Has anyone thought that if Napster is simply "renting" you the music for a monthly fee, then their competition isn't Apple and iTunes, it's satellite radio? For a similar subscription fee, I get lots of music and a very large number of talking heads. I don't have to screw around with all the computer BS, and the signal is available most anywhere I go. Same deal in the end, when I stop paying the monthly fee, the service goes dead. Personally I would think that satellite radio would have a lot more appeal.
Speaking of young children, it's pretty clear that no one has thought this "space elevator" thing through. What are you doing to do when you're at the top and want to get down in a hurry and some rotten brat has pushed the buttons for every floor on the way down?
Excellent point. We can say the same thing about the infectious agent that causes stomach ulcers. The agent appears in lots of people who DON'T have stomach ulcers, it might be a necessary, but it is not a sufficient, cause. Perhaps there are some people who are obese because of some virus, but some of us might be obese because we never met a pint of Ben & Jerry's we didn't like, or we prefer the convenience of fast food, etc.
Good point. Plus with an Apple product it's not as easy as ordering a new motherboard, processor, and RAM and then sticking it in the old case. I've got a PC100 memory Wintel machine that I could get a new processor, mobo, and RAM for the price of changing out my 128 simms for 256. But I've found upgrading processors on G4 towers to be a good way of squeezing a bit more good out of my initial investment. At work (they were PC only so I brought in my own Mac) I have an old 433 mhz digital audio mac that I upgraded to 1.33 ghz with an Other World Computing card (cost $200-300). The upgrade card features more cache than the original processor, so you really notice the speed improvement. Did the same thing with a 733 G4 tower (Quicksilver) I had lent to my nephew. He really notices the difference, and has a lot more luck with streaming video on web sites like ESPN. Here's a great site for user reviews of upgrades to old macs (processors, drives, video cards, etc.):
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
We can only hope. American translations of Brit sitcoms seem to suffer in comparison. Anybody catch both versions of "Men Behaving Badly?" The British version was brilliant and the American version was dreadful. They did a better job translating "The Office," but it still suffers when compared to the British version. Can you imagine the result if someone in Hollywood decided to try to do an Yank version of "Absolutely Fabulous?" I have his horrible image of Sybil Sheppard attempting to pull off Joanna Lumley's performance... Groan.
I'd agree with all that you said, but I would point out some things that Turbine has done right. Turbine continues to add content to the original Asheron's Call. That game has been obsolete for quite some time now, but there are still a few people who hang on... I never played AC2, but AC had amazing seamless "one world" technology. Yes there were dungeons to be entered, but one could essentially run all over the huge AC landscape without artificial gates or barriers to different portions of the world. It provided for a very unique experience. I would advise others to look into Turbine's background for themselves. What made AC2 such a horrendous flop? They tried at least once with a major update to bring it back to life, but no luck. Have they learned anything from that fiasco? Customer service is rarely the high point of any online game, but Turbine had a moderately successful system based on volunteers in AC. They abruptly pulled the plug on the volunteer system some years ago. Will they bring it back? AC is a 6(?) year-old game, I'd like to think that Turbine had some institutional memory and was learning from its successes and failures, but right now I don't see a lot of evidence to support that wish.
We gave up our big analog dish when we moved in 1999. When we left "a la carte" programming had been available and was still available, dating back to when we originally bought it (1985, I'm sure it was available before then as well). Not only could you pick and choose channels, you could decide to have them for only a month at a time if you liked. So I could call in, give my account number and satellite receiver number (VideoCipher descrambler), and they could activate Cinemax for me for one month because I had read the monthly dish guide and I saw a lot of programming in the upcoming month I wanted to watch. Funny how that was all possible then...
His claims would be more believable if he backed things up with some data of his own or some references. Sorry, but if my choices are contemporary news reports and some guy from Western Illinois University with no data or references, I guess I'll go with the contemporary news reports. Also, later in the passage he seems perfectly willing to accept that 20% of those listening to the broadcast experienced some form of panic, and he attributes this to mass hysteria. No one is saying that every American east of the Mississippi shit a brick that night, but I don't see anything here to suggest that the idea that the broadcast freaked a lot of people out is a myth.
As much as I love teaching, the difference between $40k and $80k is too much too pass up.
Think this over carefully. What about having 4 months per year time off? What good is having more money if you have no time to enjoy it? What good is buying toys that you will have no time to play with? What about having a job where you call almost all of the shots? Want to leave early on Thursday? Do it. Cancel class on Friday? Within limits it's your prerogative. How much money is your freedom worth?
After viewing these photos and reading the reports, it seems a little strange that some people refuse to believe in evolution. I guess they just need to get out more often.
