http://www.starwreck.com/
Very high quality home brew show made for very little money.
There are also the "new adventures" of star trek.
There are also 400 user "tv channels" on winamp.
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Imagine this...
TV station has a Bit Torrent like distribution program (so it scales up as users increase).
You have to have a current sub to use the program (server validated like everquest).
Voila- internet based cable. I have a 5mb connection now - that will easily support real time video. Even with normal torrents I can download an episode of monk in just over an hour.
I wish there was a way to edit/delete misposts here.
I need to preview everything from now on!
Anyway you said:
Beside, this is not a bug but a missing feature, and it may not be considered properly if you noticed it in this improper way.
The question I responded to was... please explain to me what on earth you do in MS Office, that you find hard to replicate in OOo? It would be good feedback to the project if you are really serious and not joking.
The question wasn't about a bug. The question was "is there one thing that is hard to replicate in OOo." In Word, I can hold down the alt key and do this with the mouse reliably in seconds. I do it a lot and for "arbitrary" portions of the line (not always a date/time stamp nicely at the start).
As I said above, I did enter this properly and voted for it (along with several others) and hopefully it will be addressed.
This is literally the LAST feature I need working to kiss Word (really Office) goodbye forever.
Beside, this is not a bug but a missing feature, and it may not be considered properly if you noticed it in this improper way.
Yes and the question I was responding to was...
please explain to me what on earth you do in MS Office, that you find hard to replicate in OOo? It would be good feedback to the project if you are really serious and not joking.
The question wasn't about a bug. The question was "is there one thing that is hard to replicate in OOo." In word, I can hold down the alt key and do this with the mouse reliably in seconds. I do it a lot and for "arbitrary" portions of the line (not always a date/time stamp nicely at the start).
As I said above, I did enter this properly and voted for it (along with several others) and hopefully it will be addressed.
But we are not talking about thousands or tens of thousands. we are talking about hundreds of thousands or millions of copies being sold.
At.10 per track and just one million people buying it, ONE song would be 100,000 dollars.
I do not think that is fair compensation for time spent compared to doctors, scientists, teachers, etc. I think it is gross overcompensation.
Likewise at.99 per track, to try and legally collect even a tiny fraction of songs is impossible for most people on the planet. You are limited to buying maybe 50 to 75 cd's worth of music. This drives people to get their music illegally.
Actually a russian court found in the last few days that allofmp3 is doing it legally according to current law.
The law may change but for now it is legal.
D&D.
Runequest.
Warhammer.
Heroquest.
Everquest.
Lineage.
Worlds of Warcraft
Battlefield 1941?
Dark Ages of Camelot
The Sims Online?
There are a LOT of "fantasy" reality games out there and they are only increasing.
Having played D&D and Everquest, let me tell you the folks playing everquest are a lot farther out from reality (some spending 60+ hours a week in game) than the average D&D Player (6 hours a week, maybe less).
Some D&D players are spacy- some are hard headed realists.
Some movie buffs are spacy- some just like movies a lot.
It sounds like the DFF is sterotyping a huge group of people based on a part of it's population.
I used bold instead of break. Sorry. You can delete that previous message.
Not completely true. Raising prices to a certain point raises profits. Raising beyond that point lowers sales faster than profits rise.
Say for your example that you have 10 buyers at a nickel (.50) and you lose one buyer for every nickle you raise the price.
laying out a table...
0.50 at.05 with 10 buyers.
0.90 at.10 with 9 buyers.
1.20 at.15 with 8 buyers.
1.40 at.20 with 7 buyers.
1.50 at.25 with 6 buyers.
1.50 at.30 with 5 buyers.
1.40 at.35 with 4 buyers.
1.20 at.40 with 3 buyers.
So your best price as a business person is.25 per song even though you cut out half your market.
You might argue that.20 is a better price for the long term since you keep 70% of your buyers involved while keeping most of your profits.
A business can't know the best price so they raise it and lower it until they find that point.
Not completely true.
Raising prices to a certain point raises profits.
Raising beyond that point lowers sales faster than profits rise.
Say for your example that you have 10 buyers at a nickel (.50) and you lose one buyer for every nickle you raise the price.
laying out a table...
0.50 at.05 with 10 buyers.
0.90 at.10 with 9 buyers.
1.20 at.15 with 8 buyers.
1.40 at.20 with 7 buyers.
1.50 at.25 with 6 buyers.
1.50 at.30 with 5 buyers.
1.40 at.35 with 4 buyers.
