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The rape of Nokia is well under way. He'll return to m$ from its smouldering ashes with a fucking sackful of them.

Good news for those seeking even more patents on the cheap, too.

So serious sweetners are the only way to pull it off again.

As is Sendo 2.0 with the Nokia "deal"

And they would have got away with it if it weren't for those 9 pesky kids.

There's another big reason m$ want Nokia.

After delivering so many turkeys. How about this guy?

The iPhones most popular app - perhaps he was just expanding his skillset a little more.

iPhone 5 is better

You're right, especially as it's really easy now to make the iPhones most popular app

Does this illustration help explain how it happened?

Jeepers.
Its getting like Apples PR dept round here - some folk think if you shoot enough messengers or bang on about irrelevances the problem goes away.
Ok fanbois, looks like some floodgates have opened so pick holes in this, this and this.

Jeepers.
Its getting like Apples PR dept round here - some folk think if you shoot enough messengers or bang on about irrelevances the problem goes away.
Ok fanbois, looks like some floodgates have opened so pick holes in this, this and this.

Jeepers.
Its getting like Apples PR dept round here - some folk think if you shoot enough messengers or bang on about irrelevances the problem goes away.
Ok fanbois, looks like some floodgates have opened so pick holes in this, this and this.

This scary graph [adobe.com] and related ideas tends to get mentioned in connection with this: this conflates libraries, sound servers, and drivers to some extent.

Agreed! And This is a scarier diagram for the X Window System, yet nobody complains about graphics on Linux, just sound!

Silly noobs.. they should just use http://stashbox.org/ and encrypt the binaries with a private key then base64 encode them.

We're really, really screwed if someone who is determined and knowledgeable decides to make some widespread malware. Think Conficker, with more doom.

http://stashbox.org/597235/checkoway.pdf

I also placed a copy here: http://stashbox.org/454970/acma-secret-blacklist-aug-2008.txt

It is Myriad's Virtual Singer singing lead on my little ditty,

"Before They Kill"

(The guitar is real. Electric, but real.)

And Virtual Singer is the core of my Space Angel Choir,

Psychopompous and
Interior Dasein.

The whole eastern seaboard, at least from Massachusetts to Florida, is a cesspool of snobby lawyers and greedy big money people. But the southeast is worse than anywhere; it is especially laughable that so many states proclaim the "right to work" (without a union, possibly for peanuts or for a tyrannical boss) but you don't actually have a legal right to work in your occupation if you've signed a broad non-compete that forbids it. These are often "at will" states as well, where your employer can fire you and hire someone else to do what you do, but you can't necessarily work for another company doing what you know how to do.

I've lived in VA and in PA most of my life, and I'm just about finished with the eastern US forever. My next home will be either in Europe or west of the Mississippi. By the way, the states that will not enforce non-competes include CA, OR, CO, MT, ND, SD, OK, LA, and probably a couple others. Nearly all of them are in the western US.

As for the most ridiculous non-compete ever, how about a membership agreement for an outdoors club that forbids former members not only from operating a competing club, but even using a google group to organize similar activities? The original version was even worse, if you want to read some lawyerspeak that will make your head spin, and prompted this article in a local newspaper.

http://stashbox.org/23136/P1010004.JPG

Take a look at that old man in the middle of this picture. He's my boss. He owns a karaoke bar in San Jose California called the 7 Bamboo.

This guy has been doing karaoke a loooong time. Up until 2002 and American idol, karaoke was sort of frowned on by most Americans. Then AI came out and there was a sudden surge in karaoke's popularity.

http://www.7bamboo.com/cms/?q=node/210

I did some screenshots of the Namm global music report in that article. I'll just summarize, basically the entire karaoke industry is making less money now than it was 10 years ago in 1997.

Myself, i've seen our business hurt by piracy. Before 2002, we were some quirky little Japanese karaoke bar, pretty much one of maybe 4 karaoke venues in San Jose, but between 2002 and 2004 we saw a sharp decline in attendance, and a sharp growth in karaoke venues and it's been a constant uphill battle to keep customers coming back.

I made a choice to not pirate karaoke at our club. We have about 7000 songs in our collection. This in in contrast to the 10-15 venues that have popped up in our area with anywhere between 50,000-150,000 songs.

Karaoke is expensive. About $2 a track. So somebody please tell me, with a straight face how these new guys that just popped out of nowhere suddenly have a $300,000 karaoke collection. Fact is, they don't.

It's still competition for us. Everyone that works at 7bamboo makes less money because of it. Less tips, less sales, less everything, but more work.

Look at the face of that old man and tell me that usenet.com is in the right by enabling these people to screw his business over with competition running on pirated songs. The business he and his wife built was in jeopardy until I came along and gave it a hot beef injection of technology.

Fortunately for them, and the rest of the 7b's employees, I can keep the place on the bleeding edge of karaoke technology without resorting to piracy. Still though, I think my time would have been better spent doing more worldly things.

Personally, I hope the RIAA wins this one. Don't mod me a troll for voicing this opinion either, because since when has someone voicing a legitimate, validated opinion considered trolling.

It's just not fair. Karaoke CD's have to be ripped carefully at 1x, so i've put over 400 manhours into ripping our 300 original CDG's. A pirate can suck off a newsgroup and have 7000 songs in a few hours. Given a few days, they'll have a 40-50k+ collection.

BTW RIAA if you're reading this, look into alt.binaries.sounds.karaoke. Shut that one down first, plzktnx.

--toq

Here's the full story. Friggin registration system.

http://stashbox.org/18923/story.pdf

http://stashbox.org/ is an up-and-coming storage site. Includes the incredible useful and usable Shup screencapture and file upload utility. It can even upload to sites other than stashbox.org

It's still a work in progress, but the site and tools receive frequent updates.

http://stashbox.org/ is an up-and-coming storage site. Includes the incredible useful and usable Shup screencapture and file upload utility. It can even upload to sites other than stashbox.org

It's still a work in progress, but the site and tools receive frequent updates.

For fast no fucking logins try http://www.stashbox.org/ If you need to upload and share more then the default. Enter gay into the box for extra wide bandwidth.