Food isn't a fized resource commodity. Its supply is affected to the upside by technological advancement far more than it is by consumption to the downside.
Copper, Nickel, Gold and Silver on the other hand, could potentially go nuts. Gold is pretty heavily manipulated, just like oil, so its not as transparent as silver. Silver, IMHO will be the metal of the 21st century.
If anyone cares, the world is destined to run out of raw silver reserves long, long before it runs out of oil. Dozens of analysts are expecting a COMEX default on silver futures within the next couple years. It might not seem like a big deal, but just watch what happens to the price of silver when it does...
(Silver is used in tons of medical equipment. There's a lot of nanotechnology research being done to develop a good substitute, but its still years off)
What they want now: A driver's tech fantasy fully realized: an in-dash computer with a keyboard built into the steering wheel and a full-screen heads-up display projected on the windshield.
What they'll invest: $5 million for a deeply qualified 20-person team to deliver a prototype and a plan for pitching a commercial version to automakers within three years
Gee, a whole $5 million for a DEEPLY QUALIFIED 20 PERSON TEAM FOR 3 YEARS. LOL.
Apparently, on-shore development teams need not apply.
No. They do not sound better. A 320bit MP3 sounds as good as a CD. You're talking about iTunes crap.
2) Album oriented rather than song oriented. If you don't understand the difference or why one would be better, it's just an indicator of your tastes. (Not to say you lack taste, it's just not the same as everyone else's.)
Why are you assuming that I don't download entire albums?
3) Permanence. Again, if you're only interested in the latest hits it won't matter if it vanishes in a hard drive crash.
Its called a "backup". Its when you make a copy of your files in case of emergency.
Before we talk about filesharing, we should talk about the more basic issue: transmissable digital file formats vs. plastic media discs stored in poorly designed (easily breakable) jewel cases.
Let's face it: CD's suck. And I'm not talking about the music. I'm talking about the medium.
CD's have to be swapped out of the cd player. They hold too little music. They're easily damaged. And the jewel case is one of the worst atrocities of industrial design to be inflicted upon humanity in the last 20 years. (I'd say 30% of mine are broken).
MP3's by comparison are instantly accessible, contain meta data, are sortable, and can be shuffled into infinite playlists. Not to mention, they're not breakable.
When the recording industry pushes CD's, they are pushing a sub-par product on us.
The music industry was slow to adopt a commercial alternative, and when they did they gave us DRM infected, vastly overpriced, low bitrate shite because they were still convinced that if given no other alternative we would continue to buy the sub par plastic discs.
But there was an alternative: An infinitely better, cheaper, higher quality and more accessible alternative. The recording industry attmpted to control the market at the expense of the consumer. They gambled and they lost.
When businesses offer subpar products they fail.
The message to the recording industry is simple: Sell me non-DRM infected tracks at.12 each and I'm interested. That's the same amount of money you're getting from your CD's anyway. Push for more, and give me less? You lose.
Better yet, what if we tried this with EVERY NEWS ARTICLE BY REUTERS AND AP?
This system represents a level of automated comparison which is eventually going to highlight a truth that very few people would like to admit:
That most "originality" isn't all that original.
I think if we're going to hold students to this bar, we should be holding our "creative professionals" to a far higher bar. But does anyone have the stomach for it?
As much as its clear that AllOfMP3.com is breaking the law, the site should be looked at very, very seriously by the industry because they are clearly on to something.
I've spent upwards of $500 on the site in the past year.
I should also say that I haven't spent $500 on music in the last 10 previous years combined.
If they've got me spending money on music, they're doing something right.
Morrowind was gorgeous. It had giant mushrooms, floating squid, organic plant-buildings, insect mines, mongolian yurts, cantons, dust storms, propylon indexes, etc.
Now we have deer, butterflies, tudor houses and "map travel" and a relatively uniform forest created with SpeedTree.
Yawn.
Not to mention the fact that after a relatively short amount of gameplay I decided to craft a helm of 100% invisibility... and then my character was invincible.
