Jon Katz is pretentious. He is no more than an average writer - he isn't an expert witness on anything. He presents his shallow opinion as fact.
Now, for the music industry: If artists aren't able to make the money by selling their music, they will turn to in-song/in-movie advertising. It has already happened in some places.
In Pakistan and India, where there are very few laws to protect artists from pirating, the movie companies have found a different way to make money.
They make their money (as everyone must) by selling advertising that dances across the screen. Imagine your favorite scene from SW/ST/Matrix with a dancing cigarette pack imaged over the screen.
If artists intellectual/musical property isn't protected in a way that allows them to make money by selling it, then expect to start hearing songs about how great Pepsi tastes and how much the artist loves his Dodge truck.
I don't know why, but I accidently typed Europe instead of East Asia, sans china. As for the rest of your comments, your are a socialist and are of no interest or consequence to me or society.
I remember the initial fallout with the space program after Hubble. You would have thought NASA would be defunded.
Hopefully, the recent success with Hubble will be a rallying cry for greater investment in space.
However, the problem with Hubble and a lot of other space programs is that they are government-run beurocracies.
Who wouldn't want to buy a piece of NASA on the market should the government privatize it? A new board of directors could be voted in and it would be come a leaner, meaner corporation.
Thought it would suck, admittedly, if AOL bought it out.
On Wednesday, I am having a machine delivered with the ATI Rage Fury MAXX. Two processors and 64mb of ram. DVD hardware and TV Out to boot. The chip also boosts the best support for DirectX and D3D. So why does ATI never get any good press?
France (not the people, but the government) has a few severe problems with it's economic system, and it is extending the same philosophy that caused these problems to software.
Essentially, they are starting to treat software manufacturers like equity owners (shareholders).
In France, the rights of a shareholder are minimal. Unlike in the US, where shareholder interests are supreme and codified into the law, France gives very few rights to shareholders - decisions to improve a companies financial health and the wealth of the shareholders take a back seat to worker "rights" to employment, etc.
The result? France attracks little foreign investment, and investors in France do not invest domestically. The capital flows to countries where their property rights are protected (US, UK, Europe).
Thus France suffers from high unemployment and a lack of capital for new business start ups. When is the last time you bought anything that said "Made in France."
Now, they are extending this philosophy - a disregard for property rights - to the area of intellectual property.
The same results will follow with software in France.
It isn't that there is a problem with open source-like schemes. The problem is when the government compels is, no matter how well-intentioned.
I've been a reviewer of PC games for a magazine for a while, and have been playing them for about 12 years. And I have to conclude that it will fail.
No matter how good a game is, they need marketing. To have marketing, you need a publisher who is going to buy adds in the major mags and secure you shelf space at EB, Best Buy, etc.
Think about Microsoft. While you may not think much of the products, you have to admire their masterful marketing ability. There are probably situations where better products were *totally ignored* because their developers ignored marketing while Microsoft made it priority one.
Besides, this game is probably not as good as MS Research's Allegiance (very similar). But I'll mention it to the editor and see if we can get it reviewed.
Please don't flame me for this, as I am just trying to discuss this reasonably.
Along the lines of this article, I've long been suspicious that women who wear makeup with toxic traces and alchohol on a daily bases causes negative effects in the long term.
Just think about perfume. The perfume gains its pungency because the scents are caried as the alchohol evaporates. Imagine inhaling that all day long.
Isn't there some benefit to having analogue instruments?
Given radiation and other space born anomolies, don't these upgrades create another occasion for something to go wrong?
If I recall correctly (IIRC), nearly half episodes on Star Trek: The Next Generation were based on problems that could have been avoided with analogue equipment. So there.
What caused a lot of the tech stocks to go down was two things: 1. Hundred's of companies costs are kept low by having to develop for one platform, Windows. The threat that they may no longer be able to do this warrents a reduction in their equity value. 2. Capital Gains taxes. A lot of people had to pay 20% of their "paper" gains to the government. This necessitated a sellof of the stocks these people were mostly holding.
I'll make this quick. The real problem is that they released the information publicly. As for the analogy, imagine someone picked the locks and then put up signs all over the neighborhood explaining how to pick my lock. Same deal, here. Those who hacked it, I think, ought to be legally responsible if their information is used to cause real damage.
Actually, the ebook revolution is going to do the exact opposite of what the writer portends. Regardless of what well intentioned laws will do, I am confident that texts will flow so much more freely now over the internet and through other data-transfer systems. If you want something to fear, consider what will happen if writers can no longer earn a living due to widespread pirating of their electronic texts. As has happened with media in other countries without intellectual property laws, expect to see choice "product placements" in texts to recoup with ad revenue what was lost in liscensing sales.
I believe that Mr. Katz and many other/. readers are overreacting. WAVE America is an extension of most schools current policy of allowing students to share information with administrators and counselors without revealing their identity. Every school in the country encourages students to share information with school leadership when that information might help prevent an act of violence. They will generally keep the person who brings that information forward secret because, if they couldn't, it is unlikely that such people would come forward. Who could disagree with allowing students to ananymously tell administrators about problems with their classmates? What is the worse that could possibly come of it? A counselor inviting a student to meet with them and encourage them to share their thoughts, probably. WAVE America merely automates this over the internet. If you honestly have a problem with this, you should direct your anger and arguments to schools that allow students to ananymously advice administrators of potentially dangerous students.
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Jon Katz is pretentious. He is no more than an average writer - he isn't an expert witness on anything. He presents his shallow opinion as fact.
Now, for the music industry:
If artists aren't able to make the money by selling their music, they will turn to in-song/in-movie advertising. It has already happened in some places.
