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Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release
asavage writes "According to this article on news.com
last week, Eminem's "The Eminem Show," which was yet to be released, cracked the chart at No. 2. This is the first time an unreleased CD has been number 2 on this list of CD's played in computers." I've pre-ordered my copy
and am looking forward to hearing it. But its pretty amazing that Gracenote
registers a pirated CD #2 without the benefit of it being for sale yet.
Thank god they shut down napster and stopped piracy.
---- El diablo esta en mis pantalones! Mire, mire!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *DB community when IDC confirmed that *DB market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *DB has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *DB is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *DB's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *DB faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *DB because *DB is dying. Things are looking very bad for *DB. As many of us are already aware, *DB continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeDB is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeDB developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeDB is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenDB leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenDB. How many users of NetDB are there? Let's see. The number of OpenDB versus NetDB posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetDB users. DB/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetDB posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of DB/OS. A recent article put FreeDB at about 80 percent of the *DB market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeDB users. This is consistent with the number of FreeDB Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeDB went out of business and was taken over by DBI who sell another troubled OS. Now DBI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *DB has steadily declined in market share. *DB is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *DB is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *DB continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *DB is dead.
Fact: *DB is dying
I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
Oh dear, my idealism is shattered, now that I know that Slashdot readers listen to "pop"ular music as opposed to only Pagannine, Vivaldi, and Mozart.
I just don't know how to handle this.
- Johnny Cash: "I once shot a man just to watch him die"
- [remainder of list is up to you to complete]
Oh my god what is the world coming to!!! Someone needs to protect the children, etc., etc...Newsflash: artists are mirrors of society--some are like hubble mirrors, some are like funhouse mirrors. Eminem is not the problem. He is merely a messenger, like Johnny Cash. If Eminem's lyrics are scary, you haven't been paying enough attention.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
Isn't that sorta what Milli Vanilli did?
"Derp de derp."
Does the CDDB track every time the CD is inserted into the CD driver? Perhaps it's just counting every time someone popped the disk in and out, trying to get it to start playing...
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
...a way to pirate music that the artist hasn't even written yet
Too late...
The Beatles already did that to Oasis.
- StaticLimit
Celine Dion fans don't know how to use a computer.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
Geeze, I'll bet you still have your autographed copy of the "Cool as Ice" video too.
News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters? Like hell.
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Does this mean that Gracenote could be infected with the Klez virus or something else, so oulook users should receive text messages, just in case?
Nerf Herder sucks. Weezer sucks. Nerd Rock pretty much sucks. Why would you want to hear about some nerd's boring life? They don't even sing about nerd stuff like Linux that I would want to hear about. They sing about girls that dump them!!! That's so BORING! :)
The concept of anticipatory plagiarism was invented by Robert Merton (http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1997/), though the French Oulipo movement (http://www.nous.org.uk/oulipo.html) stole the idea and passed it off as their own decades earlier.
You liked it? You must be a white boy with a Dodge Neon that replaced the entire audio system with one giant subwoofer. Those are the only people I see listening to Eminem's "music".
I'm sorry, i couldn't hear you over your blatant disregard for other peoples tastes and opinions. I'm sure there are plenty of people that dislike whatever music you listen to.
What a coincidence; it's also unplayable in CD players due the horrible sounds that come out of the speakers when you hit the play button.
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share and enjoy
Heh, but not going to see the movie is *stealing*. You benefit from the economic boom that these movies provide in times of war, and there is an implied contract in that benefit that you will go to see the film, possibly many times....
Or it could be all those iMac users who can't get the darn thing out of their CD drives.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
That's his autobiography, right?
"You're just scared like a little white pussy. I'll fuck you till you love me, you faggot!"
You're not gonna get a -1 Flamebait modded as +1 insightful unless you mention how your poor post is gonna ruin your karma!
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