If a wealthy someone wants to buy a house in some pastoral place they don't need the Internet to do it. They call up the local broker and throw an obscene amount of money at them, just like they have always done.
As for supporting local real estate agents or newspapers, since when did these groups move to the top of the moral support food chain?
Internet sites have major benefits over newspapers (better search, more info, maps) and have some benefits relative to a realtor (self-directed). In the near to medium term, the Internet will likely support the real estate agent and not supplant him or her. In the long-term, we'll see.
Thanks for the info. I kept it wav so that I can burn to CDs and didn't even think to check if there were any playable lossless compression schemes. Monkeys Audio and FLAC look interesting.
Even without compression, 200GB translates to 43 disks, and you could probably half that with compression (depending on the files). Not terribly pleasant admittedly but, as mentioned, there are no other current or short-term alternatives (short of tape drives, which at the 100GB plus size is very expensive for a home machine).
Having 160GB of audio files (wav) myself, DVD is an annoying backup solution, but it's better than ripping 300+ CD's all over again. That plus the ability to burn movies and watch them on a DVD player make these drives useful, at least for some.
For the folks in the US (and probably elsewhere) federal law protects consumers from fraudulent credit card transactions as long as the customer notifies the credit card issuer within a reasonable period of time (don't remember the exact details). Now that wouldn't necessarily work in this case.
While the idea of a dedicated debit card account isn't bad (to be convenient you would have to have some kind of automatic transfer set up if you will be getting recurring charges), it is generally a spectacularly bad idea to use a normal (your main) debit card account. Fraud on a credit card is a hassle but you aren't out any cash immediately. Fraud on a debit card is a nightmare until the bank decides to credit it back. Same goes for ACH transactions.
"What you're left with is a bunch of amateur coders who need to have real jobs to make ends meet. Are these the type of people you want developing the software products your business depends on?"
Some would call this hypothetical company Microsoft.
A suit, not necessarily proud of it, but not entirely ashamed of it either.
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Um. No.
If a wealthy someone wants to buy a house in some pastoral place they don't need the Internet to do it. They call up the local broker and throw an obscene amount of money at them, just like they have always done.
As for supporting local real estate agents or newspapers, since when did these groups move to the top of the moral support food chain?
Internet sites have major benefits over newspapers (better search, more info, maps) and have some benefits relative to a realtor (self-directed). In the near to medium term, the Internet will likely support the real estate agent and not supplant him or her. In the long-term, we'll see.
JCS
Thanks for the info. I kept it wav so that I can burn to CDs and didn't even think to check if there were any playable lossless compression schemes. Monkeys Audio and FLAC look interesting.
Even without compression, 200GB translates to 43 disks, and you could probably half that with compression (depending on the files). Not terribly pleasant admittedly but, as mentioned, there are no other current or short-term alternatives (short of tape drives, which at the 100GB plus size is very expensive for a home machine).
Having 160GB of audio files (wav) myself, DVD is an annoying backup solution, but it's better than ripping 300+ CD's all over again. That plus the ability to burn movies and watch them on a DVD player make these drives useful, at least for some.
For the folks in the US (and probably elsewhere) federal law protects consumers from fraudulent credit card transactions as long as the customer notifies the credit card issuer within a reasonable period of time (don't remember the exact details). Now that wouldn't necessarily work in this case.
While the idea of a dedicated debit card account isn't bad (to be convenient you would have to have some kind of automatic transfer set up if you will be getting recurring charges), it is generally a spectacularly bad idea to use a normal (your main) debit card account. Fraud on a credit card is a hassle but you aren't out any cash immediately. Fraud on a debit card is a nightmare until the bank decides to credit it back. Same goes for ACH transactions.
JCS
From the Microsoft article:
"What you're left with is a bunch of amateur coders who
need to have real jobs to make ends meet. Are these the type of people you want developing the software products your business depends on?"
Some would call this hypothetical company Microsoft.
A suit, not necessarily proud of it, but not entirely ashamed of it either.