Ok, maybe he should be tried for treason for accepting campaign money from the PRC that he later gave missile secrets to? Or Gore should if you feel you must insulate your revered Slick Willie from the actions of his subordinates.
Make no mistake. Slick Willie was a corrupt bastard. Money for stays in the Lincoln bedroom ring a bell?
Of course, Bushie is even more corrupt and even more blatant. Halliburton now OWNS Iraq for all effects and purposes.
Third Reich certainly did not have rockets, capable of launching satellites, merely reaching high altitude. Big difference. Also they did not have anything being worth delivered by ICBMs -- their nuclear program never was completed. Nazi tried to use small missiles with conventional explosives, however they didn't even bother to provide a matching military strategy for those, dooming them to failure.
The V2 was effectively an intermediate range ballistic missile. It is still a better technology than at least 50% of the world has (i.e. the 3rd world), although with enough money you can buy SCUDs which are slightly better.
Radars and satellites are cheap, and ICBMs are even cheaper -- they are mass-produced devices, with technology developed mostly in 50's, and in part over 60's-90's.
Priced any ICBMs lately? You couldn't be more wrong. You cannot buy ICBMs off of the shelf. If that were the case, N. Korea would have them. Hell, Iraq would have had them. You are using technological logic to debate something that you have no relevant facts about. ICBMs are not transistors. They are not mass produced ICs. You cannot just go by some off the shelf of your local arms dealer.
They are giant heavy pieces of machinery that are DAMNED difficult to make correctly. Hell, even the US, which has the best space industry in the world still loses between 10-30% of their unmanned payload launches due to the complexity of making a rocket that works perfectly.
There is nothing too complex about it, and sooner or later everyone who can't be easily raided by his local version of police, will have one in a backyard -- unless, of course, the amount of paranoia will stop rising before reaching a level necessary for that.
Later rather than sooner. Like most people who have no experience in this area you underrate the difficulty of the task. But also like most people, you don't let that stop you. No, you still have an uninformed opinion just like everyone else. Saddam never had any nuclear weapons, or a target farther than Iran and Israel.
Really? You don't think he considered the United States a target? Or Great Britain? He certainly hated them enough to try to assasinate George Bush. If he'd have had access to highly accurate ICBMs, or the technology to create them, why use highly INACCURATE SCUD and Frog missiles instead of these accurate SRMs which you continue to mistakenly state that everyone has access to, huh?
I have to admit, the fact that you are completely ignorant of the world arms market but still attempt to debate says something about you...
And the resources available to him in 80's-90's are comparable with what some LA or NY gang leader has.
This is absolutely assinine. Saddam Hussein had access to hundreds of billions of dollars as the leader of Iraq, no NY or LA gangster has that kind of money, not even in the Hollywood movie fantasies.
I have no respect for people who were developing SDI. Neither as engineer, nor as a person that expects at least some honesty in politics. It could not be done, and they never admitted it, replacing thoughts with ideologically-powered bluffing.
So, it can't be done huh? Of course it can be done! All it takes are enough money and enough time (remember your lame ass argument about how everyone could have ICBMs that way?)
Are you even an engineer? I AM one, and I've worked in this field. It CAN be done, and the technology to do it has already been proven. Not only that, every year it gets EASIER to do.
COIL lasers have been used to destroy missiles in terminal phase. THAAD has been tested successfully. Do a web search.. you'll find it.
SDI is certainly not impossible. To say so marks incredible stupidity. Is it possible without spending god-awful amounts of money? Probably not... at least right now, but it will be soon.
No I don't agree at all. Mainly because it's patently false. It wasn't the administration it was some corporation. You want to hold Bill Clinton responsible for the actions of some corporation just like you think he is responsible for zits and cancer and everything else bad in the world.
Wrong. It WAS a corporation, but they had to get permission from the Clinton administration to release the information, which they got. That makes it Slick Willie's responsibility.
I have news for you. They would have bought it from somebody or would have figured it out by now. Every chinese person I know is of above average intelligence and works harder then anybody I know. Plus there is no shortage of European and asian countries perfectly willing to sell the chinese whatever they want and of course Israel has a long history of selling the chinese all kinds of weapons technology.
