. which is why the music industry still has its head high in its asses by cutting the stores & outlets from where they can peddle their wares, and owned by RIAA completely EMI, Sony and others should sit down and asses how much of their income went to lawyers and the RoR on their investment in RIAA. Once they learn the true picture, they will abandon RIAA and consider creating music rather than creating lawsuits... But then EMI is a leader in restricting and refusing to serve customers...so its a matter of time..
What owners of solar panels should do is to join hands and bite back the company by filing a suit for "unauthorized" use of power generated by them. In short, argue in court that the large corporate is stealing their power using its "tubes" that connect the home to the company.
Look, i had already said it twice: i got over-zealous and am sorry for suggesting we pirate because EMI can't sell me the CDs. If you had cared to read the responses of others before typing your response on an RIAA-owned computer, you would not have responded dumbly once again.
While replacing the Wii OS with XBox 360 graphics drivers looks attractive, lets remember that Wii's hardware limits the capabilities. I cannot add v186.18 to nVidia 8600GT card and expect to play Crysis in Full glory. (Although i can fry it ) To extent it is possible, like the brain transplant Pioneer 10 had when it approached Jupiter and the one Voyager 2 had. But not much. If that were true, then we'd all be running Windows Vista on 80386 chip and playing Crysis and CoH:ToV parallelly.
Which is why the number of users of Google outnumber the users of Wolframalpha by 10,000:0.5 I say screw wolfram. Without enough users they will die by themselves.
Actually i was over-zealous and angry. Kinda like the cop who arrested Gates Jr for swearing at him, even though MA has laws that specifically allow those swearing at cops even when confronted. My bad.
If your business was selling music CDs, you would really point your customers to a web site that competes with you and undercuts you on cost
When i don't have the product a customer wants, and there is no prospect of getting the product for him at a profit [for me], why would i want to go to the trouble of pointing that customer to Walmart or HMV store and thereby enable my competition to earn a profit at my cost. Better that they too lose the money. If i can't earn, why should i help my competitor to earn at my cost? Care to explain?
LOLOL ROTFL wipes tears from eyes Please stop. I haven't laughed this much since watching American Pie 2 for the first time. Oh, God. Tell me you meant this as a joke. Please.
You gotta think like a Music Executive to understand their logic. Fixed Costs and shipping costs per CD shipped rise uncontrollably when sending it in small batches to mom-and-pop stores. Their sale price is fixed. WHich means, EMI earns less from each CD shipped to corner store as its shipping costs eat up money. Better way is to ship HUGE amounts to a few stores and ask the corner stores to buy their copies from them. Of course it assumes that small shop owner still want to waste their time & money and drive to Walmart supercenters, negotiate a price with manager and come back with 100 CDs of latest Jessica Simpson singles. LOL That wastes two days: one day for shopping and one for sorting. Who the hell wants to do that. If i were a mom-and-pop shop owner, i would point my customers to allofmp3.com or some other seller of mp3 songs. EMI's CEO has proved his tactical sense for next quarter results is strong, while his strategic business sense is as low as the IQ of his Turd. Good luck EMI. You have given me one more reason to pirate.
Look, the law doesn't apply to the lawmakers. For e.g., Pentagon. If its a private company, its officials would long be cooling their military heels in supermax prison for fraud. The GAO does not audit them anymore. The GAO complained many times its impossible to track Pentagon funds after they are dispatched. Congress stopped the GAO from investigating and embarassing the congress anymore. Same is the case with nuclear power plant operations and their funding. Same is the case with congress critters themselves. Many of them vote on proposals where it benefits their financial holdings directly, like owning stock in a company which he voted to get Federal Funds. Or Voting to prop up Goldman sachs while owning stock in it. Or disposing stock in an organisation just before the congress votes down its funding/law change making it bankrupt. All these actions if performed by Martha Stewart or you or me would result in the SEC, IRS and the Gorrilla of Banking to sit down on us and send us to prison. But congress critters are somehow exempt from it. Same is the case with all organisations they rule directly.
