Frequent breaks. I played the hell out of it for about 4 or 5, maybe 6 months, took a year off, played for a few months, took off until BC, took off another couple years and just resubbed a little over a year ago. My sub lapses next week, but that's because I'm on a PPC mac and support is being dropped for it, but that's okay. I'll wait until Cata is good and broken in and I'll be ready for a new computer then.:)
/* Such a thing would make it so much easier for someone to use parts of existing material for new uses, and they wouldn't want that, at least not without you contacting them for permission.
Neat idea but never happen. */
Unless your name is Trent Reznor. Like him or hate him, he's got some very interesting ideas regarding the future of music.
Which is what would happen if you suddenly deposited $150k into investments and the resulting FBI investigation. And no one has said about any of the money he *did* have hidden properly, it could just be that he hadn't gotten around to hiding this latest round of cash. I'd imagine as an executive, he had to spend a lot of time shuffling money, building false fronts, making the payment arrangements, travel to and from suppliers making the deals, and all that and my guess is that it wasn't simply a "I'll figure it out on my smoke break" kind of moment.
I dunno about telling us much. We (most everywhere) heavily subsidize things like our interstate/transportation infrastructure. This whole "personal car/vehicle" dilemma is partly to blame on our willingness to pay taxes to provide suitable roads for driving, not to mention fight wars to secure the oil supply for fuel. I would imagine if these transportation and transportation subsidies ended, we'd see a vastly different infrastructure take it's place: more trains, busses, and ships, and possibly even airships.
The fucking Christians already have a way to indoctrinate their kids. It's called fucking "CHURCH." If they're going to try to push creationism, then what version are they going to teach? What makes "intelligent design" any more reasonable than Hindu or other creation stories? No, this is just a veiled attempt to try and keep "christianity" relevant as we push further and further away from our fundamentalist, backwards, ancestral belief systems.
I'm typing this now via my Dual G5 2.3ghz powermac that is perfectly servicable. Running OS X 10.5, as well. For web browsing, hulu, ableton live + reason + native instruments, even gaming (world of warcraft, soon to be intel only, though). Everything I want to do, I can do on this machine. Would a new machine be more efficient and even do tasks faster? Yes and probably not because I'm user constrained when it comes to music production (for the most part). however, I'd still have to part with my hard earned cash I'd rather spend on drugs and alcohol than buy another machine where I wouldn't see any 'dividends' for many years down the road.
I think as the industry matures a bit, we'll start seeing publishers doing something more reasonable. If you make the price attractive enough, many customers will buy a "new" digital copy vs a used copy at the shop. This, of course, would be bad for the used book stores, but that might be the price of progress.
Right now, my biggest complaints are that ebook prices are frequently not much "cheaper" than the physical item. Perhaps this isn't too big a deal, marketwise, as Apple has proven that people will pay almost the same price for "inferior" digital music than buying the CD. But if I can buy a physical book for $15 and the ebook is $14, what's my incentive other than immediate satisfaction? I can't even get the digital copy signed by the author eh?
Anyway, I envision something like the following: New ebooks will be most expensive. People who absolutely must read the latest, greatest book already do this with hardbacks. As sales taper off, a second tier would be created (kinda like the paperback introduction of the book), I'm guessing at at least a 50% from the initial release. This would spur a second surge in sales (in theory). And finally, to combat the used book market and to take advantage of the so-called "long-tail", I see the ebooks finally dropping in price to, say, $2.
Now, as you mentioned, when you sell a used book, the author gets none of it. But if you price the ebook at a low enough price, they can still receive revenue, albeit not much, but I've always maintained that a few pennies is better than nothing at all.
This would also allow them to do stuff like Baen and give away older titles to "advertise" for the new and upcoming releases and heck, probably write them off as "promotional expenses". If the contract is done right, both the publisher and the author would do well.
Would this destroy the physical market? Not really. I think the market will look towards the music industry (and especially people like Nine Inch Nails) and figure out how to include things that you won't get with the digital copy. Imagine if Neil Gaiman got together with Todd's Toys to make an exclusive "toy" to go along with his latest novel, which will come in a nice, shiny collector's box, signed and numbered, for $45? Or a picturebook of sketches, copies of notes, a DVD containing panel interviews and talks (or readings) and whatnot, things that hardcore fans would gladly pay more for. I think the larger, less agile organizations will fare much like their music industry counterparts, but this leaves the market wide open for innovation.
