Looking at the archived AltaVista (the ones from 2000-2003 mainly) all I see are stuff that Google also has. The only exception is Google spreads them out onto several pages, whereas AltaVista put them all on the main page. Search, direction, news, etc., it's all there on both sites.
For an artist to make 12% of REVENUE is amazing! Even 12% of profits is very good, for CDs sold off the shelf. If you buy a $12 CD with 12 songs on it, it costs some money to create and burn the CD, it costs more money to package it, and it costs money to transport the CD to the retailer.
However with downloaded content, the cost is almost zero (technically there's bandwidth and server maintenance but those are extremely small on a per-song basis). If the artist gets 12% of your dollar then that's excellent. What's better is if they got 50% of your dollar but that can only happen with independent artists.
If Google makes an IPO and puts itself on the public stock market, it will turn bad and maybe Yahoo will prevail. Of course Yahoo is public too so who knows.
I seriously doubt liquid nitrogen can exist at that low pressure. I figure either BBC is way off (their science stories are always a bit out there) or it really is water. There is certainly ice at the poles and below the surface... we've discovered that.
I was on the top bunk of a bunk bed and using my laptop while half-asleep, and I just nodded off. The laptop slid off to the side and fell all the way to the ground (~6 feet). The noise was very loud but the laptop worked perfectly -- the only thing that broke was a little plastic thing that keeps the CD disk-thingie closed; I had to use tape to keep it closed after that. But it worked perfectly fine.
This was in 1997 and the laptop was a Fujitsu.
It's not like the tags identify YOU. All they do is indicate when an item has been removed from inventory. I fail to see why this is a problem.
If privacy is a concern then DON'T USE CREDIT CARDS. But inventory tags are perfectly fine.
Well I don't know this for a fact, but they're NOT magnetic or even electronic. A laser beam is shone on the surface and it is diffracted and reflected back in patterns corresponding to the data on the CD. But the mirrored part isn't on the surface; clear plastic protects it, so I can't imagine any way this can degrade.
DVDs are like CDs but the data is layered. The layers reflect different wavelengths of light so that allows the format to take advantage of depth. DVDs are thus slightly thicker than CDs but not larger.
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Looking at the archived AltaVista (the ones from 2000-2003 mainly) all I see are stuff that Google also has. The only exception is Google spreads them out onto several pages, whereas AltaVista put them all on the main page. Search, direction, news, etc., it's all there on both sites.
For an artist to make 12% of REVENUE is amazing! Even 12% of profits is very good, for CDs sold off the shelf. If you buy a $12 CD with 12 songs on it, it costs some money to create and burn the CD, it costs more money to package it, and it costs money to transport the CD to the retailer. However with downloaded content, the cost is almost zero (technically there's bandwidth and server maintenance but those are extremely small on a per-song basis). If the artist gets 12% of your dollar then that's excellent. What's better is if they got 50% of your dollar but that can only happen with independent artists.
We need to speed up the Earth's rotation! Problem solved!
If Google makes an IPO and puts itself on the public stock market, it will turn bad and maybe Yahoo will prevail. Of course Yahoo is public too so who knows.
It was made by Netscape.
I seriously doubt liquid nitrogen can exist at that low pressure. I figure either BBC is way off (their science stories are always a bit out there) or it really is water. There is certainly ice at the poles and below the surface... we've discovered that.
I was on the top bunk of a bunk bed and using my laptop while half-asleep, and I just nodded off. The laptop slid off to the side and fell all the way to the ground (~6 feet). The noise was very loud but the laptop worked perfectly -- the only thing that broke was a little plastic thing that keeps the CD disk-thingie closed; I had to use tape to keep it closed after that. But it worked perfectly fine. This was in 1997 and the laptop was a Fujitsu.
It's not like the tags identify YOU. All they do is indicate when an item has been removed from inventory. I fail to see why this is a problem. If privacy is a concern then DON'T USE CREDIT CARDS. But inventory tags are perfectly fine.
Check out those sweet filenames in that pic. Combination of English and Japanese; guarantees no one knows what the hell they are.
Well I don't know this for a fact, but they're NOT magnetic or even electronic. A laser beam is shone on the surface and it is diffracted and reflected back in patterns corresponding to the data on the CD. But the mirrored part isn't on the surface; clear plastic protects it, so I can't imagine any way this can degrade.
DVDs are like CDs but the data is layered. The layers reflect different wavelengths of light so that allows the format to take advantage of depth. DVDs are thus slightly thicker than CDs but not larger.