Right, but it sure would be nice if the default IIS install installed JUST IIS, with no add on components whatsoever... Leave it to the admin to decide to enable a given feature as they need it, rather than disabling features as they realize they' don't...
I sell software all the time on eBay... All the licenses i've read state that it's fine to transfer the license as long as you transfer everything about the software (packaging, manuals, original disks, backups, etc...).
Generally, i'll quote from the license saying where it's okay to tranfer, explain that i'll do exactly that, and i've never heard of a complaint... Sold Microsoft, Adobe, and many other big title software that i simply didn't need anymore...
I think the key is to be clear about exaclt what you're selling, so that companies can't be under the impression that you're possibly selling a counterfeit product.
The real question isn't whether it's feasible or not. The fact is that it may becoming inevitable. It won't be long before a $500 office printer can produce counterfeit currency that will fool anyone who doesn't have special equipment and at appear page cost that allows U$5 to be printed en mass.
Alas, not gonna happen. Yes, laser printers and inkjets are getting better and better. But there are issues that they can't overcome (with US currency, anyhow).
#1 - The stock is only available from one papermill, who sells it exclusively to the government. Making the paper itself pretty hard to come by.
#2 - Security bands woven through the paper
#3 - Color shifting inks - Haven't seen any of those for Epsons as of yet...
#4 - Watermarks...
Then there are things like microprint which are far beyond the resolution of any desktop printer. So no... Making money isn't nearly as simple as you'd think!
No, NT ran on Alpha's in 32-bit mode. FX32 was used to translate x86 code to Alpha code... That's all. Just because a two chips are 32 bit chips doesn't mean they're compatible. FX32 provided that bridge, but that's all.
Well, NeXTSTEP was considered a "unix", and since OS X is just a new incarnation of NeX\TSTEP with a new GUI as well, it'd stand to reason that OS X is Unix\ as well
not many other bands, not even metallica, i don't think, make as much as she did... But they tour a lot more often, and therefore don't charge fan's $100 a ticket for BAD seats.
everything innovative in the music world has been crushed by lawsuits
Yes, MP3.com did offer an innovative service (making the music CD's you own and leave at home available to you from anywhere.)
Napster wasn't... They took over the mp3 spotlight and basically spoiled it for the rest of the legitamate interests and uses.
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It doesn't sound like it's the forking that's an issue... It's the forking, and almost deluding people into not knowing about it. Yes, to us it might be obvious which site is which. But if you've just heard about a "great, free database called MySQL" and you ended up at MySQL.org, you'd be none the wiser for it.
If they wanna fork, by all means do it. But they should try to make it a little more obvious about what they're doing than simply camping out at the dotorg website.
There are plenty of alternatives to RIAA affiliated labels... Subpop, Alternative Tentacles, Touch'n'Go Records, Homestead. Invisible Reocrds, WaxTrax/TVT for starters... They all have nation wide distribution deals, etc, and some, more than others, have excellent reputations for how they treat artists...
Courtney Love's rant meant basically squat. She rehashed a lot of what's already been said in part and in full by many other artists of yesteryear, but in the end it seemed to be simply a self promotional piece, nothing more, nothing less. ("Hey, I hate my label, they treat me like shit, i like napster, so you should like me")
Yep, same thing with armor piercing bullets (you know, some deer have thicker hides than other, you gotta be sure).... switch blades (sometimes you just need to carry a compact knife, but you don't want to go through the effort of actually opening a jack knife).... etc...
It's like if a company introduced a consumer priced (less than $100) DVD recorder (no playing capabilities) and proclaimed :
"Buy this and you'll never have to purchase a DVD again!*
* Just rent and record them!
yes, it could be used legitimately for backing up your current DVD's, but it wouldn't last on the market that long with taglines like that...
Why not translate that same philosophy to literature, software, car insurance, groceries, etc, etc, etc. In no industry does most the money go to the people who actually do the grunt work, why are you so righteous about the music industry.
I know it's been stated in the 50 million napster discussions on slashdot prior to this one, but no one forced any musicians into signing with a record company. They knew what they were doing, accepted the tradeoffs (more potential fans & sales versus more money per sale), just leave it at that...
I read this article, but couldn't find any per-book printing costs.
How many pages is your book?
What dimensions?
How many halftones?
