All false advertising should be criminalized! Just like those false exploding laptop batteries that Dell and Apple provide. Come on, that doesn't REALLY happen!
$35-$50. I pretty much live in rural America, and Sykes only paid $7-8 on the average. $9-11 if you were a admin. This was the highest paying section, and these people were required to know how to tell a client to completly disassemble and reassemble a computer. That's between $14,500 - $16,600 annually
Yet, in the state where I live, the supposed annual salary for a programmer was stated to be $50,000, when in actuallity it was more like $27,000. To make comparisons, the adjusted County income for this same area was stated:
Very Low: $30,300
Low: $33,000
Moderate: ~$44,000
Median: ~$65,000
Forget Indiana. India is right here in America.
As a professional programmer, spelling has never been a strong of mine. My 8th grade IQ test gave me a 15 for spelling, with a 90+ in math and science skills. I make it a point to tell people, "I'm bad at spelling & grammer, don't take it personally." And I welcome spelling corrections in my programs any day.
I think Forbes was lacking in the Technology Dept.
Lightsabers
Not possible? I think most StarWars geeks, physics buffs, and George Lucas already understood the properties of light. That's why most techie sites refer to it as an "wave arc" weapon. Meaning it's not a "laser sword" more of some kind of energy/matter stream that loops onto it self. More probable, yes? PS, with all the ILM technology, why are not the lightsaber shadows removed, hmm?Do a google search on building a lightsaber, lightsaber physics. You'll find ton's of pages.
Hyperdrives
So so SO many theories on this one. Most won't work. Some are really really probable. Yes, look at the Physics of Star Trek. Read Michio Kaku. Do your homework!
I'm sorry that your so upset. I did re-read your previous post, however you did not prove anything, or explain very well how or why AllOfMP3 is illegal. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to prove AllOfMP3 is legal at any cost. Everything I have read says that AllOfMP3 DO PAY their artists thru the Russian agency called ROMS (Russian Legal Music Services) which IS basicly the RIAA of Russia.
I too want to pay those who are owed money (but I've heard reports of the RIAA ripping off artists as well). I was hoping you would clarify anything by providing more information that I might have missed before. Don't take it personal, but your previous two posts didn't provide any information that could rebuttle my post. So I did some more digging and I did find something. So I will post it here for those who (like me) didn't know before.
The following information was taken from museekster.com
The Music Industry's point of view
The Music Industry claims that Allofmp3 is illegal. Their opinion is that recorded music has three sets of rights. The songwriter has the copyright to the song, the artist his own rights in it, and the record label and producers a third set. Allofmp3 is paying the songwriters, via the collection agency ROMS, but they are acting without the permission of the other copyright holders.
We have asked Andy Mincov, a Russian lawyer and webmaster of www.copyrighter.ru, to comment on Alan Dixon's statement. This is what he replied:
"As for the comment on Alan Dixon, I'm not sure what he meant my a Copyright Code during the Soviet era, because there has not been any such document". The Music Industry has not taken any legal action against Allofmp3 or ROMS. IFPI Russia's legal adviser, Vladimir Dragunov, has admitted that legal actions don't have much chance of succeeding. read more
So I think this was the information you were trying to explain. There are 3 copyright holders:
The Songwriter
The Artist
The Label maker and producer
Under Russian law only the Songwriter holds offical copyright status, therefore the are the only ones who get paid. I do agree that Artist should be compensated for their work, which most of the time is also the song writer.
However, with this new information this raises a question in my mind, "Should or how much, if any, money should be given to the record label and producer?" This is due to the fact that if the artist mixed and produced the song all on their own, and the record label is only marketing and distrubiting their content on CD, paper covers, and media (the CD it self, not the songs), essentially the music distrubitor is now allofmp3, not their record label. That's another ball of colorful wax of possibilities that would probably lead, most of the time, to compenstaion eventaually owed to the record labels.
I hope this was the point you were trying to get across. If not, I would definitly encourage a continued friendly discussion. Thanks.
