the flow of subscribers leaving for Sirius which has not helped. Sirius is now gaining twice as many customers a quarter as XM....
It's bound to continue to happen until XM changes their service drastically. For mass market appeal, Sirius has XM beat because they have lots of channels playing the same stuff that is/was on FM. For niche appeal, Sirius has channels whose names indicate what type of music they play, many of whose format is easy to understand. For everybody, XM needs to get rid of Clear Channel so they don't have to play ads on music channels.
That's not to say that XM is all bad. I had it and don't like it, but it's great for more artistic people. It plays more quantity of obscure and independent music. More channels offer variety, less are simply formatted. Even the channel names are artsy.
However, for total radio market share, Sirius has the better formula.
It would also seem logical to me that they could expand their web service by making it a cheap add on for their current subscribers.
It is free for current subscribers -- whose subscription rate is the same as this new rate. The only benefit this offers is that you don't need to buy a Sirius receiver.
Sorry, I'm not very familiar with the portable media player market. I have a simple flash-based player that I rarely use. That said...why is parent modded flamebait? Apart from his incorrect report of the price (his link prices it at $199), it looks pretty neato. It certainly converges a lot more functions than I thought were in any one device (except maybe a PDA with a built-in camera).
These days, I just make my own home page with forms for all my favorite searches. I extract the HTML from the search page and distill it to the minimum I require. Loads real fast off my hard drive and searches work better when I've tweaked them...
Use the RIAA Radar and only but non-RIAA CDs. This supports the good guys, would piss off the RIAA if it was done n large enough volume, and lets you listen to something other than what the RIAA tells you to hear.
I hear some non-RIAA artists on Sirius -- which is the only source from which RIAA gets any of my money. I no longer acquire (purchase, download, whatever) any RIAA-related music.
I've heard of multiple instances of the band having to pay the RIAA for each CD sold.
This would be interesting if true, but it's slightly hard to believe. No sarcasm about the "slightly", either. Please cite a link.
Considering that they're in business to make money, they can't possibly be aware of the statistical correlation between their profit reports and their piracy studies -- that when p2p sharing was at it's highest, their profits were too. They must not be aware that trading music gets listeners excited about the music and makes them want to buy CDs...else they would encourage it.
I didn't actually believe that grunts had it easier. It was just the implication that an 80 pound load was an insurmountably big problem even with shoulder straps. Thanks for posting appropriate detail.
Roofers carry 80 to 100 pound bundles of shingles up ladders all day in all weather conditions the whole year round. There are no shoulder straps. Most crews have a designated person to do this job who does nothing else. Shoulder straps would be a blessing for shingle-boy. So would rough, rocky or muddy, non-ladder terrain, and a gun (with which to shoot the boss and therefore stop carrying bundles up ladders).
Some modern crews have a mechanical lift to do the hardest part, the vertical portion, for them.
I would find that a true delta configuration would be unlikely as there would be little evolutionary advantage to developing an inherently less stable "wing" configuration for the low speed flying that this creature would be doing.
Sorry, "little evolutionary advantage" doesn't stop something from happening. It has to cause problems before it disappears. If the reptile had the wings but they didn't stop it from competing, then it would survive and pass on the wings to it's offspring.
On 3-1/2" disks, you could take a low-density 720K disk, and make a hole on the other side (drilled, not punched, because you're going through hard plastic), and the computer would then recognize it as a double-density, 1.44MB, floppy.
I seem to remember getting tired of doing all that work, and instead, modified the floppy drive -- or did I just find format software that ignored the thing?
There were no double-sided 3.5" floppies, because they had the little metal slider that would only open one way. I suppose you could take that off and throw it away and use both sides, but I didn't think of that until just now, so never tried it. Anyone ever try doing that?
One of the corners on the end with the sliding thing was cut on an angle, too. Anyway, you don't remember "DS/HD"? Single-sided 3.5 low density disks were some pitiful 320k. Double-sided disks required double-sided drives (every drive I ever saw was DS). No flipping of disk required, there were enough heads to go around.
Your version makes no sense. Who _doesn't_ bleed at least once a month, besides the sterotypical pasty-faced nerd? Actually, even they bleed after their insulin injections, once they get diabetes...
Now, out of this context, if I said: "This person has been bleeding for five days!" you might think such person should get to a hospital post haste...or you might think that black magic is involved.
Your choice to not buy cds is what the RIAA claims as "Lost Revenue due to illegal file sharing" to congress......
I've been running the same circles in my head as you describe there. I've gone cold turkey on both downloading (because of fear) and buying (because I don't want to support them). Now, they're making less money, but they assume it's because of piracy (when, in fact, the more downloading I used to do, the more excited I got and bought more music as a result).
In a recent post I made to another story, I describe some other difficulties with telling the RIAA to fsck off, relating to the idea of giving money directly to artists.
