The comments so far seem ludicrous. This isn't about a government shakedown or some other Libertarian fever dream, it is about putting people's workplaces near where they live, which saves time, energy, and money and generally makes people happier. The problem with Google, Apple, and the other Bay Area tech companies is that their employees live in the urban core, but they work out in the suburbs. This drives up property values downtown, but deprives the city of the tax revenue that it needs to support the tech workers living environment. If Google and Apple were downtown in high-rises instead of sprawing suburban campuses, more employees could bike or walk to work, spend their lunch breaks in the city they live in, and the rest could get to work on existing public transit instead of having to run two sets of buses on the same streets. Suburban campuses are great for companies whose employees live in the suburbs, but it makes more sense for urban employees to have urban employers.
You could hear concorde's shockwave from 60 miles. Given that concorde traveled at 53,000 ft (ten miles), well you do the math.
I grew up in southern RI, just north of the spot where the Concorde went supersonic. Every day during dinner, all the plates would rattle in the cabinets from the shock wave of the 5:00 flight. At that distance the boom wasn't audible, but there was still enough subsonic energy to shake the house.
... Er, ah... no. As I already said - and I will now paraphrase using your terms so you can feel comfortable - in the real world almost all Christian religions pass a basket. In the real world almost no Buddhist sects pass one.
Hi! Practicing Buddhist here. There is a box by the door of our Zendo (meditation room) that says "Dana" on it (Sanskrit for "Generosity"). We are regularly and gently encouraged to toss a few bucks in. Our practice group rents the space we sit in; and rent, heating, cushions, incense, etc. all cost money. The teachers do not take any salary and all have day jobs, but we all chip in what we can to support our practice.
That fetus didn't sneak in there when the mother wasn't looking. The very definition of responsibility is caring for those affected by your choices, whether the outcome was intentional or not.
Except in the case of rape, which Republicans don't think is an acceptable reason for abortion either. They also are against abortion to save the life of the mother, because a dead woman and a dead baby is OK if it's an act of god, but a live woman and a dead zygote is a worse outcome in their eyes. I think the reality here is the reasons for abortion are complex and difficult, and the decision should be up to the mother, with input from her doctor, pastor, family, etc. or whoever else she trusts.
You are upset because the expenses of releasing a record are charged against the record sales before there is any "profit" to distribute? How is this unfair? Is there any other business sector in which the founders inject no cash, yet expect to take home a large slice of sales before the investors have even received their investment back? And in what sense do record labels demand 100% ownership? The band still has the right to royalties, don't they?
That's not how it works, though. The label gets their cut of profit out of the very first copy sold. After that, all running expenses (pressing, distribution, promotion, 'breakage') also get taken out of each copy sold. Out of what's left, the artist's share, nothing gets distributed until the advance is paid back. Because of this, almost nobody makes any money off of record sales. However, they do get songwriting royalties, which can be a good amount of money if you are getting a lot of radio play. (This is why Pete Townshend is the only super-wealth member of The Who, because he wrote all the songs.)
Who do you think ultimately pays for the advertising, the studio time, the costs of live shows, etc.?
As someone who worked in a recording studio for many years, I can say that very often it's the artist who pays for a lot of that stuff. The days of the 80s and label-funded month-long coke-binge-cum-recording-sessions are long, long gone. Any artist who isn't established enough to be a near-certain money maker for the label is probably paying for studio time, production, and tour costs out of pocket. Even mid-tier artists will only get an advance on the order of $10,000 to $20,000 which doesn't go very far when there are four of five people in the band who need to eat and sleep somewhere on top of hiring a studio.
I certainly know artists who don't want their work shared for free, and I think that copyright of a reasonable term is important to protect their preference, but the system we have now is pretty much built to let corporations steal from the commons and then sell their taking back to the public for ever.
The problem is you get people who are radical Keynesians (not people from Kenya!) who believe spending on something, anything will always be a net benefit.
