So Napster is "dead". Well not dead but under financial protection. And the Hydra that is music sharing networks sprouts a few more heads. As we all know it won't end here. More file sharing networks will sprout up and it just won't end. The music industry will never stop whining.
All the music industry has to do is provide a product that the general populace cannot feasibly gain access too. Much Like Silver City Cinemas does for movies. Star Wars Episode II was already pirated and available on the Internet before it was even released. But still the movie industry was able to make a huge amount from the film.
The reason??? Easy. They were able to provide something the general populace could not provide for themselves: incredible sound, large screens, and comfortable seating. I can simply download movies and watch them on my PC but the theater is still better then the equipment I can cost effectively, have at home.
The music industry has to do the same thing with music. Give the people a reason to buy the cd. Stickers, Patches, Heck even a poster or T-shirt offer or something. Perhaps they can provide a "CD extra" CD like the special features DVD's you find in movies, with deleted scenes and special extras.
The music industry is fighting something they cannot stop. So why don't they evolve into something entirely different. Sell the populace something that they cannot provide themselves.
The movie industry has figured out a way to live even with movie piracy. So why can't the music industry figure it out too.
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I can tell you right now that this is simply going to be another thing for the "art people" to be pretentious about. So you can call it "art" and tell me that obviously I don't understand because I can't comprehend it's true beauty.
I rest my case.
Perhaps you should read the definition of music. Music is not a way of perceiving sound, it is :
"the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity "
this so called music has none of the above and is by defintion not music. It is simply a noise.
Re:You Have got to be joking.
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C'mon.....this doesn't make any sense.
Is a dialtone on a phone music?
Is the sound of the fans on my pc music?
is the sound of an aerosol music?
No.....it's a sound. A singular sound...
here is the definition of music for all of you people who require it....
Pronunciation: 'myü-zik
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English musik, from Old French musique, from Latin musica, from Greek mousikE any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse
Date: 13th century
1 a : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
this so called music is nothing but a singular sound amplified. There is no succession, no combination, no temporal relationship. By the very definition of music. These amplified noises are not music.
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This is not music.
Anyone who has bought this crap...you've been duped.
I mean think about it this is no more music then me listening intently to my CPU fan. If I wanted to relax to the "sweet sounds" of a teakettle, I'd make some damn TEA! I can't believe people have actually spent money on buying these albums!!
And as far as it being "art", I can tell you right now that this is simply going to be another thing for the "art people" to be pretentious about. So you can call it "art" and tell me that obviously I don't understand because I can't comprehend it's true beauty. But obviously you people are only intent on listening to the sound of your own heads up your arses.
What i want to know is how does this guy know mitnick? If he knows one hacker(and a prominent one at that) doesn't it stand to reason that he knows other hackers? I mean you can't just hire mitnick off of hire-a-teleco-hacker.com.
"As SecurityFocus Online reported last year, former hacker Kevin Mitnick claims extensive penetrations into Sprint's Las Vegas systems from approximately 1992 until his February, 1995 arrest -- smack dab in the middle of the call diversion complaints. Mitnick's access gave him the power to monitor or reprogram any phone line in town. Following that story, Munoz retained Mitnick as a technical consultant in his case, only to give him up later. Munoz says Mitnick wanted to run too many pointless tests; Mitnick says Munoz stiffed him and a partner for thousands of dollars in fees and expenses."
Who's to say he didn't step on one of his "associates" toes. And a disgrntled hacker decides he's gonna wreck the guys business.
At the very least his problems wouldn't have ended after he stiffed mitnick for money. it only would have gotten worse. Heck a few phonecall's by mitnick and...BAM...his problem get's worse. I think this guy is full of crap. That's why he didn't want mitnick "to run too many pointless tests". Not to mention who is this guy to know what tests are pointless or not?
Something is smells Fishy....and it's not just this guys employees....;) LOL
I don't know about you guys but this is deffinetly a step in the right direction. How close are we coming to creating synthetic eyeballs. Imagine people who have lost thier eyes might actually be able to see in the near future.
If the electric impulses that are interprutted by the brain as sight, touch, etc. can be harnessed think about the newest forms os prosthetic hands android hands that actually work!!! this is fabulous....
No more drives to the coffee shop I'll just pull on a fake frog suit and pretend to tbe the world's biggest frog.
And then I'll be there king...
and once i've raised my army of super frogs "hopped" up on caffeine I will take over the world AHA HAHAHAHAHA!!!
