Yes, I think that guy had it wrong. Some songs should be $0.99 and some should be $0.75. The $0.99 price point puts an album around $7.99, which is a price I haven't seen on the shelves for new material in a long time. But the record companies also have to realize that there is no packaging or physical medium involved, so the price has to be lower. I feel the public won't bear a higher average price, but we also said that about gasoline and everyone's still cruising along.
The price can definitely go much lower, especially when you are trying to move copies of music that people would otherwise not get. They should not be afraid to price a few songs on an album at $0.99, some at $1.25 (for current hits?) and possibly some at $0.50 for those real stinkers they use to pad an album. This guy is just out of touch and lashing out in an industry's last gasps before reform sets in.
or define the single dominant body in its immediate neighborhood as the only qualifying object for planetary status
Neptune would be the dominant body in Pluto's region of space
I'm just wondering how they consider Neptune the dominant object in Pluto's section of space. Check out these facts...
1. Pluto is a very long way from the Sun. Its average distance from the Sun is over 6 billion kilometers. The closest Pluto gets to the Sun is over 4.3 billion kilometers., and the furthest away it gets is over 7.2 billion kilometers. From Pluto,
2. Neptune is a very long way away from the Sun. Its average distance from the Sun is almost 4.5 billion kilometers, or over thirty times the distance from Earth to the Sun. The orbit, or path, Neptune follows around the Sun is almost a perfect circle. The closest Neptune gets to the Sun is about 4.3 billion kilometers., and the furthest away it gets is a little over 4.6 billion kilometers. Neptune is about 49500 kilometers wide.
3. The average distance of Uranus from the Sun is about 3 billion kilometers. It is about 51800 kilometers wide.
This means Neptune and Pluto are 1.5 billion kilometers away using average distances. With Uranus an average of 3 billion kilometers away from the sun, that puts it as far away from Neptune as Pluto, again on average. Someone needs to do a planetwalk to get an idea of the scale of things. I wouldn't say Pluto is in the neighborhood of Neptune any more than I would say Mars is in the neighborhood of Mercury. BTW, Sedna and 2003 EL61 aren't in the neighborhood of Pluto either. See here for scales.
Ah, but you haven't seen how the Hummer H15 wastes hydrogen at one bottle per mile. The hydrogen fields they found under Cambodia really changed everything...at least for the 15 minutes they remained on the map before the Chinese invaded. But they were a good 15 minutes! Better than dying for oil, now people die for rare gases.
Then there's also the Matrix style human farms set up to gather methane as sponsorted by B&M Baked Beans.
Back at an old job 10 years ago, we were decommissioning some very very old hard drives in some Sun servers that took up an entire rack for just four drives, one shelf each. We decided to have some fun and break out the hammers, drills and chisels. It took us days to break through those with the measley tools we had on hand, but in the end we rendered all platters useless. Giant platters with multiple drill holes, awful scratches, fingerprint marks, bent and twisted. For a while we adorned our cubicles with these to show what real data loss looks like.
IT Managers dealing in MSOffice should familiarize themselves with this page and determine what to pay for based on an employee's role in the company. Just as everyone doesn't need Office Professional, some do, and some only need Word. Buying upward because of a "good deal" is wasteful if it will never be used.
Even if it doesn't save you money, why do you feel compelled to spend the extra money for the programs you are claiming you don't want anyway? Do you have so little respect for the money you make that you are willing to toss in an extra $20 for something you won't need and may never use?
Interpretation: Geeks, work harder at getting that chick who works at the front desk to even notice you! You're killing our civilization! Maybe this is WoW's fault.
$10 per person multiplied by the 280 million Americans gives you $2.8 billion. What the hell kind of city do you expect to build for $2.8billion?!? You might get one of the World Trade Center towers, much less a tiny neighborhood. Paved in gold? I dont think so. Money doesn't spread as far as you think. Are you even using the same math we are?
You must not know about Yellowstone. Or that volcano in the Atlantic ready to cause a tidal wave. Or that meteor scheduled to smack into the earth in a few decades. You may not have heard - there is a 100% guarantee of death on this planet. Safe to say, it's a dangerous place.
Don't forget Guild Wars, which is $43, but without a monthly fee. Produced by Ultima's Richard "Lord British" Garriott. If you've ever played Ultima Online or WoW, this game retains the same feel while getting rid of some of the annoying problems the older games had. They seem to have tons of servers for the same realms to avoid overcrowding, but its easy to quickly switch between servers in game play if you want to team up with friends.
Definitely! Just as soon as you get a 30 year track record selling them as successful comics to guarantee a following that would beat their mothers blind for a chance to see the movie version.
Yes, because MSN Search is not software. It is an army of killer monkeys trained to sort words into various barrels which are then counted by benign iguana overlords before being typed repeatedly by specialized "word guru" clams using a special stick and single-key keyboard. It took decades of research to find this combination, but we finally have the Soviets beat in word search!
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Kind of like making Pluto a planet.
