According to the X3D website's live commentary, 1.2 million people watched the match last Tuesday, double the regular viewership of the regular ESPN channel. Hopefully this bodes well for more televised chess in the future
A good shortcut that's much easier than reading law school casebooks is do what law students do: buy legal outlines, nutshells, audio tapes, hornbooks (ok maybe not hornbooks), etc. for the subjects you're interested in. The authors of them condense law and legal precedent into an organized and easy to follow book. Legal textbooks are terrible for learning the law because they're *designed* to confuse you.
I doubt even if Taiwan declared their independence PRC would do anything. They've totally lost their socialist ways and are greedy as hell. All they care about is money. If they start a war with Taiwan, the longer it takes the more money they're gonna lose when factories close down and foreign businesses leave. The Chinese have a strong sense of pride but I bet the bulging wallets of the party honchos will probably get the better of them.
That's weird. Every mobile phone company I've dealt with has a tryout period before which you can cancel your contract. I know Sprint has a 2 week policy, Cingular has a 1 week (IIRC) policy, and T-mobile had only a 3 day policy. But they all allow you to try out the phone and cancel w/o penalties if you decide to cancel service before the trial period was up.
1) There are many other countries that decided to have CDMA networks besides U.S., Korea, and Japan: Canada, China Mexico to name just a few off the top of my head.
2) Spectrum: You have to buyu a lot more spectrum to switch from GSM -> UMTS then from CDMA -> CDMA 2000. Why? Because of the backwards compatibility of CDMA 2000, old CDMA phones can still communicate with CDMA2000 networks. Meanwhile, GSM operators will have to buy lots of new (expensive) spectrum, then for at least a while operate both the GSM and UMTS networks! (or they could give everyone new phones but that is equally as expensive).
3) U.S. operators didn't go with CDMA2000 simply because it was developed by Qualcomm. U.S. CDMA operators went with CDMA2000 because of the backwards compatibility. AFAIK, the TDMA/GSM operators in the U.S. will probably go with UMTS.
But the *primary purpose* of Napster is to trade illegally copyrighted music. If Chevy or Ford made cars knowing that most of the uses were for illegal purposes and did almost nothing to stop them, they would also be in big trouble.
Actually, it reminds me about that Law and Order Wednesday about the gun manufacturer...
They also garnered royalties from publishing their music. Before there were recordings, the only way to reproduce the music was to have someone else play it or learn to play it yourself.
> let music be free, and let musicians make money playing music
that's all fine and dandy, but maybe there are musicians that can't do that. For example, maybe the band hired a huge symphony orchestra as backup and can't afford to take ~100 members on tour. Maybe the musicians have terrible stage fright or other psychological problems playing in front of thousands of people and make their living thru recordings only. Would you want to drive them out of business even though they might be really great musicians?
that was because vqf was a proprietary format, plus the fact that their encoder took forever to encode anything. I'm personally glad to see other open digital music formats out there so people don't always get the impression that MP3 == digital music.
well the retails store pocket about 50% of the money you pay to them. They actually buy the CD's for ~$8, and subtracting distributors, marketing, (radio, ads) record labels don't actually make all that much money.
I've seen some classical pieces on Napster. The main problem is how they search the music and the criterias you can specify. For classical music, they need to add fields like composer, conductor, orchestra, soloist(s). Plus, you're likely to find only 1 movement of a piece at a time...
Well CD prices are well below $18-$19 online at places such as 800.com or chead-cds.com. Even with shipping they come out to like $14 a CD, while not a lot cheaper, will still save you money. Or join one of the CD clubs such as BMG and wait for one of their sales of unlimited $2.99/CD.
Please... There's not a single person who has claimed seeing W doing any drugs. Meanwhile, Roger Clinton said his brother had a nose like a vaccum cleaner...
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How is the service up north in Finland and Sweden in the less populated areas?
According to the X3D website's live commentary, 1.2 million people watched the match last Tuesday, double the regular viewership of the regular ESPN channel. Hopefully this bodes well for more televised chess in the future
A good shortcut that's much easier than reading law school casebooks is do what law students do: buy legal outlines, nutshells, audio tapes, hornbooks (ok maybe not hornbooks), etc. for the subjects you're interested in. The authors of them condense law and legal precedent into an organized and easy to follow book. Legal textbooks are terrible for learning the law because they're *designed* to confuse you.
