Let me guess, you don't pay taxes. Have never call 911 or other emergency services or have ever used them. How about the DMV? I could go on, but I don't think you have though much about that statement. All of these are things you are forced to use or pay for access to. Might not be the best way, but you do it.
It's amazing how well you can do when you have daddy's money. Based on most calculations I have read, he would be twice as rich if he had just put it in the bank.
That is true and I once had a player I did that to also. It went in some drawer because I didn't feel like listening to that and didn't feel like putting different music on it. I never put it on my phone, because it's just too much of a battery suck regardless if it's streaming or not. I went back to the radio in the car out of pure laziness. Back to books on the plane for the same reason. Pandora at home because I can just hit "I'm still listening" and go back to where I was. My wife manages the playlists and I don't have to anymore. If I want another one, I can just type in a song or artist and 'bam' there it is. No playlist to build, hoping I get the right genres, no worrying about all the tags being in the right places. If I get nostalgic, I just launch my application of choice and load my music, but it's going to be one of those 80's or 90's flashbacks since I haven't added much in the last 10 years. I pretty much stopped buying albums after Napster and mostly gave up giving my money to people I don't support. I understand they still get my money one way or the other, but it's my way (similar to broadcast radio) and they can take their pennies. So, if I want to listen to Lana or Nickleback (JK) I pull up the streaming. If I want to go back through a discography of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, or Ministry, I'll pull up my library.
It boggles my mind why people are more prepared to keep paying for bandwidth and the associated problems such as connection dependencies, interstitial ads and increased battery usage, rather than just using local memory to store music.
I have a few reasons this works for me. After spending almost 20 years building up a digital music library it boils down to time and money.
Time: My first foray into this was ripping my own CD's and Napster. Napster for the one-of-songs from albums/cassettes/CD's that I lost long ago and felt no strong desire to re-purchase for the one song I liked. CD's were a major pain. I ripped some 1200 of them on 1x to 4x burners. (I still have the manual for the 1x Tascam in the basement. Probably have to old Tascam too) Took a year. Then format's got better. Re-rip at 12x. And again a few years later on many of them at 20x. I managed to amass a collect of over 600,000 mp3, mp4, Wav, and other files. Then I went through and re-imported to get back to higher quality mp3s and get rid of all the separate formats. Keeping it clean, readable, searchable was a part-time job. CDDB didn't exsist and all of this was manually entered. Hell, I'm sure there's a large amount of this data dumped into CDDB after it finally came about.
Then their is the whole mess of players. When I started there was only WinAmp that could handle more than 8 or 10k songs in a library. Then came iTunes and somewhere around there AOL bought WinAmp. They could handle 100k with ease and was quite a nice interface at the time (I still have an old mac 8600 with iTunes 1.1 on it and it still runs great). As time went on, new players came and went. Export library, import to the next or just start from scratch and wait days for my library to import. No fun going days with out music while your waiting for your library to import. Again. Or computer dies and you start over. iTunes still is the only player that reliably will load my library. (I've done VLC-not very user friendly last I tried, xbox- just sucks, XMBC, etc) All the major and some of the minor just can't handle over 20 or 30 k reliably last I tried and very few had/have the functionality of iTunes. (It's been a few years now since I tried last) So now, I have a computer in my stereo that is dedicated to only music. It runs iTunes, but I now have a wife and kids. This means I don't have the time to devote to maintenance or much else. I could turn the machine on and fire up player of choice that loads 600k songs, but it's just easier to launch Pandora Free (I'll do adds if you don't charge) or youtube and hit a playlist. It takes 3 seconds and I can be ensured a relative easy evening of musical pleasure. Then add on the continuing cost of keeping your collection updated with the latest music you do like. This is an ongoing task that just seems like more work.
It's like owning a home, at some point you pay someone else to do the things that no longer make financial sense or you don't want to do anymore. I still don't mind yard work, but I'll call a roofer in a second. It's not worth my time to maintain a music library for regular consumption, so I let someone else do it for me. As for mobile, I read books or listen to the radio. I'm quite comfortable with radio hell and it gives me something to bitch about later.
