You're exactly right that you're renting data. That is an inevitable shift in meaning now that it is technologically possible for providers to offer data in such a way.
When distribution channels get more efficient we'll likely see prices go down a bit or else see more services and content available. In any case, nobody is forcing anyone to pay the current prices. I personally don't buy much music but I don't steal it either, instead I listen to more Shoutcast and just ordered an XM radio from Amazon for $26.
again, that has to do with quality. Maybe nobody will care because the 2008 version of media will leave DVDs in the dust. At some point you have to be comfortable with the idea that the latest consumer electronics are not going to play 8 track tapes or 2004's DVDs.
In all liklihood, the future distribution model will not be on plastic discs anyway, and it'll be more of an all you can eat subscription approach.
What were you trying to encode? I'm doubtful that your story actually happened. You can use mp3, ogg, or a variety of other free formats to encode things.
Not really. You can print up the Gentoo instructions and follow along with exactly what they say to type in.
The danger is that people who set up their systems by typing the install directions in verbatim will actually not configure those systems optimally due to a misunderstanding. A GUI installer would help avoid the perils of people getting in a bit over their head and failing to accomplish something simple, such as installing to a hard drive that does not happen to be hda.
Lots of people die because the local doctors have never seen the 1 in 10000 disease they present with.
Get yourself to a big research hospital's ER immediately and your chances of survival will be much better.
Big research hospitals are the ones where people with 1 in 10000 illnesses are sent, and so the doctors there know what to look for. Also, you're more likely to be seen by a med student or resident who has most liklely read about your illness much more recently and is more likely not to rule it out due to its seeming implausibility.
A word of advice: Don't overly pre-diagnose yourself. Just go in and tell your symptoms. If you go to an automotive machanic and tell him your radiator is broken he'll replace it and charge you for it, even if it was just a hose. This isn't about cost, though, it's about your health. Don't pretend that you are more of an expert than you are!
did nobody else get that the parent was a joke? Of course someone who's almost 100 today would be roughly 120 in 2030, regardless of any aging or anti-aging!
You would want to use multiple tables and use a join to tie the data together...
Consider a phone numbers table: phonenumberID, phoneNumberTypeID, number
and a phone number type table: phoneNumberTypeID, name example: 1, cellular; 2, home; 3, office
Now, when you know a customer ID you can simply query the phone numbers table for all matching numbers, and join with the phoneNumberTypes table to determine what the number is.
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I'm sure SharpDevelop will catch up soon... it has tremendous potential even to overtake VS.NET... the only thing I wanted to point out was that at this point it's largely a clone and a not quite 100% complete clone at that...
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I think there's something wrong with your machine... maybe you're running windows 98 or something. I have never had any of those problems. Actually since.net 1.1 it hasn't crashed at all, and it only did once or twice prior to that.
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Uh, SharpDevelop is an OSS clone of VS.NET. How could you hate one and love the other?
By opening up the source and making it possible for OSS developers to use a high quality installer, Microsoft has shown that it realizes the importance of Open Source software to its user base.
With all the generously moderated posts about slashdot advertising, the herd has forgotten about this OPEN SOURCE PROJECT that does the same thing as Xamlon!
Choices have consequences. If someone moves out of the city into a rural environment, that person will save money on housing and property costs, but will likely have to pay more for garbage disposal. That person may also have to build a septic disposal system on his/her own propery b/c there may not be any sewer lines going all the way out there. The same applies to water, the person may need to dig a well.
Maybe the net result is -500 on housing, +600 on all the other stuff, and -100 on taxes. So the cost of living is equal.
I don't think people deserve for everyone else to buy all of the wire needed to string phone service out into the boondocks.
Suppose that person is a farmer, and all farmers would benefit from phones but phones in rural areas (hypothetically) cost a lot. All farmers would be faced with the same cost, and all would buy the phones, and all would raise prices on their crops. Consumers of the crops would then pay the extra cost. If having a phone did not help the farmer do business more efficiently, some would forego a phone and be able to sell their crops cheaper, and would thus make more profits.
The same applies to highways and any other government project.
If you had to go over 200 miles of dirt roads to get to your rural house, the additional damage to your car's suspension might add up to more cost than the money you save by living there, and so fewer people would live there.
