You can get a free "Silver" account that lets you browse and buy all the Xbox live arcade games without paying a dime for the actual xbox live service.
That thing must cost an arm and a leg. The failure rate of chips goes up exponentially with size and at 4 inches across yields must be next to nothing.
It's a form of price descrimination. it takes you an hour to figure out all the complicated rebate rules and send them in. That way they can sell the same item to two different groups at two price points, they'll sell it to people who have less money but at a lower price while selling it to people with a lot of money but not much time at a higher price. If you ask most economists they'll tell you that perfect price descrimination is desierable.
I dont see how your reasoning holds for the long run. Yes they probably got a boost from the extra press, but in the long run that's not going to keep happening. That's not to say it couldnt help the networks. But the help will come from new viewers who download a few episodes then decide that they like it well enough to watch it with better quality a day earlier than it's available online.
You characterized the affiliates as whiners but you have to remember that they've signed long term contracts with ABC to distribute it's media at a time when they were the only game in town. Now ABC blindsided them with this new competition. Companies are inevitably going to be hurt by shifts in distribution models but I think it's reasonable for ABC to at least give the affiliates a heads up. That's the price you pay for a Steve Jobs style launch I guess.
Well at least that means someone's playing hockey.
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What gives you the right to copy this article onto slashdot and deprive them of the traffic which they paid for by writing an article that people wanted to read?
People clearly want to read the article as your comment got modded up to +5. So why shouldn't the publisher benefit from that? If you dont like the ads tough. Dont read articles from this publisher. If enough people share your opinion the publisher might change it's policy and stop splattering ads around the thing. But that's not your decision to make.
People here rightfully get up in arms when companies take GPL software and distribute it in violation of the GPL why arent people pissed off that youre stealing this guys work and republishing it without permission?
If only Digital rights managment software actually worked what they could do is distribute files for free that expire 1 month after the download. Then libraries could pay for both hardcopies and digital copies without any kind of DRM attached. This would still give almost all the benefits of having an open system while still allowing the journals to get the money they need to survive.
How about if a journalist discovered the title of the next harry potter book? would they be allowed to post that? The examples you give are illegal to distribute because of copyright. none of the information that think secret distributed was copyrightable so that's a moot point. a company doesnt have to commit a crime in order for their trade secret information to be fair game. What if a company donated money to a political action group which you happened to disagree with? I would consider that news worthy information that doesnt involve a crime.
Im not protecting the guy who broke his NDA but once this information is out apple has no recourse to silence a third party from distributing it.
Why is this any different than in the past? I bet there were a much higher percentage of Rockefeller and Carnegie types at the Ivy's 100 years ago. A lot of small liberal arts colleges have trouble getting lower income students because the schools with multi billion dollar endowments can be need blind while smaller schools just couldn't come up with the money to do so.
That's a little unfair. They do the right thing and turn EA down and just because some guy at ign speculates that one of the reasons was based on how much money they would get you extrapolate that that must have been the only reason and you criticize them.
Now that's completely unfair, this administration is working hard every single day to curtail the rights of it's citizens. That alone takes a lot of energy. When you add on the absolutly necissary costs of making sure two guys named frank never exchange wedding vows and the dedicated effort to squash the scientific community its just no wonder we dont have time and energy to waste on trivial things like "exploring"
So does this mean all those people bitching about how apple is the only company that gets so much coverage for a recall will write well worded eloquent statements about how they were wrong?
As the article clearly points out the big difference isnt on DVDs but rather the ability to archive a digital master in such a high quality format. So 500 years down the road when we're all watching movies at 4000p instead of 480i they dont have to go back to the original film which will undoubtedly be nearly destroyed.
Your still agreed to a contract which prohibits this when you purchased the music. I do believe that most copyright lawyers will tell you that this contract supersedes any fair use rights you might claim too. If you dont agree with the terms of apple's music just boycot it and force them to change or go out of business.
