I'm not a Libertarian per se, but to tell you the truth I don't see the problem here. Why does the government need to step in and tell the market how it's "supposed" to work? If the public doesn't like the music being played on radio stations, don't listen. It really is as simple as that.
If a band can't afford to be played on the radio, then use other ways to promote. If their music's any good, then it might find a market. And maybe it won't. Big deal. No one is "owed" access to my ears.
Maybe someone can explain to me what the problem here is.
I'm always curious to ask something from people like you, who I assume believe the bible is the word of God: Why does God condone slavery? And if we all agree that slavery is bad, doesn't that indicate that either 1) we are going against God's wishes, or 2) the bible really is just another book, and has nothing to do with the question of God.
Of course, I always get a lot of hedging about this ("well, that was a long time ago and the slavery laws were needed at that time, but doesn't apply to today's society"). One of these days I'd like to hear someone do better.:)
100,000 feet / 186,000 ft/sec = 0.53 * 2 = 1.075 second round trip. Quake would definitely suck. It would be annoying to have an extra second built into every link you click on, but that would probably be livable.
I've always thought US monochrome money was by far the best looking money in the world. Other countries with all their "pretty" colors look like fake, monopoly money.
US money, on the other hand, looks like serious money, beefy and substantial. There's no mistaking that US currency is a serious document.
In fact, I thought the current redesign really took a lot of the "heft" out of the bills. Now color?
Who's running the federal reserve? Whoever it is needs to get a clue. Next the military will be painting our fighter jets with nice, pastel colors.
Google is a great free public resource. My concern is that it has to be expensive running a resource like that. I know Google's strategy is somewhat to use the free resource as a loss leader to promote your search technology, but the key word in "loss leader" is "loss". It's a great theory as long as you are able find people who want and need your search technology.
So my bottom line question is this: Does the web site pay for itself via the advertising? Is there a possibility that someday Google may decide the web site costs too much money to run if you get to a point where your reputation no longer needs the loss leader?
What particularly interests me is the fact that the Machine is a relatively new animal, yet it contains snapshots from my sites dating back to 1998.
Interestingly, if you look at Slashdot's earliest entry (man, that page was ugly back then!), and then look at the bottom of the page, it shows the domain that was used to pull the page: "Welcome User From firestone.alexa.com".
Alexa.com appears to be some web search ("powered by Google") toolbar thingy. I can't determine if they are the same people as the wayback machine or not.
Actually, you and the CNet link you posted have it wrong, also. Moore predicted transistor density would double, not the number of transistors on a Microprocessor. Here's the reference from the man himself.
Let's see if that number is right... I'm curious. According to this, the LOC is "the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts."
My conclusion: The LOC is more like 611 Terabytes, if you're talking a complete collection with all detail. And that still leaves 29 million items that they didn't identify (out of the stated 120 million items). But those may not be media materials.
I'm not sure about this 10 Terabyte number. If you just talking books, that's 610K / book. That seems pretty high for just text, but low even for a low-res scan. I think someone just pulled it out of their butt.
One of the "tips" from the linked reasons never to accept a counter-offer:
What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they will give you what you are worth?
I've seen this sentiment on occasion, and all I have to say is this: Welcome to the real world.
In the real world, the squeeky wheel gets the grease. Yes, sometimes you will get what you "deserve", but more often you have to ask for it. That doesn't mean you go into your bosses office every week like a prima donna and bang on his desk.
What you do is do your research, and when it's review time you show your worth in the market. If they want to pay, then great. If they don't, then you have a decision to make. Money isn't everything -- you might like working there for less money. You might like the environment. On the hand, you might want different challenges for more money.
The point is that the decision is in your hands. Too many people think that all the power is in the hands of "the boss". It isn't. You have as little or as much power as you decide to have. Note that your power is dependent on your worth. The worthless -- or percieved worthless -- employee is not going to have that much power no matter how many salary surveys they are able to show.
