Oh sure, this could be the minor conspiracy: They are doing this to market to us better. "Hmm, boy I'd like a new laptop but I only have $1000 to spend." Robot overhears, reports in... suddenly you get an offer in email (or by the robot itself) for, guess what, a laptop that only cost's $1,200 (hell anyone can come up with antoher two K eh?).
Last I checked, two K was two THOUSAND, not two hundred, and not everyone can come up with... wait, you work for the RIAA, don't you?
I'd say they count as environmentally friendly considering if you estimate I would have gone through 4AAs a week for two years that's 416AA batteries or roughly 27lbs of waste.
As opposed to the 27 lbs. of carbon dioxide created from the coal-burning power plants that provided the energy to your house required to recharge those batteries.
Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Of course, that's just a rough estimate and doesn't take into account whether you've got one of those funky solar-powered recharging kits...
For those of us in cooler climates (i.e. Ontario, Canada) AMD's processors also double nicely as space-heaters in the winter.
You joke about that as if it's a bad thing. In my previous apartment, I used to run my old AMD Duron tower all day in the winter, and it kept my electric bill nice and low.
The furnace where I live now had been busted all week. (Finally fixed yesterday.) Suddenly, I wish I hadn't exchanged that old tower for a Shuttle XPC. Shuttle cases are cool and not nearly as loud, but they just don't warm the room like those old towers...
While there's no MAME for PalmOS, there is XCade, which runs Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Phoenix, Star Castle and a few others. Support for more games is on the way, though Galaga is fairly low down on the list.
So will America, eventually. At some point, the system will get corrupted and fail, and it's anybody's guess what might replace it after that.
For the record, I don't believe that this will happen in our lifetimes. The Roman Empire was centuries older and far more corrupted than America is now when it finally broke apart. This country will be around for a while. All I'm saying is that it won't last forever. Nothing ever does.
Have you ever watched Alias? Nokia practically owns that show. Their horrid ringtone can be heard at least every other week, and a few episodes ago, their 3650 model became a technological centerpiece in a spy mission.
I'm not sure what frightens me more -- that Nokia does it, or that I recognize it so easily...
There are other options out there. For electronic music creators, ElectronicScene.com is a good site. Ampcast is another good general music site that doesn't get nearly the pub that MP3.com does. Amazon has a spot for hosting MP3s. Plus, CD Baby is setting up a digital distribution channel that will let unsigned artists sell tracks on iTunes.
There are more, and there will be at least one big site to emerge out of this, because nature abhors a vacuum. A little Googling will help. Plus, let's not forget that C|Net is talking about relaunching "artist services." I don't think this domain will be just a portal for iPod & iRiver reviews in the long run.
Let's keep this in mind, folks -- the music itself is not being destroyed, just this directory of it. The artists themselves maintain the rights to their creations, and if they want to upload them somewhere else, such as Ampcast or ElectronicScene.com, that is their right to do. Artists could also sell CDs on CD Baby or just upload their MP3s to their own web sites, provided it's cool with the ISP. Perhaps it won't be concentrated in one place like before, but life will go on.
Also, keep in mind that we don't know exactly what C|Net is going to do with the mp3.com domain yet. It may reboot the service and make it look similar to the pre-IPO days. That might not be such a terrible thing. That catalog had a lot of clutter.
As for Michael Robertson, I would ignore him. He was the one who said that MP3.com was a data company and not a music company. He's a lucky opportunist who doesn't really care about artist rights, and as a former artist on MP3.com, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
And when the dead birds, bats, and butterflies ( etc. ) start piling up around the reception point, ( not to mention the random idiot in an aircraft that just happens to forget about "restricted airspace" ) what do we do then?
Buy some brewskis and hold a company picnic, maybe?
Blue screen baby, robot lady, Apache server for the band Camera eyes, painted smile, You were built by geeky men Hard drive grinder, you might just find her, dancing on silicon Now she's got me, she don't dance sloppy, MS DanceR, you're the one...
Hold me closer, MS DanceR. Count your megabytes of memory. Tokyo loves robot women. Don't you drain your battery...
Linux freaks, out on the street, Handing tickets out dissing Bill Turning back, she just laughs, Windows XP is not that bad...
Really, how long has it been since MP3.com has been relevant to the online music world? Since Michael Robertson sold out, MP3.com has been merely another web property floundering in the hands of some giant conglomerate that cares nothing for its customers. I'm surprised someone hasn't gone to VU with an offer for MP3.com or eMusic, given how little VU thinks of these sites anymore. Or are they simply refusing to sell off their online music properties separately from the total package?
It would be nice if someone like Yahoo or eBay made an offer for MP3.com, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for this site to mean something again anytime soon.
...there's a big gap between these uninspired retreads and the hardcore gamers' games, and that gap is largely empty and unexplored.
And who exactly is in that gap? You've got your hardcore gamers who want the dope graphics and complex gameplay, and you've got the casual people who get hooked on Tetris and Bejeweled and don't really want anything more than that. Game companies aren't going to sell to a market that doesn't exist. If anything, individual programmers with new ideas may try to cultivate the market, but they probably won't make a living at it for a while...
Personally, I'll be happy enough with MAME for PalmOS. If I could play a few arcade originals on a Palm phone, I'd probably go buy one.
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Did they used one of these cubes as the web server?
It only costs us $20 billion to go to Mars, but it costs us $87 billion to go to Iraq...
What's up with that?
I've never heard of someone getting stripped searched without a high degree of suspiscion...
gangien, meet Sue Smethurst.
Last I checked, two K was two THOUSAND, not two hundred, and not everyone can come up with... wait, you work for the RIAA, don't you?
