If you're not using Linux now, you should be.
Don't like what MS does? Make sure that they don't get a single nickle of your money.
Linux is getting to the point where it is just about as easy to use *on the desktop* and once you know the desktop, you are halfway to knowing the server.
You *do* have a choice, you know...
Get Linux, install it, learn it. Burn a copy for a friend. Help them install it and learn it.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Oddly, my ICQ number is at position 19724810 counting from the first digit after the decimal point.
What're the odds of *that*?
;-)
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
CJ Date's "Introduction To Database Systems"
Great book.
All of the O'Reilly books.
Mythical Man Month.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.
The K & R C book.
Knuth.
I think your post underscores a lot of the frustration that people feel. What can you do?
Probably nothing.
It's as if your company's policy is to have a night watchman who invites his friends over at night to go through your desk and try to trash your stuff and see what they can embarrass you with.
Since the PHB's are incapable of seeing that this is a bad idea, you are forced to live with it, by not keeping anything personal in your desk and keeping important files backed up and encrypted.
If Microsoft would publish a protocol for connecting to Exchange servers, this problem and all its waste would _vanish_ as other clients emerge.
POP 3 is a pretty good standard in that it lets users use any mail client that they like to get their mail.
I use Sylpheed for Linux - I could just as easily use Outlook Express or Netscape or whatever...
All you can do at your company is to be as careful as you can in protecting your files and be ready to explain the alternatives to anyone who is starting to realize that Outlook is a Bad Idea.
In the mean time, well, hang in there.
> Do they plan to only allow unfettered access to the athletes?
Wasn't athlete's internet access being restricted during the last olympics? I seem to remember someone trying to update his/her homepage and being told that he couldn't - That his experiences were the property of whatever media company had bought the rights.
I guess what I meant was that people would use it for about 10 minutes before hooking up a keyboard.
I mean, I like the idea of Crusoe and all - Linux is great and all, but this is one expensive piece of hardware they're selling.
Every year or so, a company comes out with a tablet-style computer and time after time, it falls flat. I guess they picture that doctors or field engineers or somebody will be using them, but it just hasn't happened.
I know I sound cynical, but oddly, I run a site for palm pilot... Go figure.
$2300 for a 400mhz web browser?
Netscape 4.7? (The bane of my existence...)
No CD/DVD?
No built-in wireless?
Yeah, sure...
Send me 10 of them...
I give it ten minutes before people try to find a way to add a keyboard and mouse, too.
My PC has 'Instant On' too, if I only turn off the screen...
Well, It *is* getting better and easier.
If you're interested in seeing what all this nonsense is about, get your hands on a brand new distro from somewhere (Linuxiso.org or cheapbytes or a magazine) and try it again.
I've done a *lot* of installs. Took me a year of occasionally farting with it to get X running on Slackware a few years ago. Now, RedHat and all the others set up like a dream. USB works. Sound works - Good, easy DVD - well, I guess that's about 6mos away.
Sometimes, I try a distro and it fails on my hardware - C'est la vie. I try another distro. Right now, RedHat is running great for me - 2 months ago, it was Caldera. All the time, I've kept Windows without a problem.
Now I've been using Linux exclusively for weeks. It has, for me, finally surpassed Windows in usability. (I *do* miss NoteTab Pro, though...)
They are under no obligation to write the drivers, especially when it's costing them money to do so. They might be motivated to, if it's costing them sales.
When you buy a piece of hardware, you are paying for the hardware and the *drivers* to run it.
With Linux, you're often at the mercy of independant developers to write these drivers, but some companies make it easier for them by following standards, releasing specs, or actually doing the development in-house.
I don't know if it is common in the US, but here in Japan, hardware is often sold with a little Tux sticker on it to let you know that it is Linux-friendly. Companies that do this are more likely to get *my* business, since I often buy on impulse and don't check ahead of time to read a compatability list.
I bet if you asked most scanner manufacturers about Linux, they'd say "This scanner is USB - USB doesn't work with Linux, does it?"
I can use peripherals with Linux now that I could not have hoped to a year ago. My digital camera shows up as a mountable drive icon on my desktop now and this alone makes Linux a *lot* more viable to me.
(/etc/fstab entry:
/dev/sda1/mnt/cam vfat noauto,user 0 0)
If being able to put a "Works With Linux!" sticker on the box increases sales by 5%, companies will start doing it.
