Remember that the weight or 'g's you feel (or don't) is a result of acceleration, not velocity. Which is lucky for all those astronauts going to Mars by 2020.
Thank-you, that's more or less exactly what I was trying to get across. Though I did carry it more in the direction of anti-competition with regards to other online music sources.
I hear you, but you can't really use any other online music stores with your iPod, can you? I could be wrong, but doesn't Apple have a proprietary and closed DRM scheme which they refuse to license?
The main reason I don't have and won't buy an iPod is because I must use iTunes. I'm admittedly not a fan of DRM, but to be forced to use THEIR DRM which, to me, is essentially Apple leveraging one product on the virtual monopoly of another is as wrong as Microsoft or anyone else doing it. So anyone complaining that MS should be opening their source or not bundling IE/WiMP/etc with Windows should also be arguing that this is a good move for congress.
Of course, the obvious solution would be not to have DRM on people legally purchasing music (since they likely are NOT the pirates and should stop being treated as such), but paranoia being what it is. Those wishing to make a comparison to software anti-copying techniques would be wise to observe that:
a) Software piracy has not slumped at any point due to increasingly sophisticated routines/methods.
b) The pricing of software is higher and facilitates piracy more than a 99 cent song.
c) Those who download and pay for their music are not as likely to turn around and give it away for free as those who continue to download for free.
d) Online music stores need a better method of sampling songs than 30 second clips. This remains the only (in my opinion, though this will doubtless raise controvery) valid reason for downloading free music: the ability to hear it first.
Anyway, this is all just my opinion, but while iTunes might have moved things in a better direction than the RIAA's lawsuits, they've still got some things to figure out.
If this were in any way true, aside from my rebuttal to your snarky initial comment, I might agree with you. However, I have yet to see where I partook in flaming anyone prior to your initial post - for spelling or anything else. Can you say the same?
I know I make mistakes, and the message of my initial post was NOT about the occasional mistakes, it was about people talking without even trying at all. Please read before throwing out baseless accusations.
"I'm sometimes wonder about your friend's letters to that company being in perfectly correct English... "
And of course, you never make a mistake (such as quoted above - yeah, sure, you meant to do it) or miss something in your proofreading. And if you do, as I did when reviewing again, you certainly never admit it/attempt to correct/apologize for it. Get over yourself.
In any case, I'm glad my post has had enough of an effect that you can sometimes wonder about my friend's letters and also hypocritically comment on my own hypocrisy.
In any case, maybe you could keep the flames to yourself, because "noone" cares.
Heh, I think a worse problem is that it is used as a substitute for various flavours of a word. LOL is doubtless used by people who rarely are laughing out loud at their computer monitor. How about only using it when you actually ARE laughing out loud? And maybe a "heh" to indicate casual amusement/a smile. Or a "hahahaha" to indicate boisterous laughter. Or...
We've condensed all these down into three letters which could mean so many things they really mean nothing. You'll rarely catch me using it or conversing with people who consistently do so.
Of course there's nothing wrong with playing with acronyms and trying to increase the efficiency of communications. I'm sometimes wonder about these so-called short-cuts not really being shortcuts (many of them are a lot harder to type than the actual word), but I don't think the concern is slang destroying english.
Rather, it's the laziness involving a complete lack of punctuation and other more subtle elements of the language which convey the tone and perhaps intent that is worrisome. Combine that with self-correcting software like spell checkers, and essentially a person never really develops communications skills beyond a certain point. And then they carry themselves in text communications as idiots.
A friend applied for a job that he wasn't really interested in and received a form-letter rejection via email, riddled with grammatical errors, incorrect usage of some words (they're/their/there, then/than), and so on. He corrected the letter rather sarcastically and sent it back to them and they actually apologized AND offered him the job! Apparently people who can write english as well as speak it are in short supply.
If you were to get to the center of the sun somehow, wouldn't the gravity effectively be zero since you'd have equal mass pulling you in every direction? I.e. all of a sphere's mass is not at the center, it's distributed throughout (with the most mass/pressure at the center because of attraction forces).
If we want our cashiers/etc to check our credit cards/signatures, then we have to stop bitching at the inconvenience and giving dirty looks at those who do it.
I've been in line (and also worked as cashier) and have seen my share of people get ornery when their unsigned card is refused or if asked to produce an ID. How can we expect vendors to check them when we at the same time give them hell for doing so?
