...to spite their face. Most commercially successful records are first played by college stations. Also, many niche genres get their start on college radio! Those stations, mostly independent and with no commercial axe to grind benefit the record companies much more then I think they truly realize. To bite the hand that feeds you is pure stupidity! But then again when I see the arrogance of Hilary Rosen and her ilk I'm not surprised at all.
Satellite radio has endless possibilities. Already the customer base exists just in trucks and rentals to make it a success.
I look at it this way....
TV is available for free. A certain number of people have antennas and watch free TV.
Next there's broadcast basic cable which is cheap (around 10 bucks a month). For this you get perfect local TV and usually a community channel or two. A certain number of people get this.
Then there's basic cable, which has satellite channels in addition to over the air and costs 35 bucks or so. A certain number of people sign up for this (this is the most popular cable choice by the way).
Then there's basic satellite TV which has no local stations (usually), offset by more satellite networks for generally the same price as basic cable. Some people opt for this option.
Next there's Digital cable.
THEN there's 1001 pay TV options (HBO, TMC, Showtime, etc.).
Finally there's pay per view which offers even more choices.
Where am I going with all of this you ask?
Simple. The same business model that's been applied to TV can work just as well for radio.
XM and Sirus simply are trying it. It'll eventually wind up with just as many choices as one has for TV.
For example, though I'd not pay 5 bucks a month to hear an uncensored Howard Strern show, I'll bet that other people happily would.
Or some people would happily pay for a station programming music and news from their homeland.
Others might be willing to pay for a radio station that plays just heavy metal or beautiful music or classical. Get the picture? (pun intended)
That I'm going to have to pay Tivo a royalty for connecting my Win 2k MP3 server to my network?
Safter all, I have several "streaming media devices" attached to it....
Hmmmm...I wonder if the patent office has even heard or used --- what do they call it? Prior art?
Frigging morons!
Basically, he's right about everything he said. I'm not all that happy that he's correct, but I can't take that away from him.
Generally, innovators don't win...they just provide fodder (read: ideas) for the copycats to do it better/faster/cheaper.
Also, his examples were right on point...especially the one about Novell.
Frankly, the same lessons could/should be learned by Linux.....a GUI (that's easy for the masses to use) is absolutely ESSENTIAL for Linux to be anything other then a niche OS!
The govt. will do whatever they want. Period.
Laws and Constitution/Bill of rights be damned!
In the past few years (and yes, Clinton is guilty of starting this) the govt. has become less for the people and more against the people. This 'them vs us' attitude of elected officials towards the very people who voted them into office is troubling. In the past few months I've faxed both my senators and congressman in Washington and told them that their recent votes do not represent my view, the view of one who voted for them and whose interests they're supposed to represent. One of the three sent me
a boilerplate response, the other two...nothing.
These people are more concerned with feathering their own nests then any of us.
It's going to take a major shift in voters' attitudes to change this and it's not likely based on the fact that the majority of voters simply don't vote any more. The ones who do vote usually stumble into the booth and vote for the incumbent. In other words:
We have found the enemy and it is us!
I wonder what the price of a Federal Judge is now.
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It must be pretty cheap...after all, they seem to be a herd of morons!
This sh*t is going on right now. Do you really think that the FBI, CIA and NSA play by the book?
If you do, then you probably still believe in the tooth fairy!
I look at it this way...The stuff we're reading about now is what they've been forced to
admit they do. I know for a fact that they do things that would positively curl your spine.
An acquaintance of mine works for NSA and he claims that it's almost a prerequisite of the job to be sadistic.
Finally, all these new laws have simply allowed them to push the envelope even more....
It's illegal to propogate a virus unless you're the FBI?? Hmmmmm...
Question...don't these clowns exist to ENFORCE the laws as opposed to breaking them?
Aren't they charged with investigating and prosecuting crimes as opposed to instigating them?? If you ask me, the FBI is smelling more and more like the KGB every day.....
The irony isn't lost on me....that Russia is becoming more free while at the same time the USA is looking more and more like a police state.
All this to do about homeland security is a bunch of crap! The way I see it, the terrorism was done by no more then 100 - 500 or so people in total.
