Why should I be required to spend $x on backup media, when I've already bought the non-transferrable rights to the book? I should be allowed to re-get it whenever and whereever I want. Otherwise, I want first sale rights. You can't have it both ways and still get my business. I own the rights or I own the physical copy - you cut the cake, I choose the slice.
Yeah, but think of the royalty possibilities. I mean, two feet per person in an office with three hygenists running a cleaning every 30 minutes for 8 hours a day...thats almost 100 feet per day! At just $1 per foot for the "Carpet Artist Fees", that's $20,000 per year per office! We'll be RICH I tell you!
(We won't actually charge fees for the carpet...they've "bought" that with their "own money", but we have to reimburse the creative talent who created the color or pattern.)
Yes, but if I buy a dozen coffee table books and several posters to put on the wall in my coffe bar, should I be expected to pay royalties to the artist, since my patrons may look at them while they sip their lattes?
I don't see the visual artists clamboring for cash payments for public displays of their works which they have already sold.
This is the kind of stuff they won't tell you because it's "too technical" for the masses. Unfortunately, they're right in 99% of cases - most people wouldn't "get" the optics involved and the side effects which can occur for certain uses.
This is good information, and I hope it gets cleared up in the future with newer procedures. My vision is a little to precious for me to try it right now, but I'd love to lose my glasses some day.
I plan on waiting a while, though I'd like to get it done at some point. I'm pretty finiky(sp?) with my vision. I had 20/15 and 20/12 uncorrected in high school, but my vision went downhill in college. It's still mostly astigmatism, with a touch of nearsightedness thrown in for good measure. Since I didn't grow up with glasses, I never learned good habits with them and I'm always messing them up (scratches, pits, you name it). I've tried contacts, but always have a b!tch of time getting them in and out - I just can't touch my eyes.
I have heard a bit about the newer systems, and am waiting to see 30-40 years out on the laser methods. By the time I'm 45 or so I figure 30 or 35 years of service will be good enough, 'cause I'll be a drooling idiot by then if I'm not already pushing up the daisies.
If you'd like to vote for one of the outside candidates, make sure the party you would have voted for can afford to lose. I hate the two party system, but voting third party is just going to help the guy I don't want to get (re-)elected.
If I want to spend the afternoon outside, I can get all the useful information from the game on the sports ticker at the bottom of the ESPN screen. The attraction (to many) of sporting events is not being able to know the outcome. If I can look it up, there's no sense in watching the game.
My VCR also can't list what programs are recorded by their names, or automagically record the same program all season, even if it changes timeslots.
Skipping commercials is about 5th or 6th on the "cool features" list.
Now, if I could dl my programmes en masse to a HD, or burn them to a disc, I'd be in heaven. As it is, I use an external (USB) encoder to copy the shows to the hard drive. Big waste of time, IMHO.
But depending on the wording could have far larger implications. I find commecials objectionable for my daughters TV viewing, so we watch (pretty much) only non-commercial-interspersed programs (Public TV's Sesame St and most of the Disney Channel fare only has ads before and after the show.)
Oh, it would be easy for an accountant to show a $49 cost. Figure the effort in manhours to prepare the source for release and the cost of setting up a duplicator to produce the discs. Legal fees area easily in the 5 figures for the review and distribution of a release, not no mention the CEO, CFO, CIO, and others discussing the distibution for an hour before the launch and for 10 minutes at each weekly status meeting. This cost will ahve to be amortized over a "projected" number of requests. You will have an operator producing the discs on staff, which will run you $55-75/hr, burdened, plus the packaging and labelling person at $25-$35/hr, burdened, plus the mailroom clerk, at about the same rate. Plus postage and packaging expenses at the standard company markup for such things. I'm cheap, and I only put 30% on materials, but it's often closer to 75%-100% over cost for bulk items. And don't forget to add the cost of a webserver and connection fees and programming and such for providing onfo online (I know, they don't anymore, or it could be $79/disc). All those costs need to be recovered somehow. It all adds up very quickly.
That's what George Sr Called it. Reagan tried it and it failed...miserably...at boosting tax revenue to balance the budget. The boost we got in the late 90s was an anolomly. Bill was a lucky SOB - always has been, always will be - ask any Republican. George Jr was a fool to think it would continue. There is no magic rate that maximizes taxes, but constantly changing them trying to chase some revenue holy grail is guaranteed to be a foolish endeavor.
20-40 billion would just cover start up studies. A mars mission would likely cost closer to one trillion dollars. No I don't remember the source, but it was the number bantied about when the proposal was made. And I would expect 2-3T would be the final cost, given the typical mission bloat and overruns. Nobody who wants to do something is going to tell you how expensive it could be if things don't go just right.
ST was fun, as long as you didn't read the book first (in which case you were set up for a big let-down).
