I'm refering to turning left at an intersection with a traffic control signal rather than a side street. However, depending on circumstance, turning off of a main road onto a side street the gas savings would probably still be negligible or even negative, since you must slow down three times to make those three right turns, and drive farther, rather than stopping for a few seconds waiting for traffic to clear. And even then with three turns there is a high probability you'll have to stop at least once anyway.
Um, actually they're not, really. Rather, it seems that we're moving more to your direction. For instance, you fellows have a TV tax, whereas our TV can be free; I use an antenna and pay nothing whatever beyond the cost of the electricity to run the thing. But should I subscribe to cable or satellite, which used to never exist, then I'd have to pay.
But I can listen to the radio for free anywhere; however, if a bar turns a radio on, ASCAP will harrass them for fees.
I actually care about current top 40 stuff. Neither do I. The comment was meant for general consumpsion, not directly to you. As always YMMV
I don't want to search for specific tunes instead of listening to a radio station's choices. Then you don't need iMEEM, unless I'm missing something here. All you have to do in that case is turn on th eradio, no computer needed.
I have a radio that outputs a high-quality signal on a headphone jack. Ten bucks buys you a radio that outputs a higher than MP3 quality signal to a headphone jack.
Cutting up a recording by hand into MP3s is less trouble than extracting from a SWF. Cuttin one up is effortless to the point that arguing which program is more effortless is kind of pointless. Using a program like EAC you just click at the beginning and end of the songs and click a menu item. I'd imagine if the RIAA figured this out it would be a bigger nightmare to them than the P2P bogeyman.
I've since been forced to buy XP, thanks to my daughter's inadvertantly installing Sony's rootkit and my losing the CDs with audio and video drivers, which weren't available for 98 any more.
The question still stands, what will Vista do that XP wpn't, and what annoyance in XP is removed in Vista?
If that superultraawesome indie music appealed to anyone other than holier-than-thou college students with stupid hair who stop listening to a band the moment someone who bathes admits to listening to them,
I'm fifty five years old, have been out of college since 1979, and shower daily (BTW, mods, the parent is flamebait) and I have bought nothing but indie music for the last several years.
then the band would have been signed to a major label.
Only if they were stupid enough to sign away copyright to all their songs which explains, Mr Shill, why your bands' music is so awful - they're all mentally retarded, moreso than my oldest daughter (IQ 65) who listens to your garbage. My youngest (IQ 130) listens to classical, ska, jazz, and punk, none of which your label has anything to do with.
Do music a favor, hurry up and die.
Bad experiment proves nothing
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Can Time Slow Down?
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The subjects knew they weren't dying. The only way that this experiment could work as designed would be to actually kill the subjects.
Time does indeed slow down, just like in the movies. I've experienced it, and you can do all the bedly designed experiments you want to prove that salt is sweet, but it doesn't alter the fact that salt is salty and I know it.
I wrote about the experience at K5 a few years ago, if you want more details.
If you put a bullet in your brain, you will be in intense, searing, unimaginably horrible pain for the rest of your life. Nike's ad agency is full of morons; Just don't do it.
In reality, even the most horrible of bad guys are out after little more of a third of their original sentence.
True, but they aren't 100% free. They are on parole for the rest of their sentence, and have to report to "the man" and don't have the kind of freedom you and I enjoy.
And why just "sex criminals?" Violent people are violent, and prison usually only makes them more so. My latest slashdot journal makes mention of Amy, my beautiful cab-driving roommate, and her violent ex-husband. There's a link to a newspaper article about the asshat leading the Springfield police on a high speed chase through downtown in excess of a hundred miles per hour. What the reporter didn't know (and maybe the police don't either) is that he was on his way to murder his parents when they stopped him; Amy found that out talking to his parents. Her (their) kids live with his parents!
He'd spent five years for trying to kill Amy, and served his whole parole time. He's a very dangerous, violent, sick man you would never in a million years want to meet in a dark alley, yet he's on no list.
Are you an American? The folks who founded this country had the radical idea that "it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to jail one innocent man."
One of them also said "those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither."
