In the past, it used to be that live performance is where bands made their money, and radio was just an advertising medium - artists would actually pay radio stations to play their albums to boost their popularity and increase ticket sales. Nowadays, it's completely reversed. It would be considered unethical for a band to pay a radio station to play their albums...radio play is how they make their money , actually, and concerts are essentially a marketing cost intended to drum up the band's popularity (note: royalties are paid by the radio stations to the song writers...which may not always be the same as the band / performer).
artists purposely underprice them, because they want to fill the venue (otherwise, their egos get hurt)
Why not Dutch-auction the seats, setting the price high to start with and then running a clearance later on for those seats that haven't sold?
Yes, that's definitely a possibility, and it's actually something that happens every once in a while, but it's pretty rare. The problem is one of perception / publicity. Basically, the artists have been underpricing their tickets for so long that the fans have come to expect it (forcing artists to make their money through other means, like merchandising, or concessions, etc...), and if an artist doesn't price their tickets in the friendliest possible way, the fans may become angry and start hating on the artist.
Nowadays, most big acts no longer directly control the ticket sales for their own performances; instead, they have a management company (like Live Nation) that offers full service marketing, promotion, and gig management - that means that they (and not the artist) set up things like ticket pricing and merchandise sales at the venue.
So the "problem" is that some people are unable to afford some luxury items? Maybe we should get pissed at Rolex for pricing their watches too expensively. The free market sets the price for these tickets; artists purposely underprice them, because they want to fill the venue (otherwise, their egos get hurt)...because of that deficiency in pricing (caused by the egos and vanity of performers), scalpers buy the tickets and sell them for their *real* value (e.g. whatever people are willing to pay).
Before you bitch and moan about that being a bad thing - consider the fact that it cuts both ways. Madonna, for example, did a European tour some years back, and she priced her tickets too high, and she was performing before half filled venues. Nevertheless, she did fine, because scalpers bought up a lot of her tickets, anyway, hoping to resell them...only nobody wanted to buy them (even if they resold them at face value). So brokers ate the cost of that venture.
Tremendous service?? Kaspersky has offered, shit service...well, maybe marginal service, at best. I don't think it has to do with Russia so much as the fact that Kaspersky just sucks as an application. Nginx is Russian, too, and there's been no attempt to put them down. As far as I can tell, Nginx is flourishing and could very well take over Apache.</noXenophobia>
One of the projects I work on is creating bots used to buy things like tickets (on Ticketmaster, Live Nation, etc...), or shoes (yeah, that's a thing...rich kids with too much time on their hands). The thing is, though, that these sites have very sophisticated methods of identifying bots; most of the time, if I navigate the checkout process with a bot, I get hit with a CAPTCHA, but if I navigate the site with a regular, mainstream browser, there's no CAPTCHA. So by offering headless operation, one could just programmatically drive Chrome and avoid having to deal with a CAPTCHA.
Microsoft sucks, too...and they're deserving of the hate they get, but Kaspersky may suck worse. I lost all respect for them as an "antivirus" application when one of my clients couldn't use Git because of it. Kaspersky identified Git (using SourceTree as a client) as malware, and kind of fucked up her file system, requiring her to do a system restore. After that, the client pretty much refused to use SourceTree, because she was convinced that it was a virus. Fuck Kaspersky...go Microsoft.
Does it not bother anybody else that these people were punished for what they wrote in a *private* group? I'm all for the "if you're an asshole in public, then be prepared to deal with the consequences" ethos...but what they said wasn't, strictly speaking, in public. I mean, in private conversation, you might say some shit that's fucked up, just wrong, or completely unacceptable - because that's how humanity works; in small, private groups of like-minded people, one tends to say things one wouldn't say in larger, public groups.
It's not like we're going to eliminate assholes from the human race, or anything like that. The best we can hope for is that those motherfuckers restrain themselves and behave according to what society approves of when dealing with the public. So shouldn't these people get some credit for limiting the assholishness to a private group? I mean, how would you like to have *all* of your private (even one-on-one) conversations be put up for scrutiny? 'cause that seems to be the logical conclusion to what could be a slippery slope here.