So your best price as a business person is.25 per song even though you cut out half your market. You might argue that.20 is a better price for the long term since you keep 70% of your buyers involved while keeping most of your profits.
A business can't know the best price so they raise it and lower it until they find that point.
I think you are wrong here.
1) Is it free if it takes me 3 days of waiting to download it off emule, winmx, etc.?
2) Is it free if the first three versions I download are mangled, clipped, or not the version I want?
3) Is it free if the only version available is 128kbps bitrate and I want to play it on my top of the stereo where it will play like mushy crap?
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I think.99 is too high. But the owners of this music CAN provide value which justifies paying a certain price.
1) Immediately available when I want it- no waiting.
2) Highquality encoding or even lossless encoding.
3) Remembering what I have purchased and allowing me to redownload it so I can replace it if my hard drive/CD/DVD goes bad.
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Your time and my time has value. My time is worth $30 per hour. Your time may be worth even more. A lawyers time might be worth $300 per hour. Structured correctly online music can have a reasonable non-free price..99 a song is not a reasonable price when you consider how many songs there are (hundreds of thousands).
Magnatune is an excellent example of where it can be.
Free try before you buy.
Pay what you like if you like it.
HALF the money goes to the artists.
Some of the music is outstanding and a lot of it easily equals the crap on the radio.
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Personally, given the millions of songs and the effectively zero cost of media (.10 for a dvd which would hold 6 CD's worth of songs) I think the correct answer is a subscription service where you pay say $30 a month and just listen to anything you want.
I also think if you buy a song for.99 then they should be required to remember you bought it and let you replace it when your media goes bad.
Make a rectangular selection from the text and cut it.
For example...
[Dec 13, 2005 18:37:01]Server connected to 181.1.28.1
[Dec 13, 2005 18:37:01]Server connected to 117.1.37.2
[Dec 13, 2005 18:37:02]Server connected to 135.1.85.5
[Dec 13, 2005 18:37:02]Server connected to 111.1.12.3
Remove just the DATES and leave the messages.
Or remove everything but the I.P. addresses.
Or Boldface JUST the I.P. addresses or dates.
You can only do this with rectangular selection or by manually selecting one item at a time.
I've entered this as a bug. Several others have done the same and it has a couple dozen votes last time I looked. Currently not scheduled for the current release but I'm sure it will get there eventually.
Content cost was related to media cost.
A cassette tape or vinyl record factory and materials cost a certain amount of money and held a small amount of content.
But consider the new BluRay/HD-DVD dvd's coming out in terms of cost and capacity.
They will start at or above $20 per disk but after a couple years will cost 10 cents a piece. But in terms of capacity they will be able to hold huge amounts of material. They could sell a disk with ALL of the music of the 50's in lossless format for $10 bucks. But they want to charge the same price they have always charged (or even more seeing the recent push to raise prices above.99 per song).
There is no technical reason we haven't been able to purchase a DVD with 4.6 gigabytes of mp3's which would pretty much cover any entire genre. Every version of every song the beatles or rolling stones ever recorded would easily fit on a dvd.
The problem is they would want to charge $110 for a dvd like that and people are not going to pay that much for one disk which won't be replaced when they go bad.
There is so much content out there that the value of content is dropping. When you add things like magnatune.com (some darn good music there by the way and ALL legal) into the mix, I cannot see how they will be able to sustain their prices.
In my view, allofmp3.com is charging a fair price for the content. I hope they stay up as long as possible.
Corporations do not care about a "fair" price or a price where the maximum number of people can see something where they still make a profit.
They manage for the maximum profits, period.
This means they will raise prices until their profits drop and then back off back to the point of maximum profits.
My daughter followed the script til she was 17.
Then she quit math, got a boyfriend who was depressed unless he took meds, and started disobeying very reasonable parenting which had always worked previously and finally moved out with her mom the last summer so she could do whatever she wanted to.
A few years later she has lost the loser boyfriend and gotten someone decent but she no longer plays sports and has never returned to math which she was good at.
You just can't know. You can not know what you are going to be like yourself in 20 years. How could you hope to know what another person is going to be like?
Now come back and tell us how much time you spend with your child when it is 4, 8, and 12.
Especially revisit this topic with your second or third child.
Throughout history children have mostly been left alone to do their thing. It worked because there were lots of other children around to entertain them. When they were not playing they had duties to be performed.
I'm not even sure if it is healthy for your child to spend too much time with you instead of with other children around its age.
