This has been tried, and it failed. You're assuming that the average consumer/user out there actually CARES about technological superiority. They don't. IE is "good enough", and it already comes installed on everything known to man, including damned internet-ready refrigerators. For your AVERAGE consumer something has to be exponentially better before they will eschew it in favor of the bundled item. Netscape fought against this and look what happened to them. I'm not going to debate the legality of what MS did to Netscape because that's not the topic here, but suffice to say that I don't think there's ANYTHING Mozilla could possibly bring to the table that would reverse the current trend, unless they found a way to have it read minds and present holographic interactive representations of supermodels for your pleasure.
The problem is, even the NON-average computer users don't really see the point. I work for an ISP, and of about 25 people in my office (which is all tech support people, sys admins, etc) 2 use mozilla (I am one of them), 1 uses Netscape 4.x, and all the rest use IE as their primary browsers.
The fact is, even a lot of computer savvy people (88% where I work) just don't see the need to use anything but IE (and outlook, for that matter).
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I've seen offers from banks advertising fixed rate mortgages of less than 7%, and know people that have fixed rate mortgages of less than 7%. Actually, it's not all that hard to get a fixed rate well under 8% if you have good credit.
Back when the Spectrum was popular you could buy a car for $3000 - $5000.
Multiplying to today's $15,000 price, this means the 3 pound ($6) game at a price of $30. Which is still on the pricey side if 1 game = 1 album.
Your math is a bit off here. First, a quick check at historical exchange rates shows $1.80 = 1 pound during the year 1982, when the Sinclair was released. This makes the price of a game in dollars about $5.50. A check on historical inflation rates shows that $5.50 in 1982 is the equivalent of about $10 today.
I use games.yahoo.com all day long on mozilla 1.0 and I've never had a problem. What sort of problems do you actually have with it? Have you tried installing the latest Java plugin? have you been installing new versions of mozilla without removing previous ones for a long time? It should work with no problem...
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Yeah, people are so stupid. House prices are rising here because the Feds cut interest rates so mortgages look cheap. These dumbasses don't realise that in 2 years when the Fed raises interest rates their mortgage payments are going to be so high that half of them are going to be in negative equity.
When you use the net installer, it gives you the option of saving all the files into a separate directory should you need to reinstall. Should be not much of a problem from that point to transfer those files to your other 2 computers.
When Napster was at its peak popularity, I was using it all the time - and I was finding lots of really cool shit on there, music I'd never heard before, and then actually purchasing the stuff that I liked! I was probably buying 4-6 CDs per month (and I was a poor college student at the time, so it was a good portion of my income).
Now that Napster's gone, I don't think I've bought a single CD since then...with no way to gain easy exposure to new music, I have had no desire to buy anything...(I know there are many other P2P programs out there, but I haven't found one I've really liked yet). I've bought maybe 1-2 CDs TOTAL in the last 1-2 years.
While I despise the use of strategy guides myself, I have friends that swear by them. Often, it's not a problem with the game, but instead with the game player. Some people just aren't very good at video games - they get stuck very easily, and it makes the game frustrating for them.
It's impossible to design a game that will be at an appropriate level for everyone. While I refuse to ever use strategy guides (or look at online walkthroughs, or even ask other people for help), I can see why people use them. It makes a lot more sense for them to use a strategy guide than to buy a game, get stuck somewhere right near the beginning, and then stop playing because they can't figure it out.
r3mix isn't really very high quality - probably about average for vbr. Try using the "--alt-preset standard" command line for even higher quality mp3s at approximately the same bitrates as --r3mix. See http://www.hydrogenaudio.org for more info.
I emailed customer service regarding the "mature" section disappearing, and this is what they sent me:
Thanks for your message. Netflix is discontinuing its "Mature" genre, a
category of DVDs consisting of softer erotic-style films like those
commonly available on cable television. Netflix has already made the
majority of titles in this genre "unavailable" and will be working to
remove all these titles from our inventory and customer queues during
the coming months.
The Mature genre represented a very small portion of our business, and
we hope our customers will find no shortage of other great DVDs from
among our collection of more than 10,000 titles.
Netflix deeply regrets any inconvenience this change may cause for our
customers.
What's the latest version of Mozilla you've used? I've been running Mozilla on a P2/233 with 144mb of RAM and it runs a LOT faster than what you're describing from your 1.3GHz machine...
Wow! I wasn't aware that people took this sort of thing so seriously. Back when I was a student at Providence College, I had distributed.net running on about 50 of their computers in the computer labs. I was able to complete a huge amount of blocks that way - now I feel lucky that I didn't get caught!
Anyone remember the game Mimi and the Mites? One of the greats, in my opinion - unfortunately it was never really very popular.
