1. By only paying.40/hr they are TAKING from them?
Now there is no such thing as slavery, so it seems these persons are willing to accept.40/hr for their labor. They aren't taking anything from them, are they? You used the zero-sum game, if i gave you a dollar, i no longer have that dollar... so the company is the one going poor here, not the person taking the money.
2. By charging $100 for product that costs $3 to make, they are taking from POOR?
Now here's where your argument is great for a real laugh.
a. I thought only the RICH paid way too much for cheap shit. Apparently, and this is the step i've always missed, the rich get rich because the poor are too willing to spend their money on overpriced junk.. that they are willing to risk starving to death to own, but unwilling to make their ow or accept any substitute. That makes sense. I don't know many rich people that put $12,000 of spinners but need three months to pay their electric bill or will buy their baby $300 nikes but can't afford to feed them anything better than McDonalds. Financial mismanagement does seem to plague the poor. So maybe you're onto something as to cause and effect relationships.
b. If these people 'would rather not die' and the product only cost $3 to manufacture, market, manage, distribute, and merchandise... then why don't these people, who have the talent and ability to manufacture these enormously profitable, ridiculously cheap to manufacture items.. make and sell their own?
Now, we all know telescopes allow us to see distant objects. But what if we want to smell distant objects? Well now we can! Thanks to my new invention... the Smellescope. The odour travels past this coffee stain here, around the olive pit and into this cigar burn. And this appears to be a doodle of myself as a cowboy. But the Smellescope is brilliant, I tell you! Think of the astronomical odours you'll smell thanks to me.
It's not too difficult to create an encrypted, read-only database that stores a MD5 hash value for every file in the file system. Sweep the filesystem twice daily to detect changes and new files, and make the database writable only after sweeps to commit any updates. I wrote shell scripts to do this years ago, and the system is still damn good malware detection. You know when the system has been compromised, you know what has been compromised, and you know if the file replacement is clean.
That was obvious when I got this far: Hollywood Reporter.
Paid for by Universal studios I'm certain.
retailers also are cutting the amount of shelf space they've been devoting to UMD movies, amid talk that Wal-Mart is about to dump the category entirely. Wal-Mart representative Jolanda Stewart declined comment on reports that the retailer is getting out of the UMD business.
Really, i haven't seen or heard anything of the sort.
"A high-ranking executive was more blunt: "We are on hiatus with UMD," he said. "Releasing titles on UMD is the exception rather than the rule. No one's even breaking even on them.""
Sony Pictures, who has the largest digital catalogue of movies, certainly is turning a nice profit for every movie that Universal releases on UMD... not to mention, the pure profits it is raking in from umd sales (Sony averages $500,000 in revenues for each title it releases on UMD)
This is clearly a swipe at Sony and BlueRay. little journalistic value whatsoever.. just gossip from a Universal Studio exec, the musings of a "hollywood reporter", and a brief response on the future of the PSP from Sony.
It's always nice to find the UMD bundled with a DVD, but Sony at least isn't clueless. I still buy DVDs, and rip them to my 2GB memory stick. I can easily fit nearly half a dozen movies on my memory stick, and archiving them on my computer HDD at a whopping 350-600mb each is a breeze.
"verytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money"
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. I, like everyone else I know, don't get rich screwing people over. Instead, we get rich from benefiting other people, who voluntarily increase our wealth. Poverty is not a virtue, nor is wealth evil.
no legislation without representation.
i presonally think this is hilarious, and their ability to actually PASS any legislation is nil. However, it would be refreshing for the anti-ip faction to have a voice in the legislature.
Who in their right mind would even bother cracking the DRM since there are dvds readily available of a much higher quality. i mena seriously, every amateur dvd bootleg is better quality then this overpriced, drm-crippled piece of shit. The industry keeps wondering why their profits are going to shit, because they are wasting billions of dollars on bullshit ideas like this one. I don't know who the fuck would buy this except some geezer who wanted to impress his son, only to find himself asking his son why it doesn't play on his dvd player, only to be scorned by his son who laughs at his incompetance, who will later give him a bootleg copy of same movie that plays on his DVD player.
"Whose going to pay an extra $200 to $300 to run OS X on their Windows box?"
Wow, seems like you completely missed the point. The idea is to market OS X as an alternative to WIndows, not to make more dual boot machines. Given the inroads linux has made into the desktop market, with practically no organization or finanaces whatever.. Apple could focus their efforts on software development and reap huge profits, like Microsoft. There are plenty of hardcore people who support OS X, from hippy photographers to hardcore security analysts. The best war sniffing app is written for OS X after all. If anyone has a store-front chance of selling their operating system pre-bundled on PCs next to windows boxes...it is unquestionably Apple. After all, every Joe Idiot knows iPod.
I remember watching a show on the discovery channel back in 2004, which showcased a paraplegic using a wireless brain implant as a mouse for a computer, and showcasing the research of Japanese scientists which were working on mapping brain signals, as to how memory is stored and retrieved, endeavouring to make a protocol for memory storage and retrieval for people with amnesia.
The EU has discovered how to attach neurons to electrical contacts? Eureka! According to the show I saw years ago, neurons naturally attach to the electrically conductive surface, when immersed in a growth formula, just as they naturally branch out and look for other neurons to attach themselves to, creating synapses.
If it wasn't for open source, the government would have never thought of such a democratic approach to problem solving. This is truly a paradigm shift in government. A beta test, if you will, of a new way of problem solving in a democracy. For the People, By the People indeed.
"We have massively reduced our presence in both countries over the last 15 years. Though we still have bases, they do not constitute a significant US military presence."
As a soldier stationed in Germany, deployed to Iraq I have to ask.. If our presence in German is not "significant" that what makes our presence in Iraq significant?
"We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more - if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."
So is the 'war on crime' we face in the United States a civil war then? It's hard to compare the situation in Iraq with a civil war, on many levels.. and much easier to attribute it to France turning their water hoses on rioters throwing bricks at policemen for not giving them guaranteed employment. I hardly consider France in the throes of civil war. Even when rioters were lighting cars on fire a few months ago.
"Our training of military forces is also not providing stability, we're only training half of Iraq (the Shiites), the Sunnis will not join the armed forces in significant numbers."
Really? That's a surprising statistic to me, considering the Sunni participation I've seen, especially in the police forces. The only glaring discrepency in religious factions comes from the Interior Ministry. There most certainly are Sunnis in the military, I've met them and talked with them.
We are incapable of making Iraq better than it is now.
So if that's the foundation of your ideological inspiration, "I can't think of how we can make it better so noone will be able to" Why in the world would I want to seriously consider your advice. It's clearly been misinformed, short-sighted, and self-serving.
I really liked reading this article, and I liked this opinion as well. There's alot we should be doing with available game stats to make the online multiplayer experience more pleasurable... and this whole writeup reminded me of xbox Live. While I don't like some of the mentioned rules, like no back shooting. I'm a big fan of the RB6 sneak up from behind and put a pistol to the back of their head and think it ooozes with skill and style. I hope Sony's online gaming venture will focus closely in characterizing skill levels of players and matching them accordingly. The idea of a player reputation as well as a skill level would be a big bonus. The slashdot karma system would also be great.
I think Apple is considering moving out of the computer manufacturing business entirely... I was telling my friends years ago when the ipod accounted for over 50% of Apple's profits that they would shift their strategy to focus on their more profitable businesses. A year after that, I was talking about how they would move away from the RISC architecture, and adopt an Intel architecture.. which would give them an opportunity to make their barely profitable computer manufacturing business profitable. Next would be porting OSX to run on competitor's hardware, sidestepping IBM's fatal proprietary model, and opening up their software development segments to a broader market, and giving them better opportunity to be profitable. At which point, Apple could seriously consider the profitibility of manufacturing computers all togeather.
Apple has potential to grow tremendously, and make a great comeback from near bankruptcy.. once again. It will need to reduce propreitary business models, increase open market comeptitveness, shed unprofitable revenues sources, and focus thier resources on high profit sections. To me this means, focus on software and peripherals.
480p and 1080i are near quality, but 1080i is slightly better. Yes, some dvds are progressive, and yes PAL looks better, because PAL has a slightly higher scan resolution, and its framerate is closer to film. I wouldn't say PAL is just as good as progressive, because despite the fact that it's resolution is slightly higer, progressive still renders many more lines per frame than PAL.
