I can definitely see this being a way of rethinking luxury living without having a big impact on an environment. It reminds me of the railroad style apartments in Brooklyn.

loogee

Rabid Penguin

[www.soundprofessionals.com]

ive used this for a year now and its perfect. and $29.00

kipmartin

Of course... I live in DC, so I just made a completely hypocritical comment. But, I'm getting out if the rat-race one day! I'm selling my shoebox/condo and LEAVING... I swear!

DustyButt

The big music labels *HATE* Apple. Apple got them into a huge bind - music labels say they need DRM, Apple complies. Now iTunes is big and powerful, and the music only works (the DRMed ones these days) on iPods.

In a nice twist of fate, iPod only supports FairPlay for DRM mechanism, thus locking out everyone else. Music labels thus gave up control of their music to play on the iPod. Given the number of iPod users out there, it means iTunes rises to be #1 download music retailer, and is this huge beast that the music label couldn't dictate terms to. (Want variable pricing? Apple says 99c or else. Don't like it? Apple will remove your music from iTunes store and lock you out of a large majority of music players).

Thus, other music stores struggle with the remnants of the portable player market.

So now enters Amazon, and the music labels finally see a way to break Apple over the iTunes store, and finally get what they want from Apple. Alas, though, Amazon insists on DRM-free.

Music labels are faced with choice - either keep DRM and deal with Apple, or lose DRM and hope to break Apple. Breaking Apple so that Apple would be forced to implement the things they want on the iTunes store in order to sell music, or they'll just sell it through Amazon.

Ditto with Amazon - if Amazon doesn't give in to their demands, they'll sell music through iTunes.

So the current DRM-free play by the RIAA is basically "get a competitor to iTunes who'll submit to our demands", with the whole goal of forcing everyone to use DRM. You can bet that once iTunes and Amazon aren't able to debate terms, they'll force iTunes to have stuff like variable pricing, demand pricing, and what else, and they'll force Amazon to carry DRM.

Right now, the DRM free play is to ensure the future will have DRM. Funny how the iPod has literally forced the music labels to go DRM free if they don't want to deal with Apple.

Worf

nystreetfilms

DJRome

I'd actually like to see a batle-o-modo between the Sony ECM DS30P, Mertline [www.meritline.com] this and a DIY microphone. It looks like all three are psudo-stereo , that is one mic element split to two outputs.

DeadWriter

Probably works.

jdhuck

The issue isn't an occasional spike, its the P2P apps that are damaging the other money making ventures like VOIP, surfing, streaming video from providers like apple and netflix, online gaming services...

@rlreif:

If your electric consumption was causing brownouts for that electric company's service area, I'm sure they'd want to do the same thing.

Just because you recieve power service from a power company doesn't mean you can use what you want...there's a finite amount of the stuff...just like bandwidth.

arikmoon

With that said, I have seen a lot of venues starting to use more LED lights as illumination. Sure they're pricey, but require very little power (which can be a problem for old venues), they run cool so the band isn't sweating, and it gives a very nice consistant light. Also allows for easily mixing of RGB colors for mood.

toyotaboy

pernicious

Zan

It doesn't matter (ha!) what religion or belief anyone has as long as they are using scientific methods to verify their theories and help illuminate the path to understanding.

selcouth14

You talk like AT&T is still the only company out there. Please don't use economic terms like Monopoly unless you know what you're talking about. Monopoly power is not correctly measured in the numbers of firms but the level of competition. And competition is healthy in telecom. Telecom is a capital intensive industry, it will naturally be limited in it's number of entrants.

dyermaker826

PlasmaMachine

toyotaboy

[en.wikipedia.org]

Find the word 'Popcorn' and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Munch

bandit

s8ist

I would strike and all, but there is something about the internet I like.

nickjoedotcom

I say we put them in prison cells and give inmates a view of a city street with a McDonalds in the picture so they'll always wish they had a big mac.....sheer torture.

thejoker2099

However, it sticks in my craw when people use religion as a tool or an excuse to promote their own agendas and harm other people. I also take issue with religious adherents who attempt to tear down the intellectual constructs of our society with intolerance and bad logic. Demonizing atheists and atheism is intellectually dishonest and ethically questionable, and does nothing to promote your argument or anyone else's. Johnnyabnormal may be helping to perpetuate the "anti-religion" atheist stereotype, but you are ascribing that property to the atheist community at large without good reason to do so, and I consider that a sign of intolerance and ignorance on your part. If you want to be taken seriously in this discussion, I'd ask that you remove the plank from your eye before crying "mote" on everyone else.

Ubik2501

LindsayJoy

And, even if there are multiple ISPs available, good luck seeing your ISPs competitors' websites if they are allowed to control what you have access to.

kwicherbichin