Because the music surely has died. I know we have alternatives like Gnutella, etc....However they do not have a big enough presence to contain the obscure and rare things that I was able to find once upon a time in Napster land...when everyone and their grandmas were sharing everything from Abba to Zebra.
And my.mp3.com was a great thing while it lasted in it's purest form. (I clicked through and purchased many CD's when I could get instant gratification with a listen right away before the snail mail copy made it's way...novel concept --- bad music business.)
see ya'll next time the circus is in town....Anything free that hasn't died yet???...Howz all your.com stocks doin?
to explain how the Playstation is going to clean the water, run electricity to the village, teach the people to read, and put food on the table. I have seen the third world devistation first hand....and let me tell you one thing --- setting up terminal's for these people has got to be the most stupid thing I have ever heard. At least if you sent them pamphlets --- they could use them to wipe their arses....
You think the pop up ads are bad -- try actually ordering something from this company -- your mailbox will be bombarded every time they have a sale, change a price, or anything......Ouch -- talk about "carpet advertising".(Like "carpet bombing" from the B52's). I would be scared to purchase anything else from them in fear that I may add to the war chest that allows them to advertise on virtually every web site know to man.
Errr....Sorry to rain on the flaim parade but Slashdot has historically covered successful Linux ventures --- and and this proud moment I am sad to say that from a finacial standpoint there is not much other than Redhat that fits this category. And although I am more of a Slackware guy....(yea walnut creek sent my favorite distro packing months ago)....my kudos go out to RedHat for making it happen...Thumbs up guys!
With the age old debate on how money is going to be made on the Internet -- is this not a good time for a corporate giant like Microsoft to lay the framework of an ad/link system to where Wal-Mart and Target can bid to where the word Bargain will link to??? Ahhh -- they are going to control the internet.
Nomad....$30....Ebay.....I must be shopping at the wrong Ebay....looks like $60 would be a bargain....But -- alas if someone has a mint Nomad for $30...I will gladly take it off (errr..out of) your hands.
> It sounds intriguing. Does everything TiVo does > that I want, but also includes a pability to > archive recordings to Video-CD.
> The only problem right now is it doesn't
> support Win2k but they are working on that.
Don't take me wrong but my experiences with real time recording from my WinTV-PCI under Windows have been very bad....(using 3 or 4 different VCR type programs created the same system lockup everytime it went to move data from memory to disk....)
I have recorded over 40 hours of TV in Linux with not so much as a hiccup....I am by no means a Windows basher OR Linux Apoligist, however with this one piece of hardware it was pretty clear to me which OS I will be doing my recording with.
If it does what it should -- if it encounters flash it will automatically send an email to abuse@whateversiteimon.com
In all reality -- other than eyecandy what good is flash??? When I am using IE and go to a site that uses flash -- I see an animation "Splash Screen" that usually takes about 1 minute to "play" through a bunch of usless garble before I can actually view the site (yes I know their usually is a "Skip Intro" button in most cases). Other than letting me know that someone on the web team knows how to use flash what good does this do for the content of the sight.
I can see the web team now --- "John you will code the DB connections and handle the transactions, Sally you will be responsible for the JavaScript and HTML, Bob you will tie the UI together, and Helen will keep are coffee cups filled and in your spare time you can work on a cool 60 second Flash intro for all of our customers to sit through EVERY time they visit our site.........errrr"
This goes a long way to explaining how something like Napster has actually increased record sales rather than hurt them. People have actually been able to test the waters (or even find out about in the first place) for 100% of the music rather than the traditional 35-40 songs that would be overplayed by radio. I mean if Napster makes that back street boys or n'sync or metallica sell 12Million rather than 14Million...then those people are going to complain. But I am willing to bet their are a bunch of bands that would have sold 1400 without any radio help -- are selling 14,000 with Napster and other internet related methods. (their may be an additional 14,000 that download the album and don't purchase it -- however, the 14,000 that do is still much higher than the 1400 that do.....) Kind of like saying that their is no such thing as "Bad Publicity"...Hell with the system the way it is described in this article, the labels should be paying us to download songs from Napster -- in the same way they play the radio stations to play them.
