And I thought I was the only one that got that pop up! Actually... a few sites are able to give me a pop up (although I haven't noticed with 1.0). The pop up never actually loads anything, but it is annoying.
I didn't get upgraded... in fact I still have my old AT&T plan, paying my old AT&T price, for a package that comcast no longer sells. They even let me move across town with it. They told me as long as I don't leave their coverage area, I'm free to keep this plan at this price.
I simply use no-ip.com. I run a simple shell script on my linux box that makes sure that my ip is updated with the service every 30 minutes and voila, I can telnet/ssh/whatever into my home box from work.
In both my neighborhoods in seattle I've never had to worry about too many people on my cable loop. I'm almost always limited by the source and not the width of my pipe.
The difference is that the cable company is packaging this. If I am a comcast digital customer and want to use my Tivo, I'm stuck with two incompatibal guides. I'm forced to have Tivo using an IR blaster of some sort to change the channel on my cable box. I'm forced to purchase a second cable box if I want to watch and record something at the same time. This service builds all that in. Plus it's cheaper. With this service there is no compelling reason for a comcast customer to get tivo.
That link is what is absurd. Look at the percentage of high-school students taking the test. In the ones leading, it's less than 10%. In the ones doing worse, it's between 50-80%. This chart proves nothing because the only people taking the SAT in the heartland are planning on going to top notch colleges (those on the coasts) that prefer that test. Most high-school students in the midwest take the ACT.
The invisible hand can not calculate the enviormental effects of using a certain sort of power. The effects happen over to long a period for them to be felt in the price today.
Except the blue states pay them twice for the food. Once when we buy it, and once when we give them farm subsidies. The blue states pay more than a dollar of tax for every dollar they get back. The red states pay less than a dollar for every dollar they get back.
If the blue states suddenly were able to pay fair market price for the food from middle america (and don't forget that the blue states grow a lot of food too) and stopped subsidising them. I think you would see many of their economies collaspse.
Think about it, every business in the US pays like 30% of its profits to the feds, but prop 70 would allow the Indians to just pay 5% to the state with no federal tax. On top of that, gambling is usually taxed MORE than other things, look at the Nevada casinos for example. The Indian casinos SHOULD pay more than a tiny 5%, and they are willing to pay more -- Arnold has already negotiated with several tribes to pay around 25%!! Prop 70 would screw California over.
I don't think California or the US Government is any position to talk about being screwed over when it comes to American Indians. Ask them about being screwed over sometime.
What, are you talking about the far flung future when we have lossless compression better than MP3? Fine, I'll convert my MP3s then. It's lossless, so no biggie.
But you see, you've already lost the information that was thrown out when you created the MP3. If you had ripped to FLAC you could convert to whatever format you want ad nauseum, and you never loose any information. That's why I rip everything to FLAC. Right now I too have everything as 320kbit max VBR MP3's. that's what I listen to. My FLAC files just sit there. But if a new format ever comes out, or I want to make a bit-for-bit copy of a CD for a friend I can do that easily.
Supply and Demand. If I have a monopoly on widgets, and I try to sell them for $1,000,000 of profit I may sell one and make $1,000,000. But if I sell them for $1 I might sell 10,000,000. Monoplies charge exactly the price that will maximize their profit. This is what competition avoids.
More customers like Walmart's policy on this than the minority that think it's censorship.
Care to back that up? If Wal-Mart were to carry two copies of the eminem cd. One altered and one original, which one do you think would sell more? I bet the original would... kids want to hear that one. The problem is the customers who agree with wal-mart's policies are the ones who know how to make the most noise.
But, just because the labels drop their wholesale price for wal-mart in no way gurantees that the wholesale price changes for anyone else. That means their is even more pressure on smaller record stores to compete. Since smaller record stores are the only place you can find a wide selection of less popular and/or older music, the availability of that music is going to decline. Is that what you really want?
But I think the biggest trap you've fallen into is the High Fidelity one - mistaking selling CDs for loving music. If you're a retailer who does it because you love the music and don't have a profit motive, then you have a hobby, my friend, not a business.
