On 04/09/2010 08:29, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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And OMG, you've never bought a cell phone? Why are you punishing yourself
;) I suppose with the attitude you have towards them it would
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
I was avoiding stating my own Metallica opinions, but now that you mention
it, that's exactly how I feel (and yea, I have heard a lot of other people
say Load was the start of a downfall). I did kind of like Until it Sleeps
and maybe one other (forget what), but
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:31:05 -0400, Sean Kelly s...@invisibleduck.org
wrote:
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
I was avoiding stating my own Metallica opinions, but now that you
mention
it, that's exactly how I feel (and yea, I have heard a lot of other
people
say Load was the start of a
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Dave Mustaine left Metallica before they'd ever released an album, I
believe. He had a strong influence on their early sound though, and I
believe he actually wrote a bunch of their early songs.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:46:13 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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wrote:
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
I was avoiding stating my own Metallica opinions, but now that you
mention
it, that's exactly how I feel (and yea, I have heard
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
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Dave Mustaine left Metallica before they'd ever released an album, I
believe. He had a strong influence on their early sound though, and I
believe he actually wrote a
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:25:51 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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I always get the old versions of CDs before they were remastered :-) as
I don't care for the audio leveling.
I've always been unclear on
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I must be young. My first CD player was a $200 (IIRC) Sega CD (Mega CD for
those outside the states and Canada).
I also remember paying $600 for 64K (that's K, not M) of memory. It was worth
every penny at the time, too!
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I must be young. My first CD player was a $200 (IIRC) Sega CD (Mega CD
for those outside the states and Canada).
I also remember paying $600 for 64K (that's K, not M) of
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Weird. 'Nothing else matters' is such a depressing-sounding song, I still
can't imagine any grandmothers liking it. (But then who am I to talk? My
granda's in her 80's,
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Secondly, people ought to read contracts before they sign them. It's
their own fault if they don't.
Until recent
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:10:00 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Marketing
And here's why I shoot for the old ones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cd_loudness_trend-something.gif
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:12:37 -0400, Walter Bright
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Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:05:45 -0400, Nick Sabalausky a...@a.a wrote:
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In introducing such subtle distortion, Metallica runs the risk of being
labeled a band with lousy sound.
IIRC, A lot of
Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:12:37 -0400, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the
retard schrieb:
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:55:46 +0200, Daniel Gibson wrote:
retard schrieb:
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:15:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium
75. The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I
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wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:12:37 -0400, Walter Bright
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Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright
Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
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Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL
Hello retard,
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:17:33 +, BCS wrote:
I've never owned a CD player that wasn't a CD-ROM drive. I've never
come across a disk I couldn't play.
You must be young then.
Nope, just cheap. The first CD-ROM drive I got was after high school.
--
... IXOYE
Hello Nick,
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retard wrote:
I doubt they have any power to fight the record company in these
kinds of issues. A friend of a friend signed a deal with a record
company owned by a multinational
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article
On 09/09/2010 03:40 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Broadcast DTV is shit. I
honestly can't believe anyone was ever stupid enough to buy into the DTV
will give you more channels at better quality bullshit. I mean
On 09/09/2010 03:40 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Broadcast DTV is shit. I
honestly can't believe anyone was ever stupid enough to buy into the DTV
will give you more channels at better quality bullshit. I mean seriously:
you get interference on an analog signal and you get a little static
overlaid
On 9/9/10 12:19 CDT, dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article
On 09/09/2010 03:40 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Broadcast DTV is shit. I
honestly can't believe anyone was ever stupid enough to buy into the DTV
will give you more channels at better
BCS schrieb:
Hello Nick,
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retard wrote:
I doubt they have any power to fight the record company in these
kinds of issues. A friend of a friend signed a deal with a record
company owned by a
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Hello Nick,
I've always been unclear on what that is. Is that where they make the
volume-level relatively consistent? (If so, then I wish the DVD
companies would start doing it. I hate when I have to
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In introducing such
Nick Sabalausky schrieb:
Speaking of all this, am I correct in my understanding that Load was right
after Megadeth split off? (And that black album was right before?)
