Maybe you haven't noticed in the last year that the compression is getting so high and the levels are going ABOVE 0dB! Many producers are obviously willing to completely turn the music to static just to get it louder. Wouldn't surprise me for a whole new genre of "static" music to be developed. Listen to Sleater Kinney's The Woods for an example. A lot of alt-rock is already this loud.
As silly as it sounds with Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Jazz and to an extent, Classical, the sales of vinyl are growing at a quick rate and CDs are slowly massively. People value the sound quality and physicality of the vinyl and generally download the tracks from file-sharing to use portably or in the car. While I don't personally care too much for the free downloads, it will save a lot of people a lot of time and it keeps them "in-tow" with the record label's marketing. Everyone wins.
iTunes seems to be quite a success despite free music downloads and subsidized music in the form of radio. I don't see why videos would be any different.
If someone's been tailgaiting me in normal traffic when there is no hope of going faster or making extra lights, I'll usually pull over and let them pass too. When they angrily speed by to the next red light, I'll coast up behind them and if they hesitate even a fraction of second when the light turns, lay on the horn to show my impatience at waiting for them!
I think him calling it dangerously unstable is perfectly justified. Anybody that does any kind of important work, or even writes important e-mails NEVER wants to lose data. The review. Programs crashing is one thing but to have the OS reboot without warning? Reminds me of the hell of pre-OS X days with your fingers permanently planted on the Save shortcut. It's 2007. OS X has journalling and never crashes, nearly never does ANYTHING wrong. Out of the box, Linux is nearly as good. Vista is only getting slack because most people run Windows. If there were two choices of OSes, each with 50% market share and one was solid as a rock and the other was Vista, which would be the overwhelming favourite?
I never get up when it's dark regardless of DST. As others have suggested, businesses should change their hours of operation so that it's not dark when employees start in the morning, not change all the clocks.
It's all relative. You can make small cars safe. Look at the crash testing of the Smart car for example, but the idea is to gradually make all cars and trucks smaller and lighter so they use less energy and are less dangerous in accidents to other cars. Look at the cars & trucks in Japan or Europe on average compared to the US, they're a couple sizes smaller.
Love it or hate them, the major labels had a marketing focus. They picked a select set of new albums to release each week/month/year which had a large effect in creating a musical culture. Look at the 60s, 70s or 80s for example. There was a certain "style" or culture created by the marketing of music. Today, as the majors lose their effect we've got hundreds of little media outlets pushing different individual bands and a huge range of music. It's hard to find a "channel" to tune into that you can really identify with and find consistency from and beyond that it takes a really long time to scour all of it. I read Pitchfork and Stylus and Coke Machine glow, listen to Last.fm and read some major magazines like Spin etc. It seems like the 2000s may go down as a nothing generation in terms of music, no mega stars, no shared musical culture. Michael Jackson Thriller was not the best record of all time but you could often to go a party (even today) and find yourself dancing with 20 other people who all knew and enjoyed the music. We might be sacrificing some benefits of shared culture with all this choice.
As a retailer, I would simply stop stocking any product that forced me to sell at price higher than the market could bear. This would backfire on manufacturers and have a terrible effect on availability and ultimately amount of goods sold, i.e. recession time... In some cases Internet retailers sell at or below cost as loss leaders, or the volumes are so much higher than a small store could sustain but I don't see how you could apply this equally to all products sold.
It's the very fact that there is no "next" lossless format that CD will be with us for a very long time, just as vinyl is still with us. We'll probably see another 50% drop in CD sales but it will plateau and the people who want quality will do what they do now, order from speciality stores online or if they're lucky an obscure retail location in town.
The fact that we are currently not able to perceive it is kind of the point. We may be able to scientifically order the universe to the point of the big bang or even before, but at some point, knowing the "before" is precluded by the fact that we are different than what existed before and our perception will by definition always be excluded from that because it is "nothing" You can only follow back what has happened so far as the clues lead. When there is no order or further clues, our perception ceases to exist.
Yes, that may very well be possible, but it's still a bit beside the point. A graviton theory would simply expand the definition of what the universe is a little further but would not change the fundamental question of what came first and why it happened. The idea of infinity and nothing are essentially the same. Infinity is the idea that you can always go back further in time until an arbitrary point. Nothing is the idea of what happened before infinity, ad infinitum:-)
Hawking thinks he can predict all that exists about "our universe", not before it was made, not after. His talk is about getting close to being able to mathematically describe how it expanded from "nothing" and how the basic irregularities of that "inflation" now give us all we know. He's working backwards from galaxies and irregularities in the microwave background to show that there is a theory that can explain how this irregularity can exist and was started. Whether there was something before is inconsequential, like trying to go "south" of the "south pole". It simply does not exist. It is nothing. Is that so hard to fathom:-)
I've been running OS X since the first release and most of my programs are old - Office X, Photoshop 7, BBEdit 7 etc. etc. I can't think of one program I had to update when OS X was updated. I guess there are examples of specific things that might not work which would apply to some minority of users, but I've done lots of print design and web design and never run into any show stoppers.