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Well I dont trust the new (pro mac?) benchmarks either. But those first PC World benchmarks were a joke. Id spend time writing up an articulate reply but others have already done that the first time these benchmarks were posted. so here you go:
One of my professors was sued by the riaa for trying to publish a paper on SDMI. When they were threatening to sue he would always joke that he should have just been a physicist and published a paper on how to build a nuclear bomb, because we all know that at least that is legal.
"I could only imagine what Ansel Adams could do with Photoshop!"
He could do exactly what he did in the darkroom and nothing more, only faster. You can combine negatives distort images adjust contrast, density and do a million other things that people say are 'new' with digital.
One of my profs once showed me how he had created an image of a casket submerged in the surface of a rock. He had cut out hundreds of little pieces of plastic and layered them carefully acording to how much light he wanted a specific part of the image to get. then he printed both negatives with their respective screens.
Anyone else think this is a bad idea? I mean I dont think a class on a specific set of tools or a platform has any place in a university. I get angry when I hear that places offer courses on.NET so why should it be any different for cocoa? That said.... if i went to stanford Id probably take it....
One option that you might not have thought of is to get a yashicamat medium format camera. these things cost 100-150 on ebay and theyre really great cameras for the money. Its a twin lens reflex, which means that it's got two identical lenses which move in tandem, one exposes the film when you release the shutter, the other projects a near identical image onto ground glass for you to view. the negative is 6cm by 6cm so you get about 3 times the coverage of a 35. The downside is that the lens is not replacable, the film will cost more to process (if youre not developing it yourself) and most importantly many times the built in meters are often broken so you might need to learn to use a handheld meter.
If you dont want a medium format camera Id recomend you buy into a system rather than a particular body. I personally used a cannon body until i switched to mamiya and I was very happy with it. They have bodies for under 200 new and someone makes a lens for just about every job.
finally some buying advice, if you want used equipment check out keh.com, for new stuff try out bandhphoto.com
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You can get a free "Silver" account that lets you browse and buy all the Xbox live arcade games without paying a dime for the actual xbox live service.
If you're using a mac Audio Hijack will let you record the audio at whatever quaility you want.
That thing must cost an arm and a leg. The failure rate of chips goes up exponentially with size and at 4 inches across yields must be next to nothing.
From the article "Installing Vista Beta 2, for me was one of the worst operating system experiences that I've ever encountered."
From the summary "for me [it] was one of the worst operating system experiences that I've ever encountered."
There's a big difference between [it] being the install experience and [it] being the OS itself.
It's a form of price descrimination. it takes you an hour to figure out all the complicated rebate rules and send them in. That way they can sell the same item to two different groups at two price points, they'll sell it to people who have less money but at a lower price while selling it to people with a lot of money but not much time at a higher price. If you ask most economists they'll tell you that perfect price descrimination is desierable.
I dont see how your reasoning holds for the long run. Yes they probably got a boost from the extra press, but in the long run that's not going to keep happening. That's not to say it couldnt help the networks. But the help will come from new viewers who download a few episodes then decide that they like it well enough to watch it with better quality a day earlier than it's available online.
You characterized the affiliates as whiners but you have to remember that they've signed long term contracts with ABC to distribute it's media at a time when they were the only game in town. Now ABC blindsided them with this new competition. Companies are inevitably going to be hurt by shifts in distribution models but I think it's reasonable for ABC to at least give the affiliates a heads up. That's the price you pay for a Steve Jobs style launch I guess.
In an unrelated news the pentagon is reporting the first sucessful test of it's missile defense system today.
Well at least that means someone's playing hockey.
People clearly want to read the article as your comment got modded up to +5. So why shouldn't the publisher benefit from that? If you dont like the ads tough. Dont read articles from this publisher. If enough people share your opinion the publisher might change it's policy and stop splattering ads around the thing. But that's not your decision to make.
People here rightfully get up in arms when companies take GPL software and distribute it in violation of the GPL why arent people pissed off that youre stealing this guys work and republishing it without permission?
