I hope you choose to download bands/musicians who make it totally clear that they want you to download their work and not "guessing" their intentions. (and claiming that their label forces their hand, that don't count, most of these guys still have a sampling, and are free to record stuff on their own dime for you to download)
Don't forget that canada has a whole lot of controls to make sure that the canadian musician gets more airplay, and has more subsidies than they do in the US (The government will sponsor your tour, and the radio must play X% canadian music). Sadly due to the polarization of the US culture such grants can't really be given. I can already hear the howling from the bible belt if someone like Stephan Merritt received a subsidy for 69 Love Songs, let alone someone like Ludicris, or from San Francisco if Amy Grant were granted cash for one of her bible records.
Also the current crop of Canadian musical talent/popularity (not necessarily the same thing) is higher than it has been at any time since Rush, Loverboy, and Gordon Lightfoot stopped making records (at least south of the border, I don't know what is going on North of it, other than everyone likes The Tragically Hip and Sloan). Some bands that have taken off in the past few years include, but are not limited by (mostly of the "indie" variety, and in SF will sell out at least a 1000 seat venue)....
Arcade Fire (Currently HUGE, although not as canadian as they would like you to believe, as the main songwriter is from Texas, and they recorded their first record at his grandparents summer home in midcoast Maine, but they still qualify for subsidies)
Broken Social Scene (also include many of their side projects other than those listed below)
Feist (she is a part time member of above, and is currently selling out her US tour)
New Pornographers (also members A.C. Newman, and Destroyer)
Stars (big last summer)
Metric (big last summer)
The Dears
Wolf Parade
The Constantines
Death From Above 1979
Tegan and Sara
Nickleback (while I don't know what they sound like, they do seem to be on HDNet all the time)
On top of that there are another slew of bands quite popular up there, (they can actually make a living playing music) that rarely make it down here.
He said he didn't want his phone to "randomly lock up" a beta development phone isn't a wise move if that is what you want.
I tried putting both Familiar and Opie on my iPaq, but I could never the WiFi or bluetooth to work, most of the apps lacked polish, and the keyboard interface was awful.
Although most musicians only make CD's with one or two good songs, there will be enough people willing to go to pay $15 to see those one or two good songs every night to cover the cost of putting up the band in a hotel, and keeping the van gassed up.
Unlike the bands in the subject Spinal Tap wrote their and played their own songs. They are also used in a VW Ad (Nigel does a solo from the top of a Jetta, the ad was most likely directed by the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, who is somehow related to Tufnel. I think they were school mates in Squatney) and GSM by the Themesmen (Tap with Joe 'Stumpy' Pepys on drums) can be heard in a Schwab ad.
It would be trivial to create an extension that works exactly like this activex component (in fact it could simply parse out the object element with the same classid.)
There are two royalties in the $.25 figure, one is the royalty on the recording which is paid to the musicians who played on the track, it needs to recoup. The other is the mechanical which is paid to the songwriter (often times the same as the musicians) which has a regulatory rate of $0.12 a track and is paid for every track sold even before it recoups.
When I say fuel cost, I am talking about cost to the environment as that is what this whole thread is about. When they become equal, I mean that the extra fuel cost (CO2 emissions) on building the vehicle has been overcome by the extra efficiency of the vehicle. However, if you don't drive as much (I drive less than 3000 Miles a year) it may not be environmental worth buying a new car as well as the fact that the other emissions take much longer for the Prius and the unnamed similar sized vehicle to equalize. Or you could also consider buying a smaller vehicle, as they cost less CO2 to build, and use less while driving, or one can learn to live without a car and rent one when needed (even if you are renting a caddy you are probable having a smaller impact on the environment than owning your own prius).
Actually I was thinking about the Insight not the EV One.
Here is Toyota's own assessment. At 20K KM the fuel cost equals [Page 5] (Japanese are pretty much required to dump their car's at 100K KM). However the toxic emissions are pretty close all the way through [Page 6]. Again this depends on how much you drive your car and how you drive your car, 50MPH uses half the fuel of 70MPH. You missed the most important part, if you use cabs/bicycles/public transit combined with a car share service membership you will have much less of an impact that you would if you owned your own anything.
This data was created with a 91 ford taurus, I know the EVOne cost much more to manufacture than it sold for so this data may be somewhat inaccurate. Also if you drive significantly less than 12,000 miles a year, those numbers change quite a bit. Then there is the second graph which shows that toxic emissions (CO2 is not considered a toxic emission, although the supreme court has a case that could change that), clearly has the manufacture stage being the brunt of toxicity. Then there is the secondary market. I think what those graphs make the clearest is that Zip Car/City Car Share/Flex Car with cabs, bicycles, and public transit is the most environmentally friendly solution for those that believe that a personal car should be driven at all.
