What about the cinema? Presumably, moviegoers have paid for admission and should experience the show without ads, but that's not exactly the case.
Previews of other movies were bad enough... now we have to sit through ads for levi's and coca-cola....and whiny stuntmen spouting anti-"piracy" propaganda.
And you can't just show up late for the show, unless you enjoy sitting in the worst seats.
I've used emusic, and I've been happy with the offerings: some things I'd been looking for as well as some new things I've started liking. The nice thing about emusic is that you can share the account with a few friends, bring the relative price down.
Ironically, I downloaded an album and in one of the songs the guy raps: "We've been workin' too hard for you to f**kin' download it." I chuckle every time I hear that line.
I was in downtown Seattle during the WTO meetings. From my perspective, there were lots of peaceful protesters, but unfortunately there were also a bunch of wannabe anarchists who just used the situation as an opportunity to break windows and turn over cars.
Interestingly, I spoke with one man from Holland (I think) who was wearing a business suit. I asked him what he thought about all the craziness in the streets and about the WTO. He said "Actually, I'm a WTO ambassador. I support the Organization." Lucky for him, I didn't start screaming hysterically and pointing at him.
But actually, I don't think it would have mattered much anyway. The real violence was coming from misguided cops who didn't see any distinction between gutter punks out for fun and the peaceful protesters who were naively trying to organize even the punks into managed crowds.
The annoying/scary thing about the situation was that the cops were trying to disperse the crowds with teargas, but they had everyone surrounded, so the crowd kept getting more compacted, which resulted in more teargas and more hysteria. Somehow my friend and I found an alley and escaped the inner crowd and watched from the outside. I don't know why more people didn't see that escape route, but it was pretty manic, so I guess most people just overlooked it.
I knew some people who were held captive by the police for over 24 hours without being charged or even fed. Some of the people were not even involved in the protest, they were just trying to go home after working downtown.
All in all, I wasn't really impressed with anyone involved (except for myself for finding that escape route just in time).
I work in a university environment that uses Novell applications for logging on to our intranet. Does anyone here know how (or if it's possible) to access the university's network (for GroupWise and/or printing) within a Linux OS? (I don't want to ask our tech department, as I'm afraid they might not like me installing Linux on my machine.)
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What about the cinema? Presumably, moviegoers have paid for admission and should experience the show without ads, but that's not exactly the case.
...and whiny stuntmen spouting anti-"piracy" propaganda.
Previews of other movies were bad enough... now we have to sit through ads for levi's and coca-cola.
And you can't just show up late for the show, unless you enjoy sitting in the worst seats.
It is much more convenient to pay for a full concert, already tracked out into mp3's than it is to try to hunt down every track.
it was something by People Under the Stairs. I couldn't find the lyrics to the song online, so I'm not sure which one it was.
Ironically, I downloaded an album and in one of the songs the guy raps: "We've been workin' too hard for you to f**kin' download it." I chuckle every time I hear that line.
Now it's back down to a reasonable $360.
google keeps giving me more reasons to like them. that's really cool of them to put the "answer" on the calculator. bravo!
Interestingly, I spoke with one man from Holland (I think) who was wearing a business suit. I asked him what he thought about all the craziness in the streets and about the WTO. He said "Actually, I'm a WTO ambassador. I support the Organization." Lucky for him, I didn't start screaming hysterically and pointing at him.
But actually, I don't think it would have mattered much anyway. The real violence was coming from misguided cops who didn't see any distinction between gutter punks out for fun and the peaceful protesters who were naively trying to organize even the punks into managed crowds.
The annoying/scary thing about the situation was that the cops were trying to disperse the crowds with teargas, but they had everyone surrounded, so the crowd kept getting more compacted, which resulted in more teargas and more hysteria. Somehow my friend and I found an alley and escaped the inner crowd and watched from the outside. I don't know why more people didn't see that escape route, but it was pretty manic, so I guess most people just overlooked it.
I knew some people who were held captive by the police for over 24 hours without being charged or even fed. Some of the people were not even involved in the protest, they were just trying to go home after working downtown.
All in all, I wasn't really impressed with anyone involved (except for myself for finding that escape route just in time).
Also, I was thinking, "Oh, okay. So all these people were 'saved' from the Matrix into dance party hell?"
I spewed water on my monitor when I read your comment. I love the sarcasm.
I work in a university environment that uses Novell applications for logging on to our intranet. Does anyone here know how (or if it's possible) to access the university's network (for GroupWise and/or printing) within a Linux OS? (I don't want to ask our tech department, as I'm afraid they might not like me installing Linux on my machine.)