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Monday, February 4, 2002 |
My Wife at Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
My six year old daughter took this amazing picture!
1:51:40 PM 
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Two Palms better than one?. Palm's drastic move to split its company does not ensure the company can hold Microsoft at bay while reviving stagnant sales. Being an OS company works for Microsoft in the PC business, but it has better than 90 percent of the market and collects a higher fee for each copy of Windows. In addition, the computer market is much larger than the handheld market.
But Microsoft always derive its earnings from software (mostly), they never made the hardware. Palm makes money from the hardware, the software company will just help drain the hardware earnings.
10:11:58 AM
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Studios race to choke DVD copying. Recordable discs and DVD burners are hot, and Hollywood is scrambling to put out the fire before millions of devices without the new anti-copying protections are sold.
When will they learn, indeed? Another loosing battle. Any technology that prevents copying has been and will be defeated, on the mean time you alienate honest users and force them into illegality.
Not convinced? Natalie Imbruglia new CD (White Lilies Island) will be released on March 5 with copy protection. It is already possible to download all the songs from the Internet. What good is copy protection then?
5:54:54 AM
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Much Riding on Palm's New OS. The new Palm operating system, the beta version of which will be unveiled Tuesday, could make or break the company, analysts say. By Elisa Batista.
The new Palm OS is the reason PalmSoft will fail, as did AppleSoft, both lead by the same person. PalmSoft is the reason Palm will fail, as did 3com, both lead by the same person. I wonder who would buy Be's assets next...
5:11:30 AM
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Philips Burning on Protection. Philips, the Dutch electronics manufacturer, appears on a collision course with the record labels over its objection to copy-protection codes burned into CDs. The fight could be the format's death knell. By Paul Boutin.
Good for Phillips! I really like how the Dutch think. I want to see if the music labels dare to sue Phillips. I bet they would loose, in Europe and in the US.
5:07:30 AM
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I don't know if most of you are familiar with the political situation in Venezuela (were I live). Our president is a disgrace and has generated an unprecedented number of organized and spontaneous protests. These are done by banging pots when the president speaks on TV. My friend Raúl Jiménez made a song called Basta mixing pot banging, music, and the voices of the journalists that are talking about the outrage most venezuelans feel. Hear it, is very good. Alternate download here.
4:38:27 AM
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The Big Rip-Off
When will the recording industry get it? For consumers to support a new digital technology, it's going to have to offer them a greater value than what they already have. Instead, we're offered the same inflated prices in return for even more restrictions and ever-less-flexible media.
Right on!
3:54:58 AM
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