This wouldn't be a retarded comparison if there was only a single option of purchasing music. But there isn't. Ya know, i managed for years to buy major label music without DRM - on vinyl, tape, compact disk, and eight track. The inconvinience of leaving your house doesn't justify claiming that you were forced to do something, mna. Cope.
Batteries fail over time. It happens - its even expected. Tires are expected to not blow up, causing the truck to flip over and possibly killing the owner ever - and especially not with relatively new tires. Batteries wearing out (Expected) versus explody death (Unexpected)? do i really need to keep going?
1) the 300 dollar super walkman's batteries don't always fail within a year. it depends highly on usage. and obviosuly, from the amazing number of them sold, most people don't mind that much. Ya know, batteries die. it happens. If its under warranty, you get it fixed for free.
2) I'm sorry that you were molested as a child. But if you're going to take an obviously skewed, biased (wait... isn't news supposed to be objective?) article as god's honest truth, theres a problem. APple and windows does things differantly.I prefer apples model, personally.
I recently installed win2k on two of my boxes. It took me nearly 3 hours to pull down every critical windows update, and a half dozen restarts. I do a clean install of OS X on any of my macs, software update pops right up, runs, and actually isn'ts a pain in the ass ( hahaha. you can only install windows media player 9 in its own update. you can cannot combine. try it. i crush you ). I forget the default for software update, but it checks periodically, and inobtrusively hassles you until you do it. Windows? who updates windows?
But... hollywood shows that clones share spoooooooky connections - unlike twins (except in those movies that are otherwise). Or, more simply put, tequila and slashdot do not mix.
Feel free to use Microsoft's browser on OS X which is updated.... never. Camino, Firebox, and Mozilla all work well on OS X ( althought not as well as Safari). I personally haven't noticed much of a change in the new version of Safari (10.2 is running on my parents imac, so i use old safari there, and new safari on my boxes). Yeah, its kind of dick, just like apple has done with itunes 4.5, but its motivation to get people to upgrade their OS which [start snarky stereotypical mac user block] apple needs to make money, since their hardware lasts forever!!! hahahahahhaha [end snarky stereotypical mac user block]
To feed the troll -- should the punishment be an arbitray sum of money - one that would cripple a poor person, but be shrugged off by the more wealthy? that really only makes it a crime if one isn't well off. A percentage based version would equally (or more equally) mete out punishment.
Income + interest money or capital gains is how I usually think of income. Net worth may be more fucntional, but there are cases of people with low incomes but high net worth (property owners)
You are incorrect. Martha Stewart didn't get busted for insider trading. she got busted for lying about it to the feds. As far as insider trading goes, there were several people who, through the same stock broker, sold more ImCLone stock on the same advice. She was chosen as the sacrificial lamb (if i recall, her friend's (who testified against her) ex husband sold considerably more stock on the insider knowledge. check out reason.com 's archives for martha stewart - the article i recall is pre-trial, and they're blatantly pro martha, but most of their points remain salient.
I like what some counrties do -- for fines, they use a percentage of that persons earnings or total wealth (i forget which) and calculate the fine based on that. You don't gouge the poor, and the rich pay a reasonable amount.
Free toy in cereal is different from 'free with a catch'. Hell, 'free if you tolerate some ads' is even differant than 'free, all you have to do is listen to us talk about timeshares'. The majority of the internet is therefor, not free. I pay nothing to slashdot, and i consider it a free service. Yeah, there are ads, but i move past those, and accept them as part of the service. Since i don't consider myself 'paying' for the ads, I'm still getting the site for free (assuming i'm not looking at depreciation of my box's value, electricity, or broadband prices).
I'd rather deal with ads (although i'm undecided about flash adds with cutesy soounds) to get free wireless access, although i've had some bad experiences with hotel's that offer free wireless - mostly that they periodically shunt you to a very slow loading, grpahics intensive splash page. Still... free with a catch is still free enough.