A google search will reveal that the demo of it is quite easy to find - however, it's absolutely *impossible* to get the full version. The company has long since vanished and I've been unable to locate a full version of this game anywhere. Anyone familiar with this game? Got any spare copies lying around?
Actually, World Series *were* held during WW2. There were only 2 times the World Series hasn't taken place since its inception in 1903: 1904, and 1994. 1994 was the strike year. 1904 was the year the Pirates simply outright refused to play after finishing on top in the National League.
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This story on CNNFN has some interesting information in addition to the stories mentioned in the article...
Has anyone else noticed that the my.mp3.com archive is back up? When I tried to get in last week it had been taken down, but I tried it just now and it seems to have been restored...
I actually did the same thing for one of my own school talent shows a few years back. We had someone up on stage playing the actual video games (Super Mario Bros., Zelda, and Dragon Warrior) while we played arrangements of all the music that I had rewritten for piano, drums, and bass in time with whatever the person was doing on the game...on SMB we did the main theme, the underground, the water level, and the castle, plus the star-invincibility music and the flagpole music...we even had the "time's running out" sound effect in there...ah, sweet nostalgia. Unfortunately I've lost all the sheet music I'd written out for this...(although I still know all the piano parts and play them whenever I get the opportunity). Of course, I did this before the video game music archive had come into existence, so I actually had to figure out all the parts the hard way...
Actually, I'd long been thinking about writing piano solo arrangements of all the music, recording it, and releasing a CD, but I was somewhat concerned about possible copyrights on the original music and had no idea who I would even try to contact to get permission...
I have a P2-233 processor and it takes me at least as long as the disc itself to encode (I've tried a few different encoders). So needless to say it's much more convenient for me to use napster or my.mp3.com to listen to my music.
This is rather unrelated to your question to DNA, but if you are interested in mathetmatics as it relates to music, you may want to research/listen to many of the twentieth-century 12-tone/serialist composers, like Milton Babbit or Webern (who were offshoots of Schoenberg's original twelve-tone theory) as most of it's heavily based on mathematical relationships between various groups of notes and the like (especially those composers which used set theory).
Dinner is the time when the highest percentage of people are actually at home and not out doing something, so it tends to be a prime calling period for telemarketers (usually 5:30-7 or so), as it's when they can get the best results.
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This has been tried, and it failed. You're assuming that the average consumer/user out there actually CARES about technological superiority. They don't. IE is "good enough", and it already comes installed on everything known to man, including damned internet-ready refrigerators. For your AVERAGE consumer something has to be exponentially better before they will eschew it in favor of the bundled item. Netscape fought against this and look what happened to them. I'm not going to debate the legality of what MS did to Netscape because that's not the topic here, but suffice to say that I don't think there's ANYTHING Mozilla could possibly bring to the table that would reverse the current trend, unless they found a way to have it read minds and present holographic interactive representations of supermodels for your pleasure.
The problem is, even the NON-average computer users don't really see the point. I work for an ISP, and of about 25 people in my office (which is all tech support people, sys admins, etc) 2 use mozilla (I am one of them), 1 uses Netscape 4.x, and all the rest use IE as their primary browsers. The fact is, even a lot of computer savvy people (88% where I work) just don't see the need to use anything but IE (and outlook, for that matter).
I've seen offers from banks advertising fixed rate mortgages of less than 7%, and know people that have fixed rate mortgages of less than 7%. Actually, it's not all that hard to get a fixed rate well under 8% if you have good credit.
Back when the Spectrum was popular you could buy a car for $3000 - $5000.
Multiplying to today's $15,000 price, this means the 3 pound ($6) game at a price of $30. Which is still on the pricey side if 1 game = 1 album.
Your math is a bit off here. First, a quick check at historical exchange rates shows $1.80 = 1 pound during the year 1982, when the Sinclair was released. This makes the price of a game in dollars about $5.50. A check on historical inflation rates shows that $5.50 in 1982 is the equivalent of about $10 today.
I use games.yahoo.com all day long on mozilla 1.0 and I've never had a problem. What sort of problems do you actually have with it? Have you tried installing the latest Java plugin? have you been installing new versions of mozilla without removing previous ones for a long time? It should work with no problem...
Yeah, people are so stupid. House prices are rising here because the Feds cut interest rates so mortgages look cheap. These dumbasses don't realise that in 2 years when the Fed raises interest rates their mortgage payments are going to be so high that half of them are going to be in negative equity.
Ever hear of a fixed rate mortgage?
When you use the net installer, it gives you the option of saving all the files into a separate directory should you need to reinstall. Should be not much of a problem from that point to transfer those files to your other 2 computers.
You bring up a good point.
When Napster was at its peak popularity, I was using it all the time - and I was finding lots of really cool shit on there, music I'd never heard before, and then actually purchasing the stuff that I liked! I was probably buying 4-6 CDs per month (and I was a poor college student at the time, so it was a good portion of my income).
