists on traditional labels hardly make any money off of music sales, be it on CD or digitally distributed. Artists make most of their money from touring. That's why essentially defunct bands (pick an 80's hair metal band and you've got your example) can stay afloat financially by playing small events and venues, but without bothering to write or release new material.
And last I checked, there wasn't a reliable way to attend a concert for free via any existing P2P network. So buying music really isn't doing your favorite bands much of a favor, short of keeping their RIAA-affiliated record label signing them back on each time their contract nears expiration.
Besides, what kind of tool looks to TV and radio to find new music these days?
Except that nobody will be calling Google for customer service in this case, just as I don't call Access (the current owners of the Palm OS) if I have a problem with my Treo. I call Verizon (the service provider) or Palm (the phone manufacturer) depending on the nature of the issue. I strongly suspect that this will end up being the same sort of thing. You have a problem with your Motorola phone that happens to be running Android? You call Motorola.
Seriously, think about what you're saying. Do you really think that Symbian is fielding support calls from all of the people who are using phones that are running Symbian's OS? I'm pretty sure that work is left up to the Customer Support teams of the handset manufacturers. After all, how many average Joes and Janes out there could tell you what OS their phone is running?
Soldiers have signed up to fight and possibly dye
Yeah, as long as soldiers are going to be forced to get the "high and tight" haircut, it's good that they can at least choose the color of their remaining hair.
Except that communism is an economic system and not a system of government. Thanks for playing, though.
As awesome as I find the concept of making anything possible from a plant as hearty and fast-growing as hemp, it's been proven time and time again that hemp is just not feasible for all applications. Hemp paper, for example, does not bond as tightly as wood-pulp paper, and tends to shred and gum up printing machinery. So it may be great for a spiral notebook, but it's useless for newspapers, magazines, printers, fax machines, and copiers.
I'd love to see us using hemp more often for materials for which it is really a reasonable alternative, though.
And you're complaining about this on Slashdot?
If you would like to read articles in which people opine over various legal and civil rights matters as "revolutionary", perhaps you need to look to a blog or news aggregator that caters to such whims.
You wouldn't go to a sushi restaurant and then complain that they won't serve you a hamburger, would you?
Hey, blaming an optical data standard for your substance abuse problems is not going to make those problems go away.
You need to learn to love yourself.
Is that Vista service pack 2 or 3?
people is not complaining about Apple iTunes not supporting wma.
This has little to do with the presence of "Apple lovers" and everything to do with the fact that WMA-encoded audio tends to sound like pure ass.
To complain about not being able to purchase WMA-encoded files from the iTunes store would be roughly equivalent to complaining that Red Lobster does not offer horse feces on their menu.
Okay, okay, so the study is inherently flawed, a thing likely arranged by friends of Big Oil to make gas-guzzlers look slightly less abominable, and of course this is going to cause a flap amongst hybrid vehicle owners, because without being able to claim the self-righteous air that currently comes with hybrid vehicle ownership, they're just as wasteful as the Joneses: throwing recyclables in the trash, running water while they brush their teeth, leaving lights on when they're not home, even buying non-fair-trade coffee. Shock, horror!
But even with the true purpose of the study revealed, and the resultant discussion dismissed as obvious, at least we can all agree on two very basic truths: that Hummers are for arrogant pricks with self-esteem issues and tiny penises, and that Priuses are for smug, hippie-cum-yuppie douchebags who want to look environmentally-conscious, but are far too self-absorbed and lazy to actually make any lifestyle changes that could potentially inconvenience them.
Hooray!
he speeds because he can, not because he is on some evil power trip.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that that might be the very definition of a "power trip". He gets away with speeding because, as a cop, he has the power to do so. Where does this stop, then? If he gets caught driving while intoxicated, would his crime be similarly dismissed? What if he was caught shoplifting? What if he assaulted someone while off-duty? What if he killed someone, and, as an officer of the law, was in a position to taint or destroy any evidence that could link him to the case? Wouldn't any of these be a matter of him doing thing X because he can?
I'm glad that your friend is a great guy, but it stands that "being a great guy" and "abusing power" are not mutually exclusive.
