I imagine the only reason it took so long is because no one gives a damn about DVD-Audio (: The last DVD-Audio disc I actually saw was the test one that came with my previous DVD player.
The goal of BadApple is clearly stated in their FAQ:
Why was BadApple created?
The goal is to make iTunes and iPods interoperate with other piles of media. I'm worried that when and if Apple adds podcast support they will only list a few podcasts that they approve. Remember this is a company that sues web sites that say good things about their upcoming products - bad Apple! Podcasts are significant because they offer a wide-range of diverse topics and ideas, not just those endorsed by one company. BadApple gives you access to all podcasts, - even ones which Apple might disagree with and never list in iTunes software. (emphasis mine)
A British tabloid newspaper managed to buy the personal details of over 1000 bank customers from an off-shore call centre based in Delhi. An IT worker at the call centre handed over details at £4.25 per customer, as well as credit card numbers and account passwords.
I was a big fan of ebay back in the day. I still have an account that I use on very rare occasion. But today ebay seems to be nothing more than a portal for people who don't want / can't afford to setup physical shop. Ebay lost is greatest quality, IMO, a while back: the personal experience.
The last few things I sold a couple of months ago were random shirts from indie bands. Of the five people I contacted after winning, none of them ever replied to my emails. One of them left me negative feedback because she felt the shirt was in poor condition. I would've been glad to refund her the money and let her keep the shirt if she had contacted me, but apparently talking to another human (even by email) is a bit too much for ebayers these days.
Freak out much? Maybe you didn't notice, but this was just a little stunt on Jay Leno's late night show. Believe me, they weren't trying to prove that we should all switch over to morse code for day to day communication (:
I must say that I have growing concerns about the prospect of one company effectively determining what can and cannot be found on the world wide web, not to mention one company handling the email of a vast proportion of Internet users.
http://www.a9.com
http://www.alltheweb.com/
http://www.yahoo.com
http://search.msn.com
http://www.lycos.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://search.excite.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
http://www.ask.com/
Where are you getting this "one company" stuff? Same goes for email, just because Google knows how to design a good interface does mean they are the only option.
We actually did see two cars in the parking lot of the pizza place that obviously had people smoking pot in them. Both had U.S. plates and the employees at the pizza place said it's something they see all the time (it was around 2AM).
Not long ago some friends and I went to a show in Detroit and on the way home we randomly decided to take the bridge over to Canada. Upon entering Canada the woman asked us what our intentions were and the person driving said "I don't know, we just want to check out Canada." or something like that. So she waved us on without any other questions or ID checks and we went to Essex and got a pizza.
On the way back, however, the guy asked to see all of our licenses, questioned each of us about a variety of things, and did a search of the vehicle's trunk. All in all it took about twenty minutes. The same thing appeared to happen to the two vehicles before us.
Probably not worth drawing any serious conclusions, but I found the distinction to be rather amusing (:
Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy blogged on the subject recently. I actually discovered this via a mass-mail sent out from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I already deleted the email, but it had some insight as to how this actually happened under everyone's nose.
Calling that statement marketing speak is really an illogical jump. Just because you don't agree with _how_ he says what he says in no way puts him at fault. The guy is an Apple fan (obviously) and a PowerBook is probably the only kind of laptop he's really interested in. Reading the entire quote he describes why laptops are so useful, and to this guy laptop = PowerBook, he's not trying to sell you anything. Read the entire interview, it's anything but marketing speak.
I'm guessing that English is, in fact, being threatened.
Oh cum now. In that situation there is _no one_ to blame but the stupid high school aged kids who can't distinguish between IM chat and formal written papers. The stupidity of these kids is no way to measure how "netspeak" threatens language. But feel free look into how the education some people get in high school threatens society (:
Work in a plug for Linux or Open Source, instant +5. Mention a valid and existing bug with the open source software the post is about, you're an offtopic troll
Make a comment bashing slashdot and/or its users and you're automagically +5. This also falls into the lines of starting a comment with "I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but..." Ain't slashdot great? (:
Haha, gotta love this reply to Bezos' post about developers.
Jeff,
My name is Jonathan. I think that commerce on the Internet will never work, because people prefer to buy things in stores. Just my two cents, I don't want to see you wasting effort on a company that is going to bankrupt you very quickly. If you want to hear a much better outlet for capital funding, my start-up company is involved in something called the XFL, which is sure to be the most successful enterprise of the decade. Just my two cents.
