I've gone to streaming over Roku from Netflix/Amazon for well over the last year. I agree that it isn't a perfect system and when the internet goes down, it is really annoying to not be able to watch our content. We'll probably never get rid of our DVD player for this fact. However, with that said, I won't upgrade to Blu-Ray until they bring the price of hardware down to a reasonable level. Same thing goes for their overpriced movies.
As someone that has just recently broken the 50k/year salary range, I can say that this is true.
Money does not buy happiness. Money brings relief. Relief in knowing that you can pay your bills on time. Knowing that you can buy the groceries you need for your family. Knowing that if you have to go to the doctor, or the ER, that it won't bankrupt you.
I'm trying to provide for my family on 50k/year. It's difficult, considering how expensive our basic necessities are (ie Groceries, Utilities, etc). We live very frugal, but it's still tight, and we still get stressed.
I once saw a bird that was so fat, that it waddled on the ground. It would jump up and try to fly, and fall back down on it's @$$. This bird lived outside of a donut shop here in Franklin.
Now the artists have absolutely NO WAY to recoup royalties from their label. Since the money generated from this service is derived from Advertising, and NOT the sale of the music, the artist is officially screwed. If some artists had the power they could re-negotiate their contract to include this, but since most are locked in (and still trying to pay back the massive advances from the label) they won't.
DRM has gone from Suck to Blow. Really, this isn't suprising. If DRM increases the amount of processing needed to play the file, of course it's going to drain the battery. Solution? Don't use DRM, or don't buy music from stores that do use it.
Good point and I'd like to add,
What about the time length between when vulnerabilities are found, and then patched? Surely, they thought about that. Linux and Unix can continue to have more "reported" vulnerabilities than Windows, but if they are patched faster than Windows, doesn't that count for something?
That's weird....Fedora released OOo 2.0.1 about a week and a half ago. It was in my updates repo, and I snagged it ASAP.
Luckily since I have 3 Mb DSL, it won't take too long for me either, but for those that don't have it...that really sucks.
Yeah, I've been trying to give them the finger for over 3 years now, but I guess it hasn't done any good!
The funny thing is, File-Sharing can be a great tool for the distribution of music. It's just a matter of utilizing it in a way that will allow both the artist and the listener to benefit from it.
With our online music store, we are going to be utilizing BitTorrent technology for the distribution of some of our music.
About 2 years ago, there was a Music Industry meeting here in Nashville, and the President of Sony Music Nashville was quoted as saying "our biggest mistake was shutting down Napster", now take that for what it's worth, but it does say something.
That is exactly what I did. Originally I had BellSouth DSL Xtreme 3.0 as well as BS POTS and Vonage VoIP. Then when I realized how stupid it was to have POTS and VoIP I switched my DSL to Speakeasy. Now I have OneLink and Vonage. I have been considering changing VoIP to Speakeasy since they would prioritize the voice packets from the data packets, and eliminate the slow and choppy sounds when some is downloading something from my servers while I am talking.
I have really enjoyed Vonage and I hate that the gov't is picking on them, but when you are the "leader" you're going to get the most crap.
This really isn't all that suprising. In fact when Microsoft first mentioned the possiblity of opening up their XML schema, a lot of people automatically looked at how they were going to do it, and they came to the same conclusion as has been found here.
Yes. The GPG signature is from today, and their have been no additions to the tree since it was locked down.
Oh, and that thread on Spreadfirefox is mine! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/20564
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I mean, Jobs is denouncing a competitor after all, amirite?
In Exchange 2010, OWA works well across Firefox, IE 8 and Chrome.
My moment is running 2.1 Android and the app kept crashing. I uninstalled it.
I've gone to streaming over Roku from Netflix/Amazon for well over the last year. I agree that it isn't a perfect system and when the internet goes down, it is really annoying to not be able to watch our content. We'll probably never get rid of our DVD player for this fact. However, with that said, I won't upgrade to Blu-Ray until they bring the price of hardware down to a reasonable level. Same thing goes for their overpriced movies.
