Don't forget, about 7 years ago, that would've been about $1.3 Billion. Why not just list the price in Euros? We have enough people here that know what it is; plus, then the pricing doesn't need to be re-adjusted constantly.
Offtopic Prediction: 10 years from now, the USD will have fallen dramatically because commodities have begun to transfer from being traded in USD to either the Euro or the Yuan
Then why don't they bring back the vinyl? Seriously, I'd love for them to go back to producing records. There's something nastolgic about them.
Don't get me wrong, I love CD's too. There's no way in hell I'd ever use a vinyl record in a car, and I'm even hesitant to use original CD's in cars because the roads suck where I live, but when listening on a HiFi system at home, I'd love to have the option to listen to new music on vinyl. Maybe this would also help protect us against a dramatically compressed dynamic range....
The terms and conditions below apply to you if you use any of the Virgin Digital service (as more particularly set out in paragraph 5 and the Virgin Digital Player which is the software platform from which subscribers operate the services), the terms and conditions also governs the use of the Website itself....
Your use of this Website, the Virgin Digital Player and the Virgin Digital service are subject to these terms and conditions. By using this Website, the Virgin Digital Player and/or any of the Virgin Digital service, you acknowledge your consent to them.
Virgin reserves the right at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any part(s) of these terms and conditions without notice. It is important (and your responsibility) to check these terms and conditions periodically for any changes. Changes will be posted here. Your continued use of the Website or the Virgin Digital Player or the Virgin Digital service following the posting of any changes will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
And further down...:
4. SERVICE LICENCES
The following sets out the licences which Virgin is granting you in order to use the Virgin Digital service as set out in Paragraph 5 below.
4.1 Content Licence
Virgin grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence ("Content Licence") to download or stream digital music content ("Content") to your personal computer or Portable Device (as defined in paragraph 5 below and subject to your rights under these terms and conditions) solely for your personal non-commercial use. You shall not (without limitation) copy, reproduce, "rip", distribute or use the Content in any other manner, save as permitted by these terms and conditions.
And further down yet:
5. SERVICE DESCRIPTION AND USAGE
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5.1.3 "Purchased Download" A Track downloaded to the hard drive of your computer which can either be burned to a CD or transferred to a portable device subject to the following usage rules:
(a) Purchased Downloads may be transferred to portable devices, which shall mean a hardware device with software (including embedded software) ("Portable Device") which enables you to export Permitted Downloads from a personal computer for play back on a Portable Device in accordance with the provisions of these terms and conditions.
(b) You can make up to seven (7) burns per individual playlist (i.e. your chosen selection of Tracks in one (1) particular order).
(c) You can transfer any single Purchased Download to up to five (5) secure portable devices up to twenty-five (25) times.
PLEASE NOTE that any attempt to circumvent any controls that we have in place to prevent additional burning and/or transfers outside of your permitted rights will be a breach of these terms and conditions and may result in the immediate termination of your Virgin Account and may also subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
And finally...:
15.3 In the event of a direct conflict or inconsistency between these terms and conditions and privacy policy and other terms and conditions that may be applicable to the Website or the Services these terms and conditions shall prevail to the extent that such conflict relates to your use of the Services and/or Website.
15.4 The failure of Virgin to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms and conditions will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
Emphasis mine
So basically, Virgin can tell you whatever the hell you want to hear, with regards to how to handle the music you've downloaded. The only caveat is that it's non-binding and that the terms in their "Terms and Conditions" section hold up in court.
I'd rather there be one set of really stable drivers than two separate sets. With having only one set, we don't have to worry about some advanced programs only running with one driver set while another advanced program we need to use at the same time requires the other driver.
I don't get it. Why can't they just make available a program that strips their DRM from the music files, and let their subscribers download and use said program? This would be much easier than burning and ripping. Plus, you don't lose any more quality than you already have.
You know, when you first get a TV, TiVO, or VCR, it doesn't come fully set up. In fact, usually it involves you doing some stuff to get it to work at all. I don't see why they just can't read a box that says:
"Requires Operating System" or something along those lines. Hell, even for any software, you have to know what its minimum requirements are. Mac users can't just walk in to a computer shop and expect any software they pick up to work with their computer; they have to look for something that says it's for Macintosh operating systems.