Is it legal to download music from site AllOFMP3.com?
All the materials in the MediaServices projects are available for distribution through Internet according to license # LS-3Ì-05-03 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license terms, MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further distribution, resale or broadcasting.
Users are responsible for any usage and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility depends on the local legislation of each user's country of residence. AllOFMP3.com's Administration does not keep up with the laws of different countries and is not responsible the actions of non-Russian users.
Every since I've been introduced to allofmp3.org, I've learned some things.
1. Rhaposody, iTunes, Yahoo, etc, etc, They all use the exact, Third Party Database.
2. They are all 192 kbps WMA format. Poor quality and codec for the cost.
3. Why pay $0.79 - $0.99 for a single song. 1 min, 3 mins, is that really fair? Buying the CD only saves maybe $5 bucks. All at the cost of not getting art work, a cover, and half a lossly compression quality with a microsoft codec.
- That's why I prefer allofmp3.com. 1. They are a different database.
2. They supoort all formats for most songs:
codecs (Flac, Ogg, wma, mp3)
bitrate (full, static, variable, 256, 192, any)
3. You pay per megabyte, $0.02/mb to be exact. Much more fair. A full, lossless compression, no audio lossed song may cost around $1.00. Where a lesser quality song will be much much less, $0.04 - $1.00. I pay for the quality I want. Now I can get the full quality song minus the art, cover, case, and cd, for about a $5 savings. That's fair.
Kudos. Public TV has been the only place besides Sci-fi channel to air the show. (Yeah for those of us to poor to afford cable or HDTV, or satellite)
I'll be downloading from the web;)
The I'll be buying it overseas when it comes out on DVD and watching it on my DVD Region Free player:P
Look, finding a better standard (security key) isn't going to make a stupider lock picker.
The entertainment industry has already realized the enevitable, soon people are going to start listening/viewing to what they "what" too, not what's publicized as "popular" or made available only to your home country. After time, more and more people are going to get tired of all the "crap" that's out there called EnterDrainMent. Instead their going to put there money where their mouth is becuase we will want to see more wholesome content.
The way I see it, a lot of middle men who are there just to make a buck off of the next dumb shmo are seeing their days numbered. So they'll use as much collateral as it takes to make sure the legal system keeps that "umbrella" of ignorance over the rest of the loyal public.
Come on, Bill made comment that would make you laugh and think "get real", "whatever" (One day hardware will be free and people will pay for software). Steve, on the other hand, just pisses people off to the point of demonstrating the bird.
What's the deal with Asia's Windows XP watered-down edition. With a continent that doesn't care to much about thier pirate mafias, that is sure going to move the governments away from open source.
Oh yeah, and since it didn't work your going to sue an entire continent over patent infirgements? How about trying that in our country first. Oh, right, you can't becuase you know you'll lose. But I guess Steve must think he can bully those he thinks are ignorant. (If I were you, I won't mess with a peoples that know kung fu).
And how about comparing a copy of $1000+ CD vs a bottle of cognac? I'm sorry Steve, but people paid for the software, not the medium the software was bought on. And since a backup is like less than a dollar, your comment doesn't justify.
So, what does that say about the people who seem to think Steve created a gentler M$? (RLOL) In my opinion, I think Steve is having it REAL lucky right now, or pulling an Enron. The way I see it, more and more people are moving to linux open source. Apple did it. Novell did it. IBM and Walmart are using it. Companies and government agencies are moving to it. Pretty soon the gaming industry, the only driving force that is keeping MS afloat, is going to switch over faster than you can say bubblelusicous. Then we will see a slow horrible death to MS (and their BS).
I think many of you have missed the point (all though I admit I haven't read the case). Don't argue over Evolution and creation, and science and relgion.
First of, the sticker is a form of free speech, which is just as important as weither a student is allowed to pray his/her relgion with a group of similiar students. However, no matter what the sticker says, the act in itself is a destruction of state property. Therefore even though the court rule is probably correct and fair in the end, the reason behind the ruling is not.
