It stops companies from paying people to just create patents for the hell of it. (Employee A gets Salary X, while company gets Y royalties from patent).
Gives the "first use" to the patent creator. He can choose to sell it, sit on it, or try and start his own business based on it.
I understand what you are trying to show, but if streaming / rental is cheap or free, you are trying to compare apples with oranges.
Rental / Streaming -> say $5 a month.
Purchasing DRM material -> 5cents / song
Purchasing non-DRM material -> 50cents / song
Over the course of a year, you would spend $60 for unlimited streaming of whatever songs / media they offer.
$60 for the other two gets you 1200 DRM'd songs or 120 DRMFREE songs.
From a consumers view, streaming is the ideal choice... (stream all the songs you want, and purchase DRM free songs when you really really like it)
Combine the streaming / rental idea with a web based model, and your subscription is basically accessible from any type of web enabled device.
Slacker comes to mind as a great example of the streaming/rental model as it allows you to tag songs that you want it to store on the device so it can access them without a net connection.
Good post, however I feel like college classes are slowly teaching what you preach.
In my HR class, we easily spent two weeks dissecting Wegmans methods. I am not sure where they stand now, but from what I ended up picking up from those two weeks was exactly what you say; creating a rewarding environment for your employees is a long term investment that pays back in bucket-loads of cheddar
I am not saying that Wegmans is the shining star, but it is a great example to learn from.
If it can pump out 720P without stuttering (or Hulu HD as mentioned above) I will be sold.
The HDMI cable is just icing on the cake, and will allow me to easily show family, friends, etc anything I have on the laptop on their TV.
I would imagine with the 3G stuff you could get your Bluetooth headset to work with the laptop and thus use it with some VOIP app. No need for a phone anymore if all your contacts are on the machine.
As long as the rules don't specifically disqualify you for having rare GENETIC traits, what is the point?
If we start going down the road of trying to regulate how a athletes body works, there is really no point to sports anymore.
The reason person A is faster than person B is and will never be JUST because person A trained harder, there will always be genetic differences between A and B.
Wait? If I wanted to pick the game up again (sold the old account a long time ago), I would be required to buy the original game, plus the two expansions, PLUS this expansion when it came out?
You clearly have never worked IT in the business world.
I have "managers" who will easily keep 40+ Outlook e-mails open at once (aka WORD), along with 25+ excel sheets of varying sizes, oh and the 2-20GB PST files... gotta love those.
Don't forget the internal chat application(s), a few IE instances, all the stuff running in the system tray, etc.
I am NOT saying that there is no way to work around this or reduce the footprint, but it is very easy for some people to consume 4GB+ of RAM.
You can tell me I should do ABC to help them out, but most people forget that the barrier is NOT the IT department, but the people using the systems. Managers have this awesome ability to bitch and moan whenever they have to use a computer in a way they are not used to. To the point of wasting more of my time complaining.
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Most consumers live in the moment though.
Take slacker for example, 4bucks a month for:
unlimited skipping
create your own playlist
no ads
lyrics of select songs
that comes out to ~$1000 for a 20 YEAR subscription, assuming they last that long, and aren't free or gone in 5 years.
MJ's record sales AFTER he died is at least somewhat evident that the average consumer does live in the moment, is it not?
I see it as this:
It stops companies from paying people to just create patents for the hell of it.
(Employee A gets Salary X, while company gets Y royalties from patent).
Gives the "first use" to the patent creator. He can choose to sell it, sit on it, or try and start his own business based on it.
This didn't really answer your question.
I understand what you are trying to show, but if streaming / rental is cheap or free, you are trying to compare apples with oranges.
Rental / Streaming -> say $5 a month.
Purchasing DRM material -> 5cents / song
Purchasing non-DRM material -> 50cents / song
Over the course of a year, you would spend $60 for unlimited streaming of whatever songs / media they offer.
$60 for the other two gets you 1200 DRM'd songs or 120 DRMFREE songs.
From a consumers view, streaming is the ideal choice...
(stream all the songs you want, and purchase DRM free songs when you really really like it)
Combine the streaming / rental idea with a web based model, and your subscription is basically accessible from any type of web enabled device.
Slacker comes to mind as a great example of the streaming/rental model as it allows you to tag songs that you want it to store on the device so it can access them without a net connection.