The government's job is to allow the people to create public works that benefit all. If 99% of people live in a 1 mile radius and the government is going to provide wifi, for example, at a cost of $1 per taxpayer, adding the additional 1% of people who live 10 miles away will add a huge amount of cost, making it necessary for everyone to pay $2. That is not fair to the majority of people, in fact it is the exploitation of the majority by a minority.
Free market capitalism helps to prevent this kind of exploitation by accurately pricing goods and services so that nobody gets exploited.
If one firm has "too much" influence over prices, that means that there are one or two possibilities:
1) the price is "too high": other firms will want a piece of the action, and all the government has to do is stand aside while the temporary high price is resolved.
2) the price is "too low": It is hard to identify where harm is caused by this situation, since consumers are getting something at an artificially low price. Nonetheless, fraud is sometimes involved, and I agree that government intervention is occasionally warranted.
Your point doesn't make sense. Microsoft hired the best and brightest from AT&T, IBM, etc., and used their talent to build the most successful business in the history of the world.
Computer scientists who decided to go to work at Microsoft decided to do so for any number of reasons, some of which may have been pay, working for a college dropout, loving BASIC, free juice and soda in the cafeteria, etc. Who are you to tell anyone why they should or shouldn't want to work somewhere?
Microsoft is working on some of the most exciting stuff in computer science today. Check out research.microsoft.com for an index of some of the projects.
The parent is 100% accuate. Bill Gates has employed more of the top computer scientists than anyone else in the history of the world, and such employment is one of the main reasons that college kids want to major in computer science.
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You're exactly right that you're renting data. That is an inevitable shift in meaning now that it is technologically possible for providers to offer data in such a way.
When distribution channels get more efficient we'll likely see prices go down a bit or else see more services and content available. In any case, nobody is forcing anyone to pay the current prices. I personally don't buy much music but I don't steal it either, instead I listen to more Shoutcast and just ordered an XM radio from Amazon for $26.
By material do you mean distribution media?
The DRM is part of the distribution medium, allowing the provider to control the channel (whether it's an encrypted video stream or an encrypted CD).
again, that has to do with quality. Maybe nobody will care because the 2008 version of media will leave DVDs in the dust. At some point you have to be comfortable with the idea that the latest consumer electronics are not going to play 8 track tapes or 2004's DVDs.
In all liklihood, the future distribution model will not be on plastic discs anyway, and it'll be more of an all you can eat subscription approach.
What were you trying to encode? I'm doubtful that your story actually happened. You can use mp3, ogg, or a variety of other free formats to encode things.
You're already "at the mercy of the producer" when you buy any kind of content, in terms of quality.
Producers of content are able to sell it because the quality is high.
If DRM interferes with the overall quality, the companies that can't get their act together will ultimately fail or lose market share.
DRM isn't a big deal, unless you're stealing stuff.
That's how linux is supposed to manage memory! It makes file access faster for frequently accessed files.
Not really. You can print up the Gentoo instructions and follow along with exactly what they say to type in.
The danger is that people who set up their systems by typing the install directions in verbatim will actually not configure those systems optimally due to a misunderstanding. A GUI installer would help avoid the perils of people getting in a bit over their head and failing to accomplish something simple, such as installing to a hard drive that does not happen to be hda.
The Young Houdini was awesome!
Head for your nearest big research hospital.
Lots of people die because the local doctors have never seen the 1 in 10000 disease they present with.
Get yourself to a big research hospital's ER immediately and your chances of survival will be much better.
Big research hospitals are the ones where people with 1 in 10000 illnesses are sent, and so the doctors there know what to look for. Also, you're more likely to be seen by a med student or resident who has most liklely read about your illness much more recently and is more likely not to rule it out due to its seeming implausibility.
A word of advice: Don't overly pre-diagnose yourself. Just go in and tell your symptoms. If you go to an automotive machanic and tell him your radiator is broken he'll replace it and charge you for it, even if it was just a hose. This isn't about cost, though, it's about your health. Don't pretend that you are more of an expert than you are!
Just return your x-box if it breaks. Don't demean yourself by claiming all sorts of absurd damages.
did nobody else get that the parent was a joke? Of course someone who's almost 100 today would be roughly 120 in 2030, regardless of any aging or anti-aging!
