I absolutely agree. If the album dies I would sorely miss it. If I only like one song by someone, I'm not going to bother buying it. Not as a single, not as an album. It's not worth it. If I like a handful of the tracks though, I'll definitely buy an album.
Like you, my favorite songs usually end up being the ones that don't get any radio play. B-sides and other "unreleased" tracks in particular are always faves of mine as well. I've got an entire box set by one artist full of that kind of material and it's some of my favorite stuff by them.
I see people's music collections and they read like what was just played on the radio in the last hour... what's the point - just listen to the radio! Free!
Yeah, I made the mistake of buying my wife a Sony Bean. I honestly didn't spend much time researching it. A fellow techie had one, said it was awesome, and recommended it. She wanted a digital music player, time was short (isn't it always when you're buying gifts for your lady?) and so I got her one.
The Bean was a great little player... the problem is, Sony's DRM, their proprietary format, and their lame program all suck. Now Sony is dumping their Connect (music store / software combo) stuff and anyone with music is screwed. Unfortunately, even though I told her not to she did buy a few albums through the store. Meh, what can you do.
This has only made me more certain of my decision to just buy frickin CDs. I can rip them to whatever I want and I can make as many backups as I want. (Yeah there are a few CDs with some form of copy protection but those still aren't as bad as DRM.)
Freaking tsunami of fire!? That is the most awesome thing I've ever heard of. If I don't see a movie in the next two years with a kick-ass tsunami of fire clobbering people... I'm going to be really sad. Steven Spielberg - this is right up your alley. I'm counting on you.
P.S. Don't try and give me some fireball or some weak wave crap either. I want to see a tsunami of fire roll over a city. That is win.
Weeeeell, that is part of the second paragraph of TFA. It says that the 60" image can only be seen in dark rooms while a 7"-20" image can be seen with some ambient light.
woah woah woah, you've got it all wrong. That's not how you make sales. You make sales by bringing the hot new intern and projecting the presentation on her front / backside (depending upon the clients preference, of course).
Actually christian missionaries in China use similar methods of communication. If you send an e-mail to someone inside of China (or vice-versa) and include the word "Jesus" it'll show up blank. So you have to use other non-religious words to get your point across. That was a few years ago that I experienced that first hand. At the time I was surprised by the level of filtering. Now I just take it for granted:-/
You don't have to be an amazing shot to get someone at about 150-200 feet in a courtyard - as I was theorizing. I've regularly hit targets smaller than a human head at that distance - with iron sights. Hitting someone in the torso would be cake.
I made a point of saying I was in a windowed classroom - in this particular case it does two things for me - (1) makes me a considerably less likely target. (2) If I'm shooting at a downward angle the only thing I'll hit if I miss is the ground (yes, bullets can ricochet, but I don't think there are going to be people standing around the guy waiting to get shot).
Absolutely. I think nearly all college students end up qualifying as poverty stricken individuals because they work part time for beer money and get the rest of their money from college loans. On paper they make $10,000 a year and live with 5 other people in a 3 bedroom house - obviously we should roll out special programs to help these poor, poor people!
Seriously. If I were in Texas and I saw some jackass walking through a courtyard shooting people and I was in a classroom with an open window... it'd be all of a few seconds before he was lying on the cement regretting his decision to be such a tool.
Although I think the numbers are ridiculous, it's not 80 cents for just the jewel case. That price includes pressing the disk itself, slapping / printing something pretty on the disc, printing the album art and inserting it, shrink wrapping it, and then of course you have to have the sticker that says "features blah blah blah song". Honestly, I have a feeling that the full colored album art costs more to print than the jewel case or the CD costs to make.
You fail reading comprehension. I was agreeing with the parent's comment that the article summary was ridiculous. I was talking about summaries, not people's comments.
Weren't slashdotters the one's clammoring for real time Toy Story on their PC?
It's not just/.'s - everyone wants that. But they want it for $300. Not $1200+. And even with $1200, you're still not getting Toy Story... so I'm not sure what you're thinking.
