Actually with FLAC (And probably Apple Lossless) it only takes about 300-400 MB for an entire album. But that's still a lot of space, and don't try putting that on any other mp3 player. I think this is also the major reason why they don't sell lossless audio. Most people don't have the space to put it. If you bought 100 albums, most people would fill up most of their hard drive, decide that it wasn't worth having to keep all their music there, and figure out they had to burn CDs, so it's easier to just but the CD in the first place. Also, if the album takes an hour to download, that takes away the convenience factor, so you might as well just go to the store and buy it.
Not really. If you do that you lose quality. So they are saying go ahead and do that, but your music will be even lower quality than the original file you paid for, which is already lower quality than a CD. If you really want to go through all that to get low quality music, you're just better off getting higher quality stuff off IRC or some file sharing network. You've already paid for the song, so it's no different then then still selling unprotected CDs that you can copy (at higher quality) and share with the world. The only thing that the Apple DRM is really aiming to prevent is file sharing applications that share your entire hard disk, from distributing the files to the entire world. and it does a good job of that, if you want to burn, rip, and re-encode, just to share the file, well, that's harder than with CDs, and they really aren't going to try and stop you. I guess if they really wanted to, they could burn some data in the CD-Text area (so they are still making an AudioCD) that says that this CD contains protected music, and ITunes would refuse to rip it. It would work for about 75% of users who wouldn't figure out you could just use some other program to rip the music.
Couldn't there just be a torrent with all the latest torrents on it? That way you wouldn't have to worry about the sites getting shut down, because nobody is hosting anything. Of course you would always need to distribute the torrent with the list of torrents, but I suspect that would be a lot easier than keeping the website up. Maybe have the torrent with the latest torrents as one of the files include in each torrent.
Odds are you've either already bought a box or you're paying a monthly rental fee for the box. I know my cable provider charges me a monthly rate for renting my cable modem and my digital cable box. I can have the fee waived if I buy my own cable box or cable router. Right now I don't find it's worth it to buy the box, but if I found a nice cable box that had a Dual Tuner PVR with a DVD burner with no restrictions on what I could record, with an option to record only audio (For the music stations) I would seriously think about buying a box. Or I could just make my own.
That and the main problem is that you can buy dual layer disks, +/-/whatever, who cares, but they are 5 times the price of a single layer disc, so it's not that economical. It's a little more convenient, but most of the time 4.7 GB is enough space for your data.
My biggest problem is that even if you buy your phone outright, you still don't get a discount on your bill, so you're paying for that free phone anyway. Granted you can switch providers any time you want, but there's still all the other hassles that go along with it. People won't switch providers every 2 months when a better deal comes along, just because they can. If they offer good services at competitive rates, then they shouldn't worry about people switching providers all the time. So my advice is that same as yours. If you don't have a problem with your current provider, sign the contract, and get a free/cheaper phone out of the deal. Any other way you're getting ripped off on your bill.
Boy would I have loved to be a teenager growing up there. When I worked at McD's th pay was around $7 an hour. Kids don't have many expenses, and the expenses are pretty much the same no matter where you live. A video game costs about $60, A CD costs about $15 (usually less), and a shirt or pair of pants costs the same no matter where you get it.
But the demand would be there regardless. People want these laptops one way or the other, creating a white market way to get them will only further drive down the cost of the black market ones, if not wipe it out completely.
And that's because we have coins all the way up to $2. It sucks having to walk around with a kilogram of change in your pocket. I would use cash more if it wasn't for all that damn change.
But home PCs only die because people install tons of programs on them, run viruses, and visit web sites they shouldn't. If they made a home media server, it should be a true appliance. It should only run the preloaded software and do that stuff it's supposed to do. Routers, Cable/Satellite set top boxes, game consones, and many other things in the home are essentially computers. However the fact that the user can't just do whatever they want is what keeps them running.
