I pulled up the stats in AlbumPlayer (which is great if you have nothing but full albums, not this single song crap you end up with when downloading pirated copies), and I have 1963 albums = 27783 songs = 1956hours 30minutes of music. Granted, some of these are CD singles and CD5s, and some songs (like the Ramones) are only 1:30 long, but still the total HD space on my network server is 159GB.
Well - I have about 2200 CDs in my collection, from my days working in the music industry (DJ, concert promoter, chain record store manager). That is about 165 GB of music. Take long to rip? Sure it did. I have been ripping my collection off and on since the late 1990s at 192kb. I am sure alot of the original CDDB entries were mine (gracenote sure bent me over on that one) They are now all sitting in neat rows, in matching cartons, in storage along with a buch of other crap I can't seem to get rid of. Some day, when we have a different-and much better-standard, I can pull them all out and do it again.
Which makes me ask, in 20 years, when MP3s are replaced by PMF files, or whatever, that are 1/10 the size and lossless, will iTunes let me get the new one for free, or will I be relegated to buying the same album again, like I had to do when tape went to CD? (and you thought there was no way they could squeeze more money out of the back catalog).
Seriously, real time control systems on PLC's are going to be over your head. This part is not an IT solution, but an engineering solution. Call your local Rockwell dealer, and get an automation consultant in.
No real plan. No unique concept. No market differentiation. No pressing need being met. No users clamoring for you to open. No revenue streams. No team to make it happen. No real business background. No exit strategy.
If I were a VC I would bill you for wasting my time. There are plenty of VCs out there dying to invest their money as it has a shelf life that is coming due, but no one is stepping up with a good idea. And yours is not a good idea. A good idea had a $5-20 Billion market. A good idea can capture at least 5% of that market. A good idea fills a void in the market. A good idea has high switching costs for the end user, is hard to duplicate, is expensive to get into, has large margins, has the ability to block competitors through things like patents, leverages an already installed base, and makes you wet your pants it is so good. If you don't believe in your idea to invest your own money, money you may not have, put together a team, do the research, etc. - then why would a VC invest?
I, for one, can't believe this got posted. Oh, wait, yes I can. Perhaps my next submission will be an Ask Slashdot: "How much will you pay for this turd."
I don't have to get a new Logitech trackball each time I get a new PC or a new copy of Photoshop every time I upgrade Windoze. Why shouldn't I insist in iterative changes that wold let users keep their force feedback steering wheels and older games. They might sell more units if the games are backwards compatible as well by having a larger game library. This can only be done if the controllers are compatible as well.
Good 3rd party controllers - like the XBox Lazer Wireless Controller cost $50 each. 4 of these for the current system runs $200. Will I have to spend $200 again to get new wireless controllers?
I have a PNP 300, the very first RIO, and it is still going strong. Yes, it is cheap plastic, but works great for my daily run. 32 MB was too little, but $19 for a generic SmartMedia card doubled my memory and I now have an hours worth of workout tunes. They never had a proprietary anything, but rather purchased their components from everyone else and put it all together. Nothing proprietary here. Not like the Sony memory stick, for instance, just good ole SmartMedia.
Escrow is easy, safe, and legal for all involved. I use it for many of my clients, updating their escrow account with a new CD every 6 months. Best of all, thy pay for it.
Circa 1990, Sony, with optical digital output. And a Sony reciever with optical in and out and cabled digital out. And a Sony DVD player with digital and analog in/passthrough. And a DVD controller connection to my PC. And a DVD burner. If I could transfer this from the old crap laying around my house, what is the problem with these people?
Turn Off Read and Write Caching
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On the Dell PERC(2) Adaptec, not the PERC(II) AMI, turn off read and write caching (can be performed through the software tool) befor defragging. The read and write cache will confuse degrag software. Not a problem with the AMI PERC (aka MegaRaid). Once done, turn back on. This cannot be scheduled, so you have to be there.
The value of the content is different. A typical movie will cost $20M to make, the average studio album $300K. Given this, shouldn't CDs cost about $4 each to a DVD at $25?
