a small 'sample' fee to test an MP3 but unless you are selling AT LEAST 256 kbps it WILL never FLY as a money maker, sorry. Even then you'd HAVE TO BE REALLY AREFUL to make sure you are not aswscociated with the RIAA in ANY WAY. I stopped buying music 2 years ago...the audio resolution on MP3's in general is so poor only fools with TIN ears would collect them in lieu of REAL music...
How can it cost less than 0, when they can just raise the price on the existing inferior connect and with the FEDs ensuring a 'competitive market' rest assured that they will generate new 'profit' without spending a dime. I can see the lure if broadband was intensly tough market but most places in the US are limited to one or 2 providers.
Somebody PLEASE correct if I am wrong but out here on the west coast, we've seen comcast take-over AT&T's broadband, and in the process, raise rates, institute caps, crack down on home networks, try and filter mp3's, while SBC DSL has cut-off 95% of their newsgroup access, begin marketing their customer information through Yahoo, even though as a regulated utility they had access to information that was required by law, and not segregated from their utility pool, so people REALLY GOT OUTED. I mean once you've gone broadband it takes A LOT to go back to dial-up so the cable/phone company MONOPOLIES really have people over a barrell already greased up...
is the ONLY question...I have moved my finaincial stuf twice because the company I dealt woth outsourced it to a 3rd world company that HAS NO LEGAL requirments about info protection of any sort. Granetd they do have contractual obligations with the companies they deal with but how can you hold them liable for US federal laws ??
I can travel from Mexico, to Colombia, to some very eastern european cultures, to a thriving Islamic market, and then go somewhere extremely oriental and not even leave the county I live in. Granted California is NOT the norm and I may be exagerating a wee bit but I do believe there is a HUGE geograhpical and cultural diversity, by the same token I am under-estimating the diversity of the EU. I think the objection I have, and it is valid on both side is the the political bodies that are the EU or the Federal government of the US NEITHER, even come close to actually representing the diverse cultures and backgrounds of their constituents, merely the uptight, vocal minority, generally those with somthing heavy invested in the current structure...
just leave the tapes in a silo installed in the back of the van, then using a 802.11 g wireless set up you could start processing before you acutally got into the dock, and leave before you were actually done...That is of-course totally disregarding the 48 QuadZillion $$$'s this kind of system would cost, the entire concept of security, redundancy or reality for that matter:)
Heck we blocked everything then made them come with thier manager to prove that they needed what it was that could not get through. You'd be suprised how many people just disappeared.
You make the same assumption of 50 states without the slightest hesitation. The geographical and cultural differences evident in the US span those in any 10 nations, not to mention the huge and thriving cultures of those who have chose the rather cumbersome and admittedly screwed up US system over that under which they were born, and having arrived here found that they were free to continue on along their merry way... I've been to many countries around the world, for both business and personal travel, experienced a huge and pleasing diversity of culture and life-style but I am proud to be from the USA and grateful to be home each and every time. Even if King George does represent us currently, he like all other things will pass...
JUST GET IT IN WRITING or you are screwed. As a systems engineer I KNOW this pain intimately. No matter HOW they APPEAR to understand the needs and requirments, THEY DON'T. The ONLY thing they UNDERSTAND is $$$'s and personal liability/culpability, ensure that you as a technology implimentor (oooo PC terms abound ) are not the one whose name is on the bottom line... Or of course you can always go Don Quioxte and give your self an ulcer for nothing as well:)
Not only that if the marketing drones pick up on the fact that what junior does in the back room while you are out playing cards could end you in a BIG LEGAL MESS, unless of course junior is playing on our 'protected' system, this might even become a marketing PLUS:(
More power to the technology, but animated crap is no better than real life crap, the problem lies not in the technology of making a feature 'film' but in the creativity and financing department. As we have seen with a few other animated powerhouses, great animation does not a blockbuster provide, especially here in the US, the land of the advertising buck:( What we need is a revolution of the money men, not the film makers....
but illegal no sadly not, in fact it is legal and the LAW OF THE LAND. After all our elected/payed official have stood up for the rights of those that put them in office and made a broad statement, that the average netzine is a HACKER, a THIEF who given any chance will steal anything, ohhh and we are all terrorist supporters, are anti american way, hate god and most of us are sexual deviants in some way or the spam would not be soo bad...If we will just step aside, let the government and corporation 'fix' things for us everything will get better, AND/OR people will stop complaining so much....
