It should be noted, since no one else seems to have brought up the point, but Xen was originally partly funded by Microsoft. The original history of Xen had it running on both Red Hat Linux and Windows XP. IIRC They used the Shared Source program available to educators to access the source and at the time XP was enabled as a Xen hypervisor client, I don't believe it could act as the hypervisor at the time though.
I have to wonder if the music industry has any brilliant economists working for them. From all appearances they have the same understanding of the financial model as you have described.
It costs the industry more money to sell 10 copies of music than it does one copy. The objective of any business is to maximize profit.
Maximizing profit != maximizing sales
I would imagine the financial model is fairly complicated but there are numerous consumers, such as myself and the original parent poster who have a limit on what they will spend on an albumn in either digital or printed form (cd/lp/tape/whatever).
I would imagine that there is a formula such that if I (Joe Blow consumer) buy an album in print that I will not purchase the digital format of the music. I would also imagine that there is also another formula in the equation that says that if I buy a single online that I have a certainly likelihood/propensity to purchase the entire album. Additionally I would also imagine the same exists for if I buy the entire album in digital format what the likelihood is that i'll buy the printed copy also.
I personally make the decision on which format I will purchase based on price and based on how I like/disklike the music on the album. If I preview the album on iTunes, Amazon, wherever and I only like a couple songs, there is a high probability that I'll just purchase the few single on the album and move on with my life. However, if I like a good portion of the album, then I'll go ahead and buy the printed media since it is more usable.
On a side note, here is my own little rant on the music format wars.
My problem is that I'd rather be able to buy the printed music and then create my own "backup" and then discard the original without fear of being out of compliance with the copyright ownership. I have several hundre cd's that I would like to discard but am forced to continue storing because I would lose my right of ownership of the digital copies that I have created.
I would be all for some business to do what MP3.com did to some extent but to go the extra step and say that I can send in my hard copies for a "key" to the same cd in a moveable format. That way I can always have access to my music I don't care if they encrypt it or not, I just want to be able to play it on whatever I want.
I'm perfectly willing to respect the copyright of music, but at the same time I think they should respect our right to the doctrine of fair use.
I say just add a built in gps receiver to each wap that is sold and have it store it's position information and make it available some how. Obviously there are atleast two problems with this method that would still need to be solved.
1. Any pre-gps device or any device that is not a wap (ie a wireless nic that is acting as a wap) will not have the positioning information. This could be overcome with a set of known points that could identify the position/locality of the pre-gps/rogue device.
2. GPS position could be spoofed/poisoned. This could also be solved by having a set of known equipment that has a position verified by gps.
Hmmm... everyone, stop using UNIX right now, I believe they said the same thing 20-30 years ago. And look what happened, UNIX failed.. Solaris, BSD, AIX.. nothing but failure
It's really quite simply actually. For me the decision boils down to this. I need and like having pop/smtp access to my account and I am willing to pay a little extra to have the service. For $19.99 a year I can access my email from anywhere in the world, download it to any machine I want, have access to a wonderful spam filter (close to 99% effective) and now have 2 GB of advertisement free email.
Gmail sounds good, and I'm not saying I won't create an account when available, however, the lack of pop/smtp access is not very appealling to me, though I am interested in the effectiveness of their spam filter along with their search capabilities (though I have yet to even use yahoo's search capabilities in my email so who am I kidding.
I have been using yahoo mail virtually since they made the service available however many years ago that was, and have been a paying subscriber since they required it for pop/smtp access. But I have no qualms about changing my email account if necessary. Though I will only do so to an address that I will presume to have till I die that does not bind me to any particular ISP etc, etc..
I'd say the comment by another posted about granting user accounts is a good idea... Tie it to your drivers license/ss#/federal ID #.. etc.
Only problem is coming up with a non-intrusive way of doing it.
Having grown up as a child of deaf parents I must admit to having excused myself from school a few times as a teenager while playing "deaf", but an outright ban against calls is ridiculous.
I wouldn't be surprised if you were hit with a nice fat lawsuit from the ACLU because of this practice. Discriminating your customers their ability to hear.
I certainly understand the frustration, but that's aiken to saying that we should simply ban all (insert favorite stereotype) because of (insert bias).
Does that mean that if I were to write a program that were to parse and say "interpret" and apply some conversion to it, like say a visual display, to any sort of document, paper, book, article. That all works read in by the interpreter would then be considered source, because of the resulting stream (visual display) that came as a result?
I could easily write a program to read any input stream as binary and then apply some algorithm in which the incoming stream created some sort of 3d or 2d graphical display or anything else and those images would be a product of the combination of the two. Which looks to me just like what the Roland is doing, now if I were to write custom documents and copyright it and then feed it through the program, those resulting images would might also have some protection (assuming only a single possible sequence could create a resulting display).
