From TFA ... The Pirate Bay was the target of one of the most talked-about raids of the 21st century in Sweden.
Ah, with another 93+ years to go in the century it would seem a bit much to make claims like that. It seems entirely likely that the Pirate Bay raid will be forgotten in three years, much less thirty.
Apple may have lucked out with the iPod - let's face it, any new product launch is a gamble, especially into a product for which you have no previous background.
I have to think though that trying to break into the already pretty mature cel phone market is an entirely different thing.
The market for iPods was largely wide open - most people who bought were moving over from CD or cassette players, and represented a pretty much untapped population.
The iPhone though will have to convince existing cel phone owners to change hardware, and in some case change service providers. That's a much tougher sell, especially when you're charging up front for a phone when most providers offer a phone for "free."
If I were marketing this thing I'd sell it as an upgrade for existing iPod owners, a newer better iPod that just happens to also include a phone.
Oh yes, I am sure that the senior management of CC will also be fired and offered the chance to apply for their jobs at lesser salary packages...oh sorry, that would be Leadership.
Even better, how about firing 8% of management employees above the store level, and see if that changes anything.
In Canada CC bought out Radio Shack (but not the name) and made it "The Source: by Circuit City."
Last time I was in one of their stores a sales drone told me, in all seriousness, that he didn't know how many milli-amps there were in an amp.
I know and have spoken with some usability nuts who claim that there is One True Path to usability, and anyone who wants to do things differently is simply doing things WRONG, and that they need to learn the One True Path and experience how much better it is.
Hmmm... would they possibly be people whose platform of choice begins with an "A" and ends with an "E", and which has "PPL" somewhere in the middle?
So what you're saying is that instead of buying stuff we should all download software and movies from Pirate Bay, because it's environmentally friendly?
He had me right up until "But there was also an oft-forgotten episode in 2000... Maybe I'm biased, since one of the Web sites being blocked was mine [CC].
Ok, when your argument begins with an 7 year old gripe about actions that were directed at you, any suggestion of objectivity goes right out the door.
Really, this is blog fodder, not something that should be posted unedited on the Slashdot front page.
Scenario #1 - despite what they say the broadcasters/netcasters are actually already making a profit on their streaming services, and will bite the bullet, pay higher royalties, and a carry on.
Scenario #2 - no-one is making money off of Internet streaming anyhow, and this will give them the excuse to pull the plug on a money losing service.
And I guess that there's a Scenario #3 - everybody buys satellite radio receivers and iPods and radio listenrship just continues downhill.
Personally I would really miss KFAI Minneapolis, a station that I listen to religiously.
Mozilla has to expand some of the applications for this to work, though, like adding local file management with Firefox.
Am I alone in finding it annoying to use the same app for file management and Internet browsing?
I know that Microsoft, Apple, and Linux have all tried to present a seamless universe of data and documents, but really they're two entirely different functions and environments, and for me at least they need two distinct applications.
However, you *can* have solar panels which fill your compressed-air tank, and then refill your can whenever you need.
All that I can imagine is the sound of thousands of little air compressors filling up thousands of air tanks... air conditioner hum would suddenly seem not too bad...
I'm planning to spend a year backpacking around Michigan and the hardest question I have to answer is: What technology do I take with me?... I can think of lots of uses for it, but I'm worried it will be lost or stolen along the way.
Developing nations have no monopoly on electronics theft. Walk around the poorer sections of Detroit, or Baltimore, or Chicago, or Cincinnati.
"Thanks to the advice of fellow readers from a previous Ask Slashdot, I now have a PC system optimally configured to produce professional on-air radio programs"
Hmmm... I remain skeptical, esp. when you're seeking advice from Slashdot.
To your question, no, you're not going to use Skype or VOIP for a "professional" broadcast, for any of a dozen reasons. As noted, you need a Telos Zephyr or similar product.
There are broadcast quality units designed to transfer audio back and forth over an IP connection, but Skype isn't it.
Don't waste time here, check out a few radio trade magazines.
And, uh, "professional" is much less about gear than about talent and proven broadcast skills.
"...even if only a tiny fraction of customers are downloading enough to trigger the policy, that will probably change as more entertainment moves to the Internet."
If you're downloading gigabytes of movies and music from a service that the RIAA or MPAA approves of then suddenly bandwidth caps will cease to be an issue.