Bottom line: Ignore all this stupid advice. Be a professional: You are in business for yourself, and your employer is your client. Decide whether they are worth having as a client. If there is some "retaliation" as that silly list of reasons seems to think, then move on to the next company. Big deal.
How can the number of pirated discs created somehow exceed production/sale for CDRs for that year?
Note this quote from the same article: "CD-Rs accounted for nearly one-quarter of pirated music sales last year, up from 9 percent the year earlier, the group said. "
In other words, only a fraction of piracy is done with CD-Rs. Most of it is done with more sophisticated duplication techniques.
Particularly because Sony is onboard, which owns Sony Classical. One thing that is REALLY weak on P2P networks is a good classical selection, and what's there is often badly converted and missing the ending sections.
2.8 million copyright-infringing CD-R's were seized in the U.S. last year (9 million world-wide); from that the IFPI extrapolates that 950 million copyright-infringing CD-R's were actually sold, world-wide. How do you get from 9 million to 950 million? Mostly hand-waving.
I can only assume that Michael doesn't actually understand what the numbers he's quoting mean. Hard to believe, I know. 9 million == number actually seized. 950 million == estimate of how many actually produced and illegally sold.
Obviously it's difficult to have hard numbers about what CDs were NOT seized, but who thinks that it's unreasonable to claim that only 1 out of every 100 illegally produced CDs sold are actually found and confiscated?
In fact, it surprises be that it's as high as 1/100.
I mentioned this in another post, but this is what you want: Connected Online Backup. My Mother In Law is an office manager, and I set up her system with it. $14.95/month, and it works perfectly. Even if their on a modem, it's not bad. Only a few minutes every night. It's awesome.
Reducing a product to an insanely cheap price won't work, because you just can't beat free.
I agree with you that the vast majority of music trading is NOT for sampling, but to get music for free, but I disagree with this statement to some extent. P2P networks are not that reliable, and the quality of the MP3s is often pretty bad (often cut off). It's better if all you want are popular music, but if you want something even semi-obscure, or less popular like classical recordings, you are out of luck.
If the price was right, I think a LOT of people who use the service just because it was a) complete, b) good quality, and c) much less hassle. I know I would.
Now there's irony for you. Distrubuted.net works on the most boring project imaginable (cracking RC5-64) and the second most useless waste of computing resources (the first most useless is Seti@home), and they can't find any interest in something like this? I mean, it's not going to cure starvation or anything, but it's at least interesting. I would sign up.
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Aren't you going to throw it out in 5 years anyway? When it starts to look old and dull, and its not really the colour you want.
Well, you typically throw it out because of durability issues. I dont tend to recarpet my house just to change the color myself, although some may. The point is that if I had carpet that would last for 50 years without fading or wearing out, I'd buy it in a second.
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And the fabric, of course, could be readily disposed of by tossing it onto the ground where it would decompose back into the soil without leaving toxic chemicals behind.
What's to stop the fabric from decomposing in my living room? It doesn't matter whether I leave a steak outside or in my living room, the steak is going to decompose.
What seems to be a missing point is durability. I would think that something that easily decomposes would be less durable than something that "lasts forever", almost by definition.
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Palladium: Security and authentication. See PKI.
And once again, show me a reference where Microsoft EVER claimed to have invented PKI.
PLEASE show me a reference where Microsoft EVER claimed to have invented the GUI. I would love to see it.
I'm not a Libertarian per se, but to tell you the truth I don't see the problem here. Why does the government need to step in and tell the market how it's "supposed" to work? If the public doesn't like the music being played on radio stations, don't listen. It really is as simple as that.
If a band can't afford to be played on the radio, then use other ways to promote. If their music's any good, then it might find a market. And maybe it won't. Big deal. No one is "owed" access to my ears.
Maybe someone can explain to me what the problem here is.
But Microsoft likes to copy others and then claim it was their idea all along.
Name one time. Provide references.
