On the other hand i could see the Record Industry just sitting and watching to see which band seems to be doing the best and then bum-rush them with a contract for them to sign so the RIAA can cash in (as we know they so love to do) on this fresh artist (that already has a decent fan base). Basicly they are letting Myspace do all the hard work of promoting the band and they will swoop in at the end snag up the band and then squeeze every last penny out of them and us when the band release the studio record through them.
I don't understand why you think this is a bad thing. If a band decides to sign with a mayor label after getting famous from myspace I'm sure that is becaus the label makes them a decent offer. You know compared to other bands these will propably have gotten quite some income and fame from being on Myspace (otherwise they wouldn't have been picked up by the label) so I'm sure they won't sattle for a "squeeze every last penny"-contract.
In the same time this is good for Myspace aswell. Just imagine the publicity they get when it turnes out that you can get signed to a label by putting your music on Myspace.
It's all a matter of price. Silicon semiconductors are excelent for miniaturization, you can easily fit millions of transistors (or light emitting pixels) on the square inch a cpu takes up. And for a fair price too, say $10 or so. But nobody wants a square inch display! Instead what we want is to do things a hundred times larger, without costing a hundred times more. And silicon just doesn't scale up the way organic materials do.
The same is true for almost everything that I think organic semiconductors will be used in the future. Take solar cells for example. A silicon solar cell will propably have a much better efficency then organic for quite some time. But that won't matter once the organic cells are down to a fraction of the price per square meter.
How about selling blank screens to customers, then have them download content? I mean, we don't throw away our computer screens at every page update. Does anyone know why this guy seems to think completely backwards?
You have to remember that this technology will not result in anything resembling your highly advanced ebook-readers with a lot of memory, rechargable batteries and wifi. Atleast not in 2007 and propably not in 10 years either. Instead these will only have as little memory as needed to show something like an animation or a scrolling textmessage. They will have batteries built to last only as long as you would want to keep a newspaper, milkbox or whatever they are on. And they will not be reprogramable from the outside teh overhead for this is to costy. What you want you can get today already, I have hear a company called Palm makes pretty nice ones.
Besides these are soupposed to be really really cheap. So where do you think the money is? Selling one device to every customer or selling one device every day to every customer?
I heard this fellow Niklas Zennström is in some economical trouble too. He recently "lost" his company called Skype in a fairly hostile ehm takeover. Please think about his children and wife and consider a donation (via PayPal). 20$ or even 10$ can really make a change.
I actually missed this slashdot news because I accidently spilled about half glass of water over my keyboard last saturday. I didn't think that much water got in to the keyboard and I didn't notice any problems at first. Not until I was about to use tab-completion and it turned out the the tab key now actually produced the character 'c'.
Confused over whether this was due to the water or to some softwarefailure (I had just played around a bit with xterm's configfiles) I had the brilliant idea of restarting the computer, only to find out that I couldn't log in because when I wrote my loginname all the characters where wrong. So there wasn't much to do but to turn the keyboard upsidedown (upon which about a dl of water poured out) and wait for it to dry up. And to my pleasent suprise, now two days later, all keys work, except for "scroll-lock". And well yeah that's big loss:)
Some weeks ago I read about magnatune.com in another slashdot comment. They offer all their music for free download in pure mp3, no DRM. And if you buy the music you also get to download in ogg or the lossless flac format. Oh and yes, 50% of all sales goes directly to the artist.
I just love the entire concept, I get the feeling that they just have it all right. They seem like a true 21th century music label, and I hope and believe that they will find this buissness model successful. Infact since I started listning to music from them I have totaly lost interest in the ongoing "p2p pirates"/"music labels" that is going on in my country (sweden) right now. Because I feel that soon there won't be any needs to pirate music, lots of good music will be free to share anyways.
Of course the most important part is that magnatune do have good music. Mere hours after I found the site I also bought my first album of the year: Williamsson - A few things to here before we all blow up. Which is a lovely soft and relaxing electronic album.
