Not really, and the figure is likely to get worse. I don't think that they've changed their envelopes to meet USPS requirements. If the USPS starts charging them for having an irregular shape, that would make it even worse.
What we might see is increased selection and a greater interest in stocking it up when they add the streaming only plan.
Depends on your point of view. Given that Firefox is free and that the previous version works perfectly well and that even the latest beta works well, I'm not sure that it's really that big of a deal.
Now, if it were a commercial product or the previous stable release were seriously broken then that would be a problem. As it is, I'm not sure that it's that big of a deal beyond breaking the typical definition of beta.
You mean speculating irresponsibly about it. Firefox 4b9 hasn't had any stability problems on my machine and is pretty fast, especially considering the additional features. Yes, that's only one machine, but I'd be surprised if that wasn't typical.
Even with Firefox 3, a lot of the whining about bloat and memory leaks had already been addressed, true it wasn't as nimble as it used to be, but the memory leaks were largely a feature of the 2.x versions.
Actually, it is their responsibility if they don't want the labor pool to dry up. They're the ones that are pressuring the states for tax breaks, any guesses where that money ultimately comes from?
If they benefit from the education, then they need to pay for it in some fashion. Either through taxes or increased wages.
The GP is correct. I think that if musicians were actually respected and appreciated rather than being pushed like a cheap Kiss whore, that people would be more likely to pay. As it is, they're basically being foisted on the public without any particular concern for talent or quality.
Pop in particular tends to get stuck in the head to the point that people think they like it, whereas they wouldn't have heard it enough to like it had they been choosing the songs on the playlist.
If they don't want to play for free, perhaps they shouldn't be playing for RIAA affiliated labels. I mean it strikes me as nonsensical to work for an employer that's known to use fraudulent accounting practices to refuse to pay up.
I think you're overly optimistic, I think they'll find a way of using this to prove that it's not their fault that they fail at business. And then promptly blame it on pirates.
A wedding isn't really a private performance, it's much more like playing a song at a small club. By your logic it's fine to not pay a licensing fee if the bar is members only.
I'm not personally a fan of the industry, but this is one of their more reasonable requirements. ASCAP has to get money to pay the talent somehow. I do realize that the sharing is somewhat opaque and it's not clear how well the money is divided, but they do have a right to be paid.
Really? I must have missed Bush's enthusiasm for ending DADT on the side of inclusion, comprehensive healthcare reform and banking system overhaul.
The President has been a disappointment in some respects, but those issues alone are pretty substantial and quite different from anything that Bush was willing to do.
Good luck with that. How precisely is anybody supposed to afford to go to college if they're expected to work like that at minimum wage? Around here you have to be making at least $10 an hour to get by, and minimum wage is way below that. Sure people find ways of cutting corners, but it does eventually catch up with them when they haven't got anything saved for retirement.
Age really shouldn't. But, if you hire a developer that's over 40 there's rules about when you can fire them, which is not the case with whippersnappers. Additionally, they often have experience with technologies related to ones that are new. Really not a particularly valid way to make that sort of decision, either one.
As far as degrees go, they've become a sort of proxy for you can sit in your seat and get something done. If you're able to look at code and see what they're doing, that really should take precedence in most cases over a degree.
Because then they can figure out ways of obscuring themselves more effectively. Which is the problem, additionally you frequently run into dome cameras where you're not sure where exactly they're pointed. With practice you can see very quickly, but it's a bit of a risk.
I know you're joking, but they really shouldn't be used on a publicly accessible network. The building I was working at had analog ones which were on their own set up. I'm not sure why it would be such a deal to set up those IP cameras to use their own private network. Which they really should be anyways because if you care about it enough to point a camera at it, then you should care enough about it to not want other network use to affect it.
It's like those idiots that use wireless cameras. They're easily snooped on and susceptible to interference.
It's not really an apt comparison. They do different things. The biggest problem with it is that adrenaline isn't something that lasts very long in the body. It gets released and used over a short period of time and it's deeply related to stress.
Dopamine and serotonin OTOH which are the other ones involved tend to be much more durable and much less prone to spikes than adrenaline is. I also don't think that what people view as a high from adrenaline is so much the adrenaline as the feeling when the stress subsides, which can be a pretty significant effect if it happens suddenly.
It's been a while since I was studying this stuff, but I think that's pretty fair.
It's not just adrenaline, it's serotonin and dopamine as well that you're referring to. Adrenaline just isn't present in the quantities necessary to explain the phenomenon without a little help from its friends.
Adrenaline itself doesn't stay in the bloodstream very long, an adrenaline rush really doesn't last very long at all.
I think that people who visualize things like music and words are likely wired differently than the rest. It'll be interesting to see if this result can be replicated with people who don't get the chills.
Personally, I didn't used to really get work by folks like the Beatles, but as I learned and developed my ear, I got better and better at it.
