Apparently some people are paying license fees, If you take a look at their most recent Quarterly Report
they mention
"During the quarter ended April 30, 2003, we recognized $8,250,000, or 39 percent of our quarterly revenue, from our intellectual property licensing initiative, SCOsource, launched in January 2003."
Obviously some people are stupid enough to license.
If Enron taught us anything, it's that dollar amounts are not necessarily based on anything real.
Why was the safety monitoring system on a nuclear power plant exposed, even indirectly, to the internet?
It doesn't even necessarily take an indirect connection to the internet. If a virus is on a laptop that was connected to a public (or any infected network) like at home, then connected to a completely autonomous network, it can then infect that network.
Maybe we should all be considerate and send data with less 1's and more 0's. When sending emails, don't use uppercase letters, try to use websites that use no graphics, and for gods sake, don't compress or encrypt anything!
I assume you're referring to WM9 being a necessity when you say this. Just a note, though, you don't have to upgrade the OS to run WM9. I'm running WM9 (I'm really not all that pleased with WinAmp) on Windows 98, and I haven't had any problems. Now, that doesn't mean that WM10 won't require you to run XP or Longhorn, and the moment WM10 comes out, that you won't be forced to upgrade it to keep playing your music, but for now, you're not locked in.
WM10... Yeah, that was the point I was going to try and make, but my communication skills weren't working.. Eventually they won't support either WM9 or the OS it runs under, and you're forced to either upgrade, or keep an old OS around (without security patches, etc..)
You know it just occurred to me... Maybe this is obvious to everyone, but once you buy something tied to Microsoft's DRM, they now lock you into a cycle of upgrading your OS, and if you don't, you risk losing all "your" purchased music.
From the article: "Rick Woodbury starts every morning with silent meditation in a small Tibetan Buddhist temple in Spokane. His prayers call for an end to sickness, war and suffering, but since he doesn't know how to do those things, he decided instead to create an environmental traffic-busting car."
I've often considered this, but I'm hesitant to suggest meditation to my team since since it could be construed as a religious practice, especially since I'm a Buddhist and meditation is a large part of my practice.
If my director came to me and said "ok, I read an article about how 60 minutes of daily prayer would benefit productivity; start tomorrow," I might become pretty irritated. I don't want to do that to my employees (not to mention the legal ramifications).
Granted I usually buy stuff that is not RIAA affiliated thanks to the RIAA Radar, but I prefer the CD because it looks nice and it's a great way to ensure that my investment is safe. I just rip the CD as some oggs and add them to my playlist.
Hey, all you need is food, water and shelter. Most of the things you enjoy in life are absolutely unnecessary.
And along those lines, according to Buddhism, most of the things you enjoy actually cause suffering....but when you imply that others have a moral obligation to do as you do, you sound like the fox who lost his tail and then tried to convince all the other foxes that being tailless is better.:)
I have no sympathy for the record companies. I think they started a downward spiral years before P2P networks came on the scene. Napster & co. have just been the last nails in the coffin.
I used to have roughly 35,000 mp3s. I can't pretend this was any sort of legit file sharing, it was a gross orgy of gathering every song I liked even slightly. But I recently deleted them all and bought from Apple iTunes maybe a half-dozen song I couldn't live without.
The lessons I learned were: a) sharing a few tunes with someone to turn them on is one thing, downloading tens of thousands is imposible to justify. b) As I said I don't have any sympathy for the bands represented by the RIAA, and don't think they deserve any money. By having thousands of songs, all I'm doing is helping to promote them for free. c) Music is addictive, and free music is even more so. There's much better things to obsess over.
So in short: RIAA is bad, but so is downloading mp3's. Avoid it all and just enjoy the ocassional song, preferably a local band or something. You don't need much more.
THANK YOU! That drives us a little insane, literally (just kidding).
Another on our list: "catch 22." People at her school use it so poorly. Tteacher- "the material is delecate, so you have to be careful." Student- "wow, what a catch-22."
Simple answer: stop violating the rights of the RIAA and stealing and distributing their property, or face prosecution and legal fees.