Is it right for our govt. to then take away the rights of 250 million people? Remember there's over three billion people in the world. 500 people represents.000000017 of this total.
This whole thing is a scheme for the federal government to exercise control over the people..and the Constitution and Bill of Rights be damned!
Why wasn't this so obvious before? Daddy Bush is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Look at the appointments G.W. has made..every one one of his daddy's cronies from Cheney on down!
Not a single one of them under 60 either...doesn't this seem strange for a 'young' president?
Add to this the fact that Daddy Bush used to head the CIA, and the administration's terrorist policy becomes crystal clear. It's DADDY BUSH'S policy we're seeing here.
The big obscenity here isn't September 11th. It's our own government USING September 11th to take away our liberties! These law enforcement republican zealots are using the worst thing to ever happen to the United States to further erode the freedoms that we hold dear. They wave the flag, and Congress says "yup yup yup" and passes things that they've been rejecting for years as major invasions of our privacy.
Want to know the really scary thing? Sen. Leahy of Vermont is now speaking up on how: "all our liberies have been taken away"... Uhm excuse me Senator but DIDN'T YOU VOTE FOR THIS BILL???
That's the scary part...these clowns (obviously) vote for things they have no clue about...then they say: "oops" once they realize that their constituents are pissed at them for doing so.
Maybe we need to make a new movie: "Mr. Moron goes to Washington"!
When I buy a CD I pay for 100% of the music.
When a record company deliberately puts errors on the CD so my player is in error concealment when I'm playing a pristine CD, they are robbing me of my $$ and MY MUSIC! Unlike error correction, error concealment TAKES AWAY DATA (read: MUSIC) THAT CAN NOT BE RECOVERED!!
Now, let's say that I get a scratch on my (formerly pristine) CD.
NOW there are NEW errors in addition to the ones PUT THERE by the record company. NOW my CD won't play at all...but a CD without THEIR (added) errors would.
Therefore, the math is this:
I pay 18 bucks for a CD and get about half of the data that's supposed to be on said CD. Also, I'm getting a CD that isn't nearly as tolerant of scratches as the older ones.
Also, I'm getting a CD whose songs I can't put on my Rio...or play at my computer..or on the DVD player in my living room...I can only play it on the stereo in the den...
Finally, I'm getting a CD that just might blow up the amp and/or speakers of said stereo in my den....
In other (simpler) words, I'm being RIPPED OFF!
And I credit Bob for making them feel comfortable with the computer. My son began playing with the computer at five thanks to Bob. He still occasionally asks if the Bob CD is still around.
The problem with most of us is that we see things through OUR eyes as opposed to seeing through the eyes of a child. Yes, Bob was rondly trashed in reviews....and all the reviewers were ADULTS!!
It shows how truly clueless so many of us can be...software designed for children being trashed by adults.
The program is Ad-Aware. It's a freeware program available at www.lavasoftusa.com
Ad aware looks for spyware on your computer and then allows you to (selectively) delete it. You'll be amazed how much can be there. The first time I ran it it found over 200 (!) files on my computer. Needless to say, the computer not only was a lot faster once I deleted all these trojans, but more stable as well.
Try it, you'll like it.
The one who owns the song's publishing rights owns the song. ASCAP, BMI and SESAC collect the performance royalties (primarly from Radio stations, TV stations, Broadway shows, circuses, etc. etc. and distributes them directly to the
rights holder (minus a processing fee of course). Obviously, the RIAA wants their 'cut' (not being happy with the just a cut of each record sold).
That the artists already have an orginization called The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Unlike that one, this 'new' one has partial RIAA control.
The final irony is that the BBC used a graphic for WorldClassRock.com, a web site that I set the streaming up for (15 different streams)and is now down to a single mono 20k stream (in other words is practically defunct).
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...to spite their face. Most commercially successful records are first played by college stations. Also, many niche genres get their start on college radio! Those stations, mostly independent and with no commercial axe to grind benefit the record companies much more then I think they truly realize. To bite the hand that feeds you is pure stupidity! But then again when I see the arrogance of Hilary Rosen and her ilk I'm not surprised at all.
I know for a fact that MSN doesn't and they're one of the biggest DSL ISP's.