Yeah, they're assholes, too. Generally speaking, advocating for the destruction of a populous is an asshole thing to do. If somebody got accepted to a private school in Palestine, and then they got busted, in a private FB group, calling for Palestine's destruction, I don't see how that wouldn't also be subject to a reasonable, "no assholes here" rule.
Oops - I didn't realize the parent post was talking about the guy's lawyer. Perhaps I should've read it more carefully... but I was just in a mood, and wanted to flame somebody, and maybe call them a fucktard - so my work is done.
Neither can being an "Internet lawyer" with absolutely no understanding of the Streisand Effect.
Are you high? How the hell is this like the Streisand Effect? If anything, this is the opposite of the Streissand Effect - The Oatmeal is now getting extra attention (which is what they want - it's the opposite of what Streissand wanted). The douche from The Oatmeal, essentially, has a legitimate gripe (albeit one that's masked by the presence of multiple non-legitimate gripes) - that his comics aren't being properly attributed to The Oatmeal. The guy from FJ is a fucktard for not understanding this (he deleted the comics that were actually correctly attributed, but left the unmarked ones in place... WTF?!), but the douche from The Oatmeal is an even bigger fucktard for not correctly communicating his concern. Ironically, fucktard maj. (Oatmeal) then mocked fucktard min. (FJ) for not choosing his words with precision. Watching retarded people argue is amusing... it's like watching bumfights, but without the guilt.
Fucktard maj. appears to be a slimy, greedy fuck who sees the world through slimy, greedy fuck colored lenses - he implicitly assumed that fucktard min. is all about money, trying to rake in bug bucks while cutting out The Oatmeal. Fucktard maj. should've just explained this in simple terms: "Hey, dude - I'm all about money and shit, and I see that you're probably making some ad $$ thanks (in small part) to some of my content. But I'm getting screwed because your users are removing 'The Oatmeal' (or the URL) from my comics, so I'm not even getting any free advertising out of it. Could we work something out so that either A) My shit is properly labeled; or B) Maybe you could throw a little bit of your advertising $$ my way."
See, that's not so hard to do. But, like somebody else already pointed out, fucktard maj. has an inflated sense of self worth and a bit of an inferiority complex (masked as a superiority complex, ironically), so he fucked up the whole thing, thereby self-affirming (and maybe even proving) his inferiority.
I agree with your general point; however, a foreign language is definitely not "something completely unrelated." Math _is_ communications. Learning foreign languages would probably come very, very easily to a child math prodigy (especially since children, in general, learn foreign languages more easily than adults).
"You can't use every phone everywhere in the United States, so that puts a limitation on the end user," Munoz observed of the three incompatible American systems.
Bullshit. I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing Europeans talk about how their coverage is better than ours.
First of all, the quote above is pure FUD. Nowadays, phones (that you buy, not freebies) are robust enough to handle all of the standard US networks (roaming charges may apply, but it works). If there is a lack of coverage, it's because you're in BFE and there's no cell towers nearby.
Which brings me to my second point. We have a large, no - huge, country compared to the Europeans (goegraphically speaking). I mean, we have thousands and thousands of square miles of land where nobody lives or goes; Europeans are all crammed into their tiny landmass where they've been developing various cultures and civilizations for thousands of years (as opposed to our 200 year old civilization) -- they're all crammed in like sardines; no fucking wonder they get universal tower coverage.
We have unfulfilled Manifest Destiny; they have universal tower coverage. And they're bragging??
Also, don't forget that the internet includes Usenet and other services under the protocol, which has TONS of additional data. Chances are, the internet is not 230 terabytes large and the idiot who made that claim...is an idiot.
You, sir, are the idiot. We all know now that there are, in fact, MULTIPLE internets....Dubya has leaked classified information. You fools speak of "the internet" and its terabytes of data. The real experts know that there are, in fact, internets that must be storing millions of exabytes of data!!!
