Ok lets just go along with this for a second and assume MS has no business sense whatsoever and would not adjust the OS price accordingly, will $350 pc's really be the norm? Even as PC prices continue to fall, it seems that most people are continuing to pay around $1500 or so for a computer because that is what they expect to pay for a computer. Systems that are really cheap have a negative stigma amongst consumers because they assume the computer is obsolete and will not meet their future needs. People are gobbling up multi GHZ machines even though a pIII would work for must people's needs.
I've read a few books on MS such as "Breaking Windows" and "Hard Drive" and I would have to say that both books showcase some employees who honestly believe their own company's bullshit or at least appear to on paper. One of the worst mistakes you can make in business is believing your own PR let alone anybody else's.
You should post the video on a website with some background info. If you don't have the bandwidth I'm sure people would be willing to donate some hosting, I for one will.
I just downloaded the IS0 to see how what all the hype was about. I popped in the CD, it showed a nice graphical installer and then the installer appears to try and config X automatically before even copying files to your drive. Needles to say, the X configuration was wrong, the screen was unreadable, so I couldn't try out the distro.
I have a tascam DA-20 which I guess is considered a "professional deck" so it defeats SCMS. I've occasionally run in to a few dats with SCMS by people who cloned DATS without disabling SCMS. Thanks for the info.
I think the number one problem with online games is cheating. There have been countless times where I have been totally addicted to a game, and then a cheat ruins all the fun. People play online games because it is so much more exciting to compete against a real person. If the game becomes unbalanced, players will either move on to another game or use the cheat themselves.
I'm not trying to reduce the impact of this story, but the headline was a little sensationalized. HDTV media under this standard will not work but you will still be able to watch HDTV on the pre-2002 sets. I just want to clear that up for the masses who are too lazy to read the actual article:)
One note we can take from the history of a commercially unsuccessful product is DAT copy protection. DAT had the potential to become a consumer audio format, but the industry was really worried about copy protection since with DAT you can make perfect digital copies. They put in a copy protection "feature" called SCMS Serial copy management system. After a few years deck manufactures started producing decks that defeat SCMS. Maybe this will happen with HDTV media protection. If not, I'm sure somebody will figure out a way to bypass it or reverse engineer it.
Well I guess you're in favor of gun control and lawyer control? Should they be rounded up in to camps? Two Completely different subjects, not that I'm in favor of banning guns, People should be allowed to have any gun they want after going through many hours of firearms training and a battery of psychological tests.
Sorry, I guess I should preach the normal slashdot rhetoric that marketers and managers are evil people who are out to destroy life, as we know it.
Matching buyers and sellers doesn't mean that the purchase in question is a rebuy. Introducing a potential consumer to a product they are unaware of is part of marketing, but marketers don't put a gun to the consumer's head and force them to buy something.
To pay for slashdot but first I would like to see a few things
User Created Discussions Highlighted on the main page, not Hidden. Taco said he was working on this, what is there to work on, put a fraking link on the left sidebar.
Moderation Problems documented in NegativeKArma's post
Online Chat and private messaging.
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I think you need to be introduced to marketing, here is the standard definition:
Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.
I think you're trying to incite that marketing creates demand which is totally false, marketing just matches buyers and sellers. Yes, there is persuasion involved but not enough to artificially increase supply. Perhaps you need to be introduced to the concept of "economics" and "marketing." I will be more than happy to recommend some good books.
3. People who download show just for the sake of downloading
I've run in to plenty of people who download TV shows and movies they don't watch, but they download them anyway just to increase the size of their collection.
These articles always talk about network TV and big budget movies, but what about the amount of copyrighted pr0n vids that exist on the net and p2p networks such as Morhpeus or Gnutella. In a college enviroment, most of the people I have introduced to these networks don't download movies or television shows, they download music, warez, and pr0n.
The New York times had a better article entitled "Black Hawk Download." I submitted the nytimes article a month ago but it was rejected. Since the story is over a month old it's only available in the Pay Archive. Does anyone know how to get free access to archived nytimes stories?
2002-01-17 13:49:49 Black Hawk Download (articles,news) (rejected)
The one thing that is real sketchy about this case is that it involves a pedophile. I know judges are supposed to be impartial but I wouldn't be surprised if some anger towards the man in question is reflected in the decision about wiretaps. I guess it could be worse, the pedophile could of been a "terrorist."
Yes someting similar to free net but without all the cloak and dagger stuff, plus in an easy to use package. Basically morpheus or napster with an automirror feature.
I wasn't tyring to state that Phish grew from self produced albums or record sales, I was trying to point out that Phish grew via word of mouth through concerts and live bootlegs without depending on assistance by their record company although, some of there growth has to be attributed to Elektra.
BTW, I love the stats site. I've been a frequent visitor for many years.
What I would like to see is a p2p system that has leeching turned on by default. One of the reasons why napster was so successful was because every file a user downloaded was shared regardless of whether they knew it or not. Imagine having a p2p system where the installer would automatically take a percentage of the user's HD space to share files that they don't even download. Instead these files are automatically propagated to high bandwidth peers throughout the network. The files that are mirrored would depend upon their popularity. The only problem with this would be that you probably could not have a completely decentralized network since you need a central server to keep track of downloads in order for the most popular files to be automatically mirrored.
