Comment Re:yes.. (Score 1) 480
You do that every time you pick up the phone. Or send a letter. Or do anything other than talk to someone face to face outside of the cone of silence.
FTFY.
You do that every time you pick up the phone. Or send a letter. Or do anything other than talk to someone face to face outside of the cone of silence.
FTFY.
Yes, but how much is your time worth? Would you be willing to pay for a streaming service that provides interesting selections from the entire body of music ever produced with complete customizable options delivered to any device you own 24/7/365 on demand?
This has its appeal, and its place, although target devices are limited for bandwidth and quality. I often listen to the cable-tv-provided theme channels and pipe it through the audio rack. There are several non customizable channels that occasionally get use, mostly the holiday themed ones. I've used Rhapsody frequently in the past. I've used amazon to just buy mp3s.
There is something to be said for music as a service, even though people can copy the stream, which makes it easier to hear anything at anytime for a reasonable flat periodic fee.
It's not a huge time investment to format shift a stream for my own use in my truck, on another pc, or another cd/dvd player. It wasn't even that much of an addition money investment. That's really the key benefit, which is seemingly outside the lines as far as the RIAA is concerned. They don't want to sell a service, they want to sell per spin, or at least per device.
but many people would rather pay a couple bucks per month to have someone else do that for them and deliver it to them as a nicely packaged service
I don't consider myself an audiophile, but I do have nice gear, and don't mind "turning the dials" on it. I don't think locally stored music is any different than managing albums, cassettes, or CDs before we could copy to different disks.
I would use a service if the cost was really a "few bucks a month", if that price included bandwidth, the quality wasn't dirt, was commercial free and I could customize the inbound playlist. That would replace the need for me to format shift in large part, and then it wouldn't be worth my time to bother.
Now it seems like every CD is marketed by TV ads
Where are you still seeing TV ads? Even on channels I watch that actually have them, they are unceremoniously ignored.
Thats probably why marketing is so expensive. LOL.
Yes, In fact I'd be more supportive of charging manslaughter to the person that didn't yell fire and snuck out while everyone else burned.
That is a point most of the professional welfare recipients would argue. I would counter with the fact that your safety and wellbeing are not my responsibilities.
What kind of collector would buy any GM car made after the mid 1970s?
There is probably collector interest for almost any year 'vette, but I think you are right in that after the '74 big block or '75 convertible, there isn't much else. I am not a fan of the anniversary editions, or those stupid pace car editions. What about the 80's Hurst olds 442 or the Buick Gran Sport? Maybe there is niche collectors for those and some of the other "performance" upgraded -- late model impala SS, Monte Carlo SS, etc..
I would rather drive it, than L@@K at it, myself.
We tried to nail Jane Fonda.
... when the internet is readily available?
A. Nothing.
1. buy camera
2. take pictures for a fee I decide on
3. tell photo assocs to eat shit
4. ???
5. profit
but it seems to me that providing for one's widow and/or children is one of the things that an author would likely be concerned about, and probably even consider to be a "need".
Hows life insurance for satisfying that need? Or does that not create enough income for the little freeloaders? [sarcasm intended]
Probably they should. I have never seen one single credible justification for over 1 second boot time for any desktop operating system.
I don't think the eventual target is desktops.
From TFA:
For industrial automation and other similar applications, fast boot and response time is critical to successful operation. Applications must be fully operational at power on and cannot be delayed due to the volatile nature of the platform and environment. Variables such as power fluctuation, network failure, device availability, and memory management must be responded to with no loss of performance and functionality. These same demanding requirements are found not just in Industrial Automation applications, but automotive, aerospace, and military applications as well.
I can see other reasons for linux based kernel devices like web/net appliances, game consoles, cell phones, etc... to have really low boot times.
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous
