When is the last time you think Elton John sat at a table with someone from the random public?
Another poster had it right when they pointed out that the music industry is actually headed back to it's roots, but with so much more potential. Back 'in the old days', actually already up to the early radio days, a bunch of people got together and started playing music. They started in a garage or warehouse somewhere, playing other peoples music that they all knew, and playing stuff that one, or more, of them had written. Then they got local gigs, and started forming a following. Folks in their fan base talked about the great music they were playing, and the fan base grew and more gigs were booked, and to larger audiences. When recording media became prevalent, they would record a couple songs and other parts of the country would get to hear it. Bands, singers, and songs became popular through a gradual gathering of support and a solid fan base.
For decades now, a music executive finds a band he can sign cheap, that he can market into a pop sensation, blasts their music all over, so you have no choice but to listen to it, and most of the 'fan base' occurs simply because the majority don't have any choice or options.
But now the Internet is taking us back to the time that you have to develop your fan base through personal contact and good music. Just getting people together and posting your music to a MySpace page isn't going to get you a fan base. there is too much music available for any appreciable number of people to find and listen to what you are doing. So you fall back on local gigs and developing a following. Then they go on their blogs and talk about your great music and can actually point people to your website and music. So you can develop a much larger, global fan base much faster, but it still requires that you get word of mouth out through personal interaction.
Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake, Brittany Spears, etc. Have never had to do club shows and actually interact with their fans.
Most of the music I listen to now is from bands that I've sent drinks up to on the stage, and usually afterwards had a good social time with when their set was done. And most of them love to hear what those of us sitting in the audience really liked about particular songs, and what we didn't like so much. That is so much easier and more comfortable to convey sitting in the bar talking about it, than making an impersonal comment post on their blog.
Gallon/liter/barrel is a volume based measurement system. Volume depends on density and temperature. If you package a gallon of something at a high temperature, then deliver it at a cooler temperature, you are delivering less volume than you packaged. So, if you put 4,000 liters of gas into a tanker at a temperature of 35 C in Houston, and delivered it to Detroit at a temperature of 10 C, you would only be delivering about 3,670 liters of gasoline, assuming atmospheric pressure is the same at both locations.
The actual amount of gasoline hasn't changed (about 9.39x10^23 molecules), just it's density.
So... you are saying that the NSA has the ability and desire to break every ElGamel 2048-bit length encrypted message it captures with Echelon? I've seen too much of government from the inside to think that any agency operates as well as the NSA FUD would have us believe. Especially when you realize it is far easier and cheaper to make your enemies believe you have super powers than it is to actually develop those super powers, completely in-house with no outside knowledge or help.
And yet, with all of what you state being true, the publishers still manage to only produce garbage. Well, OK, giving them the benefit of the doubt, judging by the last 10 fiction novels I've picked up as "New York Times' Best Sellers" at the airport, only 90% of what they are producing is utterly and completely irredeemable garbage.
OMG! My children read this site! I find your use of of the F-word and your posting explicit urls very offensive. I hereby call for your post to be deleted, and your ip banned from ever posting to this site again. Delete Chris whatever's account, now!
The electric lobby got legislation passed that requires people who install solar panels to switch rate plans. The new plan they are forced to use prices electricity low during the times of day when the power they would produce is at its maximum and usage at its lowest, so power would be flowing into the grid and the electric company would have to pay the person. Then prices electricity high during the times when power generation is low and use is high when it is very likely that power will need to be drawn from the grid.
If they could stay at a flat rate, your example would be valid. However, in reality, the variable rate plan means you have to change the kWh in your example to dollars. So your example actually should read:
If you go to work during the day and generate $0.16 (1kWh * $0.16/kWh) to put into the grid, at night you use $0.56-$0.96 (2 or 3kWh * $0.24/kWh to $0.32/kWh) from the grid, thus maximizing electric company profit.
If you think that this wasn't deliberate and calculated out to the last fractional cent by the electrical generators prior to setting their lobbyists loose, well, bless your innocent heart.