You DO realize don't you that the only Chinese people you see are the top 1%+ chinese people from China? The only people smart enough to get out. Immigrants are always above average intelligence to those who stay at home (at least when you consider the whole population). Sure the Chinese people here are bright, but don't make the mistake of judging the whole Chinese population by them.
That's not to say of course that China wouldn't have figured it out, but there are secrets and tricks to making successful ICBMs, and it cost the US several hundred BILLION dollars to find them. To give these away for nothing is absolute lunacy.
Despite what you think, I am not a diehard republican, nor do I blame Bill C for all the world's ills. Frankly, I'd vote for him in a heartbeat right now over our fascist bastard George W and his nazi crony Ashcroft. However, Bill's administration did indeed give those secrets away, whether on purpose or accidentally, so they should be the ones held accountable. Even you should agree to that, yes? In an earlier time, giving a potential enemy top secret information would be considered TREASON.... too bad Bill is above the law, just like every US president since Lyndon Banes Johnson, who was so damn crooked they had to screw him into bed at night....
Certainly they would eventually figure it, but even Somalia will eventually figure out how to build a nuclear bomb. That doesn't mean we should give them the knowledge for fun...
Anything that can launch a satellite into space is based on the same technology as ICBM, plus some, therefore any country that launched its satellites on their missiles can use the same technology for ICBMs.
Damn you are optomistic. The Third Riech had the V2 rocket that went into space, but they sure didn't have ICBMs. It's a LOT harder to hit something on the face of the earth with a terminal velocity nuclear warhead than it is to put a payload in orbit. The fact that you don't think it is doesn't make it so. If you need further proof, the fact that NO ONE other than the US and Russia have world spanning ICBMs should be at least circumstantial evidence. Do you have any clue? Huh? What help, buying plastic toys from there? Apparently you are woefully ignorant of current events as well. US defense contractors during the Clinton adminstration provided technical assistance to the Chinese on their satellite program. There is some argument about exactly what was provided, but there is a pretty universal consensus that where China was not previously capable of striking the US with an ICBM, they are now. Last time I have checked, IEEE has a lot of things, however it certainly does not have its own intelligence service. With the state of the former USSR, one hardly needs it. Hell the Russians admit that they have gaps in their radar coverage! That doesn't guarantee that they do, but it is better than your riposte which you just pulled out of your ass.
Radars and satelites are neither required, nor useful for anything related to launching ICBMs. ICBMs are self-contained devices, flying without any communications to the outside world from the moment of launch. Radars and satellites are useful for _detecting_ incoming ICBMs, however due to large size, huge amount of infrared radiation and high speed they are extremely hard not to notice. And since after those missiles are detected it's pretty much pointless to try to intercept them, the only imaginable response is to launch your own ones.
You don't have a clue do you? ICBMs are actually DAMN hard to detect without both a satellite warning system (to track via infrared during boost phase) AND radar (to track during terminal decent). Go ahead, try to see these "easy to detect" warheads without radar in terminal phase.
This is a pretty wild speculation, based on the premise that radars can be "blinded" by nuclear explosions far away from it, and on the idea that information about precise targets is of any value at the moment when missiles are in flight. First is at least dubious, second is false -- once it's known that the missiles are incoming, details don't matter, it's already pointless to chase them or their sources, and response options do not change.
This shows you didn't even read the article. The gaps have nothing to do with any hypothesized EMP strike and everything to do with Russia not having enough money to operate and maintain their radar stations to detect a first strike. Bloody hell.
FWIW, I agree with you about Bushie. I think he's a Nazi in disguise. More and more people I know in the US are starting to agree with me and I doubt he'll win reelection. Heck, I normally vote conservative and I'd rather vote for Hilary Clinton than him. Ashcroft is starting to sound very much like Heinrich Himmler these days (minus the anti-semitism).
But for Christ's sake, don't debate shit you haven't a clue about. I've worked with the people who were developing SDI..... ICBMs are NOT just easy shit to build. If they were, Saddam would have had a stable of them, Pakistan would and so would India. What do they have? They have some short to medium range SSMs... they do not have ICBMs... not even close.
Is no longer worth the paper it is printed on. Everytime the US government finds a "compelling need", it uses that to trump the Constitution.
Anyone who thinks the US Constitution IS worth the paper it is written on is either an idiot or so naive they need to climb out of the baby crib they've been put into.
