Have a smaller one... and get an external bigger screen!
I want a nice ultraportable one (Lifebook P1510 P-M 1.2GHz 512MB 60GB 8.9 XP Tablet)... but they cost a fortune. Hey, I'm getting less here!!!
Personally, I'd like to see them pull the plug, then Apple to offer to bail all of the artists out of their stinking contracts in return for dealing direct with them. Hehe, that would be the recording industries worst nightmare.
I was only using IE to connect to my works terminal services page. Some clever bugger in the office managed to get it working under Linux a couple of days ago... so I suspect that I'll be able to drop IE once I read his how-to!
Where does that remaining $14 get divvied up? Does anyone have the break down of the money distribution of a CD? I tried to find one, but failed miserably.
I hope one good thing comes out of this big shuffle to downloading and that is the artists get a decent amount of the cut. Well it will definitely happen when the artists sells their tracks direct to the downloading services (who'll then advertise it for them).
And, in the case of my purchases from CD Wow and Play.com, I'm talking about latest releases too.
Erm, those are the "grey imports" I was on about, the ones that are trying to be banned. CD-WOW had some trouble earlier in the year if you remember. Amazon and Play.com were the next targets!
You're getting a better price there because the prices of CDs outside Europe is so much cheaper. Play.com, CD-WOW can afford to buy them outside of the EU and ship them in and still under cut UK retailers. Unfortunately this is technically "grey importing" and unfair competition to the EU shops. The REAL problem is the recording industry has fixed the high prices in the EU (I've no proof of this, but when I visited Canada CDs were half the price. In 1997 when I was working there new CDs where about £7, in the UK they were about £15. I bought a LOT of CDs in the few months I was over there).
So to get back on topic, 1) The downloads are too expensive and 2) I don't think the high cost of the downloads is related to them just starting off, as CDs (sourced at proper retailers) didn't come down in price over the years!
You can burn songs to a CD and transfer them to a portable device for £0.99 a track or starting at £9.95 an album. Subscribers save over 10% (as low as 88p per track) when they buy multiple tracks at one time.
Actually, since supermarkets have gotten involved (in the last couple of years) the prices might have come down. They are the only people with real power (look at the Levi's - Tesco fight) to stop the price fixing. I hope they do the same to the price fixing buggers as they did to the farmers.
No offense intended, but you sound like the sort of person that, if the tracks were 25p each, would complain that they're still too expensive and that you'd pay for them if only they were 10p each instead.
I've no idea how you could come to that conclusion. I'm just being realistic on what I think they worth, so yes I would pay 25p. I know we're only talking another 75p, but it's the principle man.
Sure, legal downloads aren't as competitively priced as they could be, but you forget that, not only is legal downloading in its infancy
CD prices have only ever gone up in UK retailers, so don't expect download prices to get cheaper.
The CDs that you refer to are "crap", "old" ones or "grey imports" that the music UK [music] industry is trying to ban. So you've added petrol to my rip off fire... cheers:-)
If you could now download your Mars Bar recipe and create it using your own chocolate and caramel, but they still charged 25p then you would be questioning what you were paying for.
Not quite the same thing but my analogy of your post is closer than your analogy of my post.
99p per track is how much I pay when I get my CDs from CD-WOW. The last one I ordered was flown over from the Far East. When I download an album they dont send me the CD and they dont send it on a plane. Now tell me that we're not being ripped off.
I'm not saying we shouldn't pay. I'm saying that they're too expensive. Even adding the cost of website/hosting/load balancing. You cannot tell me that a 3-5 meg per track download is more expensive than producing the media and running it around the country. My webserver is allowed 1TB for about £800/year. That more than 100,000 tracks... erm I'll host for them for 5p a track download.
I don't understand why the price of a single track is 99p and albums are > £10!
They don't made into CDs with packaging. They don't need to transported around the world/country in various forms of transport. They don't need to be stocked in a store which employs loads of people.
Why, with practically 0 distribution chain, is the price still about the same as CD?
When they come down to 25p then I'll start buying this way. Well, so long as there's no DRM.
For the files that I really wouldn't like to lose (like photos) I also rsync them across a couple of the mirrors. I should really do it to a machine offsite, but I don't (due to lack of trusted sources).
But I think of it like if there was a fire I'd lose normal photos anyhow (unless I kept copies or the negatives offsite).
So burning them to CD/DVD is the obvious solution..... must remember to do it every now and then!