I doubt that anyone will ever get a takedown notice from their ISP for excessive iTunes usage.
The only reason why a lot of us would upgrade to Vista is because Microsoft will stop supporting our current OS with bug fixes and security updates. Vista to me looks like a nightmare of DRM and restrictions on what I would want to do, but I can see my current Win 2K install becoming as outdated and unsupported as Windows 98.
If React OS can keep me running my current Windows apps in a sensible, secure, and supported environment, then I can avoid Vista. That means less headaches, and less expense.
Really, these folks may have found a really nice niche.
(Honestly, looking at Vista make me think that this is the time when someone, whether Linux, Mac, or something else, could make significant inroads.)
Yeesh - has there ever been a version of Windows that handled this well? I can't recall one that didn't have off and on problems, especially on laptops.
Despite the many irritations that my Mac brought with it, this one thing that it does extremely well.
I lived in Appalachian Kentucky, in one of the two or three poorest counties in the country. The problems with education didn't come down to teacher unions, it came down to political pork barrel.
In a nutshell, the way you get elected in those parts is to deliver relatively cushy government jobs to your friends and supporters*.
Since funding for schools is already pitiful, the usual strategy is to have lots of low paying teacher jobs, rather than fewer good paying positions. If you pay less per job, you create more porkbarrel positions that will bring you votes.
Kentucky really isn't interested in spending more on schools, and is just using teacher unions as a convenient excuse.
* or hand out fifths of whisky on election day. Or indulge in good old fashioned vote buying.
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Strikes me that with WIMAX and other streaming video technologies on the horizon DirecTV may be launching this about three years too late.
From TFA ... The Pirate Bay was the target of one of the most talked-about raids of the 21st century in Sweden.
Ah, with another 93+ years to go in the century it would seem a bit much to make claims like that. It seems entirely likely that the Pirate Bay raid will be forgotten in three years, much less thirty.
Execept of course on Wikipedia....
There are a lot of of us. I bought my G4 Powerbook because I was tired of Windows nonsense.
Hurrah! Now I get to deal with OS X nonsense. And with design and feature choices that just defy any reasonable sense of usability.
I too find, even after a year and a half, that I can boot up a Windows machine and accomplish more work in less time. I can't think that I'm alone.
Apple may have lucked out with the iPod - let's face it, any new product launch is a gamble, especially into a product for which you have no previous background.
I have to think though that trying to break into the already pretty mature cel phone market is an entirely different thing.
The market for iPods was largely wide open - most people who bought were moving over from CD or cassette players, and represented a pretty much untapped population.
The iPhone though will have to convince existing cel phone owners to change hardware, and in some case change service providers. That's a much tougher sell, especially when you're charging up front for a phone when most providers offer a phone for "free."
If I were marketing this thing I'd sell it as an upgrade for existing iPod owners, a newer better iPod that just happens to also include a phone.
Oh yes, I am sure that the senior management of CC will also be fired and offered the chance to apply for their jobs at lesser salary packages ...oh sorry, that would be Leadership.
Even better, how about firing 8% of management employees above the store level, and see if that changes anything.
In Canada CC bought out Radio Shack (but not the name) and made it "The Source: by Circuit City."
Last time I was in one of their stores a sales drone told me, in all seriousness, that he didn't know how many milli-amps there were in an amp.
I know and have spoken with some usability nuts who claim that there is One True Path to usability, and anyone who wants to do things differently is simply doing things WRONG, and that they need to learn the One True Path and experience how much better it is.
Hmmm... would they possibly be people whose platform of choice begins with an "A" and ends with an "E", and which has "PPL" somewhere in the middle?
... given that so many people seem to already be 51% sheep.
So what you're saying is that instead of buying stuff we should all download software and movies from Pirate Bay, because it's environmentally friendly?
And "SAN" means what? Don't ever assume that everyone else knows your acronym. Spell it out the first time that you use it.
He had me right up until "But there was also an oft-forgotten episode in 2000 ... Maybe I'm biased, since one of the Web sites being blocked was mine [CC].
Ok, when your argument begins with an 7 year old gripe about actions that were directed at you, any suggestion of objectivity goes right out the door.
Really, this is blog fodder, not something that should be posted unedited on the Slashdot front page.
I run spybot several times a day on my PCs and never have a problem with the Mac.
So what you're saying is that you do check your PC for malware, but you don't check the Mac.