Roughly speaking, a Ponzi scheme is one in which the perpetrators make false claims in order to lure investors. Once they have some investors coming in, they begin to pay back the earliest investors in order to create hype and garner more investors. People make money in ponzi schemes, but only by being at the top of the pyramid. So, you mean like the stock market?
The problem is that Microsoft is in the business of making money, not products. The products come second. So, they have tons of lawyers who say, "we should negotiate with other companies to get the right feature set to avoid litigation and increase interoperability". The problem with this is obvious. Lawyers should never determine this stuff. Conversely Apple is a company that makes products which because they're good make money. Sometimes they get into trouble by "innovating" a little too much without talking to the competition.
Generating electricity in cleaner ways is nice but not nearly as efficient or green as simply using less. Production is a very small part of the problem. Consumption is what we have to deal with.
There are lots of decent politicians, and some actually have some good ideas. Every bit counts. If you don't vote for the best, you will get the worst which is what we have now.
Look here, not buying from these guys isn't dissuading them. They will sue and litigate until their last dollar is spent (and they have a LOT of money). The reason the RIAA has power is because of the legal system and the politicians who pass things like the DMCA. As uncool as it is, it's time to go out and vote for your president, senators, governors, mayors and school trustees. Vote for anybody that promises more individual and consumer freedoms!
Even if there is debate about whether global warming is real, or whether we are causing it or not, it really doesn't matter. All the indications of the theory point to "YES." and that should be enough for us to give it the benefit of the doubt. This is the single biggest issue facing the long-term viability of the human race. If there was even a 20% chance of it being correct we should be acting on it to guard against it happening! The hard science can continue, but the main trend is clear already.
Looks to have a little less power and user friendliness than a Mac Plus circa 1986. The word processor is just a joke. It reminds me of the horrible times I had trying to get text to format correctly with the limited alignment and font options they used to have.
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Maybe you haven't noticed in the last year that the compression is getting so high and the levels are going ABOVE 0dB! Many producers are obviously willing to completely turn the music to static just to get it louder. Wouldn't surprise me for a whole new genre of "static" music to be developed. Listen to Sleater Kinney's The Woods for an example. A lot of alt-rock is already this loud.
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As silly as it sounds with Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Jazz and to an extent, Classical, the sales of vinyl are growing at a quick rate and CDs are slowly massively. People value the sound quality and physicality of the vinyl and generally download the tracks from file-sharing to use portably or in the car. While I don't personally care too much for the free downloads, it will save a lot of people a lot of time and it keeps them "in-tow" with the record label's marketing. Everyone wins.
iTunes seems to be quite a success despite free music downloads and subsidized music in the form of radio. I don't see why videos would be any different.
If someone's been tailgaiting me in normal traffic when there is no hope of going faster or making extra lights, I'll usually pull over and let them pass too. When they angrily speed by to the next red light, I'll coast up behind them and if they hesitate even a fraction of second when the light turns, lay on the horn to show my impatience at waiting for them!
20 light years. So that would take us 20 years to get there travelling at the speed of light, or slightly longer going not quite as fast?
I think him calling it dangerously unstable is perfectly justified. Anybody that does any kind of important work, or even writes important e-mails NEVER wants to lose data. The review. Programs crashing is one thing but to have the OS reboot without warning? Reminds me of the hell of pre-OS X days with your fingers permanently planted on the Save shortcut. It's 2007. OS X has journalling and never crashes, nearly never does ANYTHING wrong. Out of the box, Linux is nearly as good. Vista is only getting slack because most people run Windows. If there were two choices of OSes, each with 50% market share and one was solid as a rock and the other was Vista, which would be the overwhelming favourite?
I never get up when it's dark regardless of DST. As others have suggested, businesses should change their hours of operation so that it's not dark when employees start in the morning, not change all the clocks.
Personally, all joking aside, I was very happy to get more evening light earlier in the year.
It's all relative. You can make small cars safe. Look at the crash testing of the Smart car for example, but the idea is to gradually make all cars and trucks smaller and lighter so they use less energy and are less dangerous in accidents to other cars. Look at the cars & trucks in Japan or Europe on average compared to the US, they're a couple sizes smaller.
