"But our concern is that file-sharers' expenditure on music overall is down, a fact borne out by study after study."
Stop marketing crappy music then. Even the most mindless drones of modern "culture" are beginning to notice that the SPAM (Shit Posing As Music) that they are being bombarded with all sounds exactly the same, no matter how enticing/slutty (depends on your POV, I suppose) the singer is.
I mean there are only so many ways you can refry the three/four-guys-in-a-'punk'-band, or the boy band, or the solo-female-who-struggled-from-nothing-to-stardom, etc recipes before it all starts to taste the same.
The same holds true even in the less popular genres. I work for my university's radio station as the heavy metal director. Even the "smaller" labels are pushing this same pre-formatted "loud rock" now. And the standard rock (not top-40 though) that we play during the day time is so bland that I spend most of my time listening to the jazz/blues station.
...works 8 hours a day, usually in one place....sleeps 8-10 hours a day, again, usually in the same place.
That's 16-18 hours out of a 24 hour day. So, 67-75% of the day is already taken care of. Shit, I bet that I could guess within 15% accuracy where my friends are when they aren't working or sleeping.
Add in drinking and I've only got 2.5% of their time to match.
They should just take one of the standard MMORPG games, take out all of the constructed buildings and everything else and then randomly spread all sorts of basic things (in differing forms so that they aren't immediately recognizable) and then sell it as the newest MMORPG where you simply have to survive - find food, water, shelter, develop societies, etc. If you die, you die, and you can start over, no problem. Use the randomly generated word thing for communicating too. We have enough geeks who are interesting in anthropology and related topics to put in thousands of hours into it. Hell, you employ me for 3 years to play it 8 or 12 hours a day and I'll build you Rome!
I was always deeply offended by the SimCity series' bias towards Llamas. There are few animals more evil and mean-spirited than a llama, and Maxis' emphasis on this animal is suggestive of their cold-hearted capitalist aims!
Arrested when he walked off the plane, the teenager was charged with conspiring to commit an act of terrorism. Authorities stated that communications he sent while on the plane tipped them off. When queried as to what he said, they provided this bit of text.
Dude! This is the BOMB! I am having such a great time ON this PLANE. Me and Susan decided to 'HIDE THE EVIDENCE' IN THE RESTROOM! It was amazing. She BLEW me away. The low pressure got me UP a lot faster. We should be getting into Dallas around 12:45. Peace!
The authorities then noted that the Arabic word "Salaam" means "Peace."
Because it's all theoretical at this point. There is no "observation technique." When quantum particles are "observed" it simply means "interact with the rest of the universe" not "I spy with my little eye/"
Soyuz: ~88 (I think I counted the unmanned as well) - 1 crashed on landing, 1 failed to acheive orbit (all survived), half a dozen failed to dock with targets, 1 nearly killed everyone onboard during landing
Shuttle: 113 - only 2 unsuccessful, both destroyed, all hands lost
that a lot of the "weasel words" on the website are just improper uses of words/grammar.
The "I'm good" in response to "how are you?" is just the fact that people don't realize there is a difference between good and well. "I'm well" means that I am in good health and doing ok. "I'm good" means that I behave properly.
There were several other in that category. With all due respect, I'm thinking that the people who consider them "weasel words" have more of a problem, than the people who use them incorrectly.
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Dune Miniseries - pretty good
Children of Dune Miniseries - sucked ass because they tried to coast of the success of Dune but completely bastardized the next two books in the series
Riverworld movie - sucked ass because it completely bastardized Philip Jose Farmer's amazing series
Mansquito - sucked ass as a complete ripoff of Jeff Goldblum/The Fly
Farscape - oh wait, they killed that and the 2 main characters, and tried to appease us with a movie thing
Stargate: Atlantis - decent, if you were a fan of SG1
Battlestar Galactica - pretty good, unless you were an oddball diehard fan of the original series and couldn't get past the changes
every overgrown animal movie with the exact same formulaic cast - sucks ass by default (though at least the acting was better than starwars 1-3)
B-movies are great. Crappy movies suck, big or low budget. There is a big difference between classics like Evil Dead and the regurgitated this-is-exactly-the-same-as-another-movie-but-with -a-different-monster-and-different-actors crap that they have been making.
I generally only watch SciFi channel when they are showing classics or their Friday night lineup.
Power lines = not bad unless you live 5 feet away from them.
Also, saccharine = ok unless you are a lab rat given the equivalent of a human on a saccharine IV
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The Brits were able to quickly ID who the bombers were because they had been seen on camera.
But cameras can only show so much. What they saw was 4 guys wearing backpacks. How many other folks in London does that describe?
The Cheat is to the limit! Everybody come on fhqwdgads!
This matters how?
Stop marketing crappy music then. Even the most mindless drones of modern "culture" are beginning to notice that the SPAM (Shit Posing As Music) that they are being bombarded with all sounds exactly the same, no matter how enticing/slutty (depends on your POV, I suppose) the singer is.