In all serious though has no one thought what this will actually do to the surronding enviroment?
I live in southeren ontario Canada, recently we have had an insect infestation in the farmers' crops. So in order to control it we released thosands and thousands of geneticly enhanced lady bugs that would target the mites that were targeting the crops.
The mite problem is gone but now we have a infestation of super bugs that won't die. I have seen entire sides of apartment buildings coated with the things...In novemeber no less(when there shouldn't be any of the critters left).
My point here is when will we learn to stop screwing with mother nature...
Re:The nature of Spiderman's webbing
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note to self.....
put dictionary.com in favorite list....
I am truly sorry for all of my grievous errors. Oh how will I ever live now that I have made an error in my post. I will simply have to throw myself off a cliff.
I want you to pull out a dictionary and look up "sarcasm".
See that definition? Good. Now rip out the page, put it in your pipe and smoke it.
Friggin' trolls....
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no no...what i meant was he(spidey 2099) had spinnerets much like a spiders accepting the location(they were on his forearms).
Spidey 2099 also had claws that popped out of his finger tips for climbing. I think that they adapted something like that for the movie too....Maybe they should have called it Spider-Man 2099...
A movie about one of the lamest characters???
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Next to Speedball, Spider-woman is one of the lamest characters ever.
I mean I'd have to go and see the movie about her but I wouldn't want to. I'd have too...Heck I stomached all the Superman movies didn't I?
Nah! he was a little ticked off at all those jocks picking on him. And Mournful about Uncle Ben. But he was always a smart and witty hero. To this Day that's what gives him his edge and why people still love him.
Not as crass as Dead Pool but every bit as sarcastic!!!
The HobGoblin was something completely different as I recall the Hobgoblin was actually an Assassin that got possesed by a Demon.
At any rate I know green goblin was first and the HobGoblin was just a cash in on the popularity of one of Spidey's first enemies.
There was a whole host of weird stuff that went on with all thses Goblins'. Originaly the green goblin was very much a "Doctor Jekyl and Mr.Hyde" rip-off with Norman Osborne changing into the Green Goblin without much control.
Another line in the mean green and without control theme that Marvel seemed to like at the time(The Hulk, The Leader, Doc Samson, She-Hulk, The Abomination). Green Goblin was along the same lines as all those only without the Gamma Rays.
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Well, In the comic books he had web-shooters that he(Peter Parker) designed. They shot out a special compund sort of like a liquid cement that hardened on contact with air(once again peter designed this). This compound also disolved in air after a few hours(so that there weren't webs lieing all over New York City). The compund was loaded into tiny air compressed cartridges. These cartridges then were loaded into his "web shooters".
The webshooters were essentially a metal apparatus that wrapped around his wrists with a little bulb that rested in his palms...when he touched his middle fingers against this bulb.the compund shot out of a little falve on the underside of his wrists and BAM web bonanza!!!
later on in life he got a special "alien" suit(now worn by Venom) which had the webbing stuff all built in and shot out at a simple thought by peter. This suit fired the stuff out of the tops of his wrists. This was all fine and dandy then he realized that the suit was a symbiot trying to take over his body. So he ditched it and went back to the old web shooters.
I have not seen the movie yet but can only guess that he produces webs without the aid of anything special...just his body. That must be the case because the reviewer mentioned that there was something odd about thew nature of Spidey's webbing.
All of this Spiderman stuff should not be mistaken with SPIDER-MAN 2099 in which he had spinnerets in his arms(just like a spiders). The squirted real wbs when he flezed his arms in a special way.
Anyway that's it....more than you wanted to know....
Re:This isn't spyware anymore...
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I concur...
This is a load of bs in the worst way. What gives them the right to simply remove a program(any program) without your knowledge. If this sort of thing isn't illegal it should be.
What's to stop me from writing a program that forcibly uninstalls any virus scanning software before I execute my virus(whoops meant program) on the machine.
C'mon!
I mean spyware is one thing but this is getting ridiculous. Next thing on the market, spyware that can't be uninstalled without formatting your hd....
Long I have awaited the day when I could watch movies before their released in theatres well surfing the net, well all that is going on I've got streaming video watching my coffee so i know when it's down brewing. My smokeless ash tray sucking the smoke away from my cigarette.
it's already been said....I know but still I felt the need to chime in.