Missiles are trivial to build, submarines can launch medium-range missiles, and each of those countries have long-range bombers. ICBMs may make starting a nuclear war more convenient, but hardly are crucial to that, and US itself planned all kinds of nuclear war scenarios long before ICBMs existed.
Missles in general may be trivial to build, but I assure you, ICBMs are not. Hence the fact that only the US and the USSR have built ones that are truly capable of hitting anywhere on the planet. The ones China has are barely capable of hitting the US West coast, and they are only capable of doing that thanks to our technological help.
I am not sure where did you read that (Tom Clancy comes to mind as a likely "source"), or how do you think, radars are related to satellites and especially to ICBMs.
I read that Russia has a massive radar/satellite hole in a recent IEEE Spectrum magazine (the magazine of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers), where they were discussing the various times during the cold war where the US almost nuked the USSR out of existence due to various systems errors and vice-versa.
It is generally considered to be a good source. " Currently, Russia is totally blind to a Trident attack from the Atlantic and Pacific, and, for all practical purposes, it is equally blind to a Minuteman or MX attack from the continental United States." http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/pub licfeature/mar00/earl.html#f2
You are right that warning system != ICBM, but my point was that there is only one other country other than the US with ICBMs that really work, and that country could be annihilated by a first strike launched from the Indian Ocean without even seeing the attack in time to do anything about it.
France would have to use aircraft and not even China currently has a delivery system to get a nuclear missile to the East coast (although they can hit the west coast just fine, thank you Mr. Clinton).
Only the former USSR (and maybe Britain) maintains an ICBM delivery system capable of hitting the east coast of the United States. And frankly from what I've read of Russia's ICBM system (i.e. they have a massive radar hole in their southeast perimeter because of dead satellites and no money to operate their equipment), I wouldn't give good odds on their stuff actually working.
Did he get sentenced for speaking freely about where to find info on how to build bombs, or was he sentenced for HAXORing someone else's computer?
If the former, then it is time for all of us to petition the US government to burn the US Constitution, because it is clear that it no longer is being enforced, so they should stop pretending it means anything.
If the latter, then CNN's website is grossly misleading if not outright lying.
Right now, for various reasons, NCAA Football doesn't ship with the actual roster names. Instead of me having to manually enter them for the teams I actually give a rip about, it would be nice to be able to download them.
No, because then you are still subject to their Digital RESTRICTION. Burn them to a normal CD, then rip them back to mp3 or Ogg. That's what I'm gonna do.
MP3 or Ogg Vorbis is preferred. All those closed formats like WMA and ACC suck, and would definately either prevent me from ordering or at least cause me to have second thoughts.
The good thing about iTunes is that you can burn those ACC files to a CD and then make MP3s out of them. But the bad thing is that it takes extra steps and is a PITA.
I'd say, sell your product for ~.$50 song, sell it in MP3 form (highest acceptance) and don't worry TOO much about the liner and stuff. Yeah it would be nice to download that stuff (or get it shipped to you), but it is more of a nice to have than a necessity.
Maybe your best bet is to offer the liner only to those who buy all the songs on the album, or who buy more than half of the songs on any particular album? Probably the best bet would be to have an electronic file in PDF format that you could print out on a color inkjet at home and stick in a jewel case. That way everyone can read it and print it out.
I agree Tennis, but the killer technology in tennis has been the change from wooden racquets to aluminum and magnesium then to carbon-composite racquets.
The new racquets make the game so much easier. Most of the new racquets have a sweet spot that is only slightly smaller than the string bed, not so the old wooden ones, which actually had a SPOT (i.e. was very small).
I still remember my very first graphite racquet. It was actually a ceramic-graphite composite Kniessel Star. Very rare.
Without the material advances that have given us these magic new tennis racquets, tennis would still be pretty lame. We certainly wouldn't be watching Roddick hitting 136mph serves.
As a materials scientist, I will now take a bow...:)
But why should you be limited to this just to feed the RIAA?
Why PURPOSEFULLY LIMIT TECHNOLOGY to protect the monopoly of something as evil as the RIAA?
Heck, even if they WEREN'T evil, why should we limit technology that could give us all so much more?