This automatic mirroring would be an easy way to kill the slashdot effect when it comes to sudden demand increases for specific files on a P2P network (Think Starr Report). Of course, one could argue that with sharing on by default a popular file would have plenty of mirrors without such as system, but it would help in situations where time is critical.
Their dependence on record companies. There was a time when bands needed to a hit record in order to hit the "big time" but that day has long since passed. Serious musicians can always embrace live touring as a way to build word of mouth. Look a band like Phish who built a huge cult following by live touring before they even signed a contract with a record company. Having touring revenue can give a band the ability to negotiate favorable terms since they are not completely dependent on record sales.
Besides touring, you can use alternate methods of distribution such as: net downloads or you can even cut your own CD's and sell them through an online store. Basically, there is no reason for artists to be so dependent on record sales.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok lets just go along with this for a second and assume MS has no business sense whatsoever and would not adjust the OS price accordingly, will $350 pc's really be the norm? Even as PC prices continue to fall, it seems that most people are continuing to pay around $1500 or so for a computer because that is what they expect to pay for a computer. Systems that are really cheap have a negative stigma amongst consumers because they assume the computer is obsolete and will not meet their future needs. People are gobbling up multi GHZ machines even though a pIII would work for must people's needs.
I've read a few books on MS such as "Breaking Windows" and "Hard Drive" and I would have to say that both books showcase some employees who honestly believe their own company's bullshit or at least appear to on paper. One of the worst mistakes you can make in business is believing your own PR let alone anybody else's.
You should post the video on a website with some background info. If you don't have the bandwidth I'm sure people would be willing to donate some hosting, I for one will.
Are you using the RAID controller? I have a SoyoDragon too and I would be interested to see if this distro works with the RAID controller.
I just downloaded the IS0 to see how what all the hype was about. I popped in the CD, it showed a nice graphical installer and then the installer appears to try and config X automatically before even copying files to your drive. Needles to say, the X configuration was wrong, the screen was unreadable, so I couldn't try out the distro.
I have a tascam DA-20 which I guess is considered a "professional deck" so it defeats SCMS. I've occasionally run in to a few dats with SCMS by people who cloned DATS without disabling SCMS. Thanks for the info.
I think the number one problem with online games is cheating. There have been countless times where I have been totally addicted to a game, and then a cheat ruins all the fun. People play online games because it is so much more exciting to compete against a real person. If the game becomes unbalanced, players will either move on to another game or use the cheat themselves.
One note we can take from the history of a commercially unsuccessful product is DAT copy protection. DAT had the potential to become a consumer audio format, but the industry was really worried about copy protection since with DAT you can make perfect digital copies. They put in a copy protection "feature" called SCMS Serial copy management system. After a few years deck manufactures started producing decks that defeat SCMS. Maybe this will happen with HDTV media protection. If not, I'm sure somebody will figure out a way to bypass it or reverse engineer it.
MMM... There nothing quite like Fresh MRE's! :)
Well I guess you're in favor of gun control and lawyer control? Should they be rounded up in to camps? Two Completely different subjects, not that I'm in favor of banning guns, People should be allowed to have any gun they want after going through many hours of firearms training and a battery of psychological tests.
Matching buyers and sellers doesn't mean that the purchase in question is a rebuy. Introducing a potential consumer to a product they are unaware of is part of marketing, but marketers don't put a gun to the consumer's head and force them to buy something.
Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational goals.
I think you're trying to incite that marketing creates demand which is totally false, marketing just matches buyers and sellers. Yes, there is persuasion involved but not enough to artificially increase supply. Perhaps you need to be introduced to the concept of "economics" and "marketing." I will be more than happy to recommend some good books.
If you want to complain about frivilous lawsuits, remember, lawyers don't sue people, plaintifs sue people.
The only reason the US has so many lawsuits is because it's populus is sue happy. Don't blame the messengers, they are just meeting the demand.
3. People who download show just for the sake of downloading
I've run in to plenty of people who download TV shows and movies they don't watch, but they download them anyway just to increase the size of their collection.
These articles always talk about network TV and big budget movies, but what about the amount of copyrighted pr0n vids that exist on the net and p2p networks such as Morhpeus or Gnutella. In a college enviroment, most of the people I have introduced to these networks don't download movies or television shows, they download music, warez, and pr0n.
2002-01-17 13:49:49 Black Hawk Download (articles,news) (rejected)
I believe the SMB protocol was around before MS even used it.
Yes but how many OSX users are there that actually know that BSD is there and/or take advantage of OSX's *NIX comapatibility?
To the "Axis of Evil?"
The one thing that is real sketchy about this case is that it involves a pedophile. I know judges are supposed to be impartial but I wouldn't be surprised if some anger towards the man in question is reflected in the decision about wiretaps. I guess it could be worse, the pedophile could of been a "terrorist."
Yes someting similar to free net but without all the cloak and dagger stuff, plus in an easy to use package. Basically morpheus or napster with an automirror feature.
BTW, I love the stats site. I've been a frequent visitor for many years.
This automatic mirroring would be an easy way to kill the slashdot effect when it comes to sudden demand increases for specific files on a P2P network (Think Starr Report). Of course, one could argue that with sharing on by default a popular file would have plenty of mirrors without such as system, but it would help in situations where time is critical.
Besides touring, you can use alternate methods of distribution such as: net downloads or you can even cut your own CD's and sell them through an online store. Basically, there is no reason for artists to be so dependent on record sales.