in typical typical slashdotter fashion, you didnt even read it before replying did you? anytime someones says anything other than "people with mental illness are completely helpless" he is called "insensitive", told "he doesnt get it", "doesnt understand".
And the ultimate irony is that typically these things are said by people themselves have never been there. and dont understand.
So if you had actually read the entire thing you would see that i'm saying that I HAVE been there. I DO KNOW what it is like to be at the bottom of that pit.
So dont tell me I dont understand and have never thought about it. I'm probably better aquainted with it than most of the people talking about it in this thread.
the WiiU seems more like the jump from PlayStation to PSOne. the reality isnt such, but the marketing left the impression. it took some digging to figure out it was slightly more than just a relaunching.
it is when the next runner up only had half as many votes at only 87.8k.
"Vulcan was the only candidate with more than 100,000 votes." "Rounding out the top five were Styx (87,858 votes), Persephone (68,969 votes) and Orpheus (51,197 votes)."
you need to differentiate the "music industry" into its parts. though given context, and slashdot, we all know you are referring of course to the big studios and the MAFIAA, and the like.
having said that, you make the equation far too complex. what they really want is to make money. no more, no less.
their problem is that the "new" technology has drastically increased the competition. and even worse, cut them out of their own business model. no more is a big studio required to fund and distribute music.
the only ones who want to return to the "good ol days" are those who were dependent on it for their $$$, and are unable or unwilling to adapt, much like the buggy whip makers we refer to repeatedly.
the portions of the "music industry" who have embraced the "new" technology and distribution methods are doing just fine and dont really care about the good ol days. just remember to support them with your $$$, since, after all, that's also their primary reason for being in business and embracing the new ways to make a bigger percentage of profits (minus those few who are ok with being a "starving artist").
the actual thing that finally got me on my feet was the song The Ride, from Chris Ledoux. always a bit of an underground country singer, i'd been listening to him for a few years. his songs were what got me interested in teh genre; having grown up in nevada they appealed to me.
The Ride ultimately is about death. the thing that will get us all eventually. its in the closing lines:
"Well, I know some day, farther down the road
I'll come to the edge of the great unknown
There'll stand a black horse riderless
And I wonder if I'm ready for this
So I'll saddle him up and he'll switch his tail
And I'll tip my hat and bid farewell
And lift my song into the air
That I learned at that dusty fair
(refrain) Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high Keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky And live like you ain't afraid to die And don't be scared, just enjoy your ride Now, don't be scared, just enjoy your ride"
You see, when he wrote that he was facing a monster far bigger, far more powerful and unstoppable than most of us ever will. He had a liver cancer. Treated before, but it had come back. He was dying.
And instead of doing what most of us would do, he was going down swinging. Or singing, as it were. And that there is what got me to get back on my feet. Maybe it'll help someone else like it did me.
Most of our monsters are treatable, and not nearly so big and scary. But first you gotta make that decision for yourself. No one else can make it for you and force you up. And though I'll help anyone who wants/needs it, if you decide the other way, I'll abide by that too. Though I really wish you wouldn't go that route.
You get a dealt a hand. Good hand, shitty hand, it doesn't matter. You get dealt a hand. You had no control over it. You didn't ask for it. But you do have a choice of what to do with it now that you got it. Fold, raise, call, bluff, whatever. The choice is yours to make.
I got dealt some shitty hands before. One was worse than all the rest. I cried, felt sorry for myself, wallowed in self-pity. I tried to ignore it til it went away.
But it wouldn't go away. How could it when it's a part of me now?
The only thing that made it go away was me finally getting, dusting myself off, and moving forward. Accepting it, dealing with it, moving past it.
I finally realized that you basically get two choices, and variants thereof: You can wallow in self pity. Essentially the choice of letting your fear overpower you. Or you can go down swinging. The choice of fighting, no matter how hard it gets, even knowing you very likely will lose.
You have no control over the hand you are dealt. But you have complete control over how you play that hand.