Crap! I better cut back on my drinking. I was counting on that artifical liver 20 years from now.... well there's always stem cells to hope for.
If only Digital rights managment software actually worked what they could do is distribute files for free that expire 1 month after the download. Then libraries could pay for both hardcopies and digital copies without any kind of DRM attached. This would still give almost all the benefits of having an open system while still allowing the journals to get the money they need to survive.
Im not protecting the guy who broke his NDA but once this information is out apple has no recourse to silence a third party from distributing it.
Why is this any different than in the past? I bet there were a much higher percentage of Rockefeller and Carnegie types at the Ivy's 100 years ago. A lot of small liberal arts colleges have trouble getting lower income students because the schools with multi billion dollar endowments can be need blind while smaller schools just couldn't come up with the money to do so.
That's a little unfair. They do the right thing and turn EA down and just because some guy at ign speculates that one of the reasons was based on how much money they would get you extrapolate that that must have been the only reason and you criticize them.
Now that's completely unfair, this administration is working hard every single day to curtail the rights of it's citizens. That alone takes a lot of energy. When you add on the absolutly necissary costs of making sure two guys named frank never exchange wedding vows and the dedicated effort to squash the scientific community its just no wonder we dont have time and energy to waste on trivial things like "exploring"
So does this mean all those people bitching about how apple is the only company that gets so much coverage for a recall will write well worded eloquent statements about how they were wrong?
As the article clearly points out the big difference isnt on DVDs but rather the ability to archive a digital master in such a high quality format. So 500 years down the road when we're all watching movies at 4000p instead of 480i they dont have to go back to the original film which will undoubtedly be nearly destroyed.
Your still agreed to a contract which prohibits this when you purchased the music. I do believe that most copyright lawyers will tell you that this contract supersedes any fair use rights you might claim too. If you dont agree with the terms of apple's music just boycot it and force them to change or go out of business.
Throw a top of the line pentium4 in one of these babies Itll be burning in no time.
CNN says theyve found it http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/08/mars. beagle.reut/index.html.
Well I dont trust the new (pro mac?) benchmarks either. But those first PC World benchmarks were a joke. Id spend time writing up an articulate reply but others have already done that the first time these benchmarks were posted. so here you go:
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One of my professors was sued by the riaa for trying to publish a paper on SDMI. When they were threatening to sue he would always joke that he should have just been a physicist and published a paper on how to build a nuclear bomb, because we all know that at least that is legal.
"I could only imagine what Ansel Adams could do with Photoshop!"
He could do exactly what he did in the darkroom and nothing more, only faster. You can combine negatives distort images adjust contrast, density and do a million other things that people say are 'new' with digital.
One of my profs once showed me how he had created an image of a casket submerged in the surface of a rock. He had cut out hundreds of little pieces of plastic and layered them carefully acording to how much light he wanted a specific part of the image to get. then he printed both negatives with their respective screens.
Anyone else think this is a bad idea? I mean I dont think a class on a specific set of tools or a platform has any place in a university. I get angry when I hear that places offer courses on .NET so why should it be any different for cocoa? That said.... if i went to stanford Id probably take it....
One option that you might not have thought of is to get a yashicamat medium format camera. these things cost 100-150 on ebay and theyre really great cameras for the money. Its a twin lens reflex, which means that it's got two identical lenses which move in tandem, one exposes the film when you release the shutter, the other projects a near identical image onto ground glass for you to view. the negative is 6cm by 6cm so you get about 3 times the coverage of a 35. The downside is that the lens is not replacable, the film will cost more to process (if youre not developing it yourself) and most importantly many times the built in meters are often broken so you might need to learn to use a handheld meter.
If you dont want a medium format camera Id recomend you buy into a system rather than a particular body. I personally used a cannon body until i switched to mamiya and I was very happy with it. They have bodies for under 200 new and someone makes a lens for just about every job.
finally some buying advice, if you want used equipment check out keh.com, for new stuff try out bandhphoto.com