User: mxcantor

The selected few...

On: Practical Cell Phones to Complement Mac OS X?

If you live in Japan (like me) or Europe (like, um, other people) look at the Sony Ericsson 802se (v800 in Europe). Now that tiger has come out and it is fully supported (as opposed to hackably supported) I love it. But, if you live in my native America, where cell phones with DSL speed internet, >1 megapix cameras, j2me, etc can't be had at all, let alone for the >$100 that I paid for it.

.mp3 links - not torrent files

On: Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey Album

If you just want a few songs, here's a site hosting the individual files. I just got 300 K/sec off them, so they seem pretty strong.

if you keep the songs, just paypal him a few bucks. guys like this deserve compensation

Under-reported but VERY important distinction:

On: AAC vs. OGG vs. MP3

from macslash:

AAC comes with a significantly lower number of b*tching [\.] users than ogg

Um, kind of fuzzy math

On: RIAA Moves Against College-Network Fileswapping

According to my head, dc, my ti-85, etc, $150,000 * 652,000 = $97.8 billion, NOT trillion. I mean dont bet me wrong, I hate the RIAA as much as anyone else, but lets stick with real numbers, not RIAA-type math.

-M

Well, at least now we know what took so long

On: PressPlay and MusicNet vs. Artists

So, it wasn't really coding or encryption work that delayed these services so long. It was getting all the $500,000/year business people to figure out how to optimally screw both consumer and artist at once.

Never doub the ability of a business school grad to screw a large number of people when they put their mind to it.