You've never actually worked outside in the South in the summer have you? There was a reason it was sparsely settled and all the work was done by poor farmers/sharecroppers, and slaves. There is a reason little manual labor or hard outdoor work is done in the middle east, particularly during the middle 6 hours of the day.
Humid locals get more humid. Dry locations get dryer.
Raise the temp just a couple degrees and the max humidty may not change (hard to go over 100%), but it duration sure as hell does. To the point it no longer goes down overnight. Eventually its no longer only too hot and too humid during the worst of the day, but for the most of the night as well. And there are jobs that depend on the cooler/dryer nighttime (asphalt laying is one example from my own past experience). In fact, some models consider the effect of that humidity not going down over night and show it has (or can have; depends on location and replenishment) the effect of drying an area out, cause the water vapor doesnt get reabsorbed into the local environment. IE, desertification.
you didnt even read the whole thing did you? waldenbooks survived for years in the era of amazon. it was only shutdown not because of its own problems but because Borders, who had previously bought them out, was having problems and they decided to focus on the boutique store rather than the "just books" store. and it didnt work, as i said.
similar stores still continue to focus on just books, successfully, but they tend to be small affairs cause Borders and B&N did their damned to buy out or force out all small time competition.
you are creating a fallacious comparison by reframing a relative term to a your own, new, relative reference outside of the original poster's intended frame of reference.
You cannot dismiss the AC so easily. What he said is 100% accurate. While trespass IS illegal, if you have no proof that I trespassed you cannot convict me for it.
The issue here is that -I- (in this hypothetical) do have proof that I trespassed. But I passed a special law that makes it Secret, a National Security issue, so you aren't even allowed to subpoena me for it. However, AC was not commenting on that side of it.
Just be thankful the government cannot use the 5th amendment to protect itself from self-incrimination. Not that that will stop them trying that too if need be.
you taking less than a hundreth of a percent of a percent of the energy out of the system. and mother nature isnt ruled by the wind energy at the surface of hte planet. mother nature is ruled by solar heating (which also creates the wind, so theres not a finite amount of this energy anyway), and the jet stream (which is >25k feet up).
so yes, we do know what these massive windfarms would do to the environment: nothing.
it's a 300 foot wide rotor spinning at 15-20 RPM, with a tip speed of around 200ft/s (136mph). even assuming you COULD slow it meaningfully to save the bird, you would kill the efficiency of the system. no.
addendum: there's also the implied notion that the amount of energy in the wind system is finite. that is wrong. since wind energy almost entirely originates from solar heating, it is in no way or shape finite. at least until the sun burns out
combine with the fact that most wind energy is really just repurposed solar heating.
and then theres teh whole thing where just tossing down wind mills everywhere isnt very useful. you only put them where it makes sense. here in oklahoma we have a lot of them, because we have very reliable (basically constant) wind coming up from the south (curves in from the gulf really). the land is flat, so theres little interuption. most nearly any old tree you see around here is bent northward, the wind is so constant.
other good places to put windmills are on mountains, such as the coastal range in Cali, get those incoming winds from off the ocean as the weather sweeps in, and the air piles up and drives up the mountain. in certain places there's reliable wind at the bottom of mountains as the cold air sinks at the end of the day and through the night, and it comes sweeping down the mtn and through the valley.
another threat was this stupid notion of trying to be everything....everything other than a bookstore. Border. prime example. and B&N falls into this too.
When I go to these places I dont care about: -the massive fancy furniture -sitting there reading without buying -while drinking a latte -and using the WIFI -the piles and piles of non-book product (DVD, VHS, etc)
When I go to a bookstore I want to get... books. As shocking as that is. Borders forgot that. And B&N too.
Waldenbooks was always where I went, for years. Til Borders bought them out, and then shut them down. And Waldenbooks was successful and still making money, that whole time.
Because they did one thing, they did it well, and they did just that thing: sell books.
