Are you kidding. I bought a boxed set of 3 cd's for my wife. She likes Neil Diamond. To keep it from getting damaged, I put it on a CDR to play in her car. I got 2 1/2 cd's on one CDR. The originals were only about 35 minutes each so most of the 3 CD set fit on an 80 minute CDR. Don't get me started about the lack of value in pre-recorded CD's. Kinda reminded me of the half full inkjet cartridges. Fortunately the half full ones aren't the same price as the full ones. (ink jet, not pre-recorded CD's)
If you knew it was there, simply go downtown to to a tall paking structure or underground parking garage. While there and out of GPS signal range, find and remove the device. Put it inside an empty paint can and put on the lid. Make your trip. The device is still out of GPS signal range. Return to the parking lot and put the device back.
OK, I didn't get an answer last week, so I'll try again. I have a couple boxes of blank Audio CDR's. Since they had a Royalty paid on them, Just what does the payment provide for me?
Does it mean I can copy one of my CD's and sell the copy? (A royalty has been pre-paid!)
Does it mean I can borrow your CD's and copy them? (I know it's OK in Canada, but I'm in the USA)
Does it mean I can record off the Radio, XM or Sierus radio, cable TV music channels?
Can I use them to record the band playing at the club down the street?
Unfortunately none of the uses that are legal or not are listed on the packages. The only hint is they are for music use. They certanly can't be just for my singing in the shower so the songwriter gets paid. So far I have been using them for MIDI files to pay the songwriters while not copying someone's performance. I've also used some for copies to play in the car. At current prices, there is no way I'll risk loss of an original in the car.
If the RIAA would simply offer that deal on the internet... They would get about $25.99 more per month then I spend now... Due to the price of CD's verses DVD's, games, etc. my CD purchases are only a couple per year. All this publicity has been great. I've been show lots of sources of Free non-RIAA stuff on the internet in the last couple weeks. I hope the RIAA keeps up killing their stuff so the alternitives get more free publicity. The move into DRM that invokes the DMCA liabilities to use on my RIO has also slowed my purchases. No compact disk logo simply means no sale. It's amazing the amount of stuff without the logo. Non-RIAA MP3's generaly have no DRM and DMCA worries. It kinda reminds me of the MS product activation stuff sending people to find and try alternatives. Is MS and RIAA attending the same business schools?
In the USA, you can buy Music CDR's. A royalty has been paid on the music CDR's.
My dumb question is; Just what can I record on them that the royalty payment provided?
Don't mention things already in my library like 8 tracks, reel to reel tapes, compact cassettes, LP's, etc. They have had their royalty paid.
Can I legaly borrow a CD and copy it onto a Music CDR? If not, then what can I legaly record.
Please provide a refrence to support your answer. I have 2 boxes of Music CDR's that I'm trying to figure out how to properly use the pre-paid royalty on.
Frequencies in the 3-7 hz are common in auditoriums from the ventilation. Modern good condenser microphones capture this easly and it can be easly seen on a good console. Most patrons don't realy sense it. It is most often sensed when it quits by it's sudden absense.
That paticular article is mostly psudo science. At the CES a few years ago, switch mode (class G) high effeciency bass amps and subwoofers were demonstrated. One of the more impressive demo booths was a resonant cavity room (tuned port) running 1 KW RMS sine wave at 11 hz. Standing a sheet of newspaper in the port was impressive watching it shake about 6 inches back in forth suspended in the port. I suffered no ill effects from this. I even went through the port into the cavity. (Cube about 12 feet/side) The port was about 6.5 feet high by about 3 feet wide by 3 feet in length into the cavity. I can't see a couple watts described in the article breaking anything. A kilowatt at the CES didn't break anything. You could sense it about 5 booths away. Right at the port the ears hurt a little much like traveling the freeway in a sedan with a window down that causes a resonation, but other than that, no ill effects. Away from the booth way like being near a freeway and having a car go by with a window open. Subsonic resonance may be very strong in the car, but a distance from it outside is mostly not noticed at any distance.
