You Sir are a Flamer; my TiPB agrees too... and my Panther Install nearly paniced (but chose not to, being of good Unix kin) at reading your comment... BTW, a fresh, SP2 slipstreamed, XP install I did the day before yesterday is already at its second "crash & reboot" I most strenuously disagree with you; at most I criticize Apple for putting the whole Cyrus IMAP install inside/usr/bin/cyrus and not including mailbox ACL controls in Mail.app and Workgroup admin. Oh well... let's hope in Tiger.
VIIV isn't VI(6E1)+IV(4E0). that's totally wrong. Romans used different letters to distinguish 1 (I), 5 (V), 10 (X), 50 (L), 100 (C), 500 (D), 1000 (M) You get magnitude relatives to the letter by subtracting (prefixing) or adding (postfixing) the preceding magnitude unit: 1 (I), 10(X), 100 (C) up to 3 symbols. That's a rough description mind you as this rule takes an exception on the 5* symbols which can't repeat (they're a sort of calculating cornerstone). Yeah it sucks, one wonders how they could get along commerce, taxes and precise civil engineering calculations with this method. So, an intel 64 should read "intel LXIV"... if they really intend to pursue this nomenclature we'll have a glorious laugh over here. (I'm typing from less than 1 mile away from the Appia Antica)
Yeah, perhaps in the US, over here in Italy '99 era web use is 'leet. Very few AV chat and when they do it's the 10€ webcam with MSN Messenger and that means crappy codecs, small windows and less than 1 fps. Music & digital photo organization doesn't require anything that you can't get for dirt cheap. Actually, lack of computationally intesive usage patterns in the recent years is what gave MS, Intel & Dell the chance to keep bundling one shoddy product after another. The only real progress happenend because of 3D games basically building a "console" subsystem within the computer case. In the '90, computers were severely underpowered for such basic tasks like wordprocessing. Component evolution was driven by very essential requirements and stagnated until Quake came. 3D became the next big thing but still quite irrelevant for most computer uses (IE, non entertainment). I'd be very happy to see a new cycle in computer usage dissemination, but not everybody is willing or able to become a multimedia content producer... at most they'll keep ammassing divx with better codecs. I guess it'll make Intel & Microsoft happy... after all, adding new & exciting skins to trite programs is an easy buck.
Excuse me but most people use PCs to do the following: 1. Browse on http 2. email, but many find MUAs too difficult (POP server config: witchcraft!) and stick to webmail. 3. Type crap on Word. 4. Occasionally tinker with cretinous software bundled with the new crackpipe-inkjet priner. 5. Indulge in CD/DVD duplication. 6. Games, but apart from computer literates & fanatics most don't care or prefer simple consoles.
All these activities have OsX equivalent programs that do the job with excellent quality. Not everybody enjoys spending the weekend trying shareware off a PC mag CD/DVD and most of the PC software "abundance" is better described as "redundance".
If your price/performance relevance was correct BeOS on PPC would be king by now. Instead people run crappy, cheap, loud and power hungry P4 with MS Winders; wasting half CPU on some McAfee UI nightmare, downloading definition updates and grinding the disk for the latest infections.
The best analogy would be: "Driving your shiny monster SUV right into a gridlock and sit there alone for 2 hours". Some enjoy it, others don't.
yeah, some asshole tripped on the big red "don't touch" switch and the whole Matrix went down. Of course we've got backups but the darn tape got stuck during upload; yours was just a little glitch... another guy really had a tough ride
I wonder how can you be unfamiliar to italian when your uid is: Simonetta, are you joking me? Boh... anyway Altan is an italian cartoonist of the cynical, self flagellation kind. Of course, as he's genuinely funny, ça va sans dire, he's on the leftish side, which also makes it easier to be actually insighful rather that vulgar and gross. A biography and some strips while the signature reads: "I wonder who's the mastermind of all the stupid thing I do" I agree on the href link rant.
Nope, iTMS doesn't have a monopoly on music downloads, the Majors have it as they are the content owners. Tell me, why don't people sign up in droves for New Napster? It has the content after all, doesn't it? Is it because it's package & usage design is poor? Is it because the tracks don't necessarily play on anyone's WMA portable gizmo? Dell Axims, MuVos, WMA compat cell phones, whatever crap the latest CES puked out are supposedly in the position to crush anything else, don't they?
