Agreed that Big Radio plays a big part of the problem in that the same stuff is always played.
Also with the lowpower stations, maybe a diffirant band of the spectrum could be alocated to them ( I know people would need diffirant radios to listen to them) But ya it would be nice if there was a legil way for lowpower stations to exist to add some flavor to the mix. but with the LPFM, how would the licencing go, I sure hope not like GPMR is done here in the us (you pay 80USD and you got a licence) I would like to see something along the lines of a Ham test (and maybe the Ham test made a bit harder)
Well depends if I am a block from you with 5 watts and the 10kW station is 45x the distance from you I will be stronger, do to the invers law of RF, aka the power of the transmition is 1 / sqrt(distance)
I know this will not be popular, but there is a reason for the FCC to be around and to control the spectrum. Think about it, if the FCC did not exist I could drive around with a 2kilowatt spread spectrum transmitter on 2.4Ghz, good by WiFi, or I could jam all cell phones anywhere. The FCC may not be perfect but we need it. Also with these vandals (yes I use the word vandals) it would be nice if they were low power and such, but they get their kicks from broadcasting over another station. That is one reason for the FCC to protect peoples right to their freq. If one wants something on the air there is always the public access stations. Or you could do a net stream, there are many other options, the FCC is not there just to hurt the little guy, they are there to protect the bands, they are not always good at it, and they make mistakes
GSM in the US is not bad I live in Pittsburgh, and the coverage is very good, the only place I don't get a good signal is at home, but when I had sprint I did not get a good signal at home eather. I left sprint in Nov becuase in April of last year they started to promise a blue tooth cell phone, now here it is over a year later, if you look at their site still no bluetooth. I like the fact that I can now get any phone that I want supported or not by T-Mobil (insert your favorit GSM company here) and just pop my sim card in. CDMA left a bad taste in my mouth from sprint, so I hope it starts to die.
Don't know don't care. If it going to hit we all are dead anyway, better to die doing what you should be doing, and meet your maker with a clear consence, well I guess this would not apply to the true athests [wonders how many curent athests would sudently find religion if it was going to hit, on the other side, I wonder how many religous people would lose their religoun]
Of cource I am the kind of person that would if found out it would hit, go out about 2 hours before it should hit and watch (hay if I am going to die lets watch it come, of cource I probably be pray for some merical to happen at the same time)
it such a small share, I only know of one company that uses it (correct me if I am wrong)
when I look for a divice that uses a flash card, I do not buy sony because I will not be able to use it on any other device I already own, right now I am looking at digital camras, and I sony is not even an option for me because I can not use it with any other device I use, I want one with an sd card because all my other devices accept an SD card.
I think it is not a good idea to only suppord devices that only use a memory stick for it, since, that limites your market right there.
well I don't watch tv, I can not get broadcast stations here, not a rf friendly place, and I am to damn cheap to pay for cable. so no I don't watch tv.
do adervisters really think this will increase their sales. The user using these popup blockers have said they don't want them, to try to defeat them is only going to make many users hate you, and your product I would see that if it is a legit company they just might see their sales drop from the angry net users. For those who have not disabled javascript this just might be the nail that gets them to disable it.
Norton Adaware spybot and spyware blaster Then you are ready for the other stuff.
ah forget all that pain just get a real OS such Mac OS X or Linux
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some thing wrong with that I know what THAC0 stands for and I never played D&D (unless you count the computer games, but from what I read people don't count those so it does not count)
You have to remember the people who worked there were aganst the union, they store gave the union the first amount of money they "demanded" for pay. that was less then what they were paying the current people. Then the store became a union shop per the demand of the union. The store gave the union everything they wanted. I don't know of any one that would say you are demanding to little here is more, and that store is no exception.
Bad idea, unions are not always good. I know of a store near where i live, that was not a union store, the union was always protesting it. finaly the store gave in and became a union shop (you had to be a part of the union to work there) when they did that they pay droped and 75% of the people that worked there quit. Good job for the union it caused a store to save money with lower pay, and loss their workers.
Do we think Linux is ready for this. Yes I admit if you have some one set it up well, any one can use it. But Grandma might hear of software X and want it. How will the be done, aka, I heard I can do my taxes on the computer with turboTax, can you set it up for me.
what are you going to tell her, if you can not get it to work with wine?
How. Tell me where the Bible, says that God did not make other life. It does say that God is infinite. In fact a Christian can easily accept life on another plant because, if God is infinite, that would lead to Him being infinitely creative. So why would he stop with life on earth.
