If you're buying for music get XM. It has much deeper playlists. If you like dance/techno music XM has 5 channels, one for dance hits (BPM), one for house styles (The Move), one for trance styles (The System), on for 70's dance/disco (Chrome) and one for downtempo, ambiant (XM Chill). The System, The Move, and BPM all do live DJ shows in the evenings and all weekend long and you get to hear lots of great new stuff. All offer a great range of music all the time too.
I had the same delemma when I was shopping for satillite radio and once I took a good look at the sort of music stations they 2 services offered XM was the clear winner.
I run a rather successfull Open Source project. phpBB (bulletin board software, http://www.phpbb.com)
I've had more offers of money then I can shake a stick at. People have offered to pay us for development, sponser our website, and just buy us outright. I've turned them all down. Why? I don't trust corporations...
Ultimatly the people paying you to develop are going to expect something back, and most likly that will be ownership of your code and the right to dictate what you do with it.
If you do accept their offer and take payment for your Open Source work make DAMN sure you're not signing away any of the rights to your code.
OK sure that could be a problem. However the moment you requested an image of a 'sensitive' area you would be reported to the NSA or Secret Service or whoever is in charge of the nation security of whatever country you were looking at. Assuming the operators of the satillite are reputable (and haveing the resources and cash to put up a satillite they had better be).
There isn't anything from stopping the ppl who have access to these satillites from looking at whever they want right now, except for government restrictions they may have placed on them. The same restrictions would be placed on anyone useing Earth-imageing satillites and selling custom images.
Note: when I said 'website' I ment a website where you could place an order of sorts and they would send you either a high res print or image file.
It would still be damn cool to get a nice image of my City, or even my house:)
The ability for the general public to take satillight photo's. With limits of course (no nude beaches etc etc..), but a place where you could plunk down $50 or so for a sat. photo of whatever you like, that would be great! Or even better a website:)
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If you're buying for music get XM. It has much deeper playlists. If you like dance/techno music XM has 5 channels, one for dance hits (BPM), one for house styles (The Move), one for trance styles (The System), on for 70's dance/disco (Chrome) and one for downtempo, ambiant (XM Chill). The System, The Move, and BPM all do live DJ shows in the evenings and all weekend long and you get to hear lots of great new stuff. All offer a great range of music all the time too.
I had the same delemma when I was shopping for satillite radio and once I took a good look at the sort of music stations they 2 services offered XM was the clear winner.
I run a rather successfull Open Source project. phpBB (bulletin board software, http://www.phpbb.com)
I've had more offers of money then I can shake a stick at. People have offered to pay us for development, sponser our website, and just buy us outright. I've turned them all down. Why? I don't trust corporations...
Ultimatly the people paying you to develop are going to expect something back, and most likly that will be ownership of your code and the right to dictate what you do with it.
If you do accept their offer and take payment for your Open Source work make DAMN sure you're not signing away any of the rights to your code.
Err...why would you post something you didn't want to give away?
I don't see how anyone can get burned giving stuff away...If you dumb enough to list your Althlon 800 w/ 256mb you deserve to have it taken.
Oh well...
1 meter I belive....
- Jimmy
OK sure that could be a problem. However the moment you requested an image of a 'sensitive' area you would be reported to the NSA or Secret Service or whoever is in charge of the nation security of whatever country you were looking at. Assuming the operators of the satillite are reputable (and haveing the resources and cash to put up a satillite they had better be).
:)
There isn't anything from stopping the ppl who have access to these satillites from looking at whever they want right now, except for government restrictions they may have placed on them. The same restrictions would be placed on anyone useing Earth-imageing satillites and selling custom images.
Note: when I said 'website' I ment a website where you could place an order of sorts and they would send you either a high res print or image file.
It would still be damn cool to get a nice image of my City, or even my house
- Jimmy
If it is over 1 metre you deserve to be on Hard Copy... :)
(Sorry couldn't resist)
The ability for the general public to take satillight photo's. With limits of course (no nude beaches etc etc..), but a place where you could plunk down $50 or so for a sat. photo of whatever you like, that would be great! Or even better a website :)
my $0.02
- Jimmy