I just replied to someone else who said the same thing: swimming underwater is much much slower than swimming at the surface. Add in a bunch of equipment strapped to a diver, and you can't really compare the two. They're probably making much larger gains than you calculate.
You forgot that swimming underwater is much much slower than swimming at the surface. Also it's much harder to use your arms (and your legs too) underwater as effectively as at the surface. Add a bunch of equipment strapped to you, and it makes things even harder. So they're probably making much larger gains with this device than what your calculations indicate.
If you would be ok with using independent music clips for your podcasts, there are several licensing options that should come out much cheaper and more convenient for you:
If you wanted clips from Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc type music, forget it. It's just impractical for the little guy. Maybe you could do like someone else suggested here and get a band/musician to cook something up that sounds like the song you want.
Those who prefer to listen to non-mainstream artists would get cheaper music, while those who prefer to listen to mainstream artists would pay more for it. It almost sounds like a tax on lack of musical taste to subsidize music geeks!
I think he's arguing for open-standards, interoperable social networking. The "open" that he's talking about is very much the way that real social networks work. In the real world, you can call and speak and make friends with anyone in the world. The major limitation is pretty much language, which is something that would be very hard to change. From there, you can choose who you want to be in your social networks.
I just don't think he explained himself very well, or made a very strong argument for his case. On the internet, social networking is isolated in much the same way that we would be isolated in the real world if the phone and email systems from different providers could not communicate with each other. Think about it. "I'm on AT&T, so I can't call you because you're on Verizon". Or "I'm on Gmail so I can't email you because you're on Yahoo mail".
What should be open is this underlying infrastructure of protocols, and not necessarily the content of your profile. Ideally the protocols would allow the same granularity of access controls that the existing social networking sites allow.
Unlike Ebay, where it seems most sellers sell online only, the situations you describe sound like sellers that sell both online and at a retail store. As such, it's much more difficult to control two possible avenues for sale of the same product, especially if they're not monitoring all their online sales in real-time. You can imagine how difficult this would be. Say someone walks into their store and wants to buy an item 30 minutes before the auction of the same item ends online. Do they a) sell the item to the customer who is in the store with cash in hand or b) tell the person with cash in hand that they can't sell the item that is right in front of them with a for sale sign, and then have to deal with a possible dead-beat on the online auction?
I'm sure you must have noticed this, but since Alito and Roberts started in the Supreme Court, pretty much all cases that have pitted individual/public rights against corporate or government interests have gone against the individual/public. This court is a complete and shameless travesty of a sellout.
Sounds like a good idea, but what if you buy a ReplayTV unit without a lifetime listings service? And how long are they going to honor that lifetime listings service since they've discontinued the product and been passed from hand to hand? I really would like to know these things because I would be interested in getting one of these.
I think that's the point. Gerrymandering IS a way of just making up and distorting stuff to make political gains.
By the way, the reason why this matters is that there a limited number of positions being voted on, so say for example in this fictional 100 X and 50 Y area there are two districts with two representatives. If you divide it so that 50 X and 25 Y in each district, X wins both positions and Y gets squat. But if you divide it as 75 X in one district and 25 X / 50 Y in the other district, X gets one position and Y gets another. See how it does make a difference? That's the motivation for gerrymandering, they will make all kinds of weird shapes of districts having no relation to actual population distribution just to give an advantage to X or Y to win that district.
I'm no conspiracy theorist either, but I think that the JFK assassination conspiracy theory is probably the juiciest of them all. That's because it's plausible, there were plenty of people with motivation to do it, and it's just shooting one man in a convertible car, something that could easily be pulled off with a handful of skilled people in the 1960s. Not to mention that there is just so much about the assassination and the strange or suspicious events around it that make it seem like we haven't heard the entire story yet. Yep, the JFK assassination conspiracy theory wins the grand prize of conspiracy theories. Notice that the 9/11 theories are the opposite - completely far-fetched, easily debunked stuff.
This is exactly what I was thinking as well. I think that they will probably go that way. That's just how they've been doing things for the last few years. For example, anyone can sell their self-published books or DVDs or most other products through Amazon right now. I don't think it would be much of a stretch to imagine them doing the same thing for their MP3 sales. I wonder if there would be some quality standards for accepting material, or if they would just let things sort themselves out through ratings and/or complaints.
To anyone reading, I would like to know if there are any organizations, regardless of political inclination, that are working toward these changes in our elections (better voting and congressional districting techniques)? I would like to know so I (we) can support them. The thing about all these concepts and reforms is that it seems that they're never going to happen if they're left to the politicians themselves to do. Since single-handedly trying to bring about these changes myself obviously wouldn't go very far, what organizations out there are trying to get this going? Thanks in advance.
