how is this the death of online radio ?, the internet incase anyone hadn't noticed is worldwide , the copyright office of usa is a laughable organisation in china/russia etc and will quite simply be ignored.
So whereas i feel sorry for people living in the usa , most streams will simply move to another country where usa copyright is non-applicable (long list) and i dont really see diplomatic extradition for streaming radio
when will the USA realise they do not own the internet , the whole world does !
why is everyone suprised that a mp3 player has voice control ?, cellphones here in the UK have had that technology for ages, but now they are moving just beyond "call pizza" to built in mp3 players and radios , at current speed of development its gonna be this year they merge these technologies and we end up with a voice controlled mp3 player with pda and cellphone with built in cameras ! yay, the end is near for all these fragmented devices and we will soon have that device we all want that fits in our pockets and does everything in one single device:)
The actual level of data collected is way more than just what channel you are watching, the data is so specific it can tell how many times and what time you pressed any button on the remote at any time, be it volume control,pause buttons anything!
This data to advertisers is known as "gold dust"
advertisers could find out things like:
did you watch their advert if so how many times
did you forward or rewind it if so how far
did you cut the volume if so for how long
did you flip channel if so did you flip it back
when you flipped what advert did you see on the other channel
and just about any viewing habit data they choose , and guess what , your paying a subscription for this service so for Tivo this is a win win win situation and must be laughing in their condos on malibu beach.
now this report is rather biased towards privacy and some say the report is flawed blah blah but the actual captured data logs are not.
Now whereas the data is "anonomous" it is linked to subscribers via postcode/zipcode and certainly here in the UK if i give my postcode to some companies they can tell exactly which house iam living in , not totally anonomous, and after all, they only need to know what the "house" is watching as everyone sits down and watches the same program together so individual advert profiling would be irrelavent.
devices like Tivo could work without selling this data to advertisers but the might hand of marketing is pretty good at persuasding poor companies that the financial recompence is worthwhile.
IMHO the whole point of a Tivo is data collection hence right from the start the units have been designed as profiling devices capturing all available statistical data, i mean what use is recording when i press volume buttons in determining that the simpsons is on and if i would like to watch it ?
the sooner people complain and see these companies for what they really are the better
It was there at 10.14 PM GMT and its just been pulled at 10.16 PM GMT
with the obligatory
"This site may have been removed due to a violation of Freeserver's
"Acceptable Use Policy".
luckily google is still there:)
When you lose 4 billion $ you get desperate
on
AOL vs. Trillian
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· Score: 1
AOL should really concentrate on fundamentally how to make money instead of tinkering with their lossmaking IM investments, unless they charge for all their services , the end is nigh for them.
its not if, but when
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=33935
"People are going to suddenly wake up and realize the the MS logo is on their computer, tv's, vcr's/dvr's, video games, toddler toys, kitchen appliances, car electroncs, etc
but people havent woken up to Sony yet , Sony are just about the only company that can complete the circle from not only producing the Artists that make the media (and the equipment they use to create it) to delivering it to the consumers eyes/ears on their Sony stereo/TV/computer/etc yet people still shower them with praise and dont feel they are a monopoly, even microsoft are not in Sonys exclusive position
the article linked in the topic merely quotes an original interview with the financial times german edition that can be found here (English Translation by the wonders of Google)
After reading this article i think ill stick to alternative devices, im not into paying someone to sell my viewing habits to advertisers if they are strapped for cash,
im suprised so many pgp military encryption loving/. readers are so nieve or am i....
This presumably is if they havent got our radio and television signals that we have been sending into space for the last 100years and have a concept of "digital" or even language, look how much english has changed in 2000 years.
the more i read this the more i think it is merely some bored students thesis project to get their degree more than a serious scientific project
looks like Tivo are desperate to link their customer profiles with those of the online users , Real are masters at tracking and do everything in their power to hide it from encrypted links in their players to deceptive tactics to get their TSR player in your start bar
by teaming up with Tivo they will be able to incorporate tracking and profiling technology that you will not be able to examine or even question, AND you will be paying THEM for the privilidge.