1 x highpoint HPT374 (4 channel IDE) 2 x 20GB IDE - OS installed here 2 x 120GB IDE - soon to be upgraded 2 x 300GB IDE - used to be 120s 2 x 300GB IDE - used to be 120s
atapci0: port 0xb000-0xb0ff,0xac00-0xac03,0xa800-0xa807,0xa400-0 xa403,0xa000-0xa007 irq 11 at device 7.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xa000 on atapci0 ata3: at 0xa800 on atapci0 atapci1: port 0xc400-0xc4ff,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb800-0 xb803,0xb400-0xb407 irq 11 at device 7.1 on pci0 ata4: at 0xb400 on atapci1 ata5: at 0xbc00 on atapci1 . . ar0: 19541MB [2491/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad4: 19541MB [39703/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
1 READY ad6: 19541MB [39703/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ar1: 117800MB [15017/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad5: 117800MB [239340/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA100
1 READY ad7: 117800MB [239340/16/63] at ata3-slave UDMA100 ar2: 286103MB [36473/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad8: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata4-master UDMA133
1 READY ad10: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata5-master UDMA133 ar3: 286103MB [36473/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad9: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata4-slave UDMA133
1 READY ad11: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata5-slave UDMA133
I haven't installed any of the Highpoint software, but I do run "atacontrol status " from cron once a day.
When I upgraded the disks I had to break the mirror, install new drive, copy files across, re-mirror (which included syncing 300GB, although I'm not sure if it syncs non-used parts of the disk). I used the firmware to do this.... it took hours and hours! Lots of downtime, but I just left it overnight.
Perhaps the software that come with it would sync the disks "in the background", but I couldn't get the firmware to let me re-mirror without syncing (possibly me being thick, but it's not something you have to do very often).
Anyhow.... I also e-mailed Highpoint support and thanked them for supporting FreeBSD:-)
I have "Be Developers Guide" and "Be Advance Topics". I've also got "BeOS 3.1" and "CodeWarrior 1.5 for BeOS". I think I also have BeOS 4 and 4.5 buried somewhere.
If anyone is interested in taking them off my hands. Post a message to the guestbook of my website.
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I bought a DVD a few years ago that I thought might be useful for my son in a few years...
Here's a preview: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1873635453969513506
Have a smaller one... and get an external bigger screen! ... but they cost a fortune. Hey, I'm getting less here!!!
I want a nice ultraportable one (Lifebook P1510 P-M 1.2GHz 512MB 60GB 8.9 XP Tablet)
Personally, I'd like to see them pull the plug, then Apple to offer to bail all of the artists out of their stinking contracts in return for dealing direct with them. Hehe, that would be the recording industries worst nightmare.
Haha, funny man.
What are they gonna call the film? Demolition Spam?
Nice one dude...
Has anyone actually clicked the Wikipedia link?
Not pleasant and totally off topic!
I was only using IE to connect to my works terminal services page. Some clever bugger in the office managed to get it working under Linux a couple of days ago... so I suspect that I'll be able to drop IE once I read his how-to!
Erm it does. You must have disabled it.
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Tabbed Browsing -> Warn when closing multiple tabs
Someone just sent me this link: http://torrent.hackz.nl/
Where is exeem located? I cannot seem to find it...
Where does that remaining $14 get divvied up? Does anyone have the break down of the money distribution of a CD? I tried to find one, but failed miserably.
I hope one good thing comes out of this big shuffle to downloading and that is the artists get a decent amount of the cut. Well it will definitely happen when the artists sells their tracks direct to the downloading services (who'll then advertise it for them).
And, in the case of my purchases from CD Wow and Play.com, I'm talking about latest releases too.
Erm, those are the "grey imports" I was on about, the ones that are trying to be banned. CD-WOW had some trouble earlier in the year if you remember. Amazon and Play.com were the next targets!
You're getting a better price there because the prices of CDs outside Europe is so much cheaper. Play.com, CD-WOW can afford to buy them outside of the EU and ship them in and still under cut UK retailers. Unfortunately this is technically "grey importing" and unfair competition to the EU shops. The REAL problem is the recording industry has fixed the high prices in the EU (I've no proof of this, but when I visited Canada CDs were half the price. In 1997 when I was working there new CDs where about £7, in the UK they were about £15. I bought a LOT of CDs in the few months I was over there).
So to get back on topic, 1) The downloads are too expensive and 2) I don't think the high cost of the downloads is related to them just starting off, as CDs (sourced at proper retailers) didn't come down in price over the years!
Exactly: "because they can".
Not sure why that is offtopic.
My wife uses Napster (or maybe Napster.light)
You can burn songs to a CD and transfer them to a portable device for £0.99 a track or starting at £9.95 an album. Subscribers save over 10% (as low as 88p per track) when they buy multiple tracks at one time.
Actually, since supermarkets have gotten involved (in the last couple of years) the prices might have come down. They are the only people with real power (look at the Levi's - Tesco fight) to stop the price fixing. I hope they do the same to the price fixing buggers as they did to the farmers.
