It is said by many that when iTunes (and the rest) sells a song, the profit margins are pennies. How will your company sell songs for $0.49 each and not lose a lot of money?
Come on, honestly, how many of these old computers are still in use?
The mod community can take the old and forgotten and breathe new life into it. Do you really think we would have the nostalgic pleasure of remembering old systems like the Atari 800 without mods like this?
They don't make the front page of/. for their new killer apps anymore:)
As a relatively new user of Linux I see what he is saying.
[rant]
Last week I decided I needed a video player to play my music videos under Linux. It would need MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and a play list. MPEG-3 would be a bonus.
After HOURS of working I had nothing. MTV has nag screens and mplayer was just plain awful.
Xine seemed like an option, but I couldn't APT it, so I was stuck downloading package after package to fit the dependencies.
I still have no video player, and as a newbie to Linux I find it frustrating.
With so many options, users new to Linux don't know which one to use. And with so many bad programs many of them will become fed up and boot into Windows before they find a program that works for them.
As someone who lives in Toledo (I am working in the downtown area right now) this article shocks me. BR>
I know the Block family controls a lot, they own pretty much the only paper (The Toledo Blade) and run Buckeye Cable. What I never realized is that with their hold on the media I never heard a thing about this incident happening. I mean this isn't a big town, a lost chicken makes headline news at times. And now I found out the FBI was doing a crackdown and John Q Public never found out? Very disturbing.
I have been a Buckeye Express (cable internet) subscriber for three years now. This is the first I have ever heard of them doing something like this. The service is pricey ($49.95/mo if you use their cable TV too, $59.95 if you don't), but it is rock solid. I have had 1 (one) period of two hours downtime in the last three years. That was only because of a huge area storm, and they credited my account $20 for the outage.
What it really comes down to is I have been recommending this service to friends for years now, and they do this to their customers? Uncapping is illegal, sure. But how ethical is destroying someones life when they could just turn them off good ethics?
We have a small paper in town called the Toledo City Paper. It is the alternative paper for people who hate the filtered content the Blade delivers. I am going to make sure they see this story.
The thing that really sucks here in Toledo is Buckeye is usually your only option. If you do have choices it is either Ameritech DSL (horrid), Adelphia Cable modem (Not Much Better), or ComWavez ($$$$$$$$$$).
To achieve this, the cable industry, which sells Internet access to most Americans, is pursuing multiple....
It seems every time I turn around I hear a new number as far as people connected via cable. Last week I head 10% of Americans use broadband and the whole article talked about how most people just don't think the speed(haha) is worth the cost.
And now this article says this? It would seem that between cable, which provides to most Americans, and DSL, which is popular and must provide to a lot of people, I am the only mofo left with a dial up ISP.
Is this the product of cable companies inflating their subscriber numbers to keep their stocks up, or are 80% of the articles I read on this wrong?
Slashdot Mirror
No they didn't
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=811
Why is it that when I get my issue of Wired in the mail even month I just KNOW that I will eventually see every article on Slashdot?
/.
Seems the recipe to karma whore would be:
1: Monitor Wired to post their magazine stories on their site
2: Be the first to submit to
3: Rinse, Repeat
It is said by many that when iTunes (and the rest) sells a song, the profit margins are pennies.
How will your company sell songs for $0.49 each and not lose a lot of money?
I feel pretty safe. Download.com shows 2,439,826 downloads for Kazaa. Even if that is the only P2P program they are watching I am not worried.
4 in 2.5 million? My odds are better of getting struck by lighting while making love to Britney Spears on the lawn of the White House.
Come on, honestly, how many of these old computers are still in use?
/. for their new killer apps anymore :)
The mod community can take the old and forgotten and breathe new life into it. Do you really think we would have the nostalgic pleasure of remembering old systems like the Atari 800 without mods like this?
They don't make the front page of
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Fifteen times no less. I don't really care to read your budget on
As a relatively new user of Linux I see what he is saying.
[rant]
Last week I decided I needed a video player to play my music videos under Linux. It would need MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and a play list. MPEG-3 would be a bonus.
After HOURS of working I had nothing. MTV has nag screens and mplayer was just plain awful.
Xine seemed like an option, but I couldn't APT it, so I was stuck downloading package after package to fit the dependencies.
I still have no video player, and as a newbie to Linux I find it frustrating.
With so many options, users new to Linux don't know which one to use. And with so many bad programs many of them will become fed up and boot into Windows before they find a program that works for them.
[/rant]
Page three of the beta test setup...
Question 8....
"How many downloaded movies from the Internet do you have on your hard drive?"
Question 10....
"How many downloaded music tracks from the Internet do you have on your hard drive?"
Is this beta test sponsored by the MPAA and RIAA?!?
As someone who lives in Toledo (I am working in the downtown area right now) this article shocks me.
BR> I know the Block family controls a lot, they own pretty much the only paper (The Toledo Blade) and run Buckeye Cable. What I never realized is that with their hold on the media I never heard a thing about this incident happening. I mean this isn't a big town, a lost chicken makes headline news at times. And now I found out the FBI was doing a crackdown and John Q Public never found out? Very disturbing.
I have been a Buckeye Express (cable internet) subscriber for three years now. This is the first I have ever heard of them doing something like this. The service is pricey ($49.95/mo if you use their cable TV too, $59.95 if you don't), but it is rock solid. I have had 1 (one) period of two hours downtime in the last three years. That was only because of a huge area storm, and they credited my account $20 for the outage.
What it really comes down to is I have been recommending this service to friends for years now, and they do this to their customers? Uncapping is illegal, sure. But how ethical is destroying someones life when they could just turn them off good ethics?
We have a small paper in town called the Toledo City Paper. It is the alternative paper for people who hate the filtered content the Blade delivers. I am going to make sure they see this story.
The thing that really sucks here in Toledo is Buckeye is usually your only option. If you do have choices it is either Ameritech DSL (horrid), Adelphia Cable modem (Not Much Better), or ComWavez ($$$$$$$$$$).
lead to a lot of people who only watch movies in the dark!
we will buy expensive hard drives that are designed to fail after a short time...
Oh wait... we already do.
until the the Xbox Linux Project ports this version to Xbox?
It would be great to be able to have a bunch of friends bring their Xbox over and cluster them together.
It seems every time I turn around I hear a new number as far as people connected via cable. Last week I head 10% of Americans use broadband and the whole article talked about how most people just don't think the speed(haha) is worth the cost. And now this article says this? It would seem that between cable, which provides to most Americans, and DSL, which is popular and must provide to a lot of people, I am the only mofo left with a dial up ISP. Is this the product of cable companies inflating their subscriber numbers to keep their stocks up, or are 80% of the articles I read on this wrong?
duct it f**k it!
sorry couldn't help it. Oops.. one more...
If duct tape can't fix it, it's broke.
Sorry, I feel better now