through my extensive research
I came up with this
We've got great news for you, then! Industry sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, have let us know that Warner Home Video has both of these animated series on their radar screen for a possible mid-2006 DVD release! Look for a multi-disc set for each show, with around two dozen episodes per box.
I've been reading over the posts, and there is a number of good points that offering your music for free is a good way of ensuring that lots of people come to your shows, where you can make some real money (rather than the $0.20 per CD). I've had 2 thoughts about the free music thing...
1st... How you could get people to pay you some money for your songs is to exploit the "first post" urge of your fans, and get them to register at the bands offical homepage, and have a page for the supporting fans. You just need to have the option for paying $1 for the album, and if you do, you get your name added to the supporters page for that release. You then also have a good chat room area, where people have an auto sig that lists or links to the pages, and a summary. E.g. for U2 User: Mahju (user 164067) Albums: Autung Baby (Bronze Supporter - 123456th), Zooropa (Silver Supporter - 540th Download) Pop (Silver Supporter - 13th Download) ATYCLB (Gold Supporter - 2576th Download) HTDAAB (Bronze Supporter - 10276th Download)
This way you use the force of your real fans to get some payback on the inital album costs. People would want to have their name registered for the bragging rights (what if you were the 1st person to register for U2 Boy? some good karma there...).
Now my 2nd thought... The 'evil' music industry does actually filter out a lot of crap bands, and deliver a certain quality standard of music. Yes not all are great i know, but it does mean that most tone deaf, musically illiterate, idiot isn't flooding the airwaves. That's because the labels don't want to invest money in bands that we wont like enough to pay them some money such that they get a return on investment. If we move towards free downloads, then the distribution model for the music will have to change. I suspect that this will move towards something two things; 1. Tour promoters advertising the bands to us. 2. Review sites listing the new releases. This is a bit like the free street mags (that you get in places like melbourne) where music critics weekly review albums. I used to buy albums on the back of those reviews, and I would do the same for free music too.
Hmm although this may make some technical sense, I think that you need to consider the companies....
Nokia's Overview shows it to be an old Finish company that moved from a Cable Works company into mobile phones as the market grew.
Cisco's Overview shows it to be a 20 year old company that was set up by a group of American university hackers.
Yes both are large, sell globally, and both know about the bits and pieces that make communications work, however they are 2 very different corporate cultures. We've seen that when Daimler-Benz merged with Chrysler, the clash of cultures resulting in a range of trensions, and new inefficencies. The brash American "can do" and the more planned and calculated German approach, has resutled in the worst of both, rather the best of both companies.
Maybe Cisco should look a
little closer to home?
I brought a PPC ibook for my girl about a week before the intel announcement, and initally was a little concerned... but she's not idea about intel / ppc or any of that computer geeky blah blah (of course, being here, ipso facto, i am), but rather that it looks pretty, people tell her its safe, its simple to use and the battery last for a long time.
I think with the iBook market we've got to remember who its marketed at - people like my girl, who wont change their mind at all because of that intel thingy that they heard about.
If you get blocked, and want to read try alterslash. I use alterslash.org for most of my slash browsing, its all nicely on a single page, and no icky geen.
BTW - an interesting snippet from Jobs to back this up;
"Mac OS X has been "leading a secret double life" for the past five years, said Jobs. "So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for PowerPC and Intel. This has been going on for the last five years."
I just realised (maybe rather slowly) something about OSX.
Remember how it used to be 0S 6.0 or OS 9.1 or whatever, and then with the move to PPC it became OSX... fine roman numerals, but was it also an inside joke reference to OSX being the OS for X86???
Or maybe I just have my off topic tin foil hat on...
If you brought an Apple 1 in 1977, would it have been expensive?
According to here this can be translated (into 2003 dollars) as follows;
In 2003, $666.66 from 1977 is worth:
$2,023.56 using the Consumer Price Index
$1,647.39 using the GDP deflator
$1,947.17 using the unskilled wage
$2,733.51 using the GDP per capita
$3,605.56 using the relative share of GDP
Which I guess means that the relativelty the Apple 1 was expensive compared to a mini at $500 USD, but about the same as a top line G5 dual 2.5G at $3,000 USD
But I doubt I'll be whacking together a dual G5 in 23 years for only 100 bucks
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."... and this is exactly why I prefer using python over other langs. I just find that unlike some languages where there are definately more than one way of doing thing (great for writting code), python means that there usually is only one way of doing things. This means that to read someone elses (or you old) code is easier as what's going on is more apparent.