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1. By only paying .40/hr they are TAKING from them? .40/hr for their labor. They aren't taking anything from them, are they? You used the zero-sum game, if i gave you a dollar, i no longer have that dollar... so the company is the one going poor here, not the person taking the money.
Now there is no such thing as slavery, so it seems these persons are willing to accept
2. By charging $100 for product that costs $3 to make, they are taking from POOR?
Now here's where your argument is great for a real laugh.
a. I thought only the RICH paid way too much for cheap shit. Apparently, and this is the step i've always missed, the rich get rich because the poor are too willing to spend their money on overpriced junk.. that they are willing to risk starving to death to own, but unwilling to make their ow or accept any substitute. That makes sense. I don't know many rich people that put $12,000 of spinners but need three months to pay their electric bill or will buy their baby $300 nikes but can't afford to feed them anything better than McDonalds. Financial mismanagement does seem to plague the poor. So maybe you're onto something as to cause and effect relationships.
b. If these people 'would rather not die' and the product only cost $3 to manufacture, market, manage, distribute, and merchandise... then why don't these people, who have the talent and ability to manufacture these enormously profitable, ridiculously cheap to manufacture items.. make and sell their own?
Now, we all know telescopes allow us to see distant objects. But what if we want to smell distant objects? Well now we can! Thanks to my new invention ... the Smellescope. The odour travels past this coffee stain here, around the olive pit and into this cigar burn. And this appears to be a doodle of myself as a cowboy. But the Smellescope is brilliant, I tell you! Think of the astronomical odours you'll smell thanks to me.
defcon is definately alot cheaper.. and probably better education.
It's not too difficult to create an encrypted, read-only database that stores a MD5 hash value for every file in the file system. Sweep the filesystem twice daily to detect changes and new files, and make the database writable only after sweeps to commit any updates. I wrote shell scripts to do this years ago, and the system is still damn good malware detection. You know when the system has been compromised, you know what has been compromised, and you know if the file replacement is clean.
Paid for by Universal studios I'm certain.
retailers also are cutting the amount of shelf space they've been devoting to UMD movies, amid talk that Wal-Mart is about to dump the category entirely. Wal-Mart representative Jolanda Stewart declined comment on reports that the retailer is getting out of the UMD business.
Really, i haven't seen or heard anything of the sort.
"A high-ranking executive was more blunt: "We are on hiatus with UMD," he said. "Releasing titles on UMD is the exception rather than the rule. No one's even breaking even on them.""
Sony Pictures, who has the largest digital catalogue of movies, certainly is turning a nice profit for every movie that Universal releases on UMD... not to mention, the pure profits it is raking in from umd sales (Sony averages $500,000 in revenues for each title it releases on UMD)
This is clearly a swipe at Sony and BlueRay. little journalistic value whatsoever.. just gossip from a Universal Studio exec, the musings of a "hollywood reporter", and a brief response on the future of the PSP from Sony.
It's always nice to find the UMD bundled with a DVD, but Sony at least isn't clueless. I still buy DVDs, and rip them to my 2GB memory stick. I can easily fit nearly half a dozen movies on my memory stick, and archiving them on my computer HDD at a whopping 350-600mb each is a breeze.
you see where your logic utterly fails?
I don't know anyone who has been made rich by taking from the poor.
"verytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money" That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. I, like everyone else I know, don't get rich screwing people over. Instead, we get rich from benefiting other people, who voluntarily increase our wealth. Poverty is not a virtue, nor is wealth evil.
Yeah, you know what just hit me? Devices like intel's viiv are the perfect device to take advantage of this technology.
no legislation without representation. i presonally think this is hilarious, and their ability to actually PASS any legislation is nil. However, it would be refreshing for the anti-ip faction to have a voice in the legislature.
Who in their right mind would even bother cracking the DRM since there are dvds readily available of a much higher quality. i mena seriously, every amateur dvd bootleg is better quality then this overpriced, drm-crippled piece of shit. The industry keeps wondering why their profits are going to shit, because they are wasting billions of dollars on bullshit ideas like this one. I don't know who the fuck would buy this except some geezer who wanted to impress his son, only to find himself asking his son why it doesn't play on his dvd player, only to be scorned by his son who laughs at his incompetance, who will later give him a bootleg copy of same movie that plays on his DVD player.
