I was thinking along similar lines except simply closing a circuit. Placing a switch on the end of something similar to a thimbul(sp). Perhaps using an archers glove that only covers two fingers. You could then run the wires for the switch up the back of the glove to secure it. This assumes she can curl one finger and press down... I leave the curcuit itself to the EE majors. There are several good ideas for making noise and setting delay before activation.
Now to get around the stupid slashcode I'll blather on about nothing for a few lines. How about we couple this to the tracking tech that was on/. a while back. That might have been HP, with the smart card/radio(?) badges you wore around the office...
Sure your boss will tell you it's all for efficiency. It'll be quieter in the office, no more broadcast pages, everyone will have their electronic dog collar on. "You have a call on line 4". At least until managment turns the real efficiency program on.
Joe Worker hanging out at the water cooler talking to Peggy Receptionist for a couple of minutes. At 2 minutes one second: "Your yearly review is in 23 days Joe Worker, your truency with Miss Receptionist has been noted in your HR file. This is your 3 notice this week Mr. Worker" This in your bosses voice.
The day I get blasted with an ad for Coke beamed directly into my head while walking down the street is the day that the guy running the beam gets his machine blasted somewhere that it won't fit very well.
Probably not if it's equipped with the 170db "self-defense" mode you won't.
Instead, the 19-member board of directors will be drawn from representatives of technical, business, government and non-profit organizations.
Does anyone know how these reps. are to be drawn? Since member voting appears to have been repealed. Cough, corporate bullshit detector, cough cough... Drawn, sounds like a lottery. I'm guessing chance has nothing to do with who sits on the board.
Look at MP3Car.com which has the details you need. Check out the forums.
Currently the Epia MB with a laptop HD via a 2.5 to 3.5 HD converter a slimline DVD/CD-R. You can use the S video or composite for a mobile LCD or serial based character LCD or go all the way and run VGA or SVGA LCD. Schematics on building the Sproggy DC to DC PSU or buy an ATXDC to DC power supply which is probably the hardest component to find.
On mp3car.com's forums you can find schematics for Delayed relays, noise suppression, why NOT to use an inverter, etc. For pics: mp3 webring list or searchmp3cars list. Look at Mini-itx which has the spacecase that was discussed here on/. So much for your afternoon.
Web page designers and web programmers would likely be two groups that could use access to older browsers for compatibility reasons. Someone already mentioned.edu's as a likely candidate for a mirror. Consider contacting their media labs in addition to the CS departments. Look for schools that offer courses in webpage design in their College of Arts.
supernews. Basic Monthly is 6 gigs @ 13.95 upto 36 gigs a month at $59.95. I've never maxed out that 6 gigs, but I'm also not snarfing down passive amounts of porn. Cough cough.
You left out the compass and atlas. Never take a lengthy road trip without a current atlas. I've not followed my own advice and regreted it almost every time. And pain relief, Aspirin, you may think your cars seat is comfortable, after day three or four you'll pray for a spinal block.
Go live on the equator for a few years. Hope you have lots of meletonin in your skin. Oh wait, they tell the native peoples of Central America not to go outside during the summer. I'd have to side with those who say better safe then sorry. The alternative being teaching our great grandchildren how to sail from the tops of mountains.
"Sales have been hurt largely by a surge in piracy, which the National Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimates has cost the music business $4.2 billion in lost revenue last year."
Of course we should obviously trust a number given out by the "National Federation of the Phonographic Industry". Not!
At US $18.00 a pop I'm going to look to used. That's simply too much cash for the value. If new CD's cost $7.00, about what I'm paying for used, then yes I'll start buying new. But only if I can rip them onto my computer. Actually give me Mini-CD's with just the music in 192/44. With an MP3 player in my car, my book bag, on my computer, traditional CD's are a bulky antiquated burden I'm forced to rip to a usable format. I can't really hear the difference between a ripped mp3 at 192Kb and a redbook CD anyway.
Better though, every member of RIAA should join in a unified website and allow downloads at say $40.00 a month, maybe cap at 2 -3gigs a month. Fools, your making little money from the technically savvy sector now vs turning that same segment into rabid users of your services. Try capitulating, throw in the towel and hire some devs to build-out your next gold mine. bah. They don't want to listen.
These are probably the same people who try and look around corners in FPS's by moving their heads. I used to get sick playing flight sims, the rolls would screw with my inner ear. I'd find myself rotating my head with the roll, flipping back and forth in my chair like I was having a seizure. The answer for me was to quit playing flight sims. shrug, maybe this will work for you too.
