Or, to put it another way, the "outdated business method" is to expect payment for something which cost $200 million to produce.
It only costs $200 million to produce when it involves Big Hollywood Stars. Hollywood is to blame for creating a system that puts a handful of "cool" people that *need* to be in a movie to make it attractive to the people. People demand Megan Fox. Megan Fox charges you a few million to appear in the movie, the price skyrockets. Fuck that, Megan Fox is just a hot girl among the other 3.something billion women out there in the world.
The RIAA method is the same. Just create a handful of Big Pop Idols and make shitloads out of their image, merchandise, endorsements, and maybe some of their music too. Pay a few million to shakira is less risky that pay a few hundred thousands to Nobodies, because promoting 1 shakira is easier than promoting 100 Nobodies.
Do I care? No, I don't live in a big city. I never went to a big concert in a stadium. I don't care how big U2's show is this year cause I won't see it. And those huge, ridiculous shows are what the music industry is about. Does it matter to me if RIAA dies along with Shakira, U2, Madonna or whoever is at the top today? No. It doesn't change MY life. The death of RIAA would mean more music variety in radios (no RIAAman forcing you to play specific songs N times a day), and some expensive sound engineers (I think the term is "producer" in the music industry) "downgraded" to... sound engineers that get paid the same as any other working class guy. House prices in Beverly Hills dropping and thrift stores in Rodeo Drive. Oh noes! The losses!
The problem is you don't WANT to get it: google *is* a monopoly as much as Microsoft is. While there are search alternatives (like Bing, cause Yahoo uses Google anyway), they're not as good as Google, or don't have the brainpower (or money) to compete with Google. Just like Windows in the OS world. We can avoid the flamewar and just accept that Windows is the dominating desktop OS (either cause it's good, preinstalled, or any other reason).
Google is adding a "+1" button. Google NEVER ADDED a "Like in Facebook" button. Why? Everyone else seems to do it. Except google, who is trying really hard to create their own social network. And if they succeed, and destroy facebook, wouldn't that be a monopoly? I fail to see how it's not. Google uses their dominant position to shove their product down your throat. But it's OK, because Google and Apple have a license to do whatever the fuck they want, because they're geek-friendly and cool. If Microsoft and HP show you a cute girl shopping for a $200 laptop, you all laugh at her, and at microsoft and HP. But when Apple sells the same machine for 3x the price, It's ok because Apple means higher quality. Never mind the MBPs that overheated and froze, or the loose connectors, it's apple and we forgive them.
But I don't expect slasdotters to understand it. Forget that: I don't expect slashdotters to ACCEPT it. Deep down you all know how it goes, you just never want to accept it. You're all happy to call a "religious nut" to anyone who says he believes in God, but you're all blinded by your own gods Google and Apple. How many Apple news do we get about apple screwing developers over and the Cool Kids at slashdot just go "oh it's your fault, Apple is a company and it works for THEIR best interest, not you, get over it". But when Microsoft decides to phase out.NET (WHICH DOESN'T MEAN IT DISAPPEARS OVERNIGHT!!!!!!!!), people go OH FUCK MICROSOFT I HATE YOU SCREWING ALL THESE POOR DEVS.
What the fuck is wrong with you all? Oh yes I'll have to repost this message a few times because a butthurt fanboi will mod me down as soon as he reads this.
FANBOI: DON'T WASTE MOD POINTS, I WILL KEEP POSTING THIS MESSAGE, I HAVE KARMA TO BURN.
Google is impossible to remove from the internet, and Facebook too.
I wonder what surprises Google's and Facebook's internal emails will show us. Gee, maybe they will prove that Google and Facebook aren't THAT innocent.
Dude, Google is sleeping with almost every government out there. It has nothing to do with anti competitiveness. Google is the most awesome surveillance machine, that's why you don't see it going away anytime soon. I'm usually against tinfoilhattry but this one is difficult not to believe.
You know? It's funny. MS was sued for "monopolic practices" for including Internet Explorer as their default option. yet, Google decides to include their own "Like" button, and everyone is happy, even XKCD didn't say it was evil.
