This is all about selling back catalogs in a format change. Record execs thought that moving to the digital age would mean buying Dark Side of the Moon in a 4th format.
The music industry thrived on the big format changes from LP to tape, and from tape to CD. Now, CD can easily become the new format without having to go back and buy it.
Their solution? Make the conversion cost you money. It's just the latest degradation of fair use.
Somehow the idea of being able to stream directv doesn't appeal to me, mainly because we already have expensive HD cable. And having to buy ANOTHER peripheral to watch HD-DVDs is not appealing. But at least M$ is manning up that claim of the xbox being "the only box you need".
Is it just me or does 4.5-5.5 million xboxes sold by June 2006 sound rather small for what is supposed to be a living room revolution?
This was a a long time ago, and I know for a fact that he went into those meetings naively, and without any actual paperwork about confidentiality. I'm sure that since then he's gotten his act together about not getting screwed over.
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16 year old kid invents 2 cool things, takes them to 2 companies for good-faith reviews. both are patented by the companies within a month and are never commercially marketed.
just one of many seedy things i've heard patents being used for. of course the situation is different, but it leads to the same result... stunted innovation.
I work with a program that's not exactly new... minus the content we pass through it. There's plenty of refuge for Javanerds working with apps like that. Of course that means there would likely be a decline in pay.
I have an hour commute on the bus each way to work. About a month into my job I realized that tunes were not cutting it. So I bought a gameboy color for $10 at EB, and dug up the original Super Mario game, Crystalis, Final Fantasy Legend 2, Doctor Mario, and Tetris. I had most of those lying around, but none of them cost more than $10 anyway. Mario has nostalgia value; Tetris and Doctor Mario are a cheap puzzle fix; Crystalis was one of my favorite NES games, and it was a blast to log a couple hours on it each day; and FFL2 is by far my favorite RPG. It has depth, but you can save it and put it down anywhere.
Recently, this list of games got me through a rather intense 1500 mile roadtrip... with the addition of Pokemon Yellow. I'd suggest just scoring a smattering of classics. Once gameboy micro hits my price point... I am there.
I'm 22, and hopefully getting fitted for a soft wrist brace next week. I just got into the content development industry and my doctor said the same thing you did. Then again I also fractured both elbows a few years ago.
Obviously it would take years, and stretch the bourndaries of tech and all that, but how much of a nerd dream would it be to get a decent probe out to the Kuiper Belt in say, 30 years. Accurately take stock of some of the larger planetary wannabes. Maybe I just cared too much in Astronomy class.
This is probably a job for the W3 folks: select a set of mandatory fonts that every browser must support. There are open-source fonts available that can, like the old Mac fonts and Arial, clone up the classics. We just have to all agree on them to make them compatible.
sadly, implementing new fonts into the list of "infallibles" is very unlikely to happen. I am a HUUUGE Palatino fan (read: typography nerd).
I get bored of courier/times/arial/helvetica. i want to see new fonts here and there. unfortunately, as of now that means either just seeing new fonts in static graphic files, or font embedding... and with that all sorts of horrid stuff.
Google - with its interconnected search, email, chat, blogs, and social networks - is also in the business of targeting ads based on user behavior. So are MSN and Yahoo! All three maintain profiles of everyone who signs up for their services. They use cookies to track what visitors do on their sites while they're logged in; the downloadable Google and MSN toolbars track which sites users visit when they're logged out. Like Claria, Google has amassed a vast database of user profiles that it plans to use for even better targeting in the future.
Sounds like someone is trying to say "hey it's ok, everyone's doing it!"
The superiority lies in the names, Google and Microsoft. Joe Average is much more likely to gravitate towards a site that has a name he's heard of. To the uninitiated, Craigslist might sound like an eBaum's World sort of site.
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This is all about selling back catalogs in a format change. Record execs thought that moving to the digital age would mean buying Dark Side of the Moon in a 4th format.
The music industry thrived on the big format changes from LP to tape, and from tape to CD. Now, CD can easily become the new format without having to go back and buy it.
Their solution? Make the conversion cost you money. It's just the latest degradation of fair use.
Somehow the idea of being able to stream directv doesn't appeal to me, mainly because we already have expensive HD cable. And having to buy ANOTHER peripheral to watch HD-DVDs is not appealing. But at least M$ is manning up that claim of the xbox being "the only box you need".
