Think about it. Would you have found it first on MS's site, Source Forge, or Slashdot?
If it was on the MS site, they would need a link pointing to it from the update site as many Linux users are the tech help for lots of Windows users who have problems. They would spot it while trying to fix someones Windows box.
Those lucky enough to not have to support a Win box might never find it if the survey was on the MS site.
Another great place to post a link to the survey would be the NAV site. Agan more geeks supporting Win boxes would find the link.
Actualy I asked because I don't know if the Apple or Windows computer that downloaded the files can re write them to another I-pod. Does putting them on the I-pod then having the I-pod die result in loss of your songs? Are they still usable on the host computer? Can they be put back on a replacement I-pod?
I don't know, so I asked and suggested there was a possibility the DRM stuff you had to pay for is gone forever. Sorry I was a little vague here, but the article didn't mention it one way or another. It sounded like the user was just using MP3's, so loss of any files on it was not an issue, but I don't know if there are any issues with the DRM files.
Sorry it sounded like a troll, but not knowing these things has pretty much kept me out of most things involving DRM. It still has a few wrinkles that are not yet ironed out to protect an investment in content.
I already learned my lesson. My first digital camera used a Li-Ion battery. A second battery was $40. When new the battery was good to power the camera for about an hour or take about 25 flash pictures. It would not take off the shelf batteries. After the first wedding and reception (5 hour affair total) I knew I had to use another solution. (A $200+ battery stock to cover ocasional large events did not make sense) After about 1 year, one of the batteries was only good for about 10 shots. I gave the camera away free.
Ever since then, Battery and Storage media type were much more important than zoom ability or pixel count. A set of 4 AA Nickel Hydride batteries powers my camera now. I have 3 sets charged and ready. If I need to do a graduation, birthday party, wedding, reception, parade, etc., I take extra CF cards, the 3 sets of batteries, ($12/set, not $40) and a 12 pack of alkalines just in case. So far I haven't needed them. A 200 shot wedding and reception seldom gets beyond the second set of rechargable batteries. (Curently using a Minolta using AA batteries and CF With the 8 meg buffer CF write speeds are not an issue.)
I've applied the same learning to my personal audio. If consumables are not readly available and inexpensive, I don't need it.
It's the same reason I use a laser printer for most of my printing. A $60 cart good for 7,000 pages is better than a $35 cart good for 300 pages.
My newest printer that came free with my wife's new computer will probably be recycled when the cartridges are dry. It is the most expensive to run printer I have. It probably won't get supplies restocked ever. It does have a built in low resolution scanner that is handy. We will see if the scanner dies when the printer runs out of ink. It wouldn't suprise me. (FYI Dell all in one with midget caridges. 300 DPI max scanner resolution.)
What was not mentioned in the article is what happens to the DRM files when the player dies?
I check the headers. Somewhere the link of IP address breaks down. The last one or two servers are false most of the time. However the last valid server indicates the IP where it really received the packets from. I do find most of my false header mail is from overseas. However some of it is from the US with a false entry indicating.nl or.ru. I don't speak Russan and I have no relatives in the Netherlands, so any mail claiming to come from there is auto-deleted by my filter. I found most of the from the US really, but claiming.nl or.ru is simply a virus running from one of the client machines of one of the major DSL or Cable providers. Norton usualy filters any of these before the header filter gets them since virus scanning is first.
It's amazing how many people run unpatched boxes on broadband with neither a router or AV software.
With what I know now, I wouldn't consider running a Windows box on a broadband modem without a router AND AV software. Change the gateway address to someting other than 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Lots of machines configured the same make easy targets for exploitation. Make changes to reduce the number of easly infected machines.
Oh, so that's where the millions of dollars are from that they need help transferring to the US. Sounds like if we help them, we could make a few bucks!;-)
You know, throw in some garbage, shit on top of it
It may be beneath my dignity, however the grandkids diapers work wonders. Roll up your financial's in a soiled diaper. Never had any problems yet. I might now since my secret is out.
