Muzak announces the "Muzak burner", coming to an elevator near you:
"Can't get enough of that cool version of 'One Note Samba' while riding your way to the 20th floor? Press the [Muzak-burn] button, swipe your credit card, and VOILA... your CD is ready by the time the doors open."
a bit of a troll, may be... you have good points there with Starbucks. However, there are lots of places where you can get coffeee and easily get a (free) wireless connection: public libraries, work cafeterias, student lounges, etc. and where people do what I described above. About the music itself, I've never heard any great instrumental music at Starbucks. The jazz they play is usually the over-abused, over-stereotyped kind: The Girl from Ipanema in the summer, Tony Bennett's Christmas special in the winter, etc. No need to Google that. I don't think their CD burning thing is going to work, but hey, what do I know? they've managed to convince people that it's normal to pay $3.50 for a cup of coffee.
Let's say you're sitting at a Starbucks, drinking some coffee. You hear a song over the speakers you happen to like. All you have to do is: - open your wireless-enabled latop - Google a line of the lyrics to get the artist's and song name - fire up iTunes (heck, LimeWire if you're brave) the song is on your laptop faster than they can sprinkle cinnamon on your overpriced java. I don't think it works that well with the mp3 crowd.
George Eastman used the patent system from day one (1888) to acquire market dominance. This is no "new" source of revenue. Kodak's IP/patent dept. is huge. However, this shows that the patent system doesn't guarantee shit for you in the long run unless you keep innovating.
I think they're making the calculation: "they're car parts people, they must be dumb. They don't understand software and will settle". Actually, AZO seems like a really tech savvy company. They're 7B$ big and won't let SCO get away with this crap. I also think we're going to see software companies come to their rescue in the lawsuit with money and/or legal briefs supporting them.
All the computers are from Compaq. The basic software is from Microsoft. The phones are from Lucent. The air-conditioning is by Carrier, and even the bottled water is by Coke Right, the problem with this 'argument' is: 95% of the computer is made in Taiwan or China, the MS sofware is outsourced in India, the Coke is bottled right in India, the AC units are probably made in Japan, etc. This article offers no proof of any kind that outsourcing is good for the US economy. It just uses a random collection of impressions ('oh my, they use Compaq here too', 'man, good thing they drink Coke, they don't get malaria') and then jumps to the conclusion: 'outsourcing is GREAT, it creates jobs in the USA!'.
Thomas Friedman has been the choir boy of the Bush administration at the NYT for quite some time now. So much for the 'liberal' media. I can't believe they keep him on staff.
Look who wrote the article. The guy works for a company who sells as its major product: "
Provides consulting services during the review process of a poorly founded negative piece on a vendor or its products and, should it be needed, showcases the research errors, statistical mistakes, and unfounded conclusions that often define such a piece.". May be Acer got some bad press recently and this is how this guy is spinning it? I smell a rat
People don't want to buy DRM media. Period. Let Disney try it and then feel the wrath of consummers when they figure out they *lost* the "rights" to the movie/clip/music they had *PURCHASED* with their hard earned dollars. MS's DRM is dead on arrival. To this day, I yet have to meet a single person that encodes her music to WMA and that is psyched about it. People stick with MP3 beacause at this point it's open enough and it'll be supported for life. Good luck Disney.
the performance boost in this release is amazing. At least on Window$. I think that for the 1st time they can honnestly claim it *is* faster than IE. Keep it up!
Fitter, happier, more productive
Comfortable Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week) Getting on better with
your associate employee contemporaries At ease Eating well (No more
microwave dinners and saturated fats) A patient better driver A safer
car (Baby smiling in back seat) Sleeping well (No bad dreams) No
paranoia Careful to all animals (Never washing spiders down the
plughole) Keep in contact with old friends (Enjoy a drink now and then)
Will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall) Favours
for favours Fond but not in love Charity standing orders On Sundays
ring road supermarket (No killing moths or putting boiling water on the
ants) Car wash (Also on Sundays) No longer afraid of the dark or
midday shadows Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate Nothing so
childish - at a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of
escape Now self-employed Concerned (but powerless) An empowered and
informed member of society (Pragmatism not idealism) Will not cry in
public Less chance of illness Tires that grip in the wet (Shot of
baby strapped in back seat) A good memory Still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva No longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to
a stick That's driven into frozen winter shit (The ability to laugh at
weakness) Calm Fitter Healthier and more productive A pig in a
cage on antibiotics
Quick, I'm going to patent "a method for letting open source developers breathe oxygen" in case SCO or Microsoft gets it first and decides to kill OSS.
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Java has a few zillion too.
Muzak announces the "Muzak burner", coming to an elevator near you:
"Can't get enough of that cool version of 'One Note Samba' while riding your way to the 20th floor? Press the [Muzak-burn] button, swipe your credit card, and VOILA... your CD is ready by the time the doors open."
a bit of a troll, may be... you have good points there with Starbucks.
However, there are lots of places where you can get coffeee and easily get a (free) wireless connection: public libraries, work cafeterias, student lounges, etc. and where people do what I described above.
