They would have to make a great album now...
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...not just one MTV hit and a bunch of filler to make their $16. The industry sees that people are just downloading the top 2 songs by an artist and moving on. The biz wants "their" whole $20 for "Hey Ya!" and not just their cut of 99cents! Once people start a-la-carte buying songs off of hit albums and seeing that the rest just sucks...the money will stop flowing in!
It's too much work to get a real band together that can produce 50 great songs in a career.
Oh come on. None of these states are taxing imports, they are taxing all purchases the same. In-state sales taxes are collected via the vendor, out of state taxes are collected via tax form. Do I like this, no. But it is only fair. Why should my local stores be disadvantaged by out-of-state businesses? My state's schools, roads, and parks need to be paid for too.
"Tax free" interent purchases are on their way out.
After suffering a ruptured disc and pinched nerve in my back, which led to weeks of severe, unstoppable pain, surgery and months of not being able to sit for more than five minutes...I got a decent chair. Do you know who gets a herniated disc? People in their mid-30's who sit for long periods of time. (aka Coders)
Any good office chair costs hundreds of dollars. A Steelcase-brand ergo chair will set you back a cool grand. The Aeron has been a back saver for me for 5 years...and I'm never going back. There's nothing else quite like it.
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MP3.com was an amazing place. It was not nearly as over-the-top as it looks. It was pretty par for the course for an entertainment-related.com company. They had a tremendous staff of engineers and music folks. It was a conflict between their CEO's ego and the law that killed them.
Grrr. Thanks a lot MS. The patch caused a BSOD in TCPIP.SYS (XP Pro) when I tried to reboot after the patch. Grrreat! At least after a good reboot things seem to be working.
As always, remember to set a system restore point before installing patches!!!
Good thing they spenthe the 6 months testing this out.
I bought my wife an iBook for Christmas and I couldn't believe how simple it was to set up and use. The best is plugging in almost any digital camera or DV cam and having it work immediately! No drivers, no cr@ppy free-in-box editing software. Everything is right there.
My linux-shared printer worked immediately too.
Meanwhile, I got my dad a digital camera and it took two hours and a half-dozen reboots and patch downloads to get it to play with his windows box! Arggh! Garbage!
I have this book as well as the missing manuals for XP Home and XP Pro. They are great for the purpose of paper manuals...browsing for useful features. Online help is good for fixing problems...the paper manuals suggest what to do in the first place!
At least the "do not call" list has made junk phone calls come to a complete halt. Only a very few exempt calls sneak in. I think consumers will demand more once they see that junk spam is not reduced.
I have to agree that by far the worst spam is the fraudulent kind. Fake Vi;a|gr-a, male un1t enhancement pills, and varius p0rn are the worst offenders (in both senses of offend).
The "legitimate" spammers are the easiest to silence. But, unfortunately, that will have to wait for a later date.
I installed ZoneAlarm on several WinME and Win98 PCs. However it crashed and otherwise hosed about half of them over time. Hopefully it is better now...but there is a reason why some people are wary of it.
Early consumer HW firewalls needed regular power cycling to keep them alive.
Really, a very large segment of the population has no idea about how to maintain their computers. The broadband ISPs might need to provide this service.
Fortunately HW NATs are making inroads. Though not perfect, they certainly help.
"Similarly, it makes no difference whether the calls are made from outside the United States; so long as they are made to consumers in the United States, those making the calls, unless otherwise exempt, must comply with the TSR's provisions."
All of those pre-recorded telemarketing calls have been illegal for 12 years and nobody would bust them. I hope the bigger fines will get somebody, somewhere interested in seeking out and fining the scofflaws.
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It's too much work to get a real band together that can produce 50 great songs in a career.
"Tax free" interent purchases are on their way out.
Is it just me, or when I read this, I pictured giant Bladerunner-esque ad blimps advertising the off-world colonies!
At 70,000 ft, they might be advertising car sales or casinos on earth to passing Martians, I guess.
Any good office chair costs hundreds of dollars. A Steelcase-brand ergo chair will set you back a cool grand. The Aeron has been a back saver for me for 5 years...and I'm never going back. There's nothing else quite like it.
ObOn-topic-comment:
MP3.com was an amazing place. It was not nearly as over-the-top as it looks. It was pretty par for the course for an entertainment-related .com company. They had a tremendous staff of engineers and music folks. It was a conflict between their CEO's ego and the law that killed them.
As always, remember to set a system restore point before installing patches!!!
Good thing they spenthe the 6 months testing this out.
Mailbank.com at Archive.org, Nov. 11, 1998.
Just send me my reward money now. I've been using those domain hijackers for years for email/web.
I bought my wife an iBook for Christmas and I couldn't believe how simple it was to set up and use. The best is plugging in almost any digital camera or DV cam and having it work immediately! No drivers, no cr@ppy free-in-box editing software. Everything is right there. My linux-shared printer worked immediately too. Meanwhile, I got my dad a digital camera and it took two hours and a half-dozen reboots and patch downloads to get it to play with his windows box! Arggh! Garbage! I have this book as well as the missing manuals for XP Home and XP Pro. They are great for the purpose of paper manuals...browsing for useful features. Online help is good for fixing problems...the paper manuals suggest what to do in the first place!
At least the "do not call" list has made junk phone calls come to a complete halt. Only a very few exempt calls sneak in. I think consumers will demand more once they see that junk spam is not reduced. I have to agree that by far the worst spam is the fraudulent kind. Fake Vi;a|gr-a, male un1t enhancement pills, and varius p0rn are the worst offenders (in both senses of offend). The "legitimate" spammers are the easiest to silence. But, unfortunately, that will have to wait for a later date.
I installed ZoneAlarm on several WinME and Win98 PCs. However it crashed and otherwise hosed about half of them over time. Hopefully it is better now...but there is a reason why some people are wary of it. Early consumer HW firewalls needed regular power cycling to keep them alive. Really, a very large segment of the population has no idea about how to maintain their computers. The broadband ISPs might need to provide this service. Fortunately HW NATs are making inroads. Though not perfect, they certainly help.
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All of those pre-recorded telemarketing calls have been illegal for 12 years and nobody would bust them. I hope the bigger fines will get somebody, somewhere interested in seeking out and fining the scofflaws.