My cell phone doesn't have any moving parts either. That doesn't stop the fact that accidentally dropping it, or banging it up against something will cause it to break. Things happen to computers, especially laptops. Sure they'll last 3 or 4 years, maybe longer, but There's books at my local library that are over 50 years old. I doubt that the laptop will last that long. What about batteries. I haven't seen a battery that lasts beyond 3 years of frequent charge/discharge cycles.
Well, most TVs come with speakers, while most computer monitors do not. I've often wondered why they bother putting speakers on every TV. If you're going to spend $5000 on a TV, you'd probably have a good sound system, so why even bother with the TV speakers. I mean, I personally don't want to watch everything with the sound system turned on. Morning news in surround sound? Sorry, I'll save on the electricity. But I could see a lot of people opting for a TV without speakers.
I could see this helping for language agnostic buttons, but I think they were a complete failure on the Playstaion I,II,III. The problem for new gamers is to remember which button is where. Since you don't associate Triangle, circle, square and X with any position, it's hard to remember which button is where. Granted I find it weird that the NES put B on the left of A, but that's easy enough to remember. Maybe other people like it, and after a while playing on it, probably don't find it that bad. But my experiences, where I visit a friends house, and play NHL hockey or some other game, find it very frustrating. Which ones the shoot button. oh that's circle. and I have to keep on looking for where the circle button is. If you ask me, the GC has the best button layout. You can Identify all the buttons by feel, and the "Home" (Big green A) button always makes sure you know which button you are on. It also makes sense that since in 90% of games you are pushing 1 button 90% of the time, to make that button nice and big.
Are the computers really cheaper than the textbooks, or are they just cheaper than buying books off the publishing companies? It's not that expensive to print something out on paper. You can buy some pretty thick books for under $10.00, and that's with the cost of a nice shiny cover, retail space, salesperson wages, and a bunch of other unnecessary stuff built in. I think the money could go a lot further if it went towards the publishing of free textbooks, which could be produced very cheaply and given or sold for cost to these countries. The stuff you learn in the first 16 years of your life dpesn't changed all that much. It would be much better to just sell the countries cheap textbooks. The laptops will all be broken within 3 years, and they'll have to buy new ones. Whereas, if they had bought textbooks, some of them might be in bad condition, and might need to be rebound, but I don't think they would end up completely broken like many of the laptops will.
I think the reusing exams thing is on a professor by professor basis. I had a physics professor who didn't reuse entire tests, but had a pool of questions that he would answer. And he wouldn't even change the numbers, just use the same questions over and over again. Oh, and the exams were open book, and he let you bring in whatever materials you wanted to. So, a lot of students, rather than study, took their time tracking down old exams. By the end, they had just about every question with them during the exam, and just had to fill in a bunch of circles. I think this is the kind of thing that happens when professors are allowed to teach the same course for 30 years, and the material never changes. They get bored, decide to make their job easier, and in the process the students learn less.
Is there anyway to use stored procedures and still have database portability? Is there any good way to properly manager thousands of stored procedures, with source control, in an easy to define manner? I realize that stored procedures have their place, but I never quite understood using them for just about every query as some projects do. It puts too much logic in non-portable code in the database, and it's hard to group together the stored procedures into a logic manner like you can do with object oriented classes and functions.
Isn't there something to do with the spin of an electron, which when you reverse the spin, immediately reverses the spin of some other electron, with no delay? Couldn't you reverse the spin of a bunch of electrons on earth, and have their counterparts match the reversal, 30 light years away. It could be used for exchanging information at faster than light speeds.
But people aren't willing to wait or pay for engineered software. Windows already costs $199, and a real OS that followed engineering principles wouldn't cost $199. It would cost probably around $10,000 per copy, if it were being sold on every desktop. And it wouldn't look as nice, and wouldn't do all the whiz-bang things that windows does. You can get engineered software, just ask NASA, but don't expect that grandma will be running engineered software on her $299 Dell box any time soon.
