99 cents is cheap. But we want cheaper, and we want unlimited access and best quality. So they will cut to 50 cents someday, but that will not be good enough. The price will come down to 10 cents, and then they will see that their efforts are not worthy, and the music industry will have to get another jobs.
Same will happen with movies. Oh boo hoo. Imagine a world without Richard Gere and Sandra Bullok. How ever will Hao cope?
Its serious business, this phone scam company. Billions are lost every year.
Saying people got laid is'n t funny. Con men can be violent and agressive (that is why they are criminals who should be shot), and it is a good thing some brave men and women turned them in.
Most places don't have access to the abundant geothermal energy that Iceland has access to, located on a spreading center as it is. Spreading centers (places where two plates are moving away from eachother, creating new crust) bring magma very close to the surface of the Earth, much closer than pretty much anywhere else (except volcanoes, but those are a little tricky to harness the thermal energy from). I can't think of a single place (dry place, that is) besides Iceland that sits right on top of an active spreading center, so they are in a pretty unique situation (sure, there are failed rifts in Africa, but those are not active. Also possibly failed rifting in the U.S., but again, not active) So unless you find a way to get energy from dozens to hundreds of kilometers underground, much deeper than we have ever even drilled, then we will have to be stuck with our few spots of high geothermal activity for producing energy in that way. Oh yeah, and depending on geothermal energy just delays the problem - the Earth is cooling, albeit very slowly.
Why not make iceland the place for an electric earth. Put powerlines in the sea and bring current that way to other places. Same thing with nuclear power. Nobody wants a nuclear power plant next door, I don't either. So build a nuclear power plant in the arctic region or wyoming dessert that nobody cares about, and make powerlines that circle the earth.
Why did I score a troll! I hate Slashdot! If you write anything other than geek this and that then you get ignored. If you say something about a sensitive issue, then you are a "troll". No wonder you are all racists and I will probably never type with a good keyboard.
Open your mind a little. You are a bigot in fact. I only want to type with something respectful of my style, and if a large enough keyboard was available then you would be reading this in a whole new way.
When will I have a grid of 4,000 characters to type from? The technology exists, but bigots keep the products from market and force 1 billion people to write in sentences, not the symbols that we grow up with.
Apple had one grip with a demo device 10 years ago. However only 1500 strokes were available and the price was phenominal. I am somewhat tired of playing the waiting game.
The one main point that you ignore makes everything you mentioned trivial and beside the point.
What is needed is the existence of a radio transmitter, period. How it got there, who or what made it, and what we do about it are all secondary considerations.
To compare looters who have lived in terror for their lives, their families' lives, torture, rape, etc., with spoiled college kids who are alternately downloading mp3's and porn while the roommate is gone home for the weekend. I am going to be sick.
Have some class and respect the tremendous difference between war-time civil unrest and fairyland music theft (if you even want to call it theft).
So what if it's harsh. If they're low enogh to spam, then they're probably conning old folks in tele-marketing schemes, bank fraud, and everything else you can think of.
Slashdot finds links I never would have been able to guess on my own. I would like to ask the editors-- can I run "MS Word" on this Dell my son just bought for my birthday?
These researchers are concentrating their effort on what crap - to study who fast-forwards what when and why? No wonder we have not cured cancer, or sent men and women to the moon again since 1972. This useless research serves NOTHING except Proctor & Gamble wastefulness. I will not buy any of their products now
Crap like this makes me want to scream at the lab. I slave for my sh*thead supervisor, and this is what others get paid to research?! I hope all they die in trafic accident.
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99 cents is cheap. But we want cheaper, and we want unlimited access and best quality. So they will cut to 50 cents someday, but that will not be good enough. The price will come down to 10 cents, and then they will see that their efforts are not worthy, and the music industry will have to get another jobs.
Same will happen with movies. Oh boo hoo. Imagine a world without Richard Gere and Sandra Bullok. How ever will Hao cope?
"I am never paying for music again."
That is the mind-set. That is the technology. People want that, so it will be so.
The end.
Its serious business, this phone scam company. Billions are lost every year.
Saying people got laid is'n t funny. Con men can be violent and agressive (that is why they are criminals who should be shot), and it is a good thing some brave men and women turned them in.
... but one day, he was proven correct.
Nikola invented wireless energy. This is Not News, but it is a Good Thing©.
