it's not just a licence. Otherwise you could demand them to replace your old LP collection withthe shiny new CD/DVD/DeathRay whatever mediatype en vogue today... for free.
Ack, that should of course have been D/A (digital to analog ) converters.
And coincidentally, I use Sennheisers, heehee. Good point.
Sooo.... After finding out that paying a bit more for a good pair of headphones in the mid-80's makes a huuuuge difference in listening experience, twenty years later I discover that paying a bit less might actually do the same....
*confused/amused grin*
Well.... i listened to the 'preview samples' on iTunes, and they sounded... strange, esp complex, 'noisy' stuff, like soundscapes etc. I asked around, and apparently these are the same quality as the 'full' versions, but I'm still not certain about that.
i don't think i've got particularly good hearing, after all i'm 35, and spent some years in a band (louder! What? LOUDER! Ah....)but still, music I know quite inimately (like stuff I used to listen to again and again and... since the mid 80's, sounds different enough to distract me.... I'd never had noticed it with new music, after all, it does sound ok, but heavy compression like this is still doing some weird, (although admittedly subtle) stuff with original material....
Sorry, I should have been more elaborate... I ment also to point out you could duplicate your mp3's to CD's, DVD's or another disk, but as you point out, it isn't always that straightforward either legally or technically (DRM) which is *not* a good evolution. It's *still* possible, though. But it's a slippery slope. interesting years ahead, will music become more 'free' or will we be chased like villains more and more?
BTW, I never considered buying mp3s, as on iTunes, I can't imagine to pay for a DRMmed file that's not very high quality, to boot. I'm a typical headphones listener, and even through crappy A/Ds you hear a serious difference...
"And yeah, being able to use the mouse while having your dominant hand available for something else is good."
Can't wait for the inevitable comments on this...
Not neccesary.
I'm 100% lefthanded except for... using a mouse or trackball. I've seen several lefthanders acting the same, I often wonder about that.
The nice thing about this is, I can scroll, click-through etc, while jotting down things with my 'writing-hand', not that superbig an advantage, but sometimes quite handy.
OTOH, I use joysticks lefthanded:s
no, not trolling, just letting off steam. As I pointed out in another answer i actually hand-grind my morning coffee too, heh, and it also evolved into some kind of ritual.
What I was reacting to is this tendency to 'profile' oneself by etalating (is that English?) how connaisant one supposedly is, by dissing other, more 'mainstream' things etc. You yourself I believe do not belong into that category, I guess. That private ceremony is something for yourself, not something to blah-blah about whenever you get the chance to prove you're so sophisticated. I'm reading between the lines you do not do that.
Simply put, the whole thing simply irritates me when it happens... For me it feels like snobbery. I'm not trying to go the "I'm tough, I drink my coffe black" routine either... It's just...
Nevermind.
Heehee. I regularly munch coffebeans, does that count? (and used to live on guarana and kola nuts in the mid 90's, but regulations in my country have catched up and both have become less easy to aquire without raising eyebrows...)
Oh, and I grind my coffee with a hand-grinder i inherited from my grandfather, so I'm probably half a snob, too. Nothings totally black and white. I just get fed up with people endlessly discussing 'exclusive' foodstuff. Coffee has become such a fashion-statement, argh.
The guy might be rated informative, but he's just a coffee or food snob, dissing Starbucks because it's too regular.
I drink my coffe because it has caffeine in it. All the rest is just posing.
" then there's so much real estate to go around, that we won't have to worry about running out for several centuries..."
But the really interesting real estate is rather limited. Google for "peak of eternal light", that's the spot near the North pole, where there is continuous sunlight, great for solar plants, and very near that spot are the craters that are dark continually, where it is assumed deposits of water-ice have accumulated over the eons. Water, and especially hydrogen, will be the most important recource initially, because you can make propellant out of it, use it for supplying life-support (oxygen and water) and oodles of other stuff, for chemical plants. Very precious real estate, all located in a few tens of kilometers...
however, the Deaf community generally shuns them as their equivalent of "tools of Satan."
I'm sorry, but I don't get it... I could understand that maybe a small minority doesn't want these implants for some vague reasons, but calling it a tool of Satan??? Have people gone completely bonkers?
