Free stuff isn't interesting to people with large distribution channels. Stuff you can charge for, even just 1% over the cost of production, is much more interesting. Stuff you can charge 200% over the cost of production is even more interesting. As long as most of the world doesn't have access to high-speed Internet connections or have the knowledge to make use of them distribution is going to be where the big bucks are.
The most important lesson here is that small distribution channels are becoming more important. As is voluntary production. Without the unjust copyright monopoly that steals from the public, these items would be available.
High-speed internet is not universally available, but is still following a law similar to Moore's law. A personal anecdote:
I lived in a rural African village in 1991 when my father died in Canada. I had to travel four hours to reach a telephone. Today that village has cell phone coverage and not-very-high-speed internet. Cell phones are revolutionizing the third world and will soon be their libraries.
There is no way to win this, for the content industry. They can only lose.
They get to choose the way it ends. Nothing more.
If they want to choose the faster dead (ACTA), let them.:)
The problem with letting them is the collateral damage. I'm reminded of the cartoon of the criminal holding a child's head next to his with a huge pistol pointing at the two of them. "Stand back or the kid gets it!"
There was doubtless some human DNA in the sandwich. As well, sock-eye salmon, margarine (that's got whey which implies bovine and probably soya and/or canola), wheat, yeast. I wonder how many hundreds of different kinds of bacteria.
The human genome is about 800 megabytes. I'll bet that with the one sandwich I consumed far more than my daily 34 gigabytes. This doesn't include the information processes involved in bringing that food in its current form into my kitchen, or the dustmites and mold spores and...
The fact is that SOX was doomed to fail because you can’t impose rigorous rules on US companies if foreign companies don’t have to follow the same rules – it is a Global world out there and adding huge overhead to your domestic companies just mean more outsourcing and more domestic bankruptcies as they can’t compete with slimmer/trimmer overseas companies.
This is also known as 'race to the bottom.' It happens with corporate governance as well as taxes and wages.
This is a bunch of balderdash...
When I was in the womb my mother used to play a bunch of old scratchy vinyl LPs, but that didn't affect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me
Not 1971, but actually 1955
It was actually observed first in 1955 when the positrons in the lightning strike were channeled through the flux capacitor to take Marty McFly back to the future.
So if you point a gun at me, I can hunt down and disintegrate your entire family tree? Is that the policy you're advocating here? Take that to it's logical extreme: if a citizen of a foreign country kills someone in America, we have the right to nuke that person's homeland, because they started the killing.
Your logic is not extreme enough. Nuke his home planet! He is the same carbon based life form that caused the problem in the first place.
people bitching about slow connections here would be like me bitching in a NASA thread about how it isn't fair that NASA has crafts going 20,000 MPH while my bicycle is still stuck at a max of about 30mph.
Don't know about you, but I want to go to the grocery story at 20,000 MPH, and be able to bring back a container full of stuff too!
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Free stuff isn't interesting to people with large distribution channels. Stuff you can charge for, even just 1% over the cost of production, is much more interesting. Stuff you can charge 200% over the cost of production is even more interesting. As long as most of the world doesn't have access to high-speed Internet connections or have the knowledge to make use of them distribution is going to be where the big bucks are.
The most important lesson here is that small distribution channels are becoming more important. As is voluntary production. Without the unjust copyright monopoly that steals from the public, these items would be available.
High-speed internet is not universally available, but is still following a law similar to Moore's law. A personal anecdote:
I lived in a rural African village in 1991 when my father died in Canada. I had to travel four hours to reach a telephone. Today that village has cell phone coverage and not-very-high-speed internet. Cell phones are revolutionizing the third world and will soon be their libraries.
"The overall impression was that Compaq hated their customers and wanted them to suffer."
Yeah, but the quality was excellent!
Give them something to loose or care about. When you have nothing you have nothing to loose.
Loose ... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
loose/tight lose/win
Or maybe I worked for Oracle for too long :)
Working for Oracle for any non-zero length of time is too long
A pithier expression of the sentiment: Eschew obfuscation
What's the difference between irregardless and regardless?
One is dissatisfactory to Grammar Nazis and the other is unsatisfactory to ordinary people.
WTF is WTF?
Wiener Toasting Frequencies
Don't broadcast on this frequency using the the unit underneath the driver's seat.
Pictures at 11:07
Your irony meter is apparently malfunctioning.
What?! You mean to tell me that Halliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric are not staffed by monks who've taken a vow of poverty?
Monks who've taken a vow of poverty also tend to be pacifists.
Your comment that GA-ASI does not make voting machines has been recorded. Have a nice day!
Watch your window, you should be receiving a visitor, just about now. ....
There is no way to win this, for the content industry. They can only lose. They get to choose the way it ends. Nothing more. If they want to choose the faster dead (ACTA), let them. :)
The problem with letting them is the collateral damage. I'm reminded of the cartoon of the criminal holding a child's head next to his with a huge pistol pointing at the two of them. "Stand back or the kid gets it!"
The human genome is about 800 megabytes. I'll bet that with the one sandwich I consumed far more than my daily 34 gigabytes. This doesn't include the information processes involved in bringing that food in its current form into my kitchen, or the dustmites and mold spores and ...
The fact is that SOX was doomed to fail because you can’t impose rigorous rules on US companies if foreign companies don’t have to follow the same rules – it is a Global world out there and adding huge overhead to your domestic companies just mean more outsourcing and more domestic bankruptcies as they can’t compete with slimmer/trimmer overseas companies.
This is also known as 'race to the bottom.' It happens with corporate governance as well as taxes and wages.
URL shorteners are problematical, as everybody knows, but with the rise of Twitter and its ilk they seem to be a necessary part of the landscape.
Seriously?? I know editors frequently get grief for this sort of thing, but come on... the word is problematicalic, for crying out loud. ;)
The proper word is problematicalistic
This is a bunch of balderdash ...
When I was in the womb my mother used to play a bunch of old scratchy vinyl LPs, but that didn't affect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me...fect me
Not 1971, but actually 1955 It was actually observed first in 1955 when the positrons in the lightning strike were channeled through the flux capacitor to take Marty McFly back to the future.
Gotta get me one of them to find out where I put down my reading glasses.
So if you point a gun at me, I can hunt down and disintegrate your entire family tree? Is that the policy you're advocating here? Take that to it's logical extreme: if a citizen of a foreign country kills someone in America, we have the right to nuke that person's homeland, because they started the killing.
Your logic is not extreme enough. Nuke his home planet! He is the same carbon based life form that caused the problem in the first place.
This isn't "good vs evil." It's "choice vs no choice." And it looks like choice just scored a point.
In fact, "choice vs no choice" is "good vs evil." ... On a whole lot of different levels, for slum-dwellers as well as computer content producers.
people bitching about slow connections here would be like me bitching in a NASA thread about how it isn't fair that NASA has crafts going 20,000 MPH while my bicycle is still stuck at a max of about 30mph.
Don't know about you, but I want to go to the grocery story at 20,000 MPH, and be able to bring back a container full of stuff too!
Great idea, but what if you listen to music with only one ear?
I'm guessing that a piece of Scotch tape wrapped around the bud that's not in your ear will do the trick.
Didn't I just read a slashdot story on the death stench of insects?
My god what do we pay editors for?
Here at slashdot I'm paying them altogether too much!
(I don't work for Starbucks and I don't own any of their stock).
It sounds like you have a vested interest in their continuing ability to provide coffee and WIFI. Or perhaps the interest is in the reverse order.