Well, first of all I use it because it's a more convenient delivery/playing system than torrenting or downloading individually - though as I've said elsewhere in this thread, I've bought some albums on Bandcamp and imported them to Spotify if they've not been available directly.
Artists don't have to go with the record corps these days. If they do it's their own choice. Self publishing your own album, and/or using services like Soundcloud/Bandcamp, is incredibly easy these days. I used to want to help "fight the good fight" for them kind of thing, but if people can't figure out how to do things without the big record corps, it's their own fault for being stupid. Really. Right now I just want to listen to some music.
The record companies are setting the price. They hold an 18% share in Spotify. Still, Spotify is the only legal way for me to listen to music without buying shitloads of even more expensive albums each month. If artists want money from me directly, they need to skip the middle man.
With the advent of the the internet, and convenient social networking, word of mouth is a pretty good way of "promoting talent". Nobody really needs publishers any more, as long as they're good.
I use Spotify because it's very convenient, and legal to boot. I've bought a few songs/albums on Bandcamp even since I started using Spotify though, from seeing songs posted up by friends, or in groups on Facebook.
The "possible" bit likely only applied to "urban sprawl". It definitely didn't apply to "the undermining of agriculture". Unless you think "and possible the undermining of agriculture" is grammatically correct.
You clearly haven't RTFA. It's nothing to do with being a woman. I don't think it was even anything to do with her. She is overreacting a bit though, the guys were just joking around, while actually giving some probably-useful advice in the meantime.
He'd have been better off not saying anything. I'm sure I've read about him being a bigot in the past, but I'd actually forgotten about it. I can understand people not liking things that they feel are too "different", but I can't understand why he'd actively campaign against people who are different from him..
This is like some weird, modified version of the Streissand effect at work.
I imagined the scanners checking against a central server that holds the flight info, rather than having their own local copy of the data. But maybe that would be impractical for some reason. I can also see privacy nuts getting angry at being identifiable via a bar code (as the logical conclusion to all of this "improving convenience" malarky is for each person to have a single token that identifies them across all airlines).
On second thoughts, a bar code is far too easy to replicate and have someone else pay extra charges to transport your luggage.. so an electronic tag would probably be best - but one that you didn't have to reprogram yourself each time you fly.
The app itself would (or, should) know the exact details of the next flight.
Though I think it would be better just to have a barcode assigned to each customer which is then attached to their luggage - then they don't have to fiddle around with the tag every time they go on a flight. Recording flight data into the tag itself seems to be a completely redundant stage.
Hmm. I was being quite serious though. Most people, especially the ignorant ones you allude to, wouldn't give a shit even if you point out the risks. I used to be quite idealistic too, but I no longer take it upon myself to try to save these people from themselves, unless they are posing a direct risk to my employer.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. If you are stupid enough to put something highly monetisable into a cloud service without at least encrypting it, you deserve what you get.. otherwise, yeah, who gives a shit?
Anyway, those types of services are for convenient synchronisation and data access - not for backup of essential data (unless you have a machine somewhere that you only activate every so often and synch as a backup).
Why shouldn't he be glad that nobody got hurt in this accident? Where did he say anything about impeding progress?
Besides, it's completely pointless to do things exactly the same and hope all goes well, rather than spending money to find out what caused the problem. Whether the next payload is satellites or humans, it's a complete waste if the whole thing blows up again..
If it was really a "new paradigm", ie the whole OS was built around it, it would actually be fine. The problem is that Metro feels more like a hacked on 3rd party replacement for the Start Menu, than something that works well with the Windows desktop.
Since our DNA is decided the moment the sperm enters the ovule and the 2 parents' DNA mixes, I guess we're bound to be diverse, right?
Your DNA isn't exactly decided then, because of replication errors/mutations.. I guess the earlier any errors occur, the greater chance that something goes drastically wrong, because then those mutations serve as the template for further replication.
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Well, first of all I use it because it's a more convenient delivery/playing system than torrenting or downloading individually - though as I've said elsewhere in this thread, I've bought some albums on Bandcamp and imported them to Spotify if they've not been available directly.
Artists don't have to go with the record corps these days. If they do it's their own choice. Self publishing your own album, and/or using services like Soundcloud/Bandcamp, is incredibly easy these days. I used to want to help "fight the good fight" for them kind of thing, but if people can't figure out how to do things without the big record corps, it's their own fault for being stupid. Really. Right now I just want to listen to some music.