I wonder how soon Microsoft would be sued if they included their own version of "Like" in Bing search results? 10 year probation, forced to let you choose your default "like" provider, from a list of "like" providers (Google+, Facebook, etc).
Special runs? Over half of the world runs on 220/230V. All of Europe, most of Latin America, etc.
Also, my TV (And all Philips TVs from the last 10 years) support 90-240V and PAL-N/M/B/G/I and NTSC. PAL-N/NTSC TVs were common in my country in the early 90s, because of bootleg NTSC stuff (computers, video games, even VCRs). Then it was mostly standarized in PAL-N/M/NTSC (for a single model that also covers Brazil). And lately they added the PAL-B/G (Europe) support. Just a few cents on an extra chroma crystal and they make 1 TV set for almost the whole world (except SECAM areas)
Really cheap desktop computer PSUs are fixed voltage. Do you need me to send a pic of the PSU with the big red 230V ONLY sticker where the 110/220 switch should be?
Same way for US desktop computers. I'm willing to bet they're 110V only.
Except for name brand PSUs like Thermaltake, Corsair, etc. Thes still have the 110-220 switch (no auto voltage though).
I couldn't have said it better. Many years after dropping out of college I find myself needing to use integrals more and more often (I'm trying to get into DSP now). And I used to think, why do I need to know Integrals if I won't be a civil engineer?
And now my hobby is photography. I wish I paid more attention to art classes in school. Go figure.
Really? Go take a look at EVERY electronic device at your house. Your stereo, DVD player, etc. Go, and come back with the results please.
My results? HP charger, Motorola charger: auto 100-240 TV: Auto 90-250 (This is a set made in Brazil where they have 110 and 220 power). If it was USA I bet I would be 110 only. XBOX360: 120V only Stereo (1998 sony): manual 110-120-127-220-230-240 VCR: Manual 110-220 DVD: Auto 100-240 Desktop computer: 230V ONLY (ALL cheap ones now are like that. They don't have the 110/220V switch anymore).
I meant that stuff made for the US usually runs in 110V only. It doesn't even have a 110/220 switch. Take a close look and you will see that only small transformers are 100-240. Your TV set has a switching power supply but chances are it only runs in 120V power.
LM8560. Yes it's me again. Stop assuming things, just because you THINK crystals are commonplace, doesn't mean they're used everywhere. LED Alarm clocks still work with an lm8560
I'm sure you or your dad or someone in your family had a LED alarm clock somewhere. Probably you even have one now. Take it apart, and show me where the crystal is. Nowhere. Google for LM8560, and stop assuming things.
And yes, they still make those clocks. ANY LED alarm clock you buy now WILL have that chip. And no crystal.
And what makes you think that? The fact that it's 2011 and it's all microcontrolled now?
Go buy a brand new LED alarm clock. You will find it strangely similar to the one your dad (or grandpa, or you), had in the 1980s. Big LED display, snooze button, 9V battery compartment. Let me know if you find a crystal inside of those. You will find an LM8560 or one of its clones, and a wire from one of the transformer's legs through a diode to one of the chip's pins. Guess what?
LED alarm clocks still use an LM8560. Go buy one, take it apart, and find the ic with the weird pin spacing (not standard 0.1"). That's the same IC that's been in use for over 30 years. And it still runs on mains frequency (it has a pin to select 50/60hz operation).
No. If you take apart a clock radio with 4x7-segment LED display, chances are that it has a 9v battery compartment at the bottom, and an LM8560 inside. It's an IC that's been used for over 30 years and still in production. No matter how cool, modern looking, flashy blue LED display it is, it has the same IC a brown 1980s clock with red LEDs had. It could be a clone or have a different name, but it is that chip.
Guess what: it takes voltage from the transformer, before rectification, into one of the pins. It also has another pin to set 50/60Hz operation. And a SHITTY RC circuit for running off battery (useless, it's off several minutes every hour).
Another thing: most electric things CAN'T be plugged anywhere now. My grey-market XBOX 360 has a 120V power brick (I live in a 220V country). If you live in the USA, take a look at how many electronic stuff at your house doesn't even have a 220/110V switch. The only things you can pretty much plug in anywhere are chargers. Most other stuff either can't, either by design (things with motors or appliances you don't carry around), or by cost (most electronic stuff without a 110/220V switch).
