Town board members surveyed the population and found that only 5.5 percent of townspeople are against the wind farm, while 58 percent are for it.
Of COURSE the news outlets are going to interview the squeaky wheels. Sells more copies.
I imagine in any population, you can find 5% who are against something, no matter how good an idea it may be. That 5% will get pushed aside, so that the rest of us can get on with things.
Exactly. And they still use it. The people who might use this type of postcard thing don't really care that it's not a perfect, high quality lens. Or that the resultant picture looks like it was taken underwater, on a cloudy day, by someone with epilepsy, coming off a 3 day bender.
Presumably all in the name of "Eric Smith". The problem comes in when you have a Maryland license for Joe Smith, a Texas license for Jim Taylor, and a Florida License for John Jones.
They apparently also had multiple 'valid' ID's each. Presumably, the RealID would attempt to prevent this from happening. Whether it actually works or not is a different story.
Your job depends on whether or not a particular line of text, written on a PDA, has a strikethrough or not? And there is no other possible way to write this line of text?
You need a new job, son. Maybe something in the french fry delivery category. And your boss needs a new worker.
I would never let my kid be alone with an adult -- ever.
You're going to have some weirded out kids.
Your daughter can never go to a slumber party at Mary's house, because her mom happens to be divorced? Your son can never, ever go for a bike ride with Billy and his dad? Your daughter can never go get her nails and hair done with older cousin Kate?
I feel sorry for your kids. They may never learn how to releate to people without mom and dad around.
"Captured" is hardly correct. We've been given some by the Israelis, and at least three from Russian and North Korean pilots. I don't think the US has actually "captured" any planes in the last five decades or so.
Well...there were some 'captured' on (and apparently in) the ground in Iraq. Which is pretty much the only way to 'capture' an aircraft, without the pilots cooperation. Parked on the ground when you take over the airbase.
That at once point (probably a while ago) we did "capture" a MiG or whatever. I think it went along the lines that he had to land for mechanical failure or we forced him to land or something.
Sep 6, 1976. Lt. Victor Belenko defected with a MiG-25 to Japan. We inspected it in depth, and sent it back. In boxes.
Area 51 has captured Russian Mig and other Russian aircraft which they flew and tested.
One small quibble. Not necessarily 'captured'. We were given several MiG's and Sukoi's in 1990/91 by the German AF, after they merged with the former East German AF.
Worth1000 isn't bad either. Some seriously twisted individuals.
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- But it won't be 'yours' any more.
I meant 'yours' in the sense of what it was supposed to be. What the image is suppoed to represent. What you were thinking when you took the shot.
Not 'yours' as in copyright or ownership.
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does anyone know of good websites where I can upload my photographs and let others "compete" openly to making them look better?
The resultant photo will then be a collaboration. What you were seeing through the viewfinder when you took it, and what they think it should look like.
If that's ok with you, then go for it. But it won't be 'yours' any more.
I'll be happy to pay up to $5 per photo
If it takes an hour to d/l, analyze, process, and send back...well...$5/hour isn't worth getting out of bed for.
Seriously...would YOU allow your hardware to accept random files from random people on the street? I wouldn't. And neither will the sheep, after the first drive-by virus outbreak.
There will be two occupants in the cockpit of the future. A man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the man if he tries to touch anything.
The way I read it, they're pushing recommendations, not songs.
...sending (or "pushing") music...
If not actual songs now, then soon.
But my hangup here is that a song takes a while to transfer over WIFI. It's not like you can pass someone on the street and accept their song recommendation in time to get the whole file.
The person you're sitting behind on the train to work. The person you're sitting two tables away from at lunchtime. The person in the next booth in the bar after work.
Famous last words: "You can't get a virus just from opening an email."(Melissa) "You can't get a virus just from opening a picture."(WMF) "You can't get a virus just from listening to a music CD."(Sony)
IBM/Novell/Red Hat are making money from the performance...the customization, installation, and support of OSS. If it were a small, no support needed application, there would be no reason to pay them. And we wouldn't.
Music, OTOH, has no need of 'support contracts' and 'installation fees'. There are two basic income streams, live performances, and selling recorded tracks. Take away one, the other will be it. We will have to add another stream. "Get a regular job, and do that stuff part time".
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a lover of the current music industry. But mantra of 'information will be free' will be far, far more earthshaking (and disruptive) than merely getting new music tracks for nothing.
I'd argue that the person who cannot create good music without a good sound engineer is not a good musician at all.
Nonsense. I had a friend who was an exceptional vocalist. Church choir solo, various theater groups. Utterly clueless if it came to packaging that sound on tape or in bits. Can the conductor of your local symphony orchestra produce good music without being a good sound engineer? Of course he can.
Donation based systems can work, just look at a lot of webcomics.
