I originally thought the Macbook Air was a good traveling laptop until I realised it had no LAN port. If you walk into any hotel or Internet Caffe most will have a LAN connection and very few will have WiFi. I know the Mac fans will say "but but you can carry a LAN dongle", sorry carrying dongles is a "PAIN IN THE ASS" and you always find the dongle you need is back at work sitting in your desks top drawer. The best travelers laptop Ive seen so far is the Toshiba R500, light (2lb),small, has a optical drive and a LAN port.
1. Setup Industry Body to promote and regulate music
2. Piss off your consumer base.
3. Shaft the people who create music.
4. ??
5. Profit
I don't know of any other industry that intentionally tries to shaft both its consumer and supply base like the RIAA do.
because that is about as good as spending money on clean coal is. At the end of the day it's not a 100% solution and the electricity generated is hellishly expensive without lots of money from tax payers. The question is do tax payers want to finance the coal industry when part of the extraction procedure is to devastate the environment. I view clean coal along the lines of someone with a product that has become socially unacceptable and promising with billions of your money we may be able to make you like it even though its a half assed and expensive solution that doesnt change the product.
Number Two: Don't you think we should ask for *more* than 1.5 million dollars? 1.5 million isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Fony Records alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
Dr. Evil: Really? That's a lot of money.
[pause]
Dr. Evil: Okay then, we hold the worlds culture to ransom for...
Dr. Evil: One... Hundred... BILLION DOLLARS!
Number Two: Don't you think we should ask for *more* than a 1.5 million dollars? 1.5 million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Sony Records alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
Dr. Evil: Really? That's a lot of money.
[pause]
Dr. Evil: Okay then, we hold the world's culture to ransom for...
Dr. Evil: One... Hundred... BILLION DOLLARS!
anything but primitive. Often westerners (including me) upon seeing these people just see someone who lives a primitive and alien lifestyle. Over the years my whole view of the environment and our relationship with the land and each other has been completely been revised thanks to the knowledge gained gained from these true Australians. When western settlers first visited Australia all they saw were trees and bushes and no agriculture. The reality is far different in fact the Aborigines have for thousands of years been cultivating the land, food is everywhere but a westerner would starve unless shown the food they were standing on. Using fire management and spreading seeds (selection) Australian aborigines created a traveling smorgasboard that spanned thousands of miles. To have such a complex agricultural system (that puts western agricultural methods to shame in an environmental comparison) one must also have a very complex social system based on respect not just for the living but the dead. Many of you who eat your plastic food and live your broken sitcom social lives will sit back and laugh at such a people but the reality is they are laughing at us but are to honorable to tell us. If your after more info go watch a documentary series called "The Bush Tucker Man", well worth watching and a real eye opener.
Pretty much any software knowledge one gains when they are young becomes deprecated when you go into the real world. I actually grew up with DOS and Windows and allot of it now is junk as things have moved on.
why there is no manufacturing in the USA. I read a book a few years ago written by the founder of Sony Akio Morita and in his book Made in Japan he notes how extremely litigious the USA is compared to many other nations. My point is often people in the USA keep saying that manufacturing has left because of labour costs. My personal take on the matter is that a large part of that line of thought is BS. Take the ship building industry in Sth Korea, wages are higher in the ship building industry there than in the USA but they cant keep up with orders. Yes, the US legal system is partly responsible for chasing business off shore this killing manufacturing. Most countries do allow you to sue but they also make sure "it costs the person initiating the case" allot of money if it is a fishing trip ie they pay "everything" thus these types of cases are very rare unless they have allot of substance.
Im one of the many time poor out there and I catch the train to work. To save time I download podcasts that helps me keep on top of things relating to the field I work in. One thing I have noticed is the lack of "music" in my podcasts over the last couple of years. As most of us know this is because record companies have decided that podcasts should pay exorbitant license fees. Many of the podcasts literally are either a hobby or are on a shoestring budget thus they delete any music played within the podcast (some are live to air recordings). The problem now is Im totally used to not hearing music in podcasts and when I do hear anything it is viewed along the same lines as advertising. Now if you sit back and think about it the record industry has successfully isolated many of is consumer base from its product and any marketing guru would say this is suicide. So am I surprised that sales have dropped, no considering my previous comment.
|As any politician will tell you "the less you know the more secure you are"
It's an old joke, if a minister/senator/public servant doesn't know anything about the latest disruptive bit of news then they cant be blamed.
Go watch the "Need to Know" episode of Yes Minister (BBC).
Just look at nature, clones are very common. I can imagine in 100 years the USA has super cows all bred from the same gene stock then some foreign agent introducing a virus wiping the whole industry out in a week.
Am I the only one finding Ebay is more expensive than the normal on-line shops or even real retail shops. I recently decided to purchase a HP C6180 printer (works great with Linux) and the best price I found was AU$249 from a normal big brand retail chain. When I looked as Ebay the best (buy now) price was over AU$329 at the time with the best on-line retailer price being AU$304 (with another printer thrown in as a bonus). Im finding that if you want to buy any "new" product, ebay is the worst place to go if you want to save money. On the other hand second hand goods on ebay can sometimes be a good deal.
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I originally thought the Macbook Air was a good traveling laptop until I realised it had no LAN port. If you walk into any hotel or Internet Caffe most will have a LAN connection and very few will have WiFi. I know the Mac fans will say "but but you can carry a LAN dongle", sorry carrying dongles is a "PAIN IN THE ASS" and you always find the dongle you need is back at work sitting in your desks top drawer. The best travelers laptop Ive seen so far is the Toshiba R500, light (2lb),small, has a optical drive and a LAN port.
