It seems to me that Apple was over-thinking this LP business, and the record companies, as usual, weren't thinking at all.
While I don't use Apple products, I have bought quite a few albums online from places like Amazon and Google. I could never understand why the record companies couldn't simply throw in a.pdf of the CD booklet along with full album sales. It's not like they would have to do any extra work to support this; the booklets are already created for physical sales. As it is, you get absolutely zero information about the music and artists along with your dozen or so.mp3 files (although if you're lucky, they'll throw in a 100x100 pixel thumbnail of the album cover; woohoo!).
If they would just add the.pdf booklets, I probably would have bought significantly more albums over the years. As it is, I feel like online albums just aren't that great of a deal unless they are steeply discounted over a physical CD.
I guess at least Apple realized that this is an issue, but true to form, they had to invent a new locked-in proprietary format even though a perfectly adequate solution already exists. It's no surprise that it didn't take off. Does anybody really think that there will be readily available software to view their proprietary files 20 years from now?
The minds did meet: Redbox bought a box containing two things a set price. If Disney didn't intend to sell two things for one price, they wouldn't have put both in the box.
Then they'd say: "Hmmm.... a radioactive waste sign, but no radiation. Somebody must have been trying to hide something valuable in here. Wilbur, go get the drill bits and a case of dynamite."
I set the filter at -1 because some of the other 10% of AC postings are actually informative. Take the post you replied to, for example. While it is offtopic, nobody can seriously claim that it's untrue.
The first time I saw this issue was when I was on a field trip in the 1970s. One of my classmates had one of the new handheld Mattel Football games and was playing it as we walked around.
We were in one of those museums that has glass walls dividing the major rooms, and he smacked into one at full waking pace. He ended up with a nasty bloody nose. He might even have broken his nose; I can't remember. However, one thing I have always remembered since then is to look up frequently if I'm walking around with some kind of device.
Trees don't really reduce CO2 in the long term. When they die, they rot and most of the CO2 they captured is released back into the atmosphere. Mature forests are generally carbon neutral.
Long term carbon sequestration is a very slow process mostly driven by dead algae dropping into ocean sediments. It's better to avoid releasing fossilized carbon in the first place.
Then you're an idiot. I'm not talking about individuals. This is government debt, and the government itself defines the meaning of those bits arbitrarily.
All across the political spectrum, the American people seem to be convinced that they are entitled to more government services than they are willing to explicitly pay for. If the current "pyramid scheme" strategy ever stops working, there are plenty of other avenues the government can use to simply redefine or restrict what that debt value means.
Meanwhile, the actual physical sea level just keeps rising. Ironically, if the worst case scenarios do pan out, the government would probably take on scores of trillions of dollars in additional debt in futile attempts at keeping our coastal cities habitable.
Okay, but will this rise affect me in my lifetime, or can I safely ignore it and pass this problem off to the next generation like I plan on doing with the national debt?
The key difference between the two is that the national debt is little more than a pattern of bits on some spinning disks (as the GOP seems to have suddenly realized), whereas the rising sea levels are a serious physical threat (which they have unfortunately not yet realized).
The $999 price is for a *pair* of speakers, so you can listen in stereo.
This Apple thing costs $349 for a single speaker. So unless you listen exclusively to pre-1965 monophonic classics, it will sound significantly less good than any decent pair of stereo speakers.
Wisconsin is paying nothing by offering tax breaks and tax credits for a company that otherwise would not even be setting up shop in Wisconsin.
You seem to assume that a government wouldn't be that stupid and corrupt, but you're totally wrong.
To lure Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, state residents will have to do more than just forgo taxes from the Taiwanese electronics giant. They will have to pay cash — writing checks for up to $200 million a year.
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And because Wisconsin already waives almost all taxes on manufacturing profits in the state, these incentives represent not a lost opportunity at collecting revenue but an obligation to pay cash to Foxconn out of the state treasury for up to 15 years. When including a $150 million sales tax break for buying construction material, the incentive package could total up to $3 billion, according to the bill that lawmakers could vote on as soon as Tuesday.