It could be argued his flight was a good way to promote Ubuntu, and in-orbit, IIRC he did carry with him some science-packages from South-African schools, and he had to negociate quite hard to be allowed to... Again his whole idea to 'educate' the world etc... The flight wasn't 100% for his own fun, sod the rest, great guy...
Oh, but it does run under Windows, only the current release is in Beta stage, some wrinkles to be ironed out.
sfunny, originally an OSX game, ported to Linux/GNUStep and that port working as a basis for the Windows port. Oftentimes it's the other way round,, heehee...
One thing would change for sure: ever noticed how virtually all discussionboards are predominantly filled with people from America, Europe, Australia (in short, "the west")
Wecall it the world wide web, but most interactions are between people from the real rich countries. This skews our views of what we think is The World. 80% of the people still have no voice.
Oh, and another 'idea': there should be some sort of 'super PayPal' that makes it easy to pay small amounts to people through the 'net. Also to people w/o creditcards... Working with NGO's for instance that re-distribute the money they get to the persons w/o a bank-account...
Imagine a remote village somewhere...Local kids work together with Western developers on simple things, like building 3D objects for the next big game or something... Western developers pay them 'peanuts' (and once paid, the models should be GPLled but that's another story.) those western peanuts could be a significant extra to the kids willing to get into IT... (ok, sounds like glorified code-monkeys-outsourcing, but you could see it as a way to give them a chance to earn a living... by learning:D )
I stopped reading after that answer. i thought it was borderline insulting. They could've said: sorry, we don't discuss that, and I would accept, but a non-answer like that... You just know the rest will be devoid of/any/ worthwile info, after reading a template answer like that.
You know, as a non-English speaker, there's something weird with this type of censorship.
I'm from Europe, and we also use the AmE 'fuck' quite regularly when swearing (and 'shit', both/very/ common swear-words...)
Now, Hollywood started to stop using the word 'fuck,' and the bad guys started using 'screw' instead
Funny thing is, for a lot of us non-English speaking people, we initially thought 'screw' was a much 'dirtier', obscene, obscure.. word than 'fuck' ! Most of us thought it was a genuine 'street' word, heehee.
Some of us were even a bit schocked by this 'in-yer-face' screw word. It sounded a bit too... graphic.
Would be a tad more expensive; that 200lbs person needs a lot of lbs life-support, heatshield etc... Of course, if one was to design a 10 ton capsule, you still have plenty of 'spare' mass to add lifesupport and people. If you could launch 8-10 people/flight, you'd be about 9-10 mil a person, halving the current price they charge for a tourist. Still not cheap, but serious improvement.
Without really advertising it, when Musk is interviewed about a 'man-rated' version of his rocket, he merely smiles, saying it is in essence already man-rated. Engine-out safety etc. Of course, there's no capsule designed, but I guess he doesn't (currently) see that as HIS job, he's just aiming towards cheap launchers for commercial market, and the $$$ are to be found in the satellite business, not in manned flights (yet) But if a third party decides that, yes, lauching paying customers is a viable business-model, all that could change quickly.
20mil being the current price for spacetourists, compared to a rocket that can haul 25000kg to LEO... You can build a BIG manned capsule with that weight budget, so prices would go down markedly.
If you liked this, I suggest you take a look at the incredible http://midnightmarsbrowser.blogspot.com/ This cross-platform donationware gem fully automatically downloads the raw imagery, auto-stitches, false-colorizes,makes slideshows... And best of all: creates "virtual-reality" pannable and zoomable panorama's...
Everyone into these rovers should really check it out.
>Most of the bazillionaires would much rather spend their spare time at the French Riviera, or their private Greek island or shopping in Hong Kong.
Yes, most. But i'd bet there's a fairly large percentage of rich-born, bored-to-tears youngsters that throw away money on sportscars, extreme sports etc. They could be the customers. They don't need to be bazillionaires, only inheritance-squandering millionaires;)
Not that I think they'd be the *best* customers, they'll probably be quite demanding re: hotel, entertainment,... while waiting for the launch... Throwing caviar instead of M&M's once in zero-G...
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it's not just a licence. Otherwise you could demand them to replace your old LP collection withthe shiny new CD/DVD/DeathRay whatever mediatype en vogue today... for free.