I read the book after seeing clips here and there, and wondered what all the frackas was about. I loved the book. In fact, I hadn't read any Heinlein since middle school and I saw a completely different author than I did when I was 13. His political views are very interesting, if a bit on the fringe. As a result of reading ST, I read tunnel in the sky and several others. Unfortunately, he's a bit repetitive so I can only handle him in small chunks, but he's definitely fun to read.
I rented and saw the movie just a few months ago, and found it totally missing the point of the book, but a lot of fun, nonetheless. It's not one I'll buy for my collection, but it certainly wasn't 2 hours wasted.
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First, the V-2 is not a supersonic combustion ramjet. It's easy to do Mach 5, and we routinely strap people to non-airbreathing vehicles and send them far in excess of MAch 5, and have been doing so for over 30 years.
Ten years ago (more?) the Russians flew a successful SCRAMJET. It produced negative thrust, but telemetry indicated sucessful combustion. Unfortunately, the recovery systems malfunctioned and it is now an integral part of the Siberian permafrost.
An operational scramjet is quite a leap of technology, actually.
Why bother, allofmp3.com already does sell ogg. And flac, and monkey's and...well, just about every common format, including wav(!?!). Lossless compression does cost double (2c per MB vs 1c/MB for mp3/aac/ogg...why, I have no idea).
...and I don't receive a paper confirmation of my vote, can I sue claiming that my electronic ballot was counted wrong, and force them to prove it's been counted correctly?
If they can't, it means their system may be compromised. If it can, then my privacy has been compromised. Either way, without a paper trail they should lose.
Have you noticed how many foolish ideas have flourished in this supposed hotbead of intellegence this morning? According to the last poll responses, I'm guessing the average IQ is above 130 here (and well above most of your bosses).
Even if some posts are in jest, we've had folks questioning the results of a simple magnetic shift affecting the direction of the coreolis affect, (toilet flushes), tilt of the earth (seasons), loss of the atmosphere, and viability of all satellites in orbit.
Even if it happened over a couple years (which it doesn't), the only affect I've seen which is certain to happen is that the Government will be blamed for it.
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Why should I be required to spend $x on backup media, when I've already bought the non-transferrable rights to the book? I should be allowed to re-get it whenever and whereever I want. Otherwise, I want first sale rights. You can't have it both ways and still get my business. I own the rights or I own the physical copy - you cut the cake, I choose the slice.
And we know that processors never get the math wrong.
*cough* pentium 90 *cough*
Yeah, but think of the royalty possibilities. I mean, two feet per person in an office with three hygenists running a cleaning every 30 minutes for 8 hours a day...thats almost 100 feet per day! At just $1 per foot for the "Carpet Artist Fees", that's $20,000 per year per office! We'll be RICH I tell you!
(We won't actually charge fees for the carpet...they've "bought" that with their "own money", but we have to reimburse the creative talent who created the color or pattern.)
Yes, but if I buy a dozen coffee table books and several posters to put on the wall in my coffe bar, should I be expected to pay royalties to the artist, since my patrons may look at them while they sip their lattes?
I don't see the visual artists clamboring for cash payments for public displays of their works which they have already sold.
...yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on capitol hill. Well it's a long long journey..."
As an american, I have only one thing to say:
"Baaaaaaa"
(is that how you spell a sheep's call?)
This is the kind of stuff they won't tell you because it's "too technical" for the masses. Unfortunately, they're right in 99% of cases - most people wouldn't "get" the optics involved and the side effects which can occur for certain uses.
This is good information, and I hope it gets cleared up in the future with newer procedures. My vision is a little to precious for me to try it right now, but I'd love to lose my glasses some day.
I plan on waiting a while, though I'd like to get it done at some point. I'm pretty finiky(sp?) with my vision. I had 20/15 and 20/12 uncorrected in high school, but my vision went downhill in college. It's still mostly astigmatism, with a touch of nearsightedness thrown in for good measure. Since I didn't grow up with glasses, I never learned good habits with them and I'm always messing them up (scratches, pits, you name it). I've tried contacts, but always have a b!tch of time getting them in and out - I just can't touch my eyes.
I have heard a bit about the newer systems, and am waiting to see 30-40 years out on the laser methods. By the time I'm 45 or so I figure 30 or 35 years of service will be good enough, 'cause I'll be a drooling idiot by then if I'm not already pushing up the daisies.
No need. I can just loan them my microwave oven. It effectively shuts down the wifi in my house.
If you'd like to vote for one of the outside candidates, make sure the party you would have voted for can afford to lose. I hate the two party system, but voting third party is just going to help the guy I don't want to get (re-)elected.
If I want to spend the afternoon outside, I can get all the useful information from the game on the sports ticker at the bottom of the ESPN screen. The attraction (to many) of sporting events is not being able to know the outcome. If I can look it up, there's no sense in watching the game.
My VCR also can't list what programs are recorded by their names, or automagically record the same program all season, even if it changes timeslots.