I'm always curious to ask something from people like you, who I assume believe the bible is the word of God: Why does God condone slavery? And if we all agree that slavery is bad, doesn't that indicate that either 1) we are going against God's wishes, or 2) the bible really is just another book, and has nothing to do with the question of God.
Of course, I always get a lot of hedging about this ("well, that was a long time ago and the slavery laws were needed at that time, but doesn't apply to today's society"). One of these days I'd like to hear someone do better. :)
I thought it was for the golf.
Although, the golf in the US much better than the golf in Scotland. Well, no one says Aliens have taste.
The fact that you got it wrong by three orders of magnitude,
Oops... :)
100,000 feet / 186,000 ft/sec = 0.53 * 2 = 1.075 second round trip. Quake would definitely suck. It would be annoying to have an extra second built into every link you click on, but that would probably be livable.
I've always thought US monochrome money was by far the best looking money in the world. Other countries with all their "pretty" colors look like fake, monopoly money.
US money, on the other hand, looks like serious money , beefy and substantial. There's no mistaking that US currency is a serious document.
In fact, I thought the current redesign really took a lot of the "heft" out of the bills. Now color?
Who's running the federal reserve? Whoever it is needs to get a clue. Next the military will be painting our fighter jets with nice, pastel colors.
35N42E, yup, that's alot more than what you had.
Yeah, that narrows it down to about 100 miles.
Even so, zip alone doesn't work at the post office. Even in really small town you need the name.
Try it and see. It'll work fine.
Anyway, I see you agree with me because you changed your sig, not because you were getting bored with it.
Hey, if it gives you that much of a thrill to believe I changed it because of you, knock yourself out.
Because longitude and latitude doesn't work at the post office, and arguably would take more ASCII characters.
I was getting bored of that sig anyway.
Google is a great free public resource. My concern is that it has to be expensive running a resource like that. I know Google's strategy is somewhat to use the free resource as a loss leader to promote your search technology, but the key word in "loss leader" is "loss". It's a great theory as long as you are able find people who want and need your search technology.
So my bottom line question is this: Does the web site pay for itself via the advertising? Is there a possibility that someday Google may decide the web site costs too much money to run if you get to a point where your reputation no longer needs the loss leader?
So I suppose libraries should just stop carrying books because the author doesn't like what he wrote anymore? I mean, what the fuck?
The issue is more akin to a library making a copy of a book and giving out copies of that copy to anyone who asks.
What particularly interests me is the fact that the Machine is a relatively new animal, yet it contains snapshots from my sites dating back to 1998.
Interestingly, if you look at Slashdot's earliest entry (man, that page was ugly back then!), and then look at the bottom of the page, it shows the domain that was used to pull the page: "Welcome User From firestone.alexa.com".
Alexa.com appears to be some web search ("powered by Google") toolbar thingy. I can't determine if they are the same people as the wayback machine or not.
Actually, you and the CNet link you posted have it wrong, also. Moore predicted transistor density would double, not the number of transistors on a Microprocessor. Here's the reference from the man himself.
Let's see if that number is right... I'm curious. According to this, the LOC is "the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts."
18,000,000 books * 200 pages, scanned, * 100K/page = 343 Terabytes.
2.5 million recordings * 3 minutes per * 1 meg/minute MP3 = 7.5 Terabytes.
12 million photographs * 250K per = 2.9 Terabytes.
4.5 million maps * 20 meg scan = 0.9 terabytes
54 million manuscripts * 50 pages, scanned * 100K/page = 257 terabytes.
My conclusion: The LOC is more like 611 Terabytes, if you're talking a complete collection with all detail. And that still leaves 29 million items that they didn't identify (out of the stated 120 million items). But those may not be media materials.
I'm not sure about this 10 Terabyte number. If you just talking books, that's 610K / book. That seems pretty high for just text, but low even for a low-res scan. I think someone just pulled it out of their butt.
One of the "tips" from the linked reasons never to accept a counter-offer:
What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they will give you what you are worth?