When they put on a show, and it's a hit No one tries to censor it Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong. And when a book is selling at it's best It isn't stopped; it's not suppressed. Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Whenever they're dry For brandy or rye, To get it, they don't have to give up their right eye. And when we brag about our liberty And they laugh at you and you and you and me Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
The study was a meta-analysis of previous studies. Did you notice how small the sample sizes were for the original studies? About half had fewer than 50, it looked like. Not that that is a big problem, but how hard would it be to just go around to public schools and measure children's head size and gather their intelligence scores? Also, as always, causality cannot be inferred from correlation. No attempt was made to control for variables such as income, which might influence diet, health care, etc. Finally, if bigger heads really implied greater intelligence, wouldn't you expect offensive linemen on professional football teams to be some of the most intelligent people in the U.S.? For all I know, perhaps they are...
Probably not much help to you but sometimes you can catch the odd table at your local auction. I got my Williams "Space Odyssey" circa 1974 a few years back for $65. Had to fix the right flipper, but somebody had left some old parts in the coin box and the soldering was so simple on those old machines that even with my weak solder fu I was able to get it working.
Send a letter where? I was at Berkeley '94-95. Since then I've lived in London, Western MN, San Francisco, and NC. Since the data includes people who got degrees in the '70s, they might not be too easy to track down.
But Apple was already tightening the screws. The 4.7 version of iTunes prevents DVD Jon's hack from working. It's been out for months now. In addition, with version 4.7.1 Apple "fixed" the program so that instead of sharing my iTunes with 5 people simultaneously over the network at a time, I am limited to 5 people per day. Apple was in the process of tightening the screws already. I don't think these actions invalidate your position, but I just think it's difficult to separate cause and effect here.
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But this bike helmet thing just doesn't make much sense (I could be wrong). I park my bike outside at a rack and then walk into the building. As I walk between the rack and the building, I can take my helmet off. It's nice to feel cool air on my head. When I walk out, I can put my helmet back on. What does he do, ride his bike directly into his office or something?
I see your point but when I think of a world not dominated by Microsoft, I don't think of a world dominated by Apple either. Instead I wonder what it would be like if all of those manufacturers from the 80s had made it into the 21st century. What sort of development, competition, changes, might have happened in a world where a Sanyo Silver Fox, Epson, Atari, Amiga, etc., etc., were all viable choices? Perhaps that would have fragmented the market too much, or perhaps we would have seen some real innovation over the past 20 years.
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Has anyone thought that if Napster is simply "renting" you the music for a monthly fee, then their competition isn't Apple and iTunes, it's satellite radio? For a similar subscription fee, I get lots of music and a very large number of talking heads. I don't have to screw around with all the computer BS, and the signal is available most anywhere I go. Same deal in the end, when I stop paying the monthly fee, the service goes dead. Personally I would think that satellite radio would have a lot more appeal.
Speaking of young children, it's pretty clear that no one has thought this "space elevator" thing through. What are you doing to do when you're at the top and want to get down in a hurry and some rotten brat has pushed the buttons for every floor on the way down?
Excellent point. We can say the same thing about the infectious agent that causes stomach ulcers. The agent appears in lots of people who DON'T have stomach ulcers, it might be a necessary, but it is not a sufficient, cause. Perhaps there are some people who are obese because of some virus, but some of us might be obese because we never met a pint of Ben & Jerry's we didn't like, or we prefer the convenience of fast food, etc.
Good point. Plus with an Apple product it's not as easy as ordering a new motherboard, processor, and RAM and then sticking it in the old case. I've got a PC100 memory Wintel machine that I could get a new processor, mobo, and RAM for the price of changing out my 128 simms for 256. But I've found upgrading processors on G4 towers to be a good way of squeezing a bit more good out of my initial investment. At work (they were PC only so I brought in my own Mac) I have an old 433 mhz digital audio mac that I upgraded to 1.33 ghz with an Other World Computing card (cost $200-300). The upgrade card features more cache than the original processor, so you really notice the speed improvement. Did the same thing with a 733 G4 tower (Quicksilver) I had lent to my nephew. He really notices the difference, and has a lot more luck with streaming video on web sites like ESPN. Here's a great site for user reviews of upgrades to old macs (processors, drives, video cards, etc.): http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
We can only hope. American translations of Brit sitcoms seem to suffer in comparison. Anybody catch both versions of "Men Behaving Badly?" The British version was brilliant and the American version was dreadful. They did a better job translating "The Office," but it still suffers when compared to the British version. Can you imagine the result if someone in Hollywood decided to try to do an Yank version of "Absolutely Fabulous?" I have his horrible image of Sybil Sheppard attempting to pull off Joanna Lumley's performance... Groan.
Not likely since 10.4.4 hasn't been released to the general public yet. Mac OS X 10.4.3 is the most recent version available to us proles.