Sorry I don't have a link, but I remember something about scanning all the pieces on a flatbed scanner and having a computer program do a best fit with some human help to reassemble the document. I guess the computer was good at finding probable best fit pieces instead of fully doing the job manualy is a way to cut out a large part of the work.
I prefer to mix several jobs together for dilution and then bin it for several pick-ups. The chance of getting a complete enough document to reconstruct becomes slim.
My favorite for expired credit cards after cutting them up is to enclose them in one of the grandchildren's soiled diapers. I don't think they get checked often for anything of value. It also relieves the burden of burning the plastic.
They must have trimmed just enough of the visual to avoid the red banner. However all the suggestions and inuendo are there. It's kind of like a lot of the adult magazines have a nude on the front cover, but some strategic spots are covered. It's still not anything I want to show the 9 year old.
Wow. That's amazing. I liken this statement to admitting, on slashdot, in front of millions of readers, that I'm a huge fan of Brittney Spears, I can't wait for the new N*Sync album, and goatse.cx just makes me fantasize about Justin Timberlake...
I have kids, did you miss that part? I also have a wife. Seems one of the ways people get kids. The wife picked the movie up at the kids constant requests. It's not my choice. I am however requested to preview it for anything that needs skipped. I'm lucky to get the wife to let me watch my Jackie Chan and James Bond collection.
I rented Bruce Almighty for the family to watch. It's rated PG 13. The forced to watch preview is R. (unskippable American Wedding preview) I don't let the kids watch R material. I call that feature User Unfriendly. We knew to preview the DVD and skip the sex scene for the 9 year old. Too bad they make you wait so long running past the preview instead of skipping it.
It shouldn't be standard pratice to load a DVD in the player 10 minutes before turning on the TV just so the previews are over. It's very User Unfriendly.
Sombody fix the FF button on those DVD's! 5 seconds in a preview is usualy enough to tell if the movie and preview are something I do or do not want to watch. Forcing an unwanted age inapropiate offensive preview is as welcome as a goatse.cx link in a technical discussion. The previews should not be rated worse than the feature. R, X and XXX previews should not be on G, PG or PG-13 features. Thank goodness the worst I have seen so far is R previews on PG-13 films. But like the seven words you can't say on TV, I don't expect them to keep to the curent high but dropping standards.
That alone has kept me from buying several DVD's I have rented.
Also ditch the crazy attempts at copy protection. I rented Legaly Blonde 2. The FBI warning got stuck in an endless loop on both a standalone DVD player (Classic brand) and a computer.
Anybody else experiance this?
I returned the defective DVD for exchange. I was told 8 others were returned the same day for the same problem and an exchange would not fix the problem. Copy protection is lost revenue. I got a refund as I couldn't view it. It also caused extra overhead for Hollywood Video the handle the consumer complaints. Third, there is no way I would consider buying it later because I already know all copies are broken. I also suspect anything else by the same studio may be plagued by the same ailment so I avoid that studio's work, just as I avoid CD's by those dabbing in audio copy protection. It might work, It might not, but once opened, it's almost impossible to return. Why bother?
A look on the good side is several of the DVD's I have bought lately list right on the cover they are all region! This is limited to old TV programs so far and not movies, but hopefully that day will get here. The down side is due to the music copyright issues the original theme songs are removed. Bummer! A new generation may view these classics and never know about the original theme songs. I guess they don't want people to enjoy the music as it was intended. There are some people out there that do want to sell DVD's and have taken steps to make them user friendly. They even took steps to keep the price reasonable by not paying inflated ASCAP prices so the DVD is reasonably priced. Too bad a reasonable price could not be reached with the music copyright holder to include the theme songs.
FYI the altered DVD's are The Beverly Hillbillies and The Andy Griffith Show.
Ok my memory is shot. It's the one with them sitting in a car. When you pull out the sleve, it shows them sitting in a car, but the outside shell is missing so you can see the bricks inside the door. It wasn't my flavor of humor, so I didn't buy that album. I friend showed it to me.