You had me all excited that I could finaly have a monitor in my kitchen well I'm cooking up my spinach puffs. If it were true there would truly be no need for a tv. I can watch DVD's anywhere I damn well please. No pausing movies to go out for a smoke...I don't have to stop reading to go grab a cup of java! But NO I still have to wait.
the pieces are made of arms and legs and the squares are floating heads....
Heck, I'd buy it.
all joking aside though. You're right and wrong. I was a console gamer before I was a pc gamer and I spent hours and hours repeating the same battles just because that monster gave a bunch of experience. Final Fantasy III had me going for weeks!
PC Gamers just have the ablity to downloads cracks and cheats more easily than console gamers. So i'd wager that they actually spend less time trying to level up a character. I mean look at what happened to Diablo. Pk killers with axes that do 10000000000000 points of damage?
Granted the noble gamer doesn't do this...but who amog us can say they've never used a trainer?
It's so very true...
What I'm curious about is when something like this will become practical for an homw user. I can only imagine the stacks of cash required to purchase this. Not to mention the cost of the equipment to utilize it fully.
This is impressive. With tranfers of 80 GB/S that is smokin'!
when can i get me one of these for home?
does anyone know the cost per byte on one of these bad boys???
Solid State is whoopass...all the flexibility and speed of DRAM with none of the data loss if you wind up with a poer outage.....
Must HAVE!!!!
*drool*
I'm excited about this.
Hopefully fully functional and marketable Nano Machines are soon to follow.
The ability to fix these chips is a big break through as well.
Soon....yesss....Soon.....
I never said that AMD is a bad company or that there chip isn't good...nor did I mean to imply it.
I don't think that way but the vast majority of consumers do. If they want to make money which, correct me if I'm wrong here, is the point of every company. They need to keep up those numbers in order to sell more chips. For people who look at benchmarks AMD is the way to go. However for those who don't know what a benchmark is...all they'll look at is the number in Mhz on the package PC they're buying and AMD doesn't seem to be keeping up in that catogory.
So in that essence I believce they are falling behind.
Slashdot Mirror
how does this apply to the article????
YAH!
the last place I need more spyware is on my television. No one needs to know how many episodes of Star Trek I've been watching.
So Napster is "dead". Well not dead but under financial protection. And the Hydra that is music sharing networks sprouts a few more heads. As we all know it won't end here. More file sharing networks will sprout up and it just won't end. The music industry will never stop whining.
All the music industry has to do is provide a product that the general populace cannot feasibly gain access too. Much Like Silver City Cinemas does for movies. Star Wars Episode II was already pirated and available on the Internet before it was even released. But still the movie industry was able to make a huge amount from the film.
The reason??? Easy. They were able to provide something the general populace could not provide for themselves: incredible sound, large screens, and comfortable seating. I can simply download movies and watch them on my PC but the theater is still better then the equipment I can cost effectively, have at home.
The music industry has to do the same thing with music. Give the people a reason to buy the cd. Stickers, Patches, Heck even a poster or T-shirt offer or something. Perhaps they can provide a "CD extra" CD like the special features DVD's you find in movies, with deleted scenes and special extras.
The music industry is fighting something they cannot stop. So why don't they evolve into something entirely different. Sell the populace something that they cannot provide themselves.
The movie industry has figured out a way to live even with movie piracy. So why can't the music industry figure it out too.
I can tell you right now that this is simply going to be another thing for the "art people" to be pretentious about. So you can call it "art" and tell me that obviously I don't understand because I can't comprehend it's true beauty.
I rest my case.
Perhaps you should read the definition of music. Music is not a way of perceiving sound, it is :
"the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity "
this so called music has none of the above and is by defintion not music. It is simply a noise.
C'mon.....this doesn't make any sense.
Is a dialtone on a phone music?
Is the sound of the fans on my pc music?
is the sound of an aerosol music?
No.....it's a sound. A singular sound...
here is the definition of music for all of you people who require it....
Pronunciation: 'myü-zik Function: noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English musik, from Old French musique, from Latin musica, from Greek mousikE any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse Date: 13th century 1 a : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
this so called music is nothing but a singular sound amplified. There is no succession, no combination, no temporal relationship. By the very definition of music. These amplified noises are not music.
This is not music.
Anyone who has bought this crap...you've been duped.
I mean think about it this is no more music then me listening intently to my CPU fan. If I wanted to relax to the "sweet sounds" of a teakettle, I'd make some damn TEA! I can't believe people have actually spent money on buying these albums!!
