I buy used CD's, I buy albums direct from the band at concerts, and I buy new LP's direct from my favorite independant labels like Saddle Creek and Jade Tree
I have bought about 20 albums in the past year, and I'm sure none of them show up on the RIAA sales records.
oh yeah, I have also purchased a dozen or so random songs on iTMS. IIRC, legal digital downloads aren't counted are album sales, so they can bitch about how cd's don't sell, but millions of albums a week are selling on iTMS.
Its time for the record companies to stop fighting the future and adopt a new business model.
Marijuana vaporizers, which heat up the pot enough to realse thc but not enough to produce much tar or smoke, have been around for a while.
THe exciting thing about this product is that it is small enough and inconspicuous enough to use like a normal cig, but without the smoke.
The current nictone subsitutes (gums and patches) are really expensive, so this could be a much more afordable way to help addicts stop putting gunk in their lungs.
I remember on the old PBS Triumph of the Nerds documentry, they said that internet years are like dogs years, since everything changes so fast. I've been online since 1994 (mosiac and trumpet winsock), and the internet of today is very different from 10 years ago, although it still used HTTP.
I'm not even sure its safe to called the ARPANET the internet, considering how limited it was, but it will make for some interesting debate.
With oil prices so high, I can replace the boiler in the basement and heat my whole house with a G5!
Why would you want to cool it when you can use some of the energy that is lost as heat?
now I just need to install one of those 5 megawatt wind turbines in my back yard to keep it powered.
See a concert, take it home on your iPod.
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On their recent tour, the Pixies offered CDs of the show recorded and mized live to fans walking out the door. I could see a kiosk at concert venues allowing fans to downlaod the night's show to their iPod. It would proably be faster than burning CDs.
A phone both however, is not something I currently associate with music, and I don't thing it would catch on, but i buy most of my CD's at concerts, where I know the money is going to the artist.
Apple is going to realse a U2 special edition iPod next week, and is rumored to be working on A sub $200 flash player. How long till digital complete overtakes cd's?
The legal headaches of a merger would be ten times that of the exsisting anti-trust cases. Microsoft was free to do whatever I wanted (and contiunes to do that) while it was under investegation. SAP would be a useless assest to microsoft as the merger spent years in the european courts, and if it ever got out of court, much of the value of the orginal merger would have been lost.
Microsoft may be an 800 pound gorilla, but it is smart enough not to sit in quicksand.
I may be cynical, but tens of millions of peopel and plenty of media attention didn't change the war in Iraq one bit, although that may just show the stubborness of george bush.
Your elected representive is never goin to know how you feel about issues unless you let them know. Sure lobyists have a lot of power, but it can't hurt to make your voice heard.
I'm sure this is noted somewhere else, but I read with a high threshold..
the 10d has a metal body while the digital rebel has a cheap feeling plastic one,
the hack is neat but for a serious photographer, its all about feel.
I've played with a Cannon d60 and it beats my Rebel 2000 in feel hands down. if
I had the extra money, i would sack up and buy a d10
I have a chepa bike computer, and it does everything I need it too, although I wouldn't mid one with a built in heart rate monitor.
anyways the my computer has big arrows on the side that tell you if you are going above below, or at your average speed, no matter what mode its in. you can see it by just a quick glance down. Stuff like average speed and distance can be looked at when you get to your destination. I find i can keep my cadence more steady by listening to my body than by watching the number on the scren.
I voted on one of the new Deibold machines here in San Diego, and it didn't instill much confidence in me, thanks to everything I had read about Diebold. but even if the machine was open source, it still wouldn't make me confidant unless there was a paper trail. It was spooky just go up to a console, insert a card and hit a few buttons. It didn't feel like voting.
As bad as the old punch card system were, I liked the feeling of knocking out a chad, and then being able to see an actual physical representation of my vote.
With the amount that counties are already spending on these machines, it can't cost much more to add a printer.
I had a snowboard stolen recently and this was exaclt what i did. It was a good excuse to get a much nice board, one which I now keep a much better eye on.
I carry my shiny 12 inch Powerbook inside an old bag that I picked up at an army surplus store. I alwasy get strange looks whien I sit down in a coffee shop and instead of pulling out a tattered note book, I pull out a laptop.
Recently while on a train, I had my laptop, iPod, and digital camera sitting out on my lap. Carrying $2500+ used to make me nervous, although I've gotten used to it now.
I think speeding is a lot worse than sharing files. whats the fine for speeding in italy? i bet its a lot less than $1000 and 6 months in prison. extreme penalties will only drive the shares underground it wont stop them.
out of the box, the side buttons on my Kingsinton 5 button map to forawrd/back under Firefox and good old Mozilla 1.6. I'm not what other things i want my mouse to do. I'm happy with cmd-t to open new tabs, since when i wnat a new tab, I am going to want to type in a url.