I doubt any of our labels could afford to hire a lawyer to handle that. And I was not assuming it is illegal or fraudulent, nor do I think "Russians are bad." I was just noting our experiences (as a distributer) with ROMS.
If we can't personally contact them ourselves, why *should* they be allowed to distribute music that our labels represent? Maybe it's legal, maybe it's not, I don't know. But even it is 100% legal, we would not participate if we can't even talk to the people (Russian or not).
In Apple's defense they did also slightly more than double the stated battery life of the Mini from eight hours to 18 hours. But I do agree it's pretty lame to drop the firewire and power adapter.
So there is a mechanism for you to get some money from this but they haven't replied to your e-mails. Have you tried phoning or writing to them ?
Apparently there is. We did also mail them, but were unable to find a phone number on their website and saw no reason to go searching for the number just so we could pay for a long distance call to Russia. The language barrier is obviously a problem in any of those cases as well.
I imagine it's not unheard of for artists or performers to experience much worse problems getting any money out of Western record companies.
I wouldn't say worse. I imagine artists have some trouble with major labels, but in the independent industry that is hardly ever the case. In my experience, it's more likely that a label will run out of money completely before it doesn't pay an artist (:
I have given them my credit card number something like a year ago and have not been the victim of any fraud or anyother unsavoury activity.
Yes, that quote is a sweeping generalization, but you gave your credit card number to a website focused on selling you music no matter what country you are from. The fact that none of our labels can find an application of any sort or even contact these people, probably leads them to feel rather insecure about giving them any type of information.
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I imagine the only reason it took so long is because no one gives a damn about DVD-Audio (: The last DVD-Audio disc I actually saw was the test one that came with my previous DVD player.
Short answer: No.
The goal of BadApple is clearly stated in their FAQ:
Why was BadApple created?
The goal is to make iTunes and iPods interoperate with other piles of media. I'm worried that when and if Apple adds podcast support they will only list a few podcasts that they approve. Remember this is a company that sues web sites that say good things about their upcoming products - bad Apple! Podcasts are significant because they offer a wide-range of diverse topics and ideas, not just those endorsed by one company. BadApple gives you access to all podcasts, - even ones which Apple might disagree with and never list in iTunes software. (emphasis mine)
RTFS
A British tabloid newspaper managed to buy the personal details of over 1000 bank customers from an off-shore call centre based in Delhi. An IT worker at the call centre handed over details at £4.25 per customer, as well as credit card numbers and account passwords.
Far from unspecified (:
Good.
I was a big fan of ebay back in the day. I still have an account that I use on very rare occasion. But today ebay seems to be nothing more than a portal for people who don't want / can't afford to setup physical shop. Ebay lost is greatest quality, IMO, a while back: the personal experience.
The last few things I sold a couple of months ago were random shirts from indie bands. Of the five people I contacted after winning, none of them ever replied to my emails. One of them left me negative feedback because she felt the shirt was in poor condition. I would've been glad to refund her the money and let her keep the shirt if she had contacted me, but apparently talking to another human (even by email) is a bit too much for ebayers these days.
And if someone can't use them, they just email Sony and learn how to use the "backdoor" (:
This might be marked as troll... but think about it. Isnt it possible?
Whether or not it is possible has nothing to do with the fact that the post is a troll (:
Freak out much? Maybe you didn't notice, but this was just a little stunt on Jay Leno's late night show. Believe me, they weren't trying to prove that we should all switch over to morse code for day to day communication (:
MS is probably allowing it to be a DVD player out of the box without the annoying "remote control must be there".
What exactly makes you think that? Why wouldn't MS want you to dish out another $50+ for DVD capability?
I must say that I have growing concerns about the prospect of one company effectively determining what can and cannot be found on the world wide web, not to mention one company handling the email of a vast proportion of Internet users.
http://www.a9.com
http://www.alltheweb.com/
http://www.yahoo.com
http://search.msn.com
http://www.lycos.com/
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://search.excite.com/
http://search.looksmart.com/
http://www.ask.com/
Where are you getting this "one company" stuff? Same goes for email, just because Google knows how to design a good interface does mean they are the only option.
The "printable page" version is ad free and still loading quickly. Hurry (:
http://overklokking.no/print.php?artikkelid=14773
We actually did see two cars in the parking lot of the pizza place that obviously had people smoking pot in them. Both had U.S. plates and the employees at the pizza place said it's something they see all the time (it was around 2AM).