Some people may enjoy the "dog shit" track, but I only found it funny the first time.
I know it's off topic and feeding the troll, however;
Wonder what a Linux-powered suicide bomb would look like.
In all reality, it would be much simpler than a windows box. It could be run without a keyboard and monitor. It could easly be operated remotely via wireless LAN or dialup via telenet. Remote kind of defeats the suicide portion of the troll.
Most important, It would be very cost effective. No need for an expensive OS for a simple job.
No need for expensive hardware to run the expensive OS for the simple job.
An old ISA based PC with a modem (real modem- ya got me on that point) or a NIC and small RAM and HD or CD without a HD would suffice. The Windows solution will not run on a minimual configuration. The NIC or Modem is safer than the sucide option mentioned.
However you could trade the NIC or Modem for a keyboard and your life for the true sucide option mentioned.
Vote with your wallet. So you won't have the coolest new toys, but your soul will stay intact.
Look at what it got me. I have a Sony LD1000. The movies in a non-DRM format (meet NTSC spec all the way) were typicaly over $35 each even though the promise was Laserdisks would be cheaper than VHS because they were easly pressed and mass produced. Good luck finding new releases in your chosen format. Even I have fallen to buying sub $10 movies (wal mart under $6 bin and Hollywood 2/$10 used) and a sub $100 player of the DRM content. The other format just isn't there on the shelves to buy. Want to buy a slightly used video disk player and my collecton of 5 Non-DRM movies?
I forgot to mention in the parent, broadband would be nice for the ocasional MS and Norton update. A 3 hour update is a pain on dial-up as it ties up the phone too long. I usualy do it when we go to bed and leave it hang all night. It's not very effecient for the telco or ISP, but it keeps the voice line free during the day.
Actualy, I would like a limited account as I mostly read slashdot and check the news. However very few ISP's are willing to share the savings with me. They need me to join at regular full rates to help float the high bandwidth users. This has kept me on dial-up instead of broadband. I just heard on the radio that less then 1/3rd of the USA has broadband. Cost is the main reason. Someday they will provide accounts with monthly bandwidth levels like cell phone accounts have so many minutes a month plans. Maybe then I can get affordable broadband.
That would solve the 1% of users using 75% of resources problems. They would either bail and become someone elses problem, pay for their usage, or adjust their usage to what's affordable. Either way, lower cost broadband access could be there for the rest of the 2/3rd's us.
Anybody want to provide reasonably priced broadband for the other 99% of users? Say maybe $10-20/month? $45-%65 is just too much for low bandwidth users. Therefore we are still on dial-up. The potential consumers are out there waiting for the allways on connections for IM, Stock Quotes, News, and e-mail.
Needless to say I dropped them like a hot potato. I mean if you say unlimited, thats unlimited. YOu can't redefine "unlimited" (tho your definition is completely reasonable...
Unfortunately you did them a favor. The were able to get rid of a high usage user with no hastles. Dial up ISP's love dial up users that call once a day to check their stock quote and e-mail. They hate users that tie up a modem in their modem pool all day. They were easly able to weed out a high usage low profit user.
I thought temprature was related to atom and molecular movement, not electron spin. Somehow I get the idea if in fact electron spin quit, the material would collapse in on itself and you would start to generate a black hole. I've not seen any evidence atoms loose their spin, or the ability to carry electrons from one atom to another in a conductor. I think there is strong evidence the electrons are still very mobile near absolute zero. The fact most superconductors operate near this temprature and they don't collapse into super dense material tends to support the idea atoms keep their electron shells near regular orbits while cooled to near absolute zero.
Did I miss anything, or am I on the right thought.
Hmm, 330 X $15.00 (aprox average) = almost 5 grand. Many college kids have to make the decision of either music or transportation. The music buying habit is an expensive addiction. Most people would rather have an unlimited subscription to a large library rather than buying a few CD's.