Don't get me wrong - 5.1 is great. but i don't see a point for it in headphones, and i know that powred 5.1 recievers are becoming dirt cheap. However, i don't see stereo going to way of the dodo anytime soon. In my experience, very few people really care all that much about 5.1 sound (outside of audio and video philes) - its mostly just a neat toy thats recently become affordable. But if this audio format becomes prevelant, then i'm sure it'll spur a lot more people switching over. I personally find anything beyond stereo excessive, but thats because i have neither the space (for all those extra speakers) or the need (everything i listen to, aside from movies, is stereo). My athlon system has 5.1, yes, but i don't use it. Its just not something that appeals to me..... And just because they make 5.1 headphones doesn't make it a worthwhile technology. If they make 5.1 earbuds, i'd consider it, but until then i'm sticking with my nice studio headphones.
You don't really need a center channel - if you've got front left and right, you can have a 'center' channel. and the sub isn't necesary with good speakers and decent crossoevers.
Except thats bucking even more tradition - from LPs to tape to compact disks, music has been stereo. While 5.1 is making advances in home theater, its not as prevelant in home stereo (mostly because there are so few releases for it, granted). My main complaint is that a recording optimized for 5.1 will sound like crap in stereo (i've noticed this mostly with blues and jazz remasters for 5.1). Sure, Joe Average may eventually move their home stereo to 5.1, but headphones are here to stay, and, for that reason, so is stereo.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that payola is insignifgant in other industries - although i can't say at all about video games. In dealing with college radio (specifically CMJ magazine ) the magazine tells the station what the play the next week, and then magically it happens to be the top pick of the next few weeks.
The problem is social advancement - that everyone "deserves" to graduate after n years of school, and haev to keep up with their 'peers' or they'll feel bad about themselves. Schools resist both holding back and letting kids ahead.
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Or it means you booted it into target mode. When i did that the first time, i thought the damn thing was going to either take off or explode.
This wouldn't be a retarded comparison if there was only a single option of purchasing music. But there isn't. Ya know, i managed for years to buy major label music without DRM - on vinyl, tape, compact disk, and eight track. The inconvinience of leaving your house doesn't justify claiming that you were forced to do something, mna. Cope.
If the GBA is going for 20 to 30 bucks, will the slightly rehashed SNES games they port stop costing 30 bucks a pop?
Batteries fail over time. It happens - its even expected. Tires are expected to not blow up, causing the truck to flip over and possibly killing the owner ever - and especially not with relatively new tires. Batteries wearing out (Expected) versus explody death (Unexpected)? do i really need to keep going?
1) the 300 dollar super walkman's batteries don't always fail within a year. it depends highly on usage. and obviosuly, from the amazing number of them sold, most people don't mind that much. Ya know, batteries die. it happens. If its under warranty, you get it fixed for free. 2) I'm sorry that you were molested as a child. But if you're going to take an obviously skewed, biased (wait... isn't news supposed to be objective?) article as god's honest truth, theres a problem. APple and windows does things differantly.I prefer apples model, personally.
I recently installed win2k on two of my boxes. It took me nearly 3 hours to pull down every critical windows update, and a half dozen restarts. I do a clean install of OS X on any of my macs, software update pops right up, runs, and actually isn'ts a pain in the ass ( hahaha. you can only install windows media player 9 in its own update. you can cannot combine. try it. i crush you ). I forget the default for software update, but it checks periodically, and inobtrusively hassles you until you do it. Windows? who updates windows?
But... hollywood shows that clones share spoooooooky connections - unlike twins (except in those movies that are otherwise). Or, more simply put, tequila and slashdot do not mix.
While twins don't share fingerprints, i'd really like to see your source on clones not sharing fingerprints. i mean, just out of curiousity.
Feel free to use Microsoft's browser on OS X which is updated.... never. Camino, Firebox, and Mozilla all work well on OS X ( althought not as well as Safari). I personally haven't noticed much of a change in the new version of Safari (10.2 is running on my parents imac, so i use old safari there, and new safari on my boxes). Yeah, its kind of dick, just like apple has done with itunes 4.5, but its motivation to get people to upgrade their OS which [start snarky stereotypical mac user block] apple needs to make money, since their hardware lasts forever!!! hahahahahhaha [end snarky stereotypical mac user block]
Come on, man. $99 is, in fact, less than $100, but its only a dollar under. Lets not do a little 'moral highground' dance about it.
