These numbers are still estimates, but that calculation shows that one reasonable estimate is that we are now selling three digital tracks for every one album we used to sell, if we assume that Internet piracy had exactly zero effect.
It is within the reasonable bounds of the data I could find quickly that the entire reduction in US music sales is due to migration to digital single tracks.
Why would you "assume that Internet piracy had exactly zero effect"? It has had a huge effect.
People hate to buy entire albums for only one or two good songs, so as soon as an alternative was available they took it. Some people pirate music, some buy tracks from iTunes. But ignoring piracy is ridiculous.
He followed and confronted someone for no good reason
No question that he followed Martin for a time. But "confronted"? I haven't seen anything to indicate that.
What little evidence there is seems to indicate the contrary; the 911 call appears to show Zimmerman got out of his car and followed Martin on foot. At some point he returned to his car where the shooting took place. It's not clear to me how Martin ended up there after Zimmerman left his car and walked some distance while talking to the 911 operator.
Note that the video was taken well *after* EMTs had treated him at the scene. I wouldn't expect video of that quality to show anything at that point. While it would be interesting to hear what the EMTs saw, if they say he appeared to have been beaten you won't believe them.
Think through what you're backing up and why. For most people a thumbdrive should be sufficient for personal data; software can be reinstalled as needed. If you have more data than will fit on a thumbdrive you need to look at what's important.
Really large volumes of data almost always are static; usually music, eBooks, or video which can just be backed up once on a DVD and put away. No need to keep copying that stuff over and over.
Backing up software projects is another issue. A remote versioning site is best. Working in Java you'll need all the space you can afford; for a language like Python an old floppy drive is sufficient.
The food was modified by the owner (corporation) to produce the pesticide internally.
Wrong. It's a systemic insecticide, not related to GMO. You seem to be confusing this with BT.
Anyway, it's possible this is one of many factors involved in Colony Collapse. The scientists seemed careful to not repeat the "drinking 12 bottles of Hair Dye causes cancer in Canadian mice" study.
This doesn't seem like a hardware problem. The government has been talking about "data fusion" for decades. They collect way more data than they know how to use. At a very high level this initiative sounds reasonable, but with no specific goals I wouldn't expect anything tangible to come out of it.
It's common for schools to have a zero tolerance policy on things like this. Otherwise the first time a really, really obnoxious kid makes threatening/racist/sexist comments and is expelled his parents will sue because their little snowflake was treated unfairly.
As to corruption, it's not a result of different thinking
Yes, it is. Let's call it a learned behavior if you insist on using your personal definition of "think". But people who grow up in cultures where bribes are normal and expected will normally expect to be bribed. I'm not claiming bribery doesn't exist everywhere, but life is different in different countries.
Here's a first hand example. My brother and I were in Mexico, he has a Mexican driver's license and was driving a car with Mexican license plates, but neither of us looks Mexican. We were pulled over by a cop for no apparent reason and told we needed to pay the equivalent of $50 or he would write several tickets. We paid him the bribe and he gave as a slip of paper with a number on it. If we were pulled over again that day all we needed to do was give that number to the other cop; the second cop would then get half of the $50 we paid to the first. That's just how they think in that country, it isn't wrong, it's normal.
The article never says Conservatives don't trust science. It does say that people who identify themselves as conservative AND say they go to church regularly have less trust in science than people who identified themselves that way did 40 years ago. The article never mention whether these people represent 90%, 20% or 1% of people who identify themselves as conservative. It also doesn't mention how much their trust has changed. It doesn't even define what is meant by "science" or "trust". In short, this is a propaganda piece from a left wing blog in an election year. You can trust it if you want, I choose not to.
The question is simple: does Africa follow the same, unsustainable road as the rest of the world?
There is absolutely no basis for suggesting modern agriculture is unsustainable. Crop yields in the USA are at record highs and continue to climb. No till farming conserves moisture and builds organic matter in the soil. Most of what is advertised as "sustainable farming" has no scientific basis.
a larger market drove down prices. Solar energy cost has declined by two-thirds in the last four years
Subsidies created an artificial demand and subsidies drove down prices. Solar energy cost hasn't really changed all that much when you take into account the actual cost, including contributions from American and Chinese taxpayers, installation, maintenance, related equipment, etc, etc.
The whole clean energy program remains flawed
That pretty much sums it up. And it's about the only accurate statement in the entire commentary.
Insignificant and late to the party? Certainly any civilization that could contact us is probably far more advanced; but I would expect them to be pretty impressed with what they found. Imagine how excited we would be if we picked up what appeared to be a signal broadcast from another planet, even if it turned out to be the extraterrestrial equivalent of "I Love Lucy" reruns.
The Nerds That Actually Did It are the ones pointing fingers, claiming innocence in the matter and blaming NDS for everything. Apparently both ITV and BSkyB were losing a lot of money to piracy, ITV was also losing money in other ways and went bust.
Whether NDS was the one leaking the information, whether they were both leaking each other's information, or whether third parties were also involved is speculation at this point. My guess is all of the above.
There is no flaw in Packer's statement. Theft does not need to involve "physical deprivation"; theft of intellectual property or private data is still theft.
Analysis of patient tumor and matched adjacent normal (nontumor) tissue revealed that CD47 is overexpressed on cancer cells...CD47 is a commonly expressed molecule on all cancers, its function to block phagocytosis is known, and blockade of its function leads to tumor cell phagocytosis and elimination. CD47 is therefore a validated target for cancer therapies.
Laws are pretty clear on what you can and cannot ask prior to hiring. You also can't ask a prospect if they're married, you can't ask a young women who is wearing a wedding band if she hopes to have children some day, etc.
There's probably no law against asking for a Facebook password, but I really question whether it actually happened that way. Maybe someone was asked for their Facebook id and misunderstood the question, but password? Either way, may response would be "That's not relevant to this job." If the employer doesn't like that answer I would never want to work there anyway
I loved the old "Undersea" series, but I don't associate Cousteau with deep sea exploration. Yea, he had that saucer that could go down a ways, but he was mostly about reef and wreck diving (and talking with that cool French accent).
Of course this isn't about science, it's just a rich guy's publicity whoring stunt. There's no need to send a manned vehicle that deep when robots can do the job better. Several unmanned vehicles have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench over the past couple of decades.
They need 5 years to get a good DNA collection/cataloging system in place to identify potential donors. Then they will decide it's better for society to continue harvesting the organs. Joys of big government and centralized control.
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These numbers are still estimates, but that calculation shows that one reasonable estimate is that we are now selling three digital tracks for every one album we used to sell, if we assume that Internet piracy had exactly zero effect.
It is within the reasonable bounds of the data I could find quickly that the entire reduction in US music sales is due to migration to digital single tracks.
Why would you "assume that Internet piracy had exactly zero effect"? It has had a huge effect.
People hate to buy entire albums for only one or two good songs, so as soon as an alternative was available they took it. Some people pirate music, some buy tracks from iTunes. But ignoring piracy is ridiculous.
Probably very few, because very few people use a Linux distro for web browsing (less than 2% last I heard).
He followed and confronted someone for no good reason
No question that he followed Martin for a time. But "confronted"? I haven't seen anything to indicate that.
What little evidence there is seems to indicate the contrary; the 911 call appears to show Zimmerman got out of his car and followed Martin on foot. At some point he returned to his car where the shooting took place. It's not clear to me how Martin ended up there after Zimmerman left his car and walked some distance while talking to the 911 operator.
Note that the video was taken well *after* EMTs had treated him at the scene. I wouldn't expect video of that quality to show anything at that point. While it would be interesting to hear what the EMTs saw, if they say he appeared to have been beaten you won't believe them.
Think through what you're backing up and why. For most people a thumbdrive should be sufficient for personal data; software can be reinstalled as needed. If you have more data than will fit on a thumbdrive you need to look at what's important.
Really large volumes of data almost always are static; usually music, eBooks, or video which can just be backed up once on a DVD and put away. No need to keep copying that stuff over and over.
Backing up software projects is another issue. A remote versioning site is best. Working in Java you'll need all the space you can afford; for a language like Python an old floppy drive is sufficient.
Because a British accent is what we expect.
The food was modified by the owner (corporation) to produce the pesticide internally.
Wrong. It's a systemic insecticide, not related to GMO. You seem to be confusing this with BT.
Anyway, it's possible this is one of many factors involved in Colony Collapse. The scientists seemed careful to not repeat the "drinking 12 bottles of Hair Dye causes cancer in Canadian mice" study.
This doesn't seem like a hardware problem. The government has been talking about "data fusion" for decades. They collect way more data than they know how to use. At a very high level this initiative sounds reasonable, but with no specific goals I wouldn't expect anything tangible to come out of it.
It's common for schools to have a zero tolerance policy on things like this. Otherwise the first time a really, really obnoxious kid makes threatening/racist/sexist comments and is expelled his parents will sue because their little snowflake was treated unfairly.