And as far as it being "art", I can tell you right now that this is simply going to be another thing for the "art people" to be pretentious about. So you can call it "art" and tell me that obviously I don't understand because I can't comprehend it's true beauty. But obviously you people are only intent on listening to the sound of your own heads up your arses.
So he pulls mitnick in on the case?
What i want to know is how does this guy know mitnick? If he knows one hacker(and a prominent one at that) doesn't it stand to reason that he knows other hackers? I mean you can't just hire mitnick off of hire-a-teleco-hacker.com.
"As SecurityFocus Online reported last year, former hacker Kevin Mitnick claims extensive penetrations into Sprint's Las Vegas systems from approximately 1992 until his February, 1995 arrest -- smack dab in the middle of the call diversion complaints. Mitnick's access gave him the power to monitor or reprogram any phone line in town. Following that story, Munoz retained Mitnick as a technical consultant in his case, only to give him up later. Munoz says Mitnick wanted to run too many pointless tests; Mitnick says Munoz stiffed him and a partner for thousands of dollars in fees and expenses."
Who's to say he didn't step on one of his "associates" toes. And a disgrntled hacker decides he's gonna wreck the guys business.
At the very least his problems wouldn't have ended after he stiffed mitnick for money. it only would have gotten worse. Heck a few phonecall's by mitnick and...BAM...his problem get's worse. I think this guy is full of crap. That's why he didn't want mitnick "to run too many pointless tests". Not to mention who is this guy to know what tests are pointless or not?
Something is smells Fishy....and it's not just this guys employees....;) LOL
I don't know about you guys but this is deffinetly a step in the right direction. How close are we coming to creating synthetic eyeballs. Imagine people who have lost thier eyes might actually be able to see in the near future.
If the electric impulses that are interprutted by the brain as sight, touch, etc. can be harnessed think about the newest forms os prosthetic hands android hands that actually work!!! this is fabulous....
I can hardly wait to see more on this subject!!!
That'd be why.....it's an infestation I tell you....!!!
And now they don't kow what to do!!!
The Lady Bugs will inherit the earth....!
sweet...free caffiene?
No more drives to the coffee shop I'll just pull on a fake frog suit and pretend to tbe the world's biggest frog.
And then I'll be there king...
and once i've raised my army of super frogs "hopped" up on caffeine I will take over the world AHA HAHAHAHAHA!!!
In all serious though has no one thought what this will actually do to the surronding enviroment?
I live in southeren ontario Canada, recently we have had an insect infestation in the farmers' crops. So in order to control it we released thosands and thousands of geneticly enhanced lady bugs that would target the mites that were targeting the crops.
The mite problem is gone but now we have a infestation of super bugs that won't die. I have seen entire sides of apartment buildings coated with the things...In novemeber no less(when there shouldn't be any of the critters left).
My point here is when will we learn to stop screwing with mother nature...
note to self.....
put dictionary.com in favorite list....
I am truly sorry for all of my grievous errors. Oh how will I ever live now that I have made an error in my post. I will simply have to throw myself off a cliff.
I want you to pull out a dictionary and look up "sarcasm".
See that definition? Good. Now rip out the page, put it in your pipe and smoke it.
Friggin' trolls....
no no...what i meant was he(spidey 2099) had spinnerets much like a spiders accepting the location(they were on his forearms).
Spidey 2099 also had claws that popped out of his finger tips for climbing. I think that they adapted something like that for the movie too....Maybe they should have called it Spider-Man 2099...
Next to Speedball, Spider-woman is one of the lamest characters ever.
I mean I'd have to go and see the movie about her but I wouldn't want to. I'd have too...Heck I stomached all the Superman movies didn't I?
Dark and brooding?
Peter Parker?????
Nah! he was a little ticked off at all those jocks picking on him. And Mournful about Uncle Ben. But he was always a smart and witty hero. To this Day that's what gives him his edge and why people still love him.
Not as crass as Dead Pool but every bit as sarcastic!!!
Actually the Green Goblin was first...
The HobGoblin was something completely different as I recall the Hobgoblin was actually an Assassin that got possesed by a Demon.
At any rate I know green goblin was first and the HobGoblin was just a cash in on the popularity of one of Spidey's first enemies.