No coffee stand with 2-3 coffee barristas (even at minimum wage, that's ~100k a year spent on 3 employees, and nowhere near making back that money on more sales). No public wifi for people to sit and use without buying. No fancy expensive furniture. Just lots of books. And if they didnt have it, they can order it, or tell you if the other store across town had it (even most small cities have more than 1 mall). Borders and B&N frequently cant do that because in many small cities/towns there IS NO other store, there's just the one. And by sitting in a mall rahter than having their own private giant box, Walden saved money.
So what did Borders do when they started having trouble? They shut down Waldenbooks of course! Not the giant boxes that cost them lots of money, no. Not the coffee counter no one cared about, no. Did it work? Of course not. Within another two years Borders was gone.
B&N is going to go the same way if they continue to ignore the books. And just stocking whatever the current bestsellers are isnt enough. Walk into B&N and ask for a book that's even maybe 6 months old, or slightly obscure (not on a BS list), and they look at you like you're an alien lifeform. Whereas Walden and other stores would look up the ISBN, order it (sometimes even from Amazon, whatever it took to get it), and call you when it came in. I got copies of even out of print books by authors I like that way, such as nearly all of Craig Thomas's work (author of Firefox and Winterhawk, two my favorites)
as broken as the mod system is...mod up just for the Star Trek reference. its so applicable to this stuff. two paths both make money, and both get you in trouble. either you plan long term and piss off the investors who have come to expect short term gains and have been trained to ignore long term, so they eventually fire you....or you make short term gains and run the company into the ground. no matter what, you lose.
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in typical typical slashdotter fashion, you didnt even read it before replying did you? anytime someones says anything other than "people with mental illness are completely helpless" he is called "insensitive", told "he doesnt get it", "doesnt understand".
And the ultimate irony is that typically these things are said by people themselves have never been there. and dont understand.
So if you had actually read the entire thing you would see that i'm saying that I HAVE been there. I DO KNOW what it is like to be at the bottom of that pit.
So dont tell me I dont understand and have never thought about it. I'm probably better aquainted with it than most of the people talking about it in this thread.
yes, this is TOTALLY flamebait.
another mod system abuser
the WiiU seems more like the jump from PlayStation to PSOne.
the reality isnt such, but the marketing left the impression. it took some digging to figure out it was slightly more than just a relaunching.
It was called Spore.
it is when the next runner up only had half as many votes at only 87.8k.
"Vulcan was the only candidate with more than 100,000 votes."
"Rounding out the top five were Styx (87,858 votes), Persephone (68,969 votes) and Orpheus (51,197 votes)."
Hmm. Maybe you shoulda RTFA, eh?
you are what you eat.
ahh, the bastardization of the words digital and analog continues.
you need to differentiate the "music industry" into its parts. though given context, and slashdot, we all know you are referring of course to the big studios and the MAFIAA, and the like.
having said that, you make the equation far too complex.
what they really want is to make money.
no more, no less.
their problem is that the "new" technology has drastically increased the competition.
and even worse, cut them out of their own business model.
no more is a big studio required to fund and distribute music.
the only ones who want to return to the "good ol days" are those who were dependent on it for their $$$, and are unable or unwilling to adapt, much like the buggy whip makers we refer to repeatedly.
the portions of the "music industry" who have embraced the "new" technology and distribution methods are doing just fine and dont really care about the good ol days. just remember to support them with your $$$, since, after all, that's also their primary reason for being in business and embracing the new ways to make a bigger percentage of profits (minus those few who are ok with being a "starving artist").
addendum to myself:
the actual thing that finally got me on my feet was the song The Ride, from Chris Ledoux. always a bit of an underground country singer, i'd been listening to him for a few years. his songs were what got me interested in teh genre; having grown up in nevada they appealed to me.