In Pakistan and India, where there are very few laws to protect artists from pirating, the movie companies have found a different way to make money.
They make their money (as everyone must) by selling advertising that dances across the screen. Imagine your favorite scene from SW/ST/Matrix with a dancing cigarette pack imaged over the screen.
If artists intellectual/musical property isn't protected in a way that allows them to make money by selling it, then expect to start hearing songs about how great Pepsi tastes and how much the artist loves his Dodge truck.
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I don't know why, but I accidently typed Europe instead of East Asia, sans china. As for the rest of your comments, your are a socialist and are of no interest or consequence to me or society.
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I remember the initial fallout with the space program after Hubble. You would have thought NASA would be defunded.
Hopefully, the recent success with Hubble will be a rallying cry for greater investment in space.
However, the problem with Hubble and a lot of other space programs is that they are government-run beurocracies.
Who wouldn't want to buy a piece of NASA on the market should the government privatize it? A new board of directors could be voted in and it would be come a leaner, meaner corporation.
Thought it would suck, admittedly, if AOL bought it out.
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The growth of their stock market is more a factor of their money supply than increasing corporate income.
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Every piece of software on my machine.
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On Wednesday, I am having a machine delivered with the ATI Rage Fury MAXX.
Two processors and 64mb of ram. DVD hardware and TV Out to boot.
The chip also boosts the best support for DirectX and D3D.
So why does ATI never get any good press?
Soldier(R)
France (not the people, but the government) has a few severe problems with it's economic system, and it is extending the same philosophy that caused these problems to software.
Essentially, they are starting to treat software manufacturers like equity owners (shareholders).
In France, the rights of a shareholder are minimal. Unlike in the US, where shareholder interests are supreme and codified into the law, France gives very few rights to shareholders - decisions to improve a companies financial health and the wealth of the shareholders take a back seat to worker "rights" to employment, etc.
The result? France attracks little foreign investment, and investors in France do not invest domestically. The capital flows to countries where their property rights are protected (US, UK, Europe).
Thus France suffers from high unemployment and a lack of capital for new business start ups. When is the last time you bought anything that said "Made in France."
Now, they are extending this philosophy - a disregard for property rights - to the area of intellectual property.
The same results will follow with software in France.
It isn't that there is a problem with open source-like schemes. The problem is when the government compels is, no matter how well-intentioned.
Soldier(R)
Actually, it was marketed in the print mags and got a lot of hype from the media.
IIRC, it was even being sold in my supermarket on the shareware rack, along with Wolfenstein.
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Never. The benefit would be marginal. For Terminus, though, I think this is significant.
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I've been a reviewer of PC games for a magazine for a while, and have been playing them for about 12 years. And I have to conclude that it will fail.
No matter how good a game is, they need marketing. To have marketing, you need a publisher who is going to buy adds in the major mags and secure you shelf space at EB, Best Buy, etc.
Think about Microsoft. While you may not think much of the products, you have to admire their masterful marketing ability. There are probably situations where better products were *totally ignored* because their developers ignored marketing while Microsoft made it priority one.
Besides, this game is probably not as good as MS Research's Allegiance (very similar). But I'll mention it to the editor and see if we can get it reviewed.
Soldier(R)
Please don't flame me for this, as I am just trying to discuss this reasonably.
Along the lines of this article, I've long been suspicious that women who wear makeup with toxic traces and alchohol on a daily bases causes negative effects in the long term.
Just think about perfume. The perfume gains its pungency because the scents are caried as the alchohol evaporates. Imagine inhaling that all day long.
Has any research been done on this?
Soldier(R)
Isn't there some benefit to having analogue instruments?
Given radiation and other space born anomolies, don't these upgrades create another occasion for something to go wrong?
If I recall correctly (IIRC), nearly half episodes on Star Trek: The Next Generation were based on problems that could have been avoided with analogue equipment. So there.
Soldier(R)
What caused a lot of the tech stocks to go down was two things: 1. Hundred's of companies costs are kept low by having to develop for one platform, Windows. The threat that they may no longer be able to do this warrents a reduction in their equity value. 2. Capital Gains taxes. A lot of people had to pay 20% of their "paper" gains to the government. This necessitated a sellof of the stocks these people were mostly holding.
Soldier(R)
I'll make this quick. The real problem is that they released the information publicly. As for the analogy, imagine someone picked the locks and then put up signs all over the neighborhood explaining how to pick my lock. Same deal, here. Those who hacked it, I think, ought to be legally responsible if their information is used to cause real damage.
Soldier(R)
Actually, the ebook revolution is going to do the exact opposite of what the writer portends.
Regardless of what well intentioned laws will do, I am confident that texts will flow so much more freely now over the internet and through other data-transfer systems.
If you want something to fear, consider what will happen if writers can no longer earn a living due to widespread pirating of their electronic texts. As has happened with media in other countries without intellectual property laws, expect to see choice "product placements" in texts to recoup with ad revenue what was lost in liscensing sales.
Soldier(R)
I believe that Mr. Katz and many other /. readers are overreacting. WAVE America is an extension of most schools current policy of allowing students to share information with administrators and counselors without revealing their identity. Every school in the country encourages students to share information with school leadership when that information might help prevent an act of violence. They will generally keep the person who brings that information forward secret because, if they couldn't, it is unlikely that such people would come forward. Who could disagree with allowing students to ananymously tell administrators about problems with their classmates? What is the worse that could possibly come of it? A counselor inviting a student to meet with them and encourage them to share their thoughts, probably. WAVE America merely automates this over the internet. If you honestly have a problem with this, you should direct your anger and arguments to schools that allow students to ananymously advice administrators of potentially dangerous students.
Soldier(R)