One person in a small minority with visual issues, responding to someone else in that minority, doesn't actually make any kind of point. It's not normal to get a headache from 3D done well, so you shouldn't project your personal variance from the average onto the general population.
Actually, it is quite common to get headaches from theatrical faux-3d. In fact, the people who suffer from this are those with superior visual acuity and visual processing in their brains - they perceive the difference between the depth perceived from parallax and focal distances and the forced changes in focal depth as physical impossibilities. Those of us who have visual issues or poor spatial processing are just fine with theatrical 3d.
The topic with the *architecture* was about the simple and clean elegance of ARM vs x86 with its tons of old shit.
And the topic with the *processors* was about efficiency. ARM processors are 10 times as efficient as Intel ones. The architecture isn’t even mentioned in that.
Those are two completely separate things!
And yet Intel's first real entry into the phone processor market, Medfield, is equivalent to ARM in terms of power efficiency. ARM is 1x as efficient as x86, not 10x.
If I'm using the mouse, I click up one breadcrumb layer in the location bar. If I'm using the keyboard, I hit alt-up. But yes, I think it was dumb to remove the up button.
My cousin has had an HP that did this before the iPad was a thing. It runs WinXP for Tablets.
Dozens or hundreds of laptops have done this for the better part of a decade.
Also, this post is one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever seen make it onto Slashdot. TFA is a garbage bloglike post with virtually no content. The paltry information it has includes major mistakes, such as "Yet another Acer laptop, the aptly named Yoga, has a screen that folds..." The Yoga is, of course, a Lenovo product. We've talked about it before.
Bluntly, James Niccolai and Michael Kan are both idiots who shouldn't have jobs. Soulskill was lax in posting a story that only linked to their garbage "article."
The singularity itself? A teaspoon of singularities would have infinite weight. Maybe you mean everything inside the event horizon? In that case calculate the Schwarzschild radius (2Gm/c^2) of 4 million solar masses, then get the density [4 million solar masses/(4/3 pi r^3)] and multiply by the volume of a teaspoon. I think the density of everything inside the event horizon for that big of a black hole is actually pretty low.
Twelve years ago an almost identical paper was on the office wall of a chemical engineering professor I had in college. I'm mostly kidding with my subject line - I expect there's novelty in the new paper and just want to point out that this has been used as a model system (probably many times) before now.
Scammers (and spammers) wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
I don't think that's true. Let's try it on some other examples.
Serial killers wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off. Lotto customers wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off. Beggars wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off. Antivax zealots wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off. Snake charmers wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off. Traditional chinese medicine believers wouldn't wouldn't eat those endangered animal penises if it didn't pay off. Slashdot first poster trolls wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
All of painting wasn't obsoleted, but photography did greatly reduce the size of the portrait-painting market, which used to be important and lucrative. Rich people paying to have their portraits painted used to be the main way a lot of artists made a living, but that occupation took a real nose-dive in the early 20th century.
This seems intuitively reasonable, but I'm going to stick a big fat "citation needed" here until someone comes back with some numbers. I know some painters who make a tidy business out of portraits today.
The story dwells on one person's story. There are any number of people (both Americans and immigrants) who take any available job and try to work their way up, but opportunities never appear.
They may as well write a story about a million people who flipped a coin 20 times and the amazing success of the handful who got 20 heads in a row, then give us a guide on how we can live our lives like them. Oh wait, I just described how the entire supposedly merit-based investment banking industry is run.
Google Drive does have some innovated stuff from Docs - it has awesome realtime collaboration, borrowed from Google Wave. I'd say that if you need several people editing a document at the same time, nothing beats Docs. The only addition Google made to Docs before rebranding it into Drive is the desktop sync feature and bumping up free storage to 5 gigs. I'd say this is minor compared to existing document editing/viewing/collaboration features, which a) Dropbox doesn't have; b) Were steadily developed for at least 5 years.
I think the best and most used feature of Dropbox has been ignored or possibly avoided for patent reasons, by Google and MS: right click to create public link. It's the fastest way the internet has ever had to share a single file and it doesn't require the viewer to have an account with the service. I have a free 25 GB Skydrive and a free 7 GB Google Drive account, but neither gets used because they don't have this critical feature.
