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  1. This is exactly what HP just did by gilgamesh2001 · · Score: 1 · on Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet

    HP's new teleconferencing solution does pretty much the same thing ...

    http://www.gilgamesh.ca/index.php/2005/12/14/inter net-future/

    I'm not to worried. If the telcos push this, they'll just lose even more clients.

  2. Clueless by gilgamesh2001 · · Score: 1 · on After College, What Type of Jobs Should One Seek?

    So ... you've got through 18 years of school without, apparently, spending more than a few idle minutes on what kind of job you are actually working towards?

    Unbelievable.

    I blogged this:
    http://www.gilgamesh.ca/?p=302

    At the very least, I would expect that you would spend a few days before entering a master's program, thinking about what it would do for your job prospects, and finding out what doing a masters does for you.

  3. Here come the ghosts by gilgamesh2001 · · Score: 1 · on Blogging For Paychecks
    I blogged on this, incidentally, just a couple of days ago: Business Blogging: Here come the ghosts

    It's fine if the person is actually working with the company and doing more than blogging ... but if they're just blogging, then it's just a new term for advertising.

  4. This is the first few drips of the flood by gilgamesh2001 · · Score: 1 · on iTunes Music Store Sells Videos
    Steve has been hinting at this for months with his "year of HD" speech. Bill G has just recently been trying to shoot across the bow of Apple, with his own "year of HD" bit.

    Cringle has a great bit on it as well. (Scroll down a bit.)

    I have no idea why, but I got to thinking what I'd want in a system like this if I was a studio exec.

    Here's my answer

    This is the beginning of the flood. The only thing that can compete with is a torrent.

  5. The idea's fine; $0.05 is insane by gilgamesh2001 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song?
    At 5 cents a song, why would any company do this? Maintaining infrastructure to support the service, and the simple download costs per song probably vastly exceed the return you'd get from 5 cents a song.

    I don't know what the giants like Google and Apple pay for bandwidth, but assume it's way better than what you and I pay, and maybe it's 50 cents a gig. OK, a song is 50 megs ... do the math and just letting someone download it costs the company 5 cents. Bang goes your 5 cent model.

    Assume their bandwith costs are half that. You're still paying out half your revenue before even starting to cover any of your other costs. Insane.

    Now, if you built the model right into a peer-to-peer sharing network that would still collect the cash, you'd spread the cost of downloads onto a diffuse group of users/clients, and therefore maybe be a little more do-able. But then, of course, you introduce all kinds of new issues with security, payment, etc. etc.

    Again, the model is not crazy. The price is.

    John Koetsier
    http://gilgamesh.ca/

  6. Flash and Ajax apps by gilgamesh2001 · · Score: 1 · on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax

    I wonder what Macromedia thinks about all this Ajax hype?

  7. Doofus by gilgamesh2001 · · Score: 1 · on ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers
    Obviously he didn't see my blog

    ;-)

    Seriously, while his comments may be accurate about a portion of the blogs out there, the elistist attitude and obvious lack of checking out some of the really top-notch resources out there are symptomatic of someone who's day is done: dead tree libraries just aren't as important as they used to be.