Try here if you want an idea.. my complaint was that the entire site was very linux centric.. there's some pretty good ideas going into Solaris and with their big push in amd64 and i386, it can be a more affordable and stable platform to work with.. in fact if you want you can reference the Infiniband source here or here for example..
"If you're buying a Picasso," he continued, "you can't just buy the upper right-hand corner."
agreed that this analogy breaks down in a big way.. having an original painting is quite different than a digital reproduction. really with music you're getting captured performance art and with replay - it's ultimately designed to be cut, remixed, dubbed over, etc.
however:
At a buck a download... wouldn't they make more off of the album than at the 8 dollars they are selling the thing at Target for? How much does it cost to produce and distribute these CD's to each of the retail chains?
i believe the point the article is trying to bring across may have more to do with the cut that online distributors are taking as opposed to retail outlets. if content producers are claiming that their revenues are higher creating physical CDs, and distributing to retailers, than whatever secret deal they have with apple and rhapsody - that may be something to sit up and take notice of. CD rips are much easier to distribute illegally than DRM'd online content, but ultimately it seems that the content producers are saying that the extra money they may be paying tech firms to add their "DRM" is ultimately not worth their bottom line. i don't know, a much more interesting data point would be around revenue from content that is only available in an online DRM format.
The important figure (which are not revealed in this meticulously researched article) is which way did they make more money or which way did they move more units.
which "they" do you mean? the record labels or apple/rhapsody? ultimately it comes down to margin for the content producing agency which is probably higher on a CD sale than on a ESD sale.. with IP such as this it doesn't have to do with moving units or distribution models - it has everything to do with margin and market penetration.
Actually, the depositions will occur at law offices near the headquarters of the companies in question. Microsoft's, for instance, will occur in Seattle.
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There's an old ComputerWorld story that highlights how Wal-Mart was able to revamp their supply chain by essentially opening up their inventory and sales information down to the individual item. Combine this with their RFID initiative and they've also got a better way to track back room shrinkage in addition to a much more efficient mechanism for tracking individual items than scanning pallet barcodes..
As for delivery, take a look at this Frontline PBS special .. I think you'll find a similar model in many of the large IT houses and how they're farming out labor costs associated with various code bases (both open and closed source).. another chapter in the hands that built america..
I believe this has to do with the previous or (referring) site domain you're coming from to get to images.google.cn.. for example, try going to google.cn, search for images.google.cn, follow that, and then search for the various variations, you should see the filtered results.
Personally, I don't think fair use allows reselling digital copies of the songs on iPods, especially considering that "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" would be substantial if the pre-loaded iPod industry took off.
true.. only if it could be construed as a non-profit effort (recompensation for time to encode music and movies perhaps?) for an educational purpose whose substantial portion would have no effect on the potential market or [perceived] value of the copyrighted work.
fwiw - from the article, the seller appears to require the buyer to have legitimate copies of the work, or delete the content - how is that any different than a click-through?
who? Bjorn Stroustrup the creator of C++? Anders Hejlsberg the creator of J++ and project lead on C#? Danish people in general? or just a general comment on people who post on slashdot?
"This moment in internet history will be gone in a blink," said Deborah Fallows, senior research fellow at Pew who wrote the report."We may soon look back on it as a charming, even quaint moment, when men reached for the farthest corners of the internet, trying and experimenting with whatever came along, and when women held the internet closer and tried to keep it a bit more under control."
It looks like the pew report was written by a woman.. hence the skew
I think it's the same obvious reaction to most developments in technology though (cars, radios, tvs, phones)..
#ifdef STEREOTYPICAL men are more likely to take it apart to see how it works, and mod it to see if they can make it better/faster/newer/stronger, whereas many women are more likely to see it as a "quaint moment in time" that they can "hold closer" and eventually control (for the purpose of order.. of course) #endif
interesting.. how quickly can you transfer (8.2MB * 3,500,000,000) = 26.72PB?