When I'm really on my game, the words just poor out of me directly from my brain to the paper without me really thinking a whole lot about it.
The Mac vs PC ads were always puzzling. Sure to the people who have already drank of the flavor aid, I'm sure they were compelling. The rest of us wanted to beat the crap out of the Mac and hang out with the PC.
That's why I don't recommend people short. The worst case scenario is a company like APPL which is vastly overpriced, but yet finds a way of growing to fit the market cap. Or where the delusion takes years to bust, in which case you're out a shitload of interest, assuming that the price ever does come down far enough to justify covering on price alone.
If you really think that the price is going to tank, you're much better off going with options. As much as I despise the way they distort the market, they are the way of handling this sort of scenario where you believe the price to be too expensive.
Which was a smart move. Whether or not he thought it was funny, it was the smart way of handling it. He's not going to be able to win a lawsuit anyways, may as well take advantage of the opportunity to appear grounded.
The Dali Lama, while he certainly strikes me as a nice, chill kind of guy, totally wouldn't mind having some people like him in the neighborhood, is a living PR machine on a scale that makes any president look like a piker: "Hey little kid, we've determined, by the traditions handed down through centuries of theocratic feudalism, that you are the reincarnated Lama." "Ok, so, I guess that I get to live in exile and jet-set around making serene and innoffensive to everyone except the Chinese statements about freedom and human dignity and stuff, with somebody else picking up the bill?" "Yeah, pretty much. As long as you aren't a total prick about it, you'll come out smelling like roses."
Obviously you've got no clue as to the culture you're dealing with. The Chinese are a people that are very concerned with saving face, which is why you so often see the government throwing people in prison for saying the sorts of things that the Dali Lama is saying. There's a cultural expectation that the Chinese government is trying to enforce of harmony, even if it means that the people have to do without freedom. The sorts of comments that the Dali Lama has made are not ones that would offend a more balanced regime, but one so concerned with the appearance of harmony it's a serious threat. There's also the concern of social unrest and revolution when the people get tired to being pushed around and revolt.
As opposed to President Obama who was granted a Nobel Peace Prize for being elected President of the US, the Dali Lama actually had to earn his. He's done a remarkable amount of good for it.
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Because they're doing it on a per unit basis. If you read TFS you'd know that. It's in the link for crying out loud.
I wish that were the case. Comcast doesn't do anything dirt cheap.
Not really, and the figure is likely to get worse. I don't think that they've changed their envelopes to meet USPS requirements. If the USPS starts charging them for having an irregular shape, that would make it even worse.
What we might see is increased selection and a greater interest in stocking it up when they add the streaming only plan.
Depends on your point of view. Given that Firefox is free and that the previous version works perfectly well and that even the latest beta works well, I'm not sure that it's really that big of a deal.
Now, if it were a commercial product or the previous stable release were seriously broken then that would be a problem. As it is, I'm not sure that it's that big of a deal beyond breaking the typical definition of beta.
You mean speculating irresponsibly about it. Firefox 4b9 hasn't had any stability problems on my machine and is pretty fast, especially considering the additional features. Yes, that's only one machine, but I'd be surprised if that wasn't typical.
Even with Firefox 3, a lot of the whining about bloat and memory leaks had already been addressed, true it wasn't as nimble as it used to be, but the memory leaks were largely a feature of the 2.x versions.
Actually, it is their responsibility if they don't want the labor pool to dry up. They're the ones that are pressuring the states for tax breaks, any guesses where that money ultimately comes from?
If they benefit from the education, then they need to pay for it in some fashion. Either through taxes or increased wages.
The GP is correct. I think that if musicians were actually respected and appreciated rather than being pushed like a cheap Kiss whore, that people would be more likely to pay. As it is, they're basically being foisted on the public without any particular concern for talent or quality.
Pop in particular tends to get stuck in the head to the point that people think they like it, whereas they wouldn't have heard it enough to like it had they been choosing the songs on the playlist.
If they don't want to play for free, perhaps they shouldn't be playing for RIAA affiliated labels. I mean it strikes me as nonsensical to work for an employer that's known to use fraudulent accounting practices to refuse to pay up.
I think you're overly optimistic, I think they'll find a way of using this to prove that it's not their fault that they fail at business. And then promptly blame it on pirates.
A wedding isn't really a private performance, it's much more like playing a song at a small club. By your logic it's fine to not pay a licensing fee if the bar is members only.
I'm not personally a fan of the industry, but this is one of their more reasonable requirements. ASCAP has to get money to pay the talent somehow. I do realize that the sharing is somewhat opaque and it's not clear how well the money is divided, but they do have a right to be paid.
That's usually accurate, for certain values of "people."
Really? I must have missed Bush's enthusiasm for ending DADT on the side of inclusion, comprehensive healthcare reform and banking system overhaul.
