I count 5 scenes just in that trailer that were ripped straight out of other movies, not just the original 3 star wars films either.
1. Bar fight scene: Obi-wan spins around and whips out his light sabre. From the original Star Wars scene: Obi wan whips out the sabre in a bar and chops off some alien's arm.
2. Anakin jumps out of the air-car: camera follows him falling, while air-cars zoom around us. From The 5th Element: (couple of scenes) Milla Jovovich as Leelu jumps off the building and air-cars zoom around. Also Bruce Weiner makes his cab dive straight down and more zoomage occurs.
3. Anakin and Amidala on retracting plank: what comes next, the old kiss for luck? From Empire Strikes Back I think: Luke and Leia in the Death Star or something, find themselves on a retracted bridge over an apparently bottomless pit, and Luke shoots a line somehow and they swing to safety (after the kiss).
4. Amidala on top something: Her hands are shackled and she swings her chain around to fight off some monster, we get a sexy shot of her butt. From Empire (right?): Leia is in chains and slave of Jaba, the battle starts, she uses her chains to kill Jaba, wearing sexy metal clothes.
Ok so 4 scenes, but still...that's just in the damn trailer. I can't help but feel offended by that. Someone should have really said to Lucas, "George, this scene is just like in Empire" or whatever... Alright whatever, I'm probably going to see it when it comes out, it looks like fun right? As long as there's not Gungans.
Also, another peeve: The last words of the trailer where Yoda says "Begun, this clone war, has." Yoda would never say that, jeebus. He would have said "Begun has this clone war." Fer chrissakes Lucas, you created the character, what the hell were you thinking..
The whole thing makes me think of Iain M. Banks, whose book "Consider Phlebas" came from his response to the original Star Wars: "I can write a better sci-fi movie than that shiat!" (ok paraphrased).
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In addition, using the dock or alt-tab to switch applications only switches applications not windows. Look at IE or Terminal.app - these both have their own internal window management and it works differently in each. In Terminal.app, you hit cmd-1 or cmd-2 to switch between running windows, in IE it's something else.
Uhh, actually IE and Terminal work exactly the same.. Hit CMD-~ and you rotate through all the open windows....
Yes it's true that Finder doesn't have the same behavior....but your examples were wrong.
Note: I agree that a stack based system would be better for CMD-Tab'ing
I hereby coin the term "Crumble Ware" to apply to things like Anarchy Online, that maybe should have been left as Vapor for a little longer. They were sent out into the hands of eager consumers before they were done, and were shoddy and incomplete.
So I'm now nominating the following products into the Crumble Ware top 10:
Yeah, for my money, i've started accepting that many slashdot "news" articles (and i use that term sparingly) are PURE RUMOR and/or SLANDER.
E.G. it doesn't pay to read the slashdot headlines AT ALL. You have to read the actual source, and figure out what's going on yourself. 9/10 times the author didn't, so in effect, having an indpendent news outlet is NO BETTER than having a corporate controlled, Pepsi-oriented news outlet: the "facts" are just as factual.
At my school (Pomona College) There is a long wall, approx, 5x150 ft called Walker Wall (it's outside Walker Dorm, and borders the Walke Beach) where people are supposedly allowed to paint whatever they want on it.
This has, of course, garnered some controversy. E.G when someone painted a quote from some Adam Sandler stand up skit mentioning lesbians or something. Most of the things painted on it are pretty inane, and mostly stupid. Sometimes taggers get creative and put up some interesting tags. It's used as kind of an advertisement a lot.
Sometimes there are protests/real causes that get featured. Most people ignored the wall. A lot of the painting involved frat related party advertisements.
I liked that it was supposed to represent freedom of speech, but at least in our closed, college community, it was a big billboard for advertisements most of the time. Also it was pretty stagnant. Sometimes at night some group would whitewash it and paint the whole thing with some slogan, which would be noticed by everyone the next day.
Guess this post isn't saying much, but as you can tell if you don't filter the responses to a/. post, most of what is going to get put up on such billboards is inane crap.
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"What thou shalt not, I shalt did!" -Bart Simpson
I learned to program in HyperTalk. In high school every 9th grade history student had to make a HyperCard stack for one project that was basically an interactive history report. This got me into playing with HyperCard, and specifically into playing in HyperTalk, which is HyperCard's built in scripting language.
The whole language was kind of "Object Oriented" though I don't know if OO was much of a concept back then (at least I knew nothing about programming).
