If by new car, you mean a fully equiped Rolls-Royce, you're right.
From the catalog:
157. LUKE SKYWALKER HERO LIGHTSABER FROM STAR WARS. (TCF, 1977) This lightsaber used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker is the non-fighting version of the famous Jedi weapon. This particular version is constructed from an existing Graflex flash gun from the 1930s, and is fitted with black grips around the base. As with all Luke lightsabers created for the first Star Wars film, the black grips are attached with an adhesive. During production of the The Empire Strikes Back, problems arose during filming in Finse, Norway when the sub-zero temperatures caused the glue to freeze and the grips to fall off. After this experience, the grips were attached with rivets and/or screws. As such, this lightsaber can be positively identified with the first Star Wars film, although it may also have been used during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back since many original props and costumes were carried over into the second production. This lightsaber is in good condition for its age, but is missing the circuit board detailing usually attached to the clasp. The silver tape which originally covered the Graflex name has also been removed. An important and now iconic piece of Star Wars lore, this hero lightsaber used by Luke comes directly from the archive of Gary Kurtz, producer of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, and is accompanied with a letter of authenticity signed by Gary Kurtz and an additional letter of authenticity signed by Jason Joiner of the Kurtz / Joiner Archive. A wonderful piece of film history used for the very first appearance of the spectacular "lightsaber", which thrilled audiences the world over. $60,000 - $80,000
Actually, it is. The link is to a file. The HTTP-served file, or an FTP-served file. The.torrent is an HTTP-served file.
Also, you don't expect your browser to spend 2-12 hours downloading a file, regardless of how it's served. If something takes that long, generally, you get another application to download it for you.
Second they decided on an open architecture so that other manufacturers could produce and sell compatible machines -- the IBM PC compatibles, so the specification of the ROM BIOS was published. IBM hoped to maintain their position in the market by royalties from licensing the BIOS, and by keeping ahead of the competition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC (italics are mine)
Of course, you neglect to read the next paragraph which explains that the "open architecture" of publishing the BIOS was designed to control the platform.
By publishing the BIOS code, IBM was polluting the pool of programmers and making it difficult for any engineer that might have ever touched an IBM manual from duplicating the functions of the BIOS. IBM was not adopting an open standard - they were trying to prevent anyone from copying it BIOS.
It took Compaq $1 million to clean room the bios in 1983. That is the point where the PC really begins to take off.
Troubleshooting a known quantity is bad enough - trying to do tech support for "random errors" would probably add more than the cost savings.
Businesses, especially those that depend more on their brand, are better served by quality products than by saving money on products that are "good enough"
That ain't going to happen when your album is out of print because you are one of those 9 out of 10 bands that were not popular enough.
Except we're talking about allofmp3.com, and none of those albums are out of print...
You really are quite naive about the way the American music industry works.
I run http://idobi.com/... a lot of my friends are in bands, both indie and major. Some of my friends run indie labels. I'm hardly naive about how the record industry works. Bands may fail to make a second album, but that's because the label decide that they are not profitable. Not buying albums or paying in royalties won't help the situation.
And how exactly is this substantially different from the American music industry? The music industry where more than 9 out of 10 bands that sign recording contracts end up in debt to their own recording company, without any ownership of the music they've recorded and with no chance of recording a second album?
The major difference is that while the band may not "see" anything in the short term, every sale chips away at their debt - and if the album does happen to go platinum (or better), they will start to to receive royalties.
In a standard instillation the projector sits on the floor about 5 feet behind the screen, so while the bulkiness of rear projection screens has literally vanished, it actually occupies a greater amount of space.
It takes up way more space than a regular projection tv, but let's market it in a way that makes it sound really cool!
I just looked up our web hoster's pricing. $6/GB, and that'll be maybe 10.000 pics at 100kB. I can save $0.0006 per image, wohoo. Not.
A 30% reduction in bandwidth is a big deal, whether it's movies, music or images. Let's say images take up 60% of a web site that delivers 400GB of bandwidth to customers every month. That's $432 in savings each month. BTW, your calculations are wrong - you're currently spending $.0006/image... you'd be saving $.00018/image with this algor.
