I can't see it working just because when you buy a Windows-Media based distribution system you're locked into a platform, a delivery system, a microsoft support contract, and a range of not-iPod music players.
Losing the DRM might help (especially re non-WMA players) but that still leaves the biggest problem of them all - few of the non-iTunes / non-indy online distributors can cut a deal with the recording industry that gives them the possibility of standing out from the crowd. (and its a big crowd with little differentiation)
To add extra suck - its a bit late in the gameplay for another company to do an apple and change the game. The rules have been set.
"not Free Software, hence unsuitable for Ubuntu main"
I'd like to see Linux become more prevalent but this way of thinking makes that less and less likely. I want the best tools for the job, not just the most ideologically compatible.
There is no place in my computer for licence fundamentalism
Suppose I believe that - regardless of the religious rights and wrong - it is a legitimate action for citizens of a country to take paramilitary action against foreign forces present in their land?
OK - not a present-day situation but lets suppose back just after Saddam's regime had fallen and before the foundation of the present Iraqi government, I made that argument? I'd have been closed down and probably arrested too
- and 35 seconds after downloading the newly google-free-search-box Mozilla, most users will either change it back to Google or start searching for info on how to do it....
The fact still stands that any simple moral analysis of the state of the 'victims' showed that they conspired to defraud either a sovereign state or certain inhabitants of one - and lost out as a result.
Honesty in these cases would have saved them their losses
"some americans won't be able to afford a hydrocarbon-fuelled motor vehicle'
Unlike Europeans like me, you guys have the space for solar, nuclear and wind power on an epic scale, and the science and industry to do electric cars well
well I suppose you could make a point about Republican views on gun control, by getting on his bus then shooting the fucker?
the judge wouldn't be kind but posterity might have a less harsh view
Thank god, somebody actually gets it. I sit here in Europe gritting my teeth at all the Americans flooding the web chatting cold-bloodedly about killing criminals or locking them away for life, with no apparent conception of the idea that people can be reformed or that punishment ought to be appropriate rather than exemplary if you want people to respect the law.
Undeniably tragic, but you expected a spammer to act like a normal human being? Its only a shame he wasnt married to Sanford Wallace instead of to an innocent...
Amazon S3, accessed through Jungledisk. Don't bother to encrypt the files, its just another fail point. If they are that valuable to you, paying 15 cents per gigabyte per month may be comparable in cost to the cost of HDDs or DVD-Rs you'd need to buy to preserve them reliably.
Amazon's system is vast, cheap and reliable. Its what you need. I use Jungle Disk as an S3 client because it allows auto backup, resumable upload and is crossplatform
the French national railway (SNCF) has proven time and time again that electric trains can easily achieve 300mph (a TGV hit 357mph on test in 2007)
That's just 3mph slower than the fastest ever Maglev Monorail.. but it runs on standard gauge rail track that can be time-shared with commuter trains and railfreight traffic.. Heavy Rail in the USA is something that had its time then went away, but don't be surprised if it makes a return again.
300mph trains between city-centre stations can compete with 600mph aeroplanes flying from heavily-secured out-of-town airports.
they'd have to somehow sneak 57 million muslims into my country to make me a minority - - 2.9 million a year for 20 years.
somehow I don't feel threatened by that. our coastal defences might be a bit naff but they aren't that bad... Oh and European law will protect us from the ludicrous notion of sharia in the UK. Cheers:-)
- however the battle between the USA and its allies and Wahhabist / fundamentalist islamic terrorists and their allies is essentially a political battle by other means.
No side in this war can hope to eradicate the other side.. I am British, 20 years ago I was 50 metres away from being dismembered by an IRA bomb in a london street. Now - thanks to courageous politicians - we live in peace with the Northern irish and the former leaders of terrorist organisations co-operate to run Ulster jointly
A peaceful outcome btween Wahhabism and neo-conservatism requires what we had here - both sides being willing to allow the other to speak. the American tendency to try to drown out the voice of the (few) legitimate grievances of al-qaeda pushes the day the middle east is at peace further and further away
recent research shows it is beneficial to grow algae on the grounds of a power station as it offers *absolutely free* heat and carbon dioxide, both of which when used for algaculture go from being nuisance waste products to valuable ways of accelerating the procedure.
agred - I have usd an iPod touch and it's well adapted for the uses you state, but bear in mind that the expansible firefox browser on an EEE PC is much more suited for web apps and the more desktop-like OS makes for easier porting of favourite applications (fewer developer restrictions too)
I know the pace of change only ever increases, but looking back at those 1993/4 pages is just weird. I remember 1994. I was 15 years old, Jurassic Park was the hot VHS cassette release at Blockbuster, Sheryl Crow and Madonna were topping the pop charts.. I tasted the internet for the first time in my school computer lab.. I used the brand new Yahoo search engine to search for "three valleys water" for a school project and it got 3 results (yes, really, three.. and none of them were the one I wanted)....... and I never thought I'd feel old until now I'm forced to remember that.
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I can't see it working just because when you buy a Windows-Media based distribution system you're locked into a platform, a delivery system, a microsoft support contract, and a range of not-iPod music players.
Losing the DRM might help (especially re non-WMA players) but that still leaves the biggest problem of them all - few of the non-iTunes / non-indy online distributors can cut a deal with the recording industry that gives them the possibility of standing out from the crowd. (and its a big crowd with little differentiation)
To add extra suck - its a bit late in the gameplay for another company to do an apple and change the game. The rules have been set.