I wonder if "average"* Joe is still running an Apple I?
Don't be ridiculous, obviously no one is running an Apple I and trying to play modern games. Your hyperbole has nothing to do with the obvious fact that this kind of thing is only going to be purchased by an extremely small niche.
You don't have to be frickin' Einstein to figure out that any time you release a graphics solution that costs $1200 you're pricing yourself out of the average consumer market. Most people balk at spending that on an entire computer, let alone just the graphics cards. Even the gamers I know that spend the majority of their free time playing FPS's play on $1500 machines.
Exactly. This is about putting power in the hands of the guys that are designing games. Games don't just get whipped up overnight. It takes a few years. During which, hardware gets better and machines become more capable. If the CryTek guys had just pulled a mid-range video card off the shelves a few years back and stuck with that we wouldn't have the gorgeous wonder that is Crysis.
I think that "the most difficult language to learn" varies from culture to culture. If you speak French then learning Spanish or English isn't too much of a stretch, but learning Japanese is going to be challenging. Similarly, I think that a Japanese person would find almost any western language very challenging to learn in comparison to say, Chinese, which at least has a similar "alphabet" (Kanji obviously, not hiragana and katakana).
Additionally, I don't see anything wrong with correcting people. If people are, in fact, on here and speaking non-native English then we're doing them a disservice if we ignore their errors and they assume they're doing things correctly. When I was learning Japanese I jumped at the chance to correct my grammar, improve my vocabulary and fix my verb conjugation.
Finally, those claiming that grammar correction is "classist" should realize the irony of their statement. If I'm taking the time to tell you you're wrong and giving you an opportunity to learn the correct way then I'm hardly promoting some social hierarchy. Far from it. I'm trying to bring everyone up to the same level. If I sat here and silently judged your inability to differentiate "their" from "there" - THEN I would be "classist".
Yeah, this is among the most ridiculous things I've heard on here. Quad SLi is for the consumer just like a super computer is for the consumer. NVidia puts this sort of thing out to maintain its reputation as top dog in the graphics arena and to offer specialized niche users (read people that spend their entire day doing 3d modeling of some sort) an extra boost. This obviously isn't intended for average consumers when the motherboard you have to buy to support Quad SLi costs about half as much Joe Schmoe even wants to spend on his eMachine (not to mention the power supply and the cards themselves.)
I never said I don't put enough into my 401k. I just said that everything that's going into Social Security *should* be going into my 401k. My point was, that's money I'm working for that I'm never going to see because the system is screwed.
Ugh Social Security is screwed. When will people realize that it's impossible for the government to do something better than you if you can do it yourself. Saving for retirement is one of them. The amount of "surplus" money "borrowed" from social security is just ridiculous. You can't trust politicians. You give them retirement money, they see "surplus" that obviously needs to be spent on some pet project. just get rid of SS. Give everyone as much of their money back as possible - without taxing it (to make up for the fact that none of us are actually going to get back what we put in) and then call it done. Every time I see how much of my paycheck goes to Social Security versus my 401k it just depresses me. All of that should be going into something that I know I'll actually see a return on. Instead it's going into a black hole.
People are still puzzling over how the world's largest rave got started. It seems that once a light show started from what appeared to be a giant disco ball in space people everywhere got out their glow sticks, drugs and pacifiers and started dancing.
The only way to fix this is to just release a competing bot that destroys all of the other bots and is otherwise harmless. There's no other way around it. I've seen zombie PCs and their owners and I don't think you can do anything to fix either one. After getting paid twice to fix their machine and educate them about how to keep it fixed - I gave up. They couldn't have paid me enough to come back a third time. They obviously just didn't care about learning how to use a computer properly. Apparently smiley face programs and gator clocks are too fun to pass up.
It doesn't matter what OS you use, if you're never installing the updates, and you're constantly installing garbage you find on the Internet - you're going to end up being host to every piece of garbage malware there is. The anti-botnet-botnet is the only thing that we as power users can do to save the general public from themselves.
