I use the same password for all 25 of my MySpace accounts whether it is one of my teen male accounts, my horny 18 year female accounts, or one of my faux celebrity pages, so don't be surprised if "teenlover" scores high on password frequency...
If iPod had wireless sharing, it would be DRM'ed the same way. All music and video purchased from the iTMS is burdened with the same level of DRM as music from Microsoft. Holding Apple up as being on the consumer side in the battle against DRM is laughable. Apple will gladly punish the consumer with punitive DRM technology if it gives Apple access to content.
Buying music from ANYONE that uses DRM is a vote for DRM.
This product will have so much DRM built into it that it will know when you have guests over and will shut down the movie/TV show so your "criminal" friends can't "pirate" a movie by sitting on your couch and watching it with you.
a.) If you think that a collection of "friends" that you don't know, you've never spoken to, and have no real-world connection makes you cool, you are exactly the type of guillible, low-IQ, idiot that advertisers love.
b.) If you buy or invest in a company that claims it can make millions from getting morons to visit a website where a collection of "friends" that they don't know, they've never spoken to, and have no real-world connection makes them cool, you are exactly the type of guillible, low-IQ, idiot that start-up CEOs love.
This deal sounds like Google being lazy. Hmmm, should we compete with eBay (which would take alot of hard work and sound business planning) or just sign some half-assed deal so we can all get along (zero effort, zero results). Google clearly has changed direction from the former to the latter. Isn't sloth a cardinal vice and thereby evil?
Sometimes doing evil means doing nothing.
Why would anyone choose to listen to artists from one specific label when there are free services like Pandora, Last.FM, SomaFM, etc... that have diverse playlists from the whole universe of artists and music genres? How long would you listen to a terrestrial station if that was the case?
This is just another example of how incredibly inept the music labels are.
Not exactly on topic, but I've got an extra 4GB SD card (not mini) lying around and I've been looking all over for a SD card MP3 player that supports 4GB SD. Anyone have or seen anything? Thanks!
Why didn't Google create a solid API and then use its clout to get other companies to build sync tools or, even better, take the initiative and build sync tools themselves? I watch the gCalendar API Google group and it is the blind leading the blind. Meanwhile, I can't sync my calendar with my Palm (Treo), with Outlook (some hacks available), and I don't ever expect it to sync with my corporate dinosaur Oracle Calendar. An Internet calendar that could do sync easily across multiple platforms and applications would draw a whole new user base to Google products.
In my mind is Google Calendar. Most people I know use Google for search, just about everyone has migrated to a Gmail account, my GF and I use gSpread for tracking our expenses, wrote invitations to a party on Writely, I use the Google homepage, etc...
BUT to launch Google calendar without any tools to sync to other applications, tools, PDAs, etc and then to dump a half-baked API on the development community and let them struggle to figure it out on their own was really sub-par. Although all their products are "beta" this is, by far, the most beta of any product that they have released.
Generally, they are handing Yahoo's ass to them. I have touched a Yahoo product since I switched from Yahoo! DSL almost a year ago.
Google doesn't have to hit every ball out of the park, but a couple of strikeouts like gCalendar could lose them alot of goodwill and leave openings for competitors.
Don't forget Lala.com and the other CD exchange services. I've exchanged hundreds of CDs for $1/piece. New releases and back catalog. More selection than allofmp3.com
When this technology becomes available to Joe Consumer, I'll bet that retailers will start posting signs saying that customers are not allowed to take photos/scans of barcodes and security guards will start bouncing customers that try it and Congress will eventually get enough $$$ from retailers to pass a law making it illegal probably in the name of homeland security.
It's straight from the "big corporation hand book" section 3.5 titled "you can prevent the future if you make a rule against it"
I use Sage TV with a Hauppage encoder. Sage TV offers a third-party plug-in that scans my recordings, identifies commercial segments, and then completely skips those segments when the show is played back. Fast forward is obsolete.
The "downside" is that people often talk about funny commercials and I never have any idea what they are talking about...
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...porn like xtube and pornotube.
If the code can't be open source, at least the key to the machine is....
