Ok lets say I'm the average Music Junkie, and oh 20 years old.
I can buy a song on iTunes for $1 and keep it for the rest of my life, lets just say thats 80 years.
Since the Napster songs go away as soon as you stop subscribing I need to pay $15 a month for the next 80 years. That folks, is $14,400.
Considering I still listen to my grandfather's 78's that price just keeps going up and up.
An average album has what, 12 songs in it? $12 an album. What if you buy 5 albums a month? (Sounds reasonable enough...)
[(5 * 12) * 80] * $10 = $48,000, if you buy all you music for the rest of your life like that, or you can just pay the flat rate and have unlimited tracks.
Hell, only buying one album a month, your still paying $9,600. And I doubt a 20 year old music junkie listens te that few music.
But the cable and satellite radio companies keep coming out with "new channels". That's how they justify the higher costs to customers. With the price being $15 for all the music in their library, how are they going to justify raising prices?
Increasing maitenance costs as their databases fill with "new music"?
Here in Canada, everyone migrated from Google to Wikipedia a long time ago. At least in my High School, which hardly represents all of Canada, but it's amusing to see all the "gangstas" flipping through Wikipedia for their history assignments, even if it is only to copy+paste... but tho teachers already know about it as well so hah. Any ways, yeah... pretty popular where I'm from.
I suggest we mark people like him trolls... that's technically not offtopic, as it has to do with the article. Just my $0.198. Either way, I figure it's worth sacrificing some karma in order tell you all this. Common Sense(tm) people! Use it!
You know, if your employer gives you money for your work, and you buy it with your money, technically the employer bought it for you. You know, the joke somehow relating to the fact that technically it's free, in terms of correlating the meaning of the word "free" as implied by the iPod "scam"? But, I dunno... Maybe I just didn't get the joke?
If that were the case... I'd try every drug in existance. Hey... wouldn't you? But alas... If I know I'm doing it... then my body won't respond. So I have to find a way to purposely not know that I'm taking a placebo... Hmm. And would this lead to something like, telling patients they are taking a magical new pill that cures cancer, and the body acting accordingly due to it believing it... ah, k. Enough of this.
I have emough thimgs that dom't nake semse im ny life so as to worry about that. For exanple, why the fuck does ny keyboard type "n" whem I clearly hit the "m" ke... wait, mvn... forgot to put the keys back right. Okay, i'll give those problems a whirl now.
Remember, sites tend to have rotating banners, could be that it just didn't load the ad that was causing the popup. Now that I think about it, the worm... well... http://tinyurl.com/4slbr Make sure your wife isn't around. Click random links, eventually it takes you to a site that changes the main page to some ad site and loads java. Make sure you have you antivirus ready.
No one calls me a liar and gets away with it (unless I'm actually lying -- but that isn't the case here). This is a random site off google that succesfully creates pop-ups in FF 1.0.1 http://www.activewin.com/winxp/tips/index.shtml
And the number of sites is increasing rapidly. Here's a thread oy people that seem to be experiencing the same thig as me. Not FUD my foe, FF is still better than IE, but it's popularity is starting to attract more ad companies to employ new tactics. You just made your way into my foe list... liar... pshh.
Actually, I reinstalled Windows a week ago and haven't bothered installing Java (yet) to avoid that happening. But at least a fucking "Java is trying to load, let it run?" message box would help.
I think FF is in desperate need of soome tweak'uns... Pop-ups are comming back with a force to be wreckoned with. Some sites (Won't mention what ones;-) upload worms to my box through java, with nothing but Norton warning my that it was even being loaded. I even compared the sites with IE and FF; and IEs popup-blocker stops all while FF stops some. Alas.. popularity sucks. But it's still safer and more competent than IE.:-)
Oh just shut the fuck up. I was the first to speak with Avril Lavigne when Paris Hilton's address book started circulating! How's that for an e-Dick measuring contest!?
It loads up system restore to boot you PC back to its initial state, back to latest rescue point, and back to some random restore point in between; consequently rendering the machine useless. It'll then use visual sudio and compile a custom-tailored-to-your-pc version of itself for optimal performance, tweak your SAM file to an impossibly hard to guess password, and send you a message on MSNM saying:
I love MS exploits, don't you?