/* anybody that enamored with them shouldn't be writing in them */
WHAT? I'd say just the opposite. People that enamored with reading can usually be spotted BY the copious amounts of margin writing, note taking, highlighting, etc. People that are enamored by having "things" (and not the ideas they contain) are usually the ones that can't stand dog-earing and marking up. It might mess up that vintage first edition that might sell for $10 on eBay in 20 years...
d) I like the simplicity of their hardware. It's no EVO 4g, but it shouldn't have to be for a featurephone. e) It's my understanding that, like the Zune, it's basically winmo 6.x with a skin. And winmo 6.x is dead dead dead.
Kinda like the HTC HD2. Nice hardware, but you know it's a dead-end out of the box. Kinda like some android phones, unfortunately.
I like the hardware. I think nVidia's Tegra platform is pretty solid. But, without ability to download/run apps, silly games, and the outragerous freaking plan (seriously, $100/month aimed at tweens/teens? no thanks!), they killed it before it even started. Hey, at $50/month, plus $15/month for Zune Pass? I'd be interested and I'm 37 (and male).
I'd be much more interested if someone can root the kin and get a fully working version of Android on it. Again, I like the hardware, I'm just not sure they thought the software/network stack well enough. As much as I'd like to like Verizon, their pricing sucks.
While the back catalog is nice, my primary usage of hulu is to watch current shows. I don't have cable, nor netflix. Does netflix have current episodes or do you have to wait for the DVD set to come out?
The great thing about companies that "ban visible tattoos" is that serves as a barometer for me. I don't have tattoos, but I'm not going to work for anyone that's so fucking backwards that they can't handle some ink on someone else.
USPS processes 584 million items per day (from USPS.gov) UPS processes 15.1 million packages and documents per day (from UPS.com) FedEx Express (ground is a separate entity) processes 2 million packages per day.
/* The "group of armed man" was actually a group of around 12 guys, all in a pretty relaxed attitude, none of them was pointing their guns at anything. */
War is 99% doing nothing, and 1% actually fighting. Just because they weren't in fighting posture doesn't mean they weren't ready to fight. A lot of the communication going on between the party is exactly what I'd be thinking people would be doing, discussing things like where the enemy is, who is going to take what position, what's the bug-out plan, how much ammunition, etc. If you were to see video of American troops, you'd find most of them laying around, playing Gameboys or PSPs, listening to their ipods, playing cards, whatever.
They did not identify children in the minivan until after troops got there. To the helicopter, the van was there to remove bodies and wounded, and evidence (they're not that stupid, guys). The tactics used by the "insurgents" were basically just that: Cars/vans ferry fighters/ammunition around, pick them up and carry them elsewhere. It's not like they have APCs, Bradleys and other military vehicles at their disposal, so civilian transportation it is.
The issue of whether or not the US should be there is a completely separate conversation. I happen to agree with that sentiment. However, the actions of the pilots/gunners in the video are completely appropriate to the ROE of their mission.
That's false, however. There were American troops a few blocks down the street. The part in the video where the photographer leans out and snaps some shots? He was taking pics of the Bradleys sitting down the street. (they recovered the cameras and those were the last pictures taken) Of course it took 10 minutes for troops to get there. You don't just rush headfirst into a waiting potential ambush. If you didn't see the rockets/AKs, you weren't looking hard enough because I spotted at least one of each without any kind of "ambiguity". Then let's discuss the idea that that exact location had been used as an ambush/RPG launch point for running battles over the past few days. There's a lot of context you're missing from the video alone.
It still has nothing to do with a free market. Part of the "free" in free market means banks and the like are free to fail. Free market does not guarantee success, for investors, owners, customers, or anything. I would argue that a truly free market would limit financial growth in a very rigid, conservative manner vs all-or-nothing betting backed by taxpayer subsidies. This is probably a good thing. Right now, people play the stock market and the like the way people play video games. You can do stupid stuff in all these war simulators because the worst that happens is you have to wait for a respawn. In real life, you try to fight a real war the way you play online and you'll be real dead real quick. Back when banks weren't too big to fail, excessive risk meant shutting the doors. Banks had to earn your money.
