What makes you think there is a "true" free market anywhere? Theories of how a free market work are all well and good, but you need regulation to stop it descending into chaos and anarchy.
Think of any tangible good that's bought and sold. There's regulation there to keep the market running smoothly. Although these regulations may seem to be the antithesis of free-marketism, they keep things going by "legalising civility" (if i can coin a phrase) between buyer and seller.
Of course you can tinker with them. Go up to the menu for the application, next to the apple in the top left, and select "Preferences". Then you can tinker to your heart's content. It's wikkid k00l.
Obviously if a million believers can't figure it out what could a scientist accomplish?
Reading that reminded me of something I once read: If I wanted to move a mountain, I'd rather have a couple of guys with shovels than a thousand people with faith
If I may rephrase, and bring this in a little closer - we're talking about kids in school here aren't we.
So to rephrase your sentence "Why is an action by a person an automatic reflection of their family?" We all do it. Kid's a real shit so we assume that it done been raised bad.
A school is like an extended family. They assume responsibility for educating the child and inculcating some values that the parents are happy with. If a child is wearing a school uniform or otherwise identifies themselves as a member of a particular school, then any bad behaviour by the child reflects upon the school by virtue of the assumption that if the school had done a proper job, the bad behaviour wouldn't be happening.
At a young age, the child would be disciplined in the usual manner. Older kids approaching adulthood (like this one) are expected to know that their bad behaviour can have serious consequences. He did, and it did. Tough lesson.
Target (to use your example) isn't an extended family, nor are they trying to impart any moral values into its employees.
thanks. i was wondering about the whole 'grain of sand' thing." i thought is was "To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower..." which didn't really make sense.
OK when I said no-one cares, I was rounding off my estimate of the number that do care divided by my estimate of the total number of people who are interested in music and got a number that's pretty close to zero... (It's the Douglas Adams approach to maths - population of the universe: nil...)
I'm happy that you're happy, but Ogg/is/ an obscure format. Ask around your non-geek friends about the Ogg Vorbis format and see what happens. Do a poll: ask about WAV, AAC, MP3, OGG and FLAC. Then explain the difference and watch their eyes glaze over.
What I get from your post is that you ripped your CDs into an obscure format and will base your player purchases on that. Great. I'm happy for you.
I'm not making myself feel better about the iPod's inability to play Ogg files by dismissing it as obscure, I'm just sick of reading "does it play Ogg files" on/. Outside of/., no-one cares. I got the shits with people asking that long before I bought an iPod (a nano). It's a stupid question. It won't play Mac SND files either but I really don't see that as a limitation, nor do I expect Apple to add this 'functionality' any time soon.
While the ipod will never be all things to all people, it's most things to most people. Without Ogg.
>>p.s. Do you have any live albums on your iPod?
No. Haven't heard a good one since Supertramp Live in Paris and I only own that on vinyl, another format my stoopid iPod can't handle.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html/ They didn't exactly promote it, but it's there. In the middle column down the bottom of the page. Just behind a sign that says "beware of the leopard":-) .
Maybe it requires some new connector thingy...
As far as playing obscure file formats, yes they do have enough power. But you know what? No-one cares. Really. No-one. A lot of people I know can barely understand what an MP3 file is. They just want teh nice sounds in their head. Yes, they may be ignorant, but they are buying iPods. Not Neuroses.
If you've hacked FrontRow to play on your other Macs, don't d/l the 10.4.3 update that came out today. It breaks the hacked frontrow. See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ for details.
'Whales are fucking stupid. Can you mention one whale in the history of mankind that has had a record in the top ten? Can you? Can you mention one whale who's written the equivalent of, er, 'Othello', Shakespeare, 'Health & Efficiency'? They've produced nothing in the way of literature. All they've fucking produced is a load of other whales and all they eat is fucking plankton, and they call them intelligent. Can you imagine drifting along in the sea with your mouth open and a lot of fucking plankton going in?'
