Yeah, you might want to confirm it. I only heard that he released them through his Attacked by Plastic outfit to iTunes.. but he has also started selling the EPs in the UK and Australia via Sony, so it may be that Sony is involved somewhere in the US process too, or that Sony owns Attacked by Plastic (I haven't been able to find any indication of this, however, and the Sony worldwide distribution followed on from his own distribution).
Music is magic. It's been mankind's magic since the first caveman danced around his fire going "Ugga bugga, hugga bugga!" That was music, and he was happy. And we're still doing it, and it makes us happy.
I think he means European dance music is still doing that;-)
iTunes is a good idea. It delivers the music to you cheap, pays us, doesn't cheat anybody, and it cuts out all middlemen -- very good
I don't think so, Mr. Crosby! Cuts out all middlemen? The RIAA are still there taking their fat chunk. The artists get a tiny chunk. Of course, if you're smart enough to release tracks directly to Apple (like Ben Folds has been doing lately), then you can get a lot more.. but most RIAA-promoted artists can't do this.
This is probably going to attract a bit of heat, but I think the Xbox is actually going to do a lot of good for the PC games industry. Let's face it, the PS2 was totally soaring ahead a couple of years ago with almost no competition. It's still big, but there's a second choice now.
The PC games market has been eroding somewhat, due to the high cost of entry, and the fact that most modern games simply won't run properly on even current OEM boxes (i.e. ones with onboard video). You need to spend $200 on a video card to get a game above console quality, unless you're playing titles like Half-Life or Quake 3! Farcry? Forget it, you need to be spending even more.
The Xbox is keeping developers interested in developing games on a PC-like architecture, and this means that they will either develop for the PC first, and tweak over to the Xbox, or vice versa. Simply, it means the PC won't die as a gaming platform, as long as the Xbox is popular, and as long as Microsoft doesn't get too heavy with 'Xbox exclusive' titles.. and considering Halo is out on the PC, this doesn't appear to be the case.
There's one episode where it takes Homer forever to get to work (for some reason I'm thinking it might be the stonemason episode) and he pulls up in the parking lot and waves to Bart who's in the garden of their house. In that episode the nuclear power plant's parking lot backed onto the Simpsons' garden, whereas this map doesn't reflect that;-)
Yes, yes, I know.. The Simpsons is not accurate, which kinda makes a map pointless.
It's good to see games like this coming out, but I'd really like to see them do some Internet multiplayer action.
I'm naturally very competitive, and would be more likely to play for longer (and harder) if I was trying to whoop someone's ass on the Internet. Beating the game itself is one thing, but I guess I just want to kick someone else's ass. A lot of people jog or run in clubs, rather than alone, for this reason, so it could easily work online with dance games.
It's also the only reason I'll play DDR if I'm out with friends, so two of us can play, and I can win *g*
I learned about it while consulting with a potential client who's an expert in the nutritional field (never turned into a client, but never mind). I am struggling to find any truly objective sources on the net, they seem to be vegetarian sites or die-hard protein sites, although this may be a start.
However, the base story comes from the fact that people in non-famined Africa will naturally gravitate towards a diet rich in fibers and grains, and Eskimos can easily eat semi-raw meat, yet both aren't known (like Westerners) to suffer from constipation or malnutrition. It all comes down to genetics at the end of the day, and while indigenous populations such as certain people in Africa, and eskimos, can have fixed dietary types.. mongrel types such as Europeans or Americans could be likely to swing iin either direction.
I tend to find a low meat, high carbohydrate, and high fiber diet works best for me.. but some people swear by high meat diets, and don't get the constipation that I would if I ate like them.
If you're terribly overweight you might consider getting down to a managable weight before you subject your joints to irreparable damage.
Agreed.
Quite simply you lose weight by cutting calories.
Agreed.
Only eat fruits and vegetables.
This is not good advice! There are large categories of people whose digestion and metabolic systems are optimized towards meat eating. While your advice will work for some people, it will hurt others. Of course, they should give it a try to see if it works for them, but cutting out meat and only eating fruit and veg could be dangerous with the wrong person.
Calories are easy to remove in any diet. You just need to cut out those 'odd things' which throw an immediate 500 calories a day extra into your diet (e.g. chocolate bars, regular sodas).
I was in a similar position to you several months ago, so I bought DDR (PC version!) an el-cheapo dance mat, and began. Unfortunately setting it all up and running DDR every day became a chore, so the mat eventually got rolled up and stored away. It also didn't seem to do my fitness much good, as it was too intense for too short a time.
