Maybe, just maybe, Amazon decided to do something right by the people of Seattle. Before Mark Cuban took over, Landmark was the best movie chain in town, with a whole suite of indie-minded theaters all over town; now, they're nearly all shut down, awaiting for the inevitable condos to sprout up over their ruins. I've been longing for some deep-pocketed local to pick up the Harvard Exit or Guild 45th and get them running again, as a hobby if not a major business opportunity.
The Dial-Up Networking profile on most current VZW phones is enabled, so in theory you should be able to set up a connection through Bluetooth. This isn't officially supported, though, which means you're on your own setting it up. There's a BT profile compatibility chart at http://www.verizonwireless.com/bluetooth.
Which reminds me... I don't have an Apple, so I haven't seen anything for myself, but I wonder, if short tracks are priced at $1, what about long tracks?
From what I've seen, they're not downloadable separately. For example, you can download most of the tracks from the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat a track at a time, but you have to get the entire album to get "Sister Ray" or "The Gift." Of course, that could be because the album's only six tracks long.
The big potential losers if Apple should switch chips would be software developers. They would be forced -- perhaps for the second time in two years -- to rewrite their programs, this time to make them work with a Pentium-based Mac. That's no small task -- and could be a disaster for the Mac community, since many of its developers are small shops. And without software support, the Mac would truly be dead.
Oh, yeah. That's why.
Imagine running an x86 Mac that has no native version of Office or Photoshop and runs PPC-based versions like molasses, but runs Windows versions at native speed. Imagine trying to convince developers to write for OS X instead of Windows at that point. Why should they bother?
My older Mac runs AutoClock, which computes the mean deviation between logins to NIST, then automatically adjusts the clock whenever it drifts out of sync. Neat.
The original Odyssey was the one with the cellophane overlays and the Pong clones. The Odyssey II -- or, rather, the Odyssey^2 -- was the one with the keyboard and the computer programming cartridge.
My family had an O2, and I feebly hoped that it would be able to withstand the juggernaut that was the 2600. Oh, well.
Slashdot does not plagarize stories because it ONLY references other published articles with the exception of Jonathan Katz's work, which very well could be plagarizing pieces appearing in the Weekly World News.
There's no need to trash Jonathan Katz's reputation. After all, he's a professional therapist, not a journalist. "Jon Katz," perhaps?
The Seattle P-I has a piece this morning about the monopoly aspect of this. Bottom line: In Tacoma, where there's competition for cable and broadband, you pay less; in Seattle, where AT&T has a monopoly, you'll be paying more.
Well, they wanted to put the track on Pressplay, but they couldn't figure out how to download it.
Really, it would be a pretty dumb publicity stunt if it made their own pay-to-play service look bad in the process. I get the feeling that Meshell Ndegeocello may have lobbied for this one herself, seeing how much of a dud Pressplay is shaping up to be.
So refresh my memory...why would I buy a "lossfull" (is that a word?) mp3 again?
Simple. This song is 8:45. You may have the bandwidth to download almost 90 mb of data, but many potential customers won't, and even the largest labels will hesitate before inviting that much abuse of their servers.
You can also apply the same argument to the music industry. Right now, you can record, mix and master a high-quality album on an off-the-shelf computer, and either have it pressed into CDs or distributed online, with total expenses under the credit limit of a platinum Visa.
What hasn't been mentioned enough is that passage of the CBDTPA would cripple that model. Because any equipment capable of performing an analog recording could be used to pirate music, future audio packages and digital microphones, etc., will need to be RIAA-approved. Will anyone outside a recording studio or a major label be able to invest in recording if that happens?
I for one don't want to be surprised, I want Star Wars.
That may explain why some of the reviews I've seen so far comment on how dutiful and exposition-bound AotC feels -- as if its only purpose is to follow the familiar Anakin-turns-to-the-dark-side thread with just as much fleshing out as needed to fill out two hours.
Speaking as a non-Star Wars fan, I don't care how well Episode II advances the mythos. I want to know if the movie is any fun. Phantom Menace wasn't much fun, and despite Lucas's fondness for those classic serials, it remained hidebound in its mock-seriousness. It was too pretentious to be a classic popcorn movie, and its story was too uninvolving to be engaging.
I'm not saying that George Lucas has to direct Seven Samurai (a great action movie, btw). But just because it's a "simple" action movie doesn't mean it can't be high art as well -- look at Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even The Empire Strikes Back. I certainly don't agree that Attack of the Clones must be judged by a lower standard just because it aims low.
