I just signed up my old band, Latex Generation! At the height of Napster's popularity we got more emails than ever. We used to also play all of our stuff on a Live365 station. We never had intended to make money with our music, and it took me all over the USA, Europe, and Australia. The least I can do is offer it to the masses free of charge!
I wonder how much they account people buying music from underground indie bands - I suspect none. The independant music scene is quite large and there are many bands who make a very good living without signing to the majors (Fugazi, NOFX, and Superchunk [who I saw last night at a sold-out show at the Roseland] come to mind). Maybe the population is getting sick of the cheese-filled fluff that the Music Industry shoves down our throats. There aren't many major label acts that I would spend my money on out there. I wonder if you accounted for all of the independant music fans' buying habits how much it would change the numbers.
Slashdot hates Apple so much that there's this section on the left side of your page called "Sections", and the second link seems to be titled "apple". Upon further reading, there seems to be no sections titled "microsoft", or "sun", or even "linux" for that matter. I guess thats just the way we deal with our enemies, huh.
I'm sure if enough people asked for a Linux version of Quicktime, it would be made since they could then possibly make money from it (the technology behind Quicktime makes a lot of money for Apple). The problem is the "enough people" part - we also need a Linux based application that takes advantage of quicktime technology, therefore proving to Apple that its a viable platform to make money on, and not just a hand-me-out.
sorry for yelling, but it apppears no one can read - as you said, the source is right there under the download link on the page and its not dead - I just downloaded it and it has a copy of the GPL in it - so its GPL'ed also. Whats worse is the moderators modding up all of this misinformation!!
It seems like MS is joining the ranks of McAafee and the other AV vendors in creating a scare with an ulterior motive. In MS's case, to quitely patch the system until its fully disabled from viewing content they deem as illegal! And to do this they either take an actual security issue and piggyback the DRM patches, or they planned the "holes" from the get go to be announced and "patched" at key points in time, as to slowly wane the users into locking down their systems from "illegal" content. With the latest talks of Palladium and such, it seems like this isn't such a far off theory either - such an obvious one, actually, that it could be true!
My company started blocking ports a couple of months ago, and I work at a huge media company where music is at the core of many of the businesses.
The funniest thing I hear at least once a day when working on a user's box is, "So if I can't use Kazaa, how am I supposed to get my music?" . My favorite answer: "The HUGE Virgin Megastore accross the street". Can you believe the balls on people - they openly admit to piracy in the workplace, and when you call them on it, they say "'well everyone does it"! If they would tell me the truth - that the music industry is full of shit and that 99% of the artists out there (100% of those worth listening to) are not getting a rich off of their "intellectual" property, but some fat cats at a record label are, and the only way an artist can get any exposure without paying huge amounts of payola to the company we work for is through independant P2P file sharing, then maybe I would have some respect for them.
But alas, they we are mindless victims making money for the devil.
When I used to play in a band, the guy I used to bring my gear to to get modified and repaired was John's bass tech during his solo tours. He said that John knew his bass rig was loud enough when he could hold a match a few feet in front of the cabinet and it would get blown out when he hit a note. Thats just cool. I hope that the remaining members have enough class to go on without using the name The Who - if Jimmy Page and Robert Plant can pull off a successful tour without the moniker Led Zepelin, than Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend can do it too (sorry, but a band is the whole band, not just the front men).
What sold me was using one at Macworld NY last year - I ordered one as soon as I got home. Go to your nearest Apple store if you live near one and give it a test ride (don't go to CompUSA - their display is locked down and usually destroyed somehow - you won't get the total feel for it). Its like a significant other - if its right for you you'll know right away.
I have a 500 MHz iBook, and the thing zips - its all about how you set it up and care for it. If your a geek, you will tweak OS X to do your bidding, which with each update gets faster and faster (with a huge speed bump comming with Jaguar). Also, the current lineup has a faster bus and faster processors which really add to zippyness (the 600MHz/100bus models are up to 30% faster than the 500's). RAM is yet another issue - more = faster (duh).
Overall I have had my iBook for a little more than a year and I forsee another 2-3 years of solid performance before I need to upgrade it. It was worth every penny!
