We are seeing persistant worlds being developed, we are seing interactive grpahical games like Baldurs gate, Metal gear solid, Tenchu, Final Fantasy series (sorry, been PSing a lot...) all of which are selling well.
Yeah, I used to love text adventures like HHGTTG and Collosal cave and I still partake in a bit of Moria action, but I like pretty pictures as much as the next guy... Yeah, some convoluted problems are a pain in the arse, but those will be weeded out.
And of course increases in CD sales has nothing to do with the fact that the US has just about it's most bouyant economy for a very long time and items like cd's are always one of the biggest items to gain from this increased consumer confidence and excess amounds of spare cash.
Although sometimes even I get swayed by the spinola.
1 - probably because of the major problems women have getting on in engineering and computing fields and the ones that have broken the glass ceilings are still just getting into the senior positions...
2 - Professor of Law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the world, as was stated in the brief biog. Very important person to have on a bord which is involved in legislature wouldn't ya think;-)
A man who claiming to have invented the best distribution system for porn married to a censorious bitch. Ohh the irony.
Classic libertarianism is anarchy as defined by individuals like Nozick (all taxes are theft) and Potempkin. It is the absense of state in it's entirity. Any model of libertarianism which involves state is in fact not libertarian, it may have leanings to libertarianism, but true libertarianism is people being responsible for their actions and no state being needed to make up for social and market failures.
He is just going to distribute with artists permission. This has nothing to do with the case the RIAA are bringing as their objection is to do with IP rights and all Ian's company is doing is distributing people who sign him the distribution rights to their music.
THis has been going on for years, this is nothing new. The chances of making money are minimal as the advertising costs are huge and the margins are tiny. Artists would be better off creating their own sites for fans to download.......
I think thee is a definate worry about creating perfect humans from genetics.
There is a definate fear in teh disabled community especially that by using genetics you are in fact devaluing people by saying what is perfect (which is subjective anyway)
TO offer counselling to pepeople who might possibly have a chance of an inherited disease is ludicrous. We all have our faults. My father was born with Spina Biffida but lives a normal fulfilled life. We all carry imperfections which are what make us.
Genetic research is a good thing, but we have to be careful about the morality and ethics of applying that knowledge. Otherwise we'll all live in the brave new world of conformity.....
William of Moerbeke (1215-1286) was archbishop of Corinth and a classical scholar whose Latin translations of Greek works played an important role in the transmission of Greek knowledge to medieval Europe. He had two Greek manuscripts of the works of Archimedes and he made his Latin translations from these manuscripts. The first of the two Greek manuscripts has not been seen since 1311 when presumably it was destroyed. The second manuscript survived longer and was certainly around until the 16th century after which it too vanished. In the years between the time When William of Moerbeke made his Latin translation and its disappearance this second manuscript was copied several times and some of these copies survive. Up until 1899 Heiberg had found no sources of Archimedes' works which were not based on the Latin translations by William of Moerbeke or on the copies of the second Greek manuscript which he used in his translation.
My point was that other sources exist, I know the arabic scholars created a vast wealth of knowledge, but translations from the greek were made at much later dates than that which we base our work on.
Working for the founder of the electronic information provider movement who own the largest store of copyright material in the world... (do the math and then get it wrong...) We are currently looking to move in that direction. Supplying information to third parties is dying as a field. I can see us moving in the direction of supplying customised information to people depending on their situation.
We sell information to these people who put it in papers, reports, etc. This is a dying industry (worth 5bn at last count) whereas the overall information industry is valued in the 100's on bn dollars. It is the nature of the content that bridges the gap. I don't want to trawl through the 30 sites I do every day for information, I want the information tailored for me in a dynamic way drawing from many sources and slants and I suspect that professionals.
I don't think that open media is the answer. Sure forums like slashdot are interesting, but they are unreliable and very heavily slanted to the readers and founders ideals. If I want infomation I read slashdot, then go to someone who knows to inform me, rather than being informed by/.
At the moment Dublin is a hot bed for technical stuff.
+ the atmosphere is without compare.
ALso london is pretty good, as is Cambridge. Of course, all english speaking but London is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world and there's something for everyone here.
Almost all big companies resort to coporate espionage. It's pretty much recognised that you have to now what they are doing to get one up on them. I'm sure there are leaks from our office (I know there are from our ex-company across the hall)
There was a recent documentary about it over here in the UK and it is scary how common it is.
I think this author appears to miss a point. Computer interation and transaction fulfills a role. They try to postulate why other forms of interaction exist but miss the mark. Why do newspapers continue, why do classrooms remain. I think one of the reasons is because humans work with a number of sensory imputs and computer based information only appeals to a couple of them. I like newspapers because I can hold them (not to mention read them on the train...) I like leacture theatres because I can hear and see other people.