Here's your river:
I (and a few others I know) use various P2P services to share **OUR** own works (music and other multimedia). People searching for certain keywords have picked up our stuff. It's worked very well, too. And we're fine with people sharing our stuff, too.
But now I'm probably going to stop because I'm afraid of getting erroniously slapped with a huge lawsuit by the RIAA, who assumes that because I'm sharing files, those files belong to someone they represent. It's a shame really.
Also, if your business can get away with it, try and spread the downloads out among time. For example: split your customer base by some hashing algorithm, and notify them evenly spaced out over a few days. Or even tie bandwidth monitoring to notification, so that as the usage peak from the last batch of notifications begins to drop, start notifying the next batch. Again, this depends on your business model of course.
Translation: "Hey Microsoft! Our givernment is a little over budget this year. Come 'donate' a few million computers and Windows OS Licenses to our government and schools, mmmkay? Then we'll forget all about this silly OSS business."
You are also pointing out a reason why CD sales are going down. The cost of CDs is ridiculous. When CDs came out they were about $10, and the should have gone down. They haven't gone down instead the cost went up and the quality has gone down. I think they just need to keep paying the billionare CEOs that sit on top of the Record Companies.
Close. CDs were about US$14, compared with $7 for a tape/record at the time when CDs came onto the scene. The companies explained very publically that the double price was to cover the extra costs involved in low-volume manufacturing of CDs (since the demand just wasn't there yet).
Well since then, the volume manufacturing of CDs is happening, and it's actually cheaper to make a CD than a tape or record. But the prices of CDs have steadily increased and never dropped to the price of tapes and records.
I don't pity the record industry. Hell, I don't even pity the 'artists.' The economics to make a good living profit from playing music just isn't there (unless you have a major record company creating mass hysteria and popularity)...
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The grave.
If Enron taught us anything, it's that dollar amounts are not necessarily based on anything real.
Why was the safety monitoring system on a nuclear power plant exposed, even indirectly, to the internet?
It doesn't even necessarily take an indirect connection to the internet. If a virus is on a laptop that was connected to a public (or any infected network) like at home, then connected to a completely autonomous network, it can then infect that network.
Maybe you'll get your money back when SCO is counter-sued into oblivion and forced to pay restitution to everyone they extorted money from.
Maybe we should all be considerate and send data with less 1's and more 0's. When sending emails, don't use uppercase letters, try to use websites that use no graphics, and for gods sake, don't compress or encrypt anything!
I assume you're referring to WM9 being a necessity when you say this. Just a note, though, you don't have to upgrade the OS to run WM9. I'm running WM9 (I'm really not all that pleased with WinAmp) on Windows 98, and I haven't had any problems. Now, that doesn't mean that WM10 won't require you to run XP or Longhorn, and the moment WM10 comes out, that you won't be forced to upgrade it to keep playing your music, but for now, you're not locked in.
WM10... Yeah, that was the point I was going to try and make, but my communication skills weren't working.. Eventually they won't support either WM9 or the OS it runs under, and you're forced to either upgrade, or keep an old OS around (without security patches, etc..)
You know it just occurred to me... Maybe this is obvious to everyone, but once you buy something tied to Microsoft's DRM, they now lock you into a cycle of upgrading your OS, and if you don't, you risk losing all "your" purchased music.
From the article: "Rick Woodbury starts every morning with silent meditation in a small Tibetan Buddhist temple in Spokane. His prayers call for an end to sickness, war and suffering, but since he doesn't know how to do those things, he decided instead to create an environmental traffic-busting car."
That's pretty cool of them to point out.
Yeah, probably the latter. It may be construed that if they didn't do it, I might pass them over for a promotion or something...
I've often considered this, but I'm hesitant to suggest meditation to my team since since it could be construed as a religious practice, especially since I'm a Buddhist and meditation is a large part of my practice.
If my director came to me and said "ok, I read an article about how 60 minutes of daily prayer would benefit productivity; start tomorrow," I might become pretty irritated. I don't want to do that to my employees (not to mention the legal ramifications).
