Muni WiFi is the Edsel of Internet connectivity. It is a land grab by ISPs that is facilitated by politicians that want to promote themselves using technology that was never intended for this purpose.
In 3-5 years, the mayors and city councils that backed Muni WiFi will be out of office and their replacements will kill the failed projects and blame their predecessors as the companies that base their business on Muni Wifi fail one by one as they realize the business and technological models just don't work.
No matter how great of an idea Muni WiFi is on paper, the current technology and business models have terminal flaws. Unfortunately, the vested political and corporate interests behind Muni WiFi have nothing to gain by acknowledging or addressing it.
A turd in the punch bowl is a turd in the punch bowl. Calling it art doesn't make me want to take a sip. Barney and Lucas both suffer massive delusions of talent. The entertaining part is watching sycophants kiss their talentless asses.
I wish Gracenote all the best in making a profit off the data they collect. What I find disappointing and a betrayal of its own users/data providers is Gracenote's latest for-profit initiative to use its database to pursue those that the RIAA and labels very loosely (or often inaccurately) define as copyright violators. So, it could be possible that data I provide to Gracenote could be used against me by Gracenote to assist the RIAA or their cohorts in one of their heavy handed copyright suits. Nice...
How much of the payment to Universal will go to the artists and songwriters?
If this and the YouTube deal don't show artists and songwriters what their future looks like, I don't know what more can be done. The labels are making all the deals, taking all the proceeds of those deals, threatening and suing music listeners as artists stand by silently letting all this take place.
Artist complacency today will guarantee them a future as wage slaves for the labels.
"People more loyal to any product they spend $2-5,000 on versus something they spend $200-500 on..."
or
"iPod owners loyalty increases after realizing they can't easily move DRM'ed music library to Zune..."
Huh! A proposition just suddenly appeared on electronic ballots nationwide which proposes banning HBO on all cable systems and throwing all HBO executives in a Guantanamo prison. And the default value is set to "Yes" and the "No" box has been disabled.
How odd...
...find it challenging to make an "X" on the signature line of the purchase contract for their IROC Camaros (with T top!). I wouldn't trust them to use a computer touchscreen.
"Gracenote provides businesses with critical embedded software and metadata that ENABLE consumers to better MANAGE, ENJOY, and DISCOVER digital media."
Updated:
"Gracenote provides businesses with critical embedded software and metadata that PREVENT consumers from MANAGING, ENJOYING, and DISCOVERING digital media."
I've used SageTV, which is a commercial PVR, makes commercial skip available thru two different third party plug-ins. I've tried just about every PVR software and Sage is the most stable and easiest to set-up plus the developer support of the plug-ins and other customizations is fantastic.
Adding new "content" to CDs is the industry's last desperate effort before they have to admit that they will have to dramatically reduce the price of CDs.
It's like selling a Ford Taurus. It's a dog and even zero percent financing isn't going to move it...
I bet iPod owners use razors with five or more blades. They also change their toothbrushes when the "wear indicator" tells them.
I bet he Nigerian scammers would love to get ahold of a Gillete customer list. Signing up five bladers for their scams would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
I would love to see this technology used. First, consumers would start returning the DVD to retailers with complaints about it not working properly on their PCs. Second, retailers would complain to the distributors and returning "defective" units. Distributors would complain to the studios. Someone in Congress gets ahold of this. FTC gets involved. Millions of DVDs recalled to get "DOES NOT WORK ON PC/Mac" stickers which makes them, basically, worthless. The whole industry, from top to bottom, takes a huge hit. And, as the final insult, it gets hacked 24 hours after the first DVD is released anyway.
Go for it! Who wants to be the first studio exec with their name on this? You could be famous!
They would focus on pulling together email and calendar in a single open source app. The Eudora team could really accelerate this process. Until there is a unified application, corporate envvironments will not move away from Outlook...
I've been selling technology for almost two decades and one thing that I see over and over is that internal IT departments either a.) vastly overestimate their abilities b.) prevent introduction of outside techology providers for political reasons or c.) both.
There are several companies where the CIO told me "oh, we're already building that in-house. it will be live next quarter" and years later they still have not successfully implemented that technology.
Kudos to Netflix for acknowledging that somebody outside their company might be able to do it better. At most companies, the CIO would have never let this happen and/or the CEO wouldn't have the business sense to challenge internal assumptions.
Just look at his business name and you'll understand. DoubleTwist. He's backed Apple into a corner where they are screwed no matter what they do.
Fighting his app could require them to change their DRM such that it breaks for existing media which would alienate customers, stir up tons of bad press, and further expose the downsides of DRM.
OR
They can let his application survive, some music companies will license it, build their own alternative distribution online stores probaby in highly specific niche music markets, and slowly chip away Apple's hegemony.
Although time and effort was wasted in this bill, there was no "talent" used or wasted in production of this bill. On the other hand, there were measurable amounts of "bumbling" and "gross incompetence" identified with this bill.
It's like asking a customer's name before you let him/her in your retail store. They don't have to tell you the truth, you'll let them in no matter what name they use, there is no useful purpose for the information, so all you've done is annoy your customer.
Did I miss something? I thought that Republicans were for freedom and Democrats were for government intrusion?
My voter registration says "R", but that can't be right. The Republican party that I know would call a bill like this "Democratic Big Brotherism at its worst" or something like that.
Maybe its all just a weird dream. When I wake up, things will be back to normal.
