1) Lower prices on existing media 2) Give consumers as much flexibility as they want in terms of copying and format-shifting 3) Develop cheap, easy, flexible ways of streaming music from a wide variety of non-RIAA sources 4) Develop cheap, easy, flexible ways to download music 5) Develop a wider range of music talent to expand the market to more than 14-21 year olds. 6) Stop treating the customer like a thief.
It my understanding that modern thermonuclear devices are designed in such a way to make them difficult to "explode".
I don't have the links around any more, but there is a fascinating discussion of nuclear triggers that shows how this is done and why.
Anyway, the point being, if you had a directed EMP type device and you saw an incoming ballistic missle, wouldn't it be easy to fry the electronics of the missle so the thermonuclear device wouldn't detonate? Sure, you'd have a lot of destructive problems with the missle itself, but I think it would preferrable to have a 10 ton hunk of aluminum dropped on a city than a 10 megaton H-bomb, right?
"I still don't get why people feared the Japanese in the 80s. They didn't work 18 hour days for $6k/year, even in the 80s."
That's not what we were told by the press in the 80's. The Japanese had a will to win. We were told they were better trained, they had a much better work ethic, the wages were cheaper, and they worked harder.
But come the end of the 90's and the beginning of the new century and the Japanese look the same as anybody else.
I just think we're building Indian IT to be some 50 foot behemouth that can't be stopped. I think reality is probably less sensational.
I'm not saying a loyal company never existed, but you're taking your dad's experience and extrapolating that over the entire US economy? Hello? When GM was shutting down all those car plants in the 70's and 80's, do you think it had to do with loyalty or cost? Same as with dozens and hundreds of other large firms. They constantly move jobs to lower costs. They always did, they always will.
As far as the $8,000 salary you think you're competing against, read the article again and think a bit.
The $8,000 salary only works as long as the the situation doesn't change. But as these companies get more market share, unless there is an unlimited supply of $8,000 programmers, then the price has to rise. Also, as companies fully comprehend the cost of this outsourced costs, things will begin to fall into place. In any IT project, programming costs are expensive, but not the majority of the cost. Its a portion of the cost and economics say the job of coding will probably change so that programmers will become more effective. The days of teams of 100's of programmers in some major corporation in upstate new york has passed. But the days of programmers who know the business and can make effective decisions to help the business are at hand. You can't do that from across the globe. This is just an example, but guys who only code have been an endangered species for almost 20 years. Guys who can code, understand systems, understand the business and can communicate well will always be in demand and probably for a decent wage.
Does the trend concern me? Yes, just as the "Cheap/smart Japanese" of the 80's concerned me, or as any number of economic forces concern me. But I don't think its the death of the US or the IT industry in the US. I think it bears watching, but not the kind of hysteria that's going on right now.
The myth of the loyal company seems to die hard. People believe it stopped sometime right around when they were born.
It has never existed; or I should say, if it did, ir probably existed through the 40's and part of the 50's, but that was more out of necessity than any great moral force.
When I was a kid (in the north), the battle cry was "they're moving all the good jobs to the south!". Who knows if it was true, but certainly, there was never any qualms about moving factories to the cheapest place.
Nothing new here at all, except a new generation grows up and finds out the world is a little bit harder than it looked when you were a kid.
I'm calling upon the Swiss under the Geneva Convention to investegate Chamberlain.
They've taken logic and common sense and tortured them beyond all recognition. They claim the rolling code (which is used in ever modern garage door opener) is a form of encryption that protects the computer program that enables the garage door to go up and down. At this point, logic is tied down on a wooden table and they're shoving bamboo shoots under logic's fingernails.
This is not a DMCA matter; its simply a matter of a far east competitor coming up with a cheaper universal remote control; they've lost the Lowe account and the Home Depot account is threatened.
If judge doesn't throw this out, then he/she is an utter moron.
"The basic idea is to converge all those different networks so that telcos that act also as ISPs don't need duplicate systems for user accounts and stuff."