Take it with the bloody RIAA affiliates if your little gizmo can't play Britney's latest must buy... and by the way, you can still drive to the mall, buy the CD & rip it to your gizmo. It's not like you're strongarmed to buy an iPod to access music as in with Office documents.
iPod not supporting OGG is, unfortunately, a useless argument. Shure, you're free to discriminate against this feature but... except for the usual 99% doesn't care argument (which doesn't vibe with the/. crowd, justly so...) there are engineering reasons for it. Come on pal, everyone bickers for 3d ipods' battery life; just adding a somewhat hacked up RTC'alike ate in the power budget badly. iPods have custom chips optimized for a format and guess what will it be: the most mainstream and future proof, won't it? So why the hell an engineer must struggle to cut out some precious gate count & power juice to get anyone's nerdy pet format supported? It's tough but live with it unless you don't want to lug a pentium4 general purpouse processor in your pocket.
OGG is good, shure & true. I'd love to have OGG supported but it won't happen unless it gets more mainstream. It will get so when the industry will invest into it and it will take time just like with Mozilla & Firefox.
Again, Apple is NOT dominant. It takes the lion's share, but noone's coerced to buy into it. Listen, I bought a song of iTMS some time ago. I didn't like the artifacts clearly audible on the iPod's superior analogue output & transducers. I drove to the mall and bought the only CD of the artist that wasn't GODDAM DRMd.
I still remember Powell powerpointing the UN on Hussein's WMD. Most of it, it turned out, were excerpts from some "The Bourne Identity" style doctoral thesis of some foreign affairs researcher. I still look forward for Bush's, Rumsfeld's, Powell's, Rice's public apology for duping the whole bloody world... but that'll never happen... they'll keep on yakking about "Mission accomplished" and FOX will be there, as patriotic as ever... bah
Nope, Microsoft did. At the time Be Inc. gave away the free edition for download it also tried to get BeOS preinstalled on manufactured pee cees. Of course, given the stranglehold Microsoft has on the market, nobody dared to introduce BeOS preloaded or dual booting machines as that would breach the confidential OEM agreement that every single manufacturer has. Of course, voiding this agreement would oblige the OEM to give up Windows preloading on ALL its product line, forcing it, at most, to bundle a boxed, full price, Windows license. That would have raped the already razor thin margins on sales, so nobody ever took the option seriously. All I can recall is someone actually putting BeOS in a partition and adding an exe in some nested menu to reboot into it, guess how effective it was... (BeOS a kludge to boot, unrecognized partition, consumers worried that the drive is giving the ghost...)
Remember the very first days of the Athlon when no mobo manufacturer (Asus) dared to release supporting boards? Were they afraid their intel chipset source would dry up together with the pre launch chip samples so fundamental to design products in time?
That's sleazy to me, and in no way does it compare to Apple, iTMS, and the mp3 player scene. For one, it's a nascent market that hasn't settled yet. Second, mp3 players predating the iPod wouldn't take off because of their kludge, bad design and ridiculous price (that is, no bloody C*O really cared or believed in this market, only after Apple's smash hit did they correct the clueless powerpoints). Third, iPod competitors can't hold a candle against the original although they all try to imitate it to some extent. Fourth, there are alternatives to iTMS; although with sucky user inerface, laden of obtuse DRM and more expensive. Fifth, within the most common usage pattern of iTunes (that is non iTMS, plain mp3 collection managment & ripping), the Apple product currently supports foreign competing Hardware providing a better user eperience than it's original bundled software. It's not Apple's fault that MusicMatch and WMP are such a crapload... To me, that is fair play; tough, but way within the rules.
No, I'm not a fanboy. I didn't expect the MuVo to work in iTunes, actually I had just borrowed it as a pen drive. Having it pop up in iTunes freaked me out... I myself am so cynical that never I'd have expected it to play fairly.
Try plugging in a MuVo in an Apple machine running iTunes.
Uh, oh! Surprise, it works! It even has it's own little icon (of course it's a brown little turd compared to the shiny white iPod icon)! Poor thing, it asks me to sync all my library with the MuVo (it won't fit dear!) So I manage the playlists manually... and it works! Sheesh, would you believe it? Out of the box, no drivers, no frills... just the Apple experience, with the competition's hardware. Oh, it can't play m4a and m4p... but, hey! the MuVo doesn't support it in the first place... should Apple flash it (if it were possible) on the fly to give it a chance against the iPod? In any case, wasn't the iTMS a device to increase iPod sales? So tell me, why is iTunes integration working so well with competing hardware? Come on, I'm listening... can't hear you...