As soon as they get done splitting the internet up between "porn" and "non-porn" they can start splitting it up between "Antique dial up sites and content" and "Modern day broadband sites and content"...Segregation is the answer.....We will keep the slow old timers on their side of the internet....And us modern day 300 KB/S cowboys can enjoy a fun journey without having any slowpokes in the way....
Imagine a Napster utopia where no 56kers are allowed to enter......Sweeeet speeds.
Good point....All of the 3d stuff may look good but their is a huge market for side scrollers and shoot em ups in 2d. My wife can't play the 3d games for more than 2 minutes without getting sick...yet I have to keep an old dos box around running a 486 processor so she can get her Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (original) fixes....(Tried to run them on her Duron and everything was way to fast....Maybe the GBA may provide a good alternative.
Nooooo....Don't bring the C64 to the bad side of town.....We have protected her long and hard...
I would take the security of my C64 BBS software (custom written by me -- except for the zmodem stuff) anyday over this new internet thing. No buffer over run's, no ddos attacks (just busy signals....), and best of all no front page extensions and secret dll's.....And best off all we had low bandwidth RIP Graphics instead of big fat gifs and java....
Ok I have Linux for my Dreamcast -- Linux for the ps2 and ps1....Linux for my toaster, etc, etc....I have yet to here of anyone porting MAME to run on these....(Sound support, Joypad Support, and acceptable speed please....) Has anyone worked on this --- or do they just port the base OS and move on to the next toy...Hell if the OS was all that mattered I would be running CP/M or maybe even BeOS.....It's the apps that make the world go round.
$100 for a 1 GB Jaz Disk....$160 for a 2 GB Jaz Disk....20 GB "Jaz" Disk....????? Maybe $500 - $650 if they keep with the trend....
I have a 2 Gig Jaz drive and I love everything about it other than the fact that with that kind of cost per megabyte --- do I have anything that is worth storing on these pricy things...
No Flames here...most of the flames related to the lack of modern full featured apps and drivers for Linux usually come from frustrated people who can taste the kill yet realize the prey has escaped their grasp. Similar to when a Basketball, or Baseball team goes from last place to first place and playing for the title. When they lose the title game the fans often will be disgruntled not because they don't see the great turnaround in the big picture...only because they did not grab the brass ring or have a story book ending.
All of the issues people are talking about (Trying to use Linux for a desktop os) seem to remind me of the same struggles I had trying to find new releases for my BetaMax player...Or why were the stores only putting out new games for that damn Nintendo system when I was really looking for new games for my Atari 2600?? Standards burn....The market place burns...I think the key to the Linux desktop is when I can buy a new piece of hardware, and it has device drivers and boxed apps that use those drivers under Linux.
What is the purpose of cheating? Their is no money involved.....This is like me saying that I have found a way to get fat without eating? I would like to here a good argument from a cheater as to what they get out of it???
>> Hey, with Mozilla I think we've finally found a piece of software that can push the PSX2 to it's limits.
Hey this got modded as 5 funny -- the sad part is that it is a lot closer to truth than fiction.
Ahh....But you have a PC that can offer all of the things that make gaming a more pleasurable experience on a console than a PC.
I was late to the console craze but all it took was 10-15 years of letdowns buying PC football and basketball games -- that added to the frustration based on bad controls and proprietary operating systems (Windows was only needed for games --- the classic "dual booters" excuse) that lead me to the dreamcast....(Anyone ever plauged with sports games on the PC can easily see NFL2K1 or NBA2k1 as finally being the cats meow -- or utopia so to speak...) Now if my console can browse the internet -- people like my wife or mother in law who seem to use a PC for little more than Internet and/or email (combined with the gamers) may be just enough to be a killer solution......(We are talking browsing at good res. with something better than a blocky TV)
Good point. My wife just paid $300 for a single floppy (with only a DOS tsr) from a company that sales maybe 300 copies a year. If this was $30 I am sure the people that author the "niche" software would not be able to make ends meet. (You could always higher a consultent for $100 an hour to satisfy your niche needs.)
