Companies in the recording industry depend heavily on airplay for their artists. It boosts sales by encouraging listeners to buy their music and helps them climb the charts, which are based on airplay.
Spitzer said Sony BMG's efforts to win more airplay took many forms, including outright bribes of cash and electronics to radio stations and paying for contest giveaways for listeners. In other cases, he said, Sony BMG used middlemen known as independent promoters to funnel cash to radio stations.
So if a regular Joe spreads the word about a new song and induces many thousands of random people listen to it for free it's theft, but if a radio DJ does the exact same thing he gets paid? Riiight.
Maybe Sony should just have those "independent promoters" run eDonkey clients instead. It'd be much cheaper.
When MS bought Sendit, the natural name would have been Microsoft Mobile Internet abbreviated MSMI but they said that would have been too easy to turn into "A mess, am I" and MMI was 'taken' by Man-Machine Interface (like that ever stopped them before) so they named it MIBU (Microsoft Mobile Internet Business Unit) instead.
Dustin Hoffman already provided us with the best Outlook name evar: Windows Outbreak.
I have a 10Mbps full duplex fiber at home paying 298SEK or around 40USD a month from Jämtkraft/ZedNet. At work, I have a 24/1Mbps ADSL with a static public IP from Bredbandsbolaget for roughly the same price. Both of them work just fine.
I hate feeling like technology articles are trying to force me to get Windows XP.
Except many mobos need floppy driver disks for XP too... You can slipstream the drivers onto the install media but unless you're doing a bunch of identical installs (in which case you'd be better off with a cloned disk image anyway) the floppy drive is easier.
I always select the Custom/Advanced install option for a reason. Well, actually several reasons. I also want to see what parts of the program are optional.
I bought the DCR-14E or whatever, base DV model with Zeiss optics. My gf has left it out in the rain overnight, no ill effects. I once dropped it from my backpack doing 210km/h on my bike. The flimsy fake leather bag got more or less shredded, but the camera got only a small scratch on the lenscap. I'll try dropping it into a volcano next.
electrical is the most valuable and harders to transform to.
I understood your point and gladly concede it on principal grounds as well as in general. But in our particular and practical case, what else do we have? What else should we convert our stored water energy to, if not electricity? In this particular case, electricity is the easiest energy form to convert to. And if we convert it to electricity, why not use it to heat our homes in the winter - since all other current options are worse[1]. The burning of both oil and firewood generate toxic byproducts. If we want to start burning more of the cleaner refined wood products like pellets, we need to plant much more forest since there's already a developing scarsity of the raw materials (the pellets are competing with the pulp industry for the same resources, not to mention that the long-term effects of removing that much raw material from the forests are unknown). There's also a lot of transportation involved, usually burning diesel.
since we get thermal energy is a by product in any case why not use the electrical energy for something useful and generate heat as well?
The original idea does not take into account that modern processors draw a lot less power when idling than when calculating molecules or whatnot. Ergo, you are not getting a lot of calculative power 'for free' and by extension, not getting the heat 'for free' in the bargain either. OTOH, any computer is a 100% effective heat generator since every single Watt that comes in the electrical cord comes out of the case as heat. But, should this cluster only run in the wintertime?
And I don't propose that we burn oil instead, there are plenty of smart ways to generate heat without direct heating using electricity.
Apart from heat exchangers/pumps, what did you have in mind? (Personally, I'd like to see much more small-scale generation of electricity - small hydro-electric turbines on the bottom of rivers, wind, waste-burning steam generators and solar comes to mind. I already have a heat pump in my otherwise electrically heated house, the next step is going solar for the tapwater.)
[1] Not counting the effects from shutting down our nuclear power plants and instead import coal- and oil-generated electricity from Finland and Poland. There should be whole chapters in the textbooks about that madness. The head of Statoil just recently wrote an article where he claimed that switching from burning oil to using a heat pump to heat up an average house would increase the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere since the net added draw of electricity for the pump would be almost 100% coal- or oil-generated due to the fact that our own sources of clean power are already maxed out. So instead of generating more clean electricity, we import dirty electrons and dirty oil. Brilliant. I'm sorry if I came across as argumentative, but I get so angry about this short-sightedness sometimes...