I would say I wouldn't be the person or programmer I am now without HyperCard. There was a whole (sub)culture of HyperCard users/scripters/geeks. I remember using Gopher to find cool stacks.
I eventually learned C later in hich scool but before that I was creating stacks that drew fractals, graphed arbitrary equations, and made generational graphics. One teacher encouraged me to start learning MacroMedia Director, but HyperCard so much more fun, for me.
My friend and I were Lab Assistants in the Computre Lab at my school and would spend every minute of our time there playing around in HyperCard.
Some notable hacks that my friend and I wrote in HyperCard:
A stack that looked exactly like the existing (1993) MacOS interface, completely with desktop, trash and HD icons, and menubar! And when some unsuspecting student ran it it would look like nothing had happened, and every menu command they did resulted in a System Bomb window. Yeah we were kids, but it was hella fun.
Also, since the macs were networked and most of them had Program Sharing on by default (a long forgotten way of communicating between mac apps), you could send ANY ARBITRARY SCRIPTING commands to ANY OTHER HYPERCARD RUNNING MAC! This was the coolest thing I had ever seen at 13. We wrote a script that would cause somebody's screen to pop up a text entry dialog with the message "You have been logged off. Please enter your password below." Damn that was cool.
IIRC proof carrying code is typically a few times larger than the code by itself. This is fine for small things, (e.g. see the Necula/Lee paper "Safe kernel extensions without run time checking", where a simple 28 instruction packet filter takes 800 bytes to represent the proof+code) but if the code gets really large then the size overhead for the pcc could grow quite big.
Esp. since the code that a user would be installing from Microsoft typically incurrs about a 12x size/functionality overhead! (jk)
Also, as you say, there is a "world of difficulty" defining what can safely be executed, and what "safely" means. With a small set of instructions like for a packet filter, you can resolve it all without TOO much hassle, but code that does a lot more than just look at the bytes of an ip address is going to be HELLA harder to define what is safe. Also, most code these days links to libraries of other code. Are we going to verify all of those libraries also? lots of tough problems/extensive research left to work on.
They mention that a Java Virtual Machine could be used as the platform for the code, and that java bytecode would be what is verified. This might simplify things, but then again, the only code that could be transfered this way would be java bytecode, and there's still external libraries to deal with.
So no, we aren't there yet, but someday!
Could be useful to MC Stephen Hawking!
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Well, I believe that Stephen Hawking is a self admitted "fucking quake master!" http://www.mchawking.com
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A disposable cellphone isn't any cheaper -- in fact, it's more expensive per unit, just as phonecards are more expensive per minute than good home long-distance plans. You're paying for the convenience.
and a can of coke is more expensive per unit, but I don't see soda vending machines going away. As you say you're paying for the convenience, and the convenience it seems (to a lot of people) pays for itself. I would never have bought my $199 phone and $40/mo service if I could have bought something as small as my Nokia 8290, with a good percentage of its features, and only pay for time I actually use.
I see this paper phone technology as just opening the door for a lot of other cool applications/improvements on existing tech. Add some flat, printable, cheap display technology, and you've got the smallest and lightest gameboy/cellphone/pda/laptop ever.
They don't mention in the article or in the how-stuff-works how the device is powered, so this may be a limiting factor.
Bottom-line, if this stuff is coming out in MAY it's going to be a hit. Just need some SMS capability, right?
so as you can see, free beer sucks more and rules less than free speech, which I think is counter-intuitive since there are rules about free speech and it's quite nice to suck back a cold beer.
If the DoD can step in and prevent them from falling back to earth, can't they just give 'em a little boost and send them hurtling out away from Earth? Why is this option not discussed? Am I wrong that this is possible?
No, email is more like handing your neighbor a piece of paper with a note to your girlfriend and asking them to see that it gets passed along to her at some point. Hopefully it gets to her, and it may not, but there's nothing preventing anybody from reading it.
USPS provides a service of delivering objects, and it is a federal offense to read someone else's mail. Therefore the FBI has no right to read your s-mail in transit.
There is no "right to email".
You may THINK that although "email" is similar sounding to the regular USPS "mail", that it has anything at all to do with it, but you'd be wrong.
There is evidence that evolution happens. There was a certain type of bacteria discovered in Japan that lives only by eating nylon. Nylon was not invented until sometime in the early part of this century. Therefore this bacteria could not have existed as it does now before then. Therefore it evolved into its current condition.