Disclaimer -- I have used Nautilus and it looks very promising....But HELLO maybe next time we can get around to actually having a product on the shelf before the 15 million runs out...I get a kick that all of these "dying" Linux companies are all dying without a viable business or product. Did we think Corel was going to stick around much longer after a smoke and windows Wine port of their office suite. (Hell, the Wine people could have had that done in due time by themselves without beefing up the soup line.) The sad thing is that in the press all you are hearing now days is that "No money to be made in the Linux world"... that is like me complaining that my 5 year old son has not baught me that house with his pro football earnings. Even though I don't use Redhat anymore -- you have to look at them as a success because I was seeing shrink wrapped boxes in the stores many years ago -- and they are still around.
I admire the people who work hard and give the source to the people -- with only one request - "Let The Source Remain Open" -- and if the source is improved upon -- continue to share the wealth.
What Caldera is (trying) to do is akin to if I sent a pantry of food to one of those skinny kids on the TV commercials (lets call him "boogleeboo")...and then ole' Boogleboo decided to open up a storefront and peddle the rice for cash rather than to put some meat on his skinny ass bones -- and then the next month I see Boogleboo on a new TV commercial lookin' even skinnier -- however with a ledger and calculator strapped on, and dollar signs in his eyes.
This whole "How to make money with Linux 101" thing is really starting to drag...I prefer the days when we did not have the money sharks in the water...and success and failure was based on quality rather than sales and stock price.
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Because the music surely has died. I know we have alternatives like Gnutella, etc....However they do not have a big enough presence to contain the obscure and rare things that I was able to find once upon a time in Napster land...when everyone and their grandmas were sharing everything from Abba to Zebra.
.com stocks doin?
And my.mp3.com was a great thing while it lasted in it's purest form. (I clicked through and purchased many CD's when I could get instant gratification with a listen right away before the snail mail copy made it's way...novel concept --- bad music business.)
see ya'll next time the circus is in town....Anything free that hasn't died yet???...Howz all your
Out.
to explain how the Playstation is going to clean the water, run electricity to the village, teach the people to read, and put food on the table. I have seen the third world devistation first hand....and let me tell you one thing --- setting up terminal's for these people has got to be the most stupid thing I have ever heard. At least if you sent them pamphlets --- they could use them to wipe their arses....
You think the pop up ads are bad -- try actually ordering something from this company -- your mailbox will be bombarded every time they have a sale, change a price, or anything......Ouch -- talk about "carpet advertising"
Errr....Sorry to rain on the flaim parade but Slashdot has historically covered successful Linux ventures --- and and this proud moment I am sad to say that from a finacial standpoint there is not much other than Redhat that fits this category. And although I am more of a Slackware guy....(yea walnut creek sent my favorite distro packing months ago)....my kudos go out to RedHat for making it happen...Thumbs up guys!
With the age old debate on how money is going to be made on the Internet -- is this not a good time for a corporate giant like Microsoft to lay the framework of an ad/link system to where Wal-Mart and Target can bid to where the word Bargain will link to??? Ahhh -- they are going to control the internet.
You can also try Supplex for the rom ripper and flash cartriges.
Nomad....$30....Ebay.....I must be shopping at the wrong Ebay....looks like $60 would be a bargain....But -- alas if someone has a mint Nomad for $30...I will gladly take it off (errr..out of) your hands.
> It sounds intriguing. Does everything TiVo does
> that I want, but also includes a pability to
> archive recordings to Video-CD.
