I stream-rip during the day to have something to listen to on my sansa when I work out at night. If there's anything that I really like in the stream, I'll research the artist, and *try* to find the music to buy at a reasonable price. The radio stations usually aren't great quality, and if it's something I would listen to several times (ie, I'd like to own it), then I'd much rather encode it myself with my quality specs and indexing/tagging.
I WILL NOT PAY MONEY FOR LOSSY COMPRESSED MUSIC. That is a really dumb direction that everyone wants to head in. How about instead, the music companies sell CDs for a reasonable price ($5-$10), and let people download FLAC for $2-$5 per album? They may find that people actually start to buy music again.
There are several albums that I would love to own, but I am not paying $15-$20 for them, and have not found them used anywhere. I admittedly did download some FLAC via pirate bay's tracker. But you know what? I liked the band so much that I bought 3 of their other CDs, Albeit, used. So again...the artist is losing out again because the price of new music is ridiculous.
Not spending a lot of time on a search engine is a GOOD thing. It means the engine is doing what it is supposed to...direct you quickly to what you are looking for.
It depends. If he took the time to optimize the fan blades (that's a fun aerospace problem), that would be cool. Especially if he had the ability to feather the blades. He obviously also rigged gearing in an interesting way (watch the video). Maybe not revolutionary, but interesting.
Far more interesting than the stupid computer 'hacks' that show up here all the time, which take little skill or imagination to pull off.
I disagree. The only thing additional that I would like to see is more time spent on developing the decepticon characters (like the distrust and rivalry between Megatron and Starscream). The comedy was great, especially bumblebee helping sam with the girl, and of course the stumbling around in the back yard, and the transformation from the old camaro to the new. I did feel at times like I was watching the 80's cartoon, which is exactly as it should be!
Did anybody else notice the little dig on volkswagon at the beginning? Loved that since from what I read, they were approached and declined allowing the bug to be used for bumblebee?
I wish I had mod points. This is exactly correct. In fact, I have a few bands that I wrote down to research while listening to a shoutcast stream the other day.
Sell the CDs at the right price ($5-$10), and use streaming just like radio...as advertisement. Yeah, I can use streamripper to save it. I can also record stuff from the radio. Both are lower quality than what I would buy if I like what I hear, so if I hear something new, I'd be likely to buy it if the business model wasn't so fscked up.
I use mapmyride to plan cycling routes, and noticed that it can now follow roads automatically, so now I only have to click on intersections instead of meticulously laying out the whole route. Is that related to this new feature from google themselves?
OS/2 ran windows apps, so nobody saw a need to create superior native apps. Where is OS/2 now? This is a dumb way to go about getting software on linux.
Sell for $5-$10. Music sales will go way up. "piracy" will still be around, but more people who like what they download will actually go out and buy the CD and encode themselves. Compressed music should really just be an advertisement for the real product. While at it, get rid of the stupid DRM schemes, ok?
Kind of offtopic....
WTF don't companies who make boomboxes that can read mp3 CDs put DVD drives in instead? It sure would be nice to have a 4GB fully integrated solution for weekend camping. Oh well. I'll just stick to the sansa with a boomtube, I guess.
Ignore the other reply from me. Today they get $0 from me. If they were smart enough to charge the proper price, they'd get $8-$12 per CD from me. Now multiply that by however many others like me there are. I think they'd have significantly more profit, not less.
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I stream-rip during the day to have something to listen to on my sansa when I work out at night. If there's anything that I really like in the stream, I'll research the artist, and *try* to find the music to buy at a reasonable price. The radio stations usually aren't great quality, and if it's something I would listen to several times (ie, I'd like to own it), then I'd much rather encode it myself with my quality specs and indexing/tagging.
I WILL NOT PAY MONEY FOR LOSSY COMPRESSED MUSIC. That is a really dumb direction that everyone wants to head in. How about instead, the music companies sell CDs for a reasonable price ($5-$10), and let people download FLAC for $2-$5 per album? They may find that people actually start to buy music again.
There are several albums that I would love to own, but I am not paying $15-$20 for them, and have not found them used anywhere. I admittedly did download some FLAC via pirate bay's tracker. But you know what? I liked the band so much that I bought 3 of their other CDs, Albeit, used. So again...the artist is losing out again because the price of new music is ridiculous.