Satellite radio has endless possibilities. Already the customer base exists just in trucks and rentals to make it a success. I look at it this way.... TV is available for free. A certain number of people have antennas and watch free TV. Next there's broadcast basic cable which is cheap (around 10 bucks a month). For this you get perfect local TV and usually a community channel or two. A certain number of people get this. Then there's basic cable, which has satellite channels in addition to over the air and costs 35 bucks or so. A certain number of people sign up for this (this is the most popular cable choice by the way). Then there's basic satellite TV which has no local stations (usually), offset by more satellite networks for generally the same price as basic cable. Some people opt for this option. Next there's Digital cable. THEN there's 1001 pay TV options (HBO, TMC, Showtime, etc.). Finally there's pay per view which offers even more choices. Where am I going with all of this you ask? Simple. The same business model that's been applied to TV can work just as well for radio. XM and Sirus simply are trying it. It'll eventually wind up with just as many choices as one has for TV. For example, though I'd not pay 5 bucks a month to hear an uncensored Howard Strern show, I'll bet that other people happily would. Or some people would happily pay for a station programming music and news from their homeland. Others might be willing to pay for a radio station that plays just heavy metal or beautiful music or classical. Get the picture? (pun intended)
That I'm going to have to pay Tivo a royalty for connecting my Win 2k MP3 server to my network? Safter all, I have several "streaming media devices" attached to it.... Hmmmm...I wonder if the patent office has even heard or used --- what do they call it? Prior art? Frigging morons!
Seems to me that they already have this kind of power!
Basically, he's right about everything he said. I'm not all that happy that he's correct, but I can't take that away from him.
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Generally, innovators don't win...they just provide fodder (read: ideas) for the copycats to do it better/faster/cheaper.
Also, his examples were right on point...especially the one about Novell.
Frankly, the same lessons could/should be learned by Linux.....a GUI (that's easy for the masses to use) is absolutely ESSENTIAL for Linux to be anything other then a niche OS!
Anyway...that's my
The govt. will do whatever they want. Period. Laws and Constitution/Bill of rights be damned! In the past few years (and yes, Clinton is guilty of starting this) the govt. has become less for the people and more against the people. This 'them vs us' attitude of elected officials towards the very people who voted them into office is troubling. In the past few months I've faxed both my senators and congressman in Washington and told them that their recent votes do not represent my view, the view of one who voted for them and whose interests they're supposed to represent. One of the three sent me a boilerplate response, the other two...nothing. These people are more concerned with feathering their own nests then any of us. It's going to take a major shift in voters' attitudes to change this and it's not likely based on the fact that the majority of voters simply don't vote any more. The ones who do vote usually stumble into the booth and vote for the incumbent. In other words: We have found the enemy and it is us!
It must be pretty cheap...after all, they seem to be a herd of morons!
This sh*t is going on right now. Do you really think that the FBI, CIA and NSA play by the book?
If you do, then you probably still believe in the tooth fairy!
I look at it this way...The stuff we're reading about now is what they've been forced to
admit they do. I know for a fact that they do things that would positively curl your spine.
An acquaintance of mine works for NSA and he claims that it's almost a prerequisite of the job to be sadistic.
Finally, all these new laws have simply allowed them to push the envelope even more....
It locks up every time! I'm uninstalling and going back to .95......
It's illegal to propogate a virus unless you're the FBI?? Hmmmmm...
.000000017 of this total.
Question...don't these clowns exist to ENFORCE the laws as opposed to breaking them?
Aren't they charged with investigating and prosecuting crimes as opposed to instigating them?? If you ask me, the FBI is smelling more and more like the KGB every day.....
The irony isn't lost on me....that Russia is becoming more free while at the same time the USA is looking more and more like a police state.
All this to do about homeland security is a bunch of crap! The way I see it, the terrorism was done by no more then 100 - 500 or so people in total.
Is it right for our govt. to then take away the rights of 250 million people? Remember there's over three billion people in the world. 500 people represents
This whole thing is a scheme for the federal government to exercise control over the people..and the Constitution and Bill of Rights be damned!
Just do a search on google for 'proxy server'. I use one all the time mainly because it speeds my web browsing up. Being anonymous is a side benefit.