On the angle of what the sticker actually says, no matter what your relgious belief I think many of you are forgetting the fundamentals of science. Evolution IS a theory, not a fact. Creation is ALSO a theory and not a fact. And practically ALL of science is theory, not fact. Few items even get the privliage of the "LAW" status, except when talking about mathematics. I'd say 95% of mathematical theorys are actually law (fact), while less than 1% of all the other sciences' theorys put together have the "law" status and even those are still thrown back to "theory" status do to finding "experiments" that prove the theories wrong (think netwon vs einstein).
--"In order to help protect customers, the default install of Internet Explorer will completely block the installation of ActiveX controls that are not signed, and it will suggest that you do not install any unsigned programs that you might try to download."
Ok, that's Grade A B.S. Right there.
First of all, isn't www.cnn.com a trusted site? If so, why does IE allow Spyware "Avenue A" download on my system.
Second, Verisign cost more money than what's it worth. Hey, if I had $300+ to spend every year so that Micro$haft can grant me it's blessing, that doesn't make my tabloid of a site anymore trustworthy.
Third, You don't know where mirror.sg.depaul.edu is? Give me a break. www.microsoft.com goes to a cluster of machines all across the US. Maybe I'll get lucky playing Russian rolutte one day with a disgruntled MS employee that decides to send an... opps torjan from one of it's sites. Spectulation is a two-edged sword.
Fourth, MS has a 10+ year track record with its greed, its defiance, its manipulation and persussain, and most of all, it deception. Now, knowing this let's apply that Law#1 to the Ten Immutable Laws of Security "If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer any more." Seems like I hear this one directed to MS users... a lot.
Ballmer! WTF are you thinking?! Use must really be for Linux.
You know, when Gates was CEO, he'd was very ingenous and at the same time, very stupid. We would makes comments that would generally make people laugh at him, like "one day hardware will be free and people will pay for software."
You, Baller, you make statements that really piss people off. With your greed driven attitude, I see you spiraling M$ into the middle of the Sahara Desert with no suuplies. Mesa thinks M$ is gonna die. I give it 5 years, 10 tops.
But hey, I'm an advocate of linux. So you keep doing your thing Ballmer. Way ta go!
I really commend our fellow civilians from SpaceShip One on taking the XPrize. They've shown to the world that one day Space Travel will be just as commonplace as the car has now become.
However, I still believe that chemical combustion has seen it's time. We need to move on to more effecient means of propulsion. I feel we need to focus more on understanding how gravity works and ho w to manipulate it effeciently. The use of water and hydrogen will be our only means of resupply once out in deep space. Until we move past this point, we are stuck on Earth with or without affordable space travel.
Seriously now. It takes 1 +mins just for their webpage to come up (on a T1) and using Outlook or Outlook Express? As of 1-2 years ago, it wouldn't work for me at all. And like other Windows users I've reformated my machine at least 2-3 times now since then.
This sounds so much like their "Asian" version of Windows XP for $30.
At Rhaposody (listen.com) I can pay $0.79 per song to be BURNED onto a CD as a "standard" 44Khz, 16-bit, Stereo audio track.
Then, I can rip my new song as a nicer 192kbps file and load that into my ipod/mp3 player/whatever.
Note: When I look at the songs available from iTunes, I find it ironic Rhapsody has the excat same songs available to us. How do I know that (especcially if there are thousands of songs)? I listen to trance, dance, & techno. When they release an album out on iTunes (which is rare), they've also come out on Rhapsody the same day.
Hmmm....My theory is, it's all really the same service.
Well, I actually NEED a Tablet and I've been waiting for them for a very VERY Long time. Every since I saw them on Star Trek TNG, I've been waiting and wanting one.