I would like to test the scenario for the answer I am about to give just to validate my thinking, but I will give it to you anyway. My understanding of how the Server Manager lists the machines is by how the machine is configured, not necessarily as a member of any particular domain/workgroup/etc. It would appear that it lists the machines that are configured to set their domain/workgroup name via netbios in the same groupings (ie if you have a workgroup named SERVERS and and a domain named SERVERS) machines from both the workgroup and domain will appear in the same listing (if using Explorer or some other tree listing. The NETBIOS protocol uses/stores the machine type used for Domain Master Browser functions for election purposes in specific packets. These packets use a code to determine what type of function/server the machine is setup, so in the Browser elections that take place in each subnet, the machine with the highest setting wins (ie PDC > BDC > Member Server > Workstation (it's really a little bit more complicated, but this should suffice.)).
This being the case, I would have to interpret the samba server appearing in the Server Manager as a result of the code passed in the netbios protocol and it being used to determine machine times when listing the (PDC, BDC, Member Server, etc) I would also imagine that if you were to setup a second NT/200x server as a PDC using the same Domain Name, that that machine would also appear in the Browse List and have a similar effect, though in reality the two domains would not be related except by name (the SID's would be different which would cause many problems that I would rather not go into.).
Sounds to me like what you are describing is just the SAMBA server showing up in the browse list either via a WINS or NETBIOS name resolution. You cannot in fact join an NT domain without administrative rights to grant the machine an account in the domain, whether it be created on the server prior to joining the machine, or in the process of joing the machine to the domain from the joining machine.
This isn't to say that there are not other ways in which a unix box can wreak havoc on an NT/200x network...
also require the same of all telephone calls. Or perhaps for every purchase we make at the grocery store, fast-food restaurant, fleemarket we should provide all of our contact information, just to ensure our "safety." Perhaps we should even submit dna samples at birth and then use that to track everything we say/do/go/etc.
Sounds like a fun place to live to me...
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Anyone want to scan the airwaves now for all the students passwords? Sounds like the perfect way to make it incredibly easy to hack everyone if you ask me.
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It should be noted, since no one else seems to have brought up the point, but Xen was originally partly funded by Microsoft. The original history of Xen had it running on both Red Hat Linux and Windows XP. IIRC They used the Shared Source program available to educators to access the source and at the time XP was enabled as a Xen hypervisor client, I don't believe it could act as the hypervisor at the time though.
I quote from the xen development website: A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions.
I have to wonder if the music industry has any brilliant economists working for them. From all appearances they have the same understanding of the financial model as you have described.
It costs the industry more money to sell 10 copies of music than it does one copy. The objective of any business is to maximize profit.
Maximizing profit != maximizing sales
I would imagine the financial model is fairly complicated but there are numerous consumers, such as myself and the original parent poster who have a limit on what they will spend on an albumn in either digital or printed form (cd/lp/tape/whatever).
I would imagine that there is a formula such that if I (Joe Blow consumer) buy an album in print that I will not purchase the digital format of the music. I would also imagine that there is also another formula in the equation that says that if I buy a single online that I have a certainly likelihood/propensity to purchase the entire album. Additionally I would also imagine the same exists for if I buy the entire album in digital format what the likelihood is that i'll buy the printed copy also.
I personally make the decision on which format I will purchase based on price and based on how I like/disklike the music on the album. If I preview the album on iTunes, Amazon, wherever and I only like a couple songs, there is a high probability that I'll just purchase the few single on the album and move on with my life. However, if I like a good portion of the album, then I'll go ahead and buy the printed media since it is more usable.
On a side note, here is my own little rant on the music format wars.
My problem is that I'd rather be able to buy the printed music and then create my own "backup" and then discard the original without fear of being out of compliance with the copyright ownership. I have several hundre cd's that I would like to discard but am forced to continue storing because I would lose my right of ownership of the digital copies that I have created.
I would be all for some business to do what MP3.com did to some extent but to go the extra step and say that I can send in my hard copies for a "key" to the same cd in a moveable format. That way I can always have access to my music I don't care if they encrypt it or not, I just want to be able to play it on whatever I want.
I'm perfectly willing to respect the copyright of music, but at the same time I think they should respect our right to the doctrine of fair use.
I say just add a built in gps receiver to each wap that is sold and have it store it's position information and make it available some how. Obviously there are atleast two problems with this method that would still need to be solved.
1. Any pre-gps device or any device that is not a wap (ie a wireless nic that is acting as a wap) will not have the positioning information. This could be overcome with a set of known points that could identify the position/locality of the pre-gps/rogue device.