I'm suprised it's taken this long for a big con. We have a very interesting and liquid market in technology and the net. But you also have a combination of tech types who don't fully understand the market and market analysts who don't understand the technology. This is ripe for someone to come in and play one off against the other to get as much gain as possible.
It can only be a good thing if it expands the deomcratic process. The only real problem I can see is validation. It's hard enough to validate written signitures/addresses but with e-mail it is going to so much harder and people would find it a lot easier to create accounts and abuse the process. Maybe a time for the other digital signitures to come into play?
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Most recording contracts do actually signthe artists work over to the label (hence the high profile cases of Prince and George Michael where they didn't like their artistic integrity being compromised although they really enjoyed the fruits fo the labels money...)
If artists want control they should do what people like Ani DiFranco did, create their own lable and pay for their own recording and sink their own money into it, although unfortunately most artists are more into money until they become rich enough to complain about their freedom being curtailed.....
Actually production costs probably equate to most minor releases because she doesn't pay for studio time, is her own sound engineer and producer and works in the field of sound design and has access to copying facilities. What people pay for is the time and effort she has put into creating the music and the many long nights playing live and practicing, not to mention the weeks spent in a studio recording and engineering whilst holding down a full time job.
I would disagree, bootlegging will continue because there will always be people who want to pay less or nothing for a product which others think is reasonable.
If MS charged 10pounds for win 98 cd this would probably be at a huge loss to the company.
I recently went out and bought a number of games I wanted for about 30-35pounds each. I would have loved to have paid less, but I was willing to pay the price. Why, because I wanted the products and realise that they are being produced in a commercial environment which has huge prosuction and distribution costs.
Also people complain about cd costs. I recently went to a friends gig and picked up two cds of her work which were 5 pounds for 3 tracks??? Why, because she had to record and produce them herself, although she didn't need to pay for recording time due to her job she still had to put a lot of time and effort into them.
I like the concept of licencing, it works in a coporate environment. In many ways it isn't pretinant to the home market, but this is small compared to companies. Liscencing means that we can track software and it's usage and we can upgrade regulary without having to go through the trials of selling old software to try to recoup costs...
50 megabytes over 4 hours = 3.5 megabytes a second. So what does it do after the 14 odd seconds for the transfer is over??? Or is it 3.5 MegaBytes every 16.6 seconds???
There is no proof, nothing can be proven, only inferred, therefore strong inferrence often has to be put in places where proof was needed.
Once the inference is made it is up to people like you to offer conjecture to refute the statement (to condense Popper). Something which AFAIR you haven't done.
What the study shows is that in areas where Napster is a major source of music procurement sales of albums have gone down.
Sure there are other factors such as income, etc... But I suspect that income hasn't dropped by the same percentage.
What the findings infer is that overall album sales in the economy are increasing. However there is a sector in which they are declining. This is against the trend of the market (you still following?)
Lookingat factors affecting this you can see that college students are probably the biggest users of Napster because of free access to lots of bandwith usually 24/7...
At what point don't you understand that?
Yes, there could be other factors in the equation for college students buying of albums. However in terms of music the prominant one is Napster.
I suspect if a similar study was done in the UK where Napster is still not a najor utility the findings would show a market led rise or fall amongst the students.
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Yeah, I used to love text adventures like HHGTTG and Collosal cave and I still partake in a bit of Moria action, but I like pretty pictures as much as the next guy... Yeah, some convoluted problems are a pain in the arse, but those will be weeded out.
Although sometimes even I get swayed by the spinola.
Maybe they could give them to the us to have some sitting ducks to practice with their new anti-missile failures!
2 - Professor of Law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the world, as was stated in the brief biog. Very important person to have on a bord which is involved in legislature wouldn't ya think ;-)
A man who claiming to have invented the best distribution system for porn married to a censorious bitch. Ohh the irony.
Classic libertarianism is anarchy as defined by individuals like Nozick (all taxes are theft) and Potempkin. It is the absense of state in it's entirity. Any model of libertarianism which involves state is in fact not libertarian, it may have leanings to libertarianism, but true libertarianism is people being responsible for their actions and no state being needed to make up for social and market failures.
He is just going to distribute with artists permission. This has nothing to do with the case the RIAA are bringing as their objection is to do with IP rights and all Ian's company is doing is distributing people who sign him the distribution rights to their music.
THis has been going on for years, this is nothing new. The chances of making money are minimal as the advertising costs are huge and the margins are tiny. Artists would be better off creating their own sites for fans to download.......
There is a definate fear in teh disabled community especially that by using genetics you are in fact devaluing people by saying what is perfect (which is subjective anyway)
TO offer counselling to pepeople who might possibly have a chance of an inherited disease is ludicrous. We all have our faults. My father was born with Spina Biffida but lives a normal fulfilled life. We all carry imperfections which are what make us.
Genetic research is a good thing, but we have to be careful about the morality and ethics of applying that knowledge. Otherwise we'll all live in the brave new world of conformity.....
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My point was that other sources exist, I know the arabic scholars created a vast wealth of knowledge, but translations from the greek were made at much later dates than that which we base our work on.
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Call me stupid, but why would a greek philosopher be writing in arabic?
Or would that be too sensible.
We've got backing from one of the biggest publishers to move our content in that direction and it looks like a phenominal market for business.
We sell information to these people who put it in papers, reports, etc. This is a dying industry (worth 5bn at last count) whereas the overall information industry is valued in the 100's on bn dollars. It is the nature of the content that bridges the gap. I don't want to trawl through the 30 sites I do every day for information, I want the information tailored for me in a dynamic way drawing from many sources and slants and I suspect that professionals.
I don't think that open media is the answer. Sure forums like slashdot are interesting, but they are unreliable and very heavily slanted to the readers and founders ideals. If I want infomation I read slashdot, then go to someone who knows to inform me, rather than being informed by /.
Anyway 2p more down the drain.
Maybe we should send the URl to those guys going for the prize for the amature manned space launch prize ;-)
+ the atmosphere is without compare.
ALso london is pretty good, as is Cambridge. Of course, all english speaking but London is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world and there's something for everyone here.
There was a recent documentary about it over here in the UK and it is scary how common it is.
I dunno, maybe it's jsut me...
I'm suprised it's taken this long for a big con. We have a very interesting and liquid market in technology and the net. But you also have a combination of tech types who don't fully understand the market and market analysts who don't understand the technology. This is ripe for someone to come in and play one off against the other to get as much gain as possible.
It can only be a good thing if it expands the deomcratic process. The only real problem I can see is validation. It's hard enough to validate written signitures/addresses but with e-mail it is going to so much harder and people would find it a lot easier to create accounts and abuse the process. Maybe a time for the other digital signitures to come into play?
If artists want control they should do what people like Ani DiFranco did, create their own lable and pay for their own recording and sink their own money into it, although unfortunately most artists are more into money until they become rich enough to complain about their freedom being curtailed.....
Actually production costs probably equate to most minor releases because she doesn't pay for studio time, is her own sound engineer and producer and works in the field of sound design and has access to copying facilities. What people pay for is the time and effort she has put into creating the music and the many long nights playing live and practicing, not to mention the weeks spent in a studio recording and engineering whilst holding down a full time job.
If MS charged 10pounds for win 98 cd this would probably be at a huge loss to the company.
I recently went out and bought a number of games I wanted for about 30-35pounds each. I would have loved to have paid less, but I was willing to pay the price. Why, because I wanted the products and realise that they are being produced in a commercial environment which has huge prosuction and distribution costs.
Also people complain about cd costs. I recently went to a friends gig and picked up two cds of her work which were 5 pounds for 3 tracks??? Why, because she had to record and produce them herself, although she didn't need to pay for recording time due to her job she still had to put a lot of time and effort into them.
I like the concept of licencing, it works in a coporate environment. In many ways it isn't pretinant to the home market, but this is small compared to companies. Liscencing means that we can track software and it's usage and we can upgrade regulary without having to go through the trials of selling old software to try to recoup costs...
Anyway, nuff said...
50 megabytes over 4 hours = 3.5 megabytes a second. So what does it do after the 14 odd seconds for the transfer is over??? Or is it 3.5 MegaBytes every 16.6 seconds???
All natural science does is believe the current paradigmatic truths to be fact until enough of them realise they are wrong.
I go back to the fact that there is NO proof.
Once the inference is made it is up to people like you to offer conjecture to refute the statement (to condense Popper). Something which AFAIR you haven't done.
What the study shows is that in areas where Napster is a major source of music procurement sales of albums have gone down.
Sure there are other factors such as income, etc... But I suspect that income hasn't dropped by the same percentage.
What the findings infer is that overall album sales in the economy are increasing. However there is a sector in which they are declining. This is against the trend of the market (you still following?)
Lookingat factors affecting this you can see that college students are probably the biggest users of Napster because of free access to lots of bandwith usually 24/7...
At what point don't you understand that?
Yes, there could be other factors in the equation for college students buying of albums. However in terms of music the prominant one is Napster.
I suspect if a similar study was done in the UK where Napster is still not a najor utility the findings would show a market led rise or fall amongst the students.