Three months ago I came up with a different plan, and that would be to diet to lose enough weight to get down to a weight where exercise would be easy. The fact is, if you're obese, exercise is not easy, and exercise is not the way to lose weight if you're obese. After having your ample bosom ache from banging up and down and having chafed thighs, you quickly realise this.
I picked a few different foods I liked which weren't too unhealthy and added up to a sensible amount of calories. Then I ate those foods for three months. Now I'm 29lbs down on where I was, and exercise is eassssy!
Now I run or walk daily, and could easily get into DDR again if I could be bothered setting it up every day. I have another 25lbs or so to go, but I got half way just through eating less (but not cutting out anything I really liked). So once you're half way, exercise becomes a joy, rather than a painful chore.
Some people use their laptops for more than a walkman and a typewriter.
I can't think of many people, beyond video producers and 3d modellers, who'd need more CPU power than I need to do development work, use the Internet quickly, play music, use Photoshop and Illustrator, and all that jazz. And sure, those people can spend 2x the money on the IBM. For the majority of the world, however, we've already got the technology there for the right price.
I'd already been using the notebook for two hours when I made my comment, I can get about 6.5 hours out of the iBook so far (it's new, this will fall in a few months). Tom's Hardware gives the T40 an average of 300 minutes' battery time, which is somewhat less, for double the money.
I am rarely interested in justifying my purchases, but unlike most other times, it appears this one time I haven't made a significant screw up;-) (I must confess, I know someone with a Centrino 1.6GHz with USXGA+ screen, and it's pretty cool having that extra power there.. but now I've been won over to OS X, which has made me ridiculously more productive than I ever was in Windows, I don't care too much;-))
Generally I think the other way around might work better.. eliminate income tax and increase VAT and duties. That way my income tax isn't helping to pay the recovered VAT and duties on people who want to buy speedboats and second homes.
The classic rebuttal to this is that increasing VAT and dropping income tax would hurt the poor. As someone who is poor(ish), I'd have to disagree, since the poor buy less goods anyway, so even though they'd gain less from an income tax cut, they'd also not be paying relatively more with an increased VAT.
Tax consumption, not my hard toil to get a few beans in my pocket.
If it meant better battery life, I could live with a processor this slow in a laptop, but according to the linked story, AMD doesn't see much a market for that.
A month ago I was in the market for a notebook, and I saw the regular P4 books, Celerons, Centrinos and the Apples, and I thought having an Apple would be great.. but the MHz for the price was just too low. Could I live with a 1GHz iBook I wondered?
A month later, I'm here sitting in my garden at 1.37am with my 1GHz iBook, and honestly can't work out why I'd need those extra MHz. I program, do some MySQL stuff, SSH a lot, play MP3s.. it seems the 1GHz copes with this excellently.
So, you could say I'm a convert.. not just to Apple or OS X, but to the concept that more megahertz aren't always needed. Unfortunately PC diehards (as I was) find this a really hard barrier to break through, and want the 2-3GHz crazy stuff going on in their notebooks. Well, I know my battery here will last me till at least 6am (though it's a bit too cold to stay out here till then, I think!) and I know it's fast enough for everything I want to do.
Could AMD convince people of this? Sadly I don't think so.
I'm being a little grim, but of course a lot more than 17.5p goes to the tax man.
Probably about 30% of what goes to the artist also goes to the tax man (in income tax), another bit will go to the tax man in terms of the VAT the artist spends on items (don't forget his car tax!), some of the money that goes to the record company also goes to the tax man in corporation taxes, employer NICs, and taxes on interest on money in the bank;-)
I'd love to see such statistics actually worked out properly and put into graphic form. I bet the tax man ends up with his hands on at least 75% of the national wealth through all of the various taxes, double taxes, duties, and so on.
Unless you have a veranda or porch where you can get a little shade so you can see the screen, I recommend chosing your times wisely.
It starts getting light here (the UK) at about 3.45am, and I enjoy going out at this time. By 5.30am, of course, it's full daylight. Then at the other end of the day you get a nice light between 8.30pm and 10pm. The beauty of these times is also that it's not too hot to be sitting around, and there are also less flies/buzzy things about. Of course, not everyone has as loose a schedule as I do, and may not find these times ideal! (I do, as I sleep during the late morning and early afternoon, I like some night-time in my life!)
When iTunes Music Store came out selling tracks for 99 cents a pop, I prophesized that any European version would sell tracks for 99 pence per track instead of the equivalent of 99 US cents, or even 99 EU cents. All of the stores which are coming out so far have proven this true. Let's see what Apple does, but I can almost guarantee they'll go in at the same price point.