Well, the point that Keynesians make is that during a demand slump, spending on something, anything will be a net benefit, they don't say that it will ALWAYS be a net benefit. In the current economy, where consumers can't spend because they are debt-constrained, and industry won't spend because there are no customers buying, then government should step in and spend to fill the demand gap and cut taxes to give consumers and industry more spare cash to spend. The corollary to this is during good times, you raise taxes and pay off the debts accrued during the bad times which we were actually doing a great job of until the Bush tax cuts. Since we went into this recession with very low tax rates, further tax cuts have little benefit and it would be, under these specific economic conditions, a net benefit for the government to spend money to put people to work doing almost anything, since they will turn around and spend that money and create further economic activity.
So here is the thing. Government policy in the United States is designed to promote obesity by socializing the costs of obesity. The first cost is the food itself, which the government pays for in the forms of, to name two, food stamps and the earned income tax credit. Everyone in the United States is required, by law, to pay for food to feed fat people. Really. The second cost of obesity, greatly increased medical care, is now socialized as well. Those costs could be reflected immediately to the individual in the price of insurance when the insurance market is deregulated and insurers are permitted to charge fatties more. If all those fatties had to pay for their food and pay more for health insurance then their would be a lot fewer fatties. Instead, now, a person who eats responsibly and exercises and who will require far less medical treatment as a result will pay the same amount for medical insurance as they guy who eats two dozen doughnuts for breakfast.
You do realize that the countries you mention at the beginning of you post (Sweden, Japan, and Uraguay) all have socialized medicine and provide food-stamp like programs for the poor? Nobody wants to be fat and sick. If I told you that if you moved into the projects and quit your job, you could eat Twinkies until you went into a diabetic coma, would you? If you want to look at government causes for obesity look at subsides for grain and sugar farmers, not the fact that now some poor people will get the same medical care as the rich.
There are tons of sound input devices marketed for music recording, and pretty much every price point you'd care to hit. The Prism is pretty top-of-the-line, but I'm sure there is something that would fit your needs if you just want to back up LPs here:
The problem is that if you bring your own phone to a US carrier, you don't get a discounted rate. Effectively, any wireless plan you buy will include a 2-year lock-in and the extra cost for a phone subsidy, wether you use the subsidy or not. There are a few small carriers that don't have long term contracts with built in subsidies, but there is no cost benefit to bringing your own phone to any of the national carriers.
You posted links to two stories of people who claim to be Buddhists being assholes. The asshole monk was defrocked, the article about the asshole businessmen points out repeatedly that their assholeness was extremely un-Buddhist. How does either of those examples even begin to prove your assertion that 'Buddhism is just as exploitative as any other religious cult'?
The DS does have this feature. You can just close the DS and it goes into standby mode at any time and in any game. It's not exactly "powering off", but I've had a battery charge last a week in standby (the game I was playing last Wednesday was still up and waiting for me when I went back to work yesterday).
However, neither situation will fix having to start over if you die in a dungeon that disallows saving.
A DLP system uses three mirrors per pixel of resolution. (Three arrays of mirrors, one each for red, green, and blue.) A MEMS system would use one mirror for the entire image.
The current top-ot-the -line in audio A/D converters are 24-bit, 192kHz, which can be played back on currently available DVD-A players. If you want hi-fidelity audio, buy a DVD-A player, or any one of dozens of multichannel sound cards sold for recording applications.
Qwest hasn't sold anything to anybody. Federal law just says they can, and they reserve the right to. The FCC tried to pass a law requiring people to opt-in to data sharing which was struck down by the federal court, resuting in the current opt-out policy. According to the article, Qwest favored the opt-in version of the law. They're not the ones screwing you out of your privacy, so if you want to rant against someone, let it be the federal government.
Not that anyone is reading this thread any more, but I do DVD authoring for a living. Real time is fine for fixed rate encodes, but variable bit rate encoding (which is needed to get a feature onto a DVD) takes time and expensive hard/software. Apple gives this stuff away and it runs on an $800 iMac.
