But the moon surface is rock stable. That is why photographers use tripods to avoid camera jittering.
An orbiting satellite is also extremely stable, while it's in motion it is also silky smooth only affected by gravity and an extremely light atmospheric drag. A typical LEO satellite travels 800km above the surface, the moon is 350-400,000 km away. That's about 500 times greater magnification needed. Also a LEO satellite typically makes a polar orbit in 90 minutes, sweeping the earth in bands faster than a moon-based telescope waiting for the earth to turn. Already there are commercial satellites with a 0.5m resolution available for civilians and if you asked the military to open up their data you'd have even better resolution.
In short, you're trying to solve a problem that's already solved cheaper, faster and better by LEO satellites. And the more we work on atmospheric correction and filtering out earth based noise, the less relevant the Moon looks as projects like the E-ELT and SKA are better done from the ground. Where we still need to go into space is the wavelengths were the atmosphere is blocking us completely, but even then it's a question of whether it's easier to lave it in space rather than land it on the moon. There's just not that many advantages of being "grounded" to a big rock.
Opera doesn't work for the FAFSA and a number of other scholarship applications (To be fair, the FAFSA works, but it isn't supported)
Those are two completely different things if you ask me, particularly if IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari is supported. Supported to me means tested (okay don't laugh), that someone actually fires up that browser and goes through the use cases. That takes time and money every time either the software is updated or the browser is updated. At some point you make a cut-off saying all the remaining browsers are on their own, they might work but we're not going to guarantee they work. As long as that cut-off list is at least 3 different browsers I'd say they're far, far above the pack when it comes to support. If it works on everything else but Opera, chances are pretty good it's a bug in Opera and that's where you should direct the bug report, not the website.
And once we have hundreds of terabytes how do we fill the drive? Most of the content on my PC is downloaded, but internet speeds have not increased drastically over the years, I'm still at the same speed now as I was in 2000 and paying about the same amount.
Speak for yourself, in 2000 I was on 64 kbps ISDN and now I'm on 60/60 Mbit fiber. That's almost three orders of magnitude and it's cheaper before even adjusting for inflation. Even the national statistics here in Norway show a >10x increase in both the average and mean since 2004 and that doesn't cover the revolution going from PSTN/ISDN to DSL in the years around y2k so I'd go as far as saying 100x is typical since 2000. Currently the mean is 6.7 Mbit/s and with the rollout of fiber, VDSL and DOCSIS 3.0 I don't see any reason why it should slow down.
I actually know one person that is pretty much like you though, he lives in a very rural area just on the border of ADSL services. Over his copper line it's probably not ever going to go faster, and the chances of an upgrade is slim. But he's the one exception to everyone else...
It's not easy to make good regulation, we in Norway had that too but the result was that Telenor (our version of BT) wouldn't build out junctions for DSL instead cashing in on old ISDN connections with very little competition. You don't want to make it so that BT doesn't want to convert people to fiber either. Here in Norway now I feel there's surprisingly well working competition, we have power companies, phone companies and cable companies all now looking to provide fiber services and I'd say the biggest player (Altibox) also has the best offer. In the US the problem as I understand it is that there's a lot of exclusivity arrangements so most people have one DSL and one cable service to pick from - or just the one. So they have de facto monopolies without the regulation, the worst of both worlds.
Why does it take three friggin' days to dock with the ISS?
Well in this case because it's a test run and the Falcon 9 will have to prove their maneuvering capability in space before they let it too near an absurdly expensive space station. It could and will go faster in the future...
Don't pretty much all computer users, especially those of the geeky variety, pirate software when they're kids and have little to no money to buy it? I sure as hell did! Not because I wanted to "stick it to the man", but because I had no other way of getting software. I was a kid, I had no cash, no income. The software publishers lost nothing on me because had I not been able to pirate, I wouldn't have been able to buy the software anyway.
I've got no reason to get on my high horse since I did that too but even as a kid that's a bit of a cop out. Somebody gave you clothes and food and toys and presumably an allowance, you probably got birthday presents and Christmas presents and such. If you had to pester them to buy software for you they would, of course not everything you pointed at but piracy was always the easy way. That way you could wish for things you couldn't pirate and pirate the things you could pirate, eating your cake and having it too. Even as adults people commit their money then claim they've nothing to buy software for, thus rationalizing a position they've construed for themselves. There's very few that really have absolutely no money they could choose to spend.
