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hah, no jackpots on DDR, that should be a feature though.

wow, no talking since i left.

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Arrrr

Anybody around?

no

perfect; i'll wait

stillLotR is now known as LotR

w00t going to see RJD2 next week

hmmm, interesting decision in the French courts, but the numbers seem off - I’ve sold Acer laptops, software and all, for less than this court claimed was the value of just the software... http://perso.libre-zone.net/article-125-proc-du...

If an album A is released in some year and the exact same track list is subsequently released with a different album name and different album art (album B) is the release year for album B equal to album A? See troymandt's comments in my edit http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=7553524.

[afk for a few minutes]

brianfreud: 600 euros for a laptop is about as low as it gets here in .nl at least

Guysmiley: That always seems one of the messy situations. However, the release date for A and B would seem to be separate, in your described situation. The date that B was released has nothing to do with the date that A was released, after all...

LotR: Well, for Acers, I know I sold some low-end models as low as $350 US back in January (they were loss leaders, cost, iirc, was around $348.50).

sucks to be in the EU for buying hardware I think

yeah, I used to get lots of business from the UK and Japan

LotR: It's just that Europeans don't buy crap ;)

srotta: no, the same hardware is more expensive here than in the US

Mostly yeah, depends on the hardware. Although the difference isn't big enough so that I would actually go and buy anything from US.

Well, the strong euro has made it a bit more appealing, but still.

(Typically the low point for laptops here is around 450 euros.)

hmm. maybe .nl is worse than .fi

Computer hardware has always been cheapish in Finland.

still, 450 EUR is $633. that's getting close to double to what brianfreud is quoting

of course, I don't know if there's a difference between what is low-end in the us and in finland

Yeah.

yes, but the other half is how crappy are those low low end laptops

40 GB, 15 inch screen, short short battery life, etc

Yeah, I'd rather take 10 inch screen, but it's hard to come by 8)

with NGS are ASINs and such going to be tied to release events rather than releases?

http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=7553394 hmm oppinions?

brianG, I think so

What are those artists, and more to the point, what are the releases?

I thought we used the author, not the performer, for audio books?

And yeah, I don't see any reason for artist "Written by...".

I think the resulting alias would end up being rather a bogus one for Brian Blessed though

Well, you can always remove the alias.

And those don't look like audio books.

They are compilations that has one track read?

looks like it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Night_Tales:_...

indeed the writer of the book soudl be the artist for books, afaik

brianfreud: Thanks for the advice, I'll cancel my edit and resubmit.

Hide, server, ruaok is coming!

heh. :)

ruaok: i can't vote in the current autoeditor election. it says i'm not an autoeditor.

log out and back in.

ah, thanks

If I'm entering a release event for an album that predates CD's, if I enter "CD" as the format should I use the later release date for the CD and enter a separate release event for vinyl or is it ok to use the old date for the CD format?

Separate dates for different media.

thanks

Guysmiley: think of it this way - that cd, lp, whatever, has info that is singular to it. So the date, the media type, etc, is all specific to just that one physical media.

So just as you wouldn’t mix and match the dates of A and B, you wouldn’t mix and match the media types with the dates.

Right. I just thought that in cases where the CD format is the only releae event it makes the album look newer than it is. I understand the correct rationale, though.

well, the CD would have it’s own release date, in that case, right?

just means there’s also perhaps an older date for a different type of media

right

ruaok: is it raining cats & dogs up your way?

no!

the rain skirted SLO.

clouds passed over, but nothing more than a few drops.

it's absolutely *pouring* down here, and has been since last night. i mean like *wow*

:-(

the rain was load enough to wake me up several times, and we even had thunder(!)

nada for us.

while I was at the burn peeps here reported of a thunderstorm that lasted all night!

we had better weather on the playa than people here. cooler, too.

very odd.

beautifil pic, but that's just SLO in general :)

:-)

the iphone camera is so-so.

if i would've brought my real camera the pics would been much better.

ah you got one? i'd be all over it if the iphone had EVDO in stead of edge

or AT&T had EVDO rather

so as far as I am concerned from SLO, EVERY aspect of my experience got better.

slightly worse cell receoption.

sprints at EVDO rev B. it's impressive

but the phone will pay for itself in 10 months time, due to the cheaper plan.

*sprint has

so far, I'm quite pleased.

oh yes, it's a wondrous gadget. my favorite bartender has one, and let's me play with it.

I was doing a much better job of keeping up with email while at FMC.

the treo web stuff I would use only under duress.

typing is a bit tough for me (especially with a buzz), but i'm pretty sure the screen can be calibrated, i'm not gonna mess with the settings on another person's phone tho ;)

not so with the iphone.

yes, typing is still a bit of a challenge.

but its learning my shenanigans, so its getting better.

lol talkign about rain :P

:)

CatCat: it almost never rains in Southern Caifornia, we're in the midst of the longest drought in over 100 yeaars

yllona: that pocket of rain on top of you may reach here.

get ready, it's nice to have rain t hough (finally). i'm thinking we may be in for a rather wet winter