So long as you had access to a professional-grade recording studio, facilities to press records, and a label/distributor... sure, that's the same thing as producing on Garageband and uploading to YouTube.
It would still need to get close to the submarine, and the submarine would presumably still have inertial systems so it could detect when the magnetic sensor is being screwed with.
Don't take it from me - go get a compass and see how close you have to get with even a very strong rare earth magnet before it starts to effect the needle.
Yes, but you'd have to know approximately where the submarine is before you can make a large magnetic disturbance nearby. Also, I would think that generating such a large magnetic disturbance would make you easy to find as well.
I don't really have a dog in this fight - if Google is evil than so be it. I'm not a big fan of the recording industry, either.
My broader point was that artists have been and will be getting less money in the future as the means of distribution becomes trivial and cheap or free, and that whoever wins this particular fight won't change very much. Not that "artists" were ever making very much - most of the money has always gone to the support industry, with the exception of a few high-profile long-term successes.
As always, the government could step in at any time and change the game.
You are right, of course. But nimbius also has a point - the summary is a bit misleading, as it takes the "poor artists beaten down by big corporation" angle, when in fact it is a pretty large trade group that is getting beaten down. And really this is just a continuation of a longer-term trend where the oversupply of music is resulting in it becoming practically free. In the past, the labels (even the indy labels) combined with limited infrastructure (only so much room at the record shop, only so many radio stations) could keep the supply controlled a bit. Now any jackass can put anything they want up on YouTube. That kind of flood of goods will bring down the value in any market.
Google may or may not be a bad guy here - but they won't alone stop the trend toward lower-valued music.
It's not education, it's simply that native speakers learn to speak before they learn to write. If there is an educational fault, it might be the introduction of "phonics" and the idea that actual spelling is secondary. And there may be some truth to that... if spelling were so important, then how does the world survive with both the American, British, and other variations of English?
Sometimes. You can own a condo, co-op, town home, or row home and be almost as much at the mercy of your neighbors as a tenant. Only as a tenant, you can leave whenever the lease is up... if you have a crappy neighbor it could even jeopardize your ability to sell at a decent price.
I spent my whole adult life renting, and now own. Honestly, the math just doesn't work out - yes I have more space and more control over my environment, but at great cost. If it weren't for the free capital gains and the mortgage interest deduction, this would be a non starter. Now if you excuse me, I have to make some calls about getting a new AC unit...:)
In addition to it being completely unambiguous (unless you argue that caps can store negative energy), the line in question is not technical writing, but a verbatim quotation. The maligned author isn't even responsible for the sloppy terminology, the quoted speaker is.
It probably is better style, but note that the phrase is a quotation in this case - so the writer is not the one at fault here. I can't even really fault the speaker too much, since he is trying to stick with a consistent comparison style ("one thousand times more", "ten times less"). Switching to tenths in speech might sound a little strange, or at least overly nerdy:)
You can either rent a home, or you can rent out your home if the real estate market isn't great. I've haven't been in the same spot for more than 5 years since I was a kid.
Yeah, but English is all about context. The statement "Supercapacitors store ten times less energy than current lithium-ion batteries, but they can last a thousand times longer," is unambiguous in this context because we know that the energy storage is not negative. Language would be really boring if everyone spoke as if they were programming a computer. In fact, we have precise language in various fields, and it generally sucks to read. Imagine if everything were written in legalese!
That's a really awesome analysis... but I'm an engineer. Any "replicator" that I designed would probably have a water tank, since most food is mostly water. I'd probably have other hoppers full of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. The stuff you need to materialize out of light would be a small fraction of the total food: trace elements, vitamins, minerals, etc.
Now if you want it to work with other things besides biomass, well...
plus any shows that you don't want to wait months, years, or never to see on Netflix, Hulu, et al.
One interesting side effect of my cheapness is that I've fallen so far behind on TV shows that they are all new to me when they hit Netflix. Because I don't see the commercials, I don't even know about current shows, let alone miss them. I hear about shows a little from co-workers and friends, but honestly TV just doesn't unite the culture like it once did - there are far too many choices for everyone to be watching the same show.
I have a fax-through-email service. I had to talk my wife out of using it to send someone some forms back to a person who had emailed her the forms to sign:)
Problem is that it also complicates usage. The music industry eventually gave up - I suspect a similar outcome with the film industry, but it'll be a long, devastating fight.
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So long as you had access to a professional-grade recording studio, facilities to press records, and a label/distributor... sure, that's the same thing as producing on Garageband and uploading to YouTube.
Plus it is beyond naive to assume that Comcast/Verizon/etc are not "attaching themselves to the fiber like a tick" to sell your usage stats.
It would still need to get close to the submarine, and the submarine would presumably still have inertial systems so it could detect when the magnetic sensor is being screwed with.
