What about your motherboard in that computer? A friend of mine tried to save some money with a cheap mobo, and after repeated crashes in his games, read up on his board and the chipset. After plunking more cash down for an Asus board, the crashes disappeared.
You're confusing live performance with recording. What Britney needs is the software after she's sung to manipulate her voice. The mike doesn't have to be awesome, merely good or great, because her voice will be pitch corrected and have digital effects over it.
Then the final song will get played on MTV, compressed into MPEG2, and played back on 27-57" TVs with shitty speakers.
It comes down to diminishing returns. Spending double on equipment for a 10% increase in quality isn't going to matter much to the final product. If the "music" doesn't have the right mass appeal, and the video isn't addictive, then the song isn't going to fly. Even if it was recorded with a $10,000 mike.
And also based on what others with similar tastes don't like. Some people will prefer the more energetic tracks from Aerosmith. Others will prefer the slower ballads.
I have a problem with last.fm that could be solved with more money for servers and CPU power. Meaning people actually paying for a service.
Last.fm looks at artists I listen to and how often. Then it finds others users with a similar profile, and recommends artists from those people. The problem is it doesn't look at songs. It doesn't care about which songs I hate, or dislike. People who are big fans of Radiohead have different favorite songs of the band than I do, because I only like a few tracks from them. Same thing with Jamiroquai. I want songs that sound similar to Virtual Insanity, not the rest of Jamiroquai's tracks, which are different.
When people are paying $15 a month, that will pay for the CPU power required to run intensive algorithms to see what tracks people are likely to enjoy or dislike. Lots of people have their preferred genres and only like a few songs from other ones. They think it's too much trouble listening to 20 pop songs and only liking 1 of them. Having a computer find those for them would be awesome. I'd pay money just for a service like that to consistently recommend new music that I mostly like. Then as a personal preference, I'll buy it to keep, instead of a subscription service.
Eco-impact per unit sold isn't the right metric. Eco-impact per user, is. If a Mac gets used twice as long as a Dell, the eco-impact of the Mac should get halved when comparing it to the Dell.
Got a source for your second paragraph? That's a very big claim. I have heard the fires in China are on that scale, but how many fires is that? Are they all separate, disconnected fires? They clearly aren't all the same size, so which ones are you talking about? In Centralia, Pennsylvania, a fire there is 1.6 square kilometers and will burn for 250 years.
Hey I agree with you there. Employees at all levels of a business that aren't pulling their weight need to correct their behavior or leave.
What Circuit City is doing though is jacked. What Walmart does by burdening the local welfare system with its forced-part time employees is jacked. Firing workers two weeks before Christmas with no warning is jacked. Paying workers crap while giving upper management millions in bonuses that often don't even correspond to performance, is jacked.
The problem with sociopathic corporations is they don't care about the workers. They'd rather pay nothing, or next to it, so the company makes more money for shareholders.
There ARE businesses and some corporations that really do care about the well-being of employees as people, friends, family. There just aren't enough of them.
The video implies that the aisles are wider than usual. Airline seats in coach vary from about 17" to 20" with most falling around 18 to 18.5. At 10 seats across in a 3-4-3, at first glance is seems possible to take 1.25" from every seat plus 2" from each aisle and make it a 3-5-3, but that's just almost never going to happen. Those airlines with 17" wide seats are on older models.
Additionally the airlines worked closely with Airbus to determine how wide the fuselage should be to fit 10 seats and how wide those seats will be. Given the growing obesity problems in many countries, I'm guessing the A380 will probably have 18.5" to 19" wide seats.
So what has all this computing power actually accomplished for science thus far? What new protein folding processes have been discovered that are going to help treat and cure diseases?
Depends on what kind of equipment failure at 80mph. Even a tire shredding is pretty manageable if the cars can communicate. A car with a shredded tire is still going to be moving, just slowing down. The front bumper of the car behind it could even be used to push and stabilize the damaged car as they together merge over to the shoulder.
But cabin intrusion protection, in the event of some crazy SUV driver trying to occupy the same piece of road you do?
Design the valve in the tank to point behind the car, a little to the left, and up at about a 30 degree angle. If an SUV hits the aircar, the valveBullet might prevent the driver from ever doing that again. If a regular car hits the aircar, the valveBullet will be more likely to fly over the car.
You should go play KOTOR for the xbox, Blade Runner and Grim Fandango for the PC. The first two have different paths. Player behavior limits what can happen next. I wish more games did this. I don't want a game that takes 40 hours to play. I want a game that takes fifteen or twenty hours, but when I play it again in a different way, half of the content has changed. I have other things to do with my time than spend it all on a game for 40, 80, 100 hours. If I only play though the game one or two times I'll have had a great time, and had the pleasure of beating it.
While you're at it, play Fallout. You don't have to always gun your way though the game if the hero's verbal skills are invested in. Games that offer puzzle solutions as alternatives to violent solutions should be celebrated.
