I understand many people are not happy with its control over the money supply, but your critique is curious. Do you mean "the Fed looks like a giant Ponzi scheme" as a general " I don't agree with fed policy" critique, or do you actually think that they are actually a legit webster dictionary Ponzi scheme ( one where people pay money in and the money from new investers goes to pay earlier investors). The most common critique I hear, is that the fed is devaluing the Dollar with its QE2/QE3 bond buyback. A devaluation would not benifit earlier "investors" ( people who had a large number of dollars). A stonger dollar would help them. In other words, by keeping interest rates low, they are making it easier for people who borrow money( new "investers")(, not those that store/invest money( old "investers").
So Your critique and many others comes off as the republican assertion that Obama is a Muslim Terrirorist born in Kenya. It makes any legitimante critisim of the Fed fall on deaf ears.
While there are diminishing returns, that's obviously false. The UI's of Windows 95 and NT4 (after a service pack , I think) were essentially identical. However, one liked to crash early and often, and the other would work for months under the most grueling computational workout. It matters a lot. In fact, the internals are the only reason why Jobs was brought back to Apple. Classic Mac OS had more UI goodness than OSX's first couple of releases.
I care more about Hackers gaining access to my bank account than the NSA. NSA does lots of messed up stuff, but it hasn't tried moving money out of my account yet.
And lo, out of the four corners came a misting of water that fell on all the sons of Abraham. And the iniquitous were chilled slightly by it, and proclaimed their shame... The children of the lamb were sheltered by their light clothing.
It seems like you are assuming that you and some stranger on the internet adhere to a universal set of morals. I hope you understand the insanity of that.
But you don't tell them they destoryed the world, you tell them they saved everyone in their own country. Of course that wouldn't be true, in a real war, but you have to have them strick back otherwise the whole mad thing just fizzles out.
You'd agree that bombs have improved since the end of ww2, right? What would your strategies be exactly? "seek shelter 20 miles below the surface?" Or are you thinking the old "duck and cover" will work?
But the script didn't say "BELIEVE" it said imagine. If you are preparing for somehing, you must shurely be imagining it. Otherwise you aren't really doing that good of a job of prepairing for it.
Casual Observer: Hey you! What are you doing with that angel food cake. lincon logs and "Tin Cup" DVD?
Me: Oh this? I'm just prepairing for Team USA ski try outs.
THE LAW OF THE LAND declares that some people are only 3/5ths of a person. And women need not apply... Its a shitty document in places. We've done our best to patch it up in places, but it could really use more amending. However that's a long and time consuming process. In the event that time is of the essence, and following it would violate your own moral code to follow the law, you violate the law.
Either one you feel is more important to your belief system. Both are absurd paper documents that cannot account for all situations. If there is a contradiction, you need to refer to something else to decide which will be violated.
Its more complicated than that, from what I understand as a casual observer of the situation. Believe what I write at your own risk, this info is complied from bits of different stories covering the matter, and I may have forgotten parts, or not integrated it correctly together.
The terrestrial radio rates are higher, but they are paid out to less artists. They pay based on sampling a station during a time period, if an artists song was played, they get paid. If they were not played during the sampling time, but heavily played every other time, they wouldn't get a dime.
Pandora and the similar internet based streamers pay a lower rate per song play, but keep track of each song they pay. So they pay the lower rate, but to more people. Thus they end up paying more money, but less to popular artists.
I don't know the specifics, but in an interview on NPR, the programmer Howard Scott Warshaw said that he thought that's what they did "reprogram" them. I'm not sure exactly what he meant by that, if they just replaced prom on them or reprogramed an eprom that was there. Can't find a link to the interview...
Yeah, they wanted it to sell so they kept the price low, but they didn't want to tick off their OEM's anymore than they already did so they didn't want to sell it any cheaper. In the end, they just screwed themselves.
You mean reprogram them with something better and slap a different label on them? Cause thats what actually happened with ET according to people who worked at atari.
The problem is they are relying on customers to tell them what they want in movies. I
Not surprisingly, the easiest things to describe are described ( Explosions, stars, special effects), and the more difficult things to describe are not described well ( plot, character development, etc...).
Its like a GM in baseball using viewer feedback to determine how to build his team instead of actual measurable facts ( hits, walks, strike outs, innings pitched, earned runs, etc).
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What, you've never seen a fractal tree before?
I understand many people are not happy with its control over the money supply, but your critique is curious. Do you mean "the Fed looks like a giant Ponzi scheme" as a general " I don't agree with fed policy" critique, or do you actually think that they are actually a legit webster dictionary Ponzi scheme ( one where people pay money in and the money from new investers goes to pay earlier investors). The most common critique I hear, is that the fed is devaluing the Dollar with its QE2/QE3 bond buyback. A devaluation would not benifit earlier "investors" ( people who had a large number of dollars). A stonger dollar would help them. In other words, by keeping interest rates low, they are making it easier for people who borrow money( new "investers")(, not those that store/invest money( old "investers").
So Your critique and many others comes off as the republican assertion that Obama is a Muslim Terrirorist born in Kenya. It makes any legitimante critisim of the Fed fall on deaf ears.
While there are diminishing returns, that's obviously false. The UI's of Windows 95 and NT4 (after a service pack , I think) were essentially identical. However, one liked to crash early and often, and the other would work for months under the most grueling computational workout. It matters a lot. In fact, the internals are the only reason why Jobs was brought back to Apple. Classic Mac OS had more UI goodness than OSX's first couple of releases.
I care more about Hackers gaining access to my bank account than the NSA. NSA does lots of messed up stuff, but it hasn't tried moving money out of my account yet.
And lo, out of the four corners came a misting of water that fell on all the sons of Abraham.
And the iniquitous were chilled slightly by it, and proclaimed their shame...
The children of the lamb were sheltered by their light clothing.
It seems like you are assuming that you and some stranger on the internet adhere to a universal set of morals. I hope you understand the insanity of that.
Great show. Shame it was canceled.
Crazy libertarian conspiracy talk, Not real.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/ssabullets.asp
But you don't tell them they destoryed the world, you tell them they saved everyone in their own country. Of course that wouldn't be true, in a real war, but you have to have them strick back otherwise the whole mad thing just fizzles out.
You'd agree that bombs have improved since the end of ww2, right? What would your strategies be exactly? "seek shelter 20 miles below the surface?" Or are you thinking the old "duck and cover" will work?
But the script didn't say "BELIEVE" it said imagine. If you are preparing for somehing, you must shurely be imagining it. Otherwise you aren't really doing that good of a job of prepairing for it.
Casual Observer: Hey you! What are you doing with that angel food cake. lincon logs and "Tin Cup" DVD?
Me: Oh this? I'm just prepairing for Team USA ski try outs.
You realize we are talking about office suites on Android, right?
This is libreoffice on android
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_on_Android
To sum up: we have "a fairly horrific, bolts and all, barely usable (even with keyboard and mouse) office suite on your tablet"
No, he's saying that Linus won ( Android has Linux), Stallman did not ( Android does not have GNU userland).
"Given the realities of their times", is a great excuse for terrible people to do terrible things. It sucks and should be rewritten from scratch.
That's Genius! SkyDrive will now be known as WinRT. Now that's some unified branding.
Tell that to the supreme court. Boo yah!
THE LAW OF THE LAND declares that some people are only 3/5ths of a person. And women need not apply... Its a shitty document in places. We've done our best to patch it up in places, but it could really use more amending. However that's a long and time consuming process. In the event that time is of the essence, and following it would violate your own moral code to follow the law, you violate the law.
Its like asking if Decimal or Hex is a better numbering system for all uses. Depends on context.
Either one you feel is more important to your belief system. Both are absurd paper documents that cannot account for all situations. If there is a contradiction, you need to refer to something else to decide which will be violated.
Right they obviously have that down to a T. But, the question is, do they pay royalties based on that information?
Based on ASCAP's info, I think the answer is no.
http://www.ascap.com/members/payment/keepingtrack.aspx
ASCAP only periodically (not continuously) polls radio stations. Then pays artists only if their songs were paid.
Its more complicated than that, from what I understand as a casual observer of the situation. Believe what I write at your own risk, this info is complied from bits of different stories covering the matter, and I may have forgotten parts, or not integrated it correctly together.
The terrestrial radio rates are higher, but they are paid out to less artists. They pay based on sampling a station during a time period, if an artists song was played, they get paid. If they were not played during the sampling time, but heavily played every other time, they wouldn't get a dime.
Pandora and the similar internet based streamers pay a lower rate per song play, but keep track of each song they pay. So they pay the lower rate, but to more people. Thus they end up paying more money, but less to popular artists.
I don't know the specifics, but in an interview on NPR, the programmer Howard Scott Warshaw said that he thought that's what they did "reprogram" them. I'm not sure exactly what he meant by that, if they just replaced prom on them or reprogramed an eprom that was there. Can't find a link to the interview ...
Yeah, they wanted it to sell so they kept the price low, but they didn't want to tick off their OEM's anymore than they already did so they didn't want to sell it any cheaper. In the end, they just screwed themselves.
You mean reprogram them with something better and slap a different label on them? Cause thats what actually happened with ET according to people who worked at atari.
The problem is they are relying on customers to tell them what they want in movies. I
Not surprisingly, the easiest things to describe are described ( Explosions, stars, special effects), and the more difficult things to describe are not described well ( plot, character development, etc...).
Its like a GM in baseball using viewer feedback to determine how to build his team instead of actual measurable facts ( hits, walks, strike outs, innings pitched, earned runs, etc).