I use the same password for all 25 of my MySpace accounts whether it is one of my teen male accounts, my horny 18 year female accounts, or one of my faux celebrity pages, so don't be surprised if "teenlover" scores high on password frequency...
If iPod had wireless sharing, it would be DRM'ed the same way. All music and video purchased from the iTMS is burdened with the same level of DRM as music from Microsoft. Holding Apple up as being on the consumer side in the battle against DRM is laughable. Apple will gladly punish the consumer with punitive DRM technology if it gives Apple access to content.
Buying music from ANYONE that uses DRM is a vote for DRM.
Music wants to be free, choose OGG or MP3.
This product will have so much DRM built into it that it will know when you have guests over and will shut down the movie/TV show so your "criminal" friends can't "pirate" a movie by sitting on your couch and watching it with you.
a.) If you think that a collection of "friends" that you don't know, you've never spoken to, and have no real-world connection makes you cool, you are exactly the type of guillible, low-IQ, idiot that advertisers love. b.) If you buy or invest in a company that claims it can make millions from getting morons to visit a website where a collection of "friends" that they don't know, they've never spoken to, and have no real-world connection makes them cool, you are exactly the type of guillible, low-IQ, idiot that start-up CEOs love.
This deal sounds like Google being lazy. Hmmm, should we compete with eBay (which would take alot of hard work and sound business planning) or just sign some half-assed deal so we can all get along (zero effort, zero results). Google clearly has changed direction from the former to the latter. Isn't sloth a cardinal vice and thereby evil? Sometimes doing evil means doing nothing.
Why would anyone choose to listen to artists from one specific label when there are free services like Pandora, Last.FM, SomaFM, etc... that have diverse playlists from the whole universe of artists and music genres? How long would you listen to a terrestrial station if that was the case? This is just another example of how incredibly inept the music labels are.
Jar Jar Binks!
Not exactly on topic, but I've got an extra 4GB SD card (not mini) lying around and I've been looking all over for a SD card MP3 player that supports 4GB SD. Anyone have or seen anything? Thanks!
Why didn't Google create a solid API and then use its clout to get other companies to build sync tools or, even better, take the initiative and build sync tools themselves? I watch the gCalendar API Google group and it is the blind leading the blind. Meanwhile, I can't sync my calendar with my Palm (Treo), with Outlook (some hacks available), and I don't ever expect it to sync with my corporate dinosaur Oracle Calendar. An Internet calendar that could do sync easily across multiple platforms and applications would draw a whole new user base to Google products.
In my mind is Google Calendar. Most people I know use Google for search, just about everyone has migrated to a Gmail account, my GF and I use gSpread for tracking our expenses, wrote invitations to a party on Writely, I use the Google homepage, etc... BUT to launch Google calendar without any tools to sync to other applications, tools, PDAs, etc and then to dump a half-baked API on the development community and let them struggle to figure it out on their own was really sub-par. Although all their products are "beta" this is, by far, the most beta of any product that they have released. Generally, they are handing Yahoo's ass to them. I have touched a Yahoo product since I switched from Yahoo! DSL almost a year ago. Google doesn't have to hit every ball out of the park, but a couple of strikeouts like gCalendar could lose them alot of goodwill and leave openings for competitors.
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Don't forget Lala.com and the other CD exchange services. I've exchanged hundreds of CDs for $1/piece. New releases and back catalog. More selection than allofmp3.com
Tell that fascinating scientific movie fact the next time you are on a date with an attractive female and watch as she becomes invisible...
When this technology becomes available to Joe Consumer, I'll bet that retailers will start posting signs saying that customers are not allowed to take photos/scans of barcodes and security guards will start bouncing customers that try it and Congress will eventually get enough $$$ from retailers to pass a law making it illegal probably in the name of homeland security. It's straight from the "big corporation hand book" section 3.5 titled "you can prevent the future if you make a rule against it"
I use Sage TV with a Hauppage encoder. Sage TV offers a third-party plug-in that scans my recordings, identifies commercial segments, and then completely skips those segments when the show is played back. Fast forward is obsolete. The "downside" is that people often talk about funny commercials and I never have any idea what they are talking about...