And as regards your comment that "This is one place the Windows PC platform is way ahead of the Mac", you might want to check your sources. Avid has had real time encoding on a Mac-based system for ten years, and at broadcast, on-line quality for four. The Mac is still the dominant platform in most video houses, and that probably isn't going to change any time soon.
Sony's top-of-the-line encoder runs at about 3:1 time to compress, but that's for variable-bit-rate encoding. If Apple's encoder was benchmarked at a fixed-rate encode, 2:1 is very possible. The problem is that a feature length film done at a fixed rate encode will end up looking like crap if you want to get it on a DVD. Fixed-rate encoding set to high quality will be fine for a half hour program, but getting a quality encode on a big file takes a long time.
Actually, I just checked the apple store and $3500 is for a dual processor 500 MHz G4. Given that, it should probably get twice the price/performance rating than the one it was given.
When I pay for my local DSL access, my fees break down as: $40 to the telco, $10 to the ISP. That's up front on the billing.
Now, to hear that the telco (AOL/TW) wants to get the lion's share of that piddling $10, PLUS all over ISP revenue, AND basically take over the ISP operations AND ON TOP OF IT to get free advertising... well, any reasonable person would conclude that the telco is trying to put the ISP out of business.
You misunderstand the situation. With your service, the telco is getting 80% of subscriber fees, and T-W only wants 75%. The money T-W wants is reasonable, it's the editorial control if the ISP's site that is troubling in this situation.
Ma'at
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Being a well paid freelancer is great, and in most industries it's where the best money is. But in Boston, where I am, most of these temp jobs are just administrative staff. Many companies are converting as much of their non-management office workers to temp jobs as they can, to avoid paying any benefits to employees are aren't rare IT workers. The tech boom has been great for tech people, but I walk around what used to be family neighborhoods and all the families are gone. People in IT pulling in $60k salaries are now a major part of the workforce and population, so they can afford $1500 - $2400 a month for a one bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, people in unskilled and service jobs, who were middle class five years ago, are now being forced out of their apartments and living with five roommates. This trend to a temporary workforce is one of the big factors dissolving the middle class. Long term employment with steady pay and benefits are nessecary to any family that can't cash in on "me-commerce", and wether we look up from/. long enough to notice or not, millions of Americans are struggling while we're getting rich.
All this is already available. Most of it can be found at Markertek right now. What your asking for is stock equipment at a big video post production house. The reason it is in big post houses and not in yours is that it'll cost you $500K. People would love to sell you this rig, now someone just needs to find a way for mere mortals to afford it. -Ma'at
Hmm. You seem a little confused. It took me months to find ssh for the mac. ssh is definetly an internet necessity. It took me one search with Google to find ssh for Mac in the form of NiftyTelnet SSH. And SSH is only a necessity if you want to telnet to a machine that only allows SSH connections, which for Joe Average is something that will probably never come up.
Also outlook sucks and crashed many times on my mac eudora doesn't come with an imac or macos. Outlook is stable on my girlfriend's iMac, I can't argue with the suck. Eudora isn't included, but is a fairly small download away. Besides, all Real Men(tm) use Hotmail.
With linux I can do what I want on the net. proxies, servers, clients. Not so with macos, does apache run on a mac. Aside from the fact that only one of those statements is actually a sentence, Macs are lovely clients, good servers for fairly static content, and there is indeed a port of Apache for the Mac.
According to the site, this thing broadcasts on an FM signal that you listen to through our regular car stereo (at least that's how it seems to me). Does this mean that people next to me at a stop light are going to hear my music playing, or will what they're listening to just crap out from the interference? I think that the FCC device reg about "causing no interference and accepting any interference recieved" might make this particular toy illegal in the US.