Not long ago some friends and I went to a show in Detroit and on the way home we randomly decided to take the bridge over to Canada. Upon entering Canada the woman asked us what our intentions were and the person driving said "I don't know, we just want to check out Canada." or something like that. So she waved us on without any other questions or ID checks and we went to Essex and got a pizza.
On the way back, however, the guy asked to see all of our licenses, questioned each of us about a variety of things, and did a search of the vehicle's trunk. All in all it took about twenty minutes. The same thing appeared to happen to the two vehicles before us.
Probably not worth drawing any serious conclusions, but I found the distinction to be rather amusing (:
What exactly should I be mousing over? I can't even find a map with all these animated banner ads everywhere (:
Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy blogged on the subject recently. I actually discovered this via a mass-mail sent out from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I already deleted the email, but it had some insight as to how this actually happened under everyone's nose.
And mind your language, or you'll look like a juvenile little fanboy in the midst of throwing all his toys out of the pram.
What's the differnt between fanboy and twat? They are both meant to offend a person. Practice what you preach (:
Calling that statement marketing speak is really an illogical jump. Just because you don't agree with _how_ he says what he says in no way puts him at fault. The guy is an Apple fan (obviously) and a PowerBook is probably the only kind of laptop he's really interested in. Reading the entire quote he describes why laptops are so useful, and to this guy laptop = PowerBook, he's not trying to sell you anything. Read the entire interview, it's anything but marketing speak.
I'm guessing that English is, in fact, being threatened.
Oh cum now. In that situation there is _no one_ to blame but the stupid high school aged kids who can't distinguish between IM chat and formal written papers. The stupidity of these kids is no way to measure how "netspeak" threatens language. But feel free look into how the education some people get in high school threatens society (:
Work in a plug for Linux or Open Source, instant +5. Mention a valid and existing bug with the open source software the post is about, you're an offtopic troll
Make a comment bashing slashdot and/or its users and you're automagically +5. This also falls into the lines of starting a comment with "I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but..." Ain't slashdot great? (:
But if you want to make some serious money, you better spell it buisiness (:
Damn, grandparent beat me to the joke, and parent beat me to complaining about being beaten to ):
Haha, shit i didn't even notice that (:
Haha, gotta love this reply to Bezos' post about developers.
Jeff,
My name is Jonathan. I think that commerce on the Internet will never
work, because people prefer to buy things in stores. Just my two
cents, I don't want to see you wasting effort on a company that is
going to bankrupt you very quickly. If you want to hear a much better
outlet for capital funding, my start-up company is involved in
something called the XFL, which is sure to be the most successful
enterprise of the decade. Just my two cents.
-Jonathan
I doubt any of our labels could afford to hire a lawyer to handle that. And I was not assuming it is illegal or fraudulent, nor do I think "Russians are bad." I was just noting our experiences (as a distributer) with ROMS.
If we can't personally contact them ourselves, why *should* they be allowed to distribute music that our labels represent? Maybe it's legal, maybe it's not, I don't know. But even it is 100% legal, we would not participate if we can't even talk to the people (Russian or not).
In Apple's defense they did also slightly more than double the stated battery life of the Mini from eight hours to 18 hours. But I do agree it's pretty lame to drop the firewire and power adapter.
So there is a mechanism for you to get some money from this but they haven't replied to your e-mails. Have you tried phoning or writing to them ?
Apparently there is. We did also mail them, but were unable to find a phone number on their website and saw no reason to go searching for the number just so we could pay for a long distance call to Russia. The language barrier is obviously a problem in any of those cases as well.
I imagine it's not unheard of for artists or performers to experience much worse problems getting any money out of Western record companies.
I wouldn't say worse. I imagine artists have some trouble with major labels, but in the independent industry that is hardly ever the case. In my experience, it's more likely that a label will run out of money completely before it doesn't pay an artist (:
I have given them my credit card number something like a year ago and have not been the victim of any fraud or anyother unsavoury activity.
Yes, that quote is a sweeping generalization, but you gave your credit card number to a website focused on selling you music no matter what country you are from. The fact that none of our labels can find an application of any sort or even contact these people, probably leads them to feel rather insecure about giving them any type of information.
Maybe that's the ROMS intention?