Now with the average cable internet download speed approaching 2200kbps (275KB/s), you're looking at 3388.77 years for a single client running at last years average. OTOH, to acheive this in a single day should ideally just require 1236903 cable modem subscribers and a properly distributed and co-ordinated effort. Of course it would probably be easier to simply hack the download counters..
Maybe apple should stop spending money on the resources to add copy protection and just let it go.
You'd think that apple would wake up and get the message people are sending about the desire for platform obscurity. Think about it..
-> Action: Apple announces move to Intel -> Reaction: A lot of excitement about running os x on commodity hardware -> Action: Apple starts leaking information about TPM -> Reaction: A lot of interest in how to break it and run it on commodity hardware
In general companies tend to do better when they give consumers what they want. If Apple wants to make money on the hardware, it should be simple.. make better hardware. It typical Jobs fashion - Apple seems to be killing themselves softly again in their greed driven quest for ultimate control over user choice.
Cell phones always seemed like an interim market until widespread highspeed network access becomes affordable. Who cares about another service to try and hook you into a lame portable network access subscription.. what i really want is free wimax access, then IP phones become commodity and then we can really talk about features.
It is extremely important when you try to compare "memory usage" on different Operating Systems that you are actually comparing apples to apples.
I'm confused.. I thought we were comparing apples to wintel (or winamd) boxes.. orange hasn't really done a PC in over a decade and went out of business back in May..
after July 7th a particular profile was given to the police of which many geeks would likely fit: - looks down a lot and fidgets - pulls religious looking paper (wikipedia logo perhaps) from pockets and maybe mumbles or moves lips while reading - wears a lot of black.. maybe tries to hide [figure] in clothing - carries a lot of stuff in backpack - is pre-occupied with gadgets
we already know that bobbies aren't the brightest (erm.. i was relieving myself in the bushes when the suspect emerged from somewhere close to the house we were monitoring).. so the real problem seems to lie with the notion that profiling as a technique does more good than harm. Just like pattern matching, or virus scanning all you'll really succeed in stopping is the equally mindless copy-cats for a while until the extra cost or burden of doing the profiling along with the negative societal effect is exposed.
your analogies are way off.. comparing copying movies with prostitution and test-driving ferraris (or their cheap asian counterparts.. the fererri and the ferarri) ?
How about an art show.. a lot of effort was spent by the artist (or artists) to put together an art show.. then somebody shows up, takes some pictures of it all and distributes it on the internet. This is an extremely viable option that often doesn't result in charging inordinate amounts of money. The point is that while most of these movies aren't quality art that will stand the test of time.. when they're made and distributed - the intellectual property becomes similar to speech (coupled with a complex visual performance art).. it's ultimately up to the studio to control how they want to distribute their art, but ultimately they cannot control the ways in which people may photograph, copy or distribute what they've already distributed and put into a moderately public society.
"If piracy and those who profit from it are allowed to flourish, they will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation; undermine legitimate businesses that strive to unite technology and content in innovative and legal ways and limit quality and consumer choice."...
"There are lots of ways to legally download our products through companies like CinemaNow, Movielink, Ruckus and others."
I think the point is they're not making money off the trading (ironically like most of the downloaders).. so they're looking for an avenue to sue a distribution channel they can't control. No different than clearcom really. The sad part is that they will get nowhere by suing their constituency rather than trying to understand and adapt.
Now if this claim is true:
The movie industry is the only industry with a positive balance of tradein countries with which it does business. Copyrighted industries are responsible for an estimated $626 billion of the total gross domestic product.
Makes me wonder how much of our other business has been affected by our politics and work effort. It's a sad state of affairs if entertainment is the only thing that gives us a positive cash balance overseas. Almost makes me want to live in a cave, avoid mainstream media distribution channels, and adopt foreign citizenship..