Will
Ps. I hate iTunes and have since abandon Macs except for my historical machines that are mostly for sentimental reasons than anything else. Oh nostalgia!
Paradigm Multi-paradigm: Imperative, pipeline, object-oriented, functional and reflective Designed by Jeffrey Snover, Bruce Payette, James Truher (et al.) Developer Microsoft
FactCheck noted that Barbara Mikkelson was a Canadian citizen (and thus unable to vote in US elections) and David Mikkelson was an independent who was once registered as a Republican.
As someone whose been around as a lurker from almost the beginning, i would recommend people who don't like the way the site has become take a trip down the way-back machine. Everything old is new again. The articles have always followed the same general format and subjects. The conversations have generally followed the same format and digressions. The only thing that seems to change around here are the grumpies who want to complain about how much it's changed. Sure, a few of the conversations are a little more hostile. Sometimes, but this discourse has been here from the beginning on anything that might be remotely interpreted as political.//rant: But, at the end of the day, we are all sharing our opinions in an effort to find the truth. A little open mindedness goes a long way to productive and meaningful discourse. Everybody is not always right. Calling it fake news because or a contextual error is disingenuous. You're basically take the nuclear route on your own discussion. To call out a grammatical error is acceptable.
I'll just end the rant there before I get carried away.
Rape and domestic violence have always been treated seriously and punished severely.
I don't think that came out the way you thought you said it. In my state, spousal rape was legal until a few years ago and you could beat your wife with a stick as long as it wasn't longer than your forearm or bigger around than your thumb.(partially a hoax, partially true) It appears it is still legal to some extent in some places (or just not pursued as it should be): http://www.womensafe.net/home/... http://www.encyclopedia.com/so...
If you can't be bothered to follow the few evidentiary rules we have, present a truthful case, with being truthful about how you got said evidence for the case, then how can I be bothered to believe that the evidence itself is true? Take your word for it?
I do mostly agree with your take on this. Just responding to the question.
The notice provides that virtual currency is treated as property for U.S. federal tax purposes. General tax principles that apply to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency. Among other things, this means that:
Wages paid to employees using virtual currency are taxable to the employee, must be reported by an employer on a Form W-2, and are subject to federal income tax withholding and payroll taxes.
Payments using virtual currency made to independent contractors and other service providers are taxable and self-employment tax rules generally apply. Normally, payers must issue Form 1099.
The character of gain or loss from the sale or exchange of virtual currency depends on whether the virtual currency is a capital asset in the hands of the taxpayer.
A payment made using virtual currency is subject to information reporting to the same extent as any other payment made in property.
In some environments, virtual currency operates like “real” currency -- i.e., the coin and paper money of the United States or of any other country that is designated as legal tender, circulates, and is customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in the country of issuance -- but it does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction.
The notice provides that virtual currency is treated as property for U.S. federal tax purposes. General tax principles that apply to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency. Among other things, this means that:
Wages paid to employees using virtual currency are taxable to the employee, must be reported by an employer on a Form W-2, and are subject to federal income tax withholding and payroll taxes.
Payments using virtual currency made to independent contractors and other service providers are taxable and self-employment tax rules generally apply. Normally, payers must issue Form 1099.
The character of gain or loss from the sale or exchange of virtual currency depends on whether the virtual currency is a capital asset in the hands of the taxpayer.
A payment made using virtual currency is subject to information reporting to the same extent as any other payment made in property.
I do wish Maxtor was still around. Had good results with them. Them and Seagate used to make my favorite drives. I have Seagate drives in some of my test/recovery machines that are 20 years old now. Mostly SCSI and they have worked flawlessly and continue to do so. Got some WD, mostly SCSI again, that have worked the same way. Hitachi, etc.