[... silence...]
You see... the iPod is simply unbeatable... it just works, Apple doesn't need sleazy tactics to help the bottom line. It floats on its own.
About Google... well, you can use askjeeves... or altavista... why aren't you? Perhaps because they don't hold a candle against almighty google? Thought so...
M$ on the other hand KILLED BeOS (amongst other things)... them bastards! I'll never forgive them for such a crime...
... doesn't this "digital hub for your digital (i)Life" stuff sound familiar? Sigh, copycats... and bad at it too! Shame though that people will buy this crap en masse and still sneer at the poor Apple-ite... I'm worried though; today people have Office because it's the "stadrard" for business, bla, bla... tomorrow, will we all have to own "Home" to watch the DRMd pics & vids of the latest addition to the family?
The only good thing is the fun granted by future worms spilling true amateur porn over the net. You see a hot chick across the street? p2p to check if she's worth the effort;-)
Solidarity goes to the soldiers, that's out of question. Some may torture, coldly execute unarmed & wounded locals but the average soldier is not to blame.
It's human nature where perfectly sane, even humane, people get sucked up in a savage frenzy. Bump into an averagely educated, perhaps sub-average income, guy in a normal situation and he behaves as normally expected from a citizen. Throw them in the midst of a hooligan riot, or meet them outside a disco club before his male pals and a bunch of hot chicks and you'd be in deep trouble.
When I saw Farenheit 9/11 I wasn't particularly shocked by the 18 year old kid driving bad ass tanks while listening to death metal. It's war, it happens when you put a machine gun in a stupid kid's hand. He won't have the intellectual tools to handle situations with reason. I know, at that age I was an asshole myself.
That's why I'm sorry for them when once bitten in the ass, they take the time to think it over and realize they've been screwed. By whom? Those assholes that didn't keep an eye on them, that only trained them for the kill rate and didn't give a fuck about strategy. Command is always responsible for the troops. Go for the brass; it's them that drilled the guys, dehumanized the enemy to justify it's destruction, turned a blind eye to earn the troops' respect.
Ah, by the way... wasn't it Bush Jr. that reduced spending for the veterans and their medical assistance?
You mean light leaking from one fiber into the other? Shure, but given the bandwidth capacity of an optical system they needn't be as closely spaced as today's bus tracks. They might chatter next to or on chip but just reduce spacial density of optical I/O and let attenuation do it's job (or put a nice phat Vcc pad in between).
Can I say holographic DVD? Take 2 laser beams reflected off piezo cantilevers and you can focus on the disc's thickness dimension, a 3rd laser beam to read the interference pattern. How many layers can be stacked, 10, 20?
That's way better than the DL reflective technique in use today and sounds a lot like DLP available technology doesn't it? Question: are we able to control umirror angle with enough precision or is it two state?
You can throw a whole radial array of pickups and get rid of a motor, but that would reduce the yield wouldn't it? You still have to move the beam somewhat or you'll loose track density and track pitch isn't necessarily constant, so you'll still need a closed loop actuator per head to keep it on track.
but after years of ripped off mp3 burnz spinned on that cheesy amp (probably stolen... heh!) you don't want to waste your precious time hunting down the last missing song (and gawd, why don't people learn to rip properly...) or risk blowing your shiny B&W speaker on bad rips (... agh! what was that static? oh sH*t the tweeter died!)
One could argue that p2p sharing kept the momentum high during the slump rather than differentiating interests while disposable income was reduced. So now the RIAA still has a willing consumer base rather than a new generation of jigsaw puzzle enthusisasts whose misdshare they'd have to fight all over again. (think dvd home theater consumers... isn't mpaa riaa's greatest competitor?) That's smart spin, ain't it?;-)
excuse me, I feel the urge to chime before going back to a long coding session on Eclipse... oh! you're soo right... what a horrible language, you can't really do anything useful with it... I'd better get back to speed on my PHP skillz.
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You Sir are a Flamer; my TiPB agrees too... and my Panther Install nearly paniced (but chose not to, being of good Unix kin) at reading your comment... BTW, a fresh, SP2 slipstreamed, XP install I did the day before yesterday is already at its second "crash & reboot" I most strenuously disagree with you; at most I criticize Apple for putting the whole Cyrus IMAP install inside /usr/bin/cyrus and not including mailbox ACL controls in Mail.app and Workgroup admin. Oh well... let's hope in Tiger.
