The first paragraph of the article states:
"Well-financed solar start-up Nanosolar on Tuesday said it has started shipping its flexible thin-film solar cells, meeting its own deadline and marking a milestone for alternative solar-cell materials."
So they're certainly flexible. I'd also imagine they last as least as long as other solar cells if they're building a 1 megawatt power plant with them.
"Universal's research showed that 12- to 18-year-olds in particular are [b]keen[/b] to watch films on their laptops or portable devices."
Obviously they used 72-80 year olds to conduct the study. Seriously! The first thing I thought was "Commander Keen, where?".
This is true. No offense meant by this but from a purely buisiness standpoint, the companies probably wouldn't care. Right now windows users make up a much much larger chunk of the total than do mac, *nix, or anything else combined.
If apple can be so successful with less than 10 percent of total market share, I don't think something targeted at only windows will be hurting if they don't get buisiness from mac/*nix users.
...also a reasonably intelligent guy, unlike the Record execs.
"The record companies swear that it's making a serious inroad on sales, and they can prove it. How? By showing that their sales are way down in the past few years."
First off, anyone whose taken any intro psych class knows that the RIAA's data is bull. Hell, even those who haven't know it. All they are showing is correlational data. Whoopdie doo, cd sales are down while "piracy" is up. Watch me publish correlational data that shows quality of music is down and sales of cds are down. They haven't proven jack.
"It couldn't possibly be because (a) most of us have already replaced all our old vinyl and cassettes, so all that windfall money is no longer flowing in, or (b) because the record companies have made some really lousy decisions as they tried to guess what we consumers would want to buy."
Because Mr Card is publishing an article that will probably be viewed by many, he had to censor himself. What b) really means is that big record companies are trying to force-feed crap to the masses. How many boy-bands do we really need? How many no-talent implant laden morons do we really need singing "I'm not that innocent"?
Sorry man, next price cuts aren't scheduled until October or therabouts. 3.0 will be staying at or very, very close to what it is now. That's why I went ahead and ordered mine friday;)
Oh, I agree completely. AMD's chips are twice as efficient as intel. Isn't the XP's pipeline about half that of the P4?
And yes Intel is obviously more expensive. With the big name comes a big price to boot.
I dunno where the post I replied to is, but it was just another unintelligent post giving AMD fans a bad name.
P4's price/performance ratio sucks compared to AMD's. Hands down.
I suppose congrats are in order for Intel. Wonder if AMD will ever reach one billion?
The real question is....when are they releasing the 3.2Ghz and some price cuts to go along with it?
Aside from the fact that that idea is stupid, I think it would kill many cybercafes before they even get started.
If your state makes a law that keeps a large percentage of your customers from being customers, how do you survive?
While I understand and appreciate the humor behind your post. I think the parent post might have meant something along the lines of email address selling.
In the article that was posted recently about "The Spam Queen" I beleive it was mentioned that yahoo sells it's email address database.
I really don't think a paying user should be subjected to this, and if they are I don't think they should pay.
I'd have to agree with you here. How many of us mainly hear new music from somewhere other than the radio? I'd say, that I have purchased rough 70% of all the cd's I own after hearing the artist/song on the radio.
I don't really see how internet radio works differently. If I were a music label I would want my music being put on the radio.
Along the comment from the first poster about webcasters charging to music on the radio, that's not a bad idea. Not sure the music labels would go for it as they are making the big stink over internet radio. However, if interenet broadcasters charge companies for *gasp* commercials they may be able to afford the fees incurred by the new law.
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The first paragraph of the article states: "Well-financed solar start-up Nanosolar on Tuesday said it has started shipping its flexible thin-film solar cells, meeting its own deadline and marking a milestone for alternative solar-cell materials." So they're certainly flexible. I'd also imagine they last as least as long as other solar cells if they're building a 1 megawatt power plant with them.
"Universal's research showed that 12- to 18-year-olds in particular are [b]keen[/b] to watch films on their laptops or portable devices." Obviously they used 72-80 year olds to conduct the study. Seriously! The first thing I thought was "Commander Keen, where?".
This is true. No offense meant by this but from a purely buisiness standpoint, the companies probably wouldn't care. Right now windows users make up a much much larger chunk of the total than do mac, *nix, or anything else combined.
If apple can be so successful with less than 10 percent of total market share, I don't think something targeted at only windows will be hurting if they don't get buisiness from mac/*nix users.
...also a reasonably intelligent guy, unlike the Record execs.
"The record companies swear that it's making a serious inroad on sales, and they can prove it. How? By showing that their sales are way down in the past few years."
First off, anyone whose taken any intro psych class knows that the RIAA's data is bull. Hell, even those who haven't know it. All they are showing is correlational data. Whoopdie doo, cd sales are down while "piracy" is up. Watch me publish correlational data that shows quality of music is down and sales of cds are down. They haven't proven jack.
"It couldn't possibly be because (a) most of us have already replaced all our old vinyl and cassettes, so all that windfall money is no longer flowing in, or (b) because the record companies have made some really lousy decisions as they tried to guess what we consumers would want to buy."
Because Mr Card is publishing an article that will probably be viewed by many, he had to censor himself. What b) really means is that big record companies are trying to force-feed crap to the masses. How many boy-bands do we really need? How many no-talent implant laden morons do we really need singing "I'm not that innocent"?
Heh, not even they have enough money to offer that. ;)
Sorry man, next price cuts aren't scheduled until October or therabouts. 3.0 will be staying at or very, very close to what it is now. That's why I went ahead and ordered mine friday ;)
Oh, I agree completely. AMD's chips are twice as efficient as intel. Isn't the XP's pipeline about half that of the P4? And yes Intel is obviously more expensive. With the big name comes a big price to boot. I dunno where the post I replied to is, but it was just another unintelligent post giving AMD fans a bad name. P4's price/performance ratio sucks compared to AMD's. Hands down.
Oh really, I support AMD. But I have to ask, how the hell did you determine that? ...What's that, you pulled it out of your ass? I thought so, Troll.
I suppose congrats are in order for Intel. Wonder if AMD will ever reach one billion? The real question is....when are they releasing the 3.2Ghz and some price cuts to go along with it?
Aside from the fact that that idea is stupid, I think it would kill many cybercafes before they even get started. If your state makes a law that keeps a large percentage of your customers from being customers, how do you survive?
While I understand and appreciate the humor behind your post. I think the parent post might have meant something along the lines of email address selling. In the article that was posted recently about "The Spam Queen" I beleive it was mentioned that yahoo sells it's email address database. I really don't think a paying user should be subjected to this, and if they are I don't think they should pay.
I'd have to agree with you here. How many of us mainly hear new music from somewhere other than the radio? I'd say, that I have purchased rough 70% of all the cd's I own after hearing the artist/song on the radio. I don't really see how internet radio works differently. If I were a music label I would want my music being put on the radio. Along the comment from the first poster about webcasters charging to music on the radio, that's not a bad idea. Not sure the music labels would go for it as they are making the big stink over internet radio. However, if interenet broadcasters charge companies for *gasp* commercials they may be able to afford the fees incurred by the new law.