I've also swept large sound systems for resonances from 5 hz to 20 Khz. Some large rooms resonate in the 3-7 hz range. By the article, I should be dead running between 20-500 watts between 5-25 hz while finding & fixing the light fixtures that rattle. It is true it is hard to hear frequencies below 10 Hz and they are felt at high power, but you sure can hear a chandileer rattle clear cross the room.
I wonder if the booksellers use the same argurment about the amount of blank reams of paper sold verses books. Boy there must be a lot of illegal book copying going on. Copy paper outsold books. Quick call in the anti copy boys. Xerox and Cannon look out. HP sells a lot of ink. Hmm is there some illegal copying going on?
Get real.. I have a digital camera. I archive my photos. Duh! Get a clue. Copywright owner is me.
The software can be installed on multiple machines
I agree. Sun had it right with the boxed version of Star Office I bought. It permits this and is listed as such on the box. I wish more people did this. I'll have to re-check the box, but I think the National Geographic TOPO maps are the same way. That way you can use the laptop with your GPS on the trip. The TOPO software is a little spendy, but it works great with a GPS.
Empty batteries do not get much lighter, much unlike a gas can. I wondered if they left the empties behind for someone else to carry, or did they take them with them. Does this have regenerative braking? Did they recharge on the way back down?
Fireing your boss is simple. Find another job. He is no longer your boss. Maybe he someone else will take him on as boss. A company with very high turnover is not a place for a career.
With that in mind, most people should not have rated their boss as an idiot because as a good employee, you should have replaced the bad boss long ago. I had a bad boss. I ditched him 6 years ago. It's the shortest time I had a boss.
I've done that. The best part is instead of being worthless to the bad boss, I'm worth double + bennifits. Ditching the old boss & job was a great upward mobility move. Now I get stocks, health plan, retirement, profit sharing.... and a living wage.
A bad boss can make you miserable and create a low self esteem and depression. Move on and feel better, be productive, and get that promotion.
It is true some applications are OS dependant and always will be.
The days of a single one size fits all computer is over. To get more done, don't just use one computer for everyting. Remember being told not to put all your eggs in one basket? Having more than one way to access the WEB besides IE on Windows is a plus.
Palm did not make the market by being able to run every Win app out there. They did well by having functionality that fits in a shirt pocket.
I have some stuff that won't run on a Windows box. IP chains does not seem to have a Windows counterpart. The fact Slackware won't run Blaster doesn't bother me at all.
They tried it. They tried an inventory tax on parts. It resulted in everyone with warehouses of older spare parts ditched them. Lots of our stuff is now un-repariable because nobody keeps parts for anything over 8 years anymore. It is one of the reasons I got out of the repair business. Too much stuff can't be repaired because you can't get the parts.
The parts are not there because of a tax on inventory. If it doesn't make money, out it went.
You haven't been downtown lately and wondered why the parking meeter was there? It's not for revenue. It's to discourage downtown traffic. Leave your car home, there isn't room. That is why the traffic meters are downtown.
The parking stuff in our national forests are the same way. They don't want the parks and lakes over used. They may claim it's for upkeep of the park, but it isn't. There was lots of money for very nice parks before there were lots of people. Now that there are lots more taxable people and not many more parks, they are out of money.. Somehow it doesn't add up. More taxable people, not many new national parks, out of money?? I just don't get it. The additional fees are to keep more people home.
Actualy they already do this. With the current tax level, most people on their own can't take minimun wage jobs. There isn't enought for transportation, housing and food. Unless you are subsidised by someone else in one of these areas (living in mom's basement for example) you have to select a job that will meet your income requirements. That's why mexican migrant farmers don't take american jobs. American workers simply don't have enough to live on. Many on some disability or other are included in those who can not afford a job. The income from a job would cut the benifit and the income would be taxable causing a reduction of real income for working. So unless you can make it over the income/tax hump into a livable bracket, it's better for many to not work and live off someone else.