"All men are equal but some men are more equeal than others"
there. is that an answer worthy of your "wit", pal? Cause you seem to be too smart for things to be said straight to you. Maybe a book quote will help you understand OP.
That said, I agree that it's a false hope. We might eventually learn that Alzheimers is incurable and that the treatments aren't very effective.
Yeah cause "incurable diseases" that haunted humanity for millenia, haven't been cured in the last century, right? Remember when polio was commonplace? Remember you had no chance whatsoever against cancer? Remember when... oh no, never mind. Neither you or I remember, cause we're too young to remember. Medicine has taken giant leaps in the last century. There is no "cure" for diabetes or AIDS yet, not because your life depends on meds, but simply because there is no silver bullet that cures it. PERIOD. No "big pharma" pressure to ban/patent/hide drugs that would cure you for good instead of keeping you barely alive until the next dose. Grow up.
Outside Big Pharma there is a lot, A LOT of research going on, in every university of the world, every day. We can hope that in a few years there WILL be a cure for many diseases - which diseases it's hard to tell. In fact, scratch that, we KNOW in a few years, that will happen.
I think you have a wrong concept about what "hope" is about.
It's SAC-D. Aquarius is the main instrument, built by NASA, while the rest sat was built in Argentina and tested in Brazil. The other instruments onboard are mostly Argentine but also Canada, Italy and France participated.
$287 million. It was paid for by NASA and CONAE, the Argentine space agency. The satellite was built by Argentina and tracking and control are CONAE's responsibility, not NASA's.
But don't worry, next year Argentina will be testing their own rocket (Tronador II), so you won't have to worry about spending money for NASA next time Argentina wants to put a sat in orbit.
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It only costs $200 million to produce when it involves Big Hollywood Stars. Hollywood is to blame for creating a system that puts a handful of "cool" people that *need* to be in a movie to make it attractive to the people. People demand Megan Fox. Megan Fox charges you a few million to appear in the movie, the price skyrockets. Fuck that, Megan Fox is just a hot girl among the other 3.something billion women out there in the world.
The RIAA method is the same. Just create a handful of Big Pop Idols and make shitloads out of their image, merchandise, endorsements, and maybe some of their music too. Pay a few million to shakira is less risky that pay a few hundred thousands to Nobodies, because promoting 1 shakira is easier than promoting 100 Nobodies.
Do I care? No, I don't live in a big city. I never went to a big concert in a stadium. I don't care how big U2's show is this year cause I won't see it. And those huge, ridiculous shows are what the music industry is about. Does it matter to me if RIAA dies along with Shakira, U2, Madonna or whoever is at the top today? No. It doesn't change MY life. The death of RIAA would mean more music variety in radios (no RIAAman forcing you to play specific songs N times a day), and some expensive sound engineers (I think the term is "producer" in the music industry) "downgraded" to... sound engineers that get paid the same as any other working class guy. House prices in Beverly Hills dropping and thrift stores in Rodeo Drive. Oh noes! The losses!
The problem is you don't WANT to get it: google *is* a monopoly as much as Microsoft is. While there are search alternatives (like Bing, cause Yahoo uses Google anyway), they're not as good as Google, or don't have the brainpower (or money) to compete with Google. Just like Windows in the OS world. We can avoid the flamewar and just accept that Windows is the dominating desktop OS (either cause it's good, preinstalled, or any other reason).
Google is adding a "+1" button. Google NEVER ADDED a "Like in Facebook" button. Why? Everyone else seems to do it. Except google, who is trying really hard to create their own social network. And if they succeed, and destroy facebook, wouldn't that be a monopoly? I fail to see how it's not. Google uses their dominant position to shove their product down your throat. But it's OK, because Google and Apple have a license to do whatever the fuck they want, because they're geek-friendly and cool. If Microsoft and HP show you a cute girl shopping for a $200 laptop, you all laugh at her, and at microsoft and HP. But when Apple sells the same machine for 3x the price, It's ok because Apple means higher quality. Never mind the MBPs that overheated and froze, or the loose connectors, it's apple and we forgive them.
