Anyone could be a patron or commission songs, infact commissioning a song was easy most musicians where poor and desperate for any money they could get, you could get the artist to write you a song personally. Do you think that would happen today, let alone be affordable for your average person.
Also back then your social status was shown by the parties you did not your wealth (that does help with throwing a good party)so the rich would patronise the popular artists not necessarily there personal favourites.
If your going to try and be sarcastic at least know about the subject and era before opening your arse to speak, you will be more successful.
Develop a culture that values wisdom and stratgic thinking over foolishness and tactical thinking.
Definetly true about wisdom and foolishness, but strategy can't succed without tactics the first is what you want to do. "our strategy is to become the dominant source for online tuna sandwiches " and the way you achive this is your tactics.
If I were a professional musician, and my alleged "fans" would only pay fifty cents for their favourite track, I would pack up and quit because it would be so insulting.
You wouldn't be a profesinal musician. In the days of classical music composers like Mozart used to throw on big concerts for free, so that people got to hear there music. they would commision more songs and or become a patron and hire the composer and his orchestra for parties etc. Now artists seem to expect people to pay a lot of money before they know how good it is.
Don't you think that's more than a little unrealistic? Fifty cents a track means a total cost of less than six dollars for most albums. You can pay more than that for a six-pack of decent beer, and it certainly won't last as long as a good album.
6 dollars is about 12 (that works at out 2 pound a can that would be expensive for a top quality beer) pounds this is the price (or less) some stores sell there CD's at in the UK so the music industry in the uk seems the disagree with you. also 6 dollars meens the indivudual CD is making a big profit on the manufaturing side and you only need to sell a one or two thousand CD's to make a good profit. This something even small bands can acheive just by selling the CD's at there concerts. Most bands are dropped by Recording compaines not because they don't make a profit but because they don't make a hugh profit.
Exactly the same thing happens every day, and with much more information - Used computers given a quick format (at best, sometimes even just a new user account) are passed around and nobody bats an eyelid.
Not exactly true when that has happend companys have been fined. the important thing is You have control over what happens to the data about yourself
They are indexing YOUR emails to target adverts to YOU. by not deleting your
e-mails when you delete them or de-register they are violating privacy and breaking the law in the EU
Also remember, that they are using this information to allow searching for stuff inside your own emails.
If you don't want them to have your personal info, then don't provide it! GMail is a service, not a requirement.
Err. who said it was a requirement to use it. Just because you are not required to use a service does not meen that service is not required to follow the law (which is the whole point of the articule)
looks just like XP. I was hoping for something better - I thought there'd be hardware-accelerated coolness all over the place.
Arrrgh no way would i want hardware-accelerated crap everyware (except in games) XP runs so much better whens it's stripped back to a basic looking display and so will longhorn. i reckon all the fancy graphic "improvments" are what increas the hardware requirments more than most with little to no benefit.
so why the fuck is it taking them another 2 years to get this on the shelves? They have yet to work out how to force upgrades from XP.
I want to skin my windows crash screens, can I do that too? It'd be great to skin the crash screen to look just like the regular o/s, so I get the impression that everything is fine.
That Feature is already in XP. As far as i can tell the main update of XP over 9x is to hide problems from you.
it was proven long ago. Saddam had large stockpiles (unfortunately, the US had a role in providing some of it).
Supplying most of it for a start. I't was known he had modest stockpiles of chemical's. Most of which where used long before even the first gulf war with the rest being destroyed afterwards.
The locations were documented, as well. However, crafty Saddam had them moved elsewhere by the time his aggression forced the US and numerous allies to retaliate against him a year ago.
So what if they where documented. I could document that you like to dress up as Barney the dinosaur and then beat up tramps, which is not true (I presume) but I can still document it, there is documentation saying that Iraq destroyed its WMD they can't both be right.
What Iraqi aggression? And don't say 9/11 as that' was nothing to do with him. Where did he move them to? He couldn't have moved them outside of his country as he has no Allies (the only ally he ever had was the US). He couldn't leave them in his country because of the risk of them being betrayed to US forces or his enemies (and you can include Al qaida in that list sorry conspiracy nuts but that's the truth). Its simple Sadam got rid of anything that could potentially be used against him in an international court, the only court that can try him is an Iraqi one.
Even to the most hawkish, another cold war can't be that appealing. Why not nip it in the bud?
Cold wars are perfect for Hawks they don't have a lot of the problems that conventional war does i.e. Body bags. but they can still pump up the economy by hiring a lot of people for military projects and all the associated spending that goes with it, they can keep the fear going about a shadowy enemy (always good for votes) and every now and then it goes hot usually through a third party allowing all that new military gear that is creating jobs to be tested and updated.