Well one hardware device can support a whole lot more than one site or one piece of software. So Foxconn makes hardware for Apple devices. How many app developers in total make software for Apple devices? According to the latest bragging numbers there's over 500,000 apps and while many are simple some are not. And that doesn't include every other site on the Internet who can live off people using the web browser. For that matter, look at PCs and compare the hardware industry to the whole software industry. Intel may be big but there's many millions of people writing software from the smallest one-man shops to juggernauts like Microsoft. I just don't see your data supporting your conclusion.
It's a perception bias, with the poor being poorer and the rich being richer the rags to riches stories also get more extreme. It creates the illusion that everyone can go from the very bottom of the ladder to the very top of the ladder but a few extreme outliers don't mean social mobility for the masses. Also the rich and powerful like to perpetuate this idea because it means that instead of going Robin Hood and taking from the rich and giving to the poor, people want to get rid of taxes for when they themselves become rich. Of course most people don't actually end up rich, but if you can make them believe they will then you get people working 60+ hour weeks for shit pay, little help from the government and they want it that way...
A white gang and a black gang killing each other isn't a hate crime, but a white man killing blacks for being blacks or a black man killing whites for being white is. Hate crime and terrorism have a lot in common, in both cases it's not just about your direct victims but about all the people you intimidate. It's not just one murder, it's a message that the next black person that shows up will suffer the same. It's a message that the next gay person will suffer the same. It's a message that the next person who gets up and uses his freedom of speech will get a bullet to the brain. That more than puts a little cramp in your freedoms.
What constitutes unconstitutional is relatively narrowly defined.
Yes, but one of the things it's supposed to protect you from is arbitrary punishment from the government. If there doesn't need to be any proportion at all between the crime and the punishment, then that's practically the same thing because we probably all break the law in some minor way. If you don't believe that, you have no idea how many laws are actually on the books. The "Do not talk to the police" video has a wonderful example:
"It is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, possess, or purchase any fish, wildlife, or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any Federal, State, foreign, or Indian tribal law, treaty, or regulation."
Good luck on figuring out just what that one of many, many thousands actually mean. Or just doing your taxes, how many can in full honesty say they definitively do not violate any section of the tax code. What if they decided to hand out million dollar speeding tickets, would that be okay? I mean you get your fair trial and you are in fact guilty, so then anything up to and including the electric char is legal punishment?
I mean if you have a teen on trial for shoplifting and he gives the judge the finger and tell him to fuck off the judge still can't throw him in jail for 20 years just because he feels like it. But for copyright infringement you're already fucked at the minimum penalty and the sky is practically the limit. Then again you shouldn't expect much from a country where a $100 theft can be your third felony and land you a 25 year minimum in jail.
Of course they can, but the first taste is free and for publicity. If you want details, they want to get paid. Seems to be a working business model to me.
Chrome itself doesn't have a propensity to crash, but individual pages sure still do. It's not nearly as annoying, but it happens. And it can definitively hang long enough for Windows to say Chrome is unresponsive, but if you choose to wait it'll almost always come around. It sure better too, because it seems even the simplest tab eats 20MB of memory...
I don't know any stats company that gives out data on a per hour basis so you can compare business and non-business hours, not to mention not everyone is working but the weekends usually look like this: Chrome +2%, IE -2% and Firefox about even.
Statcounter just tracks requests. Google Chrome started using pre-loading pages, which artificially inflates page views. Move along.
Actually they've changed that:
Prerendering adjustment
Further to a significant number of user requests, we are now adjusting our browser stats to remove the effect of prerendering in Google Chrome. From May 1 2012, prerendered pages (that are not actually viewed) are not included in our stats. More information on this is available in our FAQ.
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They've been on a dot release every 3 months for many years now. But since they were never going to get off the 2.6 series they renamed 2.6.40 to 3.0, moving everything up one level so 2.6.41 => 3.1, 2.6.42 => 3.2 etc. You can call this one 2.6.44 if it makes you more comfortable, it's the same thing.