Pretty sure it's not hard to start a restaurant that beats a bunch of mega-chain sandwich shops and burrito joints. And seriously, you consider the above options "variety"? You need to seriously expand your lunch selection.
Jeez, even the Google cafeteria has 10x the "variety" of those places, and Apple passed Google in absurd cash flow a while ago...
Google's cafeterias have more variety than any one of those megachains, but the point was that employees have a choice between thousands of nearby restaurants that collectively have far more variety than a central cafeteria. Furthermore, in terms of quality I think Google's cafeterias are on par with a place like subway and well behind halfway decent places like Panera and Chipotle, not to mention the really good local restaurants.
Versions count against your storage, trash counts against your storage, Google Docs files do not, shared files do not.
No right-click menu in the desktop client, so no grabbing public links etc.
I installed SkyDrive yesterday because of the recent update and the recent free 25 GB upgrade, but it also lacks the right click functionality in the desktop client so I'm on the verge of just going back to Dropbox. Based on what people such as yourself are saying about Google Drive, it looks like it's even slightly worse than SkyDrive. I wonder whether Google and MS are avoiding the right click public link feature because of a Dropbox patent or whether neither company believes it's useful.
Nope. Facebook is doing the exact same thing as every other large tech company: Microsoft, Google, Oracle, etc. (Facebook also has a lot of silicon valley vets, Zuckerberg isn't just making this stuff up as he goes.)
The idea is that you hire "raw material" (CS grads) who really don't know any engineering. Then you train them in the Company Way. Because they don't know any better, they're now bound to the company's internal processes and it makes it that much harder for them to jump-ship or work on someone else's ecosystem. They also don't get uppity and say "Let's write this in Java" or "Oracle DB does this, why are we recreating it?"
Facebook uses PHP as their internal language and the majority of CS-wonk new hires have never even used it. This is 100% by-design.
And Facebook, which is based around a successful idea and very simple code, has been plagued by poor programming since it went live.
Uh, no... Physics is to Mechanical Engineering as Chemistry is to Chemical Engineering as Computer Science is to Computer Engineering.
Science is very, very different from engineering. Science is focused on the theoretical, while engineering is focused on applying that theory to the real world, subject to various resource constraints.
Given that they are so different, it makes absolutely no sense to try to group them together, especially in some attempt to "save money".
The conclusion may or may not be valid, but the assertion that science is "very, very different" from engineering is quite false, especially when you look at research done in chemistry vs. chemical engineering departments and see that the overlap is immense.
Huh, ya think? China makes planes, satellites and UAVs of their own. They don't need to copy a design from the previous century.
How do you think China makes planes, satellites, UAVs, trains, cars, missiles, and electronics? Look up the development history of any of their military technology, for instance, and you'll find that it was copied from other countries, often without real permission and often leading to some pissed off Russians.
If it was herd immunity, you would still expect to see a significantly higher number of infected amongst the unvaccinated.
That's not necessarily true.
Say the vaccine is 96% effective and we're studying a population of 1000 kids. If they were all vaccinated, and they all come in contact with the virus, you'd expect roughly 40 of them to still get sick. If 30 of those do not get vaccinated, and all 1000 were exposed to the virus, you'd have a cap of 30 non-vaccinated kids getting sick, but still roughly 39 of the vaccinated kids will be sick, simply because there are more of them.
The total amount of people with the disease goes up significantly, but most of the people coming down with the disease are still people who were vaccinated. If you stop assuming all those people came in contact with the virus, the fact that there are now 30 kids who weren't vaccinated increases the chance of 39 kids for whom the vaccine didn't work to come in contact with the disease, so there's a larger proportion of vaccinated kids getting sick.
This is exactly what I came here to type. Well said.
Some friends installed a Nest recently and had issues. They spent an evening repeating the installation steps trying to understand what they did wrong and another evening on the phone with support, being told to repeat those steps again. Eventually they were told that their furnace didn't output enough power for the Nest thermostat and that they'd have to return the unit (to Amazon, I think) for a refund and pick some other thermostat brand.
They called up my dad the EE, who has no real thermostat or HVAC expertise but did install a new thermostat himself 20 years back. They described the error shown by the thermostat and their conversation with Nest support and he pointed out that "enough power" isn't a really relevant concept. He went over and tested the voltages on the well documented furnace connections and then on the relatively poorly documented Nest thermostat and found that the fault was with Nest. He called Nest support again and was told for half an hour that he was mistaken, then asked for a manager and convinced him that the problem was with their product, not the furnace. Once a warranty replacement arrived the problem was immediately solved.