Because there are economic incentives to use solar paid by the state, via the power company. If you want that $3,000 incentive you have to tell the electric company, but when you do, they jack your rates. Basically the article is showing that the amount the electric company jacks the rates means that, in general, it will remain financially better for most homeowners to stay full time customers of the utility. Now who would have thought they would do that?
The economy is not a zero-sum game. One person's accumulation of wealth does not prevent another person's ascendancy. Now, granted, the power afforded by a great deal of wealth can then be used to stifle innovation or competition, but one does not need to flow from the other.
The actual fiscal conservative/social liberal that it takes to be a Libertarian is something I have yet to see.
Well, it's nice to meet you AK Marc.
I believe in private property rights and private medical decisions made between an individual and their doctor.
Now, before the nutters start throwing out the absurdity of taking that to the extreme, I will say that I do recognize that there are legitimate areas in which a government should override personal rights. They are perhaps best stated:
"establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty"
An interstate highway system benefits everyone in the country, and someone has to give up land to put it on, and someone has to pay taxes for it to be built and maintained. But I am also a big proponent of toll roads. Don't make someone in Miami pay for a road that only people in Orlando will use, even if the increase in tourism it allows will increase the state coffers. If the goods need to get to my local grocery store, keep my taxes low, let the shippers pay the tolls, and they can pass the cost on to me. Then the shippers who take the most efficient routes will charge less for transport, create less congestion, and not use the public road system as a mobile warehouse (I'm looking at you WalMart). At the local level, yes, I need to give up my land, and my neighbor must give up some of their land, so that we both can have access to our property via a public road system. No sane person would advocate a system where you must pay a toll to every land owner between you and the grocery store. But if my neighbors want a sidewalk across my property, they can buy the land from me at my asking price, then they can put whatever they want on it. Otherwise walk on the street. (Yes, yes "public right of way 10 feet from back of curb, blah, blah, blah.)
And no, that doesn't mean they can put an unregulated chemical plant spewing toxins there, unless they can keep every single consequence of what they put there within their property lines... including ugly vistas, noise, and smells.
As far as abortions go, that is entirely between a woman and her doctor, as is suicide, drug use, or body modification. As long as I'm not being asked to pay for, or subsidize it, it is none of my business.
I'll also make clear that I don't advocate any extremism, even in my own leanings. A good, just system, with as much personal freedom as is possible while maintaining a well ordered society, is a very difficult thing to achieve and maintain, and there are a lot of very gray areas, that must be discussed and consensus found before proceeding on them. This is what the founding fathers recognized, and tried to create. Unfortunately, that system requires two important things. First, leaders that are more interested in doing the right thing under those principles than in accumulating personal power. Second, an electorate that cares enough about those principles, and is intelligent enough, to pay attention to the issues and make sure that the correct issues are being attended to by their leaders, and are being correctly decided.
Government should work to guarantee that competent and hard working individuals have opportunities, and a high likelihood of success. Government should not be about theft from those who have achieved success to give to those who are either not competent, or not hard working, or neither.
I am a Libertarian, and, from what I've seen and heard, I agree with the party line, about as much as most Demicans agree with their official party line. However, most of the intelligent Libertarian discussions I have been involved with on this subject have concluded that the appropriate level of government intervention is one of putting checks on established actors to prevent them from locking out new competition, while at the same time not awarding a less efficient, less productive entrant just because they are new.
Your childish, take from the rich, give to the poor, sentiments when taken to Liberal policy statement level, boils down to, "It's not fair that the rich kids don't have to work, cause daddy worked hard and is now giving them everything, when I didn't have a rich daddy and don't get that advantage. So I want the government to make them poor too, and by the way give me money so I can be a lazy slob."