Why wasn't this so obvious before? Daddy Bush is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Look at the appointments G.W. has made..every one one of his daddy's cronies from Cheney on down! Not a single one of them under 60 either...doesn't this seem strange for a 'young' president? Add to this the fact that Daddy Bush used to head the CIA, and the administration's terrorist policy becomes crystal clear. It's DADDY BUSH'S policy we're seeing here.
The big obscenity here isn't September 11th. It's our own government USING September 11th to take away our liberties! These law enforcement republican zealots are using the worst thing to ever happen to the United States to further erode the freedoms that we hold dear. They wave the flag, and Congress says "yup yup yup" and passes things that they've been rejecting for years as major invasions of our privacy. Want to know the really scary thing? Sen. Leahy of Vermont is now speaking up on how: "all our liberies have been taken away"... Uhm excuse me Senator but DIDN'T YOU VOTE FOR THIS BILL??? That's the scary part...these clowns (obviously) vote for things they have no clue about...then they say: "oops" once they realize that their constituents are pissed at them for doing so. Maybe we need to make a new movie: "Mr. Moron goes to Washington"!
When I buy a CD I pay for 100% of the music. When a record company deliberately puts errors on the CD so my player is in error concealment when I'm playing a pristine CD, they are robbing me of my $$ and MY MUSIC! Unlike error correction, error concealment TAKES AWAY DATA (read: MUSIC) THAT CAN NOT BE RECOVERED!! Now, let's say that I get a scratch on my (formerly pristine) CD. NOW there are NEW errors in addition to the ones PUT THERE by the record company. NOW my CD won't play at all...but a CD without THEIR (added) errors would. Therefore, the math is this: I pay 18 bucks for a CD and get about half of the data that's supposed to be on said CD. Also, I'm getting a CD that isn't nearly as tolerant of scratches as the older ones. Also, I'm getting a CD whose songs I can't put on my Rio...or play at my computer..or on the DVD player in my living room...I can only play it on the stereo in the den... Finally, I'm getting a CD that just might blow up the amp and/or speakers of said stereo in my den.... In other (simpler) words, I'm being RIPPED OFF!
And I credit Bob for making them feel comfortable with the computer. My son began playing with the computer at five thanks to Bob. He still occasionally asks if the Bob CD is still around. The problem with most of us is that we see things through OUR eyes as opposed to seeing through the eyes of a child. Yes, Bob was rondly trashed in reviews....and all the reviewers were ADULTS!! It shows how truly clueless so many of us can be...software designed for children being trashed by adults.
Theguy from the SF Chronicle is totally clueless!
He obviously has no clue whatsoever about Iron Chef.
Chill guy! Take a few bong hits and mellow out! Jeez.....
It works just like Kazaa and on the Kazaa network, but does not hasve spyware.
Believe me, I know the difference between a spyware file and a cookie! I MEANT 200 spyware trojans!! Believe me, no one was more surprised then I!
Morpheus (which is the same thing) is not.
The program is Ad-Aware. It's a freeware program available at www.lavasoftusa.com Ad aware looks for spyware on your computer and then allows you to (selectively) delete it. You'll be amazed how much can be there. The first time I ran it it found over 200 (!) files on my computer. Needless to say, the computer not only was a lot faster once I deleted all these trojans, but more stable as well. Try it, you'll like it.
The one who owns the song's publishing rights owns the song. ASCAP, BMI and SESAC collect the performance royalties (primarly from Radio stations, TV stations, Broadway shows, circuses, etc. etc. and distributes them directly to the rights holder (minus a processing fee of course). Obviously, the RIAA wants their 'cut' (not being happy with the just a cut of each record sold).
That the artists already have an orginization called The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Unlike that one, this 'new' one has partial RIAA control. The final irony is that the BBC used a graphic for WorldClassRock.com, a web site that I set the streaming up for (15 different streams)and is now down to a single mono 20k stream (in other words is practically defunct).
Because ASCAP, BMI and SESAC already handle payments for analog performances. Why they needed a 'new' orginization for digital frankly eludes me.
Because as all know MICROSOFT is perfect...and being perfect then it's products have no flaws! Only (undocumented) features!