So why a tablet, for personal use I'd use them as integrated Home Automation Tools. (Assume were running Linux, not XP:P) Could you image having these things stuck to the wall throughout your home, and if you needed the computer, you could just rip one off the wall (held by some kind of mechanism) use it, and put it back. Why It could be used for reading a novel, surfing, checking on the house temp, looking up a recipe, creating a grocery list, or a list of things to do, turning on the music for a particular room (you are in), Checking on the kids via video cam in there room without walking in, maybe watching a quick news clip while in the shower, bedroom, kitchen, etc. Getting the idea? Cost is just the factor for now. And I feel if the bugs and non-pleasures were worked out, yeah I would use my tablet for school, work, notes, etc.
Now that was just dreaming and future stuff, but let me now explain why I NEED one. I work in the medical community and I am currently finishing up an EMR Management Program. Here is the dilemma: How to you get people who don't like to use computer because "paper is faster", but yet expect to get results from charts, graphs, and reports that only a computer is capable of computer (or a lot of man hours). Obviously the quick answer is to get them to just "do it" and enter the data into the system. As the programmer, I can only create the best possible tools to do this with the available input devices, aka keyboard and mouse...and maybe a touch screen. Not getting to deep into this, but a doctor has issue with taking their laptop all over the place with them. It works well to a point, but if they don't like trackballs and touch pads, and they are not a very could typer, the doctor is just going to blame me, the programmer, for developing a stupid and cumbersome interface and will proclaim that paper is better. (Even though it's really not me, it's user error:P) Now we are back to square one again.
As far as PDAs, whow, out of the question! Why? Simply the screen is just to small. That's another thing in the medical world, "How much info can I cram into a single sheet of 8x11?" I'm already trying to phase that train of thinking out, but the fact is we still need a large screen to display info on.
So you see, the paper notepad way of electronic information data entry is to encourage the tablet.
My boss's cousin has an EMR program that utilizes the tablet PC, and says it's made life easier. So I really really like to see this tablet thing work...especailly with Linux:D
Slashdot Mirror
All false advertising should be criminalized! Just like those false exploding laptop batteries that Dell and Apple provide. Come on, that doesn't REALLY happen!
$35-$50. I pretty much live in rural America, and Sykes only paid $7-8 on the average. $9-11 if you were a admin. This was the highest paying section, and these people were required to know how to tell a client to completly disassemble and reassemble a computer. That's between $14,500 - $16,600 annually Yet, in the state where I live, the supposed annual salary for a programmer was stated to be $50,000, when in actuallity it was more like $27,000. To make comparisons, the adjusted County income for this same area was stated: Very Low: $30,300 Low: $33,000 Moderate: ~$44,000 Median: ~$65,000 Forget Indiana. India is right here in America.
As a professional programmer, spelling has never been a strong of mine. My 8th grade IQ test gave me a 15 for spelling, with a 90+ in math and science skills. I make it a point to tell people, "I'm bad at spelling & grammer, don't take it personally." And I welcome spelling corrections in my programs any day.
I think Forbes was lacking in the Technology Dept.
Lightsabers
Not possible? I think most StarWars geeks, physics buffs, and George Lucas already understood the properties of light. That's why most techie sites refer to it as an "wave arc" weapon. Meaning it's not a "laser sword" more of some kind of energy/matter stream that loops onto it self. More probable, yes? PS, with all the ILM technology, why are not the lightsaber shadows removed, hmm?Do a google search on building a lightsaber, lightsaber physics. You'll find ton's of pages.
Hyperdrives
So so SO many theories on this one. Most won't work. Some are really really probable. Yes, look at the Physics of Star Trek. Read Michio Kaku. Do your homework!
3D Spacial Holograms Not Possible?! WHAT! Like almost here! A guy has already built a floating 2D projection monitor. Read this article
IO2 Techlology
FogScreen Inc.
I too want to pay those who are owed money (but I've heard reports of the RIAA ripping off artists as well). I was hoping you would clarify anything by providing more information that I might have missed before. Don't take it personal, but your previous two posts didn't provide any information that could rebuttle my post. So I did some more digging and I did find something. So I will post it here for those who (like me) didn't know before.
