most of the FUD about Bluetooth over the last 2 years was most likely funded by that company in Redmond
I didn't know that! Having worked for a Java developer for 4 years (doing something different now) your example of what M$ did to Java made it crystal clear, and now a lot of things I read make sence. MS keeps Bluetooth down and their own crap comes to power. Look at Sony and their new palm 5 device. has a Comfact Flash slot except for the fact that its HACKED so only a sony wireless WiFi product will work. No other CF mini-hard-drives or any other product. Heck, with the build in video camera, and a 3rd party wireless phone/data CF card, you could have a hand held VIDEO PHONE in a few weeks! But because of SONY and their restriction to, as you said, protect their monoloplies, we'll have to wait until 2020 for such a prodcut.
Why not just make the connection wireless? Come up with a standard that has short range wireless. Call it BlueTooth or something stupid like that.
Oh... wait...
I'm sick of wires. It's the fscking year 2002 and everything has wires pouring out of it. Apart from electricity, I don't want any wires anyware on the outside to sync, hook-up, etc.
And where do I think artists get money from? NOT THE CD, BUDDY! Use a little google action and see just how much artists get from CD sales. Apart from mega-star contracts (ala N'Sync) an artist can owe money, even after going gold. Read up. Artists keep their largest chunk of change from Live performances.
You do post an intersting question about Enya, which can be transposed to say, Techno artists who make sweet mixes and pre-mix everything in a studio. No, they won't perform live. So how do they get paid? I don't know...
Point is this: As long as there is a massive, fraudulat abuse of power to keep crappy music (Brittney, NSync) at a high price ($16+) on an obsolete medium (CD) all the artists can starve for all I care. I'm not out to fix the world. I would gladly pay for recorded works ONLY if I can put them where I want (car, iPod, etc). If a music company tells me I can only listen to my music on my living room Palladium controlled X-Box2, I say FUCK THEM and FUCK YOU TOO and FUCK THE ARTISTS. I'm not going to be forced to pay outragous money for crap music on an ***obsolete medium*** like CD's.
The big companies will sue each other left and right, while technology and file sharing will advance beyone our wildest dreams (and their nightmares).
Remember seeing the Martrix, and other SciFi flicks where people swap and sell disks like it was crack? Well, once again SciFi predicts the future. But who ever though that it would turn out to be MUSIC and MOVIES on those disks! Listen, pundints and nay-sayers can bitch al they want, but once I have a little hollogram cube that is black market, so it can hold it's 10 petabytes without needing MS Palladium v4, you can hold EVERY SONG EVER MADE and EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE in your pocket. TEll me agian why a distribution channel for anything that can be stored digitally should even be a business model?
I'm sure once there was a great business where for a few pennies you could get your loom repaired, or the cotton gin fixed. Those days are gone, and so are the music and movie distrubtors. If any artist wants my cash, I will gladly fork it over for a LIVE performance only. So Brittney, bring some kneepads, otherwise you will never get my $16 sweetie.
How about using the telephone to generate an automatically typed email that gets read by a computer voice into a.wmf file (with digital rights for the listener only, of course).
Then simple use the computer ala Dialpad to dial into the voicemail distribution that playes email and you can hear the computer read attachment.
The next step would be enabling idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers to dial into a terminal server via VNC/VPN combo, so they can access the telephone (see first sentence) over a "virtual" phone on their PC. Then have Windows Remote Desktop servers up so they can use a second computer to access the first computer to access said phone to listed to computer voice transribed email of text from original call as transcribed.
Thank GOD Windoze Media Protector v9 Beta includes support for 5.1 audio. Better install it now. What's this? I need to be online and get licences? Well... ok then, better just do it since my boss will require me to in the oh so very near future.
The article... well... isn't. It's an ADD. Take a look at every "article" on MSN. Wake up and watch the Matrix, people, MSN is one big banner add. LOOK AT IT! So is this article. One big add. Puppets pushing Media Player 9 and all the other "extra" features in MSN that you ahve to pay for.
1) Add DRM so my privacy and security will be protected.
2) Make it impossible to uninstall.
3) Necesitate a live web connection to play files.
4) Upload information to a "security" server every time I play a music file or insert a CD.
5) Utilize DirectSound.
6) Get rid of *nix versions.
6) Release only binaries so terrorists don't get the source code.
7) Use attorneys to bring down all mirror site distributions.