In truth, you face very little danger from these people. You're far more likely to be killed by a rich man operating within the law - if you're in construction, your likelihood of dying on the job is very high. If not, the tobacco moguls or fast food moguls will likely kill you with tobacco or trans-fats (trans fats' only reason for existance is prolonging shelf life). Or by an auto manufacturer who would rather save the ten dollars per car it took to keep a Pinto or a Chevy Pickup from exploding when hit in the rear.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, Dorothy.
-mcgrew (note that the linked journal has mention of a woman who had to have her face reconstructed)
In 1979, the US Copyright Office granted a world wide copyright to the late Mr. Adams, who thought he still had plenty of time left. The copyright will not expire until you, too, are long late. The copyright was on a wholly remarkable book based on that radio play.
I never heard of the book. Indeed, nobody outside Islington (at least, nobody important) heard of it, either.
Also unheard of by anybody that matters is another book, called "Whackapedia". In many of the nerdier civilizations in the outer eastern rim of the internet, Whackapedia has already displaced the great Encyclopedia Britannica as the standard repository of all knowlege and wisdom, for though it has many ommissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it's free, and second, it has the words "FOO BAR" in large, friendly letters on its cover.
yes, the manuals and help screens suck, so did your chemistry book.
But in different ways. Manuals and help screens didn't use to suck at all. The chemistry book sucks because it has too much information, while the manuals and help screens suck because they contain little to none.
The manual for DOS 3.1, an OS that fit on a 360k floppy was about an inch and a half think. The manual for XP, an OS that needs a 650 MB CD to hold, is about fifty pages. Thatt SUCKS. I feel like #2 in "the prisoner" and the software vendor is #6.
I never said the Iraq war was about terrorism, I said more Americans died in it than died from terrorism.
The Iraq war was to enrich the oil barons in the White House. A quote from the linked blagh: "George Bush's "election" in 2000 was Osama Bin Laden's wet dream come true"
The government built the highways, it's their responsibility to ensure that the highways THEY built are safe.
And it isn't their role to prevent murder, it's their role to pass laws against murder and enforce those laws. You don't enforce laws proactively. If I kill someone, put me in prison. Otherwise leave me the hell alone.
I'm not Jewish, you silly coward. I haven't heard of rabbis molesting children, but there have been hundreds of accounts of Catholic Priests molesting children reported in the media.\
Bigot, indeed. Whatever. I really don't give a shit what an anonymous coward says, post your name and you might get a bit of respect (but not much if you post something stupid like you just did)
This is the 21st century. There were several terrorist attacks on US soil last century, but they were still completely overshadowed by disease and accident, even by non-terrorist violence.
If you're murdered, it will most likely be at the hands of a relative.
I'm a wierdo, but of course if I wasn't I wouldn't be on slashdot. Nerds aren't exactly "normal" now are we? At any rate, at three bucks per gallon I've been driving in such a manner to minimize my gas useage. It annoys my passengers, while I'm annoyed at the dimwits who race to the next red light, only to be sitting there making me stop at a green light.
I found I wasn't unique, there is actually a name for people like me - "hypermilers". The EPA estimate on my large car (I'm not even a radical hypermiler) is 35 mpg on th ehighway, I can get 36 if I do 50MPH (which REALLY pisses people off, even though I stay in the right lane).
Any way, left turns onto a highway do, indeed, use gas, particularly if there's heavy traffic. But at an intersection, particularly with a left turn arrow, it uses no more gas than a right turn. You have to use as much gas idling to wait for traffic turning right from a side street as you do waiting for traffic turning left on to a side street.
But the seconds of idling don't use much gas at all. What REALLY uses gas is stopping, period. Every time you touch your brake you convert the kinetic energy you spent gas obtaining to heat and throw it away. If you're stopped completely you must overcome inertia, which takes even more energy.
So when I take my foot off the gas when the light ahead turns red, coast to it, and am forced to stop behind your stupid ass at a green light because you zoomed around me racing to the red light, I'm blasting my horn, you rich damned dumbass. Waste your own damned gas but waste mine and I'm pissed.
The difference between stealing music and infringing copyright
If I go to WalMart and shoplift a CD, that's stealing. WalMart no longer has the item; it's gone. If I get caught stealing that $25 CD, I'll be arrested for misdemeanor retail theift, released on my own recognnisance (which I can't spel and don't care to look up) and will have to go to court and pay at most a couple hundred bucks in fines.
