I'm surprised to see that Napster's still fighting the recording industry tooth and nail. And while file sharing programs are 'fun' I'm the first to admit that such specific 'free music' programs are illegal.
Like many other consumers I can't stand the idea of the large recording industry's strangle hold on the market because of inflated prices, exploitation of green artists, and copy protection (who else is dreading the advent of copyrighted CDs which are already here, SACDs, and DVD-As?). At first this disgust led me to use Napster like a maniac, thinking (like many others did) that it would be a good way to combat the industry. Instead, I fear that it has gained the big labels sympathy within the legal system.
So now I ask you. What other ways can we combat big labels and put the power back in the hands of the artist and the consumer, while still getting the music that we love? I'm very interested in hearing every suggestion possible. Currently I can think of the following.
Buy From Independant Labels
Buy used CDs (I love my local used CD shop:D)
Write a letter to 'the industry'???
Does anyone know of other avenues to these goals? Is there some sort of organization that people like myself can support to help remedy the situation?
Please if you know anything...let us know!
Re:I'm doing this in two weeks....
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Dorm Storm?
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. More than 24 hours for turnaround is too late, especially with this heat.
Why, because their air conditioner is somehow controlled by their computer which requires net access to function the air conditioner properly??
Now, that I say such things (in jest only:D), I think it would be pretty cool to have air conditioner controlled by current outside temp and humidity data from say, www.weather.com
It seems like the Wachowski brothers are dissapointing. I think the worst blow to the development so far has been the "missed" aquisition of Jet Li, martial arts expert extrodinaire. Apparently, Li was either too greedy or the Wachowski Brothers/Producers weren't willing to give Li the money he asked. This in my opinion, is a very sad blow against the movie.
First, Li's gone, now they push back the date. I pray that the Matrix won't suffer from the sophmore jinx.
That has got to be one of, if not the best sig I've ever seen.
Excellent.
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Props to them for coming up with a quasi-creative case mod. In a time where stealth-mods, case windows, and neon lights are no longer creative but norm in the case mod scene, anything different is welcome.
My personal favorite is the case mod that throws a computer inside a case of beer. Thanks for the "light" news every now and then/. readers.
Are you saying that you know that it isn't compatible? Becuase if it wasn't I'd expect them to put the old PCI2 slots in mobos. Sorry to be so exacting, but can anyone confirm or disprove with confidince if it is backwards compatible?
I.E. Will you be able to throw your current PCI devices into it, like the way different AGP speeds work currently?
Will you be able to sneak your old PCI cards into this newfangled technology or no? I don't remember seeing anything in the article about that...
If not, I think that it will hamper the transition to this new standard...
10/1/2001 In a last ditch effort after filing for bankruptcy, RosettaBooks.com throws support into the lawsuit against russian hacker Dmitri Sklyarov. In a press release, they stated that loss of funds was due to the "marketing strategy" that blew up in their faces, enabling eBook users to copy the rented text for only a fraction of the price of the traditional eBook version.</fiction>
From the looks of today's news, it seems that we need to tackle bandwidth issues from both ends (please don't flame me for being too obvious). After reading the NasaWatch article about streaming HDTV, Covad filing for bankruptcy, and finally the rather negative comments to this networking protocol, it seems that we've got a long way to go.
Obviously, we need more accessible fat pipe and larger bandwidth, which means these things need to be cheaper. Thankfully, with the advent of high-power round lasers (featured in last month's Wired if I'm not mistaken) the equipment for routing optical lines, will become much less complicated and FAR cheaper. Which means greater accessiblity to broadband and probably a better environment for high-speed providers.
The second end seems to be developing a new STANDARD protocol. Current ones while being fairly open and without need for debugging are nice, but seem rather inefficient. If everyone can agree on a compression scheme for the internet, what is the possiblity of seeing hardware accelerated modems? Will we have something akin to hardware DVD decoders, or GeForce 3's for our net access?
If any of you know of current movements for such technology, I know I'd be interested to hear about them, and I'm sure your fellow/. readers would as well.
Close but not quite. In Calvinball the rules are allowed to change, whereas I think everyone else was speaking in terms of a set of predetermined, yet unknown rules. Bascially, the contest is a test to see how fast/well a computer can learn the rules to the game.
