1) The people who phone in.
2) The 80's TV presenters who you wondered "where are they now?"
3) Diamonique.
4) Comparing prices of computer kit with prices online.
5) That it's not as crappy as the other shopping channel on Freeview.
Ultimately, there's no problem if you have a free market on the airwaves.
And anyone who thinks that radio stations are not playing some local metal band because of some payola are nuts. Radio stations play stuff that appeals to certain demographics. The money will make them play one overhyped highly polished artist from one company instead of an overhyped highly polished artist from another.
Wise words. Someone recently said "Do what you like doing. You'll get good at it and you'll earn as a result of it".
People hopping industries are nuts. All that happens is that you hit the industry just as the supply/demand curve starts going against you.
Choose what you like to do. You'll get good times and bad times.
One thing that I'd advise a lot of people now is to become independent. Companies will outsource large departments, but small projects, they'll often choose the local guy who can visit them. Just think about the overhead game.
Even though I've used VS.NET, I'm trying to move away towards actually entering the text.
You might ask why. The reason is that I want to really understand what is going on. I want to be able to do more true OO design. From what I can tell, the moment you try and do things like inherit a form to a zzzform which has certain additional properties as standard, VS.NET breaks down.
Mick Jones is no "hobby musician". After The Clash, he formed Big Audio Dynamite which ran for years and had some success.
Just maybe, they recognise that there may be alternative math to the record company route. Sure, the record company will promote you, but then releasing via the web will as well. You may then lose some people who will just keep the MP3s, but on the other hand, every CD sold means a lot bigger slice of the cake to you.
There's also a lot more artistic freedom being independent, which means a lot to some people.
Manned travel is unnecessary because there's nothing for men to do in space now. We've proved the big concept - landing on another planet. It's done.
I know there's Mars, but so what? Other than it being a parallel of the old mountain adage "why climb Everest - because it's there", there is no point in a man visiting Mars. There's no life there. We would spend many billions doing it for nothing more than "because it's there".
There's 3 things to do now - unmanned probes, commercial space travel and research. Manned space travel is worthless until we can develop warp drive/wormhole/folding space technology.
most people are those sort of "dweebs" that you are talking about.
The thing is that costs will be the determining factor on thin client. At one time, PCs made a saving because of networking costs, costs of PCs vs mainframes and other issues. And the UI was prettier/more flexible than green screen.
The downside of PCs was that they required more staff costs, although there is now more automation. But, the cost of network traffic is getting cheaper, and the cost of servers is coming down.
I think that eventually, the computing experience for most individuals (either at home or work) will be thin client.
Did people complain when Naxos started doing that? Doesn't surprise me. To be honest, most of their discs are better than the run-of-the-mill "star" recordings?
I don't think this is the same group that attacked "popera". The people complaining are the music industry, the people most interested in recordings with star names and things like crossover. The problem with out-of-copyright works for them is that it all comes down to the quality and interpretation of the work, which means that they have to work in a free market. Which means that they have to compete with guys like Naxos who sell recordings that are often excellent, and good enough for the man in the street.
To the best of my knowledge, trade secrets get no legal protection at all, particularly if you "peek into Coca-Cola's factory" when you have no contract that says you will protect their secrets.
If I buy a book, I can review it. Unless, there's something on the book that says I can't, and is signed by me.
I've met people who won't pay regardless of the price. I think there's something psychological - they'll spend days finding a crack for a $10 piece of software.
People in the UK are just starting to wake up because they already know about region coding. I've met a few non-geeks who are already starting to get the idea of open standards (whether in consumer electronics, computing or whatever else).
They didn't "get hold of" it. A sold to B, B sold to C. If I'm C, I'll be pretty cheesed off that someone's trying to restrict my rights to publish a review because they (A) chose to release it and (B) accidentally sold it early.
If (A) doesn't want people reading it, they shouldn't sell it to (B) until the date they want it released.
OOo is probably (or should be) Microsoft's biggest worry.
Not only does it allow for easier migration from Windows, but it's an important profit area for them.
What I've noticed is that most big companies aren't looking at switching, but a lot of small companies are going for it, as it saves cost (and the guy making the choice is spending his own money). If a few small companies start growing, they may grow using OOo.org.
The other thing is, OOo is playing catch-up with the features of MS Office. MS Office really has nowhere to go. Hardly anyone uses any feature post-O2K, and OOo is growing.
You think that the RIAA battles with people are big. Wait until there's a replicator and people start copying fast cars, oil paintings and vintage claret.
You'll have people with cellars full of Chateau Margaux '82 that they don't even want to drink;)
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1) The people who phone in. 2) The 80's TV presenters who you wondered "where are they now?" 3) Diamonique. 4) Comparing prices of computer kit with prices online. 5) That it's not as crappy as the other shopping channel on Freeview.
