I wonder if this correlation has anything to do with AdBlock?
Maybe IE users see a lot of ads competing on rate, while Firefox users don't.
Or maybe Firefox users pay off their car early and aren't as profitable....
Need a little more research on Article 10
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If I take what you're stating correctly, then Article 10 would also be able to shoot down Medicare, Fannie/Freddie, the NEA, the DOL.... NASA.
In other words, it sounds right, but ever since the Civil War, I don't think it's been enforced in the manner you describe. There are specific exceptions in case law when dealing with commerce, and with health care spending in the top 5, it's a pretty easy out for the SC.
I think you need look no further than the DEA's position on medical marijuana laws to realize that the 10th isn't that powerful.
I'm not arguing that the 10th shouldn't be the law of the land, just that it plainly isn't, and a court challenge on strict 10th amendment grounds would cause an upheaval to the federal government.
Re:Internet on TV? Really?
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crap, i meant dlna, no hdna
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Think of it as having an Apple TV or Popcorn Hour device embedded in your TV and I think you'll see there's something of a market there. In addition to TV, you get Hulu, YouTube, Pandora (maybe), and the ability to play recorded media from either a local hard drive or an hdna server.
I have a Popcorn hour that I use to stream Hulu and Netflix to (via PlayOn), when watching on my living room TV. It's pretty handy.
The non-recurring fee connection is simply great.
E-Ink is definitely worthwhile, I haven't missed color at all, and the eyestrain is negligible with it. I read a lot on my laptop/phone, and the difference is noticeable.
Amazon DRM exists, but it's been a non-factor for me so far. I get that it's a holy war around these parts, and I don't buy and DRM'd music, but well, if you're the kind it's going to bother, it's going to bother you.
Amazon customer support has been fantastic, including replacing my Kindle when a crack appeared on the screen. It was shipped out gratis, and I ended up with an extra charger out of the deal (the same charger works on my droid, so kudos for 'not being a dick' when it comes to USB standards.
As to reading on it - I forget that I'm reading on a device and my focus is entirely on the book I'm reading -- except I can look up the odd word, and it is a ton easier to hold. I'm re-reading a hard-cover book and I've actually been tempted to buy it for the Kindle so that I'd the built in dictionary and my arm wouldn't get tired in bed.
I've read around 30 books on it so far. Newspapers and magazines when traveling have been great too (kudos to the washingtonpost for making a daily purchase option available).
I don't think you're comparing apples to apples either though. If you're counterpoint to the essay is that only established names can be successful with 'e-marketing', then you have to account for the counter-argument. Namely that very few artists can be successful with the either approach. To further your example of the 50 sale artist; if that same artist isn't signed to a label, they aren't going to sell many records. (One could argue touring, but then again, that's marketing, and the corollary in the book world may be magazine articles, blog posts, conventions, etc.). Success tends to breed success in both worlds.
Now if your argument is that there is no way to build that reputation without first coming from the 'established artist' angle, that's something that could be debated. I don't think it's impossible, I just think that successes are rare in either approach.
I don't know if you've ever read a Dan Brown novel, but I can certainly state from first hand experience that after doing so, I'm now far less likely to buy any of his other works.
The post lost money MRQ. WP is frustrating because I would happily give them money, but don't have an avenue, nor any inducement to do so. They're stuff is good, free, and their only source of revenue from myself is adblocked.
I was a long time subscriber, but couldn't justify continuing to get a paper that I didn't read, since I switched to their website.
It would take me a lot longer to fill out an expense report than it would to make a cable. That thing has to get approved and re-approved and sent to finance and then disbursed.
Re:Halfway through the book, and ...
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Seconded. The difficulty of the made up terms faded after you could map them to their real world definitions (fraa=brother, etc). After a while they weren't really a distraction. I tend to think that if you take a long time to read this book (it was released on Sep 9?), then you might have to relearn it, and that could get annoying.
It was a fantastic diversion at times. The discussions involving basic philosophical schools were interesting, if not entertaining. I had trouble putting it down after the first 150 pages.
For some reason, the word "planed" (to mean destroying someone's position in an argument) still sticks in my head, and I've been close to using it in everyday speech.
From my own experience, MMO's don't draw a lot of power. WoW wasn't a problem on my crappy laptop.