It's a box for any electronic trash that has all the recycling and shipping fees included in its purchase price. Total price is $30 for a 35lbs capacity box, or $40 for a 70lbs capacity one. Or you can get bundles and give them away as gifts to everyone. You can throw anything from CDs to videotapes to laptops to cell phones in there. When it's full, you close it up and ship it (for "free").
That I forgot to mention in my other post. If you click on "recent sales" on the left menu on tdnam.com, you will see a log of the top-priced sales in the last month (I believe). You will see that someone recently sold enjoydiary.com for $1805. Crazy - I've seen even crazier sales listed there, and I have a pretty good feeling that those are not bogus, because one of my domain sales was listed there (although way at the bottom at $200) after the sale completed. I've also seen current sales with offers of over $5000.
Thanks for asking this question, as I've always wondered what is the best way as well, and I'm curious what the Slashdot crowd will have to say.
Anyway, I would go with a free, commissions only service. The domain sale sites are already charging a commission on the sale, so it just seems like scumbaggery to also charge a "membership" fee on top of that. Not to mention that selling domain names is a total hit or miss thing - I've sold 2 out of maybe a dozen that I have put up for sale. For that reason I haven't tried afternic.com. I will try sedo.com now as mentioned above, since I checked and saw that it's free (commissions only). I have also heard of them before.
I have also used tdnam.com in the past. It is free (commissions only) if you have your domains registered through godaddy.com. I sold two domains there with no problems whatsoever. It has an automatic escrow service, so you wait until they receive the money from the buyer and tell you that it's ok to start the transfer of ownership. They were fairly low-priced domains, selling for $50 and $200, but I didn't haggle or wait for other offers - I just took the first offer that came along.
Was what they said about Ogg Vorbis patent-free claims. I hadn't thought about this before, so it takes off a little bit of the worry-free feeling I had regarding Ogg Vorbis previously:
Vorbis is not a slam-dunk, however. Notably, its royalty-free claims have not been sanctioned by MP3 patent-holders and companies that adopt it could wind up with exactly the same legal headaches that Microsoft suffered this week over MP3. In fact, despite its longstanding regard among digital music aficionados, Ogg Vorbis has been unable to make serious commercial in-roads.
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The second is that the same patents now being squabbled over by licensors of the MP3 codec could eventually threaten Ogg Vorbis. "To this day, we still have lawyers tell us they won't support Ogg because Thomson would come after them," Montgomery said.
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I would like to know. Is there anything we can do? Write to the ISO? Anything? Or can we just sit and watch while this happens?
I just replied to someone else who said the same thing: swimming underwater is much much slower than swimming at the surface. Add in a bunch of equipment strapped to a diver, and you can't really compare the two. They're probably making much larger gains than you calculate.
You forgot that swimming underwater is much much slower than swimming at the surface. Also it's much harder to use your arms (and your legs too) underwater as effectively as at the surface. Add a bunch of equipment strapped to you, and it makes things even harder. So they're probably making much larger gains with this device than what your calculations indicate.
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If you wanted clips from Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc type music, forget it. It's just impractical for the little guy. Maybe you could do like someone else suggested here and get a band/musician to cook something up that sounds like the song you want.
Those who prefer to listen to non-mainstream artists would get cheaper music, while those who prefer to listen to mainstream artists would pay more for it. It almost sounds like a tax on lack of musical taste to subsidize music geeks!
I think he's arguing for open-standards, interoperable social networking. The "open" that he's talking about is very much the way that real social networks work. In the real world, you can call and speak and make friends with anyone in the world. The major limitation is pretty much language, which is something that would be very hard to change. From there, you can choose who you want to be in your social networks.
I just don't think he explained himself very well, or made a very strong argument for his case. On the internet, social networking is isolated in much the same way that we would be isolated in the real world if the phone and email systems from different providers could not communicate with each other. Think about it. "I'm on AT&T, so I can't call you because you're on Verizon". Or "I'm on Gmail so I can't email you because you're on Yahoo mail".
What should be open is this underlying infrastructure of protocols, and not necessarily the content of your profile. Ideally the protocols would allow the same granularity of access controls that the existing social networking sites allow.
Unlike Ebay, where it seems most sellers sell online only, the situations you describe sound like sellers that sell both online and at a retail store. As such, it's much more difficult to control two possible avenues for sale of the same product, especially if they're not monitoring all their online sales in real-time. You can imagine how difficult this would be. Say someone walks into their store and wants to buy an item 30 minutes before the auction of the same item ends online. Do they a) sell the item to the customer who is in the store with cash in hand or b) tell the person with cash in hand that they can't sell the item that is right in front of them with a for sale sign, and then have to deal with a possible dead-beat on the online auction?