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I absolutely agree. If the album dies I would sorely miss it. If I only like one song by someone, I'm not going to bother buying it. Not as a single, not as an album. It's not worth it. If I like a handful of the tracks though, I'll definitely buy an album.
Like you, my favorite songs usually end up being the ones that don't get any radio play. B-sides and other "unreleased" tracks in particular are always faves of mine as well. I've got an entire box set by one artist full of that kind of material and it's some of my favorite stuff by them.
I see people's music collections and they read like what was just played on the radio in the last hour... what's the point - just listen to the radio! Free!
Yeah, I made the mistake of buying my wife a Sony Bean. I honestly didn't spend much time researching it. A fellow techie had one, said it was awesome, and recommended it. She wanted a digital music player, time was short (isn't it always when you're buying gifts for your lady?) and so I got her one.
The Bean was a great little player... the problem is, Sony's DRM, their proprietary format, and their lame program all suck. Now Sony is dumping their Connect (music store / software combo) stuff and anyone with music is screwed. Unfortunately, even though I told her not to she did buy a few albums through the store. Meh, what can you do.
This has only made me more certain of my decision to just buy frickin CDs. I can rip them to whatever I want and I can make as many backups as I want. (Yeah there are a few CDs with some form of copy protection but those still aren't as bad as DRM.)
Freaking tsunami of fire!? That is the most awesome thing I've ever heard of. If I don't see a movie in the next two years with a kick-ass tsunami of fire clobbering people... I'm going to be really sad. Steven Spielberg - this is right up your alley. I'm counting on you.
P.S. Don't try and give me some fireball or some weak wave crap either. I want to see a tsunami of fire roll over a city. That is win.
See it in action!
Weeeeell, that is part of the second paragraph of TFA. It says that the 60" image can only be seen in dark rooms while a 7"-20" image can be seen with some ambient light.
All right, so anyone that found that that link wasn't very helpful should check out the actual YouTube video.
woah woah woah, you've got it all wrong. That's not how you make sales. You make sales by bringing the hot new intern and projecting the presentation on her front / backside (depending upon the clients preference, of course).
You mean... like this stunning example?
Actually christian missionaries in China use similar methods of communication. If you send an e-mail to someone inside of China (or vice-versa) and include the word "Jesus" it'll show up blank. So you have to use other non-religious words to get your point across. That was a few years ago that I experienced that first hand. At the time I was surprised by the level of filtering. Now I just take it for granted :-/
You don't have to be an amazing shot to get someone at about 150-200 feet in a courtyard - as I was theorizing. I've regularly hit targets smaller than a human head at that distance - with iron sights. Hitting someone in the torso would be cake.
I made a point of saying I was in a windowed classroom - in this particular case it does two things for me - (1) makes me a considerably less likely target. (2) If I'm shooting at a downward angle the only thing I'll hit if I miss is the ground (yes, bullets can ricochet, but I don't think there are going to be people standing around the guy waiting to get shot).
Absolutely. I think nearly all college students end up qualifying as poverty stricken individuals because they work part time for beer money and get the rest of their money from college loans. On paper they make $10,000 a year and live with 5 other people in a 3 bedroom house - obviously we should roll out special programs to help these poor, poor people!
Seriously. If I were in Texas and I saw some jackass walking through a courtyard shooting people and I was in a classroom with an open window... it'd be all of a few seconds before he was lying on the cement regretting his decision to be such a tool.
Although I think the numbers are ridiculous, it's not 80 cents for just the jewel case. That price includes pressing the disk itself, slapping / printing something pretty on the disc, printing the album art and inserting it, shrink wrapping it, and then of course you have to have the sticker that says "features blah blah blah song". Honestly, I have a feeling that the full colored album art costs more to print than the jewel case or the CD costs to make.