If I infringe copyright the copyright holder still has copyright, and still has his music. He hasn't lost anything. If I get caught I'll either pay a $4,000 extortion fee or get hauled to court in a civil suit and pay up to $150,000.
THAT'S the difference between stealing music and copyright infringement.
Copyright has worked well for over 200 years in this country. (The patent system is another story).
I would argue that the patent system works and copyright doesn't, because at least with patents they RUN OUT. You can get generic Paxil, you can manufacture and sell generic Paxil, but you can't share the late John Lee Hooker's music that was recorded before I was born over half century ago.
There is no longer an uproar over the poatent on GIF because it ran out (or is about to).
But that's the current legal framework we have (from GP)
When they start passing respectable laws I'll start respecting the law. My grandpa had a beermaking kit during prohibition, so I assume he had the same attitude I do.
before you start tossing around terms like "MAFIAA" (also from the GP)
Music And Film Industries Association of America. I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that!
why not consider that there will always be groups of artists who want to control their own content (yes again)
Because the disrespectable law says that it isn't their content! The US copyright law says that recorded music is automatically a "work for hire" and belongs not to the artist who created it, but to the label they signed with. If they actually could legally their own content, The Offspring would have posted MP3s of the entire "Conspiracy Of One" CD online as they wished. Pretty fly for a white guy, eh?
I agree that file sharing is a problem
I don't. I continue to maintain that if the indies would go away, the majors would embrace it. If they were so afraid of their music being free they wouldn't allow it to be played on the radio.
still have to pay for my music? No fair. I want it for free because it makes me happy.
No, you have the radio, which has always been free and legal. In the US in the 1970s they passed a law called the "home recording act" that explicitly said that it was LEGAL to tape the radio.
Now we have computers and CD burners but it works the same way. If you live in St Louis you can have seven albums per week this way, uncut and uninterrupted, some of which haven't even been released to retail yet!
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I'm refering to turning left at an intersection with a traffic control signal rather than a side street. However, depending on circumstance, turning off of a main road onto a side street the gas savings would probably still be negligible or even negative, since you must slow down three times to make those three right turns, and drive farther, rather than stopping for a few seconds waiting for traffic to clear. And even then with three turns there is a high probability you'll have to stop at least once anyway.
Um, actually they're not, really. Rather, it seems that we're moving more to your direction. For instance, you fellows have a TV tax, whereas our TV can be free; I use an antenna and pay nothing whatever beyond the cost of the electricity to run the thing. But should I subscribe to cable or satellite, which used to never exist, then I'd have to pay.
But I can listen to the radio for free anywhere; however, if a bar turns a radio on, ASCAP will harrass them for fees.
"Digital AIDS", I like that. Now I have to thnk of what "AIDS" stands for in this context (not, of course, "Anal Intercourse Death Syndrome")
You're assuming (incorrectly) that:
I actually care about current top 40 stuff.
Neither do I. The comment was meant for general consumpsion, not directly to you. As always YMMV
I don't want to search for specific tunes instead of listening to a radio station's choices.
Then you don't need iMEEM, unless I'm missing something here. All you have to do in that case is turn on th eradio, no computer needed.
I have a radio that outputs a high-quality signal on a headphone jack.
Ten bucks buys you a radio that outputs a higher than MP3 quality signal to a headphone jack.
Cutting up a recording by hand into MP3s is less trouble than extracting from a SWF.
Cuttin one up is effortless to the point that arguing which program is more effortless is kind of pointless. Using a program like EAC you just click at the beginning and end of the songs and click a menu item. I'd imagine if the RIAA figured this out it would be a bigger nightmare to them than the P2P bogeyman.
I've since been forced to buy XP, thanks to my daughter's inadvertantly installing Sony's rootkit and my losing the CDs with audio and video drivers, which weren't available for 98 any more.
The question still stands, what will Vista do that XP wpn't, and what annoyance in XP is removed in Vista?
