Since you put it THAT way, I now hate that commercial slightly less 
By the way, am I the only person who wonders why Bono counts "one, two, three, fourteen" at the beginning of Vertigo?
Since you put it THAT way, I now hate that commercial slightly less
By the way, am I the only person who wonders why Bono counts "one, two, three, fourteen" at the beginning of Vertigo?
My 9th grade daughter caught that lyric as well. . . I think this post was my rationalization for getting her an iPod for Xmas, so that she leaves mine ALONE!
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My 9th grade daughter caught that lyric as well. . . I think this post was my rationalization for getting her an iPod for Xmas, so that she leaves mine ALONE!
SS
As long as you're talking iPods, may as well link to the iTunes Music Store U2 album:
http://phobos.apple.com/
WebObjec...listId=29600233
As long as you're talking iPods, may as well link to the iTunes Music Store U2 album:
http://phobos.apple.com/
WebObjec...listId=29600233
one problem, Ipods cost more than twice the competition.
one problem, Ipods cost more than twice the competition.
Bravo - I think you are right on the money.
I've been working on a similar thesis for some time: the inevitibility of libertarianism, propelled by innovation, increasingly free markets and the almost costless dissemination of information. My idea is a broad notion of people getting further and further "off" the "grid". The missing piece so far is cheap/easy energy generation outside of the grid, but once that comes in, the world will change unrecognizably for the better.
Your post sums up some of the concepts in a very easy way for most people to understand, I really admire your metaphor. If I ever fashion my thoughts into a book/paper, I will be sure to contact you for permission for a reference. Great job!
Bravo - I think you are right on the money.
I've been working on a similar thesis for some time: the inevitibility of libertarianism, propelled by innovation, increasingly free markets and the almost costless dissemination of information. My idea is a broad notion of people getting further and further "off" the "grid". The missing piece so far is cheap/easy energy generation outside of the grid, but once that comes in, the world will change unrecognizably for the better.
Your post sums up some of the concepts in a very easy way for most people to understand, I really admire your metaphor. If I ever fashion my thoughts into a book/paper, I will be sure to contact you for permission for a reference. Great job!
Umm...the ipod has NO competition.
Umm...the ipod has NO competition.
Call me a troglodyte, but I'll be the first to bemoan the disappearance of the current music "album" paradigm, with sequencing, album art, liner notes, etc. An album is (or should be, anyway) a single large, unified piece of work. There's additional artistic expression being transmitted through the way an artist "batches" his songs. Well, maybe some sort of compromise can be reached... :-/
Call me a troglodyte, but I'll be the first to bemoan the disappearance of the current music "album" paradigm, with sequencing, album art, liner notes, etc. An album is (or should be, anyway) a single large, unified piece of work. There's additional artistic expression being transmitted through the way an artist "batches" his songs. Well, maybe some sort of compromise can be reached... :-/
I got an iPod for Christmas, and this makes me like it even more.
BTW, I believe Bono says "Unos, dos, tres, catorce." Which should directly translate, "some, two, three, fourteen"...which makes even less sense, in my opinion.
I have oddly stumbled on this page because I was looking at what you had to say about the greenhouse effect. Like it. I also love the optimistic attitude you have for the ipod gen. I am the last year of the gen Xers and am always wondering how politics and such will change in the future. My assertation is the Xers and the Ys will make a great team. As the Xers deconstruct and analize, the Ys will add their opptimism, techno., and demand for such things as you have suggested.
thanks. Jae
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