There is no need to get defensive or use personal attacks, what I was trying to say is because the large percentage of international students from all around the world that apply to MIT increases its talent pool. What percentage do Americans and other international students make up of IIT's applicant pool? Can international students even apply?
How is my previous comment racist or US-centric in any way? I guess the easy route to take is to dismiss any criticism or objectivity as racist..
famous Indian Institute of Information Technology (india's foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT)
Not that I care to defend MIT, but how is this university equivalent to MIT? I saw the 60 minutes by Leslie "kiss ass" Stahl a few months ago. They way they measured its competitiveness is by the acceptance rate of an exam that high school students take, which any student can take in hopes of passing. I'm sure its a fantastic university, but there is no way it can have the quality of applicants seen at an MIT or Caltech, where high achieving students from all around the world make up a significant percentage of the applicant pool and where slackers like me or even excellent students don't even bother applying unless they have a stellar academic record.
If the US administered a test that anyone could take to see if they could get in to MIT, Caltech, etc, then a comparison might be fair based on acceptance rates.
Thats why I mentioned internal phones, but in only one of the scenarios did the cracker worry about caller id, the rest of the phone based scenarios could have been avoided with a $5 box.
I realize that there is the ability to use internal phones or hack caller id systems, but most of the phone based attacks played out in the book can be avoided with callerid, which is pretty ubiquitous these days. Its not fullproof by any means, but while reading a lot of the scenarios, I kept thinking caller id...
Novell added that in recent months, SCO executives had asked Novell to transfer the Unix copyrights to SCO -- a request that was denied.
It would be interesting to see if this request for transfer occurred before SCO's legal maneuvering or after..
McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement.
IANAL, but there are no grounds for suing Linus unless SCO can prove that Linus was aware of infringement and knowingly let it occur, which is obviously far fetched, but SCO seems desperate enough to try anything. SCO had a profitable quarter with a 4.5 million profit, but I would be amazed if they company lasts more than a year given the current state of their legal situation and the public relations nightmare that is developing now and his sure to create a huge backlash. Most of the decision makers in charge of recommending SCO's products are the exact same people who hate SCO now because their BS legal actions.
I do agree that the last thing you want to do is make the interface too complex with multiple choices. You can still offer choices, its just a matter of good user interface design. There could be an advanced mode or file quality and file type settings that could be changed in a user's preferences. The early adopters will be audio enthusiasts who want higher quality files and choices. Having at least a few options such as: Cd quality, High quality, and lossless could be integrated without overwhelming the basic user with complexity.
Current music services, with the exception of Livephish.com do not offer high enough quality to appeal to audio enthusiasts, the same people who would be likely to spend the most amount of money.
This model has been used before and failed miserably. Not many people want to listen to streaming music on their computer. While CD burning was a much needed feature a few years ago, today people want to be able to use paid downloads with their portable and home MP3 devices. Apple's iTunes service is great if you only have Macs, use an ipod as your portable, and don't have a home MP3 player like the slimp3, tivo series 2, or an audiotron. Burning a CD from a lossy format and then re-ripping in to MP3 is not going to work, especially when the CDDB data won't register. I doubt people are interested in manually entering ID3 tags.
For a music service to be great it needs to have some or all of the following characteristics.
A HUGE catalog, similar to what is available for sale on amazon or cdnow.
Standard formats that will work in existing players and devices: MP3, possibly others SHN,OGG,FLAC, AAC
No DRM or DRM that doesn't treat the user like a criminal. Apple's DRM scheme is liberal but tying DRM to specific devices and platforms will not work with the other 97% of potential users. Any service needs to work with existing players so you might as well ditch DRM all together. Sharing a file downloaded from a service is not going increase "piracy" when there are already multiple methods to rip any music.
Music encoded at different quality levels where users pay a premium for higher bitrate and/or lossless files.
A multi platform www interface, there could be a tightly integrated client for windows, but there is no reason an interface can't work on all platforms.
A sense of community: reviews, message boards, chat, etc. Apple's music service needs this..
As a programmer working on some P2P related tech at PSU, I can tell you that this quote was taken out of context. The president was just making some comments at a session, this by no means in the works. A fews months ago there was a public forum at Penn State about P2P. The EFF and the RIAA were there, which BTW an RIAA lawyer is on the board of trustees in case you wonder why Penn State always works closely with the recording industry. At the P2P forum the EFF lawyer was great up to the point where he suggested a broadband tax to pay record companies and then P2P would be legal but subsidized by millions of non file sharing broadband users. I believe Spanier was inspired by this and was just putting the idea out on the table on a university level.