I've met several people who don't work and are not looking for work because they have more free time and less stress not working. Working would take up most of the free time and provide minimum benifit. In most cases it would also cause a loss of healthcare as it would no longer be provided and would not be affordable in a minimum wage position.
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You haven't shopped properly. Get an ambitious one instead of a trophy. 2 incomes and shared house works for me. Instead of driving 10 year old beaters, I'm driving a 1 year old car and purchasing a home. I couldn't do it alone. My wife is working on her masters. Not only does she have brains, but she looks good too. Not all women are a money pit.
I proposed with her birthstone, not a diamond. I told her she could keep it even if she turned me down. That went a long way as not being percieved as a cheapscape.
When Intel's silicon supplier can cheaply supply 300 mm diamond wafers, then the cartel will have something to worry over. A flawless single crystal 50 lb stone would be a sight to see.
When electric costs are too high, people will see the value in energy effecient devices that have a higher initial cost.
I use a flashlight. A 2 AA cell LED flashlight replaced the 2 D cell flashlight in my car. (about $16 for a 6 LED model at Fry's) Remember when the flashlight always seems to have a dead battery when you need it most? A typical flashlight will not last overnight if left on. The LED flashlight runs about 200 hours of usable light on a set of batteries. For battery power, definately ditch the incandecent. D cell flashlights are an expensive source of light.
Forget the batteryless flashlights that you shake. I tried one. The claim of 20 minutes is at about 1% output. Check the decay graph. It's usable for less than a minute. I tried one they had at Fry's. (Same one at Think Geek) For $1.50 in batteries, I take full output for several days instead of an exersise program for 1/2 minute bursts of usable light.
I installed an inverter in my car. Using it to run CF lightts for camping has eliminated the need for the propane lanterns. 1 13 watt CF bulb is brighter than a double mantle coleman propane lantern at high power. It's safer to use in the tent as there is no ignition worries. I got in some great reading time in on my last trip. 13 watts won't kill the battery using it 3 or 4 hours per night. That's only about 5 amp hours draw from the battery. A short daytime trip to see local attractions keeps the battery topped off.
It's simple. No end user control. Ever try to read the news on a Yahoo page that has all options missing except about macromedia flash? The only way to turn off the noise was remove the player. Until they fix the problem of no user control, it won't run on my systems.
A simple always functioning stop and play buttons are all that are needed but are lacking in many in your face blinking wiggiling distracting ads. Even if ESC would work like animated GIF's stop, but even this is non-functional on FLASH. The stop button does nothing, right clicking to uncheck play does not work, only removal works 100% of the time. It's the same reason the blink tag was so hated. Since I don't need to see all the trivial stuff to read the news, I just do without the player as it's the easiest way to kill the video noise.
You must also be single without a wife and kids that borrow the machine. I have 2 kids. Wana guess how many times I've had to remove macromedia from the Windows box? Any idea how many times I've told family members not to DL it to my machine? I must have a virus that installs flash. Too bad my virus scanner hasn't caught it yet.
It sucks" is not helpful to companies in their quest to improve their products. And people who bitch about everything or praise everything also aren't worth paying attention to.
Great, The software writers have a clue why I haven't upgraded to the new propritory versions. From what I have heard, they are working hard at the Open Software problem. Seems they haven't managed to come up with a solution yet. The BSA was great. It got lots of people to stop using pirated software. Unfortunately, many people still did not buy the high priced product but tried open source instead. All I can say is thanks! I've just left literature at a non-profit for Open Office 1.1. They were challanged with finding an office program for 5 new machines. I let them know the BSA risks of dropping their current copies on the new machines. That saved them a bundle. I can sleep better at night not worying about license challages. I love affordable legal alternatives.
Visit openoffice.org for a nice PDF brochure of their product and a free copy.
