the original mp3.com, it was way ahead of its time.
rewind to a decade ago, before RIAA had everyone running scared, filesharing was evolving as a social network, like facebook or myspace, but primarily centered around musical tastes (not enough bandwidth for movies & tv yet). The lawsuits from the big record companies killed the 'sharing' and turned it into anonymous 'pirating'.
While RIAA's lawsuits haven't protected their music from being stolen, they have helped protect it from drowning amongst the indie's.
When music was first (largely) being distributed via offerings like mp3.com and Napster, there was the ability to browse by genre and mine down to find various other bands you might like. There was lots of indie bands making their way to the surface, similar to Apples "genius" feature in itunes.
p2p is only a file sharing protocol, you still need to know what you're looking for before you can download anything, thus people are only going to download stuff they already know about.
If you want to unearth cool indie bands, you'll need a more traditional site with intuitive groupings to showcase them.
non-stop @ our call center.. "ya, you have the blaster virus -mute- fsck doesn't anyone use windows update -unmute- norton.com, we don't support virus removal -mute- have fun downloading the patch in under 60 seconds retard -unmute- thanks for calling..."
..the pot industry, make it stronger. you don't seen any thc-light genetic strains winning awards do you ? that's like nicotine free cigarettes, where are the sales for that ? have you ever bought alcohol free beer from the super market ?
muhahaha.. wait, who slashdots themselves ? what's a little bandwidth cost in the hopes of looking worldly & possibly attracting the attention of a g33k girl =) mmmmm
ya, 30fps isn't ideal for twitch play, but the difference between 100+ & 200+ cannot be noticed, nor can i justify dropping the money for almost a complete 2nd system for just a few more fps.. maybe it's because i cut back on the caffiene pills ?
i think you can get quite the (complete) linux based pc from walmart for that sort of money.. i thought i was a gaming addict until i stopped caring about the difference between 60fps & 230fps.. who cares, the tv looks smooth @ sub-30 fps.. rant*rant*rant* a $20 light kit will impress more ppl. @ the lan party anyways.
becomes obsolete. unless the government forces manufacturers to support their products indefinately and provide FREE replacements for all damaged or lost media, the DMCA is a violation of our rights. i say "our" rights even while i live in canada because US policy & corporate muscle carries over to nearly every developed nation. we get the same copy protected cd's in canada, levies on our cd-r's to pay the recording companies, etc... kudos to the IEEE, finally a legitimate & recognized voice behind a legitimate argument. lets face it, when the US gov't looks at computer users as a group, we're all 50 years their siblings & a bunch of punks.
what's the key difference between the computer events that people attend & people could care less about. games, entertainment, & the chance to meet new contacts. when they brought in the age restriction they chased out the game companies & everyone that rode along on the entertainment industry. lets face it, games drive computer development & without them a day off work to go look at the latest hard-drive advancement is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist. check out the attendance @ E3. if i'm going simply to look up hardware specs, i'd rather stay in my cube & get paid. I had to laugh when wired ran articles on kids with their own sucessful web businesses (a few years ago) who couldn't even get into the show.
finally something intelligent happening south of the border & nothing to do. when i sent out letters regarding out lastest tax/copyright levy on recordable media, the response was not good.
wow, that's a lot of effort, i use pheonix & just middle click. then again, i seldom see banner ads & i never see pop-ups. i think all the real browsers have this feature, opera, mozilla... well, except internet exploiter
gotta hate the names they use 'tho, how am i supposed to tell an enduser that there is now an easy way for them to get their legally purchased e-books onto their handhelds that microsoft refuses to produce a e-book ver. 2 reader for. 1. the legal implications & 2. calls may be monitored, & while quality is dumb, they don't like us mentioning the clit, or the cunt(lit) to customers.. better to make an anonymous website & refer to all your work as concerned unofficial windows patches regardless of the use.