On the other hand, this wonderful grid of theirs has significant costs of its own. That's why the electric companies are always bellyaching about how expensive their grids are to run when they're trying to get net metering outlawed.
On my electric bill, charges are split out into categories, some that can be assigned to actual electricity generation, and others that can be assigned to the connection and distribution. Typically, 40% or more of the charges are due to the latter.
That means that if I went off-grid, my generation and storage costs could be almost twice that of the electric company before I exceed the costs of the power company and their expensive grid.
DeWalt doesn't sell power tools that go out of their way to make sure you don't cut off your fingers.
Unfortunately, they do. That's why when I get a new power tool, I have to make modifications to pare it down to an elegant C-style device:
I remove the blade guard. I cut off the grounding prong and file down the ears on the neutral conductor. I permanently glue down the little trigger interlock button. I put a lock washer on the blade arbor so that it can't ever slip and reduce my torque. None of these annoying things even matter so long as I never make a mistake.
Automation will free the train driver to focus on supervising the train's progress.
I've already done that job. Decades ago, I took a ride on a TGV. I was sitting there sipping refreshments and thinking "Are we really going as fast as they say? It sure doesn't feel like it at all". So I looked out the window at the km markers and timed it with my wristwatch. Sure enough, we really were going that fast. I was also monitoring our progress on my paper map.
The thing is, that wasn't a paying position. In fact, I had to pay them a pretty penny for the privilege to do that.
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Nobody gets up an extra hour before work and does a little bit of personal stuff with the whole workday looming in front of them.
It seems to me that Apple was over-thinking this LP business, and the record companies, as usual, weren't thinking at all.
While I don't use Apple products, I have bought quite a few albums online from places like Amazon and Google. I could never understand why the record companies couldn't simply throw in a .pdf of the CD booklet along with full album sales. It's not like they would have to do any extra work to support this; the booklets are already created for physical sales. As it is, you get absolutely zero information about the music and artists along with your dozen or so .mp3 files (although if you're lucky, they'll throw in a 100x100 pixel thumbnail of the album cover; woohoo!).
If they would just add the .pdf booklets, I probably would have bought significantly more albums over the years. As it is, I feel like online albums just aren't that great of a deal unless they are steeply discounted over a physical CD.
I guess at least Apple realized that this is an issue, but true to form, they had to invent a new locked-in proprietary format even though a perfectly adequate solution already exists. It's no surprise that it didn't take off. Does anybody really think that there will be readily available software to view their proprietary files 20 years from now?
You're also not the first grumpy old fart to go all passive-aggressive as soon as they get called out about their griping.
And you're certainly not the first grumpy old fart sitting on a barstool and griping about what other people have accomplished.
The minds did meet: Redbox bought a box containing two things a set price. If Disney didn't intend to sell two things for one price, they wouldn't have put both in the box.
Then they'd say: "Hmmm.... a radioactive waste sign, but no radiation. Somebody must have been trying to hide something valuable in here. Wilbur, go get the drill bits and a case of dynamite."
Man, you really are the poster boy for the phrase "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing".
I set the filter at -1 because some of the other 10% of AC postings are actually informative. Take the post you replied to, for example. While it is offtopic, nobody can seriously claim that it's untrue.
I wonder what percentage of the cobalt in that mine is Cobalt-60.
Exactly 0%, since cobalt-60 doesn't occur in nature.
The first time I saw this issue was when I was on a field trip in the 1970s. One of my classmates had one of the new handheld Mattel Football games and was playing it as we walked around.
We were in one of those museums that has glass walls dividing the major rooms, and he smacked into one at full waking pace. He ended up with a nasty bloody nose. He might even have broken his nose; I can't remember. However, one thing I have always remembered since then is to look up frequently if I'm walking around with some kind of device.
Mistake 1: A major engineering design flaw.
Mistake 2: Neglected to force their users to enter into a binding arbitration agreement before using the CPUs.
Trees don't really reduce CO2 in the long term. When they die, they rot and most of the CO2 they captured is released back into the atmosphere. Mature forests are generally carbon neutral.
Long term carbon sequestration is a very slow process mostly driven by dead algae dropping into ocean sediments. It's better to avoid releasing fossilized carbon in the first place.
