I know one guy who was convinced that there was an easy way to make money. He just had to find out how. Sure, some people get lucky and end up making millions in the stock market, or on some weird investment, but it's not something you can really depend on. If you want to make money, you're probably better off just working hard, and sticking to some kind of consistent market.
I think it's fine if they trademark the use of that sound. If only because it means that no other phone company can annoy us with that music on their phones.
Seems to work fine for the cable TV industry. Guess what, if you stop paying your cable bill, you don't get to watch cable TV anymore. So, for the price of 1 CD per month, you get to listen to all the music you want to. Sounds like great idea to me. One that would suit a lot of people.
You can also disable their download manager completely and just download the songs as mp3 files from your browser. Although I'm not sure why you would want to, as it's much more inconvenient.
eMusic costs around 30 cents a song, and half the music goes to the label/artist. I'm not sure how much actually goes to the artist from the label, but I guess that would depend on individual contracts. Since it's mostly indie music, I imagine it's probably a respectable percentage.
I've also spent more in the past year than I did in any other year on music. The reason is similar to yours. I discovered eMusic. DRM free tracks for a fair price. Sure I don't get all the big name bands, but there's plenty of quality music there, and enough so that I have a long list of stuff I'm just waiting to download when the start of month rolls around (I'm too cheap to buy booster packs, and don't have the time to really listen to that much new music every month anyway). I will stick with eMusic and stay away from mainstream music until the price of mainstream music comes down. If it never comes down, then so be it. I'm fine with just indie stuff. I think it's completely unacceptable for them to completely remove the physical product and entire distribution chain, and still charge around the same amount for music that they charge for CDs. It's the same story they gave us with CDs. They said CDs would make music cheaper. They haven't gotten any cheaper. Now a bunch of people are saying digital downloads will make things cheaper. Music doesn't look like it's getting any cheaper to me.
Everybody seems to rave about how great these new frameworks are, but they don't do a lot of things that are important at the enterprise level. One thing you mentioned was accessing the data layer from some other application. They came up with n-tier architecture a long time ago because it made a lot of sense. Put all your data access in 1 component, all your business logic in another component, and put your presentation logic in a third component. That way, if you want to access your data or business logic from some other program, you won't be completely screwed.
Also, there is only so much bandwidth available in the electromagnetic spectrum. Once you fill the spectrum, it's very hard to find more capacity. With cabling, you can always add a little bit more, or use fibre optics to carry more data over the same size cable. Sure there's still limits, but cabled communications can provide much more bandwidth than wireless ever will. Wireless is the cheap way out that works now, but doesn't account for future growth. It's already becoming a problem with too many wireless routers in my building, and there's a very low percentage of people with wireless routers. I think it would be quite bad if everyone in the building had a wireless router.
Who would want a program written by low end coders? It would be like having a couch made out of shoddy materials, except that you could never get rid of it. If you are using a badly designed program and start using it for your day-to-day needs then that application contains all your data, and is often essential to how you do business. It's like like a couch where you can just throw it away, get a new one, and continue on as if the other one existed. Thinking you can do software with "Hello World" programmers is just asking for trouble. Even if you get them to do it, and then hand it off to a qualified team for maintenance, it's going to be a nightmare to maintain.
The police are allowed to tap regular phone lines because they don't have to intrude on your property to do it. Just like they can stake out your house from a van on the road. They aren't allowed to walk into your house and watch you all day. Once they start installing trojans on computers for listening to skype calls, it's not a far stretch from them installing trojans to record every action you do on your computer.
Well they could make them twice the thickness and use super hard epoxy like plastic, that would probably make them a lot more resilient. Put a cover over the electrical contacts also to protect against damage by static electricity and other sources of electricity.
Germany still seems to have a lot of it's old attitudes lying around. Installing trojans on the computers of it's citizens for the purpose of listening to skype calls is way beyond what I would expect from a country like Germany. Then again, they still can't have video games with Nazis or blood in them. How long before someone packages up a Linux live CD with Skype preinstalled so that you can ensure you're computer isn't compromised when making phone calls?
Well, considering that 4 GB SDHC cards are common, and currently only cost $30, I think that eventually giant (by comparison) DVD media will disappear. Sure it's too expensive now, but give it 5 or 6 years. I still want something that doesn't get damaged by scratching like MiniDisc, or SD. Maybe some kind of bluray tech in a MiniDisc formfactor would be nice.
Sony has had ultra-thin Vaio laptops for years now. They used to be quite expensive, but from just checking now, they seem to be quite competitively priced to the MacBook Air.
Does it come with the magsafe adapter? I just skimmed the article (this is slashdot, what do you expect), but why would they complain about some other adapter you could use when the adapter it comes with works perfectly fine?
