This is a good first step. Now start selling the tracks without lossy compression! 99 cents per track for FLAC downloads and even *I* might be interested.
I've always heard that other manufacturers have not done this since it's more likely to result in clogged print heads. With the head-in-cartridge paradigm, the heads are replaced with the cartridge, and clogging is less likely or at least easier to fix.
So, will this technology have any problems with devices communicating between each other if the two devices are on opposing "legs" of the split 220V line?
I.e. the line comes into your house as 220V, and is split into two 110V legs before being distributed throughout the home. Device #1 is in a circuit powered off the first 110V leg, and device #2 is on a circuit powered off the second 110V leg. Can the two devices communicate?
This is often a problem with simple X10 devices, and can require the installation of a "bridge" device to allow X10 signals to pass between the two 110V legs. Seems like powerline networking would suffer from the same problem...
Ditto here in Minnesota. We were originally a MediaOne outlet, then converted to RoadRunner, then to @Home after AT&T purchased MediaOne. Everything still seems to be working fine -- even the home.excite.com "homepage" is still working, despite claims from AT&T that it's gone forever.
The situation is even stranger for me. I'm in an area that was originally served by Mediaone.net, which transitioned to Road Runner, and then was purchased by AT&T and converted to @Home. However, all of our servers (NNTP, POP, SMTP, etc) still reside in the old mediaone.net domain, with the exception of the home page server (home.excite.com). I've no idea what'll happen to our connectivity or email access if @Home goes dark...
A penny per page? No, that's not a good idea. A "page" isn't really a quantifiable concept -- it can be made as long or as short as the author wishes. Charging per page-view would merely incent web authors to make their pages as short as possible to generate maximum income.
I'll agree that Doctor Who was better than Star Trek: TOS, but must disagree with the comment on the SFX. Doctor Who was produced on a shoestring budget compared to Star Trek, and the SFX were almost always of much lower quality. But it succeeded in spite of the low-quality SFX, as did other British sci-fi shows such as Blake's 7, early Red Dwarf, etc.
Plus you missed the worst of all Trek TOS episodes... The two episodes you mentioned are masterpieces compared to the infamous "Spock's Brain"!
Yes, I'm sure. 95% of all TDK CD-Rs that I see locally are labelled "Made in Taiwan." They're made by Ritek, under contract to TDK. Now, it's possible that Ritek is more careful with product manufacturer for TDK than with product they sell to other "cheapie" labels (Kingston, Mr. Data, etc) -- but I'd rather not take that chance. Living near TDK headquarters may mean that you're lucky enough to get more TDK-manufactured discs.
In fact, yesterday was the first day in several months that I saw TDK discs made other than in Taiwan. I came across a few spindles of "Made in USA" discs.
Most TDK CD-Rs are now made by one of those "cheapshit Taiwanese generic" companies, as a previous poster referred to them. High quality blanks are difficult to find, since so many companies are buying and relabeling the cheap junk from Ritek/CMC. Hopefully that'll change when/if Ritek and CMC are forced to raise their prices...
I submitted the same $90 rebate (actually 2 rebates totalling $90) in October, and finally called the fulfillment company a month ago inquiring why I hadn't received the check. They gave some lame excuse about WD underestimating the response to the rebate. I suspect the actual thought at Western Digital was closer to "Oh shit... you mean the customers are actually SENDING IN the rebate forms? Crap!".
After two more followup telephone calls and a nasty email, I finally received the $60 portion of the rebate a few days ago -- over 16 weeks after they'd received my rebate request form. The remaining $30 portion still hasn't arrived.
Yet more reinforcement for my belief that rebates should be avoided unless you were already going to buy the item in question.
It would seem that if eBay made the following changes that they could greatly reduce the amount of "offline" selling:
Do not display high bidder's name until the auction is over at the defined closing time.
Do not allow everyone to see the bid history of on an item. Only allow the seller to see this, and only after the auction is over.
With these changes, if a seller closes his auction early then he won't know who bid on the item. Also, the trick of looking through the bidding history for completed auctions to locate potential buyers will no longer work.
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This is a good first step. Now start selling the tracks without lossy compression! 99 cents per track for FLAC downloads and even *I* might be interested.
Epson has been doing this for many years.
