Over the course of the last 12 years using Windows based OSes, my mother has installed Windows at least twice and she is still definitely not a power user. I'm sure there are many many other normal users out there that have upgraded Windows or re-installed after some problem or other. There is no way to automatically generalise that installing an OS qualifies someone as a power user.
I did exactly the same. Went and checked out my old high school, passed on the link to a couple of friends and now that we all know it's out there I'm sure it's going to spread quite quickly. The censorship calls merely brought it to everyone's attention, same as the "don't download movies" ads before movies in the cinema just let most people know "hey, you can download movies!"
File sharing enables more acts to be exposed to a larger audience. File sharing is probably hurting radio more than it is artists, as it becomes increasingly difficult to cater to the growing diverse tastes of what used to be their audience. Basically, I pose that file sharing is taking the place of radio to promote artists. Why do I say promote? If you've ever heard an MP3 or other compressed format played at a reasonable or louder volume on quality equipment, you wouldn't be asking.
I think this is a key point. I've virtually stopped listening to radio since I've gotten the various generations of MP3 players. I can listen to the songs I want with no ads. Yes, I miss out on new music that I might like but those two are dealbreakers. I've also bought a lot more music since leaving the radio behind because I can listen to whole albums and see whether they are worth the money or whether they only contain one or two listenable songs.
To the same point, it's video rentals that suffer from my downloading of movies. If I like a movie I will still buy it, because having it on a DVD is much longer lasting than on my hard drive, not to mention all the bonus extras on the DVD. But I will download that movie instead of the "inconvenience" of driving five minutes to the nearest video rentals store to pay for a movie I may or may not like.
Philip Adams does this a fair bit. Periodically one of his columns will be about a friend of his and their charity that needs donations, invention that needs funding, etc. I'm willing to believe he has good intentions but I still feel any donations or funding would be better off going through a more reputable source rather than straight to his friend.
That's not a flawed study. That's a survey investigating the number of Americans _with access to the internet_ have pirated movies. It's fairly obvious that people without internet won't be pirating movies all that frequently.
I definitely agree with hydro in this day and age, the environmental damage of dams tend not to be worth the benefits, but your summary of wind power stations makes me wonder if you've actually visited one or are just repeating the common perception of them? We have one with 20 turbines (the largest in Australia) an hour's drive from my home and every time I've visited there you can only hear a dull swoshing noise that tends to be drowned out by the wind. Comparing this to a coal or other power station and the change is massive. Ugly is debatable as well, but that's more personal aesthetics (I think they are quite an impressive sight).
Then open up WordPad, or better yet Notepad. No learning curve beyond knowing how to type. You don't need page after page of fancy type-setting to write a letter.
The idea you need a lot of back-up power for "when the wind isn't blowing" is a bit misleading. Given that you can spread your wind turbines over an area the size of a country, chances are there'll be wind blowing somewhere.
Wrong on both counts.
1) He was talking about start-ups. Microsoft had competition to begin with, and that's what was being referred to.
2) The iPod and iTunes "market niches" were nowhere near completely unexploited. Both were latecomers to their respective areas. The market niche had digital music players and music stores, but Apple just did them both better.
Projecting that out it looks like they hit seven billion customers some time in the second quarter, some billion more than the population of the earth.
Well, alien lifeforms would explain a lot of the people I interact with on WoW.
> These would take dog fights to a whole new level of excitement!
Great, trying to break up fighting dogs is hard enough on the ground. Just try it when they've got all three dimensions to fight in.
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Over the course of the last 12 years using Windows based OSes, my mother has installed Windows at least twice and she is still definitely not a power user. I'm sure there are many many other normal users out there that have upgraded Windows or re-installed after some problem or other. There is no way to automatically generalise that installing an OS qualifies someone as a power user.
I did exactly the same. Went and checked out my old high school, passed on the link to a couple of friends and now that we all know it's out there I'm sure it's going to spread quite quickly. The censorship calls merely brought it to everyone's attention, same as the "don't download movies" ads before movies in the cinema just let most people know "hey, you can download movies!"