...FarCry, Unreal, heroes of might & magic, & Prince of Persia. All these had their day and now are as dead as Duke Nukem. The Rest of Ubisoft's vaunted arsenal of games are either unplayable or so bad that using them as coffee coasters seem an insult to the coffee. Ubisoft's CEO seems to have his head so far up his a$$ that he gets high on his own "perfume". Instead of blaming his company's utter failure to produce good, replayable games with deep themes and good graphics, he blames an outside factor that his beyond his ability to control. What makes him think he will succeed where the Evil Empire Sony's SecuROM and other hundreds of copy-protection have failed? His Capitalism 2 doesn't play on Windows 7 64-bit. When asked, his company's cold reply was that i switch back to Windows XP. Uru was a rockin' failure and a complete insult to Myst. As usual, corporate CEOs are so far removed from reality that they can continue to fool stockholders every single day with more fairy tales of their own. I would start shorting Ubisoft's stock from today, if i can.
Iam 35. With hypermetabolism. To some its a curse. To many its a blessing. I can eat all i want & more without getting fat OR bloated OR suffer from heartattacks. I weigh 155lbs. It has stayed rock steady for about 5 years now. I can run a mile without panting, and for the fun of it, i climb the stairs: 4 floors, everytime i go to work (4x2=8 floors). The doctor says most women would kill for my metabolism: the more butter i eat, the more energetic i feel (am not kidding, you can check webMD if you want). None of it is translated into cholestrol/fat/crap in my body. No insult intended, but at an age when most people cut down on calories and fat, i have to increase its intake: my doctor says i can't subsist mashed potatoes or Kellogs alone. 2 lbs of butter/fat every week. I would rather prefer a multitude of jessica alba clones than knees or eyes (i wear no glasses) or teeth. Most women i met (before marriage) were seriously asking if my case was genetic.
Forget that, old man. I would rather build a Jessica Alba or a Cindy Crawford for me. As history shows, ALL new technologies have been first used for pr0n: the printing press (am sure after printing the Bible, Gutenberg's 2nd book was an early edition of P1ayboy), the telephone, the cinema, BB's, internet, virtual reality, etc. If this stuff about creating new life out of a few cells is true, then the first few lives well be by own Alba, or heck, even Jessica Simpson.
Dinosaurs too survive today: in the form of Birds and Lizards. They too, in a sense, have survived. T-Rex could have survived too, if God/superior power/etc had propped it up inspite of what markets say. U talk as if Survival alone means they are fit to survive and perchance to live. Nope. I can survive an accident and end up losing my arms and legs. Doesn't mean i live.
Why would the banks be forced to restructure when they own the place? If i own a Bank, i own a few borrowers. If i own a Congress, i own the the population. Seriously, do you think any of the congressmen and senators would have even allowed a proposal to force any [campaign donating] bank to restructure? That would involve truthful declarations, risk-based investments, etc., all of which would result in no donations to congressmen. Its a symbiotic relationship. Banks need to maintain status quo, congressmen need money [more than oxygen].
Neither GM nor Chrysler will "get it". Why should they? They have governed by finance pros instead of by engineers. Finance pros are more concerned with short-term profits than long term growth. It takes someone with FORD CEO's instinct to think ahead. And being finance pros, they can blackmail the government into funding them into eternity. Gordon Gekko was absolutely right when he said: "The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest."
True. But then adults are not entirely sure when kids talk shit or when they talk sense. Take for instance Columbine and subsequent school shootings. All of them perpetrated by kids who had talked about it before and been ignored. Why take a chance? Some fool of a Took might take it upon himself to talk superior shit in Warcraft because his raid was resoundly defeated by another bunch of fools playing from another country/town/state/region. Very soon the original fool takes this quarrel into real world parallels and threatens the other country. Accusations and threats fly. Some hot-headed morons take it upon themselves to "rid" themselves of the opposing filth in a real sense. And before you know, another columbine...sigh... However, this first group of nerds are raised at 2 AM by a gun-toting SWAT team whose leader threatens to rain destruction on this nerd if he as much as swears online or professes enemity against fellow human beings/kinsmen... If i know it well, that is enough to scare the living daylights out of any 13-yr old.