Exactly how do you know that you're not running some form of Mac zombie without knowing it? Give us the "proof."
"...several times a day..." Yeesh.....
Just to get this out of the way, no, a wiki is not a solution to replacing scholarly peer reviewed journals. OK?
Scenario #1 - despite what they say the broadcasters/netcasters are actually already making a profit on their streaming services, and will bite the bullet, pay higher royalties, and a carry on.
Scenario #2 - no-one is making money off of Internet streaming anyhow, and this will give them the excuse to pull the plug on a money losing service.
And I guess that there's a Scenario #3 - everybody buys satellite radio receivers and iPods and radio listenrship just continues downhill.
Personally I would really miss KFAI Minneapolis, a station that I listen to religiously.
Mozilla has to expand some of the applications for this to work, though, like adding local file management with Firefox.
Am I alone in finding it annoying to use the same app for file management and Internet browsing?
I know that Microsoft, Apple, and Linux have all tried to present a seamless universe of data and documents, but really they're two entirely different functions and environments, and for me at least they need two distinct applications.
However, you *can* have solar panels which fill your compressed-air tank, and then refill your can whenever you need.
All that I can imagine is the sound of thousands of little air compressors filling up thousands of air tanks... air conditioner hum would suddenly seem not too bad...
Suppose he said:
... I can think of lots of uses for it, but I'm worried it will be lost or stolen along the way.
I'm planning to spend a year backpacking around Michigan and the hardest question I have to answer is: What technology do I take with me?
Developing nations have no monopoly on electronics theft. Walk around the poorer sections of Detroit, or Baltimore, or Chicago, or Cincinnati.
"Thanks to the advice of fellow readers from a previous Ask Slashdot, I now have a PC system optimally configured to produce professional on-air radio programs" Hmmm... I remain skeptical, esp. when you're seeking advice from Slashdot. To your question, no, you're not going to use Skype or VOIP for a "professional" broadcast, for any of a dozen reasons. As noted, you need a Telos Zephyr or similar product. There are broadcast quality units designed to transfer audio back and forth over an IP connection, but Skype isn't it. Don't waste time here, check out a few radio trade magazines. And, uh, "professional" is much less about gear than about talent and proven broadcast skills.
Sigh..... isn't always that way?
"...even if only a tiny fraction of customers are downloading enough to trigger the policy, that will probably change as more entertainment moves to the Internet."
If you're downloading gigabytes of movies and music from a service that the RIAA or MPAA approves of then suddenly bandwidth caps will cease to be an issue.
I doubt that anyone will ever get a takedown notice from their ISP for excessive iTunes usage.
The only reason why a lot of us would upgrade to Vista is because Microsoft will stop supporting our current OS with bug fixes and security updates. Vista to me looks like a nightmare of DRM and restrictions on what I would want to do, but I can see my current Win 2K install becoming as outdated and unsupported as Windows 98.
If React OS can keep me running my current Windows apps in a sensible, secure, and supported environment, then I can avoid Vista. That means less headaches, and less expense.
Really, these folks may have found a really nice niche.
(Honestly, looking at Vista make me think that this is the time when someone, whether Linux, Mac, or something else, could make significant inroads.)
Yeesh - has there ever been a version of Windows that handled this well? I can't recall one that didn't have off and on problems, especially on laptops.
Despite the many irritations that my Mac brought with it, this one thing that it does extremely well.
Maybe those Britannica folks had this stuff figured out after all.... Then again, Wikipedia also has at least Five Things you're not allowed to discuss...
C'mon, Linux is like the Scientology of tech. The list of things that you aren't allowed to discuss is nearly endless.
I lived in Appalachian Kentucky, in one of the two or three poorest counties in the country. The problems with education didn't come down to teacher unions, it came down to political pork barrel.
In a nutshell, the way you get elected in those parts is to deliver relatively cushy government jobs to your friends and supporters*.
Since funding for schools is already pitiful, the usual strategy is to have lots of low paying teacher jobs, rather than fewer good paying positions. If you pay less per job, you create more porkbarrel positions that will bring you votes.
Kentucky really isn't interested in spending more on schools, and is just using teacher unions as a convenient excuse.
* or hand out fifths of whisky on election day. Or indulge in good old fashioned vote buying.
You're a junior employee by the looks of it, possibly part time, taking phone orders.
There is every likelihood that your employer has safeguards in place that you don't know about, and even that they don't want you to know about.