I said I had a 16GB player. I didn't pirate anything. I compress at 192 or 256 kbps sometimes VBR, sometimes CBR. So no, that's not less compression. It's a little more on average.
At $.99/track, typical CDs cost $10-15, so I don't have to pick a theory -- they match. How much do you pay for CDs?
Measured how? If you actually had to hire U2 or the Berlin Philharmonic to come over to your house and play for you?
At $.99 per track, I can have on a good sized player, *maybe* $10,000 worth of music, assuming I pay for everything, and compress it more than I'd care to. I have a moderate sized CD collection of a couple hundred CDs and I can't put a majority of it on a 16GB player. I have to pick and choose. I guarantee that I didn't spend even close to $10,000 on all those CDs.
Why do you not just leave it in the car? I never take mine out of the car. (I also have a numeric keypad on the outside of the garage to open the door).
It'd be awfully hard, especially with the relatively high unemployment we have now in the US, to expect everyone who applies for a job to gain access to a full disclosure of all the political positions of the top executives/big boss etc. so that one could "opt out" of employment by companies with whom you disagree politically. And to quit when they find out later.
I dont know what a BFG9000 is (so sue me!) but I do know that the legal definition, for one, of a firearm can vary. For instance, I heard a story on NPR about some guys making Molotov cocktails, and they were charged with illegal possession of a firearm or some such thing. I would not have thought of a Molotov cocktail as a firearm but legally, it can be.
People were watching TV on their phones on the train in Japan two years ago when I was there, but I wasn't aware that people were doing in the US yet (in any significant numbers). Maybe a mini Rip van Winkle. I don't have web or TV on my (non-smart) phone, though it is web-capable.
to download Firefox 3.6. I regularly use both. Just happened to be using Chrome when I came across this story and decided to upgrade Firefox. I used to use Opera a lot. Not sure why I stopped and why I can't stick with one browser. I guess Chrome took Opera's place as the lighter, faster browser for me while I keep using FF for the extensions.
TFS contradicts when it says kids are spending X hours on *the web*. Only 1.5 hrs/day on the computer. Or are kids surfing the web on TVs now? I had thought internet TV use was quite limited. When you consider how much time in school is actual class time, I'm sure this means more TV than classroom time. And if these numbers are averages I hate to imagine the kids at the far end of the curve.
Do, re, mi, Allah-u-akbar! I can see Julie Andrews in a burqa instead of a nun's habit. Colonel von Trapp would be played by Omar Sharif and the family would flee Austria on camels. How the heck did we get here?
I loved the show as a kid, but I recently saw a couple of the remake episodes and they were terrible. Someone who must have never seen the original series must have done it, just trying to cash in on the name. Similar sentiments for The Twilight Zone. Don't get my hopes up like that.
I brought a Leatherman with me two years ago. I didn't realize it was still in my backpack and it went through screening (in Ethiopia, then thru Germany) and I carried it on the plane. I was a bit surprised when I found it long after I got home and realized what had happened. Oh, and in 2006 I carried a small boxcutter onto the plane in my backpack (same deal, forgot it was in there) and went through SFO but they caught it and confiscated it in Hong Kong. Can't be too surprised that a guy got some explosive onto a plane in Nigeria.
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I said I had a 16GB player. I didn't pirate anything. I compress at 192 or 256 kbps sometimes VBR, sometimes CBR. So no, that's not less compression. It's a little more on average.
At $.99/track, typical CDs cost $10-15, so I don't have to pick a theory -- they match. How much do you pay for CDs?
You must be a blast at parties, as they say.
"hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of music"
Measured how? If you actually had to hire U2 or the Berlin Philharmonic to come over to your house and play for you?
At $.99 per track, I can have on a good sized player, *maybe* $10,000 worth of music, assuming I pay for everything, and compress it more than I'd care to. I have a moderate sized CD collection of a couple hundred CDs and I can't put a majority of it on a 16GB player. I have to pick and choose. I guarantee that I didn't spend even close to $10,000 on all those CDs.
Why do you not just leave it in the car? I never take mine out of the car. (I also have a numeric keypad on the outside of the garage to open the door).
More likely, a viola.
I'm not sure how you'd be unaware of the distinct weightless sensation, despite the lack of wind.
It'd be awfully hard, especially with the relatively high unemployment we have now in the US, to expect everyone who applies for a job to gain access to a full disclosure of all the political positions of the top executives/big boss etc. so that one could "opt out" of employment by companies with whom you disagree politically. And to quit when they find out later.
I dont know what a BFG9000 is (so sue me!) but I do know that the legal definition, for one, of a firearm can vary. For instance, I heard a story on NPR about some guys making Molotov cocktails, and they were charged with illegal possession of a firearm or some such thing. I would not have thought of a Molotov cocktail as a firearm but legally, it can be.
People were watching TV on their phones on the train in Japan two years ago when I was there, but I wasn't aware that people were doing in the US yet (in any significant numbers). Maybe a mini Rip van Winkle. I don't have web or TV on my (non-smart) phone, though it is web-capable.
I should have said, "when he was in China, *before* he was famous". Say when he was 17.
So, you suppose Yao Ming was gawked at as much, or less, or more since he's taller, when he was in China?
to download Firefox 3.6. I regularly use both. Just happened to be using Chrome when I came across this story and decided to upgrade Firefox. I used to use Opera a lot. Not sure why I stopped and why I can't stick with one browser. I guess Chrome took Opera's place as the lighter, faster browser for me while I keep using FF for the extensions.
Huh?
Are you saying that GP really meant that people read source and compiled code with equal ease, then? I assume your AB is supposed to be A<B.
Yeah,
don't we often hear how humans and chimpanzees share something like >95% of their DNA?
And where is the jurassicpark tag?
TFS contradicts when it says kids are spending X hours on *the web*. Only 1.5 hrs /day on the computer. Or are kids surfing the web on TVs now? I had thought internet TV use was quite limited.
When you consider how much time in school is actual class time, I'm sure this means more TV than classroom time. And if these numbers are averages I hate to imagine the kids at the far end of the curve.
So, everyone, then?
Who can *read* compiled code more easily than source code?
Minor nitpick: topology != topography
I doubt you're trying to use your cell phone on a doughnut-shaped surface, a Moebius strip or a Klein bottle.
Who's "we"? Robert Oppenheimer, for one, had grave (no pun intended) concerns about what the bomb might do to the atmosphere, IIRC.
Do, re, mi, Allah-u-akbar!
I can see Julie Andrews in a burqa instead of a nun's habit. Colonel von Trapp would be played by Omar Sharif and the family would flee Austria on camels.
How the heck did we get here?
I'm sure it is an inside joke. Does repeating 'fa' or 'fa-so-la...' mean something in Arabic? I don't get it.
It was really the 'bs' that was toxic and it was neutralized by removing the 'b'. Overanalyze silly jokes much?
I loved the show as a kid, but I recently saw a couple of the remake episodes and they were terrible. Someone who must have never seen the original series must have done it, just trying to cash in on the name. Similar sentiments for The Twilight Zone. Don't get my hopes up like that.
I brought a Leatherman with me two years ago. I didn't realize it was still in my backpack and it went through screening (in Ethiopia, then thru Germany) and I carried it on the plane. I was a bit surprised when I found it long after I got home and realized what had happened.
Oh, and in 2006 I carried a small boxcutter onto the plane in my backpack (same deal, forgot it was in there) and went through SFO but they caught it and confiscated it in Hong Kong.
Can't be too surprised that a guy got some explosive onto a plane in Nigeria.
-1, TMI.
Was it called the Globe Skimmer before his discovery? If so, it was quite a prescient name.