The following information was taken from museekster.com
The Music Industry's point of view
The Music Industry claims that Allofmp3 is illegal. Their opinion is that recorded music has three sets of rights. The songwriter has the copyright to the song, the artist his own rights in it, and the record label and producers a third set. Allofmp3 is paying the songwriters, via the collection agency ROMS, but they are acting without the permission of the other copyright holders.
Alan Dixon, general counsel of the IFPI explains their position in an article on Guardian.co.uk
We have asked Andy Mincov, a Russian lawyer and webmaster of www.copyrighter.ru, to comment on Alan Dixon's statement. This is what he replied:
"As for the comment on Alan Dixon, I'm not sure what he meant my a Copyright Code during the Soviet era, because there has not been any such document". The Music Industry has not taken any legal action against Allofmp3 or ROMS. IFPI Russia's legal adviser, Vladimir Dragunov, has admitted that legal actions don't have much chance of succeeding. read more
So I think this was the information you were trying to explain. There are 3 copyright holders:
- The Songwriter
- The Artist
- The Label maker and producer
Under Russian law only the Songwriter holds offical copyright status, therefore the are the only ones who get paid. I do agree that Artist should be compensated for their work, which most of the time is also the song writer.However, with this new information this raises a question in my mind, "Should or how much, if any, money should be given to the record label and producer?" This is due to the fact that if the artist mixed and produced the song all on their own, and the record label is only marketing and distrubiting their content on CD, paper covers, and media (the CD it self, not the songs), essentially the music distrubitor is now allofmp3, not their record label. That's another ball of colorful wax of possibilities that would probably lead, most of the time, to compenstaion eventaually owed to the record labels.
I hope this was the point you were trying to get across. If not, I would definitly encourage a continued friendly discussion. Thanks.
Is it legal to download music from site AllOFMP3.com?
All the materials in the MediaServices projects are available for distribution through Internet according to license # LS-3Ì-05-03 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license terms, MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further distribution, resale or broadcasting.
Users are responsible for any usage and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility depends on the local legislation of each user's country of residence. AllOFMP3.com's Administration does not keep up with the laws of different countries and is not responsible the actions of non-Russian users.
All Of MP3's Terms of Use Contract
Other supporting sites on legalities of useing ALLofMP3
ALLOFMP3 FAQ
Misticriver Forum
A third Forum
Every since I've been introduced to allofmp3.org, I've learned some things.
1. Rhaposody, iTunes, Yahoo, etc, etc, They all use the exact, Third Party Database.
2. They are all 192 kbps WMA format. Poor quality and codec for the cost.
3. Why pay $0.79 - $0.99 for a single song. 1 min, 3 mins, is that really fair? Buying the CD only saves maybe $5 bucks. All at the cost of not getting art work, a cover, and half a lossly compression quality with a microsoft codec.
- That's why I prefer allofmp3.com.
1. They are a different database.
2. They supoort all formats for most songs:
codecs (Flac, Ogg, wma, mp3)
bitrate (full, static, variable, 256, 192, any)
3. You pay per megabyte, $0.02/mb to be exact. Much more fair. A full, lossless compression, no audio lossed song may cost around $1.00. Where a lesser quality song will be much much less, $0.04 - $1.00. I pay for the quality I want. Now I can get the full quality song minus the art, cover, case, and cd, for about a $5 savings. That's fair.
Never heard of it. Maybe it's not important. ...back to my linux
Kudos. Public TV has been the only place besides Sci-fi channel to air the show. (Yeah for those of us to poor to afford cable or HDTV, or satellite) I'll be downloading from the web ;)
The I'll be buying it overseas when it comes out on DVD and watching it on my DVD Region Free player :P
If you don't get it, and your technically minded...then you need to go back to school.
I have a funny feeling the Borg Deoderant isn't working. Don't worry. I'm sure you can get some tips from Martha Stewart in time.
Look, finding a better standard (security key) isn't going to make a stupider lock picker.
The entertainment industry has already realized the enevitable, soon people are going to start listening/viewing to what they "what" too, not what's publicized as "popular" or made available only to your home country. After time, more and more people are going to get tired of all the "crap" that's out there called EnterDrainMent. Instead their going to put there money where their mouth is becuase we will want to see more wholesome content.