Getting modded funny when you're serious is the ultimate bitch slap. (Score:2)
About the same as getting modded serious when you're trying to be funny then, is it?
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Face it people, apple makes cheap and affordable computers in the middle range, and have done for a while. I've been looking especially for a small laptop, around 12". And which one is the cheapest I can find? Thats right, apple ibook. All the other manufactures sell their small laptops as "ultra portable" and takes out a higher price then for their 15". But with apple the 12" laptop is there smalles and thereby cheapest laptop.
I'm not an Apple zealot. The only thing that has brought me into thinking of buying an ibook is the price. But if you have a better deal, please prove me wrong. I really need an affordable small laptop.
I have never programmed professionally. I've been playing around with c and some other languages for some years though. And I have been using gnu software for about as long. But it wasn't until this christmas that I really realized it's power. I've always been thinking that "sure, open source is a good thing, because then the others who know things can make changes".
But just before christmas I was playing a bit with the new transparency that xorg har brought us, and I was annoyed about the lack of functions in "transset". So I decided to take a look at its code. It turned out the program was very simple and within some hours, without any previous knowladge of Xlib and X-programming, I managed to change its behavoiur the way I wanted. (http://forchheimer.se/transset-df/)
Then I suddenly understood that you don't have to be a super guru who understands all the systems sourcecode to gain from open source. One day there will be some little thing that is bothering you that you actually CAN do something about.
Clusty by Vivisimo? Did I even spell that right? They need to consider naming things that people can: A) pronounce B) spell C) are actual words or at least close to words that qualify for both A & B. The main reason why I used altavista for so long was actually because I didn't manage to spell google right. Honestly. I had to try all kind of combinations everytime I wanted to go there, like gogle, googel, gogel. I should also say that english is not my native language.
I like the concept of opensource software very much and I think it helps many hobby projects along the way but it is also obvous that bigger things can be achieved through OS to (see GNU)
But unfortunatly it seems that opensource can't survive buisness. People simply don't seem to be able to live on OS thay pizza man doesn't deliver in change of code.
Opensource workes when alot of people take some of thair free time to work with somkething thay can get use of and that thay think is fun working on. But then when thay have to go to work/school or gets bored thay must be able to jump off whithout the project droping dead, other people must be able to take it up. This is achived through well planed goals, beutiful code (comments and such) and systems like Sourceforge.
Then we get to the hardware problem. Can openness also be achived on hardware. Yes I think so. Opensource community should take a look at peer-to-peer community (pro:most people are the same already:o) to create an system for sharing bandwith and harddrivespace that has an interface like Sourceforge. Bandwith is brought by the community for the community. Then when companies like VA goes under the system will lose a heck lot of bandwith but it might still be there.
Congatulations your lucky day. For only $589 I can offer you a device not only as big as a brick but as big as two bricks and one iPod. It looks vary much like Apples iPod glued in between two red bricks but it is acctually the superPod_iBricks_eGlueXP and has new functions such as beeing thrown on bad peoples toes.
The only game console I've got is a 16bit SNES. And if this is the trend (fist ps2 now ps1) it seems like I can soon start using it again. I only hope the people at zsnes will make it hardware accelerated;)
There will be no laughtning third, instead the opensorce community will take them both, intruducing Jabber to PS/2. Sony is already planning on giving out a linux for the machine, so there should be no problems
No, the soullotion is quite obvius; no stealing servers, hacks, or cracks or anything.
How?
Simply change to the system you think is right for you. To me, and I figure lot of people in the open source community, jabber is the preffered. An open sytem where I know exaxtly how my massage is handeld and loads of different clients so I can find the perfect one for me.
Then?
