I have to believe that a lot of people also use Yahoo as a portal- e.g., Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups, the nifty categories, Yahoo Finance, etc. and they probably have never tried the Google alternative. (People don't like changing their habits; Yahoo Groups, for example, has been around for much longer than Google Groups, and there is no Google Finance.)
Either that, or they figure the whole thing is a series of tubes anyways and no matter where they type their query they'll get to where they need to be.
The consensus among a lot of the architectural and green-building community, as well as a long-term goal of the US Department of Energy, is residential solar. It doesn't take that much roof space to generate enough power for a home, and it is totally viable. The DOE, and their National Renewable Energy Labs have been sponsoring a competition for universities around the country to design, build and compete against each other with 100% solar powered houses. It's called the Solar Decathlon, and it's an incredible event. The last one, in October 2005, drew over, 100,000 people (picture) to the National Mall in Washington, DC.
I'd recommend taking a look. (Full disclosure: I'm on Cornell University's team).
Its amazing the threshold for bullshit some people put up with for computers.
I wonder when someone will use that statement to create a succesful business model. Like, we'll all bitch that people pay such a premium for brand x just because they can't be bothered to run adaware/spybot/giant/norton every day and update it religiously... almost like a mac.
Even if they guaranteed sending replacements if you could prove you owned a broken disc (mailing it in, like a tennis racket's guarantee) would you still be against the law?
You assume that iTunes is free work for those labels. I'm assuming (as I'm sure they are) that iTunes is a different way for customers to buy music, i.e., people who buy a record from iTunes don't buy a CD at Best Buy. Therefore something bought from iTunes doesn't become free profit, but replaces profit they could have had.
Now, I'm sure more people might buy music if it is made more convenient (through iTunes) but by your logic Apple could make the price as low as they needed to barely equal cost and that should be ok with the record labels. Such a situation would inevitably suck up cd sales and lower profits, not increase them marginally.
Holy Jesus Muffin yourself, man. Please, they make 70 cents revenue. Not profit. Revenue. To quote you, doing absolutely no work to get it is completely wrong! The artists, managers, tour expenses, studios, advertisement and a whole bunch of other costs aren't "absolutely no work."
I sympathize with the artists who get fleeced on their contract agreements by the record company, but the labels are businesses and you can't expect them to switch one form of sale to another one in a way they see as less profitable. I'm sure there's a way to make everyone happy and sell cheap songs on the web (by reducing other costs) but this attitude of them being greedy idiots who do nothing is ridiculous. Do NOTHING? Don't you think there'd be more record labels if it took nothing to make that much?
BZZZZT, wrong. C++ was for at LEAST two years. I took it last year and I know it wasn't the first year. And what's this about having more time? I took the alternate, and everyone got the same amount of time for the free response. (Boy, don't I miss coding on PAPER?)
Ah, speaking of AP classes.... today is May 5th, day of the AP Calculus examinations. I just killed the Calc AB test and will take Physics C on Monday. I can easily say that I learned all of my calculus in the first few weeks of physics. (when we needed it, he just taught it)
I'm almost done with high school, and I can happily say that AP Physics was the most rewarding class I've taken in HS.
The concept isn't too new- I imagine most in the older Slashdot crowd have been playing with computers for a long time, but are only now able to understand the long-term effects of it as an educational tool. Another interesting event to watch is that a lot of kids who grew up on the Internet (we're 16-20 or so) are now old enough to contribute. It's interesting to see how differently we think- I personally am 18 and have been on the web for at least six years. I wouldn't DREAM of using a phonebook, or asking for directions when I can mapquest.
The resources we're used to completely change our thought processes. It's funny to watch movies as recently as from the 80's when the hero is stranded somewhere and, wait, why doesn't he just use his cell ph.....oh, yeah!
The idea was we only like certain songs, and don't want to pay for the extra crap the artists wrote because they didn't have enough time on the record. If they start bundling songs together, piracy will rise again.
Censoring free speech, even if in the mass media (i.e., newspaper libel) is very hard on purpose. Not only do the damaged party have to prove that they were damaged, (not too easy) they have to prove that they defamators were MALICIOUS. That means they were mean on purpose! Just bad stuff isn't enough- it's VERY hard to prove against a cautious reporter that they wanted to ruin your company, even if they lied baldly to do so.
My team (Athenian Robotics Collective) won the silicon valley regional last year, when the game was stack attack. (push boxes over a complex course to have more on your side at the end, plus stack boxes, although each is higher than our robot, plus push others off the ramp at the end of the game.) What a trip!
doctors, nurses, hair dressers, and food preparation workers
And telephone sanitizer, marketing executives, middle management.... and we'll send THEM out of here on a spaceship, because the world's (golgafrincham) is gonna get destroyed by an enormous mutant star goat. Yeah. (Or was it a gigantic swarm of twelve-foot piranha bees?)
Well, a car IS an iffier story. One the one hand, it's a privilege with life-destroying potential.
On the other, it's a power not delegated to the states, and could therefore be the citizens'. But it is a public service to keep DUIers off the streets. So now what?
Special Interest Groups are a Good Thing. Read Federalist Papers #10 and 51, where Madison talks about how they ("factions") ensure that laws won't pass unless almost everyone likes them. This is also why we have a bicameral legislature- bureocracy and congressional delay is GOOD, because they believed that government shouldn't meddle in what isn't necessary. And proper.
mm being found guilty of DWI is a life-destroying event. It will cost you at least ten years of your life.
Bull. Shit. In California, a friend (I'm in high school) got caught DWI. It may be that because he wasn't too high (the limit is.000; we're underaged, remember?) he got off well, but regardless, he got a suspended liscence for I think 3 years or so. Nothing else.
