People won't pay for content because they're already paying for access
This problem is solved by... gasp... Premium content providers like... ungg... AOL. There. I said it.
So, individual consumers won't pay much for content, true. However, large companies like AOL are probably a better target for content sales efforts, because they can distribute the cost over a large base.
Of course this doesn't solve the problem for the many companies and individuals that are too small to negotiate deals with AOL, but at least it's a partial answer.
Pimply faced freshman dropping out for 50k entry level jobs. "B2C petstore play"s. The first day pop. Office casual. The company game room. NASDAQ 5000. Exasperated recruiters. Hailing the new economy. Planes trailing banners with ads for jobs. BMW or Mercedes offered as choice at hire-time. Renaming stadiums. Venture capitalists. Pre-IPO stock options. Pundits predicting Dow 30000. Bashing the old economy. Lavish parties. Companies like Webvan.
Right. Their nuclear reactor was an antiquated piece of crap, and their workers were took unecessary risks. Our reactors are shiny and new, and will stay that way forever. Our workers never make mistakes or run risky experiments. Right.
Seriously, it's well known that some of most annoying ads are also some of the most effective ads. It's strange but true. Think about it. How many companies get mentioned on the front page? How many people are going to read that. You gave them a lot of free advertising.
I can buy drives in 1s and 2s for less than $90. Sony can probably buy them in bulk for what, $50? $40?.
If I were Sony, I'd wedge the drive into the case. If it doesn't fit, design a slightly larger case and market it as the "Sony Playstation II Deluxe" and sell it at the same price as the PS-II + cost of drive + same profit margin on the drive as the main unit (actually I bet the console is already sold at cost anyway). The redesigned case shouldn't take that long to pay for itself, and if I were in the market for a console I might be willing to pay $50 more for a unit with a drive.
On the flip-side of this, once they get the drives out there, how long will it take somebody to reverse engineer the interface and undercut the price? If it's a std IDE or something like that, not long at all.
...about the article. First, it's on MSNBC and they are championing causes that run contrary to their own interest. MS is so large that its right hand doesn't know what its left hand is doing. Either that, or they have journalistic integrity.
Second, the first part of the article did a good job of explaining the concept of a balance between consumer and producer. It's this lack of understanding about the balance that makes me wary of the anti-IP movement.
The article had a poor finish, stooping to the same old boosterism for Napster that I see all too often. I wonder how such authors would feel about their works being circulated on such a filesharing system.
It's Java with a connection to a server someplace. Either that or an ASP or something. In other words, what's so special about.Net? Nothing. There was this thing in The Washington Post a few days ago about what Hailstorm offered. There were 14 services but most of them seemed rather trivial, like "myBookMarks" and "myLogin" or something like that. (sidenote, they were all called mySomething, which might not bother me so much except that I have never seen anything called yourSomething hisSomething or herSomething. So why not just drop the "my"?)
Anyway,.Net seems like a tempest in a teapot to me. None of the services described in the post article were compelling enough to make me want to upgrade Windows.
The only thing that will make me upgrade Windows is new hardware that requires an upgrade for support. That means SMP or a 64-bit processor. If they force me to get a passport to use my hardware properly, then I may bite the bullet and move to *NIX. By then, perhaps there will be an IDE comparable to MSVC and/or MacOS for x86. If there is, bye-bye Windows.
Please explain how writing GPL software represents a refusal to donate your time free of charge. It doesn't. That is just another GNUspeak nonsequitur.
Fox is resurrecting the Battlestar Galactica series.
Great. Are they going to recycle the same 5 clips of ships shooting at eachother every episode like they did in the original series?
I say, let BG rest in peace. Either that, or air the original episodes in the 7 to 8 slot so that kids can enjoy them like I did when I was a kid. Run something new in prime time.
Hey, if they want to bring back a Sci-Fi series from the 70s, let it be the short-lived one where "Adam Quark" was the captain of a garbage ship and everybody took showers together for "number 11". Bill Clinton could star as Adam Quark, and you don't need much imagination to concoct a few good episodes with that. Hmmm... they should air that one 10-11 after you've sent the kids to bed... so I'm still not sure what Fox should stick in prime time.