What paper stock?
What sort of binding?
What soft of stock for the cover?
How many colors on the cover, and interior?
The rest of your post makes it sound like you know most of what you're talking about, so it leaves me a little confused when you ask for a flat price, when so many things can vary so much. Paper flucuates incredibly, for instance, and no two books are exactly alike.
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No... hate to break it to you, but printing a 200 page book and cover, no matter what the print run, will set you back more than $.40 cents a book.
it stays exactly where it is right now... Print on demand is already here. Printers already exist. It takes more than an author to create a book, but if the author wants to go it alone, they can, so long as they've got some money in their pockets.
Buying this machine will not get you a list of every bookstore in the country. Nor will it supply you with your own block of ISBNs. Nor will it get you into Igram's price lists. Nor will it have your book publicized or reviewed. Nor does it get your book editted, proofread, etc...
All this thing does is print books. Offset printers already exist. On demand printers exist. It doens't fundamentally change the industry.
The reason why most people (businesses) won't make the switch from Windows to Linux is that Linux will take too long to retrain employees.
Retraining's impossible if the apps aren't there. Or are you talking about retraining the people who create databases in access using wizards to develope their own MySQL solutions? A huge amount of business logic has been written in things like Visual Basic. Until those can be migrated away, until apps come of age, forget about retraining.
It seems silly to bitch about this - work at getting schools to use Free and free software instead.
Until more business' make a switch from Wintel, its really just not that valuable a skill to be teaching kids linux in high school... They need to be using what they'll be using later on in life, which currently is Windows...
I know quite a few Sun employees who use AOL at home simply because through some deal via iPlanet, Sun offers them free AOL accounts... And besides that, after having to spend hour after hour after hour figuring this that and the other out, it wouldn't seem that suprising that some IT people would want to come home and just double click an icon and have it just work.
Ultimately, if companies want money for their content, they'd be better off asking for it from me than bombarding me with ads. I fully intend to stop visiting certain sites, however much it pains me, until they start providing me with a way to turn off intrusive, bandwidth sucking, unstable browser crashing (y'hear me Netscape?;-) advertising, whether it be via a subscription or some other means.
ermmm... slashdots ads are driven by javascript, you know... Is that one of said sites? Otherwise quit comlaining... It's only a small popup with a GIF in it, for whatever's sake! Even on a 28.8 connection that can't bog you down for more than 15 seconds. And it pays for the content so that you don't have to, because obviously somebody out there is actually interested in whatever's being sold...
Read the news much? Though the FTC cleared it, the EU barred the merger of GE and Honeywell, even though they're two american based company's. First time that's ever happened, probably not the last time, at the rate the corporates are merging...
Yahoo keeps getting pushed around by the French courts... etc, etc, etc. It's a global market, if you want to play, you've gotta play by all the rules, otherwise every company would just incorporate in Iraq or Cuba or something...
Well, the casino's track every transaction you make with in their casino's... How many beds are in the room you got, how much you've won or lost, how much you've had to drink, what exactly you had to drink, what you ate, when you ate, did you gamble more when you were hungry or full, sober or drunk, alone or with company, etc etc etc... So many variables that they want to track in order to figure out how they should treat you, from the moment you step foot inside to the moment you go outside again.
You'll notice they haven't even ported any of their apps to OS X, where they make 40-45% of their revenues (well, from the old style mac OS). Obviously they're not going to devote their resources to an OS which is completely unready to be deployed in the field when they haven't even rev'ed everything for their mainstream platform...
Barely any graphics work is done on Linux... No professional stuff. It may be a chicken & egg type symptom, but until linux is easier for an end user to set up and maintain, and contains niceties as robust color management, postscript font support, a standard GUI, etc... i wouldn't expect Adobe to want to waste their resources developing for Linux. Or any other graphics software company... Yes, they may sell a couple hundred copies, but that's nothing in the grand scheme...
Merge KDE & Gnome, add decent color management support, and maybe Adobe will take a little more interest in Linux... until then, there really just isn't a point! But they also shouldn't simply surrender the market because it's not mature enough to enter into...
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Right, but it sure would be nice if the default IIS install installed JUST IIS, with no add on components whatsoever... Leave it to the admin to decide to enable a given feature as they need it, rather than disabling features as they realize they' don't...
