The bandwidth would easily be covered by $30/month, especially for such a large scale operation. At $30/month, that's $360/year, which is quite bit. As with many services the light-use profitable users will make up for the heavy users who download everything, plus you can have some type of bandwidth cap. The main thing I'm saying is I buy maybe 30 CD's a year, 1/2 of them are used so I'm really buying 15. The bulk of my purchase goes to pay for packaging, distribution, the record company's take, the store's take, and then a little bit goes to artist. With downloadable music, you won't have packaging, distribution, and store costs, that leaves a lot more money to be made by the record company and the artist, but in many ways you can eliminate the record company all together. So right now I'm spending $200/year on CD's, but with that service I would be paying $360/year and their costs would be lower.
So you want a web interface that controls your hard drive, and your CD burner? Are you MAD? Allowing code like that, which would pop out of the Java sandbox, or would be deliver as ActiveX is frightening.
My point was that it should NOT be a CD Burner, it should simply allow downloads via a web interface. Basically all your arguments site that the options are for audiophiles, any service out there would be designed for early adopters, which a great amount will already know what bit rate is, plus people who are going to be initially interested in a pay service will be music enthusiasts, not joe-idiot.
The main problem with all these services is they FAIL to meet the needs of the customer. Here is what I want for a pay service:
Music stored available in multiple standard formats with multiple bit rates: OGG,MP3,FLAC,SHN
A pricing structure starting at $10/month going up to $30/month based upon bit rates, not the amount of songs you download. At $10/month you only get to download 64kbps mp3's, $15/month for 128, working your way up to $30+/month for flac or shn downloads that are lossless.
Every CD ever made period.
Allow transfer to portables and CD's
An intuitive web interface, instead of building some bulky windows client that does everything your computer already does: CD burning, music manager, etc; just have a well designed web interface that works on all platforms with all browsers.
Now if they can just figure out a way to pay the RIAA and the artists, we will be set!
I've seen quite a few of these devices with storage built in, but for the home you just can't beat a device that plays off of network drives. The fact is most of the music enthusiasts who would be willing to take the plunge on a home MP3 device already have some type of home network set up. There is no advantage to having media files stored locally on the device, its only redundant.
There are 3 network players that I know of, one which has been highly publicized on/. is the SliMP3. The other device, which has been around for quite some time is the Turtle Beach Audiotron. There is also one made by RIO.
I recently bought a network player after a few weeks of wrangling I decided to go with the Audiotron since I already had samba set up and I wanted and SPDIF connection which the Slimp3 does not offer. Anyway, you can check out my review.
Realistically, we probably won't hit Mach 7 in commercial flights for some time, and there will probably be "low-speed" versions for shorter distances.
Considering the Concorde is banned from most airports due to polution and especially noise problems, I doubt you will be seeing this thing on a runway near you, anytime soon.
I've build a few XP systems for friends who are newbies but know how to use (office, kazaa, e-mail, www, etc.), I installed winamp and a few other programs for multimedia. Three of them ripped their collections with media player and didn't even realize that it was saving them as windows media format.
I've been running with an ipod for about 6 months now with no problem whatsoever besides the occasional but rare skip, which is quite impressive considering I hold the ipod in my hand instead of using a clip or case.
But I do remember quite a few people criticizing the Deep Blue stunt because IBM trained Deep Blue by examining every Kasparov match on record. Kasparov had no idea what to expect since Deep Blue never played anyone else. Did Deep Blue every play any other grandmasters?
What a long way Tux has traveled in the 12 years since Linus Torvald
Torvald? You think USA today could manage to get the creator's name right? I've never seen an article misspelling Gattes, Balmy, and Ilison. Other than that, you couldn't ask for a better PR article for Linux.
Whether you like it or not, DRM is the first step for implementing P2P in commercial and academic environments. At the university I work for, we are working on a P2P network for faculty and students to share ACADEMIC materials. To prevent unauthorized uses such as pr0n and mp3 sharing we decided just to have the userids of the original poster and all the sharers travel with the file throughout the network. As far as rights management is concerned, we decided that a very basic form which uses kerb to check if a userid is a student, faculty, or department member.
I realize there are a lot of posts here like "WTF, who would install such a plugin?" People need to look past P2P as just Internet file sharing. There are many uses for P2P in office networks, academic networks, and with wireless pdas, laptops, tablets, etc..
I would have to say linus is probably the second best known computer guy by the general public with Bill G. being way ahead in 1st. Many businessmen know about linux these days.
Just check to make sure the card is supported by your favorite distro first. I still can't get my integrated raid to work with linux on my soyo dragon plus mobo. Its especially wierd that linux has poor ide raid support considering the people who are most likely to run ide-raid are also big linux fans.
