Any reputable locksmith or car dealer is going to treat you like a thief until you can prove the car is yours. (They don't like being stalking horses for amateur repo men you - nor potential fines and/or jail time for aiding and abetting a crime.)
A housemate lost his entire key ring a month ago. A locksmith came to the house, made a key, charged $80 and drove off. He asked for nothing in terms of ID.
Reputable? I don't know, but he was the closest guy in the Yellow Pages.
As to why it is your problem, it means if you don't watch the show in a way ACNielsen tracks it, the show is more likely to go away.
OK, so if I'm ever chosen as a "Nielsen Family" I'll watch things (or Tivo them). When I'm not a Nielsen Family, I'll do what I want and it won't make any difference - because they aren't tracking me.
In ~10 years I expect at least 10GBites of storage so you can have all the music you want on your cell phone.
That's right in 20 years your cell phone is going to be more capable than PC's are today.
I agree with your second point, but unless you dropped a zero I think your timeline is way off. I expect 10GB phones fairly soon (12 to 24 months). And in my opinion, 10GB is no where near enough for a good (my) music collection.
I have not yet bought a portable music player; I've been holding out for one with 100+ gigs of storage, and there aren't any out there. But when there is, I will make sure that it works with this Yahoo service.
Why do you care about the file name? You're doing all your organizing through the iTunes database.
I have an old (there were only two on the market) CD MP3 player in my truck, and it plays by alphabetical order. I must have the tracks ordered by track number if I want to play an album in order:
## - Title - Artist.mp3
iTunes won't let me do that, so I have to organize by hand. If my music was 100% iPod, it would work just fine.
That it, if they're still around. Haven't followed racing in quite some time.
Uggg. Still around. Tony, the flaming butthead who was going to "make a series for American drivers to drive on ovals" now has a spec series full of foriegn drivers, driving on road courses and ovals. They have plans for races overseas in the next year or so.
He (with CART's lack of action) has killed open wheel racing in the US.
They're not. At 500 feet above the highest obstacle, (1000 feet over a built up area), the skies are open (subject to air traffic regs). If you don't want people flying over your property, you'll have to apply to the FAA to declare your property restricted airspace. Good luck.
According to the article, "you won't need a pilot's license if you fly it under 400 feet in non-restricted air space"
I'm a fan of rock and roll, and have a huge mp3 collection. Most of them are from legit sources. However, I am completely fed up with the RIAA and haven't purchased a new (and only a few used ones) CD in years.
Except... I have a handful of favorite indy bands. I go to their shows, try to tell local bars about them, buy tshirts and CDs and tell my friends.
I'll play their music for friends, and I'll give them a few mp3s, under the condition that they must buy the CD if they like them enough to keep (and explain why). If possible, I give them the mp3 that are available at the band's website.
Most of the bands have a few free mp3s available, and one offers a (poorly) recorded show for $3. They are very clear that it isn't a great recording, so they only charge $3 via PayPal.
What does it take me to keep visiting? Wanting to see some of my favorite bands continue playing. As for getting rich... I don't think they are counting on it. As far as I know, they have day jobs. One of them is a Slashdot reader (which is how I found the band Black Monday).
And if you like rock and roll (in the Social Distortion, Johnny Cash, Cramps sort of way) take a listen here:
You're both right: most people "don't know" they live meaningless lives, that's why as soon as they sober up, they go back in front of their TV. But the reason they watch TV is that they have to fill the void with something noisy and entertaining (which I would describe as some kind of mild depression).
Do you mean X w/ Exene & John Doe? That band rocks. I still get a kick out of seeing JD playing some bit part in a movie.
Yes. The best underrated band ever?
If you like those guys, try these bands Black Monday at http://www.blackmonday.info Deadbillys at http://www.deadbillys.com/ Speedbuggy at http://www.speedbuggycowpunk.com/ and Luck of the Draw at http://www.lotd.com/
The last 3 are a little more cow punk than X, but all 4 bands kick ass.
I tried their 14 trial. What a turd. The interface is clunky, everything is slow, many songs (usually one from each album) isn't available unless you pay extra and the downloading is slow.
I stopped using my 14 day trial about day 5.