As a local example; If FCC deregulates DSL services I would be forced to give up my local ISP and use Qwest the ILAC. Not good. I run my own server from a second IP via my local ISP. Quest would shut me off from running my own server immediately, raise my ISP rate and I believe they are blocking common ports such as 80 for listening services. So much for the home based web server.
I'd be forced to co-host or use a virtual domain giving me limited physical access to my server, or making certain custom configurations difficult or completely unavailable if I go with the hosting solution. As DSL is an unregulated service here in Oregon I can't even cry to PUC. No solution would then exist for a private individual to run a small server from home in my area without incurring an unnecessary debt.
I believe Qwest also has a download limit, something like 2 or 3 gigs a month after which you start paying something per MB depending on your service plan. My current ISP does not. Unlimited bandwidth. While I'm a fairly heavy user my total download since 5/02 appears to be around 10GB, while upload is at less then 200MB. Not that high but higher then what Qwest would allow without incurring further monthly overrun costs. I can see no financial reason for Qwest to uncap their download limit unless it was forced on them, which would be rather contrary to deregulation. Local cable? hah, AT&T's Orwellian user policy, upload bandwidth is terrible, no local servers, etc. I've been informed that they scan common service ports and will terminate service for violations. In parts of the area I'm located in service is simply terrible while others get good service. Crap shoot and your forced into a year long contract.
To sum up. Deregulation of DSL IS going to suck if it happens. Another step back for broadband as there are no worthy alternatives. That second unregulated IP I discussed was and is my linux and networking education. I've run several flavors of GNU/Linux, configured firewalls, IDS, PHP, Apache, and on and on. Because it was an option. I'd like others to have that option in the future. My local school districts are pushing linux onto desktops which probably means a whole hoard of kids are going to be enlightened to a network OS, they should have the same opportunity I did to try this networking thing, maybe find some value in using the net for something other then passive browsing and IM.
The article mentions that there are was no public forum for debate over cables deregulation. Will there be for DSL? I'd be interested to know what the small ISP's providing DSL service have to say about this. Is a local ISP such as dsl-only going to survive? Just look at the name! Not a chance. More money going out of the local economy and into the hands of a corporation I hate and dispise for repeatedly giving me sloppy customer service and terrible technical support. And think, I'm just one example... sigh.
Glad this spirred some responses. Yes, growing non embrionic stem cells seems to mitigate most peoples moral objections.
Another poster mentioned that developed countries will be the only ones with access to this form of technology. And that they have negative population growth. Too bad perhaps, as it is the poorest countries that need to slow their birth rates the most. The imperative to have children because of high infant and child mortality could to some extent be mitigated in the same fashion as in the first world. Fewer deaths, fewer reasons to have 10 kids. Yes? No? Perhaps these fewer children could receive better food, medical attention, education. It's the last one, education, that seems key. Everything else comes with education.
It's the macro issue of preserving indefinitely or even extending the life spans of 6 some odd billion human beings and their progeny that concerns me. Don't get me wrong, I'd take a new liver in a few years, looks like good work. Another baby step towards immortality? Shrug. Maybe. Since the possibility exists we need to consider the implications.
Can anyone quote what Chris Rock said about eating pigs? No refrigeration 2000 years ago... He may have been talking about the jews, but whatever, applicable here. You eat bad pork, it kills you, end of story. Reason enough to put strictures against it's consumption. Yes pigs will wallow in shit, certainly if it's hot, it's mud to them, they can cool off in it. If I had a lifeform that could consume feces and process it into something humans could eat I'd try and bring it to market. Oh wait, fast food already did that with worms and "other protein sources", or maybe that's just another superstition, an urban myth if you will. maybe. It is why some people won't eat fast food. They think they are indirectly eating feces. Same kind of thing. Perhaps many superstitions have a valid basis in reality? Perhaps. In this crowd I'd guess some people are thinking of Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and the part about enki and the memes. Boil'em the milk'em for pasturization. Simple but powerful, not much gets lost in translation. Your "superstition" might even last for a few thousand years.
Pigs are filthy! THEY WALLOW IN SHIT! Good enough to keep people from eating them.