As a comparison, 79 pence is approx. $1.38, and 99 pence is approx. $1.74. With most UK digital music stores hovering around the 99 pence mark, that means Brits are being charged 74% more than Americans on average. Oh well, I guess nothing changes, and as typical we'll all keel over and accept it. If UK salaries were 74% higher than American ones you couldn't complain, but it seems to be the other way around, still.
I (generally) don't consume caffeine very much. But I once drank 1.5l (6 cans) of Red Bull in a single night, and didn't feel any different in the hours that followed. I went to sleep a few hours later and slept as soundly as ever. Coffee doesn't seem to perk me up, and caffeine has no noticeable effect. Is this even vaguely normal? Or can certain people have no sensitivity to caffeine at all? I don't tend to be the energetic type anyway, so perhaps it can't fight over that;-)
I've used Mandrake 10 and KDE 3.2 for a while, and sorry.. it's not a patch on OS X. I mean, come on.. no proper window translucency, no magnifying dock, and it's a lot slower. Of course, it's better than Windows.
Okay, not all the detection stuff.. but the permanently lit road studs (we traditionally call them 'cats eyes') exist on a few roads in the UK, and are being tested. It's pretty weird, because most English roads have reflective studs, but I was driving along and these lights were on permanently, it makes the road look like a big Christmas tree.
Anyway, if you're on the UK and wanna go see, drive the A24 dual-carriageway section south of Dorking.
As an aside.. anyone know where I could buy Letter sized paper in the UK? I've looked around Staples and places like that, with no joy. It'd definitely make my business letters and invoices stand out.
Okay, this is entirely cosmetic, but I actually prefer the look of Letter sized paper to A4. A4 is so skinny and tall, whereas Letter seems more proportional and better for letters (no pun intended).
I use to work for Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc. So if you go with $15 dollar headphones, will they stand up to being put on, taken off, people tugging on them, etc. or will you be replacing one set a day due to breakage?
Or, if you're a Virgin Megastore, just get the most painful, uncomfortable, and poorest sound quality headphones available, and then no-one will want to use them anyway;-)
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Yeah, you might want to confirm it. I only heard that he released them through his Attacked by Plastic outfit to iTunes.. but he has also started selling the EPs in the UK and Australia via Sony, so it may be that Sony is involved somewhere in the US process too, or that Sony owns Attacked by Plastic (I haven't been able to find any indication of this, however, and the Sony worldwide distribution followed on from his own distribution).
Music is magic. It's been mankind's magic since the first caveman danced around his fire going "Ugga bugga, hugga bugga!" That was music, and he was happy. And we're still doing it, and it makes us happy.
;-)
I think he means European dance music is still doing that
iTunes is a good idea. It delivers the music to you cheap, pays us, doesn't cheat anybody, and it cuts out all middlemen -- very good
I don't think so, Mr. Crosby! Cuts out all middlemen? The RIAA are still there taking their fat chunk. The artists get a tiny chunk. Of course, if you're smart enough to release tracks directly to Apple (like Ben Folds has been doing lately), then you can get a lot more.. but most RIAA-promoted artists can't do this.
Actually, since there was no Netscape 5, you could say 6.2/1.7 :-)
This is probably going to attract a bit of heat, but I think the Xbox is actually going to do a lot of good for the PC games industry. Let's face it, the PS2 was totally soaring ahead a couple of years ago with almost no competition. It's still big, but there's a second choice now.
The PC games market has been eroding somewhat, due to the high cost of entry, and the fact that most modern games simply won't run properly on even current OEM boxes (i.e. ones with onboard video). You need to spend $200 on a video card to get a game above console quality, unless you're playing titles like Half-Life or Quake 3! Farcry? Forget it, you need to be spending even more.
The Xbox is keeping developers interested in developing games on a PC-like architecture, and this means that they will either develop for the PC first, and tweak over to the Xbox, or vice versa. Simply, it means the PC won't die as a gaming platform, as long as the Xbox is popular, and as long as Microsoft doesn't get too heavy with 'Xbox exclusive' titles.. and considering Halo is out on the PC, this doesn't appear to be the case.
There's one episode where it takes Homer forever to get to work (for some reason I'm thinking it might be the stonemason episode) and he pulls up in the parking lot and waves to Bart who's in the garden of their house. In that episode the nuclear power plant's parking lot backed onto the Simpsons' garden, whereas this map doesn't reflect that ;-)
Yes, yes, I know.. The Simpsons is not accurate, which kinda makes a map pointless.
It's good to see games like this coming out, but I'd really like to see them do some Internet multiplayer action.