When they do, give these manufacturers higher consideration and some feedback.
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Well, since the citizens are obligated to comply with them, yes, they should be understandable *to all of the people*.
If a law cannot be broken down into "bite-sized-chunks" that every last person inside its jusisdiction can understand, it should be abandoned - otherwise it is probably too complex or one-sided.
Can you give an example of a sensible law that breaks this line of reasoning? (Tell me something with which I am expected to comply, yet cannot comprehend with my tiny little mind?)
Interesting that you said "Top Ten" - They used to teach a kind of "Top Ten", but now it's illegal to do so.
I think that was sort of the intent of the Ten Commandments - Now, I'm not pushing Christianity, but I have to admit, if you follow those 10 rules, you're unlikely to break many laws. Well, as long as you add the codicil "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's." (For tax reasons.)
That pretty much covers it, aside from copyright and Intellectual Property law, which have no basis in logic...
Maybe we should summarize it down to one rule:
"Be excellent to eachother..."
:-)
Jim
Well, at the time, Earhart's trip was hugely publicized as a good-will mission of peace around the world -
What if the government was forced to admit that a national heroine was, in fact, a spy? It would have been a real black eye for America.
Tensions between the US and Japan were mounting and Japan felt that they were divinely empowered to win any war they entered. This was around the time that Japan was devestating Manchuria and Nanking - their Navy was very strong and Saipan and the Northern Marianas islands were a key position for them, as well as a threatening one to America. (It's funny, none of my American friends knew that Saipan is a US posession now.)
I live a few blocks from the Japanese War Museum and Shrine - (Yasukuni Jinja. I'll be up there tonight, in fact, for a summer festival.)
There's always elderly Japanese soldiers up there, often looking at items from some island where they were stationed. I wonder if any of them were Saipan at the time and would be able to offer any information, but it would be just too insensitive for a foreigner to ask about such a thing. Plus, if they were sworn to secrecy then, I am sure they would still respect that.
Maybe in a few years, as they die off, a diary or some photographs will surface and the mystery will be solved.
I was in Harrod's a couple of years ago and I noticed one of the ceiling cameras pointed directly at me. I walked 45 degrees along its circumference and it followed. Another direction, it followed again. I put down the £200 worth of stuff that I was buying, flipped the camera the bird and walked out. I was disgusted.
That kind of rudeness should not be tolerated - not from a salesperson and not from some clown sitting in a back room twiddling his joystick.
I hear people in England say thet they enjoy the *security* of these cameras, but at what cost?
Where I live, we have beat cops who actually walk around, not so afraid that they have to hide behind a camera. They say hello, offer politeness and respect and expect it in return, get to know the people in the neighborhood (to the point of stopping by your house once a year to introduce themselves and see who you are) and they won't hesitate to stop you if you look like you are doing something suspicious. (Or lend a helping hand if you happen to need one at that moment.)
That's the kind of security I would prefer from the police - When a policeman makes a mental note of you, he has his intuition and his conscience, backed by a brain that no computer can compete with. When a camera takes note of you, you are just an entry in a database waiting to be taken out of context, the first time suspicion is cast upon you for something. I mean, we are conditioned to see anyone on a security monitor as an instant perpetrator.
Which would you choose?
Not to mention that it could be a boat wreck or the engine from an abandoned fishing boat.
One of the main pieces of supporting evidence that she was there is from the discovery of the heel of a woman's shoe. Dig around on the web and see if you an find a picture of her in anything but man-style shoes and boots. Even as a child, she wore pants, rather than dresses, which was quite unusual for the time.
Did a little digging on Google and found this link:
http://www.earhart.org/
Interesting reading, as it claims a big coverup and the direct involvement of James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy.
Since it's on the internet, it *must* be true...
;-)
I visited Saipan a year ago and there's a lot of local legend about Amelia Earhart. From what people have peiced together, AE's plane supposedly was shot down over/near Saipan by the Japanese forces on the island. Saipan natives recalled the Japanese's surprise that it was a woman aviator and especially that her navigator, a man, took orders from her. They were apparently imprisoned as spies, which they would have been, if they were in that area.
One old chamorro woman recalled seeing a tall white woman with an injured arm ocassionally walking under guard of Japanese navy men.