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http://www.starwreck.com/ Very high quality home brew show made for very little money. There are also the "new adventures" of star trek. There are also 400 user "tv channels" on winamp. --- Imagine this... TV station has a Bit Torrent like distribution program (so it scales up as users increase). You have to have a current sub to use the program (server validated like everquest). Voila- internet based cable. I have a 5mb connection now - that will easily support real time video. Even with normal torrents I can download an episode of monk in just over an hour.
That works until you hit the alternative minimum tax. Then you get no further deductions for higher local taxes.
I wish there was a way to edit/delete misposts here.
I need to preview everything from now on!
Anyway you said:
Beside, this is not a bug but a missing feature, and it may not be considered properly if you noticed it in this improper way. The question I responded to was...
please explain to me what on earth you do in MS Office, that you find hard to replicate in OOo? It would be good feedback to the project if you are really serious and not joking.
The question wasn't about a bug. The question was "is there one thing that is hard to replicate in OOo." In Word, I can hold down the alt key and do this with the mouse reliably in seconds. I do it a lot and for "arbitrary" portions of the line (not always a date/time stamp nicely at the start).
As I said above, I did enter this properly and voted for it (along with several others) and hopefully it will be addressed.
This is literally the LAST feature I need working to kiss Word (really Office) goodbye forever.
Beside, this is not a bug but a missing feature, and it may not be considered properly if you noticed it in this improper way. Yes and the question I was responding to was... please explain to me what on earth you do in MS Office, that you find hard to replicate in OOo? It would be good feedback to the project if you are really serious and not joking. The question wasn't about a bug. The question was "is there one thing that is hard to replicate in OOo." In word, I can hold down the alt key and do this with the mouse reliably in seconds. I do it a lot and for "arbitrary" portions of the line (not always a date/time stamp nicely at the start). As I said above, I did enter this properly and voted for it (along with several others) and hopefully it will be addressed.
But we are not talking about thousands or tens of thousands. we are talking about hundreds of thousands or millions of copies being sold. At .10 per track and just one million people buying it, ONE song would be 100,000 dollars.
I do not think that is fair compensation for time spent compared to doctors, scientists, teachers, etc. I think it is gross overcompensation.
Likewise at .99 per track, to try and legally collect even a tiny fraction of songs is impossible for most people on the planet. You are limited to buying maybe 50 to 75 cd's worth of music. This drives people to get their music illegally.
Actually a russian court found in the last few days that allofmp3 is doing it legally according to current law. The law may change but for now it is legal.
D&D. Runequest. Warhammer. Heroquest. Everquest. Lineage. Worlds of Warcraft Battlefield 1941? Dark Ages of Camelot The Sims Online? There are a LOT of "fantasy" reality games out there and they are only increasing. Having played D&D and Everquest, let me tell you the folks playing everquest are a lot farther out from reality (some spending 60+ hours a week in game) than the average D&D Player (6 hours a week, maybe less). Some D&D players are spacy- some are hard headed realists. Some movie buffs are spacy- some just like movies a lot. It sounds like the DFF is sterotyping a huge group of people based on a part of it's population.
I used bold instead of break. Sorry. You can delete that previous message. Not completely true. Raising prices to a certain point raises profits. Raising beyond that point lowers sales faster than profits rise. .05 with 10 buyers. .10 with 9 buyers. .15 with 8 buyers. .20 with 7 buyers. .25 with 6 buyers. .30 with 5 buyers. .35 with 4 buyers. .40 with 3 buyers. .25 per song even though you cut out half your market. .20 is a better price for the long term since you keep 70% of your buyers involved while keeping most of your profits.
Say for your example that you have 10 buyers at a nickel (.50) and you lose one buyer for every nickle you raise the price.
laying out a table...
0.50 at
0.90 at
1.20 at
1.40 at
1.50 at
1.50 at
1.40 at
1.20 at
So your best price as a business person is
You might argue that
A business can't know the best price so they raise it and lower it until they find that point.
Not completely true. Raising prices to a certain point raises profits. Raising beyond that point lowers sales faster than profits rise. Say for your example that you have 10 buyers at a nickel (.50) and you lose one buyer for every nickle you raise the price. laying out a table... 0.50 at .05 with 10 buyers.
0.90 at .10 with 9 buyers.
1.20 at .15 with 8 buyers.
1.40 at .20 with 7 buyers.
1.50 at .25 with 6 buyers.
1.50 at .30 with 5 buyers.
1.40 at .35 with 4 buyers.
