Rupert Murdoch's mad as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore. High-handed treatment from Amazon, that is.
On News Corp.'s (NWS) fiscal-year-end earnings call with analysts, the notoriously shoot-from-the-hip mogul suggested that The Wall Street Journal will cease to be available on the Kindle e-reader unless Amazon starts offering a more generous revenue split and more publisher-friendly policies.
Murdoch acknowledged that the Journal recently negotiated a slightly larger share of the revenues Amazon gets from selling Kindle subscriptions to the paper, "but it's not a big number, and we're not encouraging it at all because we don't get the names of the subscribers," he said. "Kindle treats them as their subscribers, not as ours, and I think that will eventually cause a break with us."
Jeff Bezos, consider yourself warned.
On the call, News Corp. announced adjusted full-year operating income of $3.6 billion, a 32 percent year-over-year decline largely attributable to the advertising recession afflicting print and broadcast television. Much of the call was devoted to News Corp.'s intensive drive to get consumers to pay directly for digital content of all kinds. Murdoch revealed that the company plans to introduce pay models for all its news websites by the end of the next fiscal year. Moreover, he said that it won't be only the newspaper sites that adopt this change; foxnews.com, he said, will also start charging for content. "It has a huge and loyal and profitable [web] audience already," he said.
"As I've said before, the traditional business model has to change rapidly to ensure that our journalistic businesses can return to their old margins of profitability," Murdoch said. "Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting."
Other highlights from the call:
-Murdoch on this year's television advertising: "We're doing well, or we think we're doing well, on the pricing, but we'll probably keep more back for the spot market than last year....There's money around. I'm not saying there's a vast recovery or anything like that, but we are in the process of reaching understandings with a lot of advertisers."
-On whether News Corp. will develop its own e-reader to compete with the Kindle: "We're not in the hardware business."
-On rumors that Guardian Media Group may close the Observer: "I did read that document that went to the staff of the Guardian that swore allegiance everlastingly to the Guardian but said nothing about the Observer. I think I made the same conclusions as everybody."
-On whether News Corp. would buy the Observer: "Hell no. Why?"
"we're not encouraging it at all because we don't get the names of the subscribers," he said. "Kindle treats them as their subscribers, not as ours, and I think that will eventually cause a break with us."
What he doesn't understand is that they are not his subscribers anyway. They have subscribed the the kindle service to receive the journal. If I buy a DVD then I'm a customer of the DVD store, not the studio.
It would have at least 500 people but only for Friday and Saturday night during the week it is quieter. Violence just isn't a part of the culture there. It certainly doesn't need tighter security than an airport.
No violence is not a problem for most bars, at my local you would be pretty stupid to try and start something because people don't tolerate that sort of behaviour. People go out to have a good time, not to fight.
Yes, assault is a job for the police. Law enforcement is their primary duty.
Buy your going to a bar where violence is clearly a problem.
Privacy violations are not the answer, instead the industry needs to campaign the government to punish offenders. Instead of treating their customers like criminals.
I will say this-Microsoft tried something new for the first time in years with Office. They thought it was intuitive and ground breaking. At least they were half right, it was something new.
You have to wonder how many times the word processor can be invented. The design seems more like a desperate attempt than innovation.
Because it is it hard enough training the all to shoot in the same direction.
But on a serious note, if we can't teach the average civilian about security then we obviously don't have a chance of teaching troops the same lesson. They are after all both human, add to the fact that the troops are in a high stress environment and Facebook is going to be the least of their concerns.
As a pilot I would like to know what the purpose of replacing the AM radios would be. Yes you can encrypt communications but that seems to create more problems than it solves. Remember these radios are used by Aircraft and Airports all over the world, giving somebody the wrong key is going to render their radio usless. Will each airport use it's own encryption key? That's ALLOT of keys to be handed out.
I don't think I need to go any further into this since I'm sure you can see the problem.
What would be the point of encryption aviation frequencies?
The key would need to be provided to every aircraft and indevidual using the frequency, thus eliminating the whole purpose of an encryption key. This also would allow for desasterous concequenses if somebody who needed the key did not have it.
Analogue radio is a tried and proven communications medium it would be stupid to attempt to change it.
It's even more frequent in socialist-minded Europe (Russia included), where more than half of population have higher education (because it's mostly free, especially in post-communist countries). Then everyone expects to get an "advanced" job and despises menial labour or "low-level" technical jobs (like say, a car technician).
We get that in Australia but the most scsessful people I know are the ones who don't have the sense of entitlement, people who work for it are generally more desirable to employers than someone who just expects stupidly high pay no expirience.
"It doesn't make any sense: They went to school for four years, and then they come out working at McDonald's and Payless. That's not what they planned."
It makes perfect sense, why employ someone who just spend 4 years in school and has no expirience in the real world when you can employ someone with a previous work record who has shown themselfs to be reliable.
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Some cameras even let you control them. But what I really want is a camera with an open pa system. So far I have been unsucsessful.
Will they come after a single user?
Rupert Murdoch's mad as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore. High-handed treatment from Amazon, that is.
On News Corp.'s (NWS) fiscal-year-end earnings call with analysts, the notoriously shoot-from-the-hip mogul suggested that The Wall Street Journal will cease to be available on the Kindle e-reader unless Amazon starts offering a more generous revenue split and more publisher-friendly policies.
