"Shawn is a smart, articulate guy. That goes a long way," said one source familiar with Fanning's discussions with record labels. "He walks in a world that they desperately want access to."
If I were this group of record companies... I would kill myself and do the world a favor.
Wait...
If I were this group of record companies, I would hire a kid like this in a heartbeat. He is likely to understand the peer-to-peer community much more than the record executives. He's help people do it the free and easy way... and maybe he can transition everybody into a more "legit" method of music transfer.
I don't think the record execs are scared of this guy... I think they are having wet dreams about his re-securing their monolopy on music.
What is this kid likely to do? We'll just have to wait and see. He's probably smart enough that he could sweet talk his way into a lot of vaporware dollars...
Do not consider this a troll... (as I am sure your alarms are going off already) but I do not understand why this kid is getting rich as hell, and the makers of OGG are not.
This kid just has an idea for a peer-to-peer system and he already has a large angel investor... the same angel investor that poured large amounts of money into napster. And the system doesn't even exist yet.
On the otherhand, take OGG -- a kickass music format that we all love and cherish. A few advertising wizards could turn it into the standard music format on the internet. Where are the VCs and angel investors for OGG?
OGG is a proven product that rocks. SnoCap is little more than white text on a blue background.
SnoCap will make money because non-tech people remember that napster exploded with potential. SnoCap will make money because investors see that I-Tunes is working.
OGG will struggle because the non-tech investing community doesn't understand the power of a new and better music format.
"It's a pretty well thought-out idea, but the success of it hinges on everybody in the ecosystem getting involved," said one record label executive familiar with Snocap. "The key to its success is the peer-to-peer companies agreeing to participate. If they do participate, it could be phenomenal."
Might as well complete the quote...
The focus here is getting the peer-to-peer companies to participate. The user is going to take the path of least resistance (and money.) As long as there are free and easy to use peer-to-peer systems, projects like this do not stand a chance.
However, projects like this could easily take over... if and only if they include one vital key. The makers of the peer-to-peer software will make more money. Kazza, emule, and all the others will lay down their arms and gladly go to a pay-type system if they can make more money that way.
The problem with that is... there is not enough money to go around. For peer-to-peer to make more that means the music companies are going to have to take less. (They can't rape the artists any more than they already are.)
Thanks for the info. I have been bragging to my wife all morning about the stuff now "I know" about the Mars program. Kinda relationship karma whoring.:)
Anyway, thanks! It's great to have an insider around.
Of course, I am going to have to update my CPU to run Maestro comfortably... (crunch, crunch, crunch) but I've been looking for an excuse anyway.
Actually many Hollywood and sports stars have refused knighthood.
Peter Alliss, golf professional Frank Auerbach, artist Francis Bacon, artist J. G. Ballard, author Alan Bennett Isaiah Berlin Honor Blackman, Bond girl and actress in The Avengers David Bowie, artist and actor Kenneth Branagh, actor and director Jim Broadbent John Cleese, comedian John Cole Roald Dahl, author Bernie Ecclestone, owner of Formula One Albert Finney, actor Michael Frayn Dawn French, comedienne Lucian Freud Robert Graves Graham Greene, author Lenny Henry Alfred Hitchcock, director David Hockney Trevor Howard Aldous Huxley, author Anish Kapoor Philip Larkin Richard Lambert Nigella Lawson, cook John le Carre, author John Lennon, artist Doris Lessing, author Ken Loach, director L. S. Lowry Barry McGuigan, boxer George Melly Helen Mirren, actress Harold Pinter, playwright Anthony Powell J. B. Priestley Vanessa Redgrave, actress Jennifer Saunders, comedienne Alastair Sim Claire Tomalin Polly Toynbee Evelyn Waugh Rachel Whiteread Benjamin Zephaniah, poet
First, how are you gaining access to these pictures? Are they being placed on a public server somewhere? If so, NASA really rocks for giving everybody near real-time access.
Second, in these pictures does anybody have an idea of scale? For example... the following picture looks like a tissue sample I might see under a microscope.
http://www.lyle.org/mars/imagery/color/128287399-6.jpg
Anyway, thanks for the pictures... they kick ass. You deserve double Karma points.:)
Redundancy works well if you have "limitless" power. A completely redundant system here would use twice the power (give or take). Storage of power here is the weakness link.
Of course, they do have the ulimate redundant system... and it will be landing in a couple of hours.
Our government is telling _us_ how to handle computer security?!? Last time I was playing the gray side of the field *.gov sites were the easy targets.
Although I love google, I do not think it is fair to smack yahoo around in that matter.
They were the first large portal... and we have all heard the rumors that google also is going that route. Likewise, google is establishing a mail service... something that yahoo has been doing fairly well for quite a while.