8) Pick sellout a$$hole to pump out CD that installs trojan uninstallabe player onto people's system. Is Peter Gabriel available? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27272.html
9) Make sure user interface is horrbile, avoid simplicity and good design (so see QuickTime and WinAmp for what NOT to do).
10) Add interoperation with future.NET (Passport) purchasing system.
We all know what those Brits can do with a good piece of haddock! Watch yourself little fella, else you end up in an order of "Fish n' chips twice, with scraps and a Ribena"!!!
Droool... I love visiting, first thing I hit is a FishNChip shop for grub... yum. Although the thought of a Fried Tux sounds both Yummy and sad at the same time.
When Scott McNealy was asked about the HP and Compaq merger at the CEO expo a while back, he was asked:
"Do you think of the merger as having one less competitor?"
Scott's response:
"No. Two less."
Let Fionrna (whatever her name is) play with.NET and I'll laugh at they crumble and news reports abound of HP and Compaq flopping like fish out of water. Watching two large companies merge is fun! Entertaining for the geek and economist alike. As long as their LaserJet series supports Linux and Apple, I could care less..NET will drown them. Any developer ACTUALLY EARNING A LIVING AND NOT STILL IN SCHOOL will understand it's about the APIs. Clean and simple with Java (and other langauges, too) but.NET? A fscking mess.
I can see why a 15ghz comp might be nice. Voice recon, or 3D, or working as a digital hub (calm down iMac fans, I mean "running the house automation AND your pr0n kinda thing), whatever... 100ghz is nice too. Design safer airplanes with better simulation and testing. Fold some proteins and find cures, etc...
But what the FSCK are we gonna do with a 100 million pixel camera (around 2010ish???) WTF? Any serious uses, I'd love to hear imaginations run wild. And no, I'm not talking pr0n, I mean medical, etc. I just don't see a use for it. Do you?
Yep, I stand corrected again. Forgot about stern. I was thinking horrible top-10 wash-rinse-repeat z100. but yeah, stern is good fresh content that's nice on a portable. I'm now looking at the iPod as missing a feature!
PS... got that Stern stuff on a server somewhere?;)
I stand somewhat corrected! Having a cdplayer do MP3's and ogg is a nice mix. 640 megs on an inexpensive device, on blanks that cost pennies... not bad!
Anyone who has spent 10 minutes with iTunes and an iPod will look at everything else and laugh. Any reasons why the new 20gig iPod does not SMOKE out everything else?
And don't talk to me about an FM radio. With 1000's of songs and playlists based on music style to ratings (ala iTunes) why the hell would I want to listen to a radio? Please, no replys unless you have USED an iPod... if you havn't, treat yourself and enjoy! Amazing design and usability WITH great construction (virtual wheel too! Woot!)
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I didn't know that! Having worked for a Java developer for 4 years (doing something different now) your example of what M$ did to Java made it crystal clear, and now a lot of things I read make sence. MS keeps Bluetooth down and their own crap comes to power. Look at Sony and their new palm 5 device. has a Comfact Flash slot except for the fact that its HACKED so only a sony wireless WiFi product will work. No other CF mini-hard-drives or any other product. Heck, with the build in video camera, and a 3rd party wireless phone/data CF card, you could have a hand held VIDEO PHONE in a few weeks! But because of SONY and their restriction to, as you said, protect their monoloplies, we'll have to wait until 2020 for such a prodcut.
Now I feel sad. Maybe I'll d/l some .ogg music :)
Oh... wait...
I'm sick of wires. It's the fscking year 2002 and everything has wires pouring out of it. Apart from electricity, I don't want any wires anyware on the outside to sync, hook-up, etc.
And where do I think artists get money from? NOT THE CD, BUDDY! Use a little google action and see just how much artists get from CD sales. Apart from mega-star contracts (ala N'Sync) an artist can owe money, even after going gold. Read up. Artists keep their largest chunk of change from Live performances.
You do post an intersting question about Enya, which can be transposed to say, Techno artists who make sweet mixes and pre-mix everything in a studio. No, they won't perform live. So how do they get paid? I don't know...
Point is this: As long as there is a massive, fraudulat abuse of power to keep crappy music (Brittney, NSync) at a high price ($16+) on an obsolete medium (CD) all the artists can starve for all I care. I'm not out to fix the world. I would gladly pay for recorded works ONLY if I can put them where I want (car, iPod, etc). If a music company tells me I can only listen to my music on my living room Palladium controlled X-Box2, I say FUCK THEM and FUCK YOU TOO and FUCK THE ARTISTS. I'm not going to be forced to pay outragous money for crap music on an ***obsolete medium*** like CD's.