Something happened along the way with SG and their crap went down like the Titanic. At least in their consumer line. Last time I used SG, i replaced the drives in two 16 drive units. Granted, these were consumer drives in an enterprise environment, but they were lightly loaded in a 68 degree F server room, dual ac units, power conditioners, UPS, and generator. I had a drive fail the first day, 4 the first month and all had been swapped at least once within the first year. Not much better luck with the 600 other desktops/laptops I managed at that place. If I was lucky, I would have 10% last 2 years. Much better luck with HGST and Toshiba those days. WD ATA/SATA isn't much better. Depends on the batch I guess. Had batches last 5/6 years under server loads and some last just months. Backblaze has some interesting results. Seems all are hit and miss: https://www.backblaze.com/blog...
Right now I have a 42 drive SAN with SG. We'll see how they go. Array has only been up a month. Array it replaced was 8 y/o with 8 original Toshiba SAS drives.
Yes, Sony is to be avoided at all cost. They too used to have a good reputation.
But it's a Seagate. Of course you would want another copy of it somewhere else. I've seen nothing on the warranty so I guess the cloud is the warranty too?
What i find rather funny, almost laughably so, it the incessant need to use fake and/or made up news articles to argue the merits of an article about fake/made up news. I don't know if the irony or sarcasm is killing me, but surely you can't believe the crap that's being posted?
I am truly saddened. I now understand the scripture: "Jesus wept."
While I appreciate the links provided, can we get something with some facts? Linking poorly explained rules with blatantly false information is what this whole discussion is about. I guess you were just providing supporting documentation?
Slashdot Mirror
Let me guess, you don't pay taxes. Have never call 911 or other emergency services or have ever used them. How about the DMV? I could go on, but I don't think you have though much about that statement. All of these are things you are forced to use or pay for access to. Might not be the best way, but you do it.
Also, maybe you're just holding it wrong.
Me too! I think he won the internetz today!
It's amazing how well you can do when you have daddy's money. Based on most calculations I have read, he would be twice as rich if he had just put it in the bank.
http://www.moneytalksnews.com/...
That is true and I once had a player I did that to also. It went in some drawer because I didn't feel like listening to that and didn't feel like putting different music on it. I never put it on my phone, because it's just too much of a battery suck regardless if it's streaming or not. I went back to the radio in the car out of pure laziness. Back to books on the plane for the same reason. Pandora at home because I can just hit "I'm still listening" and go back to where I was. My wife manages the playlists and I don't have to anymore. If I want another one, I can just type in a song or artist and 'bam' there it is. No playlist to build, hoping I get the right genres, no worrying about all the tags being in the right places. If I get nostalgic, I just launch my application of choice and load my music, but it's going to be one of those 80's or 90's flashbacks since I haven't added much in the last 10 years. I pretty much stopped buying albums after Napster and mostly gave up giving my money to people I don't support. I understand they still get my money one way or the other, but it's my way (similar to broadcast radio) and they can take their pennies. So, if I want to listen to Lana or Nickleback (JK) I pull up the streaming. If I want to go back through a discography of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, or Ministry, I'll pull up my library.
It boggles my mind why people are more prepared to keep paying for bandwidth and the associated problems such as connection dependencies, interstitial ads and increased battery usage, rather than just using local memory to store music.
I have a few reasons this works for me. After spending almost 20 years building up a digital music library it boils down to time and money.
Time: My first foray into this was ripping my own CD's and Napster. Napster for the one-of-songs from albums/cassettes/CD's that I lost long ago and felt no strong desire to re-purchase for the one song I liked. CD's were a major pain. I ripped some 1200 of them on 1x to 4x burners. (I still have the manual for the 1x Tascam in the basement. Probably have to old Tascam too) Took a year. Then format's got better. Re-rip at 12x. And again a few years later on many of them at 20x. I managed to amass a collect of over 600,000 mp3, mp4, Wav, and other files. Then I went through and re-imported to get back to higher quality mp3s and get rid of all the separate formats. Keeping it clean, readable, searchable was a part-time job. CDDB didn't exsist and all of this was manually entered. Hell, I'm sure there's a large amount of this data dumped into CDDB after it finally came about.