A good strategy for buying music and not supporting the RIAA may be to listen to different music on alternative types of radio (such as satellite); I hear some non-RIAA stuff on Sirius, for example. True, Sirius pays some protection extortion to the Racketeering Influence Association of America, but like another poster said -- I'm not interested in detaching my proboscis to vex my countenance. Anyway, when I hear something I like, I check it out on the RIAA Radar (google for it). Now if I only had some money, I'd buy a few CDs...
Another strategy is to buy used CDs, and sell as many as you buy. I've been considering this strategy. I want to buy some used CDs, but don't want to increase demand for RIAA CDs; meanwhile, I have a large collection of CDs that I no longer listen to. If I sell as many as I buy, I should have no net effect on the market, but still get the music I want. This, of course, is limited to however many CDs I no longer listen to; my current collection of such is large, but production in that category is slow.
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That's not to say that XM is all bad. I had it and don't like it, but it's great for more artistic people. It plays more quantity of obscure and independent music. More channels offer variety, less are simply formatted. Even the channel names are artsy.
However, for total radio market share, Sirius has the better formula.
Sirius began including streaming in it's standard price at the same time as XM did.
I suspect that "Could care less" developed as a sarcastic version. "Yeah, like I could care less?". Etc.
You watch a lot of CSI, don't you?
No, wait, that would be if the reflection was in the guy's retina...
I can't believe all the fatasses that didn't get Comatosis' joke.
Sorry, I'm not very familiar with the portable media player market. I have a simple flash-based player that I rarely use. That said...why is parent modded flamebait? Apart from his incorrect report of the price (his link prices it at $199), it looks pretty neato. It certainly converges a lot more functions than I thought were in any one device (except maybe a PDA with a built-in camera).
These days, I just make my own home page with forms for all my favorite searches. I extract the HTML from the search page and distill it to the minimum I require. Loads real fast off my hard drive and searches work better when I've tweaked them...
Use the RIAA Radar and only but non-RIAA CDs. This supports the good guys, would piss off the RIAA if it was done n large enough volume, and lets you listen to something other than what the RIAA tells you to hear.
I hear some non-RIAA artists on Sirius -- which is the only source from which RIAA gets any of my money. I no longer acquire (purchase, download, whatever) any RIAA-related music.
Considering that they're in business to make money, they can't possibly be aware of the statistical correlation between their profit reports and their piracy studies -- that when p2p sharing was at it's highest, their profits were too. They must not be aware that trading music gets listeners excited about the music and makes them want to buy CDs...else they would encourage it.
Did I pass?
I didn't actually believe that grunts had it easier. It was just the implication that an 80 pound load was an insurmountably big problem even with shoulder straps. Thanks for posting appropriate detail.
Eighty pounds?
Roofers carry 80 to 100 pound bundles of shingles up ladders all day in all weather conditions the whole year round. There are no shoulder straps. Most crews have a designated person to do this job who does nothing else. Shoulder straps would be a blessing for shingle-boy. So would rough, rocky or muddy, non-ladder terrain, and a gun (with which to shoot the boss and therefore stop carrying bundles up ladders).
Some modern crews have a mechanical lift to do the hardest part, the vertical portion, for them.
Nuff said.
Dave, you ignorant slut! It was potato, not tomato.
Obviously, the dog is on fire.
...so I have to.
I, for one, welcome our new giant color-seeing long-distance mosquito overlords.
Your version makes no sense. Who _doesn't_ bleed at least once a month, besides the sterotypical pasty-faced nerd? Actually, even they bleed after their insulin injections, once they get diabetes...
Now, out of this context, if I said:
"This person has been bleeding for five days!"
you might think such person should get to a hospital post haste...or you might think that black magic is involved.
In a recent post I made to another story, I describe some other difficulties with telling the RIAA to fsck off, relating to the idea of giving money directly to artists.
A good strategy for buying music and not supporting the RIAA may be to listen to different music on alternative types of radio (such as satellite); I hear some non-RIAA stuff on Sirius, for example. True, Sirius pays some protection extortion to the Racketeering Influence Association of America, but like another poster said -- I'm not interested in detaching my proboscis to vex my countenance. Anyway, when I hear something I like, I check it out on the RIAA Radar (google for it). Now if I only had some money, I'd buy a few CDs...
Another strategy is to buy used CDs, and sell as many as you buy. I've been considering this strategy. I want to buy some used CDs, but don't want to increase demand for RIAA CDs; meanwhile, I have a large collection of CDs that I no longer listen to. If I sell as many as I buy, I should have no net effect on the market, but still get the music I want. This, of course, is limited to however many CDs I no longer listen to; my current collection of such is large, but production in that category is slow.
Yeah, I like the mod system too...I've just been getting lots of mod points lately, and I don't have as much free time as I used to.