Sounds to me like he meant that people who heard (and possibly bought) the new Morissette album decided that they wanted more and went looking for her older album. Perhaps they tried to buy it as new old stock at the same store where they got the new album, but there weren't any copies left, so they decided to settle for a used copy. Supply and demand. The record companies and the shops that carry their new stuff failed to forsee and meet the demand for the older album, and the shops that carry used albums were (in some cases)in a position to meet that demand.
It's unlikely that people heard the new album, liked it, and decided to get an older Morissette album instead in order to satisfy their Morissette craving at a lower price. Not if they've ever heard how different 2 albums from the same artist(s) can be.
It's still pretty shoddy journalism to assume that the only explanation for disappointing CD sales is unauthorized copying without considering other possibilities, such as people realising that most of the new stuff isn't worth buying and that there are other things on which they'd rather spend their money.
When you tried to spell "our" backwards, it came out "rou" (which is "uor" frontwards), instead of "ruo". Does this mean that you are dyslexic? Does this mean that you are cixelsyd?
Plug "weather channel open source" into google, check a few articles, find out how heavily TWC has been relying on open source for at least the last 2 years (like replacing several NT boxes with one Linux box), realise what they're really doing is looking out for number 1.
Open source has saved them a bundle, so if doing this for their own benefit has the side effect of helping others, I'm sure they still feel that they're getting the best part of the deal.
Hmm, let's see. Weather Channel provides detailed advance information and education on severe weather, which contributes to increase in public safety. How about a new public discussion. "Which saves more lives, open source or the MS way of doing things?"
"...isn't it likely that the monopolies would face the same fate as AT&T and get broken up into lots of baby bells again?"
The same phone company that owned the copper in the ground in my neighborhood and held a monopoly on being able to bury telephone lines in our front yards and run them to our houses before the breakup still owned the copper in the ground and held a monopoly on being able to bury telephone lines in our neighborhood after the breakup and still do to this day. That's where the monopoly is, the last mile--the service drop to the house. That's where we need both local and federal government to protect us and to be our watchdog, not to auction us off to the highest bidder (or briber).
"...your drywall/insulation/dust/sawdust is the fuel."
The dust and the sawdust perhaps, and maybe the insulation, depending on what it's made of (the kraft paper facing on fiberglass might burn, but I doubt the glass will, although some insulating sheathing--used as much for wall rigidity as insulation--is burnable), but drywall/sheetrock is heavy in part because there's so much water tied up in it. It's used (in double thicknesses)between attached units as a firestop.
"...there are lots of things much higher than the cat5 that the lighting would rather hit first."
The other day I saw something on The Discovery Channel or something similar. After they went back through the tapes of the regional weather radar and the satellite pictures and all that, they discovered that the lightning that hit a guy on a bicycle in Vail, CO, out of a bright, clear sky came from 10 miles away, traveling sideways over a mountain before it got to him.
You realise, of course, that you just blew the chance to start your own phone company, and cable company, and ISP? You could have cited the lack of service and bribed enough local politicians to get an exclusive on right-of-way to those 600 housholds.
Not counting a flood of refugees in/from just about any war ever, or those religious pilgrimage things, I think Woodstock claims previous art on physical Slashdotting.
The ZDNet article doesn't say how that $1 is transferred (and I'm not going to wait all afternoon for the site itself to load), so how did you pay them? Surely you wouldn't give your credit card number to a site in Iran with no scruples about selling what they don't own.
Whatever method you used, look for the MPAA to try to interfere with it, or get the government to do the interfering.
If they're broadcast gear, they may or may not be easy to obtain, but cheap? No way. The way that stuff is priced you'd think they were selling stuff for boats.
As I said in an e-mail to Thomas Greene of The Register after reading his article on this earlier this evening.
"How cruelly ironic, that the man who celebrated the spirit of volunteerism he found in communities all across the new nation he chronicled has his good name usurped and sullied by the likes of these."
As for the Osprey, the most recent one to crash came down not too far (which is to say not far enough) from my backyard, so I checked out what they had to say about that, but to be fair, they wrote it 5 years ago, before anybody but the manufacturers had a chance to really test its airworthiness.