The telcos don't really want your business all that bad. If they did, they would have technology that would allow xDSL to work outside a densely populated metropolitan area.
I live in one of the most populous areas of the country, in a relatively wealthy county, and since I live 5 miles from the central office, I can't get high speed internet from the phone company.
Not because it really isn't possible, but because they're so witless and slow-moving that they think its too much trouble.
Meanwhile, the *cable* company figurd it out.
What does it tell you when the cable company has better and smarter technology that you?
Naive people on slashdot will consistently tell you how software patents protect the little guy. Of course, they're unable to ever show you a case of this happening, but I guess the idea that it could potentially help the little guy in some sort of odd circumstance makes it all right.
Proven means more than "it technically works". Its more like "will consumers embrace this technology" and "will it make me more money"?
The answer to the 2nd is critical.
DiVX worked technically (actually, considering what the RIAA/MPAA wants, its pretty tame, really), but consumers stayed away in droves. So it was dropped.
What's changed in the last 3 years that makes anyone think consumers will embrace DRM any more today than yesterday?
The RIAA and MPAA can threaten to withhold their content, but if they wont' sell content, then they're a non-factor in the decision.
"One file slips out and bamo - no one is paying for it anymore."
Well, high-quality digital media with no copy protection has been sold for over 15 years and the people selling it made record profits last year.
Its called the "compact disk". Perhaps you've heard of it? Phillips invented it, and it turns out that not only can you make copies for under five cents, you can compress them digitally to make files to store on any device.
For first $20K tax is $2000 For amount over 20K, tax is $12 (.12 * $100) TOTAL TAX is $2012 Total Take-Home is 17,988
Your other total is correct.
You make a mistake that a lot of people make...that earning one dollar more pushes your entire salary into a new bracket. It doesn't. it only affects the amount above the bracket.
The guys who run Intuit aren't stupid; they know they'll achieve a certain amount of dissatisfaction from some customers and lose some business, but they're betting the increase in revenue from a curtailment in copyright violations outweighs the loss of customer satisfaction and any subsequent loss of sales.
Buy something else, then write them a letter letting them know they lost a sale.
Intuit is smart enough to know that they may have 90% of the market this year, but they've got to sell you again every year. Its the nature of the market for this kind of software.
If they can't count on that annuity, they'll get the message.
Its named after a ploy every child learns early. Here's how a kid gets a DOG from a parent who doesn't want to buy one:
Kid: Daddy, I want a pony Dad: No, that's ridiculous where would we keep it, how would we... Kid: WHAAAA! DADDY I WANT A PONY Dad: We can't because we can't afford to... Kid: DADDDY! I WANT A PONY AND I'M GOING TO HOLD MY BREATH UNTIL I... Dad; OK OK. How about a Dog instead? Kid: Well, I guess that'll have to do.
Politicians use it all the time to get new taxes. They'll typically threaten to raise taxes on 20 things. They finally "compromise" on 10. You lose again.
Hollywood has finally awaked to their inner child.
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Wouldn't these claims predate the era when software patents were allowed?
Can software patents be applied retroactively?
This is SCO's way of saying:
"We're going down and taking you all with us"
Thanks, SCO!
http://www.conspire.com/haarp.html
According to this article, its been shut down almost 5 years.
"but what should music companies aim to do?"
1) Lower prices on existing media
2) Give consumers as much flexibility as they want in terms of copying and format-shifting
3) Develop cheap, easy, flexible ways of streaming music from a wide variety of non-RIAA sources
4) Develop cheap, easy, flexible ways to download music
5) Develop a wider range of music talent to expand the market to more than 14-21 year olds.
6) Stop treating the customer like a thief.
I think that sums it up pretty nicely.
It my understanding that modern thermonuclear devices are designed in such a way to make them difficult to "explode".
I don't have the links around any more, but there is a fascinating discussion of nuclear triggers that shows how this is done and why.