Even here in Sweden only a fraction of our energy comes from renewable sources.
Well, technically you are correct, but that's only because 1/2 is a fraction. Actually, we're at 55% at the moment.
And while I'm personally a supporter of nuclear power I would even think of putting it in the same group of energy producers as wind, solar or water.
That depends on the context. If we're talking about renewables, then fission-based nuclear plants are out. If we're talking about cheap, then solar and wind are out (mind you, in the case of nuclear power, it is only cheap because it's heavily subsidized).
Besides, electrical energy is the most valuable for of energy as it's the most versetile and hardest to create.
Again, it's a matter of context (as I'm not about to get into the "it's impossible to create energy" debate). Take the hydro-electric dams as examples. What form of energy is easiest to get from them, if not electrical? And how do you propose to transport these other forms of energy all across Sweden - building oil pipelines run by horse-powered pumps? Shipping pressurized hydrogen on diesel-fueled trains?
Heat is an energyform that is a byproduct of most other forms of energy transformation. Heating using electricity is a humoungous waste of effort and even if electricity was free it shouldn't be done.
Ah, a man of principles. Even of electricity was free (and presumably generated using all renewable and non-polluting sources as, may I remind you, 55% of our electricity currently is), we should rather burn coal, oil or wood to heat our homes in the winter? Dioxines and greenhouse gases be damned, we have principles to uphold!
Or, he could live in a country where electricity from hydro-electric dams, nuclear plants and even wind is much cheaper (and generally much more environment-friendly) than heating by oil or gas. Like, say, Sweden.
Ahhh, I'd missed that zoom level... Looking closer, the rest are actually some kind of national parks too. I got confused by this one where the park's name is smaller than the names of the other features in it. I guess that's why it's still in beta.:-)
Heh, my first reaction was "What the hell, where did those houses come from?" since I've done a bunch of stop-overs on Iceland but never saw anything except a barren wasteland outside the Leif Eriksson airport. Then it occured to me that there are two airports nearby; I'd only been to Keflavik: KEF and not the one in Reykjavik.:-)
My second reaction was that I saw the same phenomenon at that Groom Lake link someone posted. The map was totally blank, but you could make out the runways on the satellite imagery.
BTW, anyone know what those large green areas are on the zoomed out maps? This is the largest one, but there are loads of others.
Yeah, it's the difference between saying "We're a communist dictatorship" and acting like a communist dictatorship on one hand and saying "we're a bastion of human rights, freedom and democracy" and then acting like a fascist dictatorship on the other. It's all about expectations. But don't you worry citizen, in a few years people will expect the US to behave just like North Korea and all will be quiet again.
I know, but for me it's much faster and easier to simply create the diskette and have it handy. Some of the rest of the drivers (most notably the graphics card drivers) change often enough that including them on the install CD would be more or less meaningless.
The Via 4-in-1 and soundcard drivers install quick enough from Windows and the rest varies too much from computer to computer (I have three workstations that I try to keep reasonably similar through various upgrades).
The latest drivers, including those for my video and sound cards, are obtainable through Windows Update
Oh, you got Catalyst 5.6 and/or Forceware 71.89 on Windows Update? I don't think so.
unable to boot from a SATA CD/DVD drive
I don't think you understand the problem. All the recent VIA SATA controllers need a driver diskette (Press F6 right off the bat when installing XP) to install XP. You can't have the drivers on a CD since the XP installer is hard-coded to look for a diskette. MS decided to not add any new drivers with SP2 so most new stuff is either backwards compatible (some other SATA chips have ATA fallback modes where they look just like an ATA chip) or need drivers. SATA is especially sensitive since when XP boots the first time and loads the XP kernel, it can't find the hard drive it was installing to when it was running the BIOS drivers. If you upgrade your mobo to SATA from a running install you can pre-load the drivers and avoid the issue, but if you're doing a clean install, booting from CD - the odds are quite good that you'll have to have drivers on a diskette.