The Ride ultimately is about death. the thing that will get us all eventually. its in the closing lines:
"Well, I know some day, farther down the road
I'll come to the edge of the great unknown
There'll stand a black horse riderless
And I wonder if I'm ready for this
So I'll saddle him up and he'll switch his tail
And I'll tip my hat and bid farewell
And lift my song into the air
That I learned at that dusty fair
(refrain) Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high
Keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky
And live like you ain't afraid to die
And don't be scared, just enjoy your ride
Now, don't be scared, just enjoy your ride"
You see, when he wrote that he was facing a monster far bigger, far more powerful and unstoppable than most of us ever will.
He had a liver cancer. Treated before, but it had come back.
He was dying.
And instead of doing what most of us would do, he was going down swinging. Or singing, as it were.
And that there is what got me to get back on my feet. Maybe it'll help someone else like it did me.
Most of our monsters are treatable, and not nearly so big and scary.
But first you gotta make that decision for yourself. No one else can make it for you and force you up.
And though I'll help anyone who wants/needs it, if you decide the other way, I'll abide by that too.
Though I really wish you wouldn't go that route.
You get a dealt a hand.
Good hand, shitty hand, it doesn't matter.
You get dealt a hand.
You had no control over it.
You didn't ask for it.
But you do have a choice of what to do with it now that you got it.
Fold, raise, call, bluff, whatever.
The choice is yours to make.
I got dealt some shitty hands before. One was worse than all the rest.
I cried, felt sorry for myself, wallowed in self-pity.
I tried to ignore it til it went away.
But it wouldn't go away.
How could it when it's a part of me now?
The only thing that made it go away was me finally getting, dusting myself off, and moving forward.
Accepting it, dealing with it, moving past it.
I finally realized that you basically get two choices, and variants thereof:
You can wallow in self pity. Essentially the choice of letting your fear overpower you.
Or you can go down swinging. The choice of fighting, no matter how hard it gets, even knowing you very likely will lose.
You have no control over the hand you are dealt.
But you have complete control over how you play that hand.
so you ignore the key phrase to ask a question answered precisely by that key phrase....
You've never actually worked outside in the South in the summer have you?
There was a reason it was sparsely settled and all the work was done by poor farmers/sharecroppers, and slaves.
There is a reason little manual labor or hard outdoor work is done in the middle east, particularly during the middle 6 hours of the day.
Humid locals get more humid.
Dry locations get dryer.
Raise the temp just a couple degrees and the max humidty may not change (hard to go over 100%), but it duration sure as hell does. To the point it no longer goes down overnight. Eventually its no longer only too hot and too humid during the worst of the day, but for the most of the night as well. And there are jobs that depend on the cooler/dryer nighttime (asphalt laying is one example from my own past experience). In fact, some models consider the effect of that humidity not going down over night and show it has (or can have; depends on location and replenishment) the effect of drying an area out, cause the water vapor doesnt get reabsorbed into the local environment. IE, desertification.
you didnt even read the whole thing did you?
waldenbooks survived for years in the era of amazon. it was only shutdown not because of its own problems but because Borders, who had previously bought them out, was having problems and they decided to focus on the boutique store rather than the "just books" store. and it didnt work, as i said.
similar stores still continue to focus on just books, successfully, but they tend to be small affairs cause Borders and B&N did their damned to buy out or force out all small time competition.
"america has no left"
stop. that is pointless pedantic malarky.
you are creating a fallacious comparison by reframing a relative term to a your own, new, relative reference outside of the original poster's intended frame of reference.
You cannot dismiss the AC so easily. What he said is 100% accurate.
While trespass IS illegal, if you have no proof that I trespassed you cannot convict me for it.
The issue here is that -I- (in this hypothetical) do have proof that I trespassed.
But I passed a special law that makes it Secret, a National Security issue, so you aren't even allowed to subpoena me for it.
However, AC was not commenting on that side of it.
