If they start fantasizing about the wrong things (underage,
Now, wait. Are you saying they shouldn't fantasize about their age-mates? Just adults? Doesn't that make them more likely to have sex with adults and not their peers, before they become adults? And if they have sex with adults after fantasizing about it, would you still condemn the adults for having sex with underage kids, even though that's the only sexuality you allow your children to have?
If size were the issue, CD Singles would be released on half-size discs...
How old are you? =) CD3s were created expressly to sell singles back in the early days of CDs, but at the price points back then, nobody wanted to pay $6-9 for them and slot-loading players ate them, so they went back to regular CD5s to make it look like you were getting more than you were. Nice marketing trick, right? They still only had 3-5 tracks, the others often just slight remixes of the first one. And then came the EP, which was basically around 5 tracks that weren't the same song, marketed as a mini album.
Oh, and then there was the minidisc, which failed even after Sony introduced the MD-Data format, which could hold over 200MB of data, and could be used with a portable drive for laptops, well before Iomega's data-corrupting click o' death Zip format became popular. DCC was a dead consumer format by then, but I guess Sony wanted to keep tight rein on MD and nobody wanted to pay the huge licensing fees to make drives or discs for the first couple of years.
Now, though... Don't think of a little square holding one album. Think of a postcard-sized form factor holding your entire MP3 collection. Or a little smaller, something to compete with the iPod. =)
Surely it is relatively easy to make a helicopter that can fly itself? Seriously. All the need to be able to do is go up, down, forward and turn.
What happens when a big gust of wind hits it, or it flies into an area of much different air pressure?
Don't forget, there are a number of piloted helicopter accidents each year, from CAREFlights to the guys in Hawaii who fly tourists around. It's very easy to lose control.
Not to mention all the software needed to interact with the payload, which might be anything from a camera that needs to send data back securely to something that needs to be dumped over a target (needing software to control the door and/or arm, and the ability to compensate when the payload is released and the vehicle is suddenly that much lighter, and possibly automatic visual confirmation of location, because GPS may not be accurate enough, especially if this is a military venture)...
I saw it too, was just digging around because I thought it was in WIRED, my mistake. I do remember the text saying that it's only a concept and doesn't actually work, though.
After they're brought to court it will also be revealed that they drew a stick figure sco representitive holding a gun to the kitten and a match to the house
Then SCO will get sentenced to using only the "ugly" crayon colors on icky rough manilla paper, and have to sit out during the Thanksgiving pizza party and miss the Hawaiian punch my mom always brings. Betcha my cupcake SCO cries!
Alas the American legal system is fucked up beyond belief. Read this story. A millionare is now free after admitting to killing and dismembering somebody. If that is not fucked up I don't know what is.
Wasn't it a jury trial? In which case it's the American public that's at fault, not the legal system. "Oh yeah, he said he did it, but saying he's guilty would be horrible! He'd have to go to jail or something! And he's old already, look, he has lines on his face! If he was a bad guy, wouldn't he lie and say he didn't do it? Millionaires are nice people! This other millionaire came by during a break and gave us all some bling-bling*, and said he was proud we were going to find him not guilty. Besides, the dead guy was some old fart that talked too much, so we know hoe he feels..."
*bling-bling is the sound the brain-dead consumer makes, that equates to Cat on Red Dwarf saying, "Ooooh! A SHINY thing!"
People buy games and hardware to play those games, not hardware and games to play on that hardware.
Yup. When both were about to come out, I made a list of which games I wanted to play on each platform and decided to buy them when the games came out.
Final Fantasy X was on my list for PS2. Bought both. Two games from the movie A.I. were scheduled for release on Xbox, and I would have bought it for those two. They were scuttled. I'm not into FPS, and haven't seen anything compelling, otherwise, to get me to buy an Xbox.
Do you really think it is an economically sound idea for people to drain "enormous amounts of money" from the economy to provide a service that can be rendered obsolete?
No. This is why I said
"However wrongly, our economy and society is based on energy as a tradeable commodity"
If this ramped up quickly, without proper preparation, there could be huge turmoil. Done slowly, it could be a lot better.
Right, he also doesn't mention how raising the average income to 150K just makes the rich, richer, and the poor, poorer.
No kidding, especially when almost all the people involved in energy production get thrown out of work. You know, like the people making enormous amounts of money to do dangerous offshore drilling, etc., and the little industries that cater to them. Not to mention all the Native American reservations and senior citizens that rely on oil rights for big and small checks every month. Alaska's economy, largely supported by fossil fuel taxes, might literally "go south" with any major shift away from those fuels.
