i don't personally have that many cds, but i do have a shit ton of records. i love listening to them, but digital music has spoiled me, much as i hate to admit it. it's just so much easier to click on a playlist than to dig thru a crate of lp's or wallets of cds.
the initial ripping would be a monumental task, which i'm not sure is worth it. by the time i get it all ripped, some other storage media'll come along and make my new digital collection obselete.
such is the joy i guess of holding on to all of this, and having it at your/my fingertips.
my point was more about the time it would take to rip them to a convenient format, but yours is well taken, and would apply in that regard as well.
i personally have about 300 of them, stored in big cd wallet book things. it's a pain flipping thru pages and pages of them, even when they're in order. especially after having used the scrolling thru record cover feature of itunes. same sort of aesthetic, but faster and easier.
i seem to recall a friend showing me his laser etched ipod, with some personalized thing on it. he paid more for it, if memory serves. This may have been a 3rd party etching job, tho.
i'd pay less than retail for a mis-etched job. Someone messes up the etching machine, and it's simply a blemish. i think i'd spend more time listening to the thing with it in my pocket than i would listening to it, so i don't care if it comes pre-scratched or misspelled or whatever. i'm sure others would as well.
some friends and i made a video (for a tv productions class) when i was a senior. this was a few years prior to columbine. the director of the video--a junior at the time--was/is a huge tarantino fan. the video we made was basically a re-enactment of several scenes from the movie, including the ear scene. but in our video, i was shown pouring "gasoline" (water) on a friend dressed up like a teacher--cutaway--then "back" to a big flaming couch cushion. turns out, the "teacher" in our video was basically an effigy of a real actual teacher at our school, who the director had had issues with. he dropped enough references in the video to her specifically--thee book she assigned to all of her classes, her room number, if memory serves, the w in her name was changed to an m, etc--that she recognized herself pretty much as soon as the thing aired. this was for a project in the tv class. at first, all the teachers were hailing this as a great video. then she came forward, the history of the student/teacher came to light, and we were all in hot water. threats of not graduating loomed, our parents were called, etc. luckily we were all good students, who had enough in with certain teachers that nothing worse than a letter of apology happened.
i didn't even think about htis until a few years ago. if we had pulled that a few years later, we probably would have faced something worse. none of us had any serious ill will toward this lady at all. it was us just playing around, emulating (on the screen) what we had seen (on the screen.) in our defense, (we tried this actually) i was shown "waking up" at the end of the film. that didn't get us very far...
the epilogue to this, the superintendent was visiting the school a few weeks after the whole thing died down and we all went about our lives, and asked the principal what kind of trouble the kids were getting into at our school. she showed him our video. at the end of it, he said to her "i know that song, (little green bag) it's about pot!" but she was so glad to be done with it all, she laughed it off and told me about it later.
it's too bad there's no real measure of when something is harmless role playing and acting out against boredom/regular teen angst/boundary pushing, and actual serious issues that need to be addressed to avoid vt/columbine/etc.
Your selecting for different genes. Instead of beign faster, stronger, tougher. You get smarter, craftier, less moral, hornier, and better looking. Since these tend to be the features that get you more kids. Although the pressure in those direction would be weaker because you dont' get killed if your below a certain IQ. The pressure is weaker.
sometimes i find myself watching the shorter clips of people crashing bikes, skateboards, shopping carts, etc...and a lot of those tend to be under 20 seconds long. hell if i'm going to watch a 5 second ad for 8 seconds of high school slapstick idiocy...
i've been singing the praises of a solar-panel-as-roadway for several years now. nowhere in print, of course, except i think in several/. posts. this is a step in that direction...
i think that if everything were free, then people wouldn't tend to hoard. a big reason people buy so much crap now is that they're bombarded with ads. not that (most) people see an ad and immediately go into "must-go-buy-consumer-product-655321" mode, but they hear ads, their friends hear ads, they want to be like their friends, etc. sort of a one-ups man ship type thing.
if everything were free, i'm sure we'd see a glut of "gimme gimme gimme" right away, but then it would taper off as people realize they only have enough space for so much.
i found myself in a similar situation in regards to pirated music. when i first got introduced to bit torrent, i went nuts downloading everything i might ever be interested in having the ability to listen to. then i filled up my hard drive. then another. then i was faced with buying more storage, or tapering off my consumption of "free" music/movies/whatever. it started to cost something to store it all.
the other issue is that i don't need to download it all, since it's mostly all available anytime i want it. it's just a matter of finding a source for it.
people won't be in such a rush to get the latest greatest thing once it's all available for free, cos they can get whatever they want, whenever they want. there'd be no false sense of scarcity, etc.
i'm not saying that everything should be free, nor that there wouldn't be a slew of problems inherent in such a system. i'm just saying that i don't think the current consumer mentality would transfer over if all of a sudden every product and service were all of a sudden free. as in beer.
why don't some motivated open software coders get together and build an alternative? instead of waiting for the state of california or elsewhere to get fed up/scammed/ripped off with/by diebold or some other closed source software place, step up and do it.
build it, post it somewhere, have the public beat it to death, and prove itself.
if it's so easy, then bring it.
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i don't personally have that many cds, but i do have a shit ton of records. i love listening to them, but digital music has spoiled me, much as i hate to admit it. it's just so much easier to click on a playlist than to dig thru a crate of lp's or wallets of cds.
the initial ripping would be a monumental task, which i'm not sure is worth it. by the time i get it all ripped, some other storage media'll come along and make my new digital collection obselete. such is the joy i guess of holding on to all of this, and having it at your/my fingertips.
my point was more about the time it would take to rip them to a convenient format, but yours is well taken, and would apply in that regard as well.
i personally have about 300 of them, stored in big cd wallet book things. it's a pain flipping thru pages and pages of them, even when they're in order. especially after having used the scrolling thru record cover feature of itunes. same sort of aesthetic, but faster and easier.
