Yes but according to this book, people have been saying that oil will run out in 10 years since the discovery of the internal combustion engine. No one really knows how much oil is left in the ground. I find lifeaftertheoilcrash.com to be a bit sensationalist and it seems that its author is mostly interested in selling doomsday books, which will always sell. Running out of oil is of course still a large issue that we must prepare for, but just because that might someday happen, those of us who have no control over such things have no reason to not live there life as normal.
Uhh, you can't copy music files that you stored using iTunes on an iPod from the iPod back to the computer, unless you use a 3rd party product, like ml_ipod for Winamp. So I wouldn't exactly call that "copying freely". Music downloaded from iTunes cannot be played on non-iPod players, and certain music services like the new Napster do not allow their songs to played on the iPod.
Your analogy is flawed in that the decision to go out with you is the girl's property, and not yours or your antagonist's.
People pay good money for non-tangible things all the time. Ever pay a barber for a haircut? You can't touch or hold a haircut, but it makes a difference in how your hair looks. If someone wants to pay money for an object that gets used in a game to make the pixels of his monitor light in a certain way, makes his sound card reproduce certain sound patterns through his computer speakers, and interacts with other objects within the game in a noticeable way, then it's tangible.
Using your logic, anything that gets produced on a computer is worthless because it's "on a computer". If you have someone spend time designing a web page for you so that when people visit it, the pixels on their screen light in an appeasing and informative way, is that not tangible? If you have a programmer write code so that when you enter data into a field on one of the forms of your web page, that data gets stored somewhere and is used for calculations elsewhere, is that not tangible as well?
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Oh my god! The jewel case and paper insert must cost like $10 each to produce. It's a wonder that the RIAA makes any money. The royalties? I believe it's like $2 per CD.
Umm... have you ever tried using an mp3 player in the car? It works just fine, certainly less problems with skipping than a CD. All the auto industry really needs to do is to start offering stereo head units with an auxillary 3.5mm input. You can go to most electronics stores that sell car audio equipment and purchase an OEM stereo with the input. Then you can plug your mp3 player directly into the stereo. I much prefer transporting an mp3 player to and from my car as opposed to having to copy all of my mp3's from my computer to my car and maintaining synchronization of my library across yet another computer.
As usual, the car industry is just 3 or 4 years behind the curve on what the consumer really wants for car audio. Just look at how long it took from them to make the move from cassette tape being standard to CD being standard. There's just a large contingent of people who aren't willing to pay extra for certain features, and then it takes a while for their beauracracies to come up with a way of offering the new feature as an option that they can charge $$$ for, and then eventually it becomes standard equipment.
The "but I only pay $0.25 for CD-Rs, so $13 for a CD is an outrage! Bok bok bok!" kids are missing the deadly difference between gross margin and net margin. The $13 you pay for a CD covers all the operating costs (salary, overhead including shrinkage, advertising) of the retailer, as well as the distributor (5% right there, if disty margins are the same in the record industry as they are in the computer peripheral business), and must cover the cost of shipping, returns (an educated guess is that it's about 10% in the record industry), price protections (probably another 10%), co-op advertising (another 5% - 10%), the salary of everybody at the record company and studio who worked on it in some way, royalties for the composers and songwriters, and of course the COGS, which are about 25% of the sell-in price to disti. This is why even at low-overhead indy record labels, a CD must sell about 10K pieces before it breaks even (that number is said to be 100K for the big RIAA companies).
But don't the CD-R manufacturers, who are selling plastic discs at $0.05 each, have to pay many of the same costs as the record companies selling discs at $13 each? It wasn't until only recently with P2P that CD prices came down to $13, they used to be $18 or more. Don't forget that the RIAA has been convicted many times of price fixing CD's as well, which means artificially increasing the price by agreeing to have all companies that sell CD's raise their prices.
Ya' know, it's not unlike Steve Jobbs to say one thing and then end up turning around and doing the exact opposite, perhaps with the intent of throwing off his enemies. I can't find the sources right now and get a top post, but as an example, he specifically said that there would never be an iPod cell phone, and a few weeks later there was talk of one. Doesn't surprise me one bit that Apple is taking their OS which is vastly superior to Windows and trying to take on that huge market.