I mean there are only so many ways you can refry the three/four-guys-in-a-'punk'-band, or the boy band, or the solo-female-who-struggled-from-nothing-to-stardom, etc recipes before it all starts to taste the same.
The same holds true even in the less popular genres. I work for my university's radio station as the heavy metal director. Even the "smaller" labels are pushing this same pre-formatted "loud rock" now. And the standard rock (not top-40 though) that we play during the day time is so bland that I spend most of my time listening to the jazz/blues station.
...works 8 hours a day, usually in one place. ...sleeps 8-10 hours a day, again, usually in the same place.
That's 16-18 hours out of a 24 hour day. So, 67-75% of the day is already taken care of. Shit, I bet that I could guess within 15% accuracy where my friends are when they aren't working or sleeping.
Add in drinking and I've only got 2.5% of their time to match.
Since when was Hillary Dubya's right-hand man? (And yes, I do mean man)
"Or is his just another media-hyped, uptight, over critical whiner?" Yes
They should just take one of the standard MMORPG games, take out all of the constructed buildings and everything else and then randomly spread all sorts of basic things (in differing forms so that they aren't immediately recognizable) and then sell it as the newest MMORPG where you simply have to survive - find food, water, shelter, develop societies, etc. If you die, you die, and you can start over, no problem. Use the randomly generated word thing for communicating too. We have enough geeks who are interesting in anthropology and related topics to put in thousands of hours into it. Hell, you employ me for 3 years to play it 8 or 12 hours a day and I'll build you Rome!
You forgot the part about how their all naked and over 100 years old. God, that version of Macbeth was absolutely disgusting.
By "super-virus" I'm assuming you mean Windows XP? It's funny. Laugh.
I'm going to see a special showing of Bubba Ho-tep as part of a local scifi con.
I was always deeply offended by the SimCity series' bias towards Llamas. There are few animals more evil and mean-spirited than a llama, and Maxis' emphasis on this animal is suggestive of their cold-hearted capitalist aims!
Also, how would you suggest we go about learning about QM without trying things with it?
That's like telling the Wright brothers, "Hey, this flight thing. What do you really know about it? I mean, c'mon, you guys are bicycle makers!"
Nothing was ever gained through not trying things out.
Dude! This is the BOMB! I am having such a great time ON this PLANE. Me and Susan decided to 'HIDE THE EVIDENCE' IN THE RESTROOM! It was amazing. She BLEW me away. The low pressure got me UP a lot faster. We should be getting into Dallas around 12:45. Peace!
The authorities then noted that the Arabic word "Salaam" means "Peace."
Explain to me how gravity works, or stop using it.
Because it's all theoretical at this point. There is no "observation technique." When quantum particles are "observed" it simply means "interact with the rest of the universe" not "I spy with my little eye/"
Solution: get more cats.
Well, lets compare the number of manned spaceflights by Soyuz launches and their results with the same for the space shuttle (via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_spacefl ights_by_program):
Soyuz: ~88 (I think I counted the unmanned as well) - 1 crashed on landing, 1 failed to acheive orbit (all survived), half a dozen failed to dock with targets, 1 nearly killed everyone onboard during landing
Shuttle: 113 - only 2 unsuccessful, both destroyed, all hands lost
The "I'm good" in response to "how are you?" is just the fact that people don't realize there is a difference between good and well. "I'm well" means that I am in good health and doing ok. "I'm good" means that I behave properly.
There were several other in that category. With all due respect, I'm thinking that the people who consider them "weasel words" have more of a problem, than the people who use them incorrectly.
- Dune Miniseries - pretty good
- Children of Dune Miniseries - sucked ass because they tried to coast of the success of Dune but completely bastardized the next two books in the series
- Riverworld movie - sucked ass because it completely bastardized Philip Jose Farmer's amazing series
- Mansquito - sucked ass as a complete ripoff of Jeff Goldblum/The Fly
- Farscape - oh wait, they killed that and the 2 main characters, and tried to appease us with a movie thing
- Stargate: Atlantis - decent, if you were a fan of SG1
- Battlestar Galactica - pretty good, unless you were an oddball diehard fan of the original series and couldn't get past the changes
- every overgrown animal movie with the exact same formulaic cast - sucks ass by default (though at least the acting was better than starwars 1-3)
B-movies are great. Crappy movies suck, big or low budget. There is a big difference between classics like Evil Dead and the regurgitated this-is-exactly-the-same-as-another-movie-but-witI generally only watch SciFi channel when they are showing classics or their Friday night lineup.
Don't you think that it may have been helpful to include that at the beginning? Not all of us have the time to go look it up in time and wired et al.
God, wouldn't it be great for people to walk in your house and come face to face with a carbonite frozen Han Solo?
And they probably have a patent on anniversary gifts too.
Power lines = not bad unless you live 5 feet away from them. Also, saccharine = ok unless you are a lab rat given the equivalent of a human on a saccharine IV
The page talks about the history of detecting the planets and the various methods used.