j in business week

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Rob02150 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Remember when J was kinda chubby and balding? Boy he has changed,

Before:

http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/graphics/2003/spring/allard/allard02.jpg

Now:

http://www.teevblogger.com/images/allardbox0706.jpg

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JEFFROMAN654 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

ill have to go pick up a Business Week!!!

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Joe — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:37:55 GMT

is that memo Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet available anywhere for reading?

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furian boy — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:14:22 GMT

really? all of them? for 14.99? where? and what's all this crap about "owning" music. you "own" all the songs you buy off itunes too, but make the switch to another player and you find out that there's not really much of a benefit to ownership. I refuse to buy a song. and CDs? CDs are a dying breed, along with record stores. Honestly, zunepass is about the best deal there is for buying music, and you're right, one day I will want another media player, but not for a few years, and when I do get another? i'm covered, because it'll most likely be another zune device.

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CAPTA1N BLOOD — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:23:33 GMT

furian: for 14.99 a month you could buy those albums to keep on CD, which is better quality and will never time out. One day, you'll want a new media player, and suddenly everything on your zune will be worthless as soon as the payments stop.

Awesome.

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furian boy — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:11:31 GMT

MCKLEIN said:

I love my zune! all music you can dl for $15 you can beat that with a stick!

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Flamechu said:

You do realize that once you end that monthly thing that any and all songs you got when you had it will become unplayable?

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why would you want to end a deal like that? I have close to 2,000 songs on my zune, and i'm only paying the cost of one CD a month to get it. it's like heaven on earth, I can have just about a band's entire catalog for 14.99 a month.

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reyla — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:27:13 GMT

j is HOTTTTT :)

Dang, get J Allard on the show!

htiawe — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:51:17 GMT

You really really really really gotta get J Allard on the show sometime in the VERY NEAR future. J Allard was the man that for me put a face on the Xbox 360 and really started the hype, why not a interview where he gets to talk about how he views the 360 now, a year after release and where its going?

He is not involved in the 360 process anymore (from what i have read anyways) but his opinion is very much valued and in a way more nuanced then Peter Moore's.

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Kiphere — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:14:13 GMT

DRM is the bane of the honest man when it comes to music. I wish the big corps would realize this.

I buy my music legitimately and then I strip my DRM off of it if possible because I don't want to be limited to where and how I can use something I paid for. It's like buying a butter knife and being told I can only, ever, use it for butter. What if I want some peanut butter spread on my toast one morning? If the Music Industry made butter knives you'd need to buy a seperate knife for butter, peanut butter, stabbing puppies, and spreading jam. I wanna buy one knife and use it how I please within a fair use license.

Microsofts DRM is the equivilent of buying a CD and only being able to listen to it in 1 CD player.

DRM only hurts honest people, the dishonest folks aren't buying music from those outlets that put it on there... so they never have to deal with DRM. If they're downloading DRMed music they're idiots, or just stripping it off anyway, if they're being dishonest about it they've found a way to mass distribute the music already and your DRM is doing nothing but frustrating the honest consumers like me.

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Emailer33 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:29:20 GMT

shift key slows you down, lol nice

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carg0 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:28:33 GMT

Since J left the 360 and it's community for the Zune (and that's his job, don't misunderstand) it's probably for the best that Major can't interview him presently.

I mean, what would they talk about; the Zune being a complete failre right out of the gate? Or check up on VelocityGirl and see how that user-created content is coming? Or why anyone within the 360 community should care about what he might have to say concerning the 360 since his Houdini after launch?

Nah, that's ok. We've got Major. Nelson. We're in good hands.

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CAPTA1N BLOOD — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:54:33 GMT

He has his work cut out turning Zune around - it's been harshly treated by the gadget press, for good reason. Here's the best so far:

http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/147048,CST-FIN-Andy23.article

Buy something that cares about your rights instead. Lots of very good Korean models still work like normal USB storage too - makes life much easier. While the music industry love to bash that type of device, I have over 2500 songs on my player. And you know what? I own the CD of -every- -single- -one-. I stopped buying new music from big labels when they started being such idiots.

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Flamechu — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:06:09 GMT

MCKLEIN said:

I love my zune! all music you can dl for $15 you can beat that with a stick!

__________________________

You do realize that once you end that monthly thing that any and all songs you got when you had it will become unplayable?

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Kiphere — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:58:04 GMT

J is one of my heroes. I model my own approach to work and tasks in general after his mentality and work style. I'd kill to work for him, design interoperability for devices, working on the xbox and zune teams, etc. I've got so much hope as a consumer for those product lines that I almost get giddy at times when I think about the possibilities. Being a part of that world would just be too much, too bad network encryption and design architecture don't have a lot to do with those technologies in general!

/sad panda.

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furian boy — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:02:20 GMT

apparently that was a typo about lemonade stand, even the wiki article has a note about it now.

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Rod Hull — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:00:26 GMT

Hmm, according to the Lemonade Stand Wiki, it was created by Bob Jamison. Unless Allard created his own version that is!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand