The best way would be persistent transferable mod point(s). Each time you use one it comes off the previous comment. If you leave it for long enough you get the point back and the comment is permanently modded. This would help on those occaisions where you have just used all your points and then see a brilliant comment.
If you can't tell the difference between pretending to care and really caring, then does it matter what their internal feelings are? The reults are what count.
Panasonic TZ5, 9MP, excellent Leica lens. 28 - 280 equiv zoom, (26 in 16-9 ratio).
Pretty good quality for a point and shoot. DP review has a good write-up.
Main problem is noise in the sensor. okay at 100, crap at over 400.
Just about everything is auto, only things you can control are WB and iso.
It makes a nice change to just point and click, no hassles, no set-up. Fun camera.
Can also zoom while doing hi-def video at 30 fps! Get a spare battery, (~250 stills, but the video chews it)
I didn't say it was a good thing, or that it will totally kill the labels. I know plenty of kids who still buy CDs, and go to concerts.
I also didn't think it was totally new. I know bands who used to sell cassette tapes at shows I went to in the eighties, but it IS getting much more common and easier for a band to do, and the quality is going up. I know musicians who self-produce stamped (NOT Burnt) CDs. Minimum run is a thousand or so.
My main point was how much digital music and the web scares the RIAA, because any alternative makes the bands negotiating position much stronger, and that is what they see in the oncoming headlights. (I guess I also mean the ability to self-produce a high quality product)
As people here keep saying about those "unfair" contracts, "they didn't have to sign". Well maybe, but there didn't used to be a lot of alternatives - the web is big enough now to make stars outside of the cartels' control.
The RIAA and labels are not stupid. Sleazy cheating bastards maybe, but not stupid. They see their control and profits disappearing, and the best they can do is slow it down.
Eventually market forces will cut them down to where they earn their cut, by sponsoring, producing, investing, training, managing etc. They have the capability to do a lot of good for a band or entertainer, but they will no longer be able to take the lions share just because there is no alternative.
The last album I bought was from Kwoon. 14 euro inc postage, direct from the band's website.(Good album by the way)
That's what really scares the shit out of the RIAA, that nusicians might start direct selling. It doesn't have to be all of them, just enough to be a credible argument when bands are negotiating their contracts with RIAA member companies.
That's their real problem with any scheme I've ever seen to make money on digital music (on or off the internet), as soon as it works, any new acts can bypass them, and use it themselves.
"Give me a decent deal or I'll just sell it on the web" threatens their profits a lot more than any amount of copyright infringement.
They don't want nasty violent people in there, they want nice malleable workers who will do what they are told because they are too shit scared to move. You know, white colar recreational drug users.
True. I also left out that some fords are shallow places in a creek or river, suitable for crossing. Although I suppose you could make a ford by throwing enough Fords into a river so that you could step from Ford to Ford all the way across the ford.:)
But with space solar power the cold side of the heat engine is in space, radiating toward the sky (with it's black body temperature of 4 degrees absolute). The dumped heat misses the earth.
So now you want us to be responsible for Universal Warming?
While higher food prices are bad for the people buying it they are good for the people selling.
Higher food prices have the potential to greatly improve the lives of many subsistance farmers (and their entire local economies) in many undeveloped areas.
Giving free/cheap food ruins local food providers, and long-term generally causes more problems than it solves. Higher fuel prices are also good for them, as it makes the local produce even more competitive. It may be bad for agribusiness in the US to have local farming/economies recover, but globally it is a good thing.
Run a few loops of it around the equator, put a big enough current through it and you could put Magnetic North on top of True North, where it bloody well should be.
I think one of the main effects would be that the other 30% would become more popular with their peers as source nodes for sneakernet. It isn't difficult or expensive to carry a largish USB drive around to a friends place, and total file-swapping would probably increase. If you're there anyway, you might as well fill the drive. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a backpack full of hard-drives on a pushbike.:)
Well technically, you haven't just predicted something further out, you have also vastly widened the time range of your prediction.Your prediction includes the five billion year prediction and includes other possibilities as well, so it must have a higher probability. They are both wrong anyway. Long before then we will have turned off the sun to stop it wasting energy, and "Starlifted" most of its mass to do something useful with.
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Why bother with that? Just tax the fuel the way they already do. The more you burn, the more you pay.
Over here about 70% of the pump price is tax.
Some US bankers are intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I can with my OLPC. :)
The best way would be persistent transferable mod point(s). Each time you use one it comes off the previous comment. If you leave it for long enough you get the point back and the comment is permanently modded. This would help on those occaisions where you have just used all your points and then see a brilliant comment.
