For me, its not about piracy at all, not even remotely. I want to consume media - music, TV, movies, games and I'm happy to pay for it. I'd probably pay $30/mth for all the content I can download. Could the suit-wearers imagine the revenue from collecting $30/mth from every family in Australia? Can your greedy minds cope with a revenue stream that large?
In Australia, we don't have something of the shelf that I'm aware of like Tivo or ReplayTV (sure, I can spend some geek-fu and build a Myth box, but I haven't got around to it). Commercials are 8-10 minutes of a 30 minute show and I hate wasting *1 hour* of my life if I watch TV for 3 hours in the evening.
The alternative is to download commercial-free avis of Battlestar Galactica, The Apprentice (-ve karma there!) etc. I could (allegedly;-) ) watch it when I want, with no ads.
Music? Why would I drive 15 minutes to the nearest store, fight hoards of obnoxious teenagers, put up with inane top 40 muzak, and deal with some punk store kid when I can just browse online?
Don't the *AA get it? Its not about piracy. Its about content delivery. Technology has changed the way you interact with your customers - with apps like BitTorrent, the more customers you have, the LOWER your costs per sale. DRM doesn't work, there is always an analogue signal to re-digitise and distribute. People watch cams!
Wake up and smell the coffee...change your distribution model and make even more of your precious $
I actually found it quite interesting. Having never been to Antartica, I learnt quite a few things:
* China has a base there * Ships take 10 hours to get into "port" with much crunching of ice along the way. * Penguins aren't even remotely afraid of people.
Your post doesn't really add anything to the discussion. If you don't have anything useful to say, read the next article!
I work as a developer and requested an IBM R50p with 1Gb RAM, which is plenty to handle Tomcat + IntelliJ + Firefox + Outlook + other crud.
On the occasions where I have to go to meetings all day, I've got 8+ hours out of the battery (taking notes, wireless network etc). Admittedly, this is the extended battery (hangs a little out of the back), but with a DVD writer, 60Gb and IBM sturdiness, its definitely the best laptop I've used.
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FAST started as a web search company (alltheweb), before its focus on Enterprise Search. Check out the wiki page or even fastsearch.com
Disclaimer: I work for FAST.
Ignorance is no excuse.
I'm sure he has a 14 year old pimply faced nephew who can do some whois voodoo, get hold of the hosting service, grab the content and update it.
Otherwise, just you look it up in the Yellow Pages under "Website Design"!
I mean seriously, if your local mechanic goes out of business, do you just keep driving your car until it breaks down?
Mod the parent all the way up to Hollywood!
;-) ) watch it when I want, with no ads.
For me, its not about piracy at all, not even remotely. I want to consume media - music, TV, movies, games and I'm happy to pay for it. I'd probably pay $30/mth for all the content I can download. Could the suit-wearers imagine the revenue from collecting $30/mth from every family in Australia? Can your greedy minds cope with a revenue stream that large?
In Australia, we don't have something of the shelf that I'm aware of like Tivo or ReplayTV (sure, I can spend some geek-fu and build a Myth box, but I haven't got around to it). Commercials are 8-10 minutes of a 30 minute show and I hate wasting *1 hour* of my life if I watch TV for 3 hours in the evening.
The alternative is to download commercial-free avis of Battlestar Galactica, The Apprentice (-ve karma there!) etc. I could (allegedly
Music? Why would I drive 15 minutes to the nearest store, fight hoards of obnoxious teenagers, put up with inane top 40 muzak, and deal with some punk store kid when I can just browse online?
Don't the *AA get it? Its not about piracy. Its about content delivery. Technology has changed the way you interact with your customers - with apps like BitTorrent, the more customers you have, the LOWER your costs per sale. DRM doesn't work, there is always an analogue signal to re-digitise and distribute. People watch cams!
Wake up and smell the coffee...change your distribution model and make even more of your precious $
I actually found it quite interesting. Having never been to Antartica, I learnt quite a few things:
* China has a base there
* Ships take 10 hours to get into "port" with much crunching of ice along the way.
* Penguins aren't even remotely afraid of people.
Your post doesn't really add anything to the discussion. If you don't have anything useful to say, read the next article!
but my laptop seriously rocks.
I work as a developer and requested an IBM R50p with 1Gb RAM, which is plenty to handle Tomcat + IntelliJ + Firefox + Outlook + other crud.
On the occasions where I have to go to meetings all day, I've got 8+ hours out of the battery (taking notes, wireless network etc). Admittedly, this is the extended battery (hangs a little out of the back), but with a DVD writer, 60Gb and IBM sturdiness, its definitely the best laptop I've used.
Its a shame I can't mod the parent +1 astroturf...how about:
"Interestingly CodeTek uses this exact same bit of code for their latest VirtualDesktop program."
Seems pretty clear to me.
Err, I'm pretty sure the above was meant to be funny :)
I doubt very much that Google's engineers would think they only needed a 32-bit integer for their doc id.
I think the original post in this thread needs <fud> delimiters.
Dude, he knew you were going to write this comment and so he included page 4 just for you. *grin*
Easy - have your personal assistant (who probably sent the email on his behalf anyway) delete all the responses ;-)
Not his problem!
If more Slashdot readers read the article they wouldn't believe the author made the statement about the Titanic ;-)