As someone that has just recently broken the 50k/year salary range, I can say that this is true. Money does not buy happiness. Money brings relief. Relief in knowing that you can pay your bills on time. Knowing that you can buy the groceries you need for your family. Knowing that if you have to go to the doctor, or the ER, that it won't bankrupt you. I'm trying to provide for my family on 50k/year. It's difficult, considering how expensive our basic necessities are (ie Groceries, Utilities, etc). We live very frugal, but it's still tight, and we still get stressed.
I once saw a bird that was so fat, that it waddled on the ground. It would jump up and try to fly, and fall back down on it's @$$. This bird lived outside of a donut shop here in Franklin.
+1 Best comment, right here.
For my competing tech company called the "Dork Patrol"!
So both Microsoft and Toshiba purposely destroyed their firmware?
but the real question is how much would apple charge for this functionality.
because I just lost my IT Administrator job on Tuesday...due to financial constraints at the company.
"HA HA!"
when he gated his snare...that was when music was destroyed.
We've interviewed a few musicians that use Planet CCRMA and Fedora when recording their music. One such artist is RachelAPP. You can read more at http://ind-music.com/index.php?option=com_content& task=view&id=74&Itemid=1
Support Open source and open music.
Their site can barely serve webpages with Flash content...good luck. I'm glad to see MySpace "helping" out in the indie music arena.
Now the artists have absolutely NO WAY to recoup royalties from their label. Since the money generated from this service is derived from Advertising, and NOT the sale of the music, the artist is officially screwed. If some artists had the power they could re-negotiate their contract to include this, but since most are locked in (and still trying to pay back the massive advances from the label) they won't.
DRM has gone from Suck to Blow. Really, this isn't suprising. If DRM increases the amount of processing needed to play the file, of course it's going to drain the battery. Solution? Don't use DRM, or don't buy music from stores that do use it.
8 Dimensions is a company based in Seattle thats sells their Media pc software for 60 bucks. It supports tons of formats too. http://8dim.com/
I guess content really is king...
Good point and I'd like to add, What about the time length between when vulnerabilities are found, and then patched? Surely, they thought about that. Linux and Unix can continue to have more "reported" vulnerabilities than Windows, but if they are patched faster than Windows, doesn't that count for something?
That's weird....Fedora released OOo 2.0.1 about a week and a half ago. It was in my updates repo, and I snagged it ASAP. Luckily since I have 3 Mb DSL, it won't take too long for me either, but for those that don't have it...that really sucks.
Yeah, I've been trying to give them the finger for over 3 years now, but I guess it hasn't done any good! The funny thing is, File-Sharing can be a great tool for the distribution of music. It's just a matter of utilizing it in a way that will allow both the artist and the listener to benefit from it.
With our online music store, we are going to be utilizing BitTorrent technology for the distribution of some of our music.
About 2 years ago, there was a Music Industry meeting here in Nashville, and the President of Sony Music Nashville was quoted as saying "our biggest mistake was shutting down Napster", now take that for what it's worth, but it does say something.
That is exactly what I did. Originally I had BellSouth DSL Xtreme 3.0 as well as BS POTS and Vonage VoIP. Then when I realized how stupid it was to have POTS and VoIP I switched my DSL to Speakeasy. Now I have OneLink and Vonage. I have been considering changing VoIP to Speakeasy since they would prioritize the voice packets from the data packets, and eliminate the slow and choppy sounds when some is downloading something from my servers while I am talking.
I have really enjoyed Vonage and I hate that the gov't is picking on them, but when you are the "leader" you're going to get the most crap.
This really isn't all that suprising. In fact when Microsoft first mentioned the possiblity of opening up their XML schema, a lot of people automatically looked at how they were going to do it, and they came to the same conclusion as has been found here.
Yes. The GPG signature is from today, and their have been no additions to the tree since it was locked down. Oh, and that thread on Spreadfirefox is mine! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/20564