Later, American soldiers told of destroying a Lockheed plane that was in a Japanese hangar, after the fall of Saipan.
If you go there, you can see the foundations of the prison where she was supposedly kept, as well as some really cool caves and bunkers hidden all over the island. Saipan is also one of the places where the Japanese soldiers were hiding and didn't know that the war was over - The last of them came down from the hills in 1953 or so.
Statistics always seem to say exactly what the author wants, so how about this:
A drag race.
That's right, get teams together competing in certain hardware classes and let them compete, MS against RedHat against OpenBSD against Solaris.
Let the teams use every resource they can to tune and optimize and try to kick the other team's butt.
Include competitions for Web Serving, database, crackability, that kind of stuff.
Whenever someone does a benchmark study that shows Microsoft beating Linux, people scream 'unfair' - That the people who set up the Linux box didn't optimize correctly or used a setup that caused the results to be skewed. This would force people to put their money where their mouth is.
I have a programming student who uses Windows 2000. He and I were setting up MySQL on his machine and I was showing him the 'benchmark' feature of SQL, as in
"SELECT BENCHMARK(1000000000,radians(180))". While basically a meaningless test, it did give him some bragging rights and motivate me to optimize a bit when he trounced me and my Linux box, (both with 600MHz and 128MB.)
Who knows, could be fun...
Well, don't worry too much, They are sure to do it in a way that their analysts tell them will be profitable to *them*.
Napster worked using a very simple algorythm:
unless(music eq $free){
die("No way, Dude!");
}
No other formula has been shown to be effective. None are likely to work until another variable comes into play and I just don't see it...
Of course, after a while, Forbes Magazine will declare that P2P is dead as a business model and people will go back to trading on IRC and Gnutella.
When Ricochet was new in the DC area, I managed to run a small web server from the basement of the Department of Justice. It was from my personal laptop, not connected to the DoJ network in any way, but it *Could have been*.
Kinda scary.
I understood the risks and *really* only used the Ricochet modem to get my personal mail and files from my home PC, but it shows a lot of the possibilities of this type of unauthorized conectivity.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Maybe on AOL -
People on the internet are too used to the idea that everything can be had for free.
Here in Tokyo, there's a new service called Usen - They're offering 100 megabit connections to the internet. From what I've heard, they offer a lot of micro-payment-type sevices along with that connection.
You've got to put some real value-added services in the mix for micropayments to work. Would you put up with a lot of AOL/Time/Warner type crap to get the fastest possibe connection to what you actually want to see?
Trust me, it's not going to be based on any type of peer-to-peer model - People will always figure out a way to do that stuff for free. When 5 MB is no longer a big amount of data to email to a friend, i.e., when that's the size of your typical Outlook.NET email, it will be impossible to stop the free flow of MP3's and other BLOB data around the net.
Well, as long as there is PGP/GPG, that is...
Interestingly, someone here pointed out that searches for N'Synch and Ricky Martin yeilded results when artists like Tom Waits were blocked.
One has to wonder if the companies were keeping some searches unblocked, just to see how it affected their sales.
Personally, I don't think I'm alone in being some one who mainly used Napster for old, obscure songs that I doubted I'd be able to find at the local CD store. I can't help but wonder if that's the market that the RIAA really wanted to kill, while examining the viability of the peer-to-peer market for new releases.
I will miss Napster's feature of seeing what else a user has on their hard drive - If someone actually has Etta James' "Out of The Rain" or Gavin Bryars' "Jesus Blood Never Failed me Yet", I want to see what else they have. Probably stuff worth acquiring...
The Iran hostages are in day 18,470 of their freedom and Princess Diana is still dead.
As is napster.
I mean, when was the last time anyone downloaded *anything* from Napster?
Sayonara, Napster, it was fun...Nothing to see here, move along...
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If you're not using Linux now, you should be.
Don't like what MS does? Make sure that they don't get a single nickle of your money.
Linux is getting to the point where it is just about as easy to use *on the desktop* and once you know the desktop, you are halfway to knowing the server.
You *do* have a choice, you know...
Get Linux, install it, learn it. Burn a copy for a friend. Help them install it and learn it.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Oddly, my ICQ number is at position 19724810 counting from the first digit after the decimal point.
What're the odds of *that*?
;-)
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Have no clue about firewalls?