Ack, that should of course have been D/A (digital to analog ) converters. And coincidentally, I use Sennheisers, heehee. Good point. Sooo.... After finding out that paying a bit more for a good pair of headphones in the mid-80's makes a huuuuge difference in listening experience, twenty years later I discover that paying a bit less might actually do the same.... *confused/amused grin*
Well.... i listened to the 'preview samples' on iTunes, and they sounded... strange, esp complex, 'noisy' stuff, like soundscapes etc. I asked around, and apparently these are the same quality as the 'full' versions, but I'm still not certain about that. i don't think i've got particularly good hearing, after all i'm 35, and spent some years in a band (louder! What? LOUDER! Ah....)but still, music I know quite inimately (like stuff I used to listen to again and again and... since the mid 80's, sounds different enough to distract me.... I'd never had noticed it with new music, after all, it does sound ok, but heavy compression like this is still doing some weird, (although admittedly subtle) stuff with original material....
Sorry, I should have been more elaborate... I ment also to point out you could duplicate your mp3's to CD's, DVD's or another disk, but as you point out, it isn't always that straightforward either legally or technically (DRM) which is *not* a good evolution. It's *still* possible, though. But it's a slippery slope. interesting years ahead, will music become more 'free' or will we be chased like villains more and more? BTW, I never considered buying mp3s, as on iTunes, I can't imagine to pay for a DRMmed file that's not very high quality, to boot. I'm a typical headphones listener, and even through crappy A/Ds you hear a serious difference...
What if your CD is lost, or scratched? You expect to get a shiny new one at the store you bought it from?
"And yeah, being able to use the mouse while having your dominant hand available for something else is good." Can't wait for the inevitable comments on this...
Not neccesary. I'm 100% lefthanded except for... using a mouse or trackball. I've seen several lefthanders acting the same, I often wonder about that. The nice thing about this is, I can scroll, click-through etc, while jotting down things with my 'writing-hand', not that superbig an advantage, but sometimes quite handy. OTOH, I use joysticks lefthanded :s
Apparently enough people to make GoogleAds a nice source of income. If one in 10000 does it, it's a very effective advertising system.
no, not trolling, just letting off steam. As I pointed out in another answer i actually hand-grind my morning coffee too, heh, and it also evolved into some kind of ritual. What I was reacting to is this tendency to 'profile' oneself by etalating (is that English?) how connaisant one supposedly is, by dissing other, more 'mainstream' things etc. You yourself I believe do not belong into that category, I guess. That private ceremony is something for yourself, not something to blah-blah about whenever you get the chance to prove you're so sophisticated. I'm reading between the lines you do not do that. Simply put, the whole thing simply irritates me when it happens... For me it feels like snobbery. I'm not trying to go the "I'm tough, I drink my coffe black" routine either... It's just... Nevermind.
Heehee. I regularly munch coffebeans, does that count? (and used to live on guarana and kola nuts in the mid 90's, but regulations in my country have catched up and both have become less easy to aquire without raising eyebrows...) Oh, and I grind my coffee with a hand-grinder i inherited from my grandfather, so I'm probably half a snob, too. Nothings totally black and white. I just get fed up with people endlessly discussing 'exclusive' foodstuff. Coffee has become such a fashion-statement, argh.
The guy might be rated informative, but he's just a coffee or food snob, dissing Starbucks because it's too regular. I drink my coffe because it has caffeine in it. All the rest is just posing.
" then there's so much real estate to go around, that we won't have to worry about running out for several centuries..."
But the really interesting real estate is rather limited. Google for "peak of eternal light", that's the spot near the North pole, where there is continuous sunlight, great for solar plants, and very near that spot are the craters that are dark continually, where it is assumed deposits of water-ice have accumulated over the eons. Water, and especially hydrogen, will be the most important recource initially, because you can make propellant out of it, use it for supplying life-support (oxygen and water) and oodles of other stuff, for chemical plants.
Very precious real estate, all located in a few tens of kilometers...
I liked your explanation/HowTo so much, I registered and fixed some little typos.
Aren't Wikis great?
however, the Deaf community generally shuns them as their equivalent of "tools of Satan."
I'm sorry, but I don't get it... I could understand that maybe a small minority doesn't want these implants for some vague reasons, but calling it a tool of Satan??? Have people gone completely bonkers?
Nothing in the article suggest they will put a stop on it.
It's just another overgeneral article about pro's and cons of relationships on long missions, and some examples.
Oh, and they're going to stuy it some more...