I forget where I saw this, try Scientific American.
Everybody's be-atching about how this hurts the music fan, but I disagree. This is a good thing for the music fan. And I'll tell you why: 1. by doing this, the RIAA shows their ignorance. if they never get with the times, then we stand a good chance of changing things for the better. If they were on their toes, we'd be screwed because no matter what we threw at them they'd be able to handle it. 2.We are going to see a polarity among musicians. people are taking sides, and it's not the kind of thing you can't pick a side on. We'll have a number of big-name musicians step up and speak their minds (radiohead, chuck-d, courtney love...) and this will spread the word to the MASSES who didn't know crap about it before. 3. basically this is a question of freedom and rights, and it's gonna compell a lot of people who don't know much about music/technology to get into the fray. (but we have to be sure they are INFORMED correctly) All of this spells CHANGE. and any change is good change coming from the back-ass-wards system the RIAA has set up to pull money out of every body else's pockets. I think that this decision is exactly what is needed to polarize, motivate, and agitate people. Obviously the RIAA is going to lose, in the end, because they are ignorant.:)
Another interesting read on the subject of this kind of communication gap is His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem.
The SETI project finally received a signal from another star...but it must be interpreted. The government puts together a top secret group to work on deciphering it...mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, biologists...there seems to be no good theory as to what it means, and there are some questions that have to be answered about the alien intelligence that sent the message. If they are friendly they must have known that anybody who received the message would get it long after they themselves are dead. If they are not friendly, should the message even be deciphered?
A great sci-fi story that poses some great questions about the philosophy of science and about the limitations of human intelligence.
This was printed on a leaflet insert to a cd by a punk band from Albuquerque called Scared of Chaka. They were on 702 records (PO BOX 204 RENO NV 89504 U$A) when I bought this album....there's an alternative to the Industry: live punk, die punk.
------------------------------------------------ EVER GET A FUNNY FEELING inside as you forked out $14.98 for a CD? Like something was being shoved up into your asshole? That's probably because you're getting SCREWED!
Cost breakdown for this compact disc: Pressing:.92 per disc Covers:.30 each Stickers:.08 each Inserts:.01 each Recording:.25 each* _____________________ Total: $1.56 each
*/We spent $1000 on recording, and I expect to sell at least 4000 copies of this album between LP and CD, so we'll say the recording cost is.25 per CD./
There are other costs, such as advertising and promotion, but those vary so I'll just say that the total cost of each CD will be $1.75 and that should cover everything.
Now, at $1.75 per CD, how do you justify selling a CD for $14.98?
This CD will be sold wholesale for $4 to stores and distributors. That means that there is $2.75 left over after costs. I give %50 of profits to the band, so Scared of Chaka is getting $1.38 per CD. If you want the band to get the most money, buy it direct from them at show. (They'll get $3-4). If you order it by mail direct from 702, they'll get $1.62 per CD.
SHIT the vinyl's much cooler anyways.
Fuck the "Industry" standard! Buy 702! ------------------------------------
I say we should not only pirate mp3's but do some propaganda of our own...Maybe post "before you buy, get it free, www.napster.com" stickers on record store windows.
Another great Sci-fi series featuring Mark Twain himself is the Riverworld Series by Philip Jose Farmer. This is a great original series about a planet where every human being who has ever lived on Earth is strangely reincarnated at the same time along the banks of a giant fiver. The second book in the series has Sam Clemens as the main character. Truthfully I never finished the series, though if I had time these days I would. At least check out the first and then see if you want to read more.
Asimov was my first step into sci-fi and Iain M. Banks has recently been my favorite "hard" sci-fi, but I would also have to mention:
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card Snow Crash, The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, VALIS - Philip K. Dick Ringworld - Larry Niven We - Yevgeny Zamyatin The Cyberiad, His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem Hyperion - Dan Simmons Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
Information wants to be free. i couldn't agree more, especially in a system like the internet, which was designed to allow information to move from one point to another as easily as possible. trying to create a "secure" site or system connected to a medium like the internet is almost like getting in the ocean and trying not to get wet. Here's a hint to the Motion Picture association and the Recording Industry....don't put your content in a format that can easily be read, unless you want it easily copied. If you want to make it hard for people to copy, it has to in a format/using a system that makes it difficult for any information to be transferred.
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Banks would probably have said "shite" I guess.
