Using another semiconductor than silicon for the CPU? Or a radical change in the design of the CPU or orther components? Are there experts here who can elaborate on this?
Performance per watt is a biggie for chip manufactures. Having a less than 10 watt server chip is possible, but who wants to use a Palm Pilot for a transaction server?
Having the performance to handle a slashdotting is what is needed in many servers. Performance is first, power consumption is second. That is why the performance per watt is an important part of the chip design. Low power chips is not the main design item. High performance is the most important. Providing that performance at the lowest power possible is the sweet spot chip designers aim for.
Here is additional reading. Look at what the Core 2 Duo and quad is bringing to the server market. Please note the Woodcrest and Operon is now obsolete. The Operon was leading, but the new multi-core chips are a new race in the performance per watt race.
One is lead to believe that individual servers are using more power whereas the article indicates that more servers are being deployed.
I wonder if anyone has bothered to do a study of server power consumption per teraflop or web page served? In the same time frame, how much has the number of servers increased and how many transactions per second do each server perform?
Unlike cars which have decreased gas consumption per vehicle on average of only about 20% while carying the same number of passangers per vehicle, I think servers on average provide a lot more performance on a lot less power. There is just enough more of them (guessing a 10X increase) to increase the total electrical load (2X).
If you do not have your router set as your computer's DNS source, this would not effect you would it?
Many (most) people set up thier computers on the LAN using DHCP as it is less difficult than setting up Static IP, manualy configuring a Gateway address and DNS server.
There are a few geeks like me who set everything manualy and a few OS'es that have some default DNS set up quite well such as Ubuntu.
We tend to be a little more immune to DNS server attacks because we have longer lists, so one server out is not a showstopper like it is on many Windows boxes.
[NEIGHBOR]...and then suddenly I found out all these payments had been made on my paypal account and a truckload of goat porn had been ordered on my credit card!
[COP] Sadly, this is what happens when you invite someone you hardly know into your house and put them in charge of configuring your security. How could you possibly have imagined that would be a good idea? But the people who sold you the router are just as much to blame. Nice work, selling a router that the customer then has to ask potentially untrustworthy third parties to configure because the defaults don't work and are hard to change.
[NEIGHBOR] An idiot is me.
[COP] Yes. Yes, an idiot is you.
(Later)
[NEIGHBOR]...and then suddenly I started getting notices in the mail requiring me to visit a settlement center or be sued for copyright violations at $7500 each. I can't get anyone at the settlement center to understand. They just demand money.
[COP] Sadly, this is what happens when you invite someone you hardly know into your house and put them in charge of configuring your security. How could you possibly have imagined that would be a good idea? But the people who sold you the router are just as much to blame. Nice work, selling a router that the customer then has to ask potentially untrustworthy third parties to configure because the defaults don't work and are hard to change. I hope you have a good lawyer.
[NEIGHBOR] An idiot is me. Do you know a good lawyer?
[COP] Yes. Yes, an idiot is you. I can't recommend a good copyright lawyer. Have you tried the yellow pages?
try setting a strong password on a Comcast router...
I knew better. When I finaly moved from dial-up to broadband, I specified modem only, no router. On dial-up, I already had a LAN and router including wireless. I was using an Actiontec Dual PC Modem as a narowband modem. I asked for self install, but since I didn't subscribe to TV already, they insisted they send out a guy to set it up. When he showed up, I simply said replace the narowband modem with the cable modem. He mentioned he needed to set up the DNS to point to the Comcast server. I let him know I already had and told him what the West coast server was. This suprised him. The information is online and easly found by a Google search. I complained about paying nearly $100 to simply plug it in, but it was in the contract.
He was suprised when I turned on a couple machines, opened browsers and they brought up webpages with no tweaking. I wonder if they noticed I have never gone in and configured e-mail or logged-in?
It would be funny if the RIAA tried to send me e-mail based on my IP address. I already have an account elsewhere.
PJ had a series of health issues before taking time off. You seem to be implying that her claim to need time off to get her health back was phony.
Actualy, I don't know her very well. There is enough questions on both sides, that I'm not ruling out the possibility. If she is using a pen name, it would be very easy to get wind of a server trying to contact her. An ID and name on a desk showing her as someone else provides deniability to the process server.