Why the hell would they say that they're going to drop prices November 23rd when it's only September 23rd? That's still two months away. Once you announce a future price cut, sales temporarily slow down until said price cut occurs. Then you see a spike in trading volume, followed by a trailing off toward your new equilibrium.
You could also think of it this way: that 55kb/s is the minimum. Moreover, that is also for a constant connection. If you want to compare that to dialup, you're getting a slightly better speed that's always on for a little more than paying for both a second phone line and an account with the local ISP. As someone else has already said, when other people aren't using the connection, your speeds increase, just like with any other kind of internet access that's oversubscribed. As long as there aren't people abusing the connection with file sharing, it should be fine for everything other than gaming.
By giving you more control of the OS internals, and by having a steeper usage learning curve.
Once you become proficient in using Linux you are having a better understanding of OS and network internals than your Windows-using peers.
You're making it sound like most windows users are proficient in using Windows. Just because something is there doesn't mean that it's going to be used. In this case, just because the code is there for everyone doesn't mean that many of these students are going to dig around and play with the code. They're going to treat it just like they do when they use Windows.
Does it mean that you can use the controller with the game? Then I'd hope to god that all PS3 games are compatible with it, as well as all PS1 and PS2 games that are listed as compatible with the PS3.
Or does it mean that the rumble feature will be active in these games? Big difference between these two.
How about truly supporting multiple operating systems? Like allowing BSD, Linux, Windows, and Mac users have the same functionality. This doesn't mean that Apple has to provide the functionality, merely make it available (think ipod support for people not using iTunes.) Oh wait, this is Apple....
Sorry, but the radio is here to stay. People have been saying that X is the death of radio for years and years. I believe they said TV was the death of the radio.
Don't know about you, but I'd be sure to stay clear from any chick that gives blowjobs to guys wearing beer helmets. Beer in hand? Okay. Beer helmet, hell no.
That's what the bankruptcy court is for. The people and companies that SCO owes money to will fight and scrape over whatever they can get, but with the amount of money they're going to be oweing, I'm sure quite a bit of it will settled by a bankruptcy judge.
Like many people have pointed out, if a professor can't lecture without modern technology, odds are that he's going to do worse with a powerpoint presentation and a projector. I've seen it plenty. I have also seen excellent lecturers use powerpoint presentations properly and are much more organized as a result of them. No more overhead sheets sliding off the table and onto the floor, no more having to dig through piles of sheets to find something discussed at the beginning of lecture, etc.
Likewise, the same argument also holds true for students. Some students are pretty good with using laptops for note-taking. I often wish I had some way that I could take notes without being bound to the size of the 8x11 sheets that I print the professors' ppt's off on to. However, the vast majority of students I see on laptops during lecture are doing at least one of the following:
Checking their portfolio performance (I'm a finance major) Checking Facebook IM'ing email collegehumor random flash games
While they're doing the above, I'm having to sit either next to them, in front of them, or behind them, and having to hear them tapping away at their keyboards all through lecture. It gets as annoying as having two people sitting right by you whispering during the whole lecture.
Good thing I download flac's when I can rather than mp3's or ogg vorbis files. Looks like all you other guys are getting ripped off.
Now some people are claiming things like "Gee, that works out to x number of DVD's per month," are missing the crucial point. The quality* of the stuff we download constantly gets better. Years ago, it was incredibly rare to find any mp3's better than 128kb/s or video files that were above 320kb/s. These days, we're pushing HD-DVD iso's and Bluray iso's over the same infrastructures. Suddenly those 42 DVD's have shrunk down to around 7 HD-DVD discs. In addition, we're also trying to get proper streaming media formats in decent quality. How much streaming HD video do you think you could watch before your quota is filled up? Then tack on all of the data that you download whenever you use Google Earth or World Wind. If you live on your own and spend most of your day at work, then you're probably not terribly concerned about having "only" 180GB/mo. However, if you live in a house with more people and each person does their own thing, that number only shrinks. Suddenly, you only have a claim to 60GB/mo because your two roommates have used up their quotas. Good luck finding an average/. user that is able to get by with only 60GB/mo.
