At $10 a month, the Napster premium service allows customers to stream an unlimited number of songs and listen to Napster's preprogrammed radio stations. For as long as you shell out the fee, you can download tracks and listen to them either online or offline. Stop paying the fee, and you don't get to keep the downloads.
Sounds like a nice way to get all the stuff you like for 10 bucks a month - given that you have the right tools to get the audio stream into a mp3 - can't be too difficult.
Of course, this would be illegal, so I won't try it (no, really!);-)
Dunno, but it sounded like a funny thing when I posted it;-) Actually I'm more on the Linux side of things myself, which is why I added the "don't tell anybody" line. Lastly, please don't take the comment serious, I just thought it was funny when I read it in the article:)
Sorry to sound harsh, but I prefer to chose on my own _who_ educates me and _on what_. The sentence about "the RIAA educating the music community" just gets on my nerves.
Ohhh..yeah. Add a laser pointer and some sensors to it, so we can hunt each other down in those stors with our laser powered shopping carts...lol, I love it - not sure what the supermarket owner would thing though, when he sees all those geeks hunting each other in his store without buying stuff;-)
... you could select the thing you would like to buy on some touchscreen (or simply enter it, with a search function) and the car would lead you to the place where you can pick it up.
It might only be me, but I regularly get lost when I try to find something in those large supermarkets...
Well, you are of course right. It would definitely reduce some of the "freedom" the internet users. But to keep the driving-license analogy, what would happen if no driving license would be needed and driving would generally be without any rules? It would be a similar situation as the one we have now on the internet, there would be some/many people who are rational and intelligent enough to do things right intuitively, but there would also be people who just do not care.
It has not been much of a problem in the past, but with the swamp of worms we have lately, it does become a problem. What if a user (and I'm sure many do) just does not care if his computer is infected or not and his computer keeps sending all the spam and spreads the worm? At some time his internet service provider might take action, but what if not? How _do_ you want to stop this without rules?
I'm not for taking away freedom, but the freedom we have now in the internet also has many bad sides. Of course, how do you want to regulate something without taking away freedom? It's pretty much impossible I'd guess.
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Can't Microsoft post it as a large headline on their own homepage?
I think that's why they do not allow geeks in casinos ;-)
Of course the way it is compressed matters. Sorry for being a bit ..err..inexact in my wording ;P
At worst a cable connecting your audio out port and your audio in port ;-)))
Just joking, I'm sure it's not that easy (or is it?). Can't be much more difficult.
I did not test Napster's answer to the iPod, the Samsung Napster player. I only checked out the music service.
Here are a few:
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Said that, I wonder what the quality of the streaming songs is...aka kbps...
At $10 a month, the Napster premium service allows customers to stream an unlimited number of songs and listen to Napster's preprogrammed radio stations. For as long as you shell out the fee, you can download tracks and listen to them either online or offline. Stop paying the fee, and you don't get to keep the downloads.
;-)
Sounds like a nice way to get all the stuff you like for 10 bucks a month - given that you have the right tools to get the audio stream into a mp3 - can't be too difficult.
Of course, this would be illegal, so I won't try it (no, really!)
Illiad is right on top of things again: :))
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It would not do any good. But I posted the comment before I read the article (bad boy!) and got a wrong impression from the headline ;-)
;)
Well, at least some guys thought it was funny
Dunno, but it sounded like a funny thing when I posted it ;-) Actually I'm more on the Linux side of things myself, which is why I added the "don't tell anybody" line. Lastly, please don't take the comment serious, I just thought it was funny when I read it in the article :)
I would be happy to say anything bad about software patents if I could just ... formulate a sentence that makes sense.
;-)
Linus Torvalds
There you go. Don't tell anyone you got it from me
If Mr. Anderson would have had that in Matrix, he could have really pissed of that agent in that questioning scene...
;-)
Agent: "What good is a phone call...if you're unable to speak!"
Neo turns on his head speakers
Neo: "Wadda say?"
I wonder...will god nullify their patent because of prior art? ;-)
Wasn't there an article about the "FSF Hitman" lately? Time for them to get going I think.
Now they have crossed the line, that means war!
Said that, let me get back to work now.
Sorry to sound harsh, but I prefer to chose on my own _who_ educates me and _on what_. The sentence about "the RIAA educating the music community" just gets on my nerves.
Don't you just know Daryl's about to go apoplectic over all that money IBM is "stealing".
... make opponent go insane by showing off major muscles ;)
I think you have just discovered IBM's new strategy
Ohhh..yeah. Add a laser pointer and some sensors to it, so we can hunt each other down in those stors with our laser powered shopping carts...lol, I love it - not sure what the supermarket owner would thing though, when he sees all those geeks hunting each other in his store without buying stuff ;-)
Let's all take this as an example which shall remind us of how much stupidity really exists in this world.
Never expect others to be as smart as you. There are more ways to rip them of than you think - even if you think these ways are stupid and obvious.
... you could select the thing you would like to buy on some touchscreen (or simply enter it, with a search function) and the car would lead you to the place where you can pick it up.
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It might only be me, but I regularly get lost when I try to find something in those large supermarkets
"He says his work is necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do."
Did I hear someone shouting "cold war" in the back rows? Thought so.
... how much of it was porn? :)
Does anyone know of any (software) patents which have been nullified due to prior art?
... I'd hire that guy at once. Just for the heck of it (and for publicity of course :))))
I've not read it, but I've bookmarked it and will read it tonight when I got more time. Thanks for the link, certainly looks interesting :)
Well, you are of course right. It would definitely reduce some of the "freedom" the internet users. But to keep the driving-license analogy, what would happen if no driving license would be needed and driving would generally be without any rules? It would be a similar situation as the one we have now on the internet, there would be some/many people who are rational and intelligent enough to do things right intuitively, but there would also be people who just do not care.
It has not been much of a problem in the past, but with the swamp of worms we have lately, it does become a problem. What if a user (and I'm sure many do) just does not care if his computer is infected or not and his computer keeps sending all the spam and spreads the worm? At some time his internet service provider might take action, but what if not? How _do_ you want to stop this without rules?
I'm not for taking away freedom, but the freedom we have now in the internet also has many bad sides. Of course, how do you want to regulate something without taking away freedom? It's pretty much impossible I'd guess.