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however, some pimply girls with frito breath love code monkeys
Try here if you want an idea .. my complaint was that the entire site was very linux centric .. there's some pretty good ideas going into Solaris and with their big push in amd64 and i386, it can be a more affordable and stable platform to work with .. in fact if you want you can reference the Infiniband source here or here for example ..
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/401834 p-340392c.html
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if anonymity is a crime, then only criminals will be anonymous
"If you're buying a Picasso," he continued, "you can't just buy the upper right-hand corner."
.. having an original painting is quite different than a digital reproduction. really with music you're getting captured performance art and with replay - it's ultimately designed to be cut, remixed, dubbed over, etc.
agreed that this analogy breaks down in a big way
however:
At a buck a download... wouldn't they make more off of the album than at the 8 dollars they are selling the thing at Target for? How much does it cost to produce and distribute these CD's to each of the retail chains?
i believe the point the article is trying to bring across may have more to do with the cut that online distributors are taking as opposed to retail outlets. if content producers are claiming that their revenues are higher creating physical CDs, and distributing to retailers, than whatever secret deal they have with apple and rhapsody - that may be something to sit up and take notice of. CD rips are much easier to distribute illegally than DRM'd online content, but ultimately it seems that the content producers are saying that the extra money they may be paying tech firms to add their "DRM" is ultimately not worth their bottom line. i don't know, a much more interesting data point would be around revenue from content that is only available in an online DRM format.
The important figure (which are not revealed in this meticulously researched article) is which way did they make more money or which way did they move more units.
.. with IP such as this it doesn't have to do with moving units or distribution models - it has everything to do with margin and market penetration.
which "they" do you mean? the record labels or apple/rhapsody? ultimately it comes down to margin for the content producing agency which is probably higher on a CD sale than on a ESD sale
Actually, the depositions will occur at law offices near the headquarters of the companies in question. Microsoft's, for instance, will occur in Seattle.
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my guess is Preston, Gates, Ellis LLP
I suspect they still have some clout there
There's an old ComputerWorld story that highlights how Wal-Mart was able to revamp their supply chain by essentially opening up their inventory and sales information down to the individual item. Combine this with their RFID initiative and they've also got a better way to track back room shrinkage in addition to a much more efficient mechanism for tracking individual items than scanning pallet barcodes ..
.. I think you'll find a similar model in many of the large IT houses and how they're farming out labor costs associated with various code bases (both open and closed source) .. another chapter in the hands that built america ..
As for delivery, take a look at this Frontline PBS special
try for yourself:8 9%E9%97%A8&hl=zh-CN
http://images.google.cn/images?q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%
I believe this has to do with the previous or (referring) site domain you're coming from to get to images.google.cn .. for example, try going to google.cn, search for images.google.cn, follow that, and then search for the various variations, you should see the filtered results.
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I was playing around with this yesterday after alec muffet had discovered something similar early Sun Morning:
http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/articles/secur
as in life, your view may vary depending on where you come from
Personally, I don't think fair use allows reselling digital copies of the songs on iPods, especially considering that "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" would be substantial if the pre-loaded iPod industry took off.
.. only if it could be construed as a non-profit effort (recompensation for time to encode music and movies perhaps?) for an educational purpose whose substantial portion would have no effect on the potential market or [perceived] value of the copyrighted work.
true
fwiw - from the article, the seller appears to require the buyer to have legitimate copies of the work, or delete the content - how is that any different than a click-through?
who? Bjorn Stroustrup the creator of C++? Anders Hejlsberg the creator of J++ and project lead on C#? Danish people in general? or just a general comment on people who post on slashdot?
Now with the NSA's IIS .NET bungle - perhaps they got
persistent cookies when they went to rather insecure Passport authentication scheme
"This moment in internet history will be gone in a blink," said Deborah Fallows, senior research fellow at Pew who wrote the report."We may soon look back on it as a charming, even quaint moment, when men reached for the farthest corners of the internet, trying and experimenting with whatever came along, and when women held the internet closer and tried to keep it a bit more under control."