Or, you just sign up for BizSpark and get it all for free!
Bingo, any private tracker worth their salt will require you to force encryption.
Along with turning off Peer exchange and DHT.
back to the brick road days!
http://www.covalentsolar.com/
Ignoring the solar cell aspect, are you forgetting about the whole data and power layer?
That alone would make it worth it IMO.
The Roads are owned by who? So who would own the data pipes?
We would call that getting two birds stoned at once in Canada.
I wasted too many mod points on the Literacy Revolution thread dammit!
Good post, however I feel like college classes are slowly teaching what you preach.
In my HR class, we easily spent two weeks dissecting Wegmans methods. I am not sure where they stand now, but from what I ended up picking up from those two weeks was exactly what you say; creating a rewarding environment for your employees is a long term investment that pays back in bucket-loads of cheddar
I am not saying that Wegmans is the shining star, but it is a great example to learn from.
Cable companies only have to provide the 1394 port for any unencrypted channels, IE your ABC, NBC etc.
Everything else they have the legal right to encrypt.
check out the mythTV forums for more information.
(however some companies "forget" to encrypt their channels, all depends on their contract with the content owners)
anyway to make that pendrive OS route all of its traffic through a SSH tunnel?
Or for that matter, any way to route a VM's network traffic through a SSH tunnel?
oh please, everybody knows that cowboy hats are the "in" thing these days...
If it can pump out 720P without stuttering (or Hulu HD as mentioned above) I will be sold.
The HDMI cable is just icing on the cake, and will allow me to easily show family, friends, etc anything I have on the laptop on their TV.
I would imagine with the 3G stuff you could get your Bluetooth headset to work with the laptop and thus use it with some VOIP app. No need for a phone anymore if all your contacts are on the machine.
Summer -> Autumn -> Winter -> Spring ?
Make sure to check out http://norml.org/ as well.
How can you say an abnormal whatever isn't fair?
As long as the rules don't specifically disqualify you for having rare GENETIC traits, what is the point?
If we start going down the road of trying to regulate how a athletes body works, there is really no point to sports anymore.
The reason person A is faster than person B is and will never be JUST because person A trained harder, there will always be genetic differences between A and B.
Wait? If I wanted to pick the game up again (sold the old account a long time ago), I would be required to buy the original game, plus the two expansions, PLUS this expansion when it came out?
What a joke...
They actually use hash most of the time instead of "weed" (the leafy kind)
I don't see any ads on the pages, and that is with vanilla IE 8.
12 pages isn't a big deal when it is used to separate 50+ images.
I bet it's spanned across all those pages simply to try and somehow get a better pagerank.
Citation?
I don't think there is a single legitimate source that has proved this is possible.
Clearly this is an application built and designed by and for the terrorists.
Let the fear mongering begin!
1) Help Nokia market this phone ... .... .....
2) Create botnet for this phone/linux....
3)
4)
5)
6) Profit?
yeah yeah, a crappy first try at a profit post, but really, a botnet on a _linux_ phone? that'll be the day
I'm thinking:
netbook + verizon USB wireless card + bluetooth headset.
Then all you need is Skype or whatever.
That would work right???!
are you all forgetting that MS will send you a new XBOX if yours breaks?
They came clean (after a while) with the ring of death, and said that they would replace XBOX's within warranty that had the issues.
As long as your XBOX is within warranty, you can just ship it to MS and get a new one without buying a new one.
Maybe that 3.8% is of the group that had it long enough to be out of warranty and thus had to buy a new one when it failed.
You clearly have never worked IT in the business world.
I have "managers" who will easily keep 40+ Outlook e-mails open at once (aka WORD), along with 25+ excel sheets of varying sizes, oh and the 2-20GB PST files... gotta love those.
Don't forget the internal chat application(s), a few IE instances, all the stuff running in the system tray, etc.
I am NOT saying that there is no way to work around this or reduce the footprint, but it is very easy for some people to consume 4GB+ of RAM.
You can tell me I should do ABC to help them out, but most people forget that the barrier is NOT the IT department, but the people using the systems. Managers have this awesome ability to bitch and moan whenever they have to use a computer in a way they are not used to. To the point of wasting more of my time complaining.