Even if you do get caught downloading only and not uploading what are they going to tell the judge? Hey this guy downloaded something he already paid for? What kind of damages would they actually get.
Statutory damages. That is, damages that are specified in the statute - the law - and don't care one bit about the circumstances. So a $750 minimum (or $200 if you had no reason to believe you were breaking the law which doesn't apply here).
You'd think that if it went "Games? Steam. Music? Spotify. Tv series? TPB." that they would take a hint, but maybe that's too much to ask. But they sure wouldn't know that you'd like to see the show if you didn't see it at all.
We might, if the Toyota Corollas could pull 50 tons without a hitch. I think the reason we haven't seen greater unification is because your small devices are ARM, your big devices are x86. With the latest smart phones you have quad core CPUs, a gigabyte of RAM and 64 GB of flash - and probably cost and what's meaningful to put in a phone is the limiting factor. Put that phone in a dock with breakout cables to a keyboard, mouse, screen etc. and attach a headset/bluetooth device so you can be on the phone and the PC at the same time. Or a "laptop-dock" that turns it into a laptop if you need that. If Intel can get Microsoft on board for a full Win8 x86 phone then the smart phones could become a Wintel market as well. Undock it and it's a phone, dock it and it's a Windows desktop/laptop. You always got all your data with you, anywhere you go.
Uh, I think you're confusing max power with idle. The idle power needs to be way down in the milliwatt range, though it also doesn't need to do much of anything in that state. ARM got a ton of experience with that kind of low power. Intel got the money and the superior processing tech. AMD would need to pull a rabbit out of the hat to not be second runner up in that competition.
If a kid is going to die in a year, school really serves no purpose.
Your grades don't matter, but if you're in school age then school is where all your friends are. Sure if you'd take time off to go to Disney World that's fine but I think being at home playing all by yourself would just make life seem even less meaningful. I don't know as it's a pretty horrible situation to be in but I think I'd try to maintain normality for as long as possible to stave off the gloom and doom of what's coming. I do feel I'm applying a different standard than I would to myself though, because I'd pretty instantly take leave/resign from my job to do something else than work. Not exactly sure what that'd be, but it wouldn't be sitting at the office...
Well, first of all your process better describes the EU under the previous Maastricht Treaty than under the current Lisbon Treaty that came into effect in 2009. Now both the European Commission and the European Parliament - which is voted in directly - has to approve of directives. Secondly, there is a problem here with time. For example here in Norway we're required to implement the Data Retention Directive that was passed in the EU in 2006 but we still haven't done it. And no matter how much we vote now for different politicians and new ministers it's impossible for us to get out of this agreement. Our own parliament has been effectively neutered so it can't actually do anything. If the government passes a bad law, we can elect a new government and change the law. If they agree to a bad EU directive, we're fucked.
Whoops, AC parent is right I was mixing numbers. Delta IV-H payload should be 49.7 kLBS, not 29 kLBS. So considerably bigger than the Falcon 9, but still smaller than the planned Falcon Heavy and much smaller than the Saturn V.
Tell me, How much of the 1960's Saturn V payload of 256,000 LBS to orbit can this shining new example of "private" technology the Falcon lift? If and when it works?
Well, the heaviest rocket the US can launch today after the shuttle program ended is the Delta IV-H, which at 29 kLBS is not that much bigger than a Falcon 9 at 23 kLBS. The Saturn Vs were an amazing piece of engineering, but they retired almost 40 years ago because they had no other market or purpose than to go to the moon. The Falcon 9 will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Delta IV, Atlas V etc. in their most common medium configuration and the planned Falcon Heavy would exceed any rocket operational today but it'll still only be half a Saturn V. I'm sure SpaceX would love to build a rocket bigger and more badass than the Saturn V, but unless the endless budgets of the Apollo era come back I don't think that's going to happen. Not for NASA, not for SpaceX.
And if I wound-up losing and owing $1.5 million (two songs infringed upon), I'd consider that a life sentence.
No no, you see there's a generous cap on maximum damages so you'd only owe $300k, to get as much as $1.5 million you must be a big time infringer sharing at least 10 files or a little less than an album.
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But the moon surface is rock stable. That is why photographers use tripods to avoid camera jittering.
