Radio gets paid through advertising. To get people to listen they play the popular songs. The RIAA can control the playlist all it wants, but eventually some of the more popular songs are going to show up through the non-label medium. At this point the radio will have start making choices about either letting listeners leave or start playing music from the non-label sources.
It won't happen overnight, but this is the direction that the industry is headed.
My GF would whoop your ass. First, she's really strong for her size. Years of gymnastics and fitness in general helped her out I'm sure. I also made the mistake of showing her the basic MMA grappling, juijitsu, and muay tai movements. Piss her off and she'll choke you out in a heartbeat. lol
She's definitely not uber aggressive or anything like that. She also doesn't look like she could kick anyones ass. But, if push came to shove she could definitely defend herself.
I agree. At one point or another I owned a S3 Virge, Verite 1000, Matrox G200, and an original Voodoo.
I can distinctly remember playing GLQuake for the first time on the Voodoo card. I was completely amazed at the speed it ran the given resolution. Very few times have I personally witnessed such a big leap forward in a technology. It was similar in going from analog TV to 1080p HD where you just mumbled incoherently thinking 'WOW!'
You're right, in offshore fishing there is a lot of overcompensating for micro-penis (they tend to call it f-u money). My friend actually does it on the cheaper side with his boat.
Hauling the boat from tournament to tournament is much much cheaper than driving it.
Besides which - if you can't sail a boat, you have no business on a boat.
I can sail just fine and do that often.
And, don't blubber at me about a bunch of macho bullshit. That fuel wasting boat contributes to the national problems, economically, and environmentally.
It's not macho. If you want to fish offshore at all it requires a larger boat with redundant motors. It's not your hobby to do this type of fishing so it's okay to tell other people not to do it. Gotcha!
Getting 60 miles or so offshore and back takes a lot of gas. I'm not sure how many Tuna, Wahoo, or billfish you're going to catch in your nearby lake, but have at it.
You're right, although some people do need that power. A friend of mine had to buy a 1/2 ton to safely pull his boat. Gas mileage is not much of a concern when we generally burn 200-300 gallons of gas in a single day of fishing.
If you have the sort of catastrophe that destroys the server and the tape drive (that should be on another server btw) then what's the problem with waiting overnight for a new tape drive to arrive?
Even if you're using some 10 year old drive you should be able to find and have one next day (sometimes sooner even).
The only risk I'm taking here is that in case of a fire it won't help much, but how many people actually keep off-site backups for home use?
I sorta do. Things I think I should never lose I put on something like dropbox or email it to myself.
I only own a laptop and backup to USB drives anytime I'm at home. I usually always have my laptop with me so that keeps 2 copies of my data separate most of the time. A worst case scenario for me would be either a home fire while I'm there and I can't grab the laptop on the way out or some other home catastrophe while I'm at home (and thus my laptop and backup drives are in the same location).
What counts as a new 'whole OS?' If Apple changed the version to 11 or 12 would that be enough? How about if they just threw a new skin on? Leopard was a pretty big change from Tiger in interface and under the hood. Plus it added a lot of new features. Snow Leopard seems to focus more under the hood, but still seems to be adding a lot of new functionality.
The question is at what point do YOU think it's a major version? Do they need to re-write the entire kernel every time? That doesn't seem very prudent.
MMIO is very fast and simple because you use the processors same instructions to read/write from the 'mapped' memory as you do to any other memory. This allows the processor to treat devices simply as locations in RAM to read/write from.
The 64-bit world still uses MMIO, but it doesn't cause an issue like in the 32-bit world because you have a much larger possible memory address space.
With no experience a masters may hurt you in a recession though, because who would you rather hire? The undergrad with no experience, or the masters with no experience who will be expecting more money than the undergrad?
False dichotomy? I would rather hire the person with experience and a masters. Many MS programs are part time and geared around those who work. Show me someone who has the drive and motivation to complete an MS while also working full time and that's someone I want to hire.
I think you have the right idea because I did the same thing. After undergrad I worked for a few years and then went back to school and got my MS part time.
It does not automatically mean extra money, but more education never hurts. If anything it shows that you have the drive and determination to complete another degree while working full time.
What I see in this thread so far are a lot of people who think that you either work or get an MS. That's just not it is done today. Most people work while they get their MS (and many work while getting their undergrad too). In the end experience + MS > experience.
You're the exact target the MBAs are looking for. They want you to believe that your phone is an HDTV, a reader, a GPS,......
You don't need to be an MBA to realize that people are looking to reduce, not add, to the number of devices they carry around. A cell phone is a given now. Smart phones removed the need for a cell phone and a PDA. Cell phone and music player convergence removed the need for a separate music player. For quick pictures you no longer need to bring a separate camera either. Why are people going to want to carry a separate device just to read news feeds and books when they already have a perfectly capable device in their pocket?
