MP3 and Napster do not hurt artist. It helps to get their music (or whatever) out to people who may not have otherwise been exposed to it. If someone likes an artist, they will go out and buy the CD for other value added, go to their shows, watch their videos on MTV, whatever, if they can afford it. If not, the artist should be glad that people who otherwise would not have been exposed to their material get to experience it and become fans. 'Course if the artist sucks then they should worry because people won't have to buy a whole CD to find out that only the song that they play all day on the radio is any good and the rest sucks...
I'd buy a few too but only if I could run whatever OS I wanted. Things change too fast in this industry to have your OS soldered on your MB. Even flash wont cut it unless you can run an industry standard OS and software because who wants to wait for QNX to decide to support Flash 5 or MP4 or HTML 6 or whatever. It's gotta support Java too. Loose the modem and put in a 100MHZ NIC. Video out (NTSC,PAL) would help. Good sound is a must. Might as well throug in a DVD player. Cheesy ISP has got to go!!!
I'd rather have someone whisper in my ear that my zipper is down instead of yelling across the room and drawing everyone attention to the fact that I don't wear underwear. If the whisper doesn't get me to zip up, then by all means, shout it out!!!
"The console strategy is quite different than the mass-produce, hook, charge to upgrade methodology they have used successfully in the past." Really? How many new game consoles are compatible with the older models? Usually you have to buy your accessories and games all over again. Sounds like a perfect market for m$.
"WebTV has essentially not been a terrible success with it's approach and I don't think that internet appliances would be any better." Yeah but WebTV uses a suck-ass browser on top of an embedded OS (sort of). It's basically Navigator 3.0, can't run Java, can't do plugins and is limited to TV resolution (640 X 480). A box with Linux and some decent apps could be built cheaply that would blow WebTV away!!!
Don't you think it's funny that it's the Record Companies and thier puppet organizations who are raising the most stink about the whole Internet Radio/MP3/Napster thing and not the musicians themselves. In fact many artist are experimenting or switching to this new distribution system. That's why the Record Companies are so against it. They keep the biggest chunk of every dollar spent on traditional media and they don't want that to change.
"we are going to hold back advances and slow development time if we keep catering for _very_ old browsers" Guess what...the newest browsers have problems with some of these issues. Try using a PalmPilot, Web TV or any of the new 'Internet Appliances' on most web sites. They either don't show or totally hose graphics, don't do scripting or Java and reformat the page you went through so much trouble to make pretty. Viewable with any browser is a myth...
What's the problem? I ran it and everything is fine. In fact I feel fine. Matter of fact I feel pretty damn good. Matter of fact I feel like getting a haircut and a shave. Think I'll wear a suit to work tommorrow. Gotta remember not to drive over 55 on the way home tonight...
However, that would be an obvious marketing advantange. They would have an OS, Office Suite, AND Development Environments all designed to work together under their OS. MMM, didn't Microsoft get their butts in a sling for doing the same thing? Maybe Corel can get away with it since they are a Canadian Company.
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MP3 and Napster do not hurt artist. It helps to get their music (or whatever) out to people who may not have otherwise been exposed to it. If someone likes an artist, they will go out and buy the CD for other value added, go to their shows, watch their videos on MTV, whatever, if they can afford it. If not, the artist should be glad that people who otherwise would not have been exposed to their material get to experience it and become fans. 'Course if the artist sucks then they should worry because people won't have to buy a whole CD to find out that only the song that they play all day on the radio is any good and the rest sucks...
I'd buy a few too but only if I could run whatever OS I wanted. Things change too fast in this industry to have your OS soldered on your MB. Even flash wont cut it unless you can run an industry standard OS and software because who wants to wait for QNX to decide to support Flash 5 or MP4 or HTML 6 or whatever. It's gotta support Java too. Loose the modem and put in a 100MHZ NIC. Video out (NTSC,PAL) would help. Good sound is a must. Might as well throug in a DVD player. Cheesy ISP has got to go!!!
$600 hammers, $900 toilet seats and they want to use a free OS...
I'd rather have someone whisper in my ear that my zipper is down instead of yelling across the room and drawing everyone attention to the fact that I don't wear underwear. If the whisper doesn't get me to zip up, then by all means, shout it out!!!
"The console strategy is quite different than the mass-produce, hook, charge to upgrade methodology they have used successfully in the past."
Really? How many new game consoles are compatible with the older models? Usually you have to buy your accessories and games all over again. Sounds like a perfect market for m$.
"WebTV has essentially not been a terrible success with it's approach and I don't think that internet appliances would be any better."
Yeah but WebTV uses a suck-ass browser on top of an embedded OS (sort of). It's basically Navigator 3.0, can't run Java, can't do plugins and is limited to TV resolution (640 X 480). A box with Linux and some decent apps could be built cheaply that would blow WebTV away!!!
Really!!! Megabuck Sun server hardware/os + free AOLServer (but not open source) + megabuck Oracle DB = "LOGIC ERROR"
Don't you think it's funny that it's the Record Companies and thier puppet organizations who are raising the most stink about the whole Internet Radio/MP3/Napster thing and not the musicians themselves. In fact many artist are experimenting or switching to this new distribution system. That's why the Record Companies are so against it. They keep the biggest chunk of every dollar spent on traditional media and they don't want that to change.
Sounds like a good way for one program to fuck up the entire network, not just one machine. Now that's the kind of inovation M$ is best at...
Almost as good as the 6502 in Benders head in the episode with the X-Ray gun thingy...
"And though McCain may not be on MS, he does have some skeletons in the proverbial web-closet: " That's because he's a tele-com company whore!!!
"we are going to hold back advances and slow development time if we keep catering for _very_ old browsers" Guess what...the newest browsers have problems with some of these issues. Try using a PalmPilot, Web TV or any of the new 'Internet Appliances' on most web sites. They either don't show or totally hose graphics, don't do scripting or Java and reformat the page you went through so much trouble to make pretty. Viewable with any browser is a myth...
What's the problem? I ran it and everything is fine. In fact I feel fine. Matter of fact I feel pretty damn good. Matter of fact I feel like getting a haircut and a shave. Think I'll wear a suit to work tommorrow. Gotta remember not to drive over 55 on the way home tonight...
However, that would be an obvious marketing advantange. They would have an OS, Office Suite, AND Development Environments all designed to work together under their OS. MMM, didn't Microsoft get their butts in a sling for doing the same thing? Maybe Corel can get away with it since they are a Canadian Company.