Is that whoever posed this question has never done even 10 seconds of research to answer it himself as one can easily find vast amounts of classical music online, on iTunes, Amazon, or one of the various "lesser known" stores.
I mean come on, I've downloaded several classical tracks straight from the iTunes promoted weekly single. So not only is classical available there, it's occasionally even promoted.
On top of that, every few weeks you'll see a deal on some bulk track sale on Amazon or similar stores posted to the old standby slickdeals.net site.
So really, why is this question here on slashdot? Is/. looking to compete with google by crowdsourcing search result for the most mundane and trivial bits of information out there?
This whole post was a ruse to get us to run over and watch that amateur string quartet playing. I suppose to run up the hit count. I'm thinking that a Slashdot effect on a Youtube video would all by itself create a viral video status.
No one argues they are fool proof the point is merely that Microsoft ships a more secure product than most of it's competitors.
And you know this how? You have what proof? OH WAIT... Microsoft said so and they would never try to deceive anyone. Please ignore those lawyers behind the curtain.
This sounds more like a Microsoft solution than a Linux solution. $48 a year is exactly $48 more than I paid for my OS. But the question is: Are we so lazy that we will pay $48 a year to not have to reboot the system? I mean lay down and take a break while its rebooting and you'll be fine.
But that's the point. Once you start recognizing certain contributors more than others and giving them status symbols - especially where the difference is small and/or largely subjective - you risk creating a "them and us" situation.
Next phase is that the "them", who are probably more numerous and contribute more, feel rejected and decide to tell the clique to stuff it.
Deciding to tell the Clique to stuff it has already begun. I am the moderator of a 92 member LUG that supports Ubuntu. We have tried for 2 years to qualify as a LoCo. We have in the past handed out literally hundreds of Ubuntu CD's with a small install manual locally prepared. When we couldn't qualify for banners and handouts again this year for the Launch Party my membership voted to distance ourselves from "the elitist" that are the chosen few in Ubuntu. A large group have already moved to Simple Mepis 8 and waved goodbye to Ubuntu.
I love the software and the OS. But I'm about to join them after this announcement. The bottom line is that they only care about you if you advance their cause. Being a user is totally without merit.
But on the flipside, I tend to use Google as the documentation for Windows/MacOS and most assorted non-free software that runs on them, too.
john@john-desktop:~$ apropos burn CD
brasero (1) - Simple and easy to use CD/DVD burning application for...//
apt-cdrom (8) - APT CDROM management utility//
cdparanoia (1) - an audio CD reading utility which includes extra data...//
cdplayer_applet (1) - CD Player Applet for the GNOME panel.//
hipercdecode (1) - Decode a HIPERC stream into human readable form.//
mcd (1) - change MSDOS directory//
rsyncd.conf (5) - configuration file for rsync in daemon mode//
u1sdtool (1) - command line utility for controlling ubuntuone-syncdaemon//
john@john-desktop:~$
Released usually means stable. The first failure notice I had after installing the RELEASED Ubuntu 9.10 was that the highly touted Ubuntu One was broken. My client was more advanced than the server according to the alarm. So as far as exhibiting their cloud capability they score a negative.
My web cam is useless. Skype only partially works.
It may say released but its still a beta!
Let me check something here... just a second... yup, thought so, I don't really care if I get to rent a movie 2 weeks after it leaves the cinema or I have to wait 6 or 8 weeks.
In neither case am I going to feel any more or less compelled to buy the movie instead.
I am in 100% agreement with you. I went in to rent a video to view with my family when my kids visited a week ago. I could not find anything that had enough quality and was family safe to rent! Instead I bought a couple of large pizzas and we played Penta all night and had a blast.
I am one of those seniors and have been a Linux user for 9 years. I live in a retirement resort and teach Linux to those that are interested. We have 58 full time Linux users and it is extremely rare that I get a yell for help. However those still suffering along with the Millennium Edition on a 386 that there kids gave them when they upgraded, are constantly on the phone with me.
48 of the 58 are using Linux Mint the remainder are using Ubuntu. You might want to stop thinking of them as seniors and start thinking of them as captives of a lousy OS.
Wouldn't a 5th Wheel tailer offer far more facility and a lot better appearing home? Wouldn't you have better luck moving it at road speeds as opposed to walking speeds.
OK, it works. NICE! Now where is that RV dealer located again?
We do have - *69 will redial the number that just called you. But the problem is that the people using her number to spoof their ID aren't calling her - they are calling all over the planet - and the people who got scammed are calling this lady.