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The comments so far seem ludicrous. This isn't about a government shakedown or some other Libertarian fever dream, it is about putting people's workplaces near where they live, which saves time, energy, and money and generally makes people happier. The problem with Google, Apple, and the other Bay Area tech companies is that their employees live in the urban core, but they work out in the suburbs. This drives up property values downtown, but deprives the city of the tax revenue that it needs to support the tech workers living environment. If Google and Apple were downtown in high-rises instead of sprawing suburban campuses, more employees could bike or walk to work, spend their lunch breaks in the city they live in, and the rest could get to work on existing public transit instead of having to run two sets of buses on the same streets. Suburban campuses are great for companies whose employees live in the suburbs, but it makes more sense for urban employees to have urban employers.
You could hear concorde's shockwave from 60 miles. Given that concorde traveled at 53,000 ft (ten miles), well you do the math.
I grew up in southern RI, just north of the spot where the Concorde went supersonic. Every day during dinner, all the plates would rattle in the cabinets from the shock wave of the 5:00 flight. At that distance the boom wasn't audible, but there was still enough subsonic energy to shake the house.
... Er, ah ... no. As I already said - and I will now paraphrase using your terms so you can feel comfortable - in the real world almost all Christian religions pass a basket. In the real world almost no Buddhist sects pass one.
Hi! Practicing Buddhist here. There is a box by the door of our Zendo (meditation room) that says "Dana" on it (Sanskrit for "Generosity"). We are regularly and gently encouraged to toss a few bucks in. Our practice group rents the space we sit in; and rent, heating, cushions, incense, etc. all cost money. The teachers do not take any salary and all have day jobs, but we all chip in what we can to support our practice.
That fetus didn't sneak in there when the mother wasn't looking. The very definition of responsibility is caring for those affected by your choices, whether the outcome was intentional or not.
Except in the case of rape, which Republicans don't think is an acceptable reason for abortion either. They also are against abortion to save the life of the mother, because a dead woman and a dead baby is OK if it's an act of god, but a live woman and a dead zygote is a worse outcome in their eyes. I think the reality here is the reasons for abortion are complex and difficult, and the decision should be up to the mother, with input from her doctor, pastor, family, etc. or whoever else she trusts.
You are upset because the expenses of releasing a record are charged against the record sales before there is any "profit" to distribute? How is this unfair? Is there any other business sector in which the founders inject no cash, yet expect to take home a large slice of sales before the investors have even received their investment back? And in what sense do record labels demand 100% ownership? The band still has the right to royalties, don't they?
That's not how it works, though. The label gets their cut of profit out of the very first copy sold. After that, all running expenses (pressing, distribution, promotion, 'breakage') also get taken out of each copy sold. Out of what's left, the artist's share, nothing gets distributed until the advance is paid back. Because of this, almost nobody makes any money off of record sales. However, they do get songwriting royalties, which can be a good amount of money if you are getting a lot of radio play. (This is why Pete Townshend is the only super-wealth member of The Who, because he wrote all the songs.)
Who do you think ultimately pays for the advertising, the studio time, the costs of live shows, etc.?
As someone who worked in a recording studio for many years, I can say that very often it's the artist who pays for a lot of that stuff. The days of the 80s and label-funded month-long coke-binge-cum-recording-sessions are long, long gone. Any artist who isn't established enough to be a near-certain money maker for the label is probably paying for studio time, production, and tour costs out of pocket. Even mid-tier artists will only get an advance on the order of $10,000 to $20,000 which doesn't go very far when there are four of five people in the band who need to eat and sleep somewhere on top of hiring a studio.
I certainly know artists who don't want their work shared for free, and I think that copyright of a reasonable term is important to protect their preference, but the system we have now is pretty much built to let corporations steal from the commons and then sell their taking back to the public for ever.
The problem is you get people who are radical Keynesians (not people from Kenya!) who believe spending on something, anything will always be a net benefit.
