Does anyone on slashdot *like* anything (besides linux)? I am seriously asking. I almost never hear anyone on slashdot say good things about movies. And not all of these movies are bad.
The matrix is almost an exception, but for people endlessly bitching about keanu (sp?) reeves.
It must really suck to not like anything, and not consider anything to be good enough.
btw, I haven't seen this movie yet, but I will eventually. And the first one wasn't my favorite movie in the world either... so I don't doubt that a lot of people don't like the film. But I don't consider an entire movie to be crap just because I don't like the way Woo expects everyone to open a door before walking through.
It seems to me that nearly everyone who posts on slashdot would be *much* happier if they just didn't go see movies in general.
First off, nobody needs CDs. They are in no way an essential part of life. If CDs were priced at $2400.00 almost nobody would buy them, and life would go on
If the recording industry increases price, and as a result they see increased *profits*(which they did and have), then the price must have been below market equilibrium prior to the price increase. This means that the demand for CDs was sufficient to allow for a price increase.
If their *profits* had decreased after the price increase, then they would have been above the market equilibrium... and naturally they would lower the prices.
Say that I make chewing gum, and the net cost for producing, marketing, selling, etc..., is $0.03. I could sell it for $0.031 and make a profit. But say the demand was huge, because Linus likes the gum.
Really huge demand... I would increase the price. I would keep increasing the price on a weekly basis (or whatever) until a price increase failed to cause a *profit* increase. At this point say I am selling the gum for $3.00... which is $2.97 profit. Huge profit, this thing only costs me $0.03 to make.
Some people would be pissed off... some of the people who could afford my gum at $0.03 would not be able to buy the gum at $3.00. They scream that it only costs me 3 cents to make this damn gum, how can I possibly justify selling it for 3 dollars.
Well, guess what? I am not making this gum for the benefit of humanity. I don't care if some people can't afford my gum at $3.00. I am here to make money. More specifically I am here to make money as fast and efficiently as possible. If increasing prices increases profits, you damn well know I am going to increase the price.
The fact that napster and whatever else is out there means there is a substitution for CDs (be it legal or not). Actually there seem to be a lot of substitutes for CDs. tapes being the closest, radio, humming (if you are really good;), concerts, mp3's recorded off the radio, satellite/cable broadcast music. etc. It goes on and on. Don't forget that you don't *need* a substitute even. Just don't listen to music.
Anyway, I personally don't have a problem with the cost of CDs. I just don't buy them anymore. I have a small collection built up over the years, and that combined with the radio is enough for me.
10 years ago they put out their most popular album ever (or 9.5 years I guess). It was on the radio all the time.
15 years would be a better figure. Master of puppets didn't get any air time, but...and justice for all did, and certainly the self titled album did.
I have loved metallica's music for years and years, but I guess I am getting old now. I don't like their recent stuff as much as the old stuff...
Metallica are getting old, they have kids, wouldn't you think they would spend more time with their families than writing music for a bunch of angry teenagers?
I personally think metallica liked it better when most people thought they sucked. It is hard to write angry pissed off music when your life is so damn good. I think they are getting self destructive.
Why don't You just say "Look, this is our material, it is copyrighted. We don't want people giving it away for free, so we are going to do our best to stop it."
Is that so hard? You are only pissing people off by saying stupid things regarding commodities (sp?) and art. We all know that can't be your motivation, and it just sounds silly.
Hmmm... you state that most of their song-text is anti-establishment... and you might have a case if their only album was...and justice for all.
But they do have other albums out, and I don't think that anti-establishment is a prevelant theme on any of them.
However, I agree. The quote is awful, and I hope it is severely out of context. I am not even sure what the quote is referring too, when it was spoken, and who it was spoken too. It looks like elektra is using the quote, and it isn't something that lars spoke to the press.
It has been years since I have been to a concert of theirs, but the one I saw in 91 they actually had a bootleggers section
Also, I'd like to mention that recording music in a studio generally isn't free.
You had better exactly reference and give credit to every idea you mooch off of this site. Have you asked very many of your colleagues in class to give you some info on this? No? Well why is that different from asking slashdot? Slashdot is not a search engine that prowls geek's minds. Slashdot is not a forum for doing people's homework. If you had broached this subject with a little more thought, perhaps I wouldn't have been so irritated (not that it matters to you). You should have just brought up a topic for general discussion, and used that discussion for enlightenment. I certainly am most impressed that you are writing an 18-plus-page paper. Or maybe that is Slashdot writing it? --Scott
You had better exactly reference and give credit to every idea you mooch off of this site.