A call screener is the answer.
Since the spoofed calls are not coming to her number the records will only show the angry folks who are getting scammed. It is their phone records that will indicate the source.
Purchase a call screening device ($60) and block calls from out of the area or any unrecognized number. Most machines allow you to use both a white list of good numbers a priority list of close friends and a rejection list that would include anyone else.
We were getting a lot of drunks calling late at night waking us in a panic. We put a "caller ID with ring control" on the line and have not had a single unknown phone call. We have not had anyone we white listed blocked. So its a cheap answer to the problem.
If everyone just refused to send txt messages to Verizon users it wouldn't be long before angry subscribers got this idiotic charge dropped or they moved on to another service. I for one would be moving now and not waiting. But then - I have already moved.
DOH! I never worked for anybody smart enough to read a blog. My last boss thought the Internet was what you wore on your head when you were near food.
There! That should keep me unemployed for the rest of the year!
We have the technology but we don't have enough desire for speed that we are willing to pay the incredible price that will be levied. When we feel the pain enough we will be informed that we can get on a fast link for about $200 a month and everyone will jump at it.
I have a friend from Korea who laughed out loud at what I was paying and the 2.56MB speed I receive on my DSL. He said "At home that's called BROKE!"
Have you ever tried to get a seat at a Starbucks around 3:30 in the afternoon? So now you have an additional reason for those airheads to sit around talking about boys at the office.
Out of all the searches that occur, a small handful are the true moneymakers. When you search Google for "British prime ministers" the resulting ads are not very profitable to them. In fact, some searches are so unprofitable and clearly just information seeking, that Google will not even display ads at all.
The important searches are things like "Best Digital Camera," "Kelly Blue Book BMW 325i," "The Da Vinci Code," and so on. These are searches that are very likely to result in a sale.
What MSFT is doing doesn't seem that innovative because it's so obvious - but no one is doing it.
Think of club promotors on sidewalks in NYC or Vegas or whatever. Typical entry is let's say cover of $10. But if you take a stupid little card from someone advertising the club, maybe that gets you free entry. Why? No reason, you aren't special, just you happened to pick up the advertisement. The club is paying the promotor to offer you a discount, so that you eventually buy the real product (drinks at the club, or whatnot).
So if the marginal profit on a $400 digital camera is about (total guess) $150 bucks, and MSFT only demands the advertiser pay a cost per action, then that's $150 dollars of value that can be shared by a) Sony/Canon/whoever, b) Microsoft, and c) the USER!
The point here is that it doesn't even matter if Google offers better search now! Going forward, I'll probably product search/research on Google, but go over to Microsoft to make the all-important final decision (because it's plainly the rational decision - my product WILL be cheaper)!
If people pay attention, instead of throwing it out the window, this could be a gamechanger - it isn't the same as BigWallet, which essentially just shared the already offered referral deals with you (half a percent of the sale, usually). This could be a significant deal for everyone involved. Cost per action payment is the key.
I has to be a nasty job working for Microsoft and responding to all of this stuff on blogs.
My first thought was.. yeah they'll give me a discount on a stripped down model of Vista as payment.
Its still Microsoft and you still have to count your fingers after a handshake with them.
Don't lose track of the fact that Red Hat turned its back on the community and went all commercial. Then realizing that they had both alienated the community and lost a lot of software help they crawled back and put their Fedora on the table.
Fedora is a diode - all the benefits flow in one direction.
Mark Shuttleworth is still sold out on community and helping advance the state of the art where Novell has sold out on profit and uses the community the same way Microsoft does.
Until the networks synchronized their ad timing I used to be able to watch two programs by flicking between two (or 3) channels.
Having grown tired of the increased frequency of commercials near the end of a movie or drama I learned to go through the daily grid and simply mark anything I intend to watch for recording. Then I can zap through the commercials quickly. A football game only takes two hours instead of three, a movie takes 75 minutes instead of 2 hours etc. etc.
I would switch to myth in a heartbeat but my signal source is satellite and no TV card can handle it.
Life is good - as long as my controller and my thumbs hold out
Well if gamers stick with game brands, where are all the commadore users and the Atari players? Game computers come and go and don't hold a lot of loyalty.
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Is that whoever posed this question has never done even 10 seconds of research to answer it himself as one can easily find vast amounts of classical music online, on iTunes, Amazon, or one of the various "lesser known" stores.