CJ Date's "Introduction To Database Systems"
Great book.
All of the O'Reilly books.
Mythical Man Month.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman.
The K & R C book.
Knuth.
That would do it for me...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Have no clue about firewalls?
OK, then, let's see how it works when you spammify the address...
xcizjev55jf55t001@NOSPAM.sneakemail.com
That address agan:
xcizjev55jf55t001@NOSPAM.sneakemail.com
I always wonder how much crap you get from posting slasdot with a spammified address....
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Have no clue about firewalls?
I think your post underscores a lot of the frustration that people feel. What can you do?
Probably nothing.
It's as if your company's policy is to have a night watchman who invites his friends over at night to go through your desk and try to trash your stuff and see what they can embarrass you with.
Since the PHB's are incapable of seeing that this is a bad idea, you are forced to live with it, by not keeping anything personal in your desk and keeping important files backed up and encrypted.
If Microsoft would publish a protocol for connecting to Exchange servers, this problem and all its waste would _vanish_ as other clients emerge.
POP 3 is a pretty good standard in that it lets users use any mail client that they like to get their mail.
I use Sylpheed for Linux - I could just as easily use Outlook Express or Netscape or whatever...
All you can do at your company is to be as careful as you can in protecting your files and be ready to explain the alternatives to anyone who is starting to realize that Outlook is a Bad Idea.
In the mean time, well, hang in there.
Cheers,
Jim
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> Do they plan to only allow unfettered access to the athletes?
Wasn't athlete's internet access being restricted during the last olympics? I seem to remember someone trying to update his/her homepage and being told that he couldn't - That his experiences were the property of whatever media company had bought the rights.
Of course, I'm probably mistaken...
Cheers.
Jim in Tokyo
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OK, it was 5 minutes.
My bad.
I guess what I meant was that people would use it for about 10 minutes before hooking up a keyboard.
I mean, I like the idea of Crusoe and all - Linux is great and all, but this is one expensive piece of hardware they're selling.
Every year or so, a company comes out with a tablet-style computer and time after time, it falls flat. I guess they picture that doctors or field engineers or somebody will be using them, but it just hasn't happened.
I know I sound cynical, but oddly, I run a site for palm pilot... Go figure.
MMDC Mobile Media
$2300 for a 400mhz web browser?
Netscape 4.7? (The bane of my existence...)
No CD/DVD?
No built-in wireless?
Yeah, sure...
Send me 10 of them...
I give it ten minutes before people try to find a way to add a keyboard and mouse, too.
My PC has 'Instant On' too, if I only turn off the screen...
MMDC Mobile Media
Well, It *is* getting better and easier.
If you're interested in seeing what all this nonsense is about, get your hands on a brand new distro from somewhere (Linuxiso.org or cheapbytes or a magazine) and try it again.
I've done a *lot* of installs. Took me a year of occasionally farting with it to get X running on Slackware a few years ago. Now, RedHat and all the others set up like a dream. USB works. Sound works - Good, easy DVD - well, I guess that's about 6mos away.
Sometimes, I try a distro and it fails on my hardware - C'est la vie. I try another distro. Right now, RedHat is running great for me - 2 months ago, it was Caldera. All the time, I've kept Windows without a problem.
Now I've been using Linux exclusively for weeks. It has, for me, finally surpassed Windows in usability. (I *do* miss NoteTab Pro, though...)
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
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They are under no obligation to write the drivers, especially when it's costing them money to do so.
/mnt/cam vfat noauto,user 0 0)
They might be motivated to, if it's costing them sales.
When you buy a piece of hardware, you are paying for the hardware and the *drivers* to run it.
With Linux, you're often at the mercy of independant developers to write these drivers, but some companies make it easier for them by following standards, releasing specs, or actually doing the development in-house.
I don't know if it is common in the US, but here in Japan, hardware is often sold with a little Tux sticker on it to let you know that it is Linux-friendly. Companies that do this are more likely to get *my* business, since I often buy on impulse and don't check ahead of time to read a compatability list.
I bet if you asked most scanner manufacturers about Linux, they'd say "This scanner is USB - USB doesn't work with Linux, does it?"
I can use peripherals with Linux now that I could not have hoped to a year ago. My digital camera shows up as a mountable drive icon on my desktop now and this alone makes Linux a *lot* more viable to me.