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Muni WiFi is the Edsel of Internet connectivity. It is a land grab by ISPs that is facilitated by politicians that want to promote themselves using technology that was never intended for this purpose. In 3-5 years, the mayors and city councils that backed Muni WiFi will be out of office and their replacements will kill the failed projects and blame their predecessors as the companies that base their business on Muni Wifi fail one by one as they realize the business and technological models just don't work. No matter how great of an idea Muni WiFi is on paper, the current technology and business models have terminal flaws. Unfortunately, the vested political and corporate interests behind Muni WiFi have nothing to gain by acknowledging or addressing it.
Never expected the phrase "pompous Cuban windbag" would make me think of anyone but Fidel...
A turd in the punch bowl is a turd in the punch bowl. Calling it art doesn't make me want to take a sip. Barney and Lucas both suffer massive delusions of talent. The entertaining part is watching sycophants kiss their talentless asses.
I wish Gracenote all the best in making a profit off the data they collect. What I find disappointing and a betrayal of its own users/data providers is Gracenote's latest for-profit initiative to use its database to pursue those that the RIAA and labels very loosely (or often inaccurately) define as copyright violators. So, it could be possible that data I provide to Gracenote could be used against me by Gracenote to assist the RIAA or their cohorts in one of their heavy handed copyright suits. Nice...
How much of the payment to Universal will go to the artists and songwriters? If this and the YouTube deal don't show artists and songwriters what their future looks like, I don't know what more can be done. The labels are making all the deals, taking all the proceeds of those deals, threatening and suing music listeners as artists stand by silently letting all this take place. Artist complacency today will guarantee them a future as wage slaves for the labels.
"People more loyal to any product they spend $2-5,000 on versus something they spend $200-500 on..." or "iPod owners loyalty increases after realizing they can't easily move DRM'ed music library to Zune..."
Huh! A proposition just suddenly appeared on electronic ballots nationwide which proposes banning HBO on all cable systems and throwing all HBO executives in a Guantanamo prison. And the default value is set to "Yes" and the "No" box has been disabled. How odd...
...find it challenging to make an "X" on the signature line of the purchase contract for their IROC Camaros (with T top!). I wouldn't trust them to use a computer touchscreen.
Current:
"Gracenote provides businesses with critical embedded software and metadata that ENABLE consumers to better MANAGE, ENJOY, and DISCOVER digital media."
Updated:
"Gracenote provides businesses with critical embedded software and metadata that PREVENT consumers from MANAGING, ENJOYING, and DISCOVERING digital media."
I've used SageTV, which is a commercial PVR, makes commercial skip available thru two different third party plug-ins. I've tried just about every PVR software and Sage is the most stable and easiest to set-up plus the developer support of the plug-ins and other customizations is fantastic.
Adding new "content" to CDs is the industry's last desperate effort before they have to admit that they will have to dramatically reduce the price of CDs. It's like selling a Ford Taurus. It's a dog and even zero percent financing isn't going to move it...
I bet iPod owners use razors with five or more blades. They also change their toothbrushes when the "wear indicator" tells them. I bet he Nigerian scammers would love to get ahold of a Gillete customer list. Signing up five bladers for their scams would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
When has living outside of the U.S. ever stopped our government from telling a person or people what they can or cannot do?
The jurisdiction of the U.S. is the world.
She'll hear you coming...
I would love to see this technology used. First, consumers would start returning the DVD to retailers with complaints about it not working properly on their PCs. Second, retailers would complain to the distributors and returning "defective" units. Distributors would complain to the studios. Someone in Congress gets ahold of this. FTC gets involved. Millions of DVDs recalled to get "DOES NOT WORK ON PC/Mac" stickers which makes them, basically, worthless. The whole industry, from top to bottom, takes a huge hit. And, as the final insult, it gets hacked 24 hours after the first DVD is released anyway. Go for it! Who wants to be the first studio exec with their name on this? You could be famous!
Why should I have to deprecate data centers? With today's technology, data centers should be self-deprecating.
They would focus on pulling together email and calendar in a single open source app. The Eudora team could really accelerate this process. Until there is a unified application, corporate envvironments will not move away from Outlook...
I've been selling technology for almost two decades and one thing that I see over and over is that internal IT departments either a.) vastly overestimate their abilities b.) prevent introduction of outside techology providers for political reasons or c.) both. There are several companies where the CIO told me "oh, we're already building that in-house. it will be live next quarter" and years later they still have not successfully implemented that technology. Kudos to Netflix for acknowledging that somebody outside their company might be able to do it better. At most companies, the CIO would have never let this happen and/or the CEO wouldn't have the business sense to challenge internal assumptions.
"Making Microsoft look competent by comparison..."
Just look at his business name and you'll understand. DoubleTwist. He's backed Apple into a corner where they are screwed no matter what they do. Fighting his app could require them to change their DRM such that it breaks for existing media which would alienate customers, stir up tons of bad press, and further expose the downsides of DRM. OR They can let his application survive, some music companies will license it, build their own alternative distribution online stores probaby in highly specific niche music markets, and slowly chip away Apple's hegemony.
Future "Onion" headline: "Terrorist Funds Attack On Sears Tower With Powerball Lottery Winnings"
Although time and effort was wasted in this bill, there was no "talent" used or wasted in production of this bill. On the other hand, there were measurable amounts of "bumbling" and "gross incompetence" identified with this bill.
It's like asking a customer's name before you let him/her in your retail store. They don't have to tell you the truth, you'll let them in no matter what name they use, there is no useful purpose for the information, so all you've done is annoy your customer.
Did I miss something? I thought that Republicans were for freedom and Democrats were for government intrusion?
My voter registration says "R", but that can't be right. The Republican party that I know would call a bill like this "Democratic Big Brotherism at its worst" or something like that.
Maybe its all just a weird dream. When I wake up, things will be back to normal.