I am probably entirely incorrect, but I am not ready to rule out possibilities in favor of anyone until we know more. Sorry I came across as pro-SCO (shudders, vomits). That was not intended. I hope they die big time in court. From what I do know of SCO, (some from PJ) I do recognise SCO as the sharks they are.
To easly see the pattern of yellow in a print, go in a dark place with a bright blue LED flashlight. If you don't have any samples handy, just use some new US $20 bills. Have some color copies done at Kinkos and look for the tiny easly visable dots that show near black under blue light. In magazines, the pattern will have to be much larger to be captured by cheap low resolution cell phones with fixed focus.
I suspect SCO has a twofold interest in subpoena-ing PJ now. First, she is on a break to recover her health. SCO is just the sort of pond scum that cannot resist kicking someone when she is down. I believe they really want to worsen PJ's health.
PJ took a needed rest after some time was spent trying to serve her. The process of trying to serve her started before she took leave.
If she was tipped off that someone was stalking her (trying to serve her), I could easly understand her wanting to take some time off for her health.
"In an earlier post, I pointed to the fast-spreading but suspicious story alleging that a flaw in WMA files can plant spyware on your computer. This is a follow-up."
It looks like another reason to avoid WMA files entirely.
Given how little I paid for my players, I very much doubt that they've licensed WMA to begin with.
I bought the cheapest one I could find because I know they get lost, stolen, broken, wet, etc. My under $40 player plays both MP3 and non-DRM WMA. (the book says it will play WMA. I've never tried it.) It's an off brand Coby 1/2 Gig flash player with an SD card slot for expansion.
WMA is not that format because I do not currently possess anything portable that will play it.
You must be an iPod owener. Almost all MP3 players that are not an iPod support WMA in either the non-DRM format or the DRM Plays for Sure format. Check the supported file types on your DVD player. MS has been pushing the WMA format on hardware manufactures. DVD players which can't talk back to a PC don't support the DRM format, but most that play MP3's also play WMA.
Examples of common portable MP3 players that will play WMA are ones such as the Creative Zen, the RCA Lyra, and many others. Apple doesn't because of the online store lock-in. I don't think MS permits a manufacture to include WMA on a player that has a non-MS DRM format in some form of anti-compete clause. It permits MP3's just to appease the anti-trust regulation. It's MS DRM or the highway. Apple took the highway and is doing quite well.
Of course, come to think of it, I can't play my U2 or Duran Duran 12" EPs on Amarok either, so I wonder if my argument is moot...
It is not DRM'ed. It is just in the wrong format. Non DRM CD's rip just fine to MP3. Non DRM 12 inch LP's also rip just fine. CDEX does a fine job. It's what I use on my 12 inch LP's. Choose your prefered bitrate and encoder.
Smaller artists who give their music away and make money by dealing directly with local radio stations concert venus would thrive.
Conventional airtime is all tied up in payola and Clear Chanel mandated playlists. A New York station plays the exact playlist as an LA station.
The smaller bands have to do an end run past the entrenched media cartel. The Internet is the new media. Find new bands on MySpace and YouTube, not the local radio station.
...I'm sure all they want is more of their own personal energy dumped into flexing their suits...
I think a PV panel would be a better choice. It would consume less oxygen in limited supply in the suit, produce less waste heat in the suit, and best of all, there is never a cloudy day, just a very infrequent eclipse.
First of all, you can supply backup power to your ATA and not have to worry.
And when the power is out for the whole street, who is going to power the cable TV line amplifier? In many locals, the cable TV goes out with the power. Most people don't notice because they don't have power to turn on the TV. A few people who power their own adaptor have found out the hard way that when the power goes out, often the TV and Internet signals are down with it. DSL consumers are generaly better off in this regard, but not always as sometimes the DSLAM is neighborhool located and then put on fiber for backhaul.
Where the provider sells VOIP such as Comcast in major cities, they do a better job providing backup power to the distribution system. If your phone company or cable company do not offer a VOIP service, it is quite likely the signal to the home will be down in an power outage. Do not expect the signal to be reliable in an extended outage. The home office may have generator power, but the distribution systen may have limited runtime on batteries.
If you need high dependable alarm service, talk to the alarm provider about cell backup. The last place I worked used to install these in jewlery stores. If the main modem can't connect, it fails over to a cellphone. Don't think you can rob a jewlery store by cutting their phone line. The alarm will still go out.
3) have their talent pool stop making revenue (crappy quality music, and so on-- also highly unlikely).
