We only live about 20 outside Tacoma WA, but we have no cable service (TV or Internet), no DSL, poor to none cell service, no wireless internet options....Its satellite or dial up, neither really work for viop services. When I tried dial up we cant even get 56k, it topped out at 26k.
From calls to comcast & quest it sounds like our area is not even on the coming soon list.
...All they are doing is making a market for imported, pirated and bootlegged games. Want to be the cool kid at school, then pick you have the uncensored version of a game. A usb drive in your pocket, an SD card hidden inside a birthday card would be easy ways to slip games and other content into china.
Just goto walmart, buy your HD movie, music, PS4 game, etc...on a flash card ? Plug it into your mp3 player, car deck, TV, Xbox, PC.....Well, probably not PS4 since its from sony it would use its own special sony only format.
But everyone else just use a universal flash media format, and it wouldnt get ruined by a scratch from dust either.
That happens all the time.
The band Streetlight Manifesto spend their own money making their first official video, there label forced them to remove the video saying it was a copyright infringement. The band had no rights to use their own music for any purpose.
We have 3 web sites hosted by gate.com, all different domain names, different passwords, etc.. We have the same code/virus/whatever on all 3 sites, all used a hidden iframe linking to a site in Russia.
When Im on the couch I may grab my netbook and when you only have 10" of screen the stupid dig bar takes up alot of valuable space. Also I do not like the fact they can be loading their own ads or content into the page you are viewing.
Then what happens when all the other sites start putting on there own bars, you will have 3 or 4 toolbars stacked on each other.
People have been saying that ever since ABS brakes came out, saying they are driving faster because they think they can stop faster....Then air bags saying it was because drivers think they would not get hurt in a wreck....Maybe people in general are just driving faster for no real reason.
Thats the main problem I see, these major storage mediums of today have no durability. A bit of dust wiped in and your 30$ blu ray gets stuck or skips. I have had some you cant even see the scratch and they no longer play. CDs still would pretty much play with some scratches, DVD a bit more picky and Blu Rays extremely poor at reading imperfect disks.
The other major problem is their size, you cant stick a disk in your pocket, or not with out the case poking you. I am looking forward to everything being on solid state. Movies, music, games, all come on flash cards or drives. No moving parts to break on your player either.
The channel I listened to most (fungus 53) was pulled. The ska, punk & surf that was played on it is no longer avliable or either xm or sirius.
Satellite radio is mainly for the 55 and over market now. With 24 / 7 ac/dc, elvis, greatfull dead, bruce springstein & a jimmy buffet channel they are turning away half there market.
I thought they were having lots of problems with watchman and some reports were saying it will bomb.
I think they movie people are just out of ideas. IMDB has over 960,000 movies & tv shows listed I think. So comic books and remakes is all they have left.
I live only about 20 minutes from Tacoma, WA and our area still has no DSL, no cable (none at all, not even cable tv) poor to none cell reception (for wireless internet) and dial up (we cant even get 56k dial up, it never got over 26k when I tried it). All we can get is satellite and they have smaller limits, 175mb a day for standard plan or 350mb for the pro plan. 1GB a day would be the life.
Good thing I have cable at work and a 60gb usb hard drive.
The iphone looks / feels like a brick. The touch screen sucks, I tried one and kept hitting the wrong letters. Get a blackberry or sidekick for 1/2 the price and you can type twice as fast.
Funny, I was on there yesterday, some of the groups had 100,000 posts since the day before. When they say the newsgroups are dead, they are incorrect.
They should have said real discussions on the newsgroups are moving to yahoo groups or google or specific forms or web sites. Actually that move to web based discussions happened about 4 or 5 years ago. So this article is rather late and meaningless.
Thats because the radio and labels is scared of change. They want to make sure there bands are putting out what sold last time and keep repeating that forever. You read / hear all the time about bands saying they had some songs they really wanted to get on an album but the label didnt think it was a good idea at this time. Thats why satellite radio has millions of subscribers. The system has been totally backwards for 20 years, with the labels owning the bands and making them only put out what sounds like the same thing as they hear on the top 40 now. Top 40 has been the same mix of 70% rap / r&b and 30% light mushy rock for about 15 years now. There are alot of people who dont like rap / r&b and never will but thats all thats out there. The music industry is going though a self correction, in people can go find they music they actually like, get it right from the artist and listen to in there car, ipod, or where ever.
The labels make the bands like slave labors and force them to pay big money back to the label. Most typical top 40 bands may be forced to spend 5000 - 20,000$ per day of studio recording (of the labels choice), they may charge them 50-150,000$ to mix there album and by the time there done they spend 200-300,000$ to get an album out. There are many small bands who record & mix there albums for under $1000. Most people wouldnt notice any difference. Many music schools have studios for rent very cheap, some bigger clubs have back room studios for recording and there always "your buddies house with the studio in the garage.