Also, I want to know why I posted this story two days ago and it was rejected? Can we please show who is rejecting stories? I post about 3 a year, so it means something to me to take the time to post a story, do the research, etc.
Perhaps this is a part of a vast realization that open source software is not a basis for a business except for the very top end (large servers) and the very bottom end (embedded systems). Linux on the desktop, which I run with RH and OpenOffice, is a nightmare for the average user. I have over 10 years programming experience, so do fine, but wouldn't expect my mother to run Linux. In fact, I would rather she was on OSX or BeOS than Win98 because I am the one who gets her support calls. The technology has to become transparent to the user, like a car or a dishwasher, before it will become a success. No one is working out there to make this happen and no one is paying companies for doing work in the linux desktop arena. That, my friends, is economic reality. A nice linux gaming console with a decent API, SDK, and developer toolkit would make this happen. There is no organization to the community to push a cohesive vision for the home market and all the other guys have got their s*** together. XBox, PS2, even Apple, all have a full strategy and are running full out to be the winner in an integrated home market. This includes video games.
I picked up a CD today at the Post Office. It really just a digital brochure highlighting the following in one menu:
Mobility
Communication
Digital Video
Digital Music
Digital Photo
Connected Home
Help and Support
There is also a menu for:
XP Overview
Bonus Bits (such as:)
--Free MSN
--Bonus Movies and Music
--Plus!
--MS Games (Zoo Tycoon, Bicycle Card Games)
--Office XP Demo
--Info on Pentium 4
--etc.
A link to enter the XP Sweepstakes (http://www.windowsxppromo.com) which my DNS choked on.
An Upgrade Advisor
And a few links to get special offers and to purchase XP
This is the best thing that could happen to linux right now. To break the MS Monopoly, linux has to mainstream. OSX won't do it, BeOS is dead, BSD is further behind on the desktop than linux is. Are you waiting for solaris to suddenly take off? Lindows is the first good idea I have heard in quite a while, except this. This might just do the impossible, not to mention setting a standard for a lot of the industry that will bring more jobs to those of you who do linux for a living. It may also provide a standard desktop config, so we can get on to building cross-compatible apps.
Little Rock, AR has the highest per capita gang membership of any city in the US. It is a central trucking center, and so a central pipeline for drugs.
The good software for Music Studios and mixing stations is not Linux based. It is not Win based either. Any music geek will tell you that all his music belong to Mac.
Actually, I said if you read them. I took the time out to go to the Congressional Record and do the reading. The detail involved leaves no conclusion but that they were months of work involved, not something hastily put together.
What amazes me is the fact that some of these bills were produced so fast. If you read through one, you quickly realize the amount of time that went into them. This leaves me with the conclusion that they have been prepared for quite a while, just waiting for the right opportunity to be submitted. I am not saying there is a conspiracy, just politicians, policy wonks, and agencies with an agenda, patience, and a predictable understanding that bad things do and will happen.
Perhaps something to help facilitate this could be built into HDs in the future. They are already moving in this direction for content ownership authentication.
When I try to login to Hotmail (which I never use, but have anyway) I get the following message:
"Our records show that you are under 13 years of age. As a result, a new law requires us to get your parent's permission before you can continue to use Hotmail. We use Kids Passport to get permission from your parent so you can start using Hotmail again right away! To get started, answer the question below.
Is your parent with you right now? Y N"
Though it is nice that they are following COPPA, I am 32 yrs old. Answering no to the question brings me to a screen where I enter my parents email address and they send off a note to get permission. Saying yes gets me a screen where I verify that I am the parent of myself, etc.
I don't want to falsify this information, for fear of breaking their agreement, nor do I want to get my mother involved (I am not sure if she would understand that she needs to OK me to access email, and I don't want to get her involved with Microsoft).
I cannot figure out how they know my age (erroneously), except I ruitinely skip that whenever asked.
So, how do I get my spam from my hotmail box without breaking Federal law or Microsoft's aagreement, and at the same time leave my parents out of this.
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I pulled up the stats in AlbumPlayer (which is great if you have nothing but full albums, not this single song crap you end up with when downloading pirated copies), and I have 1963 albums = 27783 songs = 1956hours 30minutes of music. Granted, some of these are CD singles and CD5s, and some songs (like the Ramones) are only 1:30 long, but still the total HD space on my network server is 159GB.
Well - I have about 2200 CDs in my collection, from my days working in the music industry (DJ, concert promoter, chain record store manager). That is about 165 GB of music. Take long to rip? Sure it did. I have been ripping my collection off and on since the late 1990s at 192kb. I am sure alot of the original CDDB entries were mine (gracenote sure bent me over on that one) They are now all sitting in neat rows, in matching cartons, in storage along with a buch of other crap I can't seem to get rid of. Some day, when we have a different-and much better-standard, I can pull them all out and do it again.
Which makes me ask, in 20 years, when MP3s are replaced by PMF files, or whatever, that are 1/10 the size and lossless, will iTunes let me get the new one for free, or will I be relegated to buying the same album again, like I had to do when tape went to CD? (and you thought there was no way they could squeeze more money out of the back catalog).
Seriously, real time control systems on PLC's are going to be over your head. This part is not an IT solution, but an engineering solution. Call your local Rockwell dealer, and get an automation consultant in.
"all the thing that I learn at the time where actually valuable"
Except, of course, for your basic English skills.
How about learning to write better. You are looking for a complex solution to a simple problem.
No real plan. No unique concept. No market differentiation. No pressing need being met. No users clamoring for you to open. No revenue streams. No team to make it happen. No real business background. No exit strategy.
If I were a VC I would bill you for wasting my time. There are plenty of VCs out there dying to invest their money as it has a shelf life that is coming due, but no one is stepping up with a good idea. And yours is not a good idea. A good idea had a $5-20 Billion market. A good idea can capture at least 5% of that market. A good idea fills a void in the market. A good idea has high switching costs for the end user, is hard to duplicate, is expensive to get into, has large margins, has the ability to block competitors through things like patents, leverages an already installed base, and makes you wet your pants it is so good. If you don't believe in your idea to invest your own money, money you may not have, put together a team, do the research, etc. - then why would a VC invest?
I, for one, can't believe this got posted. Oh, wait, yes I can. Perhaps my next submission will be an Ask Slashdot: "How much will you pay for this turd."
I don't have to get a new Logitech trackball each time I get a new PC or a new copy of Photoshop every time I upgrade Windoze. Why shouldn't I insist in iterative changes that wold let users keep their force feedback steering wheels and older games. They might sell more units if the games are backwards compatible as well by having a larger game library. This can only be done if the controllers are compatible as well.
Good 3rd party controllers - like the XBox Lazer Wireless Controller cost $50 each. 4 of these for the current system runs $200. Will I have to spend $200 again to get new wireless controllers?
2600+ contacts to manage. Got Plaxo. Use it, love it. Had the idea myself but no time to make it happen. Kicking myself daily.
I have a PNP 300, the very first RIO, and it is still going strong. Yes, it is cheap plastic, but works great for my daily run. 32 MB was too little, but $19 for a generic SmartMedia card doubled my memory and I now have an hours worth of workout tunes. They never had a proprietary anything, but rather purchased their components from everyone else and put it all together. Nothing proprietary here. Not like the Sony memory stick, for instance, just good ole SmartMedia.
Escrow is easy, safe, and legal for all involved. I use it for many of my clients, updating their escrow account with a new CD every 6 months. Best of all, thy pay for it.
In good times and bad, they have a job.
Circa 1990, Sony, with optical digital output. And a Sony reciever with optical in and out and cabled digital out. And a Sony DVD player with digital and analog in/passthrough. And a DVD controller connection to my PC. And a DVD burner. If I could transfer this from the old crap laying around my house, what is the problem with these people?
On the Dell PERC(2) Adaptec, not the PERC(II) AMI, turn off read and write caching (can be performed through the software tool) befor defragging. The read and write cache will confuse degrag software. Not a problem with the AMI PERC (aka MegaRaid). Once done, turn back on. This cannot be scheduled, so you have to be there.
The value of the content is different. A typical movie will cost $20M to make, the average studio album $300K. Given this, shouldn't CDs cost about $4 each to a DVD at $25?