It's interesting how Lucas was so gung-ho about AoTC being end-to-end digital, which ironically may hasten its appearance as a first-gen-quality.mpg on the warez boards. I wonder how heavily Lucasfilm lobbied behind the scenes for the CBDTPA.
Actually, what struck me about Wilco's sales figures were that the entire album was free to download, yet people still paid for actual CDs. It's just a little evidence that MP3s don't automatically equal lost sales.
I remember the MacChimney. Actually, it was used because the original Macs up to the Mac Plus never had a fan at all. They were intended to be cooled by convection, but because the original Macs had a notoriously unstable power supply, people resorted to odd measures to keep cool.
272. Over the long-term, modifications to Windows by individual OEMs acting in their short-term self interest would present a classic tragedy of the commons problem. Just as a lake that is fished too heavily soon will support no one, the PC ecosystem as a whole will suffer if the stability and consistency of Windows is not maintained, for the reasons I discussed above. When PCs become less reliable because the quality of Windows has been compromised, when consumers must undergo retraining to operate different brands of PCs because of differences in their user interfaces, when applications written for one version of Windows will not run on another version, the entire PC ecosystem will suffer.
How many game theorists out there are gnashing their teeth because of this blatant misstating of the "tragedy of the commons" problem?
Sigh. Once again... Apple is not a monopoly. "Linux" is not a monopoly. You can remove bundled apps from Mac OS and Linux. Neither Apple nor the Linux distributors claim removing these bundled programs will destroy the OS.
That's not the worst of it. You can actually go into Best Buy and purchase spools of CD-Rs! Every one of which is going to be used to pirate Britney songs! Clearly, Best Buy is making a profit out of encouraging piracy! Just like those evil computer companies!
Thing is, Gateway's Web site has links to a site that promotes legal downloading and burning, without a trace of DRM. The Elwood track is also properly licensed for burning. Gateway's not offering Gnutella and saying "Go nuts!"
Seems to me that there are perfectly good solutions to illegal downloading that the RIAA is completely oblivious to.
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Maybe, just maybe, Amazon decided to do something right by the people of Seattle. Before Mark Cuban took over, Landmark was the best movie chain in town, with a whole suite of indie-minded theaters all over town; now, they're nearly all shut down, awaiting for the inevitable condos to sprout up over their ruins. I've been longing for some deep-pocketed local to pick up the Harvard Exit or Guild 45th and get them running again, as a hobby if not a major business opportunity.
The Dial-Up Networking profile on most current VZW phones is enabled, so in theory you should be able to set up a connection through Bluetooth. This isn't officially supported, though, which means you're on your own setting it up. There's a BT profile compatibility chart at http://www.verizonwireless.com/bluetooth.
Which reminds me... I don't have an Apple, so I haven't seen anything for myself, but I wonder, if short tracks are priced at $1, what about long tracks?
From what I've seen, they're not downloadable separately. For example, you can download most of the tracks from the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat a track at a time, but you have to get the entire album to get "Sister Ray" or "The Gift." Of course, that could be because the album's only six tracks long.
The big potential losers if Apple should switch chips would be software developers. They would be forced -- perhaps for the second time in two years -- to rewrite their programs, this time to make them work with a Pentium-based Mac. That's no small task -- and could be a disaster for the Mac community, since many of its developers are small shops. And without software support, the Mac would truly be dead.
Oh, yeah. That's why.
Imagine running an x86 Mac that has no native version of Office or Photoshop and runs PPC-based versions like molasses, but runs Windows versions at native speed. Imagine trying to convince developers to write for OS X instead of Windows at that point. Why should they bother?
Sure. But we prefer to drag and drop them.
My older Mac runs AutoClock, which computes the mean deviation between logins to NIST, then automatically adjusts the clock whenever it drifts out of sync. Neat.
The original Odyssey was the one with the cellophane overlays and the Pong clones. The Odyssey II -- or, rather, the Odyssey^2 -- was the one with the keyboard and the computer programming cartridge.
My family had an O2, and I feebly hoped that it would be able to withstand the juggernaut that was the 2600. Oh, well.
Slashdot does not plagarize stories because it ONLY references other published articles with the exception of Jonathan Katz's work, which very well could be plagarizing pieces appearing in the Weekly World News.
