Yes $.99 is high. But no higher than CDs. If you want all of an album, you only pay $10 (on both Apple Store and Napster). Since the DRM doesn't prevent you from writing a CD, there isn't anything stopping you from having a permanent format. On top of all that, you no longer have to buy 13 crappy songs to get the two that you like. For that reason the 15 songs you get from Apple should have more personal value to you than the 15 you get from a CD at Best Buy.
First of all I usually pay around $10 for an album. Sometimes it's as high as $12.99, sometimes it's as low as $7.99; but it usually works out to about $10. For this, I get a real permanent copy, and you're fooling yourself if you think a CD-R is permanent. For this, I get 10-15 songs that I like. If you're buying music that only has 2 or 3 good songs on the album you need to find better music.
The file format is lossy, but the files are created from original tapes. So you aren't getting CD-Rips like you would from Kazza. Maybe AAC sounds like crap to you, but it sounds great to me
And I get to make my files from the CD's, in whatever format I want. I keep FLAC rips of all my CD's around so that I can convert to what ever the current best lossy format is at will.
DRM is not an issue unless you want to use a non-supported player or pirate music. I have an iMac, several PCs and an iPod. The only issue I have is my Audiotron won't play my Apple Store music. It just isn't an issue
Well my nomad II and my iRiver CD/MP3 player won't play things with DRM. Plus, what happens if 10 years from now Apple decides not to support iTMS anymore? what happens to those files? I have records that are 40 years old and they still play fine. I have CD's that were purchased in the early 80's and they still play fine. DRM doesn't leave me feeling confident that this ability will be carried forward.
You would be lucky to find the same quality online. And you would have to download several copies of the same song before you found one of sufficent quality. After that, you would have to clean up the ID3 tags and delete the bad copies. But if that dollar is that important to you, have fun!
Of course I can find everything that you can get at iTMS at my local record store. Plus more. Plus better service. Plus knowledgeable sales staff. Plus other music fans.
Of course printing the album art on high quality paper could cost as much as a dollar on some ink jet printers.
My problem with iTunes is simply that there isn't enough of a discount to justify the inferior product.
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In general I've found that high-fructose corn syrup is sweeter than sugar. Especially the sugar that was in coke which I believe came from sugar beets and not sugar cane.
quite a few studies suggest that girls pick dolls simply because they are genetically programmed to like that sort of thing. There may be more to the nature and less to the nurture than originally thought.
But what about an HD mpeg decoder. Or when HD-DVD comes out. I'd rather buy a new player, or cable box, or satalite box, or tivo then have to replace my TV. That's why it makes more sense to put the decoder into the source and have the display be dumb and use something like DVI to pass the video information.
trust me, I know drug dealers. I have first hand experience with this. You DO care who you are selling the stuff to. Addicts are bad for business because they often times don't have money. They'll try to steal from you, want credit, or will try to pawn off stolen goods on you. You generally don't want this. Of course there are different kinds of drug dealers. Most don't want the risk of dealing with addicts, but some will. Just like most car salesmen don't want the risk of dealing with people with bad credit, but some do.
But they aren't robbing the store to get the cigarettes. Cigarettes are most often stolen by kids (that's how I got smokes when I was 12), not by a crazed addict.
The asshole that got him hooked was himself. Drug dealers don't hold you down and an inject you. Dealers don't want addicts as customers if they can help it. Addicts are unreliable, poor, and much more likely to get busted for some other crime and flip on the dealer. It's the drug laws that create the situation you are describing, not the drugs themselves.
I've never heard of anyone committing roberies to get a pack of winstons.
The demand for the drug was already there. They aren't giving it out to people who aren't drug users. They go to parties where people are drinking and smoking pot and ask them if they want to do some crank. Some people do, some people don't. But It's not like they are corrupting sweet people who don't know what meth is. They're simply advertising that it's there.
living in seattle and reading savage love weekly, it made me smile the first time I heard someone else use the term santorum. It was also qutie funny the first time I put it into google.
Not always. The move to 64 bits allows nifty things like more registers and architechture improvements. These can more than offset the reduced speed do to 64 bits.