Hmm, sounds like something I'd call industrial trip-hop (the guitars sould like Quake3's Operation Overlord). Doesn't sound bad...
New Age Goth? Care to give info on group/album?
Oh, those Sales folks could bedevil the devil itself! Question, what's wrong with "intel bidibi-bodibi-bu"? ;-)
VIIV isn't VI(6E1)+IV(4E0). that's totally wrong. Romans used different letters to distinguish 1 (I), 5 (V), 10 (X), 50 (L), 100 (C), 500 (D), 1000 (M) You get magnitude relatives to the letter by subtracting (prefixing) or adding (postfixing) the preceding magnitude unit: 1 (I), 10(X), 100 (C) up to 3 symbols. That's a rough description mind you as this rule takes an exception on the 5* symbols which can't repeat (they're a sort of calculating cornerstone). Yeah it sucks, one wonders how they could get along commerce, taxes and precise civil engineering calculations with this method. So, an intel 64 should read "intel LXIV"... if they really intend to pursue this nomenclature we'll have a glorious laugh over here. (I'm typing from less than 1 mile away from the Appia Antica)
You are lazy, aren't you? Tomato is king... easy, simple, cocoa.
Yeah, perhaps in the US, over here in Italy '99 era web use is 'leet. Very few AV chat and when they do it's the 10€ webcam with MSN Messenger and that means crappy codecs, small windows and less than 1 fps. Music & digital photo organization doesn't require anything that you can't get for dirt cheap. Actually, lack of computationally intesive usage patterns in the recent years is what gave MS, Intel & Dell the chance to keep bundling one shoddy product after another.
The only real progress happenend because of 3D games basically building a "console" subsystem within the computer case.
In the '90, computers were severely underpowered for such basic tasks like wordprocessing. Component evolution was driven by very essential requirements and stagnated until Quake came. 3D became the next big thing but still quite irrelevant for most computer uses (IE, non entertainment).
I'd be very happy to see a new cycle in computer usage dissemination, but not everybody is willing or able to become a multimedia content producer... at most they'll keep ammassing divx with better codecs. I guess it'll make Intel & Microsoft happy... after all, adding new & exciting skins to trite programs is an easy buck.
Excuse me but most people use PCs to do the following:
1. Browse on http
2. email, but many find MUAs too difficult (POP server config: witchcraft!) and stick to webmail.
3. Type crap on Word.
4. Occasionally tinker with cretinous software bundled with the new crackpipe-inkjet priner.
5. Indulge in CD/DVD duplication.
6. Games, but apart from computer literates & fanatics most don't care or prefer simple consoles.
All these activities have OsX equivalent programs that do the job with excellent quality. Not everybody enjoys spending the weekend trying shareware off a PC mag CD/DVD and most of the PC software "abundance" is better described as "redundance".
If your price/performance relevance was correct BeOS on PPC would be king by now. Instead people run crappy, cheap, loud and power hungry P4 with MS Winders; wasting half CPU on some McAfee UI nightmare, downloading definition updates and grinding the disk for the latest infections.
The best analogy would be: "Driving your shiny monster SUV right into a gridlock and sit there alone for 2 hours". Some enjoy it, others don't.
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yeah, some asshole tripped on the big red "don't touch" switch and the whole Matrix went down. Of course we've got backups but the darn tape got stuck during upload; yours was just a little glitch... another guy really had a tough ride
I'm sorry for your tribulations. Best of luck! ;-)
I wonder how can you be unfamiliar to italian when your uid is: Simonetta, are you joking me? Boh... anyway Altan is an italian cartoonist of the cynical, self flagellation kind. Of course, as he's genuinely funny, ça va sans dire, he's on the leftish side, which also makes it easier to be actually insighful rather that vulgar and gross.
A biography and some strips while the signature reads: "I wonder who's the mastermind of all the stupid thing I do"
I agree on the href link rant.
good point... Nuwanda
Never read the Merchant of Venice eh?
Nope, iTMS doesn't have a monopoly on music downloads, the Majors have it as they are the content owners. Tell me, why don't people sign up in droves for New Napster? It has the content after all, doesn't it? Is it because it's package & usage design is poor? Is it because the tracks don't necessarily play on anyone's WMA portable gizmo? Dell Axims, MuVos, WMA compat cell phones, whatever crap the latest CES puked out are supposedly in the position to crush anything else, don't they?