/* Not the kind of thing you pack in an ultra mobile device. */
Why not? nVidia is betting that we will start wanting more heavy hitting graphics on our portable devices. Tegra2 is pretty damned impressive in this area and it's only going to get better with time. GPU manufacturers are also taking advantage of smaller and smaller fabs with better and better power:watt ratios. Battery tech/management is continually improving. Etc etc.
And while you're nestled in bed at 9PM, I'm getting started at the bar, talking to folks, drinking brews, and just starting another glorious night out. Less traffic, less people, more sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Different Strokes, different folks...
I'd love to know where you're pulling down 40k (~$19/hour) in the kitchen. Unless you're a chef (and even then, not guaranteed), it's more like $7.50-$12/hour for a line cook, depending on region. You're much better off in the front of the house if you want money.
Well, it'd be a new evolutionary pressure that would favor women with larger birth canals. Sure the regular birth canals women would probably die in childbirth, but the ones that could handle the larger craniums would surive to produce many more children. The population would soon stabilize and larger birth canals and bigger brains would be the norm. But we're also talking about several thousand years for this homogeneity kind of homogeneity to emerge.
In modern times, it wouldn't be as big a deal due to things like C-Sections and what not. We could have babies with heads the size of basketballs and as long as they were birthed under the knife, the mother's mortality wouldn't be in danger (any more so than the millions of other c-sections out there).
Well, there was the part that the link-up was used for communicating with the "planet hivemind". The smurfs were using it to store collective memories/personalities, etc, perhaps the other fauna were using it similarly. It could also explain the "connectedness" that the smurfs had with the animals.. they could "feel" and "hear" them as well in the ancestor tree things. Anyway, if being able to connect to the planet hivemind was evolutionary advantageous, then it stands to reason that it would remain intact through different species and the interface would remain the same to maintain compatibility. I made the assumption that all animals had the interface available, yet some were more amenable to others for interfacing. Like gigantor bird. Yes, he interfaced with it, but maybe the ability to keep it fed and also not eat the other birds was going to be an issue, so it was time to let it go..
Ah, shit. I forgot about GT being in Atlanta. Welp, there goes my idea that they were bringing in guys off the boat to work in the call center, which made no sense to me.:P
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Frequent breaks. I played the hell out of it for about 4 or 5, maybe 6 months, took a year off, played for a few months, took off until BC, took off another couple years and just resubbed a little over a year ago. My sub lapses next week, but that's because I'm on a PPC mac and support is being dropped for it, but that's okay. I'll wait until Cata is good and broken in and I'll be ready for a new computer then. :)
/* Such a thing would make it so much easier for someone to use parts of existing material for new uses, and they wouldn't want that, at least not without you contacting them for permission.
Neat idea but never happen. */
Unless your name is Trent Reznor. Like him or hate him, he's got some very interesting ideas regarding the future of music.
Which is what would happen if you suddenly deposited $150k into investments and the resulting FBI investigation. And no one has said about any of the money he *did* have hidden properly, it could just be that he hadn't gotten around to hiding this latest round of cash. I'd imagine as an executive, he had to spend a lot of time shuffling money, building false fronts, making the payment arrangements, travel to and from suppliers making the deals, and all that and my guess is that it wasn't simply a "I'll figure it out on my smoke break" kind of moment.
I dunno about telling us much. We (most everywhere) heavily subsidize things like our interstate/transportation infrastructure. This whole "personal car/vehicle" dilemma is partly to blame on our willingness to pay taxes to provide suitable roads for driving, not to mention fight wars to secure the oil supply for fuel. I would imagine if these transportation and transportation subsidies ended, we'd see a vastly different infrastructure take it's place: more trains, busses, and ships, and possibly even airships.
The fucking Christians already have a way to indoctrinate their kids. It's called fucking "CHURCH." If they're going to try to push creationism, then what version are they going to teach? What makes "intelligent design" any more reasonable than Hindu or other creation stories? No, this is just a veiled attempt to try and keep "christianity" relevant as we push further and further away from our fundamentalist, backwards, ancestral belief systems.
Unless you're in GA, you have to be the original purchaser, you must have purchased it at BestBuy, and you should have a receipt.
What utter nonsense.
I'm typing this now via my Dual G5 2.3ghz powermac that is perfectly servicable. Running OS X 10.5, as well. For web browsing, hulu, ableton live + reason + native instruments, even gaming (world of warcraft, soon to be intel only, though). Everything I want to do, I can do on this machine. Would a new machine be more efficient and even do tasks faster? Yes and probably not because I'm user constrained when it comes to music production (for the most part). however, I'd still have to part with my hard earned cash I'd rather spend on drugs and alcohol than buy another machine where I wouldn't see any 'dividends' for many years down the road.