I have no problem with that argument, except that it hasn't been applied consistantly in the Free Software community. Now, I realize it's bad to generalize, and please understand that I'm not aiming this accusation at you, but... What if you substitute "MS Operating System" for "GPL" into your statement? Would you still sign onto that statement?
included in that is aid my community to the best of my ability
That's the sad part. In the long run, the GPL actually *harms* the community. It's the same old story. In the early days of a socialist revolution, it looks like a good deal because you are living off the fat of the wealthy. Then, later on, it falls apart. Social security is a good example. Do you really expect to get it when you are older? Public housing is a better example. Pretty nice to spend all that money so some minorities could live well for like, 10 or 15 years in the early 60s to mid 70s. It wasn't long before the crack dealers moved in, and now they are demolishing those hi-rise buildings after only 40 years.
The GPV and other socialist viruses are smart. Much like AIDS, they realize that if they killed the host right away they wouldn't propogate.
No, but I'm amazed at the talent the sales staff has for bothering me when I want to be left alone, and not being there when I need them. How do they do that?
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I can't believe I had to read this far down to see a mention of EiC. First, and this is important...
...one of the best things about EiC is that it is NOT merely "C-like". EiC tries to follow the ANSI/ISO standards as closely as possible and does a very good job of meeting C90. Last I heard, C99 support was in the works.
Whenever I hear "C-like" I always get suspicious, and it almost always turns out that the syntax is not true C. Based on what other people are saying, it looks like the article is mentioning yet another one of those, and if that's true I have no use for it.
As for the people who are wondering why people want scripting in standard C, here are my reasons:
1. Code re-use. With a babel of scripting languages, you are duplicating functionality at times. When you do your scripting in C, you can take ideas that started out as scripts and easily incorporate them into powerful programs at a later date. Likewise, you don't have to translate the large body of C source code floating about into some other language--you can just use it.
2. Rapid Application Development, which ties in closely with point 1.
Long live C! Although I haven't actually tried it, I plan to use a C to Java translater, make, and javac to build Java applets without actually writing Java.
The only new language I want to see is a metalanguage analogous to PBM so that I can maintain all my code in C, run CtoPBMlang and PBMlangtoFOO with make to build for whatever scripting environment is required.
It's funny to think that programmers are trying to write translaters for human languages. We don't even have reliable automatic translators for the far simpler languages that we have invented for programming!
Well, if you really want to kill this problem you need some kind of call that will tell you how many bits the address is. Even if that number is just 32-bits, the actual sector number could as large as 4 gigabits wide. How much is 2^(2^32)?. A bloody huge inconceivable mind exploding number (that's the technical term for it). Right now I can't think of any reason for having more sectors than there are atoms in the universe, but don't dismiss it. That's the same kind of thinking that got us the 640k barrier.
Yes indeed, perhaps a relay contact got fused. If you're handy with a soldering iron you might be able to fix it.
Be thankful the modem failed in an obvious way. It's much better than having it fail just enough to be a nuisance, and spending an hour on the phone with a technician.
You obviously haven't read the Pink Squishy Computer FAQ. Here is the relevant excerpt:
17.1 Q: Why isn't my PSC Pink?
17.1 A: The "pink" part only refers to the interior components. Cases come in a wide variety of colors. The easiest way to verify this is to observe the Speech Synthesis Unit, which contains an opening that leads to the interior.
17.2 Q: Is a PSC of one color compatible with PSCs of other colors?
17.2 A: Under normal circumstances, and with the proper software all units have a baseline social compatability. For a deeper understanding of problems that arise, see chapter 22 of the PSC Programmers Guide, Race Conditions And How To Prevent Them.
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Canada is evil and they are trying to take over the world. Canada must be stopped.
Oh wait, I thought Canada was part of Microsoft. Nevermind.
People won't pay for content because they're already paying for access
This problem is solved by... gasp... Premium content providers like... ungg... AOL. There. I said it.
So, individual consumers won't pay much for content, true. However, large companies like AOL are probably a better target for content sales efforts, because they can distribute the cost over a large base.
