] Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced an agreement
] to acquire the technology assets of Syntrillium Software,
] a leader in digital audio tools. Syntrillium's flagship
] product, Cool Edit Pro, will join the company's existing
] line of professional digital video products that include
] Adobe® Premiere®, Adobe After Effects®, Adobe
] Encore%u2122 DVD and Adobe Photoshop®.

I've been using Cool Edit for over 8 years now. This will be interesting to see how Adobe integrates it with Premiere and their other digital media tools.

Adobe acquires Syntrillium Software

] Heavy-metal band Metallica, a vociferous opponent of
] Internet song-swapping sites, is turning to the Web as a
] way to encourage fans to buy the band's new music.
]
] Metallica, whose first album in six years is scheduled to
] be released on June 5, is offering exclusive music tracks
] online as well through a partnership with Speakeasy, the
] Seattle-based high-speed Internet access provider said.
]
] Customers who buy Metallica's new compact disc, St.
] Anger, will find a code inside the packaging allowing
] them to view, listen to and download exclusive,
] unreleased music tracks from a Metallica Web site.

What I've been saying for years... want to encourage people to BUY your CD vs. download the tracks online? You have to give some "value added" as incentive. Granted, these "exclusive, unreleased music tracks" will appear soon on a P2P network near you, but this is a step in the right direction.

Now start adding some "VA" that can not be pirated. Ideas off the top of my head... random drawings for concert tix, back stage passes, t-shirts and other swag, etc...

Laughing Boy

'Anger' leads Metallica to the Internet

] Fishing will be banned from about one third of
] Australia's Great Barrier Reef under a draft rescue plan
] to save the world's largest living structure from human
] impact.
]
] The coral reef, which is one of Australia's main tourist
] attractions with its magnificent array of tropical fish,
] is under threat from record high temperatures,
] over-fishing and pollution.
]
] Australia's environment minister David Kemp said the
] government plan would increase so-called green zones,
] where commercial and recreational fishing is banned, from
] 5 percent of the 2,000 kilometer (1,200-mile) reef to
] over 30 percent, prompting instant protests from
] fishermen.

CNN.com - Fishing banned in bid to save Reef - Jun. 3, 2003

AOL be damned.

Nullsoft WASTE Source Code

Decius wrote:
] ] However, there have also been a number of people who
] ] claim I'm overstating the case and that it's not possible
] ] to build a real cruise missile without access to
] ] sophisticated gear, specialist tools and information not
] ] readily available outside the military.
] ]
] ] So, in order to prove my case, I decided to put my money
] ] where my mouth is and build a cruise missile in my own
] ] garage, on a budget of just US$5,000.

Oh how I'd have been the envy of everyone in the Rocket Club back in JR high armed with THIS info! ;)

Laughing Boy

P.S.
If he pulls this off, someone at Lockheed please give this guy a job and save the tax payers a couple bucks!

RE: Fux0ring 3133t Cruise Missile d00d3s

] However, there have also been a number of people who
] claim I'm overstating the case and that it's not possible
] to build a real cruise missile without access to
] sophisticated gear, specialist tools and information not
] readily available outside the military.
]
] So, in order to prove my case, I decided to put my money
] where my mouth is and build a cruise missile in my own
] garage, on a budget of just US$5,000.

Fux0ring 3133t Cruise Missile d00d3s

] The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association
] counted 140 million cellphone subscribers in this country
] in 2002 %u2014 a number that is sure to keep rising as
] cellphones become smaller, lighter and more versatile.
]
] One of the most popular new configurations is the
] cellphone with a built-in personal digital assistant. But
] that combination represents only a small fraction of what
] telecommunications or computer companies and independent
] inventors say cellphones can do.

Fascinating stuff.

New Functions for Cellphones

] Move over Spider-Man -- mere mortals may soon be coming
] to a ceiling near you.
]
] Researchers at the University of Manchester say they have
] cracked the secret of one of the reptile world's greatest
] climbers, the gecko, and produced a sticky tape that can
] mimic the lizard's gravity-defying abilities.
]
] Soon, people could walk on walls like comic-book
] superhero Spider-Man, the university said.
]
] "The new adhesive -- gecko tape -- contains billions of
] tiny plastic fibres which are similar to natural hairs
] covering the soles of geckos' feet," the University said
] in a statement.
]
] "The research team believes it won't be long before
] Spider-Man gloves become a reality."

OK... I need. These coupled with the nano-technology "super pants" that let you leap small buildings in a single bound... Now all I need are some web shooters and someone to sew the costume! =)

Laughing Boy

CNN.com - Scientists defy gravity with 'Spider-Man' gloves - Jun. 2, 2003

] Concert tickets, DVDs and even laptops will be used to
] encourage users of the online bazaar known as Kazaa to
] swap legal files instead of pirated movies and music.
]
] The Peer Points Manager program announced Monday will
] essentially be Internet file-sharing's version of
] frequent flyer miles.
]
] Kazaa users earn points for making legal files available
] to others over the Internet. The points can be redeemed
] for small prizes like computer games or for sweepstakes
] entries to win larger items.
]
] The program is being run by Altnet, a Kazaa partner
] trying to promote sharing of legal files that can be
] limited in different ways by their creators, for instance
] songs that can only be played a certain number of times.
]
] Altnet distributes about 1,000 of such protected files
] for music, movies and software. Many of the songs
] available, however, are from obscure bands who aren't
] charging for the protected files anyway.
]
] Currently, when users search for files on Kazaa, they get
] "gold" listings of Altnet-sponsored items and "blue"
] listings of everything else, much of it pirated. Either
] way, users obtain files directly from a fellow user's
] computer.
]
] Kevin Bermeister, Altnet's chief executive, said users
] have been downloading about 20 million gold files each
] month, even though the blue versions are just a click
] away.

An interesting and pragmatic approach to the P2P "problem".

Laughing Boy

USATODAY.com - Legal file-sharing 'rewards' to be offered

] The city of Munich said on Wednesday it would switch
] 14,000 computers from Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news -
] people) Windows operating system to rival Linux in a deal
] estimated to be worth tens of millions of euros.
]
]
] The decision is a blow to U.S. giant Microsoft, whose
] chief executive Steve Ballmer had personally campaigned
] for Microsoft's counter-offer to the city, based on
] Windows XP.
]
]
] Microsoft has created two funds to discount its products
] against the emerging Linux software, which is eating into
] its most profitable business.
]
]
] "This strategic decision makes Munich less dependent on
] one IT supplier and sets a trend towards more
] competition," Munich mayor Christian Ude said in a
] statement.
]
]
] Analysts said Munich's decision to choose open source
] software, which means Linux, was a breakthrough.
]
]
] "It is one of the largest desktop migrations to Linux
] ever seen," said Gartner Dataquest analyst Nikos Drakos
] in London.

Microsoft even underbid IBM/SUSE by $3m, and Munich still went for Linux. Interesting.

Forbes.com: UPDATE 2-Microsoft loses city of Munich deal to Linux