I count 5 scenes just in that trailer that were ripped straight out of other movies, not just the original 3 star wars films either.
1. Bar fight scene: Obi-wan spins around and whips out his light sabre. From the original Star Wars scene: Obi wan whips out the sabre in a bar and chops off some alien's arm.
2. Anakin jumps out of the air-car: camera follows him falling, while air-cars zoom around us. From The 5th Element: (couple of scenes) Milla Jovovich as Leelu jumps off the building and air-cars zoom around. Also Bruce Weiner makes his cab dive straight down and more zoomage occurs.
3. Anakin and Amidala on retracting plank: what comes next, the old kiss for luck? From Empire Strikes Back I think: Luke and Leia in the Death Star or something, find themselves on a retracted bridge over an apparently bottomless pit, and Luke shoots a line somehow and they swing to safety (after the kiss).
4. Amidala on top something: Her hands are shackled and she swings her chain around to fight off some monster, we get a sexy shot of her butt. From Empire (right?): Leia is in chains and slave of Jaba, the battle starts, she uses her chains to kill Jaba, wearing sexy metal clothes.
Ok so 4 scenes, but still...that's just in the damn trailer. I can't help but feel offended by that. Someone should have really said to Lucas, "George, this scene is just like in Empire" or whatever... Alright whatever, I'm probably going to see it when it comes out, it looks like fun right? As long as there's not Gungans.
Also, another peeve: The last words of the trailer where Yoda says "Begun, this clone war, has." Yoda would never say that, jeebus. He would have said "Begun has this clone war." Fer chrissakes Lucas, you created the character, what the hell were you thinking..
The whole thing makes me think of Iain M. Banks, whose book "Consider Phlebas" came from his response to the original Star Wars: "I can write a better sci-fi movie than that shiat!" (ok paraphrased).
Uhh, actually IE and Terminal work exactly the same.. Hit CMD-~ and you rotate through all the open windows....
Yes it's true that Finder doesn't have the same behavior....but your examples were wrong.
Note: I agree that a stack based system would be better for CMD-Tab'ing
Microsoft!
Come on, tell me I'm wrong! Only Microsoft would be so evil/sneaky/mean !
cool, sounds like a great place to work.
Can I get a job?
I hereby coin the term "Crumble Ware" to apply to things like Anarchy Online, that maybe should have been left as Vapor for a little longer. They were sent out into the hands of eager consumers before they were done, and were shoddy and incomplete.
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So I'm now nominating the following products into the Crumble Ware top 10:
Mac OS X v 10.0 (10.1.2 is actually quite good)
Xbox (see
Halo (only on xbox)
AO
Yeah but then there would be another way to hijack a plane, without even getting on it.
Yeah, for my money, i've started accepting that many slashdot "news" articles (and i use that term sparingly) are PURE RUMOR and/or SLANDER.
E.G. it doesn't pay to read the slashdot headlines AT ALL. You have to read the actual source, and figure out what's going on yourself. 9/10 times the author didn't, so in effect, having an indpendent news outlet is NO BETTER than having a corporate controlled, Pepsi-oriented news outlet: the "facts" are just as factual.
Sorry slashdot, welcome to mediocrity.
This just in:
In a remarkable feat of linguistobatics Hemos has outdone hisself in bringing "bushonics" to the popular press table.
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At my school (Pomona College) There is a long wall, approx, 5x150 ft called Walker Wall (it's outside Walker Dorm, and borders the Walke Beach) where people are supposedly allowed to paint whatever they want on it.
/. post, most of what is going to get put up on such billboards is inane crap.
This has, of course, garnered some controversy. E.G when someone painted a quote from some Adam Sandler stand up skit mentioning lesbians or something. Most of the things painted on it are pretty inane, and mostly stupid. Sometimes taggers get creative and put up some interesting tags. It's used as kind of an advertisement a lot.
Sometimes there are protests/real causes that get featured. Most people ignored the wall. A lot of the painting involved frat related party advertisements.
I liked that it was supposed to represent freedom of speech, but at least in our closed, college community, it was a big billboard for advertisements most of the time. Also it was pretty stagnant. Sometimes at night some group would whitewash it and paint the whole thing with some slogan, which would be noticed by everyone the next day.
Guess this post isn't saying much, but as you can tell if you don't filter the responses to a
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"What thou shalt not, I shalt did!" -Bart Simpson
I learned to program in HyperTalk. In high school every 9th grade history student had to make a HyperCard stack for one project that was basically an interactive history report. This got me into playing with HyperCard, and specifically into playing in HyperTalk, which is HyperCard's built in scripting language.