I'd agree with all that you said, but I would point out some things that Turbine has done right. Turbine continues to add content to the original Asheron's Call. That game has been obsolete for quite some time now, but there are still a few people who hang on... I never played AC2, but AC had amazing seamless "one world" technology. Yes there were dungeons to be entered, but one could essentially run all over the huge AC landscape without artificial gates or barriers to different portions of the world. It provided for a very unique experience. I would advise others to look into Turbine's background for themselves. What made AC2 such a horrendous flop? They tried at least once with a major update to bring it back to life, but no luck. Have they learned anything from that fiasco? Customer service is rarely the high point of any online game, but Turbine had a moderately successful system based on volunteers in AC. They abruptly pulled the plug on the volunteer system some years ago. Will they bring it back? AC is a 6(?) year-old game, I'd like to think that Turbine had some institutional memory and was learning from its successes and failures, but right now I don't see a lot of evidence to support that wish.
We gave up our big analog dish when we moved in 1999. When we left "a la carte" programming had been available and was still available, dating back to when we originally bought it (1985, I'm sure it was available before then as well). Not only could you pick and choose channels, you could decide to have them for only a month at a time if you liked. So I could call in, give my account number and satellite receiver number (VideoCipher descrambler), and they could activate Cinemax for me for one month because I had read the monthly dish guide and I saw a lot of programming in the upcoming month I wanted to watch. Funny how that was all possible then...
His claims would be more believable if he backed things up with some data of his own or some references. Sorry, but if my choices are contemporary news reports and some guy from Western Illinois University with no data or references, I guess I'll go with the contemporary news reports. Also, later in the passage he seems perfectly willing to accept that 20% of those listening to the broadcast experienced some form of panic, and he attributes this to mass hysteria. No one is saying that every American east of the Mississippi shit a brick that night, but I don't see anything here to suggest that the idea that the broadcast freaked a lot of people out is a myth.
As much as I love teaching, the difference between $40k and $80k is too much too pass up. Think this over carefully. What about having 4 months per year time off? What good is having more money if you have no time to enjoy it? What good is buying toys that you will have no time to play with? What about having a job where you call almost all of the shots? Want to leave early on Thursday? Do it. Cancel class on Friday? Within limits it's your prerogative. How much money is your freedom worth?
I certainly don't miss the old Harris I used to have to work on. What a POS.
After viewing these photos and reading the reports, it seems a little strange that some people refuse to believe in evolution. I guess they just need to get out more often.
When they put on a show, and it's a hit
No one tries to censor it
Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
And when a book is selling at it's best
It isn't stopped; it's not suppressed.
Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Whenever they're dry
For brandy or rye,
To get it, they don't have to give up their right eye.
And when we brag about our liberty
And they laugh at you and you and you and me
Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
"...and when Ben Casey meets Kildare, that's a paradox!" - Allan Sherman
A "conservative" is someone who worships dead liberals.
The study was a meta-analysis of previous studies. Did you notice how small the sample sizes were for the original studies? About half had fewer than 50, it looked like. Not that that is a big problem, but how hard would it be to just go around to public schools and measure children's head size and gather their intelligence scores? Also, as always, causality cannot be inferred from correlation. No attempt was made to control for variables such as income, which might influence diet, health care, etc. Finally, if bigger heads really implied greater intelligence, wouldn't you expect offensive linemen on professional football teams to be some of the most intelligent people in the U.S.? For all I know, perhaps they are...
Just curious... So you're saying you record the audio on this small device, then how do you sync the audio with the video?
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In Space!!!!
Probably not much help to you but sometimes you can catch the odd table at your local auction. I got my Williams "Space Odyssey" circa 1974 a few years back for $65. Had to fix the right flipper, but somebody had left some old parts in the coin box and the soldering was so simple on those old machines that even with my weak solder fu I was able to get it working.
Send a letter where? I was at Berkeley '94-95. Since then I've lived in London, Western MN, San Francisco, and NC. Since the data includes people who got degrees in the '70s, they might not be too easy to track down.
But Apple was already tightening the screws. The 4.7 version of iTunes prevents DVD Jon's hack from working. It's been out for months now. In addition, with version 4.7.1 Apple "fixed" the program so that instead of sharing my iTunes with 5 people simultaneously over the network at a time, I am limited to 5 people per day. Apple was in the process of tightening the screws already. I don't think these actions invalidate your position, but I just think it's difficult to separate cause and effect here.
But this bike helmet thing just doesn't make much sense (I could be wrong). I park my bike outside at a rack and then walk into the building. As I walk between the rack and the building, I can take my helmet off. It's nice to feel cool air on my head. When I walk out, I can put my helmet back on. What does he do, ride his bike directly into his office or something?
Mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasty!
I see your point but when I think of a world not dominated by Microsoft, I don't think of a world dominated by Apple either. Instead I wonder what it would be like if all of those manufacturers from the 80s had made it into the 21st century. What sort of development, competition, changes, might have happened in a world where a Sanyo Silver Fox, Epson, Atari, Amiga, etc., etc., were all viable choices? Perhaps that would have fragmented the market too much, or perhaps we would have seen some real innovation over the past 20 years.