Just tax everyone on the net, and portion out the money based on which artist gets downloaded most.
Think of the possibilities! No strings! Stream your own station to your friends (and the rest of the world), limited only to your bandwidth! Make content ubiqitous!
Don't limit ourselves just to keep these dinosaurs revenue stream intact.
So if someone is stopped in their plans to rob a bank, or counterfiet money, or buy a president, they should just be told "hey, don't do that again!" and let go? Come on.
Did they actually violate the law? No. I've thought about how to rob a bank before, should I be thrown in jail? I never did it. I never had an intent to do it. But according to you, so what.
So this guy was gonna give his device to 5,000 Mexican customers who probably can't afford your crazy high prices anyway. Given that there is no way Direct TV will get ANY money out of them, $180M is ludicrous.
$180M of "potential" damages is assinine to the point of being criminal. If you needed any other example of how there are two classes in this country (the corps and everyone else), this ices it.
This should get overturned on appeal and someone should bitch-slap the dumbass judge who issued this ruling with a clue-stick.
Basically, they're taking his $12k since it probably cost them about that much to pay their lawyers to go after him.
They probably realized that they were going to do a LOT more damage to their PR (I mean, what does a reasonable person think when confronted with a headline that reads "RIAA sues college students for $97 Billion dollars") than it was worth.
Too bad it is already to late for me. Even though I know they will chalk up my decision to not buy their evil wares to piracy, I haven't bought a CD in two years and I don't plan on buying one ever again.
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Who tried to tell me that making rockets and ICBMs were so easy anyone can do it.
Moron.
You can share with your friends (instead of 60M people) so it's less guilt factor. Plus it is over an RSA encrypted link. The best of all P2P worlds.
http://waste.sourceforge.net/
Ok, maybe he should be tried for treason for accepting campaign money from the PRC that he later gave missile secrets to? Or Gore should if you feel you must insulate your revered Slick Willie from the actions of his subordinates.
Make no mistake. Slick Willie was a corrupt bastard. Money for stays in the Lincoln bedroom ring a bell?
Of course, Bushie is even more corrupt and even more blatant. Halliburton now OWNS Iraq for all effects and purposes.
All politicians are corrupt and evil.
Third Reich certainly did not have rockets, capable of launching satellites, merely reaching high altitude. Big difference. Also they did not have anything being worth delivered by ICBMs -- their nuclear program never was completed. Nazi tried to use small missiles with conventional explosives, however they didn't even bother to provide a matching military strategy for those, dooming them to failure.
The V2 was effectively an intermediate range ballistic missile. It is still a better technology than at least 50% of the world has (i.e. the 3rd world), although with enough money you can buy SCUDs which are slightly better.
Radars and satellites are cheap, and ICBMs are even cheaper -- they are mass-produced devices, with technology developed mostly in 50's, and in part over 60's-90's.
Priced any ICBMs lately? You couldn't be more wrong. You cannot buy ICBMs off of the shelf. If that were the case, N. Korea would have them. Hell, Iraq would have had them. You are using technological logic to debate something that you have no relevant facts about. ICBMs are not transistors. They are not mass produced ICs. You cannot just go by some off the shelf of your local arms dealer.
They are giant heavy pieces of machinery that are DAMNED difficult to make correctly. Hell, even the US, which has the best space industry in the world still loses between 10-30% of their unmanned payload launches due to the complexity of making a rocket that works perfectly.
There is nothing too complex about it, and sooner or later everyone who can't be easily raided by his local version of police, will have one in a backyard -- unless, of course, the amount of paranoia will stop rising before reaching a level necessary for that.
Later rather than sooner. Like most people who have no experience in this area you underrate the difficulty of the task. But also like most people, you don't let that stop you. No, you still have an uninformed opinion just like everyone else.
Saddam never had any nuclear weapons, or a target farther than Iran and Israel.
Really? You don't think he considered the United States a target? Or Great Britain? He certainly hated them enough to try to assasinate George Bush. If he'd have had access to highly accurate ICBMs, or the technology to create them, why use highly INACCURATE SCUD and Frog missiles instead of these accurate SRMs which you continue to mistakenly state that everyone has access to, huh?
I have to admit, the fact that you are completely ignorant of the world arms market but still attempt to debate says something about you...