Remember seeing the Martrix, and other SciFi flicks where people swap and sell disks like it was crack? Well, once again SciFi predicts the future. But who ever though that it would turn out to be MUSIC and MOVIES on those disks! Listen, pundints and nay-sayers can bitch al they want, but once I have a little hollogram cube that is black market, so it can hold it's 10 petabytes without needing MS Palladium v4, you can hold EVERY SONG EVER MADE and EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE in your pocket. TEll me agian why a distribution channel for anything that can be stored digitally should even be a business model?
I'm sure once there was a great business where for a few pennies you could get your loom repaired, or the cotton gin fixed. Those days are gone, and so are the music and movie distrubtors. If any artist wants my cash, I will gladly fork it over for a LIVE performance only. So Brittney, bring some kneepads, otherwise you will never get my $16 sweetie.
Before you know it every Dell box will come with Windows pre-installed. Oh, wait...
Then simple use the computer ala Dialpad to dial into the voicemail distribution that playes email and you can hear the computer read attachment.
The next step would be enabling idiots^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers to dial into a terminal server via VNC/VPN combo, so they can access the telephone (see first sentence) over a "virtual" phone on their PC. Then have Windows Remote Desktop servers up so they can use a second computer to access the first computer to access said phone to listed to computer voice transribed email of text from original call as transcribed.
Shit, wish I though of this sooner.
The article... well... isn't. It's an ADD. Take a look at every "article" on MSN. Wake up and watch the Matrix, people, MSN is one big banner add. LOOK AT IT! So is this article. One big add. Puppets pushing Media Player 9 and all the other "extra" features in MSN that you ahve to pay for.
2) Make it impossible to uninstall.
3) Necesitate a live web connection to play files.
4) Upload information to a "security" server every time I play a music file or insert a CD.
5) Utilize DirectSound.
6) Get rid of *nix versions.
6) Release only binaries so terrorists don't get the source code.
7) Use attorneys to bring down all mirror site distributions.
8) Pick sellout a$$hole to pump out CD that installs trojan uninstallabe player onto people's system. Is Peter Gabriel available? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27272.html
9) Make sure user interface is horrbile, avoid simplicity and good design (so see QuickTime and WinAmp for what NOT to do).
10) Add interoperation with future .NET (Passport) purchasing system.
2) ???
3) Secure!
1) Pentium chips run hot and comsume so much power the fan on the thing will be huge and whirrrrring at 7000 rpm minimum.
2) With Intel(TM) DRM(TM) you won't be listening to your music, so you'll hear that fan loud and clear.
Droool... I love visiting, first thing I hit is a FishNChip shop for grub... yum. Although the thought of a Fried Tux sounds both Yummy and sad at the same time.
"Do you think of the merger as having one less competitor?"
Scott's response:
"No. Two less."
Let Fionrna (whatever her name is) play with .NET and I'll laugh at they crumble and news reports abound of HP and Compaq flopping like fish out of water. Watching two large companies merge is fun! Entertaining for the geek and economist alike. As long as their LaserJet series supports Linux and Apple, I could care less. .NET will drown them. Any developer ACTUALLY EARNING A LIVING AND NOT STILL IN SCHOOL will understand it's about the APIs. Clean and simple with Java (and other langauges, too) but .NET? A fscking mess.
But what the FSCK are we gonna do with a 100 million pixel camera (around 2010ish???) WTF? Any serious uses, I'd love to hear imaginations run wild. And no, I'm not talking pr0n, I mean medical, etc. I just don't see a use for it. Do you?
LOL... I guess some people do have more music than me, I keep forgetting that. :)
PS... got that Stern stuff on a server somewhere? ;)
I stand somewhat corrected! Having a cdplayer do MP3's and ogg is a nice mix. 640 megs on an inexpensive device, on blanks that cost pennies... not bad!
And don't talk to me about an FM radio. With 1000's of songs and playlists based on music style to ratings (ala iTunes) why the hell would I want to listen to a radio? Please, no replys unless you have USED an iPod... if you havn't, treat yourself and enjoy! Amazing design and usability WITH great construction (virtual wheel too! Woot!)
Answer: Like two porquipines fsck... very carefully.