I'm a subcontractor for a company called TCS in central Ohio. We have a contract with Insight Communications, the local carrier for RoadRunner. This week alone, I've probably installed at least 10-15 XP systems. I've heard no word of this official "non-support" of XP. Shrug?
Apples to oranges. Locate uses a database thats updated by a cron job. Find traverses the file system looking for your substring. *nix also has a 'find', which traverses rather than using a database.
IMNSHO, one of the major contributors of the slowdown is the fact that many open source developers are no longer sitting at high-paying "day jobs" developing window managers instead of just sitting on their hands like their co-workers.
I believe I made a post similar to this about a year ago when napster was talking about going subscription-based (god, is this STILL going on?). What happens if you are the *first* person to sign up for this pay-for-usage service where the users must provide the files for downloading? You will be paying to connect to a server where there is nothing to be downloaded. What a clever model. Yeah, its unlikely you'd be the first to sign up. What about in the first 100? People who will pay for this service likely won't have huge libraries of MP3s. (10? 50?). So you're looking at in between 1000-5000 mp3s, most of which will probably overlap since most people will have the same horrible popular overplayed music. The next month, these people will realize how bad the service sucks, since there is nothing to download, and they will cancel their subscription. Then next month there will be another "first 100", then the word will spread, and they WILL take the typical dot-com role. Shop closed, case closed.
XM is very concerned about the reception quality in what they referred to as "urban canyons", the areas between high-rise buildings in metropolis areas. They are adding as many as 100 antennae/repeaters (source: TechTV) to major metropolis areas, mounted atop office buildings, to increase signal strength in vehicles.
Where do all of you keep getting the idea that this service will be commercial free? I caught a brief on TechTV today about the XM launch. XM stated there will be 29 commercial-free stations. Well, coincidentally (yeah, right), there are 71 music stations, and 29 news stations. I wonder which 29 will be commercial free?
As a student in high school, this viewpoint really disturbs me. I'm quite capable of taking care of myself, and my parents [I think] did a decent job of raising me. It's not a teacher's responsibility, or right, to make an attempt to mould me in their own way. Public school's primary function is education, let's not forget that.
I'm left wondering something as I read these posts. Someone made the comment that people will not pay $9/mo to share music with others paying $9/mo; agreed. I guess I don't understand how the free-to-pay switch will take place. If at midnight on a given date, all free accounts are terminated and people are invited to go online and create their accounts (presumably with credit cards, which by the way most of the present Napster userbase probably doesn't have), then won't this mean that the first 20 people who sign up will only have 19 other people to share with? What if for the first month there's only 10,000 users? Most of them won't be on 24/7. Most people go on Napster now expecting to be able to search terabytes of music, which is a reality. They'll be in for a shock when they find less than a hundred gigabytes or so.
Who decides what 'other parties' are 'qualified'? Will they only allow large corporations that are running BIND for their name services to participate? Is a smaller web hosting company less deserving to be secure than UUnet?
A 3MB track encoded at any remotely decent bitrate (even just 192kbps) would be approximately 2 minutes and 4 seconds long. A CD with 10 tracks that are barely 2 minutes long each probably wasn't worth purchasing in the first place, anyways.
Most CDs have more than 10 tracks, too. I'd guess that most albums have 12-15 tracks varying from 3-6 minutes in length. This means most tracks would be somewhere from 4-9MB. 40-140MB per CD.
This would require somewhere from 25-85GB. I'd say somewhere around 50GB.
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most retail stores only make about 2-15% on various handhelds/cell phones/computers/etc. their profits lie in accessories (batteries, hands-free, etc)
riiight.
I'm a subcontractor for a company called TCS in central Ohio. We have a contract with Insight Communications, the local carrier for RoadRunner. This week alone, I've probably installed at least 10-15 XP systems. I've heard no word of this official "non-support" of XP. Shrug?
Apples to oranges.
Locate uses a database thats updated by a cron job. Find traverses the file system looking for your substring. *nix also has a 'find', which traverses rather than using a database.
Thats quite a bit of precision for just 90 users. :)
IMNSHO, one of the major contributors of the slowdown is the fact that many open source developers are no longer sitting at high-paying "day jobs" developing window managers instead of just sitting on their hands like their co-workers.
I believe I made a post similar to this about a year ago when napster was talking about going subscription-based (god, is this STILL going on?). What happens if you are the *first* person to sign up for this pay-for-usage service where the users must provide the files for downloading? You will be paying to connect to a server where there is nothing to be downloaded. What a clever model. Yeah, its unlikely you'd be the first to sign up. What about in the first 100? People who will pay for this service likely won't have huge libraries of MP3s. (10? 50?). So you're looking at in between 1000-5000 mp3s, most of which will probably overlap since most people will have the same horrible popular overplayed music. The next month, these people will realize how bad the service sucks, since there is nothing to download, and they will cancel their subscription. Then next month there will be another "first 100", then the word will spread, and they WILL take the typical dot-com role. Shop closed, case closed.
XM is very concerned about the reception quality in what they referred to as "urban canyons", the areas between high-rise buildings in metropolis areas. They are adding as many as 100 antennae/repeaters (source: TechTV) to major metropolis areas, mounted atop office buildings, to increase signal strength in vehicles.
Where do all of you keep getting the idea that this service will be commercial free? I caught a brief on TechTV today about the XM launch. XM stated there will be 29 commercial-free stations. Well, coincidentally (yeah, right), there are 71 music stations, and 29 news stations. I wonder which 29 will be commercial free?
IMO, It looks very unprofessional when someone tries to be professional while hosting their website on a home-level cable modem.
As a student in high school, this viewpoint really disturbs me.
I'm quite capable of taking care of myself, and my parents [I think] did a decent job of raising me.
It's not a teacher's responsibility, or right, to make an attempt to mould me in their own way.
Public school's primary function is education, let's not forget that.
I'm left wondering something as I read these posts. Someone made the comment that people will not pay $9/mo to share music with others paying $9/mo; agreed. I guess I don't understand how the free-to-pay switch will take place. If at midnight on a given date, all free accounts are terminated and people are invited to go online and create their accounts (presumably with credit cards, which by the way most of the present Napster userbase probably doesn't have), then won't this mean that the first 20 people who sign up will only have 19 other people to share with? What if for the first month there's only 10,000 users? Most of them won't be on 24/7. Most people go on Napster now expecting to be able to search terabytes of music, which is a reality. They'll be in for a shock when they find less than a hundred gigabytes or so.
Who decides what 'other parties' are 'qualified'? Will they only allow large corporations that are running BIND for their name services to participate? Is a smaller web hosting company less deserving to be secure than UUnet?
614 CDs * ~10 tracks/CD * ~3MB/track ~= 1 20GB HD
So, at $150, he's overpaying...
A 3MB track encoded at any remotely decent bitrate (even just 192kbps) would be approximately 2 minutes and 4 seconds long. A CD with 10 tracks that are barely 2 minutes long each probably wasn't worth purchasing in the first place, anyways.
Most CDs have more than 10 tracks, too. I'd guess that most albums have 12-15 tracks varying from 3-6 minutes in length. This means most tracks would be somewhere from 4-9MB. 40-140MB per CD.
This would require somewhere from 25-85GB. I'd say somewhere around 50GB.