I thought MS said the future of computing was in web applications and XML this and XML that, blah blah blah. So how is Palladium gonna provide security on a web based app? Is every website gonna need an MS approved certificate to be seen on a Palladium equipped box? This whole idea seems like a load of FUD.
There are CD printers out there, but they are prohibitively expensive. It would be nice to have a cheap all-in-one drive that enabled you to created a professional looking disc for a consumer price - now that would be a home run product.
My wife was trying to download a Strokes song using Kazaa Lite and it was slow going (as usual), so I bet her I could DL it on Audiogalaxy in less than 2 minutes. So I search for it and find it quick enough, with a message saying that I'm not allowed to search for this file due to copyright infringement!
I thought it was my third party Mac client (Sputnix) being blocked, so I hopped over to my PC and tried it there, only to find the same results. OK, my 2 minutes were almost up... A quick look at the message boards finds the press statement from earlier today. DAMN - I'm not pissed that they pulled Audiogalaxy, 'cause there's a million of these services popping up every time one goes down (I found a great network - DirectConnect - from looking at the AG Message board), but what pissed me off is that I lost my bet to my non-technical WIFE. Those M'er F'ers!!!!
Needless to say I installed the program DirectConnect (http://www.neo-modus.com) and had the song Dl'ed in less than 15 minutes from the start of my bet, but that was 13 minutes too late!
I love Mozilla on Windows because you can install just the browser and opt out of all the other components, creating a bloat-less package. Unfortunately there is no installer on the OS X version, just a.dmg that you drag the folder from onto your applications folder to install. There are no options to minimally install it. I would love to cut out the components that I don't use as I feel it would greatly lighten up the browser itself. Anyone know how to uninstall the different components?
Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!
Taco, you should check out the Afterburner internal lighting kit from Triton Labs. I just got mine a couple of weeks ago - it was not that fun to install, but well worth the effort. It really makes the GBA worth every penny, and proves my biggest gripe - there is no excuse not to include a backlit screen in the whole Game Boy line. I haven't even noticed a drop in battery life!
Totally! I have a little TV/VCR in my daughter's room, and would love to transfer all of her Sesame Street DVD's to video so she can watch them on her own TV. Whatever happened to fair use?
I really don't believe that Macrovision is necessary, and this Harry Potter example is a perfect one. If your a fan of the movie, you want to own the original. That pretty much sums up the whole Video and Music pirating industry. I guarantee there are thousands of Slashdotters out there that own the bootlegged DVD screener rip of Lord of the Rings, and I bet that almost everyone of you will buy at least one if not both of the DVDs when they become available later this year - just to have it. You like to display it in its packaging on a nice shelf next to your home theatre system, you enjoy the special features that one time you look at them (except for the Kevin Smith movies - the extra stuff on those are golden). Its just a strange little need to have the original - you feel like your contributing to something you enjoy. I'll download any movie I'm a fan of, but rest assured that as soon as its available on DVD, I'll pick it up.
These artists are brave enough to prove the future of the music industry does not need to include the "industry". This has been a long time comming and I hope that the general population supports this mentality so that music can be appreciated based on its true value, which is not how much money the big labels can thow at the flavor of the week, but on pure talent.
Umm, do you a "special" copy of XP? I had no clue Windows had Quartz! Oh, your talking about text smoothing you say? Oh, sorry to hear that MS waited until late last year to supply you with this feature (clear type I beleive its called by Bill) when Apple has had it in their OS for YEARS.
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I just signed up my old band, Latex Generation! At the height of Napster's popularity we got more emails than ever. We used to also play all of our stuff on a Live365 station. We never had intended to make money with our music, and it took me all over the USA, Europe, and Australia. The least I can do is offer it to the masses free of charge!
Here's the error I get:
Warning: Failed opening '/home/pimprig/public_html/sections.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in Unknown on line 0
Looks like the Web Admin could use a cup o' joe this morning....(ding,ding,ding) that was soo bad...
