I was responding to the specific assertion that eBay's renumeration should be proportional to their costs. That's a rather Bolshevistic interpretation, and is, ironically, the kind of logic that makes us think that diamond encrusted laptops are any more valuable than their diamond-free counterparts.
eBay should charge what they can, but I personally think that some of the things they charge for are unrelated to their value, and more importantly, could be cut out entirely by a competitor and still be profitable.. IF the competitor has the resources to winnow enough people away from eBay in the first place. eBay's real value isn't the service they provide, but the eyes. People buy through ebay because that's where millions all the stuff is. People sell through ebay because there are so many buyers, they can get the best price.
If anything, Craigslist proves that the eBay model is siphoning off too much money from its hosts. All we need is for some enterprising company (with deep enough pockets to advertise for months before turning a profit) to come in with a cleaned up, national version of Craigslist. and eBay will be unseated from the throne. Craigs might do it themselves, but they're taking way too long for my taste.
Let me be clear: I think eBay's shortcomings are a huge opportunity for a newcomer. Not something to regulate. I don't really know about the images thing, I suppose it depends on who owns the copyright.
The only suggestion I have for you is to take the bus in the morning, and don't worry about sweatying or messying your clothes on the return trip. Busses usually have bicycle thingies in the front now. But yah, you've gotta be pretty hardcore to keep it up.
No, YOU couldn't get it with an mp3, because all you have access to is the CD, so anything mixing that's done is already done before you get it. But a record company could certainly do it. If not with mp3, then with a compression scheme designed to allow it. The point of a format is to record enough information to reconstruct the signal. Mixing parameters are information, and pretty low-bandwidth information at that.
Yes, they do have those laws, but that glosses over the problem. As precisely the roads on which it would be dangerous for pedestrians to share their sidewalk with cyclists, it is at least ten times as dangerous for the cyclists to attempt to ride in the car lanes (where, I'll agree, they're supposed to according to law.)
When I did it, I illegally rode on the sidewalks, which were wide and free of pedestrians anyway, because the roads simply weren't safe at all for bikes.
I'll reiterate that the only way to make it safe for everybody would be to have grade-separated bicycle lane because pedestrian speeds << bicycle speeds << auto speeds, and it gets much much worse when you compare energies, since that goes like mass*v^2.
That's a problem with vinyl? sounds like a feature to me.
With MP3 (or at least, with some unnamed but still lossy compressive scheme) it's possible to have your cake and eat it, too. You can specify the base volume level, and have your loud monstrosity, but with no skipping (as in the album) or loss of fidelity (as in the CD).
Yeah I did the bicycle thing for a bit. It worked really well when the one-way commute was only three and a half miles. I'm not sure I'm patient enough to do much further than twice that though.
I think the main barrier to bicycling though is that it's not considered at all when building roads, so you end up with roads with no shoulder, and maybe a sidewalk. Neither option is really safe for a daily commute. (although the second is safe for the cyclist...) There really needs to be a grade-separated bicycle lane, at least for main roads. I think more people would bike if they weren't putting their lives in their hands every time they did.
But this doesn't have anything to do with the failings of CDs, but rather the failings of MP3s encoded from CDs. And how they relate to MP3s encoded from a source upstream of whatever downdsampling process is used to create the CDs themselves.
There is no doubt that a 320 kps MP3 encoded from a superior source to CD could potentially be superior to a 320 kps MP3 encoded from CD. The question is whether this is noticeable, and indeed, whether the MP3 in question could have higher fidelity than the uncompressed CD.
It is certainly possible to compare and make qualitative judgments even without being able to hear the difference, especially if you have the source material. All you have to do is use the MP3 or CD-audio file to reconstruct the original waveform using the best algorithm available and calculate the least-squares difference.
There are plenty of products where knowing one is technically better than the other despite being practically indistinguishable has sentimental value to the consumer.
Yeah but look how long we had horses before finally switching to the vastly superior petroleum powered transportation. We had feces in the streets for more than a whole generation, and almost no improvement at all in performance during that time.
The best way to make electric work is to take advantage of its ease of transmission and design around it's poor storability: don't even try to store enough energy for a whole trip. Electrify the roads and keep just enough battery in the cars for the short segments on unpowered roads. Of course, this'll take a bit longer than 13 years to implement, though modern technology has finally made the billing end possible.
One can only hope. Driving can be fun, but commuting isn't. I'd just as soon nap as anything on the freeway. If I lived in a place where public transportation were an option, I'd use that. And no, I don't think that "A bus goes by every hour (peak) and every two-three hours (off-peak)" is "an option" for anyone that doesn't want to waste between 45 minutes and 2.5 hours at each end of the commute. It's not even a good alternative for drunks since service inexplicably ends an hour and a half before last call.