Now a question for those over 30;
How often to you listen to music in your library over 5 years old. I bet most have some CD's you just never get around to listening to anymore. I know I have a few I haven't listened to for years. That's a lot of money tied up in dead inventory in the closet. Many over 30 quickly realise an investment in CD's is a trivial waste of money. I find myself shopping more often for used CD's of the good stuff instead of buying the latest promoted item that has only one good cut. It's because I know it will probably just collect dust later.
Much more valuable would be a subscription to a vast archive where I could download all I want. Unused stuff would be deleted to make room for new stuff. Heck, an auto-delete if not played in 5 years would be fine. I could keep my playlist up to date, have good variety, and regulary rotate my playlists. This is very hard to do with the current buy just a few CD's for a lot of money model. 330 CD's isn't really a big library of music. 5 grand for most people is a lot of money.
Good point. Remember the cover art for the Beatles White album, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Queen's A Night at the Opera?
Great albums. Cover art didn't sell these. The content did.
There were some acts whose cover art did sell a few albums. Remember Cheech and Chong's unique Still Smoking album? The best part was after you bought it and opened it. Suprise! It was a great laugh and very unique.
As useful as IRC and AIM are, they are too much of a security risk for me, so we are not running them. I'll keep an eye out in the future for a client that has zero ability to load and execute remote code.
Of course they'd also have to sell you a licence with any article of clothing that you bought stating that you were only allowed to wear it a certain amount of times and only if you also had on the correct matching apparel.
Actualy the way some geeks dress, it wouldn't be a bad idea.;-)
Slashdot Mirror
They wanted Linux users to take the survey.
Think about it. Would you have found it first on MS's site, Source Forge, or Slashdot?
If it was on the MS site, they would need a link pointing to it from the update site as many Linux users are the tech help for lots of Windows users who have problems. They would spot it while trying to fix someones Windows box.
Those lucky enough to not have to support a Win box might never find it if the survey was on the MS site.
Another great place to post a link to the survey would be the NAV site. Agan more geeks supporting Win boxes would find the link.
On Windows, this is the problem. How to keep the 5-15 year old members from accidently installing nasty stuff from the web and e-mail.
I think better package management does not always mean the 9 year old can install and run the Blaster worm as root without help.
Actualy I asked because I don't know if the Apple or Windows computer that downloaded the files can re write them to another I-pod. Does putting them on the I-pod then having the I-pod die result in loss of your songs? Are they still usable on the host computer? Can they be put back on a replacement I-pod?
I don't know, so I asked and suggested there was a possibility the DRM stuff you had to pay for is gone forever. Sorry I was a little vague here, but the article didn't mention it one way or another. It sounded like the user was just using MP3's, so loss of any files on it was not an issue, but I don't know if there are any issues with the DRM files.
Sorry it sounded like a troll, but not knowing these things has pretty much kept me out of most things involving DRM. It still has a few wrinkles that are not yet ironed out to protect an investment in content.
I already learned my lesson. My first digital camera used a Li-Ion battery. A second battery was $40. When new the battery was good to power the camera for about an hour or take about 25 flash pictures. It would not take off the shelf batteries. After the first wedding and reception (5 hour affair total) I knew I had to use another solution. (A $200+ battery stock to cover ocasional large events did not make sense) After about 1 year, one of the batteries was only good for about 10 shots. I gave the camera away free.
Ever since then, Battery and Storage media type were much more important than zoom ability or pixel count. A set of 4 AA Nickel Hydride batteries powers my camera now. I have 3 sets charged and ready. If I need to do a graduation, birthday party, wedding, reception, parade, etc., I take extra CF cards, the 3 sets of batteries, ($12/set, not $40) and a 12 pack of alkalines just in case. So far I haven't needed them. A 200 shot wedding and reception seldom gets beyond the second set of rechargable batteries. (Curently using a Minolta using AA batteries and CF With the 8 meg buffer CF write speeds are not an issue.)