I wonder how much they account people buying music from underground indie bands - I suspect none. The independant music scene is quite large and there are many bands who make a very good living without signing to the majors (Fugazi, NOFX, and Superchunk [who I saw last night at a sold-out show at the Roseland] come to mind). Maybe the population is getting sick of the cheese-filled fluff that the Music Industry shoves down our throats. There aren't many major label acts that I would spend my money on out there. I wonder if you accounted for all of the independant music fans' buying habits how much it would change the numbers.
over a 1" speaker? HA! That's like saying you can play an Xbox game on an Atari without having to have an adapter for the CD!
I would think that you would use the headphone jack to listen.
He devotes hours here each week as a volunteer member of SWAT, the Spam Wranglers Action Team, hunting for spammers and trying to shut them down.
And all this time I was using SWAT to configure SAMBA....
Slashdot hates Apple so much that there's this section on the left side of your page called "Sections", and the second link seems to be titled "apple". Upon further reading, there seems to be no sections titled "microsoft", or "sun", or even "linux" for that matter. I guess thats just the way we deal with our enemies, huh.
I'm sure if enough people asked for a Linux version of Quicktime, it would be made since they could then possibly make money from it (the technology behind Quicktime makes a lot of money for Apple). The problem is the "enough people" part - we also need a Linux based application that takes advantage of quicktime technology, therefore proving to Apple that its a viable platform to make money on, and not just a hand-me-out.
sorry for yelling, but it apppears no one can read - as you said, the source is right there under the download link on the page and its not dead - I just downloaded it and it has a copy of the GPL in it - so its GPL'ed also. Whats worse is the moderators modding up all of this misinformation!!
It seems like MS is joining the ranks of McAafee and the other AV vendors in creating a scare with an ulterior motive. In MS's case, to quitely patch the system until its fully disabled from viewing content they deem as illegal! And to do this they either take an actual security issue and piggyback the DRM patches, or they planned the "holes" from the get go to be announced and "patched" at key points in time, as to slowly wane the users into locking down their systems from "illegal" content. With the latest talks of Palladium and such, it seems like this isn't such a far off theory either - such an obvious one, actually, that it could be true!
My company started blocking ports a couple of months ago, and I work at a huge media company where music is at the core of many of the businesses.
The funniest thing I hear at least once a day when working on a user's box is, "So if I can't use Kazaa, how am I supposed to get my music?" . My favorite answer: "The HUGE Virgin Megastore accross the street". Can you believe the balls on people - they openly admit to piracy in the workplace, and when you call them on it, they say "'well everyone does it"! If they would tell me the truth - that the music industry is full of shit and that 99% of the artists out there (100% of those worth listening to) are not getting a rich off of their "intellectual" property, but some fat cats at a record label are, and the only way an artist can get any exposure without paying huge amounts of payola to the company we work for is through independant P2P file sharing, then maybe I would have some respect for them.
But alas, they we are mindless victims making money for the devil.
When I used to play in a band, the guy I used to bring my gear to to get modified and repaired was John's bass tech during his solo tours. He said that John knew his bass rig was loud enough when he could hold a match a few feet in front of the cabinet and it would get blown out when he hit a note. Thats just cool. I hope that the remaining members have enough class to go on without using the name The Who - if Jimmy Page and Robert Plant can pull off a successful tour without the moniker Led Zepelin, than Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend can do it too (sorry, but a band is the whole band, not just the front men).
What sold me was using one at Macworld NY last year - I ordered one as soon as I got home. Go to your nearest Apple store if you live near one and give it a test ride (don't go to CompUSA - their display is locked down and usually destroyed somehow - you won't get the total feel for it). Its like a significant other - if its right for you you'll know right away.
If only the thing had 2 mouse buttons!!
Umm, just buy one - MacAlly mice work quite well in OS X and you'll be surprised that the right button is very functional as soon as you plug it in.
I have a 500 MHz iBook, and the thing zips - its all about how you set it up and care for it. If your a geek, you will tweak OS X to do your bidding, which with each update gets faster and faster (with a huge speed bump comming with Jaguar). Also, the current lineup has a faster bus and faster processors which really add to zippyness (the 600MHz/100bus models are up to 30% faster than the 500's). RAM is yet another issue - more = faster (duh).