personally i wouldn't have a Tivo even if you paid ME if it needs to connect to the phoneline
i would be very suspicious when my video or hi fi wants to connect to a telephone and then sends encrypted data (Tivo) to a commercial company which of course is "anonymous" yeah right like it matters anyway
Unlike it seems many of/. readers it seems , my privacy however small does matter to me and ill be dammed if its for sale to anyone
here is a really comprehensive hosts file that blocks morpheus,bearshare,hotline and 11,000 advert servers, daily updates, instructions and works on all platforms including Linux/beos/macs/win;)
I havent seen a doubleclick advert in years at least i havent since i started using this hosts file works in just about everything including macs/linux/beos/win and i try to update it everyday, stops 10,000+ advert servers, counters and the like plus blocks adverts in popular p2p apps like morpheus / bearshare / eDonkey / Hotline (thanks to some r.e)
</shameless plug>
10. Indrema: This company cast itself as a slayer of corporate behemoths -- Indrema said it would produce an open-source game console that could beat those from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. But the available evidence suggests that, in the company's short life, all it managed to get out the door were a few sorry press releases.
"If only they would have gotten off their sorry butts and built the stupid device instead of modeling 3-D mockups and obsessing over the developer's kit," said reader Tim Toner, who had great expectations for the system, "there would already be a fanatical grassroots developer network in place big enough to scare the big guys." Those big guys did well last year in the world of games, but Indrema died a quiet death last spring.
9. Peekabooty: With governments tightening their controls on cyberspace -- purportedly to fight terrorism -- it's time we had a thing called Peekabooty, the advocates screamed. Peekabooty was to be an "anti-censorship" Web surfing tool promised early last year -- but never delivered -- by the Cult of the Dead Cow (CoDC), a group of privacy-minded hackers.
One reader said: "Everybody was freaking out because it was supposed to be released in the first days of July, but then it was delayed of a few weeks, and months later, if you go back to the CoDC website, there is still nothing about it, not even a general idea of when to expect it."
8. Artificial intelligence: Weren't we supposed to have talking, thinking, "living" computers by 2001?
There was that Spielberg movie -- but even if it was robotic, it didn't count. Jimmy St. Germain commented on the lack of "actual work" produced by Cyc, the ages-old A.I. project headed by Douglas Lenat. To be fair, Cyc is not really vapor -- some of its intelligence is in use in some network tools, for example. "But I am not a systems administrator," St. Germain said. "I just wanted to be blown away."
He raises a good point. Where are our robots?
7. Digiscents iSmell: The digital-age version of Smell-O-Vision got its media start with a cover story in Wired magazine -- "You've Got Smell!" the headline proclaimed -- but even that wasn't enough to make this quirky idea a reality.
The company's main undelivered product was called, cutely, the iSmell, which Digiscents said would have been the world's first consumer "personal scent synthesizer." You would hook up the iSmell to your computer "just like speakers," a company spokesman said last year, but instead of synthesizing the sound of an onscreen explosion, the iSmell would blow out a whiff of smoke-scented air.
There were actual working prototypes of this device, which traveled to trade shows and newsrooms to prove that, yes, smell technology did exist. But finding itself short on cash, Digiscents shut its doors last April. "I know the damn thing worked -- I had a working one on my desk," said John Hayes, one of the readers who suggested that iSmell should make the vapor list. "That's why it was so frustrating to me. In some ways the Digiscents experience will push back (the release of smell synthesizers) by a few years."
6. Silicon Film's electronic film system: Last year, Silicon Film Technologies made our list for failing to deliver its intriguing "digital film" system, which purported to turn an ordinary camera into a digital one. The digital film, one year later, is still not available, to the chagrin of many readers.
The company's website is still up and it still promises to ship its digital film when "required certifications are obtained." But the phone number doesn't seem to work any more, which led Tom Hammer, a Wired News reader, to wonder if "this was one of the great Internet hoaxes of all time."
5. 3G wireless networks: Unless you're a wealthy Tokyo businessman, you've probably heard a lot about next-generation wireless services but have never had the chance to try it. For many years, telecom companies have been saying that high-speed wireless services -- including video and audio on your cell phone -- were just around the regulatory and technical corner.
But Carlos Salvestrini wrote: "I still can't quite get a hold of a device that supports 3G mobile service, let alone a company that provides it. It appears as if there's this whole big 'mobile revolution,' but if I don't have a device to test it in, or someone who offers me the service, how can the revolution be happening?"
4. Team Fortress 2: Valve Software has been promising to release this purportedly groundbreaking multi-player game for a few years now. The company's website says that Team Fortress 2 "blends role-based action with the social camaraderie found in classic war movies," but many readers wondered whether Valve was even working on the title.
"This was one (first-person shooter) that would wander off the beaten path," Mike Parker wrote. "And it did more than that, it wandered off into the bushes, never to be found again."
3. Photoshop for OS X: Apple's new operating system for the Macintosh, Mac OS X, is a fine OS, but the company would likely be getting more plaudits for the system if Mac heads could purchase Adobe Photoshop for it.
Rumor has it that Adobe will release at least a beta version of Photoshop OS X during the next few months, but that apparently hasn't satisfied many who want to use their pretty new Macs when they play Photoshop tennis.
"Where's the beef?" Juli Maclean asked. "My suggestion: The accounting folks in Cupertino (Apple's California headquarters) should walk a mob down to San Jose and hold their pitchforks and torches at Adobe's front door, demanding that they ship a Carbonized Photoshop now so that their OS X sales will kick in from people like us -- their bread and butter."
2. Warcraft III: Nobody was more eloquent about the tardiness of Blizzard software's next offering in its popular Warcraft series than Tadhg Kelly, who seemed to take the company's actions as a personal affront.
"Never have the continuing expectations of so many been dashed by the tardiness of so few," he said.
If you check back in the Wired News archives, you'll find Kelly saying the exact same thing in last year's Vaporware piece. That's because Warcraft III was vapor, then, too. Called for comment, a Blizzard spokeswoman said the lateness was "in typical Blizzard fashion," because the company wants to make sure the software reaches the standards it is happy with.
And the winner is...: Wired News would likely make its parent company a lot of EBITDA if we had a tech guy write a neat little script to automatically put this game on our Vaporware list each year. First announced in 1997, the thing is so vaporous it received at least twice as many votes as the number two application on this list. Of course, we're talking about Duke Nukem Forever -- 3-D Realms' shooter game that's been four years in the making, with no release date in sight.
The company's website says: "There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have 'inside info,' or there's some game news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know -- they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period."
That kind of talk led Holger Kleinsorgen to write, "Future generations will say 'when Duke Nukem Forever is released' when they mean 'when hell freezes over.'" And Dennis Murphy said, "This is the game I'm going to be telling my grandkids about waiting for -- and then they're going to tell me, 'Yeah, we know. So are we!'"
But 3D Realms CEO Scott Miller wasn't very upset to hear about his product getting the Vaporware top spot. "It's a very ambitious game," he said. "It's not cookie-cutter shooter like most are nowadays, and we're pushing a lot of standards. The proof will be in the pudding."
But will the pudding be here in time to avoid inclusion on next year's Vaporware list? Miller said he'd rather not answer that.
this article documents the fact that one of the major players are abandoning the manufacture of CRT as quote "There are no prospects for growth of the monitor CRT market."
while televisions may escape the death for the moment i fear its time has come also
here is a really comprehensive hosts file that blocks morpheus,bearshare,hotline and 10,000 advert servers, daily updates, instructions and works on all platforms including Linux/beos/macs;)
The picture taken at DreamHack 2001, a big LAN event held in Sweden. Microsoft is a sponsor of the event and they were demoing XBOX on site. The picture is taken from the XBOX there.. which is a beta unit, according to Microsoft. It probably is:p
I remember the matchbox pc and the more impressive credit card pc which was a webserver on a 16k smart card with a tcp layer written in java and about 5k of storage space, so unless this "smallest pc in the world" is the size of a flea or as thin as paper i think their claims are exaggerated
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how is this the death of online radio ?, the internet incase anyone hadn't noticed is worldwide , the copyright office of usa is a laughable organisation in china/russia etc and will quite simply be ignored.