He should be thankful to the Feds that they did not send in a SWAT team to smash open the door a.k.a Transformers, and drown the kid in a swimming pool. When will people realize that online equals real world ?
Depends on how you store it and what reader you use. I will give a personal example. I had photos on a CD-R taken during the Sydney Olympics. 3 CDs in all. 2 i had put in default paper covers. one i had stored it in a CD book (the kind BEA gives out as gifts). The reader i had was Sony DVD writer. It couldn't read both the DVD with paper covers. I changed the writer since the writer could also not read DVD-RW discs. Changed to LG DVD writer. Was able to read one of the paper cover CDs. and one in the CD book. So what it does it say?
CDMA is a far superior technology than GSM and UMTS even uses W-CDMA.
CDMA specifies on-air specifications. Period. GSM specifies the whole damn infrastructure. CDMA allows network carriers to design their own network features, one of which is lock-in. GSM does not do so. Which is superior?
Its the lockin that matters. CDMA is used only in USA. (Ya, other countries have it, but not as extensive). So makers make them only for USA markets which consume far lesser volumes. Lesser volumes mean more price per unit. Buyers will not pay $450/- per mobile. They would pay $50/- So carriers subsidize these upfront with contracts. So you end up paying $3500 over 2 years for a $450 mobile phone because you want to pay only $50 upfront. In GSM, the sheer volume is HUGE. Worldwide, more makers, more units and less cost per unit. So carriers do not have to subsidize it. See? Its not that hard.
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. which is why the music industry still has its head high in its asses by cutting the stores & outlets from where they can peddle their wares, and owned by RIAA completely
EMI, Sony and others should sit down and asses how much of their income went to lawyers and the RoR on their investment in RIAA.
Once they learn the true picture, they will abandon RIAA and consider creating music rather than creating lawsuits...
But then EMI is a leader in restricting and refusing to serve customers...so its a matter of time..
Abuse of monopoly power and can be slapped with a RICO charge for extortion under the pretext of harming my 2 yr son.
What owners of solar panels should do is to join hands and bite back the company by filing a suit for "unauthorized" use of power generated by them.
In short, argue in court that the large corporate is stealing their power using its "tubes" that connect the home to the company.
Look, i had already said it twice: i got over-zealous and am sorry for suggesting we pirate because EMI can't sell me the CDs.
If you had cared to read the responses of others before typing your response on an RIAA-owned computer, you would not have responded dumbly once again.
While replacing the Wii OS with XBox 360 graphics drivers looks attractive, lets remember that Wii's hardware limits the capabilities.
I cannot add v186.18 to nVidia 8600GT card and expect to play Crysis in Full glory. (Although i can fry it )
To extent it is possible, like the brain transplant Pioneer 10 had when it approached Jupiter and the one Voyager 2 had.
But not much.
If that were true, then we'd all be running Windows Vista on 80386 chip and playing Crysis and CoH:ToV parallelly.
Which is why the number of users of Google outnumber the users of Wolframalpha by 10,000:0.5
I say screw wolfram.
Without enough users they will die by themselves.
Actually i was over-zealous and angry. Kinda like the cop who arrested Gates Jr for swearing at him, even though MA has laws that specifically allow those swearing at cops even when confronted.
My bad.
If your business was selling music CDs, you would really point your customers to a web site that competes with you and undercuts you on cost
When i don't have the product a customer wants, and there is no prospect of getting the product for him at a profit [for me], why would i want to go to the trouble of pointing that customer to Walmart or HMV store and thereby enable my competition to earn a profit at my cost.
Better that they too lose the money.
If i can't earn, why should i help my competitor to earn at my cost?
Care to explain?
You are right.
My bad.
Its better to avoid EMI completely to prove the point.
Republicans are farmers
LOL,
miners
More LOL
and oil drillers
ROTFL and then
small business owners at the core.
