The 11% number quoted by someone else only applies to musicians who have the extreme misfortune to be locked into contracts with major labels. In fact, they might not be seeing ANY money, since the money presumably goes through the label, which takes out against advances and promotions and everything else.
Since Apple opened the iTunes Music Store to indie labels as well, much better terms have been available. At least one indie label put their terms up on the web publicly (http://www.cdbaby.net/dd).
Given the numbers that came out when the iTunes Music Store launched, you pay 99 cents for a song; Apple gets about 30-35 cents for running the service, the rest goes to the label. So CD Baby (as an example) should be getting 64-69 cents per song sold. They're taking a 9% cut, so that leaves well over 50 cents per song sold that goes to the artist.
As people were saying when the indies first got on board, it's only a matter of time before somebody gets seriously rich as an indie artist this way...;)
I'm not sure which "we" you think you speak for, but I don't think there is a "the right tool." Pure technical solutions aren't going to work unless you rip-and-replace SMTP - I and others have worked the technical solution front for... geez, I've been involved for 7 years now, and I was by no means an earlybird.
Technology in and of itself is not the solution. Nor is legislation in and of itself. Nor is preventive education in and of itself (it potentially could be, but it'd be a huge task, and the first time I'm aware of in human history that everyone agreed on something.)
Each of those, though, is - or can be - part of a good solution. The EFF stateside has historically been opposed to just about anything the government wanted to do affecting the Internet, which has at times put them at odds with groups opposed to spam, but this analysis out of Australia looks a bit more reasoned.
I grew up in NJ, and at least one of my relatives got a degree from Thomas Edison State College. Sound like a normal state college? Well, it is a state college, part of the state system, yadda yadda -- but it's specialized in distance education and education for people who're in the workforce already, for about 3 decades.
A lot of "real" colleges and universities are making more and more stuff available via distance/online education programs these days, as well. So maybe you can get a degree from a school that'll make the PHB's happy, while not having to spend too much time on campus.
And then had x.cgi be a PERL script that generated an HTTP "Location" header to the real mailto: URL.
If I wanted more complexity, I'd substitute in whatever I felt like for the @ in the address, and have the PERL script un-do that. It's probably also doable in PHP, shells, TCL, or whatever. I like to leave something resembling a "real" address in the HREF, so the most clueless harvesters can grab it.
Dealing with multiple voices and accents is all well and good if you're expecting the computer to deal with a lot of different people. If it's a home computer, it really only needs to recognize the voices of household members, and if it's a personal computer on your desk that no one else uses (or should, anyway), it can just recognize your own.
And of course, we're already at that point, with speech-recognition built into Mac OS X and presumably other major operating systems. "Computer, tell me a joke" is the first thing I tell new Mac users to try.
A bigger vocabulary would, though, be very nice. Maybe link speech synthesis with an RSS reader, have it read the headlines off, and when it mentions somthing you want to hear about, have it read the story.
"Let go" from a music store at the end of the holiday season. (But that was okay, since I'd used my employee discount to get lots of cool gear cheap.:)
Floral shop whose delivery van I drove on Saturdays got sold.
When I was running the helpdesk at the ISP now known as IDT, and, uh, being fairly persistent about the need to invest in something resembling proper infrastructure (i.e. something other than a massively-oversubscribed rack of Sportsters that had been disassembled and hand-soldered to some kind of power supply), I was asked, "Would you like to work from home as a consultant?" That was a nice gradual sort of departure, though.
"Let go" from a place that billed everything hourly... because after 3 years, the same old tasks just didn't take me as long any more, and therefore didn't generate as much revenue. Whoops.
After the company I was working for got borged and I made it clear I didn't want to move from Hawaii to Denver in the dead of winter, I was let go with a nice severance package.
#1 and #4 were the most surprising; #4 was the only one that really hit hard since my daughter had just been born.
There are plenty of con men and spammers there (in fact, I'd say there are few who aren't one or the other). Try groups with names like alt.business.home.pc or whatever. Oh, and if there's an alt.make-money-fast...;)
Clever tools? Spam's been an issue since 1997 at least. That's a half-dozen years. Clever tools are all well and good, and believe me, quite a few minds of reasonable skill have been doing that sort of thing all along. But it takes more than that.
A clever tool is worse than useless if, for example, it's running on your desktop. By the time the tool gets around to nuking the spam, it (the spam) has already wasted resources across the Internet.
Take the Bayesian logic and drop it into backbone routers, and we can talk.:)
Of course, the further the tools get from end-users, the more non-zero (if still miniscule) the odds become that they're going to nuke from orbit something that someone, somewhere actually wanted to get.
Oh, and "list-generation" software? I think the people who're concerned about it think that the term refers to things like LISTSERV, Majordomo, and MailMan. It doesn't. Those are list management programs.
Want an example of list generation? Take a "Baby Names" book in your language of choice. Type in all the names. Then have your software send your message to each of those names. At, say, AOL, MSN, Yahoo... and anything else large. That's a speedy way to generate a list.:)
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How about this InfoWorld article from a month ago, which involved a dual-Itanium box running Red Hat Enterprise and three dual-Opteron ones, running SuSE?
Google can probably find you more, if you ask it nicely.
I beta-tested QuickBooks Pro 5.0 for Mac, and was seriously peeved to discover that it could only import files from the most recent Mac version. I don't know what Intuit is thinking, but even Microsoft manages to create products that can open files from a couple versions back, and file formats that are the same on Windows and Mac.
