It is true that more kids are gaining access to the world and its riches through technology. In the past 2 years we saw Shawn Fanning, 18, revolutionize the way we get our music. Winamp and Gnuttella were both written by an 19 year old and was later bought by AOL.
However, as correctly noted, this is not becuase it makes people just understand and get it. Fact is, Shawn and the other guy both understood their respective technologies by doing a lot of learning. No, its not college, but it is more or less the same... learning a skill. You learn to be a lawyer one way, you learn how to code and you learn technology by screwing around with it and then developing something cool.
Personally, I am 20, I started my fist company at 18 and now I have a software company I am starting to build... e-Ference, a networking software company. I am not even close to as good as these other guys, but I learned it the same way, hands on. Maybe it gives us recognition but as long as there are people... there will be studying to be lawyers, doctors, chefs, and every other profession. Maybe in some fields you can have a knack for it... like music and technology. But you still have to work hard to get good.
Nate von Colditz
President
e-Ference, Inc.
I hate to say this but the reason Napster is a good orginization is simple... it is a crap filter. In music just 4 years ago, you hear a catchy song on the radio and you want to get it to listen to at home. You go to the store and there is the single... 8-10 bucks. Obsurd. So then you see the full CD 15-20 bucks. So what do you do? You buy the full CD because there must be better songs. Well, the problem is, maybe that one catchy song was the only one decent or catchy and the rest of it sucks!
The people who are afraid of Napster and Napster-Like services are not the Santana's of the world who come out with an increadle CD when they are done making one increadible compilation but the Marketing oriented artists of the world that make one good or teen catchy song and then make 50 other minutes of noise to surround it.
CDs are cheap to make and people want to buy stuff that is not worth listening to. As Napster proved, people on their service still buy CDs... problem to the music industry is the only buy the ones worth buying. Just a few years ago, they could not go to a service that gave them a chance to see how good the entire CD was. A CD may take 5 cents to make and sell for 15 bucks, but people will pay that when the whole thing is worth it. THey do not want to pay 15 bucks for that one good song and then the rest that sucks.
People need to step up to the plate and play. Servces like this force people to perform and, oh my god, make good music. You do not hear Santana, Led Zepplin, Limp Bizket(well some of their music is good for a beat), or many artists that make good music complaining. They make money cause every time they have a CD come out people wanna buy it. Eminem will always make just as much money with or without Napster. He might even make more cause it gives him more exposure, not that he has enough all ready. All, I have to say is welcome to capitalism... Napster should exist... Maybe charge a fee to check out music, I will pay, and I will check for the CDs worth buying then get the ones I want and not be forced to buy an ablum that sucks... lord knows how many I bought before 2 years ago that sucked. ROCK ON SHAWN!!!
does any one here realize this is a total rip of on the AmIFuckedOrNot.COM done by our good friend PUD at fucked company. Weird weird weird... absolutely identical. Just the other extream... fucked.
If you own the god damned CD why would you not just rip the cd instead of paying 45 bucks. Frankly ripping software is so good this company is so stupid. I sence a new company for Fucked Company dot com.
Yeah...I heard that Val was an absolute ass in the making of this movie. I guess everybody on the set knew that he did not want to work with him...what an a-hole. Good actor but ass.
I still think I would see people downloadig the one song they want instead of paying 17 bucks for an entire cd.
I also see the birth of a lot of acidents if people decide to use this. JUST pulling out the credit card *crash*.
One problem. The market is not responding to anything right now. Go take a look at cisco at www.nasdaq.com they will show you a company doing well tha is getting murdered.
I totally agree. What a piece of garbage. This is AOL's version of getting back at microsoft. Do you really think there is any other viable reason they bought Netcape. It was nothing more than a political move.
I do not know about you but the only real problem with using more technology is the people on this web site are going to be the ones that can crack it and change the data. They make it...we will crack it. That will just give polititions more reason to say the voting was not fair. If someone says the election was hacked...that will just scare the hell out of everyone. It is like conjuring up the boogy man. People are afraid and in a way they should be.
Well does this one require a certain bi-rate to play on the player...how does the RIO care or does it? Can any encodeing go on it or just 128? Or just 256?
Since when was a mechinism that allows a crime to take place not a crime itself. This is very new for the computing world and I would liek to see how it fans out.
THis was so planned. It is the oldest plan in the book. You prve something is valuble and get a fan base and then you get rights to do it after getting sued and striking a deal. Good job to the buz planners at Napster. Though I am interested to see if people pay or they just go to other sites that are popping up all over the place.
Pretty soon we will get rid of mice too. And what about all those hard working americans that teach how to type faster? What about them? I personally like typeing on my keyboard and I would feel a little weird typeing on that. Maybe we are taking the technology a little tooooo far!
I actually ran into this problem before dropping out of my wonderous University. I figured there would be too many hassles so I just started a company and released the prodcut before I got to deep into it's development at the University.
All you really need to do is look at the bi-laws of the university. If there is nothing stated there then the University can really lay no claim to anything you have created...unless it was created for the university. THen you need permission, which can be a real bottleneck and hard to get. That is why I left, modified the product and then could release it.