The problem I have is that I like the high fidelity business type. I love shopping at the record stores where the employees and owners are music lovers. I get great service, a knowledgeable staff, and more often than not buy something that I wasn't shopping for in the first place and am quite happy about doing it.
Wal-Mart does have competition in and around urban centers. I live in seattle, we have targets; sam's, k-marts; kohl's; and all sorts of specialized stores in the area. But I grew up in Oklahoma. In some of the smaller towns in oklahoma the wal-mart moves in, and everything closes. In a smaller population center, there is only room for one super store; and wal-mart almost always wins.
This is a big deal if you have live albums or albums that are mixed so that one track bleeds into the next. For instance on the new Brian Wilson CD, there is usually no stop between the tracks, the music is constant. When I rip it to MP3 and listen on my creative player i get a second of silence that is really annoying.
There is a fundamental difference between long term and short term prediction. It was easy for scientists to predict a few weeks ago that Mt. St. Helens was going to errupt soon. They had know idea exactly when or how big it was going to be. Climatology is different than meterology. Climatology is based on long term models which use the best data we have now. Meterology is based of prediciting weather patterns based on what we see now.
Where do you live that they can't predict the weather tomorrow? I have found that the prediction of weather here on the west coast completly sucks and is wrong more often than it is right. However, growing up in Oklahoma, they were usually spot on and got better with each passing year. When there was a tornado or severe storm they could tell you down to the minute when it would pass a specific intersection.
Everyone of these bands is distributed by a major label in the US (I believe Franz Ferdinand is on a indie label in the UK). There is no way a major label is going to go along with eMusic because there is no DRM. If you want artists like that to show up on services like that, tell the artists. If the artists don't want to be on this kind of service maybe you should consider voting with your wallet.
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And I thought I was the only one that got that pop up! Actually... a few sites are able to give me a pop up (although I haven't noticed with 1.0). The pop up never actually loads anything, but it is annoying.
I didn't get upgraded... in fact I still have my old AT&T plan, paying my old AT&T price, for a package that comcast no longer sells. They even let me move across town with it. They told me as long as I don't leave their coverage area, I'm free to keep this plan at this price.
I simply use no-ip.com. I run a simple shell script on my linux box that makes sure that my ip is updated with the service every 30 minutes and voila, I can telnet/ssh/whatever into my home box from work.
In both my neighborhoods in seattle I've never had to worry about too many people on my cable loop. I'm almost always limited by the source and not the width of my pipe.
The difference is that the cable company is packaging this. If I am a comcast digital customer and want to use my Tivo, I'm stuck with two incompatibal guides. I'm forced to have Tivo using an IR blaster of some sort to change the channel on my cable box. I'm forced to purchase a second cable box if I want to watch and record something at the same time. This service builds all that in. Plus it's cheaper. With this service there is no compelling reason for a comcast customer to get tivo.
That link is what is absurd. Look at the percentage of high-school students taking the test. In the ones leading, it's less than 10%. In the ones doing worse, it's between 50-80%. This chart proves nothing because the only people taking the SAT in the heartland are planning on going to top notch colleges (those on the coasts) that prefer that test. Most high-school students in the midwest take the ACT.
read the history of maine lobster.
The invisible hand can not calculate the enviormental effects of using a certain sort of power. The effects happen over to long a period for them to be felt in the price today.
Except the blue states pay them twice for the food. Once when we buy it, and once when we give them farm subsidies. The blue states pay more than a dollar of tax for every dollar they get back. The red states pay less than a dollar for every dollar they get back.
If the blue states suddenly were able to pay fair market price for the food from middle america (and don't forget that the blue states grow a lot of food too) and stopped subsidising them. I think you would see many of their economies collaspse.
Actually H.G. Wells wrote war of the worlds (which is why he is linked to Orson Wells). George Orwell wrote Animal Farm and 1984.
Of course I always prefered Huxley myself.
Think about it, every business in the US pays like 30% of its profits to the feds, but prop 70 would allow the Indians to just pay 5% to the state with no federal tax. On top of that, gambling is usually taxed MORE than other things, look at the Nevada casinos for example. The Indian casinos SHOULD pay more than a tiny 5%, and they are willing to pay more -- Arnold has already negotiated with several tribes to pay around 25%!! Prop 70 would screw California over.