Anyway, the point being, if you had a directed EMP type device and you saw an incoming ballistic missle, wouldn't it be easy to fry the electronics of the missle so the thermonuclear device wouldn't detonate? Sure, you'd have a lot of destructive problems with the missle itself, but I think it would preferrable to have a 10 ton hunk of aluminum dropped on a city than a 10 megaton H-bomb, right?
I thought Neo Geo only pulled out of the US market. Did they eventually fold?
After garage door opener makers are suing clone garage door openers using the DMCA, its pretty ironic that you'd post that message.
"I still don't get why people feared the Japanese in the 80s. They didn't work 18 hour days for $6k/year, even in the 80s."
That's not what we were told by the press in the 80's. The Japanese had a will to win. We were told they were better trained, they had a much better work ethic, the wages were cheaper, and they worked harder.
But come the end of the 90's and the beginning of the new century and the Japanese look the same as anybody else.
I just think we're building Indian IT to be some 50 foot behemouth that can't be stopped. I think reality is probably less sensational.
I'm not saying a loyal company never existed, but you're taking your dad's experience and extrapolating that over the entire US economy? Hello? When GM was shutting down all those car plants in the 70's and 80's, do you think it had to do with loyalty or cost? Same as with dozens and hundreds of other large firms. They constantly move jobs to lower costs. They always did, they always will.
As far as the $8,000 salary you think you're competing against, read the article again and think a bit.
The $8,000 salary only works as long as the the situation doesn't change. But as these companies get more market share, unless there is an unlimited supply of $8,000 programmers, then the price has to rise. Also, as companies fully comprehend the cost of this outsourced costs, things will begin to fall into place. In any IT project, programming costs are expensive, but not the majority of the cost. Its a portion of the cost and economics say the job of coding will probably change so that programmers will become more effective. The days of teams of 100's of programmers in some major corporation in upstate new york has passed. But the days of programmers who know the business and can make effective decisions to help the business are at hand. You can't do that from across the globe. This is just an example, but guys who only code have been an endangered species for almost 20 years. Guys who can code, understand systems, understand the business and can communicate well will always be in demand and probably for a decent wage.
Does the trend concern me? Yes, just as the "Cheap/smart Japanese" of the 80's concerned me, or as any number of economic forces concern me. But I don't think its the death of the US or the IT industry in the US. I think it bears watching, but not the kind of hysteria that's going on right now.
"employers were loyal to employees"
In the 80's? Are you for real?
The myth of the loyal company seems to die hard. People believe it stopped sometime right around when they were born.
It has never existed; or I should say, if it did, ir probably existed through the 40's and part of the 50's, but that was more out of necessity than any great moral force.
When I was a kid (in the north), the battle cry was "they're moving all the good jobs to the south!". Who knows if it was true, but certainly, there was never any qualms about moving factories to the cheapest place.
Nothing new here at all, except a new generation grows up and finds out the world is a little bit harder than it looked when you were a kid.
Did you read the pleading by Chamberlain? Its very informative.
I'm calling upon the Swiss under the Geneva Convention to investegate Chamberlain.
They've taken logic and common sense and tortured them beyond all recognition. They claim the rolling code (which is used in ever modern garage door opener) is a form of encryption that protects the computer program that enables the garage door to go up and down. At this point, logic is tied down on a wooden table and they're shoving bamboo shoots under logic's fingernails.
This is not a DMCA matter; its simply a matter of a far east competitor coming up with a cheaper universal remote control; they've lost the Lowe account and the Home Depot account is threatened.
If judge doesn't throw this out, then he/she is an utter moron.
"The basic idea is to converge all those different networks so that telcos that act also as ISPs don't need duplicate systems for user accounts and stuff."
The telcos don't really want your business all that bad. If they did, they would have technology that would allow xDSL to work outside a densely populated metropolitan area.