Disclaimer: I know nothing. I think it goes like this:
Band in US signs a deal with a manager. Manager gets a recording/distribution deal with US record company. US record company takes care of recording, pressing, promoting and distributing in the US. That's their area of expertise so that's what they do. That's a separate pile of money.
Then US record company arranges to have music distributed in Country X by Company B. Company B then assumes all promotional responsibility (and costs) for this band in this country. They make money (pile B), some of which goes back to US Record Company.
Enter iTMS and globalisation...
If the band's music can be bought from the iTMS (US) by anyone in the world, Company B is going to say "Sheeeit, bro, ain't no way I'm takin' on dat sukka" so the music never really gets promoted in Country X so the band (may) sell LESS music than before.
It's not really an artificial market, but it's dividing the bits up so (for example) Sony AU can do the best for it's local area and Sony JP can do its best for its local area and so on. I suppose it all comes down to promotion. Except for a few exceptional bands, everyone requires promotion and this may be geographically based. No-one in the US cares about Grinspoon and AFAIK, only three people in AU know about Phish. The internet is not the great leveller we all think it is. Maybe in time, but not now.
Having just purchased a Nano, I was curious to find out what effect it would have on my hearing while riding. Answer: none that I would worry about.
1. Once you go faster than a slow ride, there's enough wind noise to cut down hearing anything else by at least 50%. The iPod buds are less intrusive than this.
2. There's not a whole lot of road noise to hear anyway. Modern cars are so quiet that a cyclist has to rely on seeing the cars rather than hearing them.
It's not illegal for car drivers to have their windows up, radio on and aircon blasting away. When I do that in my car, I can't hear shit. I have watched emergency service vehicles come up behind me, sirens blaring, and I couldn't hear them. My radio's not up loud. So if no-one cares that car drivers can't hear anything, and aren't required to (deafness is not an impediment to getting a driver's licence) then I don't understand why people get all out of whack about those damned cyclists with their damned headphones on.
Hi. I agree with your post about labelling 100% but I'd like to point out that a gene doesn't know if it's "plant" or "animal". Whether it comes about by genetic mods or random mutation, it just "is". I understand your point though. The point against GMOs is we have developed a range of generally foods over millennia by the trial and error method: "Urg didn't die, therefore it's safe to eat". GMOs don't necessarily take into account that a gene from a "safe" source inserted into the genome of another "safe" plant/animal won't necessarily result in something that is safe. Biology's funny like that. Just when you think you understand it, nature will throw you a curve ball. The scientist in the lab studying the phenomenon in isolation can say "Hmmm, how odd" but what will the manufacturer say if the curve ball turns out to be lethal...
And who would stick their dick in a pumpkin. Watermelons are much nicer...
I daresay that had he been living in the Third World, his condition would have been recognised immediately.
It became an item of news because city-folk think leprosy hasn't existed since the 1600s. It's real, it happens and it could have been missed by any city GP in any white patient. Rare diseases happen rarely, and doctors miss them.
In the past, I have seen much time and money going straight to the "victims" with absolutely zero improvement.
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What makes you think there is a "true" free market anywhere? Theories of how a free market work are all well and good, but you need regulation to stop it descending into chaos and anarchy.
Think of any tangible good that's bought and sold. There's regulation there to keep the market running smoothly. Although these regulations may seem to be the antithesis of free-marketism, they keep things going by "legalising civility" (if i can coin a phrase) between buyer and seller.
Of course you can tinker with them. Go up to the menu for the application, next to the apple in the top left, and select "Preferences". Then you can tinker to your heart's content. It's wikkid k00l.
Then u can tell all your buds about it in iChat.
I think the free market would offer you the choice between "buy" or "not buy" rather than "buy" or "steal*".
*can we skip the semantic arguments just this once.
Obviously if a million believers can't figure it out what could a scientist accomplish?
Reading that reminded me of something I once read: If I wanted to move a mountain, I'd rather have a couple of guys with shovels than a thousand people with faith
If I may rephrase, and bring this in a little closer - we're talking about kids in school here aren't we.