But I don't expect slasdotters to understand it. Forget that: I don't expect slashdotters to ACCEPT it. Deep down you all know how it goes, you just never want to accept it. You're all happy to call a "religious nut" to anyone who says he believes in God, but you're all blinded by your own gods Google and Apple. How many Apple news do we get about apple screwing developers over and the Cool Kids at slashdot just go "oh it's your fault, Apple is a company and it works for THEIR best interest, not you, get over it". But when Microsoft decides to phase out .NET (WHICH DOESN'T MEAN IT DISAPPEARS OVERNIGHT!!!!!!!!), people go OH FUCK MICROSOFT I HATE YOU SCREWING ALL THESE POOR DEVS.
What the fuck is wrong with you all? Oh yes I'll have to repost this message a few times because a butthurt fanboi will mod me down as soon as he reads this.
FANBOI: DON'T WASTE MOD POINTS, I WILL KEEP POSTING THIS MESSAGE, I HAVE KARMA TO BURN.
Google is impossible to remove from the internet, and Facebook too.
I wonder what surprises Google's and Facebook's internal emails will show us. Gee, maybe they will prove that Google and Facebook aren't THAT innocent.
Whatever.
Dude, Google is sleeping with almost every government out there. It has nothing to do with anti competitiveness. Google is the most awesome surveillance machine, that's why you don't see it going away anytime soon. I'm usually against tinfoilhattry but this one is difficult not to believe.
You know? It's funny. MS was sued for "monopolic practices" for including Internet Explorer as their default option. yet, Google decides to include their own "Like" button, and everyone is happy, even XKCD didn't say it was evil.
I wonder how soon Microsoft would be sued if they included their own version of "Like" in Bing search results? 10 year probation, forced to let you choose your default "like" provider, from a list of "like" providers (Google+, Facebook, etc).
Special runs? Over half of the world runs on 220/230V. All of Europe, most of Latin America, etc.
Also, my TV (And all Philips TVs from the last 10 years) support 90-240V and PAL-N/M/B/G/I and NTSC. PAL-N/NTSC TVs were common in my country in the early 90s, because of bootleg NTSC stuff (computers, video games, even VCRs). Then it was mostly standarized in PAL-N/M/NTSC (for a single model that also covers Brazil). And lately they added the PAL-B/G (Europe) support. Just a few cents on an extra chroma crystal and they make 1 TV set for almost the whole world (except SECAM areas)
GEE, TO SEE IT IN THE DARK AT ANY TIME, MAYBE?
Please.
http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/166103/6836535/0/1277544093/LED_ALARM_CLOCK.jpg
http://www.okokchina.com/Files/uppic3/AM_FM%20LED%20Alarm%20Clock%20Radio790.jpg
http://www.npe.com.hk/image/CR092%20red%20led.jpg
You haven't seen one of these before?
Really cheap desktop computer PSUs are fixed voltage. Do you need me to send a pic of the PSU with the big red 230V ONLY sticker where the 110/220 switch should be?
Same way for US desktop computers. I'm willing to bet they're 110V only.
Except for name brand PSUs like Thermaltake, Corsair, etc. Thes still have the 110-220 switch (no auto voltage though).
I couldn't have said it better. Many years after dropping out of college I find myself needing to use integrals more and more often (I'm trying to get into DSP now). And I used to think, why do I need to know Integrals if I won't be a civil engineer?
And now my hobby is photography. I wish I paid more attention to art classes in school. Go figure.
Really? Go take a look at EVERY electronic device at your house. Your stereo, DVD player, etc. Go, and come back with the results please.
My results?
HP charger, Motorola charger: auto 100-240
TV: Auto 90-250 (This is a set made in Brazil where they have 110 and 220 power). If it was USA I bet I would be 110 only.
XBOX360: 120V only
Stereo (1998 sony): manual 110-120-127-220-230-240
VCR: Manual 110-220
DVD: Auto 100-240
Desktop computer: 230V ONLY (ALL cheap ones now are like that. They don't have the 110/220V switch anymore).
Go and take a look, stop assuming things PLEASE.