Who said the prius was anything different than the hondas? There is no vehicle that comes from the factory with an ability to be powered both by hooking up to the grid and stopping by your local filling station. The term hybrid is purposefully misleading as every single one of them is powered by only fossil fuels.
The only way to put to charge the Prius's battery is by putting gasoline into it's tank. It has no external charging solution from the factory and adding your own invalidates the warranty. All-electric mode just means there is enough residual charge to propel the car, that charge got there by running it's gasoline engine.
Since none of them come from the factory with any way to recharge the battery pack other than driving or braking they are all just gas powered. They are more efficient because the internal combustion engine is sized correctly for charging the battery or maintaining highway speed not for rapid acceleration. People do add chargers and larger batteries but the EPA has never tested aftermarket modifications.
Whoever wrote the blurb, didn't bother to read the original article. This doesn't rotate to keep certain apartments in the sun, it rotates to allow all apartments to have the same view, albeit on different days.
Believe it or not there are a lot of people who can detect the 60 Hz strobe put out by fluorescents which is unsettling at the least and nauseating at the worst. Plus they have a terribly harsh color quality.
The internet archive predates Alexa, although both were founded by Brewster Kahle. As for ad-aware, they have not offered any explanation as to why alexa is identified for removal, yet the google toolbar, even with "advanced features" enabled, is not. A friend of mine who is swedish and works for alexa even stopped by the lavasoft office in sweden to request a meeting. Most likely it helps that google bundles ad-aware with the google desktop.
I don't know what you guys are talking about shitty development support. In 96 I was writing software for the Mac OS 7/8 on a DFA (PPC 6100) using Metrowerks CodeWarrior (I have forgotten what their C++ class library was, but I thought it was nice work with). We had all of the Mac API books (there were about 20 of them priced between $15 to $60, written for the Pascal Programmer but if you knew what you were doing it all worked in C) where all of the internal structures were defined. If you wanted protected memory you put Steve Jasik's "The Debugger" on your machine. Also at this time I was writing stuff for Win32 using MSVC 6, MFC and std API, and writing software for Kodak on Sparcs using GCC with no IDE. At this point I still think CW was the best of the IDE's that I have worked with. This is mostly due to the project leaders doing a fantastic job with class/component design.
Environmentalists already knew this, we want not to save the trees, they won't have any trouble in the future. We want to keep the planet habitable for the human race.
It has the ability to track users, while the tracking is not on by default, plenty of other toolbars with the same functionality or without tracking functionality is marked as spyware by AdAware, Symantac, etc...
I think that part of you comment pretty much sums up what the groupthink of P2P proponents is. Artists are there to provide you with a service. Do you even leave a tip for them them when they pour you a beer at the local pub?
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I hope you choose to download bands/musicians who make it totally clear that they want you to download their work and not "guessing" their intentions. (and claiming that their label forces their hand, that don't count, most of these guys still have a sampling, and are free to record stuff on their own dime for you to download)
Also the current crop of Canadian musical talent/popularity (not necessarily the same thing) is higher than it has been at any time since Rush, Loverboy, and Gordon Lightfoot stopped making records (at least south of the border, I don't know what is going on North of it, other than everyone likes The Tragically Hip and Sloan).
Some bands that have taken off in the past few years include, but are not limited by (mostly of the "indie" variety, and in SF will sell out at least a 1000 seat venue)....
On top of that there are another slew of bands quite popular up there, (they can actually make a living playing music) that rarely make it down here.
He said he didn't want his phone to "randomly lock up" a beta development phone isn't a wise move if that is what you want.
I tried putting both Familiar and Opie on my iPaq, but I could never the WiFi or bluetooth to work, most of the apps lacked polish, and the keyboard interface was awful.
Although most musicians only make CD's with one or two good songs, there will be enough people willing to go to pay $15 to see those one or two good songs every night to cover the cost of putting up the band in a hotel, and keeping the van gassed up.
Unlike the bands in the subject Spinal Tap wrote their and played their own songs. They are also used in a VW Ad (Nigel does a solo from the top of a Jetta, the ad was most likely directed by the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, who is somehow related to Tufnel. I think they were school mates in Squatney) and GSM by the Themesmen (Tap with Joe 'Stumpy' Pepys on drums) can be heard in a Schwab ad.
It would be trivial to create an extension that works exactly like this activex component (in fact it could simply parse out the object element with the same classid.)
Any mozilla extension (chrome) on mozilla/thunderbird/seamonkey/firefox/camino has access to this component which can run anything the user can.
There are two royalties in the $.25 figure, one is the royalty on the recording which is paid to the musicians who played on the track, it needs to recoup. The other is the mechanical which is paid to the songwriter (often times the same as the musicians) which has a regulatory rate of $0.12 a track and is paid for every track sold even before it recoups.