If it's losing weight, there could be a number of explainations. Some include a smaller force of gravity pulling on it, some magnetism partially levitating it, etc. If it's losing mass, then there's only three real explainations: either erosion, chemical transformations (e.g. oxidation,) or theft.
If somebody created a virus or a worm to automate running this, it would only spell disaster for Linux PR. Let's hope that the Debian crew have some sort of checks to help minimize this possibility.
Hell no. There are many problems associated with wireless. One is that there are only so many channels. When you live in a densely populated area and each residence has its own wireless network, you just know there are going to be channel conflicts. Also, there's also that small problem with walls hampering the signals....
"Stick a fork in your eyes?" Not quite...
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...I'd say it's more like making me want to throw a chair or two.
Notice, however, that one of the selling points for MSDOS 5 was that it freed up a LOT of memory (for its time). Now, think back to yesteryear where Microsoft began saying that the minimum requirements for upgrading to their newest OS is 16 TIMES that of their previous? That is an interesting comparison. Hell, going from 2000 to XP had the same memory requirements, but to demand 16x the amount of memory just to run the damn thing....
Big whoop, there's no surpise here. As you progress up the socio-economic ladder, people tend to go from economically social and civil-rights-ly conservative to the opposite, where people are economically more conservative and are more liberal about people's rights. Granted, this is just by aggregating the classes, not saying that each individual person is like that within each class.
Since a bunch of people on the internet were able to reverse-engineer an emulator for it that works very well without any documentation from Sony.
All joking aside, of course the PS3 isn't able to properly emulate PS2 games. I mean, the Emotion Engine produces graphics [that] are so amazingly lifelike, for Christ's sake! FTFA:
Sony and partner Toshiba say the new graphics processor has enough power to show humanlike motions such as facial expressions, as well as to learn, and to recognize speech. One analyst says it will merge TV and video games.
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Don't forget, about 7 years ago, that would've been about $1.3 Billion. Why not just list the price in Euros? We have enough people here that know what it is; plus, then the pricing doesn't need to be re-adjusted constantly.
Offtopic Prediction: 10 years from now, the USD will have fallen dramatically because commodities have begun to transfer from being traded in USD to either the Euro or the Yuan
Then why don't they bring back the vinyl? Seriously, I'd love for them to go back to producing records. There's something nastolgic about them.
Don't get me wrong, I love CD's too. There's no way in hell I'd ever use a vinyl record in a car, and I'm even hesitant to use original CD's in cars because the roads suck where I live, but when listening on a HiFi system at home, I'd love to have the option to listen to new music on vinyl. Maybe this would also help protect us against a dramatically compressed dynamic range....
Near the top:
The terms and conditions below apply to you if you use any of the Virgin Digital service (as more particularly set out in paragraph 5 and the Virgin Digital Player which is the software platform from which subscribers operate the services), the terms and conditions also governs the use of the Website itself....
Your use of this Website, the Virgin Digital Player and the Virgin Digital service are subject to these terms and conditions. By using this Website, the Virgin Digital Player and/or any of the Virgin Digital service, you acknowledge your consent to them.
Virgin reserves the right at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any part(s) of these terms and conditions without notice. It is important (and your responsibility) to check these terms and conditions periodically for any changes. Changes will be posted here. Your continued use of the Website or the Virgin Digital Player or the Virgin Digital service following the posting of any changes will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
And further down...:4. SERVICE LICENCES
The following sets out the licences which Virgin is granting you in order to use the Virgin Digital service as set out in Paragraph 5 below.
4.1 Content Licence
Virgin grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence ("Content Licence") to download or stream digital music content ("Content") to your personal computer or Portable Device (as defined in paragraph 5 below and subject to your rights under these terms and conditions) solely for your personal non-commercial use. You shall not (without limitation) copy, reproduce, "rip", distribute or use the Content in any other manner, save as permitted by these terms and conditions.