Hey, cut the guy some slack. He may not have been featured on South Park, but he's still a giant fscking douche.
yet one tit shows up on the Super Bowl
That's "Mr. Timberlake" to you, buddy.
but, aside from original Xbox games, I don't think any game requires a harddrive. at least, to my knowledge, none do.
Football Manager 2006 for the Xbox 360 requires a hard drive.
Since the Core system is, by definition, a Premium system minus the hard drive and wireless controller, and the hard drive is required for this game, this game will not run on the Core system.
Since this game will not run on the Core system, the statement, "all games will run on the core system" is false.
An interesting theory, to be sure.
On the other hand of course, is the fact that if MS had bothered with proper QA of the product in the first place, they wouldn't need to code, QA, and publish a patch.
How on earth are you managing six months on rechargeable batteries? If memory serves, NiMH cells naturally discharge at approximately 1% per day... so a fully charged NiMH battery should completely discharge in under four months even if you just leave it sitting on a shelf.
What kind of voodoo are you working here?
Microsoft can box up a petrified turd and people will still buy it.
They did that already. It was called Windows ME.
Oh, come on. Anything you can sell is "a legitimate product". If I drop a deuce in a box, and you are willing to give me any amount of money for it, congratulations, you have just legitimized my personal excrement as a product.
So yes, this is a legitimate product. That doesn't make it legitimate as a tool for RSI prevention, however. That's not to say that it necessarily doesn't help, just that nobody has proven that it does. And there's the rub.
Besides, wrist movement is not the sole cause of RSI and related injuries. The "R" is for repetitive -- as in movements -- so unless this device somehow relieves the user of his or her mouse-clicking duties, it's still a vector for RSI.
Netscape readers will change from the baby-boomers of yester-year to a younger audience more interested in Jessica Alba's Bikini or Britney Spears than real intellectual news.
Maybe it's just the fact that it's the end of the day on a Friday, but I can tell you that, between the two, I am way more interested in Jessica Alba's bikini than in the latest round of unrest in Iraq at the moment.
I'd estimate that 80% of Playstation 2s are hooked up to a small TV in some teenageers bedroom.
Considering that the average age of gamers these days is ~30 years old, either your numbers or wrong, or you're estimating that a lot of adults live in teenagers' bedrooms.
Ahem.
engineers != designers.
Engineers are the ones coming up with the technical ways in which everything fits together and physically functions on the inside. You know, determining which hinge mechanisms are more likely to suffer breakage from lateral force or repeated use, etc.
Designers are the ones who decide what the whole deal looks like. Aesthetic and ergonomic design, useability, etc.
In short, designers would be the ones who drew a picture of what they wanted the iPod to look like. Engineers would be the ones who made it work. So, unless you're an Apple zealot who has had severely bad experiences with the physical quality of Sony's PCs, there's little to complain about here.
You've seen the list of launch titles, right?
This isn't finding something else to do with the console, it's finding something entertaining to do with it, period. There's only so much high-definition Shaq-sweat a man can watch before the novelty wears off.
I like Bejeweled. I do. I play it on my Treo when I'm away from a computer and I'm waiting on something. You know, waiting to see a doctor, or while having my car serviced, whatever. It's an open-ended game that is instantly engaging, yet can be put down at any point. It's a good distraction for up to 15 minutes or so.
But who in the hell wants to play it at home, in their living room, on their TV? Moreover, who can afford to drop $400 on an Xbox 360 (and, if the cycle continues as it has been, an increasing amount of cash for a new console every five years) in order to play Bejeweled?
Technically, the Challenger did not explode.
Once the fuel ignited outside of the tanks, the shuttle itself slid sideways, and given that the orbiter was not intended to withstand lateral force, it broke into pieces. There are photographs floating around that show what many to be the cabin, intact, falling back towards the earth.
In case you hadn't heard, Robert Rodriguez probably won't be doing many major-studio pictures any time soon. His decision to share directing credit with Frank Miller (and, to a certain extent, Tarantino) forced him to drop out of the Director's Guild of America.
And AFAIK, it works kind of like a union thing, the major studios only hiring directors from the DGA.
Rodriguez will no doubt have little trouble finding work... but expect it to be via indie studios.