.. hence the skew
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.. of course)
It looks like the pew report was written by a woman
I think it's the same obvious reaction to most developments in technology though (cars, radios, tvs, phones)
#ifdef STEREOTYPICAL
men are more likely to take it apart to see how it works, and mod it to see if they can make it better/faster/newer/stronger, whereas many women are more likely to see it as a "quaint moment in time" that they can "hold closer" and eventually control (for the purpose of order
#endif
nah .. just promote them to high ranking government positions and have people randomly congratulate them on what a good job they've done.
interesting .. how quickly can you transfer (8.2MB * 3,500,000,000) = 26.72PB?
..
Now with the average cable internet download speed approaching 2200kbps (275KB/s), you're looking at 3388.77 years for a single client running at last years average. OTOH, to acheive this in a single day should ideally just require 1236903 cable modem subscribers and a properly distributed and co-ordinated effort. Of course it would probably be easier to simply hack the download counters
it's a horrible thing being easted and finding out your job has been moved to Mumbai.
You'd think that apple would wake up and get the message people are sending about the desire for platform obscurity. Think about it
-> Action: Apple announces move to Intel
-> Reaction: A lot of excitement about running os x on commodity hardware
-> Action: Apple starts leaking information about TPM
-> Reaction: A lot of interest in how to break it and run it on commodity hardware
In general companies tend to do better when they give consumers what they want. If Apple wants to make money on the hardware, it should be simple
THEY'LL TAKE MY COFFEE OVER MY DEAD BODY!!
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at the rate you're going, I'd say you're dead on
Cell phones always seemed like an interim market until widespread highspeed network access becomes affordable. Who cares about another service to try and hook you into a lame portable network access subscription .. what i really want is free wimax access, then IP phones become commodity and then we can really talk about features.
It is extremely important when you try to compare "memory usage" on different Operating Systems that you are actually comparing apples to apples.
.. I thought we were comparing apples to wintel (or winamd) boxes .. orange hasn't really done a PC in over a decade and went out of business back in May ..
I'm confused
I think this analysis from David Mery's site is more likely:
.. maybe tries to hide [figure] in clothing
.. i was relieving myself in the bushes when the suspect emerged from somewhere close to the house we were monitoring) .. so the real problem seems to lie with the notion that profiling as a technique does more good than harm. Just like pattern matching, or virus scanning all you'll really succeed in stopping is the equally mindless copy-cats for a while until the extra cost or burden of doing the profiling along with the negative societal effect is exposed.
http://gizmonaut.net/bits/profiling.html
after July 7th a particular profile was given to the police of which many geeks would likely fit:
- looks down a lot and fidgets
- pulls religious looking paper (wikipedia logo perhaps) from pockets and maybe mumbles or moves lips while reading
- wears a lot of black
- carries a lot of stuff in backpack
- is pre-occupied with gadgets
we already know that bobbies aren't the brightest (erm
yeppers .. check out:. jsp
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/benchmarks
and ever think you'd see this?
http://www.sun.com/service/support/windows/
You sure that wasn't PDQ Bach?
http://www.schickele.com/pdqbio.htm
which you can compare/contrast with:
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/
How about an art show .. a lot of effort was spent by the artist (or artists) to put together an art show .. then somebody shows up, takes some pictures of it all and distributes it on the internet. This is an extremely viable option that often doesn't result in charging inordinate amounts of money. The point is that while most of these movies aren't quality art that will stand the test of time .. when they're made and distributed - the intellectual property becomes similar to speech (coupled with a complex visual performance art) .. it's ultimately up to the studio to control how they want to distribute their art, but ultimately they cannot control the ways in which people may photograph, copy or distribute what they've already distributed and put into a moderately public society.
Now if this claim is true:
Makes me wonder how much of our other business has been affected by our politics and work effort. It's a sad state of affairs if entertainment is the only thing that gives us a positive cash balance overseas. Almost makes me want to live in a cave, avoid mainstream media distribution channels, and adopt foreign citizenship