As the performing artist involved when I read test-based books to my kid, what about my rights? I demand I be given a lien on my child's future earnings for each of my performances. At rates that I will determine myself, thank you.
Gotta replace that dwindling likelihood of SS payments somehow.
It is worth Apple's time to do so, as it increases sales and profitability of their actual higher priority endeavor, selling iPods. This has caused them to set a price point to maximize iPod profits, rather than music profits.
But now anyone else getting into online music sales has to match or beat that price point. Which is basically not very profitable because the labels scoop out nearly all the profit.
So the only entities in the market which will probably be willing to expend the resources to make a service as compelling as Apple's, are other entities with similarly tied profit avenues to bolster the online store, i.e. MS and the Zune. Or the labels themselves, since they would then keep the profit. Or Amazon.
Unfortunately, MS's success was poor since they launched before DRM fell out of fashion, and the labels have absolutely no conception whatsoever of what it means to design and build a business based on serving a consumer's needs and desires. i.e. making an online music sales outlet that is convenient, easy to use, offers good terms, etc.
Amazon has taken a shot, and may eventually gain some momentum. If the labels would actually throw some real support behind them, they might eventually dethrone iTunes. But of course, then the labels would do something stupid like immediately raise prices and things would swing back the other way.
So you honestly think $15 or so is an unreasonable price for a movie DVD? I've always thought it was a pretty decent value.
Music CDs are certainly way overpriced, and probably ought to be in the $5-8 range given competition for entertainment dollars, but given theater ticket prices and such, never felt movies were out of line.
Being employed by said mouse, I would point out that most of our 'classic' movies are built around stories from the public domain, which we in turn are now loathe to allow any of our work to join.
So without the reasonable copyright terms of old, Disney might not even exist in its current form.
If you stay a little longer, you can watch them take the defective item you just returned and replace it on the store shelf for some other sap to buy. I have both witnessed that, as well as been the unfortunate subsequent purchaser of other retuned items.
If it's the same as where I live, he means they charge you a fee to remove you from the directory (the instance of you opting out) and then you also pay a monthly amount to maintain the "unlistedness" number. So no, he was not being redundant, just not stating the situation clearly.
They had pulled the judge's personal information off even before it was requested they do so.
The server was taken to attempt to learn the identity of the person who posted it, in spite of the fact their setup did not log such information, and that the server taken was a mirror and would not have contained the info anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
So do we now refer to this type of occurrence as getting Wilhelmed?
As the performing artist involved when I read test-based books to my kid, what about my rights? I demand I be given a lien on my child's future earnings for each of my performances. At rates that I will determine myself, thank you.
Gotta replace that dwindling likelihood of SS payments somehow.
It is worth Apple's time to do so, as it increases sales and profitability of their actual higher priority endeavor, selling iPods. This has caused them to set a price point to maximize iPod profits, rather than music profits.
But now anyone else getting into online music sales has to match or beat that price point. Which is basically not very profitable because the labels scoop out nearly all the profit.
So the only entities in the market which will probably be willing to expend the resources to make a service as compelling as Apple's, are other entities with similarly tied profit avenues to bolster the online store, i.e. MS and the Zune. Or the labels themselves, since they would then keep the profit. Or Amazon.
Unfortunately, MS's success was poor since they launched before DRM fell out of fashion, and the labels have absolutely no conception whatsoever of what it means to design and build a business based on serving a consumer's needs and desires. i.e. making an online music sales outlet that is convenient, easy to use, offers good terms, etc.
Amazon has taken a shot, and may eventually gain some momentum. If the labels would actually throw some real support behind them, they might eventually dethrone iTunes. But of course, then the labels would do something stupid like immediately raise prices and things would swing back the other way.
Meter maids have . . .oh. Pens.
I thought they had 6?
The duck of death!
So you honestly think $15 or so is an unreasonable price for a movie DVD? I've always thought it was a pretty decent value.
Music CDs are certainly way overpriced, and probably ought to be in the $5-8 range given competition for entertainment dollars, but given theater ticket prices and such, never felt movies were out of line.
Being employed by said mouse, I would point out that most of our 'classic' movies are built around stories from the public domain, which we in turn are now loathe to allow any of our work to join.
So without the reasonable copyright terms of old, Disney might not even exist in its current form.
Guess all those jingle writers, session musicians and orchestra members should give up and go do something else.
Someone with musical ability/talent can certainly have making money as one of their goals. Don't be ridiculous.
Who let him out of Halloweentown?
At least we'd lose Walmart.
"I call strawman on that."
We are going to have to ask you for proof of a pre-existing business relationship with strawman, as his number is on the DNC list.
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhnn!!!!
Pretend the above is all caps. Stupid filter.
THen we'd have to listen to an illiterate chorus of how they stole the idea from Halo.
OK, I have been to a LOT of circuses. And they weren't selling bread at any of them. Unless you count churros.
I'm lucky! I have TWO choices for broadband where I live. Comcast and AT&T.
Unfortunately, except for the lucky part, I am serious.
If you stay a little longer, you can watch them take the defective item you just returned and replace it on the store shelf for some other sap to buy. I have both witnessed that, as well as been the unfortunate subsequent purchaser of other retuned items.
I do not shop at Fryes anymore.
Even worse, he was but-thinking about them.
If it's the same as where I live, he means they charge you a fee to remove you from the directory (the instance of you opting out) and then you also pay a monthly amount to maintain the "unlistedness" number. So no, he was not being redundant, just not stating the situation clearly.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash. er ... oops
"Once children realize how easy it is to create music, they'll have a huge bonfire lit within them."
Fine, but you're laundering their pants afterwards.
"Which I understand from Apple's perspective... remember, they barely made money on iPods, they mostly sold them to make iTunes more popular. "
In fact, you have that exactly backwards. Their profits on iTunes music are very very low, and it is their margins on iPods that are the cash cow.
They had pulled the judge's personal information off even before it was requested they do so.
The server was taken to attempt to learn the identity of the person who posted it, in spite of the fact their setup did not log such information, and that the server taken was a mirror and would not have contained the info anyway.
Don't really see how it will be any worse than frying miserably under the unbearable radiation in Heaven:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm
Hmm. Would the government be more green when it is angry? Could be a desirable side effect.