IF your study was scientifically/statistically valid, and not pulled out of your feces-filled ass, yes I'd probably be prepared to outlaw it. What's your take on the studies showing talking on a mobile while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk?
Under what part of trademark law does it show MS would have lost their IP? MikeRoweSoft is spelled quite differently. It's not like he spelled it Mikrosoft.
Since you and the grandparent both said "mass transit" I think the appropriate comparison is would the free market deliver a better transportation system for the masses? I just went for the first and easiest difference/disadvantage.
Okay, we can limit the definition of the masses to those commuting to and from work in the mornings and evenings.
I was writing why it still wouldn't work, and then as I continued my train of thought I realized there is a chance in hell this is a viable idea. The riders will want speed, comfort, safety, and employers to pick up the approximately $5-15 one-way cost.
If the bus makes a minimum of stops or no stops before dropping passengers off in downtown SF or SJ to waiting company shuttles, it just might work. If the buses make too many stops the diminishing time savings over BART will be a problem. But only people close to pick-up locations will likely use the service.
Some stops doing Berkeley to SJ would need many shuttles. Other stops won't have enough riders to fill the bus for a direct run to downtown. Then the bus could make one, or at most two other stops along the way.
There are some serious costs though. For the middle of the day the buses won't be earning money, but drivers need to get paid. People who want a seat on BART at rush hour will be more likely to take this service, but that's a more narrow window of increased ridership, which means adding more buses just for those times will be especially costly. If this service doesn't offer enough buses for riders to get a seat and some have to wait another five, ten, or twenty minutes for the next bus, that will hurt ridership.
I understand why the NY subway seats aren't padded and face sideways, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Being from the Bay Area, I'm not used to the busses being more comfortable than the subway.
Is the the Altamont Express train station close enough to your job that your employer wouldn't mind as much paying for a shuttle from that point? Is there an express bus from Fremont BART that heads down Mowry to 880 and doesn't stop until it reaches downtown San Jose? Might that generate enough additional ridership for smaller companies to offer shuttles?
What about the ones living in SF? If the percentage still isn't high, why not? The allure of beating rush-hour traffic down 101 or 280 should be high. Is the service inferior? Are the employees not committed enough to eBay to move within walking or biking distance of the shuttle stops? Are they mentally less inclined to be ecologically friendly?
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What about your motherboard in that computer? A friend of mine tried to save some money with a cheap mobo, and after repeated crashes in his games, read up on his board and the chipset. After plunking more cash down for an Asus board, the crashes disappeared.
How about Sweeden?
And the fact that SED might actually be available in 60" panels this Winter. I'll take either technology most gleefully.
You're confusing live performance with recording. What Britney needs is the software after she's sung to manipulate her voice. The mike doesn't have to be awesome, merely good or great, because her voice will be pitch corrected and have digital effects over it.
Then the final song will get played on MTV, compressed into MPEG2, and played back on 27-57" TVs with shitty speakers.
It comes down to diminishing returns. Spending double on equipment for a 10% increase in quality isn't going to matter much to the final product. If the "music" doesn't have the right mass appeal, and the video isn't addictive, then the song isn't going to fly. Even if it was recorded with a $10,000 mike.
And also based on what others with similar tastes don't like. Some people will prefer the more energetic tracks from Aerosmith. Others will prefer the slower ballads.
I have a problem with last.fm that could be solved with more money for servers and CPU power. Meaning people actually paying for a service.
Last.fm looks at artists I listen to and how often. Then it finds others users with a similar profile, and recommends artists from those people. The problem is it doesn't look at songs. It doesn't care about which songs I hate, or dislike. People who are big fans of Radiohead have different favorite songs of the band than I do, because I only like a few tracks from them. Same thing with Jamiroquai. I want songs that sound similar to Virtual Insanity, not the rest of Jamiroquai's tracks, which are different.
When people are paying $15 a month, that will pay for the CPU power required to run intensive algorithms to see what tracks people are likely to enjoy or dislike. Lots of people have their preferred genres and only like a few songs from other ones. They think it's too much trouble listening to 20 pop songs and only liking 1 of them. Having a computer find those for them would be awesome. I'd pay money just for a service like that to consistently recommend new music that I mostly like. Then as a personal preference, I'll buy it to keep, instead of a subscription service.
Eco-impact per unit sold isn't the right metric. Eco-impact per user, is. If a Mac gets used twice as long as a Dell, the eco-impact of the Mac should get halved when comparing it to the Dell.
I can beat my car or table if I want to. Beating my children or pets is against the law. The chimp has more similarities with a child than a table.
Got a source for your second paragraph? That's a very big claim. I have heard the fires in China are on that scale, but how many fires is that? Are they all separate, disconnected fires? They clearly aren't all the same size, so which ones are you talking about? In Centralia, Pennsylvania, a fire there is 1.6 square kilometers and will burn for 250 years.
Hey I agree with you there. Employees at all levels of a business that aren't pulling their weight need to correct their behavior or leave.
