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Which adds to his credentials as the worst announcer in baseball? Against what list? Worse than John Sterling, whom Yankee fans and the Post’s Phil Mushnick are trying to ditch? Worse than voices for the Marlins, Royals, Twins? I doubt if the Rev has a clue. About the only listeners who do are those of American Forces Network, which airs games from every market for our troops around the globe.

Learn to speak to us without a Mota dictionary, for crying out loud.

Quit this fire-Physioc campaign. It’s childish.

Wohnen im Gef?ngnis – es geht auch freiwillig

Die Geschm?cker beim Wohnen sind ja bekanntlich verschieden: Da gibt es welche, die haben es gerne opulent und farbig, w?hrend andere lieber spartanisch leben. Genauso ist es bei der Wahl des Immobilientyps: Von H?hlen bis zu Wohnwürfeln ist fast alles m?glich. Für den ganz speziellen Geschmack hat die Hansestadt Hamburg derzeit etwas Au?ergew?hnliches im Angebot.

Normalerweise will ja wirklich niemand die Mauern eines Gef?ngnisses sehen, zumindest nicht von innen. Wer aber trotzdem schon immer mal wissen wollte, wie es sich denn in einem Knast wohnt, hat derzeit DIE Chance – und das sogar, ohne vorher eine Straftat zu begehen. Die I.C.M.E. GmbH bietet im Auftrag der Stadt Hamburg das Geb?ude der ehemaligen Jugendarrestanstalt in Wandsbeck an.

Could an open Sony beat Apple?

In an interview with Nikkei Electronics Asia, Sony CEO Howard Stringer pledged that the company would use more open standards in the future, saying “If we had gone with open technology from the start, I think we probably would have beaten Apple” in the music market.

Sony is however leaning toward openness in the PlayStation Network (PSN) where the digital rights management is based on Marlin, an open scheme (yes, open DRM is an oxymoron) developed by consumer electronics companies and other companies that will allow other systems to participate in the PSN.

Being open doesn’t guarantee that a community or ecosystem will sprout up around a product. A company with Sony’s coffers could do a lot more to make its devices and content accessible to a broad range of developers who would seed the market and make it more money.

Via Engadget

“What does all this mean?” he added. “Very simply, it means that Sony has begun the transition from a closed system to an open one.

Sure, and if Sony had created a music store, a desktop application, and a great device, it could have won that way too. But it didn’t. Certainly, open technology would have helped to create some kind of ecosystem, but it wouldn’t have solved the strategic problem of creating a holistic consumer experience. Nor would it have made a difference in the fact that Sony owns a huge library of music that Apple monetized far more efficiently while Sony fought for CDs to outlive MP3s.

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Sony had many, many chances to use open standards and technologies for a wide variety of products and opted against in most cases. The company also gave up its massive lead in music players as Apple leaped ahead by creating a seamless user experience while Sony focused on that blue alien.

Hindsight is 20/20 and I am sure Stringer believes his statement to be true. But open is a relative term. Just because other companies will be able to interact with the PSN it doesn’t mean that the rest of the world’s developers will be able to participate in developing games or applications or creating a cottage industry as Apple has done for theiPhone.

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