As to corruption, it's not a result of different thinking
Yes, it is. Let's call it a learned behavior if you insist on using your personal definition of "think". But people who grow up in cultures where bribes are normal and expected will normally expect to be bribed. I'm not claiming bribery doesn't exist everywhere, but life is different in different countries.
Here's a first hand example. My brother and I were in Mexico, he has a Mexican driver's license and was driving a car with Mexican license plates, but neither of us looks Mexican. We were pulled over by a cop for no apparent reason and told we needed to pay the equivalent of $50 or he would write several tickets. We paid him the bribe and he gave as a slip of paper with a number on it. If we were pulled over again that day all we needed to do was give that number to the other cop; the second cop would then get half of the $50 we paid to the first. That's just how they think in that country, it isn't wrong, it's normal.
The article never says Conservatives don't trust science. It does say that people who identify themselves as conservative AND say they go to church regularly have less trust in science than people who identified themselves that way did 40 years ago. The article never mention whether these people represent 90%, 20% or 1% of people who identify themselves as conservative. It also doesn't mention how much their trust has changed. It doesn't even define what is meant by "science" or "trust". In short, this is a propaganda piece from a left wing blog in an election year. You can trust it if you want, I choose not to.
Did you post that from a tablet computer by chance?
The question is simple: does Africa follow the same, unsustainable road as the rest of the world?
There is absolutely no basis for suggesting modern agriculture is unsustainable. Crop yields in the USA are at record highs and continue to climb. No till farming conserves moisture and builds organic matter in the soil. Most of what is advertised as "sustainable farming" has no scientific basis.
a larger market drove down prices. Solar energy cost has declined by two-thirds in the last four years
Subsidies created an artificial demand and subsidies drove down prices. Solar energy cost hasn't really changed all that much when you take into account the actual cost, including contributions from American and Chinese taxpayers, installation, maintenance, related equipment, etc, etc.
The whole clean energy program remains flawed
That pretty much sums it up. And it's about the only accurate statement in the entire commentary.
Insignificant and late to the party? Certainly any civilization that could contact us is probably far more advanced; but I would expect them to be pretty impressed with what they found. Imagine how excited we would be if we picked up what appeared to be a signal broadcast from another planet, even if it turned out to be the extraterrestrial equivalent of "I Love Lucy" reruns.
About 11,000 NDP members were voting live, as opposed to advance voting.
And the DDOS attack was from "over 10,000 machines". Hmmm.
The Nerds That Actually Did It are the ones pointing fingers, claiming innocence in the matter and blaming NDS for everything. Apparently both ITV and BSkyB were losing a lot of money to piracy, ITV was also losing money in other ways and went bust.
Whether NDS was the one leaking the information, whether they were both leaking each other's information, or whether third parties were also involved is speculation at this point. My guess is all of the above.
There is no flaw in Packer's statement. Theft does not need to involve "physical deprivation"; theft of intellectual property or private data is still theft.
Analysis of patient tumor and matched adjacent normal (nontumor) tissue revealed that CD47 is overexpressed on cancer cells...CD47 is a commonly expressed molecule on all cancers, its function to block phagocytosis is known, and blockade of its function leads to tumor cell phagocytosis and elimination. CD47 is therefore a validated target for cancer therapies.
Maybe they should get ...
That hearing was held on March 16th. The subject of this hearing was a different topic.
Does the same apply for religion, sexuality, etc?
Laws are pretty clear on what you can and cannot ask prior to hiring. You also can't ask a prospect if they're married, you can't ask a young women who is wearing a wedding band if she hopes to have children some day, etc.
There's probably no law against asking for a Facebook password, but I really question whether it actually happened that way. Maybe someone was asked for their Facebook id and misunderstood the question, but password? Either way, may response would be "That's not relevant to this job." If the employer doesn't like that answer I would never want to work there anyway
A determined terrorist could eat burritos for a couple of days prior to the flight and blow out a window.
I loved the old "Undersea" series, but I don't associate Cousteau with deep sea exploration. Yea, he had that saucer that could go down a ways, but he was mostly about reef and wreck diving (and talking with that cool French accent).
Of course this isn't about science, it's just a rich guy's publicity whoring stunt. There's no need to send a manned vehicle that deep when robots can do the job better. Several unmanned vehicles have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench over the past couple of decades.
I'm surprised MSNBC picked up on this advice, it's only been around for a decade or two. Usually they aren't that quick on the uptake.
They need 5 years to get a good DNA collection/cataloging system in place to identify potential donors. Then they will decide it's better for society to continue harvesting the organs. Joys of big government and centralized control.