A reboot follows, right after changing you background wallpaper to goatse.
welcome our new open source, non-variable-declaring overlords.
Three words...
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Nero images are ISOs with a different extension. I know this first hand... and either way, my copy of Nero rips directly to either: 1) BIN/CUE 2) ISO 3) NRG
Dare I say the person that wrote the article doesn't know how to use Nero properly? Yes, yes I dare.
Naw, moose are easy to deal with. It's all these fucking bears that get te ya. Seriously, you try louring a 400 pound bear into the back of a van and trapping him in there when camping in your backyard. Bastard ate all the honey I had left...
... Son of a bitch got what he deserved. A $20 Canadian Tire gift certificate. That got him outta my hair.
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, 60% of Toronto's trash goes to Michigan. Who's the dumpster now?
Thankyou for reading, go ahead and mod me down now. -1 Flamebait + -1 Troll = +1 Banned
IANAE at international spam regulation laws, but if someone is just sending out random spam to hotmail and/or Yahoo! email addresses, are they really going to bother weeding out where each individual email owner lives and decide from there if they should spam it or not?
I live in London, Ontario. I can tell you at least this: I use my hotmail address more often than I do my ISP provided one (Rogers High-Speed), and the Hotmail one seems to get nearly no spam despite being the most exposed of the two (barely use ISP one). Hotmal is around 3 - 10 bulk messages a day that go straight to the trashbox. Whereas my ISP mail gets about 60 bulk messages a day. Although it does filter them out, it seems my U.S.-based email address gets less spam than my local Canadian one.
And what do you call those spinning things to measure airspeed? The ones with four arms with little hemispheric "cups" that catch the wind. KnowwhatImeanVerne?
While this is certainly a concern, what are the overall effects of such a mass departure?"
"Certainly a concern"? Are you sexist? If not, then should it matter how many women are working in I.T.? As long as both have equal opportunities to be hired by means of qualifications, then I don't see a problem. I'd rather have people that really want to work in the field, than forcing an equal ratio of both males and females.
It's not avoiding sexism by making sure the jobs are split %50/%50, it is sexism when you do that, because you are discriminating really qualified people of a certain sex when its %50 is filled, just because you want to hire someone of the other sex, even if they are lazy--non efficient--asses, just to be seen as "Non Sexist".
**censored**ing Christ on a snack cracker, people. Maybe you **censored**ers should learn to spell **censored** right instead of making yourselves look 'rediculous' [sic]...
Don't you mean, "learn to spell **censored** correctly"?
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[(5 * 12) * 80] * $10 = $48,000, if you buy all you music for the rest of your life like that, or you can just pay the flat rate and have unlimited tracks.
Hell, only buying one album a month, your still paying $9,600. And I doubt a 20 year old music junkie listens te that few music.
Increasing maitenance costs as their databases fill with "new music"?
Here in Canada, everyone migrated from Google to Wikipedia a long time ago. At least in my High School, which hardly represents all of Canada, but it's amusing to see all the "gangstas" flipping through Wikipedia for their history assignments, even if it is only to copy+paste... but tho teachers already know about it as well so hah. Any ways, yeah... pretty popular where I'm from.
I suggest we mark people like him trolls... that's technically not offtopic, as it has to do with the article. Just my $0.198. Either way, I figure it's worth sacrificing some karma in order tell you all this. Common Sense(tm) people! Use it!
You know, if your employer gives you money for your work, and you buy it with your money, technically the employer bought it for you.
You know, the joke somehow relating to the fact that technically it's free, in terms of correlating the meaning of the word "free" as implied by the iPod "scam"?
But, I dunno... Maybe I just didn't get the joke?
If that were the case... I'd try every drug in existance. Hey... wouldn't you? But alas... If I know I'm doing it... then my body won't respond. So I have to find a way to purposely not know that I'm taking a placebo... Hmm. And would this lead to something like, telling patients they are taking a magical new pill that cures cancer, and the body acting accordingly due to it believing it... ah, k. Enough of this.