And yes, if the average income is about $150K a year, the CPI will rise to meet it, though it may lag a quarter or two as people spend their income on luxury goods first. Housing generally costs 1/3 of Americans' income (can't quote you a source, but that was the figure we used in my economics classes) so suddenly the average apartment will rent for over $4K a month. Those who are recently out of work will find that their $300 weekly unemployment checks are almost worthless, but state governments won't have the funds right away to approve increases. Most peoples' savings will be wiped out. Not to mention that the government won't be able to maintain relativistic price supports for milk and other foodstuffs, and many farms (mostly corporate these days) will go under, causing potential shortages, though the crisis pricing may keep too many from going under if they rise quickly enough...
If you want an example of what happens when monetary supply is suddenly shifted outward and the basis of income for large quantities of people suddenly disappears at the same time, just look at good old post-cold war Russia right now. Those who managed to gain control over useful capital before the change are now extremely wealthy, while the unemployment rate soars, food is scarce, and so many kids are orphaned and hungry that it's now become a major center of child abuse and exploitation. Not to mention all the diseases that people can't afford to treat, running through the population.
Microwave energy would be a great resource, but until we change our society, it won't be "free." However wrongly, our economy and society is based on energy as a tradeable commodity, and we can't ignore that.
I hardly ever pay to see movies any more; since our local art houses have gotten into the "business" (think internet bubble) of pre-release screenings, I get several invitations a month to go to free shows. Not to mention that my local film festival gets me other invites, simply for being a member.
I actually do read reviews, mostly online, when I can get them, simply because there's no local word of mouth nor advertising for these things, before I get the invites. Otherwise I just have to rely on what the email or card says about the plot of a movie. Basically in the last month I've turned down "Sylvia" because of horrendous reviews and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" because I don't do horror stories. This week I have 3 free movies to go see, including "Bad Santa," which I'll see ONLY because it got good reviews, "Shattered Glass," which sounds interesting but which I may pass up for an astronomy club meeting (don't laugh), and "Mona Lisa Smile," which sounds sappy, but which I'll probably watch anyway.
If I do pay to see movies, it's usually because of trailers I've seen in the theater that pique my interest, like "Veronica Guerin," which I'll pay for if I don't get a pass.
My best solution has come down to keeping updated versions of QuickTime, RealOne, Windows Media Player, VLC, and Mplayer around. In my experience, this has been the only way to make sure I can play every media file I come across.
I keep a Windows build of mplayer, patched for Tivo files, around for that reason, also. Amazing how many video compression schemes have been abandoned in the last few years.
What's the length? 64? I can live with that, actually.
In my opinion. anything approaching that length makes messy lists, is very unwieldy, and should be put in subdirectories. Though I can understand your preference otherwise.
If you tell me it's 11 or 16 or even 32, though, I'll agree it's annoying.
Good point, we are talking here about a 10% profit margin. Something most businesses would consider to be ample.
Especially for something that is absolutely Internet-dependent. A good, reliable 10% return would be a very sound investment. Especially since the costs as a factor of production will be even better as they expand the business to include more artists.
Speaking of which, if I were a recording artist, I'd love to cut a deal with Apple where they'd get 25% or more profit in turn for great promotion, because my net profit per unit sold would be so much greater than a deal with a traditional distributor.
got to admit, there is something cool about being an endangered species facing imminent extinction
You should be doubly happy, now that you use a BSD-based operating system. The first thread in reponse to Linus announcing that he had just written a little OS and people could play with it was probably a debate about how it was a good thing, because BSD was dying.
Just kidding, of course, but you get my point.
You get so much admiring and attention, you get to be on lots of TV documentaries and in lots of newspaper articles, and everyone wants to be like you because you're beautiful.:-p
Ick. now you sound like a supermodel, anorexic and delusional. Get help!:)
iTunes for Windows doesn't follow any of the guidelines for Windows software - it is, to use (some of) your phraseology, a knockoff of Mac software.
Don't forget Quicktime for Windows. Recent editions are better, but only some versions will play some movies, and so forth.
Also, I wonder if the poster saying that Microsoft is offering sucky programs for Mac users knows about Office X. I haven't heard bad things about that, yet.
Isn't this the same way it works with regular garbage? Why should this be any different? We put out our garbage + recyling bin all at once. This doesn't add any difficulty at all.
No, we here in the big city actually get two trash pickups a week.:)
By this do you mean that they don't provide bins or they don't allow them? Because if it's just that they don't provide them, it's easily solved. Do they provide garbage cans? Ideally, they should provide recycling bins as well.
They don't provide them, and they apparently won't pick up from them. In our neighborhood, at least, you have to put the recyclables in a bag on the ground next to the big trash can. And if you leave them out the night before, neighborhood critters (not excluding adolescent bipedals) will strew them about your yard. Some neighborhoods do have recycle bins that are provided/sold to the residents, but not us. Like I was saying, it's very patchwork.
