Published January 22nd, 2008
in occasional thoughts.
Microsoft will end OEM and shrink-wrapped sales of Windows XP on June 30, 2008, forcing users to shift to Vista. (System builders, meaning those who do white-box PCs, can sell XP through December 31.) Don’t let that happen!
Millions of us have grown comfortable with XP and don’t see a need to change to Vista. It’s like having a comfortable apartment that you’ve enjoyed coming home to for years, only to get an eviction notice. The thought of moving to a new place — even with the stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops, and maple cabinets (or is cherry in this year?) — just doesn’t sit right. Maybe it’ll be more modern, but it will also cost more and likely not be as good a fit. And you don’t have any other reason to move.
That’s exactly the conclusion people have come to with Vista. For most of us, there’s really no reason to move to it — yet we don’t have a choice. When that strong desire to stick with XP became obvious in spring 2007, major computer makers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard quietly reintroduced new XP-based systems (but just to business customers, so as not to offend Microsoft). Come June 30, however, even that option goes away.
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Published October 12th, 2007
in Music.
History is happening right now, thanks to Radiohead, and everybody’s invited to be a part of it. Not only the music part of it, since their new work (In Rainbows) will certainly take a place among the classics, but the Band is definitely changing the way music industry works. No more overpriced CD’s, forced compilations, promo sessions, fake top lists, all of them are going to fall like a House of Cards.
Radiohead offered their new material in download only form, and you can pay as much as you like for it, from 0,01 to 100 GBP.
download/buy history:In Rainbows
This is a great breakthrough, a cornerstone of new direct artist – fan relation, without the interference and margins forced by record companies. No more priests any more, from now on we are going to have a direct contact with our idols.
And Radiohead truly deserves and gets idolatry. Their eyeopening music and lyrics being just a part of a new era, triggered with the download only direct relation with fans, 1,2 million of them, only in two days, paying average price of 4 GBP per download, proved that there is a Jigsaw Falling into Place.
Or few millions of them, to be more exact.
Published April 29th, 2007
in Music.
First time I’ve heard of Djivan Gasparian was the time when Peter Gabriel “revealed” Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Joussou N’Dor, and whole new Real World behind the egocentric curtains. The Last Temptation of Christ amazed me, as a movie, as a message, but the soundtrack literary hit me, and I still refer to it as The Bible.
I was already a huge fan of Peter Gabriel, dating back from his Genesis years, and due to this soundtrack, over the time, I’ve collected numerous Real World issues, and continued to discover the rest of the world outside. But I’ve never came across Djivan Gasparian.
Than I ran into pirate CD store in Mostar (BA) where I found his CD named “Armenian Fantasies”. I’ve piled it into car CD changer and, since there were 9 other CD’s, it took some time till I listened to it.
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Published April 26th, 2007
in weborama.
Project Honey Pot filed suit in the Eastern District of Virginia seeking damages for spam and email address harvesting targeting the Project’s members. The suit was filed against the entire universe of John Doe defendants using any of the 2,593,657 IP addresses captured by Project Honey Pot over the past two years, and seeks potentially more than $1 billion in statutory damages under the U.S.
“Our members have one thing in common: they all want spam to stop,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder of Project Honey Pot and CEO of Unspam Technologies, Inc. “Aided by the vast amount of data our community of volunteers has helped gather, as well as the top legal minds in the anti-spam world, we are bringing this fight to the spammers. This suit will make them slither out from under the rocks where they’re hiding.”
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Published February 18th, 2007
in weborama.
On November 17th I wrote a post about Vatican usage of images on web. Went pretty hard on them there, finding out that, although The Bible celebrates The Word, you would only find an unbelievable mash up of pages made exclusively out of images – no content whatsoever!
And then I found out that they took their web imagery efforts to the higher spiritual level. Late Holly Father, Pope John Paul 2nd was famous for sending first e-mail message from Vatican, and I can imagine how difficult it was to introduce this new technology to the orthodox. Unfortunately, according to their web sites, they haven’t learned much about the medium ever since.
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