So whereas i feel sorry for people living in the usa , most streams will simply move to another country where usa copyright is non-applicable (long list) and i dont really see diplomatic extradition for streaming radio
when will the USA realise they do not own the internet , the whole world does !
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why is everyone suprised that a mp3 player has voice control ?, cellphones here in the UK have had that technology for ages, but now they are moving just beyond "call pizza" to built in mp3 players and radios , at current speed of development its gonna be this year they merge these technologies and we end up with a voice controlled mp3 player with pda and cellphone with built in cameras ! yay, the end is near for all these fragmented devices and we will soon have that device we all want that fits in our pockets and does everything in one single device
The actual level of data collected is way more than just what channel you are watching, the data is so specific it can tell how many times and what time you pressed any button on the remote at any time, be it volume control ,pause buttons anything!
This data to advertisers is known as "gold dust"
advertisers could find out things like:
did you watch their advert if so how many times
did you forward or rewind it if so how far
did you cut the volume if so for how long
did you flip channel if so did you flip it back
when you flipped what advert did you see on the other channel
and just about any viewing habit data they choose , and guess what , your paying a subscription for this service so for Tivo this is a win win win situation and must be laughing in their condos on malibu beach.
now this report is rather biased towards privacy and some say the report is flawed blah blah but the actual captured data logs are not.
Now whereas the data is "anonomous" it is linked to subscribers via postcode/zipcode and certainly here in the UK if i give my postcode to some companies they can tell exactly which house iam living in , not totally anonomous, and after all, they only need to know what the "house" is watching as everyone sits down and watches the same program together so individual advert profiling would be irrelavent.
devices like Tivo could work without selling this data to advertisers but the might hand of marketing is pretty good at persuasding poor companies that the financial recompence is worthwhile.
IMHO the whole point of a Tivo is data collection hence right from the start the units have been designed as profiling devices capturing all available statistical data, i mean what use is recording when i press volume buttons in determining that the simpsons is on and if i would like to watch it ?
the sooner people complain and see these companies for what they really are the better
It was there at 10.14 PM GMT and its just been pulled at 10.16 PM GMT
with the obligatory
"This site may have been removed due to a violation of Freeserver's
"Acceptable Use Policy".
luckily google is still there
AOL should really concentrate on fundamentally how to make money instead of tinkering with their lossmaking IM investments, unless they charge for all their services , the end is nigh for them.
its not if, but when
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=33935
Ok after a bit of investigation i found
:)
http://www.pc-help.org/privacy/ms_guid.htm
i want the first microsoftcansuck.com domain off the line
if i visit that msnbc site linked in the topic
? ww w.msnbc.com/news/create_p1.asp?URL=www.msnbc.com/n ews/691648.asp
(http://www.msnbc.com/news/691648.asp)
it instantly redirects me to
http://msid.msn.com/mps_id_sharing/redirect.asp
seems like they suck too with their user tracking domain poisoning too
"People are going to suddenly wake up and realize the the MS logo is on their computer, tv's, vcr's/dvr's, video games, toddler toys, kitchen appliances, car electroncs, etc
but people havent woken up to Sony yet , Sony are just about the only company that can complete the circle from not only producing the Artists that make the media (and the equipment they use to create it) to delivering it to the consumers eyes/ears on their Sony stereo/TV/computer/etc yet people still shower them with praise and dont feel they are a monopoly, even microsoft are not in Sonys exclusive position
the article linked in the topic merely quotes an original interview with the financial times german edition that can be found here (English Translation by the wonders of Google)
i base all our global corporate buying decisions and software policys on a zdnet web poll
After reading this article i think ill stick to alternative devices, im not into paying someone to sell my viewing habits to advertisers if they are strapped for cash,
im suprised so many pgp military encryption loving
This presumably is if they havent got our radio and television signals that we have been sending into space for the last 100years and have a concept of "digital" or even language, look how much english has changed in 2000 years.
the more i read this the more i think it is merely some bored students thesis project to get their degree more than a serious scientific project
looks like Tivo are desperate to link their customer profiles with those of the online users , Real are masters at tracking and do everything in their power to hide it from encrypted links in their players to deceptive tactics to get their TSR player in your start bar
/. readers it seems , my privacy however small does matter to me and ill be dammed if its for sale to anyone
by teaming up with Tivo they will be able to incorporate tracking and profiling technology that you will not be able to examine or even question, AND you will be paying THEM for the privilidge.