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Actually with FLAC (And probably Apple Lossless) it only takes about 300-400 MB for an entire album. But that's still a lot of space, and don't try putting that on any other mp3 player. I think this is also the major reason why they don't sell lossless audio. Most people don't have the space to put it. If you bought 100 albums, most people would fill up most of their hard drive, decide that it wasn't worth having to keep all their music there, and figure out they had to burn CDs, so it's easier to just but the CD in the first place. Also, if the album takes an hour to download, that takes away the convenience factor, so you might as well just go to the store and buy it.
Not really. If you do that you lose quality. So they are saying go ahead and do that, but your music will be even lower quality than the original file you paid for, which is already lower quality than a CD. If you really want to go through all that to get low quality music, you're just better off getting higher quality stuff off IRC or some file sharing network. You've already paid for the song, so it's no different then then still selling unprotected CDs that you can copy (at higher quality) and share with the world. The only thing that the Apple DRM is really aiming to prevent is file sharing applications that share your entire hard disk, from distributing the files to the entire world. and it does a good job of that, if you want to burn, rip, and re-encode, just to share the file, well, that's harder than with CDs, and they really aren't going to try and stop you. I guess if they really wanted to, they could burn some data in the CD-Text area (so they are still making an AudioCD) that says that this CD contains protected music, and ITunes would refuse to rip it. It would work for about 75% of users who wouldn't figure out you could just use some other program to rip the music.
Couldn't there just be a torrent with all the latest torrents on it? That way you wouldn't have to worry about the sites getting shut down, because nobody is hosting anything. Of course you would always need to distribute the torrent with the list of torrents, but I suspect that would be a lot easier than keeping the website up. Maybe have the torrent with the latest torrents as one of the files include in each torrent.
Odds are you've either already bought a box or you're paying a monthly rental fee for the box. I know my cable provider charges me a monthly rate for renting my cable modem and my digital cable box. I can have the fee waived if I buy my own cable box or cable router. Right now I don't find it's worth it to buy the box, but if I found a nice cable box that had a Dual Tuner PVR with a DVD burner with no restrictions on what I could record, with an option to record only audio (For the music stations) I would seriously think about buying a box. Or I could just make my own.
That and the main problem is that you can buy dual layer disks, +/-/whatever, who cares, but they are 5 times the price of a single layer disc, so it's not that economical. It's a little more convenient, but most of the time 4.7 GB is enough space for your data.
Or easier. Go to Torrentspy.com. Click On Latest Torrents, Check on the Adult Checkbox, And uncheck all others if necessary.
My biggest problem is that even if you buy your phone outright, you still don't get a discount on your bill, so you're paying for that free phone anyway. Granted you can switch providers any time you want, but there's still all the other hassles that go along with it. People won't switch providers every 2 months when a better deal comes along, just because they can. If they offer good services at competitive rates, then they shouldn't worry about people switching providers all the time. So my advice is that same as yours. If you don't have a problem with your current provider, sign the contract, and get a free/cheaper phone out of the deal. Any other way you're getting ripped off on your bill.
What about the Open Source CRM Systems?
Boy would I have loved to be a teenager growing up there. When I worked at McD's th pay was around $7 an hour. Kids don't have many expenses, and the expenses are pretty much the same no matter where you live. A video game costs about $60, A CD costs about $15 (usually less), and a shirt or pair of pants costs the same no matter where you get it.
Plus, you wouldn't want everyone analyzing you JavaScript code and figuring out how your application works.
But the demand would be there regardless. People want these laptops one way or the other, creating a white market way to get them will only further drive down the cost of the black market ones, if not wipe it out completely.
But now that you can buy them, how will they track down the people who got them from the blackmarket?
And that's because we have coins all the way up to $2. It sucks having to walk around with a kilogram of change in your pocket. I would use cash more if it wasn't for all that damn change.
But home PCs only die because people install tons of programs on them, run viruses, and visit web sites they shouldn't. If they made a home media server, it should be a true appliance. It should only run the preloaded software and do that stuff it's supposed to do. Routers, Cable/Satellite set top boxes, game consones, and many other things in the home are essentially computers. However the fact that the user can't just do whatever they want is what keeps them running.