Except that they didn't tell anyone about it (and in fact it was illegal for them to do so). Edward Snowden leaked info on private court proceedings.
The record companies are setting the price. They hold an 18% share in Spotify. Still, Spotify is the only legal way for me to listen to music without buying shitloads of even more expensive albums each month. If artists want money from me directly, they need to skip the middle man.
With the advent of the the internet, and convenient social networking, word of mouth is a pretty good way of "promoting talent". Nobody really needs publishers any more, as long as they're good.
I use Spotify because it's very convenient, and legal to boot. I've bought a few songs/albums on Bandcamp even since I started using Spotify though, from seeing songs posted up by friends, or in groups on Facebook.
The "possible" bit likely only applied to "urban sprawl". It definitely didn't apply to "the undermining of agriculture". Unless you think "and possible the undermining of agriculture" is grammatically correct.
Yeah. Let's all just give up right now. Especially if nobody is going to know about it. Nice attitude there.
You clearly haven't RTFA. It's nothing to do with being a woman. I don't think it was even anything to do with her. She is overreacting a bit though, the guys were just joking around, while actually giving some probably-useful advice in the meantime.
And we have a winner!
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It's in a dialect of English usually known as Careless Autocorrect
How do you know that security aren't also the feds? :p
This is Slashdot. Please trim the redundant branches from your joke code in future to aid readability:
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if (meme && meme.category == funny_meme)
return funny
else
return not_funny
Nothing satisfies your anti-gay sentiment like stuffing hot cockerel meat into your mouth.
He'd have been better off not saying anything. I'm sure I've read about him being a bigot in the past, but I'd actually forgotten about it. I can understand people not liking things that they feel are too "different", but I can't understand why he'd actively campaign against people who are different from him..
This is like some weird, modified version of the Streissand effect at work.
Sometimes it's not about lasting longer. At least, that's what she said.
I imagined the scanners checking against a central server that holds the flight info, rather than having their own local copy of the data. But maybe that would be impractical for some reason. I can also see privacy nuts getting angry at being identifiable via a bar code (as the logical conclusion to all of this "improving convenience" malarky is for each person to have a single token that identifies them across all airlines).
On second thoughts, a bar code is far too easy to replicate and have someone else pay extra charges to transport your luggage.. so an electronic tag would probably be best - but one that you didn't have to reprogram yourself each time you fly.
The app itself would (or, should) know the exact details of the next flight.
Though I think it would be better just to have a barcode assigned to each customer which is then attached to their luggage - then they don't have to fiddle around with the tag every time they go on a flight. Recording flight data into the tag itself seems to be a completely redundant stage.
Hmm. I was being quite serious though. Most people, especially the ignorant ones you allude to, wouldn't give a shit even if you point out the risks. I used to be quite idealistic too, but I no longer take it upon myself to try to save these people from themselves, unless they are posing a direct risk to my employer.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. If you are stupid enough to put something highly monetisable into a cloud service without at least encrypting it, you deserve what you get.. otherwise, yeah, who gives a shit?
Anyway, those types of services are for convenient synchronisation and data access - not for backup of essential data (unless you have a machine somewhere that you only activate every so often and synch as a backup).
Why?
Why shouldn't he be glad that nobody got hurt in this accident? Where did he say anything about impeding progress?
Besides, it's completely pointless to do things exactly the same and hope all goes well, rather than spending money to find out what caused the problem. Whether the next payload is satellites or humans, it's a complete waste if the whole thing blows up again..
If it was really a "new paradigm", ie the whole OS was built around it, it would actually be fine. The problem is that Metro feels more like a hacked on 3rd party replacement for the Start Menu, than something that works well with the Windows desktop.
Since our DNA is decided the moment the sperm enters the ovule and the 2 parents' DNA mixes, I guess we're bound to be diverse, right?
Your DNA isn't exactly decided then, because of replication errors/mutations.. I guess the earlier any errors occur, the greater chance that something goes drastically wrong, because then those mutations serve as the template for further replication.
All variance is caused by "malfunction" in the genetic process.
That doesn't say "all sex partners", it says any partners that she's had a baby with. Which is quite an important distinction..
Sounds like you're lucky enough not to have met any hipsters