Unfortunatly, your investment may not last that long: Prolonging CD-ROM's Life Expectancy.
Agreed. I just signed up a few days ago, and I can't believe I missed this one.
Now if they were truely geeks, they would've made it out of a Lego Mindstorm kit.
Hey, all you need is food, water and shelter. Most of the things you enjoy in life are absolutely unnecessary.
...but when you imply that others have a moral obligation to do as you do, you sound like the fox who lost his tail and then tried to convince all the other foxes that being tailless is better. :)
And along those lines, according to Buddhism, most of the things you enjoy actually cause suffering.
No, these aren't gnomes, they're trolls, who are much better at business:
1. Profit.
2. Sue everyone.
3. Profit more.
I think I'll add to the static.
I have no sympathy for the record companies. I think they started a downward spiral years before P2P networks came on the scene. Napster & co. have just been the last nails in the coffin.
I used to have roughly 35,000 mp3s. I can't pretend this was any sort of legit file sharing, it was a gross orgy of gathering every song I liked even slightly. But I recently deleted them all and bought from Apple iTunes maybe a half-dozen song I couldn't live without.
The lessons I learned were: a) sharing a few tunes with someone to turn them on is one thing, downloading tens of thousands is imposible to justify. b) As I said I don't have any sympathy for the bands represented by the RIAA, and don't think they deserve any money. By having thousands of songs, all I'm doing is helping to promote them for free. c) Music is addictive, and free music is even more so. There's much better things to obsess over.
So in short: RIAA is bad, but so is downloading mp3's. Avoid it all and just enjoy the ocassional song, preferably a local band or something. You don't need much more.
literally
THANK YOU! That drives us a little insane, literally (just kidding).
Another on our list: "catch 22." People at her school use it so poorly. Tteacher- "the material is delecate, so you have to be careful." Student- "wow, what a catch-22."
Looking at my copy of Book 4 (I don't have book 5 on hand) it says, in the jacket:
"Text copyright © 2000 by J.K. Rowling"
Still, that won't prevent SCO from suing her and WB and everyone else eventually.
Simple answer: stop violating the rights of the RIAA and stealing and distributing their property, or face prosecution and legal fees.
Here's your river:
I (and a few others I know) use various P2P services to share **OUR** own works (music and other multimedia). People searching for certain keywords have picked up our stuff. It's worked very well, too. And we're fine with people sharing our stuff, too.
But now I'm probably going to stop because I'm afraid of getting erroniously slapped with a huge lawsuit by the RIAA, who assumes that because I'm sharing files, those files belong to someone they represent. It's a shame really.
Also, if your business can get away with it, try and spread the downloads out among time. For example: split your customer base by some hashing algorithm, and notify them evenly spaced out over a few days. Or even tie bandwidth monitoring to notification, so that as the usage peak from the last batch of notifications begins to drop, start notifying the next batch. Again, this depends on your business model of course.
Translation: "Hey Microsoft! Our givernment is a little over budget this year. Come 'donate' a few million computers and Windows OS Licenses to our government and schools, mmmkay? Then we'll forget all about this silly OSS business."
How appropriate. SCO Unix is empty of existence.
You are also pointing out a reason why CD sales are going down. The cost of CDs is ridiculous. When CDs came out they were about $10, and the should have gone down. They haven't gone down instead the cost went up and the quality has gone down. I think they just need to keep paying the billionare CEOs that sit on top of the Record Companies.
Close. CDs were about US$14, compared with $7 for a tape/record at the time when CDs came onto the scene. The companies explained very publically that the double price was to cover the extra costs involved in low-volume manufacturing of CDs (since the demand just wasn't there yet).
Well since then, the volume manufacturing of CDs is happening, and it's actually cheaper to make a CD than a tape or record. But the prices of CDs have steadily increased and never dropped to the price of tapes and records.
I don't pity the record industry. Hell, I don't even pity the 'artists.' The economics to make a good living profit from playing music just isn't there (unless you have a major record company creating mass hysteria and popularity)...
free pr0n
Even if everyone on /. pooled their money, I don't think we could afford to pass a bill like this.