Don't take it from me - go get a compass and see how close you have to get with even a very strong rare earth magnet before it starts to effect the needle.
Yes, but you'd have to know approximately where the submarine is before you can make a large magnetic disturbance nearby. Also, I would think that generating such a large magnetic disturbance would make you easy to find as well.
I don't really have a dog in this fight - if Google is evil than so be it. I'm not a big fan of the recording industry, either.
My broader point was that artists have been and will be getting less money in the future as the means of distribution becomes trivial and cheap or free, and that whoever wins this particular fight won't change very much. Not that "artists" were ever making very much - most of the money has always gone to the support industry, with the exception of a few high-profile long-term successes.
As always, the government could step in at any time and change the game.
You are right, of course. But nimbius also has a point - the summary is a bit misleading, as it takes the "poor artists beaten down by big corporation" angle, when in fact it is a pretty large trade group that is getting beaten down. And really this is just a continuation of a longer-term trend where the oversupply of music is resulting in it becoming practically free. In the past, the labels (even the indy labels) combined with limited infrastructure (only so much room at the record shop, only so many radio stations) could keep the supply controlled a bit. Now any jackass can put anything they want up on YouTube. That kind of flood of goods will bring down the value in any market.
Google may or may not be a bad guy here - but they won't alone stop the trend toward lower-valued music.
It's not education, it's simply that native speakers learn to speak before they learn to write. If there is an educational fault, it might be the introduction of "phonics" and the idea that actual spelling is secondary. And there may be some truth to that... if spelling were so important, then how does the world survive with both the American, British, and other variations of English?
I was thinking in the context of this discussion, where since you are walking it is almost certainly a city.
Yeah, but I'd totally go to the zoo to see a mammoth, and with two young kids I am zooed out.
Sometimes. You can own a condo, co-op, town home, or row home and be almost as much at the mercy of your neighbors as a tenant. Only as a tenant, you can leave whenever the lease is up... if you have a crappy neighbor it could even jeopardize your ability to sell at a decent price.
I spent my whole adult life renting, and now own. Honestly, the math just doesn't work out - yes I have more space and more control over my environment, but at great cost. If it weren't for the free capital gains and the mortgage interest deduction, this would be a non starter. Now if you excuse me, I have to make some calls about getting a new AC unit... :)
In addition to it being completely unambiguous (unless you argue that caps can store negative energy), the line in question is not technical writing, but a verbatim quotation. The maligned author isn't even responsible for the sloppy terminology, the quoted speaker is.
It probably is better style, but note that the phrase is a quotation in this case - so the writer is not the one at fault here. I can't even really fault the speaker too much, since he is trying to stick with a consistent comparison style ("one thousand times more", "ten times less"). Switching to tenths in speech might sound a little strange, or at least overly nerdy :)
So does owning a home.
The rental market.
You can either rent a home, or you can rent out your home if the real estate market isn't great. I've haven't been in the same spot for more than 5 years since I was a kid.
Yeah, but English is all about context. The statement "Supercapacitors store ten times less energy than current lithium-ion batteries, but they can last a thousand times longer," is unambiguous in this context because we know that the energy storage is not negative. Language would be really boring if everyone spoke as if they were programming a computer. In fact, we have precise language in various fields, and it generally sucks to read. Imagine if everything were written in legalese!
That's a really awesome analysis... but I'm an engineer. Any "replicator" that I designed would probably have a water tank, since most food is mostly water. I'd probably have other hoppers full of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. The stuff you need to materialize out of light would be a small fraction of the total food: trace elements, vitamins, minerals, etc.
Now if you want it to work with other things besides biomass, well...
"Honey, you are perfect in every way. If you just liked NCAA football, I'd be proposing right now."
I don't understand why they are tying it to a cable subscription?
Well, they are a division of Time Warner...
Get yourself some young kids and a wife with irregular hours at work... you'll completely lose track of sports :)
plus any shows that you don't want to wait months, years, or never to see on Netflix, Hulu, et al.
One interesting side effect of my cheapness is that I've fallen so far behind on TV shows that they are all new to me when they hit Netflix. Because I don't see the commercials, I don't even know about current shows, let alone miss them. I hear about shows a little from co-workers and friends, but honestly TV just doesn't unite the culture like it once did - there are far too many choices for everyone to be watching the same show.
You can't use something like Netflix over 4G. At least, not more than a few shows. Even crappy Comcast service gets you 250-350GB.
I have a fax-through-email service. I had to talk my wife out of using it to send someone some forms back to a person who had emailed her the forms to sign :)
You would be the most awesome human that ever lived. People would worship you as a God.
Problem is that it also complicates usage. The music industry eventually gave up - I suspect a similar outcome with the film industry, but it'll be a long, devastating fight.
Seems like Jay-Z might be ripe for parody. Something involving an elevator.