Crime is crime. Kerry would support prosecuting violations of the law just as much as Bush would.
File sharing is not a crime. Apparently, the **AA has succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of sheep like you. If it were a crime, then the **AA wouldn't need to be sending out C&D letters, they would just notify the police.
Back in the 80's nobody gave a fuck when you made a copy of a VCR tape or a cassette tape and gave it to a friend. Hell, you could give away 20 of 'em and nobody'd give a fuck.
But now with the advent of the internet and file sharinig apps, it's much easier to share this stuff (CD's and DVD's now instead of VCR tapes and cassette tapes) and the **AA sees all the easy sharing going on and incorrectly concludes that all of the file sharing translates to lost sales. It doesn't.
That's basically what this is, considering the lag you get when tying to use it. I sure the hell aint paying for it; I got it free for 60 days when I got my new phone....figured I'd give it a try. It reminds me of the early days of streaming internet video on a 33.6 dialup connection with a crappy Real Player interface....but worse. The video only updates about once a second, and then stops for about 5-10 seconds every once in a while. But the sound never lags.
I've been using it for about a month and I still don't know what it is. All's I know is that I go to the project directory I just downloaded from CVS, I type
maven eclipse
and all the extra files and shit I need for the project to compile and work are automatically there.
Aside from that, I know that Maven reads from an xml based config file that's in the project directory.
....keep on screwing us by pointing the man in the direction of the next big thing. If you guys would keep your mouths shut, we could have the man chasing after Kazaa for years to come....just like he's still bitching about Doom as the game those kids play that cause 'em to go postal (no pun intended).
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. Never seen it. I;m at the point where tv, the internet, pretty much everything "virtual" is a poor value in return for time invested.
...says the guy reading and posting on Slashdot. Also, you come across like this guy:
http://www.theonion.com/articl...
In the past, it used to be that live performance is where bands made their money, and radio was just an advertising medium - artists would actually pay radio stations to play their albums to boost their popularity and increase ticket sales. Nowadays, it's completely reversed. It would be considered unethical for a band to pay a radio station to play their albums...radio play is how they make their money , actually, and concerts are essentially a marketing cost intended to drum up the band's popularity (note: royalties are paid by the radio stations to the song writers...which may not always be the same as the band / performer).
artists purposely underprice them, because they want to fill the venue (otherwise, their egos get hurt)
Why not Dutch-auction the seats, setting the price high to start with and then running a clearance later on for those seats that haven't sold?
Yes, that's definitely a possibility, and it's actually something that happens every once in a while, but it's pretty rare. The problem is one of perception / publicity. Basically, the artists have been underpricing their tickets for so long that the fans have come to expect it (forcing artists to make their money through other means, like merchandising, or concessions, etc...), and if an artist doesn't price their tickets in the friendliest possible way, the fans may become angry and start hating on the artist.
Nowadays, most big acts no longer directly control the ticket sales for their own performances; instead, they have a management company (like Live Nation) that offers full service marketing, promotion, and gig management - that means that they (and not the artist) set up things like ticket pricing and merchandise sales at the venue.
Trump supporters?
So the "problem" is that some people are unable to afford some luxury items? Maybe we should get pissed at Rolex for pricing their watches too expensively. The free market sets the price for these tickets; artists purposely underprice them, because they want to fill the venue (otherwise, their egos get hurt)...because of that deficiency in pricing (caused by the egos and vanity of performers), scalpers buy the tickets and sell them for their *real* value (e.g. whatever people are willing to pay).
Before you bitch and moan about that being a bad thing - consider the fact that it cuts both ways. Madonna, for example, did a European tour some years back, and she priced her tickets too high, and she was performing before half filled venues. Nevertheless, she did fine, because scalpers bought up a lot of her tickets, anyway, hoping to resell them...only nobody wanted to buy them (even if they resold them at face value). So brokers ate the cost of that venture.