And the resources available to him in 80's-90's are comparable with what some LA or NY gang leader has.
This is absolutely assinine. Saddam Hussein had access to hundreds of billions of dollars as the leader of Iraq, no NY or LA gangster has that kind of money, not even in the Hollywood movie fantasies.
I have no respect for people who were developing SDI. Neither as engineer, nor as a person that expects at least some honesty in politics. It could not be done, and they never admitted it, replacing thoughts with ideologically-powered bluffing.
So, it can't be done huh? Of course it can be done! All it takes are enough money and enough time (remember your lame ass argument about how everyone could have ICBMs that way?)
Are you even an engineer? I AM one, and I've worked in this field. It CAN be done, and the technology to do it has already been proven. Not only that, every year it gets EASIER to do.
COIL lasers have been used to destroy missiles in terminal phase. THAAD has been tested successfully. Do a web search.. you'll find it.
SDI is certainly not impossible. To say so marks incredible stupidity. Is it possible without spending god-awful amounts of money? Probably not... at least right now, but it will be soon.
No I don't agree at all.
Mainly because it's patently false. It wasn't the administration it was some corporation. You want to hold Bill Clinton responsible for the actions of some corporation just like you think he is responsible for zits and cancer and everything else bad in the world.
Wrong. It WAS a corporation, but they had to get permission from the Clinton administration to release the information, which they got. That makes it Slick Willie's responsibility.
I have news for you. They would have bought it from somebody or would have figured it out by now. Every chinese person I know is of above average intelligence and works harder then anybody I know. Plus there is no shortage of European and asian countries perfectly willing to sell the chinese whatever they want and of course Israel has a long history of selling the chinese all kinds of weapons technology.
You DO realize don't you that the only Chinese people you see are the top 1%+ chinese people from China? The only people smart enough to get out. Immigrants are always above average intelligence to those who stay at home (at least when you consider the whole population). Sure the Chinese people here are bright, but don't make the mistake of judging the whole Chinese population by them.
That's not to say of course that China wouldn't have figured it out, but there are secrets and tricks to making successful ICBMs, and it cost the US several hundred BILLION dollars to find them. To give these away for nothing is absolute lunacy.
Despite what you think, I am not a diehard republican, nor do I blame Bill C for all the world's ills. Frankly, I'd vote for him in a heartbeat right now over our fascist bastard George W and his nazi crony Ashcroft. However, Bill's administration did indeed give those secrets away, whether on purpose or accidentally, so they should be the ones held accountable. Even you should agree to that, yes? In an earlier time, giving a potential enemy top secret information would be considered TREASON.... too bad Bill is above the law, just like every US president since Lyndon Banes Johnson, who was so damn crooked they had to screw him into bed at night....
Certainly they would eventually figure it, but even Somalia will eventually figure out how to build a nuclear bomb. That doesn't mean we should give them the knowledge for fun...
Fool.
Anything that can launch a satellite into space is based on the same technology as ICBM, plus some, therefore any country that launched its satellites on their missiles can use the same technology for ICBMs.
Damn you are optomistic. The Third Riech had the V2 rocket that went into space, but they sure didn't have ICBMs. It's a LOT harder to hit something on the face of the earth with a terminal velocity nuclear warhead than it is to put a payload in orbit. The fact that you don't think it is doesn't make it so. If you need further proof, the fact that NO ONE other than the US and Russia have world spanning ICBMs should be at least circumstantial evidence. Do you have any clue?
Huh? What help, buying plastic toys from there?
Apparently you are woefully ignorant of current events as well. US defense contractors during the Clinton adminstration provided technical assistance to the Chinese on their satellite program. There is some argument about exactly what was provided, but there is a pretty universal consensus that where China was not previously capable of striking the US with an ICBM, they are now.
Last time I have checked, IEEE has a lot of things, however it certainly does not have its own intelligence service.
With the state of the former USSR, one hardly needs it. Hell the Russians admit that they have gaps in their radar coverage! That doesn't guarantee that they do, but it is better than your riposte which you just pulled out of your ass.