It's honestly not that much less convenient to rip a CD and store it.
100 cds?
500?
1000?
the power has to come from somewhere
roads made from solar panels, maybe?
but what if the table charged not only your phone, but your laptop, gps, mp3 player, portable game system, etc, regardless of make, model?
i seem to recall a friend showing me his laser etched ipod, with some personalized thing on it. he paid more for it, if memory serves. This may have been a 3rd party etching job, tho.
i'd pay less than retail for a mis-etched job. Someone messes up the etching machine, and it's simply a blemish. i think i'd spend more time listening to the thing with it in my pocket than i would listening to it, so i don't care if it comes pre-scratched or misspelled or whatever. i'm sure others would as well.
some friends and i made a video (for a tv productions class) when i was a senior. this was a few years prior to columbine. the director of the video--a junior at the time--was/is a huge tarantino fan. the video we made was basically a re-enactment of several scenes from the movie, including the ear scene. but in our video, i was shown pouring "gasoline" (water) on a friend dressed up like a teacher--cutaway--then "back" to a big flaming couch cushion. turns out, the "teacher" in our video was basically an effigy of a real actual teacher at our school, who the director had had issues with. he dropped enough references in the video to her specifically--thee book she assigned to all of her classes, her room number, if memory serves, the w in her name was changed to an m, etc--that she recognized herself pretty much as soon as the thing aired. this was for a project in the tv class. at first, all the teachers were hailing this as a great video. then she came forward, the history of the student/teacher came to light, and we were all in hot water. threats of not graduating loomed, our parents were called, etc. luckily we were all good students, who had enough in with certain teachers that nothing worse than a letter of apology happened. i didn't even think about htis until a few years ago. if we had pulled that a few years later, we probably would have faced something worse. none of us had any serious ill will toward this lady at all. it was us just playing around, emulating (on the screen) what we had seen (on the screen.) in our defense, (we tried this actually) i was shown "waking up" at the end of the film. that didn't get us very far... the epilogue to this, the superintendent was visiting the school a few weeks after the whole thing died down and we all went about our lives, and asked the principal what kind of trouble the kids were getting into at our school. she showed him our video. at the end of it, he said to her "i know that song, (little green bag) it's about pot!" but she was so glad to be done with it all, she laughed it off and told me about it later. it's too bad there's no real measure of when something is harmless role playing and acting out against boredom/regular teen angst/boundary pushing, and actual serious issues that need to be addressed to avoid vt/columbine/etc.
holy crap. don ho died. why didn't anyone tell me? and it was last week, at that.
you mean like monsanto's terminator seeds?
no worries, the settlement will be in washers.
Your selecting for different genes. Instead of beign faster, stronger, tougher. You get smarter, craftier, less moral, hornier, and better looking. Since these tend to be the features that get you more kids. Although the pressure in those direction would be weaker because you dont' get killed if your below a certain IQ. The pressure is weaker.
Where do the smart genes come in to play again?
sometimes i find myself watching the shorter clips of people crashing bikes, skateboards, shopping carts, etc...and a lot of those tend to be under 20 seconds long. hell if i'm going to watch a 5 second ad for 8 seconds of high school slapstick idiocy...
i've been singing the praises of a solar-panel-as-roadway for several years now. nowhere in print, of course, except i think in several /. posts. this is a step in that direction...
- a pokemon psyduck action figure.
- a letter opener (plastic)
- a desk organizer thing (plastic)
- coffee cups, plastic tumblers, plastic flatware
- plastic picture frame
- a stack of empty CD cases.
- tape dispenser
what else is on your desk?
yeah, but this being slashdot, what do we know about successful penetration?
i think that if everything were free, then people wouldn't tend to hoard. a big reason people buy so much crap now is that they're bombarded with ads. not that (most) people see an ad and immediately go into "must-go-buy-consumer-product-655321" mode, but they hear ads, their friends hear ads, they want to be like their friends, etc. sort of a one-ups man ship type thing.
if everything were free, i'm sure we'd see a glut of "gimme gimme gimme" right away, but then it would taper off as people realize they only have enough space for so much.
i found myself in a similar situation in regards to pirated music. when i first got introduced to bit torrent, i went nuts downloading everything i might ever be interested in having the ability to listen to. then i filled up my hard drive. then another. then i was faced with buying more storage, or tapering off my consumption of "free" music/movies/whatever. it started to cost something to store it all.
the other issue is that i don't need to download it all, since it's mostly all available anytime i want it. it's just a matter of finding a source for it.
people won't be in such a rush to get the latest greatest thing once it's all available for free, cos they can get whatever they want, whenever they want. there'd be no false sense of scarcity, etc.
i'm not saying that everything should be free, nor that there wouldn't be a slew of problems inherent in such a system. i'm just saying that i don't think the current consumer mentality would transfer over if all of a sudden every product and service were all of a sudden free. as in beer.
yeah, ever since EZ died, they went downhill. Cube's done well for himself, tho.
a linux iso, video game you bought,
you must be new here.
why don't some motivated open software coders get together and build an alternative? instead of waiting for the state of california or elsewhere to get fed up/scammed/ripped off with/by diebold or some other closed source software place, step up and do it. build it, post it somewhere, have the public beat it to death, and prove itself. if it's so easy, then bring it.
post it up. i'm sure we could come up with something...
You mean my underage roommate is a terrorist?
when i eat lambchops...oh, wait.
but it was rockets powered by mentos and diet coke.
Well, that doesn't sound very free, then, does it?
free as in speech?
same reason dogs lick their balls.
because they can.