Overall I have had my iBook for a little more than a year and I forsee another 2-3 years of solid performance before I need to upgrade it. It was worth every penny!
Slahdot poster who reads articles???
Seriously, I read a different article on Paladium and only skimmed this one - thanks for the quote though.
I thought MS said the future of computing was in web applications and XML this and XML that, blah blah blah. So how is Palladium gonna provide security on a web based app? Is every website gonna need an MS approved certificate to be seen on a Palladium equipped box? This whole idea seems like a load of FUD.
This "personal" stuff is just fluff for the real initiative - DRM chips in the HW. Read this article and see for yourselves Infoworld.com .
There are CD printers out there, but they are prohibitively expensive. It would be nice to have a cheap all-in-one drive that enabled you to created a professional looking disc for a consumer price - now that would be a home run product.
My wife was trying to download a Strokes song using Kazaa Lite and it was slow going (as usual), so I bet her I could DL it on Audiogalaxy in less than 2 minutes. So I search for it and find it quick enough, with a message saying that I'm not allowed to search for this file due to copyright infringement!
I thought it was my third party Mac client (Sputnix) being blocked, so I hopped over to my PC and tried it there, only to find the same results. OK, my 2 minutes were almost up... A quick look at the message boards finds the press statement from earlier today. DAMN - I'm not pissed that they pulled Audiogalaxy, 'cause there's a million of these services popping up every time one goes down (I found a great network - DirectConnect - from looking at the AG Message board), but what pissed me off is that I lost my bet to my non-technical WIFE. Those M'er F'ers!!!!
Needless to say I installed the program DirectConnect (http://www.neo-modus.com) and had the song Dl'ed in less than 15 minutes from the start of my bet, but that was 13 minutes too late!
I love Mozilla on Windows because you can install just the browser and opt out of all the other components, creating a bloat-less package. Unfortunately there is no installer on the OS X version, just a .dmg that you drag the folder from onto your applications folder to install. There are no options to minimally install it. I would love to cut out the components that I don't use as I feel it would greatly lighten up the browser itself. Anyone know how to uninstall the different components?
(sorry for being a little OT)
Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!
Taco, you should check out the Afterburner internal lighting kit from Triton Labs. I just got mine a couple of weeks ago - it was not that fun to install, but well worth the effort. It really makes the GBA worth every penny, and proves my biggest gripe - there is no excuse not to include a backlit screen in the whole Game Boy line. I haven't even noticed a drop in battery life!
Totally!
I have a little TV/VCR in my daughter's room, and would love to transfer all of her Sesame Street DVD's to video so she can watch them on her own TV. Whatever happened to fair use?
I really don't believe that Macrovision is necessary, and this Harry Potter example is a perfect one. If your a fan of the movie, you want to own the original. That pretty much sums up the whole Video and Music pirating industry. I guarantee there are thousands of Slashdotters out there that own the bootlegged DVD screener rip of Lord of the Rings, and I bet that almost everyone of you will buy at least one if not both of the DVDs when they become available later this year - just to have it. You like to display it in its packaging on a nice shelf next to your home theatre system, you enjoy the special features that one time you look at them (except for the Kevin Smith movies - the extra stuff on those are golden). Its just a strange little need to have the original - you feel like your contributing to something you enjoy. I'll download any movie I'm a fan of, but rest assured that as soon as its available on DVD, I'll pick it up.
These artists are brave enough to prove the future of the music industry does not need to include the "industry". This has been a long time comming and I hope that the general population supports this mentality so that music can be appreciated based on its true value, which is not how much money the big labels can thow at the flavor of the week, but on pure talent.
Yes, it now supports 2D hardware acceleration and Quicktime support for the Rage Pro graphics card found in original iMacs and iBooks.
Umm, do you a "special" copy of XP? I had no clue Windows had Quartz! Oh, your talking about text smoothing you say? Oh, sorry to hear that MS waited until late last year to supply you with this feature (clear type I beleive its called by Bill) when Apple has had it in their OS for YEARS.