personally i wouldn't have a Tivo even if you paid ME if it needs to connect to the phoneline
i would be very suspicious when my video or hi fi wants to connect to a telephone and then sends encrypted data (Tivo) to a commercial company which of course is "anonymous" yeah right like it matters anyway
Unlike it seems many of
here is a really comprehensive hosts file that blocks morpheus,bearshare,hotline and 11,000 advert servers, daily updates, instructions and works on all platforms including Linux/beos/macs/win ;)
I havent seen a doubleclick advert in years at least i havent since i started using this hosts file works in just about everything including macs/linux/beos/win and i try to update it everyday, stops 10,000+ advert servers, counters and the like plus blocks adverts in popular p2p apps like morpheus / bearshare / eDonkey / Hotline (thanks to some r.e)
</shameless plug>
10. Indrema: This company cast itself as a slayer of corporate behemoths -- Indrema said it would produce an open-source game console that could beat those from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. But the available evidence suggests that, in the company's short life, all it managed to get out the door were a few sorry press releases.
"If only they would have gotten off their sorry butts and built the stupid device instead of modeling 3-D mockups and obsessing over the developer's kit," said reader Tim Toner, who had great expectations for the system, "there would already be a fanatical grassroots developer network in place big enough to scare the big guys." Those big guys did well last year in the world of games, but Indrema died a quiet death last spring.
9. Peekabooty: With governments tightening their controls on cyberspace -- purportedly to fight terrorism -- it's time we had a thing called Peekabooty, the advocates screamed. Peekabooty was to be an "anti-censorship" Web surfing tool promised early last year -- but never delivered -- by the Cult of the Dead Cow (CoDC), a group of privacy-minded hackers.
One reader said: "Everybody was freaking out because it was supposed to be released in the first days of July, but then it was delayed of a few weeks, and months later, if you go back to the CoDC website, there is still nothing about it, not even a general idea of when to expect it."
8. Artificial intelligence: Weren't we supposed to have talking, thinking, "living" computers by 2001?
There was that Spielberg movie -- but even if it was robotic, it didn't count. Jimmy St. Germain commented on the lack of "actual work" produced by Cyc, the ages-old A.I. project headed by Douglas Lenat. To be fair, Cyc is not really vapor -- some of its intelligence is in use in some network tools, for example. "But I am not a systems administrator," St. Germain said. "I just wanted to be blown away."
He raises a good point. Where are our robots?
7. Digiscents iSmell: The digital-age version of Smell-O-Vision got its media start with a cover story in Wired magazine -- "You've Got Smell!" the headline proclaimed -- but even that wasn't enough to make this quirky idea a reality.
The company's main undelivered product was called, cutely, the iSmell, which Digiscents said would have been the world's first consumer "personal scent synthesizer." You would hook up the iSmell to your computer "just like speakers," a company spokesman said last year, but instead of synthesizing the sound of an onscreen explosion, the iSmell would blow out a whiff of smoke-scented air.
There were actual working prototypes of this device, which traveled to trade shows and newsrooms to prove that, yes, smell technology did exist. But finding itself short on cash, Digiscents shut its doors last April. "I know the damn thing worked -- I had a working one on my desk," said John Hayes, one of the readers who suggested that iSmell should make the vapor list. "That's why it was so frustrating to me. In some ways the Digiscents experience will push back (the release of smell synthesizers) by a few years."
6. Silicon Film's electronic film system: Last year, Silicon Film Technologies made our list for failing to deliver its intriguing "digital film" system, which purported to turn an ordinary camera into a digital one. The digital film, one year later, is still not available, to the chagrin of many readers.
The company's website is still up and it still promises to ship its digital film when "required certifications are obtained." But the phone number doesn't seem to work any more, which led Tom Hammer, a Wired News reader, to wonder if "this was one of the great Internet hoaxes of all time."