But CivIV causes that same laptop to become uncomfortably hot.
Marine boot camp is either in MCRD San Diego, or MCRD Parris Island.
2nd Marine Division is at Lejeune, and while elements of infantry training exist at Lejeune, it's not what is known as "boot camp".
Those numbers are for income tax only. Forgetting or omitting social security and medicare taxes in a discussion about tax regression makes your argument wildly inaccurate.
That 15.3% of income isn't regressive, and is capped at 100,000. That money, at least in the case of social security, goes right back into general funds and is usually spent or borrowed against immediately, any arguments about it being a trust fund aren't really valid.
That was a great interview, but it just sort of ended abruptly. I was left wondering "what happened to the author". And the reader, I mean, here he was, just wasting time at work and then he stops reading... did he ever go to lunch?
I've only been in IT for around 15 years, but I've NEVER met an IT professional who didn't want to deploy something new. Not everything, but something. To a large degree, it's sort of why they pay us.
It's important to remember that the EFF can help you when the fight gets to court, but doesn't necessarily help with the prevention of bad laws in the first place.
http://www.ipaction.org/
May be a better site to visit, if you want to influence legislators before they pass laws.
I have no idea if this actually happened, but I heard about it from someone who worked in the datacenter at the time. The big red button was set on a wall and the new manager, inadvertently leaned on it without looking. Completely accidental.
So, his solution was to purchase a plastic cover for the big red button, to prevent it from happening again, which when he attempts to install it, shuts down the data center again. Seems it was wrapped in cellophane, which he hadn't removed before placing it over the button.
It has to do with the way evolution works; i.e. slowly.
The cambrian explosion "debunking" was done by implicitly stating that evolution is slow, whether it be in mammals, reptiles or little crawling things.
I had thought this point was actually a point of disagreement between Gould and Dawkins, with Dawkins pointing out that the cambrian explosion wasn't as sudden as Gould had pointed out.
I think this particular point was discussed in Bryson's "A Brief History of Nearly Everything". I didn't think anyone still held this viewpoint about mammalian evolution anymore.
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Sadly, any music you play by learning this way will not be considered art.
Does this mean Woot is pulling out of TX too?
I wonder if this correlation has anything to do with AdBlock? Maybe IE users see a lot of ads competing on rate, while Firefox users don't. Or maybe Firefox users pay off their car early and aren't as profitable....
If I take what you're stating correctly, then Article 10 would also be able to shoot down Medicare, Fannie/Freddie, the NEA, the DOL.... NASA. In other words, it sounds right, but ever since the Civil War, I don't think it's been enforced in the manner you describe. There are specific exceptions in case law when dealing with commerce, and with health care spending in the top 5, it's a pretty easy out for the SC. I think you need look no further than the DEA's position on medical marijuana laws to realize that the 10th isn't that powerful. I'm not arguing that the 10th shouldn't be the law of the land, just that it plainly isn't, and a court challenge on strict 10th amendment grounds would cause an upheaval to the federal government.
crap, i meant dlna, no hdna
Think of it as having an Apple TV or Popcorn Hour device embedded in your TV and I think you'll see there's something of a market there. In addition to TV, you get Hulu, YouTube, Pandora (maybe), and the ability to play recorded media from either a local hard drive or an hdna server. I have a Popcorn hour that I use to stream Hulu and Netflix to (via PlayOn), when watching on my living room TV. It's pretty handy.
may help. they collect a lot of md5's and have a plugin to run an md5 within explorer.
The non-recurring fee connection is simply great. E-Ink is definitely worthwhile, I haven't missed color at all, and the eyestrain is negligible with it. I read a lot on my laptop/phone, and the difference is noticeable. Amazon DRM exists, but it's been a non-factor for me so far. I get that it's a holy war around these parts, and I don't buy and DRM'd music, but well, if you're the kind it's going to bother, it's going to bother you. Amazon customer support has been fantastic, including replacing my Kindle when a crack appeared on the screen. It was shipped out gratis, and I ended up with an extra charger out of the deal (the same charger works on my droid, so kudos for 'not being a dick' when it comes to USB standards. As to reading on it - I forget that I'm reading on a device and my focus is entirely on the book I'm reading -- except I can look up the odd word, and it is a ton easier to hold. I'm re-reading a hard-cover book and I've actually been tempted to buy it for the Kindle so that I'd the built in dictionary and my arm wouldn't get tired in bed. I've read around 30 books on it so far. Newspapers and magazines when traveling have been great too (kudos to the washingtonpost for making a daily purchase option available).
