Well, here's the thing. Burning CDs is pretty much linear (marginal cost and profit is thus a constant, as dC/dx = c and dP/dx = c for C(x) and P(x) being linear), with (assuming you have the equipment) a y intercept (cost to make 0 CDs) of $0. Pressing CDs is generally not linear if you observe quantity discounts from pressing houses, but assuming no quantity discounts it too is as linear as a burned disc. The difference, the key difference, is that it has a much higher startup cost (y intercept) as a glass master must must be made and other things must be done unique to the CD being made. Once we factor in all the variables: quantity discounts, and probably most important, time, the curves change. Pressed CDs can be popped out much quicker, but this is only advantage if you have to make a lot.
Contact was surprisingly decent. The terminals in their lab ran X of some sort and one guy had a badge (political style) stuck to his monitor that said, "I'm a member of the UNIX party," and it was all red, white and blue. Classy.
My high school was ahead of pretty much every school in the area in starting up a CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) program. In fact, we were the first high school in the world to use the new Cisco Curriculum or something last year. However, the program is only as good as the students. You can't take your typical pretty girl who only uses her computer for AIM, Word, and browsing to routing guru over the course of the program (and our program was four literal semesters, two years). It just doesn't happen. The students should have a good grasp of the concepts they're going over and most of all, want to learn. I'm probably one of the few who actually got something out of the program.
"JV: What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law."
This is really laughable, and an idiot like this should not even be ALLOWED to lobby. Sorry Jack, but you don't know Jack. Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107 of the United States Code provides a four value metric for determining whether or not something falls under the fair use doctrine. A very good fair use explanation can be found here.
Refer back to my post. I said "never being broadcasted on the radio." I don't define success in terms of record sales. Real success can be defined in sustained ability to draw crowds at concerts. Phish is never on the radio. The Grateful Dead were rarely on the radio and now are on it somewhat frequently because they're "classic." However, in both bands cases', their albums did nothing to create their fanbase. I own very few Phish or Grateful Dead commercial releases (and the ones I do own are live). Yet I own hundreds of free live recordings. I support the bands by going to shows. Why yes, the Grateful Dead are no longer around, but I've seen Phil Lesh in concert many times. THAT is the way music should be done. Music is about the community and the live vibe. Studio recordings are a tiny piece of the pie. Anybody can be a gem in the studio (exhibit A: anything that is considered pop right now) If a band can't sustain a live show and do it consistently for many years, then they don't deserve my money. Period.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all. But just imagine if more bands started allowing taping, then the RIAA might begin to worry. However, most of the bands the RIAA pushes wouldn't be worthy of taping. They pump out the same thing, every night. The RIAA's biggest threat is people getting a clue and realizing how bad pop is. Then they have a real problem on their hands.
You make a very convincing argument. However, evidence proves you wrong. I mention in another post how many bands develop a huge fanbase while releasing few, if any, albums, and never being broadcasted on the radio. Why? They allow free recording and distribution of their live shows.
While pop today is liked by people because it's shoved down their throats, music like I mentioned only sticks around if people like it on its own merits, only then does it get "passed on." You can't put a price on viral marketing like that.
Bands like The Grateful Dead and Phish have realized the ridiculous marketing power giving away free music has. Both bands were/are extremely successful (in terms of the amount of concert tickets sold) and this can be directly linked to the free exchange of audience recordings made by fans. I still find out about new bands largely based on this technique. A band allows taping at their shows and people do it. They then offer the shows for free download. People like me listen and then go to the shows, paying the artists. Everyone, except the RIAA, wins. I'd be scared and panicking too if I was the RIAA.
Interesting, sort of. But if "evolution" had anything to do with it, vegetables and such would taste equisite while things that shouldn't be consumed in large quantities (animal fat, sugar, etc.) would taste bad.
Etree has collaborated with archive.org to provide people with a large repository of completely legal and high quality live recordings. Check it out, you may find out about some good new bands. Stay away from Furthurnet. It's a decent idea, but its filled with bad files, written in Java, and it's slow.
Oh please. Rail guns are cool physics. And by cool, I mean interesting. Rail guns aren't just weapons. Once people like this perfect rail guns, we could do things like shoot small satalites into space on the cheap. Or do you automatically assume that such a satalite would be some sort of death ray? Stop spreading FUD. It's people like you that get good, worthwhile things legislated out of existance because they have NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
I agree with points one and three. However, I think point two is rather moot. We have encryption systems that cannot be realistically broken without quantum computing (Triple-DES, and even better, AES). Combine that with a lot of the data would be parity data for redundancy, no one would have a clue what they are storing.