5. 3G wireless networks: Unless you're a wealthy Tokyo businessman, you've probably heard a lot about next-generation wireless services but have never had the chance to try it. For many years, telecom companies have been saying that high-speed wireless services -- including video and audio on your cell phone -- were just around the regulatory and technical corner.
But Carlos Salvestrini wrote: "I still can't quite get a hold of a device that supports 3G mobile service, let alone a company that provides it. It appears as if there's this whole big 'mobile revolution,' but if I don't have a device to test it in, or someone who offers me the service, how can the revolution be happening?"
4. Team Fortress 2: Valve Software has been promising to release this purportedly groundbreaking multi-player game for a few years now. The company's website says that Team Fortress 2 "blends role-based action with the social camaraderie found in classic war movies," but many readers wondered whether Valve was even working on the title.
"This was one (first-person shooter) that would wander off the beaten path," Mike Parker wrote. "And it did more than that, it wandered off into the bushes, never to be found again."
3. Photoshop for OS X: Apple's new operating system for the Macintosh, Mac OS X, is a fine OS, but the company would likely be getting more plaudits for the system if Mac heads could purchase Adobe Photoshop for it.
Rumor has it that Adobe will release at least a beta version of Photoshop OS X during the next few months, but that apparently hasn't satisfied many who want to use their pretty new Macs when they play Photoshop tennis.
"Where's the beef?" Juli Maclean asked. "My suggestion: The accounting folks in Cupertino (Apple's California headquarters) should walk a mob down to San Jose and hold their pitchforks and torches at Adobe's front door, demanding that they ship a Carbonized Photoshop now so that their OS X sales will kick in from people like us -- their bread and butter."
2. Warcraft III: Nobody was more eloquent about the tardiness of Blizzard software's next offering in its popular Warcraft series than Tadhg Kelly, who seemed to take the company's actions as a personal affront.
"Never have the continuing expectations of so many been dashed by the tardiness of so few," he said.
If you check back in the Wired News archives, you'll find Kelly saying the exact same thing in last year's Vaporware piece. That's because Warcraft III was vapor, then, too. Called for comment, a Blizzard spokeswoman said the lateness was "in typical Blizzard fashion," because the company wants to make sure the software reaches the standards it is happy with.
And the winner is
The company's website says: "There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have 'inside info,' or there's some game news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know -- they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period."
That kind of talk led Holger Kleinsorgen to write, "Future generations will say 'when Duke Nukem Forever is released' when they mean 'when hell freezes over.'" And Dennis Murphy said, "This is the game I'm going to be telling my grandkids about waiting for -- and then they're going to tell me, 'Yeah, we know. So are we!'"
But 3D Realms CEO Scott Miller wasn't very upset to hear about his product getting the Vaporware top spot. "It's a very ambitious game," he said. "It's not cookie-cutter shooter like most are nowadays, and we're pushing a lot of standards. The proof will be in the pudding."
But will the pudding be here in time to avoid inclusion on next year's Vaporware list? Miller said he'd rather not answer that.
For those who cant be bothered to trudge through the front page
http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=1
now even quicker !! this page claims it has a world record
3023mhz !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_145900
this article documents the fact that one of the major players are abandoning the manufacture of CRT as quote "There are no prospects for growth of the monitor CRT market."
while televisions may escape the death for the moment i fear its time has come also
here is a really comprehensive hosts file that blocks morpheus,bearshare,hotline and 10,000 advert servers, daily updates, instructions and works on all platforms including Linux/beos/macs ;)
The BSODs and GSODs you hear of are actually not true
Please look at this
XBOX BSOD
The picture taken at DreamHack 2001, a big LAN event held in Sweden. Microsoft is a sponsor of the event and they were demoing XBOX on site. The picture is taken from the XBOX there.. which is a beta unit, according to Microsoft. It probably is
Except it doesnt work :p
:)
try here instead
For those that don't have access to that disgusting PDF Adobe file format, here is a link to a plain html version.
I remember the matchbox pc and the more impressive credit card pc which was a webserver on a 16k smart card with a tcp layer written in java and about 5k of storage space, so unless this "smallest pc in the world" is the size of a flea or as thin as paper i think their claims are exaggerated