For me personally, I've sometimes downloaded songs from CDs I because 1) it's sometimes faster than ripping it myself, 2) the CD is scratched or broken, or 3) I still have the case but the CD itself was stolen.
It's your responsibility to take care of your possessions and, if applicable, make backups. If your car is stolen the dealer won't give you a new one. If your car is vandalized the auto repair shop won't fix it for free. Take care or be prepared to replace.
The iPod, a decent but not earth-shattering MP3 player, sold *much* better than other MP3 players out there. Why? Marketing. Lots of ads -- the only significant difference to cause such a change.
No, it won because it extremely small, very easy to use, and held a ton of music compared to the popular solid state storage players. I hardly saw any ads for the iPod at first; it was seeing other people's players that made me want (and get) one.
It's *stupid* to use CBR for locally stored files -- it gets significantly worse quality for the size
I agree with you, but unfortunately a huge drawback is that players can't seem to tell how long a track is. iTunes and Winamp, in particular, display grossly inaccurate song lengths, which makes the slide bar useless and annoys me since I like to keep an eye on that sort of info. It seems like the players read the bitrate of the first frame of the file and calculate the song length based on filesize.
What if they call you on nights or weekends when you happen to have free minutes?
What about those of us who have prepaid plans or some other plan without any free time? I have Virgin Mobile, but since they use Sprint my phone number has the same first three digits as Sprint customers in my area, so it'll be hard to tell what carrier I'm really using.
I don't think it would be too hard to write a script that compiles all of your files into 10MB RARs and sends them to your gmail account. You could keep remote backups of all of your documents, mail, etc.
Personally I think Apple stands to profit more from software sales than they stand to lose from hardware sales.
I don't see it that way. OSX is the reason that I will buy a Mac. If it is ported to x86, I will buy it in a second and happily continue to build nice x86 machines for a third of the cost of an Apple. What good is overpriced hardware when you can already get the software that runs on it?
Reminds me of Asimov's writings, where the first wave of space colonization eventually fails (among other reasons) because people live hundreds of years.
In the middle ages people lived a lot less than we do now (half as long?), but society adapted and it will adapt again when living to 120 becomes the norm.
Also DeadAIM is an AIM add-on that lets you make any AIM windows or your buddy list translucent. Even has a sliding scale to give the windows any level of opacity you want.
Not really. Anyone with enough persistance and determination can rally together a following. But if you're not in a capitalist economy, good luck raising a lot of money.
so far they've only tested it in computer simulations (which are basically not to be trusted as a good model of the human immune system, trust me, I do computational biochem)
So basically you're admitting that your job is inaccurate and worthless.
The fact that it takes money to be heard is a sad commentary on current U.S. politics.
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Why don't we just do things in exchange for other things?
That's called bartering. It's better to just use money because you can spend it on whatever you want -- either the thing you originally wanted to exchange for, or something else if you've changed your mind.
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Since it was a perfect game, it was missing the trajectory (batting) half.
If it were zero friction the puck would never stop moving and players would have to crash into the wall to stop.
Your speeling is a bit off, too.
There is no lava in space!
Give me a break. They give you 1GB to encourage using their service over others for *email* so they can sift through your messages.
I don't think it would be too hard to write a script that compiles all of your files into 10MB RARs and sends them to your gmail account. You could keep remote backups of all of your documents, mail, etc.
Just release thousands of rats into a field and let them blow up. Once you detonate the mines they're no longer a problem.
Well neither I or the moderators seemed to pick up on the sarcasm. Better luck next time.
I second that. I haven't found any media that doesn't work since I upgraded to Herrie's firmware.
Way to just paraphrase the parent's comment.
Also DeadAIM is an AIM add-on that lets you make any AIM windows or your buddy list translucent. Even has a sliding scale to give the windows any level of opacity you want.
Not really. Anyone with enough persistance and determination can rally together a following. But if you're not in a capitalist economy, good luck raising a lot of money.
The fact that it takes money to be heard is a sad commentary on current U.S. politics.