I might consider using a similar service, but it would have to be put together better and it would have to have a wider selection of music. For example, there's a band called X that I really like. They put out 6 or 7 albums, and only one of them is available on Napster. Sure, they aren't super current and they were never huge, but they were a big enough band that their catalog should be available.
I've just been looking through articles about the SuperShuffle and I don't see any mention of price. Where do you get that it's the same price as the IPod Shuffle?
I'm assuming (but I'm not the original poster) that the clone will be cheaper (if it makes it to market). People aren't interested in buying a copied product from an unknown company for more then the "real thing". Knockoffs are generally cheaper.
On the other hand, they might try asking more because of the FM tuner, but I doubt it.
I could understand a tax on tapes because, very few people seemed to buy tapes to record their own material.
Were you around in the 80's? CDs were $17 and records were $10(?). CD players in cars were too expensive for most people.
We taped our records. The records that I bought, I taped so I could listen to them in the car and I made a second copy to play in the house (records wear out...).
Taxing CD-R or tapes is super lame.
Taxing CD-Rs is a pretty piss poor idea since CDs are clearly used widely for data backup and moving stuff around.
And for copying CDs. It's just as justified as taxing tapes.
The French speak very directly and do not appreciate undue familiarity from people they don't know. French, like most European languages other than English, has an active T-V distinction (they have two forms of you, one of which is formal) and they rely heavily on this and other niceties in speech to indicate politeness. Americans, and to a lesser extent the English, depend greatly on tone and facial features to communicate politeness. That is, Americans think they're being polite if they're being friendly.
Good point. In my experiences in France, I applied rules of grammar similar to the rules I would use in Spanish. I'm sure I got things wrong, but I got a lot of them right as well.
If you think France is bad, try Japan, or even worse, Korea.
I was in Japan, and treated very well. And this was just a month or so after a (group of?) marine(s) had raped a very young Japanese girl in Okinawa. I was in Okinawa, and in the same area of the city. I'm over 6' tall, and blond (if you're Japanese). My hair was longer than a marine's hair would be, but I was obviously American.
I was there for four months once, and I met nothing but good people. Mind you, France is the most heavily touristed country in the world, so it stands to reason some might get sick of people walking up to them and blabbering in English. If you speak French, even a bit, it makes an enormous difference.
I took 2 years of college French, and have a degree in Spanish. My French isn't great, but it's better than nothing. I don't blabber in English when traveling.
I was overseas twice for four months each time. When I visited a new country, I'd learn "please" "thank you" "excuse me" and familiarize myself with the currency at the least.
I was in France during the off season, didn't dress like the typical American tourist, and tried my best to blend in. It worked well everywhere except East Berlin and France. I'm tall and thing, so I was obviously not from Southern Europe, but I did my best.
Many of the French I dealth with were rude. Not all, but many.
Americans are already pissed at the French for not helping with Iraq, hence the "freedom fries" name-change-fad that happened a while ago.
That isn't why I hate the French. I hate them because of how I was treated when I traveled in Europe. Every country I traveled in had easy to get along with people, and ass hats. The French had a far greater percentage of ass-hats than the rest of Europe.
The broadcast flag is simply a flag that indicates that people are not entitled to do what people don't do anyway - Make multi-generational copies of broadcast media.
Not exactly... the broadcast flag will allow the control of recording, including the possibility of *not* being recordable at all. It's a possibility that you won't be able to timeshift some shows, and some won't be DVD writeable (which is how I store some shows for long term storage).
Why can't I have a phone that just works as a phone... and an Mp3 player that just plays music, nothing else? I thought apple was going in the right direction with the shuffle... it's small, and does just one thing... play music... is that too much to ask of phones?
That's what I want as well (ok, a clock with an alarm too). I found it, as a "free" phone from Sprint; a Nokia [4 digit number].
Guess what, Nokia lost marketshare last year for offering "monoblock" phones, according to the article. I guess you and I are the only people who want a lack of features. As far as I know, the monoblock phones have less screen area than the flip phones, so they get fewer features.
Whenever something mentions Diana as something that could be predicted as an event of the same importance as 9/11 I sort of tune out.
In terms of how people reacted to the event, they are quite similar. In both cases here was an outpourng of grief - internationally, even by people who weren't affected in any way at all.