No, Megadeth was found in 1983 - Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica
before they recorded their first album.
(Don't like
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:23:25 -0400, domino eff...@sitemine.org wrote:
Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard movie/audio
CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection.
CDs are not copy protected.
False.
I have 10--20 discs
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of
anti-copy distortion. You can actually see a pattern on the data side
of the disc. The result when you encode it via MP3 is some slight
distortion, even at 160kb/s. It's pretty bearable though. I
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:58:39 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of
anti-copy distortion. You can actually see a pattern on the data side
of the disc. The result when you encode it via MP3 is some slight
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:17:33 +, BCS wrote:
Hello domino,
Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard
movie/audio CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection.
CDs are not copy protected.
False.
I have 10--20 discs with
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of
anti-copy distortion. You can actually see a pattern on the data side
of the disc. The result when you encode
retard wrote:
You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium 75.
The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I think one
used to cost around $600..800.
Eh, my first CD-ROM drive was $1100 or so.
Before 1994 I only had a CD walkman and a moderately cheap
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:15:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium 75.
The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I think one
used to cost around $600..800.
Eh, my first CD-ROM drive was $1100 or so.
Was
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:12:37 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:58:39 -0400, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of
anti-copy distortion. You can
retard wrote:
I doubt they have any power to fight the record company in these kinds of
issues. A friend of a friend signed a deal with a record company owned by
a multinational mother record company. Now they are told where to play
concerts, how the cd distribution is organized, and when they
retard schrieb:
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:15:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium 75.
The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I think one
used to cost around $600..800.
Eh, my first CD-ROM drive was
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Hello Nick,
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Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard
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retard wrote:
You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium 75.
The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I think one
used to cost around $600..800.
Eh,
On 9/8/2010 11:15 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Contracts with children aren't legally binding because children are not
considered legally competent.
I may have to find some new minions.
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Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:58:39 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
FWIW, Metallica's Garage Inc (the second disc) has some sort of
anti-copy distortion. You can actually see a pattern on the
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Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:12:37 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
In introducing such subtle distortion, Metallica runs the risk of being
labeled a band with lousy sound.
I doubt they have any power to fight the record
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:55:46 +0200, Daniel Gibson wrote:
retard schrieb:
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:15:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium
75. The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I
think one used to
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Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already
too small if
Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:55 +, BCS wrote:
Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already too
small if you ask me, although I still put up with it
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Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
Ugh, don't even get me started on
the retarded superretard script kid Wrote:
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:55 +, BCS wrote:
Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already too
BCS wrote:
People want a phone that has a key board from the get go. How many
people actually want to /add/ one to the phone they have?
I like being able now and then to attach a full size keyboard.
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard movie/audio
CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection.
CDs are not copy protected.
I'm running around .5 TB these days, and none of it is DRM'd material. (Family
movies eat up space like you wouldn't believe,
Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard movie/audio
CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection.
CDs are not copy protected.
False.
I have 10--20 discs with cactus data protection. Two with sony bmg rootkit
protection
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Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard movie/audio
CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection.
CDs are not copy protected.
False.
I have
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
The vast majority of CDs don't have that. I have approx 250 commercial audio
CDs, and not a single one of them has any DRM. And if I did want something
that only came on a DRMed CD, I'd just say Fuck you Sony and pirate it.
I have around 400 CDs, and also exactly zero
Hello domino,
Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard
movie/audio CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection.
CDs are not copy protected.
False.
I have 10--20 discs with cactus data protection. Two with sony bmg
rootkit
Hello Nick,
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Walter Bright Wrote:
domino wrote:
Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard
movie/audio CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection.
CDs are not copy protected.
Hello retard,
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:55 +, BCS wrote:
I wouldn't. I'd put it in a package about 4-5 times as big and mount
it on the PC board. Besides, what the heck do you need more than
about 32GB for on a phone? If you need to shoot that much video, get
a real camera!