Sharepoint is easy? I'd rather use mediawiki, thanks.
Not spending a lot of time on a search engine is a GOOD thing. It means the engine is doing what it is supposed to...direct you quickly to what you are looking for.
You are told to 'click' on images in the article to see examples of this mouseless interface...
Mouse is more efficient for some things. Keyboard others. I like to use both, thanks.
They ruined their TV listings this year too:r ashed-by-users/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/03/yahoo-gets-t
This is obviously cyberterrorism, especially if any government employees download and install that software.
Shouldn't he use a virtual lawyer in second life, and sell the stuff for virtual money? Just a thought.
It depends. If he took the time to optimize the fan blades (that's a fun aerospace problem), that would be cool. Especially if he had the ability to feather the blades. He obviously also rigged gearing in an interesting way (watch the video). Maybe not revolutionary, but interesting.
Far more interesting than the stupid computer 'hacks' that show up here all the time, which take little skill or imagination to pull off.
It didn't go unnoticed. That was a great way to work it in, and a little dig to VW, as bumblebee throws the salesman into it...
I disagree. The only thing additional that I would like to see is more time spent on developing the decepticon characters (like the distrust and rivalry between Megatron and Starscream). The comedy was great, especially bumblebee helping sam with the girl, and of course the stumbling around in the back yard, and the transformation from the old camaro to the new. I did feel at times like I was watching the 80's cartoon, which is exactly as it should be!
Did anybody else notice the little dig on volkswagon at the beginning? Loved that since from what I read, they were approached and declined allowing the bug to be used for bumblebee?
I wish I had mod points. This is exactly correct. In fact, I have a few bands that I wrote down to research while listening to a shoutcast stream the other day.
Sell the CDs at the right price ($5-$10), and use streaming just like radio...as advertisement. Yeah, I can use streamripper to save it. I can also record stuff from the radio. Both are lower quality than what I would buy if I like what I hear, so if I hear something new, I'd be likely to buy it if the business model wasn't so fscked up.
http://www.mapmyride.com/ will show you elevation profiles. I use this to plan my own cycling routes.
Cool.
I use mapmyride to plan cycling routes, and noticed that it can now follow roads automatically, so now I only have to click on intersections instead of meticulously laying out the whole route. Is that related to this new feature from google themselves?
what about live performances?
Amen. And for those of you who haven't heard His Royal Badness lately, go check it out:
v ada/las-vegas/3121-las-vegas.php
http://www.3121.com/
And, gosh, I hope I get to go to blackhat/defcon this year. I DEFINITELY want to check out 3121:
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/ne
...we don't understand...
who shuts down their main workstation often enough for that to be effective?
No it wasn't. OS/2 was waaaaay ahead of win95 in pretty much every way.
putty is available on symbian. Will the iphone have anything as useful?
why are you using consumer-grade APs in a business network?
OS/2 ran windows apps, so nobody saw a need to create superior native apps. Where is OS/2 now? This is a dumb way to go about getting software on linux.
Sell for $5-$10. Music sales will go way up. "piracy" will still be around, but more people who like what they download will actually go out and buy the CD and encode themselves. Compressed music should really just be an advertisement for the real product. While at it, get rid of the stupid DRM schemes, ok?
Kind of offtopic....
WTF don't companies who make boomboxes that can read mp3 CDs put DVD drives in instead? It sure would be nice to have a 4GB fully integrated solution for weekend camping. Oh well. I'll just stick to the sansa with a boomtube, I guess.
Heh. Hey John
We won Big Bear, even with my 2nd fastest guy getting a kidney stone right before the race, and me missing spring training rides due to surgery:
http://www.grannygear.com/realtime/public/class.p
Where are you living these days (just email me direct at my slashdot alias). Know anybody in need of a security analyst?
Ignore the other reply from me. Today they get $0 from me. If they were smart enough to charge the proper price, they'd get $8-$12 per CD from me. Now multiply that by however many others like me there are. I think they'd have significantly more profit, not less.
Better less money than no money. Dumbasses.