In a greater view, the tsunami had far more effect, as it killed 100,000 more people than her accident. It'll change the economy of a few countries and more, but still, people are very moved by both events.
First, the person will probably use the same passphrase for everything because it's too difficult to remember multiple passphrases. Second, it's difficult to remember passphrases! Phone numbers (In the US, at least) are limited to 10 digits because research shows the average person can only memorize 10 digits...
My children's names are Mary, Sue and Fred. I drive a 2002 Ford F150 pickup. I met my wife at the University of Oregon.
Really, those wouldn't be so hard to remember (assuming they are true for you). Remembering 10 digits of random letters is far, far more diffucult than remembering a 10 or 20 or 30 character phrase.
I currently use about 5 passwords based on how important the data is to me (my slashdot sub is the same password as NYT and a few other low security sites, but my bank password is much longer and more complex). It really isn't difficult to remember them because they aren't random strings, but edited (shortened) versions of passphrases.
Nah, they'll just have a lot less hardwood and a lot more pine et al. Most evergreens grow plenty fast.
That may be true, but we don't build houses from oak.
Go to your friendly neighborhood lumber yard, and look at a stack of 2x4s. Look for a circle on the end of the 2x4. The little circle is the freakin' center of the tree. You'll find one in about half of the 2x4s.
That means that half of the harvested timber is small enough to get one or two 2x4s from. Half.
At least that actually makes sense: people who smoke require more health care, and thus cost more for insurance companies to cover. If you had a choice between two employees, and one cost significantly less because of his health care costs (which are entirely his own fault), wouldn't you want to hire the cheaper one?
Are they going to fire everybody who is fat? Rides a motorcycle? Likes to climb mountains? Lives in a dangerous neighborhood?
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Any reputable locksmith or car dealer is going to treat you like a thief until you can prove the car is yours. (They don't like being stalking horses for amateur repo men you - nor potential fines and/or jail time for aiding and abetting a crime.)
A housemate lost his entire key ring a month ago. A locksmith came to the house, made a key, charged $80 and drove off. He asked for nothing in terms of ID.
Reputable? I don't know, but he was the closest guy in the Yellow Pages.
Sounds great and I'll be in the line to buy one.
What are you using now?
As to why it is your problem, it means if you don't watch the show in a way ACNielsen tracks it, the show is more likely to go away.
OK, so if I'm ever chosen as a "Nielsen Family" I'll watch things (or Tivo them). When I'm not a Nielsen Family, I'll do what I want and it won't make any difference - because they aren't tracking me.
In ~10 years I expect at least 10GBites of storage so you can have all the music you want on your cell phone.
That's right in 20 years your cell phone is going to be more capable than PC's are today.
I agree with your second point, but unless you dropped a zero I think your timeline is way off. I expect 10GB phones fairly soon (12 to 24 months).
And in my opinion, 10GB is no where near enough for a good (my) music collection.
I have not yet bought a portable music player; I've been holding out for one with 100+ gigs of storage, and there aren't any out there. But when there is, I will make sure that it works with this Yahoo service.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/2240358613635558/
Get out your check book.
Why do you care about the file name? You're doing all your organizing through the iTunes database.
I have an old (there were only two on the market) CD MP3 player in my truck, and it plays by alphabetical order. I must have the tracks ordered by track number if I want to play an album in order:
## - Title - Artist.mp3
iTunes won't let me do that, so I have to organize by hand. If my music was 100% iPod, it would work just fine.
Not if the IRL gets to them first.
That it, if they're still around. Haven't followed racing in quite some time.
Uggg. Still around.
Tony, the flaming butthead who was going to "make a series for American drivers to drive on ovals" now has a spec series full of foriegn drivers, driving on road courses and ovals. They have plans for races overseas in the next year or so.
He (with CART's lack of action) has killed open wheel racing in the US.
They're not. At 500 feet above the highest obstacle, (1000 feet over a built up area), the skies are open (subject to air traffic regs). If you don't want people flying over your property, you'll have to apply to the FAA to declare your property restricted airspace. Good luck.
According to the article, "you won't need a pilot's license if you fly it under 400 feet in non-restricted air space"
I guess they should make up their minds, eh?
I'm a fan of rock and roll, and have a huge mp3 collection. Most of them are from legit sources. However, I am completely fed up with the RIAA and haven't purchased a new (and only a few used ones) CD in years.