Microsoft is giving away 5 million to try to stop hackers... I am not sure that helps any of us sleep at night.:)
The reason these cash prizes are used is to make people assume what you are assuming: "Hell, they wouldn't offer so much money if their protocal was not safe."
Although I surely hope that turns out to be the case, jumping to that conclusion without any data is dangerous.
The upper management should routinely meet with all the various departments for the reasons you gave.
A lot of the problem has been that upper management has treated the IT department more like a service department than a productive part of the company.
At least where I work the trend is changing. The "top-floor" guys often meet with us over drinks or dinner. This is after we stepped up and saved them an assload of money by building a project in-house instead of buying a similiar service.
The upper level "shirts and ties" guys are learning that IT has to be part of the system now. IT requires too much financial support not to listen to the experts.
I have been wanting to setup a the mirrors site for a while... however, none of the mirror sites are updated. Now that I'm looking... several of the mirror sites never even posted the KDE 3.1.5 Release.
I agree. I think most geeks agree... however, most people who buy on-line are not geeks.
I see people playing those little Orbitz shockwave ads/games all the time at work.
They may be annoying the hell out of the typical slashdot crew, but I imagine those work really well.
If I can stretch my assumsions a little further, I believe that's why pop-under ads are so successful. Most users are not uber-geeks... most internet users will blindly click the pretty little boxes that pop-up and attract their attention.
I have seen a lot of data and reports on the interference problems which I think we all expected. However, I have not seen anything that this would be actually dangerous. Surely with the testing somebody would have noticed if people were getting zapped.
I would like to see some data before labelling this as potentially dangerous to one's health.
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"Shawn is a smart, articulate guy. That goes a long way," said one source familiar with Fanning's discussions with record labels. "He walks in a world that they desperately want access to."
If I were this group of record companies... I would kill myself and do the world a favor.
Wait...
If I were this group of record companies, I would hire a kid like this in a heartbeat. He is likely to understand the peer-to-peer community much more than the record executives. He's help people do it the free and easy way... and maybe he can transition everybody into a more "legit" method of music transfer.
I don't think the record execs are scared of this guy... I think they are having wet dreams about his re-securing their monolopy on music.
What is this kid likely to do? We'll just have to wait and see. He's probably smart enough that he could sweet talk his way into a lot of vaporware dollars...
AC
Do not consider this a troll... (as I am sure your alarms are going off already) but I do not understand why this kid is getting rich as hell, and the makers of OGG are not.
This kid just has an idea for a peer-to-peer system and he already has a large angel investor... the same angel investor that poured large amounts of money into napster. And the system doesn't even exist yet.
On the otherhand, take OGG -- a kickass music format that we all love and cherish. A few advertising wizards could turn it into the standard music format on the internet. Where are the VCs and angel investors for OGG?
OGG is a proven product that rocks. SnoCap is little more than white text on a blue background.
SnoCap will make money because non-tech people remember that napster exploded with potential. SnoCap will make money because investors see that I-Tunes is working.
OGG will struggle because the non-tech investing community doesn't understand the power of a new and better music format.
The world is twisted.
AC
"It's a pretty well thought-out idea, but the success of it hinges on everybody in the ecosystem getting involved," said one record label executive familiar with Snocap. "The key to its success is the peer-to-peer companies agreeing to participate. If they do participate, it could be phenomenal."
Might as well complete the quote...
The focus here is getting the peer-to-peer companies to participate. The user is going to take the path of least resistance (and money.) As long as there are free and easy to use peer-to-peer systems, projects like this do not stand a chance.
However, projects like this could easily take over... if and only if they include one vital key. The makers of the peer-to-peer software will make more money. Kazza, emule, and all the others will lay down their arms and gladly go to a pay-type system if they can make more money that way.
The problem with that is... there is not enough money to go around. For peer-to-peer to make more that means the music companies are going to have to take less. (They can't rape the artists any more than they already are.)
AC
Thanks for the info. I have been bragging to my wife all morning about the stuff now "I know" about the Mars program. Kinda relationship karma whoring. :)
Anyway, thanks! It's great to have an insider around.
Of course, I am going to have to update my CPU to run Maestro comfortably... (crunch, crunch, crunch) but I've been looking for an excuse anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who
No Sir! Stars who refused honors--CNN Article
Sweet pictures! Thanks for posting.
6 .jpg
:)
Couple of questions.
First, how are you gaining access to these pictures? Are they being placed on a public server somewhere? If so, NASA really rocks for giving everybody near real-time access.