Skipping commercials is about 5th or 6th on the "cool features" list.
Now, if I could dl my programmes en masse to a HD, or burn them to a disc, I'd be in heaven. As it is, I use an external (USB) encoder to copy the shows to the hard drive. Big waste of time, IMHO.
But depending on the wording could have far larger implications. I find commecials objectionable for my daughters TV viewing, so we watch (pretty much) only non-commercial-interspersed programs (Public TV's Sesame St and most of the Disney Channel fare only has ads before and after the show.)
Oh, it would be easy for an accountant to show a $49 cost. Figure the effort in manhours to prepare the source for release and the cost of setting up a duplicator to produce the discs. Legal fees area easily in the 5 figures for the review and distribution of a release, not no mention the CEO, CFO, CIO, and others discussing the distibution for an hour before the launch and for 10 minutes at each weekly status meeting. This cost will ahve to be amortized over a "projected" number of requests. You will have an operator producing the discs on staff, which will run you $55-75/hr, burdened, plus the packaging and labelling person at $25-$35/hr, burdened, plus the mailroom clerk, at about the same rate. Plus postage and packaging expenses at the standard company markup for such things. I'm cheap, and I only put 30% on materials, but it's often closer to 75%-100% over cost for bulk items. And don't forget to add the cost of a webserver and connection fees and programming and such for providing onfo online (I know, they don't anymore, or it could be $79/disc). All those costs need to be recovered somehow. It all adds up very quickly.
That's what George Sr Called it. Reagan tried it and it failed...miserably...at boosting tax revenue to balance the budget. The boost we got in the late 90s was an anolomly. Bill was a lucky SOB - always has been, always will be - ask any Republican. George Jr was a fool to think it would continue. There is no magic rate that maximizes taxes, but constantly changing them trying to chase some revenue holy grail is guaranteed to be a foolish endeavor.
20-40 billion would just cover start up studies. A mars mission would likely cost closer to one trillion dollars. No I don't remember the source, but it was the number bantied about when the proposal was made. And I would expect 2-3T would be the final cost, given the typical mission bloat and overruns. Nobody who wants to do something is going to tell you how expensive it could be if things don't go just right.
ST was fun, as long as you didn't read the book first (in which case you were set up for a big let-down).
I read the book after seeing clips here and there, and wondered what all the frackas was about. I loved the book. In fact, I hadn't read any Heinlein since middle school and I saw a completely different author than I did when I was 13. His political views are very interesting, if a bit on the fringe. As a result of reading ST, I read tunnel in the sky and several others. Unfortunately, he's a bit repetitive so I can only handle him in small chunks, but he's definitely fun to read.
I rented and saw the movie just a few months ago, and found it totally missing the point of the book, but a lot of fun, nonetheless. It's not one I'll buy for my collection, but it certainly wasn't 2 hours wasted.
I thought he just did movies involving Vegas.
"Please name a single Fundamentalist Christian Organization that has the express goal of eliminating any other people group."
Does the KKK count?
First, the V-2 is not a supersonic combustion ramjet. It's easy to do Mach 5, and we routinely strap people to non-airbreathing vehicles and send them far in excess of MAch 5, and have been doing so for over 30 years.
Ten years ago (more?) the Russians flew a successful SCRAMJET. It produced negative thrust, but telemetry indicated sucessful combustion. Unfortunately, the recovery systems malfunctioned and it is now an integral part of the Siberian permafrost.
An operational scramjet is quite a leap of technology, actually.
Why bother, allofmp3.com already does sell ogg. And flac, and monkey's and...well, just about every common format, including wav(!?!). Lossless compression does cost double (2c per MB vs 1c/MB for mp3/aac/ogg...why, I have no idea).
...and I don't receive a paper confirmation of my vote, can I sue claiming that my electronic ballot was counted wrong, and force them to prove it's been counted correctly?
If they can't, it means their system may be compromised. If it can, then my privacy has been compromised. Either way, without a paper trail they should lose.
If I had several multi-million dollar advertising contracts, I'd drop $400 on a digital player, too.
Have you noticed how many foolish ideas have flourished in this supposed hotbead of intellegence this morning? According to the last poll responses, I'm guessing the average IQ is above 130 here (and well above most of your bosses).
Even if some posts are in jest, we've had folks questioning the results of a simple magnetic shift affecting the direction of the coreolis affect, (toilet flushes), tilt of the earth (seasons), loss of the atmosphere, and viability of all satellites in orbit.
Even if it happened over a couple years (which it doesn't), the only affect I've seen which is certain to happen is that the Government will be blamed for it.
No, in Russia, MP3 houses offer non-DRM'd mp3s for pennies per download. And they even have stuff for ipods, now (allofmp3.com).
BTW - Kevin Britten isn't complaining about paying $.99 for an audio track, his came with a powerbook!