Except... I have a handful of favorite indy bands. I go to their shows, try to tell local bars about them, buy tshirts and CDs and tell my friends.
I'll play their music for friends, and I'll give them a few mp3s, under the condition that they must buy the CD if they like them enough to keep (and explain why). If possible, I give them the mp3 that are available at the band's website.
Most of the bands have a few free mp3s available, and one offers a (poorly) recorded show for $3. They are very clear that it isn't a great recording, so they only charge $3 via PayPal.
What does it take me to keep visiting? Wanting to see some of my favorite bands continue playing. As for getting rich... I don't think they are counting on it. As far as I know, they have day jobs. One of them is a Slashdot reader (which is how I found the band Black Monday).
And if you like rock and roll (in the Social Distortion, Johnny Cash, Cramps sort of way) take a listen here:
http://lotd.com/ Luck of the Draw
http://www.blackmonday.info/ Black Monday
http://www.deadbillys.com/Deadbillys
http://www.speedbuggycowpunk.com/Speedbuggy
You're both right: most people "don't know" they live meaningless lives, that's why as soon as they sober up, they go back in front of their TV. But the reason they watch TV is that they have to fill the void with something noisy and entertaining (which I would describe as some kind of mild depression).
TV? That's what slashdot is for.
Do you mean X w/ Exene & John Doe? That band rocks. I still get a kick out of seeing JD playing some bit part in a movie.
Yes. The best underrated band ever?
If you like those guys, try these bands
Black Monday at http://www.blackmonday.info
Deadbillys at http://www.deadbillys.com/
Speedbuggy at http://www.speedbuggycowpunk.com/
and
Luck of the Draw at http://www.lotd.com/
The last 3 are a little more cow punk than X, but all 4 bands kick ass.
I'll check out eMusic
I tried their 14 trial. What a turd.
The interface is clunky, everything is slow, many songs (usually one from each album) isn't available unless you pay extra and the downloading is slow.
I stopped using my 14 day trial about day 5.
I might consider using a similar service, but it would have to be put together better and it would have to have a wider selection of music. For example, there's a band called X that I really like. They put out 6 or 7 albums, and only one of them is available on Napster. Sure, they aren't super current and they were never huge, but they were a big enough band that their catalog should be available.
I've just been looking through articles about the SuperShuffle and I don't see any mention of price. Where do you get that it's the same price as the IPod Shuffle?
I'm assuming (but I'm not the original poster) that the clone will be cheaper (if it makes it to market). People aren't interested in buying a copied product from an unknown company for more then the "real thing". Knockoffs are generally cheaper.
On the other hand, they might try asking more because of the FM tuner, but I doubt it.
Name one case (in copyright matters) where it was "extortion".
Just one... where the person facing fines wasn't committing copyright infringement in the first place.
Otherwise you're just grasping at straws.
OK, how about the time they sued the dead woman.
Or the time they sued the old lady who had a Mac, but was using Windows software to download with.
Bullshit lawsuits.
I could understand a tax on tapes because, very few people seemed to buy tapes to record their own material.
Were you around in the 80's? CDs were $17 and records were $10(?). CD players in cars were too expensive for most people.
We taped our records. The records that I bought, I taped so I could listen to them in the car and I made a second copy to play in the house (records wear out...).
Taxing CD-R or tapes is super lame.
Taxing CD-Rs is a pretty piss poor idea since CDs are clearly used widely for data backup and moving stuff around.
And for copying CDs. It's just as justified as taxing tapes.
The French speak very directly and do not appreciate undue familiarity from people they don't know. French, like most European languages other than English, has an active T-V distinction (they have two forms of you, one of which is formal) and they rely heavily on this and other niceties in speech to indicate politeness. Americans, and to a lesser extent the English, depend greatly on tone and facial features to communicate politeness. That is, Americans think they're being polite if they're being friendly.
Good point. In my experiences in France, I applied rules of grammar similar to the rules I would use in Spanish. I'm sure I got things wrong, but I got a lot of them right as well.
If you think France is bad, try Japan, or even worse, Korea.