I think as the industry matures a bit, we'll start seeing publishers doing something more reasonable. If you make the price attractive enough, many customers will buy a "new" digital copy vs a used copy at the shop. This, of course, would be bad for the used book stores, but that might be the price of progress.
Right now, my biggest complaints are that ebook prices are frequently not much "cheaper" than the physical item. Perhaps this isn't too big a deal, marketwise, as Apple has proven that people will pay almost the same price for "inferior" digital music than buying the CD. But if I can buy a physical book for $15 and the ebook is $14, what's my incentive other than immediate satisfaction? I can't even get the digital copy signed by the author eh?
Anyway, I envision something like the following:
New ebooks will be most expensive. People who absolutely must read the latest, greatest book already do this with hardbacks.
As sales taper off, a second tier would be created (kinda like the paperback introduction of the book), I'm guessing at at least a 50% from the initial release. This would spur a second surge in sales (in theory).
And finally, to combat the used book market and to take advantage of the so-called "long-tail", I see the ebooks finally dropping in price to, say, $2.
Now, as you mentioned, when you sell a used book, the author gets none of it. But if you price the ebook at a low enough price, they can still receive revenue, albeit not much, but I've always maintained that a few pennies is better than nothing at all.
This would also allow them to do stuff like Baen and give away older titles to "advertise" for the new and upcoming releases and heck, probably write them off as "promotional expenses". If the contract is done right, both the publisher and the author would do well.
Would this destroy the physical market? Not really. I think the market will look towards the music industry (and especially people like Nine Inch Nails) and figure out how to include things that you won't get with the digital copy. Imagine if Neil Gaiman got together with Todd's Toys to make an exclusive "toy" to go along with his latest novel, which will come in a nice, shiny collector's box, signed and numbered, for $45? Or a picturebook of sketches, copies of notes, a DVD containing panel interviews and talks (or readings) and whatnot, things that hardcore fans would gladly pay more for. I think the larger, less agile organizations will fare much like their music industry counterparts, but this leaves the market wide open for innovation.
/* anybody that enamored with them shouldn't be writing in them */
WHAT? I'd say just the opposite. People that enamored with reading can usually be spotted BY the copious amounts of margin writing, note taking, highlighting, etc. People that are enamored by having "things" (and not the ideas they contain) are usually the ones that can't stand dog-earing and marking up. It might mess up that vintage first edition that might sell for $10 on eBay in 20 years...
d) I like the simplicity of their hardware. It's no EVO 4g, but it shouldn't have to be for a featurephone.
e) It's my understanding that, like the Zune, it's basically winmo 6.x with a skin. And winmo 6.x is dead dead dead.
Kinda like the HTC HD2. Nice hardware, but you know it's a dead-end out of the box. Kinda like some android phones, unfortunately.
I like the hardware. I think nVidia's Tegra platform is pretty solid. But, without ability to download/run apps, silly games, and the outragerous freaking plan (seriously, $100/month aimed at tweens/teens? no thanks!), they killed it before it even started. Hey, at $50/month, plus $15/month for Zune Pass? I'd be interested and I'm 37 (and male).
I'd be much more interested if someone can root the kin and get a fully working version of Android on it. Again, I like the hardware, I'm just not sure they thought the software/network stack well enough. As much as I'd like to like Verizon, their pricing sucks.
While the back catalog is nice, my primary usage of hulu is to watch current shows. I don't have cable, nor netflix. Does netflix have current episodes or do you have to wait for the DVD set to come out?
The great thing about companies that "ban visible tattoos" is that serves as a barometer for me. I don't have tattoos, but I'm not going to work for anyone that's so fucking backwards that they can't handle some ink on someone else.
USPS processes 584 million items per day (from USPS.gov)
UPS processes 15.1 million packages and documents per day (from UPS.com)
FedEx Express (ground is a separate entity) processes 2 million packages per day.
You were saying?
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And a bit flipped to an e?
