Dont' assume they have the copyright to the show just because they're the creative guys behind it.
When Arthur C. Clarke reprinted a chapter from 2001: A Space Odyssey in the sequel novel, he had to get permission from the publisher of 2001.
Hey maybe this can be used for "intellectual property" too... instead of the pre-litigation letters, the RIAA can just send this robot into the dorms - as soon as it finds a p2p user - 'That's private property. You guys need to get out of here.'"
Unelected FCC commissioners making decisions that will have a huge impact on the future of communications in this country... I'm sure this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when they drafted the Constitution.
Considering that the newspaper as we know it is circling the drain, I don't think that any government decision related to newspapers will have "a huge impact on the future of communications in this country."
The part of the movie where Tarantino's character was shot was removed, I remember that for a fact (this was about 10 years ago) and I think there were other minor changes.
Blockbuster lost me a long, long time ago, when I rented Reservoir Dogs and got the weak, edited, neutered version.
The box may have been labeled, but hey, I should not have to carefully scrutinize the movie's package to ensure that it is the movie I intended to rent in all its glory.
As was noted on page 4 of TFA, the music business essentially controlled radio (and the other very limited number of distribution channels), but it's a tough nut to crack for them to have control over what people file-share.
"Until very recently," Rubin told me over lunch at Hugo's, a health-conscious restaurant in Hollywood, "there were a handful of channels in the music business that the gatekeepers controlled. They were radio, Tower Records, MTV, certain mainstream press like Rolling Stone. That's how people found out about new things. Every record company in the industry was built to work that model. There was a time when if you had something that wasn't so good, through muscle and lack of other choices, you could push that not very good product through those channels. And that's how the music business functioned for 50 years. Well, the world has changed. And the industry has not."
Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it.
For instance, later in TFA Cringley says that a five-year phone rate freeze was part of the deal at one point, then says that rates should have really fallen during this time and he calls this a "rate hike".
So this $200B figure sounds like some mix of a bogus number (a "higher" phone rate that is really constant), some bookkeeping shenanigans (accelerated depreciation accounting), and real cash (direct credits.)
"NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events."
You can be a hysteric about Global Warming and you're the toast of the town. No one is going to attack you, and you can blame it on some cigar-chomping greedy guys in a boardroom far away.
Probably no part, of course. If this question was asked all the time, very few laws would be passed.
(A few years ago some Republican congressman introduced a bill to force Congress to cite the article & section giving authorization for any law they passed. Needless to say this did not get far.)
The last refuge of legislative scoundrels is the Commerce Clause. This clause is used and abused so often, it might be time to amend the Constitution to remove it.
We may have a certain percentage of Web 2.0 companies tanking soon, but we have not had a stock market run-up like in 1999-2000. So no, the impact of a forthcoming "burst" won't be nearly as bad.
MS Office. What are they going to do about that?
Run it via WINE?
Run it via Citrix?
Use only the functionality common to MS Office and OpenOffice.org?
Another option?
There are lots of different ways to do it, but which of them is he taking and why?
I don't know what Halamka's approach is... but I know exactly what the approach of the PHBs will be - continue to buy and use Windows.
almost everything is "niche business application"
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For the impatient, here's Halamka's conclusion: "A balanced approach of Windows for the niche business application user, Macs for the graphic artists/researchers, SUSE for enterprise kiosks/thin clients, and Ubuntu for power users seems like the sweet spot for 2008."
The problem is, people have been writing Windows-specific business apps for a long time, and MS Office itself is a critical business application in corporate-land. The overwhelming majority of computer users at every company I've been at has been somewhat-to-very nontechnical folks running Office and other Windows-specific software.
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Business travelers to Russia might want to keep their laptops and iPhones well-concealed -- not from muggers,necessarily,
I'd recommend concealing them from the muggers too.
Is it typical for CIOs to be commenting on their company's business model? Isn't that the job of other C-level execs?
Dont' assume they have the copyright to the show just because they're the creative guys behind it. When Arthur C. Clarke reprinted a chapter from 2001: A Space Odyssey in the sequel novel, he had to get permission from the publisher of 2001.
Hey maybe this can be used for "intellectual property" too... instead of the pre-litigation letters, the RIAA can just send this robot into the dorms - as soon as it finds a p2p user - 'That's private property. You guys need to get out of here.'"
The grand old reading rooms and stacks of past civic monuments are giving way to a new library-as-urban-hangout concept
As opposed to the library-as-indigent-hangout concept, which has been around for decades or maybe centuries.
had been responsible for the 'production and distribution of more than 90 percent of the high-quality counterfeit Microsoft software products
Why doesn't MSFT sell these "high-quality" products instead of the crap they've been selling us for years.