Second, in these pictures does anybody have an idea of scale? For example... the following picture looks like a tissue sample I might see under a microscope.
http://www.lyle.org/mars/imagery/color/128287399-
Anyway, thanks for the pictures... they kick ass. You deserve double Karma points.
AC
Redundancy works well if you have "limitless" power. A completely redundant system here would use twice the power (give or take). Storage of power here is the weakness link.
Of course, they do have the ulimate redundant system... and it will be landing in a couple of hours.
AC
Our government is telling _us_ how to handle computer security?!? Last time I was playing the gray side of the field *.gov sites were the easy targets.
AC
Although I love google, I do not think it is fair to smack yahoo around in that matter.
They were the first large portal... and we have all heard the rumors that google also is going that route. Likewise, google is establishing a mail service... something that yahoo has been doing fairly well for quite a while.
Yahoo has weathered the dotcom bust pretty well. The 5-year trend is looking up and up despite the recent poor economy.
Yahoo was a pioneer. Yahoo is surviving.
Give'm a break.
AC
Yahoo used to be the front-runner...
Yahoo is now trying to play catch-up.
Sorry... it's an analogy I probably should I just kept to myself.
I'm an just jealous that I am not one of those lucky guys working for google.
AC
You are correct. Please forgive my pre-coffee typo. :)
AC
If you want to bring out your system with a bang... you better get some better looking models than this one.
Jenny's Picture
AC
Apple fans may fall in love with the cube on sight.
:)
Although I am not a fan of using apple systems, apple has really changed the way computer manufacturers design computer systems.
This cube looks like something a cheap apple cousin might design.
AC
Do these systems automatically trottle down the CPU as well to decrease system heat?
Microsoft is giving away 5 million to try to stop hackers... I am not sure that helps any of us sleep at night. :)
The reason these cash prizes are used is to make people assume what you are assuming: "Hell, they wouldn't offer so much money if their protocal was not safe."
Although I surely hope that turns out to be the case, jumping to that conclusion without any data is dangerous.
AC
I agree... but for a slightly different reason.
The upper management should routinely meet with all the various departments for the reasons you gave.
A lot of the problem has been that upper management has treated the IT department more like a service department than a productive part of the company.
At least where I work the trend is changing. The "top-floor" guys often meet with us over drinks or dinner. This is after we stepped up and saved them an assload of money by building a project in-house instead of buying a similiar service.
The upper level "shirts and ties" guys are learning that IT has to be part of the system now. IT requires too much financial support not to listen to the experts.
AC
The parent post appears to be using porn as an example. Few of us would want our 15 years downloading videos of the "faces of death" either.
The point is not if porn is bad... or if violence is bad...
The point is that parents have the responsibility of monitoring their children and their children's actions.
That's what seperates the good parents from the bad parents.
AC
The code will ban those under 18 from mobile chatrooms which are not moderated, in an attempt to protect children from online grooming.
What I want to know is... what the heck is "online grooming"? Doesn't that sound like fun.
Anybody know how to enable online grooming on my sonyericsson 616?
AC
Surely you are trolling.
16 year olds don't need internet phones? Who do you think will be programming these things for the next few years?
If I were 16 right now, I would be hacking away at my cell phone like nobody's business.
I have no problem with my kids checking their email or schedule or updating their website from their phone...
I just want a way to know what they are viewing is age appropriate.
AC
I see no reason why when somebody purchases the phone, the account can't have a birthdate associated with it... if I wish.
Then my daughter's phone only allows age-appropriate material.
I like it. If I could set it to keep all the older guys from calling her, I would pay triple what I pay now.
Ac
Yeah... it's the geek version of trickle down economics. :)
Ac
I have been wanting to setup a the mirrors site for a while... however, none of the mirror sites are updated. Now that I'm looking... several of the mirror sites never even posted the KDE 3.1.5 Release.
Why doesn't this mirror correctly?
For those of you who want to eliminate a ton of ads using this method, you can find several friendly host files on the net.
Here a couple that I have used:
mvps.org
yoyo.org
AC
I agree. I think most geeks agree... however, most people who buy on-line are not geeks.
I see people playing those little Orbitz shockwave ads/games all the time at work.
They may be annoying the hell out of the typical slashdot crew, but I imagine those work really well.
If I can stretch my assumsions a little further, I believe that's why pop-under ads are so successful. Most users are not uber-geeks... most internet users will blindly click the pretty little boxes that pop-up and attract their attention.
AC
What the heck? I know St. Louis-based Ameren has been testing this for over a year.
I have seen a lot of data and reports on the interference problems which I think we all expected. However, I have not seen anything that this would be actually dangerous. Surely with the testing somebody would have noticed if people were getting zapped.
I would like to see some data before labelling this as potentially dangerous to one's health.
AC