/. crowd, justly so...) there are engineering reasons for it. Come on pal, everyone bickers for 3d ipods' battery life; just adding a somewhat hacked up RTC'alike ate in the power budget badly. iPods have custom chips optimized for a format and guess what will it be: the most mainstream and future proof, won't it? So why the hell an engineer must struggle to cut out some precious gate count & power juice to get anyone's nerdy pet format supported? It's tough but live with it unless you don't want to lug a pentium4 general purpouse processor in your pocket.
Take it with the bloody RIAA affiliates if your little gizmo can't play Britney's latest must buy... and by the way, you can still drive to the mall, buy the CD & rip it to your gizmo. It's not like you're strongarmed to buy an iPod to access music as in with Office documents.
iPod not supporting OGG is, unfortunately, a useless argument. Shure, you're free to discriminate against this feature but... except for the usual 99% doesn't care argument (which doesn't vibe with the
OGG is good, shure & true. I'd love to have OGG supported but it won't happen unless it gets more mainstream. It will get so when the industry will invest into it and it will take time just like with Mozilla & Firefox.
Again, Apple is NOT dominant. It takes the lion's share, but noone's coerced to buy into it. Listen, I bought a song of iTMS some time ago. I didn't like the artifacts clearly audible on the iPod's superior analogue output & transducers. I drove to the mall and bought the only CD of the artist that wasn't GODDAM DRMd.
That's it
I still remember Powell powerpointing the UN on Hussein's WMD. Most of it, it turned out, were excerpts from some "The Bourne Identity" style doctoral thesis of some foreign affairs researcher. I still look forward for Bush's, Rumsfeld's, Powell's, Rice's public apology for duping the whole bloody world... but that'll never happen... they'll keep on yakking about "Mission accomplished" and FOX will be there, as patriotic as ever... bah
Nope, Microsoft did. At the time Be Inc. gave away the free edition for download it also tried to get BeOS preinstalled on manufactured pee cees. Of course, given the stranglehold Microsoft has on the market, nobody dared to introduce BeOS preloaded or dual booting machines as that would breach the confidential OEM agreement that every single manufacturer has. Of course, voiding this agreement would oblige the OEM to give up Windows preloading on ALL its product line, forcing it, at most, to bundle a boxed, full price, Windows license. That would have raped the already razor thin margins on sales, so nobody ever took the option seriously. All I can recall is someone actually putting BeOS in a partition and adding an exe in some nested menu to reboot into it, guess how effective it was... (BeOS a kludge to boot, unrecognized partition, consumers worried that the drive is giving the ghost...)
Remember the very first days of the Athlon when no mobo manufacturer (Asus) dared to release supporting boards? Were they afraid their intel chipset source would dry up together with the pre launch chip samples so fundamental to design products in time?
That's sleazy to me, and in no way does it compare to Apple, iTMS, and the mp3 player scene. For one, it's a nascent market that hasn't settled yet. Second, mp3 players predating the iPod wouldn't take off because of their kludge, bad design and ridiculous price (that is, no bloody C*O really cared or believed in this market, only after Apple's smash hit did they correct the clueless powerpoints). Third, iPod competitors can't hold a candle against the original although they all try to imitate it to some extent. Fourth, there are alternatives to iTMS; although with sucky user inerface, laden of obtuse DRM and more expensive. Fifth, within the most common usage pattern of iTunes (that is non iTMS, plain mp3 collection managment & ripping), the Apple product currently supports foreign competing Hardware providing a better user eperience than it's original bundled software. It's not Apple's fault that MusicMatch and WMP are such a crapload... To me, that is fair play; tough, but way within the rules.
No, I'm not a fanboy. I didn't expect the MuVo to work in iTunes, actually I had just borrowed it as a pen drive. Having it pop up in iTunes freaked me out... I myself am so cynical that never I'd have expected it to play fairly.
Try plugging in a MuVo in an Apple machine running iTunes.
...]
... them bastards! I'll never forgive them for such a crime...
Uh, oh! Surprise, it works! It even has it's own little icon (of course it's a brown little turd compared to the shiny white iPod icon)!
