I actually have very wide musical tastes. Its just that for me at least, very little thats any more than blatantly commercial crap has come out in the last 15 years or so.
>> Assuming a dollar per song that's 138 dollars a day.
First off its not $1 per song if you already own the CDs. Secondly, even if you don't, you only pay that money once. With streaming you POSSIBLY pay less if you're just looking at one day, but if you look at streaming music on an ongoing basis, you keep paying.
It boggles my mind why people are more prepared to keep paying for bandwidth and the associated problems such as connection dependencies, interstitial ads and increased battery usage, rather than just using local memory to store music.
Chances are its not just you he's picking on. Bullies completely rely on their victims staying silent/divided. Bullies have no defence if their victims simply unite. Have a quiet word with all your other colleagues and figure out who is also being victimised enough to be seriously pissed off by this guy, then figure out together what you are all going to do about it.
>> Are you saying that you suspect that the African crew of this plane landed it, and then collided with a movable passenger loading/unloading staircase while on the ground? And then they came up with this drone/bird/whatever strike story to deflect blame away from themselves?
I would buy that far quicker than the drone story,
Totally right. lets get this into perspective:
The entire transportation sector only accounts for about 27% of the total man-made greenhouse gas (MMGG) emissions: http://www3.epa.gov/climatecha...
Of that 27%, Road transport accounts for 72%, http://www3.epa.gov/climatecha... the rest is aviation and marine. That means about 19% of all MMGG is road vehicles. From http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/clima...
About 23% of that 19% is from heavy duty vehicles (so 18 wheelers etc are responsible for 4.37% of all MMGG), which means that all the millions of family cars/motorbikes on the road are actually only responsible for 14.6%. Clearly we need to target electricity generation (31%) and industry (21%) long before just beating up on car drivers more.
Nope don't believe it. Its fundamental that a properly controlled light source (OLED) will necessarily give better results (especially contrast) than any kind of full-spectrum light source behind a controlled filter (LCD) ever could.
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>> It's not worth my time to maintain a music library for regular consumption
What work is there to maintan a music library? I just copy my music library to my phone's SD card once then I'm done forever.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
I can see how it might work for you, but most of us don't work in the music industry.
>> But isn't burn in still a major concern with current OLED? Also, don't the colors wear unevenly with what's being sold at the moment?
Apparently not.
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/...
Thats kindof insane that they monitor your (free to them) local storage but not your (potentially billable) bandwidth usage.
>> And it automatically rotates the cached content around so I'm not listening to the same thing all the time when offline.
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Gee if only most media players had something like a random play feature. They could call it shuffle. I'll have to patent that idea. :-)
Still, screw that.
I actually have very wide musical tastes. Its just that for me at least, very little thats any more than blatantly commercial crap has come out in the last 15 years or so.
...or you could just rip your CDs, store your files locally and pick exactly what you want to hear, and not pay anything.
>> it sure the hell doesn't want me to download the MP3s, limiting me to two downloads
Wow really? you can't even download the entire album you just bought? Fuck that, if I was you I'd have already switched to something that does.
>> Assuming a dollar per song that's 138 dollars a day.
First off its not $1 per song if you already own the CDs. Secondly, even if you don't, you only pay that money once.
With streaming you POSSIBLY pay less if you're just looking at one day, but if you look at streaming music on an ongoing basis, you keep paying.
It boggles my mind why people are more prepared to keep paying for bandwidth and the associated problems such as connection dependencies, interstitial ads and increased battery usage, rather than just using local memory to store music.
Drag him out in the carpark and give him a good kicking like you know you want to.
Chances are its not just you he's picking on. Bullies completely rely on their victims staying silent/divided. Bullies have no defence if their victims simply unite.
Have a quiet word with all your other colleagues and figure out who is also being victimised enough to be seriously pissed off by this guy, then figure out together what you are all going to do about it.
>> Are you saying that you suspect that the African crew of this plane landed it, and then collided with a movable passenger loading/unloading staircase while on the ground? And then they came up with this drone/bird/whatever strike story to deflect blame away from themselves?
I would buy that far quicker than the drone story,
Since he was landing, we kinda know.
Vref of a 737-700 is 150 knots so 178 mph.
It must have been a big-ass drone to do that kind of damage.
Isn;t this really just making a bigger headache for the people that have to deal with this in 100 years time?
Totally right.
lets get this into perspective:
The entire transportation sector only accounts for about 27% of the total man-made greenhouse gas (MMGG) emissions:
http://www3.epa.gov/climatecha...
Of that 27%, Road transport accounts for 72%,
http://www3.epa.gov/climatecha...
the rest is aviation and marine. That means about 19% of all MMGG is road vehicles.
From http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/clima...
About 23% of that 19% is from heavy duty vehicles (so 18 wheelers etc are responsible for 4.37% of all MMGG), which means that all the millions of family cars/motorbikes on the road are actually only responsible for 14.6%.
Clearly we need to target electricity generation (31%) and industry (21%) long before just beating up on car drivers more.
As one of the many people who own classic cars, go F yourself.
>> That frees up VALUABLE spectrum to give to other technology.
Please tell me what makes 10 MHZ of VHF bandwidth (i.e.WAY too low for decent data rate) so desperately needed/valuable in Norway?
I'm presuming the Norewegian government's equivalent of the FAA will revoke/not renew licencing for that band.
Nobody would miss the piece of shit that is the WSJ
Nope don't believe it.
Its fundamental that a properly controlled light source (OLED) will necessarily give better results (especially contrast) than any kind of full-spectrum light source behind a controlled filter (LCD) ever could.
>> people who hate coal are punishing ....
Yes, and rightly so, because burning coal is literally destroying our ecology and ultimately, planet.