Well, let's see... Are you the Ryan Fenton that likes to hunt with a black powder muzzle loader? ATF might be interested in putting that into your file, just for reference. Or maybe you're Ryan Fenton of Winter Haven, Florida, or hmm... seems fairly likely you might be Coach
Fenton of Clifton, NY, he maintains his own webpage. A good slashdot reader kind of activity. Does the Shenendehowa school board know you are a hunter? Or maybe you are Ryan Fenton the paranormal investigator with a M.S. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Connecticut? You are probably the non-Mac Sketch Fighter fanboy and looking at your resume it looks like you probably are the Ryan from Winter Haven, Florida, with full home address and phone number given.
Now you have no idea who I am, or who anyone is reading this post, or what any of us might do with any of this information. Doesn't that make you at least a little bit uncomfortable?
But the situation we are talking about is precisely a broken water cooling system. If your water cooling system is, and stays, sealed, I agree, you don't have to worry. What most of us, who are unwilling to take the plunge to water cooling systems, worry about is the results when, not if, it breaks and leaks.
If you have a non-conducting medium, it may be a mess, but not a disaster. If you are using a conducting medium, like water, or one that becomes conducting when it leaks, like deionized water, you will have a disaster.
The more things you add to your water cooling rig, CPU, GPU, Northbridge, now RAM, the more connections and complexity you have to cause leaks.
Your flaked off skin has high concentrations of various salts in and on it. Back in the day, when they actually did experiments in high school chemistry class, I remember one where we used deionized water, a battery, and a light bulb to show that the water was non-conductive, then added salt and showed that it became a good conductor. That was the experiment I was thinking of when reading the GPs post.
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When is the last time you think Elton John sat at a table with someone from the random public?
Another poster had it right when they pointed out that the music industry is actually headed back to it's roots, but with so much more potential. Back 'in the old days', actually already up to the early radio days, a bunch of people got together and started playing music. They started in a garage or warehouse somewhere, playing other peoples music that they all knew, and playing stuff that one, or more, of them had written. Then they got local gigs, and started forming a following. Folks in their fan base talked about the great music they were playing, and the fan base grew and more gigs were booked, and to larger audiences. When recording media became prevalent, they would record a couple songs and other parts of the country would get to hear it. Bands, singers, and songs became popular through a gradual gathering of support and a solid fan base.
For decades now, a music executive finds a band he can sign cheap, that he can market into a pop sensation, blasts their music all over, so you have no choice but to listen to it, and most of the 'fan base' occurs simply because the majority don't have any choice or options.
But now the Internet is taking us back to the time that you have to develop your fan base through personal contact and good music. Just getting people together and posting your music to a MySpace page isn't going to get you a fan base. there is too much music available for any appreciable number of people to find and listen to what you are doing. So you fall back on local gigs and developing a following. Then they go on their blogs and talk about your great music and can actually point people to your website and music. So you can develop a much larger, global fan base much faster, but it still requires that you get word of mouth out through personal interaction.
Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake, Brittany Spears, etc. Have never had to do club shows and actually interact with their fans.
Most of the music I listen to now is from bands that I've sent drinks up to on the stage, and usually afterwards had a good social time with when their set was done. And most of them love to hear what those of us sitting in the audience really liked about particular songs, and what we didn't like so much. That is so much easier and more comfortable to convey sitting in the bar talking about it, than making an impersonal comment post on their blog.
Gallon/liter/barrel is a volume based measurement system. Volume depends on density and temperature. If you package a gallon of something at a high temperature, then deliver it at a cooler temperature, you are delivering less volume than you packaged. So, if you put 4,000 liters of gas into a tanker at a temperature of 35 C in Houston, and delivered it to Detroit at a temperature of 10 C, you would only be delivering about 3,670 liters of gasoline, assuming atmospheric pressure is the same at both locations.
The actual amount of gasoline hasn't changed (about 9.39x10^23 molecules), just it's density.
Why yes, I am.
Moral of the story, don't be an asshat.
Integrity is doing the right thing even if no one is watching.