Although, I think a good followup to this "experiment" would be to create programs that play Calvinball and constantly report the known rules.
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Like many other consumers I can't stand the idea of the large recording industry's strangle hold on the market because of inflated prices, exploitation of green artists, and copy protection (who else is dreading the advent of copyrighted CDs which are already here, SACDs, and DVD-As?). At first this disgust led me to use Napster like a maniac, thinking (like many others did) that it would be a good way to combat the industry. Instead, I fear that it has gained the big labels sympathy within the legal system.
So now I ask you. What other ways can we combat big labels and put the power back in the hands of the artist and the consumer, while still getting the music that we love? I'm very interested in hearing every suggestion possible. Currently I can think of the following.
Buy From Independant Labels
Buy used CDs (I love my local used CD shop :D)
Write a letter to 'the industry'???
Does anyone know of other avenues to these goals? Is there some sort of organization that people like myself can support to help remedy the situation?
Please if you know anything...let us know!
. More than 24 hours for turnaround is too late, especially with this heat.
:D), I think it would be pretty cool to have air conditioner controlled by current outside temp and humidity data from say, www.weather.com
Why, because their air conditioner is somehow controlled by their computer which requires net access to function the air conditioner properly??
Now, that I say such things (in jest only
*sigh*
It seems like the Wachowski brothers are dissapointing. I think the worst blow to the development so far has been the "missed" aquisition of Jet Li, martial arts expert extrodinaire. Apparently, Li was either too greedy or the Wachowski Brothers/Producers weren't willing to give Li the money he asked. This in my opinion, is a very sad blow against the movie.
First, Li's gone, now they push back the date. I pray that the Matrix won't suffer from the sophmore jinx.
That has got to be one of, if not the best sig I've ever seen.
Props to them for coming up with a quasi-creative case mod. In a time where stealth-mods, case windows, and neon lights are no longer creative but norm in the case mod scene, anything different is welcome.
/. readers.
My personal favorite is the case mod that throws a computer inside a case of beer. Thanks for the "light" news every now and then
Not trying to be an ass...
Are you saying that you know that it isn't compatible? Becuase if it wasn't I'd expect them to put the old PCI2 slots in mobos. Sorry to be so exacting, but can anyone confirm or disprove with confidince if it is backwards compatible?
I.E. Will you be able to throw your current PCI devices into it, like the way different AGP speeds work currently?
Will you be able to sneak your old PCI cards into this newfangled technology or no? I don't remember seeing anything in the article about that... If not, I think that it will hamper the transition to this new standard...
10/1/2001 In a last ditch effort after filing for bankruptcy, RosettaBooks.com throws support into the lawsuit against russian hacker Dmitri Sklyarov.
In a press release, they stated that loss of funds was due to the "marketing strategy" that blew up in their faces, enabling eBook users to copy the rented text for only a fraction of the price of the traditional eBook version.</fiction>
From the looks of today's news, it seems that we need to tackle bandwidth issues from both ends (please don't flame me for being too obvious). After reading the NasaWatch article about streaming HDTV, Covad filing for bankruptcy, and finally the rather negative comments to this networking protocol, it seems that we've got a long way to go.
/. readers would as well.
Obviously, we need more accessible fat pipe and larger bandwidth, which means these things need to be cheaper. Thankfully, with the advent of high-power round lasers (featured in last month's Wired if I'm not mistaken) the equipment for routing optical lines, will become much less complicated and FAR cheaper. Which means greater accessiblity to broadband and probably a better environment for high-speed providers.
The second end seems to be developing a new STANDARD protocol. Current ones while being fairly open and without need for debugging are nice, but seem rather inefficient. If everyone can agree on a compression scheme for the internet, what is the possiblity of seeing hardware accelerated modems? Will we have something akin to hardware DVD decoders, or GeForce 3's for our net access?
If any of you know of current movements for such technology, I know I'd be interested to hear about them, and I'm sure your fellow
Close but not quite. In Calvinball the rules are allowed to change, whereas I think everyone else was speaking in terms of a set of predetermined, yet unknown rules. Bascially, the contest is a test to see how fast/well a computer can learn the rules to the game. Although, I think a good followup to this "experiment" would be to create programs that play Calvinball and constantly report the known rules.
Here are the rules of Calvinball