What Circuit City is doing though is jacked. What Walmart does by burdening the local welfare system with its forced-part time employees is jacked. Firing workers two weeks before Christmas with no warning is jacked. Paying workers crap while giving upper management millions in bonuses that often don't even correspond to performance, is jacked.
The problem with sociopathic corporations is they don't care about the workers. They'd rather pay nothing, or next to it, so the company makes more money for shareholders.
There ARE businesses and some corporations that really do care about the well-being of employees as people, friends, family. There just aren't enough of them.
The video implies that the aisles are wider than usual. Airline seats in coach vary from about 17" to 20" with most falling around 18 to 18.5. At 10 seats across in a 3-4-3, at first glance is seems possible to take 1.25" from every seat plus 2" from each aisle and make it a 3-5-3, but that's just almost never going to happen. Those airlines with 17" wide seats are on older models.
Additionally the airlines worked closely with Airbus to determine how wide the fuselage should be to fit 10 seats and how wide those seats will be. Given the growing obesity problems in many countries, I'm guessing the A380 will probably have 18.5" to 19" wide seats.
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So what has all this computing power actually accomplished for science thus far? What new protein folding processes have been discovered that are going to help treat and cure diseases?
Depends on what kind of equipment failure at 80mph. Even a tire shredding is pretty manageable if the cars can communicate. A car with a shredded tire is still going to be moving, just slowing down. The front bumper of the car behind it could even be used to push and stabilize the damaged car as they together merge over to the shoulder.
But cabin intrusion protection, in the event of some crazy SUV driver trying to occupy the same piece of road you do?
Design the valve in the tank to point behind the car, a little to the left, and up at about a 30 degree angle. If an SUV hits the aircar, the valveBullet might prevent the driver from ever doing that again. If a regular car hits the aircar, the valveBullet will be more likely to fly over the car.
You should go play KOTOR for the xbox, Blade Runner and Grim Fandango for the PC. The first two have different paths. Player behavior limits what can happen next. I wish more games did this. I don't want a game that takes 40 hours to play. I want a game that takes fifteen or twenty hours, but when I play it again in a different way, half of the content has changed. I have other things to do with my time than spend it all on a game for 40, 80, 100 hours. If I only play though the game one or two times I'll have had a great time, and had the pleasure of beating it.
While you're at it, play Fallout. You don't have to always gun your way though the game if the hero's verbal skills are invested in. Games that offer puzzle solutions as alternatives to violent solutions should be celebrated.
So you never played Pirates! or any of the other games that asked you to demonstrate you had a manual or had painstakingly copied one?
IF your study was scientifically/statistically valid, and not pulled out of your feces-filled ass, yes I'd probably be prepared to outlaw it. What's your take on the studies showing talking on a mobile while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk?
Under what part of trademark law does it show MS would have lost their IP? MikeRoweSoft is spelled quite differently. It's not like he spelled it Mikrosoft.
Since you and the grandparent both said "mass transit" I think the appropriate comparison is would the free market deliver a better transportation system for the masses? I just went for the first and easiest difference/disadvantage.
Okay, we can limit the definition of the masses to those commuting to and from work in the mornings and evenings.
I was writing why it still wouldn't work, and then as I continued my train of thought I realized there is a chance in hell this is a viable idea. The riders will want speed, comfort, safety, and employers to pick up the approximately $5-15 one-way cost.
If the bus makes a minimum of stops or no stops before dropping passengers off in downtown SF or SJ to waiting company shuttles, it just might work. If the buses make too many stops the diminishing time savings over BART will be a problem. But only people close to pick-up locations will likely use the service.
Some stops doing Berkeley to SJ would need many shuttles. Other stops won't have enough riders to fill the bus for a direct run to downtown. Then the bus could make one, or at most two other stops along the way.
There are some serious costs though. For the middle of the day the buses won't be earning money, but drivers need to get paid. People who want a seat on BART at rush hour will be more likely to take this service, but that's a more narrow window of increased ridership, which means adding more buses just for those times will be especially costly. If this service doesn't offer enough buses for riders to get a seat and some have to wait another five, ten, or twenty minutes for the next bus, that will hurt ridership.
The card that will simplify most Bay Area transit agencies is called Translink. It is being rolled out on BART this year.
I understand why the NY subway seats aren't padded and face sideways, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Being from the Bay Area, I'm not used to the busses being more comfortable than the subway.
Is the the Altamont Express train station close enough to your job that your employer wouldn't mind as much paying for a shuttle from that point? Is there an express bus from Fremont BART that heads down Mowry to 880 and doesn't stop until it reaches downtown San Jose? Might that generate enough additional ridership for smaller companies to offer shuttles?
What about the ones living in SF? If the percentage still isn't high, why not? The allure of beating rush-hour traffic down 101 or 280 should be high. Is the service inferior? Are the employees not committed enough to eBay to move within walking or biking distance of the shuttle stops? Are they mentally less inclined to be ecologically friendly?