Also as to the central reason for Christianity is that sin affects humans (read man on earth) how does that affect there being life on other earths.
C.S Lewis also had a sci-fi book about life on other plants.
I think you remember the conversation we had recently at this software conference in Dublin. You came up to me and told me how the stuff I was talking about was mostly useless, because it is closed-source, people need to pay for it and that companies charging for software are evil anyways - especially Microsoft. Unfortunately I don't have your email, but I am sure this will reach you.
First, I would like to thank you for the interesting conversation that developed and to make sure that none of what was said just fades away, I'll tell you here once again what I am thinking about what you do, what you think and - most importantly about your future.
When I was 21 - like you now - I was also at university and was pursing a computer science master degree. Back then, I was very enthusiastic about programming and creating stuff that mattered. And thought that I was the best programmer the field has ever seen and everyone else was mostly worthless. And I did indeed write some programs that mattered and made a difference. The program I spent some 3 years writing in Turbo Pascal from when I was 18 was for my father's business. Because the business he's in requires a lot of bureaucracy, he and my mother spent about 2-3 daily hours on average doing all of this stuff by hand. When I was done with my program and he started using it, that time went from 3 hours to about 15 minutes a day. That was software that absolutely improved the quality of life for the entire family! And his friends and colleagues loved it, too. I didn't sell many licenses at that time (I think I had 3 customers), but each one was worth 1500 German Marks and that was a huge heap of money for me. I mean - I was living at my parent's house, getting a monthly allowance of 120 German Marks and worked as a cable grip for a couple of TV stations every once in a while - maybe 2-3 times a month. And if I ever had 400 Marks per month I could really consider myself massively rich at the time and for my age, because I had very minimal additional expenses. So 4500 Marks on top of that? Fantastic. Where did the money go? I can't really remember where it all went, but I guess "lot of partying" or "Girls, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll" would be a reasonably good explanation. Hey, I was 21 and that's what one is supposed to do at that age, right?
That was in 1990 - let's fast forward to 2004 and you. All software that you and your father could possibly be interested in has already been written. That's probably not true, but it's hard to think of something, right? Ok, the software may not run on your favorite operation system and may cost money, but what you can immediately think of is likely there. So where do you put all your energy? Into this absolutely amazing open-source project you co-coordinate. I mean, really, the stuff that you and your buddies are doing there is truly impressive. There are a couple of things I'd probably do differently in terms of design and architecture, but it works well and that's mostly what matters. And you do make an impact as well. I know that hundreds of people and dozens of companies use your stuff. That's great.
However, I start to wonder where your benefit is. You are - out of principle - not making any money out of this, because it is open-source and you and your buddies insist that it must be absolutely free. So you are putting all of that time and energy into this project for what? Fame? To found a career? Come on.
If someone installs your work from disc 3 of some Linux distro, they couldn't care less who you are. The whole fame thing you are telling me only works amongst geeks. The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place. I mean - get real here.
So once you get your degree from school, what's the plan?
Well I am not chasing them down, my coworkers offer them to me, with out me asking. One day one of my coworks saw my iPod on my desk and asked if it was an iPod, when I ansered yes, he said "I have a bunch of Pepsi winning caps you want them." Also I am not drinking soda. I am drinking water. Which is better for you then any soda.
Based on the last line of the article "But he expects the business will mature as users realize it's cheaper to pay a flat fee for access to 500,000 tracks than to pay $1 a song."
The problem with the $15 a month is, I don't want to have to pay if I don't use it for a month. As it is I have spent less then $10 a month on iTunes store (and this month I might not spend anything), for me it has been cheaper. So if I look at it I have saved about $25 by not going with Napster. And since I am the only one in my circle at work that uses it, but every one here drinks Pepsi, I am getting free songs from my co-works (that or they would just trash the winning caps), but that is just a non-issue in the long run. With the iTunes store there is great integration into OS X and my iPod.
Also it does cost $.99 do download the song form Napster, so you have to pay for access then to download. From Napsters (www.napster.com) front page "Choose your own tracks for $0.99 each, or get the whole enchilada for just $9.95 per album."
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I tried, I don't care to admit, I even tried the pay one though qrz, I alwas get the same misspelled name and transposed adress.
But I try again. It will not work but I will try
Agreed that Big Radio plays a big part of the problem in that the same stuff is always played.