Nothing to see here, move along.
to get a quick introduction into vim, type vimtutor
IMO better than reading the manpages....
spend awhile with it, and it's really elegant.
It could be argued his flight was a good way to promote Ubuntu, and in-orbit, IIRC he did carry with him some science-packages from South-African schools, and he had to negociate quite hard to be allowed to... Again his whole idea to 'educate' the world etc... The flight wasn't 100% for his own fun, sod the rest, great guy...
Oh, but it does run under Windows, only the current release is in Beta stage, some wrinkles to be ironed out.
sfunny, originally an OSX game, ported to Linux/GNUStep and that port working as a basis for the Windows port. Oftentimes it's the other way round,, heehee...
One thing would change for sure: ever noticed how virtually all discussionboards are predominantly filled with people from America, Europe, Australia (in short, "the west")
:D )
Wecall it the world wide web, but most interactions are between people from the real rich countries. This skews our views of what we think is The World. 80% of the people still have no voice.
Oh, and another 'idea': there should be some sort of 'super PayPal' that makes it easy to pay small amounts to people through the 'net. Also to people w/o creditcards... Working with NGO's for instance that re-distribute the money they get to the persons w/o a bank-account...
Imagine a remote village somewhere...Local kids work together with Western developers on simple things, like building 3D objects for the next big game or something... Western developers pay them 'peanuts' (and once paid, the models should be GPLled but that's another story.)
those western peanuts could be a significant extra to the kids willing to get into IT...
(ok, sounds like glorified code-monkeys-outsourcing, but you could see it as a way to give them a chance to earn a living... by learning
Master?
/any/ worthwile info, after reading a template answer like that.
I stopped reading after that answer. i thought it was borderline insulting. They could've said: sorry, we don't discuss that, and I would accept, but a non-answer like that... You just know the rest will be devoid of
You know, as a non-English speaker, there's something weird with this type of censorship.
/very/ common swear-words...)
I'm from Europe, and we also use the AmE 'fuck' quite regularly when swearing (and 'shit', both
Now, Hollywood started to stop using the word 'fuck,' and the bad guys started using 'screw' instead
Funny thing is, for a lot of us non-English speaking people, we initially thought 'screw' was a much 'dirtier', obscene, obscure.. word than 'fuck' !
Most of us thought it was a genuine 'street' word, heehee.
Some of us were even a bit schocked by this 'in-yer-face' screw word. It sounded a bit too... graphic.
i kid you not.
Would be a tad more expensive; that 200lbs person needs a lot of lbs life-support, heatshield etc... Of course, if one was to design a 10 ton capsule, you still have plenty of 'spare' mass to add lifesupport and people. If you could launch 8-10 people/flight, you'd be about 9-10 mil a person, halving the current price they charge for a tourist. Still not cheap, but serious improvement.
Without really advertising it, when Musk is interviewed about a 'man-rated' version of his rocket, he merely smiles, saying it is in essence already man-rated. Engine-out safety etc.
Of course, there's no capsule designed, but I guess he doesn't (currently) see that as HIS job, he's just aiming towards cheap launchers for commercial market, and the $$$ are to be found in the satellite business, not in manned flights (yet)
But if a third party decides that, yes, lauching paying customers is a viable business-model, all that could change quickly.
20mil being the current price for spacetourists, compared to a rocket that can haul 25000kg to LEO... You can build a BIG manned capsule with that weight budget, so prices would go down markedly.
If you liked this, I suggest you take a look at the incredible
http://midnightmarsbrowser.blogspot.com/
This cross-platform donationware gem fully automatically downloads the raw imagery, auto-stitches, false-colorizes,makes slideshows... And best of all: creates "virtual-reality" pannable and zoomable panorama's...
Everyone into these rovers should really check it out.
>Most of the bazillionaires would much rather spend their spare time at the French Riviera, or their private Greek island or shopping in Hong Kong.
;)
... while waiting for the launch... Throwing caviar instead of M&M's once in zero-G...
Yes, most. But i'd bet there's a fairly large percentage of rich-born, bored-to-tears youngsters that throw away money on sportscars, extreme sports etc. They could be the customers. They don't need to be bazillionaires, only inheritance-squandering millionaires
Not that I think they'd be the *best* customers, they'll probably be quite demanding re: hotel, entertainment,