I don't think it is as easy as you make it out. Theory vs. Practice. Take a look at from NPR who interviewed OK Go! http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/04/the_tuesday_podcast.html In it the lead of OK Go! says they are leaving their major labor record for thier own. Basicly the reasons you mentioned.On the other hand, he is not sure if they could have started out as you suggested. He thinks it takes 250k to lauch a low cost, no thrills alt-indie band like his. More if you want to go mainstream. He talks ab
I did it for 8 yrs for a large contractor. Very uninspiring when you realize that whether you sleep at your desk all year (for the token raise) or bust your butt (for an extra 0.5%), the company only cares the your seat is filled and the customer is mostly happy.
Actually not...I do stuff with intellectual property for a living, including replication management and licensing for music and film.DVDs in retail packaging (cased, 4/0 cover, 4 color disc face, shrinked, top spine label, etc.) can cost well below 50 cents when produced in very large quantities. The last batch I had made came in at about $1.05 a disc, and was a short run for a small publisher.As for old films: The publisher/studio is contractually bound to pay residuals/reuse on DVDs for the entire life of
Either haul one person to court and make them pay these huge fines, and indemnify the rest of the people from prosecution for that infringement. Or try each person in court for their single infringement
I think what you're describing (the charging for distribution) is called criminal copyright infringement. It has much steeper fines and could involve jail time.
Making a mix tape (or CD) and giving it to a friend gratis, is still copyright infringement, but I believe it's only a civil matter at that point. Tanenbaum was sued in civil court, (the RIAA's mentions 10 jurors in their response to the ruling). It's only when you start charging money when it becomes criminal (and the federal government attacks y
okay just what Point of Sale System handles as many transactions a day as Twitter?I doubt that even WalMart pushes every POS transaction to it's central database in realtime. Frankly it would be stupid to design the system that way. You could have a ore many stores all go down if their was a cable cut.Odds are that WalMart has servers in each store that push data to a central server every x amount of time.Also lets be honest Walmarts transactions are each far more valuable than twitters.I would think that 1
But don't imap and pop standards require a user to fetch the data? To poll the server for new mail? Just like polling for tweets which is what the suggestion was trying to avoid. How does email avoid that problem and be comparable to the issue at hand?
so EVERY bad guy, including would-be bad guys, already know this? do you know it? how about you post it as an anonymous response to this comment.... i mean, it's everywhere, right?
"I have re-purchased games after losing the disc..."There's your problem. You think that it's acceptable to have to repurchase games simply because of a small problem like scratching the disc. Used to be that game companies would actually mail you a new disc if you sent in the old one. Not anymore.
Oddly I read it just like that without the context. Perhaps it's because the idea of a "collective society where everyone would be interdependent" always kind of bothered me. Not in some "omg the socialists" kind of way, but in a helpless cattle kind of way where nobody can (or cares to) fix their own leaky faucets. Obviously I still make use of doctors, the electricity in my home, basic sanitation services, etc. You can only take it so far without serious compromises.;)But F* Ann Coulter anyways
Here is my rule for tattoos: Select the exact design and location you want to have. If you still want that exact design and location in ten years, then get it. Otherwise, or if you change the tattoo or its location even in some minute point within those ten years, the clock starts over.
Because the Bilski patent itself is irrelevant, the important thing is the precedent that may or may not be set by the decision (I can't tell, the link that would answer this is Slashdotted already). For those unaware of this, the submitter helpfully included a link at the end explaining what this case is about.
US public school civics class!?Didn't they stop teaching civics in the US public schools starting in the 1960's?The last time I checked a few years ago they were only teaching a dumbed down version of a US Constitution class in 8th grade. 8th graders are expected to memorise the answers to a US Constitution test in order to pass on to high school.
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They'll hold the press conference correctly.
Apples low end stuff is overpriced. Apples higher end stuff more fair and is sometimes cheaper than the competition.
I don't think it is as easy as you make it out. Theory vs. Practice. Take a look at from NPR who interviewed OK Go! http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/04/the_tuesday_podcast.html In it the lead of OK Go! says they are leaving their major labor record for thier own. Basicly the reasons you mentioned.On the other hand, he is not sure if they could have started out as you suggested. He thinks it takes 250k to lauch a low cost, no thrills alt-indie band like his. More if you want to go mainstream. He talks ab
I did it for 8 yrs for a large contractor. Very uninspiring when you realize that whether you sleep at your desk all year (for the token raise) or bust your butt (for an extra 0.5%), the company only cares the your seat is filled and the customer is mostly happy.
Actually not...I do stuff with intellectual property for a living, including replication management and licensing for music and film.DVDs in retail packaging (cased, 4/0 cover, 4 color disc face, shrinked, top spine label, etc.) can cost well below 50 cents when produced in very large quantities. The last batch I had made came in at about $1.05 a disc, and was a short run for a small publisher.As for old films: The publisher/studio is contractually bound to pay residuals/reuse on DVDs for the entire life of
I think what you're describing (the charging for distribution) is called criminal copyright infringement. It has much steeper fines and could involve jail time. Making a mix tape (or CD) and giving it to a friend gratis, is still copyright infringement, but I believe it's only a civil matter at that point. Tanenbaum was sued in civil court, (the RIAA's mentions 10 jurors in their response to the ruling). It's only when you start charging money when it becomes criminal (and the federal government attacks y
It was just a website hack into a low-security-data backend database. It's not like someone actually subverted any of their products.
Cisco's customers will not find bureaucratic bungling from them to be anything out of the ordinary, trust me, they are very used to it.
okay just what Point of Sale System handles as many transactions a day as Twitter?I doubt that even WalMart pushes every POS transaction to it's central database in realtime. Frankly it would be stupid to design the system that way. You could have a ore many stores all go down if their was a cable cut.Odds are that WalMart has servers in each store that push data to a central server every x amount of time.Also lets be honest Walmarts transactions are each far more valuable than twitters.I would think that 1
But don't imap and pop standards require a user to fetch the data? To poll the server for new mail? Just like polling for tweets which is what the suggestion was trying to avoid. How does email avoid that problem and be comparable to the issue at hand?
Insightful MY ASS.Prices rises, lower concentrations become economically viable, util we use all the ****ing Earth crust.
so EVERY bad guy, including would-be bad guys, already know this? do you know it? how about you post it as an anonymous response to this comment.... i mean, it's everywhere, right?
We just bailed out the banks, so it's too late to start throwing in votes of no confidence!
Who gives a ****?!
"I have re-purchased games after losing the disc..."There's your problem. You think that it's acceptable to have to repurchase games simply because of a small problem like scratching the disc. Used to be that game companies would actually mail you a new disc if you sent in the old one. Not anymore.
"This is one thing Obama should be lauded for ..."
The Treasury is auditing those companies? Link please?
They will soon find out that their price point will have to be below that of an ipad, or they'll sell zero of them
Here is my rule for tattoos: Select the exact design and location you want to have. If you still want that exact design and location in ten years, then get it. Otherwise, or if you change the tattoo or its location even in some minute point within those ten years, the clock starts over.
Because the Bilski patent itself is irrelevant, the important thing is the precedent that may or may not be set by the decision (I can't tell, the link that would answer this is Slashdotted already). For those unaware of this, the submitter helpfully included a link at the end explaining what this case is about.
rhose who ignore history are deemed to repeat it. or so they say ;)
US public school civics class!?Didn't they stop teaching civics in the US public schools starting in the 1960's?The last time I checked a few years ago they were only teaching a dumbed down version of a US Constitution class in 8th grade. 8th graders are expected to memorise the answers to a US Constitution test in order to pass on to high school.