Of stem cell research begs another question. Where is everyone going to live? Sure we are presently using a miniscule percent of the total land mass on the planet, give it a few generations. If I'm going to live a thousand years I'd like some elbow room to do it in. Probably more then I'm using now. After something less then half a century I'm already looking to get away from the other humans. Population controls, better start thinking hard about population controls now.
Bought a refurbished Handspring Visor deluxe a few months ago from Fry's. Paid $89.00US. Installed X-Master (Free Hackmaster replacement) and Greenlighthack to reverse the backlight. Synchs up with Outlook on the Windows machine perfectly. For what I needed, a note, list, text reader it works perfectly. I'm not interested in watching videos or playing Doom in color on my PDA so the 160X160 grayscale is fine. Best perhaps is stuffing 3M's small yellow post-it notes into the expansion slot for the beam impaired to take phone numbers and such.
Id rather pay $10-15 US a month for a service that would allow me to download say 2 to 3 gigs a month to say 10gigs at $40. But it would of necessity have to be all the major labels. No DMR, no bloated 320kbps/44kmz forced on us, no commercials at the end of tracks. Perhaps make it user configurable on the bitrate.
Get an intro offer going with a WD or IBM; "Buy an 120gig HD and get the first month of service free." That's an agreement with the HD manufacturer to drop a CD into their box with your "client software" along with the HD and a sticker on the outside with the offer. OEM's could preinstall the "client software" and get a kick back from the label consortium. It would be just another check box on Dells customize page. "Would you like a free month of 'MP3 FOOBAR'"? Again, the first month is free. Shit it would work just like crack. After a single month of downloading exactly the music we wanted, whatever we wanted, with the track names consistent:) at a bitrate we want? Yeah many gnutella users would continue stealing, er downloading that way, but the labels would start making money off this thing called progress, you know, the internet, you would in effect be relevant again. Tracking who gets payed on the labels side would be easy; total downloads per label as a percentage of the total from the service. Defray some of the overhead costs with advertising, those cookies gotta be good for something, and I'd rather see adds for the kind of music I enjoy.
Some kind of Napster, CDNow, MP3.com homogenization. Wrap that all into one clean, fast interface and you would have MP3 crack for sure. give it to us, you'll make a mint guys. Or rather another mint. Because if you don't people will just get out their felt tip pens and say "fuck the RIAA" and negate your copy protection. Further, if you don't do something, your honeypot gnutella servers will continue showing your latest releases being served up in about 3000 places, days before official release. Sorry but that's just the way it's worked out. If not Napster, gnutella, then something else will come along and break your balls, because these people your pissed at for thieving your music are smart, they are not going to get stupider, shit they haven't really started to get crafty yet. Don't wanna play ball? wait until someone like China decides they want to setup their own "service". Think those guys are gonna pay royalties to the RIAA? forget it.
There would still be a place for record stores. just like some people still want vinyl for the fidelity, others are not going to want to deal with the download, cd burn time. They'll go buy your albums just for the jewel box and jacket, but probably after they used up a few megs downloading it on this, "hypothetical subscription service" I'm talking about. win win for you.
And no, I'm not talking to the Slashdot crowd here am I? I'm talking directly to the information miners at the big record and movie labels, the RIAA and MPAA who we know are reading this stuff by way of the search engines looking either for the name of their label or band and musicians names being swapped on websites. Thus the title of my post. (go web spiders, go) So lets just drop a few names: BMG, Sony, Atlantic, Elektra, MCA, Philips, RCA, RIAA, MPAA. Think about it guys, one distribution channel, some fiber, a few routers, a huge data center full of servers. Don't worry, the geeks know how to implement this thing, it's bread and butter to us. Hell, I'd take a cut in $$ to go work on a thing like this.
Try starting with a test, say an oldies site. All those retired people living in the sun belt looking for out of print vinyl have the cash and are not really known for thieving MP3's off the internet correct? hmmmm? I know you people already thought of at least some of this. Just one more bit in the bucket to say yes, we, or at least I, and most people I talk to would pay for such a service. Do this consortium as a not for profit and put CEO/CFO's from the biggies on the board perhaps. And let the little guys in too. You'll find out who really is popular, buy them up and make room for more small labels to play.
Good luck Vivendi I hope this works out well for you.
My favorite part is Savenow which you agree to install along with the beta of Morpheus.
Windows started locking up. I'm kinda suprised it's been running fine. After I install morpheus beta, machine locks up, morpheus beta is not running, machine locks up. hmmm. check the run line in the registry, yes morpheus dropped more free "stuff" with the install. again.