Just be thankful the government cannot use the 5th amendment to protect itself from self-incrimination. Not that that will stop them trying that too if need be.
way to completely ignore that whole individual rights thing.
situational awareness.
drones and sensors still cannot replicate the situational awareness of having someone's butt in the cockpit
you taking less than a hundreth of a percent of a percent of the energy out of the system. and mother nature isnt ruled by the wind energy at the surface of hte planet. mother nature is ruled by solar heating (which also creates the wind, so theres not a finite amount of this energy anyway), and the jet stream (which is >25k feet up).
so yes, we do know what these massive windfarms would do to the environment: nothing.
it's a 300 foot wide rotor spinning at 15-20 RPM, with a tip speed of around 200ft/s (136mph).
even assuming you COULD slow it meaningfully to save the bird, you would kill the efficiency of the system.
no.
dont let the birds roost on the nacelles.
addendum:
there's also the implied notion that the amount of energy in the wind system is finite.
that is wrong. since wind energy almost entirely originates from solar heating, it is in no way or shape finite.
at least until the sun burns out
combine with the fact that most wind energy is really just repurposed solar heating.
and then theres teh whole thing where just tossing down wind mills everywhere isnt very useful. you only put them where it makes sense. here in oklahoma we have a lot of them, because we have very reliable (basically constant) wind coming up from the south (curves in from the gulf really). the land is flat, so theres little interuption. most nearly any old tree you see around here is bent northward, the wind is so constant.
other good places to put windmills are on mountains, such as the coastal range in Cali, get those incoming winds from off the ocean as the weather sweeps in, and the air piles up and drives up the mountain. in certain places there's reliable wind at the bottom of mountains as the cold air sinks at the end of the day and through the night, and it comes sweeping down the mtn and through the valley.
another threat was this stupid notion of trying to be everything....everything other than a bookstore.
Border. prime example. and B&N falls into this too.
When I go to these places I dont care about:
-the massive fancy furniture
-sitting there reading without buying
-while drinking a latte
-and using the WIFI
-the piles and piles of non-book product (DVD, VHS, etc)
When I go to a bookstore I want to get ... books. As shocking as that is.
Borders forgot that. And B&N too.
Waldenbooks was always where I went, for years. Til Borders bought them out, and then shut them down. And Waldenbooks was successful and still making money, that whole time.
Because they did one thing, they did it well, and they did just that thing: sell books.
No coffee stand with 2-3 coffee barristas (even at minimum wage, that's ~100k a year spent on 3 employees, and nowhere near making back that money on more sales). No public wifi for people to sit and use without buying. No fancy expensive furniture. Just lots of books. And if they didnt have it, they can order it, or tell you if the other store across town had it (even most small cities have more than 1 mall). Borders and B&N frequently cant do that because in many small cities/towns there IS NO other store, there's just the one. And by sitting in a mall rahter than having their own private giant box, Walden saved money.
So what did Borders do when they started having trouble? They shut down Waldenbooks of course! Not the giant boxes that cost them lots of money, no. Not the coffee counter no one cared about, no. Did it work? Of course not. Within another two years Borders was gone.
B&N is going to go the same way if they continue to ignore the books. And just stocking whatever the current bestsellers are isnt enough. Walk into B&N and ask for a book that's even maybe 6 months old, or slightly obscure (not on a BS list), and they look at you like you're an alien lifeform. Whereas Walden and other stores would look up the ISBN, order it (sometimes even from Amazon, whatever it took to get it), and call you when it came in. I got copies of even out of print books by authors I like that way, such as nearly all of Craig Thomas's work (author of Firefox and Winterhawk, two my favorites)
unless they borrowed it from the treasury, tax payers dont pay for it.
plus there's that whole thing about having to pay back whatever you borrow.
as broken as the mod system is...mod up just for the Star Trek reference. its so applicable to this stuff.
two paths both make money, and both get you in trouble. either you plan long term and piss off the investors who have come to expect short term gains and have been trained to ignore long term, so they eventually fire you....or you make short term gains and run the company into the ground. no matter what, you lose.