Ah... classical... how I love them... Come to think about it, I have several CDs on classical musics... Beethoven... Mozarts... Chopin... only 1 music in my collection was downloaded because I can't find a place to buy them. That was "Carmina Burana", and it's one kick ass classical music.
Greediness of Artists? From what I remember, they get VERY SMALL portion of the revenue from their song sell. That and MOST of the artists (most of the one who signed up with record label but fail to produce a hit music) are bankrupt.
Considering CD (digital) is trying to compete with vinyl (analog recording device) under an analog arena (storing music), no wonder CDs are losing in sound quality because they can't possibly record an analog signal perfectly. Quality aside, CDs does store a lot more music then vinyl does.
WARNING, RANDOM RANT COMING UP, VINYL LOVER BEWARE...
Of course, let's look at this in another direction, using vinyl to store computer game... never gonna work.
I like your idea. I'm an engineer, and engineers create cool new stuff for the masses (and some obscure items that made stuff like flash-memeory works). More job for the engineers!
You know what, it does sound good. Let's outsource a few job that need lower qualification and get a few smart people here. Just a question, does these outsourcing effect engineers? They're suppose to be somewhat immune to being outsourced (experience counts in engineering.)
(From Taiwan, don't flame). At least clothes are ACTUALLY and PHYSICALLY produced in China. So did Japanese cars (I think some parts still came in-state, so actually they're insourcing here for some stuff) and Taiwan makes the memory, no outsourcing to talk about, just pain old trading. IT job going oversea, however, when the parent company is based in US, I believe is not right. If you've a company here design to make money from us, you should at least hire people here. Not hiring some other people.
Better not let Bush hear that, or he might start a war against India... wait, all we need is some claim to oil their... maybe a first strike capability on China might work... OR maybe in the name of the liberation of women in India... OR... something...
6 month after job outsourced... On Monster.com... XYZ Company Several programmers needed Requirements: Basic knowledge of Indian (or whatever language Indian in India speaks). Extensive knowledge on C/C++ programming. Job description: Debugging code written by Indians.
A few days later, company mail box got flooded, all from ex-employee.
Dear XYZ hiring director,
F**K YOU!
Sincerely,
The guy you laid off so you can get cheap programmer from India.
I think programmer has been digging their own grave for a long time. They've been trained to write clean, efficient codes that can repair it so. The software go so robust that any foreigners, with the minimal training, can replace you and maintain your cleanly written software for you. Write like MS programmers, or write badly formatted softwares, now no one knows how to debug it, and no one will be able to fix it.
Better yet, become an engineer, especially those dealing with transportation (lots of them). Malfunctions (in all form and size, even those that kills...) are a guarantee job security.
Um... firefox isn't bloated. Hell, it ran more stable then my IE. Granted FireFox (at least the one on my computer) tend to crash once a week. But compare to IE (crash once per hour...), it's very good. Now I just need to figure what caused those crashes... maybe some other apps' screwing it... or maybe i was messing with the config way too much...
I don't like Mac in general. Major reason? A single mouse button, kind of hard when you want to do context sensitive (right click for info thing) kind of stuff.
I don't think its legal for them to include the plugins without the plugin developer's consent (legals savvies plz help out). However, I think they want to keep the download as small as possible.
As for mozilla crashing, not sure about that, because I use FireFox. And it seems it has some problem when it stayed open for too long and got maximized, minimized several time, after which it start leaking memory... maybe its an OS problem.
The company meant, the battery was proceed with the same material as the normal nickel-hydride cells with no extra expensive materials. I think their 30 seconds time might refer to the normal AA battery... maybe.
Winamp 3 ran fine on your computer? Dang, it's suppose to be one of the most buggy and crashy and slowest version of Winamp Nullsoft released (they actually discontinued the development).
Version 3 did suk, they discontinued it. I think version 3 is just one of their overly ambitious plan that got WAY overboard. Well, now they got the nice Winamp5 out... much better then 3, and more feature then winamp2, and load just as fast as winamp2 on my comp.
Itune, don't use it, too big a footprint. WMA, same problem, and looks ugly.
