Narf the Mouse Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures There was an old spider who swallowed a lady A deed most shady, to swallow a lady It swallowed the lady to cook the bird to catch the worm I don't know why it swallowed the worm, It's mind's infirm. *Applauds* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Why not? Enough legs for everybody! that is a crab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures that is a crab. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_spider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I am not going to eat a spider! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Where We Got Our Music The Last 30 Years. Spoiler for animated gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Do the relative sizes of the overall pies have any meaning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Not that I know of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Cassette's rise in the early 80s is due mainly to the Walkman and its rivals. Likewise, 8 Tracks mostly died out because of an increase of cassette decks in cars. CD is most responsible for shrinking the LP market, as it was seen as a direct replacement for vinyl records. CD sales actually peaked in 1999, as most folks had already replaced most of their LP collections with CDs. The recording industry likes to conflate the reduction of revenues that started after 1999 with the rise of file sharing (Napster), but that wasn't really significant at that point. SACD managed to get up to 0.2% in 2005, which sounds amazing until you realize that most SACDs at that time were packaged as hybrid CD/SACD discs. I've got a couple of discs in my collection that are hybrids, and they'll most likely never be played in SACD mode because the hardware's still too expensive. New DVD-Audio hardware's almost non-existent, but when it was readily available, it was most often put in the video section, where confused salespeople would stumble over the differences in a DVD-A vs DVD-Video player. New SACDs and DVD-A are still released, though the former is mostly the domain of audiophiles, while the majority of DVD-A discs that I've seen are "bonus discs" in album remasters (like the three DVD-A discs in the Rush Sector boxes, or their deluxe release of "Moving Pictures"). As of now, it's more likely that you'd see Blu-Ray Audio discs as an option for new releases. Unlike DVD-A, Blu-Ray Audio will play back on standard Blu-Ray players. Both SACD and DVD-Audio suffered from a misconception on the part of the recording and electronics industries. The assumption was that most people would want higher fidelity than the CD, and that the primary listening environment was the home. But the rise of mp3 and other lossy formats showed that what folks really wanted was a convenient, portable format that sounds good enough on portable players, computers, and in cars. It's the reason that cassettes lasted so long. For a long time, the dominant way to buy a song was as a single, originally on 78s and then on 45s, then albums came do dominate sales. With the rise of digital downloads, however, the recording industry's heading back to a single-based revenue stream. Some charts here: http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/021711disruption JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Positronium FTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I, too, have felt pain like this. [ATTACH=CONFIG]42781[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I, too, have felt pain like this. [ATTACH=CONFIG]42781[/ATTACH] "Also, that banana bread you made is fantastic" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Tactful. End on an up-note. I approve. I'm not sure I'd have given the warning myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I am totally gonna forward that to my Mom. On Mother's Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I am totally gonna forward that to my Mom. On Mother's Day. What a sweet boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Mont Saint-Michel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I've heard about some bay on the English coast where it turns into mud flats when the tide is out. But the tide comes in extremely quickly, and some have been caught too far from shore and drowned when it came back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Mont Saint-Michel? Yep. Some day, I will go there! I've heard about some bay on the English coast where it turns into mud flats when the tide is out. But the tide comes in extremely quickly' date=' and some have been caught too far from shore and drowned when it came back in.[/quote'] There are bays there that has ten meters tidal difference. In depth. Also, the pic is from Normandie, France, I'm fairly sure. There is also a Saint Michael in Cornwall, I think, with a similar set-up. Looks different, though. Edit: Like this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]42788[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Yep. Some day, I will go there! There are bays there that has ten meters tidal difference. In depth. Also, the pic is from Normandie, France, I'm fairly sure. There is also a Saint Michael in Cornwall, I think, with a similar set-up. Looks different, though. Edit: Like this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]42788[/ATTACH] I nearly got to go to Saint Michael's Mount in England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I don't know how sensitive the Cornish are to being called English. Do it to a Glaswegian, and your carrying your teeth home in your pockets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures Well Glasgow is in Scotland, Cornwall is in England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures But the Cornish aren't English -- the English are of more or less Germanic extraction, while the Cornish are Celts. Like I said, I dunno how sensitive an issue it is. Like, calling someone from the Torneå valley a Stockholmer is not advised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures I didn't mention anything about the people, i mentioned the land. Show me an up-to-date map where Cornwall is not in England and we can talk further . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: "Neat" Pictures My new summer home (I wish) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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