Wow, seems like you completely missed the point. The idea is to market OS X as an alternative to WIndows, not to make more dual boot machines. Given the inroads linux has made into the desktop market, with practically no organization or finanaces whatever.. Apple could focus their efforts on software development and reap huge profits, like Microsoft. There are plenty of hardcore people who support OS X, from hippy photographers to hardcore security analysts. The best war sniffing app is written for OS X after all. If anyone has a store-front chance of selling their operating system pre-bundled on PCs next to windows boxes...it is unquestionably Apple. After all, every Joe Idiot knows iPod.
Apparently, you're either too young to remember the PS/2 or didn't pay enough attention at the time.
I remember watching a show on the discovery channel back in 2004, which showcased a paraplegic using a wireless brain implant as a mouse for a computer, and showcasing the research of Japanese scientists which were working on mapping brain signals, as to how memory is stored and retrieved, endeavouring to make a protocol for memory storage and retrieval for people with amnesia.
The EU has discovered how to attach neurons to electrical contacts? Eureka! According to the show I saw years ago, neurons naturally attach to the electrically conductive surface, when immersed in a growth formula, just as they naturally branch out and look for other neurons to attach themselves to, creating synapses.
If it wasn't for open source, the government would have never thought of such a democratic approach to problem solving. This is truly a paradigm shift in government. A beta test, if you will, of a new way of problem solving in a democracy. For the People, By the People indeed.
That's an awful stretch to demonize someone with.. it's alot better than, "You want to take half of someone else's money"
As a soldier stationed in Germany, deployed to Iraq I have to ask.. If our presence in German is not "significant" that what makes our presence in Iraq significant?
"We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more - if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."
So is the 'war on crime' we face in the United States a civil war then? It's hard to compare the situation in Iraq with a civil war, on many levels.. and much easier to attribute it to France turning their water hoses on rioters throwing bricks at policemen for not giving them guaranteed employment. I hardly consider France in the throes of civil war. Even when rioters were lighting cars on fire a few months ago."Our training of military forces is also not providing stability, we're only training half of Iraq (the Shiites), the Sunnis will not join the armed forces in significant numbers."
Really? That's a surprising statistic to me, considering the Sunni participation I've seen, especially in the police forces. The only glaring discrepency in religious factions comes from the Interior Ministry. There most certainly are Sunnis in the military, I've met them and talked with them.
We are incapable of making Iraq better than it is now.
So if that's the foundation of your ideological inspiration, "I can't think of how we can make it better so noone will be able to" Why in the world would I want to seriously consider your advice. It's clearly been misinformed, short-sighted, and self-serving.
I really liked reading this article, and I liked this opinion as well. There's alot we should be doing with available game stats to make the online multiplayer experience more pleasurable... and this whole writeup reminded me of xbox Live. While I don't like some of the mentioned rules, like no back shooting. I'm a big fan of the RB6 sneak up from behind and put a pistol to the back of their head and think it ooozes with skill and style. I hope Sony's online gaming venture will focus closely in characterizing skill levels of players and matching them accordingly. The idea of a player reputation as well as a skill level would be a big bonus. The slashdot karma system would also be great.
They make more money suing Apple than making records. They need to go fark themselves.
Or artwork that sucked alot worse.. which tended to be the norm.
Apple has potential to grow tremendously, and make a great comeback from near bankruptcy.. once again. It will need to reduce propreitary business models, increase open market comeptitveness, shed unprofitable revenues sources, and focus thier resources on high profit sections. To me this means, focus on software and peripherals.
Does anyone else remember the first time they stuck that Blade dvd in? It's getting me kind of excited for Blueray ;)
480p and 1080i are near quality, but 1080i is slightly better. Yes, some dvds are progressive, and yes PAL looks better, because PAL has a slightly higher scan resolution, and its framerate is closer to film. I wouldn't say PAL is just as good as progressive, because despite the fact that it's resolution is slightly higer, progressive still renders many more lines per frame than PAL.
but they give us menu to turn on/off sidebar sections.. without the option for bsd? Smooth move.
HDTV 1080p uses a resolution of 1920 x 1080.
Resolution is pretty comparable, and conversion from film to digital is downsampling, not "blowing up".