I've seen this sentiment on occasion, and all I have to say is this: Welcome to the real world.
In the real world, the squeeky wheel gets the grease. Yes, sometimes you will get what you "deserve", but more often you have to ask for it. That doesn't mean you go into your bosses office every week like a prima donna and bang on his desk.
What you do is do your research, and when it's review time you show your worth in the market. If they want to pay, then great. If they don't, then you have a decision to make. Money isn't everything -- you might like working there for less money. You might like the environment. On the hand, you might want different challenges for more money.
The point is that the decision is in your hands. Too many people think that all the power is in the hands of "the boss". It isn't. You have as little or as much power as you decide to have. Note that your power is dependent on your worth. The worthless -- or percieved worthless -- employee is not going to have that much power no matter how many salary surveys they are able to show.
Bottom line: Ignore all this stupid advice. Be a professional: You are in business for yourself, and your employer is your client. Decide whether they are worth having as a client. If there is some "retaliation" as that silly list of reasons seems to think, then move on to the next company. Big deal.
How can the number of pirated discs created somehow exceed production/sale for CDRs for that year?
Note this quote from the same article: "CD-Rs accounted for nearly one-quarter of pirated music sales last year, up from 9 percent the year earlier, the group said. "
In other words, only a fraction of piracy is done with CD-Rs. Most of it is done with more sophisticated duplication techniques.
Particularly because Sony is onboard, which owns Sony Classical. One thing that is REALLY weak on P2P networks is a good classical selection, and what's there is often badly converted and missing the ending sections.
I will definitely be using the service.
2.8 million copyright-infringing CD-R's were seized in the U.S. last year (9 million world-wide); from that the IFPI extrapolates that 950 million copyright-infringing CD-R's were actually sold, world-wide. How do you get from 9 million to 950 million? Mostly hand-waving.
I can only assume that Michael doesn't actually understand what the numbers he's quoting mean. Hard to believe, I know. 9 million == number actually seized. 950 million == estimate of how many actually produced and illegally sold.
Obviously it's difficult to have hard numbers about what CDs were NOT seized, but who thinks that it's unreasonable to claim that only 1 out of every 100 illegally produced CDs sold are actually found and confiscated?
In fact, it surprises be that it's as high as 1/100.
I mentioned this in another post, but this is what you want: Connected Online Backup. My Mother In Law is an office manager, and I set up her system with it. $14.95/month, and it works perfectly. Even if their on a modem, it's not bad. Only a few minutes every night. It's awesome.
Reducing a product to an insanely cheap price won't work, because you just can't beat free.
I agree with you that the vast majority of music trading is NOT for sampling, but to get music for free, but I disagree with this statement to some extent. P2P networks are not that reliable, and the quality of the MP3s is often pretty bad (often cut off). It's better if all you want are popular music, but if you want something even semi-obscure, or less popular like classical recordings, you are out of luck.
If the price was right, I think a LOT of people who use the service just because it was a) complete, b) good quality, and c) much less hassle. I know I would.
Now there's irony for you. Distrubuted.net works on the most boring project imaginable (cracking RC5-64) and the second most useless waste of computing resources (the first most useless is Seti@home), and they can't find any interest in something like this? I mean, it's not going to cure starvation or anything, but it's at least interesting. I would sign up.
Aren't you going to throw it out in 5 years anyway? When it starts to look old and dull, and its not really the colour you want.
Well, you typically throw it out because of durability issues. I dont tend to recarpet my house just to change the color myself, although some may. The point is that if I had carpet that would last for 50 years without fading or wearing out, I'd buy it in a second.
And the fabric, of course, could be readily disposed of by tossing it onto the ground where it would decompose back into the soil without leaving toxic chemicals behind.
What's to stop the fabric from decomposing in my living room? It doesn't matter whether I leave a steak outside or in my living room, the steak is going to decompose.
What seems to be a missing point is durability. I would think that something that easily decomposes would be less durable than something that "lasts forever", almost by definition.