Obscurity ?!?! We've come all this way and we still haven't learned a thing:( Everyone should know this kind of stuff so if you saw someone messing around you'd know which areas were important and which weren't. Public AWARENESS is the key not ignorance...
It wasn't a racist comment, it was a market monopoly comment as well as a poke the contries complaining the most about computer waste that are also the ones manufacturing and pushing for a change which will generate 100 times more computer waste while actually advancing only a small space savings. As for a racisit, you IGNORANT AC there is my heinous racist tendency, AC's are spineless inbred genetic defects not capable of backing up their pointless vocal vomit, and too scared to commit to a name and be called on it, so crawl back under a rock and pretend mommy still loves you...
actually concerned with the facts, striving to support their viewpoints on a platform of reality. This will be more like a monologue from the creators of FreeNet with a Diatribe by the stooge of the week from the RIAA. Their facts have been dis-credited, their illegal activities exposed and yet they continue to march along as if anyone believes the RIAA is anything but the "Good Fella's" of the record industry. Why anyone bothers is beyond me....
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Couldn't pay me enough to give up my CRT. A laptop I have for the sheer convenience and mobility, I need an over-priced UNDER performing ONLY MADE in a a few places in ASIA LCD, like our CEO needs another bonus, and HE DOESN'T. They've been trying like crazy for several years now to convince people that LCD is 'DIGITAL' and there fore somehow better than a CRT...
the RIAA is a rabid dog, thrashing about very near death, biting ANYTHING that gets near it. The ONLY way to deal with a rabid animal is PUT IT DOWN, for EVERYONES' benefit. They have some points and the horde of users have some points, but there will NEVER be common ground with the music industry as it runs today
an ad for the album back in the day, but lets face it if there is 2 'good' singles on an album you are lucky. If there are 4 other tracks which 'aren't annoying' then you are now dealing with the an atypical album. It is just a means to push the music that WOULD NOT SELL otherwise. Then again Hasbeeninca protest music sales ?, whoda thunk it
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is going the way of the dinosaur...With mozilla Firebird out, they choose IE ?!?! Game Over AOL, Game Over man
a small 'sample' fee to test an MP3 but unless you are selling AT LEAST 256 kbps it WILL never FLY as a money maker, sorry. Even then you'd HAVE TO BE REALLY AREFUL to make sure you are not aswscociated with the RIAA in ANY WAY. I stopped buying music 2 years ago...the audio resolution on MP3's in general is so poor only fools with TIN ears would collect them in lieu of REAL music...
How can it cost less than 0, when they can just raise the price on the existing inferior connect and with the FEDs ensuring a 'competitive market' rest assured that they will generate new 'profit' without spending a dime. I can see the lure if broadband was intensly tough market but most places in the US are limited to one or 2 providers.
Somebody PLEASE correct if I am wrong but out here on the west coast, we've seen comcast take-over AT&T's broadband, and in the process, raise rates, institute caps, crack down on home networks, try and filter mp3's, while SBC DSL has cut-off 95% of their newsgroup access, begin marketing their customer information through Yahoo, even though as a regulated utility they had access to information that was required by law, and not segregated from their utility pool, so people REALLY GOT OUTED. I mean once you've gone broadband it takes A LOT to go back to dial-up so the cable/phone company MONOPOLIES really have people over a barrell already greased up...
is the ONLY question...I have moved my finaincial stuf twice because the company I dealt woth outsourced it to a 3rd world company that HAS NO LEGAL requirments about info protection of any sort. Granetd they do have contractual obligations with the companies they deal with but how can you hold them liable for US federal laws ??
wish I had mod points.....I here ya Cyno
table seems like a fairly simple solution, maybve too simple I am sure I am overlooking somthing
BUMP and thank-you, NOW I have a place to start searching :)
:)
I've still got a couple of Commodore 'PC's around here that I peek and poke at
I can travel from Mexico, to Colombia, to some very eastern european cultures, to a thriving Islamic market, and then go somewhere extremely oriental and not even leave the county I live in. Granted California is NOT the norm and I may be exagerating a wee bit but I do believe there is a HUGE geograhpical and cultural diversity, by the same token I am under-estimating the diversity of the EU. I think the objection I have, and it is valid on both side is the the political bodies that are the EU or the Federal government of the US NEITHER, even come close to actually representing the diverse cultures and backgrounds of their constituents, merely the uptight, vocal minority, generally those with somthing heavy invested in the current structure...
just leave the tapes in a silo installed in the back of the van, then using a 802.11 g wireless set up you could start processing before you acutally got into the dock, and leave before you were actually done...That is of-course totally disregarding the 48 QuadZillion $$$'s this kind of system would cost, the entire concept of security, redundancy or reality for that matter :)
Heck we blocked everything then made them come with thier manager to prove that they needed what it was that could not get through. You'd be suprised how many people just disappeared.