About the music itself, I've never heard any great instrumental music at Starbucks. The jazz they play is usually the over-abused, over-stereotyped kind: The Girl from Ipanema in the summer, Tony Bennett's Christmas special in the winter, etc. No need to Google that.
I don't think their CD burning thing is going to work, but hey, what do I know? they've managed to convince people that it's normal to pay $3.50 for a cup of coffee.
Let's say you're sitting at a Starbucks, drinking some coffee. You hear a song over the speakers you happen to like. All you have to do is:
- open your wireless-enabled latop
- Google a line of the lyrics to get the artist's and song name
- fire up iTunes (heck, LimeWire if you're brave)
the song is on your laptop faster than they can sprinkle cinnamon on your overpriced java.
I don't think it works that well with the mp3 crowd.
George Eastman used the patent system from day one (1888) to acquire market dominance. This is no "new" source of revenue. Kodak's IP/patent dept. is huge.
However, this shows that the patent system doesn't guarantee shit for you in the long run unless you keep innovating.
You'll be able to buy a simple device whose sole purpose is to NULL that flag in the input stream.
It'll probably retail for $9.99 on the web.
That's until a college student figures out that all it takes to disable the DRM feature is holding the SHIFT key on your remote.
I can't wait for 'the flag'...
the smart thing to do would be to use a VOIP conference bridge
I think they're making the calculation: "they're car parts people, they must be dumb. They don't understand software and will settle". Actually, AZO seems like a really tech savvy company. They're 7B$ big and won't let SCO get away with this crap. I also think we're going to see software companies come to their rescue in the lawsuit with money and/or legal briefs supporting them.
Another problem with this approach is that you can later go to the validation website and claim that the voting equipment changed your vote.
Finally some good news for Bush: NASA found WMDs on Mars.
My point exactly. Thanks.
All the computers are from Compaq. The basic software is from Microsoft. The phones are from Lucent. The air-conditioning is by Carrier, and even the bottled water is by Coke
Right, the problem with this 'argument' is: 95% of the computer is made in Taiwan or China, the MS sofware is outsourced in India, the Coke is bottled right in India, the AC units are probably made in Japan, etc.
This article offers no proof of any kind that outsourcing is good for the US economy. It just uses a random collection of impressions ('oh my, they use Compaq here too', 'man, good thing they drink Coke, they don't get malaria') and then jumps to the conclusion: 'outsourcing is GREAT, it creates jobs in the USA!'.
Thomas Friedman has been the choir boy of the Bush administration at the NYT for quite some time now. So much for the 'liberal' media. I can't believe they keep him on staff.
Most eloquent post. Made my day.
Reformat ...
rpm -U
"Oh, I've never seen a refund check..."
Do Bach or Mozart have control over how their music is played today? some of it makes me puke, yet I think it's OK.
I would love to see such a device. Would it be illegal under the DMCA?
The movie will flop. It'll ruin the TV series. Yes, the end is near.
Look who wrote the article. The guy works for a company who sells as its major product: " Provides consulting services during the review process of a poorly founded negative piece on a vendor or its products and, should it be needed, showcases the research errors, statistical mistakes, and unfounded conclusions that often define such a piece.". May be Acer got some bad press recently and this is how this guy is spinning it? I smell a rat
People don't want to buy DRM media. Period. Let Disney try it and then feel the wrath of consummers when they figure out they *lost* the "rights" to the movie/clip/music they had *PURCHASED* with their hard earned dollars. MS's DRM is dead on arrival. To this day, I yet have to meet a single person that encodes her music to WMA and that is psyched about it. People stick with MP3 beacause at this point it's open enough and it'll be supported for life. Good luck Disney.
the performance boost in this release is amazing. At least on Window$. I think that for the 1st time they can honnestly claim it *is* faster than IE. Keep it up!
Yeah, they could have shown THIS fractal. Almost looks like the Koch Snowflake.
I'm sure at some point they must have used it in their manuals... "You must pay us $670 for each printed page that uses Times Roman. Have a nice day."
Fitter, happier, more productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week)
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well
(No more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
A patient better driver
A safer car
(Baby smiling in back seat)
Sleeping well
(No bad dreams)
No paranoia
Careful to all animals
(Never washing spiders down the plughole)
Keep in contact with old friends
(Enjoy a drink now and then)
Will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall)
Favours for favours
Fond but not in love
Charity standing orders
On Sundays ring road supermarket
(No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
Car wash
(Also on Sundays)
No longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish - at a better pace
Slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now self-employed
Concerned (but powerless)
An empowered and informed member of society
(Pragmatism not idealism)
Will not cry in public
Less chance of illness
Tires that grip in the wet
(Shot of baby strapped in back seat)
A good memory
Still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva
No longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick
That's driven into frozen winter shit
(The ability to laugh at weakness)
Calm
Fitter
Healthier and more productive
A pig in a cage on antibiotics
Quick, I'm going to patent "a method for letting open source developers breathe oxygen" in case SCO or Microsoft gets it first and decides to kill OSS.