That power adapter has exceptionally bad placement. The only way to charge while using the laptop is to have the book sitting on the edge of the desk. Which isn't always the best place to have your laptop. I don't think I've seen anybody put their laptop directly on the edge of a desk like that.
I think it will be quite a while before internet distribution of HD movies will take off. The infrastructure won't be able to support everybody downloading Shrek IV on release day. Having a physical product has some advantages. You can stockpile them, and then when they are ready for release, they can be distributed extremely quickly. With bandwidth, you can't stock pile it for later. If 1,000,000 people go to download Shrek IV on release day, the server will be fried. Just look at how well Wii Shop channel worked on Dec. 25 2007.
However, the GameCube used 24 MB of SRAM along with regular RAM. I think this let it achieve much faster processing than would normally be possible with just the chip it had.
Yes, but a man is more agile. If the tank is coming at you, you run at a path horizontal the where it's travelling. At least try to jump out of the way when it get's really close. Or, if you are in a group, and everyone scatters, the best it can do it run over 1 person, which is favorable when you consider the alternative.
The movie doesn't look as good as the original DVD, but most people don't really care. The only reason DVD killed VHS was because you didn't have to rewind, and they didn't wear out as fast. It wasn't necessarily because of quality. People didn't get TVs you could notice the quality difference on until much later. I think the major problem with downloading movies is that people like to watch them on their TV. And most people don't have a computer hooked up to their TV. They also don't want to burn a DVD just to watch a movie.
I read, in Wired, something interesting about the audio on DVD Movies. It seems like there's a problem with the audio not being normallized so all the sounds are loud. When you go from loud scenes to quiet scenes, you constantly have to adjust the volume so you can hear what people are saying. Unless you have a nicely set up 5.1 channel system, with a good centre channel, it's often hard to hear the dialogue unless you turn up the volume to the point where it gets uncomfortably loud during high action scenes. I know I've seen this problem a lot myself. Does anybody else find this to be a problem?
But there are also songs , created in such way , that when you here it at first , you want it to hear it more , and then , after a few weeks , you realize the song actually sucks.
Sometimes I think that's by design. Get people to like the song enough to by the CD, but make it so that they won't want to listen to it after a couple of months, so they will go and buy more music.
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I know one guy who was convinced that there was an easy way to make money. He just had to find out how. Sure, some people get lucky and end up making millions in the stock market, or on some weird investment, but it's not something you can really depend on. If you want to make money, you're probably better off just working hard, and sticking to some kind of consistent market.
I think it's fine if they trademark the use of that sound. If only because it means that no other phone company can annoy us with that music on their phones.
Seems to work fine for the cable TV industry. Guess what, if you stop paying your cable bill, you don't get to watch cable TV anymore. So, for the price of 1 CD per month, you get to listen to all the music you want to. Sounds like great idea to me. One that would suit a lot of people.
You can also disable their download manager completely and just download the songs as mp3 files from your browser. Although I'm not sure why you would want to, as it's much more inconvenient.
eMusic costs around 30 cents a song, and half the music goes to the label/artist. I'm not sure how much actually goes to the artist from the label, but I guess that would depend on individual contracts. Since it's mostly indie music, I imagine it's probably a respectable percentage.
Faust Must be somewhat independent. They have 8 albums listed on eMusic, dated from 1971-2001. That is, assuming we're talking about the same Faust.
I've also spent more in the past year than I did in any other year on music. The reason is similar to yours. I discovered eMusic. DRM free tracks for a fair price. Sure I don't get all the big name bands, but there's plenty of quality music there, and enough so that I have a long list of stuff I'm just waiting to download when the start of month rolls around (I'm too cheap to buy booster packs, and don't have the time to really listen to that much new music every month anyway). I will stick with eMusic and stay away from mainstream music until the price of mainstream music comes down. If it never comes down, then so be it. I'm fine with just indie stuff. I think it's completely unacceptable for them to completely remove the physical product and entire distribution chain, and still charge around the same amount for music that they charge for CDs. It's the same story they gave us with CDs. They said CDs would make music cheaper. They haven't gotten any cheaper. Now a bunch of people are saying digital downloads will make things cheaper. Music doesn't look like it's getting any cheaper to me.
Everybody seems to rave about how great these new frameworks are, but they don't do a lot of things that are important at the enterprise level. One thing you mentioned was accessing the data layer from some other application. They came up with n-tier architecture a long time ago because it made a lot of sense. Put all your data access in 1 component, all your business logic in another component, and put your presentation logic in a third component. That way, if you want to access your data or business logic from some other program, you won't be completely screwed.
