You missed:
4) Re-tag music.
And yes, if you have a library of even a thousand songs, average length 3 minutes apiece, assuming 1MB/min that's roughly 5 discs of burning time. If you have a medium-speed burner, that's going to take you 30 minutes. Say relabeling each song takes 10 seconds. That's another 10,000 seconds = about 3 hours. So because of "lock in" I'd have to spend three hours of my life (that could have been spent somewhere else) converting my library in order to use it on another device when Fair Use would dictate that I have the right to place/format shift the media that I paid for, the right that is blocked by making the breaking of DRM illegal.
If you buy music or video from iTMS, you are forced to keep an iPod as a AV player since no other device can handle the DRM on iTMS files. You say, "Don't buy an iPod and don't buy iTMS stuff then." The problem is that later on, you do not have a choice. If someone wants to change their mind and get an iRiver or a Creative or...etc. as their next device then the bought media will be unreasonably difficult (if you wanted to transfer video, I figure you'll have to use screen capture software, and let it run for the duration of each show you want to copy; having to repetitiously burn CDs, rip them, and write new tags isn't fun either) to transfer to your new player. It's the "place/format shifting" part of Fair Use.
I really hope you're joking, and that I'm just too tired from working on my homework to realize it. He wasn't trying to build a reactor for electrical power but rather to obtain more useful radioactive material...at least that's the impression I'm under.
"Wow, that's really cool! I bet we can do all sorts of cool things with that," but when they gel back to the office they find they don't have the computing power/money/time/resources/personnel/ incentive to pull it off.
...if your food isn't packed in a vacuum and it's not too hot, it probably has some live bacteria in it already, though maybe not the kind you want. Safety tip: never leave warm food out in the open too long.
Oh, and unless you're at a super-fancy-expensive restaurant where they make *everything* the moment you order it, don't eat the hollandaise sauce. Raw egg yolks lying around = bad stuff.
"Borrowing" your friend's phone? Your voice will no longer be on the call. Then there's always the prepaid phone, used exclusively for prank calls, 911 or not.
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I was taught at school to call 911 only in case of an emergency. That meant that someone is or was going to get seriously hurt (broken bone or worse), or there was someone around who was a threatening presence. Dispatch should never be your concierge.
I notice that before that part of the excerpt you posted, it says the following:
Call 9-1-1 anytime you have an EMERGENCY when police, fire or medical response is required immediately. Examples of 9-1-1 emergencies include fire, crimes in progress or that just occurred, or a medical crisis. A good rule of thumb is - when life or property is threatened or at immediate risk, or if there is a good chance that a criminal can be apprehended, call 9-1-1.
I think that's good enough guidance.
Considering how often we hear about people calling 911 for driving directions or other ridiculous reasons, I can't help but wonder when dispatchers will start getting stuff like tubgirl...
Or 3) MS Should tell ALL media companies that this is not for thier customers, and refuse to play ANY of these medias until they FIX it.
In which case Joe Blow wonders wtf Microsoft is not letting him play HD discs on his computer, and RIAA/MPAA astroturfs the situation. Meanwhile, OSX makes some compromises and they gain more customers. Lose-lose for MS.
Correction: the core feature (in this case, playing music) is all that matters. People buy into the iPod for that. The fact that they might realize later on that having an FM transmitter would be nice and fork over the extra cash (not realizing it's more expensive that way, rather than buying something with one built-in) isn't as big a deal. They think, "Well, if I do need it, I can always buy it later." It's like an a la carte dinner versus a prie fixe one.
"(make it nice to use and nice to hold, like an iPod, but make it do stuff an iPod can't)"
What does the majority of the market want? Observing my fellow college students, they want a shiny, nice to hold DAP that does just one thing: play music (well, now video too, but that's beside the point). A DAP that does stuff that an iPod can't is not what the majority wants, unless you're talking about maybe better battery life or a lower price. That's it. That's everything. Anything else is just extra stuff that not everybody wants. Why do you think the iPod accessory market is so huge?
Maybe because the fact that the perpetrators were two *American* *teens* - making people have to realize that their own are capable of committing an act as heinous as this - versus 19 Arabs, who they can simply label as "Other"?
You forgot the, "Doesn't really give a damn about turbos, 0-60 acceleration, or cornering ability and just needs a car for the commute because public transit is worse than non-existent" group.
GP was referring to the old chestnut about the difficulty in finding all the software you need to run on a Mac versus window. It's marked funny because people aren't taking it seriously. It's a joke. Laugh.
They did everything they intended to accomplish the rovers and more. I'm just surprised they decided to upload the updates to both of them instead of just one of them.
"In addition to their continuing scientific observations, they are now testing four new skills included in revised flight software uploaded to their onboard computers."
So this is how the Decepticons got started...
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You missed: 4) Re-tag music. And yes, if you have a library of even a thousand songs, average length 3 minutes apiece, assuming 1MB/min that's roughly 5 discs of burning time. If you have a medium-speed burner, that's going to take you 30 minutes. Say relabeling each song takes 10 seconds. That's another 10,000 seconds = about 3 hours. So because of "lock in" I'd have to spend three hours of my life (that could have been spent somewhere else) converting my library in order to use it on another device when Fair Use would dictate that I have the right to place/format shift the media that I paid for, the right that is blocked by making the breaking of DRM illegal.