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Are you kidding. I bought a boxed set of 3 cd's for my wife. She likes Neil Diamond. To keep it from getting damaged, I put it on a CDR to play in her car. I got 2 1/2 cd's on one CDR. The originals were only about 35 minutes each so most of the 3 CD set fit on an 80 minute CDR. Don't get me started about the lack of value in pre-recorded CD's. Kinda reminded me of the half full inkjet cartridges. Fortunately the half full ones aren't the same price as the full ones. (ink jet, not pre-recorded CD's)
Finding one to steal could be a problem. To steal one, you need to find one first. Good luck.
Have you priced one?
They do exist, but unles you are a fully staffed manufacture of the GPS receivers, you probably couldn't get one.
If you knew it was there, simply go downtown to to a tall paking structure or underground parking garage. While there and out of GPS signal range, find and remove the device. Put it inside an empty paint can and put on the lid. Make your trip. The device is still out of GPS signal range. Return to the parking lot and put the device back.
Honestly, I spent the night at the office!
OK, I didn't get an answer last week, so I'll try again. I have a couple boxes of blank Audio CDR's. Since they had a Royalty paid on them, Just what does the payment provide for me?
Does it mean I can copy one of my CD's and sell the copy? (A royalty has been pre-paid!)
Does it mean I can borrow your CD's and copy them? (I know it's OK in Canada, but I'm in the USA)
Does it mean I can record off the Radio, XM or Sierus radio, cable TV music channels?
Can I use them to record the band playing at the club down the street?
Unfortunately none of the uses that are legal or not are listed on the packages. The only hint is they are for music use. They certanly can't be just for my singing in the shower so the songwriter gets paid. So far I have been using them for MIDI files to pay the songwriters while not copying someone's performance. I've also used some for copies to play in the car. At current prices, there is no way I'll risk loss of an original in the car.
If the RIAA would simply offer that deal on the internet... They would get about $25.99 more per month then I spend now... Due to the price of CD's verses DVD's, games, etc. my CD purchases are only a couple per year. All this publicity has been great. I've been show lots of sources of Free non-RIAA stuff on the internet in the last couple weeks. I hope the RIAA keeps up killing their stuff so the alternitives get more free publicity. The move into DRM that invokes the DMCA liabilities to use on my RIO has also slowed my purchases. No compact disk logo simply means no sale. It's amazing the amount of stuff without the logo. Non-RIAA MP3's generaly have no DRM and DMCA worries.
It kinda reminds me of the MS product activation stuff sending people to find and try alternatives. Is MS and RIAA attending the same business schools?
In the USA, you can buy Music CDR's. A royalty has been paid on the music CDR's.
My dumb question is; Just what can I record on them that the royalty payment provided?
Don't mention things already in my library like 8 tracks, reel to reel tapes, compact cassettes, LP's, etc. They have had their royalty paid.
Can I legaly borrow a CD and copy it onto a Music CDR? If not, then what can I legaly record.
Please provide a refrence to support your answer. I have 2 boxes of Music CDR's that I'm trying to figure out how to properly use the pre-paid royalty on.
Frequencies in the 3-7 hz are common in auditoriums from the ventilation. Modern good condenser microphones capture this easly and it can be easly seen on a good console. Most patrons don't realy sense it. It is most often sensed when it quits by it's sudden absense.
That paticular article is mostly psudo science. At the CES a few years ago, switch mode (class G) high effeciency bass amps and subwoofers were demonstrated. One of the more impressive demo booths was a resonant cavity room (tuned port) running 1 KW RMS sine wave at 11 hz. Standing a sheet of newspaper in the port was impressive watching it shake about 6 inches back in forth suspended in the port. I suffered no ill effects from this. I even went through the port into the cavity. (Cube about 12 feet/side) The port was about 6.5 feet high by about 3 feet wide by 3 feet in length into the cavity. I can't see a couple watts described in the article breaking anything. A kilowatt at the CES didn't break anything. You could sense it about 5 booths away. Right at the port the ears hurt a little much like traveling the freeway in a sedan with a window down that causes a resonation, but other than that, no ill effects. Away from the booth way like being near a freeway and having a car go by with a window open. Subsonic resonance may be very strong in the car, but a distance from it outside is mostly not noticed at any distance.