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It is true that more kids are gaining access to the world and its riches through technology. In the past 2 years we saw Shawn Fanning, 18, revolutionize the way we get our music. Winamp and Gnuttella were both written by an 19 year old and was later bought by AOL. However, as correctly noted, this is not becuase it makes people just understand and get it. Fact is, Shawn and the other guy both understood their respective technologies by doing a lot of learning. No, its not college, but it is more or less the same... learning a skill. You learn to be a lawyer one way, you learn how to code and you learn technology by screwing around with it and then developing something cool. Personally, I am 20, I started my fist company at 18 and now I have a software company I am starting to build... e-Ference, a networking software company. I am not even close to as good as these other guys, but I learned it the same way, hands on. Maybe it gives us recognition but as long as there are people... there will be studying to be lawyers, doctors, chefs, and every other profession. Maybe in some fields you can have a knack for it... like music and technology. But you still have to work hard to get good. Nate von Colditz President e-Ference, Inc.
these guys are spearheading it I think... http://www.boycottadobe.com/.
BTW.... i would speak for it if I was given the chance... I have downloaded for years, I love it, and I buy what is good cause I love music.
I hate to say this but the reason Napster is a good orginization is simple... it is a crap filter. In music just 4 years ago, you hear a catchy song on the radio and you want to get it to listen to at home. You go to the store and there is the single... 8-10 bucks. Obsurd. So then you see the full CD 15-20 bucks. So what do you do? You buy the full CD because there must be better songs. Well, the problem is, maybe that one catchy song was the only one decent or catchy and the rest of it sucks!
The people who are afraid of Napster and Napster-Like services are not the Santana's of the world who come out with an increadle CD when they are done making one increadible compilation but the Marketing oriented artists of the world that make one good or teen catchy song and then make 50 other minutes of noise to surround it.
CDs are cheap to make and people want to buy stuff that is not worth listening to. As Napster proved, people on their service still buy CDs... problem to the music industry is the only buy the ones worth buying. Just a few years ago, they could not go to a service that gave them a chance to see how good the entire CD was. A CD may take 5 cents to make and sell for 15 bucks, but people will pay that when the whole thing is worth it. THey do not want to pay 15 bucks for that one good song and then the rest that sucks.
People need to step up to the plate and play. Servces like this force people to perform and, oh my god, make good music. You do not hear Santana, Led Zepplin, Limp Bizket(well some of their music is good for a beat), or many artists that make good music complaining. They make money cause every time they have a CD come out people wanna buy it. Eminem will always make just as much money with or without Napster. He might even make more cause it gives him more exposure, not that he has enough all ready. All, I have to say is welcome to capitalism... Napster should exist... Maybe charge a fee to check out music, I will pay, and I will check for the CDs worth buying then get the ones I want and not be forced to buy an ablum that sucks... lord knows how many I bought before 2 years ago that sucked. ROCK ON SHAWN!!!
who is a nitwit... and who the fuck cares... I really don't.
registerd... but not online and working... I am pretty sure that the other came first.
does any one here realize this is a total rip of on the AmIFuckedOrNot.COM done by our good friend PUD at fucked company. Weird weird weird... absolutely identical. Just the other extream... fucked.
If you own the god damned CD why would you not just rip the cd instead of paying 45 bucks. Frankly ripping software is so good this company is so stupid. I sence a new company for Fucked Company dot com.
Yeah...I heard that Val was an absolute ass in the making of this movie. I guess everybody on the set knew that he did not want to work with him...what an a-hole. Good actor but ass.
Oh..Carrie-Ann is beautiful!!!
I still think I would see people downloadig the one song they want instead of paying 17 bucks for an entire cd. I also see the birth of a lot of acidents if people decide to use this. JUST pulling out the credit card *crash* .
One problem. The market is not responding to anything right now. Go take a look at cisco at www.nasdaq.com they will show you a company doing well tha is getting murdered.
I totally agree. What a piece of garbage. This is AOL's version of getting back at microsoft. Do you really think there is any other viable reason they bought Netcape. It was nothing more than a political move.
I do not know about you but the only real problem with using more technology is the people on this web site are going to be the ones that can crack it and change the data. They make it...we will crack it. That will just give polititions more reason to say the voting was not fair. If someone says the election was hacked...that will just scare the hell out of everyone. It is like conjuring up the boogy man. People are afraid and in a way they should be.
Well does this one require a certain bi-rate to play on the player...how does the RIO care or does it? Can any encodeing go on it or just 128? Or just 256?
Nate
Since when was a mechinism that allows a crime to take place not a crime itself. This is very new for the computing world and I would liek to see how it fans out.
THis was so planned. It is the oldest plan in the book. You prve something is valuble and get a fan base and then you get rights to do it after getting sued and striking a deal. Good job to the buz planners at Napster. Though I am interested to see if people pay or they just go to other sites that are popping up all over the place.
Pretty soon we will get rid of mice too. And what about all those hard working americans that teach how to type faster? What about them? I personally like typeing on my keyboard and I would feel a little weird typeing on that. Maybe we are taking the technology a little tooooo far!
I actually ran into this problem before dropping out of my wonderous University. I figured there would be too many hassles so I just started a company and released the prodcut before I got to deep into it's development at the University.
All you really need to do is look at the bi-laws of the university. If there is nothing stated there then the University can really lay no claim to anything you have created...unless it was created for the university. THen you need permission, which can be a real bottleneck and hard to get. That is why I left, modified the product and then could release it.
Good luck.