The way I see it, a lot of middle men who are there just to make a buck off of the next dumb shmo are seeing their days numbered. So they'll use as much collateral as it takes to make sure the legal system keeps that "umbrella" of ignorance over the rest of the loyal public.
Come on, Bill made comment that would make you laugh and think "get real", "whatever" (One day hardware will be free and people will pay for software). Steve, on the other hand, just pisses people off to the point of demonstrating the bird.
What's the deal with Asia's Windows XP watered-down edition. With a continent that doesn't care to much about thier pirate mafias, that is sure going to move the governments away from open source.
Oh yeah, and since it didn't work your going to sue an entire continent over patent infirgements? How about trying that in our country first. Oh, right, you can't becuase you know you'll lose. But I guess Steve must think he can bully those he thinks are ignorant. (If I were you, I won't mess with a peoples that know kung fu).
And how about comparing a copy of $1000+ CD vs a bottle of cognac? I'm sorry Steve, but people paid for the software, not the medium the software was bought on. And since a backup is like less than a dollar, your comment doesn't justify.
So, what does that say about the people who seem to think Steve created a gentler M$? (RLOL) In my opinion, I think Steve is having it REAL lucky right now, or pulling an Enron. The way I see it, more and more people are moving to linux open source. Apple did it. Novell did it. IBM and Walmart are using it. Companies and government agencies are moving to it. Pretty soon the gaming industry, the only driving force that is keeping MS afloat, is going to switch over faster than you can say bubblelusicous. Then we will see a slow horrible death to MS (and their BS).
I think many of you have missed the point (all though I admit I haven't read the case). Don't argue over Evolution and creation, and science and relgion.
First of, the sticker is a form of free speech, which is just as important as weither a student is allowed to pray his/her relgion with a group of similiar students. However, no matter what the sticker says, the act in itself is a destruction of state property. Therefore even though the court rule is probably correct and fair in the end, the reason behind the ruling is not.
On the angle of what the sticker actually says, no matter what your relgious belief I think many of you are forgetting the fundamentals of science. Evolution IS a theory, not a fact. Creation is ALSO a theory and not a fact. And practically ALL of science is theory, not fact. Few items even get the privliage of the "LAW" status, except when talking about mathematics. I'd say 95% of mathematical theorys are actually law (fact), while less than 1% of all the other sciences' theorys put together have the "law" status and even those are still thrown back to "theory" status do to finding "experiments" that prove the theories wrong (think netwon vs einstein).
...is to see if it remove "Avenue A" that MSN wants to keep installing.
--"In order to help protect customers, the default install of Internet Explorer will completely block the installation of ActiveX controls that are not signed, and it will suggest that you do not install any unsigned programs that you might try to download."
Ok, that's Grade A B.S. Right there.
First of all, isn't www.cnn.com a trusted site? If so, why does IE allow Spyware "Avenue A" download on my system.
Second, Verisign cost more money than what's it worth. Hey, if I had $300+ to spend every year so that Micro$haft can grant me it's blessing, that doesn't make my tabloid of a site anymore trustworthy.
Third, You don't know where mirror.sg.depaul.edu is? Give me a break. www.microsoft.com goes to a cluster of machines all across the US. Maybe I'll get lucky playing Russian rolutte one day with a disgruntled MS employee that decides to send an... opps torjan from one of it's sites. Spectulation is a two-edged sword.
Fourth, MS has a 10+ year track record with its greed, its defiance, its manipulation and persussain, and most of all, it deception. Now, knowing this let's apply that Law#1 to the Ten Immutable Laws of Security "If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer any more." Seems like I hear this one directed to MS users... a lot.
-my four cents worth.
