I almost never listen to music anymore. I spend a lot of time watching DVDs and playing computer games instead.
As an estimate I buy 5% of the number of CD's today compared to 10 years ago.
But the time spent listening to music is maybe 2% of the time I spent listening to music 10 years ago.
Thus if you compare the CD purchases to to number of listening hours, the purchasing has doubled, but if you just compare number of purchases it has decreased to 1/20.
I was taught that AC is more dangerous to the heart than DC. The pulses in AC interfere with the normal heartbeat frequencies and may cause cardiac arrest.
If this is outdated or errouneous please enlighten me.
5) Slashdot sucks, because most people here don't see the immorality of file sharing, and don't see that incredibly expensive shows like 24 and Lost WON'T EXIST if they can't make money. We might actually be seeing the fall of good video programming. It may not exist in 10 years, except for amateur junk.
Actually,
here in Norway at least, Lost is a huge success precisely because of downloading. People had been downloading and seeing the first episodes so a huge wave of word-of-mouth preceeded the showing of the first episodes, making it an instant hit.
And let's not forget the reason the American government exists in the first place is to SERVE AMERICANS, and that to put the interests of the citizens of other countries ahead of the citizens who elected and pay for the government would in fact be an act of treason. Just as the Nigerian government exists to serve Nigerians, and the French government exists to serve the French, and so forth.
If that were true, then any non-US government aiding the US in Iraq, Afghanisthan and other places would be committing treason. And FDR was committing treason by declaring war on Germany in 1941.
I somehow doubt that's what you really meant.
I won't speak for anyone else, but when I started watching Buffy in the middle of season 4 on the insistence of friends, I immediately downloaded the first 3 1/2 seasons so I could get all the backstory, I then proceeded to watch all the new episodes on TV, but had them downloaded as well in case I missed one.
Then, when they started coming on DVD I started buying those even though I had all of them downloaded. Now I have all seven seasons on DVD.
So, they had 3 1/2 years of advertising money plus sale of seven dvd boxes.
If I hadn't downloaded I would probably never have bothered watching more than 5 or 6 episodes total.
Geologically speaking, 100 years is very rapid change. Changing the temperature is like turning a super-tanker. It takes a long time to start responding, but once its started you can't stop it.
This is of course also the reason that courts have human judges to set the sentences instead of just a pre-calculated table giving the sentence for each offence.
Why would you ruin a Porsche by putting a Yugo engine inside?
Actually, with the earlier 911's it was quite common to put in a beetle engine temporarily while the original was taken out for service/repair.
Think of these "Apples" as test-drivers driving a Porsche chassis before the engine is finished.
Just explain in simple terms: In what way is capturing an image on film more creative than capturing a sound on tape?
A good photographer higlights the bride and groom just like a good sound man highlights the band.
You no longer need something to be real and working to patent it. That was back in the old old days.
Now it's enough to just paint a broad picture of a generic consept.
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I almost never listen to music anymore. I spend a lot of time watching DVDs and playing computer games instead.
As an estimate I buy 5% of the number of CD's today compared to 10 years ago.
But the time spent listening to music is maybe 2% of the time I spent listening to music 10 years ago.
Thus if you compare the CD purchases to to number of listening hours, the purchasing has doubled, but if you just compare number of purchases it has decreased to 1/20.
Guess which figure the RIAA would quote me on.
I was taught that AC is more dangerous to the heart than DC. The pulses in AC interfere with the normal heartbeat frequencies and may cause cardiac arrest.
If this is outdated or errouneous please enlighten me.
5) Slashdot sucks, because most people here don't see the immorality of file sharing, and don't see that incredibly expensive shows like 24 and Lost WON'T EXIST if they can't make money. We might actually be seeing the fall of good video programming. It may not exist in 10 years, except for amateur junk.
Actually,
here in Norway at least, Lost is a huge success precisely because of downloading. People had been downloading and seeing the first episodes so a huge wave of word-of-mouth preceeded the showing of the first episodes, making it an instant hit.
If that were true, then distributing compiled GPL programs for Windows would be impossible.
It is necrophilia in the version sold in europe at least. Maybe the censored it in the US?
In Star Trek, the communicators are tracking military personell on active duty.
That actually sounds like a very good idea.
An organisation like that might be just what is needed to get some more balance into the system.
You are absolutely right.
My bad.
I mixed up the order of events in my memory.
And let's not forget the reason the American government exists in the first place is to SERVE AMERICANS, and that to put the interests of the citizens of other countries ahead of the citizens who elected and pay for the government would in fact be an act of treason. Just as the Nigerian government exists to serve Nigerians, and the French government exists to serve the French, and so forth. If that were true, then any non-US government aiding the US in Iraq, Afghanisthan and other places would be committing treason. And FDR was committing treason by declaring war on Germany in 1941.
I somehow doubt that's what you really meant.
I won't speak for anyone else, but when I started watching Buffy in the middle of season 4 on the insistence of friends, I immediately downloaded the first 3 1/2 seasons so I could get all the backstory, I then proceeded to watch all the new episodes on TV, but had them downloaded as well in case I missed one.
Then, when they started coming on DVD I started buying those even though I had all of them downloaded. Now I have all seven seasons on DVD.
So, they had 3 1/2 years of advertising money plus sale of seven dvd boxes.
If I hadn't downloaded I would probably never have bothered watching more than 5 or 6 episodes total.
You forgot one
D) Stop watching the show at all and find something else to watch.
That is how I stopped watching Twin Peaks. Lost one episode too many and just quit watching at all.
Geologically speaking, 100 years is very rapid change. Changing the temperature is like turning a super-tanker. It takes a long time to start responding, but once its started you can't stop it.
I can't speak for any of the other places, but it is a fact that the Norwegian glaciers are shrinking, which is proof of a local warming in Norway.
This is of course also the reason that courts have human judges to set the sentences instead of just a pre-calculated table giving the sentence for each offence.
We are deporting them for reasons of national security.
Maybe it's a patent violation. Microsoft probably have the patent on poaching key employees.
Actually, Big Brother was a combination of both Hitler and Stalin.
Those who are neither on the left nor the right extreme tend to notice how similar both extremes are to each other.
Could it just simply be that we do not TRUST international organizations with something so vitaly important to our economy?
The same way many others do not TRUST American organizations with something so vitally important to their economy?
It just depends on your point of view.
I eagerly await the first criminal charges brought for failing to to your homework and for chewing gum in class.
Why would you ruin a Porsche by putting a Yugo engine inside?
Actually, with the earlier 911's it was quite common to put in a beetle engine temporarily while the original was taken out for service/repair.
Think of these "Apples" as test-drivers driving a Porsche chassis before the engine is finished.
Just explain in simple terms: In what way is capturing an image on film more creative than capturing a sound on tape? A good photographer higlights the bride and groom just like a good sound man highlights the band.
I assume that using encryption is one of the things that will trigger a packet as suspicious.
You no longer need something to be real and working to patent it. That was back in the old old days.
Now it's enough to just paint a broad picture of a generic consept.
As soon as the server is taken down, no one will ever be able to install HL2 again.
Thus copyright on HL2 is forever.
And as soon as they want their users to switch to HL3 they can pull the plug on HL2.
So that when the someone wants to find out if you have been overdosing you can just sit on a scanner!