The same type that finds it hilarious to ship a box with a phone book in it, rather than the Xbox the buyer actually paid for.
So... you are saying that the NSA has the ability and desire to break every ElGamel 2048-bit length encrypted message it captures with Echelon? I've seen too much of government from the inside to think that any agency operates as well as the NSA FUD would have us believe. Especially when you realize it is far easier and cheaper to make your enemies believe you have super powers than it is to actually develop those super powers, completely in-house with no outside knowledge or help.
Actually that (at least the GGW) would quit clearly be copyright violation.
And yet, with all of what you state being true, the publishers still manage to only produce garbage. Well, OK, giving them the benefit of the doubt, judging by the last 10 fiction novels I've picked up as "New York Times' Best Sellers" at the airport, only 90% of what they are producing is utterly and completely irredeemable garbage.
No, we solved that problem fifty years ago. Put a 'mini-coliseum' in every home.
Next week on American Idol watch two people compete for a meaningless prize while you sit in your easy chair saying "I could do better than that."
OMG! My children read this site! I find your use of of the F-word and your posting explicit urls very offensive. I hereby call for your post to be deleted, and your ip banned from ever posting to this site again. Delete Chris whatever's account, now!
Why do I always read your sig as that you are a pagan librarian... I get visions of book stacks among the oaks, and ivy trailing along the catalogs.
The electric lobby got legislation passed that requires people who install solar panels to switch rate plans. The new plan they are forced to use prices electricity low during the times of day when the power they would produce is at its maximum and usage at its lowest, so power would be flowing into the grid and the electric company would have to pay the person. Then prices electricity high during the times when power generation is low and use is high when it is very likely that power will need to be drawn from the grid.
If they could stay at a flat rate, your example would be valid. However, in reality, the variable rate plan means you have to change the kWh in your example to dollars. So your example actually should read:
If you think that this wasn't deliberate and calculated out to the last fractional cent by the electrical generators prior to setting their lobbyists loose, well, bless your innocent heart.
Actually, the tech is originally American and has been in operation since 1981.
Because there are economic incentives to use solar paid by the state, via the power company. If you want that $3,000 incentive you have to tell the electric company, but when you do, they jack your rates. Basically the article is showing that the amount the electric company jacks the rates means that, in general, it will remain financially better for most homeowners to stay full time customers of the utility. Now who would have thought they would do that?
I'll just quote Rakarra from a post above:
The economy is not a zero-sum game. One person's accumulation of wealth does not prevent another person's ascendancy. Now, granted, the power afforded by a great deal of wealth can then be used to stifle innovation or competition, but one does not need to flow from the other.
Well, it's nice to meet you AK Marc.
I believe in private property rights and private medical decisions made between an individual and their doctor.
Now, before the nutters start throwing out the absurdity of taking that to the extreme, I will say that I do recognize that there are legitimate areas in which a government should override personal rights. They are perhaps best stated:
"establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty"
An interstate highway system benefits everyone in the country, and someone has to give up land to put it on, and someone has to pay taxes for it to be built and maintained. But I am also a big proponent of toll roads. Don't make someone in Miami pay for a road that only people in Orlando will use, even if the increase in tourism it allows will increase the state coffers. If the goods need to get to my local grocery store, keep my taxes low, let the shippers pay the tolls, and they can pass the cost on to me. Then the shippers who take the most efficient routes will charge less for transport, create less congestion, and not use the public road system as a mobile warehouse (I'm looking at you WalMart). At the local level, yes, I need to give up my land, and my neighbor must give up some of their land, so that we both can have access to our property via a public road system. No sane person would advocate a system where you must pay a toll to every land owner between you and the grocery store. But if my neighbors want a sidewalk across my property, they can buy the land from me at my asking price, then they can put whatever they want on it. Otherwise walk on the street. (Yes, yes "public right of way 10 feet from back of curb, blah, blah, blah.)