Radars and satelites are neither required, nor useful for anything related to launching ICBMs. ICBMs are self-contained devices, flying without any communications to the outside world from the moment of launch. Radars and satellites are useful for _detecting_ incoming ICBMs, however due to large size, huge amount of infrared radiation and high speed they are extremely hard not to notice. And since after those missiles are detected it's pretty much pointless to try to intercept them, the only imaginable response is to launch your own ones.
You don't have a clue do you? ICBMs are actually DAMN hard to detect without both a satellite warning system (to track via infrared during boost phase) AND radar (to track during terminal decent). Go ahead, try to see these "easy to detect" warheads without radar in terminal phase.
This is a pretty wild speculation, based on the premise that radars can be "blinded" by nuclear explosions far away from it, and on the idea that information about precise targets is of any value at the moment when missiles are in flight. First is at least dubious, second is false -- once it's known that the missiles are incoming, details don't matter, it's already pointless to chase them or their sources, and response options do not change.
This shows you didn't even read the article. The gaps have nothing to do with any hypothesized EMP strike and everything to do with Russia not having enough money to operate and maintain their radar stations to detect a first strike. Bloody hell.
FWIW, I agree with you about Bushie. I think he's a Nazi in disguise. More and more people I know in the US are starting to agree with me and I doubt he'll win reelection. Heck, I normally vote conservative and I'd rather vote for Hilary Clinton than him. Ashcroft is starting to sound very much like Heinrich Himmler these days (minus the anti-semitism).
But for Christ's sake, don't debate shit you haven't a clue about. I've worked with the people who were developing SDI..... ICBMs are NOT just easy shit to build. If they were, Saddam would have had a stable of them, Pakistan would and so would India. What do they have? They have some short to medium range SSMs... they do not have ICBMs... not even close.
Is no longer worth the paper it is printed on. Everytime the US government finds a "compelling need", it uses that to trump the Constitution.
Anyone who thinks the US Constitution IS worth the paper it is written on is either an idiot or so naive they need to climb out of the baby crib they've been put into.
Missiles are trivial to build, submarines can launch medium-range missiles, and each of those countries have long-range bombers. ICBMs may make starting a nuclear war more convenient, but hardly are crucial to that, and US itself planned all kinds of nuclear war scenarios long before ICBMs existed.
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Missles in general may be trivial to build, but I assure you, ICBMs are not. Hence the fact that only the US and the USSR have built ones that are truly capable of hitting anywhere on the planet. The ones China has are barely capable of hitting the US West coast, and they are only capable of doing that thanks to our technological help.
I am not sure where did you read that (Tom Clancy comes to mind as a likely "source"), or how do you think, radars are related to satellites and especially to ICBMs.
I read that Russia has a massive radar/satellite hole in a recent IEEE Spectrum magazine (the magazine of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers), where they were discussing the various times during the cold war where the US almost nuked the USSR out of existence due to various systems errors and vice-versa.
It is generally considered to be a good source. " Currently, Russia is totally blind to a Trident attack from the Atlantic and Pacific, and, for all practical purposes, it is equally blind to a Minuteman or MX attack from the continental United States."
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/pu
You are right that warning system != ICBM, but my point was that there is only one other country other than the US with ICBMs that really work, and that country could be annihilated by a first strike launched from the Indian Ocean without even seeing the attack in time to do anything about it.
France would have to use aircraft and not even China currently has a delivery system to get a nuclear missile to the East coast (although they can hit the west coast just fine, thank you Mr. Clinton).
Only the former USSR (and maybe Britain) maintains an ICBM delivery system capable of hitting the east coast of the United States. And frankly from what I've read of Russia's ICBM system (i.e. they have a massive radar hole in their southeast perimeter because of dead satellites and no money to operate their equipment), I wouldn't give good odds on their stuff actually working.
Maybe he meant 1781, the date of the US Constitution....
Rich people don't committ crimes because they buy our representatives who define what crimes are.
America may be the best country in the world, but all that tells me is the world is one FSCKED up place.
Did he get sentenced for speaking freely about where to find info on how to build bombs, or was he sentenced for HAXORing someone else's computer?
If the former, then it is time for all of us to petition the US government to burn the US Constitution, because it is clear that it no longer is being enforced, so they should stop pretending it means anything.
If the latter, then CNN's website is grossly misleading if not outright lying.
Which is it?