Rather than do the typical knee-jerk US-Bashing, lets examine this. China is wanting to go into space. Do we REALLY want China to be the first ones with space weapons pointing back at us?
Probablly as much as China want's American space weapons pointing at them. If they weren't thinking about building them before they definatley will now, and the will probably do it first.
Because if you hire your nephew instead of the best person then you are being delibratley incompitant which is imoral, however if your nephew does turn out to be the best person for the job then thats not nepotism you hired them because they where the best not because there you relative.
the guy in India who gets paid 1/4 your salary can actually live on that amount of money there. You probably couldn't do that in America.
Yes, it is a moral issue. If some company is willing to lay off loyal workers who've been there for a decade or more just so that they can increase bottom line a little more, that's scummy and unethical in my book.
Perhaps you should ask the question why someone can have the same standard of living as me, on 1/4 the salary that I earn. They buy the same things often manufactured at the same factory but cheaper. Why, well simply because you earn more you are charged more, perfect example of this is comparison of EU and UK the average wage is 10% higher in the UK and so is the average car price. Also the higher wages increase the difference between the haves and the have not's making harder for anyone who loses there job
It's immoral to lay off a head of household to hire someone outside the country just to increase profits.
Why is it? What if that person is incompitent or unable to do there job? Why can't a company hire someone who is likley to work harder for less? What right does a person have to a job just because there head of a household?
Kigen resembles Mogi, with additional layers of complexity added: combat, technological evolution, conquering neighborhoods. Computer game players might think of Kigen as location-based StarCraft with a Civilization tech tree. Castelli agrees with a laugh that they were probably too early and too ambitious with that game design.
Just imagine you have just lost a fight against someone, then you notice the guy next to you is playing the same game you realise that he is the one who's just kicked you arse. Any sugestions on how this could end.
I don't think we can afford to ignore such an evil force... but maybe they should be downgraded to a weekly SCO summary. That way we can keep tabs on them while denying their ability to influence every day's news cycle.
The more stuff that gets posted, the more stories that are written the more it swings away from SCO. When I first read articles on this most of the stories had the angle of IBM/Linux being caught out and where going to get there arse kicked. Now most of the stories are about another wild unsubstantiated claims from SCO and/or how IBM are going to do some arse kicking, I say the more stories the merrier it helps counter not spread the FUD of SCO.
From ARIA's own research But what about our research, I hear the record companies scream. ARIA paid a research company to survey music consumers. The survey results suggest there's been a 12 per cent decrease in CD purchases by people who are into file-sharing. The greatest percentage is with the under-17s - people who don't have much money. But the research suggests those with the money, the 45 and overs, are buying more CDs after file-sharing. Now that's a statistic we never hear quoted. It shows that thoes who can affored to buy CD's do buy more whilst those that don't have much money tend to buy less, Lesson to be learn't sell CD's at price all can affored. The Record industry doesn't seem to realise that for most people 15 is alot to spend on something that could be rubbish.
IMFly through window, Then EXPLODE... Now That would be cool.
Not to be a political provocateur, but with what Israel has been up to the last few years, I'm sure that's exactly what they will do...
I think any military would, whenever they get something new to use. Even if it is intended for observation -Like planes first where- then i doesn't take long for them to try and fit weapons to it.
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Also back then your social status was shown by the parties you did not your wealth (that does help with throwing a good party)so the rich would patronise the popular artists not necessarily there personal favourites.
If your going to try and be sarcastic at least know about the subject and era before opening your arse to speak, you will be more successful.
Definetly true about wisdom and foolishness, but strategy can't succed without tactics the first is what you want to do. "our strategy is to become the dominant source for online tuna sandwiches " and the way you achive this is your tactics.
That's a very good description of a lot of musician. most still play for the love of music if they can make some money out of it's good luck mostly
You wouldn't be a profesinal musician. In the days of classical music composers like Mozart used to throw on big concerts for free, so that people got to hear there music. they would commision more songs and or become a patron and hire the composer and his orchestra for parties etc. Now artists seem to expect people to pay a lot of money before they know how good it is.
Don't you think that's more than a little unrealistic? Fifty cents a track means a total cost of less than six dollars for most albums. You can pay more than that for a six-pack of decent beer, and it certainly won't last as long as a good album.
6 dollars is about 12 (that works at out 2 pound a can that would be expensive for a top quality beer) pounds this is the price (or less) some stores sell there CD's at in the UK so the music industry in the uk seems the disagree with you. also 6 dollars meens the indivudual CD is making a big profit on the manufaturing side and you only need to sell a one or two thousand CD's to make a good profit. This something even small bands can acheive just by selling the CD's at there concerts. Most bands are dropped by Recording compaines not because they don't make a profit but because they don't make a hugh profit.