I take it you don't have a nice job, or if you do, you don't accept higher compensation than anyone else at your company. After all, your costs aren't really related to the quantity or quality of work you do and there's probably somewhere you can cut out to lower your costs even more.
For instance, you don't need a large house for your family, you could live in a trailer. They're not so bad now, with water and electricity hookups and whatnot. Also, you don't need to eat fresh food every day. A 50 pound bag of rice lasts quite a while and costs very little. Spice it up with whatever is cheapest in the veggie department, and some kind of beans for protein.
You can cut your electricity by getting rid of your computer, and you'll save on ISP costs too. Thrift stores have all the almost recent styles at a fraction of the price of the department stores, sometimes charging by the pound rather than the item.
Oh you don't? They why do you begrudge Ebay charging what they're worth?
Of course, the irony of this rant is that I actually despise Ebay's pricing scheme, and I often consider the question of "What have Ebay done to earn that money." Specifically in regards to their habit of charging per dollar won rather than per page viewed.
Since the final price of an item has more to do with the item than ebay's efforts on its behalf, It's absurd that they are paid based on the final price. The absurdity however is not that Ebay seeks such ridiculous compensation, but that any competitor which proposes a saner pricing scheme (for instance, bandwidth, page placement, size, etc.) for what is basically a national classified ad-system with fulfillment tracking will need exceptionally deep pockets just to get off the ground due to the nature of the online auction industry and the network effect.
Especially ironic since the whole point of Pascal was to be a teaching language rather than a "practical" one. In how many other fields do students start out with the fully capable tools that a master would use?
The question is not, "is the column warmer than the rest of the hurricane." Adiabatic expansion as it rises ensures that it will not be. The question is, "is the column warmer than the rest of the air-at that altitude."
If it's rising to a point where it's 100x the volume of sea-level air, I'd expect it to be roughly 1/100^(2/5) the temperature or about -375 F, so there's something wrong with your assumptions.
On the plus side, though, every reboot gives you enough time to pick up your tea at a boutique shop, or just a Starbucks. No need for lipton instant tea for you!
How about a hum-to-music search for songs with similar melodies. I'm often wishing I could search for a catchy tune by the music I can remember, rather than they lyrics I can't.
Well that's also a practical concern. If it's not thrashing when you expect it to, you probably need to do some power-cycling. No amount of tea-getting is going to finish a computation on a computer that's decided to hang.
Yeah, but all those events can also turn into brilliant compromises, because the other guy might get stupid and pull out their gun, and most people typically prefer not dying over a trifling disagreement.
If all you've got is a weak hypothetical that actually runs counter to observations, your argument for prohibition needs a bit of work.
If it's an implant, they can bypass all the naughty bits and just stimulate your happy-cells. Wire addicts will probably die within a week or two if the experiments with the mice are anything to go by.
RDA did 9 years on Stargate. And he left for family reasons, not professional ones. It's completely different from bailing 3 years into a 5 year series to pursue a long string of crappy films. That's more like playing Richard III and quitting halfway through the third act to be in Showboat.
Five years may be a long time to play the same character, but try telling that to the lifetime GM employee or the cast of a long-running Broadway show or all the waiters trying to break into Hollywood or Hugh Grant. If you get to do something as cool as a main character on BSG, or the most popular comic-book hero ever, etc, then be grateful for the role and milk it for all it's worth.
At the very least, be honest about your fickleness before taking on a role in a project that's obviously going to be long-term if it does well. I mean, it worked for Eccleston.
It bugs me when actors get impatient like that. It's not even greed, 'cause when they leave the thing that made them famous, the coolest thing they're ever going to do they invariably end up behind a lunch counter with a washed-out former bartender turned doctor. Sometimes the shows are ok, and would be the coolest thing some other actor would ever do, but they seem to enjoy killing a really cool thing to avoid being typecast or some such as if that's the end of the world.
I suppose you don't see this thing in other industries because it's not as critical; one man usually can't kill an entire project just by moving to another project, but imagine someone being a key player in the next space shuttle design team and then just up and leaving one day as if it was all just a resume point to get the job s/he really wanted: model air plane design team member.
I guess I just don't think that the idea of being thought of as a "one-trick pony" is really so bad if the "one-trick" is cool enough.