People do not want a separate reader device. Look at the success of Stanza on the iphone even with the iPhones short comings of a smallish screen. If/When Apple does release a double sized iPhone\iTouch like device the Kindle (and other reader-only devices) will die before they ever took off.
please don't try to tell me you think most of the $131,350 is parts and labor,and design
Emphasis mine. The cars are very similar. I have no idea how much labor went into designing the both the S and C class cars. I'm am sure that they did some estimates of sales and that's how they figured out prices. More than likely the S class buyers are paying for a larger majority of the overall design costs than the C class buyers. Much like how that government takes more taxes from the rich than those who are poor even though both receive similar services.
I would be curious to see what their calculated margins are on each car though.
'Productivity' is the word you're looking for and it is currently tracked and measured. The US got a huge boost from computers and now that is starting to slow. Cheap/free energy may or may not be the next big discovery that boosts productivity. I think it will be eventually, but something else may come before it.
Global hegemony is too expensive, we don't need it.
I agree it's expensive, but I'm not sure it's not needed. If we let the middle east go its merry way and start lobbing nukes at each other how does that not effect the US? How about if we had stayed out of WWII and left Hitler to take over and rule Europe?
Do we always make the right move? No. Are there times when we should just but out? Absolutely. But, to say we should not have a world view when thinking about our national interests is naive.
Can't fathom the idea of providing and/or purchasing your own security?
I was in rural Costa Rica on a surf trip, and this is exactly what you had to do if you lived there. The nearest government police station was a ~2 hour drive away. So the town had a couple of private firms that local residents paid to patrol the town and around their homes. If you were really well off you just hired personal security.
I've debated moving down there, but reliable internet takes a long time to get installed.
Not necessarily, except in very mature commodity good markets. Elsewhere price is driven by demand, not by cost of production.
Well the cost of production does provide a floor for prices. In highly competitive markets with razor thin margins, removing taxes will lower the prices of goods since the players will undercut each other down back to razor thin margins above the new floor.
So yes, I do think businesses pay taxes, as they would just reap even higher profits, with most of the profits going to those select few that own stock already (which is a pretty small and rich group already, as they wouldn't stock otherwise).
So a small group is almost 1/2? This is from 2002. I've seen higher estimates more recently but don't have time to look them up at the moment.
Taxes aren't too complicated. People just want to get out of paying them wherever they can.
You sound like someone who has a single job, no family and doesn't own anything. Of course then taxes are easy. Start a side business, add in a family, various retirement accounts, non-retirement stock accounts (ETFs end up being different beasts all together), home ownership, etc... and you'll see that taxes are way too complicated.
That's short sighted. What makes someone 'rich'? The amount of money they can and do spend. I guess you could try and argue that rick people only spend money with their rich friends, but that does not make any sense either.
When a person starts a small business who do you think buy their products? People without any money? In your world the business owner is probably considered rich. So who do you think people without any money hire people to work for them? How would they pay people?
I don't understand this hate towards rich people who run 'successful' companies. Direct your hate towards those who lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want- for example, all politicians.
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Radio gets paid through advertising. To get people to listen they play the popular songs. The RIAA can control the playlist all it wants, but eventually some of the more popular songs are going to show up through the non-label medium. At this point the radio will have start making choices about either letting listeners leave or start playing music from the non-label sources.
It won't happen overnight, but this is the direction that the industry is headed.
I agree. The original miniseries of V was awesome!
My GF would whoop your ass. First, she's really strong for her size. Years of gymnastics and fitness in general helped her out I'm sure. I also made the mistake of showing her the basic MMA grappling, juijitsu, and muay tai movements. Piss her off and she'll choke you out in a heartbeat. lol
She's definitely not uber aggressive or anything like that. She also doesn't look like she could kick anyones ass. But, if push came to shove she could definitely defend herself.
I agree. At one point or another I owned a S3 Virge, Verite 1000, Matrox G200, and an original Voodoo.
I can distinctly remember playing GLQuake for the first time on the Voodoo card. I was completely amazed at the speed it ran the given resolution. Very few times have I personally witnessed such a big leap forward in a technology. It was similar in going from analog TV to 1080p HD where you just mumbled incoherently thinking 'WOW!'
Do you ever go on vacation? Fly anywhere for fun? How about drive to the movies? Turn on the heater instead of putting on more sweaters?
We face an energy crisis, as well as an environmental crisis, and people justify burning oil for FUN!
This is a newer model of the boat we fish. It's big and heavy, but that's needed when you look at the type of fishing we do.
You're right, in offshore fishing there is a lot of overcompensating for micro-penis (they tend to call it f-u money). My friend actually does it on the cheaper side with his boat.
Hauling the boat from tournament to tournament is much much cheaper than driving it.
I can sail just fine and do that often.
It's not macho. If you want to fish offshore at all it requires a larger boat with redundant motors. It's not your hobby to do this type of fishing so it's okay to tell other people not to do it. Gotcha!
Getting 60 miles or so offshore and back takes a lot of gas. I'm not sure how many Tuna, Wahoo, or billfish you're going to catch in your nearby lake, but have at it.
You're right, although some people do need that power. A friend of mine had to buy a 1/2 ton to safely pull his boat. Gas mileage is not much of a concern when we generally burn 200-300 gallons of gas in a single day of fishing.
