Because you have to buy tv channels in packages, and the strange niche ones don't get included until you are paying like $100 a month, which not many people want to pay.
The local cable provider where I live allows you to get digital channels seperately (analog channels are still only available in packages). The requirements are that you have basic cable ($24/month) and a digital cable box ($8.95/month). Then you can get as many digital channels ($2.50/month/each) as you want. Or you can get more channels at a lower rate per channel. This is what they really want. The more services you buy from them, the more of a discount you get overall.
t's a shame that people still have to resort to the Google cache when there is a great caching service, FreeCache provided by the Internet Archive. Just make your link like http://freecache.org/http://whatever..
There's a reason people don't link to freecache for articles. The minimum sized file freecache will cache is 5 MB. Great for videos, some audio files, and huge uncompressed images, but lousy for text smaller than The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
We pay a tariff on each blank cd we buy of a couple of cents.
Personally, since they make money off of "pirated" music, I feel it legitimizes it. They can't have it both ways.
It's 21 cents per CDR/RW in Canada. And the same law that brought the 21 cent levy also made it legal to make personal copies of music in Canada. Copying a CD you borrowed from a friend is not in any way pirating in Canada, it is legal.
Yeah, except no one ever died from lighting a smoke and getting behind the wheel of a car...
People have been in accidents because burning embers from a smoke fell in their crotch. There have also been accidents where people took their eyes off the road so they could light their cigarette. Of course, accidents also happen when people change the radio station, get stung by a bee, etc.
If the attacks had been on Canada and I said "Why are you bombing CANADA for disagreeing with US policy?", would that mean I advocate killing Americans?
From what I understand, most people who used to buy CDs from before Mp3s were popular STILL DO.
I wasn't really into music until after I started downloading MP3s. Then for a little while I bought CDs when I found music that I liked. Then I found out something about CDRs sold in Canada: there is a 21 cent levy on each CDR. I thought that sucked so I found out why that levy exists. The reason is that there was an addition to Canadian copyright law quite a few years back that allows copying of music for personal use. This means that downloading music is legal in Canada so that's what I do now. The artists, composers, and publishers get my money anyway whenever I buy CDRs so bring on the MP3s.
Either way, looks like they will get there in the end. Although it looks like you are screwed if you are Canadian.
Oh no, I can't buy music from iTunes for $1/song. How will I find the courage to keep on living? Oh. Wait. Now I remember. Canadian copyright law allows a person to make a copy of a song for personal use legally. But let's say you can't find a song you want or you can find it but it's bad quality. Canada does have at least one music store: puretracks.ca
But they offer DRM Windows Media files and you probably want something unrestricted. That's where a site like allofmp3.com comes in. Pay by the megabyte and legal in Canada.
I've listened to that radio show a few times and it seems to be geared towards the average home user. Nothing wrong with it but personally I find that I either know the answer to the questions she's asked or I don't really care.
Off The Wall, the other show Emmanual hosts is on there as well. Off The Hook goes back to 1988. I've been listening to them in order, only rarely skipping through segments. I'm up to December 1992.
If you're referring to the works of Larry Niven, I believe you mean General Products Hull. And we don't have those because we haven't met Pierson's Puppeteers yet.
The dude is selling this for $100,000 starting price. That's pretty insane. Unless you're a store wanting to resell this in a 3rd world country (even then, it'll be hard), you're not going to make your money back.
Maybe the guy just got married and his wife told him to get rid of all that electronics shit. So he comes up with a plan: auction it all off on ebay in one lump but with a huge starting bid. If no one buys it then he can go back to his wife and say no one would buy it. But if someone does bid on it, hey, $100000 is a pretty nice chunk of change.
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...when it returns as V'Ger.;)
I believe that was a Voyager probe, not a Pioneer probe.
Twenty one years ago today, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave our solar system, by crossing the orbit of Neptune (which was then the farthest planet from the Sun).
I guess that depends on where you define the edge of the solar system. What about the Oort Cloud? What about that tenth planet we can never seem to pin down?