To feed the troll -- should the punishment be an arbitray sum of money - one that would cripple a poor person, but be shrugged off by the more wealthy? that really only makes it a crime if one isn't well off. A percentage based version would equally (or more equally) mete out punishment.
Income + interest money or capital gains is how I usually think of income. Net worth may be more fucntional, but there are cases of people with low incomes but high net worth (property owners)
Ironically, if she had held onto the stock, she would haev earned a profit in the past few months.
You are incorrect. Martha Stewart didn't get busted for insider trading. she got busted for lying about it to the feds. As far as insider trading goes, there were several people who, through the same stock broker, sold more ImCLone stock on the same advice. She was chosen as the sacrificial lamb (if i recall, her friend's (who testified against her) ex husband sold considerably more stock on the insider knowledge. check out reason.com 's archives for martha stewart - the article i recall is pre-trial, and they're blatantly pro martha, but most of their points remain salient.
thanks. that was exactly what i was recalling.
I like what some counrties do -- for fines, they use a percentage of that persons earnings or total wealth (i forget which) and calculate the fine based on that. You don't gouge the poor, and the rich pay a reasonable amount.
Free toy in cereal is different from 'free with a catch'. Hell, 'free if you tolerate some ads' is even differant than 'free, all you have to do is listen to us talk about timeshares'. The majority of the internet is therefor, not free. I pay nothing to slashdot, and i consider it a free service. Yeah, there are ads, but i move past those, and accept them as part of the service. Since i don't consider myself 'paying' for the ads, I'm still getting the site for free (assuming i'm not looking at depreciation of my box's value, electricity, or broadband prices).
I'd rather deal with ads (although i'm undecided about flash adds with cutesy soounds) to get free wireless access, although i've had some bad experiences with hotel's that offer free wireless - mostly that they periodically shunt you to a very slow loading, grpahics intensive splash page. Still... free with a catch is still free enough.
Its not a matter of dolby doing it - its a matter of the mix engineer getting it right, or having seperate 5.1 and plain stereo tracks.
Don't get me wrong - 5.1 is great. but i don't see a point for it in headphones, and i know that powred 5.1 recievers are becoming dirt cheap. However, i don't see stereo going to way of the dodo anytime soon. In my experience, very few people really care all that much about 5.1 sound (outside of audio and video philes) - its mostly just a neat toy thats recently become affordable. But if this audio format becomes prevelant, then i'm sure it'll spur a lot more people switching over. I personally find anything beyond stereo excessive, but thats because i have neither the space (for all those extra speakers) or the need (everything i listen to, aside from movies, is stereo). My athlon system has 5.1, yes, but i don't use it. Its just not something that appeals to me..... And just because they make 5.1 headphones doesn't make it a worthwhile technology. If they make 5.1 earbuds, i'd consider it, but until then i'm sticking with my nice studio headphones.
You don't really need a center channel - if you've got front left and right, you can have a 'center' channel. and the sub isn't necesary with good speakers and decent crossoevers.
Except thats bucking even more tradition - from LPs to tape to compact disks, music has been stereo. While 5.1 is making advances in home theater, its not as prevelant in home stereo (mostly because there are so few releases for it, granted). My main complaint is that a recording optimized for 5.1 will sound like crap in stereo (i've noticed this mostly with blues and jazz remasters for 5.1). Sure, Joe Average may eventually move their home stereo to 5.1, but headphones are here to stay, and, for that reason, so is stereo.
I'd go for the stereotypical response "But Can You Trust Redmond?!?!?!?!?"... but at least they're accountable for their actions.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that payola is insignifgant in other industries - although i can't say at all about video games. In dealing with college radio (specifically CMJ magazine ) the magazine tells the station what the play the next week, and then magically it happens to be the top pick of the next few weeks.
The problem is social advancement - that everyone "deserves" to graduate after n years of school, and haev to keep up with their 'peers' or they'll feel bad about themselves. Schools resist both holding back and letting kids ahead.