I've also swept large sound systems for resonances from 5 hz to 20 Khz. Some large rooms resonate in the 3-7 hz range. By the article, I should be dead running between 20-500 watts between 5-25 hz while finding & fixing the light fixtures that rattle. It is true it is hard to hear frequencies below 10 Hz and they are felt at high power, but you sure can hear a chandileer rattle clear cross the room.
I wonder if the booksellers use the same argurment about the amount of blank reams of paper sold verses books. Boy there must be a lot of illegal book copying going on. Copy paper outsold books. Quick call in the anti copy boys. Xerox and Cannon look out. HP sells a lot of ink. Hmm is there some illegal copying going on?
Get real.. I have a digital camera. I archive my photos. Duh! Get a clue. Copywright owner is me.
The software can be installed on multiple machines
I agree. Sun had it right with the boxed version of Star Office I bought. It permits this and is listed as such on the box. I wish more people did this. I'll have to re-check the box, but I think the National Geographic TOPO maps are the same way. That way you can use the laptop with your GPS on the trip. The TOPO software is a little spendy, but it works great with a GPS.
Empty batteries do not get much lighter, much unlike a gas can. I wondered if they left the empties behind for someone else to carry, or did they take them with them. Does this have regenerative braking? Did they recharge on the way back down?
Fireing your boss is simple. Find another job. He is no longer your boss. Maybe he someone else will take him on as boss. A company with very high turnover is not a place for a career.
With that in mind, most people should not have rated their boss as an idiot because as a good employee, you should have replaced the bad boss long ago. I had a bad boss. I ditched him 6 years ago. It's the shortest time I had a boss.
I've done that. The best part is instead of being worthless to the bad boss, I'm worth double + bennifits. Ditching the old boss & job was a great upward mobility move. Now I get stocks, health plan, retirement, profit sharing.... and a living wage.
A bad boss can make you miserable and create a low self esteem and depression. Move on and feel better, be productive, and get that promotion.
It is true some applications are OS dependant and always will be.
The days of a single one size fits all computer is over. To get more done, don't just use one computer for everyting. Remember being told not to put all your eggs in one basket? Having more than one way to access the WEB besides IE on Windows is a plus.
Palm did not make the market by being able to run every Win app out there. They did well by having functionality that fits in a shirt pocket.
I have some stuff that won't run on a Windows box. IP chains does not seem to have a Windows counterpart. The fact Slackware won't run Blaster doesn't bother me at all.
They tried it. They tried an inventory tax on parts. It resulted in everyone with warehouses of older spare parts ditched them. Lots of our stuff is now un-repariable because nobody keeps parts for anything over 8 years anymore. It is one of the reasons I got out of the repair business. Too much stuff can't be repaired because you can't get the parts.
The parts are not there because of a tax on inventory. If it doesn't make money, out it went.
You haven't been downtown lately and wondered why the parking meeter was there? It's not for revenue. It's to discourage downtown traffic. Leave your car home, there isn't room. That is why the traffic meters are downtown.
The parking stuff in our national forests are the same way. They don't want the parks and lakes over used. They may claim it's for upkeep of the park, but it isn't. There was lots of money for very nice parks before there were lots of people. Now that there are lots more taxable people and not many more parks, they are out of money.. Somehow it doesn't add up. More taxable people, not many new national parks, out of money?? I just don't get it. The additional fees are to keep more people home.
Actualy they already do this. With the current tax level, most people on their own can't take minimun wage jobs. There isn't enought for transportation, housing and food. Unless you are subsidised by someone else in one of these areas (living in mom's basement for example) you have to select a job that will meet your income requirements. That's why mexican migrant farmers don't take american jobs. American workers simply don't have enough to live on. Many on some disability or other are included in those who can not afford a job. The income from a job would cut the benifit and the income would be taxable causing a reduction of real income for working. So unless you can make it over the income/tax hump into a livable bracket, it's better for many to not work and live off someone else.