And further down yet:
5. SERVICE DESCRIPTION AND USAGE
...
5.1.3 "Purchased Download" A Track downloaded to the hard drive of your computer which can either be burned to a CD or transferred to a portable device subject to the following usage rules: (a) Purchased Downloads may be transferred to portable devices, which shall mean a hardware device with software (including embedded software) ("Portable Device") which enables you to export Permitted Downloads from a personal computer for play back on a Portable Device in accordance with the provisions of these terms and conditions. (b) You can make up to seven (7) burns per individual playlist (i.e. your chosen selection of Tracks in one (1) particular order). (c) You can transfer any single Purchased Download to up to five (5) secure portable devices up to twenty-five (25) times. PLEASE NOTE that any attempt to circumvent any controls that we have in place to prevent additional burning and/or transfers outside of your permitted rights will be a breach of these terms and conditions and may result in the immediate termination of your Virgin Account and may also subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
And finally...:
15.3 In the event of a direct conflict or inconsistency between these terms and conditions and privacy policy and other terms and conditions that may be applicable to the Website or the Services these terms and conditions shall prevail to the extent that such conflict relates to your use of the Services and/or Website.
15.4 The failure of Virgin to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms and conditions will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
Emphasis mine
So basically, Virgin can tell you whatever the hell you want to hear, with regards to how to handle the music you've downloaded. The only caveat is that it's non-binding and that the terms in their "Terms and Conditions" section hold up in court.
I'd rather there be one set of really stable drivers than two separate sets. With having only one set, we don't have to worry about some advanced programs only running with one driver set while another advanced program we need to use at the same time requires the other driver.
I don't get it. Why can't they just make available a program that strips their DRM from the music files, and let their subscribers download and use said program? This would be much easier than burning and ripping. Plus, you don't lose any more quality than you already have.
You know, when you first get a TV, TiVO, or VCR, it doesn't come fully set up. In fact, usually it involves you doing some stuff to get it to work at all. I don't see why they just can't read a box that says: "Requires Operating System" or something along those lines. Hell, even for any software, you have to know what its minimum requirements are. Mac users can't just walk in to a computer shop and expect any software they pick up to work with their computer; they have to look for something that says it's for Macintosh operating systems.
Why the hell would they say that they're going to drop prices November 23rd when it's only September 23rd? That's still two months away. Once you announce a future price cut, sales temporarily slow down until said price cut occurs. Then you see a spike in trading volume, followed by a trailing off toward your new equilibrium.
You could also think of it this way: that 55kb/s is the minimum. Moreover, that is also for a constant connection. If you want to compare that to dialup, you're getting a slightly better speed that's always on for a little more than paying for both a second phone line and an account with the local ISP. As someone else has already said, when other people aren't using the connection, your speeds increase, just like with any other kind of internet access that's oversubscribed. As long as there aren't people abusing the connection with file sharing, it should be fine for everything other than gaming.
Once you become proficient in using Linux you are having a better understanding of OS and network internals than your Windows-using peers.
You're making it sound like most windows users are proficient in using Windows. Just because something is there doesn't mean that it's going to be used. In this case, just because the code is there for everyone doesn't mean that many of these students are going to dig around and play with the code. They're going to treat it just like they do when they use Windows.
Think about it. The largest coffers are governments, followed by large businesses. I guess they want space to be the new country club or something.
Does it mean that you can use the controller with the game? Then I'd hope to god that all PS3 games are compatible with it, as well as all PS1 and PS2 games that are listed as compatible with the PS3.
Or does it mean that the rumble feature will be active in these games? Big difference between these two.
How about truly supporting multiple operating systems? Like allowing BSD, Linux, Windows, and Mac users have the same functionality. This doesn't mean that Apple has to provide the functionality, merely make it available (think ipod support for people not using iTunes.) Oh wait, this is Apple....
Sorry, but the radio is here to stay. People have been saying that X is the death of radio for years and years. I believe they said TV was the death of the radio.