If the people paying for bandwidth think they can successfully push the technology and save them money, they're going to go for it.
Also, sites like archive.org can save tons of storage space by losslessly compressing archived jpegs, even if they don't implement the technology to visitors.
I don't know about Nikon, but Canon (Pro & Prosumer models) uses two buffers. Uncompressed are written to one buffer while the camera process them into JPEG on to the second buffer; where it's held until the image is written to the CompactFlash card.
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From the catalog:
157. LUKE SKYWALKER HERO LIGHTSABER FROM STAR WARS. (TCF, 1977) This lightsaber used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker is the non-fighting version of the famous Jedi weapon. This particular version is constructed from an existing Graflex flash gun from the 1930s, and is fitted with black grips around the base. As with all Luke lightsabers created for the first Star Wars film, the black grips are attached with an adhesive. During production of the The Empire Strikes Back, problems arose during filming in Finse, Norway when the sub-zero temperatures caused the glue to freeze and the grips to fall off. After this experience, the grips were attached with rivets and/or screws. As such, this lightsaber can be positively identified with the first Star Wars film, although it may also have been used during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back since many original props and costumes were carried over into the second production. This lightsaber is in good condition for its age, but is missing the circuit board detailing usually attached to the clasp. The silver tape which originally covered the Graflex name has also been removed. An important and now iconic piece of Star Wars lore, this hero lightsaber used by Luke comes directly from the archive of Gary Kurtz, producer of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, and is accompanied with a letter of authenticity signed by Gary Kurtz and an additional letter of authenticity signed by Jason Joiner of the Kurtz / Joiner Archive. A wonderful piece of film history used for the very first appearance of the spectacular "lightsaber", which thrilled audiences the world over. $60,000 - $80,000
Actually, it is. The link is to a file. The HTTP-served file, or an FTP-served file. The .torrent is an HTTP-served file.
Also, you don't expect your browser to spend 2-12 hours downloading a file, regardless of how it's served. If something takes that long, generally, you get another application to download it for you.
Seriously... my BT client is up 24/7... my browser crashes at least once a day on some crappy web site...
The slashdot crowd can't get girls to go out with them, and they expect one to give him their egg?
Troubleshooting a known quantity is bad enough - trying to do tech support for "random errors" would probably add more than the cost savings. Businesses, especially those that depend more on their brand, are better served by quality products than by saving money on products that are "good enough"
The O.C. is broadcast in HD... at least that's what I, uh, I mean, my "friend" has been downloading...
That ain't going to happen when your album is out of print because you are one of those 9 out of 10 bands that were not popular enough.
Except we're talking about allofmp3.com, and none of those albums are out of print...
You really are quite naive about the way the American music industry works.
I run http://idobi.com/... a lot of my friends are in bands, both indie and major. Some of my friends run indie labels. I'm hardly naive about how the record industry works. Bands may fail to make a second album, but that's because the label decide that they are not profitable. Not buying albums or paying in royalties won't help the situation.
Yes, You can install Virtual PC
Actually, if they were trying to reach Hollywood executives, Variety or The Hollywood Reporter would've been a better choice...
I just looked up our web hoster's pricing. $6/GB, and that'll be maybe 10.000 pics at 100kB. I can save $0.0006 per image, wohoo. Not. A 30% reduction in bandwidth is a big deal, whether it's movies, music or images. Let's say images take up 60% of a web site that delivers 400GB of bandwidth to customers every month. That's $432 in savings each month. BTW, your calculations are wrong - you're currently spending $.0006/image... you'd be saving $.00018/image with this algor. If the people paying for bandwidth think they can successfully push the technology and save them money, they're going to go for it. Also, sites like archive.org can save tons of storage space by losslessly compressing archived jpegs, even if they don't implement the technology to visitors.
I don't know about Nikon, but Canon (Pro & Prosumer models) uses two buffers. Uncompressed are written to one buffer while the camera process them into JPEG on to the second buffer; where it's held until the image is written to the CompactFlash card.
You donate slightly less than you earn in interest so that a foundation can continue to give money for (theoretically) eternity...
expect the unsubscribe link to work?