Don't rule this one out.. Some talent is going inde. Some consumers are moving outside the Clear Chanel CD advertising route. Talent now gets exposure on youtube, Google Videos, etc. They put their products on CD Baby and emusic. You get higher quality (192Kbs VBR compared to 128Kbs fixed) with no DRM and lower prices. This trend is growing. Given time it will gain critical mass. It is legal and the RIAA and their team of lawyers are powerless to sotp it. They will have to adopt or die.
Arvil Lavine and Bare Naked Ladies have already moved. I think some of the newest TSO releases are now on inde labels. The RIAA can only screw the talent and consumers so much before they both seek an alternative.
In the article it is stated the DRM free MP3 tracks sell faster.
In a well duh moment, they figured out the installed base of equipment that can play MP3's is just about everyting. A MS or Apple format locks out all other format players. People don't buy incompatible formats. DRM in any format is incompatible with the majority of media players out there. Before you jump on the iTunes bandwagon... Do you have a DVD player? Do you use Linux? Do you have a MP3 player? Do you have a CD player that can play MP3 CD's in your car or as a portable CD player? iPods are everywhere, but not nearly as everywhere as MP3 players.
Selling MP3's is a much bigger market than selling something that will play on a Windows PC and Plays for Sure devices or just iTunes on Apple and PC platforms and iPods, or worse yet Zunes.
Knowing that with over the air DTV, there is quite a lag between the digital broadcast and the digital. I presume in the over the air TV standards, there is some encoding time lag + the decoding lag and display. Often when switching between analog and the digital on TV, I can get a repeat of an entire sentance or two. It is not limited to just a single broadcaster, but is common to all the networks. I imagine some content is originaly HD, and is then decoded in the studio and cropped for for NTSC aspect ratio and then broadcast. When this is done, the digital HD broadcast still lags the analog signal by quite a bit.
Do consumer decoder displays realy have that bad of a lag? What good is a high end graphics card able to produce 70+ FPS if they are all delayed 1.5 seconds by the display? For time critical FPS games, I think I will stick to analog for the time being until I find how much delay is introduced by decoding a HDMI signal.
Maybe this comment is FUD, but I have some uncertantity regarding the delay seen on over the air digital broadcasts. I hope someone is able to clear this up. A delayed HD movie is not a problem as long as the sound is delayed to match, but a long delay in a FPS is a showstopper.
even though they'll see 16,000 murders on tv by the time they are 18. This restriction, mind you, from the same society that considers Jack Bauer torturing a suspect on national tv to be entertainment. Show it all you want on tv, but don't dare let a minor buy a violent video game.
Most newer TV sets have parental controls. Just for grins, I turned on just the top 2 ratings for M and TV 14. We have a 13 year old as well as some younger children. Last Saturady evening I flipped through the over the air analog chanels. PBS was on, as well as a basketball game on CBS. All the other main networks were program locked! My evening was pretty much shot for TV. The religious broadcasts, infomercials, PBS, weather, and the ball game was the only things not locked out of about 25 analog and digital TV ststions. Even cartoons were blocked such as The Simpsons and Over the Hill.
If games are rated, could they send a rating signal to the TV so the parental controls work? Blocking M content should fix the problem once and for all for the concerned parents. Our new Tv has parental controls for TV as well as movie ratings.
Does anyone know if any of the main console games support TV parental controls?
The big diffrence is one gets name recognition and airtime publicity and the other doesn't. At a record store you would know who Madonna is. Would you even look at the records from Amy Kasio?
memory cards are the backbone of digital photography and they want to add $2-$10 to them.
I sell digital photos. Since the tax on camera cards is to cover piracy, I'll submit my name to recieve my cut of the royalty payments. Music isn't the only thing pirated online that is copyrighted.
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Using another semiconductor than silicon for the CPU? Or a radical change in the design of the CPU or orther components? Are there experts here who can elaborate on this?
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Performance per watt is a biggie for chip manufactures. Having a less than 10 watt server chip is possible, but who wants to use a Palm Pilot for a transaction server?
Having the performance to handle a slashdotting is what is needed in many servers. Performance is first, power consumption is second. That is why the performance per watt is an important part of the chip design. Low power chips is not the main design item. High performance is the most important. Providing that performance at the lowest power possible is the sweet spot chip designers aim for.
Here is additional reading. Look at what the Core 2 Duo and quad is bringing to the server market.
Please note the Woodcrest and Operon is now obsolete. The Operon was leading, but the new multi-core chips are a new race in the performance per watt race.
http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2160
http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/ppw.
http://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/
http://news.com.com/Chipmakers+admit+Your+power+m
One is lead to believe that individual servers are using more power whereas the article indicates that more servers are being deployed.
I wonder if anyone has bothered to do a study of server power consumption per teraflop or web page served? In the same time frame, how much has the number of servers increased and how many transactions per second do each server perform?
Unlike cars which have decreased gas consumption per vehicle on average of only about 20% while carying the same number of passangers per vehicle, I think servers on average provide a lot more performance on a lot less power. There is just enough more of them (guessing a 10X increase) to increase the total electrical load (2X).
If you do not have your router set as your computer's DNS source, this would not effect you would it?
Many (most) people set up thier computers on the LAN using DHCP as it is less difficult than setting up Static IP, manualy configuring a Gateway address and DNS server.
There are a few geeks like me who set everything manualy and a few OS'es that have some default DNS set up quite well such as Ubuntu.
We tend to be a little more immune to DNS server attacks because we have longer lists, so one server out is not a showstopper like it is on many Windows boxes.
(Later)
...and then suddenly I found out all these payments had been made on my paypal account and a truckload of goat porn had been ordered on my credit card!
...and then suddenly I started getting notices in the mail requiring me to visit a settlement center or be sued for copyright violations at $7500 each. I can't get anyone at the settlement center to understand. They just demand money.
[NEIGHBOR]
[COP] Sadly, this is what happens when you invite someone you hardly know into your house and put them in charge of configuring your security. How could you possibly have imagined that would be a good idea? But the people who sold you the router are just as much to blame. Nice work, selling a router that the customer then has to ask potentially untrustworthy third parties to configure because the defaults don't work and are hard to change.
[NEIGHBOR] An idiot is me.
[COP] Yes. Yes, an idiot is you.
(Later)
[NEIGHBOR]
[COP] Sadly, this is what happens when you invite someone you hardly know into your house and put them in charge of configuring your security. How could you possibly have imagined that would be a good idea? But the people who sold you the router are just as much to blame. Nice work, selling a router that the customer then has to ask potentially untrustworthy third parties to configure because the defaults don't work and are hard to change. I hope you have a good lawyer.
[NEIGHBOR] An idiot is me. Do you know a good lawyer?
[COP] Yes. Yes, an idiot is you. I can't recommend a good copyright lawyer. Have you tried the yellow pages?
try setting a strong password on a Comcast router...
I knew better. When I finaly moved from dial-up to broadband, I specified modem only, no router. On dial-up, I already had a LAN and router including wireless. I was using an Actiontec Dual PC Modem as a narowband modem. I asked for self install, but since I didn't subscribe to TV already, they insisted they send out a guy to set it up. When he showed up, I simply said replace the narowband modem with the cable modem. He mentioned he needed to set up the DNS to point to the Comcast server. I let him know I already had and told him what the West coast server was. This suprised him. The information is online and easly found by a Google search. I complained about paying nearly $100 to simply plug it in, but it was in the contract.
He was suprised when I turned on a couple machines, opened browsers and they brought up webpages with no tweaking. I wonder if they noticed I have never gone in and configured e-mail or logged-in?
It would be funny if the RIAA tried to send me e-mail based on my IP address. I already have an account elsewhere.
PJ had a series of health issues before taking time off. You seem to be implying that her claim to need time off to get her health back was phony.
Actualy, I don't know her very well. There is enough questions on both sides, that I'm not ruling out the possibility. If she is using a pen name, it would be very easy to get wind of a server trying to contact her. An ID and name on a desk showing her as someone else provides deniability to the process server.
I am probably entirely incorrect, but I am not ready to rule out possibilities in favor of anyone until we know more. Sorry I came across as pro-SCO (shudders, vomits). That was not intended. I hope they die big time in court. From what I do know of SCO, (some from PJ) I do recognise SCO as the sharks they are.
To easly see the pattern of yellow in a print, go in a dark place with a bright blue LED flashlight. If you don't have any samples handy, just use some new US $20 bills. Have some color copies done at Kinkos and look for the tiny easly visable dots that show near black under blue light. In magazines, the pattern will have to be much larger to be captured by cheap low resolution cell phones with fixed focus.
I suspect SCO has a twofold interest in subpoena-ing PJ now. First, she is on a break to recover her health. SCO is just the sort of pond scum that cannot resist kicking someone when she is down. I believe they really want to worsen PJ's health.
PJ took a needed rest after some time was spent trying to serve her. The process of trying to serve her started before she took leave.
If she was tipped off that someone was stalking her (trying to serve her), I could easly understand her wanting to take some time off for her health.
http://netrn.net/spywareblog/archives/2005/01/03/m ore-on-adware-installed-though-windows-media-files /
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000340.html
"In an earlier post, I pointed to the fast-spreading but suspicious story alleging that a flaw in WMA files can plant spyware on your computer. This is a follow-up."
It looks like another reason to avoid WMA files entirely.
Given how little I paid for my players, I very much doubt that they've licensed WMA to begin with.
I bought the cheapest one I could find because I know they get lost, stolen, broken, wet, etc. My under $40 player plays both MP3 and non-DRM WMA. (the book says it will play WMA. I've never tried it.) It's an off brand Coby 1/2 Gig flash player with an SD card slot for expansion.
WMA is not that format because I do not currently possess anything portable that will play it.
You must be an iPod owener. Almost all MP3 players that are not an iPod support WMA in either the non-DRM format or the DRM Plays for Sure format. Check the supported file types on your DVD player. MS has been pushing the WMA format on hardware manufactures. DVD players which can't talk back to a PC don't support the DRM format, but most that play MP3's also play WMA.
Examples of common portable MP3 players that will play WMA are ones such as the Creative Zen, the RCA Lyra, and many others. Apple doesn't because of the online store lock-in. I don't think MS permits a manufacture to include WMA on a player that has a non-MS DRM format in some form of anti-compete clause. It permits MP3's just to appease the anti-trust regulation. It's MS DRM or the highway. Apple took the highway and is doing quite well.
Of course, come to think of it, I can't play my U2 or Duran Duran 12" EPs on Amarok either, so I wonder if my argument is moot...
It is not DRM'ed. It is just in the wrong format. Non DRM CD's rip just fine to MP3. Non DRM 12 inch LP's also rip just fine. CDEX does a fine job. It's what I use on my 12 inch LP's. Choose your prefered bitrate and encoder.
Smaller artists who give their music away and make money by dealing directly with local radio stations concert venus would thrive.
Conventional airtime is all tied up in payola and Clear Chanel mandated playlists. A New York station plays the exact playlist as an LA station.
The smaller bands have to do an end run past the entrenched media cartel. The Internet is the new media. Find new bands on MySpace and YouTube, not the local radio station.
...I'm sure all they want is more of their own personal energy dumped into flexing their suits...
I think a PV panel would be a better choice. It would consume less oxygen in limited supply in the suit, produce less waste heat in the suit, and best of all, there is never a cloudy day, just a very infrequent eclipse.
First of all, you can supply backup power to your ATA and not have to worry.
And when the power is out for the whole street, who is going to power the cable TV line amplifier? In many locals, the cable TV goes out with the power. Most people don't notice because they don't have power to turn on the TV. A few people who power their own adaptor have found out the hard way that when the power goes out, often the TV and Internet signals are down with it. DSL consumers are generaly better off in this regard, but not always as sometimes the DSLAM is neighborhool located and then put on fiber for backhaul.
Where the provider sells VOIP such as Comcast in major cities, they do a better job providing backup power to the distribution system. If your phone company or cable company do not offer a VOIP service, it is quite likely the signal to the home will be down in an power outage. Do not expect the signal to be reliable in an extended outage. The home office may have generator power, but the distribution systen may have limited runtime on batteries.
If you need high dependable alarm service, talk to the alarm provider about cell backup. The last place I worked used to install these in jewlery stores. If the main modem can't connect, it fails over to a cellphone. Don't think you can rob a jewlery store by cutting their phone line. The alarm will still go out.
3) have their talent pool stop making revenue (crappy quality music, and so on-- also highly unlikely).
Don't rule this one out.. Some talent is going inde. Some consumers are moving outside the Clear Chanel CD advertising route. Talent now gets exposure on youtube, Google Videos, etc. They put their products on CD Baby and emusic. You get higher quality (192Kbs VBR compared to 128Kbs fixed) with no DRM and lower prices. This trend is growing. Given time it will gain critical mass. It is legal and the RIAA and their team of lawyers are powerless to sotp it. They will have to adopt or die.