I'm naturally very competitive, and would be more likely to play for longer (and harder) if I was trying to whoop someone's ass on the Internet. Beating the game itself is one thing, but I guess I just want to kick someone else's ass. A lot of people jog or run in clubs, rather than alone, for this reason, so it could easily work online with dance games.
It's also the only reason I'll play DDR if I'm out with friends, so two of us can play, and I can win *g*
I want one of these, too bad I just bought a new nikon d70. Its almost as good as having 500 megspx.
;-)
I think you mean your Nikon is almost as good as having 500 millipixels
I learned about it while consulting with a potential client who's an expert in the nutritional field (never turned into a client, but never mind). I am struggling to find any truly objective sources on the net, they seem to be vegetarian sites or die-hard protein sites, although this may be a start.
However, the base story comes from the fact that people in non-famined Africa will naturally gravitate towards a diet rich in fibers and grains, and Eskimos can easily eat semi-raw meat, yet both aren't known (like Westerners) to suffer from constipation or malnutrition. It all comes down to genetics at the end of the day, and while indigenous populations such as certain people in Africa, and eskimos, can have fixed dietary types.. mongrel types such as Europeans or Americans could be likely to swing iin either direction.
I tend to find a low meat, high carbohydrate, and high fiber diet works best for me.. but some people swear by high meat diets, and don't get the constipation that I would if I ate like them.
If you're terribly overweight you might consider getting down to a managable weight before you subject your joints to irreparable damage.
Agreed.
Quite simply you lose weight by cutting calories.
Agreed.
Only eat fruits and vegetables.
This is not good advice! There are large categories of people whose digestion and metabolic systems are optimized towards meat eating. While your advice will work for some people, it will hurt others. Of course, they should give it a try to see if it works for them, but cutting out meat and only eating fruit and veg could be dangerous with the wrong person.
Calories are easy to remove in any diet. You just need to cut out those 'odd things' which throw an immediate 500 calories a day extra into your diet (e.g. chocolate bars, regular sodas).
I was in a similar position to you several months ago, so I bought DDR (PC version!) an el-cheapo dance mat, and began. Unfortunately setting it all up and running DDR every day became a chore, so the mat eventually got rolled up and stored away. It also didn't seem to do my fitness much good, as it was too intense for too short a time.
Three months ago I came up with a different plan, and that would be to diet to lose enough weight to get down to a weight where exercise would be easy. The fact is, if you're obese, exercise is not easy, and exercise is not the way to lose weight if you're obese. After having your ample bosom ache from banging up and down and having chafed thighs, you quickly realise this.
I picked a few different foods I liked which weren't too unhealthy and added up to a sensible amount of calories. Then I ate those foods for three months. Now I'm 29lbs down on where I was, and exercise is eassssy!
Now I run or walk daily, and could easily get into DDR again if I could be bothered setting it up every day. I have another 25lbs or so to go, but I got half way just through eating less (but not cutting out anything I really liked). So once you're half way, exercise becomes a joy, rather than a painful chore.
Some people use their laptops for more than a walkman and a typewriter.
;-) (I must confess, I know someone with a Centrino 1.6GHz with USXGA+ screen, and it's pretty cool having that extra power there.. but now I've been won over to OS X, which has made me ridiculously more productive than I ever was in Windows, I don't care too much ;-))
I can't think of many people, beyond video producers and 3d modellers, who'd need more CPU power than I need to do development work, use the Internet quickly, play music, use Photoshop and Illustrator, and all that jazz. And sure, those people can spend 2x the money on the IBM. For the majority of the world, however, we've already got the technology there for the right price.
I'd already been using the notebook for two hours when I made my comment, I can get about 6.5 hours out of the iBook so far (it's new, this will fall in a few months). Tom's Hardware gives the T40 an average of 300 minutes' battery time, which is somewhat less, for double the money.
I am rarely interested in justifying my purchases, but unlike most other times, it appears this one time I haven't made a significant screw up
Generally I think the other way around might work better.. eliminate income tax and increase VAT and duties. That way my income tax isn't helping to pay the recovered VAT and duties on people who want to buy speedboats and second homes.
The classic rebuttal to this is that increasing VAT and dropping income tax would hurt the poor. As someone who is poor(ish), I'd have to disagree, since the poor buy less goods anyway, so even though they'd gain less from an income tax cut, they'd also not be paying relatively more with an increased VAT.
Tax consumption, not my hard toil to get a few beans in my pocket.
If it meant better battery life, I could live with a processor this slow in a laptop, but according to the linked story, AMD doesn't see much a market for that.
A month ago I was in the market for a notebook, and I saw the regular P4 books, Celerons, Centrinos and the Apples, and I thought having an Apple would be great.. but the MHz for the price was just too low. Could I live with a 1GHz iBook I wondered?