Also, don't start watching bidup.tv. It's completely addictive.
So can I record a month of QVC to watch later?
And anyone who thinks that radio stations are not playing some local metal band because of some payola are nuts. Radio stations play stuff that appeals to certain demographics. The money will make them play one overhyped highly polished artist from one company instead of an overhyped highly polished artist from another.
Is this part of the battle for "winning hearts and minds"?
I'd probably consider being a lecturer, to people who actually have the option of turning up or not.
People hopping industries are nuts. All that happens is that you hit the industry just as the supply/demand curve starts going against you.
Choose what you like to do. You'll get good times and bad times.
One thing that I'd advise a lot of people now is to become independent. Companies will outsource large departments, but small projects, they'll often choose the local guy who can visit them. Just think about the overhead game.
You might ask why. The reason is that I want to really understand what is going on. I want to be able to do more true OO design. From what I can tell, the moment you try and do things like inherit a form to a zzzform which has certain additional properties as standard, VS.NET breaks down.
Just maybe, they recognise that there may be alternative math to the record company route. Sure, the record company will promote you, but then releasing via the web will as well. You may then lose some people who will just keep the MP3s, but on the other hand, every CD sold means a lot bigger slice of the cake to you.
There's also a lot more artistic freedom being independent, which means a lot to some people.
It's one of the best conversions from small to big screen. I can't think of any better, and maybe the only other one I liked was The Addams Family.
The Last Seduction was originally a TV movie, and over here in the UK, The Man with Two Brains went straight to video.
When a movie is released as a "dvd premiere", 99% of the time, it will suck.
Because a huge number of people now have multi-region DVD players so that they can buy films either cheaper or earlier than UK release.
Whole stores exist online to serve this UK market.
As for MP3, for most people, they don't even know it's patent-encumbered, because mostly, they don't notice it in terms of impact.
I know there's Mars, but so what? Other than it being a parallel of the old mountain adage "why climb Everest - because it's there", there is no point in a man visiting Mars. There's no life there. We would spend many billions doing it for nothing more than "because it's there".
There's 3 things to do now - unmanned probes, commercial space travel and research. Manned space travel is worthless until we can develop warp drive/wormhole/folding space technology.
A thin client could be a PC, but on it installed a basic Linux distro, locked down and with a web browser.
But you could, for now, start converting your systems to run as web apps with a WinXP PC talking to them, and gradually, over time, convert.
The thing is that costs will be the determining factor on thin client. At one time, PCs made a saving because of networking costs, costs of PCs vs mainframes and other issues. And the UI was prettier /more flexible than green screen.
The downside of PCs was that they required more staff costs, although there is now more automation. But, the cost of network traffic is getting cheaper, and the cost of servers is coming down.
I think that eventually, the computing experience for most individuals (either at home or work) will be thin client.
Their recordings are generally very well priced using little known, but quality artists, not hyped up stars.
I don't think this is the same group that attacked "popera". The people complaining are the music industry, the people most interested in recordings with star names and things like crossover. The problem with out-of-copyright works for them is that it all comes down to the quality and interpretation of the work, which means that they have to work in a free market. Which means that they have to compete with guys like Naxos who sell recordings that are often excellent, and good enough for the man in the street.
Having to learn a bunch of facts, watching a rather poor TV version of Julius Caesar and everyone reading aloud. It was dry and dead.
In my mid 20s I went to see The Scottish Play performed and really understood it, and it was a pleasure.
Maybe the best thing is to show people Branagh's Henry V or Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet.
Almost no-one with a reasonably patched system who takes sensible precautions (anti-virus, firewall, not clicking "yes" to every window) gets a virus.
To the best of my knowledge, trade secrets get no legal protection at all, particularly if you "peek into Coca-Cola's factory" when you have no contract that says you will protect their secrets.
If I buy a book, I can review it. Unless, there's something on the book that says I can't, and is signed by me.
People in the UK are just starting to wake up because they already know about region coding. I've met a few non-geeks who are already starting to get the idea of open standards (whether in consumer electronics, computing or whatever else).
If (A) doesn't want people reading it, they shouldn't sell it to (B) until the date they want it released.
But they did control distribution, and it was legally bought.
Not only does it allow for easier migration from Windows, but it's an important profit area for them.
What I've noticed is that most big companies aren't looking at switching, but a lot of small companies are going for it, as it saves cost (and the guy making the choice is spending his own money). If a few small companies start growing, they may grow using OOo.org.
The other thing is, OOo is playing catch-up with the features of MS Office. MS Office really has nowhere to go. Hardly anyone uses any feature post-O2K, and OOo is growing.
You'll have people with cellars full of Chateau Margaux '82 that they don't even want to drink ;)