Also with the lowpower stations, maybe a diffirant band of the spectrum could be alocated to them ( I know people would need diffirant radios to listen to them) But ya it would be nice if there was a legil way for lowpower stations to exist to add some flavor to the mix. but with the LPFM, how would the licencing go, I sure hope not like GPMR is done here in the us (you pay 80USD and you got a licence) I would like to see something along the lines of a Ham test (and maybe the Ham test made a bit harder)
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sorry it is 1/distance^2 not sqrt, the number is about right, I just missed typed.
Well depends if I am a block from you with 5 watts and the 10kW station is 45x the distance from you I will be stronger, do to the invers law of RF, aka the power of the transmition is 1 / sqrt(distance)
I know this will not be popular, but there is a reason for the FCC to be around and to control the spectrum. Think about it, if the FCC did not exist I could drive around with a 2kilowatt spread spectrum transmitter on 2.4Ghz, good by WiFi, or I could jam all cell phones anywhere. The FCC may not be perfect but we need it. Also with these vandals (yes I use the word vandals) it would be nice if they were low power and such, but they get their kicks from broadcasting over another station. That is one reason for the FCC to protect peoples right to their freq. If one wants something on the air there is always the public access stations. Or you could do a net stream, there are many other options, the FCC is not there just to hurt the little guy, they are there to protect the bands, they are not always good at it, and they make mistakes
I think the only reason Sony wants the price on iTMS up, is so that they can be cheaper, then they will go out and advertise they are the cheapest.
GSM in the US is not bad I live in Pittsburgh, and the coverage is very good, the only place I don't get a good signal is at home, but when I had sprint I did not get a good signal at home eather. I left sprint in Nov becuase in April of last year they started to promise a blue tooth cell phone, now here it is over a year later, if you look at their site still no bluetooth.
I like the fact that I can now get any phone that I want supported or not by T-Mobil (insert your favorit GSM company here) and just pop my sim card in.
CDMA left a bad taste in my mouth from sprint, so I hope it starts to die.
Don't know don't care. If it going to hit we all are dead anyway, better to die doing what you should be doing, and meet your maker with a clear consence, well I guess this would not apply to the true athests [wonders how many curent athests would sudently find religion if it was going to hit, on the other side, I wonder how many religous people would lose their religoun]
Of cource I am the kind of person that would if found out it would hit, go out about 2 hours before it should hit and watch (hay if I am going to die lets watch it come, of cource I probably be pray for some merical to happen at the same time)
it such a small share, I only know of one company that uses it (correct me if I am wrong)
when I look for a divice that uses a flash card, I do not buy sony because I will not be able to use it on any other device I already own, right now I am looking at digital camras, and I sony is not even an option for me because I can not use it with any other device I use, I want one with an sd card because all my other devices accept an SD card.
I think it is not a good idea to only suppord devices that only use a memory stick for it, since, that limites your market right there.
ring ring, "Hi this is sorry guy, if you want you can send $1 to the sorry guy at 742 Evergreen Terrace"
well I don't watch tv, I can not get broadcast stations here, not a rf friendly place, and I am to damn cheap to pay for cable. so no I don't watch tv.
do adervisters really think this will increase their sales. The user
using these popup blockers have said they don't want them, to try to
defeat them is only going to make many users hate you, and your product
I would see that if it is a legit company they just might see their sales
drop from the angry net users. For those who have not disabled javascript
this just might be the nail that gets them to disable it.
Norton
Adaware
spybot
and spyware blaster
Then you are ready for the other stuff.
ah forget all that pain just get a real OS such Mac OS X or Linux
some thing wrong with that I know what THAC0 stands for and I never played D&D (unless you count the computer games, but from what I read people don't count those so it does not count)
You have to remember the people who worked there were aganst the union, they store gave the union the first amount of money they "demanded" for pay. that was less then what they were paying the current people. Then the store became a union shop per the demand of the union. The store gave the union everything they wanted. I don't know of any one that would say you are demanding to little here is more, and that store is no exception.
Bad idea, unions are not always good. I know of a store near where i live, that was not a union store, the union was always protesting it. finaly the store gave in and became a union shop (you had to be a part of the union to work there) when they did that they pay droped and 75% of the people that worked there quit. Good job for the union it caused a store to save money with lower pay, and loss their workers.
Do we think Linux is ready for this. Yes I admit if you have some one set it up well, any one can use it. But Grandma might hear of software X and want it. How will the be done, aka, I heard I can do my taxes on the computer with turboTax, can you set it up for me.
what are you going to tell her, if you can not get it to work with wine?
I like the idea, but I am not sure Linux is ready
I just ask my friends who they would suggest for some doctor.