When I say fuel cost, I am talking about cost to the environment as that is what this whole thread is about. When they become equal, I mean that the extra fuel cost (CO2 emissions) on building the vehicle has been overcome by the extra efficiency of the vehicle. However, if you don't drive as much (I drive less than 3000 Miles a year) it may not be environmental worth buying a new car as well as the fact that the other emissions take much longer for the Prius and the unnamed similar sized vehicle to equalize. Or you could also consider buying a smaller vehicle, as they cost less CO2 to build, and use less while driving, or one can learn to live without a car and rent one when needed (even if you are renting a caddy you are probable having a smaller impact on the environment than owning your own prius).
It's pretty obvious that when fuel costs are equal CO2 emissions are equal as CO2 is the output of burning gasoline.
Actually I was thinking about the Insight not the EV One.
Here is Toyota's own assessment. At 20K KM the fuel cost equals [Page 5] (Japanese are pretty much required to dump their car's at 100K KM). However the toxic emissions are pretty close all the way through [Page 6]. Again this depends on how much you drive your car and how you drive your car, 50MPH uses half the fuel of 70MPH. You missed the most important part, if you use cabs/bicycles/public transit combined with a car share service membership you will have much less of an impact that you would if you owned your own anything.
This data was created with a 91 ford taurus, I know the EVOne cost much more to manufacture than it sold for so this data may be somewhat inaccurate. Also if you drive significantly less than 12,000 miles a year, those numbers change quite a bit. Then there is the second graph which shows that toxic emissions (CO2 is not considered a toxic emission, although the supreme court has a case that could change that), clearly has the manufacture stage being the brunt of toxicity. Then there is the secondary market. I think what those graphs make the clearest is that Zip Car/City Car Share/Flex Car with cabs, bicycles, and public transit is the most environmentally friendly solution for those that believe that a personal car should be driven at all.
Who said the prius was anything different than the hondas? There is no vehicle that comes from the factory with an ability to be powered both by hooking up to the grid and stopping by your local filling station. The term hybrid is purposefully misleading as every single one of them is powered by only fossil fuels.
The only way to put to charge the Prius's battery is by putting gasoline into it's tank. It has no external charging solution from the factory and adding your own invalidates the warranty. All-electric mode just means there is enough residual charge to propel the car, that charge got there by running it's gasoline engine.
Since none of them come from the factory with any way to recharge the battery pack other than driving or braking they are all just gas powered. They are more efficient because the internal combustion engine is sized correctly for charging the battery or maintaining highway speed not for rapid acceleration. People do add chargers and larger batteries but the EPA has never tested aftermarket modifications.
Whoever wrote the blurb, didn't bother to read the original article. This doesn't rotate to keep certain apartments in the sun, it rotates to allow all apartments to have the same view, albeit on different days.
Believe it or not there are a lot of people who can detect the 60 Hz strobe put out by fluorescents which is unsettling at the least and nauseating at the worst. Plus they have a terribly harsh color quality.
The internet archive predates Alexa, although both were founded by Brewster Kahle. As for ad-aware, they have not offered any explanation as to why alexa is identified for removal, yet the google toolbar, even with "advanced features" enabled, is not. A friend of mine who is swedish and works for alexa even stopped by the lavasoft office in sweden to request a meeting. Most likely it helps that google bundles ad-aware with the google desktop.
I don't know what you guys are talking about shitty development support. In 96 I was writing software for the Mac OS 7/8 on a DFA (PPC 6100) using Metrowerks CodeWarrior (I have forgotten what their C++ class library was, but I thought it was nice work with). We had all of the Mac API books (there were about 20 of them priced between $15 to $60, written for the Pascal Programmer but if you knew what you were doing it all worked in C) where all of the internal structures were defined. If you wanted protected memory you put Steve Jasik's "The Debugger" on your machine. Also at this time I was writing stuff for Win32 using MSVC 6, MFC and std API, and writing software for Kodak on Sparcs using GCC with no IDE. At this point I still think CW was the best of the IDE's that I have worked with. This is mostly due to the project leaders doing a fantastic job with class/component design.
I think this point goes over the head of the majority of the above posters. (and that was the point of TFA)
Environmentalists already knew this, we want not to save the trees, they won't have any trouble in the future. We want to keep the planet habitable for the human race.
It has the ability to track users, while the tracking is not on by default, plenty of other toolbars with the same functionality or without tracking functionality is marked as spyware by AdAware, Symantac, etc...
I think that part of you comment pretty much sums up what the groupthink of P2P proponents is. Artists are there to provide you with a service. Do you even leave a tip for them them when they pour you a beer at the local pub?
I guess that firefox 2 RC2 is far from ready because it crashes on my macbook and xp box quite often.....
It's called "barratry" and is a misdemeanor in California.