"Band X which I kind of like has a CD for 17 dollars, but band Y which I've heard the single and liked has the same CD for 13 dollars. I've got a 20 in my pocket, and I'd also like to get some grub."
There's no way for the artist to even break even on such a proposition!
I'm not talking the big 6, I'm talking the independant label... The Ani DiFrancos, or Atoosas, et al...
I'm not talking about millions of dollars, just enough to pay the costs of producing such music and some compensation for the time involved, even at McDonalds wages.
For Deep Audio, or Atoosa, or Molly Zenobia, CDBaby was absolutely worth it.
These are three artists whose CDs I picked up while looking for Alpha Conspiracy music.
Since you don't have to pay shipping if you buy 4 or more CDs, there's that subconscious urge to keep looking to find something you like.
I've bought 15 CDs from CDBaby and I've had rather good luck.
That's not to mention that I know that CDBaby runs a professional outfit and I'll get the CDs within a week. Who knows if it's directly from the artist?
I live in the southwest, where property values are rising but they're still just below national average.
Winter months are supposed to be very cheap (We didn't turn on the heater more than 5-6 times. Most nights I kept the window open!) but summers can be a bitch.
The Prius means I get gas once per 3 weeks, so it's in the extraneous expenses. I drive approximately 150 miles a week. I could stretch it out to 5 weeks if I were in a bind.
The prius is worth it. I would have usually bought an older car (mid 90s) but I cought the dealer in a mistake and so I got the car for below bluebook. I could sell the car privately for as much as I paid for it, losing only on taxes.
So I made a few mistakes along the way, but here it goes:
Goals: To go back to grad or law school. Saving outside of the stock market.
make 3500/mo, take home 2775.
340 goes to rent (up to 380 next month) -- I have roomates. (will be down to one next month.) 80 in electricity (Way too high for the place I have and noone has a clue why.) 50 in cell phone 50 in gym (mistake! I don't go often enough, but I'm stuck in one of those forsaken contracts. DO NOT GET A CONTRACT WITH BALLY'S. IT IS NOT A CONTRACT BUT A LOAN. I GOT SUCKERED.) 100 in groceries 250 in dining out (getting better though. The problem is that this is one of my primary means of socialization.) 315 car (often will pay more off the loan - 2001 Prius) 170 insurance (going elsewhere next month!) ___ 1355 / month
I usually have additional expenses such as music (up to 100/month, go go Cdbaby.com!) and various other entertainment. I usually save 600 or so a month.
The trick is going to be lowering the dining total and having more dinner parties instead of us all going out. If only everyone didn't have such finicky tastes...
The goal is to get enough to survive the first semester of law school... then I've got a fighting chance after that.
They're often thought of as old fashioned, but O'Reilly's (and other) books are what I will turn to first.
Most of the time, I don't get good answers from the traditional help channels because if I'm asking it, it's probably not obvious.
The bigger problem, as I see it, is that intermediate users run up against limitations in the tools we use, and don't know quite how to chain the tools together just yet.
Though I'm not a PDAer myself, I've known a few people to prefer the Pocket PC due to the surrounding hardware and the inability to get such hardware on the palm platform before the pocket PC came around.
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"Band X which I kind of like has a CD for 17 dollars, but band Y which I've heard the single and liked has the same CD for 13 dollars. I've got a 20 in my pocket, and I'd also like to get some grub."
Wait...
There's no way for the artist to even break even on such a proposition!
I'm not talking the big 6, I'm talking the independant label... The Ani DiFrancos, or Atoosas, et al...
I'm not talking about millions of dollars, just enough to pay the costs of producing such music and some compensation for the time involved, even at McDonalds wages.
For Deep Audio, or Atoosa, or Molly Zenobia, CDBaby was absolutely worth it.
These are three artists whose CDs I picked up while looking for Alpha Conspiracy music.
Since you don't have to pay shipping if you buy 4 or more CDs, there's that subconscious urge to keep looking to find something you like.
I've bought 15 CDs from CDBaby and I've had rather good luck.
That's not to mention that I know that CDBaby runs a professional outfit and I'll get the CDs within a week. Who knows if it's directly from the artist?
RTFA. The commercial interbase introduced a bug into the code that mangled databases. Firebird doesn't have such a bug.
I should mention...
I live in the southwest, where property values are rising but they're still just below national average.
Winter months are supposed to be very cheap (We didn't turn on the heater more than 5-6 times. Most nights I kept the window open!) but summers can be a bitch.
The Prius means I get gas once per 3 weeks, so it's in the extraneous expenses. I drive approximately 150 miles a week. I could stretch it out to 5 weeks if I were in a bind.