Have a fan going in your room or outside/in a closet. I have known many people that use this technique and everyone agrees this helps them fall asleep quickly. This will cost you about $20.00. Calm, white noise is the key to good rest.
I find that a fan doesn't produce enough white noise nor does it cool down my room on those hot and humid summer nights. That's why I have a 5000 BTU air conditioner in a window two feet from my head. Lots of cool air, tons of white noise, and a bonus loud THUMP when the compressor turns off to let me know that it wants to fall out of my window.
1) People on TV usually do not have a BS in meteorology. They are usually journalists, hence, they have not taken the required math and physics that one needs in order to understand that air behaves like a fluid in a nonlinear fashion. Please take the time to distinguish between people that have science degrees and people who do not.
You're right, my local forecaster doesn't list a BS in Meteorology. Though he does have a Masters of Science in it. Still manages to get the weather wrong a lot of the time. As you said, it's damned near impossible to predict the weather accurately all the time.
We use this for kids baseball all the time. It's called the thunderstorm rule. Works great. Game is always called.
There's a very good reason to call a baseball game when there's lightning around. Most of the fields around here have a metal backstop usually around 15 feet tall. The umpire (the one who gets to decide to call the game) stands under this giant lightning rod.
If the umpire doesn't call a game with lightning nearby, he's probably as dumb and blind as the losing team's fan's think he is.
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Because you have to buy tv channels in packages, and the strange niche ones don't get included until you are paying like $100 a month, which not many people want to pay.
The local cable provider where I live allows you to get digital channels seperately (analog channels are still only available in packages). The requirements are that you have basic cable ($24/month) and a digital cable box ($8.95/month). Then you can get as many digital channels ($2.50/month/each) as you want. Or you can get more channels at a lower rate per channel. This is what they really want. The more services you buy from them, the more of a discount you get overall.
t's a shame that people still have to resort to the Google cache when there is a great caching service, FreeCache provided by the Internet Archive. Just make your link like http://freecache.org/http://whatever..
There's a reason people don't link to freecache for articles. The minimum sized file freecache will cache is 5 MB. Great for videos, some audio files, and huge uncompressed images, but lousy for text smaller than The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
(start on 85.1 and add .2 until you hit 105.9 or something)
Why not go to the end of the common fm dial and go to 107.9?
We pay a tariff on each blank cd we buy of a couple of cents.
Personally, since they make money off of "pirated" music, I feel it legitimizes it. They can't have it both ways.
It's 21 cents per CDR/RW in Canada. And the same law that brought the 21 cent levy also made it legal to make personal copies of music in Canada. Copying a CD you borrowed from a friend is not in any way pirating in Canada, it is legal.
Yeah, except no one ever died from lighting a smoke and getting behind the wheel of a car...
People have been in accidents because burning embers from a smoke fell in their crotch. There have also been accidents where people took their eyes off the road so they could light their cigarette. Of course, accidents also happen when people change the radio station, get stung by a bee, etc.
If the attacks had been on Canada and I said "Why are you bombing CANADA for disagreeing with US policy?", would that mean I advocate killing Americans?
Hey, don't give Bush any ideas
Why do you think they don't want people taking pictures of some of the most famous paintings or things
Maybe because flash photography can degrade a painting.
So place a red phone in every theatre with a low-level lit sign to show everyone where it is in an emergency.
Or put a payphone out in the lobby.
He might consider a trip to Canada
No one ever suspects the Canadians! Muahahaha. Let the conquest begin!
From what I understand, most people who used to buy CDs from before Mp3s were popular STILL DO.
I wasn't really into music until after I started downloading MP3s. Then for a little while I bought CDs when I found music that I liked. Then I found out something about CDRs sold in Canada: there is a 21 cent levy on each CDR. I thought that sucked so I found out why that levy exists. The reason is that there was an addition to Canadian copyright law quite a few years back that allows copying of music for personal use. This means that downloading music is legal in Canada so that's what I do now. The artists, composers, and publishers get my money anyway whenever I buy CDRs so bring on the MP3s.
xvid is still MPEG-2 (which is patent-encumbered).