It's just an anecdote, but it was impressive how much Nest support resisted and that the first unit arrived with a hardware problem. It made me wary of the company. Furthermore, the "learning" capabilities have been an utter failure for said friends. I think the current Nest thermostat is only meant to work for much more predictable people.
So I've been playing an isometric arpg called Path of Exile for the last week+. It's still in beta, and the story is fleshing out, but the gameplay itself is really polished, and it has lots of interesting features I won't list, but to name a few:
Diablo 2 is it's role-model. Skills/spells go into gem sockets similar to FF7's materia. Passive skills are assigned to a board, similar to FF10. There is no gold, rather players trade "orbs", which vary in what they do, from turn a normal item into a rare, or change the numerical properties on a magical item, etc., etc. This is also the "crafting" for the game.
Anyways, I'm not affiliated with the company (A 16-man team out of New Zeeland), but am hoping to spread some word of mouth so others can find and play it. Look me up if you have any questions, Harvester is my IGN.
I played it on the stress test last weekend. I hadn't heard of it before last week and came into it without preconceived notions. I think it might better be labeled Diablo 3.5 than 2.5 - it seems to take the good from 2, discard the bad, and introduce new ideas to a much greater degree than D3. Also, it's supposedly going to be F2P despite the level of polish that looks equivalent to D3's beta.
U.S. Patent No. 7,827,208 — “Generating a feed of stories personalized for members of a social network” – Filed on August 11, 2006, and granted November 2, 2010.
U.S. Patent No. 7,945,653 — “Tagging digital media” – Filed on October 11, 2006, and granted May 17, 2011.
U.S. Patent No. 6,288,717 — “Headline posting algorithm” – Filed on May 19, 1999, and granted September 11, 2001.
U.S. Patent No. 6,216,133 — “Method for enabling a user to fetch a specific information item from a set of information items, and a system for carrying out such a method” – Filed on May 30, 1996, and granted April 10, 2001.
U.S. Patent No. 6,411,949 — “Customizing database information for presentation with media selections” – Filed on August 12, 1999, and granted June 25, 2002.
U.S. Patent No. 6,236,978 — “ System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications” – Filed on November 14, 1997, and granted May 22, 2001.
U.S. Patent No. 7,603,331 — “ System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications and for validating user rules” – Filed on March 7, 2005, and granted October 13, 2009.
U.S. Patent No. 8,103,611 — “ Architectures, systems, apparatus, methods, and computer-readable medium for providing recommendations to users and applications using multidimensional data” – Filed on September 3, 2009, and granted January 24, 2012.
U.S. Patent No. 8,005,896 — “System for controlled distribution of user profiles over a network” – Filed on June 17, 2010, and granted August 23, 2011.
U.S. Patent No. 8,150,913 — “System for controlled distribution of user profiles over a network” – Filed on August 22, 2011, and granted April 3, 2012.
It's nice to see Facebook is able to reach back to 1996 for its patent protection, isn't it?
According to Ars, several (possibly 8, not confirmed) of the patents were purchased by Facebook since Yahoo sued them.
You could almost say the French music industry is...retreating.
Lame. But also misguided in the same way that a lot of comments on this story have been. You seem to assume that this is sales of French music and not sales of all music in France, which is the actual topic. It's actually more apt of a metaphor to say that the French are driving the music industry out of their nation.
Seriously, I can travel to the Moon with no fuel if I start in the right position with the right momentum. TFA doesn't tell us much unless the secrets are hidden in the video I'm blocking on the bottom of the page.
Sorry to self-reply, but:
Can we stop having summaries posted where the only link goes to the Daily Mail? Every human should be disgusted that our species can produce something as wretched and pathetic as that hive of stubborn ignorance.
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One person in a small minority with visual issues, responding to someone else in that minority, doesn't actually make any kind of point. It's not normal to get a headache from 3D done well, so you shouldn't project your personal variance from the average onto the general population.