It is hugely overbloated. Takes 512 just to run(I mean its uses about 450-500mb when it loads to desktop on my brothers laptop with vista basic) and to run anything at a decent speed you need 1-2gb. His came with vista basic and 512 and its pretty slow, about like my old dell laptop with a p3 700. Ram is cheap enough but most people dont know how to put it in so 75$ of memory turns into 150$ with overpriced installation, then the extras they will try to sell them(new video card, new hard drive, backup,etc) they will have spend 100$ on vista, 150$ on memory and 200$ in add ons they could have bought a new computer. So people just wont bother to upgrade in the first place.
Now the hardware makers are back to making and updating 2 drivers, for 2000 & xp and vista. Brings up hardware prices and brings down driver quality as it double the bugs needing to be fixed.
Last reason is xp works fine, we have a computer still running 2000 it work fine also. My computer in the office runs from monday morning till friday afternoon, usually with out being rebooted or turned off. Why upgrade when everything works fine now and upgrading will just slow everything down.
Most mp3 files have better quality than the sound card(or chipsets) in the computer. Look how many people listen to cds on cheap computer speakers or base model speakers that came with there car, there would be no difference to them in sound quality to a 96k mp3 file or original CD. For a majority of people it has to sound "ok".
Most of the bands I like are small local or indy bands that play mainly SKA music. Forget trying to find them at BB or Circuit City or a mall cd store. When looking for music I always look to see if its legally downloadable first, I dont like stealing from small bands.If I can have it in 5 minutes and the band still gets paid, why go to the store or order it and wait 3+ days(more if you order it on a weekend). Most cds I have are used once, ripped to the computer and never seen again. If I buy it at a store 2 times, once in the car then the computer.
Alot of people are just tired of todays music. Rap and R&B has been #1 since I graduated high school, about 14 years if I am counting right(50-50 chance). It to the point where parents and kids are listening to the same people and it wont take long before that becomes totally uncool with the younger generation and they fork off in some new direction.
While the parents will still be getting down to classic artists(Snoop Dog & 50 Cent) the kids want something different. Amy Winehouse (Jazzy and 40-50's era sounding) is #9 on the US top 40 charts? See what I mean. American Idle(even though I dont watch it), Rockstar, INXS's show, Dancing with the stars and other shows has put singers and music (not performers) back in front of people. And seems most people will end up liking whats put in front of them(its easier than going out to find what you like, just live with what your given). People have been living with rap and R&B for so long they are happy to find something new.
It will take the music industry a few years to swing around to offer downloads for all artists and to figure out musical tastes have changed. Hopefully we will have a music revival to look forward to where anykind of music can be popular and the whole industry isnt driven off of research firms telling radio stations what we want to listen to.
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We only live about 20 outside Tacoma WA, but we have no cable service (TV or Internet), no DSL, poor to none cell service, no wireless internet options....Its satellite or dial up, neither really work for viop services. When I tried dial up we cant even get 56k, it topped out at 26k. From calls to comcast & quest it sounds like our area is not even on the coming soon list.
...All they are doing is making a market for imported, pirated and bootlegged games. Want to be the cool kid at school, then pick you have the uncensored version of a game. A usb drive in your pocket, an SD card hidden inside a birthday card would be easy ways to slip games and other content into china.
You can get the Sunday paper for 1$ at most walmarts or a dollar store. To get the Sunday paper delivered is like 8$ a month (Hummm 4 x 1$ = 4$)
Just goto walmart, buy your HD movie, music, PS4 game, etc...on a flash card ? Plug it into your mp3 player, car deck, TV, Xbox, PC.....Well, probably not PS4 since its from sony it would use its own special sony only format. But everyone else just use a universal flash media format, and it wouldnt get ruined by a scratch from dust either.
That happens all the time. The band Streetlight Manifesto spend their own money making their first official video, there label forced them to remove the video saying it was a copyright infringement. The band had no rights to use their own music for any purpose.
We have 3 web sites hosted by gate.com, all different domain names, different passwords, etc.. We have the same code/virus/whatever on all 3 sites, all used a hidden iframe linking to a site in Russia.
Thats silly. More often people get drug under an SUV
With so many apps & games still only capable of running on 1 cpu or core Ill wait till they quad cores run at least 4ghz before upgrading again
When Im on the couch I may grab my netbook and when you only have 10" of screen the stupid dig bar takes up alot of valuable space. Also I do not like the fact they can be loading their own ads or content into the page you are viewing. Then what happens when all the other sites start putting on there own bars, you will have 3 or 4 toolbars stacked on each other.
People have been saying that ever since ABS brakes came out, saying they are driving faster because they think they can stop faster....Then air bags saying it was because drivers think they would not get hurt in a wreck....Maybe people in general are just driving faster for no real reason.
Thats the main problem I see, these major storage mediums of today have no durability. A bit of dust wiped in and your 30$ blu ray gets stuck or skips. I have had some you cant even see the scratch and they no longer play. CDs still would pretty much play with some scratches, DVD a bit more picky and Blu Rays extremely poor at reading imperfect disks. The other major problem is their size, you cant stick a disk in your pocket, or not with out the case poking you. I am looking forward to everything being on solid state. Movies, music, games, all come on flash cards or drives. No moving parts to break on your player either.