You don't have to be frickin' Einstein to figure out that any time you release a graphics solution that costs $1200 you're pricing yourself out of the average consumer market. Most people balk at spending that on an entire computer, let alone just the graphics cards. Even the gamers I know that spend the majority of their free time playing FPS's play on $1500 machines.
Hmmm... On the West Coast we just silently fume and then plot our revenge by finding some obscure environmental premise for ruining your life.
Exactly. This is about putting power in the hands of the guys that are designing games. Games don't just get whipped up overnight. It takes a few years. During which, hardware gets better and machines become more capable. If the CryTek guys had just pulled a mid-range video card off the shelves a few years back and stuck with that we wouldn't have the gorgeous wonder that is Crysis.
I think that "the most difficult language to learn" varies from culture to culture. If you speak French then learning Spanish or English isn't too much of a stretch, but learning Japanese is going to be challenging. Similarly, I think that a Japanese person would find almost any western language very challenging to learn in comparison to say, Chinese, which at least has a similar "alphabet" (Kanji obviously, not hiragana and katakana).
Additionally, I don't see anything wrong with correcting people. If people are, in fact, on here and speaking non-native English then we're doing them a disservice if we ignore their errors and they assume they're doing things correctly. When I was learning Japanese I jumped at the chance to correct my grammar, improve my vocabulary and fix my verb conjugation.
Finally, those claiming that grammar correction is "classist" should realize the irony of their statement. If I'm taking the time to tell you you're wrong and giving you an opportunity to learn the correct way then I'm hardly promoting some social hierarchy. Far from it. I'm trying to bring everyone up to the same level. If I sat here and silently judged your inability to differentiate "their" from "there" - THEN I would be "classist".
Yeah, this is among the most ridiculous things I've heard on here. Quad SLi is for the consumer just like a super computer is for the consumer. NVidia puts this sort of thing out to maintain its reputation as top dog in the graphics arena and to offer specialized niche users (read people that spend their entire day doing 3d modeling of some sort) an extra boost. This obviously isn't intended for average consumers when the motherboard you have to buy to support Quad SLi costs about half as much Joe Schmoe even wants to spend on his eMachine (not to mention the power supply and the cards themselves.)
I never said I don't put enough into my 401k. I just said that everything that's going into Social Security *should* be going into my 401k. My point was, that's money I'm working for that I'm never going to see because the system is screwed.
Ugh Social Security is screwed. When will people realize that it's impossible for the government to do something better than you if you can do it yourself. Saving for retirement is one of them. The amount of "surplus" money "borrowed" from social security is just ridiculous. You can't trust politicians. You give them retirement money, they see "surplus" that obviously needs to be spent on some pet project. just get rid of SS. Give everyone as much of their money back as possible - without taxing it (to make up for the fact that none of us are actually going to get back what we put in) and then call it done. Every time I see how much of my paycheck goes to Social Security versus my 401k it just depresses me. All of that should be going into something that I know I'll actually see a return on. Instead it's going into a black hole.
Seriously. This isn't an addiction, it's people using up their free time. Give them something more interesting to do and they'll do that instead.
aaah you're right. I love technoviking that guy is *awesome*. The best are the myriad of parodies that now exist.
People are still puzzling over how the world's largest rave got started. It seems that once a light show started from what appeared to be a giant disco ball in space people everywhere got out their glow sticks, drugs and pacifiers and started dancing.
The only way to fix this is to just release a competing bot that destroys all of the other bots and is otherwise harmless. There's no other way around it. I've seen zombie PCs and their owners and I don't think you can do anything to fix either one. After getting paid twice to fix their machine and educate them about how to keep it fixed - I gave up. They couldn't have paid me enough to come back a third time. They obviously just didn't care about learning how to use a computer properly. Apparently smiley face programs and gator clocks are too fun to pass up.
It doesn't matter what OS you use, if you're never installing the updates, and you're constantly installing garbage you find on the Internet - you're going to end up being host to every piece of garbage malware there is. The anti-botnet-botnet is the only thing that we as power users can do to save the general public from themselves.
Yeah, isn't that how Valley Girls work?