Python's use of white space to infer logic is also cool - means that you can more easily look at the code and understand what's going on.
I guess I like it because I'm lazy - but I'm sure many of us here are guilty of that...
If you look at the information over the last couple of days; - Apple has started to push the colour iPodPhoto - iPodPhoto is soon to have support to hook in directly with digital cameras - Apple release little shiny box (mini mac), that sits nicely beside your tv - Apple is reported to be looking to buy tvio
The next logical step is an iPodVideo, with tvio as a main part of iVideo, just like iTunes & iPhoto are the hook into iPod & iPodPhoto. Your tvio box is squeezed into the next mini, and with just some movie decoding / playing hardware you've got yourself a little iPod that syncs up with your mini, and allows you to watch last night's shows on the way to work.
Everyone that I know who into video editing uses firewire for speed (ok also the daisy chain ablity also cool). For an iPodVideo I'd want super fast firewire thanks very much.
automakers don't release all of the diagnostic codes to vehicles, claiming that releasing the codes "would allow independent parts manufacturers to copy components that cost millions of dollars to develop".
Currently cars are sold a a price determined by the sum of all costs and revenue streams. A company needs to be able to recoup the costs of the business (development, manufacture, marketing, IT department's coffee, etc) from revenue (selling you the car, offical fluffy dice, parts, and service).
By reducing the potential revenue stream of the parts and service, the costs will need to be recouped in other areas, meaning increased inital cost of the car...
I think that allowing competition in parts and servicing is a good thing... and may lead to cheaper servicing, but it will lead to more expensive cars. Net, Net, you may be a little better off, but you will pay for it somehow...
The teacher would read out my Name every morning, and i'd say "Yes". These files were centrally stored and who knows what evil purposes those stats were used for!!!
I did some work at a telco in the UK working ofn the CTI (computer telephony integration) for a CRM (Customer Relationship Management system) implementation.
What you're impressed with is call hand-off with context. This involves the integration of the phone system with the CRM or other applications. Baiscally you have to work out a way that when your telphone call is switch from Operator A to Operator B the information on what you are talking about (eg current address deatils) is displayed on Operator B's PC.
Its not as esay as you might think, and really depends on the Phone System and the CRM. As VoIP is used more and more, the integration is easier. However conversly as web-based CRMs are used, the problem gets harder, as it can be tricky to know link the CRM session on the server to the address of the phone, mainly as the IP address of the terminal user isn't constant, and those pesky security guys keep masking it.
Anyhoo, I agree that hand-off with context is cool, and I really appreciate it when it happens too, but a lot of companies don't do it because its an integration nightmare with little obvious return.
Here endith the random rant - now must get coffee.
A bit of shameless self-referencing here. I commented on the PS / JDE on slash here some time back... so here it is again; I've worked with a range of these ERPs and advise companies on their choices. They aren't all the same thing.
Historically it goes like this;
PeopleSoft is the leader in Human Resources ERP software.
SAP leads manufacturing / distribution software
Oracle is best at Finance
All of theses top tier ERP systems offer enterprise wide applications. SAP has good HR solution, PS now owns JDE which gives it a look into manufacturing and dist, and Oracle is increasing its HR.
Basically Oracle has a load of cash from its Database income base, and by absorbing PS, it would greatly increase its HR market share, and more easily dominate the market.
Now Oracle has bought PS, its going to be huge in the HR space, and a really compete with SAP. Oracle say in its latest release on its website that it will continue the PS line for sometime, and release version 9. I personally thinkit will go the way of Vantive and JDE. You'll see PS survive for under a year, then the labels and logos will change and nothing else, and finally in about 2-3 years time it will be ported to Oracle technology, and be no more.
One final prediction. When the port to Oracle apps technology occurs, you will be locked into using an Oracle database (unlike PS which sat on a range of DBs).
Slashdot Mirror
ahh yes, but its just payback for Tim Schaaff
through my extensive research
I came up with this
We've got great news for you, then! Industry sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, have let us know that Warner Home Video has both of these animated series on their radar screen for a possible mid-2006 DVD release! Look for a multi-disc set for each show, with around two dozen episodes per box.
"Why Brain, what are we gonna to do tomorrow night?"
"Guess... "
"Oh yeah, try to take over the world, right... "
When all current filesharing systems have been hunted down and destroyed the users of those systems will flock to:
a) CD Stores
b) The next, better, faster, more anonymous filesharing system
c) AllOfMp3.com to buy entire albums for peanuts
Really when you think of it, for $1.50 for an album, 100 albums (hell of a lot of music) for $150, and no Feds chasing you... its going to be C.