I'm sure you must have noticed this, but since Alito and Roberts started in the Supreme Court, pretty much all cases that have pitted individual/public rights against corporate or government interests have gone against the individual/public. This court is a complete and shameless travesty of a sellout.
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Sounds like a good idea, but what if you buy a ReplayTV unit without a lifetime listings service? And how long are they going to honor that lifetime listings service since they've discontinued the product and been passed from hand to hand? I really would like to know these things because I would be interested in getting one of these.
Thanks!
I think that's the point. Gerrymandering IS a way of just making up and distorting stuff to make political gains.
By the way, the reason why this matters is that there a limited number of positions being voted on, so say for example in this fictional 100 X and 50 Y area there are two districts with two representatives. If you divide it so that 50 X and 25 Y in each district, X wins both positions and Y gets squat. But if you divide it as 75 X in one district and 25 X / 50 Y in the other district, X gets one position and Y gets another. See how it does make a difference? That's the motivation for gerrymandering, they will make all kinds of weird shapes of districts having no relation to actual population distribution just to give an advantage to X or Y to win that district.
"Here's that delicious dish that you've been asking us for so long. Oh, just don't mind the huge turd wrapped around it."
Nice. Thanks politicians.
There are many species of whales that ARE endangered.
Oh, and I imagine that being shot with an explosive harpoon* probably fucks them up a little bit too.
* "explosive harpoons, which puncture the skin of a whale and then explode inside its body."
Most of what you need to know can probably be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling
So my personal spiritual goal is to be a (strict) vaginatarian.
I'm no conspiracy theorist either, but I think that the JFK assassination conspiracy theory is probably the juiciest of them all. That's because it's plausible, there were plenty of people with motivation to do it, and it's just shooting one man in a convertible car, something that could easily be pulled off with a handful of skilled people in the 1960s. Not to mention that there is just so much about the assassination and the strange or suspicious events around it that make it seem like we haven't heard the entire story yet. Yep, the JFK assassination conspiracy theory wins the grand prize of conspiracy theories. Notice that the 9/11 theories are the opposite - completely far-fetched, easily debunked stuff.
Very good point.
This is exactly what I was thinking as well. I think that they will probably go that way. That's just how they've been doing things for the last few years. For example, anyone can sell their self-published books or DVDs or most other products through Amazon right now. I don't think it would be much of a stretch to imagine them doing the same thing for their MP3 sales. I wonder if there would be some quality standards for accepting material, or if they would just let things sort themselves out through ratings and/or complaints.
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To anyone reading, I would like to know if there are any organizations, regardless of political inclination, that are working toward these changes in our elections (better voting and congressional districting techniques)? I would like to know so I (we) can support them. The thing about all these concepts and reforms is that it seems that they're never going to happen if they're left to the politicians themselves to do. Since single-handedly trying to bring about these changes myself obviously wouldn't go very far, what organizations out there are trying to get this going? Thanks in advance.
Not to nitpick, but the morse code for SOS is 3 shorts, 3 longs, 3 shorts (... --- ...). :)
It's a box for any electronic trash that has all the recycling and shipping fees included in its purchase price. Total price is $30 for a 35lbs capacity box, or $40 for a 70lbs capacity one. Or you can get bundles and give them away as gifts to everyone. You can throw anything from CDs to videotapes to laptops to cell phones in there. When it's full, you close it up and ship it (for "free").
That I forgot to mention in my other post. If you click on "recent sales" on the left menu on tdnam.com, you will see a log of the top-priced sales in the last month (I believe). You will see that someone recently sold enjoydiary.com for $1805. Crazy - I've seen even crazier sales listed there, and I have a pretty good feeling that those are not bogus, because one of my domain sales was listed there (although way at the bottom at $200) after the sale completed. I've also seen current sales with offers of over $5000.
Thanks for asking this question, as I've always wondered what is the best way as well, and I'm curious what the Slashdot crowd will have to say.
Anyway, I would go with a free, commissions only service. The domain sale sites are already charging a commission on the sale, so it just seems like scumbaggery to also charge a "membership" fee on top of that. Not to mention that selling domain names is a total hit or miss thing - I've sold 2 out of maybe a dozen that I have put up for sale. For that reason I haven't tried afternic.com. I will try sedo.com now as mentioned above, since I checked and saw that it's free (commissions only). I have also heard of them before.
I have also used tdnam.com in the past. It is free (commissions only) if you have your domains registered through godaddy.com. I sold two domains there with no problems whatsoever. It has an automatic escrow service, so you wait until they receive the money from the buyer and tell you that it's ok to start the transfer of ownership. They were fairly low-priced domains, selling for $50 and $200, but I didn't haggle or wait for other offers - I just took the first offer that came along.