Then their is the whole mess of players. When I started there was only WinAmp that could handle more than 8 or 10k songs in a library. Then came iTunes and somewhere around there AOL bought WinAmp. They could handle 100k with ease and was quite a nice interface at the time (I still have an old mac 8600 with iTunes 1.1 on it and it still runs great). As time went on, new players came and went. Export library, import to the next or just start from scratch and wait days for my library to import. No fun going days with out music while your waiting for your library to import. Again. Or computer dies and you start over. iTunes still is the only player that reliably will load my library. (I've done VLC-not very user friendly last I tried, xbox- just sucks, XMBC, etc) All the major and some of the minor just can't handle over 20 or 30 k reliably last I tried and very few had/have the functionality of iTunes. (It's been a few years now since I tried last) So now, I have a computer in my stereo that is dedicated to only music. It runs iTunes, but I now have a wife and kids. This means I don't have the time to devote to maintenance or much else. I could turn the machine on and fire up player of choice that loads 600k songs, but it's just easier to launch Pandora Free (I'll do adds if you don't charge) or youtube and hit a playlist. It takes 3 seconds and I can be ensured a relative easy evening of musical pleasure. Then add on the continuing cost of keeping your collection updated with the latest music you do like. This is an ongoing task that just seems like more work.
It's like owning a home, at some point you pay someone else to do the things that no longer make financial sense or you don't want to do anymore. I still don't mind yard work, but I'll call a roofer in a second. It's not worth my time to maintain a music library for regular consumption, so I let someone else do it for me. As for mobile, I read books or listen to the radio. I'm quite comfortable with radio hell and it gives me something to bitch about later.
Will
Ps. I hate iTunes and have since abandon Macs except for my historical machines that are mostly for sentimental reasons than anything else. Oh nostalgia!
Seems someone forgot to do their homework:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Paradigm Multi-paradigm: Imperative, pipeline, object-oriented, functional and reflective
Designed by Jeffrey Snover, Bruce Payette, James Truher (et al.)
Developer Microsoft
A notable quote that I'm too lazy to look up:
I don't know what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones.
I hope that you are not correct. That's not a future I want to see. I also realize that is a future we are very likely to see. Sooner than later.
While it is acknowledge they do tend to have a liberal slant, this is not fully correct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
FactCheck noted that Barbara Mikkelson was a Canadian citizen (and thus unable to vote in US elections) and David Mikkelson was an independent who was once registered as a Republican.
Oh I so wish I had mod points. You nailed it!!!
Keep up the good work!
As someone whose been around as a lurker from almost the beginning, i would recommend people who don't like the way the site has become take a trip down the way-back machine. Everything old is new again. The articles have always followed the same general format and subjects. The conversations have generally followed the same format and digressions. The only thing that seems to change around here are the grumpies who want to complain about how much it's changed. Sure, a few of the conversations are a little more hostile. Sometimes, but this discourse has been here from the beginning on anything that might be remotely interpreted as political. //rant: But, at the end of the day, we are all sharing our opinions in an effort to find the truth. A little open mindedness goes a long way to productive and meaningful discourse. Everybody is not always right. Calling it fake news because or a contextual error is disingenuous. You're basically take the nuclear route on your own discussion. To call out a grammatical error is acceptable.
I'll just end the rant there before I get carried away.
Rape and domestic violence have always been treated seriously and punished severely.
I don't think that came out the way you thought you said it. In my state, spousal rape was legal until a few years ago and you could beat your wife with a stick as long as it wasn't longer than your forearm or bigger around than your thumb.(partially a hoax, partially true) It appears it is still legal to some extent in some places (or just not pursued as it should be):
http://www.womensafe.net/home/...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/so...
If you can't be bothered to follow the few evidentiary rules we have, present a truthful case, with being truthful about how you got said evidence for the case, then how can I be bothered to believe that the evidence itself is true? Take your word for it?