I have 32 GB
On 09/04/2010 08:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Max Samukha wrote:
On 04.09.2010 5:50, Walter Bright wrote:
It still makes no sense to have it as a separate file.
Yeah. Just like it makes no sense to have headers separate from object
files.
If I invented an object file format, you can bet
Sean Kelly Wrote:
Walter Bright Wrote:
retard wrote:
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:03:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
J. What happens when the battery gets old and won't hold a charge?
You buy a new one, of course. Why this will never happen is that once a
new model of the iShit
Hello Nick,
Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote in message
Obsolescence comes from three things:
1. Forced by big business strong-arming people into buying products
via subscription model.
2. Physical breaking down.
3. The consumer *themself* deciding to get the new one
BCS wrote:
Aside from a memeory card, name one things you've ever known someone
else to want to add to a phone?
A keyboard.
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Hello Nick,
In and of itself, maybe. But thinness typically necessitates other
design compromises, all for a benefit that is, as you say, petty.
What compromises? What is it missing that could be
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Hello Nick,
In and of itself, maybe. But thinness typically necessitates other
design compromises, all for a benefit
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Aside from a memeory card, name one
Hello Walter,
BCS wrote:
Aside from a memeory card, name one things you've ever known someone
else to want to add to a phone?
A keyboard.
People want a phone that has a key board from the get go. How many people
actually want to /add/ one to the phone they have?
--
... IXOYE
Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
In and of itself, maybe. But thinness typically necessitates other
design compromises, all for a benefit that is, as you say,
petty.
What compromises? What is it missing
Hello Nick,
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Aside from a memeory
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Hello Nick,
Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already too
small if you ask me, although I still put up with it anyway. Now
MicroSD, well I can't say anything about it without
Hello Nick,
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Hello Nick,
Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already
too small if you ask me, although I still put up with it anyway. Now
MicroSD, well I can't say anything about
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And OMG, you've never bought a cell phone? Why are you punishing yourself
;) I suppose with the attitude you have towards them it would just raise
your blood pressure carrying it
On 04.09.2010 5:50, Walter Bright wrote:
It still makes no sense to have it as a separate file.
Yeah. Just like it makes no sense to have headers separate from object
files.
Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
But, you can't embed multiple track info in mp3's either..?
Isn't it interesting that people keep inventing new audio formats and fail to
solve obvious fundamental problems with them, like providing fields for things
like artwork, lyrics, etc.?
Max Samukha wrote:
On 04.09.2010 5:50, Walter Bright wrote:
It still makes no sense to have it as a separate file.
Yeah. Just like it makes no sense to have headers separate from object
files.
If I invented an object file format, you can bet it'd be quite a bit different
from existing
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:55:58 -0500, Walter Bright
newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
Isn't it interesting that people keep inventing new audio formats and
fail to solve obvious fundamental problems with them, like providing
fields for things like artwork, lyrics, etc.?
http://www.id3.org/
On 2010-09-02 22:04:39 -0400, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com said:
Michel Fortin wrote:
Basically, you wanted to do what I did with my website. What was the
problem exactly? Creating a style sheet that displays the contents well
when read linearly? Or was it about how to trigger
Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2010-09-02 22:04:39 -0400, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com
said:
Michel Fortin wrote:
Basically, you wanted to do what I did with my website. What was the
problem exactly? Creating a style sheet that displays the contents
well when read linearly? Or was it
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Michel Fortin wrote:
Basically, you wanted to do what I did with my website. What was the
problem exactly? Creating a style sheet that displays the contents well
when read linearly? Or was it
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Michel Fortin wrote:
Basically, you wanted to do what I did with my website. What was the
problem exactly? Creating a style sheet that displays the contents well
when read
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Sean Kelly wrote:
Walter Bright Wrote:
retard wrote:
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:03:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
J. What happens when the battery gets old and won't hold a charge?
You buy a new
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I miss the days when there was such a thing as standard battery types.