Actually, it is quite common to get headaches from theatrical faux-3d. In fact, the people who suffer from this are those with superior visual acuity and visual processing in their brains - they perceive the difference between the depth perceived from parallax and focal distances and the forced changes in focal depth as physical impossibilities. Those of us who have visual issues or poor spatial processing are just fine with theatrical 3d.
The topic with the *architecture* was about the simple and clean elegance of ARM vs x86 with its tons of old shit.
And the topic with the *processors* was about efficiency.
ARM processors are 10 times as efficient as Intel ones. The architecture isn’t even mentioned in that.
Those are two completely separate things!
And yet Intel's first real entry into the phone processor market, Medfield, is equivalent to ARM in terms of power efficiency. ARM is 1x as efficient as x86, not 10x.
If I'm using the mouse, I click up one breadcrumb layer in the location bar. If I'm using the keyboard, I hit alt-up. But yes, I think it was dumb to remove the up button.
My cousin has had an HP that did this before the iPad was a thing. It runs WinXP for Tablets.
Dozens or hundreds of laptops have done this for the better part of a decade.
Also, this post is one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever seen make it onto Slashdot. TFA is a garbage bloglike post with virtually no content. The paltry information it has includes major mistakes, such as "Yet another Acer laptop, the aptly named Yoga, has a screen that folds..." The Yoga is, of course, a Lenovo product. We've talked about it before.
Bluntly, James Niccolai and Michael Kan are both idiots who shouldn't have jobs. Soulskill was lax in posting a story that only linked to their garbage "article."
The singularity itself? A teaspoon of singularities would have infinite weight. Maybe you mean everything inside the event horizon? In that case calculate the Schwarzschild radius (2Gm/c^2) of 4 million solar masses, then get the density [4 million solar masses /(4/3 pi r^3)] and multiply by the volume of a teaspoon. I think the density of everything inside the event horizon for that big of a black hole is actually pretty low.
Twelve years ago an almost identical paper was on the office wall of a chemical engineering professor I had in college. I'm mostly kidding with my subject line - I expect there's novelty in the new paper and just want to point out that this has been used as a model system (probably many times) before now.
Scammers (and spammers) wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
I don't think that's true. Let's try it on some other examples.
Serial killers wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
Lotto customers wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
Beggars wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
Antivax zealots wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
Snake charmers wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
Traditional chinese medicine believers wouldn't wouldn't eat those endangered animal penises if it didn't pay off.
Slashdot first poster trolls wouldn't do this stuff if it didn't pay off.
Is the Persian Gulf unlabeled? Is it labeled "Gulf" (sounds stupid, but no reason for a lawsuit)? Is it labeled something else?
It's labeled Israeli Freedom Pond.
All of painting wasn't obsoleted, but photography did greatly reduce the size of the portrait-painting market, which used to be important and lucrative. Rich people paying to have their portraits painted used to be the main way a lot of artists made a living, but that occupation took a real nose-dive in the early 20th century.
This seems intuitively reasonable, but I'm going to stick a big fat "citation needed" here until someone comes back with some numbers. I know some painters who make a tidy business out of portraits today.
The story dwells on one person's story. There are any number of people (both Americans and immigrants) who take any available job and try to work their way up, but opportunities never appear.
They may as well write a story about a million people who flipped a coin 20 times and the amazing success of the handful who got 20 heads in a row, then give us a guide on how we can live our lives like them. Oh wait, I just described how the entire supposedly merit-based investment banking industry is run.
Google Drive does have some innovated stuff from Docs - it has awesome realtime collaboration, borrowed from Google Wave. I'd say that if you need several people editing a document at the same time, nothing beats Docs.
The only addition Google made to Docs before rebranding it into Drive is the desktop sync feature and bumping up free storage to 5 gigs. I'd say this is minor compared to existing document editing/viewing/collaboration features, which
a) Dropbox doesn't have;
b) Were steadily developed for at least 5 years.
I think the best and most used feature of Dropbox has been ignored or possibly avoided for patent reasons, by Google and MS: right click to create public link. It's the fastest way the internet has ever had to share a single file and it doesn't require the viewer to have an account with the service. I have a free 25 GB Skydrive and a free 7 GB Google Drive account, but neither gets used because they don't have this critical feature.
Pretty sure it's not hard to start a restaurant that beats a bunch of mega-chain sandwich shops and burrito joints. And seriously, you consider the above options "variety"? You need to seriously expand your lunch selection.
