carpet bombing is generally used to refer to large formations of bombers dropping their entire bombload over a target.
a "long stick" delivery is used to refer to operations where the aircraft will deliver a portion of it's weapons load (possibly all of it in the case of a fighter/bomber) in a set line. the weapons are not all dropped at the same point, but are released at regular intervals as the aircraft flies over the target area.
those pics remind me oh so much of my poor batterd P2, whose only offense to the world was dual booting to 98se for gaming. similar extent of damage to the case. Managed to salvage a sound card and a NIC from the box, the rest is toast. Yes, that includes the case.
Insurance? yeah, I was told I had it. I paid for it. When I tried to claim on it, I was told that I couldn't because it was a personal shipment, and sure enough, they cheerfully ignored the insurance forms I'd filled out.
In the end, all told between that system and damage to another one, I ended up having to shell almost $1200 for replacement parts, and for my trouble, I got pretty much zip.
So, don't ship UPS. Don't believe them when they claim they will let you insure it. if it's not a business shipment, their insurance dept. won't go near it. From now on I'm using Purolator
I'm just wondering how(if) they're going to guarantee the quality of what they're charging for. I mean, if it's a napster clone, then following the performance of napster, 3/5 of my paid downloads will turn out to be of little or no quality, or incomplete tracks. So I'll end up paying for a few songs, then deciding that even at 1 cent a song, it's not worth it. A possibility that occurs to me is that their client could be made to only accept songs that can be identified through CDDB, this would allow the client to check the length of the song (+- a few seconds). The only problem here is that it would exclude any cd's or songs not found in the cddb database. just a thought, it'll be interesting to see if they even address this, or if they just ask for money for the same ol' incomplete songs and faked filenames.
If MP3's sound the same as cd's to you, then you go with that. Personally I prefer the CD, because there are things lost in the compression. noticeably the high/low end of he sound spectrum. MP3's (even at 320 kbit) sound noticeably "flat" next to the same music played from a cd IMHO. in addition, I use napster, and I use other means of getting MP3's. if I like the song, I get the cd (so I can play it on my stereo, and on the bus in my discman). It's simply a matter of noticing that while they already have enough money, cd sales are what keep bands around. if I want a band to put out new stuff, I'll buy their CD's. if I don't like it enough to buy it, chances are it has an EXTREMELY short lifespan on my HDD. as for taking mp3's with you? well sure, when discman like mp3 players become common. but portable mp3 players seem to be a half-assed (maybe 1/4 assed:) solution. they don't hold enough, and you need a PC to reload more/different tunes to 'em. if I want to hear something different on my discman, I pop another cd into it. no muss, no fuss, more convenient. Just my $0.02
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carpet bombing is generally used to refer to large formations of bombers dropping their entire bombload over a target.
a "long stick" delivery is used to refer to operations where the aircraft will deliver a portion of it's weapons load (possibly all of it in the case of a fighter/bomber) in a set line. the weapons are not all dropped at the same point, but are released at regular intervals as the aircraft flies over the target area.
I shipped with UPS once. _ONCE_
those pics remind me oh so much of my poor batterd P2, whose only offense to the world was dual booting to 98se for gaming. similar extent of damage to the case. Managed to salvage a sound card and a NIC from the box, the rest is toast. Yes, that includes the case.
Insurance? yeah, I was told I had it. I paid for it. When I tried to claim on it, I was told that I couldn't because it was a personal shipment, and sure enough, they cheerfully ignored the insurance forms I'd filled out.
In the end, all told between that system and damage to another one, I ended up having to shell almost $1200 for replacement parts, and for my trouble, I got pretty much zip.
So, don't ship UPS. Don't believe them when they claim they will let you insure it. if it's not a business shipment, their insurance dept. won't go near it. From now on I'm using Purolator
I'm just wondering how(if) they're going to guarantee the quality of what they're charging for. I mean, if it's a napster clone, then following the performance of napster, 3/5 of my paid downloads will turn out to be of little or no quality, or incomplete tracks. So I'll end up paying for a few songs, then deciding that even at 1 cent a song, it's not worth it. A possibility that occurs to me is that their client could be made to only accept songs that can be identified through CDDB, this would allow the client to check the length of the song (+- a few seconds). The only problem here is that it would exclude any cd's or songs not found in the cddb database. just a thought, it'll be interesting to see if they even address this, or if they just ask for money for the same ol' incomplete songs and faked filenames.
If MP3's sound the same as cd's to you, then you go with that. Personally I prefer the CD, because there are things lost in the compression. noticeably the high/low end of he sound spectrum. MP3's (even at 320 kbit) sound noticeably "flat" next to the same music played from a cd IMHO. in addition, I use napster, and I use other means of getting MP3's. if I like the song, I get the cd (so I can play it on my stereo, and on the bus in my discman). It's simply a matter of noticing that while they already have enough money, cd sales are what keep bands around. if I want a band to put out new stuff, I'll buy their CD's. if I don't like it enough to buy it, chances are it has an EXTREMELY short lifespan on my HDD. as for taking mp3's with you? well sure, when discman like mp3 players become common. but portable mp3 players seem to be a half-assed (maybe 1/4 assed :) solution. they don't hold enough, and you need a PC to reload more/different tunes to 'em. if I want to hear something different on my discman, I pop another cd into it. no muss, no fuss, more convenient. Just my $0.02