Of course this doesn't solve the problem for the many companies and individuals that are too small to negotiate deals with AOL, but at least it's a partial answer.
Oh... The Days.
Pimply faced freshman dropping out for 50k entry level jobs. "B2C petstore play"s. The first day pop. Office casual. The company game room. NASDAQ 5000. Exasperated recruiters. Hailing the new economy. Planes trailing banners with ads for jobs. BMW or Mercedes offered as choice at hire-time. Renaming stadiums. Venture capitalists. Pre-IPO stock options. Pundits predicting Dow 30000. Bashing the old economy. Lavish parties. Companies like Webvan.
Did I leave anything out?
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is their own business.
Right. Their nuclear reactor was an antiquated piece of crap, and their workers were took unecessary risks. Our reactors are shiny and new, and will stay that way forever. Our workers never make mistakes or run risky experiments. Right.
stupid people can't get the images of mushroom clouds and Chernobyl stuff out of their heads
There are plenty of unlucky Russians who can't get the Chernobyl stuff out of their heads. Literally.
Hey give him a break. At least he doesn't work for Krusty Klown Kollege.
Don't mention it right on the front page of /.
Seriously, it's well known that some of most annoying ads are also some of the most effective ads. It's strange but true. Think about it. How many companies get mentioned on the front page? How many people are going to read that. You gave them a lot of free advertising.
I can buy drives in 1s and 2s for less than $90. Sony can probably buy them in bulk for what, $50? $40?.
If I were Sony, I'd wedge the drive into the case. If it doesn't fit, design a slightly larger case and market it as the "Sony Playstation II Deluxe" and sell it at the same price as the PS-II + cost of drive + same profit margin on the drive as the main unit (actually I bet the console is already sold at cost anyway). The redesigned case shouldn't take that long to pay for itself, and if I were in the market for a console I might be willing to pay $50 more for a unit with a drive.
On the flip-side of this, once they get the drives out there, how long will it take somebody to reverse engineer the interface and undercut the price? If it's a std IDE or something like that, not long at all.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of SuperSoakers ...
You mean like this?
...about the article. First, it's on MSNBC and they are championing causes that run contrary to their own interest. MS is so large that its right hand doesn't know what its left hand is doing. Either that, or they have journalistic integrity.
Second, the first part of the article did a good job of explaining the concept of a balance between consumer and producer. It's this lack of understanding about the balance that makes me wary of the anti-IP movement.
The article had a poor finish, stooping to the same old boosterism for Napster that I see all too often. I wonder how such authors would feel about their works being circulated on such a filesharing system.
Happy Independance Day everybody.
...the day after all the currency changes to Euros.
It's Java with a connection to a server someplace. Either that or an ASP or something. In other words, what's so special about .Net? Nothing. There was this thing in The Washington Post a few days ago about what Hailstorm offered. There were 14 services but most of them seemed rather trivial, like "myBookMarks" and "myLogin" or something like that. (sidenote, they were all called mySomething, which might not bother me so much except that I have never seen anything called yourSomething hisSomething or herSomething. So why not just drop the "my"?)
Anyway, .Net seems like a tempest in a teapot to me. None of the services described in the post article were compelling enough to make me want to upgrade Windows.
The only thing that will make me upgrade Windows is new hardware that requires an upgrade for support. That means SMP or a 64-bit processor. If they force me to get a passport to use my hardware properly, then I may bite the bullet and move to *NIX. By then, perhaps there will be an IDE comparable to MSVC and/or MacOS for x86. If there is, bye-bye Windows.
Please explain how writing GPL software represents a refusal to donate your time free of charge. It doesn't. That is just another GNUspeak nonsequitur.
Fox is resurrecting the Battlestar Galactica series.
Great. Are they going to recycle the same 5 clips of ships shooting at eachother every episode like they did in the original series?
I say, let BG rest in peace. Either that, or air the original episodes in the 7 to 8 slot so that kids can enjoy them like I did when I was a kid. Run something new in prime time.