Ballmer! WTF are you thinking?! Use must really be for Linux. You know, when Gates was CEO, he'd was very ingenous and at the same time, very stupid. We would makes comments that would generally make people laugh at him, like "one day hardware will be free and people will pay for software." You, Baller, you make statements that really piss people off. With your greed driven attitude, I see you spiraling M$ into the middle of the Sahara Desert with no suuplies. Mesa thinks M$ is gonna die. I give it 5 years, 10 tops. But hey, I'm an advocate of linux. So you keep doing your thing Ballmer. Way ta go!
I really commend our fellow civilians from SpaceShip One on taking the XPrize. They've shown to the world that one day Space Travel will be just as commonplace as the car has now become. However, I still believe that chemical combustion has seen it's time. We need to move on to more effecient means of propulsion. I feel we need to focus more on understanding how gravity works and ho w to manipulate it effeciently. The use of water and hydrogen will be our only means of resupply once out in deep space. Until we move past this point, we are stuck on Earth with or without affordable space travel.
Seriously now. It takes 1 +mins just for their webpage to come up (on a T1) and using Outlook or Outlook Express? As of 1-2 years ago, it wouldn't work for me at all. And like other Windows users I've reformated my machine at least 2-3 times now since then. This sounds so much like their "Asian" version of Windows XP for $30.
At Rhaposody (listen.com) I can pay $0.79 per song to be BURNED onto a CD as a "standard" 44Khz, 16-bit, Stereo audio track.
Then, I can rip my new song as a nicer 192kbps file and load that into my ipod/mp3 player/whatever.
Note: When I look at the songs available from iTunes, I find it ironic Rhapsody has the excat same songs available to us. How do I know that (especcially if there are thousands of songs)? I listen to trance, dance, & techno. When they release an album out on iTunes (which is rare), they've also come out on Rhapsody the same day.
Hmmm....My theory is, it's all really the same service.
...fly the friendly skies. uMMmm wwhoAAA Hah ha!
Or like Rhaposody (online "purchased" music listening) which companies will probably NEVER make available in linux.
And I hope someone proves me wrong.
Well, I actually NEED a Tablet and I've been waiting for them for a very VERY Long time. Every since I saw them on Star Trek TNG, I've been waiting and wanting one.
:P) Could you image having these things stuck to the wall throughout your home, and if you needed the computer, you could just rip one off the wall (held by some kind of mechanism) use it, and put it back. Why It could be used for reading a novel, surfing, checking on the house temp, looking up a recipe, creating a grocery list, or a list of things to do, turning on the music for a particular room (you are in), Checking on the kids via video cam in there room without walking in, maybe watching a quick news clip while in the shower, bedroom, kitchen, etc. Getting the idea? Cost is just the factor for now. And I feel if the bugs and non-pleasures were worked out, yeah I would use my tablet for school, work, notes, etc.
:P) Now we are back to square one again.
:D
So why a tablet, for personal use I'd use them as integrated Home Automation Tools. (Assume were running Linux, not XP
Now that was just dreaming and future stuff, but let me now explain why I NEED one. I work in the medical community and I am currently finishing up an EMR Management Program. Here is the dilemma: How to you get people who don't like to use computer because "paper is faster", but yet expect to get results from charts, graphs, and reports that only a computer is capable of computer (or a lot of man hours). Obviously the quick answer is to get them to just "do it" and enter the data into the system. As the programmer, I can only create the best possible tools to do this with the available input devices, aka keyboard and mouse...and maybe a touch screen. Not getting to deep into this, but a doctor has issue with taking their laptop all over the place with them. It works well to a point, but if they don't like trackballs and touch pads, and they are not a very could typer, the doctor is just going to blame me, the programmer, for developing a stupid and cumbersome interface and will proclaim that paper is better. (Even though it's really not me, it's user error
As far as PDAs, whow, out of the question! Why? Simply the screen is just to small. That's another thing in the medical world, "How much info can I cram into a single sheet of 8x11?" I'm already trying to phase that train of thinking out, but the fact is we still need a large screen to display info on.
So you see, the paper notepad way of electronic information data entry is to encourage the tablet.
My boss's cousin has an EMR program that utilizes the tablet PC, and says it's made life easier. So I really really like to see this tablet thing work...especailly with Linux