Under windows 2000 it's:
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\curr entversion\run\savenow.exe and default install to:
c:\program files\savenow\
It's also in add/remove if you like doing things the easy way. I probably would have noticed sooner but the proxy is running a popup closer. The one good part in this is the savenow.db file. A great starting point for aspiring perl artist. mmm, A nicely comma delineated txt file, how tasty, and it's chock full of domain names I find less then appealing.
Begin Rant: Savenow.exe, good job Music City. Way to add value to your eventual selloff people. Which one were you marketing to? BMG? Sony? What? Were you guys thinking you could throttle the P2P golden goose for just one fucking P2P golden egg? Even a little one? Make yours off the freeloading, err free trading networks before legislation folded the whole sorry tale down the flusher? Too bad. Your not alone however, Napster couldn't pull it off either. Good luck extending gnutella. End Rant.
savenow.exe is scary, a legal, I assume, trojan horse, riding in on the back of some other app. If it's like the last time it won't uninstall when you uninstall morpheus. Can't verify as I've already uninstalled savenow manually, and no, I'm not reinstalling for testing purposes! engage karma flush... now.
Felix Engine, gimme the felix engine anyday. Hydrogen fuel cells to power these puppies. Sneezing might be a problem however. aaahchoooe, does forward 720...
Bought one. Works great for browsing, running Morpheus. Didn't read Tom's article. Did he mention you can have 3 ATA100 devices? Use the floppy slot for another disk. Yes you can use standard cables, yes the power supply has enough watts to do this. Sound is good for MP3 quality, graphics suck, go buy a PCI card and use that one slot, such as a 64 meg MX400 which does the trick for me as it has the TV out. Don't ask it to copy 10 gigs while your watching a DVD and you'll do fine. Add a 300 watt inverter, wireless keyboard, touch pad and small lcd and throw the whole thing in the car. Add GPS, cell phone to match your needs. Now go buy one. I want more cases like this. The cappacino PC almost made my list but lacks that important ingredient, versitility, which this has.
Slashdot Mirror
I was thinking along similar lines except simply closing a circuit. Placing a switch on the end of something similar to a thimbul(sp). Perhaps using an archers glove that only covers two fingers. You could then run the wires for the switch up the back of the glove to secure it. This assumes she can curl one finger and press down ... I leave the curcuit itself to the EE majors. There are several good ideas for making noise and setting delay before activation.
headphones.
/. a while back. That might have been HP, with the smart card/radio(?) badges you wore around the office...
Now to get around the stupid slashcode I'll blather on about nothing for a few lines. How about we couple this to the tracking tech that was on
Sure your boss will tell you it's all for efficiency. It'll be quieter in the office, no more broadcast pages, everyone will have their electronic dog collar on. "You have a call on line 4". At least until managment turns the real efficiency program on.
Joe Worker hanging out at the water cooler talking to Peggy Receptionist for a couple of minutes. At 2 minutes one second: "Your yearly review is in 23 days Joe Worker, your truency with Miss Receptionist has been noted in your HR file. This is your 3 notice this week Mr. Worker" This in your bosses voice.
Live the fantasy.
Drawn, sounds like a lottery. I'm guessing chance has nothing to do with who sits on the board.
... and roll your own.
/.
/. needs a DIY section for hardware hackers.
Look at MP3Car.com which has the details you need. Check out the forums.
Currently the Epia MB with a laptop HD via a 2.5 to 3.5 HD converter a slimline DVD/CD-R. You can use the S video or composite for a mobile LCD or serial based character LCD or go all the way and run VGA or SVGA LCD. Schematics on building the Sproggy DC to DC PSU or buy an ATX DC to DC power supply which is probably the hardest component to find.
On mp3car.com's forums you can find schematics for Delayed relays, noise suppression, why NOT to use an inverter, etc. For pics: mp3 webring list or searchmp3cars list.
Look at Mini-itx which has the spacecase that was discussed here on
So much for your afternoon.
Yes,
Web page designers and web programmers would likely be two groups that could use access to older browsers for compatibility reasons. Someone already mentioned .edu's as a likely candidate for a mirror. Consider contacting their media labs in addition to the CS departments. Look for schools that offer courses in webpage design in their College of Arts.
supernews. Basic Monthly is 6 gigs @ 13.95 upto 36 gigs a month at $59.95. I've never maxed out that 6 gigs, but I'm also not snarfing down passive amounts of porn. Cough cough.