(/etc/fstab entry:
/dev/sda1
If being able to put a "Works With Linux!" sticker on the box increases sales by 5%, companies will start doing it.
When they do, give these manufacturers higher consideration and some feedback.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
I just did a page on this very thing:
http://mmdc.net/p/ssh.html
Hope this helps -
Jim in Tokyo
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Well, since the citizens are obligated to comply with them, yes, they should be understandable *to all of the people*.
If a law cannot be broken down into "bite-sized-chunks" that every last person inside its jusisdiction can understand, it should be abandoned - otherwise it is probably too complex or one-sided.
Can you give an example of a sensible law that breaks this line of reasoning? (Tell me something with which I am expected to comply, yet cannot comprehend with my tiny little mind?)
Cheers,
Jim
MMDC Mobile Media
Interesting that you said "Top Ten" - They used to teach a kind of "Top Ten", but now it's illegal to do so.
I think that was sort of the intent of the Ten Commandments - Now, I'm not pushing Christianity, but I have to admit, if you follow those 10 rules, you're unlikely to break many laws. Well, as long as you add the codicil "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's." (For tax reasons.)
That pretty much covers it, aside from copyright and Intellectual Property law, which have no basis in logic...
Maybe we should summarize it down to one rule:
"Be excellent to eachother..."
:-)
Jim
MMDC Mobile Media
Well, at the time, Earhart's trip was hugely publicized as a good-will mission of peace around the world -
What if the government was forced to admit that a national heroine was, in fact, a spy? It would have been a real black eye for America.
Tensions between the US and Japan were mounting and Japan felt that they were divinely empowered to win any war they entered. This was around the time that Japan was devestating Manchuria and Nanking - their Navy was very strong and Saipan and the Northern Marianas islands were a key position for them, as well as a threatening one to America. (It's funny, none of my American friends knew that Saipan is a US posession now.)
I live a few blocks from the Japanese War Museum and Shrine - (Yasukuni Jinja. I'll be up there tonight, in fact, for a summer festival.)
There's always elderly Japanese soldiers up there, often looking at items from some island where they were stationed. I wonder if any of them were Saipan at the time and would be able to offer any information, but it would be just too insensitive for a foreigner to ask about such a thing. Plus, if they were sworn to secrecy then, I am sure they would still respect that.
Maybe in a few years, as they die off, a diary or some photographs will surface and the mystery will be solved.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
I was in Harrod's a couple of years ago and I noticed one of the ceiling cameras pointed directly at me. I walked 45 degrees along its circumference and it followed. Another direction, it followed again. I put down the £200 worth of stuff that I was buying, flipped the camera the bird and walked out. I was disgusted.
That kind of rudeness should not be tolerated - not from a salesperson and not from some clown sitting in a back room twiddling his joystick.
I hear people in England say thet they enjoy the *security* of these cameras, but at what cost?
Where I live, we have beat cops who actually walk around, not so afraid that they have to hide behind a camera. They say hello, offer politeness and respect and expect it in return, get to know the people in the neighborhood (to the point of stopping by your house once a year to introduce themselves and see who you are) and they won't hesitate to stop you if you look like you are doing something suspicious. (Or lend a helping hand if you happen to need one at that moment.)
That's the kind of security I would prefer from the police - When a policeman makes a mental note of you, he has his intuition and his conscience, backed by a brain that no computer can compete with. When a camera takes note of you, you are just an entry in a database waiting to be taken out of context, the first time suspicion is cast upon you for something. I mean, we are conditioned to see anyone on a security monitor as an instant perpetrator.
Which would you choose?
Cheers,
Jim
MMDC Mobile Media
Not to mention that it could be a boat wreck or the engine from an abandoned fishing boat.
One of the main pieces of supporting evidence that she was there is from the discovery of the heel of a woman's shoe. Dig around on the web and see if you an find a picture of her in anything but man-style shoes and boots. Even as a child, she wore pants, rather than dresses, which was quite unusual for the time.
MMDC Mobile Media
Did a little digging on Google and found this link:
http://www.earhart.org/
Interesting reading, as it claims a big coverup and the direct involvement of James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy.
Since it's on the internet, it *must* be true...