I've met several people who don't work and are not looking for work because they have more free time and less stress not working. Working would take up most of the free time and provide minimum benifit. In most cases it would also cause a loss of healthcare as it would no longer be provided and would not be affordable in a minimum wage position.
You haven't shopped properly. Get an ambitious one instead of a trophy. 2 incomes and shared house works for me. Instead of driving 10 year old beaters, I'm driving a 1 year old car and purchasing a home. I couldn't do it alone. My wife is working on her masters. Not only does she have brains, but she looks good too. Not all women are a money pit.
I proposed with her birthstone, not a diamond. I told her she could keep it even if she turned me down. That went a long way as not being percieved as a cheapscape.
When Intel's silicon supplier can cheaply supply 300 mm diamond wafers, then the cartel will have something to worry over. A flawless single crystal 50 lb stone would be a sight to see.
When electric costs are too high, people will see the value in energy effecient devices that have a higher initial cost.
I use a flashlight. A 2 AA cell LED flashlight replaced the 2 D cell flashlight in my car. (about $16 for a 6 LED model at Fry's) Remember when the flashlight always seems to have a dead battery when you need it most? A typical flashlight will not last overnight if left on. The LED flashlight runs about 200 hours of usable light on a set of batteries. For battery power, definately ditch the incandecent. D cell flashlights are an expensive source of light.
Forget the batteryless flashlights that you shake. I tried one. The claim of 20 minutes is at about 1% output. Check the decay graph. It's usable for less than a minute. I tried one they had at Fry's. (Same one at Think Geek) For $1.50 in batteries, I take full output for several days instead of an exersise program for 1/2 minute bursts of usable light.
I installed an inverter in my car. Using it to run CF lightts for camping has eliminated the need for the propane lanterns. 1 13 watt CF bulb is brighter than a double mantle coleman propane lantern at high power. It's safer to use in the tent as there is no ignition worries. I got in some great reading time in on my last trip.
13 watts won't kill the battery using it 3 or 4 hours per night. That's only about 5 amp hours draw from the battery. A short daytime trip to see local attractions keeps the battery topped off.
It's simple. No end user control. Ever try to read the news on a Yahoo page that has all options missing except about macromedia flash?
The only way to turn off the noise was remove the player. Until they fix the problem of no user control, it won't run on my systems.
A simple always functioning stop and play buttons are all that are needed but are lacking in many in your face blinking wiggiling distracting ads. Even if ESC would work like animated GIF's stop, but even this is non-functional on FLASH. The stop button does nothing, right clicking to uncheck play does not work, only removal works 100% of the time. It's the same reason the blink tag was so hated.
Since I don't need to see all the trivial stuff to read the news, I just do without the player as it's the easiest way to kill the video noise.
Rats... My Windows partition just got trashed - and I'm not running Windows..
You must also be single without a wife and kids that borrow the machine. I have 2 kids. Wana guess how many times I've had to remove macromedia from the Windows box? Any idea how many times I've told family members not to DL it to my machine? I must have a virus that installs flash. Too bad my virus scanner hasn't caught it yet.
It sucks" is not helpful to companies in their quest to improve their products. And people who bitch about everything or praise everything also aren't worth paying attention to.
Great, The software writers have a clue why I haven't upgraded to the new propritory versions. From what I have heard, they are working hard at the Open Software problem. Seems they haven't managed to come up with a solution yet. The BSA was great. It got lots of people to stop using pirated software. Unfortunately, many people still did not buy the high priced product but tried open source instead. All I can say is thanks! I've just left literature at a non-profit for Open Office 1.1. They were challanged with finding an office program for 5 new machines. I let them know the BSA risks of dropping their current copies on the new machines. That saved them a bundle. I can sleep better at night not worying about license challages. I love affordable legal alternatives.
Visit openoffice.org for a nice PDF brochure of their product and a free copy.