Well here in Israel, the land of milk, honey, and only one legal installation CD per 5 million people NOBODY gives a damm!
We got our music for years now via irc's ftp's and now napster/gnutella and we will keep getting it via whatever technology happens to pop up in the future.
In my department we have a stack of misguided individuals that use their laptops for everything. They seem to think that the mhz is all that is important as far as application speed goes. Have you ever seen someone useing a laptop to do 3d engineering design? They hook a fullsized keyboard and mouse and screen onto it and pretend that they are running on a desktop PC. Oh they curse and swear and wait and wait and wait, and those poor laptop Hdd's grind away and blow there little brains out trying to cope with huge applications. It seems to me that instead of worrying about how fast the proccessor is we should be worrying more about I/O, Memory, Harddisk speed etc. THOSE are the main performance killers in Laptops today.
I wonder if anybody here remembers when you used to be able to wonder into the local record store and purchase just the one song that you wanted, (well there was the B side, but who's counting). I mean lets face it, many people hear the latest hit on the radio and want to buy it but have to put up with purchasing a complete album at a complete album price on CD. Lets say for example an album costs $21 and contains 10 songs and the cost of the media was $1. That means that in order to get the one song that I wanted I effectively throw away $18 on songs I don't want and $1 on obselete media that can't be reused. It is no wonder that people turn to programs like Napster in order to get what they want when they want also at a very attractive price too:-) Metalica's time and money would be much more worthwhile spent developeing a competetive method of distributing their songs via the Net instead of placeing it in the bottomless pockets of lawyers whose only interest is in ripping their clients off for as much as they can get. ps:Sorry Dad but you ARE a lawyer so you know it's true:-).
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Wouldn't it be more fun just to drop a ball bearing into a particle accelerator? Who's game to try it :-)
Well here in Israel, the land of milk, honey, and only one legal installation CD per 5 million people NOBODY gives a damm! We got our music for years now via irc's ftp's and now napster/gnutella and we will keep getting it via whatever technology happens to pop up in the future.
In my department we have a stack of misguided individuals that use their laptops for everything. They seem to think that the mhz is all that is important as far as application speed goes. Have you ever seen someone useing a laptop to do 3d engineering design? They hook a fullsized keyboard and mouse and screen onto it and pretend that they are running on a desktop PC. Oh they curse and swear and wait and wait and wait, and those poor laptop Hdd's grind away and blow there little brains out trying to cope with huge applications. It seems to me that instead of worrying about how fast the proccessor is we should be worrying more about I/O, Memory, Harddisk speed etc. THOSE are the main performance killers in Laptops today.
I wonder if anybody here remembers when you used to be able to wonder into the local record store and purchase just the one song that you wanted, (well there was the B side, but who's counting). I mean lets face it, many people hear the latest hit on the radio and want to buy it but have to put up with purchasing a complete album at a complete album price on CD. Lets say for example an album costs $21 and contains 10 songs and the cost of the media was $1. That means that in order to get the one song that I wanted I effectively throw away $18 on songs I don't want and $1 on obselete media that can't be reused. It is no wonder that people turn to programs like Napster in order to get what they want when they want also at a very attractive price too :-) Metalica's time and money would be much more worthwhile spent developeing a competetive method of distributing their songs via the Net instead of placeing it in the bottomless pockets of lawyers whose only interest is in ripping their clients off for as much as they can get. ps:Sorry Dad but you ARE a lawyer so you know it's true :-).