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I was responding to the specific assertion that eBay's renumeration should be proportional to their costs. That's a rather Bolshevistic interpretation, and is, ironically, the kind of logic that makes us think that diamond encrusted laptops are any more valuable than their diamond-free counterparts.
eBay should charge what they can, but I personally think that some of the things they charge for are unrelated to their value, and more importantly, could be cut out entirely by a competitor and still be profitable.. IF the competitor has the resources to winnow enough people away from eBay in the first place. eBay's real value isn't the service they provide, but the eyes. People buy through ebay because that's where millions all the stuff is. People sell through ebay because there are so many buyers, they can get the best price.
If anything, Craigslist proves that the eBay model is siphoning off too much money from its hosts. All we need is for some enterprising company (with deep enough pockets to advertise for months before turning a profit) to come in with a cleaned up, national version of Craigslist. and eBay will be unseated from the throne. Craigs might do it themselves, but they're taking way too long for my taste.
Let me be clear: I think eBay's shortcomings are a huge opportunity for a newcomer. Not something to regulate. I don't really know about the images thing, I suppose it depends on who owns the copyright.
The only suggestion I have for you is to take the bus in the morning, and don't worry about sweatying or messying your clothes on the return trip. Busses usually have bicycle thingies in the front now. But yah, you've gotta be pretty hardcore to keep it up.
Ok, but where is the story?
No, YOU couldn't get it with an mp3, because all you have access to is the CD, so anything mixing that's done is already done before you get it. But a record company could certainly do it. If not with mp3, then with a compression scheme designed to allow it. The point of a format is to record enough information to reconstruct the signal. Mixing parameters are information, and pretty low-bandwidth information at that.
Yes, they do have those laws, but that glosses over the problem. As precisely the roads on which it would be dangerous for pedestrians to share their sidewalk with cyclists, it is at least ten times as dangerous for the cyclists to attempt to ride in the car lanes (where, I'll agree, they're supposed to according to law.)
When I did it, I illegally rode on the sidewalks, which were wide and free of pedestrians anyway, because the roads simply weren't safe at all for bikes.
I'll reiterate that the only way to make it safe for everybody would be to have grade-separated bicycle lane because pedestrian speeds << bicycle speeds << auto speeds, and it gets much much worse when you compare energies, since that goes like mass*v^2.
That's a problem with vinyl? sounds like a feature to me.
With MP3 (or at least, with some unnamed but still lossy compressive scheme) it's possible to have your cake and eat it, too. You can specify the base volume level, and have your loud monstrosity, but with no skipping (as in the album) or loss of fidelity (as in the CD).
Yeah I did the bicycle thing for a bit. It worked really well when the one-way commute was only three and a half miles. I'm not sure I'm patient enough to do much further than twice that though.
I think the main barrier to bicycling though is that it's not considered at all when building roads, so you end up with roads with no shoulder, and maybe a sidewalk. Neither option is really safe for a daily commute. (although the second is safe for the cyclist...) There really needs to be a grade-separated bicycle lane, at least for main roads. I think more people would bike if they weren't putting their lives in their hands every time they did.
But this doesn't have anything to do with the failings of CDs, but rather the failings of MP3s encoded from CDs. And how they relate to MP3s encoded from a source upstream of whatever downdsampling process is used to create the CDs themselves.
There is no doubt that a 320 kps MP3 encoded from a superior source to CD could potentially be superior to a 320 kps MP3 encoded from CD. The question is whether this is noticeable, and indeed, whether the MP3 in question could have higher fidelity than the uncompressed CD.
It is certainly possible to compare and make qualitative judgments even without being able to hear the difference, especially if you have the source material. All you have to do is use the MP3 or CD-audio file to reconstruct the original waveform using the best algorithm available and calculate the least-squares difference.
There are plenty of products where knowing one is technically better than the other despite being practically indistinguishable has sentimental value to the consumer.
Yeah but look how long we had horses before finally switching to the vastly superior petroleum powered transportation. We had feces in the streets for more than a whole generation, and almost no improvement at all in performance during that time.
The best way to make electric work is to take advantage of its ease of transmission and design around it's poor storability: don't even try to store enough energy for a whole trip. Electrify the roads and keep just enough battery in the cars for the short segments on unpowered roads. Of course, this'll take a bit longer than 13 years to implement, though modern technology has finally made the billing end possible.
One can only hope. Driving can be fun, but commuting isn't. I'd just as soon nap as anything on the freeway. If I lived in a place where public transportation were an option, I'd use that. And no, I don't think that "A bus goes by every hour (peak) and every two-three hours (off-peak)" is "an option" for anyone that doesn't want to waste between 45 minutes and 2.5 hours at each end of the commute. It's not even a good alternative for drunks since service inexplicably ends an hour and a half before last call.