Arvil Lavine and Bare Naked Ladies have already moved. I think some of the newest TSO releases are now on inde labels. The RIAA can only screw the talent and consumers so much before they both seek an alternative.
In the article it is stated the DRM free MP3 tracks sell faster.
In a well duh moment, they figured out the installed base of equipment that can play MP3's is just about everyting. A MS or Apple format locks out all other format players. People don't buy incompatible formats. DRM in any format is incompatible with the majority of media players out there. Before you jump on the iTunes bandwagon... Do you have a DVD player? Do you use Linux? Do you have a MP3 player? Do you have a CD player that can play MP3 CD's in your car or as a portable CD player? iPods are everywhere, but not nearly as everywhere as MP3 players.
Selling MP3's is a much bigger market than selling something that will play on a Windows PC and Plays for Sure devices or just iTunes on Apple and PC platforms and iPods, or worse yet Zunes.
No, they're not "on" the internet - just their pictures and videos!
and live webcams
suggests IBM have quite a large amount of their operations hosted there
True, but so do a lot of other companies. Of the 39,000 employees in the park, only 11,000 are IBM.
Here's some picture proof:
Hmm, How do you explain porn? Are they just guys photoshoped well?
Knowing that with over the air DTV, there is quite a lag between the digital broadcast and the digital. I presume in the over the air TV standards, there is some encoding time lag + the decoding lag and display. Often when switching between analog and the digital on TV, I can get a repeat of an entire sentance or two. It is not limited to just a single broadcaster, but is common to all the networks. I imagine some content is originaly HD, and is then decoded in the studio and cropped for for NTSC aspect ratio and then broadcast. When this is done, the digital HD broadcast still lags the analog signal by quite a bit.
Do consumer decoder displays realy have that bad of a lag? What good is a high end graphics card able to produce 70+ FPS if they are all delayed 1.5 seconds by the display? For time critical FPS games, I think I will stick to analog for the time being until I find how much delay is introduced by decoding a HDMI signal.
Maybe this comment is FUD, but I have some uncertantity regarding the delay seen on over the air digital broadcasts. I hope someone is able to clear this up. A delayed HD movie is not a problem as long as the sound is delayed to match, but a long delay in a FPS is a showstopper.
even though they'll see 16,000 murders on tv by the time they are 18. This restriction, mind you, from the same society that considers Jack Bauer torturing a suspect on national tv to be entertainment. Show it all you want on tv, but don't dare let a minor buy a violent video game.
Most newer TV sets have parental controls. Just for grins, I turned on just the top 2 ratings for M and TV 14. We have a 13 year old as well as some younger children. Last Saturady evening I flipped through the over the air analog chanels. PBS was on, as well as a basketball game on CBS. All the other main networks were program locked! My evening was pretty much shot for TV. The religious broadcasts, infomercials, PBS, weather, and the ball game was the only things not locked out of about 25 analog and digital TV ststions. Even cartoons were blocked such as The Simpsons and Over the Hill.
If games are rated, could they send a rating signal to the TV so the parental controls work? Blocking M content should fix the problem once and for all for the concerned parents. Our new Tv has parental controls for TV as well as movie ratings.
Does anyone know if any of the main console games support TV parental controls?
There are dishwasher makers that make Bosch knockoffs.
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Are you implying there are no Madonna knockoffs? There are tons of Elvis Prestly knockoffs.
Hmm Google is your friend...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=madonna+impe
http://pressreleases.cnetnetworks.com/phoenix.zht
"For example, if a Madonna fan visits Madonna's page, they will learn that independent artist Amy Kasio sounds similar to Madonna ultimately introducing them to a new musician they may otherwise have never been turned on to."
The big diffrence is one gets name recognition and airtime publicity and the other doesn't. At a record store you would know who Madonna is. Would you even look at the records from Amy Kasio?
As an architect, let me say that the moment you try to force me to paint my beautiful roof-top gardens white, I will be forced to get...hostile...
Will enough roofs get painted white to counter the number of solar collectors being installed for hot water, pool heaters, PV and other dark surfaces?
You put up a black solar panel and you just thought you were doing the right thing.
memory cards are the backbone of digital photography and they want to add $2-$10 to them.
I sell digital photos. Since the tax on camera cards is to cover piracy, I'll submit my name to recieve my cut of the royalty payments. Music isn't the only thing pirated online that is copyrighted.