Murdoch acknowledged that the Journal recently negotiated a slightly larger share of the revenues Amazon gets from selling Kindle subscriptions to the paper, "but it's not a big number, and we're not encouraging it at all because we don't get the names of the subscribers," he said. "Kindle treats them as their subscribers, not as ours, and I think that will eventually cause a break with us."
Jeff Bezos, consider yourself warned.
On the call, News Corp. announced adjusted full-year operating income of $3.6 billion, a 32 percent year-over-year decline largely attributable to the advertising recession afflicting print and broadcast television. Much of the call was devoted to News Corp.'s intensive drive to get consumers to pay directly for digital content of all kinds. Murdoch revealed that the company plans to introduce pay models for all its news websites by the end of the next fiscal year. Moreover, he said that it won't be only the newspaper sites that adopt this change; foxnews.com, he said, will also start charging for content. "It has a huge and loyal and profitable [web] audience already," he said.
"As I've said before, the traditional business model has to change rapidly to ensure that our journalistic businesses can return to their old margins of profitability," Murdoch said. "Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting."
Other highlights from the call:
-Murdoch on this year's television advertising: "We're doing well, or we think we're doing well, on the pricing, but we'll probably keep more back for the spot market than last year....There's money around. I'm not saying there's a vast recovery or anything like that, but we are in the process of reaching understandings with a lot of advertisers."
-On whether News Corp. will develop its own e-reader to compete with the Kindle: "We're not in the hardware business."
-On rumors that Guardian Media Group may close the Observer: "I did read that document that went to the staff of the Guardian that swore allegiance everlastingly to the Guardian but said nothing about the Observer. I think I made the same conclusions as everybody."
-On whether News Corp. would buy the Observer: "Hell no. Why?"
Try explaining that to a senial old man.
"we're not encouraging it at all because we don't get the names of the subscribers," he said. "Kindle treats them as their subscribers, not as ours, and I think that will eventually cause a break with us."
What he doesn't understand is that they are not his subscribers anyway. They have subscribed the the kindle service to receive the journal. If I buy a DVD then I'm a customer of the DVD store, not the studio.
Even simpler to just post it as a single page.
Are you blind?
It's on 24
It would have at least 500 people but only for Friday and Saturday night during the week it is quieter. Violence just isn't a part of the culture there. It certainly doesn't need tighter security than an airport.
No violence is not a problem for most bars, at my local you would be pretty stupid to try and start something because people don't tolerate that sort of behaviour. People go out to have a good time, not to fight.
Yes, assault is a job for the police. Law enforcement is their primary duty.
Buy your going to a bar where violence is clearly a problem.
Privacy violations are not the answer, instead the industry needs to campaign the government to punish offenders. Instead of treating their customers like criminals.
Because this IS a good thing.
You do understand the purpose of a DoS attack don't you?
I will say this-Microsoft tried something new for the first time in years with Office. They thought it was intuitive and ground breaking. At least they were half right, it was something new.
You have to wonder how many times the word processor can be invented. The design seems more like a desperate attempt than innovation.
Actually that design was made for office zombies.
Haven't you noticed the nice big button, not so different from a child's toy?
The Ribbon design is horrible, that's one update to avoid.
How does giving away your private information make you safer?
Because it is it hard enough training the all to shoot in the same direction.
But on a serious note, if we can't teach the average civilian about security then we obviously don't have a chance of teaching troops the same lesson. They are after all both human, add to the fact that the troops are in a high stress environment and Facebook is going to be the least of their concerns.
The United States government does not want media from the field getting out.
It seems they have learnt after Vietnam.
Who needs friends when you have a computer?
As a pilot I would like to know what the purpose of replacing the AM radios would be. Yes you can encrypt communications but that seems to create more problems than it solves. Remember these radios are used by Aircraft and Airports all over the world, giving somebody the wrong key is going to render their radio usless. Will each airport use it's own encryption key? That's ALLOT of keys to be handed out.
I don't think I need to go any further into this since I'm sure you can see the problem.
Just because it's encrypted doesn't mean you can't jam it.
What would be the point of encryption aviation frequencies?
The key would need to be provided to every aircraft and indevidual using the frequency, thus eliminating the whole purpose of an encryption key. This also would allow for desasterous concequenses if somebody who needed the key did not have it.
Analogue radio is a tried and proven communications medium it would be stupid to attempt to change it.
Email should be confidential, the fact that it is not does not change the matter.
Postal mail is considered confidential so of course it's electronic equivelent gets the same line of thinking.
MS got there with pure dumb luck, shady business tactics and buying out potential competitors.
Noting shady about smart business practices.
It's even more frequent in socialist-minded Europe (Russia included), where more than half of population have higher education (because it's mostly free, especially in post-communist countries). Then everyone expects to get an "advanced" job and despises menial labour or "low-level" technical jobs (like say, a car technician).
We get that in Australia but the most scsessful people I know are the ones who don't have the sense of entitlement, people who work for it are generally more desirable to employers than someone who just expects stupidly high pay no expirience.
"It doesn't make any sense: They went to school for four years, and then they come out working at McDonald's and Payless. That's not what they planned."
It makes perfect sense, why employ someone who just spend 4 years in school and has no expirience in the real world when you can employ someone with a previous work record who has shown themselfs to be reliable.
In the UK cops don't carry guns.
When your take a persons domain your are denying them something that is rightfully theirs.