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. It's larger than australia and the continental united states. Not to mention that it is filled with dense rainforest that makes travel almost impossible.
I agree with that statement. What I don't understand is how they can market laptops with those resolutions. And why, if they can market those laptops displays why they can't sell a few as a desktop display.
Of course, how much energy does it take to produce that gasoline? We don't just pump it out of the ground you know. We have to find the oil, transport the oil, and refine the oil.
The fact remains that the neural tube is formed at around three weeks, with the main structures ofthe brain following on soon after, so even a 3-4 week cutoff is killing a potentially sentient being.
Of course you can make the arguement that every sperm is a potentially sentient being. Or every egg cell. does it make them wrong to waste them? I could argue that many animals are also sentient, yet we do kill them. My philospohy is that if the fetus could survive outside of the womb, then you probably should allow it to live. Health issues should be taken into account though.
Of course as a man, I don't feel I should have any say. This is something that should be entirely up to women.
A 3 week cutoff just wouldn't be practicle. You might not even know you are pregnant after 3 weeks. Even then it actually takes time to consider the decision, get an appointment and have the procedure. A 3 week cutoff would effectivley ban abortion.
That would be great if I had a laser disc player. Of course if they were going to re-release the VHS version, they might as well release them on laser disc too. And each release did improve a little bit as the technology did (did the THX version have DD, or did that not come until the special editions?)
You're really going to rag on Lucas for releasing a copy of the trilogy in the late 80's... a new one with improved video and sound in the early 90's... and the special editions in the late 90's? If they had been on dvd you'd have a point. But this was VHS, a format that wears out. At the point I bought a new version, my old copies were always showing their age, and I would have had to buy a new copy regardless of whether or not they had been re-released.
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There is a napster branded player. They are also licensing their name. You can get napster branded CD-R's at best buy.
Yes $.99 is high. But no higher than CDs. If you want all of an album, you only pay $10 (on both Apple Store and Napster). Since the DRM doesn't prevent you from writing a CD, there isn't anything stopping you from having a permanent format. On top of all that, you no longer have to buy 13 crappy songs to get the two that you like. For that reason the 15 songs you get from Apple should have more personal value to you than the 15 you get from a CD at Best Buy.
First of all I usually pay around $10 for an album. Sometimes it's as high as $12.99, sometimes it's as low as $7.99; but it usually works out to about $10. For this, I get a real permanent copy, and you're fooling yourself if you think a CD-R is permanent. For this, I get 10-15 songs that I like. If you're buying music that only has 2 or 3 good songs on the album you need to find better music.
The file format is lossy, but the files are created from original tapes. So you aren't getting CD-Rips like you would from Kazza. Maybe AAC sounds like crap to you, but it sounds great to me
And I get to make my files from the CD's, in whatever format I want. I keep FLAC rips of all my CD's around so that I can convert to what ever the current best lossy format is at will.
DRM is not an issue unless you want to use a non-supported player or pirate music. I have an iMac, several PCs and an iPod. The only issue I have is my Audiotron won't play my Apple Store music. It just isn't an issue
Well my nomad II and my iRiver CD/MP3 player won't play things with DRM. Plus, what happens if 10 years from now Apple decides not to support iTMS anymore? what happens to those files? I have records that are 40 years old and they still play fine. I have CD's that were purchased in the early 80's and they still play fine. DRM doesn't leave me feeling confident that this ability will be carried forward.
You would be lucky to find the same quality online. And you would have to download several copies of the same song before you found one of sufficent quality. After that, you would have to clean up the ID3 tags and delete the bad copies. But if that dollar is that important to you, have fun!
Of course I can find everything that you can get at iTMS at my local record store. Plus more. Plus better service. Plus knowledgeable sales staff. Plus other music fans.
Of course printing the album art on high quality paper could cost as much as a dollar on some ink jet printers.
My problem with iTunes is simply that there isn't enough of a discount to justify the inferior product.
In general I've found that high-fructose corn syrup is sweeter than sugar. Especially the sugar that was in coke which I believe came from sugar beets and not sugar cane.
quite a few studies suggest that girls pick dolls simply because they are genetically programmed to like that sort of thing. There may be more to the nature and less to the nurture than originally thought.
But what about an HD mpeg decoder. Or when HD-DVD comes out. I'd rather buy a new player, or cable box, or satalite box, or tivo then have to replace my TV. That's why it makes more sense to put the decoder into the source and have the display be dumb and use something like DVI to pass the video information.
Firewire doesn't have the bandwith to run the video stream uncompressed... therefore you would need an mpeg decoder in the display.
trust me, I know drug dealers. I have first hand experience with this. You DO care who you are selling the stuff to. Addicts are bad for business because they often times don't have money. They'll try to steal from you, want credit, or will try to pawn off stolen goods on you. You generally don't want this. Of course there are different kinds of drug dealers. Most don't want the risk of dealing with addicts, but some will. Just like most car salesmen don't want the risk of dealing with people with bad credit, but some do.
But they aren't robbing the store to get the cigarettes. Cigarettes are most often stolen by kids (that's how I got smokes when I was 12), not by a crazed addict.
Thats the funniest story I ever heard. No wonder you posted as an AC.
The asshole that got him hooked was himself. Drug dealers don't hold you down and an inject you. Dealers don't want addicts as customers if they can help it. Addicts are unreliable, poor, and much more likely to get busted for some other crime and flip on the dealer. It's the drug laws that create the situation you are describing, not the drugs themselves.
I've never heard of anyone committing roberies to get a pack of winstons.
The demand for the drug was already there. They aren't giving it out to people who aren't drug users. They go to parties where people are drinking and smoking pot and ask them if they want to do some crank. Some people do, some people don't. But It's not like they are corrupting sweet people who don't know what meth is. They're simply advertising that it's there.
living in seattle and reading savage love weekly, it made me smile the first time I heard someone else use the term santorum. It was also qutie funny the first time I put it into google.
Not always. The move to 64 bits allows nifty things like more registers and architechture improvements. These can more than offset the reduced speed do to 64 bits.
Depends on the console. The playstation 2 uses USB for it's wheel and pedal setup. And the same logitech setup works on the computer as well.
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. It's larger than australia and the continental united states. Not to mention that it is filled with dense rainforest that makes travel almost impossible.
generally it says I must reboot... I say no... install the next driver... say no... install the next piece of software. I've never had a problem.
I agree with that statement. What I don't understand is how they can market laptops with those resolutions. And why, if they can market those laptops displays why they can't sell a few as a desktop display.
but his laptop screen isn't 20". Where can I find a 17" screen that does 1600x1200? or even 1280x1024?
Of course, how much energy does it take to produce that gasoline? We don't just pump it out of the ground you know. We have to find the oil, transport the oil, and refine the oil.
The fact remains that the neural tube is formed at around three weeks, with the main structures ofthe brain following on soon after, so even a 3-4 week cutoff is killing a potentially sentient being.
Of course you can make the arguement that every sperm is a potentially sentient being. Or every egg cell. does it make them wrong to waste them? I could argue that many animals are also sentient, yet we do kill them. My philospohy is that if the fetus could survive outside of the womb, then you probably should allow it to live. Health issues should be taken into account though.
Of course as a man, I don't feel I should have any say. This is something that should be entirely up to women.
A 3 week cutoff just wouldn't be practicle. You might not even know you are pregnant after 3 weeks. Even then it actually takes time to consider the decision, get an appointment and have the procedure. A 3 week cutoff would effectivley ban abortion.
So you don't think the court case wastes tax payer dollars?
That would be great if I had a laser disc player. Of course if they were going to re-release the VHS version, they might as well release them on laser disc too. And each release did improve a little bit as the technology did (did the THX version have DD, or did that not come until the special editions?)
You're really going to rag on Lucas for releasing a copy of the trilogy in the late 80's... a new one with improved video and sound in the early 90's... and the special editions in the late 90's? If they had been on dvd you'd have a point. But this was VHS, a format that wears out. At the point I bought a new version, my old copies were always showing their age, and I would have had to buy a new copy regardless of whether or not they had been re-released.