I ride the train from LA to SD at least once a month. Depending of where you are going in LA, union station isn't the most convient place to get dropped off, but the $40 roundtrip is worth it to sit back and not have to fight traffic. I have had it take me 3+ hours to get from santa ana to downtown on the 5. with the exception of a mechanical problme once, The Pacific surfliner has also run within 5 minutes of its scheduled 2:30 trip from downtown SD to downtown LA
I for one do not have much faith in our legal system. forget OJ, look at Microsoft. half a decade in the courts has not forced a change in Microsoft's business practices.
People have already mentioned the urban planning of the China. Most chinese cities are already set up for bikes, not cars. If electric bike can help extend the distance that the average person can get on their bikes, then it will be a good thing.
In america, bikes will never replace cars untill cities are built for bike traffic.
I am a certified geek, and I love my bikes (I have about 6) For me tinkering on a bike is more fun that tinking on a computer. Bikes are very simple machines, but they require a lot of work to run perfectly.
Bike are also high tech. Forget the old schewin cruiser you rode as a kid. todays bikes are made out of things like titanium and carbon fiber.
The cycling industry actually perfected the manafacturing of carbon fiber. Car makers are begining to adobt it, the new sony ultalight laptop uses it, and there are rumors of apple using it in their new powerbooks.
I'd love to have my laptop math my bike.
Bicycles are the most efficent form of traspertation out there. As a geek, you should admire that.
My only problem with bikes is that the nearest Fry's isn't close enough to ride to.
I am a music geek and all the music I buy is pretty much vinyl. claiming "fair use" I download stuff to my ipod so I can listen to it in the car. I only buy CD's when it is stuff that I can't get on vinyl and can't find it to download. In the past year I've bought about 15 records and 4 cd's.
Not a single CD was an RIAA disc, and maybe 2 records were.
Prior to having a cd-burner/broadband, I would buy about 20 cd's a year, and about 1/3 third of those were purchased used.
Almost all independent labels worth their salt put their stuff out on vinyl. My favorites are Fat Wreck Chords, Jade Tree, and Springman.
You can also find mainstream stuff on vinyl. Recently I've picked up System of a Down, Radiohead and Sublime.
Best Buy and Wal-Mart of course, don't carry vinyl and they sell their cd's at pretty close to cost. The make it up by selling you CD players, and batteries to run your CD player. I buy most of my music at independent retailers like Amoeba Music or online.
Most Independent labels sell full length records and cd's for $8-12. Call me a thief(I have 50 gigs of mp3s), but I feel like I have supported artists who deserve it. I will never pay $18 or even $15 for a cd.
Come on Dubya, you can't let those smelly europeans beat us in space travel!
on another note, I believe russia actaully had a functioning space shuttle in the 80's, but the scraped it when the cold war ended.
looking at TI's comparsion chart, there is not normal a TI-84. you have a choice between the + and the +silver edition, which if its like the 83+silver addition has the periodic table and some other pre-programed equations usefull for high school chem and physics.
The naming convention is kind like some gas stations, where regular unleaded is called performance plus, plus grade unleaded is premium plus, and premium grade unleaded is super performance.
From 2000-203 UC San Diego's cycling team (which I'm on was generously sponsored by Michael Robertson (Of mp3.com and Lindows) a UCSD alumni. This year, he chose not to donate. I bet his personal fortune from the MP3.com IPO is running out. Maybe next year we will get Linspire across the backs of our jerseys. I wonder if the MP3.com and Lindows jerseys are going to be collector's items, now that both are defunct.
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oh yeah, I have also purchased a dozen or so random songs on iTMS. IIRC, legal digital downloads aren't counted are album sales, so they can bitch about how cd's don't sell, but millions of albums a week are selling on iTMS.
Its time for the record companies to stop fighting the future and adopt a new business model.
THe exciting thing about this product is that it is small enough and inconspicuous enough to use like a normal cig, but without the smoke.
The current nictone subsitutes (gums and patches) are really expensive, so this could be a much more afordable way to help addicts stop putting gunk in their lungs.
I'm not even sure its safe to called the ARPANET the internet, considering how limited it was, but it will make for some interesting debate.
With oil prices so high, I can replace the boiler in the basement and heat my whole house with a G5!
Why would you want to cool it when you can use some of the energy that is lost as heat?
now I just need to install one of those 5 megawatt wind turbines in my back yard to keep it powered.
On their recent tour, the Pixies offered CDs of the show recorded and mized live to fans walking out the door. I could see a kiosk at concert venues allowing fans to downlaod the night's show to their iPod. It would proably be faster than burning CDs. A phone both however, is not something I currently associate with music, and I don't thing it would catch on, but i buy most of my CD's at concerts, where I know the money is going to the artist. Apple is going to realse a U2 special edition iPod next week, and is rumored to be working on A sub $200 flash player. How long till digital complete overtakes cd's?
Microsoft may be an 800 pound gorilla, but it is smart enough not to sit in quicksand.