There was a whole host of weird stuff that went on with all thses Goblins'. Originaly the green goblin was very much a "Doctor Jekyl and Mr.Hyde" rip-off with Norman Osborne changing into the Green Goblin without much control.
Another line in the mean green and without control theme that Marvel seemed to like at the time(The Hulk, The Leader, Doc Samson, She-Hulk, The Abomination). Green Goblin was along the same lines as all those only without the Gamma Rays.
Well, In the comic books he had web-shooters that he(Peter Parker) designed. They shot out a special compund sort of like a liquid cement that hardened on contact with air(once again peter designed this). This compound also disolved in air after a few hours(so that there weren't webs lieing all over New York City). The compund was loaded into tiny air compressed cartridges. These cartridges then were loaded into his "web shooters".
The webshooters were essentially a metal apparatus that wrapped around his wrists with a little bulb that rested in his palms...when he touched his middle fingers against this bulb.the compund shot out of a little falve on the underside of his wrists and BAM web bonanza!!!
later on in life he got a special "alien" suit(now worn by Venom) which had the webbing stuff all built in and shot out at a simple thought by peter. This suit fired the stuff out of the tops of his wrists. This was all fine and dandy then he realized that the suit was a symbiot trying to take over his body. So he ditched it and went back to the old web shooters.
I have not seen the movie yet but can only guess that he produces webs without the aid of anything special...just his body. That must be the case because the reviewer mentioned that there was something odd about thew nature of Spidey's webbing.
All of this Spiderman stuff should not be mistaken with SPIDER-MAN 2099 in which he had spinnerets in his arms(just like a spiders). The squirted real wbs when he flezed his arms in a special way.
Anyway that's it....more than you wanted to know....
I concur...
This is a load of bs in the worst way. What gives them the right to simply remove a program(any program) without your knowledge. If this sort of thing isn't illegal it should be.
What's to stop me from writing a program that forcibly uninstalls any virus scanning software before I execute my virus(whoops meant program) on the machine.
C'mon!
I mean spyware is one thing but this is getting ridiculous. Next thing on the market, spyware that can't be uninstalled without formatting your hd....
Long I have awaited the day when I could watch movies before their released in theatres well surfing the net, well all that is going on I've got streaming video watching my coffee so i know when it's down brewing. My smokeless ash tray sucking the smoke away from my cigarette.
And all the while I'm pinching a loaf....;)
I envy you....good idea...
it's already been said....I know but still I felt the need to chime in.
You had me all excited that I could finaly have a monitor in my kitchen well I'm cooking up my spinach puffs. If it were true there would truly be no need for a tv. I can watch DVD's anywhere I damn well please. No pausing movies to go out for a smoke...I don't have to stop reading to go grab a cup of java! But NO I still have to wait.
Butt head!
the pieces are made of arms and legs and the squares are floating heads....
Heck, I'd buy it.
all joking aside though. You're right and wrong. I was a console gamer before I was a pc gamer and I spent hours and hours repeating the same battles just because that monster gave a bunch of experience. Final Fantasy III had me going for weeks!
PC Gamers just have the ablity to downloads cracks and cheats more easily than console gamers. So i'd wager that they actually spend less time trying to level up a character. I mean look at what happened to Diablo. Pk killers with axes that do 10000000000000 points of damage?
Granted the noble gamer doesn't do this...but who amog us can say they've never used a trainer?
You honestly think that madden is better than everquest? what are you even doing on this site?
It's so very true...
What I'm curious about is when something like this will become practical for an homw user. I can only imagine the stacks of cash required to purchase this. Not to mention the cost of the equipment to utilize it fully.
This is impressive. With tranfers of 80 GB/S that is smokin'! when can i get me one of these for home? does anyone know the cost per byte on one of these bad boys??? Solid State is whoopass...all the flexibility and speed of DRAM with none of the data loss if you wind up with a poer outage..... Must HAVE!!!! *drool*
I'm excited about this. Hopefully fully functional and marketable Nano Machines are soon to follow. The ability to fix these chips is a big break through as well. Soon....yesss....Soon.....
I don't think that way but the vast majority of consumers do. If they want to make money which, correct me if I'm wrong here, is the point of every company. They need to keep up those numbers in order to sell more chips. For people who look at benchmarks AMD is the way to go. However for those who don't know what a benchmark is...all they'll look at is the number in Mhz on the package PC they're buying and AMD doesn't seem to be keeping up in that catogory.
So in that essence I believce they are falling behind.