;-)
MMDC Mobile Media
I visited Saipan a year ago and there's a lot of local legend about Amelia Earhart. From what people have peiced together, AE's plane supposedly was shot down over/near Saipan by the Japanese forces on the island. Saipan natives recalled the Japanese's surprise that it was a woman aviator and especially that her navigator, a man, took orders from her. They were apparently imprisoned as spies, which they would have been, if they were in that area.
One old chamorro woman recalled seeing a tall white woman with an injured arm ocassionally walking under guard of Japanese navy men.
Later, American soldiers told of destroying a Lockheed plane that was in a Japanese hangar, after the fall of Saipan.
If you go there, you can see the foundations of the prison where she was supposedly kept, as well as some really cool caves and bunkers hidden all over the island. Saipan is also one of the places where the Japanese soldiers were hiding and didn't know that the war was over - The last of them came down from the hills in 1953 or so.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
Statistics always seem to say exactly what the author wants, so how about this:
A drag race.
That's right, get teams together competing in certain hardware classes and let them compete, MS against RedHat against OpenBSD against Solaris.
Let the teams use every resource they can to tune and optimize and try to kick the other team's butt.
Include competitions for Web Serving, database, crackability, that kind of stuff.
Whenever someone does a benchmark study that shows Microsoft beating Linux, people scream 'unfair' - That the people who set up the Linux box didn't optimize correctly or used a setup that caused the results to be skewed. This would force people to put their money where their mouth is.
I have a programming student who uses Windows 2000. He and I were setting up MySQL on his machine and I was showing him the 'benchmark' feature of SQL, as in
"SELECT BENCHMARK(1000000000,radians(180))". While basically a meaningless test, it did give him some bragging rights and motivate me to optimize a bit when he trounced me and my Linux box, (both with 600MHz and 128MB.)
Who knows, could be fun...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
Anyone else notice that Jon Katz is sounding more and more like that entertainment critic from The Onion - Jackie Harvey?
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Well, don't worry too much, They are sure to do it in a way that their analysts tell them will be profitable to *them*.
Napster worked using a very simple algorythm:
unless(music eq $free){
die("No way, Dude!");
}
No other formula has been shown to be effective. None are likely to work until another variable comes into play and I just don't see it...
Of course, after a while, Forbes Magazine will declare that P2P is dead as a business model and people will go back to trading on IRC and Gnutella.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
When Ricochet was new in the DC area, I managed to run a small web server from the basement of the Department of Justice. It was from my personal laptop, not connected to the DoJ network in any way, but it *Could have been*.
Kinda scary.
I understood the risks and *really* only used the Ricochet modem to get my personal mail and files from my home PC, but it shows a lot of the possibilities of this type of unauthorized conectivity.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
Maybe on AOL -
People on the internet are too used to the idea that everything can be had for free.
Here in Tokyo, there's a new service called Usen - They're offering 100 megabit connections to the internet. From what I've heard, they offer a lot of micro-payment-type sevices along with that connection.
You've got to put some real value-added services in the mix for micropayments to work. Would you put up with a lot of AOL/Time/Warner type crap to get the fastest possibe connection to what you actually want to see?
Trust me, it's not going to be based on any type of peer-to-peer model - People will always figure out a way to do that stuff for free. When 5 MB is no longer a big amount of data to email to a friend, i.e., when that's the size of your typical Outlook.NET email, it will be impossible to stop the free flow of MP3's and other BLOB data around the net.
Well, as long as there is PGP/GPG, that is...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
Interestingly, someone here pointed out that searches for N'Synch and Ricky Martin yeilded results when artists like Tom Waits were blocked.
One has to wonder if the companies were keeping some searches unblocked, just to see how it affected their sales.
Personally, I don't think I'm alone in being some one who mainly used Napster for old, obscure songs that I doubted I'd be able to find at the local CD store. I can't help but wonder if that's the market that the RIAA really wanted to kill, while examining the viability of the peer-to-peer market for new releases.
I will miss Napster's feature of seeing what else a user has on their hard drive - If someone actually has Etta James' "Out of The Rain" or Gavin Bryars' "Jesus Blood Never Failed me Yet", I want to see what else they have. Probably stuff worth acquiring...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
MMDC Mobile Media
The Iran hostages are in day 18,470 of their freedom and Princess Diana is still dead.
As is napster.
I mean, when was the last time anyone downloaded *anything* from Napster?
Sayonara, Napster, it was fun...Nothing to see here, move along...
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