Your elected representive is never goin to know how you feel about issues unless you let them know. Sure lobyists have a lot of power, but it can't hurt to make your voice heard.
the 10d has a metal body while the digital rebel has a cheap feeling plastic one,
the hack is neat but for a serious photographer, its all about feel. I've played with a Cannon d60 and it beats my Rebel 2000 in feel hands down. if I had the extra money, i would sack up and buy a d10
I have a chepa bike computer, and it does everything I need it too, although I wouldn't mid one with a built in heart rate monitor. anyways the my computer has big arrows on the side that tell you if you are going above below, or at your average speed, no matter what mode its in. you can see it by just a quick glance down. Stuff like average speed and distance can be looked at when you get to your destination. I find i can keep my cadence more steady by listening to my body than by watching the number on the scren.
I had that exact same thouhgt, althouhg i was thinking along the lines of a mars rover like thing that could take off and land on its own.
As bad as the old punch card system were, I liked the feeling of knocking out a chad, and then being able to see an actual physical representation of my vote.
With the amount that counties are already spending on these machines, it can't cost much more to add a printer.
I had a snowboard stolen recently and this was exaclt what i did. It was a good excuse to get a much nice board, one which I now keep a much better eye on.
Recently while on a train, I had my laptop, iPod, and digital camera sitting out on my lap. Carrying $2500+ used to make me nervous, although I've gotten used to it now.
I wonder if their server was running on these drives, beacuse it sure went down fast.
I think speeding is a lot worse than sharing files. whats the fine for speeding in italy? i bet its a lot less than $1000 and 6 months in prison. extreme penalties will only drive the shares underground it wont stop them.
so has WIFI now jumped the yak? and how do students at colleges that don't yet have wireless access feel now that remote villages in nepal do?
out of the box, the side buttons on my Kingsinton 5 button map to forawrd/back under Firefox and good old Mozilla 1.6. I'm not what other things i want my mouse to do. I'm happy with cmd-t to open new tabs, since when i wnat a new tab, I am going to want to type in a url.
I ride the train from LA to SD at least once a month. Depending of where you are going in LA, union station isn't the most convient place to get dropped off, but the $40 roundtrip is worth it to sit back and not have to fight traffic. I have had it take me 3+ hours to get from santa ana to downtown on the 5. with the exception of a mechanical problme once, The Pacific surfliner has also run within 5 minutes of its scheduled 2:30 trip from downtown SD to downtown LA
As bad as SCO's case is, never say never.
People have already mentioned the urban planning of the China. Most chinese cities are already set up for bikes, not cars. If electric bike can help extend the distance that the average person can get on their bikes, then it will be a good thing. In america, bikes will never replace cars untill cities are built for bike traffic.
I am a certified geek, and I love my bikes (I have about 6) For me tinkering on a bike is more fun that tinking on a computer. Bikes are very simple machines, but they require a lot of work to run perfectly. Bike are also high tech. Forget the old schewin cruiser you rode as a kid. todays bikes are made out of things like titanium and carbon fiber. The cycling industry actually perfected the manafacturing of carbon fiber. Car makers are begining to adobt it, the new sony ultalight laptop uses it, and there are rumors of apple using it in their new powerbooks. I'd love to have my laptop math my bike. Bicycles are the most efficent form of traspertation out there. As a geek, you should admire that. My only problem with bikes is that the nearest Fry's isn't close enough to ride to.
I am a music geek and all the music I buy is pretty much vinyl. claiming "fair use" I download stuff to my ipod so I can listen to it in the car. I only buy CD's when it is stuff that I can't get on vinyl and can't find it to download. In the past year I've bought about 15 records and 4 cd's.
Not a single CD was an RIAA disc, and maybe 2 records were.
Prior to having a cd-burner/broadband, I would buy about 20 cd's a year, and about 1/3 third of those were purchased used.
Almost all independent labels worth their salt put their stuff out on vinyl. My favorites are Fat Wreck Chords, Jade Tree, and Springman.
You can also find mainstream stuff on vinyl. Recently I've picked up System of a Down, Radiohead and Sublime.
Best Buy and Wal-Mart of course, don't carry vinyl and they sell their cd's at pretty close to cost. The make it up by selling you CD players, and batteries to run your CD player. I buy most of my music at independent retailers like Amoeba Music or online. Most Independent labels sell full length records and cd's for $8-12.
Call me a thief(I have 50 gigs of mp3s), but I feel like I have supported artists who deserve it. I will never pay $18 or even $15 for a cd.
Come on Dubya, you can't let those smelly europeans beat us in space travel! on another note, I believe russia actaully had a functioning space shuttle in the 80's, but the scraped it when the cold war ended.
looking at TI's comparsion chart, there is not normal a TI-84. you have a choice between the + and the +silver edition, which if its like the 83+silver addition has the periodic table and some other pre-programed equations usefull for high school chem and physics. The naming convention is kind like some gas stations, where regular unleaded is called performance plus, plus grade unleaded is premium plus, and premium grade unleaded is super performance.
From 2000-203 UC San Diego's cycling team (which I'm on was generously sponsored by Michael Robertson (Of mp3.com and Lindows) a UCSD alumni. This year, he chose not to donate. I bet his personal fortune from the MP3.com IPO is running out. Maybe next year we will get Linspire across the backs of our jerseys. I wonder if the MP3.com and Lindows jerseys are going to be collector's items, now that both are defunct.