There is a rickroll in article. Beware to click!

the cake is (still) a lie!!!
the cake is (still) a lie!!!
the cake is (still) a lie!!!

Somebody mod this as a troll. The poster has actually posted something that is ON TOPIC.

The shame!

OMG PONIES!!!!! ----->

the cake is a lie!!!
the cake is a lie!!!
the cake is a lie!!!

When I double click the FireFox icon, it just opens the 30 tabs I had open the last time it was open.

Please somebody mod parent as funny. I don't want anyone reading it to think that that spyware is ACTUALLY a virus remover.... :(

Well, so long America. Asking Australian telcos advice on how to run the internet is like asking pedophiles advice on running a kindergarten. We have one of the slowest and most expensive internets in the world. You'd be better off looking at Asian countries (like Japan and south Korea). I nearly fell off my chair and spat my breakfast at my screen when I read this headline.

Personally, every mp3 I have has been id3 edited properly using all the data I can find on the net. I then store it on my server in the following structure:

(Letter)\(Artist)\(Year) (Album Title)\(Artist) - (Album Title) - (Track Number) (Name of song).mp3

Example:

A\ACDC\1976 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap\ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - 05 Problem Child.mp3

For songs that don't appear on an album I usually have an "album" folder named "Other".

For artists where I don't have full albums, the structure is similar:

B\B-52's\B-52's - Love Shack.mp3

I do the same for my TV shows:

House M.D.\Season 06\House M.D. - Season 06 - Episode 04 - Instant Karma.avi

I do this so that any filename I see on any occasion, I know exactly where it belongs and where it's come from.

Large Hadron Collider. Now THAT'S a weapon of mass destruction.

Ssh!!! Keep it quiet, they'll all vote for it ;)

What is this "attractive woman" device you speak of?

Well, according to Rufus' law. Computers and other IT equipment age 20 years for every human year. So, that would make the internet 800 years old. Now, Methuselah lived for 969 years, so if the internet was a human, it could set records in the near future.

You need to look at the grand scheme of things. Sure, you may get 5-10% of customers using massive amounts of data (over 500Gb) but when 90-95% of your customers are home users and small businesses who don't have their own data centers, and they may only have a 50Mb backup, their lack of use offsets the heavy users.

Imagine if in a 1Pb server, 750Tb of data was used by 10,000 individuals paying $5/mth and the other 250Tb was used by 50 individuals paying $5/mth. I failed at mathematics at school, but I'm sure the 10k will pay the data center costs that would be incurred by the 50.

Before you mod me down as a troll, read what I have to say.

I am completely sick and tired of manufacturers putting MS Office and Norton Antivirus on computers from factory. These programs come pre-loaded with Asus/HP/Compaq/etc computers but only as 30-60 day trials. And since 90% of people that buy brand name computers are idiots (and 11 years in computer retail tells me this), they think they have the whole program. So the antivirus runs in 60 days but they still think they're protected (not that Norton is very effective in any case) or they create documents in Word/Excel only to be unable to open them without paying more money. What makes it worse is that some people actually start using MS Outlook, then get locked out of their emails.

Deceiving customers with trial software should come to an end. And if this is the straw that breaks the camels back, then so be it.

All record company politics aside, we need an open source album format. MP3's to date have been individual song formats. They can have limited graphics embedded into them, but they are limited to a single individual file package. What would be good is:

- An open source audio compression which is completely scalable (maybe ogg for one download option, flac for those who really enjoy their music).
- Different price points for different quality (an ogg album for example would be $10, flac could be $20, flac with all media extras including video could be at $30). Nine Inch Nails did this with Ghosts. There were, IIRC, about 6 different options to acquire the album that ranged from free, to $300. AND IT SOLD WELL!!!! (looking at this RIAA???)
- Embedded album art and liner notes. Maybe even music videos. With the speed and availability of the internet these days, downloading a 200mb album with video's should be an option.
- Easily extractable package. It would be good to add an album to your iTunes/xmms/winamp/wmp playlist and be able to pick out songs for shuffling purposes and such.
- NO DRM!

Someone mentioned .tar files. Something similar would be good, but you have to have native support in media players (iTunes, winamp, wmp, etc).