I've applied the same learning to my personal audio. If consumables are not readly available and inexpensive, I don't need it.
It's the same reason I use a laser printer for most of my printing. A $60 cart good for 7,000 pages is better than a $35 cart good for 300 pages.
My newest printer that came free with my wife's new computer will probably be recycled when the cartridges are dry. It is the most expensive to run printer I have. It probably won't get supplies restocked ever. It does have a built in low resolution scanner that is handy. We will see if the scanner dies when the printer runs out of ink. It wouldn't suprise me. (FYI Dell all in one with midget caridges. 300 DPI max scanner resolution.)
What was not mentioned in the article is what happens to the DRM files when the player dies?
How much music at $.99 per song is lost?
I check the headers. Somewhere the link of IP address breaks down. The last one or two servers are false most of the time. However the last valid server indicates the IP where it really received the packets from. I do find most of my false header mail is from overseas. However some of it is from the US with a false entry indicating .nl or .ru. I don't speak Russan and I have no relatives in the Netherlands, so any mail claiming to come from there is auto-deleted by my filter. I found most of the from the US really, but claiming .nl or .ru is simply a virus running from one of the client machines of one of the major DSL or Cable providers. Norton usualy filters any of these before the header filter gets them since virus scanning is first.
It's amazing how many people run unpatched boxes on broadband with neither a router or AV software.
With what I know now, I wouldn't consider running a Windows box on a broadband modem without a router AND AV software. Change the gateway address to someting other than 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Lots of machines configured the same make easy targets for exploitation. Make changes to reduce the number of easly infected machines.
Oh, so that's where the millions of dollars are from that they need help transferring to the US. Sounds like if we help them, we could make a few bucks! ;-)
You know, throw in some garbage, shit on top of it
It may be beneath my dignity, however the grandkids diapers work wonders. Roll up your financial's in a soiled diaper. Never had any problems yet. I might now since my secret is out.
Sorry I don't have a link, but I remember something about scanning all the pieces on a flatbed scanner and having a computer program do a best fit with some human help to reassemble the document. I guess the computer was good at finding probable best fit pieces instead of fully doing the job manualy is a way to cut out a large part of the work.
I prefer to mix several jobs together for dilution and then bin it for several pick-ups. The chance of getting a complete enough document to reconstruct becomes slim.
My favorite for expired credit cards after cutting them up is to enclose them in one of the grandchildren's soiled diapers. I don't think they get checked often for anything of value. It also relieves the burden of burning the plastic.
Re-read the parent. I preview them to find the bedroom scene that gets skipped. It's not the full uncut film.
They must have trimmed just enough of the visual to avoid the red banner. However all the suggestions and inuendo are there. It's kind of like a lot of the adult magazines have a nude on the front cover, but some strategic spots are covered. It's still not anything I want to show the 9 year old.
Wow. That's amazing. I liken this statement to admitting, on slashdot, in front of millions of readers, that I'm a huge fan of Brittney Spears, I can't wait for the new N*Sync album, and goatse.cx just makes me fantasize about Justin Timberlake...
I have kids, did you miss that part? I also have a wife. Seems one of the ways people get kids. The wife picked the movie up at the kids constant requests. It's not my choice. I am however requested to preview it for anything that needs skipped. I'm lucky to get the wife to let me watch my Jackie Chan and James Bond collection.
I rented Bruce Almighty for the family to watch. It's rated PG 13. The forced to watch preview is R. (unskippable American Wedding preview) I don't let the kids watch R material. I call that feature User Unfriendly. We knew to preview the DVD and skip the sex scene for the 9 year old. Too bad they make you wait so long running past the preview instead of skipping it.
It shouldn't be standard pratice to load a DVD in the player 10 minutes before turning on the TV just so the previews are over. It's very User Unfriendly.
