yes, the stock drops are a coincedence, in so far as they are unrelated to Napster cards. It's not a coincedence all those stocks dropped, tho, because the are all retail chains.
I think what we see here is Napster targeting a more widespread market market than Apple. Apple offers, at its core, an intergrated Personal Computing solution. When that solution started to include media & entertainment, they responded by slowly making DVD players basically standard across the line and introducing the iPod for a music/user interface away from the computer. iTunes merely intergrates Apple's iPod into the consumers purchasing of music.
Napster & other music services are now springing up to fill a gap more akin to satellite radio i.e. custom, individual driven content delivery rather than intergration of the personal computer into life.
At least that's my take, it's significant because it shows an aim towards selling content rather than in selling hardware.
Yes, and discontining a product or dropping support is a different ball of wax than closing doors, renaming company, and screwing customers who are currently supported...which Appgen has now done twice with apparently the same company officers. My point is it's foolish to spend 2K for anything and not find anything out about the company's track record or the officers running the company.
Moneybooks is still around because the programmer got his own code *back* and cared enough to keep it going, as I understand the article.
This doesn't change the fact that company said forget it and basically cut Sean loose on his own...I imagine something similar will happen with Appgen.
It's called bad business practices and a risk everyone takes whenever they buy anything and do not research what they are buying and who they are buying it from.
The real tip-off in the article is the fact they did the same thing with a previous program...I can't feel too much sympathy with individuals or companies doing business with a company but not doing a through check of who they are doing business with.
I find this very odd, dovetails were defacto furnituring making practice until the nail...so if Chippendale or whatever has lasped into public domain why hasn't the dovetail pattern used to make it? What happens when someone patents ethernet twisted pair cable 10 years from now or what ever? Do all cable crimpers become tools of RJ-45 pirates?
it would be nice if OS X actually let the user set the shell from the system preferences...on the other, anybody who cares will do it themselves and forget about it.
Slashdot Mirror
Time to find the ethernet cables and plug in all those wireless laptops...
No 802.11b, 1 year!
yes, the stock drops are a coincedence, in so far as they are unrelated to Napster cards. It's not a coincedence all those stocks dropped, tho, because the are all retail chains.
I think what we see here is Napster targeting a more widespread market market than Apple. Apple offers, at its core, an intergrated Personal Computing solution. When that solution started to include media & entertainment, they responded by slowly making DVD players basically standard across the line and introducing the iPod for a music/user interface away from the computer. iTunes merely intergrates Apple's iPod into the consumers purchasing of music.
Napster & other music services are now springing up to fill a gap more akin to satellite radio i.e. custom, individual driven content delivery rather than intergration of the personal computer into life.
At least that's my take, it's significant because it shows an aim towards selling content rather than in selling hardware.
TI Specs on Card Reader
13.56 mhz, 8"/5" Read Range...no tracking yet (hoping that 802.11x has already sucked these frequencies)
64 bit unique card ID set by TI, 2K storage on card, magnetic strip optional, 847(?) kHz subcarrier signal required for power/transmission
TI RFId Site
RFID = compliant IEEE standard = MAC Address?
Even if there isn't a MAC Address, it must use some kind of base station that receives packets...DoS anyone? (Probably have to build a radio, tho)
Yes, and discontining a product or dropping support is a different ball of wax than closing doors, renaming company, and screwing customers who are currently supported...which Appgen has now done twice with apparently the same company officers. My point is it's foolish to spend 2K for anything and not find anything out about the company's track record or the officers running the company.
Moneybooks is still around because the programmer got his own code *back* and cared enough to keep it going, as I understand the article.
This doesn't change the fact that company said forget it and basically cut Sean loose on his own...I imagine something similar will happen with Appgen.
It's called bad business practices and a risk everyone takes whenever they buy anything and do not research what they are buying and who they are buying it from.
The real tip-off in the article is the fact they did the same thing with a previous program...I can't feel too much sympathy with individuals or companies doing business with a company but not doing a through check of who they are doing business with.
I find this very odd, dovetails were defacto furnituring making practice until the nail...so if Chippendale or whatever has lasped into public domain why hasn't the dovetail pattern used to make it? What happens when someone patents ethernet twisted pair cable 10 years from now or what ever? Do all cable crimpers become tools of RJ-45 pirates?
it would be nice if OS X actually let the user set the shell from the system preferences...on the other, anybody who cares will do it themselves and forget about it.