CoD2 is a decent game, but certainly not a great game. I'd give it a solid B. So far the only games that have true visual 'wow' factor and great gameplay are Ghost Recon and Test Drive Unlimited. PGR 3 is a big letdown IMHO.
Ghost Recon is a huge surprise in terms of gameplay and a graphics engine that is surprisingly awesome. And the co-op Splitscreen multiplayer rules.
TDU is a little odd, but its a grower. I'm usually not big on driving games, but the MMO/persistent world aspect of it is a nice feature. I find myself playing that game all the time. A great little surprise.
Whether or not you believe 'first mover advantage' is a factor in the 'innovation' business (which IMHO is absurd, especially when file formats can be emulated and network protocols are open by necessity), its inaccurate to call Microsoft a "first mover". Historically Microsoft has been the "vastly more powerful second or third mover". Microsoft is 'living proof' that first-movers don't have the advantage, particularly when subsequent players have more money and leverage.
This technique works great on PDA's and phones where the natural casing texture is what's under the logo, but if you've got a 'chromed' phone/PDA (particularly with a color), you may find yourself scratching off the background color as well.
Sometimes the logos are actually printed in 'negative', where the background color 'is' the print and the logo is negative space.
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Food isn't a fized resource commodity. Its supply is affected to the upside by technological advancement far more than it is by consumption to the downside.
Copper, Nickel, Gold and Silver on the other hand, could potentially go nuts. Gold is pretty heavily manipulated, just like oil, so its not as transparent as silver. Silver, IMHO will be the metal of the 21st century.
If anyone cares, the world is destined to run out of raw silver reserves long, long before it runs out of oil. Dozens of analysts are expecting a COMEX default on silver futures within the next couple years. It might not seem like a big deal, but just watch what happens to the price of silver when it does...
(Silver is used in tons of medical equipment. There's a lot of nanotechnology research being done to develop a good substitute, but its still years off)
Until after the elections, that is.
Very true. The "data" is just as much the absence of light as it is the presence of it.
But please be aware that all verbal complaints are considered "sound energy" and will be taxed at
$10 per nano-decibel.
Thank you and have a nice day
Last time I checked, space invaders was 1 dimensional movement not two.
The likelihood of a sattelite being hit by a micrometeor decreases with smaller scale sattelites.
The only problem is manned missions. Low mass, unmanned nano sattelites are the future.
What they want now: A driver's tech fantasy fully realized: an in-dash computer with a keyboard built into the steering wheel and a full-screen heads-up display projected on the windshield.
What they'll invest: $5 million for a deeply qualified 20-person team to deliver a prototype and a plan for pitching a commercial version to automakers within three years
Gee, a whole $5 million for a DEEPLY QUALIFIED 20 PERSON TEAM FOR 3 YEARS. LOL.
Apparently, on-shore development teams need not apply.
Hell yes. Velcro/Nylon wallets are for amateurs.
Check out www.jfold.com (the Loungemaster) or www.tumi.com (modernist)
The largest line of wallets in the world (or so I'm told) is at jfold.com
1) Sound better
No. They do not sound better. A 320bit MP3 sounds as good as a CD. You're talking about iTunes crap.
2) Album oriented rather than song oriented. If you don't understand the difference or why one would be better, it's just an indicator of your tastes. (Not to say you lack taste, it's just not the same as everyone else's.)
Why are you assuming that I don't download entire albums?
3) Permanence. Again, if you're only interested in the latest hits it won't matter if it vanishes in a hard drive crash.
Its called a "backup". Its when you make a copy of your files in case of emergency.
I don't know about you all but as far as I'm concerned there's only one place to look: http://www.jfold.com/
Before we talk about filesharing, we should talk about the more basic issue: transmissable digital file formats vs. plastic media discs
stored in poorly designed (easily breakable) jewel cases.
Let's face it: CD's suck. And I'm not talking about the music. I'm talking about the medium.
CD's have to be swapped out of the cd player. They hold too little music. They're easily damaged. And the jewel case is one of the worst atrocities
of industrial design to be inflicted upon humanity in the last 20 years. (I'd say 30% of mine are broken).