And no, that doesn't mean they can put an unregulated chemical plant spewing toxins there, unless they can keep every single consequence of what they put there within their property lines... including ugly vistas, noise, and smells.
As far as abortions go, that is entirely between a woman and her doctor, as is suicide, drug use, or body modification. As long as I'm not being asked to pay for, or subsidize it, it is none of my business.
I'll also make clear that I don't advocate any extremism, even in my own leanings. A good, just system, with as much personal freedom as is possible while maintaining a well ordered society, is a very difficult thing to achieve and maintain, and there are a lot of very gray areas, that must be discussed and consensus found before proceeding on them. This is what the founding fathers recognized, and tried to create. Unfortunately, that system requires two important things. First, leaders that are more interested in doing the right thing under those principles than in accumulating personal power. Second, an electorate that cares enough about those principles, and is intelligent enough, to pay attention to the issues and make sure that the correct issues are being attended to by their leaders, and are being correctly decided.
Exactly.
Government should work to guarantee that competent and hard working individuals have opportunities, and a high likelihood of success. Government should not be about theft from those who have achieved success to give to those who are either not competent, or not hard working, or neither.
I am a Libertarian, and, from what I've seen and heard, I agree with the party line, about as much as most Demicans agree with their official party line. However, most of the intelligent Libertarian discussions I have been involved with on this subject have concluded that the appropriate level of government intervention is one of putting checks on established actors to prevent them from locking out new competition, while at the same time not awarding a less efficient, less productive entrant just because they are new.
Your childish, take from the rich, give to the poor, sentiments when taken to Liberal policy statement level, boils down to, "It's not fair that the rich kids don't have to work, cause daddy worked hard and is now giving them everything, when I didn't have a rich daddy and don't get that advantage. So I want the government to make them poor too, and by the way give me money so I can be a lazy slob."
You get 36 kW/microsecond out of your household circuit? You using nitrogen cooling on those wires in your walls?
Petroleum based lubricants last much longer than water based, under continuous usage.
Oh... you hadn't discovered that... so sorry.
Yeah, because it's so hard to figure out the proper versioning sequence of Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, and Feisty Fawn...
That was just a cheap trick we BBS operators used to get chick's phone numbers.
Never seemed to work out for too many dates though. Shame that.
Thank you for explaining that to him, so I didn't have to. It was obvious he missed the AC's innuendo.
Well, let's see... Are you the Ryan Fenton that likes to hunt with a black powder muzzle loader? ATF might be interested in putting that into your file, just for reference. Or maybe you're Ryan Fenton of Winter Haven, Florida, or hmm... seems fairly likely you might be Coach Fenton of Clifton, NY, he maintains his own webpage. A good slashdot reader kind of activity. Does the Shenendehowa school board know you are a hunter? Or maybe you are Ryan Fenton the paranormal investigator with a M.S. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Connecticut? You are probably the non-Mac Sketch Fighter fanboy and looking at your resume it looks like you probably are the Ryan from Winter Haven, Florida, with full home address and phone number given.
Now you have no idea who I am, or who anyone is reading this post, or what any of us might do with any of this information. Doesn't that make you at least a little bit uncomfortable?
But the situation we are talking about is precisely a broken water cooling system. If your water cooling system is, and stays, sealed, I agree, you don't have to worry. What most of us, who are unwilling to take the plunge to water cooling systems, worry about is the results when, not if, it breaks and leaks.
If you have a non-conducting medium, it may be a mess, but not a disaster. If you are using a conducting medium, like water, or one that becomes conducting when it leaks, like deionized water, you will have a disaster.
The more things you add to your water cooling rig, CPU, GPU, Northbridge, now RAM, the more connections and complexity you have to cause leaks.
Your flaked off skin has high concentrations of various salts in and on it. Back in the day, when they actually did experiments in high school chemistry class, I remember one where we used deionized water, a battery, and a light bulb to show that the water was non-conductive, then added salt and showed that it became a good conductor. That was the experiment I was thinking of when reading the GPs post.