Then when open community users all use jabber the magic begins. With a lot of users there wll be a big pressure, yes from nice and quiet aim users who want to be able to im there revolutionary communistic hacker friends on Jabber. Someone will look it up and find: "Wow great there is absolutly nothing that prevents aim to handel jabber massages since its completly open"
Hence: Talking to jabber users isn't that fun if they cant talk back to you. AOL wil be forced to find an agreement with jabber and share aim. And they will be happy to do so.
Don't know much about tcp.
Don't know much about BGP.
Don't know much about DHCP.
Don't know nothin' bout my ISP.
But I do know I don't like IP (v4 that is)
And I know that if we used IP (v6 of course)
What a wonderful world it would be.
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I don't understand why you think this is a bad thing. If a band decides to sign with a mayor label after getting famous from myspace I'm sure that is becaus the label makes them a decent offer. You know compared to other bands these will propably have gotten quite some income and fame from being on Myspace (otherwise they wouldn't have been picked up by the label) so I'm sure they won't sattle for a "squeeze every last penny"-contract.
In the same time this is good for Myspace aswell. Just imagine the publicity they get when it turnes out that you can get signed to a label by putting your music on Myspace.
The same is true for almost everything that I think organic semiconductors will be used in the future. Take solar cells for example. A silicon solar cell will propably have a much better efficency then organic for quite some time. But that won't matter once the organic cells are down to a fraction of the price per square meter.
Flying cars and you still use Slashdot, bah.
You have to remember that this technology will not result in anything resembling your highly advanced ebook-readers with a lot of memory, rechargable batteries and wifi. Atleast not in 2007 and propably not in 10 years either. Instead these will only have as little memory as needed to show something like an animation or a scrolling textmessage. They will have batteries built to last only as long as you would want to keep a newspaper, milkbox or whatever they are on. And they will not be reprogramable from the outside teh overhead for this is to costy. What you want you can get today already, I have hear a company called Palm makes pretty nice ones.
Besides these are soupposed to be really really cheap. So where do you think the money is? Selling one device to every customer or selling one device every day to every customer?
I heard this fellow Niklas Zennström is in some economical trouble too. He recently "lost" his company called Skype in a fairly hostile ehm takeover. Please think about his children and wife and consider a donation (via PayPal). 20$ or even 10$ can really make a change.
I actually missed this slashdot news because I accidently spilled about half glass of water over my keyboard last saturday. I didn't think that much water got in to the keyboard and I didn't notice any problems at first. Not until I was about to use tab-completion and it turned out the the tab key now actually produced the character 'c'.
:)
Confused over whether this was due to the water or to some softwarefailure (I had just played around a bit with xterm's configfiles) I had the brilliant idea of restarting the computer, only to find out that I couldn't log in because when I wrote my loginname all the characters where wrong. So there wasn't much to do but to turn the keyboard upsidedown (upon which about a dl of water poured out) and wait for it to dry up. And to my pleasent suprise, now two days later, all keys work, except for "scroll-lock". And well yeah that's big loss
Does Microsoft offer bounties to those who find, and alert them to, security problems?
No they have people actually being paid monthly to do that. They are called employees, and microsoft has a whole bunch of them.
Some weeks ago I read about magnatune.com in another slashdot comment. They offer all their music for free download in pure mp3, no DRM. And if you buy the music you also get to download in ogg or the lossless flac format. Oh and yes, 50% of all sales goes directly to the artist.
I just love the entire concept, I get the feeling that they just have it all right. They seem like a true 21th century music label, and I hope and believe that they will find this buissness model successful. Infact since I started listning to music from them I have totaly lost interest in the ongoing "p2p pirates"/"music labels" that is going on in my country (sweden) right now. Because I feel that soon there won't be any needs to pirate music, lots of good music will be free to share anyways.
Of course the most important part is that magnatune do have good music. Mere hours after I found the site I also bought my first album of the year: Williamsson - A few things to here before we all blow up. Which is a lovely soft and relaxing electronic album.