MP3's by comparison are instantly accessible, contain meta data, are sortable, and can be shuffled into infinite playlists. Not to mention, they're
not breakable.
When the recording industry pushes CD's, they are pushing a sub-par product on us.
The music industry was slow to adopt a commercial alternative, and when they did they gave us DRM infected, vastly overpriced, low bitrate shite because they were
still convinced that if given no other alternative we would continue to buy the sub par plastic discs.
But there was an alternative: An infinitely better, cheaper, higher quality and more accessible alternative. The recording industry attmpted to
control the market at the expense of the consumer. They gambled and they lost.
When businesses offer subpar products they fail.
The message to the recording industry is simple: Sell me non-DRM infected tracks at
What if we tried this with Top 40 music?
Better yet, what if we tried this with EVERY NEWS ARTICLE BY REUTERS AND AP?
This system represents a level of automated comparison which is eventually
going to highlight a truth that very few people would like to admit:
That most "originality" isn't all that original.
I think if we're going to hold students to this bar, we should be holding
our "creative professionals" to a far higher bar. But does anyone have the
stomach for it?
As much as its clear that AllOfMP3.com is breaking the law, the site should be looked
at very, very seriously by the industry because they are clearly on to something.
I've spent upwards of $500 on the site in the past year.
I should also say that I haven't spent $500 on music in the last 10 previous years combined.
If they've got me spending money on music, they're doing something right.
Microsoft didn't invent DOS.
This isn't a troll, its just an opinion.
Morrowind was gorgeous. It had giant mushrooms, floating squid, organic plant-buildings, insect mines, mongolian yurts, cantons, dust storms,
propylon indexes, etc.
Now we have deer, butterflies, tudor houses and "map travel" and a relatively uniform forest created with SpeedTree.
Yawn.
Not to mention the fact that after a relatively short amount of gameplay I decided to craft a helm of 100% invisibility... and then my character was invincible.
End of game.
Nice play testing.
I finally succumbed and bought a 360.
CoD2 is a decent game, but certainly not a great game. I'd give it a solid B.
So far the only games that have true visual 'wow' factor and great gameplay are
Ghost Recon and Test Drive Unlimited. PGR 3 is a big letdown IMHO.
Ghost Recon is a huge surprise in terms of gameplay and a graphics engine that
is surprisingly awesome. And the co-op Splitscreen multiplayer rules.
TDU is a little odd, but its a grower. I'm usually not big on driving games,
but the MMO/persistent world aspect of it is a nice feature.
I find myself playing that game all the time.
A great little surprise.
If "multiple" tiny black holes are being created, and they combine, don't we
get a "less tiny" black hole?
And isn't that... "bad"?
Whether or not you believe 'first mover advantage' is a factor in the 'innovation' business (which IMHO is absurd, especially when file formats can be emulated and network protocols are open by necessity), its inaccurate to call Microsoft a "first mover". Historically Microsoft has been the "vastly more powerful second or third mover". Microsoft is 'living proof' that first-movers don't have the advantage, particularly when subsequent players have more money and leverage.
This technique works great on PDA's and phones where the natural casing texture is what's under the logo,
but if you've got a 'chromed' phone/PDA (particularly with a color), you may find yourself scratching off
the background color as well.
Sometimes the logos are actually printed in 'negative', where the background color 'is' the print and the
logo is negative space.
X-Drive failed as a business model. It allowed you to create virtual (X:) drive in Win '95 ten years ago.
I know, I know... "It'll be different this time."
... involves the opposing forces of:
(a) Smoke, and
(b) Some mirrors.
Oh, and I'll also actually need (c) A curtain.
Please send all VC monies to my address in the Caymans.
Thank you.
Doesn't the dictionary in PAQ8A,B,C,D result in smaller filesizes if you're talking about a 100M+ large file?
"How about a MMORPG where there is a significant story that you play a part in? "
Its called Guild Wars / Guild Wars Factions