SMTP is NOT FTP
You make the same assumption of 50 states without the slightest hesitation. The geographical and cultural differences evident in the US span those in any 10 nations, not to mention the huge and thriving cultures of those who have chose the rather cumbersome and admittedly screwed up US system over that under which they were born, and having arrived here found that they were free to continue on along their merry way...
I've been to many countries around the world, for both business and personal travel, experienced a huge and pleasing diversity of culture and life-style but I am proud to be from the USA and grateful to be home each and every time. Even if King George does represent us currently, he like all other things will pass...
Move to where....Socialist EU ?? As bad as it is here in the US I'd still rather be on the dishing end vs. the receiving end thanks :)
JUST GET IT IN WRITING or you are screwed. As a systems engineer I KNOW this pain intimately. No matter HOW they APPEAR to understand the needs and requirments, THEY DON'T. The ONLY thing they UNDERSTAND is $$$'s and personal liability/culpability, ensure that you as a technology implimentor (oooo PC terms abound ) are not the one whose name is on the bottom line... Or of course you can always go Don Quioxte and give your self an ulcer for nothing as well :)
Not only that if the marketing drones pick up on the fact that what junior does in the back room while you are out playing cards could end you in a BIG LEGAL MESS, unless of course junior is playing on our 'protected' system, this might even become a marketing PLUS :(
More power to the technology, but animated crap is no better than real life crap, the problem lies not in the technology of making a feature 'film' but in the creativity and financing department. As we have seen with a few other animated powerhouses, great animation does not a blockbuster provide, especially here in the US, the land of the advertising buck :( What we need is a revolution of the money men, not the film makers....
but illegal no sadly not, in fact it is legal and the LAW OF THE LAND. After all our elected/payed official have stood up for the rights of those that put them in office and made a broad statement, that the average netzine is a HACKER, a THIEF who given any chance will steal anything, ohhh and we are all terrorist supporters, are anti american way, hate god and most of us are sexual deviants in some way or the spam would not be soo bad...If we will just step aside, let the government and corporation 'fix' things for us everything will get better, AND/OR people will stop complaining so much....
Obscurity ?!?! We've come all this way and we still haven't learned a thing :( Everyone should know this kind of stuff so if you saw someone messing around you'd know which areas were important and which weren't. Public AWARENESS is the key not ignorance...
It wasn't a racist comment, it was a market monopoly comment as well as a poke the contries complaining the most about computer waste that are also the ones manufacturing and pushing for a change which will generate 100 times more computer waste while actually advancing only a small space savings. As for a racisit, you IGNORANT AC there is my heinous racist tendency, AC's are spineless inbred genetic defects not capable of backing up their pointless vocal vomit, and too scared to commit to a name and be called on it, so crawl back under a rock and pretend mommy still loves you...
LOL at last, true western parental responsiblity :)
actually concerned with the facts, striving to support their viewpoints on a platform of reality.
This will be more like a monologue from the creators of FreeNet with a Diatribe by the stooge of the week from the RIAA. Their facts have been dis-credited, their illegal activities exposed and yet they continue to march along as if anyone believes the RIAA is anything but the "Good Fella's" of the record industry. Why anyone bothers is beyond me....
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Couldn't pay me enough to give up my CRT. A laptop I have for the sheer convenience and mobility, I need an over-priced UNDER performing ONLY MADE in a a few places in ASIA LCD, like our CEO needs another bonus, and HE DOESN'T. They've been trying like crazy for several years now to convince people that LCD is 'DIGITAL' and there fore somehow better than a CRT...
the RIAA is a rabid dog, thrashing about very near death, biting ANYTHING that gets near it. The ONLY way to deal with a rabid animal is PUT IT DOWN, for EVERYONES' benefit. They have some points and the horde of users have some points, but there will NEVER be common ground with the music industry as it runs today
an ad for the album back in the day, but lets face it if there is 2 'good' singles on an album you are lucky. If there are 4 other tracks which 'aren't annoying' then you are now dealing with the an atypical album. It is just a means to push the music that WOULD NOT SELL otherwise. Then again Hasbeeninca protest music sales ?, whoda thunk it
WHY 98 on some of the boxes ?