I was in Japan, and treated very well. And this was just a month or so after a (group of?) marine(s) had raped a very young Japanese girl in Okinawa. I was in Okinawa, and in the same area of the city. I'm over 6' tall, and blond (if you're Japanese). My hair was longer than a marine's hair would be, but I was obviously American.
I was there for four months once, and I met nothing but good people. Mind you, France is the most heavily touristed country in the world, so it stands to reason some might get sick of people walking up to them and blabbering in English. If you speak French, even a bit, it makes an enormous difference.
I took 2 years of college French, and have a degree in Spanish. My French isn't great, but it's better than nothing. I don't blabber in English when traveling.
I was overseas twice for four months each time. When I visited a new country, I'd learn "please" "thank you" "excuse me" and familiarize myself with the currency at the least.
I was in France during the off season, didn't dress like the typical American tourist, and tried my best to blend in. It worked well everywhere except East Berlin and France. I'm tall and thing, so I was obviously not from Southern Europe, but I did my best.
Many of the French I dealth with were rude. Not all, but many.
Americans are already pissed at the French for not helping with Iraq, hence the "freedom fries" name-change-fad that happened a while ago.
That isn't why I hate the French. I hate them because of how I was treated when I traveled in Europe. Every country I traveled in had easy to get along with people, and ass hats. The French had a far greater percentage of ass-hats than the rest of Europe.
The broadcast flag is simply a flag that indicates that people are not entitled to do what people don't do anyway - Make multi-generational copies of broadcast media.
Not exactly... the broadcast flag will allow the control of recording, including the possibility of *not* being recordable at all. It's a possibility that you won't be able to timeshift some shows, and some won't be DVD writeable (which is how I store some shows for long term storage).
Why can't I have a phone that just works as a phone... and an Mp3 player that just plays music, nothing else? I thought apple was going in the right direction with the shuffle... it's small, and does just one thing... play music... is that too much to ask of phones?
That's what I want as well (ok, a clock with an alarm too). I found it, as a "free" phone from Sprint; a Nokia [4 digit number].
Guess what, Nokia lost marketshare last year for offering "monoblock" phones, according to the article. I guess you and I are the only people who want a lack of features. As far as I know, the monoblock phones have less screen area than the flip phones, so they get fewer features.
Whenever something mentions Diana as something that could be predicted as an event of the same importance as 9/11 I sort of tune out.
In terms of how people reacted to the event, they are quite similar. In both cases here was an outpourng of grief - internationally, even by people who weren't affected in any way at all.
In a greater view, the tsunami had far more effect, as it killed 100,000 more people than her accident. It'll change the economy of a few countries and more, but still, people are very moved by both events.
First, the person will probably use the same passphrase for everything because it's too difficult
to remember multiple passphrases. Second, it's difficult to remember passphrases! Phone numbers (In the US, at least) are limited to
10 digits because research shows the average person can only memorize 10 digits...
My children's names are Mary, Sue and Fred.
I drive a 2002 Ford F150 pickup.
I met my wife at the University of Oregon.
Really, those wouldn't be so hard to remember (assuming they are true for you). Remembering 10 digits of random letters is far, far more diffucult than remembering a 10 or 20 or 30 character phrase.
I currently use about 5 passwords based on how important the data is to me (my slashdot sub is the same password as NYT and a few other low security sites, but my bank password is much longer and more complex). It really isn't difficult to remember them because they aren't random strings, but edited (shortened) versions of passphrases.
Really, it's easy.
Nah, they'll just have a lot less hardwood and a lot more pine et al. Most evergreens grow plenty fast.
That may be true, but we don't build houses from oak.
Go to your friendly neighborhood lumber yard, and look at a stack of 2x4s. Look for a circle on the end of the 2x4. The little circle is the freakin' center of the tree. You'll find one in about half of the 2x4s.
That means that half of the harvested timber is small enough to get one or two 2x4s from. Half.
We're cutting pine & fir faster than you think.
At least that actually makes sense: people who smoke require more health care, and thus cost more for insurance companies to cover. If you had a choice between two employees, and one cost significantly less because of his health care costs (which are entirely his own fault), wouldn't you want to hire the cheaper one?
Are they going to fire everybody who is fat? Rides a motorcycle? Likes to climb mountains? Lives in a dangerous neighborhood?
One of their complaints is that the lawers don't have to go through security, so you'll have make them feel bad *really fast*.