I could swear I've seen this somewhere else today... hmm...
yes that would be this article on AMDzone. Take a look at the second page for the SPEC score comparison...
Um so is AMD... You know the makers of Opteron & Athlon64? The ones who have several linux distro's already supporting AMD64? Unless you mean '64bit RISC hardware', but then again the Opteron is internally a RISC design so I guess that doesn't work either... Maybe... No... hmm.. Well I guess if you'd said "on 64-bit hardware that has no native support for x86" you might have been right...
This could be another area where AMD could take on Intel since they own Alchemy & make chips designed for use in PDA's, but Intel has a head start right now... Maybe Palm should invest in some AMD made chips for their next series...?
Well I'm not sure if anyone will ever read this (since I'm coming in a few hours after it was first posted), but I used to be a big fan of MP3.com... You know before they were sued & had to sell their soul to the big 5 music labels...
I heard so much new music on their it was incredible... They gave exposure to all the bands/artists that posted work on their site and made it easy to find by spliting them into categories... New artists were lsited on each page of the site (like the main page listed all the msot recent artists in all categories, but the blues main page lists all the recent blues artists signing up). Beyond that they had reviewers who had there own section of the site & would spotlight artists, which often included contests voted on by the site goers. I picked up more than a few new bands by coming back each week for the 'female artist of the week' page.
This is a constructive promotional tool that did wonders for alot of artists that would not have been exposed otherwise... It was a model that worked wonders. Sure not every artist made it, but tons of them did... Heck several made steady income from CD sales only doing this, that's pretty unheard of in the music industry...
All in all I'm just saying that no the promotional end doesn't ahve to be handled in the way RIAA members currently do it, It can come from grass roots efforts to promote artists... In fact that makes far more sense then letting the 'evil empires' do it while screwing the artists out of every cent they can...
Hmm we got that one today at work, but I think Toshiba's site actually lsits that one & since the E355 just arrived today I hadn't had a good chance to see if it was 2002 or 2003 yet...
Huh I thought Pocket PC 2003 has been out for awhile because at work we've been selling a Toshiba E760 (which looks to be a E755 running Pocket PC 2003) for over a week now... I hadn't been keeping up on Pocket PC OS stuff very much so I didn't think anything of it when they came in... Of course once I saw the article I went to Toshiba's website & realized they don't even mention it... Huh, I wonder how fast I'd be fired if I wrote a review of it for the slashdot crowd & posted it tomorrow..
Obviously using multiple paragraphs to seperate ideas is to much for you...
My first paragraph was just an FYI about how the original poster thought that the 'bonus materials' on the net would make a difference between CD owners & those not owning the CD... My point was that it wouldn't make a difference between actually owning a CD since most people that don't will still ahve access through whatever they used to get the music anyways...
Then I stated that if they really wanted to appeal to fans they would allow some if not all their music to be downloaded from them directly. Without having to buy somethign first. I didn't say I don't think artists should make no money at all. I said (specifically) that if they wanted to appeal more to fans than should do somethign that would add fans, not cosset existing ones...
Maybe if you'd read what I said rather than filtering it down to a few words that caught your eye you might have figured out what I meant...
Um you do relaize that since most people will put all their music in one place & most file sharing programs rescan those places (if not the whole drive) when restarted. So that one person going to their site (after having bought the CD)now means that people who didn't buy the CD can still get those 'rare' 'value added' songs just as if they had boughten the CD...
If they really wanted to make fans happy they would simply offer such things for free on their website & not force anyone to buy a CD... People could then hear their stuff & decide whether they may want to buy the new CD before actually buying it in a store.
I could also add that due to their part in creating the 'music fans are pirates' attitude has probably lost some fans that will never ever buy a metallica CD again... Regardless of how they have 'changed' for the better.
Um the cost of the technology in general is indeed cheaper. In the case you point out they were (in effect) lied to (if it was indeed sold under the claim that it would be cheaper).
But the reason it's more expensive isn't due to the technology, but the legal restraints on the technology by those offering it. If they didn't limit use it would in the end be far cheaper (especially thinking of storage in that case).
Err... um no all marching bands are not like that... In fact while I've known several I've never seen one like that... Maybe you should try linking location? That might be a better guess for the similiarity...
Poor parenting may not cause violence directly as it was originally brought up, but in almost all cases poor parenting leads to kids/young adults that get into trouble of one type or another... This could be Clinical Depression (& possible suicide), Violence, Pregnancy, Amoral Behavoir, Dilinquency, etc... Not a good thing no matter how you look at it & it takes a certain kind of kid to get through that type of upbrining in a good way...