> The only problem right now is it doesn't
> support Win2k but they are working on that.
Don't take me wrong but my experiences with real time recording from my WinTV-PCI under Windows have been very bad....(using 3 or 4 different VCR type programs created the same system lockup everytime it went to move data from memory to disk....)
I have recorded over 40 hours of TV in Linux with not so much as a hiccup....I am by no means a Windows basher OR Linux Apoligist, however with this one piece of hardware it was pretty clear to me which OS I will be doing my recording with.
If it does what it should -- if it encounters flash it will automatically send an email to abuse@whateversiteimon.com
In all reality -- other than eyecandy what good is flash??? When I am using IE and go to a site that uses flash -- I see an animation "Splash Screen" that usually takes about 1 minute to "play" through a bunch of usless garble before I can actually view the site (yes I know their usually is a "Skip Intro" button in most cases). Other than letting me know that someone on the web team knows how to use flash what good does this do for the content of the sight.
I can see the web team now --- "John you will code the DB connections and handle the transactions, Sally you will be responsible for the JavaScript and HTML, Bob you will tie the UI together, and Helen will keep are coffee cups filled and in your spare time you can work on a cool 60 second Flash intro for all of our customers to sit through EVERY time they visit our site.........errrr"
This goes a long way to explaining how something like Napster has actually increased record sales rather than hurt them. People have actually been able to test the waters (or even find out about in the first place) for 100% of the music rather than the traditional 35-40 songs that would be overplayed by radio. I mean if Napster makes that back street boys or n'sync or metallica sell 12Million rather than 14Million...then those people are going to complain. But I am willing to bet their are a bunch of bands that would have sold 1400 without any radio help -- are selling 14,000 with Napster and other internet related methods. (their may be an additional 14,000 that download the album and don't purchase it -- however, the 14,000 that do is still much higher than the 1400 that do.....) Kind of like saying that their is no such thing as "Bad Publicity"...Hell with the system the way it is described in this article, the labels should be paying us to download songs from Napster -- in the same way they play the radio stations to play them.
Out...
As soon as they get done splitting the internet up between "porn" and "non-porn" they can start splitting it up between "Antique dial up sites and content" and "Modern day broadband sites and content"...Segregation is the answer.....We will keep the slow old timers on their side of the internet....And us modern day 300 KB/S cowboys can enjoy a fun journey without having any slowpokes in the way....
Imagine a Napster utopia where no 56kers are allowed to enter......Sweeeet speeds.
Good point....All of the 3d stuff may look good but their is a huge market for side scrollers and shoot em ups in 2d. My wife can't play the 3d games for more than 2 minutes without getting sick...yet I have to keep an old dos box around running a 486 processor so she can get her Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (original) fixes....(Tried to run them on her Duron and everything was way to fast....Maybe the GBA may provide a good alternative.
Nooooo....Don't bring the C64 to the bad side of town.....We have protected her long and hard...
I would take the security of my C64 BBS software (custom written by me -- except for the zmodem stuff) anyday over this new internet thing. No buffer over run's, no ddos attacks (just busy signals....), and best of all no front page extensions and secret dll's.....And best off all we had low bandwidth RIP Graphics instead of big fat gifs and java....
Ok I have Linux for my Dreamcast -- Linux for the ps2 and ps1....Linux for my toaster, etc, etc....I have yet to here of anyone porting MAME to run on these....(Sound support, Joypad Support, and acceptable speed please....) Has anyone worked on this --- or do they just port the base OS and move on to the next toy...Hell if the OS was all that mattered I would be running CP/M or maybe even BeOS.....It's the apps that make the world go round.
Iomega Media Costs 101:
$100 for a 1 GB Jaz Disk....$160 for a 2 GB Jaz Disk....20 GB "Jaz" Disk....????? Maybe $500 - $650 if they keep with the trend....