Weren't most aircraft electronics from "back then" designed for 400 Hz AC (not Volts, cycles per second, as opposed to 60 cycle household current)? The higher frequency was so that transformers and filter chokes could use smaller, lighter iron cores.
"...a normal computer power supply could not put out the voltage needed to even warm up such a tube..."
Well, actually it's current that heats up a tube, not voltage, although it's the voltage that shoves the current through the tube's filament. Depending upon design of the tubes filament, the voltage necessary to deliver the filament current (A+) can range from 2 Volts for some "nuvistor" itty-bitty little tubes once used in TV tuners to 35 or 50 Volts for some tubes intended for "hot chassis" radios and TVs that have the various tubes filaments in series across the AC line so that you can drop 85 Volts across a couple of tubes and use the remaining 30 or so Volts for some 6 or 12 Volt tubes.
Most of what are known as "receiving" tubes (tubes used in radios, TVs, and audio amps, including musical instrument amps, tend to use filaments designed for 6 or 12 Volts. If all the tubes in an amp use 6 Volt filaments and/or 12 Volt center-tapped filaments, you can heat 'em all with one secondary winding on the power transformer that they're connected in parallel across (sometimes with AC to DC rectification and filtering in between the secondary and the filaments).
Perhaps you were thinking of the tube's plate voltage (B+), which can run from 40 or 50 Volts up to several hundred. However, not only can you build a switching regulator on a motherboard to change 5 Volts DC to 3.3, but you can also include one that'll step up the voltage. It may not amount to a lot of amperage (current), but it doesn't have to. You can use a transformer on the tube's output to change high voltage, low current to low voltage, high current because power = voltage times current on both sides of that transformer, although a little bit of the power does get used up in the transformer (turns into heat). That output transformer also provides isolation from the high-voltage plate supply.
I only saw the top-down shot where you can almost fail to notice the tube, but it looks a little bit fat to be a 12AX7 or 12AU6 size envelope. I'd go find my old RCA tube manual and try to guess what they might be using, but it's old and falling apart (just like its owner:-), and doesn't need any unnecessary mileage put on it and besides I disremember just what it's currently buried under.
Seeing as how impedence is a combination of resistance to DC and reactance to AC (and varies with frequency), you really can't measure impedence with DC.
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Don't uncopyable bits require those Signetics read-only memory chips?
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It's unlikely that people heard the new album, liked it, and decided to get an older Morissette album instead in order to satisfy their Morissette craving at a lower price. Not if they've ever heard how different 2 albums from the same artist(s) can be.
It's still pretty shoddy journalism to assume that the only explanation for disappointing CD sales is unauthorized copying without considering other possibilities, such as people realising that most of the new stuff isn't worth buying and that there are other things on which they'd rather spend their money.
When you tried to spell "our" backwards, it came out "rou" (which is "uor" frontwards), instead of "ruo". Does this mean that you are dyslexic? Does this mean that you are cixelsyd?
Plug "weather channel open source" into google, check a few articles, find out how heavily TWC has been relying on open source for at least the last 2 years (like replacing several NT boxes with one Linux box), realise what they're really doing is looking out for number 1.
Open source has saved them a bundle, so if doing this for their own benefit has the side effect of helping others, I'm sure they still feel that they're getting the best part of the deal.
Hmm, let's see. Weather Channel provides detailed advance information and education on severe weather, which contributes to increase in public safety. How about a new public discussion. "Which saves more lives, open source or the MS way of doing things?"
Is Marriam-Webster where that other guy found the word "momopoly"?
The same phone company that owned the copper in the ground in my neighborhood and held a monopoly on being able to bury telephone lines in our front yards and run them to our houses before the breakup still owned the copper in the ground and held a monopoly on being able to bury telephone lines in our neighborhood after the breakup and still do to this day. That's where the monopoly is, the last mile--the service drop to the house. That's where we need both local and federal government to protect us and to be our watchdog, not to auction us off to the highest bidder (or briber).
You scammed people out of a bunch of money and you're surprised that they remember? Sheeeesh!