Also, there is only so much bandwidth available in the electromagnetic spectrum. Once you fill the spectrum, it's very hard to find more capacity. With cabling, you can always add a little bit more, or use fibre optics to carry more data over the same size cable. Sure there's still limits, but cabled communications can provide much more bandwidth than wireless ever will. Wireless is the cheap way out that works now, but doesn't account for future growth. It's already becoming a problem with too many wireless routers in my building, and there's a very low percentage of people with wireless routers. I think it would be quite bad if everyone in the building had a wireless router.
Who would want a program written by low end coders? It would be like having a couch made out of shoddy materials, except that you could never get rid of it. If you are using a badly designed program and start using it for your day-to-day needs then that application contains all your data, and is often essential to how you do business. It's like like a couch where you can just throw it away, get a new one, and continue on as if the other one existed. Thinking you can do software with "Hello World" programmers is just asking for trouble. Even if you get them to do it, and then hand it off to a qualified team for maintenance, it's going to be a nightmare to maintain.
The police are allowed to tap regular phone lines because they don't have to intrude on your property to do it. Just like they can stake out your house from a van on the road. They aren't allowed to walk into your house and watch you all day. Once they start installing trojans on computers for listening to skype calls, it's not a far stretch from them installing trojans to record every action you do on your computer.
Well they could make them twice the thickness and use super hard epoxy like plastic, that would probably make them a lot more resilient. Put a cover over the electrical contacts also to protect against damage by static electricity and other sources of electricity.
Germany still seems to have a lot of it's old attitudes lying around. Installing trojans on the computers of it's citizens for the purpose of listening to skype calls is way beyond what I would expect from a country like Germany. Then again, they still can't have video games with Nazis or blood in them. How long before someone packages up a Linux live CD with Skype preinstalled so that you can ensure you're computer isn't compromised when making phone calls?
Well, considering that 4 GB SDHC cards are common, and currently only cost $30, I think that eventually giant (by comparison) DVD media will disappear. Sure it's too expensive now, but give it 5 or 6 years. I still want something that doesn't get damaged by scratching like MiniDisc, or SD. Maybe some kind of bluray tech in a MiniDisc formfactor would be nice.
Sony has had ultra-thin Vaio laptops for years now. They used to be quite expensive, but from just checking now, they seem to be quite competitively priced to the MacBook Air.
Does it come with the magsafe adapter? I just skimmed the article (this is slashdot, what do you expect), but why would they complain about some other adapter you could use when the adapter it comes with works perfectly fine?
That power adapter has exceptionally bad placement. The only way to charge while using the laptop is to have the book sitting on the edge of the desk. Which isn't always the best place to have your laptop. I don't think I've seen anybody put their laptop directly on the edge of a desk like that.
I think it will be quite a while before internet distribution of HD movies will take off. The infrastructure won't be able to support everybody downloading Shrek IV on release day. Having a physical product has some advantages. You can stockpile them, and then when they are ready for release, they can be distributed extremely quickly. With bandwidth, you can't stock pile it for later. If 1,000,000 people go to download Shrek IV on release day, the server will be fried. Just look at how well Wii Shop channel worked on Dec. 25 2007.
However, the GameCube used 24 MB of SRAM along with regular RAM. I think this let it achieve much faster processing than would normally be possible with just the chip it had.
All the people I know who own a PS3 also own an XBox 360 and a Wii. AKA, the "Must have every system" type of people.
SLP 8 hour tapes FTW.
Yes, but a man is more agile. If the tank is coming at you, you run at a path horizontal the where it's travelling. At least try to jump out of the way when it get's really close. Or, if you are in a group, and everyone scatters, the best it can do it run over 1 person, which is favorable when you consider the alternative.
The movie doesn't look as good as the original DVD, but most people don't really care. The only reason DVD killed VHS was because you didn't have to rewind, and they didn't wear out as fast. It wasn't necessarily because of quality. People didn't get TVs you could notice the quality difference on until much later. I think the major problem with downloading movies is that people like to watch them on their TV. And most people don't have a computer hooked up to their TV. They also don't want to burn a DVD just to watch a movie.
I read, in Wired, something interesting about the audio on DVD Movies. It seems like there's a problem with the audio not being normallized so all the sounds are loud. When you go from loud scenes to quiet scenes, you constantly have to adjust the volume so you can hear what people are saying. Unless you have a nicely set up 5.1 channel system, with a good centre channel, it's often hard to hear the dialogue unless you turn up the volume to the point where it gets uncomfortably loud during high action scenes. I know I've seen this problem a lot myself. Does anybody else find this to be a problem?