with directional antenae you could leap frog from neighbour to neighbour until you reach a broadband access point. if you are that spread out, you shouldn't have too much traffic to chew up whatever bandwidth you can squeeze out of the system. of course a regular 1000' reception per base station should be able to keep you within range at most times.
haha, no doubt, mod this up, the United Losers (against redhat & mandrake) are no different than M$ wannabes if they close their source. who cares what they do. try gentoo.org, tricky, but well documented istall process, with wonderful results =)
the wtc was downed 1 week after an 11 billion dollar cut to defense. the president wasn't voted in by majority. & you really should take some prozak with your ritalin.
hell even novice dj's can recognize their favorite tracks just by looking at the contrast changes on the vinyl. of course, those are singles, i challenge anyone to try to read the tracks on my short music for short people (101 tracks) compilation.
what a great troll - and i suppose you're also a visual basic "programmer" - two years eh, that makes you seriously 31337 and old school to - i bet i have dust mites with more computer experience
to quote my most recent email back from them, they're definately looking into adding ogg support to the players, and i know that the flash upgradeable firmware was one of my big decision makers when purchasing it. that 'n' the standard cf slot, & aa batteries
nice troll but i'll bite, i mean, hell, as a practical matter windows is the de facto winner of this round of operating systems technical or legal merits notwithstanding. i don't have to like it, it just is.
fortuneatly, i don't have to run windows, i can run linux or freebsd. fortuneatly, my nex II is flash upgradeable, and according to tech support they're working on ogg vorbis support, so soon i won't have to be stuck w/ crappy old mp3s. variety & choice are nice, that's why i buy hardware that doesn't lock me in.
well, sh!t, slashdot will post stupid repeat stories about anything, but these blatant advertisements suck. nothing like a cut & paste advert on a product we've already seen plenty of info on. cripes they sell them at thinkgeek.com
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the original mp3.com, it was way ahead of its time.
rewind to a decade ago, before RIAA had everyone running scared, filesharing was evolving as a social network, like facebook or myspace, but primarily centered around musical tastes (not enough bandwidth for movies & tv yet). The lawsuits from the big record companies killed the 'sharing' and turned it into anonymous 'pirating'.
While RIAA's lawsuits haven't protected their music from being stolen, they have helped protect it from drowning amongst the indie's.
When music was first (largely) being distributed via offerings like mp3.com and Napster, there was the ability to browse by genre and mine down to find various other bands you might like. There was lots of indie bands making their way to the surface, similar to Apples "genius" feature in itunes.
p2p is only a file sharing protocol, you still need to know what you're looking for before you can download anything, thus people are only going to download stuff they already know about.
If you want to unearth cool indie bands, you'll need a more traditional site with intuitive groupings to showcase them.
non-stop @ our call center .. ..."
"ya, you have the blaster virus -mute- fsck doesn't anyone use windows update -unmute- norton.com, we don't support virus removal -mute- have fun downloading the patch in under 60 seconds retard -unmute- thanks for calling
..the pot industry, make it stronger. you don't seen any thc-light genetic strains winning awards do you ? that's like nicotine free cigarettes, where are the sales for that ? have you ever bought alcohol free beer from the super market ?
muhahaha ..
wait, who slashdots themselves ?
what's a little bandwidth cost in the hopes of looking worldly & possibly attracting the attention of a g33k girl =) mmmmm
ya, 30fps isn't ideal for twitch play, but the difference between 100+ & 200+ cannot be noticed, nor can i justify dropping the money for almost a complete 2nd system for just a few more fps ..
maybe it's because i cut back on the caffiene pills ?
i think you can get quite the (complete) linux based pc from walmart for that sort of money .. i thought i was a gaming addict until i stopped caring about the difference between 60fps & 230fps .. who cares, the tv looks smooth @ sub-30 fps ..
rant*rant*rant*
a $20 light kit will impress more ppl. @ the lan party anyways.