You left out the compass and atlas. Never take a lengthy road trip without a current atlas. I've not followed my own advice and regreted it almost every time. And pain relief, Aspirin, you may think your cars seat is comfortable, after day three or four you'll pray for a spinal block.
Not an app. but you might try:
Programming Perl
O'reilly
ISBN 1-56592-149-6
Go live on the equator for a few years. Hope you have lots of meletonin in your skin. Oh wait, they tell the native peoples of Central America not to go outside during the summer. I'd have to side with those who say better safe then sorry. The alternative being teaching our great grandchildren how to sail from the tops of mountains.
Oh I like this part:
"Sales have been hurt largely by a surge in piracy, which the National Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimates has cost the music business $4.2 billion in lost revenue last year."
Of course we should obviously trust a number given out by the "National Federation of the Phonographic Industry". Not!
At US $18.00 a pop I'm going to look to used. That's simply too much cash for the value. If new CD's cost $7.00, about what I'm paying for used, then yes I'll start buying new. But only if I can rip them onto my computer. Actually give me Mini-CD's with just the music in 192/44. With an MP3 player in my car, my book bag, on my computer, traditional CD's are a bulky antiquated burden I'm forced to rip to a usable format. I can't really hear the difference between a ripped mp3 at 192Kb and a redbook CD anyway.
Better though, every member of RIAA should join in a unified website and allow downloads at say $40.00 a month, maybe cap at 2 -3gigs a month. Fools, your making little money from the technically savvy sector now vs turning that same segment into rabid users of your services. Try capitulating, throw in the towel and hire some devs to build-out your next gold mine. bah. They don't want to listen.
These are probably the same people who try and look around corners in FPS's by moving their heads. I used to get sick playing flight sims, the rolls would screw with my inner ear. I'd find myself rotating my head with the roll, flipping back and forth in my chair like I was having a seizure. The answer for me was to quit playing flight sims. shrug, maybe this will work for you too.
As a local example; If FCC deregulates DSL services I would be forced to give up my local ISP and use Qwest the ILAC. Not good. I run my own server from a second IP via my local ISP. Quest would shut me off from running my own server immediately, raise my ISP rate and I believe they are blocking common ports such as 80 for listening services. So much for the home based web server.
I'd be forced to co-host or use a virtual domain giving me limited physical access to my server, or making certain custom configurations difficult or completely unavailable if I go with the hosting solution. As DSL is an unregulated service here in Oregon I can't even cry to PUC. No solution would then exist for a private individual to run a small server from home in my area without incurring an unnecessary debt.
I believe Qwest also has a download limit, something like 2 or 3 gigs a month after which you start paying something per MB depending on your service plan. My current ISP does not. Unlimited bandwidth. While I'm a fairly heavy user my total download since 5/02 appears to be around 10GB, while upload is at less then 200MB. Not that high but higher then what Qwest would allow without incurring further monthly overrun costs. I can see no financial reason for Qwest to uncap their download limit unless it was forced on them, which would be rather contrary to deregulation. Local cable? hah, AT&T's Orwellian user policy, upload bandwidth is terrible, no local servers, etc. I've been informed that they scan common service ports and will terminate service for violations. In parts of the area I'm located in service is simply terrible while others get good service. Crap shoot and your forced into a year long contract.
To sum up. Deregulation of DSL IS going to suck if it happens. Another step back for broadband as there are no worthy alternatives. That second unregulated IP I discussed was and is my linux and networking education. I've run several flavors of GNU/Linux, configured firewalls, IDS, PHP, Apache, and on and on. Because it was an option. I'd like others to have that option in the future. My local school districts are pushing linux onto desktops which probably means a whole hoard of kids are going to be enlightened to a network OS, they should have the same opportunity I did to try this networking thing, maybe find some value in using the net for something other then passive browsing and IM.
The article mentions that there are was no public forum for debate over cables deregulation. Will there be for DSL? I'd be interested to know what the small ISP's providing DSL service have to say about this. Is a local ISP such as dsl-only going to survive? Just look at the name! Not a chance. More money going out of the local economy and into the hands of a corporation I hate and dispise for repeatedly giving me sloppy customer service and terrible technical support. And think, I'm just one example... sigh.
Glad this spirred some responses. Yes, growing non embrionic stem cells seems to mitigate most peoples moral objections.
