Plenty of pre-20th century musicians only wrote music for the sake of writing music. Look at Russia's Mighty Five, eg Mussorgsky was a civil servant in his day job.
However, contrary to the original poster's comment. It is often the "full-time" employee musicians who made their mark. ie Bach, Haydn, Mozart whose day-to-day job was to provide entertainment for their employer, or later professional composers who do more freelance.
No I wouldn't stay with the $25,000. But, yes I would stay with $45M over $65M.
The difference between $25,000 and $75,000 is from scraping by paycheck to living comfortably. The difference between $45M and $65M is between living in super luxury and living in ultra super luxury.
But Sony actually downgrades their own products, and then inserts "features" to partially counterbalance the loss of quality. I can't imagine why any company would feel the need to do this, except that consumers can't full-well recongize quality, and that a great many equipment purchases are based on reading the outside of the box.
No it's that consumers would have a VCR that does everything under the sun, rather than a VCR that does it's main function well. Companies are merely pandering to that.
Oh I quite agree, quality costs money. Usually a lot of it. The problem is that consumers tend to want a lot, and they want it "now".
As an example. A couple years ago I went to buy a good hi-fi/surround system. At the time I could have bought a relatively cheap receiver+6 speaker set, actually all I had cash for at the time. The receivers and speakers in these sets were definitely not good quality. Instead I picked up a relatively good receiver and good main speakers. Then a few months later when I finished school and started working I picked up the surround speakers to finish the set.
But sadly, the need for instant gratification usually prevails, and consumers willl opt for the low quality goods immediately, rather than the good goods over time.
True, but will be worth the 16,667% increase in price.
Depends on how you view things. In almost any market, and for almost any good, the amount of the price is not equal to difference in quality.
I go and buy a cheap pair of speakers for $100. I can also go and buy another pair for $500. Are the $500 speakers "5 times better"? No, but they are better.
Is an $80,000 Mercedes 4 times better than $20,000 KIA. No, but it is better.
The key is determine whether the difference is quality is worth the difference in price. A completely subjective judgement.
But that's the thing. People are generally incapable of digesting anything new, they are usually only comfortable with what they know and relucant. That's why every single song on the radio sounds like every other song on the radio.
Also I dont think it was good for them to be dumping that much salt into the enviroment (I think they use silver iodine, not the too cheap either).
Just to be pendantic, salt is a naturally ocurring part of the environment. And, "not too cheap" is likely still cheaper than cleaning up after a major storm.
I used to think it would be cool to live in Finland. I thought they were a mellow, friendly, low-key kinda country. They are hard asses. Check out this link about traffic some fines in Finland... HARDCORE. Looks like they base their fines on a percentage of your YEARLY income... doh!
I seriously wish other countries would be equally harsh. It encourage people to actually drive responsibly. Perhaps it would the 50000 odd annual traffic deaths in th U.S.
The point isn't that music gives a particular taxi a competitive advantage, but that the taxis are benefitting from the fact that music is being played. It's a big difference. Having music in the cabs theoretically makes the cab ride more enjoyable, possibly discouraging people from other forms of transportation.
If we followed your advice then third parties would not even have to break the code since we would be giving you the plaintext.
I think that by "know all the game mechanics" the poster was referring to the fact that generally the encryption mechanisms are not kept secret. All the little details of DES, and SHA, and MD5, are well known, and available to anyone who picks up a book on crypto. But that doesn't mean that using those algorithms is equivalent to plain-text.
You mean you've _never_ heard this before? Modern civilization definately is declining, if its citizens haven't been exposed to at least some of its art history.
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Plenty of pre-20th century musicians only wrote music for the sake of writing music. Look at Russia's Mighty Five, eg Mussorgsky was a civil servant in his day job.
However, contrary to the original poster's comment. It is often the "full-time" employee musicians who made their mark. ie Bach, Haydn, Mozart whose day-to-day job was to provide entertainment for their employer, or later professional composers who do more freelance.
Um....
If you're living in Portugal (or any other country), and commit a crime under Portuguese jurisdiction, you can't be extradited to the States.
No I wouldn't stay with the $25,000. But, yes I would stay with $45M over $65M.
The difference between $25,000 and $75,000 is from scraping by paycheck to living comfortably. The difference between $45M and $65M is between living in super luxury and living in ultra super luxury.
Good point, that could be a serious argument
No it can't.