Netcraft confirms it?
Why, because you weren't able to get a pair of Yeezys from Adidas? My heart bleeds for you. #firstWorldProblems
What's wrong, did you miss out on some Hannah Montana tickets because the bots got to them faster? Poor baby. *pats AC on the head*
Tremendous service?? Kaspersky has offered, shit service...well, maybe marginal service, at best. I don't think it has to do with Russia so much as the fact that Kaspersky just sucks as an application. Nginx is Russian, too, and there's been no attempt to put them down. As far as I can tell, Nginx is flourishing and could very well take over Apache.</noXenophobia>
One of the projects I work on is creating bots used to buy things like tickets (on Ticketmaster, Live Nation, etc...), or shoes (yeah, that's a thing...rich kids with too much time on their hands). The thing is, though, that these sites have very sophisticated methods of identifying bots; most of the time, if I navigate the checkout process with a bot, I get hit with a CAPTCHA, but if I navigate the site with a regular, mainstream browser, there's no CAPTCHA. So by offering headless operation, one could just programmatically drive Chrome and avoid having to deal with a CAPTCHA.
Microsoft sucks, too...and they're deserving of the hate they get, but Kaspersky may suck worse. I lost all respect for them as an "antivirus" application when one of my clients couldn't use Git because of it. Kaspersky identified Git (using SourceTree as a client) as malware, and kind of fucked up her file system, requiring her to do a system restore. After that, the client pretty much refused to use SourceTree, because she was convinced that it was a virus. Fuck Kaspersky...go Microsoft.
Does it not bother anybody else that these people were punished for what they wrote in a *private* group? I'm all for the "if you're an asshole in public, then be prepared to deal with the consequences" ethos...but what they said wasn't, strictly speaking, in public. I mean, in private conversation, you might say some shit that's fucked up, just wrong, or completely unacceptable - because that's how humanity works; in small, private groups of like-minded people, one tends to say things one wouldn't say in larger, public groups.
It's not like we're going to eliminate assholes from the human race, or anything like that. The best we can hope for is that those motherfuckers restrain themselves and behave according to what society approves of when dealing with the public. So shouldn't these people get some credit for limiting the assholishness to a private group? I mean, how would you like to have *all* of your private (even one-on-one) conversations be put up for scrutiny? 'cause that seems to be the logical conclusion to what could be a slippery slope here.
Yeah, they're assholes, too. Generally speaking, advocating for the destruction of a populous is an asshole thing to do. If somebody got accepted to a private school in Palestine, and then they got busted, in a private FB group, calling for Palestine's destruction, I don't see how that wouldn't also be subject to a reasonable, "no assholes here" rule.
Oops - I didn't realize the parent post was talking about the guy's lawyer. Perhaps I should've read it more carefully... but I was just in a mood, and wanted to flame somebody, and maybe call them a fucktard - so my work is done.
Neither can being an "Internet lawyer" with absolutely no understanding of the Streisand Effect.
Are you high? How the hell is this like the Streisand Effect? If anything, this is the opposite of the Streissand Effect - The Oatmeal is now getting extra attention (which is what they want - it's the opposite of what Streissand wanted). The douche from The Oatmeal, essentially, has a legitimate gripe (albeit one that's masked by the presence of multiple non-legitimate gripes) - that his comics aren't being properly attributed to The Oatmeal. The guy from FJ is a fucktard for not understanding this (he deleted the comics that were actually correctly attributed, but left the unmarked ones in place... WTF?!), but the douche from The Oatmeal is an even bigger fucktard for not correctly communicating his concern. Ironically, fucktard maj. (Oatmeal) then mocked fucktard min. (FJ) for not choosing his words with precision. Watching retarded people argue is amusing... it's like watching bumfights, but without the guilt.