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Damn, no mod points. So I can only offer my applause for your very insightful post (at last! Someone intelligent!). But from the current plan the US is going, we will be putting something akin to a weapon of mass destruction in space. So it's not going to be used to take a capital, more like leveling it. Perhaps somesort of high power microwave beam that destroy the enemies' electronic infrastructure, minimal lost of people (both civilian and military... unless they got pace maker). Although I like the sound of one of their "hyper-velocity rod bundle", but the "bundle part" make it sound like a shotgun in space...
Actually... there's no way to nerf a nuke. A nuclear bomb need a critical mass in order to undergo a run-away chain reaction (instant meltdown). Even at the lowest possible configuration, it'll still go off with a BIG BOOM! Unless you consider only taking out a few city blocks and contaminate several more nerfed... then go ahead.
Sounds cool, but one problem, air current. If the capsule's trajectory went through the jet stream, it might have traveled hundred of miles before it detonate (bye bye Iraq... oops, sorry Egypt).
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Most early "weapon" design for space falls into only two category, surveillance and defense. And most weapon that will actually reach space (example ICBM) are actually just massive rocket artillery that got fired into a long trajectory, who still have a weapon platform (where the weapon can be fired from) on the ground. The article was talking about was actually put weapon platforms in space. Platforms that can stay in space for a long duration of time and strike and any time of it's controller's choosing. Plus several earth based weapon that can knock down said threat when needed.
I think that's a reason why Google decided not to go IPO the last time they considered it... come to think about it, maybe they should limit the people who purchase their stock when they release it (kind of like a donation).
Like my college, who did bulk mail and complains that e-mail sites such as hotmail always excluded their mail as junk mail. Using your idea, legit bulk mail won't be a problem. As for spam, google could go one further. Since all spam mail contains a link. Perhaps google can factor that in and when someone spam an e-mail as spam, the link provided in the e-mail will be marked down in the search index. Of course... this open things up to a lot of abuse google-mail bombing someone else's site...
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Ah... classical... how I love them... Come to think about it, I have several CDs on classical musics... Beethoven... Mozarts... Chopin... only 1 music in my collection was downloaded because I can't find a place to buy them. That was "Carmina Burana", and it's one kick ass classical music.
Greediness of Artists? From what I remember, they get VERY SMALL portion of the revenue from their song sell. That and MOST of the artists (most of the one who signed up with record label but fail to produce a hit music) are bankrupt.
Considering CD (digital) is trying to compete with vinyl (analog recording device) under an analog arena (storing music), no wonder CDs are losing in sound quality because they can't possibly record an analog signal perfectly. Quality aside, CDs does store a lot more music then vinyl does.
WARNING, RANDOM RANT COMING UP, VINYL LOVER BEWARE...
Of course, let's look at this in another direction, using vinyl to store computer game... never gonna work.
Don't get me wrong, I respect vinyl.
I like your idea. I'm an engineer, and engineers create cool new stuff for the masses (and some obscure items that made stuff like flash-memeory works). More job for the engineers!
You know what, it does sound good. Let's outsource a few job that need lower qualification and get a few smart people here. Just a question, does these outsourcing effect engineers? They're suppose to be somewhat immune to being outsourced (experience counts in engineering.)
(From Taiwan, don't flame). At least clothes are ACTUALLY and PHYSICALLY produced in China. So did Japanese cars (I think some parts still came in-state, so actually they're insourcing here for some stuff) and Taiwan makes the memory, no outsourcing to talk about, just pain old trading. IT job going oversea, however, when the parent company is based in US, I believe is not right. If you've a company here design to make money from us, you should at least hire people here. Not hiring some other people.
Better not let Bush hear that, or he might start a war against India... wait, all we need is some claim to oil their... maybe a first strike capability on China might work... OR maybe in the name of the liberation of women in India... OR... something...
Hm... I like that...
6 month after job outsourced...
On Monster.com...
XYZ Company
Several programmers needed
Requirements:
Basic knowledge of Indian (or whatever language Indian in India speaks).
Extensive knowledge on C/C++ programming.
Job description:
Debugging code written by Indians.
A few days later, company mail box got flooded, all from ex-employee.