Sombody fix the FF button on those DVD's! 5 seconds in a preview is usualy enough to tell if the movie and preview are something I do or do not want to watch. Forcing an unwanted age inapropiate offensive preview is as welcome as a goatse.cx link in a technical discussion. The previews should not be rated worse than the feature. R, X and XXX previews should not be on G, PG or PG-13 features. Thank goodness the worst I have seen so far is R previews on PG-13 films. But like the seven words you can't say on TV, I don't expect them to keep to the curent high but dropping standards.
That alone has kept me from buying several DVD's I have rented.
Also ditch the crazy attempts at copy protection. I rented Legaly Blonde 2. The FBI warning got stuck in an endless loop on both a standalone DVD player (Classic brand) and a computer.
Anybody else experiance this?
I returned the defective DVD for exchange. I was told 8 others were returned the same day for the same problem and an exchange would not fix the problem. Copy protection is lost revenue. I got a refund as I couldn't view it. It also caused extra overhead for Hollywood Video the handle the consumer complaints. Third, there is no way I would consider buying it later because I already know all copies are broken. I also suspect anything else by the same studio may be plagued by the same ailment so I avoid that studio's work, just as I avoid CD's by those dabbing in audio copy protection. It might work, It might not, but once opened, it's almost impossible to return. Why bother?
A look on the good side is several of the DVD's I have bought lately list right on the cover they are all region! This is limited to old TV programs so far and not movies, but hopefully that day will get here. The down side is due to the music copyright issues the original theme songs are removed. Bummer! A new generation may view these classics and never know about the original theme songs. I guess they don't want people to enjoy the music as it was intended. There are some people out there that do want to sell DVD's and have taken steps to make them user friendly. They even took steps to keep the price reasonable by not paying inflated ASCAP prices so the DVD is reasonably priced. Too bad a reasonable price could not be reached with the music copyright holder to include the theme songs.
FYI the altered DVD's are The Beverly Hillbillies and The Andy Griffith Show.
Ok my memory is shot. It's the one with them sitting in a car. When you pull out the sleve, it shows them sitting in a car, but the outside shell is missing so you can see the bricks inside the door.
It wasn't my flavor of humor, so I didn't buy that album. I friend showed it to me.
Some people may enjoy the "dog shit" track, but I only found it funny the first time.
I know it's off topic and feeding the troll, however;
Wonder what a Linux-powered suicide bomb would look like.
In all reality, it would be much simpler than a windows box. It could be run without a keyboard and monitor. It could easly be operated remotely via wireless LAN or dialup via telenet. Remote kind of defeats the suicide portion of the troll.
Most important, It would be very cost effective. No need for an expensive OS for a simple job.
No need for expensive hardware to run the expensive OS for the simple job.
An old ISA based PC with a modem (real modem- ya got me on that point) or a NIC and small RAM and HD or CD without a HD would suffice. The Windows solution will not run on a minimual configuration. The NIC or Modem is safer than the sucide option mentioned.
However you could trade the NIC or Modem for a keyboard and your life for the true sucide option mentioned.
I did..
Vote with your wallet. So you won't have the coolest new toys, but your soul will stay intact.
Look at what it got me. I have a Sony LD1000. The movies in a non-DRM format (meet NTSC spec all the way) were typicaly over $35 each even though the promise was Laserdisks would be cheaper than VHS because they were easly pressed and mass produced. Good luck finding new releases in your chosen format. Even I have fallen to buying sub $10 movies (wal mart under $6 bin and Hollywood 2/$10 used) and a sub $100 player of the DRM content. The other format just isn't there on the shelves to buy. Want to buy a slightly used video disk player and my collecton of 5 Non-DRM movies?
I forgot to mention in the parent, broadband would be nice for the ocasional MS and Norton update. A 3 hour update is a pain on dial-up as it ties up the phone too long. I usualy do it when we go to bed and leave it hang all night. It's not very effecient for the telco or ISP, but it keeps the voice line free during the day.
Actualy, I would like a limited account as I mostly read slashdot and check the news. However very few ISP's are willing to share the savings with me. They need me to join at regular full rates to help float the high bandwidth users. This has kept me on dial-up instead of broadband. I just heard on the radio that less then 1/3rd of the USA has broadband. Cost is the main reason. Someday they will provide accounts with monthly bandwidth levels like cell phone accounts have so many minutes a month plans. Maybe then I can get affordable broadband.
That would solve the 1% of users using 75% of resources problems. They would either bail and become someone elses problem, pay for their usage, or adjust their usage to what's affordable. Either way, lower cost broadband access could be there for the rest of the 2/3rd's us.
Anybody want to provide reasonably priced broadband for the other 99% of users? Say maybe $10-20/month? $45-%65 is just too much for low bandwidth users. Therefore we are still on dial-up. The potential consumers are out there waiting for the allways on connections for IM, Stock Quotes, News, and e-mail.
Needless to say I dropped them like a hot potato. I mean if you say unlimited, thats unlimited. YOu can't redefine "unlimited" (tho your definition is completely reasonable...
Unfortunately you did them a favor. The were able to get rid of a high usage user with no hastles. Dial up ISP's love dial up users that call once a day to check their stock quote and e-mail. They hate users that tie up a modem in their modem pool all day. They were easly able to weed out a high usage low profit user.
I thought temprature was related to atom and molecular movement, not electron spin. Somehow I get the idea if in fact electron spin quit, the material would collapse in on itself and you would start to generate a black hole. I've not seen any evidence atoms loose their spin, or the ability to carry electrons from one atom to another in a conductor. I think there is strong evidence the electrons are still very mobile near absolute zero. The fact most superconductors operate near this temprature and they don't collapse into super dense material tends to support the idea atoms keep their electron shells near regular orbits while cooled to near absolute zero.
Did I miss anything, or am I on the right thought.
Hmm, 330 X $15.00 (aprox average) = almost 5 grand. Many college kids have to make the decision of either music or transportation. The music buying habit is an expensive addiction.
Most people would rather have an unlimited subscription to a large library rather than buying a few CD's.
Now a question for those over 30;
How often to you listen to music in your library over 5 years old. I bet most have some CD's you just never get around to listening to anymore. I know I have a few I haven't listened to for years. That's a lot of money tied up in dead inventory in the closet. Many over 30 quickly realise an investment in CD's is a trivial waste of money. I find myself shopping more often for used CD's of the good stuff instead of buying the latest promoted item that has only one good cut. It's because I know it will probably just collect dust later.
Much more valuable would be a subscription to a vast archive where I could download all I want. Unused stuff would be deleted to make room for new stuff. Heck, an auto-delete if not played in 5 years would be fine. I could keep my playlist up to date, have good variety, and regulary rotate my playlists. This is very hard to do with the current buy just a few CD's for a lot of money model. 330 CD's isn't really a big library of music. 5 grand for most people is a lot of money.
Good point. Remember the cover art for the Beatles White album, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Queen's A Night at the Opera?
Great albums. Cover art didn't sell these. The content did.
There were some acts whose cover art did sell a few albums. Remember Cheech and Chong's unique Still Smoking album? The best part was after you bought it and opened it. Suprise! It was a great laugh and very unique.
1)Quietly Register Patent
2)Wait for some company to make lots of money totally legitimately
3)Sue until your stock price doubles!
You have been reading the SCO playbook except you can use trade secrets and copyrights instead of patents.
Trade secrets are great as they are secret and the legimitate company has no clue until the extortion letter arrives. Just ask IBM and Linux users.
As useful as IRC and AIM are, they are too much of a security risk for me, so we are not running them. I'll keep an eye out in the future for a client that has zero ability to load and execute remote code.
Of course they'd also have to sell you a licence with any article of clothing that you bought stating that you were only allowed to wear it a certain amount of times and only if you also had on the correct matching apparel.
;-)
Actualy the way some geeks dress, it wouldn't be a bad idea.