I mean come on, I've downloaded several classical tracks straight from the iTunes promoted weekly single. So not only is classical available there, it's occasionally even promoted.
On top of that, every few weeks you'll see a deal on some bulk track sale on Amazon or similar stores posted to the old standby slickdeals.net site.
So really, why is this question here on slashdot? Is /. looking to compete with google by crowdsourcing search result for the most mundane and trivial bits of information out there?
This whole post was a ruse to get us to run over and watch that amateur string quartet playing. I suppose to run up the hit count. I'm thinking that a Slashdot effect on a Youtube video would all by itself create a viral video status.
No one argues they are fool proof the point is merely that Microsoft ships a more secure product than most of it's competitors.
And you know this how? You have what proof? OH WAIT... Microsoft said so and they would never try to deceive anyone. Please ignore those lawyers behind the curtain.
Google has this many links to my member number 5534289. FYI. http://www.google.com/search?q=5534289+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
NAH! That's just a list of crackpots :0)
This sounds more like a Microsoft solution than a Linux solution. $48 a year is exactly $48 more than I paid for my OS. But the question is: Are we so lazy that we will pay $48 a year to not have to reboot the system? I mean lay down and take a break while its rebooting and you'll be fine.
But that's the point. Once you start recognizing certain contributors more than others and giving them status symbols - especially where the difference is small and/or largely subjective - you risk creating a "them and us" situation.
Next phase is that the "them", who are probably more numerous and contribute more, feel rejected and decide to tell the clique to stuff it.
Deciding to tell the Clique to stuff it has already begun. I am the moderator of a 92 member LUG that supports Ubuntu. We have tried for 2 years to qualify as a LoCo. We have in the past handed out literally hundreds of Ubuntu CD's with a small install manual locally prepared. When we couldn't qualify for banners and handouts again this year for the Launch Party my membership voted to distance ourselves from "the elitist" that are the chosen few in Ubuntu. A large group have already moved to Simple Mepis 8 and waved goodbye to Ubuntu. I love the software and the OS. But I'm about to join them after this announcement. The bottom line is that they only care about you if you advance their cause. Being a user is totally without merit.
But on the flipside, I tend to use Google as the documentation for Windows/MacOS and most assorted non-free software that runs on them, too.
john@john-desktop:~$ apropos burn CD brasero (1) - Simple and easy to use CD/DVD burning application for ... //
apt-cdrom (8) - APT CDROM management utility //
cdparanoia (1) - an audio CD reading utility which includes extra data ... //
cdplayer_applet (1) - CD Player Applet for the GNOME panel. //
hipercdecode (1) - Decode a HIPERC stream into human readable form. //
mcd (1) - change MSDOS directory //
rsyncd.conf (5) - configuration file for rsync in daemon mode //
u1sdtool (1) - command line utility for controlling ubuntuone-syncdaemon //
john@john-desktop:~$
Released usually means stable. The first failure notice I had after installing the RELEASED Ubuntu 9.10 was that the highly touted Ubuntu One was broken. My client was more advanced than the server according to the alarm. So as far as exhibiting their cloud capability they score a negative. My web cam is useless. Skype only partially works. It may say released but its still a beta!
Let me check something here ... just a second ... yup, thought so, I don't really care if I get to rent a movie 2 weeks after it leaves the cinema or I have to wait 6 or 8 weeks.
In neither case am I going to feel any more or less compelled to buy the movie instead.
I am in 100% agreement with you. I went in to rent a video to view with my family when my kids visited a week ago. I could not find anything that had enough quality and was family safe to rent! Instead I bought a couple of large pizzas and we played Penta all night and had a blast.
Well we at least know where the SCO lawyers wound up!
I am one of those seniors and have been a Linux user for 9 years. I live in a retirement resort and teach Linux to those that are interested. We have 58 full time Linux users and it is extremely rare that I get a yell for help. However those still suffering along with the Millennium Edition on a 386 that there kids gave them when they upgraded, are constantly on the phone with me. 48 of the 58 are using Linux Mint the remainder are using Ubuntu. You might want to stop thinking of them as seniors and start thinking of them as captives of a lousy OS.
Wouldn't a 5th Wheel tailer offer far more facility and a lot better appearing home? Wouldn't you have better luck moving it at road speeds as opposed to walking speeds. OK, it works. NICE! Now where is that RV dealer located again?