The President has been a disappointment in some respects, but those issues alone are pretty substantial and quite different from anything that Bush was willing to do.
Good luck with that. How precisely is anybody supposed to afford to go to college if they're expected to work like that at minimum wage? Around here you have to be making at least $10 an hour to get by, and minimum wage is way below that. Sure people find ways of cutting corners, but it does eventually catch up with them when they haven't got anything saved for retirement.
Age really shouldn't. But, if you hire a developer that's over 40 there's rules about when you can fire them, which is not the case with whippersnappers. Additionally, they often have experience with technologies related to ones that are new. Really not a particularly valid way to make that sort of decision, either one.
As far as degrees go, they've become a sort of proxy for you can sit in your seat and get something done. If you're able to look at code and see what they're doing, that really should take precedence in most cases over a degree.
Because then they can figure out ways of obscuring themselves more effectively. Which is the problem, additionally you frequently run into dome cameras where you're not sure where exactly they're pointed. With practice you can see very quickly, but it's a bit of a risk.
I know you're joking, but they really shouldn't be used on a publicly accessible network. The building I was working at had analog ones which were on their own set up. I'm not sure why it would be such a deal to set up those IP cameras to use their own private network. Which they really should be anyways because if you care about it enough to point a camera at it, then you should care enough about it to not want other network use to affect it.
It's like those idiots that use wireless cameras. They're easily snooped on and susceptible to interference.
As opposed to the swirlies they're used to?
It's not really an apt comparison. They do different things. The biggest problem with it is that adrenaline isn't something that lasts very long in the body. It gets released and used over a short period of time and it's deeply related to stress.
Dopamine and serotonin OTOH which are the other ones involved tend to be much more durable and much less prone to spikes than adrenaline is. I also don't think that what people view as a high from adrenaline is so much the adrenaline as the feeling when the stress subsides, which can be a pretty significant effect if it happens suddenly.
It's been a while since I was studying this stuff, but I think that's pretty fair.
It's not just adrenaline, it's serotonin and dopamine as well that you're referring to. Adrenaline just isn't present in the quantities necessary to explain the phenomenon without a little help from its friends.
Adrenaline itself doesn't stay in the bloodstream very long, an adrenaline rush really doesn't last very long at all.
I think that people who visualize things like music and words are likely wired differently than the rest. It'll be interesting to see if this result can be replicated with people who don't get the chills.
Personally, I didn't used to really get work by folks like the Beatles, but as I learned and developed my ear, I got better and better at it.
When I'm really on my game, the words just poor out of me directly from my brain to the paper without me really thinking a whole lot about it.
Doesn't matter what they passed, it would have to pass the courts, and it wouldn't. Parody is definitely a legitimate 1st amendment right.
Also, is FSJ even in California?
The Mac vs PC ads were always puzzling. Sure to the people who have already drank of the flavor aid, I'm sure they were compelling. The rest of us wanted to beat the crap out of the Mac and hang out with the PC.
That's why I don't recommend people short. The worst case scenario is a company like APPL which is vastly overpriced, but yet finds a way of growing to fit the market cap. Or where the delusion takes years to bust, in which case you're out a shitload of interest, assuming that the price ever does come down far enough to justify covering on price alone.
If you really think that the price is going to tank, you're much better off going with options. As much as I despise the way they distort the market, they are the way of handling this sort of scenario where you believe the price to be too expensive.
Which was a smart move. Whether or not he thought it was funny, it was the smart way of handling it. He's not going to be able to win a lawsuit anyways, may as well take advantage of the opportunity to appear grounded.
The Dali Lama, while he certainly strikes me as a nice, chill kind of guy, totally wouldn't mind having some people like him in the neighborhood, is a living PR machine on a scale that makes any president look like a piker: "Hey little kid, we've determined, by the traditions handed down through centuries of theocratic feudalism, that you are the reincarnated Lama." "Ok, so, I guess that I get to live in exile and jet-set around making serene and innoffensive to everyone except the Chinese statements about freedom and human dignity and stuff, with somebody else picking up the bill?" "Yeah, pretty much. As long as you aren't a total prick about it, you'll come out smelling like roses."
Obviously you've got no clue as to the culture you're dealing with. The Chinese are a people that are very concerned with saving face, which is why you so often see the government throwing people in prison for saying the sorts of things that the Dali Lama is saying. There's a cultural expectation that the Chinese government is trying to enforce of harmony, even if it means that the people have to do without freedom. The sorts of comments that the Dali Lama has made are not ones that would offend a more balanced regime, but one so concerned with the appearance of harmony it's a serious threat. There's also the concern of social unrest and revolution when the people get tired to being pushed around and revolt.
As opposed to President Obama who was granted a Nobel Peace Prize for being elected President of the US, the Dali Lama actually had to earn his. He's done a remarkable amount of good for it.