CD's hold too little music? Really? I own very few albums that come anywhere close to the limit. Most of the greatest albums of all time (Pet Sounds, Revolver, Kind of Blue, Dark Side of the Moon, Who's Next, Led Zep IV, Born to Run, Thriller, Back in Black, Graceland, and many, many more) are under 45 minutes. Not to say the CD is perfect, but as a physical medium for album distribution it's quite decent. The jewel case problem can be solved by keeping them in binders, and the fragility by not leaving them sitting out where they can be scratched.
Also, the recording industry makes far more than $0.12/track when selling CDs. The physical cost of a CD + booklet + case is under $1, so the company gets around $9 from a $10 CD sale. Probably another dollar goes to the artist, and another couple dollars for recording costs. The rest is profit.
Money for HS athletic equipment often comes from sponsors (like the ubiquitous Coke scoreboards) and ticket sales (my high school pulled in probably around $20000/week during football season). So you can't really ask that that money be used for other purposes.
OTOH, the only real expense of adding a CS class is a teacher. A new computer lab isn't necessary; you can learn all the basic principles of programming on the kind of old computers that people give away. But the school isn't gonna teach a class for one person, so you need to get together a class's worth of kids interested in taking CS, and then seeing if your school will offer the course (especially possible if there's already someone qualified to teach it).
If not, try taking classes at a local college (or community college). Some high schools will let you do so during school hours, but you might be forced to go at night if your school is particuarly pig-headed.
And of course if gas were $6 a gallon, we wouldn't see Hummers cluttering up our streets, either.
Hummer drivers, generally speaking, can afford to pay a lot for gas and wouldn't give a fuck. Higher gas prices screw over poor families who already have a hard time keeping a car on the road (and for whom public transportation is not an option, as is the case in much of the US). Of course, they also push carmakers to produce more efficient vehicles, but the people who can afford to buy a brand new hybrid/diesel/etc can't have been hurting too much over gas prices anyway.
Phased in gradually, a gas tax taking us to $6 a gallon wouldn't cause much undue economic pain, either. If a goal was set to getting it there over a period of, say, 15 years most people wouldn't even notice.
It's not gonna require a tax to get gas to $6 over the next 15 years.
I wouldn't call a 5-year-old an "underachiever" just because their family can't afford to send them to private school. The purpose of public education is to give people not born into the priveleged elite a chance to improve their lot in life, which I think is a pretty fundamental American value.
Since when does the "average American" want a Hummer? Hummers make up a tiny, tiny fraction of vehicles on the road in the US, probably less than 0.1%.
He could probably sue them for copyright infrigement if he wanted to. Recordings of live performances (musical or non) are covered by copyright just like anything else.
Then again, actually suing the student would make him a douchebag, especially because the student's work would save him the trouble of doing the recording himself.
Any sane movie studio would consider that people can download free, unrestricted DVD-quality rips from their favorite bittorrent site, and that to convince people to pay they need to offer at least an equivilent product.
Part of the question is how big can a band get via MySpace and how will they prevent trading of their music by their fans?
No artist, indie or major label, can do anything whatsoever to prevent trading other than building a loyal fanbase that will want to pay money for their albums.
Windows? Monoculture? Are you on crack? PCs have a huge variety of video cards, processors, OS and driver versions, and it's a pain in the ass to develop a game that works with all of them, let alone works well. John Carmack once said that the XBox ran Doom 3 as well as a PC with double the power, just because the game could be specifically optimized for the XBox.
Much of the reason people prefer consoles over PCs is that they want a simple, reliable experience. Just pop the disc in and start playing, no worries about installation or whether your machine will run it.
Something is seriously wrong with your ears if you can't hear artifacts in 96kbps MP3. Sure, it's probably acceptable, but if you're actually gonna listen to it why not go for the better version?
I don't know where you live, but tickets to my (excellent) local professional orchestra are $40 at the high end. Concerts by the university orchestra are generally free, and usually excellent as well. And this is in Knoxville, TN, not exactly the arts capital of the world.
Like Jamie said on Mythbusters when they tried to build one (ok, their device used props, but still), there's no failsafe on them; if they fail whilst in flight, you die.
So you carry a parachute. Just make sure you're flying high enough for it to take effect.
I assume it's a driver issue (or rather, the issue is a lack of drivers), which means it wouldn't work with any machine running Windows, Apple-built or not.