If that superultraawesome indie music appealed to anyone other than holier-than-thou college students with stupid hair who stop listening to a band the moment someone who bathes admits to listening to them,
I'm fifty five years old, have been out of college since 1979, and shower daily (BTW, mods, the parent is flamebait) and I have bought nothing but indie music for the last several years.
then the band would have been signed to a major label.
Only if they were stupid enough to sign away copyright to all their songs which explains, Mr Shill, why your bands' music is so awful - they're all mentally retarded, moreso than my oldest daughter (IQ 65) who listens to your garbage. My youngest (IQ 130) listens to classical, ska, jazz, and punk, none of which your label has anything to do with.
Do music a favor, hurry up and die.
The subjects knew they weren't dying. The only way that this experiment could work as designed would be to actually kill the subjects.
Time does indeed slow down, just like in the movies. I've experienced it, and you can do all the bedly designed experiments you want to prove that salt is sweet, but it doesn't alter the fact that salt is salty and I know it.
I wrote about the experience at K5 a few years ago, if you want more details.
If you put a bullet in your brain, you will be in intense, searing, unimaginably horrible pain for the rest of your life. Nike's ad agency is full of morons; Just don't do it.
-mcgrew
In reality, even the most horrible of bad guys are out after little more of a third of their original sentence.
True, but they aren't 100% free. They are on parole for the rest of their sentence, and have to report to "the man" and don't have the kind of freedom you and I enjoy.
And why just "sex criminals?" Violent people are violent, and prison usually only makes them more so. My latest slashdot journal makes mention of Amy, my beautiful cab-driving roommate, and her violent ex-husband. There's a link to a newspaper article about the asshat leading the Springfield police on a high speed chase through downtown in excess of a hundred miles per hour. What the reporter didn't know (and maybe the police don't either) is that he was on his way to murder his parents when they stopped him; Amy found that out talking to his parents. Her (their) kids live with his parents!
He'd spent five years for trying to kill Amy, and served his whole parole time. He's a very dangerous, violent, sick man you would never in a million years want to meet in a dark alley, yet he's on no list.
Are you an American? The folks who founded this country had the radical idea that "it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to jail one innocent man."
One of them also said "those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither."
In truth, you face very little danger from these people. You're far more likely to be killed by a rich man operating within the law - if you're in construction, your likelihood of dying on the job is very high. If not, the tobacco moguls or fast food moguls will likely kill you with tobacco or trans-fats (trans fats' only reason for existance is prolonging shelf life). Or by an auto manufacturer who would rather save the ten dollars per car it took to keep a Pinto or a Chevy Pickup from exploding when hit in the rear.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, Dorothy.
-mcgrew (note that the linked journal has mention of a woman who had to have her face reconstructed)
Good point, thx
-mcgrew (latest blagh)
WTF? Why in burning hell would anyone help their ex-wife with anything?
As a 55 year old geezer I say "mod that young man 'insightful!'" Now get the hell off my lawn!
-mcgrew
yes, the manuals and help screens suck, so did your chemistry book.
But in different ways. Manuals and help screens didn't use to suck at all. The chemistry book sucks because it has too much information, while the manuals and help screens suck because they contain little to none.
The manual for DOS 3.1, an OS that fit on a 360k floppy was about an inch and a half think. The manual for XP, an OS that needs a 650 MB CD to hold, is about fifty pages. Thatt SUCKS. I feel like #2 in "the prisoner" and the software vendor is #6.
-mcgrew
Irony is what mommy does to make shirties flat
That would be "the know it all". Those of you who think they know everything annoy the hell out of those us who do ;)
-mcgrew
(going for "funny" so I'm sure they'll mod "insightful".
-mcgrew
I never said the Iraq war was about terrorism, I said more Americans died in it than died from terrorism.
The Iraq war was to enrich the oil barons in the White House. A quote from the linked blagh: "George Bush's "election" in 2000 was Osama Bin Laden's wet dream come true"
-mcgrew
The government built the highways, it's their responsibility to ensure that the highways THEY built are safe.
And it isn't their role to prevent murder, it's their role to pass laws against murder and enforce those laws. You don't enforce laws proactively. If I kill someone, put me in prison. Otherwise leave me the hell alone.