1. Setup Industry Body to promote and regulate music 2. Piss off your consumer base. 3. Shaft the people who create music. 4. ?? 5. Profit I don't know of any other industry that intentionally tries to shaft both its consumer and supply base like the RIAA do.
What!..Microsoft lie!...noo , while Im here selling you Vista Super duper home edition for $799 would you be interested in some prime swamp property.
because that is about as good as spending money on clean coal is. At the end of the day it's not a 100% solution and the electricity generated is hellishly expensive without lots of money from tax payers. The question is do tax payers want to finance the coal industry when part of the extraction procedure is to devastate the environment. I view clean coal along the lines of someone with a product that has become socially unacceptable and promising with billions of your money we may be able to make you like it even though its a half assed and expensive solution that doesnt change the product.
that fall to the ground shall be collected taken to a dark dry room and be electrocuted with 10,000 Volts
from an organization that has billions in assets when there are families of 6 living on a dollar a day sort of doesn't work for me for some reason.
My irony browser plugin just seg-faulted and crashed..
Number Two: Don't you think we should ask for *more* than 1.5 million dollars? 1.5 million isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Fony Records alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
Dr. Evil: Really? That's a lot of money.
[pause]
Dr. Evil: Okay then, we hold the worlds culture to ransom for...
Dr. Evil: One... Hundred... BILLION DOLLARS!
Number Two: Don't you think we should ask for *more* than a 1.5 million dollars? 1.5 million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Sony Records alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year! Dr. Evil: Really? That's a lot of money. [pause] Dr. Evil: Okay then, we hold the world's culture to ransom for... Dr. Evil: One... Hundred... BILLION DOLLARS!
Mr Evil "I demand the sum... OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS."
anything but primitive. Often westerners (including me) upon seeing these people just see someone who lives a primitive and alien lifestyle. Over the years my whole view of the environment and our relationship with the land and each other has been completely been revised thanks to the knowledge gained gained from these true Australians. When western settlers first visited Australia all they saw were trees and bushes and no agriculture. The reality is far different in fact the Aborigines have for thousands of years been cultivating the land, food is everywhere but a westerner would starve unless shown the food they were standing on. Using fire management and spreading seeds (selection) Australian aborigines created a traveling smorgasboard that spanned thousands of miles. To have such a complex agricultural system (that puts western agricultural methods to shame in an environmental comparison) one must also have a very complex social system based on respect not just for the living but the dead. Many of you who eat your plastic food and live your broken sitcom social lives will sit back and laugh at such a people but the reality is they are laughing at us but are to honorable to tell us. If your after more info go watch a documentary series called "The Bush Tucker Man", well worth watching and a real eye opener.
At the end of the day drag and drop and clicking on icons or menu's is pretty much the same on any OS.
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Pretty much any software knowledge one gains when they are young becomes deprecated when you go into the real world. I actually grew up with DOS and Windows and allot of it now is junk as things have moved on.
why there is no manufacturing in the USA. I read a book a few years ago written by the founder of Sony Akio Morita and in his book Made in Japan he notes how extremely litigious the USA is compared to many other nations. My point is often people in the USA keep saying that manufacturing has left because of labour costs. My personal take on the matter is that a large part of that line of thought is BS. Take the ship building industry in Sth Korea, wages are higher in the ship building industry there than in the USA but they cant keep up with orders. Yes, the US legal system is partly responsible for chasing business off shore this killing manufacturing. Most countries do allow you to sue but they also make sure "it costs the person initiating the case" allot of money if it is a fishing trip ie they pay "everything" thus these types of cases are very rare unless they have allot of substance.
Boeing has said it's latest jet liner crashes less and Ford has made a car that kills fewer drivers.
Im one of the many time poor out there and I catch the train to work. To save time I download podcasts that helps me keep on top of things relating to the field I work in. One thing I have noticed is the lack of "music" in my podcasts over the last couple of years. As most of us know this is because record companies have decided that podcasts should pay exorbitant license fees. Many of the podcasts literally are either a hobby or are on a shoestring budget thus they delete any music played within the podcast (some are live to air recordings). The problem now is Im totally used to not hearing music in podcasts and when I do hear anything it is viewed along the same lines as advertising. Now if you sit back and think about it the record industry has successfully isolated many of is consumer base from its product and any marketing guru would say this is suicide. So am I surprised that sales have dropped, no considering my previous comment.
Of losses were found up the marketing departments nose.
|As any politician will tell you "the less you know the more secure you are" It's an old joke, if a minister/senator/public servant doesn't know anything about the latest disruptive bit of news then they cant be blamed. Go watch the "Need to Know" episode of Yes Minister (BBC).
As any politician will tell you "the less you know the more secure you are".
one banana at a time.
Just look at nature, clones are very common. I can imagine in 100 years the USA has super cows all bred from the same gene stock then some foreign agent introducing a virus wiping the whole industry out in a week.
Send back a 20,000 page vague summary reply.
Am I the only one finding Ebay is more expensive than the normal on-line shops or even real retail shops. I recently decided to purchase a HP C6180 printer (works great with Linux) and the best price I found was AU$249 from a normal big brand retail chain. When I looked as Ebay the best (buy now) price was over AU$329 at the time with the best on-line retailer price being AU$304 (with another printer thrown in as a bonus). Im finding that if you want to buy any "new" product, ebay is the worst place to go if you want to save money. On the other hand second hand goods on ebay can sometimes be a good deal.
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