The whole language was kind of "Object Oriented" though I don't know if OO was much of a concept back then (at least I knew nothing about programming).
I would say I wouldn't be the person or programmer I am now without HyperCard. There was a whole (sub)culture of HyperCard users/scripters/geeks. I remember using Gopher to find cool stacks.
I eventually learned C later in hich scool but before that I was creating stacks that drew fractals, graphed arbitrary equations, and made generational graphics. One teacher encouraged me to start learning MacroMedia Director, but HyperCard so much more fun, for me.
My friend and I were Lab Assistants in the Computre Lab at my school and would spend every minute of our time there playing around in HyperCard.
Some notable hacks that my friend and I wrote in HyperCard:
A stack that looked exactly like the existing (1993) MacOS interface, completely with desktop, trash and HD icons, and menubar! And when some unsuspecting student ran it it would look like nothing had happened, and every menu command they did resulted in a System Bomb window. Yeah we were kids, but it was hella fun.
Also, since the macs were networked and most of them had Program Sharing on by default (a long forgotten way of communicating between mac apps), you could send ANY ARBITRARY SCRIPTING commands to ANY OTHER HYPERCARD RUNNING MAC! This was the coolest thing I had ever seen at 13. We wrote a script that would cause somebody's screen to pop up a text entry dialog with the message "You have been logged off. Please enter your password below." Damn that was cool.
IIRC proof carrying code is typically a few times larger than the code by itself. This is fine for small things, (e.g. see the Necula/Lee paper "Safe kernel extensions without run time checking", where a simple 28 instruction packet filter takes 800 bytes to represent the proof+code) but if the code gets really large then the size overhead for the pcc could grow quite big.
Esp. since the code that a user would be installing from Microsoft typically incurrs about a 12x size/functionality overhead! (jk)
Also, as you say, there is a "world of difficulty" defining what can safely be executed, and what "safely" means. With a small set of instructions like for a packet filter, you can resolve it all without TOO much hassle, but code that does a lot more than just look at the bytes of an ip address is going to be HELLA harder to define what is safe. Also, most code these days links to libraries of other code. Are we going to verify all of those libraries also? lots of tough problems/extensive research left to work on.
They mention that a Java Virtual Machine could be used as the platform for the code, and that java bytecode would be what is verified. This might simplify things, but then again, the only code that could be transfered this way would be java bytecode, and there's still external libraries to deal with.
So no, we aren't there yet, but someday!
Well, I believe that Stephen Hawking is a self admitted "fucking quake master!" http://www.mchawking.com
A disposable cellphone isn't any cheaper -- in fact, it's more expensive per unit, just as phonecards are more expensive per minute than good home long-distance plans. You're paying for the convenience.
and a can of coke is more expensive per unit, but I don't see soda vending machines going away. As you say you're paying for the convenience, and the convenience it seems (to a lot of people) pays for itself. I would never have bought my $199 phone and $40/mo service if I could have bought something as small as my Nokia 8290, with a good percentage of its features, and only pay for time I actually use.
I see this paper phone technology as just opening the door for a lot of other cool applications/improvements on existing tech. Add some flat, printable, cheap display technology, and you've got the smallest and lightest gameboy/cellphone/pda/laptop ever.
They don't mention in the article or in the how-stuff-works how the device is powered, so this may be a limiting factor.
Bottom-line, if this stuff is coming out in MAY it's going to be a hit. Just need some SMS capability, right?
Simple Google brand Sucks-Rules-O-Meter test results:
free speech sucks 36,600
free speech rules/rocks 592,000
free beer sucks 59,000
free beer rules/rocks 290,200
so as you can see, free beer sucks more and rules less than free speech, which I think is counter-intuitive since there are rules about free speech and it's quite nice to suck back a cold beer.
If the DoD can step in and prevent them from falling back to earth, can't they just give 'em a little boost and send them hurtling out away from Earth? Why is this option not discussed? Am I wrong that this is possible?
No, email is more like handing your neighbor a piece of paper with a note to your girlfriend and asking them to see that it gets passed along to her at some point. Hopefully it gets to her, and it may not, but there's nothing preventing anybody from reading it. USPS provides a service of delivering objects, and it is a federal offense to read someone else's mail. Therefore the FBI has no right to read your s-mail in transit. There is no "right to email". You may THINK that although "email" is similar sounding to the regular USPS "mail", that it has anything at all to do with it, but you'd be wrong.