This poses an interesting thought in my mind. Now, people aren't going to download files they won't want to host. However, a viable P2P business could be created with MP3 license fees being paid for by corporations who pay for distributed storage. Basically, your P2P archive would be a big data archive of some sort and you could export data you have privileges to. Your total download "credits" would be determined by how much other data, or parity data for that matter, you choose to host.
Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead fame has had a big part in this effort. It's a real noble movement they're participating in. Everyone thinks history is always written and suddenly people realized that we have the technology to make it more. Read more about his involvement and Save our Sounds here.
Woke up this morning around 8:00 with every expectation of going to LinuxWorld. In fact, I'm staring at my admission badge right now. However, it's cold. It's very cold. And the thought of waiting for a train and walking several blocks from Penn station to Javitz made me chicken out. I would have liked to have gone, but maybe next year.
You know I've smoked a lot of grass O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills But I never touched nothin' That my spirit could kill You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round With tombstones in their eyes But the pusher don't care Ah, if you live or if you die
God damn, The Pusher God damn, I say The Pusher I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man
You know the dealer, the dealer is a man With the love grass in his hand Oh but the pusher is a monster Good God, he's not a natural man The dealer for a nickel Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams Ah, but the pusher ruin your body Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream
God damn, The Pusher God damn, God damn the Pusher I said God damn, God, God damn The Pusher man
Well, now if I were the president of this land You know, I'd declare total war on The Pusher man I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he'd run Yes I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun
God damn The Pusher Gad damn The Pusher I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man
The fact that most people who use P2P do not know who the RIAA or the MPAA sheds light on something interesting. The reason they don't know about them is that nothing they do is prohibitting them from finding their music online. Nothing. It's quite funny really. A large portion of the people who know about the RIAA are the ones saying "HEY, I don't download music illegally, so don't illegally tax me!" All my downloaded music comes legally from etree.org and is a lot better than most of the crap that the RIAA pushes.
I forgot to mention in my previous post this paper. Among other things, it mentions that the CORBA standard is one supported by a consortium of 700+ companies collectively referred to as the Object Management Group. CORBA wasn't thrown together haphazardly, a lot of thought went into it.
Way to go on this one moderators. Um, ever heard of CORBA or ORBit? They too are ways of moving objects around (CORBA being the standard, ORBit being an implementation thereof). Yet, CORBA is considered an accepted standard. DCOM is not. Microsoft once again decided to reinvent the wheel. There's no reason you can't use CORBA on Windows.
I particularly liked "incohesive jumble of software" comment. By downloading a Windows program, it might be dependant on something else that I don't have. So I have to go and get that. In Debian, I apt-get and have everything I need and nothing I don't. Authors of Windows programs generally adhere to no standards except their own. Open source projects are pretty predicatable.
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Well, here's the thing. Burning CDs is pretty much linear (marginal cost and profit is thus a constant, as dC/dx = c and dP/dx = c for C(x) and P(x) being linear), with (assuming you have the equipment) a y intercept (cost to make 0 CDs) of $0. Pressing CDs is generally not linear if you observe quantity discounts from pressing houses, but assuming no quantity discounts it too is as linear as a burned disc. The difference, the key difference, is that it has a much higher startup cost (y intercept) as a glass master must must be made and other things must be done unique to the CD being made. Once we factor in all the variables: quantity discounts, and probably most important, time, the curves change. Pressed CDs can be popped out much quicker, but this is only advantage if you have to make a lot.
Contact was surprisingly decent. The terminals in their lab ran X of some sort and one guy had a badge (political style) stuck to his monitor that said, "I'm a member of the UNIX party," and it was all red, white and blue. Classy.
Really? I thought that was the new 3D environment for emacs. =P
My high school was ahead of pretty much every school in the area in starting up a CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) program. In fact, we were the first high school in the world to use the new Cisco Curriculum or something last year. However, the program is only as good as the students. You can't take your typical pretty girl who only uses her computer for AIM, Word, and browsing to routing guru over the course of the program (and our program was four literal semesters, two years). It just doesn't happen. The students should have a good grasp of the concepts they're going over and most of all, want to learn. I'm probably one of the few who actually got something out of the program.
This is really laughable, and an idiot like this should not even be ALLOWED to lobby. Sorry Jack, but you don't know Jack. Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107 of the United States Code provides a four value metric for determining whether or not something falls under the fair use doctrine. A very good fair use explanation can be found here.