Is it just me or does 4.5-5.5 million xboxes sold by June 2006 sound rather small for what is supposed to be a living room revolution?
This was a a long time ago, and I know for a fact that he went into those meetings naively, and without any actual paperwork about confidentiality. I'm sure that since then he's gotten his act together about not getting screwed over.
16 year old kid invents 2 cool things, takes them to 2 companies for good-faith reviews. both are patented by the companies within a month and are never commercially marketed.
just one of many seedy things i've heard patents being used for. of course the situation is different, but it leads to the same result... stunted innovation.
Just like I said about Google possibly purchasing Opera, I feel like this is all about having a better mobile web browsing platform.
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1. Buy Opera
2. Integrate into mobile Microsoft platform and call it your own
3. Can Opera's Windows distro
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5. PROFIT!
I love LAMP
I work with a program that's not exactly new... minus the content we pass through it. There's plenty of refuge for Javanerds working with apps like that. Of course that means there would likely be a decline in pay.
Is this another Henry VIII? Are they trying fo fund the OS of England?
I have an hour commute on the bus each way to work. About a month into my job I realized that tunes were not cutting it. So I bought a gameboy color for $10 at EB, and dug up the original Super Mario game, Crystalis, Final Fantasy Legend 2, Doctor Mario, and Tetris. I had most of those lying around, but none of them cost more than $10 anyway. Mario has nostalgia value; Tetris and Doctor Mario are a cheap puzzle fix; Crystalis was one of my favorite NES games, and it was a blast to log a couple hours on it each day; and FFL2 is by far my favorite RPG. It has depth, but you can save it and put it down anywhere.
Recently, this list of games got me through a rather intense 1500 mile roadtrip... with the addition of Pokemon Yellow. I'd suggest just scoring a smattering of classics. Once gameboy micro hits my price point... I am there.
Free-range torrent hosting and great gingerbread cookies. That's reason enough to move.
or Red Dawn GNU/Linux? Damn Patrick Swayze is hot.
the guy putting Godspeed into the database must have fallen asleep
that was mean... who am I kidding, I love Godspeed.
does this mean Dan Brown has more material to write another masterpiece now?
I'm 22, and hopefully getting fitted for a soft wrist brace next week. I just got into the content development industry and my doctor said the same thing you did. Then again I also fractured both elbows a few years ago.
now all we need is a moving picture of the missing kids on the milk carton to go with it
In Soviet Russia, computer boots you.
I have not. That is great... as long as it can get some snapshots of the other objects in the neighborhood of course.
I am impressed that a letter-writing campaign was actually successful in resurrecting the mission.
Obviously it would take years, and stretch the bourndaries of tech and all that, but how much of a nerd dream would it be to get a decent probe out to the Kuiper Belt in say, 30 years. Accurately take stock of some of the larger planetary wannabes. Maybe I just cared too much in Astronomy class.
This is probably a job for the W3 folks: select a set of mandatory fonts that every browser must support. There are open-source fonts available that can, like the old Mac fonts and Arial, clone up the classics. We just have to all agree on them to make them compatible.
sadly, implementing new fonts into the list of "infallibles" is very unlikely to happen. I am a HUUUGE Palatino fan (read: typography nerd).
I get bored of courier/times/arial/helvetica. i want to see new fonts here and there. unfortunately, as of now that means either just seeing new fonts in static graphic files, or font embedding... and with that all sorts of horrid stuff.
so does this mean in the coming information war they are going to use that commie OS, what is it...
Linux, I think it's called?
Add this to the list: posting on Slashdot immensely reduces productivity
I expected gnomes.
Obviously very testy gnomes
Google - with its interconnected search, email, chat, blogs, and social networks - is also in the business of targeting ads based on user behavior. So are MSN and Yahoo! All three maintain profiles of everyone who signs up for their services. They use cookies to track what visitors do on their sites while they're logged in; the downloadable Google and MSN toolbars track which sites users visit when they're logged out. Like Claria, Google has amassed a vast database of user profiles that it plans to use for even better targeting in the future.
Sounds like someone is trying to say "hey it's ok, everyone's doing it!"
1. Microsoft patents their new revolutionary "no restart" system. 2. Sues Apple/*nix. 3... 4. Profit!
The superiority lies in the names, Google and Microsoft. Joe Average is much more likely to gravitate towards a site that has a name he's heard of. To the uninitiated, Craigslist might sound like an eBaum's World sort of site.