Don't know about you, but I'd be sure to stay clear from any chick that gives blowjobs to guys wearing beer helmets. Beer in hand? Okay. Beer helmet, hell no.
That's what the bankruptcy court is for. The people and companies that SCO owes money to will fight and scrape over whatever they can get, but with the amount of money they're going to be oweing, I'm sure quite a bit of it will settled by a bankruptcy judge.
Like many people have pointed out, if a professor can't lecture without modern technology, odds are that he's going to do worse with a powerpoint presentation and a projector. I've seen it plenty. I have also seen excellent lecturers use powerpoint presentations properly and are much more organized as a result of them. No more overhead sheets sliding off the table and onto the floor, no more having to dig through piles of sheets to find something discussed at the beginning of lecture, etc.
Likewise, the same argument also holds true for students. Some students are pretty good with using laptops for note-taking. I often wish I had some way that I could take notes without being bound to the size of the 8x11 sheets that I print the professors' ppt's off on to. However, the vast majority of students I see on laptops during lecture are doing at least one of the following:
Checking their portfolio performance (I'm a finance major)
Checking Facebook
IM'ing
email
collegehumor
random flash games
While they're doing the above, I'm having to sit either next to them, in front of them, or behind them, and having to hear them tapping away at their keyboards all through lecture. It gets as annoying as having two people sitting right by you whispering during the whole lecture.
And look forward to Intel reaffirming their monopolistic status.
Now some people are claiming things like "Gee, that works out to x number of DVD's per month," are missing the crucial point. The quality* of the stuff we download constantly gets better. Years ago, it was incredibly rare to find any mp3's better than 128kb/s or video files that were above 320kb/s. These days, we're pushing HD-DVD iso's and Bluray iso's over the same infrastructures. Suddenly those 42 DVD's have shrunk down to around 7 HD-DVD discs. In addition, we're also trying to get proper streaming media formats in decent quality. How much streaming HD video do you think you could watch before your quota is filled up? Then tack on all of the data that you download whenever you use Google Earth or World Wind. If you live on your own and spend most of your day at work, then you're probably not terribly concerned about having "only" 180GB/mo. However, if you live in a house with more people and each person does their own thing, that number only shrinks. Suddenly, you only have a claim to 60GB/mo because your two roommates have used up their quotas. Good luck finding an average /. user that is able to get by with only 60GB/mo.
Steve Jobs claims that without Apple, there would be no Microsoft.
If it's losing weight, there could be a number of explainations. Some include a smaller force of gravity pulling on it, some magnetism partially levitating it, etc. If it's losing mass, then there's only three real explainations: either erosion, chemical transformations (e.g. oxidation,) or theft.
If somebody created a virus or a worm to automate running this, it would only spell disaster for Linux PR. Let's hope that the Debian crew have some sort of checks to help minimize this possibility.
Hell no. There are many problems associated with wireless. One is that there are only so many channels. When you live in a densely populated area and each residence has its own wireless network, you just know there are going to be channel conflicts. Also, there's also that small problem with walls hampering the signals....
Notice, however, that one of the selling points for MSDOS 5 was that it freed up a LOT of memory (for its time). Now, think back to yesteryear where Microsoft began saying that the minimum requirements for upgrading to their newest OS is 16 TIMES that of their previous? That is an interesting comparison. Hell, going from 2000 to XP had the same memory requirements, but to demand 16x the amount of memory just to run the damn thing....
Big whoop, there's no surpise here. As you progress up the socio-economic ladder, people tend to go from economically social and civil-rights-ly conservative to the opposite, where people are economically more conservative and are more liberal about people's rights. Granted, this is just by aggregating the classes, not saying that each individual person is like that within each class.
All joking aside, of course the PS3 isn't able to properly emulate PS2 games. I mean, the Emotion Engine produces graphics [that] are so amazingly lifelike, for Christ's sake!
FTFA:
Sony and partner Toshiba say the new graphics processor has enough power to show humanlike motions such as facial expressions, as well as to learn, and to recognize speech. One analyst says it will merge TV and video games.
I mean, how can the PS3 compete with that?