Well, the point that Keynesians make is that during a demand slump, spending on something, anything will be a net benefit, they don't say that it will ALWAYS be a net benefit. In the current economy, where consumers can't spend because they are debt-constrained, and industry won't spend because there are no customers buying, then government should step in and spend to fill the demand gap and cut taxes to give consumers and industry more spare cash to spend. The corollary to this is during good times, you raise taxes and pay off the debts accrued during the bad times which we were actually doing a great job of until the Bush tax cuts. Since we went into this recession with very low tax rates, further tax cuts have little benefit and it would be, under these specific economic conditions, a net benefit for the government to spend money to put people to work doing almost anything, since they will turn around and spend that money and create further economic activity.
So here is the thing. Government policy in the United States is designed to promote obesity by socializing the costs of obesity. The first cost is the food itself, which the government pays for in the forms of, to name two, food stamps and the earned income tax credit. Everyone in the United States is required, by law, to pay for food to feed fat people. Really. The second cost of obesity, greatly increased medical care, is now socialized as well. Those costs could be reflected immediately to the individual in the price of insurance when the insurance market is deregulated and insurers are permitted to charge fatties more. If all those fatties had to pay for their food and pay more for health insurance then their would be a lot fewer fatties. Instead, now, a person who eats responsibly and exercises and who will require far less medical treatment as a result will pay the same amount for medical insurance as they guy who eats two dozen doughnuts for breakfast.
You do realize that the countries you mention at the beginning of you post (Sweden, Japan, and Uraguay) all have socialized medicine and provide food-stamp like programs for the poor? Nobody wants to be fat and sick. If I told you that if you moved into the projects and quit your job, you could eat Twinkies until you went into a diabetic coma, would you? If you want to look at government causes for obesity look at subsides for grain and sugar farmers, not the fact that now some poor people will get the same medical care as the rich.
Hard to beat this: http://www.vintageking.com/Prism-Sound-Orpheus?sc=18&category=388
There are tons of sound input devices marketed for music recording, and pretty much every price point you'd care to hit. The Prism is pretty top-of-the-line, but I'm sure there is something that would fit your needs if you just want to back up LPs here:
http://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USB_Audio_Interfaces
The problem is that if you bring your own phone to a US carrier, you don't get a discounted rate. Effectively, any wireless plan you buy will include a 2-year lock-in and the extra cost for a phone subsidy, wether you use the subsidy or not. There are a few small carriers that don't have long term contracts with built in subsidies, but there is no cost benefit to bringing your own phone to any of the national carriers.
You posted links to two stories of people who claim to be Buddhists being assholes. The asshole monk was defrocked, the article about the asshole businessmen points out repeatedly that their assholeness was extremely un-Buddhist. How does either of those examples even begin to prove your assertion that 'Buddhism is just as exploitative as any other religious cult'?
The DS does have this feature. You can just close the DS and it goes into standby mode at any time and in any game. It's not exactly "powering off", but I've had a battery charge last a week in standby (the game I was playing last Wednesday was still up and waiting for me when I went back to work yesterday).
However, neither situation will fix having to start over if you die in a dungeon that disallows saving.
A DLP system uses three mirrors per pixel of resolution. (Three arrays of mirrors, one each for red, green, and blue.) A MEMS system would use one mirror for the entire image.
-Maat
The current top-ot-the -line in audio A/D converters are 24-bit, 192kHz, which can be played back on currently available DVD-A players. If you want hi-fidelity audio, buy a DVD-A player, or any one of dozens of multichannel sound cards sold for recording applications.
-Ma'at
Qwest hasn't sold anything to anybody. Federal law just says they can, and they reserve the right to. The FCC tried to pass a law requiring people to opt-in to data sharing which was struck down by the federal court, resuting in the current opt-out policy. According to the article, Qwest favored the opt-in version of the law. They're not the ones screwing you out of your privacy, so if you want to rant against someone, let it be the federal government.
-Ma'at
Not that anyone is reading this thread any more, but I do DVD authoring for a living. Real time is fine for fixed rate encodes, but variable bit rate encoding (which is needed to get a feature onto a DVD) takes time and expensive hard/software. Apple gives this stuff away and it runs on an $800 iMac.