Slashbacks were followups to multiple past stories. For example, "The space shuttle mission we discussed last week has concluded successfully, and the EFF has decided to appeal the decision we reported on yesterday to the Supreme Court." Obviously, you have to wait a while to post these, or else there wouldn't be anything new to post.
Meanwhile, the new backslash section (notice: different name, different idea) is a summary of the discussion of a single past story. Since most discussion happens in the first day or two, it makes sense for a backslash to follow the original story fairly closely. Also, if you wait too long, people no longer care.
Photoshop Elements is nice for basic photo retouching, but it's nowhere near as powerful as GIMP. And there's a pretty significant difference between $80 and free.
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Also, the recording industry makes far more than $0.12/track when selling CDs. The physical cost of a CD + booklet + case is under $1, so the company gets around $9 from a $10 CD sale. Probably another dollar goes to the artist, and another couple dollars for recording costs. The rest is profit.
OTOH, the only real expense of adding a CS class is a teacher. A new computer lab isn't necessary; you can learn all the basic principles of programming on the kind of old computers that people give away. But the school isn't gonna teach a class for one person, so you need to get together a class's worth of kids interested in taking CS, and then seeing if your school will offer the course (especially possible if there's already someone qualified to teach it).
If not, try taking classes at a local college (or community college). Some high schools will let you do so during school hours, but you might be forced to go at night if your school is particuarly pig-headed.
Anyway, http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/15/16 27248.
Hummer drivers, generally speaking, can afford to pay a lot for gas and wouldn't give a fuck. Higher gas prices screw over poor families who already have a hard time keeping a car on the road (and for whom public transportation is not an option, as is the case in much of the US). Of course, they also push carmakers to produce more efficient vehicles, but the people who can afford to buy a brand new hybrid/diesel/etc can't have been hurting too much over gas prices anyway.
Phased in gradually, a gas tax taking us to $6 a gallon wouldn't cause much undue economic pain, either. If a goal was set to getting it there over a period of, say, 15 years most people wouldn't even notice.
It's not gonna require a tax to get gas to $6 over the next 15 years.
I wouldn't call a 5-year-old an "underachiever" just because their family can't afford to send them to private school. The purpose of public education is to give people not born into the priveleged elite a chance to improve their lot in life, which I think is a pretty fundamental American value.
About 8 years in the US; average gas prices were under $1/gallon for most of 1998-1999.
Since when does the "average American" want a Hummer? Hummers make up a tiny, tiny fraction of vehicles on the road in the US, probably less than 0.1%.
Then again, actually suing the student would make him a douchebag, especially because the student's work would save him the trouble of doing the recording himself.
I doubt Apple is the one making the decisions as to which markets it can sell movies to.
Any sane movie studio would consider that people can download free, unrestricted DVD-quality rips from their favorite bittorrent site, and that to convince people to pay they need to offer at least an equivilent product.
No artist, indie or major label, can do anything whatsoever to prevent trading other than building a loyal fanbase that will want to pay money for their albums.
Much of the reason people prefer consoles over PCs is that they want a simple, reliable experience. Just pop the disc in and start playing, no worries about installation or whether your machine will run it.
Something is seriously wrong with your ears if you can't hear artifacts in 96kbps MP3. Sure, it's probably acceptable, but if you're actually gonna listen to it why not go for the better version?
No offense to your G4, but iTunes playing an MP3 uses 1% CPU on my four-year-old Athlon system.
I don't know where you live, but tickets to my (excellent) local professional orchestra are $40 at the high end. Concerts by the university orchestra are generally free, and usually excellent as well. And this is in Knoxville, TN, not exactly the arts capital of the world.
So you carry a parachute. Just make sure you're flying high enough for it to take effect.
Presumably you cen refill your jetpack at the gas station too, so 4 miles would be adequate.
Why use expensive, complex, rare chemicals? What's wrong with cyanide?
I assume it's a driver issue (or rather, the issue is a lack of drivers), which means it wouldn't work with any machine running Windows, Apple-built or not.
You know you can just type in the number under the bar code, right?
It's not. The UK uses a different measurement for octane, which yields higher numbers. The gas itself is about the same.
Meanwhile, the new backslash section (notice: different name, different idea) is a summary of the discussion of a single past story. Since most discussion happens in the first day or two, it makes sense for a backslash to follow the original story fairly closely. Also, if you wait too long, people no longer care.
Photoshop Elements is nice for basic photo retouching, but it's nowhere near as powerful as GIMP. And there's a pretty significant difference between $80 and free.
b) You might want to fix the link in your sig.
Uh, last time I checked, patents lasted for 20 years.