Mostly in the spread between country and rock. I live in New Jersey now, so getting most of this on CD locally is right out of the question.
Here's a sample of what's in my "purchased" playlist on iTunes: Robbie Fulks (a few bombs, but many jems), Old 97's, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bela Fleck, Johnny Cash, More Johnny Cash ("My Mother's Hymn Book" and "Unchained" are particularly good), Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose" (produced by Jack White), the White Stripes, Moby, Dishwalla's later albums, The Reverend Horton Heat (don't go in expecting musicality, just a rockin' time), Son Volt, Wilco, VAST, and Elvis (30 #1 hits for $9.99? no brainer there).
I admit that I like the 'album' concept, despite the single-serve nature of iTMS. Being able to put on 30-60 min of music with a similar feel is nice. If I'm not willing to listen to multiple songs, I usually don't buy it. The ability to string together 10-15 songs with minimal filler is a good sign of an album being a musical venture by an artist, rather than a business venture by a label.
I buy probably about 3 albums a month now from iTunes, and rarely buy single songs, because the whole album is pretty good, and you get a better deal. Then again, I'm not buying the super-hit music that we are all lamenting. At most, there are one or two not-so-good (not bad, mind you) songs. That's what the previews let you figure out.
While we're talking about it, the albums I've bought on iTunes have 13.7 songs per album (excluding the videos and digital booklets, of course.) $.73 cents a track, not so bad.
The increase is partly due to inflation. At a average of 3%/yr (rough approximation), money doubles in 23 years (1.03^23=1.97). It's actually a litttle quicker than that, IIRC, so 20 years is a good value for 'money doubles.'
That AC/DC cassette you bought for $8 in 1985 is equivalent in real monetary value to a $16 Nickelback CD today, yet so much cooler and more retro.
Remember, the physical product was always pennies on the dollar, and that's made up by Apple's cut for running iTMS and providing Steve with plenty of black shirts.
If they could mount this thing on a trailer and deploy it rapidly to trouble spots around the globe, they could really blow away mischief makers. Imagine for example unleashing a few mini-tornatos on a terrorist training camp or on advancing enemy soldiers.
We've got a far more advanced, well developed, already deployed technology to do the same thing - the Air Force. Besides, no whooshy-sounding tornado will match the psychological effect of these.
One of the unique features of manhattan (actually, most of NYC, esp. the Bronx) is lots of bedrock, real close. When we were tunneling for the 3rd water tunnel, the rock was hitting 16,000psi - 20,000psi, if I remember correct. That's so hard that it's unbelievable.
You don't drive piles in manhattan, shit just bottoms out on rock so fast it hurts. Spread footings, caissons with rock sockets, that's what you use.
the end result is that the load is distributed so far it doesn't matter.
Conviently, most iTunes users have a HDD backup, namely an iPod. Plug it back in, and wha-la, protected music restored.
Besides, if you wanted to just back up your protected files, you could make a playlist with just those files and burn them. Hell, I think that such a playlist is one of the standard ones iTunes sets up.
I've taken DC and AC across the arms while welding, and the most painful was the 250A AC (pulsed, too) when welding aluminum. That shit left me a blabbering fool for about an hour, where the DC just stings, even at the same amperage.
only wish Novell admired the tremendous care and hard work put in by the SUSE engineers, but if you go to the front page of http://www.novell.com/ you'd be pushed to know Novell even have SUSE.
Well, Let's see: There are links to SuSE Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, OpenSuSE, and the SuSE Linux Mailing Lists. In addition, there are two more links to Novell Linux (which is a rebranded SuSE, something they admit if you click on the link, and the big fancy graphic in the center is for Novell Linux.
I work next to a waste transfer station; they take in trash from dumpsters and trash trucks, process it, compress it, and pack it into railroad cars and 18 wheelers.
That shit gets packed in tight.
As for the availability of landfills, we've only begun to put a dent into New Jersey's land area.
I'm not sure how the process of acquiring a toll road is carried out
Well, for starters, GM or Ford can probably fund a driveway expansion or a parking lot, not a freeway. (see recent reports in regards to junk bond status.) You're talking a billion or two, on average. I work for a construction company that does this kind of thing, and it works like this: 1) the government folks decide that we need a new highway, and start drawing up some preliminary plans (this many lanes, going to take out that subdivision, level of detail). 2) A couple of construction company and design firm teams bid on building it. A popular method is that the contractor 'owns' the highway for a couple of ten years or so, and collects all of the tolls. when the time is up, the state gets the highway.