I think that just leaves Tang, actually.
I don't think you're comparing apples to apples either though. If you're counterpoint to the essay is that only established names can be successful with 'e-marketing', then you have to account for the counter-argument. Namely that very few artists can be successful with the either approach. To further your example of the 50 sale artist; if that same artist isn't signed to a label, they aren't going to sell many records. (One could argue touring, but then again, that's marketing, and the corollary in the book world may be magazine articles, blog posts, conventions, etc.). Success tends to breed success in both worlds. Now if your argument is that there is no way to build that reputation without first coming from the 'established artist' angle, that's something that could be debated. I don't think it's impossible, I just think that successes are rare in either approach.
I don't know if you've ever read a Dan Brown novel, but I can certainly state from first hand experience that after doing so, I'm now far less likely to buy any of his other works.
I think someone just figured out a way to expense his wow account.
The post lost money MRQ. WP is frustrating because I would happily give them money, but don't have an avenue, nor any inducement to do so. They're stuff is good, free, and their only source of revenue from myself is adblocked. I was a long time subscriber, but couldn't justify continuing to get a paper that I didn't read, since I switched to their website.
It would take me a lot longer to fill out an expense report than it would to make a cable. That thing has to get approved and re-approved and sent to finance and then disbursed.
Seconded. The difficulty of the made up terms faded after you could map them to their real world definitions (fraa=brother, etc). After a while they weren't really a distraction. I tend to think that if you take a long time to read this book (it was released on Sep 9?), then you might have to relearn it, and that could get annoying. It was a fantastic diversion at times. The discussions involving basic philosophical schools were interesting, if not entertaining. I had trouble putting it down after the first 150 pages. For some reason, the word "planed" (to mean destroying someone's position in an argument) still sticks in my head, and I've been close to using it in everyday speech.
From my own experience, MMO's don't draw a lot of power. WoW wasn't a problem on my crappy laptop. But CivIV causes that same laptop to become uncomfortably hot.
Marine boot camp is either in MCRD San Diego, or MCRD Parris Island. 2nd Marine Division is at Lejeune, and while elements of infantry training exist at Lejeune, it's not what is known as "boot camp".
Those numbers are for income tax only. Forgetting or omitting social security and medicare taxes in a discussion about tax regression makes your argument wildly inaccurate. That 15.3% of income isn't regressive, and is capped at 100,000. That money, at least in the case of social security, goes right back into general funds and is usually spent or borrowed against immediately, any arguments about it being a trust fund aren't really valid.
That was a great interview, but it just sort of ended abruptly. I was left wondering "what happened to the author". And the reader, I mean, here he was, just wasting time at work and then he stops reading... did he ever go to lunch?
I've only been in IT for around 15 years, but I've NEVER met an IT professional who didn't want to deploy something new. Not everything, but something. To a large degree, it's sort of why they pay us.
It's important to remember that the EFF can help you when the fight gets to court, but doesn't necessarily help with the prevention of bad laws in the first place. http://www.ipaction.org/ May be a better site to visit, if you want to influence legislators before they pass laws.
You may also want to consider joining ipac at www.ipaction.org I don't think the EFF does a whole lot of lobbying....
I have no idea if this actually happened, but I heard about it from someone who worked in the datacenter at the time. The big red button was set on a wall and the new manager, inadvertently leaned on it without looking. Completely accidental. So, his solution was to purchase a plastic cover for the big red button, to prevent it from happening again, which when he attempts to install it, shuts down the data center again. Seems it was wrapped in cellophane, which he hadn't removed before placing it over the button.
It has to do with the way evolution works; i.e. slowly. The cambrian explosion "debunking" was done by implicitly stating that evolution is slow, whether it be in mammals, reptiles or little crawling things.
I had thought this point was actually a point of disagreement between Gould and Dawkins, with Dawkins pointing out that the cambrian explosion wasn't as sudden as Gould had pointed out. I think this particular point was discussed in Bryson's "A Brief History of Nearly Everything". I didn't think anyone still held this viewpoint about mammalian evolution anymore.