I have a 2 Gig Jaz drive and I love everything about it other than the fact that with that kind of cost per megabyte --- do I have anything that is worth storing on these pricy things...
No Flames here...most of the flames related to the lack of modern full featured apps and drivers for Linux usually come from frustrated people who can taste the kill yet realize the prey has escaped their grasp. Similar to when a Basketball, or Baseball team goes from last place to first place and playing for the title. When they lose the title game the fans often will be disgruntled not because they don't see the great turnaround in the big picture...only because they did not grab the brass ring or have a story book ending.
All of the issues people are talking about (Trying to use Linux for a desktop os) seem to remind me of the same struggles I had trying to find new releases for my BetaMax player...Or why were the stores only putting out new games for that damn Nintendo system when I was really looking for new games for my Atari 2600?? Standards burn....The market place burns...I think the key to the Linux desktop is when I can buy a new piece of hardware, and it has device drivers and boxed apps that use those drivers under Linux.
What is the purpose of cheating? Their is no money involved.....This is like me saying that I have found a way to get fat without eating? I would like to here a good argument from a cheater as to what they get out of it???
>> Hey, with Mozilla I think we've finally found a piece of software that can push the PSX2 to it's limits. Hey this got modded as 5 funny -- the sad part is that it is a lot closer to truth than fiction.
Ahh....But you have a PC that can offer all of the things that make gaming a more pleasurable experience on a console than a PC.
I was late to the console craze but all it took was 10-15 years of letdowns buying PC football and basketball games -- that added to the frustration based on bad controls and proprietary operating systems (Windows was only needed for games --- the classic "dual booters" excuse) that lead me to the dreamcast....(Anyone ever plauged with sports games on the PC can easily see NFL2K1 or NBA2k1 as finally being the cats meow -- or utopia so to speak...) Now if my console can browse the internet -- people like my wife or mother in law who seem to use a PC for little more than Internet and/or email (combined with the gamers) may be just enough to be a killer solution......(We are talking browsing at good res. with something better than a blocky TV)
Good point. My wife just paid $300 for a single floppy (with only a DOS tsr) from a company that sales maybe 300 copies a year. If this was $30 I am sure the people that author the "niche" software would not be able to make ends meet. (You could always higher a consultent for $100 an hour to satisfy your niche needs.)
Disclaimer -- I have used Nautilus and it looks very promising....But HELLO maybe next time we can get around to actually having a product on the shelf before the 15 million runs out...I get a kick that all of these "dying" Linux companies are all dying without a viable business or product. Did we think Corel was going to stick around much longer after a smoke and windows Wine port of their office suite. (Hell, the Wine people could have had that done in due time by themselves without beefing up the soup line.) The sad thing is that in the press all you are hearing now days is that "No money to be made in the Linux world" ... that is like me complaining that my 5 year old son has not baught me that house with his pro football earnings. Even though I don't use Redhat anymore -- you have to look at them as a success because I was seeing shrink wrapped boxes in the stores many years ago -- and they are still around.
Orville and Wilbur Wright have just stayed in the air for 53 seconds on their new fangled flying machine.
* I.E. -- why has it taken soooo loooong to get AMD into the SMP world????
I admire the people who work hard and give the source to the people -- with only one request - "Let The Source Remain Open" -- and if the source is improved upon -- continue to share the wealth.
What Caldera is (trying) to do is akin to if I sent a pantry of food to one of those skinny kids on the TV commercials (lets call him "boogleeboo")...and then ole' Boogleboo decided to open up a storefront and peddle the rice for cash rather than to put some meat on his skinny ass bones -- and then the next month I see Boogleboo on a new TV commercial lookin' even skinnier -- however with a ledger and calculator strapped on, and dollar signs in his eyes.
This whole "How to make money with Linux 101" thing is really starting to drag...I prefer the days when we did not have the money sharks in the water...and success and failure was based on quality rather than sales and stock price.
always capitalize on the profitable DSL business model and start your own ISP.