The same also goes for counterfeit bills. People just don't like them being checked, as though it were a personal "I don't trust you" shot at them.
All that said, I find the pin number/security to rent movies ridiculously over-the-top. So I'm not sure where that leaves me...
Yes, Lucas is supporting the technology, as he supported and continues to support digital projection/film. And yeah, that means a revisit to Star Wars. So what? Would it be better that he support this new format and vow to not look at bringing Star Wars into that dimension? Should we have stuck with VHS forever or done a sloppy direct "noise-and-all" transfer to DVD?
The original post talks about George re-releasing Star Wars in 3D, but there's more to the story than that. Where are the 'purists' begging Peter Jackson to not redo LOTR?
Simply put, this is a story about some new means of 3D projection in which George is only one of the heavyweights who would like to see this move forward. So why does it matter that he'd like to put his movies in 3D? I could see if he was talking about axing 2D formats, but at the moment that would be mere speculation and nothing worthy of generating this knee-jerk reaction...
Is much cheaper to operate than a gasoline powered vehicle. Gives intrinsic reward in that you're doing something positive for the planet Is much cheaper to operate than a gasoline powered vehicle.
Very good point (I say this only because I was going to post it myself). If they were able to produce a cheap commuter car that maybe didn't do the long trips but got the average Joe to and from work for a fraction of the cost of a real vehicle (or conversly brought the price of the gas/etc vehicles down), then they might've created a market. There's no way the EV1 was about to go toe-to-toe with a gasoline beast. And little chance that the average person can afford to have a specialized vehicle or would want to purchase that when they could purchase an all purpose vehicle for the same price.
How would they go about taxing downloads, really? Did you download this page to read my question? Yes. Everytime you're receiving, you're downloading. Wouldn't it make more sense to tax uploads, i.e. the source of the files? Well, no, it wouldn't make sense, but more sense probably.
Right, that wasn't clear, sorry. It's not so much that the GPU is practical for business, it's that it's something that is bundled with a graphics card which is tied to business if only because every computer needs some sort of video display. Most business users can get by with cards that are years and years old, but a better graphics card certainly can help, and so they purchase a new card with a GPU they'll never use and end up subsidizing it anyway.
While a PPU would doubtless be great for almost any type of game (even strategy/sim games could profit), and while gaming does drive a large part of computer innovation, I wonder how limited the success of this chip might be given that there are probably very few uses outside of gaming. No doubt it could help people in technical fields doing theoretical research, maybe even meterology, but up until this point, most of these addons and so forth have had significant (albeit longterm) business applications. Can a chip without somewhat more practical uses make it into mainstream motherboards? I'll be interested to see.
I suspect that rather than go after (which they have no legal right to do) foreign sites, what they will do is probably have someone blacklisting sites at election time from outside America that are linking/promoting candidates. Sort of the reverse of how (I believe it was) Bush's site was not accessible to those outside the US during the election.
My concern would be that they place the onus on ISPs for blocking those sites on their routers.
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Remember that the weight or 'g's you feel (or don't) is a result of acceleration, not velocity. Which is lucky for all those astronauts going to Mars by 2020.
Why is it only the keys under your right hand are dirty? :)
Thank-you, that's more or less exactly what I was trying to get across. Though I did carry it more in the direction of anti-competition with regards to other online music sources.
I hear you, but you can't really use any other online music stores with your iPod, can you? I could be wrong, but doesn't Apple have a proprietary and closed DRM scheme which they refuse to license?
Of course, the obvious solution would be not to have DRM on people legally purchasing music (since they likely are NOT the pirates and should stop being treated as such), but paranoia being what it is. Those wishing to make a comparison to software anti-copying techniques would be wise to observe that:
a) Software piracy has not slumped at any point due to increasingly sophisticated routines/methods.
b) The pricing of software is higher and facilitates piracy more than a 99 cent song.
c) Those who download and pay for their music are not as likely to turn around and give it away for free as those who continue to download for free.
d) Online music stores need a better method of sampling songs than 30 second clips. This remains the only (in my opinion, though this will doubtless raise controvery) valid reason for downloading free music: the ability to hear it first.
Anyway, this is all just my opinion, but while iTunes might have moved things in a better direction than the RIAA's lawsuits, they've still got some things to figure out.
Mod parent up!