I'd say they count as environmentally friendly considering if you estimate I would have gone through 4AAs a week for two years that's 416AA batteries or roughly 27lbs of waste.
As opposed to the 27 lbs. of carbon dioxide created from the coal-burning power plants that provided the energy to your house required to recharge those batteries.
Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Of course, that's just a rough estimate and doesn't take into account whether you've got one of those funky solar-powered recharging kits...
Is that anything like the cigarette lighter camera?
Or perhaps Cylons confuse sexual release with true emotion and feeling.
Great. Now my ex-girlfriend probably thinks I'm a Cylon...
For those of us in cooler climates (i.e. Ontario, Canada) AMD's processors also double nicely as space-heaters in the winter.
You joke about that as if it's a bad thing. In my previous apartment, I used to run my old AMD Duron tower all day in the winter, and it kept my electric bill nice and low.
The furnace where I live now had been busted all week. (Finally fixed yesterday.) Suddenly, I wish I hadn't exchanged that old tower for a Shuttle XPC. Shuttle cases are cool and not nearly as loud, but they just don't warm the room like those old towers...
While there's no MAME for PalmOS, there is XCade, which runs Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Phoenix, Star Castle and a few others. Support for more games is on the way, though Galaga is fairly low down on the list.
Here are some screenshots.
...if you hold nothing sacred, then the terrorists win.
P.S.- the Roman empire FELL TO PIECES.
So will America, eventually. At some point, the system will get corrupted and fail, and it's anybody's guess what might replace it after that.
For the record, I don't believe that this will happen in our lifetimes. The Roman Empire was centuries older and far more corrupted than America is now when it finally broke apart. This country will be around for a while. All I'm saying is that it won't last forever. Nothing ever does.
Have you ever watched Alias? Nokia practically owns that show. Their horrid ringtone can be heard at least every other week, and a few episodes ago, their 3650 model became a technological centerpiece in a spy mission.
I'm not sure what frightens me more -- that Nokia does it, or that I recognize it so easily...
There are other options out there. For electronic music creators, ElectronicScene.com is a good site. Ampcast is another good general music site that doesn't get nearly the pub that MP3.com does. Amazon has a spot for hosting MP3s. Plus, CD Baby is setting up a digital distribution channel that will let unsigned artists sell tracks on iTunes.
There are more, and there will be at least one big site to emerge out of this, because nature abhors a vacuum. A little Googling will help. Plus, let's not forget that C|Net is talking about relaunching "artist services." I don't think this domain will be just a portal for iPod & iRiver reviews in the long run.
Maybe its not working because I'm a IE whore ;-)
Can't blame IE on this. It doesn't work on Mozilla, either.
Let's keep this in mind, folks -- the music itself is not being destroyed, just this directory of it. The artists themselves maintain the rights to their creations, and if they want to upload them somewhere else, such as Ampcast or ElectronicScene.com, that is their right to do. Artists could also sell CDs on CD Baby or just upload their MP3s to their own web sites, provided it's cool with the ISP. Perhaps it won't be concentrated in one place like before, but life will go on.
Also, keep in mind that we don't know exactly what C|Net is going to do with the mp3.com domain yet. It may reboot the service and make it look similar to the pre-IPO days. That might not be such a terrible thing. That catalog had a lot of clutter.
As for Michael Robertson, I would ignore him. He was the one who said that MP3.com was a data company and not a music company. He's a lucky opportunist who doesn't really care about artist rights, and as a former artist on MP3.com, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
And when the dead birds, bats, and butterflies ( etc. ) start piling up around the reception point, ( not to mention the random idiot in an aircraft that just happens to forget about "restricted airspace" ) what do we do then?
Buy some brewskis and hold a company picnic, maybe?
T-Mobile doesn't offer service in North Carolina, you insensitive clod!!!
I think so, Brain, but isn't Slashdot more fun without an editor?
NARF!
Hmmph. Zero or zero not. There is no partial.
Voyager 6, Bengals 3.
The orange version is the Intel, and an AMD version is slated to come out (I'm pretty sure it will be green).
Does that mean the AMD version is decaf? Or is it the other way around? I never can remember...
Blue screen baby, robot lady,
Apache server for the band
Camera eyes, painted smile,
You were built by geeky men
Hard drive grinder, you might just find her,
dancing on silicon
Now she's got me, she don't dance sloppy,
MS DanceR, you're the one...
Hold me closer, MS DanceR.
Count your megabytes of memory.
Tokyo loves robot women.
Don't you drain your battery...
Linux freaks, out on the street,
Handing tickets out dissing Bill
Turning back, she just laughs,
Windows XP is not that bad...
Really, how long has it been since MP3.com has been relevant to the online music world? Since Michael Robertson sold out, MP3.com has been merely another web property floundering in the hands of some giant conglomerate that cares nothing for its customers. I'm surprised someone hasn't gone to VU with an offer for MP3.com or eMusic, given how little VU thinks of these sites anymore. Or are they simply refusing to sell off their online music properties separately from the total package?
It would be nice if someone like Yahoo or eBay made an offer for MP3.com, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for this site to mean something again anytime soon.
Oh, man, this operating system... it's PURE SNOW!
I froze the left half of my brain! Look! I can't move my right arm!
And who exactly is in that gap? You've got your hardcore gamers who want the dope graphics and complex gameplay, and you've got the casual people who get hooked on Tetris and Bejeweled and don't really want anything more than that. Game companies aren't going to sell to a market that doesn't exist. If anything, individual programmers with new ideas may try to cultivate the market, but they probably won't make a living at it for a while...
Personally, I'll be happy enough with MAME for PalmOS. If I could play a few arcade originals on a Palm phone, I'd probably go buy one.