1. Imagine a beowolf cluster ...
2. Welcome our new overlords
3. In Soviet Russia "3" is you
4.
5. Profit!
About the same as getting modded serious when you're trying to be funny then, is it?
Face it people, apple makes cheap and affordable computers in the middle range, and have done for a while. I've been looking especially for a small laptop, around 12". And which one is the cheapest I can find? Thats right, apple ibook. All the other manufactures sell their small laptops as "ultra portable" and takes out a higher price then for their 15". But with apple the 12" laptop is there smalles and thereby cheapest laptop.
I'm not an Apple zealot. The only thing that has brought me into thinking of buying an ibook is the price. But if you have a better deal, please prove me wrong. I really need an affordable small laptop.
I have never programmed professionally. I've been playing around with c and some other languages for some years though. And I have been using gnu software for about as long. But it wasn't until this christmas that I really realized it's power. I've always been thinking that "sure, open source is a good thing, because then the others who know things can make changes".
But just before christmas I was playing a bit with the new transparency that xorg har brought us, and I was annoyed about the lack of functions in "transset". So I decided to take a look at its code. It turned out the program was very simple and within some hours, without any previous knowladge of Xlib and X-programming, I managed to change its behavoiur the way I wanted. (http://forchheimer.se/transset-df/)
Then I suddenly understood that you don't have to be a super guru who understands all the systems sourcecode to gain from open source. One day there will be some little thing that is bothering you that you actually CAN do something about.
Yeah I know, life is hard for us sport fans.
Apperently this took place in Vietnam in 2000, not in China. Terrible story anyways. The womans name was Nguyen Thi Hiep.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=Nguyen+Thi+Hiep
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Clusty by Vivisimo? Did I even spell that right? They need to consider naming things that people can:
A) pronounce
B) spell
C) are actual words or at least close to words that qualify for both A & B.
The main reason why I used altavista for so long was actually because I didn't manage to spell google right. Honestly. I had to try all kind of combinations everytime I wanted to go there, like gogle, googel, gogel. I should also say that english is not my native language.
But unfortunatly it seems that opensource can't survive buisness. People simply don't seem to be able to live on OS thay pizza man doesn't deliver in change of code.
Opensource workes when alot of people take some of thair free time to work with somkething thay can get use of and that thay think is fun working on. But then when thay have to go to work/school or gets bored thay must be able to jump off whithout the project droping dead, other people must be able to take it up. This is achived through well planed goals, beutiful code (comments and such) and systems like Sourceforge.
Then we get to the hardware problem. Can openness also be achived on hardware. Yes I think so. Opensource community should take a look at peer-to-peer community (pro:most people are the same already:o) to create an system for sharing bandwith and harddrivespace that has an interface like Sourceforge. Bandwith is brought by the community for the community. Then when companies like VA goes under the system will lose a heck lot of bandwith but it might still be there.
Congatulations your lucky day. For only $589 I can offer you a device not only as big as a brick but as big as two bricks and one iPod. It looks vary much like Apples iPod glued in between two red bricks but it is acctually the superPod_iBricks_eGlueXP and has new functions such as beeing thrown on bad peoples toes.
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How?
Simply change to the system you think is right for you. To me, and I figure lot of people in the open source community, jabber is the preffered. An open sytem where I know exaxtly how my massage is handeld and loads of different clients so I can find the perfect one for me.
Then?
Then when open community users all use jabber the magic begins. With a lot of users there wll be a big pressure, yes from nice and quiet aim users who want to be able to im there revolutionary communistic hacker friends on Jabber. Someone will look it up and find: "Wow great there is absolutly nothing that prevents aim to handel jabber massages since its completly open"
Hence: Talking to jabber users isn't that fun if they cant talk back to you. AOL wil be forced to find an agreement with jabber and share aim. And they will be happy to do so.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't IPv6 run together with IPv4 so if your connected to an IPv6 network you'd still reach the rest of Internet.
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