I've always heard that other manufacturers have not done this since it's more likely to result in clogged print heads. With the head-in-cartridge paradigm, the heads are replaced with the cartridge, and clogging is less likely or at least easier to fix.
Why all the recent hatred towards PayPal? Sure they're no longer free, but they have to turn a profit somehow.
Or are there other sinister happenings at PayPal that should make me dislike them?
Appears to be a known problem when compiling with RedHat's prerelease of the GCC 3.1 compiler.
Here is some more information. In general, I recommend that you do not attempt to compile the Linux kernel using any version of GCC newer than 2.96.
So, will this technology have any problems with devices communicating between each other if the two devices are on opposing "legs" of the split 220V line?
I.e. the line comes into your house as 220V, and is split into two 110V legs before being distributed throughout the home. Device #1 is in a circuit powered off the first 110V leg, and device #2 is on a circuit powered off the second 110V leg. Can the two devices communicate?
This is often a problem with simple X10 devices, and can require the installation of a "bridge" device to allow X10 signals to pass between the two 110V legs. Seems like powerline networking would suffer from the same problem...
Ditto here in Minnesota. We were originally a MediaOne outlet, then converted to RoadRunner, then to @Home after AT&T purchased MediaOne. Everything still seems to be working fine -- even the home.excite.com "homepage" is still working, despite claims from AT&T that it's gone forever.
The situation is even stranger for me. I'm in an area that was originally served by Mediaone.net, which transitioned to Road Runner, and then was purchased by AT&T and converted to @Home. However, all of our servers (NNTP, POP, SMTP, etc) still reside in the old mediaone.net domain, with the exception of the home page server (home.excite.com). I've no idea what'll happen to our connectivity or email access if @Home goes dark...
A penny per page? No, that's not a good idea. A "page" isn't really a quantifiable concept -- it can be made as long or as short as the author wishes. Charging per page-view would merely incent web authors to make their pages as short as possible to generate maximum income.
I'll agree that Doctor Who was better than Star Trek: TOS, but must disagree with the comment on the SFX. Doctor Who was produced on a shoestring budget compared to Star Trek, and the SFX were almost always of much lower quality. But it succeeded in spite of the low-quality SFX, as did other British sci-fi shows such as Blake's 7, early Red Dwarf, etc.
Plus you missed the worst of all Trek TOS episodes... The two episodes you mentioned are masterpieces compared to the infamous "Spock's Brain"!
I doubt it. At best, we can hope that it'll destroy this particular frivolous lawsuit and perhaps the other pending Rambus-initiated suits.
Yes, I'm sure. 95% of all TDK CD-Rs that I see locally are labelled "Made in Taiwan." They're made by Ritek, under contract to TDK. Now, it's possible that Ritek is more careful with product manufacturer for TDK than with product they sell to other "cheapie" labels (Kingston, Mr. Data, etc) -- but I'd rather not take that chance. Living near TDK headquarters may mean that you're lucky enough to get more TDK-manufactured discs. In fact, yesterday was the first day in several months that I saw TDK discs made other than in Taiwan. I came across a few spindles of "Made in USA" discs.
Most TDK CD-Rs are now made by one of those "cheapshit Taiwanese generic" companies, as a previous poster referred to them. High quality blanks are difficult to find, since so many companies are buying and relabeling the cheap junk from Ritek/CMC. Hopefully that'll change when/if Ritek and CMC are forced to raise their prices...
You're not alone...
I submitted the same $90 rebate (actually 2 rebates totalling $90) in October, and finally called the fulfillment company a month ago inquiring why I hadn't received the check. They gave some lame excuse about WD underestimating the response to the rebate. I suspect the actual thought at Western Digital was closer to "Oh shit... you mean the customers are actually SENDING IN the rebate forms? Crap!".
After two more followup telephone calls and a nasty email, I finally received the $60 portion of the rebate a few days ago -- over 16 weeks after they'd received my rebate request form. The remaining $30 portion still hasn't arrived.
Yet more reinforcement for my belief that rebates should be avoided unless you were already going to buy the item in question.
- Do not display high bidder's name until the auction is over at the defined closing time.
- Do not allow everyone to see the bid history of on an item. Only allow the seller to see this, and only after the auction is over.
With these changes, if a seller closes his auction early then he won't know who bid on the item. Also, the trick of looking through the bidding history for completed auctions to locate potential buyers will no longer work.