Don't use a Gmail account as your username and this problem doesn't exist. You do not need a Gmail account to create a Google account. If you use another e-mail address, you can change the e-mail address associated with your account at any time. If you already have a Gmail account registered as your username, you can still create another Gmail account and link this one to the account. Source: Google > Help Home > Editing your Account

Once you figure it out, you can use this knowledge to extract audio or video portions from video sources other than YouTube. You also have the freedom of not relying on a third party service to extract the audio for you.

There isn't even a need to figure out anything. It's already been figured. You only need to perform a web search.

I agree with Taco Cowboy. This happens at much smaller levels in business.

Example:
An e-commerce site I work on started selling a certain brand of dog harness. They were doing well. When the major retailer in that industry found out, they priced the same harness so low that they lose money on every single order. Why would they do that? Well, they have enough money to sell the product at a loss long enough to put the small mom & pop site out of business. Then, they can raise the price again.

The most common example that most people in the US have seen is with gas stations. There is a small locally owned gas station in a great spot with frequent traffic. When the large chains see this great location, they build a huge gas station and convenience store right next to the mom and pop shop. They sell the gasoline at a loss, but still profit from the items in their convenience store. The small locally owned station cannot afford to sell gas at a loss. So, either they go out of business from trying to match the price, or they go out of business from losing sales. Once the locally owned station closes, the big boys raise their prices.

Of course, sometimes the big chain gas station and c-store will offer to buy the locally owned station for far under market value. If the small store declines, they force them to close with the above method.

Control is everything.

That's not the same thing as the OP was referring to.

That's somewhat how it works. There are regional or local time slots allotted in a broadcast. The local network may only replace ads in the local time slot. Program content accounts for approximately 44 minutes during a one hour run time. Local advertising slots commonly account for 2-4 minutes of the hour. The local broadcast insertion is triggered by digital signals within the network feed.

Thank you for the excellent example of the logical fallacy known as a False Analogy.

A more fitting analogy would be wanting to order a steak, but instead only having the option of buying an all day catered dinner, during which the time slot for getting served a steak falls within a one hour window. You still have to pay for each item served, regardless of whether you ordered it, ate it, or even attended the serving. If you pay for the upgraded DVR package, you will be given 3 take-home containers. If you would be willing to enter into a contract to do this every day, then I'm sure broadcast television pricing makes perfect sense to you.

All analogies, including mine, have faults. The thing is, no analogy is needed for what OP said. He explained the position very well without using any. Your bumbling, unrelated car analogy does nothing to detract from his point.

Even more offensive is the paid programming. It seems my provider doesn't air anything late at night when I can actually watch TV. Most of the channels are either listed as "Off air" or "Paid Programming", which is some pathetic attempt to sell me a new folding pocket knife, blender, or push-up bra. As if commercials within shows weren't bad enough, late night viewer selection is greatly limited to hour long commercials.

TV broadcast pricing is the most common bundle scheme going. Other industries try it, like the insurance companies that will not sell you Liability Insurance without also including coverage for tools, office supplies, and everything else except computer equipment, which must be purchased separately. I'd like to only purchase the products or services that I want and the market rate for those products and services. I don't want to pay for shows I will not watch, nor thousands of dollars worth equipment insurance for equipment I do not have.

Apparently you cannot view the reports from CQ Researchers without paying for them. Does anyone know if drivers are distracted for a combined total of 4.6 seconds per text, or if they are distracted for a continuous 4.6 seconds per text? There is a big difference.

Except that it is 9.7" and held closely to your face in order to see anything at that resolution.

So then what do you propose? Do you want a 1:1, 3:4, or 9:16 aspect ratio? If so, then which sacrifice are you willing to make?

1) Have a larger screen, and therefore a larger laptop.
2) Get rid of the numeric keypad.
3) Move the numeric keypad to above or below the keyboard or touchpad.
4) Keep the same same screen height and make the text unreadable at that resolution and the average notebook viewing distance.

If there are alternatives, I'd jump right on board with having more vertical resolution.

As long as you make sure the CSS file defining the constants is loaded first, and you make sure your designers aren't trying to use these constants as variables. I'm sure that wouldn't happen since designers grasp programming concepts so well, especially when they are programming in the CSS programming language. Interpolation would require slightly more memory in the browser, therefore it would be more efficient to do this in JavaScript by looping through each element in the DOM and using IF statements with regular expressions to handle the substitutions.

I prefer doing this server side. I create a CSV file that maps color name constants to the hexadecimal value. I have a sync script that allows a designer to upload the CSV. This file is then parsed using a Perl script and the records are inserted into a MySQL database. I then create all of my CSS files using the PHP Smarty Template engine. The stylesheet is processed in realtime using the template engine to substitute the constant color names with those is the MySQL database using a custom Smarty plugin I wrote. These are in turn compacted using PHP exec() calls to a perl script on the server, and gzipped before being sent to the browser. I found this to be the quickest and easiest way to change colors on the site, and well as being easy to debug when programming in the CSS programming language.

What is sad? A change in aspect ratio? It is a move towards the 16:9 aspect ratio. The end result is greater horizontal resolution, less vertical resolution, and a greater number of pixels overall than your 4:3 ratio 1600x1200 screen.

You're doing it wrong. There are 146 color names already provided to you. These should provide sufficient color selection for any site. In addition, each color has a very easy to remember, concise name, such as LightGoldenRodYellow.

It is best to use these standard names instead of trying to decide on your own variable names. Committees of highly intelligent architects have already decided on the best names for you. For example, see the distinction between Lime and Lime Green. My personal favorite: Brown, which is a carefully chosen contenders Sienna or SaddleBrown to be the champion of the Browns.

To make things easy, the substrings "grey" and "gray" are interchangeable in any color name.

Please stop trying to reinvent the wheel.