When I lived in an apartment in Portland, we had specific bins for a while, and they were definitely used by people. So I know how it feels to have it available.
We supposedly have curbside recycling here, but in the past we've gotten new reports about all our nicely sorted castoffs winding up in landfills anyway because of market oversupply. And if you live something other than an apartment or condo, you can only set stuff out once a week, and put them in plastic bags, not nice neat bins or anything. And if it rains on your bags of paper that day, you've wasted your time. And every neighborhood has different days, and so forth, so it's really a pain. So most of us continue to throw almost everything away.
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Most of those laws only apply to people who spam from within a state. They can't really be held up against someone spamming from another country.
International patent law, however, is another matter.
Now, wait. Are you saying they shouldn't fantasize about their age-mates? Just adults? Doesn't that make them more likely to have sex with adults and not their peers, before they become adults? And if they have sex with adults after fantasizing about it, would you still condemn the adults for having sex with underage kids, even though that's the only sexuality you allow your children to have?
Since when does making light of Saddam Hussein equal an attack on Islam?
Thanks, I needed a new signature.
That just cracked me up.
How old are you? =) CD3s were created expressly to sell singles back in the early days of CDs, but at the price points back then, nobody wanted to pay $6-9 for them and slot-loading players ate them, so they went back to regular CD5s to make it look like you were getting more than you were. Nice marketing trick, right? They still only had 3-5 tracks, the others often just slight remixes of the first one. And then came the EP, which was basically around 5 tracks that weren't the same song, marketed as a mini album.
Oh, and then there was the minidisc, which failed even after Sony introduced the MD-Data format, which could hold over 200MB of data, and could be used with a portable drive for laptops, well before Iomega's data-corrupting click o' death Zip format became popular. DCC was a dead consumer format by then, but I guess Sony wanted to keep tight rein on MD and nobody wanted to pay the huge licensing fees to make drives or discs for the first couple of years.
Now, though... Don't think of a little square holding one album. Think of a postcard-sized form factor holding your entire MP3 collection. Or a little smaller, something to compete with the iPod. =)
ok, cool. I want to build one, so I'll be looking for college students' plans, I guess.
So why wasn't this done decades ago, then?
What happens when a big gust of wind hits it, or it flies into an area of much different air pressure?
Don't forget, there are a number of piloted helicopter accidents each year, from CAREFlights to the guys in Hawaii who fly tourists around. It's very easy to lose control.
Not to mention all the software needed to interact with the payload, which might be anything from a camera that needs to send data back securely to something that needs to be dumped over a target (needing software to control the door and/or arm, and the ability to compensate when the payload is released and the vehicle is suddenly that much lighter, and possibly automatic visual confirmation of location, because GPS may not be accurate enough, especially if this is a military venture)...
I saw it too, was just digging around because I thought it was in WIRED, my mistake. I do remember the text saying that it's only a concept and doesn't actually work, though.
Then SCO will get sentenced to using only the "ugly" crayon colors on icky rough manilla paper, and have to sit out during the Thanksgiving pizza party and miss the Hawaiian punch my mom always brings. Betcha my cupcake SCO cries!
Wow, that's what you call turning the tables on SCO.
Wasn't it a jury trial? In which case it's the American public that's at fault, not the legal system. "Oh yeah, he said he did it, but saying he's guilty would be horrible! He'd have to go to jail or something! And he's old already, look, he has lines on his face! If he was a bad guy, wouldn't he lie and say he didn't do it? Millionaires are nice people! This other millionaire came by during a break and gave us all some bling-bling*, and said he was proud we were going to find him not guilty. Besides, the dead guy was some old fart that talked too much, so we know hoe he feels..."
*bling-bling is the sound the brain-dead consumer makes, that equates to Cat on Red Dwarf saying, "Ooooh! A SHINY thing!"
Yup. When both were about to come out, I made a list of which games I wanted to play on each platform and decided to buy them when the games came out.
Final Fantasy X was on my list for PS2. Bought both.
Two games from the movie A.I. were scheduled for release on Xbox, and I would have bought it for those two. They were scuttled. I'm not into FPS, and haven't seen anything compelling, otherwise, to get me to buy an Xbox.
No. This is why I said
If this ramped up quickly, without proper preparation, there could be huge turmoil. Done slowly, it could be a lot better.
No kidding, especially when almost all the people involved in energy production get thrown out of work. You know, like the people making enormous amounts of money to do dangerous offshore drilling, etc., and the little industries that cater to them. Not to mention all the Native American reservations and senior citizens that rely on oil rights for big and small checks every month. Alaska's economy, largely supported by fossil fuel taxes, might literally "go south" with any major shift away from those fuels.