I sell software all the time on eBay... All the licenses i've read state that it's fine to transfer the license as long as you transfer everything about the software (packaging, manuals, original disks, backups, etc...).
Generally, i'll quote from the license saying where it's okay to tranfer, explain that i'll do exactly that, and i've never heard of a complaint... Sold Microsoft, Adobe, and many other big title software that i simply didn't need anymore...
I think the key is to be clear about exaclt what you're selling, so that companies can't be under the impression that you're possibly selling a counterfeit product.
The real question isn't whether it's feasible or not. The fact is that it may becoming inevitable. It won't be long before a $500 office printer can produce counterfeit currency that will fool anyone who doesn't have special equipment and at appear page cost that allows U$5 to be printed en mass.
Alas, not gonna happen. Yes, laser printers and inkjets are getting better and better. But there are issues that they can't overcome (with US currency, anyhow).
#1 - The stock is only available from one papermill, who sells it exclusively to the government. Making the paper itself pretty hard to come by.
#2 - Security bands woven through the paper
#3 - Color shifting inks - Haven't seen any of those for Epsons as of yet...
#4 - Watermarks...
Then there are things like microprint which are far beyond the resolution of any desktop printer. So no... Making money isn't nearly as simple as you'd think!
No, NT ran on Alpha's in 32-bit mode. FX32 was used to translate x86 code to Alpha code... That's all. Just because a two chips are 32 bit chips doesn't mean they're compatible. FX32 provided that bridge, but that's all.
Well, NeXTSTEP was considered a "unix", and since OS X is just a new incarnation of NeX\TSTEP with a new GUI as well, it'd stand to reason that OS X is Unix\ as well
what do you do for a living, dare i ask?
not many other bands, not even metallica, i don't think, make as much as she did... But they tour a lot more often, and therefore don't charge fan's $100 a ticket for BAD seats.
everything innovative in the music world has been crushed by lawsuits
Yes, MP3.com did offer an innovative service (making the music CD's you own and leave at home available to you from anywhere.)
Napster wasn't... They took over the mp3 spotlight and basically spoiled it for the rest of the legitamate interests and uses.
It doesn't sound like it's the forking that's an issue... It's the forking, and almost deluding people into not knowing about it. Yes, to us it might be obvious which site is which. But if you've just heard about a "great, free database called MySQL" and you ended up at MySQL.org, you'd be none the wiser for it.
If they wanna fork, by all means do it. But they should try to make it a little more obvious about what they're doing than simply camping out at the dotorg website.
yes, good point... In all of last year, in the US, how many crimes were perpetrated by kevlar wearing crooks?
There are plenty of alternatives to RIAA affiliated labels... Subpop, Alternative Tentacles, Touch'n'Go Records, Homestead. Invisible Reocrds, WaxTrax/TVT for starters... They all have nation wide distribution deals, etc, and some, more than others, have excellent reputations for how they treat artists...
Courtney Love's rant meant basically squat. She rehashed a lot of what's already been said in part and in full by many other artists of yesteryear, but in the end it seemed to be simply a self promotional piece, nothing more, nothing less. ("Hey, I hate my label, they treat me like shit, i like napster, so you should like me")
Yep, same thing with armor piercing bullets (you know, some deer have thicker hides than other, you gotta be sure).... switch blades (sometimes you just need to carry a compact knife, but you don't want to go through the effort of actually opening a jack knife).... etc...
It's like if a company introduced a consumer priced (less than $100) DVD recorder (no playing capabilities) and proclaimed :
"Buy this and you'll never have to purchase a DVD again!*
* Just rent and record them!
yes, it could be used legitimately for backing up your current DVD's, but it wouldn't last on the market that long with taglines like that...
Why not translate that same philosophy to literature, software, car insurance, groceries, etc, etc, etc. In no industry does most the money go to the people who actually do the grunt work, why are you so righteous about the music industry.
I know it's been stated in the 50 million napster discussions on slashdot prior to this one, but no one forced any musicians into signing with a record company. They knew what they were doing, accepted the tradeoffs (more potential fans & sales versus more money per sale), just leave it at that...
I read this article, but couldn't find any per-book printing costs.
How many pages is your book?
What dimensions?
How many halftones?
What paper stock?
What sort of binding?
What soft of stock for the cover?
How many colors on the cover, and interior?
The rest of your post makes it sound like you know most of what you're talking about, so it leaves me a little confused when you ask for a flat price, when so many things can vary so much. Paper flucuates incredibly, for instance, and no two books are exactly alike.
No... hate to break it to you, but printing a 200 page book and cover, no matter what the print run, will set you back more than $.40 cents a book.
it stays exactly where it is right now... Print on demand is already here. Printers already exist. It takes more than an author to create a book, but if the author wants to go it alone, they can, so long as they've got some money in their pockets.
Buying this machine will not get you a list of every bookstore in the country. Nor will it supply you with your own block of ISBNs. Nor will it get you into Igram's price lists. Nor will it have your book publicized or reviewed. Nor does it get your book editted, proofread, etc...
All this thing does is print books. Offset printers already exist. On demand printers exist. It doens't fundamentally change the industry.
The reason why most people (businesses) won't make the switch from Windows to Linux is that Linux will take too long to retrain employees.
Retraining's impossible if the apps aren't there. Or are you talking about retraining the people who create databases in access using wizards to develope their own MySQL solutions? A huge amount of business logic has been written in things like Visual Basic. Until those can be migrated away, until apps come of age, forget about retraining.
It seems silly to bitch about this - work at getting schools to use Free and free software instead.
Until more business' make a switch from Wintel, its really just not that valuable a skill to be teaching kids linux in high school... They need to be using what they'll be using later on in life, which currently is Windows...
I know quite a few Sun employees who use AOL at home simply because through some deal via iPlanet, Sun offers them free AOL accounts... And besides that, after having to spend hour after hour after hour figuring this that and the other out, it wouldn't seem that suprising that some IT people would want to come home and just double click an icon and have it just work.
Ultimately, if companies want money for their content, they'd be better off asking for it from me than bombarding me with ads. I fully intend to stop visiting certain sites, however much it pains me, until they start providing me with a way to turn off intrusive, bandwidth sucking, unstable browser crashing (y'hear me Netscape? ;-) advertising, whether it be via a subscription or some other means.
ermmm... slashdots ads are driven by javascript, you know... Is that one of said sites? Otherwise quit comlaining... It's only a small popup with a GIF in it, for whatever's sake! Even on a 28.8 connection that can't bog you down for more than 15 seconds. And it pays for the content so that you don't have to, because obviously somebody out there is actually interested in whatever's being sold...
Funny... that's the same thing i thought when i put my mouse over the link... i just changed mine to 180...
= ht tp://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm
http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=180&PAGE
(that's the value we're all talking about, by the way)
Read the news much? Though the FTC cleared it, the EU barred the merger of GE and Honeywell, even though they're two american based company's. First time that's ever happened, probably not the last time, at the rate the corporates are merging...
Yahoo keeps getting pushed around by the French courts... etc, etc, etc. It's a global market, if you want to play, you've gotta play by all the rules, otherwise every company would just incorporate in Iraq or Cuba or something...
Right, but 1.5 TB of images is not nearly as impressive as 1.5 TB of actual transactional data...
Well, the casino's track every transaction you make with in their casino's... How many beds are in the room you got, how much you've won or lost, how much you've had to drink, what exactly you had to drink, what you ate, when you ate, did you gamble more when you were hungry or full, sober or drunk, alone or with company, etc etc etc... So many variables that they want to track in order to figure out how they should treat you, from the moment you step foot inside to the moment you go outside again.
You'll notice they haven't even ported any of their apps to OS X, where they make 40-45% of their revenues (well, from the old style mac OS). Obviously they're not going to devote their resources to an OS which is completely unready to be deployed in the field when they haven't even rev'ed everything for their mainstream platform...
Barely any graphics work is done on Linux... No professional stuff. It may be a chicken & egg type symptom, but until linux is easier for an end user to set up and maintain, and contains niceties as robust color management, postscript font support, a standard GUI, etc... i wouldn't expect Adobe to want to waste their resources developing for Linux. Or any other graphics software company... Yes, they may sell a couple hundred copies, but that's nothing in the grand scheme...
Merge KDE & Gnome, add decent color management support, and maybe Adobe will take a little more interest in Linux... until then, there really just isn't a point! But they also shouldn't simply surrender the market because it's not mature enough to enter into...