Love it or hate them, the major labels had a marketing focus. They picked a select set of new albums to release each week/month/year which had a large effect in creating a musical culture. Look at the 60s, 70s or 80s for example. There was a certain "style" or culture created by the marketing of music. Today, as the majors lose their effect we've got hundreds of little media outlets pushing different individual bands and a huge range of music. It's hard to find a "channel" to tune into that you can really identify with and find consistency from and beyond that it takes a really long time to scour all of it. I read Pitchfork and Stylus and Coke Machine glow, listen to Last.fm and read some major magazines like Spin etc. It seems like the 2000s may go down as a nothing generation in terms of music, no mega stars, no shared musical culture. Michael Jackson Thriller was not the best record of all time but you could often to go a party (even today) and find yourself dancing with 20 other people who all knew and enjoyed the music. We might be sacrificing some benefits of shared culture with all this choice.
As a retailer, I would simply stop stocking any product that forced me to sell at price higher than the market could bear. This would backfire on manufacturers and have a terrible effect on availability and ultimately amount of goods sold, i.e. recession time... In some cases Internet retailers sell at or below cost as loss leaders, or the volumes are so much higher than a small store could sustain but I don't see how you could apply this equally to all products sold.
It's the very fact that there is no "next" lossless format that CD will be with us for a very long time, just as vinyl is still with us. We'll probably see another 50% drop in CD sales but it will plateau and the people who want quality will do what they do now, order from speciality stores online or if they're lucky an obscure retail location in town.
The fact that we are currently not able to perceive it is kind of the point. We may be able to scientifically order the universe to the point of the big bang or even before, but at some point, knowing the "before" is precluded by the fact that we are different than what existed before and our perception will by definition always be excluded from that because it is "nothing" You can only follow back what has happened so far as the clues lead. When there is no order or further clues, our perception ceases to exist.
Yes, that may very well be possible, but it's still a bit beside the point. A graviton theory would simply expand the definition of what the universe is a little further but would not change the fundamental question of what came first and why it happened. The idea of infinity and nothing are essentially the same. Infinity is the idea that you can always go back further in time until an arbitrary point. Nothing is the idea of what happened before infinity, ad infinitum :-)
Hawking thinks he can predict all that exists about "our universe", not before it was made, not after. His talk is about getting close to being able to mathematically describe how it expanded from "nothing" and how the basic irregularities of that "inflation" now give us all we know. He's working backwards from galaxies and irregularities in the microwave background to show that there is a theory that can explain how this irregularity can exist and was started. Whether there was something before is inconsequential, like trying to go "south" of the "south pole". It simply does not exist. It is nothing. Is that so hard to fathom :-)
I've been running OS X since the first release and most of my programs are old - Office X, Photoshop 7, BBEdit 7 etc. etc. I can't think of one program I had to update when OS X was updated. I guess there are examples of specific things that might not work which would apply to some minority of users, but I've done lots of print design and web design and never run into any show stoppers.
The problem is that Microsoft is in the business of making money, not products. The products come second. So, they have tons of lawyers who say, "we should negotiate with other companies to get the right feature set to avoid litigation and increase interoperability". The problem with this is obvious. Lawyers should never determine this stuff. Conversely Apple is a company that makes products which because they're good make money. Sometimes they get into trouble by "innovating" a little too much without talking to the competition.
Generating electricity in cleaner ways is nice but not nearly as efficient or green as simply using less. Production is a very small part of the problem. Consumption is what we have to deal with.
There are lots of decent politicians, and some actually have some good ideas. Every bit counts. If you don't vote for the best, you will get the worst which is what we have now.
Look here, not buying from these guys isn't dissuading them. They will sue and litigate until their last dollar is spent (and they have a LOT of money). The reason the RIAA has power is because of the legal system and the politicians who pass things like the DMCA. As uncool as it is, it's time to go out and vote for your president, senators, governors, mayors and school trustees. Vote for anybody that promises more individual and consumer freedoms!
Even if there is debate about whether global warming is real, or whether we are causing it or not, it really doesn't matter. All the indications of the theory point to "YES." and that should be enough for us to give it the benefit of the doubt. This is the single biggest issue facing the long-term viability of the human race. If there was even a 20% chance of it being correct we should be acting on it to guard against it happening! The hard science can continue, but the main trend is clear already.
It's more fun than selling it on eBay. Better yet, make a video of you smashing it, put it on a memory card and then sell it on eBay.
Looks to have a little less power and user friendliness than a Mac Plus circa 1986. The word processor is just a joke. It reminds me of the horrible times I had trying to get text to format correctly with the limited alignment and font options they used to have.