How many of those webcomic guys do it full time? How much of a production dept do they need to support? Technology is making it easier to make good music for a lot less money. But not zero money. 'Information will be free(as in beer)' will require a very painful shift in world economics. Far more than getting the latest music track for free on your PDA. I'm not concerned about the RIAA making money. Screw them. I'm thinking about all the other people involved in making that music/movie. Cameramen, makeup artists, sound engineers, editors.
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Of COURSE the news outlets are going to interview the squeaky wheels. Sells more copies.
I imagine in any population, you can find 5% who are against something, no matter how good an idea it may be.
That 5% will get pushed aside, so that the rest of us can get on with things.
They still do it.
And yet millions of people use their cellphone as a camera.
Sending him to jail is a deterrent for others who might contemplate doing the same thing.
Presumably all in the name of "Eric Smith". The problem comes in when you have a Maryland license for Joe Smith, a Texas license for Jim Taylor, and a Florida License for John Jones.
The Privacy Act of 1974
They apparently also had multiple 'valid' ID's each. Presumably, the RealID would attempt to prevent this from happening. Whether it actually works or not is a different story.
You need a new job, son. Maybe something in the french fry delivery category.
And your boss needs a new worker.
You're going to have some weirded out kids.
Your daughter can never go to a slumber party at Mary's house, because her mom happens to be divorced?
Your son can never, ever go for a bike ride with Billy and his dad?
Your daughter can never go get her nails and hair done with older cousin Kate?
I feel sorry for your kids. They may never learn how to releate to people without mom and dad around.
It seems all sides in the cold war were subject to needless speculation.
Well...there were some 'captured' on (and apparently in) the ground in Iraq. Which is pretty much the only way to 'capture' an aircraft, without the pilots cooperation. Parked on the ground when you take over the airbase.
Sep 6, 1976. Lt. Victor Belenko defected with a MiG-25 to Japan. We inspected it in depth, and sent it back. In boxes.
One small quibble.
Not necessarily 'captured'. We were given several MiG's and Sukoi's in 1990/91 by the German AF, after they merged with the former East German AF.
I don't think we can fit the entire mouse genome into an Access mbd.
Oh, and please lose those mouseover keyword thingies. They come in at about a 9.5 on the Annoy-O-Meter scale
Worth1000 isn't bad either. Some seriously twisted individuals.
I meant 'yours' in the sense of what it was supposed to be. What the image is suppoed to represent. What you were thinking when you took the shot.
Not 'yours' as in copyright or ownership.
The resultant photo will then be a collaboration. What you were seeing through the viewfinder when you took it, and what they think it should look like.
If that's ok with you, then go for it. But it won't be 'yours' any more.
I'll be happy to pay up to $5 per photo
If it takes an hour to d/l, analyze, process, and send back...well...$5/hour isn't worth getting out of bed for.
At least we can be reasonably sure that the robotic legislator actually read the thing first.
A single format, from a single source company.
Radio listeners accept it.
soundwaves. No actual files.
iRate users desire it.
Closer, but still a central point of contact.
Seriously...would YOU allow your hardware to accept random files from random people on the street? I wouldn't.
And neither will the sheep, after the first drive-by virus outbreak.
There will be two occupants in the cockpit of the future. A man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the man if he tries to touch anything.
If not actual songs now, then soon.
But my hangup here is that a song takes a while to transfer over WIFI. It's not like you can pass someone on the street and accept their song recommendation in time to get the whole file.
The person you're sitting behind on the train to work. The person you're sitting two tables away from at lunchtime. The person in the next booth in the bar after work.
Famous last words:
"You can't get a virus just from opening an email."(Melissa)
"You can't get a virus just from opening a picture."(WMF)
"You can't get a virus just from listening to a music CD."(Sony)
Music, OTOH, has no need of 'support contracts' and 'installation fees'. There are two basic income streams, live performances, and selling recorded tracks. Take away one, the other will be it. We will have to add another stream. "Get a regular job, and do that stuff part time".
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a lover of the current music industry. But mantra of 'information will be free' will be far, far more earthshaking (and disruptive) than merely getting new music tracks for nothing.
Nonsense. I had a friend who was an exceptional vocalist. Church choir solo, various theater groups. Utterly clueless if it came to packaging that sound on tape or in bits.
Can the conductor of your local symphony orchestra produce good music without being a good sound engineer? Of course he can.
How many of those webcomic guys do it full time? How much of a production dept do they need to support? Technology is making it easier to make good music for a lot less money. But not zero money. 'Information will be free(as in beer)' will require a very painful shift in world economics. Far more than getting the latest music track for free on your PDA.
I'm not concerned about the RIAA making money. Screw them. I'm thinking about all the other people involved in making that music/movie. Cameramen, makeup artists, sound engineers, editors.
Who pays them, if no one pays for the product?