Another poster mentioned that developed countries will be the only ones with access to this form of technology. And that they have negative population growth. Too bad perhaps, as it is the poorest countries that need to slow their birth rates the most. The imperative to have children because of high infant and child mortality could to some extent be mitigated in the same fashion as in the first world. Fewer deaths, fewer reasons to have 10 kids. Yes? No? Perhaps these fewer children could receive better food, medical attention, education. It's the last one, education, that seems key. Everything else comes with education.
It's the macro issue of preserving indefinitely or even extending the life spans of 6 some odd billion human beings and their progeny that concerns me. Don't get me wrong, I'd take a new liver in a few years, looks like good work. Another baby step towards immortality? Shrug. Maybe. Since the possibility exists we need to consider the implications.
Can anyone quote what Chris Rock said about eating pigs? No refrigeration 2000 years ago... He may have been talking about the jews, but whatever, applicable here. You eat bad pork, it kills you, end of story. Reason enough to put strictures against it's consumption. Yes pigs will wallow in shit, certainly if it's hot, it's mud to them, they can cool off in it. If I had a lifeform that could consume feces and process it into something humans could eat I'd try and bring it to market. Oh wait, fast food already did that with worms and "other protein sources", or maybe that's just another superstition, an urban myth if you will. maybe. It is why some people won't eat fast food. They think they are indirectly eating feces. Same kind of thing. Perhaps many superstitions have a valid basis in reality? Perhaps. In this crowd I'd guess some people are thinking of Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and the part about enki and the memes. Boil'em the milk'em for pasturization. Simple but powerful, not much gets lost in translation. Your "superstition" might even last for a few thousand years.
Pigs are filthy! THEY WALLOW IN SHIT! Good enough to keep people from eating them.
Of stem cell research begs another question. Where is everyone going to live? Sure we are presently using a miniscule percent of the total land mass on the planet, give it a few generations. If I'm going to live a thousand years I'd like some elbow room to do it in. Probably more then I'm using now. After something less then half a century I'm already looking to get away from the other humans. Population controls, better start thinking hard about population controls now.
Bought a refurbished Handspring Visor deluxe a few months ago from Fry's. Paid $89.00US. Installed X-Master (Free Hackmaster replacement) and Greenlighthack to reverse the backlight. Synchs up with Outlook on the Windows machine perfectly. For what I needed, a note, list, text reader it works perfectly. I'm not interested in watching videos or playing Doom in color on my PDA so the 160X160 grayscale is fine. Best perhaps is stuffing 3M's small yellow post-it notes into the expansion slot for the beam impaired to take phone numbers and such.
Id rather pay $10-15 US a month for a service that would allow me to download say 2 to 3 gigs a month to say 10gigs at $40. But it would of necessity have to be all the major labels. No DMR, no bloated 320kbps/44kmz forced on us, no commercials at the end of tracks. Perhaps make it user configurable on the bitrate.
:) at a bitrate we want? Yeah many gnutella users would continue stealing, er downloading that way, but the labels would start making money off this thing called progress, you know, the internet, you would in effect be relevant again. Tracking who gets payed on the labels side would be easy; total downloads per label as a percentage of the total from the service. Defray some of the overhead costs with advertising, those cookies gotta be good for something, and I'd rather see adds for the kind of music I enjoy.
Get an intro offer going with a WD or IBM; "Buy an 120gig HD and get the first month of service free." That's an agreement with the HD manufacturer to drop a CD into their box with your "client software" along with the HD and a sticker on the outside with the offer. OEM's could preinstall the "client software" and get a kick back from the label consortium. It would be just another check box on Dells customize page. "Would you like a free month of 'MP3 FOOBAR'"? Again, the first month is free. Shit it would work just like crack. After a single month of downloading exactly the music we wanted, whatever we wanted, with the track names consistent
Some kind of Napster, CDNow, MP3.com homogenization. Wrap that all into one clean, fast interface and you would have MP3 crack for sure. give it to us, you'll make a mint guys. Or rather another mint. Because if you don't people will just get out their felt tip pens and say "fuck the RIAA" and negate your copy protection. Further, if you don't do something, your honeypot gnutella servers will continue showing your latest releases being served up in about 3000 places, days before official release. Sorry but that's just the way it's worked out. If not Napster, gnutella, then something else will come along and break your balls, because these people your pissed at for thieving your music are smart, they are not going to get stupider, shit they haven't really started to get crafty yet. Don't wanna play ball? wait until someone like China decides they want to setup their own "service". Think those guys are gonna pay royalties to the RIAA? forget it.