Also, I want to know why I posted this story two days ago and it was rejected? Can we please show who is rejecting stories? I post about 3 a year, so it means something to me to take the time to post a story, do the research, etc.
They were all university researchers or in government researh labs. Not the sysadmin at the local DMV.
Perhaps this is a part of a vast realization that open source software is not a basis for a business except for the very top end (large servers) and the very bottom end (embedded systems). Linux on the desktop, which I run with RH and OpenOffice, is a nightmare for the average user. I have over 10 years programming experience, so do fine, but wouldn't expect my mother to run Linux. In fact, I would rather she was on OSX or BeOS than Win98 because I am the one who gets her support calls. The technology has to become transparent to the user, like a car or a dishwasher, before it will become a success. No one is working out there to make this happen and no one is paying companies for doing work in the linux desktop arena. That, my friends, is economic reality. A nice linux gaming console with a decent API, SDK, and developer toolkit would make this happen. There is no organization to the community to push a cohesive vision for the home market and all the other guys have got their s*** together. XBox, PS2, even Apple, all have a full strategy and are running full out to be the winner in an integrated home market. This includes video games.
I picked up a CD today at the Post Office. It really just a digital brochure highlighting the following in one menu:
Mobility
Communication
Digital Video
Digital Music
Digital Photo
Connected Home
Help and Support
There is also a menu for:
XP Overview
Bonus Bits (such as:)
--Free MSN
--Bonus Movies and Music
--Plus!
--MS Games (Zoo Tycoon, Bicycle Card Games)
--Office XP Demo
--Info on Pentium 4
--etc.
A link to enter the XP Sweepstakes (http://www.windowsxppromo.com) which my DNS choked on.
An Upgrade Advisor
And a few links to get special offers and to purchase XP
All done in Flash.
This is the best thing that could happen to linux right now. To break the MS Monopoly, linux has to mainstream. OSX won't do it, BeOS is dead, BSD is further behind on the desktop than linux is. Are you waiting for solaris to suddenly take off? Lindows is the first good idea I have heard in quite a while, except this. This might just do the impossible, not to mention setting a standard for a lot of the industry that will bring more jobs to those of you who do linux for a living. It may also provide a standard desktop config, so we can get on to building cross-compatible apps.
As if anyone were actually interested.
Little Rock, AR has the highest per capita gang membership of any city in the US. It is a central trucking center, and so a central pipeline for drugs.
The good software for Music Studios and mixing stations is not Linux based. It is not Win based either. Any music geek will tell you that all his music belong to Mac.
Actually, I said if you read them. I took the time out to go to the Congressional Record and do the reading. The detail involved leaves no conclusion but that they were months of work involved, not something hastily put together.
What amazes me is the fact that some of these bills were produced so fast. If you read through one, you quickly realize the amount of time that went into them. This leaves me with the conclusion that they have been prepared for quite a while, just waiting for the right opportunity to be submitted. I am not saying there is a conspiracy, just politicians, policy wonks, and agencies with an agenda, patience, and a predictable understanding that bad things do and will happen.
Perhaps something to help facilitate this could be built into HDs in the future. They are already moving in this direction for content ownership authentication.
When I try to login to Hotmail (which I never use, but have anyway) I get the following message:
"Our records show that you are under 13 years of age. As a result, a new law requires us to get your parent's permission before you can continue to use Hotmail. We use Kids Passport to get permission from your parent so you can start using Hotmail again right away! To get started, answer the question below.
Is your parent with you right now? Y N"
Though it is nice that they are following COPPA, I am 32 yrs old. Answering no to the question brings me to a screen where I enter my parents email address and they send off a note to get permission. Saying yes gets me a screen where I verify that I am the parent of myself, etc.
I don't want to falsify this information, for fear of breaking their agreement, nor do I want to get my mother involved (I am not sure if she would understand that she needs to OK me to access email, and I don't want to get her involved with Microsoft).
I cannot figure out how they know my age (erroneously), except I ruitinely skip that whenever asked.
So, how do I get my spam from my hotmail box without breaking Federal law or Microsoft's aagreement, and at the same time leave my parents out of this.