I've been reading over the posts, and there is a number of good points that offering your music for free is a good way of ensuring that lots of people come to your shows, where you can make some real money (rather than the $0.20 per CD). I've had 2 thoughts about the free music thing...
1st... How you could get people to pay you some money for your songs is to exploit the "first post" urge of your fans, and get them to register at the bands offical homepage, and have a page for the supporting fans. You just need to have the option for paying $1 for the album, and if you do, you get your name added to the supporters page for that release. You then also have a good chat room area, where people have an auto sig that lists or links to the pages, and a summary.
E.g. for U2
User: Mahju (user 164067)
Albums:
Autung Baby (Bronze Supporter - 123456th),
Zooropa (Silver Supporter - 540th Download)
Pop (Silver Supporter - 13th Download)
ATYCLB (Gold Supporter - 2576th Download)
HTDAAB (Bronze Supporter - 10276th Download)
This way you use the force of your real fans to get some payback on the inital album costs. People would want to have their name registered for the bragging rights (what if you were the 1st person to register for U2 Boy? some good karma there...).
Now my 2nd thought... The 'evil' music industry does actually filter out a lot of crap bands, and deliver a certain quality standard of music. Yes not all are great i know, but it does mean that most tone deaf, musically illiterate, idiot isn't flooding the airwaves. That's because the labels don't want to invest money in bands that we wont like enough to pay them some money such that they get a return on investment. If we move towards free downloads, then the distribution model for the music will have to change. I suspect that this will move towards something two things;
1. Tour promoters advertising the bands to us.
2. Review sites listing the new releases. This is a bit like the free street mags (that you get in places like melbourne) where music critics weekly review albums. I used to buy albums on the back of those reviews, and I would do the same for free music too.
Hmm although this may make some technical sense, I think that you need to consider the companies....
Nokia's Overview shows it to be an old Finish company that moved from a Cable Works company into mobile phones as the market grew.
Cisco's Overview shows it to be a 20 year old company that was set up by a group of American university hackers.
Yes both are large, sell globally, and both know about the bits and pieces that make communications work, however they are 2 very different corporate cultures. We've seen that when Daimler-Benz merged with Chrysler, the clash of cultures resulting in a range of trensions, and new inefficencies. The brash American "can do" and the more planned and calculated German approach, has resutled in the worst of both, rather the best of both companies. Maybe Cisco should look a little closer to home?I brought a PPC ibook for my girl about a week before the intel announcement, and initally was a little concerned... but she's not idea about intel / ppc or any of that computer geeky blah blah (of course, being here, ipso facto, i am), but rather that it looks pretty, people tell her its safe, its simple to use and the battery last for a long time.
I think with the iBook market we've got to remember who its marketed at - people like my girl, who wont change their mind at all because of that intel thingy that they heard about.
If you get blocked, and want to read try alterslash.
I use alterslash.org for most of my slash browsing, its all nicely on a single page, and no icky geen.
your right - my bad.
BTW - an interesting snippet from Jobs to back this up;
"Mac OS X has been "leading a secret double life" for the past five years, said Jobs. "So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for PowerPC and Intel. This has been going on for the last five years."
I just realised (maybe rather slowly) something about OSX.
Remember how it used to be 0S 6.0 or OS 9.1 or whatever, and then with the move to PPC it became OSX... fine roman numerals, but was it also an inside joke reference to OSX being the OS for X86???
Or maybe I just have my off topic tin foil hat on...
nope - wrong demographic. He's only 3hours from a woman, not a lifetime
If you're wondering the back-up shuttle is sitting there with the engine running, waiting to lead into action. From the atricle;
The rescue shuttle will not necessarily be on the launch pad, but will be ready to fly to the space station within 45 to 90 days
"Honey I'll be back monday, oh but if there's a problem with the ride, I'll be about 3 months late".
This would make a very cool alternative to paint ball in a couple of years.
Just think - either paint balls instead of nerf and a teams facing off against each other in a urban lanscape firing away.
Alternatively some freeking lasers would also be an option for the fire power that's exchanged.
Astronull.
If you brought an Apple 1 in 1977, would it have been expensive?