Then you're an idiot. I'm not talking about individuals. This is government debt, and the government itself defines the meaning of those bits arbitrarily.
All across the political spectrum, the American people seem to be convinced that they are entitled to more government services than they are willing to explicitly pay for. If the current "pyramid scheme" strategy ever stops working, there are plenty of other avenues the government can use to simply redefine or restrict what that debt value means.
Meanwhile, the actual physical sea level just keeps rising. Ironically, if the worst case scenarios do pan out, the government would probably take on scores of trillions of dollars in additional debt in futile attempts at keeping our coastal cities habitable.
Okay, but will this rise affect me in my lifetime, or can I safely ignore it and pass this problem off to the next generation like I plan on doing with the national debt?
The key difference between the two is that the national debt is little more than a pattern of bits on some spinning disks (as the GOP seems to have suddenly realized), whereas the rising sea levels are a serious physical threat (which they have unfortunately not yet realized).
The $999 price is for a *pair* of speakers, so you can listen in stereo.
This Apple thing costs $349 for a single speaker. So unless you listen exclusively to pre-1965 monophonic classics, it will sound significantly less good than any decent pair of stereo speakers.
You're using some lovely RIAA math there, sport.
Wisconsin is paying nothing by offering tax breaks and tax credits for a company that otherwise would not even be setting up shop in Wisconsin.
You seem to assume that a government wouldn't be that stupid and corrupt, but you're totally wrong.
To lure Foxconn Technology Group to Wisconsin, state residents will have to do more than just forgo taxes from the Taiwanese electronics giant. They will have to pay cash — writing checks for up to $200 million a year.
And because Wisconsin already waives almost all taxes on manufacturing profits in the state, these incentives represent not a lost opportunity at collecting revenue but an obligation to pay cash to Foxconn out of the state treasury for up to 15 years. When including a $150 million sales tax break for buying construction material, the incentive package could total up to $3 billion, according to the bill that lawmakers could vote on as soon as Tuesday.
If I get a bad headache, that still doesn't prove that you or your hammer actually exist.
That is correct though...Electrons are purely theoretical based on our current models of understanding reality. the original poster is correct.
The existence of the any kind of physical world outside of your own mind is also purely theoretical.
On the other hand, this wonderful grid of theirs has significant costs of its own. That's why the electric companies are always bellyaching about how expensive their grids are to run when they're trying to get net metering outlawed.
On my electric bill, charges are split out into categories, some that can be assigned to actual electricity generation, and others that can be assigned to the connection and distribution. Typically, 40% or more of the charges are due to the latter.
That means that if I went off-grid, my generation and storage costs could be almost twice that of the electric company before I exceed the costs of the power company and their expensive grid.
You're confusing static typing with strong typing. C i s statically typed, but Javascript, as much as it sucks, has a stronger typing system than C.
DeWalt doesn't sell power tools that go out of their way to make sure you don't cut off your fingers.
Unfortunately, they do. That's why when I get a new power tool, I have to make modifications to pare it down to an elegant C-style device:
I remove the blade guard. I cut off the grounding prong and file down the ears on the neutral conductor. I permanently glue down the little trigger interlock button. I put a lock washer on the blade arbor so that it can't ever slip and reduce my torque. None of these annoying things even matter so long as I never make a mistake.
I've also started a new cryptocurrency, and it's called "Bridgecoin".
Each coin is backed by a share of ownership in a bridge in Brooklyn.
If you think that was bad, think about what's going to happen now that Trump and his henchmen are in charge of the NSA.
Over the decades, record companies have made a lot of money on hit songs in which bands complain about their record companies.
Automation will free the train driver to focus on supervising the train's progress.
I've already done that job. Decades ago, I took a ride on a TGV. I was sitting there sipping refreshments and thinking "Are we really going as fast as they say? It sure doesn't feel like it at all". So I looked out the window at the km markers and timed it with my wristwatch. Sure enough, we really were going that fast. I was also monitoring our progress on my paper map.
The thing is, that wasn't a paying position. In fact, I had to pay them a pretty penny for the privilege to do that.