Ya, I don't get the main parent: "I keep filling up disks and buying bigger ones and I am sick of it. Can anyone recomend a slightly bigger disk that will permanently solve my problem?"
Honestly, claiming that is like claiming that music is not sharing the profits from the new oil prices, and that $.20 a gallon should go to the RIAA. The iPod is a consumer device, music is music. I am a small recording artist with two albums that are available to purchase (not through the RIAA you can be sure), I want people to buy my music, not steal it, but I think that if you are lucky enough to be on iTunes, thank the extra revenue. If iTunes prices raise, you lose business. I buy music on iTunes. If their prices go up, I will stop, but I won't buy albums again, I'll just go back to stealing it. Record companies should see iTunes as the godsend it is, the only thing keeping internet music listeners off kazaa and bittorrent and buying legally.
The new low yield bombs will be perfect for tanning! Set it on the floor and get back exactly 2m to get a nice gamma tan. Less than 2 meters and you will be vaporized instantly.
With the new plugin architecture, you could create a tab who's only purpose is to show a flash movie of clippy burning in hell, being sodomized be devils, ect... Isn't office 12 great?
I bet he is. I can see it now, after the speech is over, in his dressing room:
"You know, speakers all over the world, including me, appreciate a chilled coca cola after an appearance. Coca Cola, an international brand and hallmark of the consumer products industry, features a beverage that could be seen as a standard to which all other beverages are measured.
Also, all markets, from home users to giant corporations, appreciate taking a nice relaxing dump after a good long day. Dumps have features that all of us can use..."
Hippies = baby boomers
Baby boomers = 50-60 years old
If you volintarilty want to hang out with burned out naked 60 year olds, a job interview is not your most urgent need.
Ya, its a good buisness model. That doesn't mean its what the RIAA wants, they are a rogue label, and their policies are unlikely to be copied by the RIAA anytime soon. And yes, there are 201 billion artists, about 40 million or so in the world, an then 200.6 billion of my personalities.
You could do it with this, all you need is a cat, a high pressure boiler, and some distilling equiptment, and you could make a couple hours of MP3 playtime from each cat. On another note, did anyone notice how BIG that thing is? It is styled like all of todays other pack-of-gum sized players, but it looked more the size of a TV remote control.
You would be supprised what everthing has now. UMD is 1.8GB, Nintendo DS cartiridges vary, but are well into the 100's of MBs. The thing is, the stuff that takes up lots of space is video textures. These tiny consoles don't have the power to display tons of texures, hence less need for space. I don't think any developer right now is whining about the limits of either format.
It is a practical admission of guilt. Basically, they sue people who could win a court case, but can't afford to (you need a good lawyer, i.e. $300 an hour for 3 months of 40 hour work weeks) or pay a settlement out of court. A case would legally establish your innocence, whereas a settlement is most often used by defendants who know they couldn't win a case in court, basically declaring yourself guilty by not being proven innocent. What we need is a bunch more soccer moms to get probono fancy laywers on their side, win a few cases, and show that a lawsuit factory is not a good way to make money or discourage filesharing. Maybe then they can go and work out a legitamate way to stop filesharing or make legal music more appealing.
Ya, never had much occasion to use the IBM drives, except one in an iBook (!!!), which died after 3 years, I took it out, tested it in another machine as verified completely dead, put it in a box, two years later take it out and it is good as new no errors. I still use it for movies ect...
I'll take 100 Million, in fact, for that, I would become the Vista poster child. For $1000, I would install it immediately on my backup machine. $10000 for my main machine.
They don't run a drive for a million hours, they run 100 drives for 1000 hours, and one breaks. Drives are getting better and better. I don't see how this is unusual, in my expierence, if a drive works for the first two weeks it is installed, it usually lasts for decades if it is properly stored (not running in dust, properly cooled, ect... That is of course, unless it is a Maxtor, in which case, get your fire extinguisher.
Lets put eBooks on some sort of read only memory that is physically DRMed, its hard to copy, and be checked in and out for security. Also, having a contiunuous colum of text is intimidating, make dividers, call them pages, to make the text graspable and easily split into smaller sections for brief reading. Perhaps a convient package small enough to fit into a large coat pocket or bag would boost popularity. Find a cheap material to make them out of, perhaps something biodegradeable. Cheap manufacturing methods should be sought, and today there is nothing cheaper than the lithography method for making complicated electronic devices like this. Perhaps two or more levels of eBook should be designed for budget and top end buyers, call them "paperbacks" and "hardcovers", which would be more attractively packaged. It just might work.
Well, anyway, if he did have a static charge of 40,000v, which is unlikely but possible (obviously), he would discharge once in a very uncomfortable and possibly fatal arc (although, the static would not run through his heart, but through his hand or whatever he touched, so at worst there would be skin burns. He would not, however light everything in his path on fire, as the static charge would completely disapate after one arc.
Power off telephone polls is not 14,440 volts unless you live next to raised wires. The average power line before a transformer to 115v is around 1200v. Raised high tension wires can be up to 150,000v.
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Ya, I don't get the main parent: "I keep filling up disks and buying bigger ones and I am sick of it. Can anyone recomend a slightly bigger disk that will permanently solve my problem?"