There's no need to trash Jonathan Katz's reputation. After all, he's a professional therapist, not a journalist. "Jon Katz," perhaps?
The Seattle P-I has a piece this morning about the monopoly aspect of this. Bottom line: In Tacoma, where there's competition for cable and broadband, you pay less; in Seattle, where AT&T has a monopoly, you'll be paying more.
Well, they wanted to put the track on Pressplay, but they couldn't figure out how to download it.
Really, it would be a pretty dumb publicity stunt if it made their own pay-to-play service look bad in the process. I get the feeling that Meshell Ndegeocello may have lobbied for this one herself, seeing how much of a dud Pressplay is shaping up to be.
It's similar to the works of Everything But the Girl (their Ben Watt produced this remix). Kinda Euro-dancy.
There's a Real preview at the EMusic download site, and probably elsewhere.
So refresh my memory...why would I buy a "lossfull" (is that a word?) mp3 again?
Simple. This song is 8:45. You may have the bandwidth to download almost 90 mb of data, but many potential customers won't, and even the largest labels will hesitate before inviting that much abuse of their servers.
If you want to make Mozilla look less awful, try applying the Pinstripe theme. It's not much help with the text anti-aliasing, though.
You can also apply the same argument to the music industry. Right now, you can record, mix and master a high-quality album on an off-the-shelf computer, and either have it pressed into CDs or distributed online, with total expenses under the credit limit of a platinum Visa.
What hasn't been mentioned enough is that passage of the CBDTPA would cripple that model. Because any equipment capable of performing an analog recording could be used to pirate music, future audio packages and digital microphones, etc., will need to be RIAA-approved. Will anyone outside a recording studio or a major label be able to invest in recording if that happens?
I for one don't want to be surprised, I want Star Wars.
That may explain why some of the reviews I've seen so far comment on how dutiful and exposition-bound AotC feels -- as if its only purpose is to follow the familiar Anakin-turns-to-the-dark-side thread with just as much fleshing out as needed to fill out two hours.
Speaking as a non-Star Wars fan, I don't care how well Episode II advances the mythos. I want to know if the movie is any fun. Phantom Menace wasn't much fun, and despite Lucas's fondness for those classic serials, it remained hidebound in its mock-seriousness. It was too pretentious to be a classic popcorn movie, and its story was too uninvolving to be engaging.
I'm not saying that George Lucas has to direct Seven Samurai (a great action movie, btw). But just because it's a "simple" action movie doesn't mean it can't be high art as well -- look at Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even The Empire Strikes Back. I certainly don't agree that Attack of the Clones must be judged by a lower standard just because it aims low.
It's interesting how Lucas was so gung-ho about AoTC being end-to-end digital, which ironically may hasten its appearance as a first-gen-quality .mpg on the warez boards. I wonder how heavily Lucasfilm lobbied behind the scenes for the CBDTPA.
Actually, what struck me about Wilco's sales figures were that the entire album was free to download, yet people still paid for actual CDs. It's just a little evidence that MP3s don't automatically equal lost sales.
I remember the MacChimney. Actually, it was used because the original Macs up to the Mac Plus never had a fan at all. They were intended to be cooled by convection, but because the original Macs had a notoriously unstable power supply, people resorted to odd measures to keep cool.
How many game theorists out there are gnashing their teeth because of this blatant misstating of the "tragedy of the commons" problem?
Sigh. Once again... Apple is not a monopoly. "Linux" is not a monopoly. You can remove bundled apps from Mac OS and Linux. Neither Apple nor the Linux distributors claim removing these bundled programs will destroy the OS.
That's not the worst of it. You can actually go into Best Buy and purchase spools of CD-Rs! Every one of which is going to be used to pirate Britney songs! Clearly, Best Buy is making a profit out of encouraging piracy! Just like those evil computer companies!
(Hyperbole courtesy of Michael Eisner.)
Thing is, Gateway's Web site has links to a site that promotes legal downloading and burning, without a trace of DRM. The Elwood track is also properly licensed for burning. Gateway's not offering Gnutella and saying "Go nuts!"
Seems to me that there are perfectly good solutions to illegal downloading that the RIAA is completely oblivious to.
Hate to spoil your meter, but "Mister Rosen" is in fact a Ms. Try this.
Because there's at least one Democrat on our side.
Really, there's no point in turning this into a partisan issue.