So your best price as a business person is .25 per song even though you cut out half your market. You might argue that .20 is a better price for the long term since you keep 70% of your buyers involved while keeping most of your profits.
A business can't know the best price so they raise it and lower it until they find that point.
I think you are wrong here. 1) Is it free if it takes me 3 days of waiting to download it off emule, winmx, etc.? 2) Is it free if the first three versions I download are mangled, clipped, or not the version I want? 3) Is it free if the only version available is 128kbps bitrate and I want to play it on my top of the stereo where it will play like mushy crap? --- I think .99 is too high. But the owners of this music CAN provide value which justifies paying a certain price.
1) Immediately available when I want it- no waiting.
2) Highquality encoding or even lossless encoding.
3) Remembering what I have purchased and allowing me to redownload it so I can replace it if my hard drive/CD/DVD goes bad.
---
Your time and my time has value. My time is worth $30 per hour. Your time may be worth even more. A lawyers time might be worth $300 per hour. Structured correctly online music can have a reasonable non-free price. .99 a song is not a reasonable price when you consider how many songs there are (hundreds of thousands).
Magnatune is an excellent example of where it can be. Free try before you buy. Pay what you like if you like it. HALF the money goes to the artists. Some of the music is outstanding and a lot of it easily equals the crap on the radio. --- Personally, given the millions of songs and the effectively zero cost of media (.10 for a dvd which would hold 6 CD's worth of songs) I think the correct answer is a subscription service where you pay say $30 a month and just listen to anything you want. I also think if you buy a song for .99 then they should be required to remember you bought it and let you replace it when your media goes bad.
Make a rectangular selection from the text and cut it. For example... [Dec 13, 2005 18:37:01]Server connected to 181.1.28.1 [Dec 13, 2005 18:37:01]Server connected to 117.1.37.2 [Dec 13, 2005 18:37:02]Server connected to 135.1.85.5 [Dec 13, 2005 18:37:02]Server connected to 111.1.12.3 Remove just the DATES and leave the messages. Or remove everything but the I.P. addresses. Or Boldface JUST the I.P. addresses or dates. You can only do this with rectangular selection or by manually selecting one item at a time. I've entered this as a bug. Several others have done the same and it has a couple dozen votes last time I looked. Currently not scheduled for the current release but I'm sure it will get there eventually.
Content cost was related to media cost. A cassette tape or vinyl record factory and materials cost a certain amount of money and held a small amount of content. But consider the new BluRay/HD-DVD dvd's coming out in terms of cost and capacity. They will start at or above $20 per disk but after a couple years will cost 10 cents a piece. But in terms of capacity they will be able to hold huge amounts of material. They could sell a disk with ALL of the music of the 50's in lossless format for $10 bucks. But they want to charge the same price they have always charged (or even more seeing the recent push to raise prices above .99 per song).
There is no technical reason we haven't been able to purchase a DVD with 4.6 gigabytes of mp3's which would pretty much cover any entire genre. Every version of every song the beatles or rolling stones ever recorded would easily fit on a dvd.
The problem is they would want to charge $110 for a dvd like that and people are not going to pay that much for one disk which won't be replaced when they go bad.
There is so much content out there that the value of content is dropping. When you add things like magnatune.com (some darn good music there by the way and ALL legal) into the mix, I cannot see how they will be able to sustain their prices.
In my view, allofmp3.com is charging a fair price for the content. I hope they stay up as long as possible.
A top 10 game at boardgame geeks site. Very good game and widely popular with different players.
Corporations do not care about a "fair" price or a price where the maximum number of people can see something where they still make a profit. They manage for the maximum profits, period. This means they will raise prices until their profits drop and then back off back to the point of maximum profits.
My daughter followed the script til she was 17. Then she quit math, got a boyfriend who was depressed unless he took meds, and started disobeying very reasonable parenting which had always worked previously and finally moved out with her mom the last summer so she could do whatever she wanted to. A few years later she has lost the loser boyfriend and gotten someone decent but she no longer plays sports and has never returned to math which she was good at. You just can't know. You can not know what you are going to be like yourself in 20 years. How could you hope to know what another person is going to be like?
Now come back and tell us how much time you spend with your child when it is 4, 8, and 12. Especially revisit this topic with your second or third child. Throughout history children have mostly been left alone to do their thing. It worked because there were lots of other children around to entertain them. When they were not playing they had duties to be performed. I'm not even sure if it is healthy for your child to spend too much time with you instead of with other children around its age.