I do mostly agree with your take on this. Just responding to the question.
I so wish I had mod points. I wish more people would realize that jobs have become a zero sum game to the corps.
Depends on how it's used:
https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsro...
The notice provides that virtual currency is treated as property for U.S. federal tax purposes. General tax principles that apply to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency. Among other things, this means that:
Wages paid to employees using virtual currency are taxable to the employee, must be reported by an employer on a Form W-2, and are subject to federal income tax withholding and payroll taxes.
Payments using virtual currency made to independent contractors and other service providers are taxable and self-employment tax rules generally apply. Normally, payers must issue Form 1099.
The character of gain or loss from the sale or exchange of virtual currency depends on whether the virtual currency is a capital asset in the hands of the taxpayer.
A payment made using virtual currency is subject to information reporting to the same extent as any other payment made in property.
Here's just a couple of links for you:
http://www.bankrate.com/financ...
http://www.investopedia.com/fi...
Some of the second set actually being funny.
You seem to have most of it right:
https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsro...
In some environments, virtual currency operates like “real” currency -- i.e., the coin and paper money of the United States or of any other country that is designated as legal tender, circulates, and is customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in the country of issuance -- but it does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction.
The notice provides that virtual currency is treated as property for U.S. federal tax purposes. General tax principles that apply to property transactions apply to transactions using virtual currency. Among other things, this means that:
Wages paid to employees using virtual currency are taxable to the employee, must be reported by an employer on a Form W-2, and are subject to federal income tax withholding and payroll taxes.
Payments using virtual currency made to independent contractors and other service providers are taxable and self-employment tax rules generally apply. Normally, payers must issue Form 1099.
The character of gain or loss from the sale or exchange of virtual currency depends on whether the virtual currency is a capital asset in the hands of the taxpayer.
A payment made using virtual currency is subject to information reporting to the same extent as any other payment made in property.
I do wish Maxtor was still around. Had good results with them. Them and Seagate used to make my favorite drives. I have Seagate drives in some of my test/recovery machines that are 20 years old now. Mostly SCSI and they have worked flawlessly and continue to do so. Got some WD, mostly SCSI again, that have worked the same way. Hitachi, etc.
Something happened along the way with SG and their crap went down like the Titanic. At least in their consumer line. Last time I used SG, i replaced the drives in two 16 drive units. Granted, these were consumer drives in an enterprise environment, but they were lightly loaded in a 68 degree F server room, dual ac units, power conditioners, UPS, and generator. I had a drive fail the first day, 4 the first month and all had been swapped at least once within the first year. Not much better luck with the 600 other desktops/laptops I managed at that place. If I was lucky, I would have 10% last 2 years. Much better luck with HGST and Toshiba those days. WD ATA/SATA isn't much better. Depends on the batch I guess. Had batches last 5/6 years under server loads and some last just months. Backblaze has some interesting results. Seems all are hit and miss:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog...
Right now I have a 42 drive SAN with SG. We'll see how they go. Array has only been up a month. Array it replaced was 8 y/o with 8 original Toshiba SAS drives.
Yes, Sony is to be avoided at all cost. They too used to have a good reputation.
But it's a Seagate. Of course you would want another copy of it somewhere else. I've seen nothing on the warranty so I guess the cloud is the warranty too?
"At Slashdot, it's hard to say that anyone here will not be able to tell fake news from a real one."
Judging by some of the discussions over the last few days on similar articles I doubt this.
What i find rather funny, almost laughably so, it the incessant need to use fake and/or made up news articles to argue the merits of an article about fake/made up news. I don't know if the irony or sarcasm is killing me, but surely you can't believe the crap that's being posted?
I am truly saddened. I now understand the scripture: "Jesus wept."
While I appreciate the links provided, can we get something with some facts? Linking poorly explained rules with blatantly false information is what this whole discussion is about. I guess you were just providing supporting documentation?
Best comment ever!
4, because proof reading it hard.