A month later, I'm here sitting in my garden at 1.37am with my 1GHz iBook, and honestly can't work out why I'd need those extra MHz. I program, do some MySQL stuff, SSH a lot, play MP3s.. it seems the 1GHz copes with this excellently.
So, you could say I'm a convert.. not just to Apple or OS X, but to the concept that more megahertz aren't always needed. Unfortunately PC diehards (as I was) find this a really hard barrier to break through, and want the 2-3GHz crazy stuff going on in their notebooks. Well, I know my battery here will last me till at least 6am (though it's a bit too cold to stay out here till then, I think!) and I know it's fast enough for everything I want to do.
Could AMD convince people of this? Sadly I don't think so.
I'm being a little grim, but of course a lot more than 17.5p goes to the tax man.
;-)
Probably about 30% of what goes to the artist also goes to the tax man (in income tax), another bit will go to the tax man in terms of the VAT the artist spends on items (don't forget his car tax!), some of the money that goes to the record company also goes to the tax man in corporation taxes, employer NICs, and taxes on interest on money in the bank
I'd love to see such statistics actually worked out properly and put into graphic form. I bet the tax man ends up with his hands on at least 75% of the national wealth through all of the various taxes, double taxes, duties, and so on.
Unless you have a veranda or porch where you can get a little shade so you can see the screen, I recommend chosing your times wisely.
It starts getting light here (the UK) at about 3.45am, and I enjoy going out at this time. By 5.30am, of course, it's full daylight. Then at the other end of the day you get a nice light between 8.30pm and 10pm. The beauty of these times is also that it's not too hot to be sitting around, and there are also less flies/buzzy things about. Of course, not everyone has as loose a schedule as I do, and may not find these times ideal! (I do, as I sleep during the late morning and early afternoon, I like some night-time in my life!)
When iTunes Music Store came out selling tracks for 99 cents a pop, I prophesized that any European version would sell tracks for 99 pence per track instead of the equivalent of 99 US cents, or even 99 EU cents. All of the stores which are coming out so far have proven this true. Let's see what Apple does, but I can almost guarantee they'll go in at the same price point.
As a comparison, 79 pence is approx. $1.38, and 99 pence is approx. $1.74. With most UK digital music stores hovering around the 99 pence mark, that means Brits are being charged 74% more than Americans on average. Oh well, I guess nothing changes, and as typical we'll all keel over and accept it. If UK salaries were 74% higher than American ones you couldn't complain, but it seems to be the other way around, still.
I (generally) don't consume caffeine very much. But I once drank 1.5l (6 cans) of Red Bull in a single night, and didn't feel any different in the hours that followed. I went to sleep a few hours later and slept as soundly as ever. Coffee doesn't seem to perk me up, and caffeine has no noticeable effect. Is this even vaguely normal? Or can certain people have no sensitivity to caffeine at all? I don't tend to be the energetic type anyway, so perhaps it can't fight over that ;-)
Bzzt, you can't just blame Bush. Even if it were his idea, he got the backing and approval from other political houses.
Yeah, and if you're into neology enough, you can develop your whole own individuocabulary (yes, if you Google for this, you get results, all me).
I've used Mandrake 10 and KDE 3.2 for a while, and sorry.. it's not a patch on OS X. I mean, come on.. no proper window translucency, no magnifying dock, and it's a lot slower. Of course, it's better than Windows.
Weird, I've never noticed a camera there. And I actually like the lights, it makes me feel like I'm driving through a computer game or something :-D
Okay, not all the detection stuff.. but the permanently lit road studs (we traditionally call them 'cats eyes') exist on a few roads in the UK, and are being tested. It's pretty weird, because most English roads have reflective studs, but I was driving along and these lights were on permanently, it makes the road look like a big Christmas tree.
Anyway, if you're on the UK and wanna go see, drive the A24 dual-carriageway section south of Dorking.
As an aside.. anyone know where I could buy Letter sized paper in the UK? I've looked around Staples and places like that, with no joy. It'd definitely make my business letters and invoices stand out.
Okay, this is entirely cosmetic, but I actually prefer the look of Letter sized paper to A4. A4 is so skinny and tall, whereas Letter seems more proportional and better for letters (no pun intended).
I use to work for Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc. So if you go with $15 dollar headphones, will they stand up to being put on, taken off, people tugging on them, etc. or will you be replacing one set a day due to breakage?
;-)
Or, if you're a Virgin Megastore, just get the most painful, uncomfortable, and poorest sound quality headphones available, and then no-one will want to use them anyway