Not exactly true when that has happend companys have been fined. the important thing is You have control over what happens to the data about yourself
They are indexing YOUR emails to target adverts to YOU. by not deleting your e-mails when you delete them or de-register they are violating privacy and breaking the law in the EU
Also remember, that they are using this information to allow searching for stuff inside your own emails.
Why is that's a good reason to break the law?
Err. who said it was a requirement to use it. Just because you are not required to use a service does not meen that service is not required to follow the law (which is the whole point of the articule)
Arrrgh no way would i want hardware-accelerated crap everyware (except in games) XP runs so much better whens it's stripped back to a basic looking display and so will longhorn. i reckon all the fancy graphic "improvments" are what increas the hardware requirments more than most with little to no benefit.
so why the fuck is it taking them another 2 years to get this on the shelves? They have yet to work out how to force upgrades from XP.
That Feature is already in XP. As far as i can tell the main update of XP over 9x is to hide problems from you.
Supplying most of it for a start. I't was known he had modest stockpiles of chemical's. Most of which where used long before even the first gulf war with the rest being destroyed afterwards.
The locations were documented, as well. However, crafty Saddam had them moved elsewhere by the time his aggression forced the US and numerous allies to retaliate against him a year ago.
So what if they where documented. I could document that you like to dress up as Barney the dinosaur and then beat up tramps, which is not true (I presume) but I can still document it, there is documentation saying that Iraq destroyed its WMD they can't both be right.
What Iraqi aggression? And don't say 9/11 as that' was nothing to do with him. Where did he move them to? He couldn't have moved them outside of his country as he has no Allies (the only ally he ever had was the US). He couldn't leave them in his country because of the risk of them being betrayed to US forces or his enemies (and you can include Al qaida in that list sorry conspiracy nuts but that's the truth). Its simple Sadam got rid of anything that could potentially be used against him in an international court, the only court that can try him is an Iraqi one.
Cold wars are perfect for Hawks they don't have a lot of the problems that conventional war does i.e. Body bags. but they can still pump up the economy by hiring a lot of people for military projects and all the associated spending that goes with it, they can keep the fear going about a shadowy enemy (always good for votes) and every now and then it goes hot usually through a third party allowing all that new military gear that is creating jobs to be tested and updated.
Probablly as much as China want's American space weapons pointing at them. If they weren't thinking about building them before they definatley will now, and the will probably do it first.
Because if you hire your nephew instead of the best person then you are being delibratley incompitant which is imoral, however if your nephew does turn out to be the best person for the job then thats not nepotism you hired them because they where the best not because there you relative.
Perhaps you should ask the question why someone can have the same standard of living as me, on 1/4 the salary that I earn. They buy the same things often manufactured at the same factory but cheaper. Why, well simply because you earn more you are charged more, perfect example of this is comparison of EU and UK the average wage is 10% higher in the UK and so is the average car price. Also the higher wages increase the difference between the haves and the have not's making harder for anyone who loses there job
Why is it? What if that person is incompitent or unable to do there job? Why can't a company hire someone who is likley to work harder for less? What right does a person have to a job just because there head of a household?
Just imagine you have just lost a fight against someone, then you notice the guy next to you is playing the same game you realise that he is the one who's just kicked you arse. Any sugestions on how this could end.
April fool's joke ever.
If it's made by SCO it will
The more stuff that gets posted, the more stories that are written the more it swings away from SCO. When I first read articles on this most of the stories had the angle of IBM/Linux being caught out and where going to get there arse kicked. Now most of the stories are about another wild unsubstantiated claims from SCO and/or how IBM are going to do some arse kicking, I say the more stories the merrier it helps counter not spread the FUD of SCO.
I would rather vote for penis enlargment and viagra.
Didn't expect anyone to actually take the bait :)
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From ARIA's own research But what about our research, I hear the record companies scream. ARIA paid a research company to survey music consumers. The survey results suggest there's been a 12 per cent decrease in CD purchases by people who are into file-sharing. The greatest percentage is with the under-17s - people who don't have much money. But the research suggests those with the money, the 45 and overs, are buying more CDs after file-sharing. Now that's a statistic we never hear quoted. It shows that thoes who can affored to buy CD's do buy more whilst those that don't have much money tend to buy less, Lesson to be learn't sell CD's at price all can affored. The Record industry doesn't seem to realise that for most people 15 is alot to spend on something that could be rubbish.
Not to be a political provocateur, but with what Israel has been up to the last few years, I'm sure that's exactly what they will do...
I think any military would, whenever they get something new to use. Even if it is intended for observation -Like planes first where- then i doesn't take long for them to try and fit weapons to it.