If the entire class were participating in an online discussion while the teacher was making remarks, then better questions could be formed to help the flow of lectures.
However, this isn't any breakthru in my opinion because what could be said during class, could most definitely wait until afterclass.
I believe that MP3's purchased on the internet will continue to be a limited venture for the obvious reasons...
1. People can usually find the mp3s via illegal means, meaning free
2. People who really like a band and have money to spend on legitamite means, also like having quality music, which tends to be lost with the majority of mp3's.
3. Cover art is important, but more importantly is that CD's are purchased in a package with other songs. Many artists will create a CD album to include songs in a specific order and complimentary to each other. I can imagine that mp3's will be sold separately to avoid 50mb downloads.
4. The extras that were mentioned in other replies are not huge selling points. Tabs and such are useless to everyone who doesnt play guitar. Cover art to a person without a printer is just a background on a desktop for a week. All of these things should be provided by the band because they want to serve their fans. Bands have to have a demand before they can sell the supply.
I agree that we need a revolution in how filesystems work inside an operating system, but it seems that the arguments placed in this paper had alot of holes.
For one thing, the need for changing a filesystem should not really be solely concerned on space or metadata. I think security, speed of data retrieval, and self correcting error engines should be centered on the new systems.
The reason for the speed of data retrieval as being more important than data size is because hardrives are getting much bigger than they are faster. In five years, we may have 20 terabyte drives, but the access speeds will still be horrible.
Security and error correction are obvious points that should be implemented on a systemwide level. When these features are system wide, then management becomes much easier for all system users.
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If the entire class were participating in an online discussion while the teacher was making remarks, then better questions could be formed to help the flow of lectures. However, this isn't any breakthru in my opinion because what could be said during class, could most definitely wait until afterclass.
I believe that MP3's purchased on the internet will continue to be a limited venture for the obvious reasons... 1. People can usually find the mp3s via illegal means, meaning free 2. People who really like a band and have money to spend on legitamite means, also like having quality music, which tends to be lost with the majority of mp3's. 3. Cover art is important, but more importantly is that CD's are purchased in a package with other songs. Many artists will create a CD album to include songs in a specific order and complimentary to each other. I can imagine that mp3's will be sold separately to avoid 50mb downloads. 4. The extras that were mentioned in other replies are not huge selling points. Tabs and such are useless to everyone who doesnt play guitar. Cover art to a person without a printer is just a background on a desktop for a week. All of these things should be provided by the band because they want to serve their fans. Bands have to have a demand before they can sell the supply.
I agree that we need a revolution in how filesystems work inside an operating system, but it seems that the arguments placed in this paper had alot of holes.
For one thing, the need for changing a filesystem should not really be solely concerned on space or metadata. I think security, speed of data retrieval, and self correcting error engines should be centered on the new systems.
The reason for the speed of data retrieval as being more important than data size is because hardrives are getting much bigger than they are faster. In five years, we may have 20 terabyte drives, but the access speeds will still be horrible.
Security and error correction are obvious points that should be implemented on a systemwide level. When these features are system wide, then management becomes much easier for all system users.