Just to let you know, turn over for tech support & customer service varies from 1 month to 1 year depending on the company... I in fact worked for one & benefits kicked in after 3 months, hence their turnover was at almost exactly 3 months... Hence saving the company from keeping non-management employees who had to be paid benefits to a minimum... If they liked you though you'd be a 'manager' in the same space of time... They didn't like me (because I was all about helping solve issues not about their 'tangible goals') so I got the boot real quick when my 3 months came up...
I've already been trying to get something of this sort started locally, but their are more hurdles to jump going this route then if the local 'last mile' line holder would do it... & recent decisions by the national gov haven't been helping...
Not to step on your rant... but Toshiba, HP (through the Compaq Ipaq), Handspring (via the Treo), & Palm all use SD/MMC cards... Sony is different since they refuse to not use their memory sticks (since they use them on everything except the PS2)... I can't even really think of any other major players in PDA's anymore who aren't going to follow the trend... Those listed above are sold the only ones sold locally in my area... No memory format worries for me...
Since you like Tesla, did you know he even gets a cameo in a sci-fi novel series by Robert Doherty (aka Bob Mayer) called Area 51? If you want to take a look check out his website at www.bobmayer.org. In fact a Tesla 'weapon' gets used to stop one of the evil alien races in the book...
Um while I'm not a huge supporter of the republican party, I also am not foolish enough to think that a democrat is going to be such a better thing for my interests in tech matters... I watched the Democratic debates & they were a bunch of losers who couldn't stand up for an issue one way or another...
Unfortunately though no other party or platform would ever get voted in these days... Which is kinda funny since until about the 40's it was unheard of for the USA to have only 2 parties... Often their were 5 or 6... With so much power in only 2 camps & no real differences (lets be honest they will say whatever they think will get them votes these days) between them, it's a buyers market for getting anything passed you want...
I've had several Apple Zeolots try to convince me I'd be happier if I used a Mac, but never had anyone say I'd be happier if I only used windows (I dual boot btw)...
Of course I know how to build a box & windows or *Nix I rarely have crashes or issues... Which is the strongest selling point most Mac Zelots have used when they say this...
Unfortuantely in my experience while Linux has gotten easier to use/install it's still not quite their for most of the local people I deal with... & I'm not a programmer so if something doesn't work in whichever flavor of *Nix I'm using or working with right then I don't really try to fix it... I'll just wait for a new app/patch/kernel/other fis then try again. Most people aren't that patient...
hmmm seeing as how a Sony subdivision (Sony Music Inc) is one of the strongest memebers of the RIAA & another Sony subdivision (Sony Pictures Inc) is a member of the MPAA, I think your a bit off as to how has done what & which is worse... Though it's all going to be a personal decision between two companies known for doing bad things...
I rank MS as the better of 2 'evils' due to the fact I doubt the computer industry would be where it is without MS having played it's part... Now do I think it's done lots of 'evil' things since then? Yes. No arugument, I'm just saying neither is a saint here & both get way to much free press...
MS actually isn't very much like EA or Sammy for that matter when it comes to making games... They would be far more open to new series & franchises than either of those 2... Also it's unlikely that MS would even move a single person from their current development team, why? Well they haven't touched a single soul from Bungie or Rare, those companies when they merged with MS have stayed as is with MS simply funding their efforts...
It's almost no difference with the way industries can buy laws/court cases/support from those that can effect such things... Somehow since the US government can't even clear out it's 'soft money' campaign contributions for politicians I don't see this changing...
I disagree, I loved Halo and that has to be one of the most inspired FPS's I've ever seen... Only Half-Life can come close to matching it... The problem with most FPS games is they lack real challenge... It's all just run & gun...
They fall to the fantasy that you can just run into a firefight & come out the sole survivor... It doesn't work that way though... & games liek Half-Life & Halo are about that.. They may not be super realistic, but you have to use your wits to survive (Well at least when you play on the hardest settings)...
Which just reminds me how I always get called a 'camper' for being a sniper... Sniping is smart, they just don't like it because you may not be able to see a sniper but a guy with a gun next to you is easy fodder...
As much as I'd like to support you unfortunetly The only reason most people buy a Xbox mod chip is to cheat... & they prefer to cheat online when possible (& yes it is possible to cheat online, you just have to disable any mod chip before going online). Or to play games they don't own...
Do you really weant to support cheaters & pirates?
I'm already dreading the release of PSO for xbox in about a week since teh first thing more than 2 dozen cheaters have decided to do is ruin the game for everyone by using their mod chips to unfairly raise their character level & get the rare items in the game...
Oh Please! Sadam is one of the worst criminals in the world & for decades everyone looked the other way because he paid them off in oil! Now someone finally decides to stand against him (& are ooposed by the same countries that took his oil during sanctiosn they helped enact!) & you decide they are 'evil oil grabbers'... Go do some research rather than spewing crap, k?