An orbiting satellite is also extremely stable, while it's in motion it is also silky smooth only affected by gravity and an extremely light atmospheric drag. A typical LEO satellite travels 800km above the surface, the moon is 350-400,000 km away. That's about 500 times greater magnification needed. Also a LEO satellite typically makes a polar orbit in 90 minutes, sweeping the earth in bands faster than a moon-based telescope waiting for the earth to turn. Already there are commercial satellites with a 0.5m resolution available for civilians and if you asked the military to open up their data you'd have even better resolution.
In short, you're trying to solve a problem that's already solved cheaper, faster and better by LEO satellites. And the more we work on atmospheric correction and filtering out earth based noise, the less relevant the Moon looks as projects like the E-ELT and SKA are better done from the ground. Where we still need to go into space is the wavelengths were the atmosphere is blocking us completely, but even then it's a question of whether it's easier to lave it in space rather than land it on the moon. There's just not that many advantages of being "grounded" to a big rock.
Opera doesn't work for the FAFSA and a number of other scholarship applications (To be fair, the FAFSA works, but it isn't supported)
Those are two completely different things if you ask me, particularly if IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari is supported. Supported to me means tested (okay don't laugh), that someone actually fires up that browser and goes through the use cases. That takes time and money every time either the software is updated or the browser is updated. At some point you make a cut-off saying all the remaining browsers are on their own, they might work but we're not going to guarantee they work. As long as that cut-off list is at least 3 different browsers I'd say they're far, far above the pack when it comes to support. If it works on everything else but Opera, chances are pretty good it's a bug in Opera and that's where you should direct the bug report, not the website.
And once we have hundreds of terabytes how do we fill the drive? Most of the content on my PC is downloaded, but internet speeds have not increased drastically over the years, I'm still at the same speed now as I was in 2000 and paying about the same amount.
Speak for yourself, in 2000 I was on 64 kbps ISDN and now I'm on 60/60 Mbit fiber. That's almost three orders of magnitude and it's cheaper before even adjusting for inflation. Even the national statistics here in Norway show a >10x increase in both the average and mean since 2004 and that doesn't cover the revolution going from PSTN/ISDN to DSL in the years around y2k so I'd go as far as saying 100x is typical since 2000. Currently the mean is 6.7 Mbit/s and with the rollout of fiber, VDSL and DOCSIS 3.0 I don't see any reason why it should slow down.
I actually know one person that is pretty much like you though, he lives in a very rural area just on the border of ADSL services. Over his copper line it's probably not ever going to go faster, and the chances of an upgrade is slim. But he's the one exception to everyone else...
It's not easy to make good regulation, we in Norway had that too but the result was that Telenor (our version of BT) wouldn't build out junctions for DSL instead cashing in on old ISDN connections with very little competition. You don't want to make it so that BT doesn't want to convert people to fiber either. Here in Norway now I feel there's surprisingly well working competition, we have power companies, phone companies and cable companies all now looking to provide fiber services and I'd say the biggest player (Altibox) also has the best offer. In the US the problem as I understand it is that there's a lot of exclusivity arrangements so most people have one DSL and one cable service to pick from - or just the one. So they have de facto monopolies without the regulation, the worst of both worlds.
Why does it take three friggin' days to dock with the ISS?
Well in this case because it's a test run and the Falcon 9 will have to prove their maneuvering capability in space before they let it too near an absurdly expensive space station. It could and will go faster in the future...
Don't pretty much all computer users, especially those of the geeky variety, pirate software when they're kids and have little to no money to buy it? I sure as hell did! Not because I wanted to "stick it to the man", but because I had no other way of getting software. I was a kid, I had no cash, no income. The software publishers lost nothing on me because had I not been able to pirate, I wouldn't have been able to buy the software anyway.
I've got no reason to get on my high horse since I did that too but even as a kid that's a bit of a cop out. Somebody gave you clothes and food and toys and presumably an allowance, you probably got birthday presents and Christmas presents and such. If you had to pester them to buy software for you they would, of course not everything you pointed at but piracy was always the easy way. That way you could wish for things you couldn't pirate and pirate the things you could pirate, eating your cake and having it too. Even as adults people commit their money then claim they've nothing to buy software for, thus rationalizing a position they've construed for themselves. There's very few that really have absolutely no money they could choose to spend.