Reference: friend "demonbug"
Most places don't have access to the abundant geothermal energy that Iceland has access to, located on a spreading center as it is. Spreading centers (places where two plates are moving away from eachother, creating new crust) bring magma very close to the surface of the Earth, much closer than pretty much anywhere else (except volcanoes, but those are a little tricky to harness the thermal energy from). I can't think of a single place (dry place, that is) besides Iceland that sits right on top of an active spreading center, so they are in a pretty unique situation (sure, there are failed rifts in Africa, but those are not active. Also possibly failed rifting in the U.S., but again, not active)
So unless you find a way to get energy from dozens to hundreds of kilometers underground, much deeper than we have ever even drilled, then we will have to be stuck with our few spots of high geothermal activity for producing energy in that way. Oh yeah, and depending on geothermal energy just delays the problem - the Earth is cooling, albeit very slowly.
Why not make iceland the place for an electric earth. Put powerlines in the sea and bring current that way to other places. Same thing with nuclear power. Nobody wants a nuclear power plant next door, I don't either. So build a nuclear power plant in the arctic region or wyoming dessert that nobody cares about, and make powerlines that circle the earth.
Do we start burning bed rock instead? What about geotherms from the earth's magma. Why can't we use it (they do in Iceland) as a carbon substitute.
Why did I score a troll! I hate Slashdot! If you write anything other than geek this and that then you get ignored. If you say something about a sensitive issue, then you are a "troll". No wonder you are all racists and I will probably never type with a good keyboard.
Open your mind a little. You are a bigot in fact. I only want to type with something respectful of my style, and if a large enough keyboard was available then you would be reading this in a whole new way.
When will I have a grid of 4,000 characters to type from? The technology exists, but bigots keep the products from market and force 1 billion people to write in sentences, not the symbols that we grow up with.
Apple had one grip with a demo device 10 years ago. However only 1500 strokes were available and the price was phenominal. I am somewhat tired of playing the waiting game.
Vibration from trains is emmense. I know, I lived on a darn rail-road for one time, and the stupid train shook the whole hose to its foundation.
Free energy from a passing train would have made up for the loss of sleep and dignity.
The one main point that you ignore makes everything you mentioned trivial and beside the point.
What is needed is the existence of a radio transmitter, period. How it got there, who or what made it, and what we do about it are all secondary considerations.
To compare looters who have lived in terror for their lives, their families' lives, torture, rape, etc., with spoiled college kids who are alternately downloading mp3's and porn while the roommate is gone home for the weekend. I am going to be sick.
Have some class and respect the tremendous difference between war-time civil unrest and fairyland music theft (if you even want to call it theft).
The whole point of Instant Messenger is that ugly losers want to talk, but they don't want to look at each other.
Nice guy. Too bad he's dooming himself to a hopeless death by crashing in a firey, ill-conceived life's dream of his.
Not a bad way to go really!
Andy Kaufman's last(?) days
I think Andy Kaufman is a genious. I do not believe he is dead. I think he is playing a hoax to be the greatest performance artist of all time.
Andy didn't call himself comedian. He was a character actor. Read all about him and his great Moon Hoax theory that will blow your sox off.
Andy Kaufman's last(?) days
I think Andy Kaufman is a genious. I do not believe he is dead. I think he is playing a hoax to be the greatest performance artist of all time.
Andy didn't call himself comedian. He was a character actor. Read all about him and his great Moon Hoax theory that will blow your sox off.
So what if it's harsh. If they're low enogh to spam, then they're probably conning old folks in tele-marketing schemes, bank fraud, and everything else you can think of.
His damn wife is going to get all over his chest about cyber porn. Mrs Gore hates pornography.
I use macintosh. I want to double my time now to download porn before this idiot makes it difficult and implausible to do it on Macs.
Slashdot finds links I never would have been able to guess on my own. I would like to ask the editors-- can I run "MS Word" on this Dell my son just bought for my birthday?
Maybe a new job would be good, but I will be just as happy if they stop working too.
Where should I relocate to?
These researchers are concentrating their effort on what crap - to study who fast-forwards what when and why? No wonder we have not cured cancer, or sent men and women to the moon again since 1972. This useless research serves NOTHING except Proctor & Gamble wastefulness. I will not buy any of their products now
Crap like this makes me want to scream at the lab. I slave for my sh*thead supervisor, and this is what others get paid to research?! I hope all they die in trafic accident.
If any astronomer have telescope to help me, please don't wait for E.T. to phone home...
According to some study I read somewhere.