It's the good old NT4 INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE all over again.:-)
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It's definitely coming out of Uranus, then.
The moon isn't.
Spitzer said Sony BMG's efforts to win more airplay took many forms, including outright bribes of cash and electronics to radio stations and paying for contest giveaways for listeners. In other cases, he said, Sony BMG used middlemen known as independent promoters to funnel cash to radio stations.
So if a regular Joe spreads the word about a new song and induces many thousands of random people listen to it for free it's theft, but if a radio DJ does the exact same thing he gets paid? Riiight.
Maybe Sony should just have those "independent promoters" run eDonkey clients instead. It'd be much cheaper.
Dustin Hoffman already provided us with the best Outlook name evar: Windows Outbreak.
I have a 10Mbps full duplex fiber at home paying 298SEK or around 40USD a month from Jämtkraft/ZedNet. At work, I have a 24/1Mbps ADSL with a static public IP from Bredbandsbolaget for roughly the same price. Both of them work just fine.
Patching XP with Longhorn to make it safer would be like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
- One day lad, all this will be yours!
- Wot, the curtains?
- No, the Windows!
Except many mobos need floppy driver disks for XP too... You can slipstream the drivers onto the install media but unless you're doing a bunch of identical installs (in which case you'd be better off with a cloned disk image anyway) the floppy drive is easier.
I always select the Custom/Advanced install option for a reason. Well, actually several reasons. I also want to see what parts of the program are optional.
May 4th, 1995. My wild guess is as good as anybody's!
I bought the DCR-14E or whatever, base DV model with Zeiss optics. My gf has left it out in the rain overnight, no ill effects. I once dropped it from my backpack doing 210km/h on my bike. The flimsy fake leather bag got more or less shredded, but the camera got only a small scratch on the lenscap. I'll try dropping it into a volcano next.
I understood your point and gladly concede it on principal grounds as well as in general. But in our particular and practical case, what else do we have? What else should we convert our stored water energy to, if not electricity? In this particular case, electricity is the easiest energy form to convert to. And if we convert it to electricity, why not use it to heat our homes in the winter - since all other current options are worse[1]. The burning of both oil and firewood generate toxic byproducts. If we want to start burning more of the cleaner refined wood products like pellets, we need to plant much more forest since there's already a developing scarsity of the raw materials (the pellets are competing with the pulp industry for the same resources, not to mention that the long-term effects of removing that much raw material from the forests are unknown). There's also a lot of transportation involved, usually burning diesel.
since we get thermal energy is a by product in any case why not use the electrical energy for something useful and generate heat as well?
The original idea does not take into account that modern processors draw a lot less power when idling than when calculating molecules or whatnot. Ergo, you are not getting a lot of calculative power 'for free' and by extension, not getting the heat 'for free' in the bargain either. OTOH, any computer is a 100% effective heat generator since every single Watt that comes in the electrical cord comes out of the case as heat. But, should this cluster only run in the wintertime?
And I don't propose that we burn oil instead, there are plenty of smart ways to generate heat without direct heating using electricity.
Apart from heat exchangers/pumps, what did you have in mind? (Personally, I'd like to see much more small-scale generation of electricity - small hydro-electric turbines on the bottom of rivers, wind, waste-burning steam generators and solar comes to mind. I already have a heat pump in my otherwise electrically heated house, the next step is going solar for the tapwater.)
[1] Not counting the effects from shutting down our nuclear power plants and instead import coal- and oil-generated electricity from Finland and Poland. There should be whole chapters in the textbooks about that madness. The head of Statoil just recently wrote an article where he claimed that switching from burning oil to using a heat pump to heat up an average house would increase the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere since the net added draw of electricity for the pump would be almost 100% coal- or oil-generated due to the fact that our own sources of clean power are already maxed out. So instead of generating more clean electricity, we import dirty electrons and dirty oil. Brilliant. I'm sorry if I came across as argumentative, but I get so angry about this short-sightedness sometimes...
Not necessarily. They could be adopted or stepkids.
Well, technically you are correct, but that's only because 1/2 is a fraction. Actually, we're at 55% at the moment.
And while I'm personally a supporter of nuclear power I would even think of putting it in the same group of energy producers as wind, solar or water.
That depends on the context. If we're talking about renewables, then fission-based nuclear plants are out. If we're talking about cheap, then solar and wind are out (mind you, in the case of nuclear power, it is only cheap because it's heavily subsidized).
Besides, electrical energy is the most valuable for of energy as it's the most versetile and hardest to create.
Again, it's a matter of context (as I'm not about to get into the "it's impossible to create energy" debate). Take the hydro-electric dams as examples. What form of energy is easiest to get from them, if not electrical? And how do you propose to transport these other forms of energy all across Sweden - building oil pipelines run by horse-powered pumps? Shipping pressurized hydrogen on diesel-fueled trains?
Heat is an energyform that is a byproduct of most other forms of energy transformation. Heating using electricity is a humoungous waste of effort and even if electricity was free it shouldn't be done.
Ah, a man of principles. Even of electricity was free (and presumably generated using all renewable and non-polluting sources as, may I remind you, 55% of our electricity currently is), we should rather burn coal, oil or wood to heat our homes in the winter? Dioxines and greenhouse gases be damned, we have principles to uphold!
Or, he could live in a country where electricity from hydro-electric dams, nuclear plants and even wind is much cheaper (and generally much more environment-friendly) than heating by oil or gas. Like, say, Sweden.
Ahhh, I'd missed that zoom level... Looking closer, the rest are actually some kind of national parks too. I got confused by this one where the park's name is smaller than the names of the other features in it. I guess that's why it's still in beta. :-)
My second reaction was that I saw the same phenomenon at that Groom Lake link someone posted. The map was totally blank, but you could make out the runways on the satellite imagery.
BTW, anyone know what those large green areas are on the zoomed out maps? This is the largest one, but there are loads of others.
Clicky, just for fun.
They have satellite imagery of a very large piece of Denmark too: Clicky, clicky, looks just like the real thing to me. :-)
Yeah, it's the difference between saying "We're a communist dictatorship" and acting like a communist dictatorship on one hand and saying "we're a bastion of human rights, freedom and democracy" and then acting like a fascist dictatorship on the other. It's all about expectations. But don't you worry citizen, in a few years people will expect the US to behave just like North Korea and all will be quiet again.
The Via 4-in-1 and soundcard drivers install quick enough from Windows and the rest varies too much from computer to computer (I have three workstations that I try to keep reasonably similar through various upgrades).
Oh, you got Catalyst 5.6 and/or Forceware 71.89 on Windows Update? I don't think so.
unable to boot from a SATA CD/DVD drive
I don't think you understand the problem. All the recent VIA SATA controllers need a driver diskette (Press F6 right off the bat when installing XP) to install XP. You can't have the drivers on a CD since the XP installer is hard-coded to look for a diskette. MS decided to not add any new drivers with SP2 so most new stuff is either backwards compatible (some other SATA chips have ATA fallback modes where they look just like an ATA chip) or need drivers. SATA is especially sensitive since when XP boots the first time and loads the XP kernel, it can't find the hard drive it was installing to when it was running the BIOS drivers. If you upgrade your mobo to SATA from a running install you can pre-load the drivers and avoid the issue, but if you're doing a clean install, booting from CD - the odds are quite good that you'll have to have drivers on a diskette.
It's the good old NT4 INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE all over again. :-)
"He would smash his guitar to pieces because he felt he'd played so badly and find the crowd loving it all the more." No, I mean Jimi Hendrix, although I know Pete's been doing it, too. I have no idea who was first, though.
By smashing it to bits against the stage floor?
Are taking their toll
I even get excited when I see the North Pole
See the North Pole...
I'm the only gay Eskimo
Only gay Eskimo
I'm the only one I know
The only one I know-oh-oh-oh
I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe
Only gay eskimo, eh.
I for one welcome our trite, overused expression overlords!