There would still be a place for record stores. just like some people still want vinyl for the fidelity, others are not going to want to deal with the download, cd burn time. They'll go buy your albums just for the jewel box and jacket, but probably after they used up a few megs downloading it on this, "hypothetical subscription service" I'm talking about. win win for you.
And no, I'm not talking to the Slashdot crowd here am I? I'm talking directly to the information miners at the big record and movie labels, the RIAA and MPAA who we know are reading this stuff by way of the search engines looking either for the name of their label or band and musicians names being swapped on websites. Thus the title of my post. (go web spiders, go) So lets just drop a few names: BMG, Sony, Atlantic, Elektra, MCA, Philips, RCA, RIAA, MPAA. Think about it guys, one distribution channel, some fiber, a few routers, a huge data center full of servers. Don't worry, the geeks know how to implement this thing, it's bread and butter to us. Hell, I'd take a cut in $$ to go work on a thing like this.
Try starting with a test, say an oldies site. All those retired people living in the sun belt looking for out of print vinyl have the cash and are not really known for thieving MP3's off the internet correct? hmmmm? I know you people already thought of at least some of this. Just one more bit in the bucket to say yes, we, or at least I, and most people I talk to would pay for such a service. Do this consortium as a not for profit and put CEO/CFO's from the biggies on the board perhaps. And let the little guys in too. You'll find out who really is popular, buy them up and make room for more small labels to play.
Good luck Vivendi I hope this works out well for you.
sauron23
Since I can't mod this up. I'll simply agree.
Uhhh... No. I didn't get it. Just installed it a couple of hours ago. No savenow. Anywhere. Period.
Somehow that almost makes it worst.
My favorite part is Savenow which you agree to install along with the beta of Morpheus.r entversion\run\savenow.exe
Windows started locking up. I'm kinda suprised it's been running fine. After I install morpheus beta, machine locks up, morpheus beta is not running, machine locks up. hmmm. check the run line in the registry, yes morpheus dropped more free "stuff" with the install. again.
Under windows 2000 it's:
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\cur
and default install to:
c:\program files\savenow\ It's also in add/remove if you like doing things the easy way. I probably would have noticed sooner but the proxy is running a popup closer. The one good part in this is the savenow.db file. A great starting point for aspiring perl artist. mmm, A nicely comma delineated txt file, how tasty, and it's chock full of domain names I find less then appealing.
Begin Rant: Savenow.exe, good job Music City. Way to add value to your eventual selloff people. Which one were you marketing to? BMG? Sony? What? Were you guys thinking you could throttle the P2P golden goose for just one fucking P2P golden egg? Even a little one? Make yours off the freeloading, err free trading networks before legislation folded the whole sorry tale down the flusher? Too bad. Your not alone however, Napster couldn't pull it off either. Good luck extending gnutella. End Rant.
savenow.exe is scary, a legal, I assume, trojan horse, riding in on the back of some other app. If it's like the last time it won't uninstall when you uninstall morpheus. Can't verify as I've already uninstalled savenow manually, and no, I'm not reinstalling for testing purposes! engage karma flush... now.
Felix Engine, gimme the felix engine anyday. Hydrogen fuel cells to power these puppies. Sneezing might be a problem however. aaahchoooe, does forward 720...
modify the information you submit slightly on every site. for instance:
site1.com
name: Foo Bar
address: 1 blah st. NE
site2.com
name: F00 bar
address: 1 Blah Street NorthEast
record it all Exactly as you submit it. Watch your mail. I've caught dozens of sites this way.
DB hacking for patient...
Bought one. Works great for browsing, running Morpheus. Didn't read Tom's article. Did he mention you can have 3 ATA100 devices? Use the floppy slot for another disk. Yes you can use standard cables, yes the power supply has enough watts to do this. Sound is good for MP3 quality, graphics suck, go buy a PCI card and use that one slot, such as a 64 meg MX400 which does the trick for me as it has the TV out. Don't ask it to copy 10 gigs while your watching a DVD and you'll do fine. Add a 300 watt inverter, wireless keyboard, touch pad and small lcd and throw the whole thing in the car. Add GPS, cell phone to match your needs. Now go buy one. I want more cases like this. The cappacino PC almost made my list but lacks that important ingredient, versitility, which this has.