So bullshit. DUI laws need to include mandatory jail time, and more than mere DMV trouble for minors.
Oversight? THe Dep. of the Navy needs money, dude! Just set up an anon broker and sell away! Just like the lottery is tax on the stupid, this is tax on the really, really, ridiculously rich people.
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Thanks for posting this- I've actually been wondering for years.
I must have signed up in 1999. I was.... thirteen. Now I'm 26.
Half my life!
I have to believe that a lot of people also use Yahoo as a portal- e.g., Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups, the nifty categories, Yahoo Finance, etc. and they probably have never tried the Google alternative. (People don't like changing their habits; Yahoo Groups, for example, has been around for much longer than Google Groups, and there is no Google Finance.)
Either that, or they figure the whole thing is a series of tubes anyways and no matter where they type their query they'll get to where they need to be.
The consensus among a lot of the architectural and green-building community, as well as a long-term goal of the US Department of Energy, is residential solar. It doesn't take that much roof space to generate enough power for a home, and it is totally viable. The DOE, and their National Renewable Energy Labs have been sponsoring a competition for universities around the country to design, build and compete against each other with 100% solar powered houses. It's called the Solar Decathlon, and it's an incredible event. The last one, in October 2005, drew over, 100,000 people (picture) to the National Mall in Washington, DC.
I'd recommend taking a look. (Full disclosure: I'm on Cornell University's team).
Damn! That's MY social security number!
(substitute SSN for luggage for more laughs)
I wonder when someone will use that statement to create a succesful business model. Like, we'll all bitch that people pay such a premium for brand x just because they can't be bothered to run adaware/spybot/giant/norton every day and update it religiously... almost like a mac.
Magro, of course, meaning "Mexican Attorney General's Rights Online."
I'm with you. If you want someone serious, ask them the question "what's your favortite band" and hire them if they answer "What the hell?"
Even if they guaranteed sending replacements if you could prove you owned a broken disc (mailing it in, like a tennis racket's guarantee) would you still be against the law?
You assume that iTunes is free work for those labels. I'm assuming (as I'm sure they are) that iTunes is a different way for customers to buy music, i.e., people who buy a record from iTunes don't buy a CD at Best Buy. Therefore something bought from iTunes doesn't become free profit, but replaces profit they could have had.
Now, I'm sure more people might buy music if it is made more convenient (through iTunes) but by your logic Apple could make the price as low as they needed to barely equal cost and that should be ok with the record labels. Such a situation would inevitably suck up cd sales and lower profits, not increase them marginally.
I sympathize with the artists who get fleeced on their contract agreements by the record company, but the labels are businesses and you can't expect them to switch one form of sale to another one in a way they see as less profitable. I'm sure there's a way to make everyone happy and sell cheap songs on the web (by reducing other costs) but this attitude of them being greedy idiots who do nothing is ridiculous. Do NOTHING? Don't you think there'd be more record labels if it took nothing to make that much?
BZZZZT, wrong. C++ was for at LEAST two years. I took it last year and I know it wasn't the first year. And what's this about having more time? I took the alternate, and everyone got the same amount of time for the free response. (Boy, don't I miss coding on PAPER?)
I'm almost done with high school, and I can happily say that AP Physics was the most rewarding class I've taken in HS.
No. For as many gallons of gasoline you put into it, you'll get no miles. It's not gas powered!
The resources we're used to completely change our thought processes. It's funny to watch movies as recently as from the 80's when the hero is stranded somewhere and, wait, why doesn't he just use his cell ph.....oh, yeah!
The idea was we only like certain songs, and don't want to pay for the extra crap the artists wrote because they didn't have enough time on the record. If they start bundling songs together, piracy will rise again.
Censoring free speech, even if in the mass media (i.e., newspaper libel) is very hard on purpose. Not only do the damaged party have to prove that they were damaged, (not too easy) they have to prove that they defamators were MALICIOUS. That means they were mean on purpose! Just bad stuff isn't enough- it's VERY hard to prove against a cautious reporter that they wanted to ruin your company, even if they lied baldly to do so.
My team (Athenian Robotics Collective) won the silicon valley regional last year, when the game was stack attack. (push boxes over a complex course to have more on your side at the end, plus stack boxes, although each is higher than our robot, plus push others off the ramp at the end of the game.) What a trip!
And telephone sanitizer, marketing executives, middle management.... and we'll send THEM out of here on a spaceship, because the world's (golgafrincham) is gonna get destroyed by an enormous mutant star goat. Yeah. (Or was it a gigantic swarm of twelve-foot piranha bees?)
-Ben Franklin
It's a liberties issue.
On the other, it's a power not delegated to the states, and could therefore be the citizens'. But it is a public service to keep DUIers off the streets. So now what?
Gaaaah, troll, gaaaah! First of all, Panama is in Central America, technically considered a part of North America. SA is from Colombia down.
Second, the bit about us being under fascist control.... you showed your ignorance. I won't bite.
Special Interest Groups are a Good Thing. Read Federalist Papers #10 and 51, where Madison talks about how they ("factions") ensure that laws won't pass unless almost everyone likes them. This is also why we have a bicameral legislature- bureocracy and congressional delay is GOOD, because they believed that government shouldn't meddle in what isn't necessary. And proper.
If you are driving.... and are tanked.... you deserve whatever the hell you get.
Bull. Shit. In California, a friend (I'm in high school) got caught DWI. It may be that because he wasn't too high (the limit is .000; we're underaged, remember?) he got off well, but regardless, he got a suspended liscence for I think 3 years or so. Nothing else.
So bullshit. DUI laws need to include mandatory jail time, and more than mere DMV trouble for minors.
Talk about fundraising.