"not Free Software, hence unsuitable for Ubuntu main"
I'd like to see Linux become more prevalent but this way of thinking makes that less and less likely. I want the best tools for the job, not just the most ideologically compatible.
There is no place in my computer for licence fundamentalism
... before some rich joker decides to have a look at the underside of a USN Carrier Battle Group - and gets depth-charged?
Suppose I believe that - regardless of the religious rights and wrong - it is a legitimate action for citizens of a country to take paramilitary action against foreign forces present in their land?
OK - not a present-day situation but lets suppose back just after Saddam's regime had fallen and before the foundation of the present Iraqi government, I made that argument? I'd have been closed down and probably arrested too
- and 35 seconds after downloading the newly google-free-search-box Mozilla, most users will either change it back to Google or start searching for info on how to do it....
The fact still stands that any simple moral analysis of the state of the 'victims' showed that they conspired to defraud either a sovereign state or certain inhabitants of one - and lost out as a result.
Honesty in these cases would have saved them their losses
"some americans won't be able to afford a hydrocarbon-fuelled motor vehicle'
Unlike Europeans like me, you guys have the space for solar, nuclear and wind power on an epic scale, and the science and industry to do electric cars well
well I suppose you could make a point about Republican views on gun control, by getting on his bus then shooting the fucker? the judge wouldn't be kind but posterity might have a less harsh view
Thank god, somebody actually gets it. I sit here in Europe gritting my teeth at all the Americans flooding the web chatting cold-bloodedly about killing criminals or locking them away for life, with no apparent conception of the idea that people can be reformed or that punishment ought to be appropriate rather than exemplary if you want people to respect the law.
Undeniably tragic, but you expected a spammer to act like a normal human being? Its only a shame he wasnt married to Sanford Wallace instead of to an innocent...
I use a cheapo DI-524 and it runs for months at a time without a reboot and copes with extremely high bittorrent speeds
You can sell out your nation to big business and crazy religion but one individual can't sell his own vote...
run Vista with Aero enabled
Amazon S3, accessed through Jungledisk. Don't bother to encrypt the files, its just another fail point. If they are that valuable to you, paying 15 cents per gigabyte per month may be comparable in cost to the cost of HDDs or DVD-Rs you'd need to buy to preserve them reliably.
Amazon's system is vast, cheap and reliable. Its what you need. I use Jungle Disk as an S3 client because it allows auto backup, resumable upload and is crossplatform
Switzerland is not part of the European Union.
"Strict gun-control, stupid "hate speech" laws"
Only an american could list those as bad things.... *sigh*...
the French national railway (SNCF) has proven time and time again that electric trains can easily achieve 300mph (a TGV hit 357mph on test in 2007)
That's just 3mph slower than the fastest ever Maglev Monorail.. but it runs on standard gauge rail track that can be time-shared with commuter trains and railfreight traffic.. Heavy Rail in the USA is something that had its time then went away, but don't be surprised if it makes a return again.
300mph trains between city-centre stations can compete with 600mph aeroplanes flying from heavily-secured out-of-town airports.
Oceans advance and recede, mountains rise, land is lost and reclaimed
Not all the historic land mass is now above water and much that is, was reclaimed relatively recently
OK I can't do maths. 1.9 mil a year. I still don't feel worried.
they'd have to somehow sneak 57 million muslims into my country to make me a minority - - 2.9 million a year for 20 years.
:-)
somehow I don't feel threatened by that. our coastal defences might be a bit naff but they aren't that bad... Oh and European law will protect us from the ludicrous notion of sharia in the UK. Cheers
- however the battle between the USA and its allies and Wahhabist / fundamentalist islamic terrorists and their allies is essentially a political battle by other means.
No side in this war can hope to eradicate the other side.. I am British, 20 years ago I was 50 metres away from being dismembered by an IRA bomb in a london street. Now - thanks to courageous politicians - we live in peace with the Northern irish and the former leaders of terrorist organisations co-operate to run Ulster jointly
A peaceful outcome btween Wahhabism and neo-conservatism requires what we had here - both sides being willing to allow the other to speak. the American tendency to try to drown out the voice of the (few) legitimate grievances of al-qaeda pushes the day the middle east is at peace further and further away
recent research shows it is beneficial to grow algae on the grounds of a power station as it offers *absolutely free* heat and carbon dioxide, both of which when used for algaculture go from being nuisance waste products to valuable ways of accelerating the procedure.
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agred - I have usd an iPod touch and it's well adapted for the uses you state, but bear in mind that the expansible firefox browser on an EEE PC is much more suited for web apps and the more desktop-like OS makes for easier porting of favourite applications (fewer developer restrictions too)
In corporate America, geeks consume Velociraptors..
I know the pace of change only ever increases, but looking back at those 1993/4 pages is just weird. I remember 1994. I was 15 years old, Jurassic Park was the hot VHS cassette release at Blockbuster, Sheryl Crow and Madonna were topping the pop charts.. I tasted the internet for the first time in my school computer lab.. I used the brand new Yahoo search engine to search for "three valleys water" for a school project and it got 3 results (yes, really, three.. and none of them were the one I wanted) ....... and I never thought I'd feel old until now I'm forced to remember that.
Oh poo. I've become middle-aged