My cell phone doesn't have any moving parts either. That doesn't stop the fact that accidentally dropping it, or banging it up against something will cause it to break. Things happen to computers, especially laptops. Sure they'll last 3 or 4 years, maybe longer, but There's books at my local library that are over 50 years old. I doubt that the laptop will last that long. What about batteries. I haven't seen a battery that lasts beyond 3 years of frequent charge/discharge cycles.
Well, most TVs come with speakers, while most computer monitors do not. I've often wondered why they bother putting speakers on every TV. If you're going to spend $5000 on a TV, you'd probably have a good sound system, so why even bother with the TV speakers. I mean, I personally don't want to watch everything with the sound system turned on. Morning news in surround sound? Sorry, I'll save on the electricity. But I could see a lot of people opting for a TV without speakers.
I could see this helping for language agnostic buttons, but I think they were a complete failure on the Playstaion I,II,III. The problem for new gamers is to remember which button is where. Since you don't associate Triangle, circle, square and X with any position, it's hard to remember which button is where. Granted I find it weird that the NES put B on the left of A, but that's easy enough to remember. Maybe other people like it, and after a while playing on it, probably don't find it that bad. But my experiences, where I visit a friends house, and play NHL hockey or some other game, find it very frustrating. Which ones the shoot button. oh that's circle. and I have to keep on looking for where the circle button is. If you ask me, the GC has the best button layout. You can Identify all the buttons by feel, and the "Home" (Big green A) button always makes sure you know which button you are on. It also makes sense that since in 90% of games you are pushing 1 button 90% of the time, to make that button nice and big.
XP is so 2006. I want to see Vista running on these machines.
Are the computers really cheaper than the textbooks, or are they just cheaper than buying books off the publishing companies? It's not that expensive to print something out on paper. You can buy some pretty thick books for under $10.00, and that's with the cost of a nice shiny cover, retail space, salesperson wages, and a bunch of other unnecessary stuff built in. I think the money could go a lot further if it went towards the publishing of free textbooks, which could be produced very cheaply and given or sold for cost to these countries. The stuff you learn in the first 16 years of your life dpesn't changed all that much. It would be much better to just sell the countries cheap textbooks. The laptops will all be broken within 3 years, and they'll have to buy new ones. Whereas, if they had bought textbooks, some of them might be in bad condition, and might need to be rebound, but I don't think they would end up completely broken like many of the laptops will.
I think the reusing exams thing is on a professor by professor basis. I had a physics professor who didn't reuse entire tests, but had a pool of questions that he would answer. And he wouldn't even change the numbers, just use the same questions over and over again. Oh, and the exams were open book, and he let you bring in whatever materials you wanted to. So, a lot of students, rather than study, took their time tracking down old exams. By the end, they had just about every question with them during the exam, and just had to fill in a bunch of circles. I think this is the kind of thing that happens when professors are allowed to teach the same course for 30 years, and the material never changes. They get bored, decide to make their job easier, and in the process the students learn less.
Is there anyway to use stored procedures and still have database portability? Is there any good way to properly manager thousands of stored procedures, with source control, in an easy to define manner? I realize that stored procedures have their place, but I never quite understood using them for just about every query as some projects do. It puts too much logic in non-portable code in the database, and it's hard to group together the stored procedures into a logic manner like you can do with object oriented classes and functions.
Isn't there something to do with the spin of an electron, which when you reverse the spin, immediately reverses the spin of some other electron, with no delay? Couldn't you reverse the spin of a bunch of electrons on earth, and have their counterparts match the reversal, 30 light years away. It could be used for exchanging information at faster than light speeds.
Reverse engineers? Are those like the reverse vampires who only go out in the day?
But people aren't willing to wait or pay for engineered software. Windows already costs $199, and a real OS that followed engineering principles wouldn't cost $199. It would cost probably around $10,000 per copy, if it were being sold on every desktop. And it wouldn't look as nice, and wouldn't do all the whiz-bang things that windows does. You can get engineered software, just ask NASA, but don't expect that grandma will be running engineered software on her $299 Dell box any time soon.