Maybe they want people to download the music while in the restaurant using the wi-fi networks they were piloting? Might as well supersize that meal so you have something to do while downloading the songs.
Wal*Mart might be liable for selling the video game, but isn't it a bit silly that they're suing the video game distribution system but not the firearm distribution system? Who knows, the parents probably bought the rifles at Wal*Mart as well. Seems to me that the people who should be sued are the parents who let their kids buy the game, play the game, and get access to the weaponry.
I can tell if a nut matches a bolt, but I own a hardware store. Perhaps you can match a nut and bolt, and if so you're hired!:-)
Most homeowners cannot tell what size fastener they need (or even what kind of fastener). They walk in and say "I need to hang up these shelves on my concrete basement wall. Help!" RF shopping baskets and self-checkout won't help them hang their shelf.
You're correct for the most part. There are very few retail experiences that require human interaction. Probably the best example of a retail store that still requires a good deal of human interaction is a hardware store. Whether it's a replacement part for a toilet, choosing the proper nut or bolt, or matching some paint colors, the shopper depends on one-to-one interaction with an intelligent human being.
Unfortunately, consumers in many areas chose big box stores over local hardware stores and now they have nowhere to go to try and match that rusty, wet part they yanked out of the toilet. Sure they can wander the aisles of Home Depot looking for help, but good luck.
John
Disclaimer - I own a hardware store so I have a vested interest in the future of retail technology.
SpamBayes does work quite well. I've had no false positives and rarely do I get an spam in my inbox. One tip for training it to set up a Hotmail account and then check it once a week. Just highlight everything in the Hotmail account and mark as Spam to help train SpamBayes. After two weeks I had 3000 messages in my spam database.
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I just read some sad news on Slashdot - well known troll and off-topic poster Anonymous Coward was found dead in his mom's basement this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an Internet icon.
Telemarketers are only one step above the junk mailers (represented by the same direct marketing trade organizations). I recently had to help clean out an apartment of an elderly family friend who is dying of cancer. Her closets were jammed with all sorts of gadgety flashlights, clocks, and other useless junk from mail order catalogs. Her clothes closets were filled with brand new dresses that were never worn.
I understand that these companies have a right to sell, but she was getting three and four catalogs a day mailed to her home, and even though they had different names on the catalogs they were all shipping from the same warehouses....hmmm.
I guess it's one of the benefits of growing old in America...lots of junk mail and junk phone calls.
I totally agree...they priced their stuff too cheaply. They failed to realize that a home user that understood the benefit of broadband would also be a user that would take full advantage of the fat pipe. Nobody ever accused the telcos and cable folks of being very bright when it comes to Internet service, but it is still surprising that they assumed everyone would be just doing email and instant messaging.
The cable companies are probably a bit sharper than the telco folks, as they anticipated high bandwidth demands...they just planned that it would be users downloading premium cable content and not MP3's and p0rn via P2P networks.
The premium content was going to be the "profit" from the home cable modem user.
Tough to find specific references to business subsidizing residential rates, but here's an old reference (Requirement 3), and here's another. (1996) It's discussed in this 2001 hearing at the US House of Representatives.
Don't forget that residential means rural, suburban, and urban. How much money does Comcast make wiring Oklahoma and getting $45 per month when they can wire NY, LA, or Chicago and get $100 per month from a business? Residential does not pay it's own way in communications.
...for residential users. Business users basically already subsidize the home market. The telcos and cable companies probably didn't forsee the impact of P2P when they promised "unlimited" bandwidth, assuming web browsers, email, and the occasional Quake server connected at home. P2P takes off and suddenly they need to back off on their promises a bit, but don't expect them to drop the price lower as they are already losing money on home broadband.
Not totally correct...from what I understand, the autotuner only brings the pitch back up within the range allowed for the key of the song. It will make subtle changes, but not move notes up or down full tones. So it will improve a singers performance but it will not compensate for someone (or something) that cannot at least come reasonably close to proper pitch.
I still think it's BS for an artist to use it unless it's for a particular effect.
The article mentions that initially the universities wanted a "Kazaa-like" system where students could get any file they wanted. This idea was shot down, so that means the music selection will be limited to whatever is included in the agreement. So students will have to pony up money for a service that has limited selection.
The article doesn't talk about DRM controls, but I would assume that the system would prohibit burning CD's and limit copying to portable devices. Excuse me, but isn't this already available to students (iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.) who want to pay for this service?
The music industry will get lots of revenue through these contracts, and the universities will get some legal coverage to avoid being dragged into court. The universities will probably even take on a service charge to whatever the music industry charges.
High speed wireless and voice-over-IP will eventually make the Telco's obsolete as well. It's not the near future, but technology will eventually make it possible for a communications web to exist in a 100% peer-to-peer network. There will be a need for companies to link across large expanses of ocean, but the government will take over that job (IMHO).
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Maybe they want people to download the music while in the restaurant using the wi-fi networks they were piloting? Might as well supersize that meal so you have something to do while downloading the songs.
Wal*Mart might be liable for selling the video game, but isn't it a bit silly that they're suing the video game distribution system but not the firearm distribution system? Who knows, the parents probably bought the rifles at Wal*Mart as well. Seems to me that the people who should be sued are the parents who let their kids buy the game, play the game, and get access to the weaponry.