Fucktard maj. appears to be a slimy, greedy fuck who sees the world through slimy, greedy fuck colored lenses - he implicitly assumed that fucktard min. is all about money, trying to rake in bug bucks while cutting out The Oatmeal. Fucktard maj. should've just explained this in simple terms: "Hey, dude - I'm all about money and shit, and I see that you're probably making some ad $$ thanks (in small part) to some of my content. But I'm getting screwed because your users are removing 'The Oatmeal' (or the URL) from my comics, so I'm not even getting any free advertising out of it. Could we work something out so that either A) My shit is properly labeled; or B) Maybe you could throw a little bit of your advertising $$ my way."
See, that's not so hard to do. But, like somebody else already pointed out, fucktard maj. has an inflated sense of self worth and a bit of an inferiority complex (masked as a superiority complex, ironically), so he fucked up the whole thing, thereby self-affirming (and maybe even proving) his inferiority.
Under US law/precedence, "mere facts" which are time sensitive (like stock quotes, or sports scores) can be copyrighted.
I agree with your general point; however, a foreign language is definitely not "something completely unrelated." Math _is_ communications. Learning foreign languages would probably come very, very easily to a child math prodigy (especially since children, in general, learn foreign languages more easily than adults).
"You can't use every phone everywhere in the United States, so that puts a limitation on the end user," Munoz observed of the three incompatible American systems.
Bullshit. I'm sick and fucking tired of hearing Europeans talk about how their coverage is better than ours.
First of all, the quote above is pure FUD. Nowadays, phones (that you buy, not freebies) are robust enough to handle all of the standard US networks (roaming charges may apply, but it works). If there is a lack of coverage, it's because you're in BFE and there's no cell towers nearby.
Which brings me to my second point. We have a large, no - huge, country compared to the Europeans (goegraphically speaking). I mean, we have thousands and thousands of square miles of land where nobody lives or goes; Europeans are all crammed into their tiny landmass where they've been developing various cultures and civilizations for thousands of years (as opposed to our 200 year old civilization) -- they're all crammed in like sardines; no fucking wonder they get universal tower coverage.
We have unfulfilled Manifest Destiny; they have universal tower coverage. And they're bragging??
Also, don't forget that the internet includes Usenet and other services under the protocol, which has TONS of additional data. Chances are, the internet is not 230 terabytes large and the idiot who made that claim...is an idiot.
You, sir, are the idiot. We all know now that there are, in fact, MULTIPLE internets....Dubya has leaked classified information. You fools speak of "the internet" and its terabytes of data. The real experts know that there are, in fact, internets that must be storing millions of exabytes of data!!!
Crime is crime. Kerry would support prosecuting violations of the law just as much as Bush would.
File sharing is not a crime. Apparently, the **AA has succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of sheep like you. If it were a crime, then the **AA wouldn't need to be sending out C&D letters, they would just notify the police.
Back in the 80's nobody gave a fuck when you made a copy of a VCR tape or a cassette tape and gave it to a friend. Hell, you could give away 20 of 'em and nobody'd give a fuck.
But now with the advent of the internet and file sharinig apps, it's much easier to share this stuff (CD's and DVD's now instead of VCR tapes and cassette tapes) and the **AA sees all the easy sharing going on and incorrectly concludes that all of the file sharing translates to lost sales. It doesn't.
That's basically what this is, considering the lag you get when tying to use it. I sure the hell aint paying for it; I got it free for 60 days when I got my new phone....figured I'd give it a try. It reminds me of the early days of streaming internet video on a 33.6 dialup connection with a crappy Real Player interface....but worse. The video only updates about once a second, and then stops for about 5-10 seconds every once in a while. But the sound never lags.
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp
What's much more interesting, IMHO, is the circular printer on the home page (it's about halfway down).
Aside from that, I know that Maven reads from an xml based config file that's in the project directory.
....keep on screwing us by pointing the man in the direction of the next big thing. If you guys would keep your mouths shut, we could have the man chasing after Kazaa for years to come....just like he's still bitching about Doom as the game those kids play that cause 'em to go postal (no pun intended).