This is where innovation happens. EZPass technology was invented on one of these type of toll roads.
Right now, it would probably be better than this laptop. I'm sitting in a parking lot, waiting for a jobsite to open, 'borrowing' some wifi from the trailer.
It's kind of hard to type with the laptop flat against the steering wheel. Besides, most of the time at home, my computer usage is sitting in a recliner with a laptop- surfing, doing email, and playing music. Instead of a $2000 Powerbook that threatens to set me on fire when I sit and type for more than 15 min or so, I could have a $800 Pepper and a $1100 iMac G5 - probably more versatility, more raw computing power, and less cost.
Using the Lap-Burn-O-Meter (TM) as a gauge of overall power consumption with my Powerbook G4, I can definitely say that higher cpu cycle activities (encoding 1hr AAC files, for instance) increase power usage.
I could probably do something fancier by monitoring power draw with it unplugged, but my balls would be fried before I could tabulate the accurate data.
No doubt. I mean, we've still got Bruce Willis, the current energy policy is keeping the drilling industry in top shape, and NASA's working on a fancy new shuttle.
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Mostly in the spread between country and rock. I live in New Jersey now, so getting most of this on CD locally is right out of the question.
Here's a sample of what's in my "purchased" playlist on iTunes: Robbie Fulks (a few bombs, but many jems), Old 97's, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bela Fleck, Johnny Cash, More Johnny Cash ("My Mother's Hymn Book" and "Unchained" are particularly good), Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose" (produced by Jack White), the White Stripes, Moby, Dishwalla's later albums, The Reverend Horton Heat (don't go in expecting musicality, just a rockin' time), Son Volt, Wilco, VAST, and Elvis (30 #1 hits for $9.99? no brainer there).
I admit that I like the 'album' concept, despite the single-serve nature of iTMS. Being able to put on 30-60 min of music with a similar feel is nice. If I'm not willing to listen to multiple songs, I usually don't buy it. The ability to string together 10-15 songs with minimal filler is a good sign of an album being a musical venture by an artist, rather than a business venture by a label.
Seriously.
I buy probably about 3 albums a month now from iTunes, and rarely buy single songs, because the whole album is pretty good, and you get a better deal. Then again, I'm not buying the super-hit music that we are all lamenting. At most, there are one or two not-so-good (not bad, mind you) songs. That's what the previews let you figure out.
While we're talking about it, the albums I've bought on iTunes have 13.7 songs per album (excluding the videos and digital booklets, of course.) $.73 cents a track, not so bad.
What changed?
Is this a marketing version number upgrade, or what?
Lt. Kari Wempe of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office?
I bet she's hot.
As all good Christians know, hot women are for breeding, and have the intellect of a pizza.
As such, yeah, he made it up. Or something like that.
The increase is partly due to inflation.
At a average of 3%/yr (rough approximation), money doubles in 23 years (1.03^23=1.97). It's actually a litttle quicker than that, IIRC, so 20 years is a good value for 'money doubles.'
That AC/DC cassette you bought for $8 in 1985 is equivalent in real monetary value to a $16 Nickelback CD today, yet so much cooler and more retro.
Remember, the physical product was always pennies on the dollar, and that's made up by Apple's cut for running iTMS and providing Steve with plenty of black shirts.
(Tong placed firmly in cheek.)
Hey, keep your tong to yourself, sicko.
If they could mount this thing on a trailer and deploy it rapidly to trouble spots around the globe, they could really blow away mischief makers. Imagine for example unleashing a few mini-tornatos on a terrorist training camp or on advancing enemy soldiers.
We've got a far more advanced, well developed, already deployed technology to do the same thing - the Air Force. Besides, no whooshy-sounding tornado will match the psychological effect of these.
One of the unique features of manhattan (actually, most of NYC, esp. the Bronx) is lots of bedrock, real close. When we were tunneling for the 3rd water tunnel, the rock was hitting 16,000psi - 20,000psi, if I remember correct. That's so hard that it's unbelievable.