No offense intended, but you sound like the sort of person that, if the tracks were 25p each, would complain that they're still too expensive and that you'd pay for them if only they were 10p each instead.
:-)
I've no idea how you could come to that conclusion. I'm just being realistic on what I think they worth, so yes I would pay 25p. I know we're only talking another 75p, but it's the principle man.
Sure, legal downloads aren't as competitively priced as they could be, but you forget that, not only is legal downloading in its infancy
CD prices have only ever gone up in UK retailers, so don't expect download prices to get cheaper. The CDs that you refer to are "crap", "old" ones or "grey imports" that the music UK [music] industry is trying to ban. So you've added petrol to my rip off fire... cheers
If you could now download your Mars Bar recipe and create it using your own chocolate and caramel, but they still charged 25p then you would be questioning what you were paying for.
Not quite the same thing but my analogy of your post is closer than your analogy of my post.
99p per track is how much I pay when I get my CDs from CD-WOW. The last one I ordered was flown over from the Far East. When I download an album they dont send me the CD and they dont send it on a plane. Now tell me that we're not being ripped off.
Napster sucks. My wife has downloaded the WMA files on her laptop. She stores them on the fileserver. She cannot play them from my PC.
I'm not saying we shouldn't pay. I'm saying that they're too expensive. Even adding the cost of website/hosting/load balancing. You cannot tell me that a 3-5 meg per track download is more expensive than producing the media and running it around the country. My webserver is allowed 1TB for about £800/year. That more than 100,000 tracks... erm I'll host for them for 5p a track download.
I don't understand why the price of a single track is 99p and albums are > £10!
They don't made into CDs with packaging.
They don't need to transported around the world/country in various forms of transport.
They don't need to be stocked in a store which employs loads of people.
Why, with practically 0 distribution chain, is the price still about the same as CD?
When they come down to 25p then I'll start buying this way. Well, so long as there's no DRM.
Crazy man. I was talking about this thing this very morning...saying I'd like one!
For the files that I really wouldn't like to lose (like photos) I also rsync them across a couple of the mirrors. I should really do it to a machine offsite, but I don't (due to lack of trusted sources).
But I think of it like if there was a fire I'd lose normal photos anyhow (unless I kept copies or the negatives offsite).
So burning them to CD/DVD is the obvious solution..... must remember to do it every now and then!
Here's my set up....
0 xa403,0xa000-0xa007 irq 11 at device 7.0 on pci00 xb803,0xb400-0xb407 irq 11 at device 7.1 on pci0
:-)
1 x highpoint HPT374 (4 channel IDE)
2 x 20GB IDE - OS installed here
2 x 120GB IDE - soon to be upgraded
2 x 300GB IDE - used to be 120s
2 x 300GB IDE - used to be 120s
atapci0: port 0xb000-0xb0ff,0xac00-0xac03,0xa800-0xa807,0xa400-
ata2: at 0xa000 on atapci0
ata3: at 0xa800 on atapci0
atapci1: port 0xc400-0xc4ff,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb800-
ata4: at 0xb400 on atapci1
ata5: at 0xbc00 on atapci1
.
.
ar0: 19541MB [2491/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad4: 19541MB [39703/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
1 READY ad6: 19541MB [39703/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100
ar1: 117800MB [15017/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad5: 117800MB [239340/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA100
1 READY ad7: 117800MB [239340/16/63] at ata3-slave UDMA100
ar2: 286103MB [36473/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad8: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata4-master UDMA133
1 READY ad10: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata5-master UDMA133
ar3: 286103MB [36473/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad9: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata4-slave UDMA133
1 READY ad11: 286103MB [581290/16/63] at ata5-slave UDMA133
I haven't installed any of the Highpoint software, but I do run "atacontrol status " from cron once a day.
When I upgraded the disks I had to break the mirror, install new drive, copy files across, re-mirror (which included syncing 300GB, although I'm not sure if it syncs non-used parts of the disk). I used the firmware to do this.... it took hours and hours! Lots of downtime, but I just left it overnight.
Perhaps the software that come with it would sync the disks "in the background", but I couldn't get the firmware to let me re-mirror without syncing (possibly me being thick, but it's not something you have to do very often).
Anyhow.... I also e-mailed Highpoint support and thanked them for supporting FreeBSD
Well, lets hope that sends a message to the rest of the US spammers out there!
.co.uk addresses?!? Muppets!
Most of the spam I get is related to American Products... include home finance and cheap Canadian drugs.
Why send products that are only available to US citizens to
I have "Be Developers Guide" and "Be Advance Topics". I've also got "BeOS 3.1" and "CodeWarrior 1.5 for BeOS". I think I also have BeOS 4 and 4.5 buried somewhere.
If anyone is interested in taking them off my hands. Post a message to the guestbook of my website.