If you have the sort of catastrophe that destroys the server and the tape drive (that should be on another server btw) then what's the problem with waiting overnight for a new tape drive to arrive?
Even if you're using some 10 year old drive you should be able to find and have one next day (sometimes sooner even).
I sorta do. Things I think I should never lose I put on something like dropbox or email it to myself.
I only own a laptop and backup to USB drives anytime I'm at home. I usually always have my laptop with me so that keeps 2 copies of my data separate most of the time. A worst case scenario for me would be either a home fire while I'm there and I can't grab the laptop on the way out or some other home catastrophe while I'm at home (and thus my laptop and backup drives are in the same location).
What counts as a new 'whole OS?' If Apple changed the version to 11 or 12 would that be enough? How about if they just threw a new skin on? Leopard was a pretty big change from Tiger in interface and under the hood. Plus it added a lot of new features. Snow Leopard seems to focus more under the hood, but still seems to be adding a lot of new functionality.
The question is at what point do YOU think it's a major version? Do they need to re-write the entire kernel every time? That doesn't seem very prudent.
What you're describing is Memory Mapped IO (MMIO).
MMIO is very fast and simple because you use the processors same instructions to read/write from the 'mapped' memory as you do to any other memory. This allows the processor to treat devices simply as locations in RAM to read/write from.
The 64-bit world still uses MMIO, but it doesn't cause an issue like in the 32-bit world because you have a much larger possible memory address space.
False dichotomy? I would rather hire the person with experience and a masters. Many MS programs are part time and geared around those who work. Show me someone who has the drive and motivation to complete an MS while also working full time and that's someone I want to hire.
I think you have the right idea because I did the same thing. After undergrad I worked for a few years and then went back to school and got my MS part time.
It does not automatically mean extra money, but more education never hurts. If anything it shows that you have the drive and determination to complete another degree while working full time.
What I see in this thread so far are a lot of people who think that you either work or get an MS. That's just not it is done today. Most people work while they get their MS (and many work while getting their undergrad too). In the end experience + MS > experience.
You don't need to be an MBA to realize that people are looking to reduce, not add, to the number of devices they carry around. A cell phone is a given now. Smart phones removed the need for a cell phone and a PDA. Cell phone and music player convergence removed the need for a separate music player. For quick pictures you no longer need to bring a separate camera either. Why are people going to want to carry a separate device just to read news feeds and books when they already have a perfectly capable device in their pocket?
People do not want a separate reader device. Look at the success of Stanza on the iphone even with the iPhones short comings of a smallish screen. If/When Apple does release a double sized iPhone\iTouch like device the Kindle (and other reader-only devices) will die before they ever took off.
Emphasis mine. The cars are very similar. I have no idea how much labor went into designing the both the S and C class cars. I'm am sure that they did some estimates of sales and that's how they figured out prices. More than likely the S class buyers are paying for a larger majority of the overall design costs than the C class buyers. Much like how that government takes more taxes from the rich than those who are poor even though both receive similar services.
I would be curious to see what their calculated margins are on each car though.
I agree. I was just letting you know that there are places you can live and be as 'free' as you want :)
'Productivity' is the word you're looking for and it is currently tracked and measured. The US got a huge boost from computers and now that is starting to slow. Cheap/free energy may or may not be the next big discovery that boosts productivity. I think it will be eventually, but something else may come before it.
I agree it's expensive, but I'm not sure it's not needed. If we let the middle east go its merry way and start lobbing nukes at each other how does that not effect the US? How about if we had stayed out of WWII and left Hitler to take over and rule Europe?
Do we always make the right move? No. Are there times when we should just but out? Absolutely. But, to say we should not have a world view when thinking about our national interests is naive.
I was in rural Costa Rica on a surf trip, and this is exactly what you had to do if you lived there. The nearest government police station was a ~2 hour drive away. So the town had a couple of private firms that local residents paid to patrol the town and around their homes. If you were really well off you just hired personal security.
I've debated moving down there, but reliable internet takes a long time to get installed.
Well the cost of production does provide a floor for prices. In highly competitive markets with razor thin margins, removing taxes will lower the prices of goods since the players will undercut each other down back to razor thin margins above the new floor.
So a small group is almost 1/2? This is from 2002. I've seen higher estimates more recently but don't have time to look them up at the moment.
You sound like someone who has a single job, no family and doesn't own anything. Of course then taxes are easy. Start a side business, add in a family, various retirement accounts, non-retirement stock accounts (ETFs end up being different beasts all together), home ownership, etc... and you'll see that taxes are way too complicated.
That's short sighted. What makes someone 'rich'? The amount of money they can and do spend. I guess you could try and argue that rick people only spend money with their rich friends, but that does not make any sense either.
When a person starts a small business who do you think buy their products? People without any money? In your world the business owner is probably considered rich. So who do you think people without any money hire people to work for them? How would they pay people?
I don't understand this hate towards rich people who run 'successful' companies. Direct your hate towards those who lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want- for example, all politicians.