The dust and the sawdust perhaps, and maybe the insulation, depending on what it's made of (the kraft paper facing on fiberglass might burn, but I doubt the glass will, although some insulating sheathing--used as much for wall rigidity as insulation--is burnable), but drywall/sheetrock is heavy in part because there's so much water tied up in it. It's used (in double thicknesses)between attached units as a firestop.
The other day I saw something on The Discovery Channel or something similar. After they went back through the tapes of the regional weather radar and the satellite pictures and all that, they discovered that the lightning that hit a guy on a bicycle in Vail, CO, out of a bright, clear sky came from 10 miles away, traveling sideways over a mountain before it got to him.
You realise, of course, that you just blew the chance to start your own phone company, and cable company, and ISP? You could have cited the lack of service and bribed enough local politicians to get an exclusive on right-of-way to those 600 housholds.
Not counting a flood of refugees in/from just about any war ever, or those religious pilgrimage things, I think Woodstock claims previous art on physical Slashdotting.
Whatever method you used, look for the MPAA to try to interfere with it, or get the government to do the interfering.
Well, actually it's the end of the reel. Although, if it's a really good movie...
If they're broadcast gear, they may or may not be easy to obtain, but cheap? No way. The way that stuff is priced you'd think they were selling stuff for boats.
And you talking about perusing a sex manual gives a whole new perspective to your username :-)
Perhaps they should get the tech support people to write the manuals.
"How cruelly ironic, that the man who celebrated the spirit of volunteerism
he found in communities all across the new nation he chronicled has his good
name usurped and sullied by the likes of these."
As for the Osprey, the most recent one to crash came down not too far (which is to say not far enough) from my backyard, so I checked out what they had to say about that, but to be fair, they wrote it 5 years ago, before anybody but the manufacturers had a chance to really test its airworthiness.
You are, of course, correct. I merely speak from nearly 40 years of knowledge and experience.
Weren't most aircraft electronics from "back then" designed for 400 Hz AC (not Volts, cycles per second, as opposed to 60 cycle household current)? The higher frequency was so that transformers and filter chokes could use smaller, lighter iron cores.
Well, actually it's current that heats up a tube, not voltage, although it's the voltage that shoves the current through the tube's filament. Depending upon design of the tubes filament, the voltage necessary to deliver the filament current (A+) can range from 2 Volts for some "nuvistor" itty-bitty little tubes once used in TV tuners to 35 or 50 Volts for some tubes intended for "hot chassis" radios and TVs that have the various tubes filaments in series across the AC line so that you can drop 85 Volts across a couple of tubes and use the remaining 30 or so Volts for some 6 or 12 Volt tubes.
Most of what are known as "receiving" tubes (tubes used in radios, TVs, and audio amps, including musical instrument amps, tend to use filaments designed for 6 or 12 Volts. If all the tubes in an amp use 6 Volt filaments and/or 12 Volt center-tapped filaments, you can heat 'em all with one secondary winding on the power transformer that they're connected in parallel across (sometimes with AC to DC rectification and filtering in between the secondary and the filaments).
Perhaps you were thinking of the tube's plate voltage (B+), which can run from 40 or 50 Volts up to several hundred. However, not only can you build a switching regulator on a motherboard to change 5 Volts DC to 3.3, but you can also include one that'll step up the voltage. It may not amount to a lot of amperage (current), but it doesn't have to. You can use a transformer on the tube's output to change high voltage, low current to low voltage, high current because power = voltage times current on both sides of that transformer, although a little bit of the power does get used up in the transformer (turns into heat). That output transformer also provides isolation from the high-voltage plate supply.
I only saw the top-down shot where you can almost fail to notice the tube, but it looks a little bit fat to be a 12AX7 or 12AU6 size envelope. I'd go find my old RCA tube manual and try to guess what they might be using, but it's old and falling apart (just like its owner :-), and doesn't need any unnecessary mileage put on it and besides I disremember just what it's currently buried under.
Well, either that or a cable subscription is built into the rent and you just don't realise it.
Seeing as how impedence is a combination of resistance to DC and reactance to AC (and varies with frequency), you really can't measure impedence with DC.
Sir, I salute thee as hackier than I.