There is evidence that evolution happens. There was a certain type of bacteria discovered in Japan that lives only by eating nylon. Nylon was not invented until sometime in the early part of this century. Therefore this bacteria could not have existed as it does now before then. Therefore it evolved into its current condition. I forget where I saw this, try Scientific American.
Everybody's be-atching about how this hurts the music fan, but I disagree. This is a good thing for the music fan. And I'll tell you why: 1. by doing this, the RIAA shows their ignorance. if they never get with the times, then we stand a good chance of changing things for the better. If they were on their toes, we'd be screwed because no matter what we threw at them they'd be able to handle it. 2.We are going to see a polarity among musicians. people are taking sides, and it's not the kind of thing you can't pick a side on. We'll have a number of big-name musicians step up and speak their minds (radiohead, chuck-d, courtney love...) and this will spread the word to the MASSES who didn't know crap about it before. 3. basically this is a question of freedom and rights, and it's gonna compell a lot of people who don't know much about music/technology to get into the fray. (but we have to be sure they are INFORMED correctly) All of this spells CHANGE. and any change is good change coming from the back-ass-wards system the RIAA has set up to pull money out of every body else's pockets. I think that this decision is exactly what is needed to polarize, motivate, and agitate people. Obviously the RIAA is going to lose, in the end, because they are ignorant. :)
The SETI project finally received a signal from another star...but it must be interpreted. The government puts together a top secret group to work on deciphering it...mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, biologists...there seems to be no good theory as to what it means, and there are some questions that have to be answered about the alien intelligence that sent the message. If they are friendly they must have known that anybody who received the message would get it long after they themselves are dead. If they are not friendly, should the message even be deciphered?
A great sci-fi story that poses some great questions about the philosophy of science and about the limitations of human intelligence.
civil disobedience..? REBOOT AMERICA? think THE WHOLE SYSTEM SUCKS? What are we, sheep? www.unamerican.com
This was printed on a leaflet insert to a cd by a punk band from Albuquerque called Scared of Chaka. They were on 702 records (PO BOX 204 RENO NV 89504 U$A) when I bought this album....there's an alternative to the Industry: live punk, die punk.
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.92 per disc .30 each .08 each .01 each .25 each*
.25 per CD./
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EVER GET A FUNNY FEELING inside as you forked out $14.98 for a CD? Like something was being shoved up into your asshole? That's probably because you're getting SCREWED!
Cost breakdown for this compact disc:
Pressing:
Covers:
Stickers:
Inserts:
Recording:
_____________________
Total: $1.56 each
*/We spent $1000 on recording, and I expect to sell at least 4000 copies of this album between LP and CD, so we'll say the recording cost is
There are other costs, such as advertising and promotion, but those vary so I'll just say that the total cost of each CD will be $1.75 and that should cover everything.
Now, at $1.75 per CD, how do you justify selling a CD for $14.98?
This CD will be sold wholesale for $4 to stores and distributors. That means that there is $2.75 left over after costs. I give %50 of profits to the band, so Scared of Chaka is getting $1.38 per CD. If you want the band to get the most money, buy it direct from them at show. (They'll get $3-4). If you order it by mail direct from 702, they'll get $1.62 per CD.
SHIT the vinyl's much cooler anyways.
Fuck the "Industry" standard! Buy 702!
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I say we should not only pirate mp3's but do some propaganda of our own...Maybe post "before you buy, get it free, www.napster.com" stickers on record store windows.
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat (w/Sam Clemens), and the rest.
Asimov was my first step into sci-fi and Iain M. Banks has recently been my favorite "hard" sci-fi, but I would also have to mention:
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash, The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, VALIS - Philip K. Dick
Ringworld - Larry Niven
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Cyberiad, His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
Information wants to be free.
i couldn't agree more, especially in a system like the internet, which was designed to allow information to move from one point to another as easily as possible.
trying to create a "secure" site or system connected to a medium like the internet is almost like getting in the ocean and trying not to get wet.
Here's a hint to the Motion Picture association and the Recording Industry....don't put your content in a format that can easily be read, unless you want it easily copied.
If you want to make it hard for people to copy, it has to in a format/using a system that makes it difficult for any information to be transferred.
Keep the information flowing, folks.