I don't think California or the US Government is any position to talk about being screwed over when it comes to American Indians. Ask them about being screwed over sometime.
When speaking of northern europe I was speaking of norway, sweden, finland, etc.
We can't afford capitalism in the US either, but you don't see us dismantaling it.
socialism seems to be working in northern europe just fine.
What, are you talking about the far flung future when we have lossless compression better than MP3? Fine, I'll convert my MP3s then. It's lossless, so no biggie.
But you see, you've already lost the information that was thrown out when you created the MP3. If you had ripped to FLAC you could convert to whatever format you want ad nauseum, and you never loose any information. That's why I rip everything to FLAC. Right now I too have everything as 320kbit max VBR MP3's. that's what I listen to. My FLAC files just sit there. But if a new format ever comes out, or I want to make a bit-for-bit copy of a CD for a friend I can do that easily.
Supply and Demand. If I have a monopoly on widgets, and I try to sell them for $1,000,000 of profit I may sell one and make $1,000,000. But if I sell them for $1 I might sell 10,000,000. Monoplies charge exactly the price that will maximize their profit. This is what competition avoids.
More customers like Walmart's policy on this than the minority that think it's censorship.
Care to back that up? If Wal-Mart were to carry two copies of the eminem cd. One altered and one original, which one do you think would sell more? I bet the original would... kids want to hear that one. The problem is the customers who agree with wal-mart's policies are the ones who know how to make the most noise.
But, just because the labels drop their wholesale price for wal-mart in no way gurantees that the wholesale price changes for anyone else. That means their is even more pressure on smaller record stores to compete. Since smaller record stores are the only place you can find a wide selection of less popular and/or older music, the availability of that music is going to decline. Is that what you really want?
But I think the biggest trap you've fallen into is the High Fidelity one - mistaking selling CDs for loving music. If you're a retailer who does it because you love the music and don't have a profit motive, then you have a hobby, my friend, not a business.
The problem I have is that I like the high fidelity business type. I love shopping at the record stores where the employees and owners are music lovers. I get great service, a knowledgeable staff, and more often than not buy something that I wasn't shopping for in the first place and am quite happy about doing it.
Wal-Mart does have competition in and around urban centers. I live in seattle, we have targets; sam's, k-marts; kohl's; and all sorts of specialized stores in the area. But I grew up in Oklahoma. In some of the smaller towns in oklahoma the wal-mart moves in, and everything closes. In a smaller population center, there is only room for one super store; and wal-mart almost always wins.
This is a big deal if you have live albums or albums that are mixed so that one track bleeds into the next. For instance on the new Brian Wilson CD, there is usually no stop between the tracks, the music is constant. When I rip it to MP3 and listen on my creative player i get a second of silence that is really annoying.
There is a fundamental difference between long term and short term prediction. It was easy for scientists to predict a few weeks ago that Mt. St. Helens was going to errupt soon. They had know idea exactly when or how big it was going to be. Climatology is different than meterology. Climatology is based on long term models which use the best data we have now. Meterology is based of prediciting weather patterns based on what we see now.
Where do you live that they can't predict the weather tomorrow? I have found that the prediction of weather here on the west coast completly sucks and is wrong more often than it is right. However, growing up in Oklahoma, they were usually spot on and got better with each passing year. When there was a tornado or severe storm they could tell you down to the minute when it would pass a specific intersection.
You do realize that CO2 and the hole in the ozone layer are two unrelated things, right?
It went to the major theaters after it did a run at indie theaters. It proved to be so popular that the expanded the release.
Well, certain things are probably cheaper in Russia. Like the cost of wages, etc.
It's because the RIAA demands about $.70 in tribute per download. That's why most of the music stores can't charge less than $.99.
Everyone of these bands is distributed by a major label in the US (I believe Franz Ferdinand is on a indie label in the UK). There is no way a major label is going to go along with eMusic because there is no DRM. If you want artists like that to show up on services like that, tell the artists. If the artists don't want to be on this kind of service maybe you should consider voting with your wallet.