You don't drive piles in manhattan, shit just bottoms out on rock so fast it hurts. Spread footings, caissons with rock sockets, that's what you use.
the end result is that the load is distributed so far it doesn't matter.
Conviently, most iTunes users have a HDD backup, namely an iPod.
Plug it back in, and wha-la, protected music restored.
Besides, if you wanted to just back up your protected files, you could make a playlist with just those files and burn them. Hell, I think that such a playlist is one of the standard ones iTunes sets up.
Apparently, you.
Unfortunately, hospitals tend to be very Windows-centric, so this will still be a hard sell.
Sell the web thing. At that point, it shouldn't matter what it runs, if it accesses data through a browser the same as a desktop.
true.
You're not in a good position to watch the gauges for volts and amps while welding, what with the hood and all.
I seem to think that it's less than 20V.
Seriously.
I've taken DC and AC across the arms while welding, and the most painful was the 250A AC (pulsed, too) when welding aluminum.
That shit left me a blabbering fool for about an hour, where the DC just stings, even at the same amperage.
Best link resulting from that site:
An Electric Fence for boats.
Let's think this through, boys and girls: an ELECTRIC fence for BOATS.
Now we have Operating Engineers, which is the union responsible for operating equipment and mechanics on construction sites.
only wish Novell admired the tremendous care and hard work put in by the SUSE engineers, but if you go to the front page of http://www.novell.com/ you'd be pushed to know Novell even have SUSE.
Well, Let's see:
There are links to SuSE Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, OpenSuSE, and the SuSE Linux Mailing Lists.
In addition, there are two more links to Novell Linux (which is a rebranded SuSE, something they admit if you click on the link, and the big fancy graphic in the center is for Novell Linux.
Novell is all about SuSE in a big way.
I work next to a waste transfer station; they take in trash from dumpsters and trash trucks, process it, compress it, and pack it into railroad cars and 18 wheelers.
That shit gets packed in tight.
As for the availability of landfills, we've only begun to put a dent into New Jersey's land area.
I'm not sure how the process of acquiring a toll road is carried out
Well, for starters, GM or Ford can probably fund a driveway expansion or a parking lot, not a freeway. (see recent reports in regards to junk bond status.) You're talking a billion or two, on average.
I work for a construction company that does this kind of thing, and it works like this:
1) the government folks decide that we need a new highway, and start drawing up some preliminary plans (this many lanes, going to take out that subdivision, level of detail).
2) A couple of construction company and design firm teams bid on building it. A popular method is that the contractor 'owns' the highway for a couple of ten years or so, and collects all of the tolls. when the time is up, the state gets the highway.
This is where innovation happens. EZPass technology was invented on one of these type of toll roads.
Will they hire Peter Griffin?
That would be freakin' sweet.
If the building didn't leak, he'd be an Engineer, not an Architect. :)
Right now, it would probably be better than this laptop.
I'm sitting in a parking lot, waiting for a jobsite to open, 'borrowing' some wifi from the trailer.
It's kind of hard to type with the laptop flat against the steering wheel.
Besides, most of the time at home, my computer usage is sitting in a recliner with a laptop- surfing, doing email, and playing music. Instead of a $2000 Powerbook that threatens to set me on fire when I sit and type for more than 15 min or so, I could have a $800 Pepper and a $1100 iMac G5 - probably more versatility, more raw computing power, and less cost.
Using the Lap-Burn-O-Meter (TM) as a gauge of overall power consumption with my Powerbook G4, I can definitely say that higher cpu cycle activities (encoding 1hr AAC files, for instance) increase power usage.
I could probably do something fancier by monitoring power draw with it unplugged, but my balls would be fried before I could tabulate the accurate data.
Oh, I'm with you, the general 1984-watch-the-populace-style cameras aren't good for much, other than generating fodder for spy movies.
I prefer the traditional alternative - policemen on the streets.
What about red light cameras?
I've been under the impression that those were effective. Could be wrong, though.
However, I have been nailed by the cameras in the EZPass lanes. Those are quite effective.
No doubt.
I mean, we've still got Bruce Willis, the current energy policy is keeping the drilling industry in top shape, and NASA's working on a fancy new shuttle.
We're golden.