Funny thing I've found over the last 10-15 years or so, I've been buying most of my CDs (and now electronically distributed music) without even having heard a single track. They're either bands I already know and will get because it's their latest, or I'll have heard about a band/read a review and taken a chance. Found lots of great music this way. Or heard one of their songs and bought a different album.
That said, I also haven't listened to the radio in about the same amount of time:)
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If it weren't for Napster and iTunes we'd all still be driving down to the record store to buy $15 CD's, just to get the one or two songs you actually want and the 10 other songs that are complete filler..
They really shot themselves in the foot with the whole CD single thing, that was gouging pure and simple. I still have an old '45 from 1980 with the original price tag still on it: CAN$1.49. That was when LPs were 40 minutes or less with 8 songs, going for around CAN$9.99.
Every time Chrome gains market share, the Firefox developers think they need to make Firefox more like Chrome, when that's exactly what's driving people away.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Firefox devs' biggest problem is that they're duplicating Chrome's interface without any reflection or realization of why Chrome does things a certain way.
It's a Doom-like shoot-em-up, albeit with a pretty decent plot/story behind all the bang-bang. It's pretty out of date from a gaming engine perspective, but still fun as heck to play IMO. I played all the original games on the Mac back in the day, as well as a lot of the 3rd party expansions/conversions like Devil In A Blue Dress, Red, Evil, etc.
I think one of the funnest things to do was make subtle mods to the physics engine, like creating exploding rounds for the pistol or my Bruce Lee-inspired "Super Fist."
Again, it's all completely old school when compared to Modern Warfare and things like that, but sometimes a few rounds of nostalgia will satisfy a bit more than a modern game that's far too serious. Multi-player rocket arena play is a must!
Open a handful of apps. Switch between them. Now lock it and put it away for a couple of hours. Now unlock it: quick, where does "Back" take you?
Double-click on the iOS home button and you get the application switcher, so you can get back to any other running app, exactly in the state you left it.
True, but the HyperCard stack was only the driver of the LD player. By "big" monitors, the GP meant higher resolution displays which were also physically larger. The 40" TV monitor was still only going to be NTSC resolution ~640x480 square pixels.
No one is talking about early Macs, we're talking about HyperCard, which existed after Jobs left. It was axed when he came back because Apple was bleeding cash and he needed to focus the company on getting profitable again.
Hell, as a former HC user, I'd say it was already on its deathbed when it stopped coming free with every Mac and you had to buy it to get anything but the HC Player.
At the same time, the release prices for entertainment are completely batshit crazy. Games are $60, books are $35, and movies are $12? Who can afford that crap?
Price for a first run movie ticket in 1989 (Ontario, Canada): $8.00
Same thing in 2011: $12 to $13.
This is exactly following inflation, and I can guarantee you I am making more per year than I was 20 years ago.
And there will be absolutely no problems with staffing the ship with crew, or filling the galley, or getting rid of garbage and toilet waste, or getting fresh water, or shelter from storms, etc. It's a stupid pipedream, nothing more.
I like how you a priori assume there can even be such a thing as cure for cancer. It's not like people aren't very, very hard at work on trying to understand cancer as much as possible.
There are so many lawsuits flying around over patents, copyrights and wishful thinking that it's no wonder we are in recession.
LOL. Yes, clearly recessions are caused by patents and copyrights, and not out of control bankers, loose regulations surrounding investment houses, and various European governments not being able to control their budgets.
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Funny thing I've found over the last 10-15 years or so, I've been buying most of my CDs (and now electronically distributed music) without even having heard a single track. They're either bands I already know and will get because it's their latest, or I'll have heard about a band/read a review and taken a chance. Found lots of great music this way. Or heard one of their songs and bought a different album.
That said, I also haven't listened to the radio in about the same amount of time :)
If it weren't for Napster and iTunes we'd all still be driving down to the record store to buy $15 CD's, just to get the one or two songs you actually want and the 10 other songs that are complete filler..