becomes obsolete. unless the government forces manufacturers to support their products indefinately and provide FREE replacements for all damaged or lost media, the DMCA is a violation of our rights. i say "our" rights even while i live in canada because US policy & corporate muscle carries over to nearly every developed nation. we get the same copy protected cd's in canada, levies on our cd-r's to pay the recording companies, etc...
kudos to the IEEE, finally a legitimate & recognized voice behind a legitimate argument. lets face it, when the US gov't looks at computer users as a group, we're all 50 years their siblings & a bunch of punks.
actually my MP told me he had no power, the bills get passed & then later he can say something to try & get it reversed.
what's the key difference between the computer events that people attend & people could care less about. games, entertainment, & the chance to meet new contacts. when they brought in the age restriction they chased out the game companies & everyone that rode along on the entertainment industry.
lets face it, games drive computer development & without them a day off work to go look at the latest hard-drive advancement is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist.
check out the attendance @ E3.
if i'm going simply to look up hardware specs, i'd rather stay in my cube & get paid. I had to laugh when wired ran articles on kids with their own sucessful web businesses (a few years ago) who couldn't even get into the show.
finally something intelligent happening south of the border & nothing to do. when i sent out letters regarding out lastest tax/copyright levy on recordable media, the response was not good.
wow, that's a lot of effort, i use pheonix & just middle click. then again, i seldom see banner ads & i never see pop-ups.
i think all the real browsers have this feature, opera, mozilla... well, except internet exploiter
gotta hate the names they use 'tho, how am i supposed to tell an enduser that there is now an easy way for them to get their legally purchased e-books onto their handhelds that microsoft refuses to produce a e-book ver. 2 reader for. ..
1. the legal implications &
2. calls may be monitored, & while quality is dumb, they don't like us mentioning the clit, or the cunt(lit) to customers
better to make an anonymous website & refer to all your work as concerned unofficial windows patches regardless of the use.
with directional antenae you could leap frog from neighbour to neighbour until you reach a broadband access point. if you are that spread out, you shouldn't have too much traffic to chew up whatever bandwidth you can squeeze out of the system. of course a regular 1000' reception per base station should be able to keep you within range at most times.
they already have the fbi warning people about the dangerous hackers using their unsecured wi-fi & wasn't nokia just calling it a crime a few days ago (reported on at the bbc for those that missed it)
no, that's laughing my ass off ... i was a south islander
haha, no doubt, mod this up, the United Losers (against redhat & mandrake) are no different than M$ wannabes if they close their source. who cares what they do.
try gentoo.org, tricky, but well documented istall process, with wonderful results =)
the wtc was downed 1 week after an 11 billion dollar cut to defense. the president wasn't voted in by majority. & you really should take some prozak with your ritalin.
hell even novice dj's can recognize their favorite tracks just by looking at the contrast changes on the vinyl. of course, those are singles, i challenge anyone to try to read the tracks on my short music for short people (101 tracks) compilation.
lmao ! no sh!t .. show me the code b!atch, show me the CODE !
what a great troll - and i suppose you're also a visual basic "programmer" - two years eh, that makes you seriously 31337 and old school to - i bet i have dust mites with more computer experience
to quote my most recent email back from them, they're definately looking into adding ogg support to the players, and i know that the flash upgradeable firmware was one of my big decision makers when purchasing it.
that 'n' the standard cf slot, & aa batteries
nice troll but i'll bite, i mean, hell, as a practical matter windows is the de facto winner of this round of operating systems technical or legal merits notwithstanding. i don't have to like it, it just is.
fortuneatly, i don't have to run windows, i can run linux or freebsd. fortuneatly, my nex II is flash upgradeable, and according to tech support they're working on ogg vorbis support, so soon i won't have to be stuck w/ crappy old mp3s. variety & choice are nice, that's why i buy hardware that doesn't lock me in.
well, sh!t, slashdot will post stupid repeat stories about anything, but these blatant advertisements suck. nothing like a cut & paste advert on a product we've already seen plenty of info on. cripes they sell them at thinkgeek.com
well put ! mod up