Now that Napster's gone, I don't think I've bought a single CD since then...with no way to gain easy exposure to new music, I have had no desire to buy anything...(I know there are many other P2P programs out there, but I haven't found one I've really liked yet). I've bought maybe 1-2 CDs TOTAL in the last 1-2 years.
While I despise the use of strategy guides myself, I have friends that swear by them. Often, it's not a problem with the game, but instead with the game player. Some people just aren't very good at video games - they get stuck very easily, and it makes the game frustrating for them.
It's impossible to design a game that will be at an appropriate level for everyone. While I refuse to ever use strategy guides (or look at online walkthroughs, or even ask other people for help), I can see why people use them. It makes a lot more sense for them to use a strategy guide than to buy a game, get stuck somewhere right near the beginning, and then stop playing because they can't figure it out.
If you go to the segway web site, they actually have a video demonstrating how well the thing runs in the snow. It looked like no problem to me.
r3mix isn't really very high quality - probably about average for vbr. Try using the "--alt-preset standard" command line for even higher quality mp3s at approximately the same bitrates as --r3mix. See http://www.hydrogenaudio.org for more info.
I emailed customer service regarding the "mature" section disappearing, and this is what they sent me:
Thanks for your message. Netflix is discontinuing its "Mature" genre, a
category of DVDs consisting of softer erotic-style films like those
commonly available on cable television. Netflix has already made the
majority of titles in this genre "unavailable" and will be working to
remove all these titles from our inventory and customer queues during
the coming months.
The Mature genre represented a very small portion of our business, and
we hope our customers will find no shortage of other great DVDs from
among our collection of more than 10,000 titles.
Netflix deeply regrets any inconvenience this change may cause for our
customers.
What's the latest version of Mozilla you've used? I've been running Mozilla on a P2/233 with 144mb of RAM and it runs a LOT faster than what you're describing from your 1.3GHz machine...
Wow! I wasn't aware that people took this sort of thing so seriously. Back when I was a student at Providence College, I had distributed.net running on about 50 of their computers in the computer labs. I was able to complete a huge amount of blocks that way - now I feel lucky that I didn't get caught!
What you're looking for is the DSM-IV.
I've also got this habit. Everyone always gives me weird looks when they see me reading web pages and selecting paragraphs for no apparent reason.
Anyone remember the game Mimi and the Mites? One of the greats, in my opinion - unfortunately it was never really very popular.
A google search will reveal that the demo of it is quite easy to find - however, it's absolutely *impossible* to get the full version. The company has long since vanished and I've been unable to locate a full version of this game anywhere. Anyone familiar with this game? Got any spare copies lying around?
According to Apple, it isn't a Macintosh product.
er, I can read it. It says "This is a representative sample of text" quite a few times.
Actually, World Series *were* held during WW2. There were only 2 times the World Series hasn't taken place since its inception in 1903: 1904, and 1994. 1994 was the strike year. 1904 was the year the Pirates simply outright refused to play after finishing on top in the National League.
This story on CNNFN has some interesting information in addition to the stories mentioned in the article...
Has anyone else noticed that the my.mp3.com archive is back up? When I tried to get in last week it had been taken down, but I tried it just now and it seems to have been restored...
I actually did the same thing for one of my own school talent shows a few years back. We had someone up on stage playing the actual video games (Super Mario Bros., Zelda, and Dragon Warrior) while we played arrangements of all the music that I had rewritten for piano, drums, and bass in time with whatever the person was doing on the game...on SMB we did the main theme, the underground, the water level, and the castle, plus the star-invincibility music and the flagpole music...we even had the "time's running out" sound effect in there...ah, sweet nostalgia. Unfortunately I've lost all the sheet music I'd written out for this...(although I still know all the piano parts and play them whenever I get the opportunity). Of course, I did this before the video game music archive had come into existence, so I actually had to figure out all the parts the hard way...
Actually, I'd long been thinking about writing piano solo arrangements of all the music, recording it, and releasing a CD, but I was somewhat concerned about possible copyrights on the original music and had no idea who I would even try to contact to get permission...
I have a P2-233 processor and it takes me at least as long as the disc itself to encode (I've tried a few different encoders). So needless to say it's much more convenient for me to use napster or my.mp3.com to listen to my music.
This is rather unrelated to your question to DNA, but if you are interested in mathetmatics as it relates to music, you may want to research/listen to many of the twentieth-century 12-tone/serialist composers, like Milton Babbit or Webern (who were offshoots of Schoenberg's original twelve-tone theory) as most of it's heavily based on mathematical relationships between various groups of notes and the like (especially those composers which used set theory).
Dinner is the time when the highest percentage of people are actually at home and not out doing something, so it tends to be a prime calling period for telemarketers (usually 5:30-7 or so), as it's when they can get the best results.