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I could swear I've seen this somewhere else today... hmm... yes that would be this article on AMDzone. Take a look at the second page for the SPEC score comparison...
Um so is AMD... You know the makers of Opteron & Athlon64? The ones who have several linux distro's already supporting AMD64? Unless you mean '64bit RISC hardware', but then again the Opteron is internally a RISC design so I guess that doesn't work either... Maybe... No... hmm.. Well I guess if you'd said "on 64-bit hardware that has no native support for x86" you might have been right...
This could be another area where AMD could take on Intel since they own Alchemy & make chips designed for use in PDA's, but Intel has a head start right now... Maybe Palm should invest in some AMD made chips for their next series...?
Well I'm not sure if anyone will ever read this (since I'm coming in a few hours after it was first posted), but I used to be a big fan of MP3.com... You know before they were sued & had to sell their soul to the big 5 music labels...
I heard so much new music on their it was incredible... They gave exposure to all the bands/artists that posted work on their site and made it easy to find by spliting them into categories... New artists were lsited on each page of the site (like the main page listed all the msot recent artists in all categories, but the blues main page lists all the recent blues artists signing up). Beyond that they had reviewers who had there own section of the site & would spotlight artists, which often included contests voted on by the site goers. I picked up more than a few new bands by coming back each week for the 'female artist of the week' page.
This is a constructive promotional tool that did wonders for alot of artists that would not have been exposed otherwise... It was a model that worked wonders. Sure not every artist made it, but tons of them did... Heck several made steady income from CD sales only doing this, that's pretty unheard of in the music industry...
All in all I'm just saying that no the promotional end doesn't ahve to be handled in the way RIAA members currently do it, It can come from grass roots efforts to promote artists... In fact that makes far more sense then letting the 'evil empires' do it while screwing the artists out of every cent they can...
Hmm we got that one today at work, but I think Toshiba's site actually lsits that one & since the E355 just arrived today I hadn't had a good chance to see if it was 2002 or 2003 yet...
Huh I thought Pocket PC 2003 has been out for awhile because at work we've been selling a Toshiba E760 (which looks to be a E755 running Pocket PC 2003) for over a week now... I hadn't been keeping up on Pocket PC OS stuff very much so I didn't think anything of it when they came in... Of course once I saw the article I went to Toshiba's website & realized they don't even mention it... Huh, I wonder how fast I'd be fired if I wrote a review of it for the slashdot crowd & posted it tomorrow..
Obviously using multiple paragraphs to seperate ideas is to much for you...
My first paragraph was just an FYI about how the original poster thought that the 'bonus materials' on the net would make a difference between CD owners & those not owning the CD... My point was that it wouldn't make a difference between actually owning a CD since most people that don't will still ahve access through whatever they used to get the music anyways...
Then I stated that if they really wanted to appeal to fans they would allow some if not all their music to be downloaded from them directly. Without having to buy somethign first. I didn't say I don't think artists should make no money at all. I said (specifically) that if they wanted to appeal more to fans than should do somethign that would add fans, not cosset existing ones...
Maybe if you'd read what I said rather than filtering it down to a few words that caught your eye you might have figured out what I meant...
Um you do relaize that since most people will put all their music in one place & most file sharing programs rescan those places (if not the whole drive) when restarted. So that one person going to their site (after having bought the CD)now means that people who didn't buy the CD can still get those 'rare' 'value added' songs just as if they had boughten the CD...
If they really wanted to make fans happy they would simply offer such things for free on their website & not force anyone to buy a CD... People could then hear their stuff & decide whether they may want to buy the new CD before actually buying it in a store.
I could also add that due to their part in creating the 'music fans are pirates' attitude has probably lost some fans that will never ever buy a metallica CD again... Regardless of how they have 'changed' for the better.
Um the cost of the technology in general is indeed cheaper. In the case you point out they were (in effect) lied to (if it was indeed sold under the claim that it would be cheaper).
But the reason it's more expensive isn't due to the technology, but the legal restraints on the technology by those offering it. If they didn't limit use it would in the end be far cheaper (especially thinking of storage in that case).
1 word for you:
Duh
Err... um no all marching bands are not like that... In fact while I've known several I've never seen one like that... Maybe you should try linking location? That might be a better guess for the similiarity...
Poor parenting may not cause violence directly as it was originally brought up, but in almost all cases poor parenting leads to kids/young adults that get into trouble of one type or another... This could be Clinical Depression (& possible suicide), Violence, Pregnancy, Amoral Behavoir, Dilinquency, etc... Not a good thing no matter how you look at it & it takes a certain kind of kid to get through that type of upbrining in a good way...