Jeez, even the Google cafeteria has 10x the "variety" of those places, and Apple passed Google in absurd cash flow a while ago...
Google's cafeterias have more variety than any one of those megachains, but the point was that employees have a choice between thousands of nearby restaurants that collectively have far more variety than a central cafeteria. Furthermore, in terms of quality I think Google's cafeterias are on par with a place like subway and well behind halfway decent places like Panera and Chipotle, not to mention the really good local restaurants.
Versions count against your storage, trash counts against your storage, Google Docs files do not, shared files do not.
No right-click menu in the desktop client, so no grabbing public links etc.
I installed SkyDrive yesterday because of the recent update and the recent free 25 GB upgrade, but it also lacks the right click functionality in the desktop client so I'm on the verge of just going back to Dropbox. Based on what people such as yourself are saying about Google Drive, it looks like it's even slightly worse than SkyDrive. I wonder whether Google and MS are avoiding the right click public link feature because of a Dropbox patent or whether neither company believes it's useful.
Nope. Facebook is doing the exact same thing as every other large tech company: Microsoft, Google, Oracle, etc. (Facebook also has a lot of silicon valley vets, Zuckerberg isn't just making this stuff up as he goes.)
The idea is that you hire "raw material" (CS grads) who really don't know any engineering. Then you train them in the Company Way. Because they don't know any better, they're now bound to the company's internal processes and it makes it that much harder for them to jump-ship or work on someone else's ecosystem. They also don't get uppity and say "Let's write this in Java" or "Oracle DB does this, why are we recreating it?"
Facebook uses PHP as their internal language and the majority of CS-wonk new hires have never even used it. This is 100% by-design.
And Facebook, which is based around a successful idea and very simple code, has been plagued by poor programming since it went live.
Uh, no... Physics is to Mechanical Engineering as Chemistry is to Chemical Engineering as Computer Science is to Computer Engineering.
Science is very, very different from engineering. Science is focused on the theoretical, while engineering is focused on applying that theory to the real world, subject to various resource constraints.
Given that they are so different, it makes absolutely no sense to try to group them together, especially in some attempt to "save money".
The conclusion may or may not be valid, but the assertion that science is "very, very different" from engineering is quite false, especially when you look at research done in chemistry vs. chemical engineering departments and see that the overlap is immense.
Video chat is indeed a useful feature....unless you have a Nokia Lumia Windows phone, which lacks a front-facing camera
According to Wikipedia, the Lumia 900 has one: 1 Megapixel, 1280x720 pixels.
Huh, ya think? China makes planes, satellites and UAVs of their own. They don't need to copy a design from the previous century.
How do you think China makes planes, satellites, UAVs, trains, cars, missiles, and electronics? Look up the development history of any of their military technology, for instance, and you'll find that it was copied from other countries, often without real permission and often leading to some pissed off Russians.
If it was herd immunity, you would still expect to see a significantly higher number of infected amongst the unvaccinated.
That's not necessarily true.
Say the vaccine is 96% effective and we're studying a population of 1000 kids. If they were all vaccinated, and they all come in contact with the virus, you'd expect roughly 40 of them to still get sick. If 30 of those do not get vaccinated, and all 1000 were exposed to the virus, you'd have a cap of 30 non-vaccinated kids getting sick, but still roughly 39 of the vaccinated kids will be sick, simply because there are more of them.
The total amount of people with the disease goes up significantly, but most of the people coming down with the disease are still people who were vaccinated. If you stop assuming all those people came in contact with the virus, the fact that there are now 30 kids who weren't vaccinated increases the chance of 39 kids for whom the vaccine didn't work to come in contact with the disease, so there's a larger proportion of vaccinated kids getting sick.
This is exactly what I came here to type. Well said.
who still uses Windows for serious work?
Almost every person on Earth.
Some friends installed a Nest recently and had issues. They spent an evening repeating the installation steps trying to understand what they did wrong and another evening on the phone with support, being told to repeat those steps again. Eventually they were told that their furnace didn't output enough power for the Nest thermostat and that they'd have to return the unit (to Amazon, I think) for a refund and pick some other thermostat brand.