Have you asked very many of your colleagues in class to give you some info on this? No? Well why is that different from asking slashdot?
Slashdot is not a search engine that prowls geek's minds. Slashdot is not a forum for doing people's homework.
If you had broached this subject with a little more thought, perhaps I wouldn't have been so irritated (not that it matters to you). You should have just brought up a topic for general discussion, and used that discussion for enlightenment.
I certainly am most impressed that you are writing an 18-plus-page paper. Or maybe that is Slashdot writing it?
But that seems to be the way slashdot works. I submitted something last week (unworthy and little cheesy), and it said there were something like 189 submissions queued before mine. 189! I don't know how many were redundent, but I am curious what the typical turn around time is for an article. This seems like a statistic that could be added to a story at the header. I'd like to know. Just for curiosity's sake.
I'd also like to see a 10 second counter at the top of the page that display's the number of times a page was requested in the last 10 seconds or so.
But, alas, the request has gone unheard or unacknowledged.
cheese
Re:Former and Latter--Quit It.
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Don't worry about it:)
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Actually I was just referring to the semantics of the article. "Former vs Latter." Not old vs new.
I have no problems with somebody doing a comparison, old vs new or whatever...
I re-read my post and I think maybe you might have misunderstood my intentions for the post.
Slashdot Mirror
What grade school do you go to?
Does anyone on slashdot *like* anything (besides linux)? I am seriously asking. I almost never hear anyone on slashdot say good things about movies. And not all of these movies are bad.
The matrix is almost an exception, but for people endlessly bitching about keanu (sp?) reeves.
It must really suck to not like anything, and not consider anything to be good enough.
btw, I haven't seen this movie yet, but I will eventually. And the first one wasn't my favorite movie in the world either... so I don't doubt that a lot of people don't like the film. But I don't consider an entire movie to be crap just because I don't like the way Woo expects everyone to open a door before walking through.
It seems to me that nearly everyone who posts on slashdot would be *much* happier if they just didn't go see movies in general.
--cheese
won't be a theme park. Everyone in here seems to think it is going to be a theme park... why, I dunno. Disney makes movies too you know.
I don't see how they can re-coup the costs.. but whatever.
cheese
tell that to heisenburg (sp?)
First off, nobody needs CDs. They are in no way an essential part of life. If CDs were priced at $2400.00 almost nobody would buy them, and life would go on
;), concerts, mp3's recorded off the radio, satellite/cable broadcast music. etc. It goes on and on. Don't forget that you don't *need* a substitute even. Just don't listen to music.
If the recording industry increases price, and as a result they see increased *profits*(which they did and have), then the price must have been below market equilibrium prior to the price increase. This means that the demand for CDs was sufficient to allow for a price increase.
If their *profits* had decreased after the price increase, then they would have been above the market equilibrium... and naturally they would lower the prices.
Say that I make chewing gum, and the net cost for producing, marketing, selling, etc..., is $0.03. I could sell it for $0.031 and make a profit. But say the demand was huge, because Linus likes the gum.
Really huge demand... I would increase the price. I would keep increasing the price on a weekly basis (or whatever) until a price increase failed to cause a *profit* increase. At this point say I am selling the gum for $3.00... which is $2.97 profit. Huge profit, this thing only costs me $0.03 to make.
Some people would be pissed off... some of the people who could afford my gum at $0.03 would not be able to buy the gum at $3.00. They scream that it only costs me 3 cents to make this damn gum, how can I possibly justify selling it for 3 dollars.
Well, guess what? I am not making this gum for the benefit of humanity. I don't care if some people can't afford my gum at $3.00. I am here to make money. More specifically I am here to make money as fast and efficiently as possible. If increasing prices increases profits, you damn well know I am going to increase the price.
The fact that napster and whatever else is out there means there is a substitution for CDs (be it legal or not). Actually there seem to be a lot of substitutes for CDs. tapes being the closest, radio, humming (if you are really good
Anyway, I personally don't have a problem with the cost of CDs. I just don't buy them anymore. I have a small collection built up over the years, and that combined with the radio is enough for me.
gotta go,
--Scott
This may come as a shock, but the world is analog.