Well one hardware device can support a whole lot more than one site or one piece of software. So Foxconn makes hardware for Apple devices. How many app developers in total make software for Apple devices? According to the latest bragging numbers there's over 500,000 apps and while many are simple some are not. And that doesn't include every other site on the Internet who can live off people using the web browser. For that matter, look at PCs and compare the hardware industry to the whole software industry. Intel may be big but there's many millions of people writing software from the smallest one-man shops to juggernauts like Microsoft. I just don't see your data supporting your conclusion.
It's a perception bias, with the poor being poorer and the rich being richer the rags to riches stories also get more extreme. It creates the illusion that everyone can go from the very bottom of the ladder to the very top of the ladder but a few extreme outliers don't mean social mobility for the masses. Also the rich and powerful like to perpetuate this idea because it means that instead of going Robin Hood and taking from the rich and giving to the poor, people want to get rid of taxes for when they themselves become rich. Of course most people don't actually end up rich, but if you can make them believe they will then you get people working 60+ hour weeks for shit pay, little help from the government and they want it that way...
A white gang and a black gang killing each other isn't a hate crime, but a white man killing blacks for being blacks or a black man killing whites for being white is. Hate crime and terrorism have a lot in common, in both cases it's not just about your direct victims but about all the people you intimidate. It's not just one murder, it's a message that the next black person that shows up will suffer the same. It's a message that the next gay person will suffer the same. It's a message that the next person who gets up and uses his freedom of speech will get a bullet to the brain. That more than puts a little cramp in your freedoms.
Thus collectively, they are being harmed 100,000,000 user x 673,000 $/user... which comes to 67 Trillian... yes, Trillian with a T.
But unless that's 67 of her I'm pretty sure that's trillion with an o...
What constitutes unconstitutional is relatively narrowly defined.
Yes, but one of the things it's supposed to protect you from is arbitrary punishment from the government. If there doesn't need to be any proportion at all between the crime and the punishment, then that's practically the same thing because we probably all break the law in some minor way. If you don't believe that, you have no idea how many laws are actually on the books. The "Do not talk to the police" video has a wonderful example:
"It is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, possess, or purchase any fish, wildlife, or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any Federal, State, foreign, or Indian tribal law, treaty, or regulation."
Good luck on figuring out just what that one of many, many thousands actually mean. Or just doing your taxes, how many can in full honesty say they definitively do not violate any section of the tax code. What if they decided to hand out million dollar speeding tickets, would that be okay? I mean you get your fair trial and you are in fact guilty, so then anything up to and including the electric char is legal punishment?
I mean if you have a teen on trial for shoplifting and he gives the judge the finger and tell him to fuck off the judge still can't throw him in jail for 20 years just because he feels like it. But for copyright infringement you're already fucked at the minimum penalty and the sky is practically the limit. Then again you shouldn't expect much from a country where a $100 theft can be your third felony and land you a 25 year minimum in jail.
Stats companies can't break out their stats?
Of course they can, but the first taste is free and for publicity. If you want details, they want to get paid. Seems to be a working business model to me.
Thirdly, it doesn't have a propensity to crash.
Chrome itself doesn't have a propensity to crash, but individual pages sure still do. It's not nearly as annoying, but it happens. And it can definitively hang long enough for Windows to say Chrome is unresponsive, but if you choose to wait it'll almost always come around. It sure better too, because it seems even the simplest tab eats 20MB of memory...
I don't know any stats company that gives out data on a per hour basis so you can compare business and non-business hours, not to mention not everyone is working but the weekends usually look like this: Chrome +2%, IE -2% and Firefox about even.
Statcounter just tracks requests. Google Chrome started using pre-loading pages, which artificially inflates page views. Move along.
Actually they've changed that:
Prerendering adjustment
Further to a significant number of user requests, we are now adjusting our browser stats to remove the effect of prerendering in Google Chrome. From May 1 2012, prerendered pages (that are not actually viewed) are not included in our stats. More information on this is available in our FAQ.
They've been on a dot release every 3 months for many years now. But since they were never going to get off the 2.6 series they renamed 2.6.40 to 3.0, moving everything up one level so 2.6.41 => 3.1, 2.6.42 => 3.2 etc. You can call this one 2.6.44 if it makes you more comfortable, it's the same thing.