/* The "group of armed man" was actually a group of around 12 guys, all in a pretty relaxed attitude, none of them was pointing their guns at anything. */
War is 99% doing nothing, and 1% actually fighting. Just because they weren't in fighting posture doesn't mean they weren't ready to fight. A lot of the communication going on between the party is exactly what I'd be thinking people would be doing, discussing things like where the enemy is, who is going to take what position, what's the bug-out plan, how much ammunition, etc. If you were to see video of American troops, you'd find most of them laying around, playing Gameboys or PSPs, listening to their ipods, playing cards, whatever.
They did not identify children in the minivan until after troops got there. To the helicopter, the van was there to remove bodies and wounded, and evidence (they're not that stupid, guys). The tactics used by the "insurgents" were basically just that: Cars/vans ferry fighters/ammunition around, pick them up and carry them elsewhere. It's not like they have APCs, Bradleys and other military vehicles at their disposal, so civilian transportation it is.
The issue of whether or not the US should be there is a completely separate conversation. I happen to agree with that sentiment. However, the actions of the pilots/gunners in the video are completely appropriate to the ROE of their mission.
That's false, however. There were American troops a few blocks down the street. The part in the video where the photographer leans out and snaps some shots? He was taking pics of the Bradleys sitting down the street. (they recovered the cameras and those were the last pictures taken) Of course it took 10 minutes for troops to get there. You don't just rush headfirst into a waiting potential ambush. If you didn't see the rockets/AKs, you weren't looking hard enough because I spotted at least one of each without any kind of "ambiguity". Then let's discuss the idea that that exact location had been used as an ambush/RPG launch point for running battles over the past few days. There's a lot of context you're missing from the video alone.
Wrong. Anarcho-capitalism is not free-market capitalism, no matter what those Rothbard idiots claim.
It still has nothing to do with a free market. Part of the "free" in free market means banks and the like are free to fail. Free market does not guarantee success, for investors, owners, customers, or anything. I would argue that a truly free market would limit financial growth in a very rigid, conservative manner vs all-or-nothing betting backed by taxpayer subsidies. This is probably a good thing. Right now, people play the stock market and the like the way people play video games. You can do stupid stuff in all these war simulators because the worst that happens is you have to wait for a respawn. In real life, you try to fight a real war the way you play online and you'll be real dead real quick. Back when banks weren't too big to fail, excessive risk meant shutting the doors. Banks had to earn your money.
/* Not the kind of thing you pack in an ultra mobile device. */
Why not? nVidia is betting that we will start wanting more heavy hitting graphics on our portable devices. Tegra2 is pretty damned impressive in this area and it's only going to get better with time. GPU manufacturers are also taking advantage of smaller and smaller fabs with better and better power:watt ratios. Battery tech/management is continually improving. Etc etc.
And while you're nestled in bed at 9PM, I'm getting started at the bar, talking to folks, drinking brews, and just starting another glorious night out. Less traffic, less people, more sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Different Strokes, different folks...
I'd love to know where you're pulling down 40k (~$19/hour) in the kitchen. Unless you're a chef (and even then, not guaranteed), it's more like $7.50-$12/hour for a line cook, depending on region. You're much better off in the front of the house if you want money.
Well, it'd be a new evolutionary pressure that would favor women with larger birth canals. Sure the regular birth canals women would probably die in childbirth, but the ones that could handle the larger craniums would surive to produce many more children. The population would soon stabilize and larger birth canals and bigger brains would be the norm. But we're also talking about several thousand years for this homogeneity kind of homogeneity to emerge.
In modern times, it wouldn't be as big a deal due to things like C-Sections and what not. We could have babies with heads the size of basketballs and as long as they were birthed under the knife, the mother's mortality wouldn't be in danger (any more so than the millions of other c-sections out there).
Well, there was the part that the link-up was used for communicating with the "planet hivemind". The smurfs were using it to store collective memories/personalities, etc, perhaps the other fauna were using it similarly. It could also explain the "connectedness" that the smurfs had with the animals.. they could "feel" and "hear" them as well in the ancestor tree things. Anyway, if being able to connect to the planet hivemind was evolutionary advantageous, then it stands to reason that it would remain intact through different species and the interface would remain the same to maintain compatibility. I made the assumption that all animals had the interface available, yet some were more amenable to others for interfacing. Like gigantor bird. Yes, he interfaced with it, but maybe the ability to keep it fed and also not eat the other birds was going to be an issue, so it was time to let it go..
Ah, shit. I forgot about GT being in Atlanta. Welp, there goes my idea that they were bringing in guys off the boat to work in the call center, which made no sense to me. :P