Please please please outlaw MC Hammer?
As horrible as it is it isn't the worst shooting spree, Martin Bryant shot dead 35 in Australia back in 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryant
Because one affects us directly, while the other one is hidden on the other side of the world and through government secrecy.
I should've mentioned that isn't a factor for me - NetFlix doesn't deliver to Australia.
File sharing enables more acts to be exposed to a larger audience. File sharing is probably hurting radio more than it is artists, as it becomes increasingly difficult to cater to the growing diverse tastes of what used to be their audience. Basically, I pose that file sharing is taking the place of radio to promote artists. Why do I say promote? If you've ever heard an MP3 or other compressed format played at a reasonable or louder volume on quality equipment, you wouldn't be asking. I think this is a key point. I've virtually stopped listening to radio since I've gotten the various generations of MP3 players. I can listen to the songs I want with no ads. Yes, I miss out on new music that I might like but those two are dealbreakers. I've also bought a lot more music since leaving the radio behind because I can listen to whole albums and see whether they are worth the money or whether they only contain one or two listenable songs. To the same point, it's video rentals that suffer from my downloading of movies. If I like a movie I will still buy it, because having it on a DVD is much longer lasting than on my hard drive, not to mention all the bonus extras on the DVD. But I will download that movie instead of the "inconvenience" of driving five minutes to the nearest video rentals store to pay for a movie I may or may not like.
Take a screenshot and use it as incontrovertible proof! After all, it works for them...
It shouldn't even be danced.
As a fellow Australian, I think I'm going to stop sleeping with your cat.
Philip Adams does this a fair bit. Periodically one of his columns will be about a friend of his and their charity that needs donations, invention that needs funding, etc. I'm willing to believe he has good intentions but I still feel any donations or funding would be better off going through a more reputable source rather than straight to his friend.
To expand on this, PageRank is Google's algorithm's weighted democracy. GoogleBombing is the equivalent of someone stuffing the ballot box.
That's not a flawed study. That's a survey investigating the number of Americans _with access to the internet_ have pirated movies. It's fairly obvious that people without internet won't be pirating movies all that frequently.
Considering it's present on my one year old Australian Acer, I'd say it's very very ripe for abuse.
I definitely agree with hydro in this day and age, the environmental damage of dams tend not to be worth the benefits, but your summary of wind power stations makes me wonder if you've actually visited one or are just repeating the common perception of them? We have one with 20 turbines (the largest in Australia) an hour's drive from my home and every time I've visited there you can only hear a dull swoshing noise that tends to be drowned out by the wind. Comparing this to a coal or other power station and the change is massive. Ugly is debatable as well, but that's more personal aesthetics (I think they are quite an impressive sight).
More accurately, they'll buy the .xxx version of their .com address and just redirect any traffic back to the .com address.
Then open up WordPad, or better yet Notepad. No learning curve beyond knowing how to type. You don't need page after page of fancy type-setting to write a letter.
The idea you need a lot of back-up power for "when the wind isn't blowing" is a bit misleading. Given that you can spread your wind turbines over an area the size of a country, chances are there'll be wind blowing somewhere.
640 cores should be enough for anyone.
Yeah, a real punishment. "Timmy, if you don't stop pulling your sister's hair I'll count to three and make you read Dickens." Works on my kids.
Wrong on both counts. 1) He was talking about start-ups. Microsoft had competition to begin with, and that's what was being referred to. 2) The iPod and iTunes "market niches" were nowhere near completely unexploited. Both were latecomers to their respective areas. The market niche had digital music players and music stores, but Apple just did them both better.
Now visualise it in a Polish accent and it's even funnier.
Projecting that out it looks like they hit seven billion customers some time in the second quarter, some billion more than the population of the earth. Well, alien lifeforms would explain a lot of the people I interact with on WoW.
> These would take dog fights to a whole new level of excitement! Great, trying to break up fighting dogs is hard enough on the ground. Just try it when they've got all three dimensions to fight in.