Or, if they want to price the channels competitively, I'd be willing to work with that, too. I'll pay $4 per month for ESPN if it's so expensive, but I'm going to pick it up each August and drop it each January so I can just get college football. At $1/month for ESPN I wouldn't bother.
so you'd pay $24 for 5 months of ESPN, but wouldn't pay $12 for a year of it?
I become my own filtering machine. The garbage gets deleted (something else the record industry has no way of tracking), the good stuff gets saved.
interesting point. how much of the music/media that's downloaded is actually consumed? or listened to/watched once and then deleted? or the pirate tried listening and found it horrible enough to delete on its own merit? would be an interesting set of numbers, to be sure.
bottom line, tho, i don't think any of that matters to the **aa, since they just wanna get paid. i don't think they really care about who watches what how many times, other than possibly getting more money out of the consumers in a per-listen sort of scheme.
i'm all about free art as much as the next/.er. the problem arises when the people making those fancy tools that allow artists and musicians to create/distribute their artwork stop getting paid. what happens when photoshop, illustrator, audition, et al, are free, and the developers stop making money? those tools stop developing at the same pace, and the artists have to either stagnate, or innovate themselves.
...we'll end up living in huts made of logs and sod, driving pushcarts full of firewood, and eating soybeans. Seriously, doesn't 'trade' mean an 'exchange' of goods and services? Obviously, the exchange is not happening, just a transfer of currency.
and that's why i'm getting used to eating tofu now, so that i won't have to later...
i don't think it's so much a random coincidence. advertising companies pay a lot of money to study what works and what doesn't. the commercial breaks are timed to maximize the value of the consumer's eyes and attention spans.
take a look at two or three different local news stations' evening news. hell, even a lot of the national news shows would probably work. make an effort to catch as much as you can from all three newscasts at the same time. ideally, you'd have three monitors with a different station on each. they all have the same stories, in the same order, for the same lengths of time. the commercials will most likely be pretty damn close to each other sprinkled throughout the broadcast.
i think it has more to do with all the networks/ad scheduling peeps having access to the same data that says a commercial break will be most effective at 17 minutes past the hour, etc.
...but this being slashdot, I rarely rtfa's. Are all of arstechnica's articles well laid out like that? I'm used to some other websites whose articles are 3 paragraphs spread out over 17 pages or the like. I got to the end of this one, expecting more article. Turns out it was the end of the thing.
The Wright Brothers also had lots of things to pull from that already flew. Birds, insects, etc. Hell, even those seeds that fall like little helicopter blades have natural wing shaped leaves to help them slow down/disperse away from the tree from which they could have gotten data.
There aren't any naturally occurring animals or phenomena from which to figure out space travel/launch/re-rentry. I'm not saying the safety record is stellar (yukyuk), but getting off the ground is a little less complex than getting off the planet (and back).
From "To catch a predator: Mars edition", to air sometime in the next 15 years:
Chris Hansen:Who are you here to see?
Astronaut:Um...Stephanie?
Chris Hansen:And how old is Stephanie?
Astronaut:She told me she was 18.
Chris Hansen:I've got the chat transcripts; wanna try again?
Astronaut:Oh, you do. She said she was 12.
Chris Hansen:And how far did you come to meet "Stephanie" this evening?
Astronaut:Somewhere between 36 million and 250 million miles.
Chris Hansen:...
TFA said they used Mars time during the 24-hour sunlight, they simply covered their windows from 8am to 8pm. If they used Mars time continuously sunset/sunrise would slowly shift around and would probably really mess up their circadian rhythm.
So they could cover the windows to simulate nighttime, despite the sun shining, why couldn't they blast lights at the windows to simulate the day, even if it's dark outside. This seems like a rather trivial exercise to simulate the Mars day/night cycle. Am I missing something?
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i speek bork, yuoo insenseetife-a clud!
Or, if they want to price the channels competitively, I'd be willing to work with that, too. I'll pay $4 per month for ESPN if it's so expensive, but I'm going to pick it up each August and drop it each January so I can just get college football. At $1/month for ESPN I wouldn't bother.
so you'd pay $24 for 5 months of ESPN, but wouldn't pay $12 for a year of it?
More so: nobody here honestly cares whether the US goes fascist.
Fixed that for you.
I become my own filtering machine. The garbage gets deleted (something else the record industry has no way of tracking), the good stuff gets saved.
interesting point. how much of the music/media that's downloaded is actually consumed? or listened to/watched once and then deleted? or the pirate tried listening and found it horrible enough to delete on its own merit? would be an interesting set of numbers, to be sure.
bottom line, tho, i don't think any of that matters to the **aa, since they just wanna get paid. i don't think they really care about who watches what how many times, other than possibly getting more money out of the consumers in a per-listen sort of scheme.
took me a second, but MOD PARENT FUNNY.
or insightful, it's your choice.
i'm all about free art as much as the next /.er. the problem arises when the people making those fancy tools that allow artists and musicians to create/distribute their artwork stop getting paid. what happens when photoshop, illustrator, audition, et al, are free, and the developers stop making money? those tools stop developing at the same pace, and the artists have to either stagnate, or innovate themselves.
would be interesting, no less.
Yar's revenge would be sweet on that thing.
...we'll end up living in huts made of logs and sod, driving pushcarts full of firewood, and eating soybeans. Seriously, doesn't 'trade' mean an 'exchange' of goods and services? Obviously, the exchange is not happening, just a transfer of currency.
and that's why i'm getting used to eating tofu now, so that i won't have to later...
i don't think it's so much a random coincidence. advertising companies pay a lot of money to study what works and what doesn't. the commercial breaks are timed to maximize the value of the consumer's eyes and attention spans.
take a look at two or three different local news stations' evening news. hell, even a lot of the national news shows would probably work. make an effort to catch as much as you can from all three newscasts at the same time. ideally, you'd have three monitors with a different station on each. they all have the same stories, in the same order, for the same lengths of time. the commercials will most likely be pretty damn close to each other sprinkled throughout the broadcast.
i think it has more to do with all the networks/ad scheduling peeps having access to the same data that says a commercial break will be most effective at 17 minutes past the hour, etc.
...but this being slashdot, I rarely rtfa's. Are all of arstechnica's articles well laid out like that? I'm used to some other websites whose articles are 3 paragraphs spread out over 17 pages or the like. I got to the end of this one, expecting more article. Turns out it was the end of the thing.
Kudos to them, I say.
The Wright Brothers also had lots of things to pull from that already flew. Birds, insects, etc. Hell, even those seeds that fall like little helicopter blades have natural wing shaped leaves to help them slow down/disperse away from the tree from which they could have gotten data.
There aren't any naturally occurring animals or phenomena from which to figure out space travel/launch/re-rentry. I'm not saying the safety record is stellar (yukyuk), but getting off the ground is a little less complex than getting off the planet (and back).
From "To catch a predator: Mars edition", to air sometime in the next 15 years:
Chris Hansen:Who are you here to see?
Astronaut:Um...Stephanie?
Chris Hansen:And how old is Stephanie?
Astronaut:She told me she was 18.
Chris Hansen:I've got the chat transcripts; wanna try again?
Astronaut:Oh, you do. She said she was 12.
Chris Hansen:And how far did you come to meet "Stephanie" this evening?
Astronaut:Somewhere between 36 million and 250 million miles.
Chris Hansen:...
TFA said they used Mars time during the 24-hour sunlight, they simply covered their windows from 8am to 8pm. If they used Mars time continuously sunset/sunrise would slowly shift around and would probably really mess up their circadian rhythm.
So they could cover the windows to simulate nighttime, despite the sun shining, why couldn't they blast lights at the windows to simulate the day, even if it's dark outside. This seems like a rather trivial exercise to simulate the Mars day/night cycle. Am I missing something?
Maybe I should just spend this time inciting violence form the grammar nazis?
You're on the right track...
we've always been at war with ______.
_______ on the other hand, has always been our ally.
and look forward to their snappy brown uniforms and leather boots.
That's UPS, not DHL.
Oh, wait...
I thought Tab only caused cancer in lab animals in California... And don't even get me started on the pastrami.
My dad always said - Follow the money and you will find the truth.
deep throat was your dad?
to tell the truthiness, the whole truthiness, and nothing but the truthiness.
CD changing robots.
why not just have the robots play the music in the first place?
Charge vegetarians less?
mod parent UP!!!
gah...avoid. AVOiD. i'd want to avoid eating live polar bear.
current diet aside, i think i'd also want to "eating live polar bear".
i think it has been done before.
"David, computers don't call people."