I meant that stuff made for the US usually runs in 110V only. It doesn't even have a 110/220 switch. Take a close look and you will see that only small transformers are 100-240. Your TV set has a switching power supply but chances are it only runs in 120V power.
LM8560. Yes it's me again. Stop assuming things, just because you THINK crystals are commonplace, doesn't mean they're used everywhere. LED Alarm clocks still work with an lm8560
That's what Europe does. At 8AM.
I'm sure you or your dad or someone in your family had a LED alarm clock somewhere. Probably you even have one now. Take it apart, and show me where the crystal is. Nowhere. Google for LM8560, and stop assuming things.
And yes, they still make those clocks. ANY LED alarm clock you buy now WILL have that chip. And no crystal.
And what makes you think that? The fact that it's 2011 and it's all microcontrolled now?
Go buy a brand new LED alarm clock. You will find it strangely similar to the one your dad (or grandpa, or you), had in the 1980s. Big LED display, snooze button, 9V battery compartment. Let me know if you find a crystal inside of those. You will find an LM8560 or one of its clones, and a wire from one of the transformer's legs through a diode to one of the chip's pins. Guess what?
LED alarm clocks still use an LM8560. Go buy one, take it apart, and find the ic with the weird pin spacing (not standard 0.1"). That's the same IC that's been in use for over 30 years. And it still runs on mains frequency (it has a pin to select 50/60hz operation).
No.
Greetings from Argentina.
No. If you take apart a clock radio with 4x7-segment LED display, chances are that it has a 9v battery compartment at the bottom, and an LM8560 inside. It's an IC that's been used for over 30 years and still in production. No matter how cool, modern looking, flashy blue LED display it is, it has the same IC a brown 1980s clock with red LEDs had. It could be a clone or have a different name, but it is that chip.
Guess what: it takes voltage from the transformer, before rectification, into one of the pins. It also has another pin to set 50/60Hz operation. And a SHITTY RC circuit for running off battery (useless, it's off several minutes every hour).
Another thing: most electric things CAN'T be plugged anywhere now. My grey-market XBOX 360 has a 120V power brick (I live in a 220V country). If you live in the USA, take a look at how many electronic stuff at your house doesn't even have a 220/110V switch. The only things you can pretty much plug in anywhere are chargers. Most other stuff either can't, either by design (things with motors or appliances you don't carry around), or by cost (most electronic stuff without a 110/220V switch).
Bear Grylls and smell-o-vision? Better drink my own piss.
"All men are equal but some men are more equeal than others"
there. is that an answer worthy of your "wit", pal? Cause you seem to be too smart for things to be said straight to you. Maybe a book quote will help you understand OP.
The shit one has to put up with.
Yeah cause "incurable diseases" that haunted humanity for millenia, haven't been cured in the last century, right? Remember when polio was commonplace? Remember you had no chance whatsoever against cancer? Remember when... oh no, never mind. Neither you or I remember, cause we're too young to remember. Medicine has taken giant leaps in the last century. There is no "cure" for diabetes or AIDS yet, not because your life depends on meds, but simply because there is no silver bullet that cures it. PERIOD. No "big pharma" pressure to ban/patent/hide drugs that would cure you for good instead of keeping you barely alive until the next dose. Grow up.
Outside Big Pharma there is a lot, A LOT of research going on, in every university of the world, every day. We can hope that in a few years there WILL be a cure for many diseases - which diseases it's hard to tell. In fact, scratch that, we KNOW in a few years, that will happen.
I think you have a wrong concept about what "hope" is about.
It's SAC-D. Aquarius is the main instrument, built by NASA, while the rest sat was built in Argentina and tested in Brazil. The other instruments onboard are mostly Argentine but also Canada, Italy and France participated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAC-D
Nada les viene bien. Nada.
Y encima posteas anonimo, puto.
$287 million. It was paid for by NASA and CONAE, the Argentine space agency. The satellite was built by Argentina and tracking and control are CONAE's responsibility, not NASA's.
But don't worry, next year Argentina will be testing their own rocket (Tronador II), so you won't have to worry about spending money for NASA next time Argentina wants to put a sat in orbit.