Yes, I think that guy had it wrong. Some songs should be $0.99 and some should be $0.75. The $0.99 price point puts an album around $7.99, which is a price I haven't seen on the shelves for new material in a long time. But the record companies also have to realize that there is no packaging or physical medium involved, so the price has to be lower. I feel the public won't bear a higher average price, but we also said that about gasoline and everyone's still cruising along.
The price can definitely go much lower, especially when you are trying to move copies of music that people would otherwise not get. They should not be afraid to price a few songs on an album at $0.99, some at $1.25 (for current hits?) and possibly some at $0.50 for those real stinkers they use to pad an album. This guy is just out of touch and lashing out in an industry's last gasps before reform sets in.
Nabaztag sounds like a Sumerian demon or one of the bad dudes in a Guild Wars quest. I think the rabbit's eyes follow you around the room, too.
I'm just wondering how they consider Neptune the dominant object in Pluto's section of space. Check out these facts...
This means Neptune and Pluto are 1.5 billion kilometers away using average distances. With Uranus an average of 3 billion kilometers away from the sun, that puts it as far away from Neptune as Pluto, again on average. Someone needs to do a planetwalk to get an idea of the scale of things. I wouldn't say Pluto is in the neighborhood of Neptune any more than I would say Mars is in the neighborhood of Mercury. BTW, Sedna and 2003 EL61 aren't in the neighborhood of Pluto either. See here for scales.
Let's make it easy. Life is when you can ponder about life. I wonder if fish can ponder.
Sounds like a mission from some new MMORPG. Where can I download a demo?
I have also been using it for a few days and I'm thinking of changing back. I don't mind the layout, but it so slooooooooooooooooow.
Ah, but you haven't seen how the Hummer H15 wastes hydrogen at one bottle per mile. The hydrogen fields they found under Cambodia really changed everything...at least for the 15 minutes they remained on the map before the Chinese invaded. But they were a good 15 minutes! Better than dying for oil, now people die for rare gases.
Then there's also the Matrix style human farms set up to gather methane as sponsorted by B&M Baked Beans.
But that's a really cool trilogy.
He even has the positive testimonial of Barbie, who now claims "math is easy."
Good lord, we're not even done conquering the Middle East and now we've declared war on the animal kingdom for our energy needs! Norway is next!
Is that like being kinda pregnant?
Back at an old job 10 years ago, we were decommissioning some very very old hard drives in some Sun servers that took up an entire rack for just four drives, one shelf each. We decided to have some fun and break out the hammers, drills and chisels. It took us days to break through those with the measley tools we had on hand, but in the end we rendered all platters useless. Giant platters with multiple drill holes, awful scratches, fingerprint marks, bent and twisted. For a while we adorned our cubicles with these to show what real data loss looks like.
IT Managers dealing in MSOffice should familiarize themselves with this page and determine what to pay for based on an employee's role in the company. Just as everyone doesn't need Office Professional, some do, and some only need Word. Buying upward because of a "good deal" is wasteful if it will never be used.
Even if it doesn't save you money, why do you feel compelled to spend the extra money for the programs you are claiming you don't want anyway? Do you have so little respect for the money you make that you are willing to toss in an extra $20 for something you won't need and may never use?
Interpretation:
Geeks, work harder at getting that chick who works at the front desk to even notice you! You're killing our civilization! Maybe this is WoW's fault.
Because it's so hard to wait until you are done browsing to do the update. One MUST ALWAYS update while they have a dozen tabs open.
$10 per person multiplied by the 280 million Americans gives you $2.8 billion. What the hell kind of city do you expect to build for $2.8billion?!? You might get one of the World Trade Center towers, much less a tiny neighborhood. Paved in gold? I dont think so. Money doesn't spread as far as you think. Are you even using the same math we are?
In his past he was stalking you.
You must not know about Yellowstone. Or that volcano in the Atlantic ready to cause a tidal wave. Or that meteor scheduled to smack into the earth in a few decades. You may not have heard - there is a 100% guarantee of death on this planet. Safe to say, it's a dangerous place.
Don't forget Guild Wars, which is $43, but without a monthly fee. Produced by Ultima's Richard "Lord British" Garriott. If you've ever played Ultima Online or WoW, this game retains the same feel while getting rid of some of the annoying problems the older games had. They seem to have tons of servers for the same realms to avoid overcrowding, but its easy to quickly switch between servers in game play if you want to team up with friends.
Definitely! Just as soon as you get a 30 year track record selling them as successful comics to guarantee a following that would beat their mothers blind for a chance to see the movie version.
PLEASE let them get rid of that barf color that the IT section is wedged under. Ughhhh... so ugly, sooooo ugleeeeeee.
I would hope an AI wouldn't bother with something as medieval as laces.
Yes, because MSN Search is not software. It is an army of killer monkeys trained to sort words into various barrels which are then counted by benign iguana overlords before being typed repeatedly by specialized "word guru" clams using a special stick and single-key keyboard. It took decades of research to find this combination, but we finally have the Soviets beat in word search!