The prius is worth it. I would have usually bought an older car (mid 90s) but I cought the dealer in a mistake and so I got the car for below bluebook. I could sell the car privately for as much as I paid for it, losing only on taxes.
The bear, of course, is the insurance.
You'd deprive your bretheren of royalties that can be used to further their poc^H^H^Hministry?
Shame on you!
So I made a few mistakes along the way, but here it goes:
Goals: To go back to grad or law school. Saving outside of the stock market.
make 3500/mo, take home 2775.
340 goes to rent (up to 380 next month) -- I have roomates. (will be down to one next month.)
80 in electricity (Way too high for the place I have and noone has a clue why.)
50 in cell phone
50 in gym (mistake! I don't go often enough, but I'm stuck in one of those forsaken contracts. DO NOT GET A CONTRACT WITH BALLY'S. IT IS NOT A CONTRACT BUT A LOAN. I GOT SUCKERED.)
100 in groceries
250 in dining out (getting better though. The problem is that this is one of my primary means of socialization.)
315 car (often will pay more off the loan - 2001 Prius)
170 insurance (going elsewhere next month!)
___
1355 / month
I usually have additional expenses such as music (up to 100/month, go go Cdbaby.com!) and various other entertainment. I usually save 600 or so a month.
The trick is going to be lowering the dining total and having more dinner parties instead of us all going out. If only everyone didn't have such finicky tastes...
The goal is to get enough to survive the first semester of law school... then I've got a fighting chance after that.
Very simple... slow ram isn't what you want in your system memory, but it's cheap enough to justify putting a smaller database on.
It's being continually backed up to hard disk, but in the background.
That perspective misses one thing:
Limitations often aren't fun.
Perfect physics modeling means we can jump a foot or two high. It takes some decent training to get a vertical leap over 24 inches...
Fun is being superhuman, not having to worry about little things like real life.
We had one.
It was called NAID. (Or wait... was it in Canada? I forget...)
In any event, it folded after a few years.
They're often thought of as old fashioned, but O'Reilly's (and other) books are what I will turn to first.
Most of the time, I don't get good answers from the traditional help channels because if I'm asking it, it's probably not obvious.
The bigger problem, as I see it, is that intermediate users run up against limitations in the tools we use, and don't know quite how to chain the tools together just yet.
She probably works in an H&R Block Premium office.
All corporate stuff is handled through there.
(BTW, I was a former H&R Blockhead. However, I was a Blockhead techie, not a preparer...)
Does anyone get the feeling that Bill Gates takes his direction from Dr. Evil?
I mean, what could truly make Microsoft more Eveel than getting directly involved with funding the RIAA? Pure Evil Genius!
Your performance should not be tied to the amount you are paid.
Not performance... information.
The job will be as well-done.
First, start learning basic sign language now.
Then, sign while you speak to the child. The child's primary block to communication is learning how to make the sounds.
The child won't be able to do the signs precisely, but you'll have communication earlier and it won't slow down the vocalization.
(My uncle had success with this method.)
That assumes that Palm was superior.
Though I'm not a PDAer myself, I've known a few people to prefer the Pocket PC due to the surrounding hardware and the inability to get such hardware on the palm platform before the pocket PC came around.
I mean, when will SSL support be ported for Apache 2?
Last time I tried to compile SSL support from scratch it was a nightmare of errors...
Bravo!
You deserved a Score:5, Troll for that one!
A language is the set of all ways a grammar allows symbols to be combined.
(of course, a grammar is a set of rules on how to combine symbols.)
Under the formal definition, XML is indeed a language. It is not a language useful for defining algorithms, admittedly.
Can we stop with this "XML is not a language" now?
After all, it's only up to 3.3!
Seriously, I'm sure it will turn out to be a great release, but I'll wait just a little bit.
That's a crew of 3 people. They're called "Project Managers"
It means you will have a few jobs of people whose job it is to fly across the country, hammer out requirements, and send them to Beijing.
These people will be talented in graphical design, rapid prototyping, and customer management.
Not a lot of jobs there...
I'm working to be out of IT by the end of the next boom.
I have a chance in hell of growing that {ZZ Top, Merlin, Hassidic Jew, Muslim Fundy/Bin Laden} beard I've wanted since a teenager?
Can I just pick 5 random comments and mark them "Redundant"?
I mean, at some level noone's actually reading, are they?
So long as they're within the last 5 years or so. I figure I could handle about 500 of them?
"Remote exploitation of this hole is
not possible."
Does that mean you have to be at the keyboard, or does that mean you have to have access to the box itself? (a shutdown/restart exploit?)