So to rephrase your sentence "Why is an action by a person an automatic reflection of their family?" We all do it. Kid's a real shit so we assume that it done been raised bad.
A school is like an extended family. They assume responsibility for educating the child and inculcating some values that the parents are happy with. If a child is wearing a school uniform or otherwise identifies themselves as a member of a particular school, then any bad behaviour by the child reflects upon the school by virtue of the assumption that if the school had done a proper job, the bad behaviour wouldn't be happening.
At a young age, the child would be disciplined in the usual manner. Older kids approaching adulthood (like this one) are expected to know that their bad behaviour can have serious consequences. He did, and it did. Tough lesson.
Target (to use your example) isn't an extended family, nor are they trying to impart any moral values into its employees.
Too true. The only thing worth a damn is a bicycle and somewhere to ride to. Or a gym membership and someone to go with.
thanks. i was wondering about the whole 'grain of sand' thing." i thought is was "To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower..." which didn't really make sense.
This is the Apple Slashdot Forum. We're all intelligent, well informed and snappily dressed with nicely decorated apartments.
OK when I said no-one cares, I was rounding off my estimate of the number that do care divided by my estimate of the total number of people who are interested in music and got a number that's pretty close to zero... (It's the Douglas Adams approach to maths - population of the universe: nil...)
/is/ an obscure format. Ask around your non-geek friends about the Ogg Vorbis format and see what happens. Do a poll: ask about WAV, AAC, MP3, OGG and FLAC. Then explain the difference and watch their eyes glaze over.
/. Outside of /., no-one cares. I got the shits with people asking that long before I bought an iPod (a nano). It's a stupid question. It won't play Mac SND files either but I really don't see that as a limitation, nor do I expect Apple to add this 'functionality' any time soon.
I'm happy that you're happy, but Ogg
What I get from your post is that you ripped your CDs into an obscure format and will base your player purchases on that. Great. I'm happy for you.
I'm not making myself feel better about the iPod's inability to play Ogg files by dismissing it as obscure, I'm just sick of reading "does it play Ogg files" on
While the ipod will never be all things to all people, it's most things to most people. Without Ogg.
>>p.s. Do you have any live albums on your iPod?
No. Haven't heard a good one since Supertramp Live in Paris and I only own that on vinyl, another format my stoopid iPod can't handle.
iPod with video:
:-) .
# Voice recording settings:
* Low (22.05 KHz, mono)
* High (44.1 KHz, stereo)
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html/ They didn't exactly promote it, but it's there. In the middle column down the bottom of the page. Just behind a sign that says "beware of the leopard"
Maybe it requires some new connector thingy...
As far as playing obscure file formats, yes they do have enough power. But you know what? No-one cares. Really. No-one. A lot of people I know can barely understand what an MP3 file is. They just want teh nice sounds in their head. Yes, they may be ignorant, but they are buying iPods. Not Neuroses.
Any marital subsuming should only happen in the privacy of a locked bedroom. With the curtains shut. And the kids at Aunty Flo's.
If you've hacked FrontRow to play on your other Macs, don't d/l the 10.4.3 update that came out today. It breaks the hacked frontrow. See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ for details.
Try JB Hi-Fi. You'll get a lot of albums for $15. Wow Sight and Sound is another place to try.
For brand new top 40 type stuff, sure $20 minimum. But for everything else you can get a better price.
Annoyingly, I've seen albums on the AU iTMS for $17.99. All the Massive Attack stuff, for instance. I thought the album price was capped at $16.99.
don't u mean your SXNI and CD\CA albums?
Those lying bloody kiwis. How low can they stoop? Pretending to be Aussies!
'Whales are fucking stupid. Can you mention one whale in the history of mankind that has had a record in the top ten? Can you? Can you mention one whale who's written the equivalent of, er, 'Othello', Shakespeare, 'Health & Efficiency'? They've produced nothing in the way of literature. All they've fucking produced is a load of other whales and all they eat is fucking plankton, and they call them intelligent. Can you imagine drifting along in the sea with your mouth open and a lot of fucking plankton going in?'