All mediums are analog.
10 years ago they put out their most popular album ever (or 9.5 years I guess). It was on the radio all the time.
...and justice for all did, and certainly the self titled album did.
15 years would be a better figure. Master of puppets didn't get any air time, but
I have loved metallica's music for years and years, but I guess I am getting old now. I don't like their recent stuff as much as the old stuff...
Metallica are getting old, they have kids, wouldn't you think they would spend more time with their families than writing music for a bunch of angry teenagers?
I personally think metallica liked it better when most people thought they sucked. It is hard to write angry pissed off music when your life is so damn good. I think they are getting self destructive.
--cheese
Why don't You just say "Look, this is our material, it is copyrighted. We don't want people giving it away for free, so we are going to do our best to stop it."
Is that so hard? You are only pissing people off by saying stupid things regarding commodities (sp?) and art. We all know that can't be your motivation, and it just sounds silly.
--Scott
Two players start w/ a stack of 7 toothpicks/chips/doritoes.
btw, I thought your comment was interesting, and I am just having a little fun.
--Scott
Oops, I meant:
Don't mention it, coward.
Sorry.
Don't mention it
Man, ROFL, slashdot is on a roll today!
Yep, You're blind.
Dude, that made my day.
ROFL.
I thought Moore's Law simply referred to transistor density, which does not necessarily convert straight to power.
--Scott
Hmmm... you state that most of their song-text is anti-establishment... and you might have a case if their only album was ...and justice for all.
But they do have other albums out, and I don't think that anti-establishment is a prevelant theme on any of them.
However, I agree. The quote is awful, and I hope it is severely out of context. I am not even sure what the quote is referring too, when it was spoken, and who it was spoken too. It looks like elektra is using the quote, and it isn't something that lars spoke to the press.
It has been years since I have been to a concert of theirs, but the one I saw in 91 they actually had a bootleggers section
Also, I'd like to mention that recording music in a studio generally isn't free.
--Scott
You had better exactly reference and give credit to every idea you mooch off of this site. Have you asked very many of your colleagues in class to give you some info on this? No? Well why is that different from asking slashdot? Slashdot is not a search engine that prowls geek's minds. Slashdot is not a forum for doing people's homework. If you had broached this subject with a little more thought, perhaps I wouldn't have been so irritated (not that it matters to you). You should have just brought up a topic for general discussion, and used that discussion for enlightenment. I certainly am most impressed that you are writing an 18-plus-page paper. Or maybe that is Slashdot writing it? --Scott
You had better exactly reference and give credit to every idea you mooch off of this site.
Have you asked very many of your colleagues in class to give you some info on this? No? Well why is that different from asking slashdot?
Slashdot is not a search engine that prowls geek's minds. Slashdot is not a forum for doing people's homework.
If you had broached this subject with a little more thought, perhaps I wouldn't have been so irritated (not that it matters to you). You should have just brought up a topic for general discussion, and used that discussion for enlightenment.
I certainly am most impressed that you are writing an 18-plus-page paper. Or maybe that is Slashdot writing it?
--Scott
Well I've never seen a penguin that looked like tuxedo (or a pink torpedo for that matter).
And if we called the penguin "Ducky" that would actually be pretty funny. No one would mistake a penguin for a duck, so it is funny.
I agree with geeko being an awful name. I suggested "Joe"
cheese
That was great.
Martin is the father, Charlie is the kid.
cheese
Websters 1913 unabridged:
Note: Its color changes more or less with the color of the objects about it, or with its temper when disturbed.
cheese
yes.
But that seems to be the way slashdot works. I submitted something last week (unworthy and little cheesy), and it said there were something like 189 submissions queued before mine. 189! I don't know how many were redundent, but I am curious what the typical turn around time is for an article. This seems like a statistic that could be added to a story at the header. I'd like to know. Just for curiosity's sake.
I'd also like to see a 10 second counter at the top of the page that display's the number of times a page was requested in the last 10 seconds or so.
But, alas, the request has gone unheard or unacknowledged.
cheese
Don't worry about it :)
Actually I was just referring to the semantics of the article. "Former vs Latter." Not old vs new.
I have no problems with somebody doing a comparison, old vs new or whatever...
I re-read my post and I think maybe you might have misunderstood my intentions for the post.
cheese