Honestly, claiming that is like claiming that music is not sharing the profits from the new oil prices, and that $.20 a gallon should go to the RIAA. The iPod is a consumer device, music is music. I am a small recording artist with two albums that are available to purchase (not through the RIAA you can be sure), I want people to buy my music, not steal it, but I think that if you are lucky enough to be on iTunes, thank the extra revenue. If iTunes prices raise, you lose business. I buy music on iTunes. If their prices go up, I will stop, but I won't buy albums again, I'll just go back to stealing it. Record companies should see iTunes as the godsend it is, the only thing keeping internet music listeners off kazaa and bittorrent and buying legally.
The new low yield bombs will be perfect for tanning! Set it on the floor and get back exactly 2m to get a nice gamma tan. Less than 2 meters and you will be vaporized instantly.
We should probably make sure they don't find out about the Acetylene genocide going on at every mechanic's garage and construction site every day.
With the new plugin architecture, you could create a tab who's only purpose is to show a flash movie of clippy burning in hell, being sodomized be devils, ect... Isn't office 12 great?
The what runs OS "X" on the "X" Serve? You gotta admit it makes some sense. ;)
This is a hoax, great job doing research you your stories, see here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
I bet he is. I can see it now, after the speech is over, in his dressing room:
"You know, speakers all over the world, including me, appreciate a chilled coca cola after an appearance. Coca Cola, an international brand and hallmark of the consumer products industry, features a beverage that could be seen as a standard to which all other beverages are measured.
Also, all markets, from home users to giant corporations, appreciate taking a nice relaxing dump after a good long day. Dumps have features that all of us can use..."
Hippies = baby boomers Baby boomers = 50-60 years old If you volintarilty want to hang out with burned out naked 60 year olds, a job interview is not your most urgent need.
Either his answers were highly edited, or he is a human product brochure.
Especially considering that their server is made from a converted 1971 cadillac and 18,264 rubber ducks.
Another 30,000 of my personalities are in charge of managing, sales, mixing, maintenence, and distrobution.
Ya, its a good buisness model. That doesn't mean its what the RIAA wants, they are a rogue label, and their policies are unlikely to be copied by the RIAA anytime soon. And yes, there are 201 billion artists, about 40 million or so in the world, an then 200.6 billion of my personalities.
You could do it with this, all you need is a cat, a high pressure boiler, and some distilling equiptment, and you could make a couple hours of MP3 playtime from each cat. On another note, did anyone notice how BIG that thing is? It is styled like all of todays other pack-of-gum sized players, but it looked more the size of a TV remote control.
You would be supprised what everthing has now. UMD is 1.8GB, Nintendo DS cartiridges vary, but are well into the 100's of MBs. The thing is, the stuff that takes up lots of space is video textures. These tiny consoles don't have the power to display tons of texures, hence less need for space. I don't think any developer right now is whining about the limits of either format.
Great, too bad only 0.000000001% of artists are on it, and 0.000000000000% of the artists I want to listen to are.
It is a practical admission of guilt. Basically, they sue people who could win a court case, but can't afford to (you need a good lawyer, i.e. $300 an hour for 3 months of 40 hour work weeks) or pay a settlement out of court. A case would legally establish your innocence, whereas a settlement is most often used by defendants who know they couldn't win a case in court, basically declaring yourself guilty by not being proven innocent. What we need is a bunch more soccer moms to get probono fancy laywers on their side, win a few cases, and show that a lawsuit factory is not a good way to make money or discourage filesharing. Maybe then they can go and work out a legitamate way to stop filesharing or make legal music more appealing.
Ya, never had much occasion to use the IBM drives, except one in an iBook (!!!), which died after 3 years, I took it out, tested it in another machine as verified completely dead, put it in a box, two years later take it out and it is good as new no errors. I still use it for movies ect...
I'll take 100 Million, in fact, for that, I would become the Vista poster child. For $1000, I would install it immediately on my backup machine. $10000 for my main machine.
They don't run a drive for a million hours, they run 100 drives for 1000 hours, and one breaks. Drives are getting better and better. I don't see how this is unusual, in my expierence, if a drive works for the first two weeks it is installed, it usually lasts for decades if it is properly stored (not running in dust, properly cooled, ect... That is of course, unless it is a Maxtor, in which case, get your fire extinguisher.
Lets put eBooks on some sort of read only memory that is physically DRMed, its hard to copy, and be checked in and out for security. Also, having a contiunuous colum of text is intimidating, make dividers, call them pages, to make the text graspable and easily split into smaller sections for brief reading. Perhaps a convient package small enough to fit into a large coat pocket or bag would boost popularity. Find a cheap material to make them out of, perhaps something biodegradeable. Cheap manufacturing methods should be sought, and today there is nothing cheaper than the lithography method for making complicated electronic devices like this. Perhaps two or more levels of eBook should be designed for budget and top end buyers, call them "paperbacks" and "hardcovers", which would be more attractively packaged. It just might work.
Well, anyway, if he did have a static charge of 40,000v, which is unlikely but possible (obviously), he would discharge once in a very uncomfortable and possibly fatal arc (although, the static would not run through his heart, but through his hand or whatever he touched, so at worst there would be skin burns. He would not, however light everything in his path on fire, as the static charge would completely disapate after one arc.
Power off telephone polls is not 14,440 volts unless you live next to raised wires. The average power line before a transformer to 115v is around 1200v. Raised high tension wires can be up to 150,000v.