Disclaimer: I know nothing.
I think it goes like this:
Band in US signs a deal with a manager. Manager gets a recording/distribution deal with US record company. US record company takes care of recording, pressing, promoting and distributing in the US. That's their area of expertise so that's what they do. That's a separate pile of money.
Then US record company arranges to have music distributed in Country X by Company B. Company B then assumes all promotional responsibility (and costs) for this band in this country. They make money (pile B), some of which goes back to US Record Company.
Enter iTMS and globalisation...
If the band's music can be bought from the iTMS (US) by anyone in the world, Company B is going to say "Sheeeit, bro, ain't no way I'm takin' on dat sukka" so the music never really gets promoted in Country X so the band (may) sell LESS music than before.
It's not really an artificial market, but it's dividing the bits up so (for example) Sony AU can do the best for it's local area and Sony JP can do its best for its local area and so on. I suppose it all comes down to promotion. Except for a few exceptional bands, everyone requires promotion and this may be geographically based. No-one in the US cares about Grinspoon and AFAIK, only three people in AU know about Phish. The internet is not the great leveller we all think it is. Maybe in time, but not now.
Disclaimer: I know nothing.
No. You can't touch iTMS.au
Not until you admit we play rugby AND cricket better than you.
We are the champions my friend...
There's only two stations I listen to: Triple J and Classic FM.
Long live independent government funded radio!
Having just purchased a Nano, I was curious to find out what effect it would have on my hearing while riding. Answer: none that I would worry about.
1. Once you go faster than a slow ride, there's enough wind noise to cut down hearing anything else by at least 50%. The iPod buds are less intrusive than this.
2. There's not a whole lot of road noise to hear anyway. Modern cars are so quiet that a cyclist has to rely on seeing the cars rather than hearing them.
It's not illegal for car drivers to have their windows up, radio on and aircon blasting away. When I do that in my car, I can't hear shit. I have watched emergency service vehicles come up behind me, sirens blaring, and I couldn't hear them. My radio's not up loud. So if no-one cares that car drivers can't hear anything, and aren't required to (deafness is not an impediment to getting a driver's licence) then I don't understand why people get all out of whack about those damned cyclists with their damned headphones on.
Speaking of which, it's time to listen to some space music http://207.200.96.225:8020/ mmmm spacey.
If you'd posted with your name, I'd now know more about you than I ever really wanted to.
That would be bad enough, but since you posted AC, I now suspect everyone...
Hi. I agree with your post about labelling 100% but I'd like to point out that a gene doesn't know if it's "plant" or "animal". Whether it comes about by genetic mods or random mutation, it just "is". I understand your point though. The point against GMOs is we have developed a range of generally foods over millennia by the trial and error method: "Urg didn't die, therefore it's safe to eat". GMOs don't necessarily take into account that a gene from a "safe" source inserted into the genome of another "safe" plant/animal won't necessarily result in something that is safe. Biology's funny like that. Just when you think you understand it, nature will throw you a curve ball. The scientist in the lab studying the phenomenon in isolation can say "Hmmm, how odd" but what will the manufacturer say if the curve ball turns out to be lethal...
And who would stick their dick in a pumpkin. Watermelons are much nicer...
Seems an Italian migrant living in Cuba invented the telephone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell #The_telephone_and_patent_issues/
Looks like a bad sand sculpture. The "skull" looks solid. Like a chunk of sand...
I daresay that had he been living in the Third World, his condition would have been recognised immediately.
It became an item of news because city-folk think leprosy hasn't existed since the 1600s. It's real, it happens and it could have been missed by any city GP in any white patient. Rare diseases happen rarely, and doctors miss them.
In the past, I have seen much time and money going straight to the "victims" with absolutely zero improvement.