If you buy music or video from iTMS, you are forced to keep an iPod as a AV player since no other device can handle the DRM on iTMS files. You say, "Don't buy an iPod and don't buy iTMS stuff then." The problem is that later on, you do not have a choice. If someone wants to change their mind and get an iRiver or a Creative or...etc. as their next device then the bought media will be unreasonably difficult (if you wanted to transfer video, I figure you'll have to use screen capture software, and let it run for the duration of each show you want to copy; having to repetitiously burn CDs, rip them, and write new tags isn't fun either) to transfer to your new player. It's the "place/format shifting" part of Fair Use.
I really hope you're joking, and that I'm just too tired from working on my homework to realize it. He wasn't trying to build a reactor for electrical power but rather to obtain more useful radioactive material...at least that's the impression I'm under.
But do you keep the leftovers at room temperature, like it's supposed to be served at?
"Wow, that's really cool! I bet we can do all sorts of cool things with that," but when they gel back to the office they find they don't have the computing power/money/time/resources/personnel/ incentive to pull it off.
...if your food isn't packed in a vacuum and it's not too hot, it probably has some live bacteria in it already, though maybe not the kind you want. Safety tip: never leave warm food out in the open too long. Oh, and unless you're at a super-fancy-expensive restaurant where they make *everything* the moment you order it, don't eat the hollandaise sauce. Raw egg yolks lying around = bad stuff.
If I hear anything about flying mini-gliders, I'm going to seriously freak...
"Borrowing" your friend's phone? Your voice will no longer be on the call. Then there's always the prepaid phone, used exclusively for prank calls, 911 or not.
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I was taught at school to call 911 only in case of an emergency. That meant that someone is or was going to get seriously hurt (broken bone or worse), or there was someone around who was a threatening presence. Dispatch should never be your concierge. I notice that before that part of the excerpt you posted, it says the following: Call 9-1-1 anytime you have an EMERGENCY when police, fire or medical response is required immediately. Examples of 9-1-1 emergencies include fire, crimes in progress or that just occurred, or a medical crisis. A good rule of thumb is - when life or property is threatened or at immediate risk, or if there is a good chance that a criminal can be apprehended, call 9-1-1. I think that's good enough guidance.
Considering how often we hear about people calling 911 for driving directions or other ridiculous reasons, I can't help but wonder when dispatchers will start getting stuff like tubgirl...
Or 3) MS Should tell ALL media companies that this is not for thier customers, and refuse to play ANY of these medias until they FIX it.
In which case Joe Blow wonders wtf Microsoft is not letting him play HD discs on his computer, and RIAA/MPAA astroturfs the situation. Meanwhile, OSX makes some compromises and they gain more customers. Lose-lose for MS.
And the well-known corollary: just because somebody *can* doesn't mean they *should*.
Correction: the core feature (in this case, playing music) is all that matters. People buy into the iPod for that. The fact that they might realize later on that having an FM transmitter would be nice and fork over the extra cash (not realizing it's more expensive that way, rather than buying something with one built-in) isn't as big a deal. They think, "Well, if I do need it, I can always buy it later." It's like an a la carte dinner versus a prie fixe one.
"(make it nice to use and nice to hold, like an iPod, but make it do stuff an iPod can't)" What does the majority of the market want? Observing my fellow college students, they want a shiny, nice to hold DAP that does just one thing: play music (well, now video too, but that's beside the point). A DAP that does stuff that an iPod can't is not what the majority wants, unless you're talking about maybe better battery life or a lower price. That's it. That's everything. Anything else is just extra stuff that not everybody wants. Why do you think the iPod accessory market is so huge?
...might or might not be dead; it also might or might not even exist???
If it's a newer chip, there's a not-small probability that it was made in Ireland or Israel.
Maybe because the fact that the perpetrators were two *American* *teens* - making people have to realize that their own are capable of committing an act as heinous as this - versus 19 Arabs, who they can simply label as "Other"?
Ep2, TF2 and Portal will cost $40 in all; where'd the $29.95 and $20 come from? Like Ep1, you don't need a copy of HL2 to play.
Because Apple talks about delivering an integrated experience and it's Apple who installed the video card and drivers, not the user?
GP post is using "hot" in terms of a certain level of radioactivity, not temperature.
Cingular has a clause in their contract that says they can drop you at any time, and if you're a heavy user, I suppose that's what they'd do.
You forgot the, "Doesn't really give a damn about turbos, 0-60 acceleration, or cornering ability and just needs a car for the commute because public transit is worse than non-existent" group.
GP was referring to the old chestnut about the difficulty in finding all the software you need to run on a Mac versus window. It's marked funny because people aren't taking it seriously. It's a joke. Laugh.
They did everything they intended to accomplish the rovers and more. I'm just surprised they decided to upload the updates to both of them instead of just one of them.
"In addition to their continuing scientific observations, they are now testing four new skills included in revised flight software uploaded to their onboard computers." So this is how the Decepticons got started...