Refer back to my post. I said "never being broadcasted on the radio." I don't define success in terms of record sales. Real success can be defined in sustained ability to draw crowds at concerts. Phish is never on the radio. The Grateful Dead were rarely on the radio and now are on it somewhat frequently because they're "classic." However, in both bands cases', their albums did nothing to create their fanbase. I own very few Phish or Grateful Dead commercial releases (and the ones I do own are live). Yet I own hundreds of free live recordings. I support the bands by going to shows. Why yes, the Grateful Dead are no longer around, but I've seen Phil Lesh in concert many times. THAT is the way music should be done. Music is about the community and the live vibe. Studio recordings are a tiny piece of the pie. Anybody can be a gem in the studio (exhibit A: anything that is considered pop right now) If a band can't sustain a live show and do it consistently for many years, then they don't deserve my money. Period.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all. But just imagine if more bands started allowing taping, then the RIAA might begin to worry. However, most of the bands the RIAA pushes wouldn't be worthy of taping. They pump out the same thing, every night. The RIAA's biggest threat is people getting a clue and realizing how bad pop is. Then they have a real problem on their hands.
While pop today is liked by people because it's shoved down their throats, music like I mentioned only sticks around if people like it on its own merits, only then does it get "passed on." You can't put a price on viral marketing like that.
If you want free music, go here.
If you're interested in free music, go here.
Interesting, sort of. But if "evolution" had anything to do with it, vegetables and such would taste equisite while things that shouldn't be consumed in large quantities (animal fat, sugar, etc.) would taste bad.
Etree has collaborated with archive.org to provide people with a large repository of completely legal and high quality live recordings. Check it out, you may find out about some good new bands. Stay away from Furthurnet. It's a decent idea, but its filled with bad files, written in Java, and it's slow.
What do you mean by "checked by Road Runner." They can't walk in your house and start looking.
As I've said before, it's people like you that get good technology legislated out of existence. Go cry your tears of FUD to someone else.
Stop whining. It's called a Darwin award for a reason.
Oh please. Rail guns are cool physics. And by cool, I mean interesting. Rail guns aren't just weapons. Once people like this perfect rail guns, we could do things like shoot small satalites into space on the cheap. Or do you automatically assume that such a satalite would be some sort of death ray? Stop spreading FUD. It's people like you that get good, worthwhile things legislated out of existance because they have NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
Mod this down. The commentor doesn't know what she is talking about. No one on the OpenBSD team has even been offered the docs under an NDA or not.
I agree with points one and three. However, I think point two is rather moot. We have encryption systems that cannot be realistically broken without quantum computing (Triple-DES, and even better, AES). Combine that with a lot of the data would be parity data for redundancy, no one would have a clue what they are storing.
This poses an interesting thought in my mind. Now, people aren't going to download files they won't want to host. However, a viable P2P business could be created with MP3 license fees being paid for by corporations who pay for distributed storage. Basically, your P2P archive would be a big data archive of some sort and you could export data you have privileges to. Your total download "credits" would be determined by how much other data, or parity data for that matter, you choose to host.
Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead fame has had a big part in this effort. It's a real noble movement they're participating in. Everyone thinks history is always written and suddenly people realized that we have the technology to make it more. Read more about his involvement and Save our Sounds here.
Woke up this morning around 8:00 with every expectation of going to LinuxWorld. In fact, I'm staring at my admission badge right now. However, it's cold. It's very cold. And the thought of waiting for a train and walking several blocks from Penn station to Javitz made me chicken out. I would have liked to have gone, but maybe next year.
Powered by friction from the front wheel? Please explain.
The RIAA is THE PUSHER.
You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die
God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man
You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
With the love grass in his hand
Oh but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he's not a natural man
The dealer for a nickel
Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams
Ah, but the pusher ruin your body
Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream
God damn, The Pusher
God damn, God damn the Pusher
I said God damn, God, God damn The Pusher man
Well, now if I were the president of this land
You know, I'd declare total war on The Pusher man
I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he'd run
Yes I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun
God damn The Pusher
Gad damn The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man
The fact that most people who use P2P do not know who the RIAA or the MPAA sheds light on something interesting. The reason they don't know about them is that nothing they do is prohibitting them from finding their music online. Nothing. It's quite funny really. A large portion of the people who know about the RIAA are the ones saying "HEY, I don't download music illegally, so don't illegally tax me!" All my downloaded music comes legally from etree.org and is a lot better than most of the crap that the RIAA pushes.
I forgot to mention in my previous post this paper. Among other things, it mentions that the CORBA standard is one supported by a consortium of 700+ companies collectively referred to as the Object Management Group. CORBA wasn't thrown together haphazardly, a lot of thought went into it.
I particularly liked "incohesive jumble of software" comment. By downloading a Windows program, it might be dependant on something else that I don't have. So I have to go and get that. In Debian, I apt-get and have everything I need and nothing I don't. Authors of Windows programs generally adhere to no standards except their own. Open source projects are pretty predicatable.