Even if you do get caught downloading only and not uploading what are they going to tell the judge? Hey this guy downloaded something he already paid for? What kind of damages would they actually get.
Statutory damages. That is, damages that are specified in the statute - the law - and don't care one bit about the circumstances. So a $750 minimum (or $200 if you had no reason to believe you were breaking the law which doesn't apply here).
You'd think that if it went "Games? Steam. Music? Spotify. Tv series? TPB." that they would take a hint, but maybe that's too much to ask. But they sure wouldn't know that you'd like to see the show if you didn't see it at all.
We might, if the Toyota Corollas could pull 50 tons without a hitch. I think the reason we haven't seen greater unification is because your small devices are ARM, your big devices are x86. With the latest smart phones you have quad core CPUs, a gigabyte of RAM and 64 GB of flash - and probably cost and what's meaningful to put in a phone is the limiting factor. Put that phone in a dock with breakout cables to a keyboard, mouse, screen etc. and attach a headset/bluetooth device so you can be on the phone and the PC at the same time. Or a "laptop-dock" that turns it into a laptop if you need that. If Intel can get Microsoft on board for a full Win8 x86 phone then the smart phones could become a Wintel market as well. Undock it and it's a phone, dock it and it's a Windows desktop/laptop. You always got all your data with you, anywhere you go.
Uh, I think you're confusing max power with idle. The idle power needs to be way down in the milliwatt range, though it also doesn't need to do much of anything in that state. ARM got a ton of experience with that kind of low power. Intel got the money and the superior processing tech. AMD would need to pull a rabbit out of the hat to not be second runner up in that competition.
If a kid is going to die in a year, school really serves no purpose.
Your grades don't matter, but if you're in school age then school is where all your friends are. Sure if you'd take time off to go to Disney World that's fine but I think being at home playing all by yourself would just make life seem even less meaningful. I don't know as it's a pretty horrible situation to be in but I think I'd try to maintain normality for as long as possible to stave off the gloom and doom of what's coming. I do feel I'm applying a different standard than I would to myself though, because I'd pretty instantly take leave/resign from my job to do something else than work. Not exactly sure what that'd be, but it wouldn't be sitting at the office...
Well, first of all your process better describes the EU under the previous Maastricht Treaty than under the current Lisbon Treaty that came into effect in 2009. Now both the European Commission and the European Parliament - which is voted in directly - has to approve of directives. Secondly, there is a problem here with time. For example here in Norway we're required to implement the Data Retention Directive that was passed in the EU in 2006 but we still haven't done it. And no matter how much we vote now for different politicians and new ministers it's impossible for us to get out of this agreement. Our own parliament has been effectively neutered so it can't actually do anything. If the government passes a bad law, we can elect a new government and change the law. If they agree to a bad EU directive, we're fucked.
Whoops, AC parent is right I was mixing numbers. Delta IV-H payload should be 49.7 kLBS, not 29 kLBS. So considerably bigger than the Falcon 9, but still smaller than the planned Falcon Heavy and much smaller than the Saturn V.
Tell me, How much of the 1960's Saturn V payload of 256,000 LBS to orbit can this shining new example of "private" technology the Falcon lift? If and when it works?
Well, the heaviest rocket the US can launch today after the shuttle program ended is the Delta IV-H, which at 29 kLBS is not that much bigger than a Falcon 9 at 23 kLBS. The Saturn Vs were an amazing piece of engineering, but they retired almost 40 years ago because they had no other market or purpose than to go to the moon. The Falcon 9 will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Delta IV, Atlas V etc. in their most common medium configuration and the planned Falcon Heavy would exceed any rocket operational today but it'll still only be half a Saturn V. I'm sure SpaceX would love to build a rocket bigger and more badass than the Saturn V, but unless the endless budgets of the Apollo era come back I don't think that's going to happen. Not for NASA, not for SpaceX.
And if I wound-up losing and owing $1.5 million (two songs infringed upon), I'd consider that a life sentence.
No no, you see there's a generous cap on maximum damages so you'd only owe $300k, to get as much as $1.5 million you must be a big time infringer sharing at least 10 files or a little less than an album.