I doubt even if Taiwan declared their independence PRC would do anything. They've totally lost their socialist ways and are greedy as hell. All they care about is money. If they start a war with Taiwan, the longer it takes the more money they're gonna lose when factories close down and foreign businesses leave. The Chinese have a strong sense of pride but I bet the bulging wallets of the party honchos will probably get the better of them.
In the U.S., at least, you can already purchase a CDMA 1x PC Card for $200 that will get you speeds over 100kbps.
China is just one country that mandates R-UIM (SIM for CDMA phones) cards for CDMA phones. Hopefully that technology will soon migrate to the U.S.
That's weird. Every mobile phone company I've dealt with has a tryout period before which you can cancel your contract. I know Sprint has a 2 week policy, Cingular has a 1 week (IIRC) policy, and T-mobile had only a 3 day policy. But they all allow you to try out the phone and cancel w/o penalties if you decide to cancel service before the trial period was up.
1) There are many other countries that decided to have CDMA networks besides U.S., Korea, and Japan: Canada, China Mexico to name just a few off the top of my head.
2) Spectrum: You have to buyu a lot more spectrum to switch from GSM -> UMTS then from CDMA -> CDMA 2000. Why? Because of the backwards compatibility of CDMA 2000, old CDMA phones can still communicate with CDMA2000 networks. Meanwhile, GSM operators will have to buy lots of new (expensive) spectrum, then for at least a while operate both the GSM and UMTS networks! (or they could give everyone new phones but that is equally as expensive).
3) U.S. operators didn't go with CDMA2000 simply because it was developed by Qualcomm. U.S. CDMA operators went with CDMA2000 because of the backwards compatibility. AFAIK, the TDMA/GSM operators in the U.S. will probably go with UMTS.
But the *primary purpose* of Napster is to trade illegally copyrighted music. If Chevy or Ford made cars knowing that most of the uses were for illegal purposes and did almost nothing to stop them, they would also be in big trouble.
Actually, it reminds me about that Law and Order Wednesday about the gun manufacturer...
They also garnered royalties from publishing their music. Before there were recordings, the only way to reproduce the music was to have someone else play it or learn to play it yourself.
> let music be free, and let musicians make money playing music
that's all fine and dandy, but maybe there are musicians that can't do that. For example, maybe the band hired a huge symphony orchestra as backup and can't afford to take ~100 members on tour. Maybe the musicians have terrible stage fright or other psychological problems playing in front of thousands of people and make their living thru recordings only. Would you want to drive them out of business even though they might be really great musicians?
that was because vqf was a proprietary format, plus the fact that their encoder took forever to encode anything. I'm personally glad to see other open digital music formats out there so people don't always get the impression that MP3 == digital music.
I'm waiting for SACD's to come down in price... At least they should sound a lot closer to analog than CD's...
why did this get modded flamebait?
I see no harm in losing fans who won't pay a cent for your music anyway.
really... my university banned it a while back so my memory must be a bit hazy....
not really...
the way to search for napster is by artist name or song title and if you're an unknown artist, there's very little napster will do to promote you.
well the retails store pocket about 50% of the money you pay to them. They actually buy the CD's for ~$8, and subtracting distributors, marketing, (radio, ads) record labels don't actually make all that much money.
I've seen some classical pieces on Napster. The main problem is how they search the music and the criterias you can specify. For classical music, they need to add fields like composer, conductor, orchestra, soloist(s). Plus, you're likely to find only 1 movement of a piece at a time...
Well CD prices are well below $18-$19 online at places such as 800.com or chead-cds.com. Even with shipping they come out to like $14 a CD, while not a lot cheaper, will still save you money. Or join one of the CD clubs such as BMG and wait for one of their sales of unlimited $2.99/CD.
Right, but I'm just stating the fact that I believe if one has a large enough following, you could stop touring and live solely on recording profits.
Actually, a very well know pianist, Glenn Gould, retired from touring and made his living exclusively on proceeds from his recordings.
Please... There's not a single person who has claimed seeing W doing any drugs. Meanwhile, Roger Clinton said his brother had a nose like a vaccum cleaner...