Right now, for various reasons, NCAA Football doesn't ship with the actual roster names. Instead of me having to manually enter them for the teams I actually give a rip about, it would be nice to be able to download them.
No, because then you are still subject to their Digital RESTRICTION. Burn them to a normal CD, then rip them back to mp3 or Ogg. That's what I'm gonna do.
MP3 or Ogg Vorbis is preferred. All those closed formats like WMA and ACC suck, and would definately either prevent me from ordering or at least cause me to have second thoughts.
The good thing about iTunes is that you can burn those ACC files to a CD and then make MP3s out of them. But the bad thing is that it takes extra steps and is a PITA.
I'd say, sell your product for ~.$50 song, sell it in MP3 form (highest acceptance) and don't worry TOO much about the liner and stuff. Yeah it would be nice to download that stuff (or get it shipped to you), but it is more of a nice to have than a necessity.
Maybe your best bet is to offer the liner only to those who buy all the songs on the album, or who buy more than half of the songs on any particular album? Probably the best bet would be to have an electronic file in PDF format that you could print out on a color inkjet at home and stick in a jewel case. That way everyone can read it and print it out.
Good luck!
I agree Tennis, but the killer technology in tennis has been the change from wooden racquets to aluminum and magnesium then to carbon-composite racquets.
:)
The new racquets make the game so much easier. Most of the new racquets have a sweet spot that is only slightly smaller than the string bed, not so the old wooden ones, which actually had a SPOT (i.e. was very small).
I still remember my very first graphite racquet. It was actually a ceramic-graphite composite Kniessel Star. Very rare.
Without the material advances that have given us these magic new tennis racquets, tennis would still be pretty lame. We certainly wouldn't be watching Roddick hitting 136mph serves.
As a materials scientist, I will now take a bow...
that Microsoft was evil, this was it.
They ARE evil incarnate.
I hear Bill G. is building a dark tower in Redmond... I think the working code name is Barad-Dur......
But why should you be limited to this just to feed the RIAA?
Why PURPOSEFULLY LIMIT TECHNOLOGY to protect the monopoly of something as evil as the RIAA?
Heck, even if they WEREN'T evil, why should we limit technology that could give us all so much more?
Just tax everyone on the net, and portion out the money based on which artist gets downloaded most.
Think of the possibilities! No strings! Stream your own station to your friends (and the rest of the world), limited only to your bandwidth! Make content ubiqitous!
Don't limit ourselves just to keep these dinosaurs revenue stream intact.
So if someone is stopped in their plans to rob a bank, or counterfiet money, or buy a president, they should just be told "hey, don't do that again!" and let go? Come on.
Did they actually violate the law? No. I've thought about how to rob a bank before, should I be thrown in jail? I never did it. I never had an intent to do it. But according to you, so what.
So this guy was gonna give his device to 5,000 Mexican customers who probably can't afford your crazy high prices anyway. Given that there is no way Direct TV will get ANY money out of them, $180M is ludicrous.
$180M of "potential" damages is assinine to the point of being criminal. If you needed any other example of how there are two classes in this country (the corps and everyone else), this ices it.
This should get overturned on appeal and someone should bitch-slap the dumbass judge who issued this ruling with a clue-stick.
Christ the world is full of fscking MORONS!!!!
Planning to break the law when someone will be injured or killed SHOULD be against the law. I already said that.
However, should I arrest you for "planning to speed"?
I know you are gonna do it. Should I just give you the ticket?
That is the slippery slope down which this goes.
Thought police.
"Planning" to break the law should not be a crime unless someone will be physically injured.
This "potential" damage crap is just ludicrous. I don't give a rat's ass what some employee from one of the Dish companies thinks to the contrary.
Anything else takes us down the path to thought control.
So can I plant bombs in DWI drivers cars?
Driving while intoxicated laws should not be broken!
Moron!
Basically, they're taking his $12k since it probably cost them about that much to pay their lawyers to go after him.
They probably realized that they were going to do a LOT more damage to their PR (I mean, what does a reasonable person think when confronted with a headline that reads "RIAA sues college students for $97 Billion dollars") than it was worth.
Too bad it is already to late for me. Even though I know they will chalk up my decision to not buy their evil wares to piracy, I haven't bought a CD in two years and I don't plan on buying one ever again.
I hope they rot in hell.