I take it you don't have a nice job, or if you do, you don't accept higher compensation than anyone else at your company. After all, your costs aren't really related to the quantity or quality of work you do and there's probably somewhere you can cut out to lower your costs even more.
For instance, you don't need a large house for your family, you could live in a trailer. They're not so bad now, with water and electricity hookups and whatnot. Also, you don't need to eat fresh food every day. A 50 pound bag of rice lasts quite a while and costs very little. Spice it up with whatever is cheapest in the veggie department, and some kind of beans for protein.
You can cut your electricity by getting rid of your computer, and you'll save on ISP costs too. Thrift stores have all the almost recent styles at a fraction of the price of the department stores, sometimes charging by the pound rather than the item.
Oh you don't? They why do you begrudge Ebay charging what they're worth?
Of course, the irony of this rant is that I actually despise Ebay's pricing scheme, and I often consider the question of "What have Ebay done to earn that money." Specifically in regards to their habit of charging per dollar won rather than per page viewed.
Since the final price of an item has more to do with the item than ebay's efforts on its behalf, It's absurd that they are paid based on the final price. The absurdity however is not that Ebay seeks such ridiculous compensation, but that any competitor which proposes a saner pricing scheme (for instance, bandwidth, page placement, size, etc.) for what is basically a national classified ad-system with fulfillment tracking will need exceptionally deep pockets just to get off the ground due to the nature of the online auction industry and the network effect.
Perhaps it's a sophisticated submission to the slashdot "turing test?"
Especially ironic since the whole point of Pascal was to be a teaching language rather than a "practical" one. In how many other fields do students start out with the fully capable tools that a master would use?
The question is not, "is the column warmer than the rest of the hurricane." Adiabatic expansion as it rises ensures that it will not be. The question is, "is the column warmer than the rest of the air-at that altitude."
If it's rising to a point where it's 100x the volume of sea-level air, I'd expect it to be roughly 1/100^(2/5) the temperature or about -375 F, so there's something wrong with your assumptions.
And that the payment satisfies your liability in that regard.
Imagine paying the $500 only to be presented with another bill for $500 three weeks later...
Hint: A typical microwave oven is only used as an oven ~ 0.7% of the time.
On the plus side, though, every reboot gives you enough time to pick up your tea at a boutique shop, or just a Starbucks. No need for lipton instant tea for you!
How about a hum-to-music search for songs with similar melodies. I'm often wishing I could search for a catchy tune by the music I can remember, rather than they lyrics I can't.
Well that's also a practical concern. If it's not thrashing when you expect it to, you probably need to do some power-cycling. No amount of tea-getting is going to finish a computation on a computer that's decided to hang.
Yeah, but all those events can also turn into brilliant compromises, because the other guy might get stupid and pull out their gun, and most people typically prefer not dying over a trifling disagreement.
If all you've got is a weak hypothetical that actually runs counter to observations, your argument for prohibition needs a bit of work.
If it's an implant, they can bypass all the naughty bits and just stimulate your happy-cells. Wire addicts will probably die within a week or two if the experiments with the mice are anything to go by.
Reminds me of an old joke:
...
"The interior is 50 million degrees."
"What scale?"
"Does it matter?"
RDA did 9 years on Stargate. And he left for family reasons, not professional ones. It's completely different from bailing 3 years into a 5 year series to pursue a long string of crappy films. That's more like playing Richard III and quitting halfway through the third act to be in Showboat.
Five years may be a long time to play the same character, but try telling that to the lifetime GM employee or the cast of a long-running Broadway show or all the waiters trying to break into Hollywood or Hugh Grant. If you get to do something as cool as a main character on BSG, or the most popular comic-book hero ever, etc, then be grateful for the role and milk it for all it's worth.
At the very least, be honest about your fickleness before taking on a role in a project that's obviously going to be long-term if it does well. I mean, it worked for Eccleston.
I think control-h would do it from the client. for the newline, control-m perhaps?
It bugs me when actors get impatient like that. It's not even greed, 'cause when they leave the thing that made them famous, the coolest thing they're ever going to do they invariably end up behind a lunch counter with a washed-out former bartender turned doctor. Sometimes the shows are ok, and would be the coolest thing some other actor would ever do, but they seem to enjoy killing a really cool thing to avoid being typecast or some such as if that's the end of the world.
I suppose you don't see this thing in other industries because it's not as critical; one man usually can't kill an entire project just by moving to another project, but imagine someone being a key player in the next space shuttle design team and then just up and leaving one day as if it was all just a resume point to get the job s/he really wanted: model air plane design team member.
I guess I just don't think that the idea of being thought of as a "one-trick pony" is really so bad if the "one-trick" is cool enough.