If you can't tell the difference between pretending to care and really caring, then does it matter what their internal feelings are? The reults are what count.
France invented mimes.
Doomed twice. He's posting on slashdot on Saturday too.
Panasonic TZ5, 9MP, excellent Leica lens. 28 - 280 equiv zoom, (26 in 16-9 ratio).
Pretty good quality for a point and shoot. DP review has a good write-up.
Main problem is noise in the sensor. okay at 100, crap at over 400.
Just about everything is auto, only things you can control are WB and iso.
It makes a nice change to just point and click, no hassles, no set-up. Fun camera.
Can also zoom while doing hi-def video at 30 fps! Get a spare battery, (~250 stills, but the video chews it)
I didn't say it was a good thing, or that it will totally kill the labels. I know plenty of kids who still buy CDs, and go to concerts.
I also didn't think it was totally new. I know bands who used to sell cassette tapes at shows I went to in the eighties, but it IS getting much more common and easier for a band to do, and the quality is going up. I know musicians who self-produce stamped (NOT Burnt) CDs. Minimum run is a thousand or so.
My main point was how much digital music and the web scares the RIAA, because any alternative makes the bands negotiating position much stronger, and that is what they see in the oncoming headlights. (I guess I also mean the ability to self-produce a high quality product)
As people here keep saying about those "unfair" contracts, "they didn't have to sign". Well maybe, but there didn't used to be a lot of alternatives - the web is big enough now to make stars outside of the cartels' control.
The RIAA and labels are not stupid. Sleazy cheating bastards maybe, but not stupid. They see their control and profits disappearing, and the best they can do is slow it down.
Eventually market forces will cut them down to where they earn their cut, by sponsoring, producing, investing, training, managing etc. They have the capability to do a lot of good for a band or entertainer, but they will no longer be able to take the lions share just because there is no alternative.
The last album I bought was from Kwoon. 14 euro inc postage, direct from the band's website.(Good album by the way)
That's what really scares the shit out of the RIAA, that nusicians might start direct selling. It doesn't have to be all of them, just enough to be a credible argument when bands are negotiating their contracts with RIAA member companies.
That's their real problem with any scheme I've ever seen to make money on digital music (on or off the internet), as soon as it works, any new acts can bypass them, and use it themselves.
"Give me a decent deal or I'll just sell it on the web" threatens their profits a lot more than any amount of copyright infringement.
To hell with that. I want a castle in the hills, my own personal spacecraft, and enough power that ETs running SETI programs have to wear shades.
He can afford it, he's got this big network he can use for collateral.
They don't want nasty violent people in there, they want nice malleable workers who will do what they are told because they are too shit scared to move. You know, white colar recreational drug users.
True. :)
I also left out that some fords are shallow places in a creek or river, suitable for crossing.
Although I suppose you could make a ford by throwing enough Fords into a river so that you could step from Ford to Ford all the way across the ford.
The fact that "Ford" and "car" are two distinctively different concepts demonstrates that Fords are not cars.
ever come across the esoteric concept of subsets, you religious whacko ?
Write or ring them up and say "well done". You need to encourage the good as well as oppose the bad.
This is obviously the point at which we need to implement a standard model of government.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ?
I think if you call the client Torrent-tella, you should call the network Serpentine.
While higher food prices are bad for the people buying it they are good for the people selling.
Higher food prices have the potential to greatly improve the lives of many subsistance farmers (and their entire local economies) in many undeveloped areas.
Giving free/cheap food ruins local food providers, and long-term generally causes more problems than it solves. Higher fuel prices are also good for them, as it makes the local produce even more competitive. It may be bad for agribusiness in the US to have local farming/economies recover, but globally it is a good thing.
Of course you can. You just end up with a negative result.
Run a few loops of it around the equator, put a big enough current through it and you could put Magnetic North on top of True North, where it bloody well should be.
I think one of the main effects would be that the other 30% would become more popular with their peers as source nodes for sneakernet. It isn't difficult or expensive to carry a largish USB drive around to a friends place, and total file-swapping would probably increase. If you're there anyway, you might as well fill the drive. :)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a backpack full of hard-drives on a pushbike.
Well technically, you haven't just predicted something further out, you have also vastly widened the time range of your prediction.Your prediction includes the five billion year prediction and includes other possibilities as well, so it must have a higher probability.
They are both wrong anyway. Long before then we will have turned off the sun to stop it wasting energy, and "Starlifted" most of its mass to do something useful with.