According to here this can be translated (into 2003 dollars) as follows;
In 2003, $666.66 from 1977 is worth:
$2,023.56 using the Consumer Price Index
$1,647.39 using the GDP deflator
$1,947.17 using the unskilled wage
$2,733.51 using the GDP per capita
$3,605.56 using the relative share of GDP
Which I guess means that the relativelty the Apple 1 was expensive compared to a mini at $500 USD, but about the same as a top line G5 dual 2.5G at $3,000 USD
But I doubt I'll be whacking together a dual G5 in 23 years for only 100 bucks
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." ... and this is exactly why I prefer using python over other langs. I just find that unlike some languages where there are definately more than one way of doing thing (great for writting code), python means that there usually is only one way of doing things. This means that to read someone elses (or you old) code is easier as what's going on is more apparent.
Python's use of white space to infer logic is also cool - means that you can more easily look at the code and understand what's going on.
I guess I like it because I'm lazy - but I'm sure many of us here are guilty of that...
A complete change of life.
They now can line up to get their mojo injected.
Yeah baby. Yeah!
...you'd want fire-wire.
If you look at the information over the last couple of days;
- Apple has started to push the colour iPodPhoto
- iPodPhoto is soon to have support to hook in directly with digital cameras
- Apple release little shiny box (mini mac), that sits nicely beside your tv
- Apple is reported to be looking to buy tvio
The next logical step is an iPodVideo, with tvio as a main part of iVideo, just like iTunes & iPhoto are the hook into iPod & iPodPhoto. Your tvio box is squeezed into the next mini, and with just some movie decoding / playing hardware you've got yourself a little iPod that syncs up with your mini, and allows you to watch last night's shows on the way to work.
Everyone that I know who into video editing uses firewire for speed (ok also the daisy chain ablity also cool). For an iPodVideo I'd want super fast firewire thanks very much.
automakers don't release all of the diagnostic codes to vehicles, claiming that releasing the codes "would allow independent parts manufacturers to copy components that cost millions of dollars to develop".
Currently cars are sold a a price determined by the sum of all costs and revenue streams. A company needs to be able to recoup the costs of the business (development, manufacture, marketing, IT department's coffee, etc) from revenue (selling you the car, offical fluffy dice, parts, and service).
By reducing the potential revenue stream of the parts and service, the costs will need to be recouped in other areas, meaning increased inital cost of the car...
I think that allowing competition in parts and servicing is a good thing... and may lead to cheaper servicing, but it will lead to more expensive cars. Net, Net, you may be a little better off, but you will pay for it somehow...
According to the site (which has been up for about a month):
/.
Cotton and Tulip have been fed 7356 times
I take it we can add an obiese cat to the negative effect of
The teacher would read out my Name every morning, and i'd say "Yes". These files were centrally stored and who knows what evil purposes those stats were used for!!!
I did some work at a telco in the UK working ofn the CTI (computer telephony integration) for a CRM (Customer Relationship Management system) implementation.
What you're impressed with is call hand-off with context. This involves the integration of the phone system with the CRM or other applications. Baiscally you have to work out a way that when your telphone call is switch from Operator A to Operator B the information on what you are talking about (eg current address deatils) is displayed on Operator B's PC.
Its not as esay as you might think, and really depends on the Phone System and the CRM. As VoIP is used more and more, the integration is easier. However conversly as web-based CRMs are used, the problem gets harder, as it can be tricky to know link the CRM session on the server to the address of the phone, mainly as the IP address of the terminal user isn't constant, and those pesky security guys keep masking it.
Anyhoo, I agree that hand-off with context is cool, and I really appreciate it when it happens too, but a lot of companies don't do it because its an integration nightmare with little obvious return.
Here endith the random rant - now must get coffee.
your just trying to get another day off work for "RMS Day"
A bit of shameless self-referencing here. I commented on the PS / JDE on slash here some time back... so here it is again;
I've worked with a range of these ERPs and advise companies on their choices. They aren't all the same thing.
Historically it goes like this;
PeopleSoft is the leader in Human Resources ERP software.
SAP leads manufacturing / distribution software
Oracle is best at Finance
All of theses top tier ERP systems offer enterprise wide applications. SAP has good HR solution, PS now owns JDE which gives it a look into manufacturing and dist, and Oracle is increasing its HR.
Basically Oracle has a load of cash from its Database income base, and by absorbing PS, it would greatly increase its HR market share, and more easily dominate the market.
Now Oracle has bought PS, its going to be huge in the HR space, and a really compete with SAP. Oracle say in its latest release on its website that it will continue the PS line for sometime, and release version 9. I personally thinkit will go the way of Vantive and JDE. You'll see PS survive for under a year, then the labels and logos will change and nothing else, and finally in about 2-3 years time it will be ported to Oracle technology, and be no more.
One final prediction. When the port to Oracle apps technology occurs, you will be locked into using an Oracle database (unlike PS which sat on a range of DBs).