And yes, if the average income is about $150K a year, the CPI will rise to meet it, though it may lag a quarter or two as people spend their income on luxury goods first. Housing generally costs 1/3 of Americans' income (can't quote you a source, but that was the figure we used in my economics classes) so suddenly the average apartment will rent for over $4K a month. Those who are recently out of work will find that their $300 weekly unemployment checks are almost worthless, but state governments won't have the funds right away to approve increases. Most peoples' savings will be wiped out. Not to mention that the government won't be able to maintain relativistic price supports for milk and other foodstuffs, and many farms (mostly corporate these days) will go under, causing potential shortages, though the crisis pricing may keep too many from going under if they rise quickly enough...
If you want an example of what happens when monetary supply is suddenly shifted outward and the basis of income for large quantities of people suddenly disappears at the same time, just look at good old post-cold war Russia right now. Those who managed to gain control over useful capital before the change are now extremely wealthy, while the unemployment rate soars, food is scarce, and so many kids are orphaned and hungry that it's now become a major center of child abuse and exploitation. Not to mention all the diseases that people can't afford to treat, running through the population.
Microwave energy would be a great resource, but until we change our society, it won't be "free." However wrongly, our economy and society is based on energy as a tradeable commodity, and we can't ignore that.
I hardly ever pay to see movies any more; since our local art houses have gotten into the "business" (think internet bubble) of pre-release screenings, I get several invitations a month to go to free shows. Not to mention that my local film festival gets me other invites, simply for being a member.
I actually do read reviews, mostly online, when I can get them, simply because there's no local word of mouth nor advertising for these things, before I get the invites. Otherwise I just have to rely on what the email or card says about the plot of a movie. Basically in the last month I've turned down "Sylvia" because of horrendous reviews and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" because I don't do horror stories. This week I have 3 free movies to go see, including "Bad Santa," which I'll see ONLY because it got good reviews, "Shattered Glass," which sounds interesting but which I may pass up for an astronomy club meeting (don't laugh), and "Mona Lisa Smile," which sounds sappy, but which I'll probably watch anyway.
If I do pay to see movies, it's usually because of trailers I've seen in the theater that pique my interest, like "Veronica Guerin," which I'll pay for if I don't get a pass.
I keep a Windows build of mplayer, patched for Tivo files, around for that reason, also. Amazing how many video compression schemes have been abandoned in the last few years.
What's the length? 64? I can live with that, actually.
In my opinion. anything approaching that length makes messy lists, is very unwieldy, and should be put in subdirectories. Though I can understand your preference otherwise.
If you tell me it's 11 or 16 or even 32, though, I'll agree it's annoying.
Especially for something that is absolutely Internet-dependent. A good, reliable 10% return would be a very sound investment. Especially since the costs as a factor of production will be even better as they expand the business to include more artists.
Speaking of which, if I were a recording artist, I'd love to cut a deal with Apple where they'd get 25% or more profit in turn for great promotion, because my net profit per unit sold would be so much greater than a deal with a traditional distributor.
You should be doubly happy, now that you use a BSD-based operating system. The first thread in reponse to Linus announcing that he had just written a little OS and people could play with it was probably a debate about how it was a good thing, because BSD was dying.
Just kidding, of course, but you get my point.
Ick. now you sound like a supermodel, anorexic and delusional. Get help!
Don't forget Quicktime for Windows. Recent editions are better, but only some versions will play some movies, and so forth.
Also, I wonder if the poster saying that Microsoft is offering sucky programs for Mac users knows about Office X. I haven't heard bad things about that, yet.
Wow! So it's like Quicktime for Windows?
No, we here in the big city actually get two trash pickups a week.
They don't provide them, and they apparently won't pick up from them. In our neighborhood, at least, you have to put the recyclables in a bag on the ground next to the big trash can. And if you leave them out the night before, neighborhood critters (not excluding adolescent bipedals) will strew them about your yard. Some neighborhoods do have recycle bins that are provided/sold to the residents, but not us. Like I was saying, it's very patchwork.
When I lived in an apartment in Portland, we had specific bins for a while, and they were definitely used by people. So I know how it feels to have it available.
We supposedly have curbside recycling here, but in the past we've gotten new reports about all our nicely sorted castoffs winding up in landfills anyway because of market oversupply. And if you live something other than an apartment or condo, you can only set stuff out once a week, and put them in plastic bags, not nice neat bins or anything. And if it rains on your bags of paper that day, you've wasted your time. And every neighborhood has different days, and so forth, so it's really a pain. So most of us continue to throw almost everything away.
which one did they choose? Which one would you choose? I don't know anything about the ATI lines, so I can't really judge them.