I live in one of the most populous areas of the country, in a relatively wealthy county, and since I live 5 miles from the central office, I can't get high speed internet from the phone company.
Not because it really isn't possible, but because they're so witless and slow-moving that they think its too much trouble.
Meanwhile, the *cable* company figurd it out.
What does it tell you when the cable company has better and smarter technology that you?
"Little guys need protection, and the patent office gives them that."
Can you give an example of where a software patent has "help the little guy"?
To me, that's right up there with "protecting the children". Its more of an excuse than a reason.
But seriously, where is that example?
Naive people on slashdot will consistently tell you how software patents protect the little guy. Of course, they're unable to ever show you a case of this happening, but I guess the idea that it could potentially help the little guy in some sort of odd circumstance makes it all right.
Software patents have always been a bad idea.
Proven means more than "it technically works". Its more like "will consumers embrace this technology" and "will it make me more money"?
The answer to the 2nd is critical.
DiVX worked technically (actually, considering what the RIAA/MPAA wants, its pretty tame, really), but consumers stayed away in droves. So it was dropped.
What's changed in the last 3 years that makes anyone think consumers will embrace DRM any more today than yesterday?
The RIAA and MPAA can threaten to withhold their content, but if they wont' sell content, then they're a non-factor in the decision.
"One file slips out and bamo - no one is paying for it anymore."
Well, high-quality digital media with no copy protection has been sold for over 15 years and the people selling it made record profits last year.
Its called the "compact disk". Perhaps you've heard of it? Phillips invented it, and it turns out that not only can you make copies for under five cents, you can compress them digitally to make files to store on any device.
It may catch on.
You'll hit at startup and turn it off.
That's not how it works.
Lets take you example.
$20,100.
For first $20K tax is $2000
For amount over 20K, tax is $12 (.12 * $100)
TOTAL TAX is $2012
Total Take-Home is 17,988
Your other total is correct.
You make a mistake that a lot of people make...that earning one dollar more pushes your entire salary into a new bracket. It doesn't. it only affects the amount above the bracket.
Don't believe me? Ask a CPA!
Don't buy the software.
The guys who run Intuit aren't stupid; they know they'll achieve a certain amount of dissatisfaction from some customers and lose some business, but they're betting the increase in revenue from a curtailment in copyright violations outweighs the loss of customer satisfaction and any subsequent loss of sales.
Buy something else, then write them a letter letting them know they lost a sale.
Intuit is smart enough to know that they may have 90% of the market this year, but they've got to sell you again every year. Its the nature of the market for this kind of software.
If they can't count on that annuity, they'll get the message.
Wrapping yourself in the flag or in the name of "protecting children" is the lowest form of justification I can think of.
Its more likely this is about DMCA violations than it is terrorism.
Its called "Daddy I want a Pony"
Its named after a ploy every child learns early. Here's how a kid gets a DOG from a parent who doesn't want to buy one:
Kid: Daddy, I want a pony
Dad: No, that's ridiculous where would we keep it, how would we...
Kid: WHAAAA! DADDY I WANT A PONY
Dad: We can't because we can't afford to...
Kid: DADDDY! I WANT A PONY AND I'M GOING TO HOLD MY BREATH UNTIL I...
Dad; OK OK. How about a Dog instead?
Kid: Well, I guess that'll have to do.
Politicians use it all the time to get new taxes. They'll typically threaten to raise taxes on 20 things. They finally "compromise" on 10. You lose again.
Hollywood has finally awaked to their inner child.
If the copyrights expire on Elvis, then what impetus is there for Elvis to create more works if he know he can only profit from them for 50 years?
Its the beginning of the end!
The NFL is a private enterprise, as is Direct TV.
If the NFL wants to deal with something that locks out the majority of fans, then that's their bad business decision.
Why must the government get involved in this? You don't explain your reasoning on this key issue.
Heh.
So what's better at admissions time... a degree from Purdue or from Notre Dame or IU?
That would be interesting discussion.