LOLOL ROTFL
wipes tears from eyes
Please stop. I haven't laughed this much since watching American Pie 2 for the first time.
Oh, God. Tell me you meant this as a joke. Please.
You gotta think like a Music Executive to understand their logic.
Fixed Costs and shipping costs per CD shipped rise uncontrollably when sending it in small batches to mom-and-pop stores.
Their sale price is fixed. WHich means, EMI earns less from each CD shipped to corner store as its shipping costs eat up money.
Better way is to ship HUGE amounts to a few stores and ask the corner stores to buy their copies from them.
Of course it assumes that small shop owner still want to waste their time & money and drive to Walmart supercenters, negotiate a price with manager and come back with 100 CDs of latest Jessica Simpson singles.
LOL
That wastes two days: one day for shopping and one for sorting.
Who the hell wants to do that.
If i were a mom-and-pop shop owner, i would point my customers to allofmp3.com or some other seller of mp3 songs.
EMI's CEO has proved his tactical sense for next quarter results is strong, while his strategic business sense is as low as the IQ of his Turd.
Good luck EMI. You have given me one more reason to pirate.
Look, the law doesn't apply to the lawmakers.
For e.g., Pentagon. If its a private company, its officials would long be cooling their military heels in supermax prison for fraud.
The GAO does not audit them anymore. The GAO complained many times its impossible to track Pentagon funds after they are dispatched. Congress stopped the GAO from investigating and embarassing the congress anymore.
Same is the case with nuclear power plant operations and their funding.
Same is the case with congress critters themselves.
Many of them vote on proposals where it benefits their financial holdings directly, like owning stock in a company which he voted to get Federal Funds.
Or Voting to prop up Goldman sachs while owning stock in it.
Or disposing stock in an organisation just before the congress votes down its funding/law change making it bankrupt.
All these actions if performed by Martha Stewart or you or me would result in the SEC, IRS and the Gorrilla of Banking to sit down on us and send us to prison.
But congress critters are somehow exempt from it.
Same is the case with all organisations they rule directly.
The economy is George W. Bush's fault
You had me going till this.
Tell me, do you work for Fox News?
...FarCry, Unreal, heroes of might & magic, & Prince of Persia.
All these had their day and now are as dead as Duke Nukem. The Rest of Ubisoft's vaunted arsenal of games are either unplayable or so bad that using them as coffee coasters seem an insult to the coffee.
Ubisoft's CEO seems to have his head so far up his a$$ that he gets high on his own "perfume".
Instead of blaming his company's utter failure to produce good, replayable games with deep themes and good graphics, he blames an outside factor that his beyond his ability to control.
What makes him think he will succeed where the Evil Empire Sony's SecuROM and other hundreds of copy-protection have failed?
His Capitalism 2 doesn't play on Windows 7 64-bit. When asked, his company's cold reply was that i switch back to Windows XP.
Uru was a rockin' failure and a complete insult to Myst.
As usual, corporate CEOs are so far removed from reality that they can continue to fool stockholders every single day with more fairy tales of their own.
I would start shorting Ubisoft's stock from today, if i can.
Iam 35.
With hypermetabolism.
To some its a curse. To many its a blessing.
I can eat all i want & more without getting fat OR bloated OR suffer from heartattacks.
I weigh 155lbs. It has stayed rock steady for about 5 years now.
I can run a mile without panting, and for the fun of it, i climb the stairs: 4 floors, everytime i go to work (4x2=8 floors).
The doctor says most women would kill for my metabolism: the more butter i eat, the more energetic i feel (am not kidding, you can check webMD if you want). None of it is translated into cholestrol/fat/crap in my body.
No insult intended, but at an age when most people cut down on calories and fat, i have to increase its intake: my doctor says i can't subsist mashed potatoes or Kellogs alone.
2 lbs of butter/fat every week.
I would rather prefer a multitude of jessica alba clones than knees or eyes (i wear no glasses) or teeth.
Most women i met (before marriage) were seriously asking if my case was genetic.
Forget that, old man.
I would rather build a Jessica Alba or a Cindy Crawford for me.
As history shows, ALL new technologies have been first used for pr0n: the printing press (am sure after printing the Bible, Gutenberg's 2nd book was an early edition of P1ayboy), the telephone, the cinema, BB's, internet, virtual reality, etc.
If this stuff about creating new life out of a few cells is true, then the first few lives well be by own Alba, or heck, even Jessica Simpson.
Dinosaurs too survive today: in the form of Birds and Lizards.
They too, in a sense, have survived.
T-Rex could have survived too, if God/superior power/etc had propped it up inspite of what markets say.
U talk as if Survival alone means they are fit to survive and perchance to live.
Nope.
I can survive an accident and end up losing my arms and legs. Doesn't mean i live.
Why would the banks be forced to restructure when they own the place?
If i own a Bank, i own a few borrowers.
If i own a Congress, i own the the population.
Seriously, do you think any of the congressmen and senators would have even allowed a proposal to force any [campaign donating] bank to restructure?
That would involve truthful declarations, risk-based investments, etc., all of which would result in no donations to congressmen.
Its a symbiotic relationship. Banks need to maintain status quo, congressmen need money [more than oxygen].
Neither GM nor Chrysler will "get it".
Why should they?
They have governed by finance pros instead of by engineers.
Finance pros are more concerned with short-term profits than long term growth.
It takes someone with FORD CEO's instinct to think ahead.
And being finance pros, they can blackmail the government into funding them into eternity.
Gordon Gekko was absolutely right when he said: "The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest."
Can't you recognize dry sarcasm when it was so obvious?
Didn't you at all read my signature to understand it was sarcasm?
My God.
True.
But then adults are not entirely sure when kids talk shit or when they talk sense.
Take for instance Columbine and subsequent school shootings.
All of them perpetrated by kids who had talked about it before and been ignored.
Why take a chance?
Some fool of a Took might take it upon himself to talk superior shit in Warcraft because his raid was resoundly defeated by another bunch of fools playing from another country/town/state/region. Very soon the original fool takes this quarrel into real world parallels and threatens the other country.
Accusations and threats fly. Some hot-headed morons take it upon themselves to "rid" themselves of the opposing filth in a real sense.
And before you know, another columbine...sigh...
However, this first group of nerds are raised at 2 AM by a gun-toting SWAT team whose leader threatens to rain destruction on this nerd if he as much as swears online or professes enemity against fellow human beings/kinsmen...
If i know it well, that is enough to scare the living daylights out of any 13-yr old.
He should be thankful to the Feds that they did not send in a SWAT team to smash open the door a.k.a Transformers, and drown the kid in a swimming pool.
When will people realize that online equals real world ?
Depends on how you store it and what reader you use.
I will give a personal example.
I had photos on a CD-R taken during the Sydney Olympics. 3 CDs in all.
2 i had put in default paper covers.
one i had stored it in a CD book (the kind BEA gives out as gifts).
The reader i had was Sony DVD writer. It couldn't read both the DVD with paper covers.
I changed the writer since the writer could also not read DVD-RW discs.
Changed to LG DVD writer.
Was able to read one of the paper cover CDs. and one in the CD book.
So what it does it say?
CDMA is a far superior technology than GSM and UMTS even uses W-CDMA.
CDMA specifies on-air specifications. Period.
GSM specifies the whole damn infrastructure.
CDMA allows network carriers to design their own network features, one of which is lock-in.
GSM does not do so.
Which is superior?
Its the lockin that matters.
CDMA is used only in USA. (Ya, other countries have it, but not as extensive).
So makers make them only for USA markets which consume far lesser volumes.
Lesser volumes mean more price per unit.
Buyers will not pay $450/- per mobile. They would pay $50/-
So carriers subsidize these upfront with contracts.
So you end up paying $3500 over 2 years for a $450 mobile phone because you want to pay only $50 upfront.
In GSM, the sheer volume is HUGE. Worldwide, more makers, more units and less cost per unit.
So carriers do not have to subsidize it.
See?
Its not that hard.