You would want to use multiple tables and use a join to tie the data together...
Consider a phone numbers table:
phonenumberID, phoneNumberTypeID, number
and a phone number type table:
phoneNumberTypeID, name
example: 1, cellular; 2, home; 3, office
Now, when you know a customer ID you can simply query the phone numbers table for all matching numbers, and join with the phoneNumberTypes table to determine what the number is.
I'm sure SharpDevelop will catch up soon... it has tremendous potential even to overtake VS.NET... the only thing I wanted to point out was that at this point it's largely a clone and a not quite 100% complete clone at that...
I think there's something wrong with your machine... maybe you're running windows 98 or something. I have never had any of those problems. Actually since .net 1.1 it hasn't crashed at all, and it only did once or twice prior to that.
Uh, SharpDevelop is an OSS clone of VS.NET. How could you hate one and love the other?
By opening up the source and making it possible for OSS developers to use a high quality installer, Microsoft has shown that it realizes the importance of Open Source software to its user base.
With all the generously moderated posts about slashdot advertising, the herd has forgotten about this OPEN SOURCE PROJECT that does the same thing as Xamlon!
You are neglecting one simple fact:
Choices have consequences. If someone moves out of the city into a rural environment, that person will save money on housing and property costs, but will likely have to pay more for garbage disposal. That person may also have to build a septic disposal system on his/her own propery b/c there may not be any sewer lines going all the way out there. The same applies to water, the person may need to dig a well.
Maybe the net result is -500 on housing, +600 on all the other stuff, and -100 on taxes. So the cost of living is equal.
I don't think people deserve for everyone else to buy all of the wire needed to string phone service out into the boondocks.
Suppose that person is a farmer, and all farmers would benefit from phones but phones in rural areas (hypothetically) cost a lot. All farmers would be faced with the same cost, and all would buy the phones, and all would raise prices on their crops. Consumers of the crops would then pay the extra cost. If having a phone did not help the farmer do business more efficiently, some would forego a phone and be able to sell their crops cheaper, and would thus make more profits.
The same applies to highways and any other government project.
If you had to go over 200 miles of dirt roads to get to your rural house, the additional damage to your car's suspension might add up to more cost than the money you save by living there, and so fewer people would live there.
The government's job is to allow the people to create public works that benefit all. If 99% of people live in a 1 mile radius and the government is going to provide wifi, for example, at a cost of $1 per taxpayer, adding the additional 1% of people who live 10 miles away will add a huge amount of cost, making it necessary for everyone to pay $2. That is not fair to the majority of people, in fact it is the exploitation of the majority by a minority.
Free market capitalism helps to prevent this kind of exploitation by accurately pricing goods and services so that nobody gets exploited.
If one firm has "too much" influence over prices, that means that there are one or two possibilities:
1) the price is "too high": other firms will want a piece of the action, and all the government has to do is stand aside while the temporary high price is resolved.
2) the price is "too low": It is hard to identify where harm is caused by this situation, since consumers are getting something at an artificially low price. Nonetheless, fraud is sometimes involved, and I agree that government intervention is occasionally warranted.
All markets do work that way, it's just a matter of perspective. Markets don't naturally create a welfare state, for example.
It's kind of like gravity, you may not like it all the time, but it is a consistent phenomenon.
p.s. Markets are not a perfect way of allocating resources and capital, they are only the best way yet discovered by mankind.
I'm sure you would have won if Paul Allen hadn't cheated by putting his money toward Burt's project, huh...
Maybe if you'd pitched your idea to Paul he would have funded yours...
Get a clue.
Your point doesn't make sense. Microsoft hired the best and brightest from AT&T, IBM, etc., and used their talent to build the most successful business in the history of the world.
Computer scientists who decided to go to work at Microsoft decided to do so for any number of reasons, some of which may have been pay, working for a college dropout, loving BASIC, free juice and soda in the cafeteria, etc. Who are you to tell anyone why they should or shouldn't want to work somewhere?
Microsoft is working on some of the most exciting stuff in computer science today. Check out research.microsoft.com for an index of some of the projects.
The parent is 100% accuate. Bill Gates has employed more of the top computer scientists than anyone else in the history of the world, and such employment is one of the main reasons that college kids want to major in computer science.
This link is not slashdotted.