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Your sig is an urban legend.. Go on, perpetuate the lies that you have been told.
Heh, actually I don't personally run Linux anymore. I was merely making a commentary on how many times when a software product fails, it gets released as open source.
Yes, but for a song entitled "Ironic" containing several examples of supposed irony to become a hit with almost all of its examples not being ironic, that is meta-irony to the extreme!
I pay SBC $15/mo for a land line, and an additional $26/mo for the DSL, for a grand total of $41/mo. Speakeasy is charging $56/mo for even the most basic DSL without a phone. How does it make sense to go with Speakeasy when I can just disconnect the ringer to my phone, and have the added advantage of being able to make clear local calls when my cell phone is acting up?
...or does it seem like the first paragraph of this review has nothing to do with the rest of it? Nice diatribe on the use of the word "hack", unfortunately it is useless in obtaining a quick overview of what the article is about.
"Berners-Lee slammed the newly proposed.xxx domain name for adult content which he said would not create an adult-content repository. He said the definition of what adult content was too wide for the domain name to be effective."
The definition of adult content is too wide? What about the definition of a commercial site? Too me, it seems.com is way too wide.
"Doom 3 is no longer the top dog in the FPS market."
I never realized it was ever top dog. It came out, I played it, then it went on the shelf. It wasn't really that impressive and it certainly wasn't good enough to be called top dog. My kids watched me play it for about a half hour and that was enough for them. They never felt the desire to play it. Yeah it was pretty and it had some nice eye candy, but what's that got to do with the value and quality of a game? If you don't have the desire to play it more than once then it can't even be considered top-10.
I'm lost on the point of this article.
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Yes but according to this book, people have been saying that oil will run out in 10 years since the discovery of the internal combustion engine. No one really knows how much oil is left in the ground. I find lifeaftertheoilcrash.com to be a bit sensationalist and it seems that its author is mostly interested in selling doomsday books, which will always sell. Running out of oil is of course still a large issue that we must prepare for, but just because that might someday happen, those of us who have no control over such things have no reason to not live there life as normal.
Uhh, you can't copy music files that you stored using iTunes on an iPod from the iPod back to the computer, unless you use a 3rd party product, like ml_ipod for Winamp. So I wouldn't exactly call that "copying freely". Music downloaded from iTunes cannot be played on non-iPod players, and certain music services like the new Napster do not allow their songs to played on the iPod.
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OMG TEH LOLZ!!!
What's next, you can find Java at Starbucks?
Your analogy is flawed in that the decision to go out with you is the girl's property, and not yours or your antagonist's.
People pay good money for non-tangible things all the time. Ever pay a barber for a haircut? You can't touch or hold a haircut, but it makes a difference in how your hair looks. If someone wants to pay money for an object that gets used in a game to make the pixels of his monitor light in a certain way, makes his sound card reproduce certain sound patterns through his computer speakers, and interacts with other objects within the game in a noticeable way, then it's tangible.
Using your logic, anything that gets produced on a computer is worthless because it's "on a computer". If you have someone spend time designing a web page for you so that when people visit it, the pixels on their screen light in an appeasing and informative way, is that not tangible? If you have a programmer write code so that when you enter data into a field on one of the forms of your web page, that data gets stored somewhere and is used for calculations elsewhere, is that not tangible as well?
Whoa, you weren't joking.
Oh my god! The jewel case and paper insert must cost like $10 each to produce. It's a wonder that the RIAA makes any money. The royalties? I believe it's like $2 per CD.
Well then, if you really believe that, then as they say, a fool and his money are soon parted.
Umm... have you ever tried using an mp3 player in the car? It works just fine, certainly less problems with skipping than a CD. All the auto industry really needs to do is to start offering stereo head units with an auxillary 3.5mm input. You can go to most electronics stores that sell car audio equipment and purchase an OEM stereo with the input. Then you can plug your mp3 player directly into the stereo. I much prefer transporting an mp3 player to and from my car as opposed to having to copy all of my mp3's from my computer to my car and maintaining synchronization of my library across yet another computer.
As usual, the car industry is just 3 or 4 years behind the curve on what the consumer really wants for car audio. Just look at how long it took from them to make the move from cassette tape being standard to CD being standard. There's just a large contingent of people who aren't willing to pay extra for certain features, and then it takes a while for their beauracracies to come up with a way of offering the new feature as an option that they can charge $$$ for, and then eventually it becomes standard equipment.
The "but I only pay $0.25 for CD-Rs, so $13 for a CD is an outrage! Bok bok bok!" kids are missing the deadly difference between gross margin and net margin. The $13 you pay for a CD covers all the operating costs (salary, overhead including shrinkage, advertising) of the retailer, as well as the distributor (5% right there, if disty margins are the same in the record industry as they are in the computer peripheral business), and must cover the cost of shipping, returns (an educated guess is that it's about 10% in the record industry), price protections (probably another 10%), co-op advertising (another 5% - 10%), the salary of everybody at the record company and studio who worked on it in some way, royalties for the composers and songwriters, and of course the COGS, which are about 25% of the sell-in price to disti. This is why even at low-overhead indy record labels, a CD must sell about 10K pieces before it breaks even (that number is said to be 100K for the big RIAA companies).
But don't the CD-R manufacturers, who are selling plastic discs at $0.05 each, have to pay many of the same costs as the record companies selling discs at $13 each? It wasn't until only recently with P2P that CD prices came down to $13, they used to be $18 or more. Don't forget that the RIAA has been convicted many times of price fixing CD's as well, which means artificially increasing the price by agreeing to have all companies that sell CD's raise their prices.
Ya' know, it's not unlike Steve Jobbs to say one thing and then end up turning around and doing the exact opposite, perhaps with the intent of throwing off his enemies. I can't find the sources right now and get a top post, but as an example, he specifically said that there would never be an iPod cell phone, and a few weeks later there was talk of one. Doesn't surprise me one bit that Apple is taking their OS which is vastly superior to Windows and trying to take on that huge market.
Your sig is an urban legend.. Go on, perpetuate the lies that you have been told.
Heh, actually I don't personally run Linux anymore. I was merely making a commentary on how many times when a software product fails, it gets released as open source.
...it just gets open-sourced.
...and what comes after the "journeyman" job? And after that?
"Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diago, which of course in German means a whale's vagina."
Yes, but for a song entitled "Ironic" containing several examples of supposed irony to become a hit with almost all of its examples not being ironic, that is meta-irony to the extreme!
Why is it ironic? Perhaps it is because it is not unlike rain, on your wedding day...
Don't 'cha think?
A review of a book about hacking, without a lengthy diatribe about the misuse of the word "hacking" to precede it. It's as if the reviewer realizes that his target audience has already attained a certain level of proficiency in the technological lexicon.
I pay SBC $15/mo for a land line, and an additional $26/mo for the DSL, for a grand total of $41/mo. Speakeasy is charging $56/mo for even the most basic DSL without a phone. How does it make sense to go with Speakeasy when I can just disconnect the ringer to my phone, and have the added advantage of being able to make clear local calls when my cell phone is acting up?
...or does it seem like the first paragraph of this review has nothing to do with the rest of it? Nice diatribe on the use of the word "hack", unfortunately it is useless in obtaining a quick overview of what the article is about.
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Seriously dude, even command-line apps will spawn windows or change the video mode in order to display graphics.
"Berners-Lee slammed the newly proposed .xxx domain name for adult content which he said would not create an adult-content repository. He said the definition of what adult content was too wide for the domain name to be effective."
.com is way too wide.
The definition of adult content is too wide? What about the definition of a commercial site? Too me, it seems
I agree with most of your points, but when did Doom and GTA claim to be RPG's?
For a good example of what a computer can do for RPG's, see nethack, baldur's gate, or star wars: knights of the old republic.
"Doom 3 is no longer the top dog in the FPS market." I never realized it was ever top dog. It came out, I played it, then it went on the shelf. It wasn't really that impressive and it certainly wasn't good enough to be called top dog. My kids watched me play it for about a half hour and that was enough for them. They never felt the desire to play it. Yeah it was pretty and it had some nice eye candy, but what's that got to do with the value and quality of a game? If you don't have the desire to play it more than once then it can't even be considered top-10. I'm lost on the point of this article.