They said the rock was drenched, not the plant.
How. Tell me where the Bible, says that God did not make other life. It does say that God is infinite. In fact a Christian can easily accept life on another plant because, if God is infinite, that would lead to Him being infinitely creative. So why would he stop with life on earth.
Also as to the central reason for Christianity is that sin affects humans (read man on earth) how does that affect there being life on other earths.
C.S Lewis also had a sci-fi book about life on other plants.
He said that there was once water, and that the rocks were layed down in the water.
So here is the text of the letter.
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Dear Aiden,
I think you remember the conversation we had recently at this software conference in Dublin. You came up to me and told me how the stuff I was talking about was mostly useless, because it is closed-source, people need to pay for it and that companies charging for software are evil anyways - especially Microsoft. Unfortunately I don't have your email, but I am sure this will reach you.
First, I would like to thank you for the interesting conversation that developed and to make sure that none of what was said just fades away, I'll tell you here once again what I am thinking about what you do, what you think and - most importantly about your future.
When I was 21 - like you now - I was also at university and was pursing a computer science master degree. Back then, I was very enthusiastic about programming and creating stuff that mattered. And thought that I was the best programmer the field has ever seen and everyone else was mostly worthless. And I did indeed write some programs that mattered and made a difference. The program I spent some 3 years writing in Turbo Pascal from when I was 18 was for my father's business. Because the business he's in requires a lot of bureaucracy, he and my mother spent about 2-3 daily hours on average doing all of this stuff by hand. When I was done with my program and he started using it, that time went from 3 hours to about 15 minutes a day. That was software that absolutely improved the quality of life for the entire family! And his friends and colleagues loved it, too. I didn't sell many licenses at that time (I think I had 3 customers), but each one was worth 1500 German Marks and that was a huge heap of money for me. I mean - I was living at my parent's house, getting a monthly allowance of 120 German Marks and worked as a cable grip for a couple of TV stations every once in a while - maybe 2-3 times a month. And if I ever had 400 Marks per month I could really consider myself massively rich at the time and for my age, because I had very minimal additional expenses. So 4500 Marks on top of that? Fantastic. Where did the money go? I can't really remember where it all went, but I guess "lot of partying" or "Girls, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll" would be a reasonably good explanation. Hey, I was 21 and that's what one is supposed to do at that age, right?
That was in 1990 - let's fast forward to 2004 and you. All software that you and your father could possibly be interested in has already been written. That's probably not true, but it's hard to think of something, right? Ok, the software may not run on your favorite operation system and may cost money, but what you can immediately think of is likely there. So where do you put all your energy? Into this absolutely amazing open-source project you co-coordinate. I mean, really, the stuff that you and your buddies are doing there is truly impressive. There are a couple of things I'd probably do differently in terms of design and architecture, but it works well and that's mostly what matters. And you do make an impact as well. I know that hundreds of people and dozens of companies use your stuff. That's great.
However, I start to wonder where your benefit is. You are - out of principle - not making any money out of this, because it is open-source and you and your buddies insist that it must be absolutely free. So you are putting all of that time and energy into this project for what? Fame? To found a career? Come on.
If someone installs your work from disc 3 of some Linux distro, they couldn't care less who you are. The whole fame thing you are telling me only works amongst geeks. The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place. I mean - get real here.
So once you get your degree from school, what's the plan?
Right now,
Well I am not chasing them down, my coworkers offer them to me, with out me asking. One day one of my coworks saw my iPod on my desk and asked if it was an iPod, when I ansered yes, he said "I have a bunch of Pepsi winning caps you want them." Also I am not drinking soda. I am drinking water. Which is better for you then any soda.
Based on the last line of the article "But he expects the business will mature as users realize it's cheaper to pay a flat fee for access to 500,000 tracks than to pay $1 a song."
The problem with the $15 a month is, I don't want to have to pay if I don't use it for a month. As it is I have spent less then $10 a month on iTunes store (and this month I might not spend anything), for me it has been cheaper. So if I look at it I have saved about $25 by not going with Napster. And since I am the only one in my circle at work that uses it, but every one here drinks Pepsi, I am getting free songs from my co-works (that or they would just trash the winning caps), but that is just a non-issue in the long run. With the iTunes store there is great integration into OS X and my iPod.
Also it does cost $.99 do download the song form Napster, so you have to pay for access then to download. From Napsters (www.napster.com) front page "Choose your own tracks for $0.99 each, or get the whole enchilada for just $9.95 per album."