2. GPS position could be spoofed/poisoned. This could also be solved by having a set of known equipment that has a position verified by gps.
Hmmm... everyone, stop using UNIX right now, I believe they said the same thing 20-30 years ago. And look what happened, UNIX failed.. Solaris, BSD, AIX.. nothing but failure
sql is dead.
Come on, someone had to say it.
It's really quite simply actually. For me the decision boils down to this. I need and like having pop/smtp access to my account and I am willing to pay a little extra to have the service. For $19.99 a year I can access my email from anywhere in the world, download it to any machine I want, have access to a wonderful spam filter (close to 99% effective) and now have 2 GB of advertisement free email.
Gmail sounds good, and I'm not saying I won't create an account when available, however, the lack of pop/smtp access is not very appealling to me, though I am interested in the effectiveness of their spam filter along with their search capabilities (though I have yet to even use yahoo's search capabilities in my email so who am I kidding.
I have been using yahoo mail virtually since they made the service available however many years ago that was, and have been a paying subscriber since they required it for pop/smtp access. But I have no qualms about changing my email account if necessary. Though I will only do so to an address that I will presume to have till I die that does not bind me to any particular ISP etc, etc..
I believe that was his point (Why not have slashdot do your load testing..)
I'd say the comment by another posted about granting user accounts is a good idea... Tie it to your drivers license/ss#/federal ID #.. etc.
Only problem is coming up with a non-intrusive way of doing it.
Having grown up as a child of deaf parents I must admit to having excused myself from school a few times as a teenager while playing "deaf", but an outright ban against calls is ridiculous.
I wouldn't be surprised if you were hit with a nice fat lawsuit from the ACLU because of this practice. Discriminating your customers their ability to hear.
I certainly understand the frustration, but that's aiken to saying that we should simply ban all (insert favorite stereotype) because of (insert bias).
Sounds like a place I want to live.
mod parent up funny..
I'm sorry, but the thought of LinuxWare reminds me far too much of UnixWare and that thought just isn't pleasant.
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technical
Does that mean that if I were to write a program that were to parse and say "interpret" and apply some conversion to it, like say a visual display, to any sort of document, paper, book, article. That all works read in by the interpreter would then be considered source, because of the resulting stream (visual display) that came as a result?
I could easily write a program to read any input stream as binary and then apply some algorithm in which the incoming stream created some sort of 3d or 2d graphical display or anything else and those images would be a product of the combination of the two. Which looks to me just like what the Roland is doing, now if I were to write custom documents and copyright it and then feed it through the program, those resulting images would might also have some protection (assuming only a single possible sequence could create a resulting display).
I would like to test the scenario for the answer I am about to give just to validate my thinking, but I will give it to you anyway. My understanding of how the Server Manager lists the machines is by how the machine is configured, not necessarily as a member of any particular domain/workgroup/etc. It would appear that it lists the machines that are configured to set their domain/workgroup name via netbios in the same groupings (ie if you have a workgroup named SERVERS and and a domain named SERVERS) machines from both the workgroup and domain will appear in the same listing (if using Explorer or some other tree listing. The NETBIOS protocol uses/stores the machine type used for Domain Master Browser functions for election purposes in specific packets. These packets use a code to determine what type of function/server the machine is setup, so in the Browser elections that take place in each subnet, the machine with the highest setting wins (ie PDC > BDC > Member Server > Workstation (it's really a little bit more complicated, but this should suffice.)).
This being the case, I would have to interpret the samba server appearing in the Server Manager as a result of the code passed in the netbios protocol and it being used to determine machine times when listing the (PDC, BDC, Member Server, etc) I would also imagine that if you were to setup a second NT/200x server as a PDC using the same Domain Name, that that machine would also appear in the Browse List and have a similar effect, though in reality the two domains would not be related except by name (the SID's would be different which would cause many problems that I would rather not go into.).
Sounds to me like what you are describing is just the SAMBA server showing up in the browse list either via a WINS or NETBIOS name resolution. You cannot in fact join an NT domain without administrative rights to grant the machine an account in the domain, whether it be created on the server prior to joining the machine, or in the process of joing the machine to the domain from the joining machine.
This isn't to say that there are not other ways in which a unix box can wreak havoc on an NT/200x network...
also require the same of all telephone calls. Or perhaps for every purchase we make at the grocery store, fast-food restaurant, fleemarket we should provide all of our contact information, just to ensure our "safety." Perhaps we should even submit dna samples at birth and then use that to track everything we say/do/go/etc.
Sounds like a fun place to live to me...
Anyone want to scan the airwaves now for all the students passwords? Sounds like the perfect way to make it incredibly easy to hack everyone if you ask me.
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