Just to let you know, turn over for tech support & customer service varies from 1 month to 1 year depending on the company... I in fact worked for one & benefits kicked in after 3 months, hence their turnover was at almost exactly 3 months... Hence saving the company from keeping non-management employees who had to be paid benefits to a minimum... If they liked you though you'd be a 'manager' in the same space of time... They didn't like me (because I was all about helping solve issues not about their 'tangible goals') so I got the boot real quick when my 3 months came up...
I've already been trying to get something of this sort started locally, but their are more hurdles to jump going this route then if the local 'last mile' line holder would do it... & recent decisions by the national gov haven't been helping...
Not to step on your rant... but Toshiba, HP (through the Compaq Ipaq), Handspring (via the Treo), & Palm all use SD/MMC cards... Sony is different since they refuse to not use their memory sticks (since they use them on everything except the PS2)... I can't even really think of any other major players in PDA's anymore who aren't going to follow the trend... Those listed above are sold the only ones sold locally in my area... No memory format worries for me...
Since you like Tesla, did you know he even gets a cameo in a sci-fi novel series by Robert Doherty (aka Bob Mayer) called Area 51? If you want to take a look check out his website at www.bobmayer.org. In fact a Tesla 'weapon' gets used to stop one of the evil alien races in the book...
The winamp forum thread ahs already been pulled FYI... I was curious how long theyed let that stand so I went & checked on it...
Um while I'm not a huge supporter of the republican party, I also am not foolish enough to think that a democrat is going to be such a better thing for my interests in tech matters... I watched the Democratic debates & they were a bunch of losers who couldn't stand up for an issue one way or another...
Unfortunately though no other party or platform would ever get voted in these days... Which is kinda funny since until about the 40's it was unheard of for the USA to have only 2 parties... Often their were 5 or 6... With so much power in only 2 camps & no real differences (lets be honest they will say whatever they think will get them votes these days) between them, it's a buyers market for getting anything passed you want...
I've had several Apple Zeolots try to convince me I'd be happier if I used a Mac, but never had anyone say I'd be happier if I only used windows (I dual boot btw)...
Of course I know how to build a box & windows or *Nix I rarely have crashes or issues... Which is the strongest selling point most Mac Zelots have used when they say this...
Unfortuantely in my experience while Linux has gotten easier to use/install it's still not quite their for most of the local people I deal with... & I'm not a programmer so if something doesn't work in whichever flavor of *Nix I'm using or working with right then I don't really try to fix it... I'll just wait for a new app/patch/kernel/other fis then try again. Most people aren't that patient...
hmmm seeing as how a Sony subdivision (Sony Music Inc) is one of the strongest memebers of the RIAA & another Sony subdivision (Sony Pictures Inc) is a member of the MPAA, I think your a bit off as to how has done what & which is worse... Though it's all going to be a personal decision between two companies known for doing bad things...
I rank MS as the better of 2 'evils' due to the fact I doubt the computer industry would be where it is without MS having played it's part... Now do I think it's done lots of 'evil' things since then? Yes. No arugument, I'm just saying neither is a saint here & both get way to much free press...
MS actually isn't very much like EA or Sammy for that matter when it comes to making games... They would be far more open to new series & franchises than either of those 2... Also it's unlikely that MS would even move a single person from their current development team, why? Well they haven't touched a single soul from Bungie or Rare, those companies when they merged with MS have stayed as is with MS simply funding their efforts...
It's almost no difference with the way industries can buy laws/court cases/support from those that can effect such things... Somehow since the US government can't even clear out it's 'soft money' campaign contributions for politicians I don't see this changing...
I disagree, I loved Halo and that has to be one of the most inspired FPS's I've ever seen... Only Half-Life can come close to matching it... The problem with most FPS games is they lack real challenge... It's all just run & gun...
They fall to the fantasy that you can just run into a firefight & come out the sole survivor... It doesn't work that way though... & games liek Half-Life & Halo are about that.. They may not be super realistic, but you have to use your wits to survive (Well at least when you play on the hardest settings)...
Which just reminds me how I always get called a 'camper' for being a sniper... Sniping is smart, they just don't like it because you may not be able to see a sniper but a guy with a gun next to you is easy fodder...
As much as I'd like to support you unfortunetly The only reason most people buy a Xbox mod chip is to cheat... & they prefer to cheat online when possible (& yes it is possible to cheat online, you just have to disable any mod chip before going online). Or to play games they don't own...
Do you really weant to support cheaters & pirates?
I'm already dreading the release of PSO for xbox in about a week since teh first thing more than 2 dozen cheaters have decided to do is ruin the game for everyone by using their mod chips to unfairly raise their character level & get the rare items in the game...
Oh Please! Sadam is one of the worst criminals in the world & for decades everyone looked the other way because he paid them off in oil! Now someone finally decides to stand against him (& are ooposed by the same countries that took his oil during sanctiosn they helped enact!) & you decide they are 'evil oil grabbers'... Go do some research rather than spewing crap, k?