The channel I listened to most (fungus 53) was pulled. The ska, punk & surf that was played on it is no longer avliable or either xm or sirius. Satellite radio is mainly for the 55 and over market now. With 24 / 7 ac/dc, elvis, greatfull dead, bruce springstein & a jimmy buffet channel they are turning away half there market.
I thought they were having lots of problems with watchman and some reports were saying it will bomb. I think they movie people are just out of ideas. IMDB has over 960,000 movies & tv shows listed I think. So comic books and remakes is all they have left.
I live only about 20 minutes from Tacoma, WA and our area still has no DSL, no cable (none at all, not even cable tv) poor to none cell reception (for wireless internet) and dial up (we cant even get 56k dial up, it never got over 26k when I tried it). All we can get is satellite and they have smaller limits, 175mb a day for standard plan or 350mb for the pro plan. 1GB a day would be the life. Good thing I have cable at work and a 60gb usb hard drive.
That sounds like alot of work for 500,000 over 3 years.
The iphone looks / feels like a brick. The touch screen sucks, I tried one and kept hitting the wrong letters. Get a blackberry or sidekick for 1/2 the price and you can type twice as fast.
Funny, I was on there yesterday, some of the groups had 100,000 posts since the day before. When they say the newsgroups are dead, they are incorrect. They should have said real discussions on the newsgroups are moving to yahoo groups or google or specific forms or web sites. Actually that move to web based discussions happened about 4 or 5 years ago. So this article is rather late and meaningless.
Thats because the radio and labels is scared of change. They want to make sure there bands are putting out what sold last time and keep repeating that forever. You read / hear all the time about bands saying they had some songs they really wanted to get on an album but the label didnt think it was a good idea at this time. Thats why satellite radio has millions of subscribers. The system has been totally backwards for 20 years, with the labels owning the bands and making them only put out what sounds like the same thing as they hear on the top 40 now. Top 40 has been the same mix of 70% rap / r&b and 30% light mushy rock for about 15 years now. There are alot of people who dont like rap / r&b and never will but thats all thats out there. The music industry is going though a self correction, in people can go find they music they actually like, get it right from the artist and listen to in there car, ipod, or where ever. The labels make the bands like slave labors and force them to pay big money back to the label. Most typical top 40 bands may be forced to spend 5000 - 20,000$ per day of studio recording (of the labels choice), they may charge them 50-150,000$ to mix there album and by the time there done they spend 200-300,000$ to get an album out. There are many small bands who record & mix there albums for under $1000. Most people wouldnt notice any difference. Many music schools have studios for rent very cheap, some bigger clubs have back room studios for recording and there always "your buddies house with the studio in the garage.
It is hugely overbloated. Takes 512 just to run(I mean its uses about 450-500mb when it loads to desktop on my brothers laptop with vista basic) and to run anything at a decent speed you need 1-2gb. His came with vista basic and 512 and its pretty slow, about like my old dell laptop with a p3 700. Ram is cheap enough but most people dont know how to put it in so 75$ of memory turns into 150$ with overpriced installation, then the extras they will try to sell them(new video card, new hard drive, backup,etc) they will have spend 100$ on vista, 150$ on memory and 200$ in add ons they could have bought a new computer. So people just wont bother to upgrade in the first place.
Now the hardware makers are back to making and updating 2 drivers, for 2000 & xp and vista. Brings up hardware prices and brings down driver quality as it double the bugs needing to be fixed.
Last reason is xp works fine, we have a computer still running 2000 it work fine also. My computer in the office runs from monday morning till friday afternoon, usually with out being rebooted or turned off. Why upgrade when everything works fine now and upgrading will just slow everything down.
Most of the bands I like are small local or indy bands that play mainly SKA music. Forget trying to find them at BB or Circuit City or a mall cd store. When looking for music I always look to see if its legally downloadable first, I dont like stealing from small bands.If I can have it in 5 minutes and the band still gets paid, why go to the store or order it and wait 3+ days(more if you order it on a weekend). Most cds I have are used once, ripped to the computer and never seen again. If I buy it at a store 2 times, once in the car then the computer.
Alot of people are just tired of todays music. Rap and R&B has been #1 since I graduated high school, about 14 years if I am counting right(50-50 chance). It to the point where parents and kids are listening to the same people and it wont take long before that becomes totally uncool with the younger generation and they fork off in some new direction.
While the parents will still be getting down to classic artists(Snoop Dog & 50 Cent) the kids want something different. Amy Winehouse (Jazzy and 40-50's era sounding) is #9 on the US top 40 charts? See what I mean. American Idle(even though I dont watch it), Rockstar, INXS's show, Dancing with the stars and other shows has put singers and music (not performers) back in front of people. And seems most people will end up liking whats put in front of them(its easier than going out to find what you like, just live with what your given). People have been living with rap and R&B for so long they are happy to find something new.
It will take the music industry a few years to swing around to offer downloads for all artists and to figure out musical tastes have changed. Hopefully we will have a music revival to look forward to where anykind of music can be popular and the whole industry isnt driven off of research firms telling radio stations what we want to listen to.