I have emough thimgs that dom't nake semse im ny life so as to worry about that. For exanple, why the fuck does ny keyboard type "n" whem I clearly hit the "m" ke... wait, mvn... forgot to put the keys back right. Okay, i'll give those problems a whirl now.
Remember, sites tend to have rotating banners, could be that it just didn't load the ad that was causing the popup. Now that I think about it, the worm... well... http://tinyurl.com/4slbr Make sure your wife isn't around. Click random links, eventually it takes you to a site that changes the main page to some ad site and loads java. Make sure you have you antivirus ready.
And in my spiteful rage I forgot to include the thread, which is here.. http://www.forum4designers.com/message190856.html/
No one calls me a liar and gets away with it (unless I'm actually lying -- but that isn't the case here).
This is a random site off google that succesfully creates pop-ups in FF 1.0.1 http://www.activewin.com/winxp/tips/index.shtml
And the number of sites is increasing rapidly. Here's a thread oy people that seem to be experiencing the same thig as me. Not FUD my foe, FF is still better than IE, but it's popularity is starting to attract more ad companies to employ new tactics. You just made your way into my foe list... liar... pshh.
Actually, I reinstalled Windows a week ago and haven't bothered installing Java (yet) to avoid that happening. But at least a fucking "Java is trying to load, let it run?" message box would help.
I think FF is in desperate need of soome tweak'uns... Pop-ups are comming back with a force to be wreckoned with. Some sites (Won't mention what ones ;-) upload worms to my box through java, with nothing but Norton warning my that it was even being loaded. I even compared the sites with IE and FF; and IEs popup-blocker stops all while FF stops some. Alas.. popularity sucks. But it's still safer and more competent than IE. :-)
Three words...
Nero images are ISOs with a different extension. I know this first hand... and either way, my copy of Nero rips directly to either:
1) BIN/CUE
2) ISO
3) NRG
Dare I say the person that wrote the article doesn't know how to use Nero properly? Yes, yes I dare.
I doubt that anyone is going to be rushed to the emergency room for this one.
$20 says my pet beaver can take your kangaroo any day of the motherfuckin week. I call her Nina, and she eats crocodiles for brunch. Phear.
Naw, moose are easy to deal with. It's all these fucking bears that get te ya. Seriously, you try louring a 400 pound bear into the back of a van and trapping him in there when camping in your backyard. Bastard ate all the honey I had left...
... Son of a bitch got what he deserved. A $20 Canadian Tire gift certificate. That got him outta my hair.
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, 60% of Toronto's trash goes to Michigan. Who's the dumpster now?
Thankyou for reading, go ahead and mod me down now. -1 Flamebait + -1 Troll = +1 Banned
IANAE at international spam regulation laws, but if someone is just sending out random spam to hotmail and/or Yahoo! email addresses, are they really going to bother weeding out where each individual email owner lives and decide from there if they should spam it or not?
I live in London, Ontario. I can tell you at least this: I use my hotmail address more often than I do my ISP provided one (Rogers High-Speed), and the Hotmail one seems to get nearly no spam despite being the most exposed of the two (barely use ISP one). Hotmal is around 3 - 10 bulk messages a day that go straight to the trashbox. Whereas my ISP mail gets about 60 bulk messages a day. Although it does filter them out, it seems my U.S.-based email address gets less spam than my local Canadian one.
So, does it really even matter?
Oh, the irony...
...If this trend follows, soon you'll see:
An iPod for your BMW,
and a mini for your VW.
A Shuffle for your Neon
A Science Vessel?
"Certainly a concern"? Are you sexist? If not, then should it matter how many women are working in I.T.? As long as both have equal opportunities to be hired by means of qualifications, then I don't see a problem. I'd rather have people that really want to work in the field, than forcing an equal ratio of both males and females.
It's not avoiding sexism by making sure the jobs are split %50/%50, it is sexism when you do that, because you are discriminating really qualified people of a certain sex when its %50 is filled, just because you want to hire someone of the other sex, even if they are lazy--non efficient--asses, just to be seen as "Non Sexist".