I'm not Jewish, you silly coward. I haven't heard of rabbis molesting children, but there have been hundreds of accounts of Catholic Priests molesting children reported in the media.\
Bigot, indeed. Whatever. I really don't give a shit what an anonymous coward says, post your name and you might get a bit of respect (but not much if you post something stupid like you just did)
This is the 21st century. There were several terrorist attacks on US soil last century, but they were still completely overshadowed by disease and accident, even by non-terrorist violence.
If you're murdered, it will most likely be at the hands of a relative.
I'm a wierdo, but of course if I wasn't I wouldn't be on slashdot. Nerds aren't exactly "normal" now are we? At any rate, at three bucks per gallon I've been driving in such a manner to minimize my gas useage. It annoys my passengers, while I'm annoyed at the dimwits who race to the next red light, only to be sitting there making me stop at a green light.
I found I wasn't unique, there is actually a name for people like me - "hypermilers". The EPA estimate on my large car (I'm not even a radical hypermiler) is 35 mpg on th ehighway, I can get 36 if I do 50MPH (which REALLY pisses people off, even though I stay in the right lane).
Any way, left turns onto a highway do, indeed, use gas, particularly if there's heavy traffic. But at an intersection, particularly with a left turn arrow, it uses no more gas than a right turn. You have to use as much gas idling to wait for traffic turning right from a side street as you do waiting for traffic turning left on to a side street.
But the seconds of idling don't use much gas at all. What REALLY uses gas is stopping, period. Every time you touch your brake you convert the kinetic energy you spent gas obtaining to heat and throw it away. If you're stopped completely you must overcome inertia, which takes even more energy.
So when I take my foot off the gas when the light ahead turns red, coast to it, and am forced to stop behind your stupid ass at a green light because you zoomed around me racing to the red light, I'm blasting my horn, you rich damned dumbass. Waste your own damned gas but waste mine and I'm pissed.
-mcgrew
The difference between stealing music and infringing copyright
If I go to WalMart and shoplift a CD, that's stealing. WalMart no longer has the item; it's gone. If I get caught stealing that $25 CD, I'll be arrested for misdemeanor retail theift, released on my own recognnisance (which I can't spel and don't care to look up) and will have to go to court and pay at most a couple hundred bucks in fines.
If I infringe copyright the copyright holder still has copyright, and still has his music. He hasn't lost anything. If I get caught I'll either pay a $4,000 extortion fee or get hauled to court in a civil suit and pay up to $150,000.
THAT'S the difference between stealing music and copyright infringement.
-mcgrew
Copyright has worked well for over 200 years in this country. (The patent system is another story).
I would argue that the patent system works and copyright doesn't, because at least with patents they RUN OUT. You can get generic Paxil, you can manufacture and sell generic Paxil, but you can't share the late John Lee Hooker's music that was recorded before I was born over half century ago.
There is no longer an uproar over the poatent on GIF because it ran out (or is about to).
But that's the current legal framework we have (from GP)
When they start passing respectable laws I'll start respecting the law. My grandpa had a beermaking kit during prohibition, so I assume he had the same attitude I do.
before you start tossing around terms like "MAFIAA" (also from the GP)
Music And Film Industries Association of America. I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that!
why not consider that there will always be groups of artists who want to control their own content (yes again)
Because the disrespectable law says that it isn't their content! The US copyright law says that recorded music is automatically a "work for hire" and belongs not to the artist who created it, but to the label they signed with. If they actually could legally their own content, The Offspring would have posted MP3s of the entire "Conspiracy Of One" CD online as they wished. Pretty fly for a white guy, eh?
I agree that file sharing is a problem
I don't. I continue to maintain that if the indies would go away, the majors would embrace it. If they were so afraid of their music being free they wouldn't allow it to be played on the radio.
-mcgrew
To view music... What the hell does that even mean?
Sheet music maybe?
still have to pay for my music? No fair. I want it for free because it makes me happy.
No, you have the radio, which has always been free and legal. In the US in the 1970s they passed a law called the "home recording act" that explicitly said that it was LEGAL to tape the radio.
Now we have computers and CD burners but it works the same way. If you live in St Louis you can have seven albums per week this way, uncut and uninterrupted, some of which haven't even been released to retail yet!
-mcgrew