Carrot...... anal..??

*shivers*

eeeewwww......

I don't feel like doing the math, I just wanted to say you make it sound like the Borg. :borg:

I'm curious, what exactly is the labor-intensive bit? (I'm assuming that the artist shows up with the recording already made.) When you say "put into the system" you make it sound like ripping the CD, but I'm sure there's more to it than that.

If a train leaves LA doing 125 MPH, and another train leaves NYC doing 130 MPH, how long will it take for Steven Segal to kill the terrorists and get the girl?

Anal, on the dinner table, with the family watching and cheering you on.

Nuh-uh. I don't like the anal. The only thing that's gonna get you anal is diamonds.
and Rock Steady, sweetie, that wasn't aural sex, silly! I need to take you to school.

I did get the 10 points!!

A warm and wet Thanks! to all who played along!

We developed an on-demand CD manufacturing process so no CDs have to be printed until they are ordered. In order for a disk to be part of this process, the entire booklet design has to be in our templates. This can be a real burden because some have a back-catalog of 10 discs. It takes apx 2 hours per disc to scan and convert a disc to our system. But it's a boon to the artist to have all this stuff suddenly available without having to print 1000 copies of each one of all 10 discs.

You know, I thought about opening a brick and mortar store with that as a premise. It would be like a record store except only album covers on display. Kiosks would allow download to Ipods, or CD on demand. With key, songs could be reloaded for a small fee in case of loss.

People still like places where they can shop by sight and touch, and maybe get technical advice. It would make it easier for non-techies buying for themselves or as gifts.

It reminds me of BB's CDs (warning: lame/nonexistent web site). I don't know how they operate now, but when they first opened in the twilight of the 1980s, all CDs were removed from their cases. The empty cases were on display and you could listen to any disc upon request (only staff actually handled the discs, and I never bought one that was in less than pristine condition). There were several listening stations up at the front. I know this caused me to buy several CDs I didn't really need and probably wouldn't have bought if they had stayed wrapped. (I guess one could argue that I didn't really need ANY CD that I've bought in the last 17, years, but hey.)

I will be an attentive student.

Just don't be an apt pupil.

So what was the answer?

50 lbs. :)

I once saw a simplified equation that seemed to show that 1=0. It turns out that one step in the solution was division by zero. You just didn't notice because zero was presented as (A-B) or something - I wish I could remember specifics. Anyway, the math notwithstanding, I have a hard time accepting that 98% of 99% is 49%.

You missed my eariler post. Re-phrase the question:

You buy 100 lbs of cucumbers. Cukes are 1% solids. In a few days they later dry out to 2% solids. How much do they weigh?

The percentage of solids doubled, so the mass must be halved. :muse:

Here it is.You're not reading it correctly. It's not drying out until 98% of the water is left. It's drying out until enough water has left that out of the total mass, 98% is water.