They really shot themselves in the foot with the whole CD single thing, that was gouging pure and simple. I still have an old '45 from 1980 with the original price tag still on it: CAN$1.49. That was when LPs were 40 minutes or less with 8 songs, going for around CAN$9.99.
Every time Chrome gains market share, the Firefox developers think they need to make Firefox more like Chrome, when that's exactly what's driving people away.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Firefox devs' biggest problem is that they're duplicating Chrome's interface without any reflection or realization of why Chrome does things a certain way.
Doom-like meaning sprite-based, vs. Quake or Unreal which were fully 3D polygons. I should have been more specific.
It's a Doom-like shoot-em-up, albeit with a pretty decent plot/story behind all the bang-bang. It's pretty out of date from a gaming engine perspective, but still fun as heck to play IMO. I played all the original games on the Mac back in the day, as well as a lot of the 3rd party expansions/conversions like Devil In A Blue Dress, Red, Evil, etc.
I think one of the funnest things to do was make subtle mods to the physics engine, like creating exploding rounds for the pistol or my Bruce Lee-inspired "Super Fist."
Again, it's all completely old school when compared to Modern Warfare and things like that, but sometimes a few rounds of nostalgia will satisfy a bit more than a modern game that's far too serious. Multi-player rocket arena play is a must!
"Cancel"
What if you used that domain to host photoshopped pictures of Real Dolls?
That's why amateur porn is the best.
Paper, plastics and cans don't smell, dumbass. Composting containers seal shut so animals don't get in.
4-6 bags, doing what?! I do 1 bag every 2 weeks, and it's not always full. They do recycling and trash pickups on alternating weeks here.
Not all areas will recycle all plastics. Where I live they explicitly say which numbers to put in.
The original Angry Birds asks for Location events, you can see it in the Settings. Why does a single player game need that info?
Open a handful of apps. Switch between them. Now lock it and put it away for a couple of hours. Now unlock it: quick, where does "Back" take you?
Double-click on the iOS home button and you get the application switcher, so you can get back to any other running app, exactly in the state you left it.
They're not talking about mortgages, they're talking about credit cards. I doubt anyone's buying a house on their VISA.
Not in individual donations, no, but in volume, yes.
Well, I only have a small bag with me, so 10 gold it is!
True, but the HyperCard stack was only the driver of the LD player. By "big" monitors, the GP meant higher resolution displays which were also physically larger. The 40" TV monitor was still only going to be NTSC resolution ~640x480 square pixels.
No one is talking about early Macs, we're talking about HyperCard, which existed after Jobs left. It was axed when he came back because Apple was bleeding cash and he needed to focus the company on getting profitable again.
Hell, as a former HC user, I'd say it was already on its deathbed when it stopped coming free with every Mac and you had to buy it to get anything but the HC Player.
At the same time, the release prices for entertainment are completely batshit crazy. Games are $60, books are $35, and movies are $12? Who can afford that crap?
Price for a first run movie ticket in 1989 (Ontario, Canada): $8.00
Same thing in 2011: $12 to $13.
This is exactly following inflation, and I can guarantee you I am making more per year than I was 20 years ago.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a moron.
The only morons are the ones who take metaphorical quotations literally.
Just as long as it's not the Kung Fu Grippe, we'll be all right.
And there will be absolutely no problems with staffing the ship with crew, or filling the galley, or getting rid of garbage and toilet waste, or getting fresh water, or shelter from storms, etc. It's a stupid pipedream, nothing more.
I like how you a priori assume there can even be such a thing as cure for cancer. It's not like people aren't very, very hard at work on trying to understand cancer as much as possible.
There are so many lawsuits flying around over patents, copyrights and wishful thinking that it's no wonder we are in recession.
LOL. Yes, clearly recessions are caused by patents and copyrights, and not out of control bankers, loose regulations surrounding investment houses, and various European governments not being able to control their budgets.
Man, I don't want to see what happens when a pejazzler meets a vajazzler...