Organizations representing an industry supply "news" to newspapers and broadcasters all the time.
Unelected FCC commissioners making decisions that will have a huge impact on the future of communications in this country... I'm sure this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when they drafted the Constitution.
Considering that the newspaper as we know it is circling the drain, I don't think that any government decision related to newspapers will have "a huge impact on the future of communications in this country."
Netflix has changed the envelope repeatedly so I doubt they'll hesitate to do it again if not changing would cut per-subscriber profit by 2/3...
Unless Blockbuster has patented "envelopes that don't gum up Postal Service machines".
The ERA hopes the industry will drop DRM in time for the holiday season.
Which holiday? The next appearance of Halley's Comet?
Maybe it's time to stop believing politicians when they promise free wifi, or for that matter, free anything?
The part of the movie where Tarantino's character was shot was removed, I remember that for a fact (this was about 10 years ago) and I think there were other minor changes.
Blockbuster lost me a long, long time ago, when I rented Reservoir Dogs and got the weak, edited, neutered version.
The box may have been labeled, but hey, I should not have to carefully scrutinize the movie's package to ensure that it is the movie I intended to rent in all its glory.
I don't even know if they still do that.
Is this finally the version that will catch Linus's fancy?
Internet radio?
File sharing?
As was noted on page 4 of TFA, the music business essentially controlled radio (and the other very limited number of distribution channels), but it's a tough nut to crack for them to have control over what people file-share.
"Until very recently," Rubin told me over lunch at Hugo's, a health-conscious restaurant in Hollywood, "there were a handful of channels in the music business that the gatekeepers controlled. They were radio, Tower Records, MTV, certain mainstream press like Rolling Stone. That's how people found out about new things. Every record company in the industry was built to work that model. There was a time when if you had something that wasn't so good, through muscle and lack of other choices, you could push that not very good product through those channels. And that's how the music business functioned for 50 years. Well, the world has changed. And the industry has not."
Their slogan is not "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters", but "La informacion que te interesa"...
What does that make them, the spanish Drudge Report?
Holland doesn't have to spend billions to fight in Iraq: No war == free health care and education ;)
And if the US hadn't been fighting Nazism and Communism in Europe the last 60 years, there'd be no Holland.
So, in a sense, the US has been subsidizing the lavish welfare states of Europe. Pretty good deal!
Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it.
For instance, later in TFA Cringley says that a five-year phone rate freeze was part of the deal at one point, then says that rates should have really fallen during this time and he calls this a "rate hike".
So this $200B figure sounds like some mix of a bogus number (a "higher" phone rate that is really constant), some bookkeeping shenanigans (accelerated depreciation accounting), and real cash (direct credits.)
oops - that posting was too early in the day for me.
Turns out we have some bad data.
"NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events."
You can be a hysteric about Global Warming and you're the toast of the town. No one is going to attack you, and you can blame it on some cigar-chomping greedy guys in a boardroom far away.
No need to bother with more precarious issues, like writing critical things about Islam, which gets you physically attacked by Muslim members of India's legislature on a good day.
People like Taslima Nasrin have more courage then every Global Warming activist on the planet combined.
Probably no part, of course. If this question was asked all the time, very few laws would be passed.
(A few years ago some Republican congressman introduced a bill to force Congress to cite the article & section giving authorization for any law they passed. Needless to say this did not get far.)
The last refuge of legislative scoundrels is the Commerce Clause. This clause is used and abused so often, it might be time to amend the Constitution to remove it.
We may have a certain percentage of Web 2.0 companies tanking soon, but we have not had a stock market run-up like in 1999-2000. So no, the impact of a forthcoming "burst" won't be nearly as bad.
MS Office. What are they going to do about that? Run it via WINE? Run it via Citrix? Use only the functionality common to MS Office and OpenOffice.org? Another option? There are lots of different ways to do it, but which of them is he taking and why?
I don't know what Halamka's approach is... but I know exactly what the approach of the PHBs will be - continue to buy and use Windows.
For the impatient, here's Halamka's conclusion: "A balanced approach of Windows for the niche business application user, Macs for the graphic artists/researchers, SUSE for enterprise kiosks/thin clients, and Ubuntu for power users seems like the sweet spot for 2008."
The problem is, people have been writing Windows-specific business apps for a long time, and MS Office itself is a critical business application in corporate-land. The overwhelming majority of computer users at every company I've been at has been somewhat-to-very nontechnical folks running Office and other Windows-specific software.
So, Halamka's analysis is not encouraging.