Hey, if they want to bring back a Sci-Fi series from the 70s, let it be the short-lived one where "Adam Quark" was the captain of a garbage ship and everybody took showers together for "number 11". Bill Clinton could star as Adam Quark, and you don't need much imagination to concoct a few good episodes with that. Hmmm... they should air that one 10-11 after you've sent the kids to bed... so I'm still not sure what Fox should stick in prime time.
I have no problem with that argument, except that it hasn't been applied consistantly in the Free Software community. Now, I realize it's bad to generalize, and please understand that I'm not aiming this accusation at you, but... What if you substitute "MS Operating System" for "GPL" into your statement? Would you still sign onto that statement?
included in that is aid my community to the best of my ability
That's the sad part. In the long run, the GPL actually *harms* the community. It's the same old story. In the early days of a socialist revolution, it looks like a good deal because you are living off the fat of the wealthy. Then, later on, it falls apart. Social security is a good example. Do you really expect to get it when you are older? Public housing is a better example. Pretty nice to spend all that money so some minorities could live well for like, 10 or 15 years in the early 60s to mid 70s. It wasn't long before the crack dealers moved in, and now they are demolishing those hi-rise buildings after only 40 years.
The GPV and other socialist viruses are smart. Much like AIDS, they realize that if they killed the host right away they wouldn't propogate.
No, but I'm amazed at the talent the sales staff has for bothering me when I want to be left alone, and not being there when I need them. How do they do that?
...until the winners write the history of it.
but why would humans make disobedient robots?
D$%* it! Why won't this print???
I can't believe I had to read this far down to see a mention of EiC. First, and this is important...
...one of the best things about EiC is that it is NOT merely "C-like". EiC tries to follow the ANSI/ISO standards as closely as possible and does a very good job of meeting C90. Last I heard, C99 support was in the works.
Whenever I hear "C-like" I always get suspicious, and it almost always turns out that the syntax is not true C. Based on what other people are saying, it looks like the article is mentioning yet another one of those, and if that's true I have no use for it.
As for the people who are wondering why people want scripting in standard C, here are my reasons:
1. Code re-use. With a babel of scripting languages, you are duplicating functionality at times. When you do your scripting in C, you can take ideas that started out as scripts and easily incorporate them into powerful programs at a later date. Likewise, you don't have to translate the large body of C source code floating about into some other language--you can just use it.
2. Rapid Application Development, which ties in closely with point 1.
Long live C! Although I haven't actually tried it, I plan to use a C to Java translater, make, and javac to build Java applets without actually writing Java.
The only new language I want to see is a metalanguage analogous to PBM so that I can maintain all my code in C, run CtoPBMlang and PBMlangtoFOO with make to build for whatever scripting environment is required.
It's funny to think that programmers are trying to write translaters for human languages. We don't even have reliable automatic translators for the far simpler languages that we have invented for programming!
Well, if you really want to kill this problem you need some kind of call that will tell you how many bits the address is. Even if that number is just 32-bits, the actual sector number could as large as 4 gigabits wide. How much is 2^(2^32)?. A bloody huge inconceivable mind exploding number (that's the technical term for it). Right now I can't think of any reason for having more sectors than there are atoms in the universe, but don't dismiss it. That's the same kind of thinking that got us the 640k barrier.
Yes indeed, perhaps a relay contact got fused. If you're handy with a soldering iron you might be able to fix it.
Be thankful the modem failed in an obvious way. It's much better than having it fail just enough to be a nuisance, and spending an hour on the phone with a technician.
Fingers? You had fingers?
You obviously haven't read the Pink Squishy Computer FAQ. Here is the relevant excerpt:
17.1 Q: Why isn't my PSC Pink?
17.1 A: The "pink" part only refers to the interior components. Cases come in a wide variety of colors. The easiest way to verify this is to observe the Speech Synthesis Unit, which contains an opening that leads to the interior.
17.2 Q: Is a PSC of one color compatible with PSCs of other colors?
17.2 A: Under normal circumstances, and with the proper software all units have a baseline social compatability. For a deeper understanding of problems that arise, see chapter 22 of the PSC Programmers Guide, Race Conditions And How To Prevent Them.