Poor thing, it asks me to sync all my library with the MuVo (it won't fit dear!) So I manage the playlists manually... and it works! Sheesh, would you believe it? Out of the box, no drivers, no frills... just the Apple experience, with the competition's hardware.
Oh, it can't play m4a and m4p... but, hey! the MuVo doesn't support it in the first place... should Apple flash it (if it were possible) on the fly to give it a chance against the iPod?
In any case, wasn't the iTMS a device to increase iPod sales? So tell me, why is iTunes integration working so well with competing hardware? Come on, I'm listening... can't hear you...
[... silence
You see... the iPod is simply unbeatable... it just works, Apple doesn't need sleazy tactics to help the bottom line. It floats on its own.
About Google... well, you can use askjeeves... or altavista... why aren't you? Perhaps because they don't hold a candle against almighty google? Thought so...
M$ on the other hand KILLED BeOS (amongst other things)
... doesn't this "digital hub for your digital (i)Life" stuff sound familiar? Sigh, copycats... and bad at it too! Shame though that people will buy this crap en masse and still sneer at the poor Apple-ite... I'm worried though; today people have Office because it's the "stadrard" for business, bla, bla... tomorrow, will we all have to own "Home" to watch the DRMd pics & vids of the latest addition to the family?
;-)
The only good thing is the fun granted by future worms spilling true amateur porn over the net. You see a hot chick across the street? p2p to check if she's worth the effort
Solidarity goes to the soldiers, that's out of question. Some may torture, coldly execute unarmed & wounded locals but the average soldier is not to blame.
It's human nature where perfectly sane, even humane, people get sucked up in a savage frenzy. Bump into an averagely educated, perhaps sub-average income, guy in a normal situation and he behaves as normally expected from a citizen. Throw them in the midst of a hooligan riot, or meet them outside a disco club before his male pals and a bunch of hot chicks and you'd be in deep trouble.
When I saw Farenheit 9/11 I wasn't particularly shocked by the 18 year old kid driving bad ass tanks while listening to death metal. It's war, it happens when you put a machine gun in a stupid kid's hand. He won't have the intellectual tools to handle situations with reason. I know, at that age I was an asshole myself.
That's why I'm sorry for them when once bitten in the ass, they take the time to think it over and realize they've been screwed. By whom? Those assholes that didn't keep an eye on them, that only trained them for the kill rate and didn't give a fuck about strategy. Command is always responsible for the troops. Go for the brass; it's them that drilled the guys, dehumanized the enemy to justify it's destruction, turned a blind eye to earn the troops' respect.
Ah, by the way... wasn't it Bush Jr. that reduced spending for the veterans and their medical assistance?
You mean light leaking from one fiber into the other? Shure, but given the bandwidth capacity of an optical system they needn't be as closely spaced as today's bus tracks. They might chatter next to or on chip but just reduce spacial density of optical I/O and let attenuation do it's job (or put a nice phat Vcc pad in between).
Can I say holographic DVD? Take 2 laser beams reflected off piezo cantilevers and you can focus on the disc's thickness dimension, a 3rd laser beam to read the interference pattern.
How many layers can be stacked, 10, 20?
That's way better than the DL reflective technique in use today and sounds a lot like DLP available technology doesn't it? Question: are we able to control umirror angle with enough precision or is it two state?
You can throw a whole radial array of pickups and get rid of a motor, but that would reduce the yield wouldn't it? You still have to move the beam somewhat or you'll loose track density and track pitch isn't necessarily constant, so you'll still need a closed loop actuator per head to keep it on track.
You mean a computer that actually works?
but after years of ripped off mp3 burnz spinned on that cheesy amp (probably stolen... heh!) you don't want to waste your precious time hunting down the last missing song (and gawd, why don't people learn to rip properly...) or risk blowing your shiny B&W speaker on bad rips (... agh! what was that static? oh sH*t the tweeter died!)
I guessed so...
One could argue that p2p sharing kept the momentum high during the slump rather than differentiating interests while disposable income was reduced. So now the RIAA still has a willing consumer base rather than a new generation of jigsaw puzzle enthusisasts whose misdshare they'd have to fight all over again. (think dvd home theater consumers... isn't mpaa riaa's greatest competitor?) ;-)
That's smart spin, ain't it?
excuse me, I feel the urge to chime before going back to a long coding session on Eclipse... oh! you're soo right... what a horrible language, you can't really do anything useful with it... I'd better get back to speed on my PHP skillz.