I know I make mistakes, and the message of my initial post was NOT about the occasional mistakes, it was about people talking without even trying at all. Please read before throwing out baseless accusations.
And of course, you never make a mistake (such as quoted above - yeah, sure, you meant to do it) or miss something in your proofreading. And if you do, as I did when reviewing again, you certainly never admit it/attempt to correct/apologize for it. Get over yourself.
In any case, I'm glad my post has had enough of an effect that you can sometimes wonder about my friend's letters and also hypocritically comment on my own hypocrisy.
In any case, maybe you could keep the flames to yourself, because "noone" cares.
We've condensed all these down into three letters which could mean so many things they really mean nothing. You'll rarely catch me using it or conversing with people who consistently do so.
"I'm sometimes wonder about ..."
And of course, laziness in proofreading. Oh, the irony!
Rather, it's the laziness involving a complete lack of punctuation and other more subtle elements of the language which convey the tone and perhaps intent that is worrisome. Combine that with self-correcting software like spell checkers, and essentially a person never really develops communications skills beyond a certain point. And then they carry themselves in text communications as idiots.
A friend applied for a job that he wasn't really interested in and received a form-letter rejection via email, riddled with grammatical errors, incorrect usage of some words (they're/their/there, then/than), and so on. He corrected the letter rather sarcastically and sent it back to them and they actually apologized AND offered him the job! Apparently people who can write english as well as speak it are in short supply.
OK, got it, thanks for clearing that up, just wondering if I was out to lunch.
If you were to get to the center of the sun somehow, wouldn't the gravity effectively be zero since you'd have equal mass pulling you in every direction? I.e. all of a sphere's mass is not at the center, it's distributed throughout (with the most mass/pressure at the center because of attraction forces).
I've been in line (and also worked as cashier) and have seen my share of people get ornery when their unsigned card is refused or if asked to produce an ID. How can we expect vendors to check them when we at the same time give them hell for doing so?
The same also goes for counterfeit bills. People just don't like them being checked, as though it were a personal "I don't trust you" shot at them.
All that said, I find the pin number/security to rent movies ridiculously over-the-top. So I'm not sure where that leaves me...
The original post talks about George re-releasing Star Wars in 3D, but there's more to the story than that. Where are the 'purists' begging Peter Jackson to not redo LOTR?
Simply put, this is a story about some new means of 3D projection in which George is only one of the heavyweights who would like to see this move forward. So why does it matter that he'd like to put his movies in 3D? I could see if he was talking about axing 2D formats, but at the moment that would be mere speculation and nothing worthy of generating this knee-jerk reaction...
Halle Berry as Wonder Woman. Skin tight clothes, gratuitous body shots, no plot. Why, it'll be a box office smash!
Is much cheaper to operate than a gasoline powered vehicle.
Gives intrinsic reward in that you're doing something positive for the planet
Is much cheaper to operate than a gasoline powered vehicle.
Very good point (I say this only because I was going to post it myself). If they were able to produce a cheap commuter car that maybe didn't do the long trips but got the average Joe to and from work for a fraction of the cost of a real vehicle (or conversly brought the price of the gas/etc vehicles down), then they might've created a market. There's no way the EV1 was about to go toe-to-toe with a gasoline beast. And little chance that the average person can afford to have a specialized vehicle or would want to purchase that when they could purchase an all purpose vehicle for the same price.
"Once you've gotten used to the smell of rendered hog fat, you'll wonder how you ever did without."
Very interesting! Would this not qualify as entrapment were it true?
Are we really going to start taxing information?
Right, that wasn't clear, sorry. It's not so much that the GPU is practical for business, it's that it's something that is bundled with a graphics card which is tied to business if only because every computer needs some sort of video display. Most business users can get by with cards that are years and years old, but a better graphics card certainly can help, and so they purchase a new card with a GPU they'll never use and end up subsidizing it anyway.
While a PPU would doubtless be great for almost any type of game (even strategy/sim games could profit), and while gaming does drive a large part of computer innovation, I wonder how limited the success of this chip might be given that there are probably very few uses outside of gaming. No doubt it could help people in technical fields doing theoretical research, maybe even meterology, but up until this point, most of these addons and so forth have had significant (albeit longterm) business applications. Can a chip without somewhat more practical uses make it into mainstream motherboards? I'll be interested to see.
I think you may have answered your own question as to why.
My concern would be that they place the onus on ISPs for blocking those sites on their routers.