Administrators and the EFF should take note that subsidies for the recording industry will not work for a variety of reasons, here is a short list:
Millions of non-p2p users would be paying for music they never downloaded
There would be no fair way to distribute the royalties among artists
In the case of the government broadband tax, the recording companies with the most pull in DC will get the better deal while the small shops will be get screwed
Any subsidy plan would be keeping the existing obsolete recording industry business model alive
The artists will continue to get screwed, while the record companies will maintain their bloated margins.
Students already pay enough unnecessary funds in their Penn State bill in order to subsidize activities they don't use and building projects that are completely unnecessary. Take a drive around Penn State and you will see multiple huge construction projects for unnecessary buildings.
The problem with your experience at a University is the percentage of college students using P2P is way higher than a regular ISP. Plus, you are more likely to find your "die-hard" P2P users in a dorm. Too bad those internal P2P networks are the RIAA's favorite target these days, they probably save universities millions of dollars in bandwidth charges.
IANAA ( I am not an accountant) but I belive a corporation can only write off 10% of its taxable income, which in MS' case would be in the low billions.
The move to the end of the show button turns in to a 30 second skip button. It works great for me, sometimes it turns off after software updates so you will have to run the button sequence again.
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In an e-mail response to CRN, Torvalds, widely considered the father of Linux
Who the hell else is under consideration? SCO's CEO?
Gator by Choice, WTF?
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People actually use gator on purpose? Who is this a Gator developer? Really, if you want password management you should be using Mozilla. Anyone that supports a business model based on spyware should be drug out on the street and shot. Why would anyone be using IE these days unless they were forced to by their employer?
If you haven't become an associate member of the FSF yet, now would be a good time!"
I try to donate every year to different charities like the EFF and others. I'm not wealthy so it usually amounts to ~$300/year. I've never dontated to the FSF, because it is unclear to me where my money is going. I will not give the FSF a dime until until they stop childish behavior such as this, and another reservation I have about donating to the FSF foundation is what projects are funded? Does the FSF fund any "open source" projects? Would projects that compete with GNU/ projects receive any funds?
I have no interest in donating to the FSF if my money is going to be spent telling people how to name their software projects or "educating" people on why the name open source is bad.
This service could have a chance, but any software that I've had the unfortunate pleasure of using from Roxio was complete crap. I'm sure that there will be a lot of "Apple Music Service Roxs!" posts, but this service could have a chance if it has a similar library while using high quality mp3's 192kpbs+ mp3 files with no DRM. Unfortunately there is a high probability that this service will be a complete failure given the companies involved.
The Apple music service is great for people who only listen to music on their ipod and computers, but most people do not own or can even justify spending $299 on a portable music player. For a music service to be successful on the PC it needs to be using a standard format (MP3) that can be used in a variety of devices (portables, Audiotron, etc). The Apple Music service is useless to me because I play all my music on my stereo via an Audiotron. Converting to mp3 sounds like shit, and the quality of 128 AAC to begin with is not high enough for a good stereo.
Again the major problem with Apple that we see time and time again is the strategy of trying to use their software innovations to sell their hardware. This is fine if your selling to Apple enthusiasts and users, but it will not work with the other 97% of computer users.
Penn State is working closely with the RIAA because Barry Robinson a lawyer for the RIAA is on the Board of Trustees so instead of representing the interests of the university and protecting the students, Penn State president Grahm Spanier has chosen to let a trustee influence university policy for the sake of the crooked organization he works for. I should post this AC but I really dont give an fsck. Penn State is dedicated to building unnecessary buildings while removing as much parking as possible. I now have to walk 20 mins from a staff parking lot to work so fire me before I die of heat stroke this summer;)
What's with the weird profile angle or this obviously staged photo of Larry thinking. I like Larry Lessig's ideas a lot but maybe if he got some better photography he would win more Supreme court cases;)
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How is my previous comment racist or US-centric in any way? I guess the easy route to take is to dismiss any criticism or objectivity as racist..
Not that I care to defend MIT, but how is this university equivalent to MIT? I saw the 60 minutes by Leslie "kiss ass" Stahl a few months ago. They way they measured its competitiveness is by the acceptance rate of an exam that high school students take, which any student can take in hopes of passing. I'm sure its a fantastic university, but there is no way it can have the quality of applicants seen at an MIT or Caltech, where high achieving students from all around the world make up a significant percentage of the applicant pool and where slackers like me or even excellent students don't even bother applying unless they have a stellar academic record.
If the US administered a test that anyone could take to see if they could get in to MIT, Caltech, etc, then a comparison might be fair based on acceptance rates.
Thats why I mentioned internal phones, but in only one of the scenarios did the cracker worry about caller id, the rest of the phone based scenarios could have been avoided with a $5 box.
I realize that there is the ability to use internal phones or hack caller id systems, but most of the phone based attacks played out in the book can be avoided with callerid, which is pretty ubiquitous these days. Its not fullproof by any means, but while reading a lot of the scenarios, I kept thinking caller id...
It would be interesting to see if this request for transfer occurred before SCO's legal maneuvering or after..
McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement.
IANAL, but there are no grounds for suing Linus unless SCO can prove that Linus was aware of infringement and knowingly let it occur, which is obviously far fetched, but SCO seems desperate enough to try anything. SCO had a profitable quarter with a 4.5 million profit, but I would be amazed if they company lasts more than a year given the current state of their legal situation and the public relations nightmare that is developing now and his sure to create a huge backlash. Most of the decision makers in charge of recommending SCO's products are the exact same people who hate SCO now because their BS legal actions.
Current music services, with the exception of Livephish.com do not offer high enough quality to appeal to audio enthusiasts, the same people who would be likely to spend the most amount of money.
For a music service to be great it needs to have some or all of the following characteristics.
Are posters expected to proofread and spellcheck on /.?
Administrators and the EFF should take note that subsidies for the recording industry will not work for a variety of reasons, here is a short list:
That was a hell of a lot easier to do back then for a variety of reasons.
The problem with your experience at a University is the percentage of college students using P2P is way higher than a regular ISP. Plus, you are more likely to find your "die-hard" P2P users in a dorm. Too bad those internal P2P networks are the RIAA's favorite target these days, they probably save universities millions of dollars in bandwidth charges.
IANAA ( I am not an accountant) but I belive a corporation can only write off 10% of its taxable income, which in MS' case would be in the low billions.
While watching a show hit:
Select -> Play -> Select -> 3 -> 0 -> Select
The move to the end of the show button turns in to a 30 second skip button. It works great for me, sometimes it turns off after software updates so you will have to run the button sequence again.
Who the hell else is under consideration? SCO's CEO?
People actually use gator on purpose? Who is this a Gator developer? Really, if you want password management you should be using Mozilla. Anyone that supports a business model based on spyware should be drug out on the street and shot. Why would anyone be using IE these days unless they were forced to by their employer?
GNU projects are all "free software" because Stallman has never embraced the term "open source" for idelogical reasons.
I try to donate every year to different charities like the EFF and others. I'm not wealthy so it usually amounts to ~$300/year. I've never dontated to the FSF, because it is unclear to me where my money is going. I will not give the FSF a dime until until they stop childish behavior such as this, and another reservation I have about donating to the FSF foundation is what projects are funded? Does the FSF fund any "open source" projects? Would projects that compete with GNU/ projects receive any funds?
I have no interest in donating to the FSF if my money is going to be spent telling people how to name their software projects or "educating" people on why the name open source is bad.
I mean it, here is is some info. It is by no means a definitive analysis, you really need listening tests, but it gives a sense of a quality loss.
The Apple music service is great for people who only listen to music on their ipod and computers, but most people do not own or can even justify spending $299 on a portable music player. For a music service to be successful on the PC it needs to be using a standard format (MP3) that can be used in a variety of devices (portables, Audiotron, etc). The Apple Music service is useless to me because I play all my music on my stereo via an Audiotron. Converting to mp3 sounds like shit, and the quality of 128 AAC to begin with is not high enough for a good stereo.
Again the major problem with Apple that we see time and time again is the strategy of trying to use their software innovations to sell their hardware. This is fine if your selling to Apple enthusiasts and users, but it will not work with the other 97% of computer users.
Maybe Robertson should spend more time reading his own EULA's and less time reading /.
Penn State is working closely with the RIAA because Barry Robinson a lawyer for the RIAA is on the Board of Trustees so instead of representing the interests of the university and protecting the students, Penn State president Grahm Spanier has chosen to let a trustee influence university policy for the sake of the crooked organization he works for. I should post this AC but I really dont give an fsck. Penn State is dedicated to building unnecessary buildings while removing as much parking as possible. I now have to walk 20 mins from a staff parking lot to work so fire me before I die of heat stroke this summer ;)
Is there any chance of having an RSS feature for journals, for everyone or even just subscribers?
Downloading music file off a server is not file sharing and has absolutely nothing to do with P2P.
What's with the weird profile angle or this obviously staged photo of Larry thinking. I like Larry Lessig's ideas a lot but maybe if he got some better photography he would win more Supreme court cases ;)