We do have - *69 will redial the number that just called you. But the problem is that the people using her number to spoof their ID aren't calling her - they are calling all over the planet - and the people who got scammed are calling this lady. A call screener is the answer.
Since the spoofed calls are not coming to her number the records will only show the angry folks who are getting scammed. It is their phone records that will indicate the source. Purchase a call screening device ($60) and block calls from out of the area or any unrecognized number. Most machines allow you to use both a white list of good numbers a priority list of close friends and a rejection list that would include anyone else. We were getting a lot of drunks calling late at night waking us in a panic. We put a "caller ID with ring control" on the line and have not had a single unknown phone call. We have not had anyone we white listed blocked. So its a cheap answer to the problem.
yeah and wait until the sms message bills come in on those invites. Why would anyone mess with Verizon? Seriously!
If everyone just refused to send txt messages to Verizon users it wouldn't be long before angry subscribers got this idiotic charge dropped or they moved on to another service. I for one would be moving now and not waiting. But then - I have already moved.
DOH! I never worked for anybody smart enough to read a blog. My last boss thought the Internet was what you wore on your head when you were near food. There! That should keep me unemployed for the rest of the year!
We have the technology but we don't have enough desire for speed that we are willing to pay the incredible price that will be levied. When we feel the pain enough we will be informed that we can get on a fast link for about $200 a month and everyone will jump at it. I have a friend from Korea who laughed out loud at what I was paying and the 2.56MB speed I receive on my DSL. He said "At home that's called BROKE!"
Please stop using our alphabet! We just received a patent on the use of letters to form words and you are violating our patent.
China? "They are all forgeries by Nepalese separatists in an attempt to embarrass us." Nothing will be done.
Have you ever tried to get a seat at a Starbucks around 3:30 in the afternoon? So now you have an additional reason for those airheads to sit around talking about boys at the office.
You've established your price - but no matter - I wouldn't care to have some vendor believe I was coming from Microsoft - it might tempt him to cheat.
The important searches are things like "Best Digital Camera," "Kelly Blue Book BMW 325i," "The Da Vinci Code," and so on. These are searches that are very likely to result in a sale.
What MSFT is doing doesn't seem that innovative because it's so obvious - but no one is doing it.
Think of club promotors on sidewalks in NYC or Vegas or whatever. Typical entry is let's say cover of $10. But if you take a stupid little card from someone advertising the club, maybe that gets you free entry. Why? No reason, you aren't special, just you happened to pick up the advertisement. The club is paying the promotor to offer you a discount, so that you eventually buy the real product (drinks at the club, or whatnot).
So if the marginal profit on a $400 digital camera is about (total guess) $150 bucks, and MSFT only demands the advertiser pay a cost per action, then that's $150 dollars of value that can be shared by a) Sony/Canon/whoever, b) Microsoft, and c) the USER!
The point here is that it doesn't even matter if Google offers better search now! Going forward, I'll probably product search/research on Google, but go over to Microsoft to make the all-important final decision (because it's plainly the rational decision - my product WILL be cheaper)!
If people pay attention, instead of throwing it out the window, this could be a gamechanger - it isn't the same as BigWallet, which essentially just shared the already offered referral deals with you (half a percent of the sale, usually). This could be a significant deal for everyone involved. Cost per action payment is the key.
I has to be a nasty job working for Microsoft and responding to all of this stuff on blogs. My first thought was.. yeah they'll give me a discount on a stripped down model of Vista as payment. Its still Microsoft and you still have to count your fingers after a handshake with them.Don't lose track of the fact that Red Hat turned its back on the community and went all commercial. Then realizing that they had both alienated the community and lost a lot of software help they crawled back and put their Fedora on the table. Fedora is a diode - all the benefits flow in one direction. Mark Shuttleworth is still sold out on community and helping advance the state of the art where Novell has sold out on profit and uses the community the same way Microsoft does.
Until the networks synchronized their ad timing I used to be able to watch two programs by flicking between two (or 3) channels. Having grown tired of the increased frequency of commercials near the end of a movie or drama I learned to go through the daily grid and simply mark anything I intend to watch for recording. Then I can zap through the commercials quickly. A football game only takes two hours instead of three, a movie takes 75 minutes instead of 2 hours etc. etc. I would switch to myth in a heartbeat but my signal source is satellite and no TV card can handle it. Life is good - as long as my controller and my thumbs hold out
Well if gamers stick with game brands, where are all the commadore users and the Atari players? Game computers come and go and don't hold a lot of loyalty.