I can tell if a nut matches a bolt, but I own a hardware store. Perhaps you can match a nut and bolt, and if so you're hired! :-)
Most homeowners cannot tell what size fastener they need (or even what kind of fastener). They walk in and say "I need to hang up these shelves on my concrete basement wall. Help!" RF shopping baskets and self-checkout won't help them hang their shelf.
John
You're correct for the most part. There are very few retail experiences that require human interaction. Probably the best example of a retail store that still requires a good deal of human interaction is a hardware store. Whether it's a replacement part for a toilet, choosing the proper nut or bolt, or matching some paint colors, the shopper depends on one-to-one interaction with an intelligent human being.
Unfortunately, consumers in many areas chose big box stores over local hardware stores and now they have nowhere to go to try and match that rusty, wet part they yanked out of the toilet. Sure they can wander the aisles of Home Depot looking for help, but good luck.
John
Disclaimer - I own a hardware store so I have a vested interest in the future of retail technology.
SpamBayes does work quite well. I've had no false positives and rarely do I get an spam in my inbox. One tip for training it to set up a Hotmail account and then check it once a week. Just highlight everything in the Hotmail account and mark as Spam to help train SpamBayes. After two weeks I had 3000 messages in my spam database.
I just read some sad news on Slashdot - well known troll and off-topic poster Anonymous Coward was found dead in his mom's basement this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an Internet icon.
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Telemarketers are only one step above the junk mailers (represented by the same direct marketing trade organizations). I recently had to help clean out an apartment of an elderly family friend who is dying of cancer. Her closets were jammed with all sorts of gadgety flashlights, clocks, and other useless junk from mail order catalogs. Her clothes closets were filled with brand new dresses that were never worn.
I understand that these companies have a right to sell, but she was getting three and four catalogs a day mailed to her home, and even though they had different names on the catalogs they were all shipping from the same warehouses....hmmm.
I guess it's one of the benefits of growing old in America...lots of junk mail and junk phone calls.
...as I also had no luck with my search.
"Your search for intelligent executive branch leadership near Washington, DC did not match any documents within 15 miles."
I totally agree...they priced their stuff too cheaply. They failed to realize that a home user that understood the benefit of broadband would also be a user that would take full advantage of the fat pipe. Nobody ever accused the telcos and cable folks of being very bright when it comes to Internet service, but it is still surprising that they assumed everyone would be just doing email and instant messaging.
The cable companies are probably a bit sharper than the telco folks, as they anticipated high bandwidth demands...they just planned that it would be users downloading premium cable content and not MP3's and p0rn via P2P networks.
The premium content was going to be the "profit" from the home cable modem user.
Tough to find specific references to business subsidizing residential rates, but here's an old reference (Requirement 3), and here's another. (1996) It's discussed in this 2001 hearing at the US House of Representatives.
Don't forget that residential means rural, suburban, and urban. How much money does Comcast make wiring Oklahoma and getting $45 per month when they can wire NY, LA, or Chicago and get $100 per month from a business? Residential does not pay it's own way in communications.
...for residential users. Business users basically already subsidize the home market. The telcos and cable companies probably didn't forsee the impact of P2P when they promised "unlimited" bandwidth, assuming web browsers, email, and the occasional Quake server connected at home. P2P takes off and suddenly they need to back off on their promises a bit, but don't expect them to drop the price lower as they are already losing money on home broadband.
JH Software has just added this IP exclusion feature to theis Simple DNS product.
...because their free 90 days of support had run out on 31 August 1945 and they didn't want to pay the $500 annual support contract.
...when technicians and programmers found the bugs. Now vendors just release the code and rely on the users to do all the "debugging".
like this?
Not totally correct...from what I understand, the autotuner only brings the pitch back up within the range allowed for the key of the song. It will make subtle changes, but not move notes up or down full tones. So it will improve a singers performance but it will not compensate for someone (or something) that cannot at least come reasonably close to proper pitch.
I still think it's BS for an artist to use it unless it's for a particular effect.
John
Just make sure you call before your morning cup of joe.
In the short term the lawsuit is bad news. What company is going to roll-out an operating system when there is a lawsuit hanging over it?
Oh wait, are we talking about Windows?
updates don't download automatically when I go to the Windows Update site.
The article mentions that initially the universities wanted a "Kazaa-like" system where students could get any file they wanted. This idea was shot down, so that means the music selection will be limited to whatever is included in the agreement. So students will have to pony up money for a service that has limited selection.
The article doesn't talk about DRM controls, but I would assume that the system would prohibit burning CD's and limit copying to portable devices. Excuse me, but isn't this already available to students (iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.) who want to pay for this service?
The music industry will get lots of revenue through these contracts, and the universities will get some legal coverage to avoid being dragged into court. The universities will probably even take on a service charge to whatever the music industry charges.
LOL...still excellent you coward.
High speed wireless and voice-over-IP will eventually make the Telco's obsolete as well. It's not the near future, but technology will eventually make it possible for a communications web to exist in a 100% peer-to-peer network. There will be a need for companies to link across large expanses of ocean, but the government will take over that job (IMHO).