Me too. My first bad experience with custom batteries was my trusty TI SR-50A
calculator, vintage 1975. After a year, it would no longer hold a charge, but I
could still use it with the charger
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Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote in message
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Love my iPhone. Love it. My last two
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B. Closed platforms are evil (not to
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:36:55 -0400, Nick Sabalausky a...@a.a wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote in message
Then I guess 99% of phones are evil?
99% of phones? Certainly not.
99% of *cell* phones? Absolutely, yes. Service provider lock-in is one of
the primary reasons I've
On 9/3/10 16:51 CDT, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Well, it's just that they haven't got to it yet, or maybe they don't
feel it's as important as other issues. If something is 99% perfect and
you want to point out the 1%, I guess you're entitled to it. But if
everything else out there is only 90%
Hello Walter,
Michel Fortin wrote:
Basically, you wanted to do what I did with my website. What was the
problem exactly? Creating a style sheet that displays the contents
well when read linearly? Or was it about how to trigger this
particular style sheet for iPhone and iPods? The later's
BCS wrote:
Setup a mobile.digitalmars.com that has hosts the same files as www.*
but a different .css?
A little work with the config files and you might even need only one
copy of the files on the server.
That might work.
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
But I have spent a fair amount of time with other Apple products. I even
used OSX as my primary system for about a year or two. And (aside from the
Apple II, which obviously doesn't quite count) there has never been a piece
of Apple software I've used more than a little
I'm pretty sure that's only for albums which are stored as a single
flac file. They usually come with a .cue file which stores track
lengths so you can split up the huge flac file into each track as a
flac. Then you can have per-track info stored in the flac files
themselves. As for splitting a
It still makes no sense to have it as a separate file.
Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
I'm pretty sure that's only for albums which are stored as a single
flac file. They usually come with a .cue file which stores track
lengths so you can split up the huge flac file into each track as a
flac. Then you
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I only rarely see them now. I don't have any of that DVR stuff (never
thought it made sense to buy a device, as opposed to a service, on a
subscription model), so not only
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Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I hear that this sort of thing tends to happen with
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On 9/1/2010 6:56 PM, BCS wrote:
OTOH try and write a play that no one will watch. I'd be very surprised
if it
can be done.
There's a book that was purposely written (by a
Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
I was just employing irony and sarcasm to demonstrate why your arguments
were meaningless :) The only measurable factor for good art is how many
people use it/buy it.
Well... commercial quality doesn't have any value for me in the context of art
:)
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On 9/1/2010 6:56 PM, BCS wrote:
OTOH try and write a play that no one will watch. I'd be very surprised
if it
can be done.
There's a book that was purposely written (by a
Walter Bright Wrote:
Someone once told me that capitalism doesn't support the arts. I asked him
how
the Beatles got rich. Oops!
Yes, art does manage to cope with capitalism, it's just the result doesn't look
like a lot of fun.
Glen Cook said I get salary for the number of pages.
On 9/1/2010 11:28 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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On 9/1/2010 6:56 PM, BCS wrote:
OTOH try and write a play that no one will watch. I'd be very surprised
if it
can be done.
There's
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On 9/1/2010 11:28 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I hope it started with It was a dark and stormy night :)
Sadly no.. that'd be cliched but not bad enough. Hopefully this doesn't
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:14:20 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
BCS wrote:
And there are people who will buy $5 a cup coffee when they really do
like the $.50 stuff better. They are called snobs.
I had fun at a wine tasting when I picked the cheapest wine of the lot
as my favorite. Hilarity ensued.
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:53:41 -0400, Nick Sabalausky a...@a.a wrote:
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Nick Sabalausky wrote:
That's all I can think of. Certainly nothing from Apple since Woz left,
and that's the company most people
retard wrote:
In more expensive countries the same quality costs 5..20 times as much.
Import duties and liquor taxes may play a role in that.
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
iPhone is hands down the best phone I've ever used. I thought when I
got it, I would have a hard time accessing small things like the
on-screen keyboard keys, but I'm surprised at how accurate I am with it,
even after only having it for a few months. I regularly
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