I think you meant mpeg-4 but your point is true.
mp3 is isn't an open format, nor is divx (and it's brethern) or mpeg for that matter.
divx isn't but xvid is. xvid is also used more often partly for that reason.
Either way, looks like they will get there in the end. Although it looks like you are screwed if you are Canadian.
Oh no, I can't buy music from iTunes for $1/song. How will I find the courage to keep on living? Oh. Wait. Now I remember. Canadian copyright law allows a person to make a copy of a song for personal use legally. But let's say you can't find a song you want or you can find it but it's bad quality. Canada does have at least one music store: puretracks.ca
But they offer DRM Windows Media files and you probably want something unrestricted. That's where a site like allofmp3.com comes in. Pay by the megabyte and legal in Canada.
which would be great if you didn't need a magnifying glass to see (or imagine!) Moz's climb.
That's what Opera's magnify feature is for. Zooming in is fun.
I've listened to that radio show a few times and it seems to be geared towards the average home user. Nothing wrong with it but personally I find that I either know the answer to the questions she's asked or I don't really care.
Off The Wall, the other show Emmanual hosts is on there as well. Off The Hook goes back to 1988. I've been listening to them in order, only rarely skipping through segments. I'm up to December 1992.
Where is my General Enterprises Hull?
If you're referring to the works of Larry Niven, I believe you mean General Products Hull. And we don't have those because we haven't met Pierson's Puppeteers yet.
The dude is selling this for $100,000 starting price. That's pretty insane. Unless you're a store wanting to resell this in a 3rd world country (even then, it'll be hard), you're not going to make your money back.
Maybe the guy just got married and his wife told him to get rid of all that electronics shit. So he comes up with a plan: auction it all off on ebay in one lump but with a huge starting bid. If no one buys it then he can go back to his wife and say no one would buy it. But if someone does bid on it, hey, $100000 is a pretty nice chunk of change.
...when it returns as V'Ger. ;)
I believe that was a Voyager probe, not a Pioneer probe.
Twenty one years ago today, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave our solar system, by crossing the orbit of Neptune (which was then the farthest planet from the Sun).
I guess that depends on where you define the edge of the solar system. What about the Oort Cloud? What about that tenth planet we can never seem to pin down?
My understanding is that these two new formats support 5.1 surround sound, which is something that our "normal" audio CDs can't handle.
There is, of course, a way around this. It is possible to put 5.1 audio on a CD according to this article.
Have a fan going in your room or outside/in a closet. I have known many people that use this technique and everyone agrees this helps them fall asleep quickly. This will cost you about $20.00. Calm, white noise is the key to good rest.
I find that a fan doesn't produce enough white noise nor does it cool down my room on those hot and humid summer nights. That's why I have a 5000 BTU air conditioner in a window two feet from my head. Lots of cool air, tons of white noise, and a bonus loud THUMP when the compressor turns off to let me know that it wants to fall out of my window.
1) People on TV usually do not have a BS in meteorology. They are usually journalists, hence, they have not taken the required math and physics that one needs in order to understand that air behaves like a fluid in a nonlinear fashion. Please take the time to distinguish between people that have science degrees and people who do not.
You're right, my local forecaster doesn't list a BS in Meteorology. Though he does have a Masters of Science in it. Still manages to get the weather wrong a lot of the time. As you said, it's damned near impossible to predict the weather accurately all the time.
We use this for kids baseball all the time. It's called the thunderstorm rule. Works great. Game is always called.
There's a very good reason to call a baseball game when there's lightning around. Most of the fields around here have a metal backstop usually around 15 feet tall. The umpire (the one who gets to decide to call the game) stands under this giant lightning rod.
If the umpire doesn't call a game with lightning nearby, he's probably as dumb and blind as the losing team's fan's think he is.
definitely apple's idea too. nothing like a jog/shuttle dial on VCR.
My Sony Clie has one too. It's more for scrolling through text but it's definitely not unique to Apple.