They called up my dad the EE, who has no real thermostat or HVAC expertise but did install a new thermostat himself 20 years back. They described the error shown by the thermostat and their conversation with Nest support and he pointed out that "enough power" isn't a really relevant concept. He went over and tested the voltages on the well documented furnace connections and then on the relatively poorly documented Nest thermostat and found that the fault was with Nest. He called Nest support again and was told for half an hour that he was mistaken, then asked for a manager and convinced him that the problem was with their product, not the furnace. Once a warranty replacement arrived the problem was immediately solved.
It's just an anecdote, but it was impressive how much Nest support resisted and that the first unit arrived with a hardware problem. It made me wary of the company. Furthermore, the "learning" capabilities have been an utter failure for said friends. I think the current Nest thermostat is only meant to work for much more predictable people.
So I've been playing an isometric arpg called Path of Exile for the last week+. It's still in beta, and the story is fleshing out, but the gameplay itself is really polished, and it has lots of interesting features I won't list, but to name a few:
Diablo 2 is it's role-model.
Skills/spells go into gem sockets similar to FF7's materia.
Passive skills are assigned to a board, similar to FF10.
There is no gold, rather players trade "orbs", which vary in what they do, from turn a normal item into a rare, or change the numerical properties on a magical item, etc., etc. This is also the "crafting" for the game.
Anyways, I'm not affiliated with the company (A 16-man team out of New Zeeland), but am hoping to spread some word of mouth so others can find and play it. Look me up if you have any questions, Harvester is my IGN.
I played it on the stress test last weekend. I hadn't heard of it before last week and came into it without preconceived notions. I think it might better be labeled Diablo 3.5 than 2.5 - it seems to take the good from 2, discard the bad, and introduce new ideas to a much greater degree than D3. Also, it's supposedly going to be F2P despite the level of polish that looks equivalent to D3's beta.
Here are the 10 patents Facebook is suing Yahoo with
U.S. Patent No. 7,827,208 — “Generating a feed of stories personalized for members of a social network” – Filed on August 11, 2006, and granted November 2, 2010.
U.S. Patent No. 7,945,653 — “Tagging digital media” – Filed on October 11, 2006, and granted May 17, 2011.
U.S. Patent No. 6,288,717 — “Headline posting algorithm” – Filed on May 19, 1999, and granted September 11, 2001.
U.S. Patent No. 6,216,133 — “Method for enabling a user to fetch a specific information item from a set of information items, and a system for carrying out such a method” – Filed on May 30, 1996, and granted April 10, 2001.
U.S. Patent No. 6,411,949 — “Customizing database information for presentation with media selections” – Filed on August 12, 1999, and granted June 25, 2002.
U.S. Patent No. 6,236,978 — “ System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications” – Filed on November 14, 1997, and granted May 22, 2001.
U.S. Patent No. 7,603,331 — “ System and method for dynamic profiling of users in one-to-one applications and for validating user rules” – Filed on March 7, 2005, and granted October 13, 2009.
U.S. Patent No. 8,103,611 — “ Architectures, systems, apparatus, methods, and computer-readable medium for providing recommendations to users and applications using multidimensional data” – Filed on September 3, 2009, and granted January 24, 2012.
U.S. Patent No. 8,005,896 — “System for controlled distribution of user profiles over a network” – Filed on June 17, 2010, and granted August 23, 2011.
U.S. Patent No. 8,150,913 — “System for controlled distribution of user profiles over a network” – Filed on August 22, 2011, and granted April 3, 2012.
It's nice to see Facebook is able to reach back to 1996 for its patent protection, isn't it?
According to Ars, several (possibly 8, not confirmed) of the patents were purchased by Facebook since Yahoo sued them.
You could almost say the French music industry is...retreating.
Lame. But also misguided in the same way that a lot of comments on this story have been. You seem to assume that this is sales of French music and not sales of all music in France, which is the actual topic. It's actually more apt of a metaphor to say that the French are driving the music industry out of their nation.
Wrong. Check out Phoenix.
QED.
NEXT!
Exactly what I came to say.
Seriously, I can travel to the Moon with no fuel if I start in the right position with the right momentum. TFA doesn't tell us much unless the secrets are hidden in the video I'm blocking on the bottom of the page.
Sorry to self-reply, but:
Can we stop having summaries posted where the only link goes to the Daily Mail? Every human should be disgusted that our species can produce something as wretched and pathetic as that hive of stubborn ignorance.