Dear XYZ hiring director,
F**K YOU!
Sincerely,
The guy you laid off so you can get cheap programmer from India.
I think programmer has been digging their own grave for a long time. They've been trained to write clean, efficient codes that can repair it so. The software go so robust that any foreigners, with the minimal training, can replace you and maintain your cleanly written software for you. Write like MS programmers, or write badly formatted softwares, now no one knows how to debug it, and no one will be able to fix it.
Better yet, become an engineer, especially those dealing with transportation (lots of them). Malfunctions (in all form and size, even those that kills...) are a guarantee job security.
Um... firefox isn't bloated. Hell, it ran more stable then my IE. Granted FireFox (at least the one on my computer) tend to crash once a week. But compare to IE (crash once per hour...), it's very good. Now I just need to figure what caused those crashes... maybe some other apps' screwing it... or maybe i was messing with the config way too much...
I don't like Mac in general. Major reason? A single mouse button, kind of hard when you want to do context sensitive (right click for info thing) kind of stuff.
I don't think its legal for them to include the plugins without the plugin developer's consent (legals savvies plz help out). However, I think they want to keep the download as small as possible.
As for mozilla crashing, not sure about that, because I use FireFox. And it seems it has some problem when it stayed open for too long and got maximized, minimized several time, after which it start leaking memory... maybe its an OS problem.
The company meant, the battery was proceed with the same material as the normal nickel-hydride cells with no extra expensive materials. I think their 30 seconds time might refer to the normal AA battery... maybe.
Hm... lightning gun in UT2004. Or the shock rifle... or laser pistols...
Winamp 3 ran fine on your computer? Dang, it's suppose to be one of the most buggy and crashy and slowest version of Winamp Nullsoft released (they actually discontinued the development).
Version 3 did suk, they discontinued it. I think version 3 is just one of their overly ambitious plan that got WAY overboard. Well, now they got the nice Winamp5 out... much better then 3, and more feature then winamp2, and load just as fast as winamp2 on my comp.
Itune, don't use it, too big a footprint.
WMA, same problem, and looks ugly.
Damn, no mod points. So I can only offer my applause for your very insightful post (at last! Someone intelligent!). But from the current plan the US is going, we will be putting something akin to a weapon of mass destruction in space. So it's not going to be used to take a capital, more like leveling it.
Perhaps somesort of high power microwave beam that destroy the enemies' electronic infrastructure, minimal lost of people (both civilian and military... unless they got pace maker). Although I like the sound of one of their "hyper-velocity rod bundle", but the "bundle part" make it sound like a shotgun in space...
Actually... there's no way to nerf a nuke. A nuclear bomb need a critical mass in order to undergo a run-away chain reaction (instant meltdown). Even at the lowest possible configuration, it'll still go off with a BIG BOOM! Unless you consider only taking out a few city blocks and contaminate several more nerfed... then go ahead.
Sounds cool, but one problem, air current. If the capsule's trajectory went through the jet stream, it might have traveled hundred of miles before it detonate (bye bye Iraq... oops, sorry Egypt).
Most early "weapon" design for space falls into only two category, surveillance and defense. And most weapon that will actually reach space (example ICBM) are actually just massive rocket artillery that got fired into a long trajectory, who still have a weapon platform (where the weapon can be fired from) on the ground. The article was talking about was actually put weapon platforms in space. Platforms that can stay in space for a long duration of time and strike and any time of it's controller's choosing. Plus several earth based weapon that can knock down said threat when needed.
First thing that come to mind... rail gun or mass driver on the moon...
I think those line are just in there to be in line with the law... not sure exactly what laws...
I think that's a reason why Google decided not to go IPO the last time they considered it... come to think about it, maybe they should limit the people who purchase their stock when they release it (kind of like a donation).
Like my college, who did bulk mail and complains that e-mail sites such as hotmail always excluded their mail as junk mail. Using your idea, legit bulk mail won't be a problem. As for spam, google could go one further. Since all spam mail contains a link. Perhaps google can factor that in and when someone spam an e-mail as spam, the link provided in the e-mail will be marked down in the search index. Of course... this open things up to a lot of abuse google-mail bombing someone else's site...