Umm. How exactly did the D.A. disrespect the grocery store workers? Either you can't read, or you're reading way too much into this.
You just need one GPS that you recover after beating the scammer to a bloody pulp.
You can then re-use the same GPS the next time someone rips you off on ebay.
And what happens if no ever rips you off? Then you're out the expenditure on X GPS units.
but at the end of the day it's just a semi-complicated 1 page flowchart
At the end of the day so is a light-bulb schematic or the RSA algorithm. Your point?
You might have decided to. I sure as hell haven't. They may be evil, but they're cheap and have hard-to-find items.
But Sony actually downgrades their own products, and then inserts "features" to partially counterbalance the loss of quality. I can't imagine why any company would feel the need to do this, except that consumers can't full-well recongize quality, and that a great many equipment purchases are based on reading the outside of the box.
No it's that consumers would have a VCR that does everything under the sun, rather than a VCR that does it's main function well. Companies are merely pandering to that.
Oh I quite agree, quality costs money. Usually a lot of it. The problem is that consumers tend to want a lot, and they want it "now".
As an example. A couple years ago I went to buy a good hi-fi/surround system. At the time I could have bought a relatively cheap receiver+6 speaker set, actually all I had cash for at the time. The receivers and speakers in these sets were definitely not good quality. Instead I picked up a relatively good receiver and good main speakers. Then a few months later when I finished school and started working I picked up the surround speakers to finish the set.
But sadly, the need for instant gratification usually prevails, and consumers willl opt for the low quality goods immediately, rather than the good goods over time.
True, but will be worth the 16,667% increase in price.
Depends on how you view things. In almost any market, and for almost any good, the amount of the price is not equal to difference in quality.
I go and buy a cheap pair of speakers for $100. I can also go and buy another pair for $500. Are the $500 speakers "5 times better"? No, but they are better.
Is an $80,000 Mercedes 4 times better than $20,000 KIA. No, but it is better.
The key is determine whether the difference is quality is worth the difference in price. A completely subjective judgement.
Quality products are being eliminated from the marketplace because average people can't recognise quality.
I think people can full well recognise quality. However, I think the average consumer is too stingy to pay for quality.
Holy crap dude. ONE FULL THIRD of the past year playing a video game?
In 1989 I got a 10Mhz 286 with a 30MB HD. At the time it was close to the high end.
But that's the thing. People are generally incapable of digesting anything new, they are usually only comfortable with what they know and relucant. That's why every single song on the radio sounds like every other song on the radio.
Palestinians are fighting for freedom. Immigrant Israelis are fighting for power
Thanks for the laugh.
Also I dont think it was good for them to be dumping that much salt into the enviroment (I think they use silver iodine, not the too cheap either).
Just to be pendantic, salt is a naturally ocurring part of the environment. And, "not too cheap" is likely still cheaper than cleaning up after a major storm.
They're probably related to the idiots in California building multi-million dollars homes right at the very edge of the coastline.
I used to think it would be cool to live in Finland. I thought they were a mellow, friendly, low-key kinda country. They are hard asses. Check out this link about traffic some fines in Finland... HARDCORE. Looks like they base their fines on a percentage of your YEARLY income... doh!
I seriously wish other countries would be equally harsh. It encourage people to actually drive responsibly. Perhaps it would the 50000 odd annual traffic deaths in th U.S.
The point isn't that music gives a particular taxi a competitive advantage, but that the taxis are benefitting from the fact that music is being played. It's a big difference. Having music in the cabs theoretically makes the cab ride more enjoyable, possibly discouraging people from other forms of transportation.
Iy is called "venison". And by no means as popular as chicken or beef, it is still somewhat common-place.
If we followed your advice then third parties would not even have to break the code since we would be giving you the plaintext.
I think that by "know all the game mechanics" the poster was referring to the fact that generally the encryption mechanisms are not kept secret.
All the little details of DES, and SHA, and MD5, are well known, and available to anyone who picks up a book on crypto. But that doesn't mean that using those algorithms is equivalent to plain-text.
You mean you've _never_ heard this before? Modern civilization definately is declining, if its citizens haven't been exposed to at least some of its art history.
I didn't even know that "Ode to Joy" was a separate work that could be copyrighted. I just assumed it a sub-section of the 4th movement.
Not top mention the pre-Soviet bureaucracy, which was also a fairly impressive monster.