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There wasn't any of these fancy schmancy drinks or overpriced thinkgeek goodies, you had two choices: coffee or Jolt.
Doesn't look like you need to know much about inheritance, polymorphism, and static class methods to me.
Yeah, Linux and windows 2000/XP does the same thing.
The bandwidth would easily be covered by $30/month, especially for such a large scale operation. At $30/month, that's $360/year, which is quite bit. As with many services the light-use profitable users will make up for the heavy users who download everything, plus you can have some type of bandwidth cap. The main thing I'm saying is I buy maybe 30 CD's a year, 1/2 of them are used so I'm really buying 15. The bulk of my purchase goes to pay for packaging, distribution, the record company's take, the store's take, and then a little bit goes to artist. With downloadable music, you won't have packaging, distribution, and store costs, that leaves a lot more money to be made by the record company and the artist, but in many ways you can eliminate the record company all together. So right now I'm spending $200/year on CD's, but with that service I would be paying $360/year and their costs would be lower.
My point was that it should NOT be a CD Burner, it should simply allow downloads via a web interface. Basically all your arguments site that the options are for audiophiles, any service out there would be designed for early adopters, which a great amount will already know what bit rate is, plus people who are going to be initially interested in a pay service will be music enthusiasts, not joe-idiot.
- Music stored available in multiple standard formats with multiple bit rates: OGG,MP3,FLAC,SHN
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A pricing structure starting at $10/month going up to $30/month based upon bit rates, not the amount of songs you download. At $10/month you only get to download 64kbps mp3's, $15/month for 128, working your way up to $30+/month for flac or shn downloads that are lossless.
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Every CD ever made period.
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Allow transfer to portables and CD's
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An intuitive web interface, instead of building some bulky windows client that does everything your computer already does: CD burning, music manager, etc; just have a well designed web interface that works on all platforms with all browsers.
Now if they can just figure out a way to pay the RIAA and the artists, we will be set!Why P2P for multiplay?
Why Focus on single player?
I can see using p2p for making servers scaleable across a network, but i hope they are abandoning client/server.
Who gives a shit about single player? Really, they had it right with quake 3, nobody plays single player anymore, at least not repeatedly.
While were at it, tell apple to go get rid of ithis and ithat, it confuses the user.
Its not the cpu, its the code.
How else are television broadcasters supposed to cover their costs?
Its really quite simple, CHARGE!
The best TV is and always will be the TV you pay for either by cable and sat subscription or through public funding.
There are 3 network players that I know of, one which has been highly publicized on /. is the SliMP3. The other device, which has been around for quite some time is the Turtle Beach Audiotron. There is also one made by RIO.
I recently bought a network player after a few weeks of wrangling I decided to go with the Audiotron since I already had samba set up and I wanted and SPDIF connection which the Slimp3 does not offer. Anyway, you can check out my review.
Considering the Concorde is banned from most airports due to polution and especially noise problems, I doubt you will be seeing this thing on a runway near you, anytime soon.
I've build a few XP systems for friends who are newbies but know how to use (office, kazaa, e-mail, www, etc.), I installed winamp and a few other programs for multimedia. Three of them ripped their collections with media player and didn't even realize that it was saving them as windows media format.
Maybe he can have a Eula for his next book that prevents the reader from making death threats.
I've been running with an ipod for about 6 months now with no problem whatsoever besides the occasional but rare skip, which is quite impressive considering I hold the ipod in my hand instead of using a clip or case.
But I do remember quite a few people criticizing the Deep Blue stunt because IBM trained Deep Blue by examining every Kasparov match on record. Kasparov had no idea what to expect since Deep Blue never played anyone else. Did Deep Blue every play any other grandmasters?
What a long way Tux has traveled in the 12 years since Linus Torvald
Torvald? You think USA today could manage to get the creator's name right? I've never seen an article misspelling Gattes, Balmy, and Ilison. Other than that, you couldn't ask for a better PR article for Linux.
I realize there are a lot of posts here like "WTF, who would install such a plugin?" People need to look past P2P as just Internet file sharing. There are many uses for P2P in office networks, academic networks, and with wireless pdas, laptops, tablets, etc..
For most people, especially those who don't live in NY, anything not in NYC is "upstate NY."
When was it ever alive?
I would have to say linus is probably the second best known computer guy by the general public with Bill G. being way ahead in 1st. Many businessmen know about linux these days.
Somebody better mirror the story quick!
My name is Alex. I like cats. I need a job. Here is my resume. Can I get a slashdot story?
Just check to make sure the card is supported by your favorite distro first. I still can't get my integrated raid to work with linux on my soyo dragon plus mobo. Its especially wierd that linux has poor ide raid support considering the people who are most likely to run ide-raid are also big linux fans.
Perhaps OSS developers should come up with scheme called .ORG.