And as regards your comment that "This is one place the Windows PC platform is way ahead of the Mac", you might want to check your sources. Avid has had real time encoding on a Mac-based system for ten years, and at broadcast, on-line quality for four. The Mac is still the dominant platform in most video houses, and that probably isn't going to change any time soon.
Ma'at
OS X is going to be in stores on March 24 (don't have any idea what that date is)
March 24th is my birthday, that's what it is!! Whoo-hoo, thank you Uncle Steve!
-Maat
Sony's top-of-the-line encoder runs at about 3:1 time to compress, but that's for variable-bit-rate encoding. If Apple's encoder was benchmarked at a fixed-rate encode, 2:1 is very possible. The problem is that a feature length film done at a fixed rate encode will end up looking like crap if you want to get it on a DVD. Fixed-rate encoding set to high quality will be fine for a half hour program, but getting a quality encode on a big file takes a long time.
Actually, I just checked the apple store and $3500 is for a dual processor 500 MHz G4. Given that, it should probably get twice the price/performance rating than the one it was given.
Ma'at
When I pay for my local DSL access, my fees break down as: $40 to the telco, $10 to the ISP. That's up front on the billing.
... well, any reasonable person would conclude that the telco is trying to put the ISP out of business.
Now, to hear that the telco (AOL/TW) wants to get the lion's share of that piddling $10, PLUS all over ISP revenue, AND basically take over the ISP operations AND ON TOP OF IT to get free advertising
You misunderstand the situation. With your service, the telco is getting 80% of subscriber fees, and T-W only wants 75%. The money T-W wants is reasonable, it's the editorial control if the ISP's site that is troubling in this situation.
Ma'at
Being a well paid freelancer is great, and in most industries it's where the best money is. But in Boston, where I am, most of these temp jobs are just administrative staff. Many companies are converting as much of their non-management office workers to temp jobs as they can, to avoid paying any benefits to employees are aren't rare IT workers. The tech boom has been great for tech people, but I walk around what used to be family neighborhoods and all the families are gone. People in IT pulling in $60k salaries are now a major part of the workforce and population, so they can afford $1500 - $2400 a month for a one bedroom apartment. Meanwhile, people in unskilled and service jobs, who were middle class five years ago, are now being forced out of their apartments and living with five roommates. This trend to a temporary workforce is one of the big factors dissolving the middle class. Long term employment with steady pay and benefits are nessecary to any family that can't cash in on "me-commerce", and wether we look up from /. long enough to notice or not, millions of Americans are struggling while we're getting rich.
All this is already available. Most of it can be found at Markertek right now. What your asking for is stock equipment at a big video post production house. The reason it is in big post houses and not in yours is that it'll cost you $500K. People would love to sell you this rig, now someone just needs to find a way for mere mortals to afford it. -Ma'at
Actually, in lots of 500 or more, it's more expensive to manufacture audio tapes that CDs.
Ma'at
Hmm. You seem a little confused.
It took me months to find ssh for the mac. ssh is definetly an internet necessity.
It took me one search with Google to find ssh for Mac in the form of NiftyTelnet SSH. And SSH is only a necessity if you want to telnet to a machine that only allows SSH connections, which for Joe Average is something that will probably never come up.
Also outlook sucks and crashed many times on my mac eudora doesn't come with an imac or macos.
Outlook is stable on my girlfriend's iMac, I can't argue with the suck. Eudora isn't included, but is a fairly small download away. Besides, all Real Men(tm) use Hotmail.
With linux I can do what I want on the net. proxies, servers, clients. Not so with macos, does apache run on a mac.
Aside from the fact that only one of those statements is actually a sentence, Macs are lovely clients, good servers for fairly static content, and there is indeed a port of Apache for the Mac.
-Ma'at
According to the site, this thing broadcasts on an FM signal that you listen to through our regular car stereo (at least that's how it seems to me). Does this mean that people next to me at a stop light are going to hear my music playing, or will what they're listening to just crap out from the interference? I think that the FCC device reg about "causing no interference and accepting any interference recieved" might make this particular toy illegal in the US.