Virtual PC is definitely faster than Bochs on Windows OSes (DOS is pretty nice under either one.) It's also more generous with resources. It doles out larger chunks of RAM and disk to Windows OSes by default, I think.
Windows XP is... a bit of a dog under Virtual PC on my 600MHz dual USB iBook. Perhaps it's snappier with Altivec, but I can't test that theory. It feels like it's running on maybe a 400MHz PC.
I'm just finishing up an install of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (the only version I have the CD for really handy) under Bochs 2.0.2 (not the OpenOSX version - straight off SourceForge!) and it's a big dog. We're talking Clifford sized. (And dangit, this CD says it contains code for the PPC version of NT 4.0 - what I really need is a VMWare or Plex for the PPC, maybe?;)
I'd say it feels like I'm running NT on a 200Mhz PC, at best. Of course I've got a bunch of other OS X stuff running, and I only gave it 64 megs (Squirm, you accursed OS! One tenth of the system memory is all you get!), so I might find it a little faster in full-screen mode in the foreground with less other stuff going on.
So... mathematically speaking, VPC feels like it's running on a PC with 2/3 the clock speed, and Bochs feels like it's running on one with 1/3 the clock speed. When the G5 arrives with its oh-so-yummy 2.0GHz chips, VPC (if it ran) should theoretically feel like a 1.3GHz PC, and Bochs like a 667Mhz PC. Either of which would be faster than any PC I've ever had, of course... and I used NT 4.0 on a 500Mhz machine just fine for ages.
I'm looking forward to hearing that Bochs runs on the G5 from someone who actually has a G5, since OpenOSX says it does, but then in the same page says they haven't even tested it on OS versions newer than 10.2.4 yet. If no one else tries it in 3-6 weeks... I will.
Oh, like when they announced they were no longer developing Internet Exploder for Mac because they "didn't have the access to the operating system" they'd need to make it as good as Safari.
...despite Apple making WebKit available, and despite Safari being based on freely available code in the first place.:)
For some values of "using." I've used 1.4.1 to boot FreeDOS and/or DLX Linux, and now have 2.0.2... I'm in the process of installing Windows NT Workstation 4.0. (Since the CD allegedly includes the code to run NT 4 on PPC, a PPC virtualization thingy might be better for this.;)
I currently have Windows XP installed under VirtualPC 6.0 on my 600MHz dual USB iBook; in 3-6 weeks I expect my G5 to arrive, so I want to get a different emulation option going until VPC supports the G5.
I am... not using the "Open OS X" version of things. As far as I can see, spending the money isn't going to in any way simplify installing Windows.:)
Yes, of course MS is losing money! Hand over fist. The only stuff they turn a profit on, if I recall, are Windows itself (oh, and I don't mean Windows CE, er, Pocket PC, er, Windows Mobile, since that probably loses money) and Office. Everything else? Go out and paint the balance sheet red...
With 1,100 machines in the cluster, you'll probably be running into something's mean time between failures pretty darn often, whether it's memory getting a bit wrong, or one of the 9,900(!) fans needing replacing.:)
But... a cluster should be redundant enough to withstand that sort of minor inconvenience and go on functioning without the errant node while it gets fixed, reboots or whatever.
I'll admit that building something smart enough to say "Node 206, you have a memory error. Bad G5, no donut!" is beyond the scope of my understanding.
Individual systems and networks administrators block spammy networks.
This unfortunately means duplication of efforts, of course... but if it's what has to be done, it will be done.
And then, when Joe ISP's customers complain that their mail is bouncing or being blackholed, instead of having to do the legwork to get off a few large, well-known blacklists... Joe can go around to thousands or millions of individual sites that have his network blocked.
I'd agree that it definitely does come up shy of "real" library software. (And I say that as someone who's worked in more'n a couple libraries.;)
That said, the box for comments/review could probably be used to store that info along with, uh, whatever.:) But yeah, it's not a real library program. Then again, I don't think that's what it's trying to be.
I guess it's time for me to point at that screen shot again...
I got a PC emulator (VPC6/WinXP Pro) for my Mac (iBook600) because I "need" to run the occasional piece of software that's only available for Windows. $220ish for that is cheaper than that $300 PC, doesn't take up space, doesn't require me to add more outlets, etc.:)
I have a lot of UNIX and Linux experience; I wound up getting a Mac almost 2 years ago because it'd run the apps I was used to from that arena, yet would also do things like playing QuickTime movies and DVD's (which back then were major struggles under Linux). That it can also emulate a PC, and that there are native versions of Microsoft products (MSIE, WMP, Office) for it, is just icing.
There've been a couple switcher stories about technical or scientific people who were able to go from having a Mac, a Windows PC, and a UNIX/Linux system at their desks, to having... a Mac. And going from 3 computers to 1 is usually a cost-saver, not just in acquisition costs, but support as well.
I was a big fan of tcsh for about twelve years - first started using it on SunOS 4 boxes back when SunOS 4 boxes were current.:) Eventually I got tired of having to install it on Solaris boxes, though, discovered that bash could (by then, anyway) do nice things like filename completion, and then discovered that bash instances used less resources than tcsh ones...
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Since Apple opened the iTunes Music Store to indie labels as well, much better terms have been available. At least one indie label put their terms up on the web publicly (http://www.cdbaby.net/dd).
Given the numbers that came out when the iTunes Music Store launched, you pay 99 cents for a song; Apple gets about 30-35 cents for running the service, the rest goes to the label. So CD Baby (as an example) should be getting 64-69 cents per song sold. They're taking a 9% cut, so that leaves well over 50 cents per song sold that goes to the artist.
As people were saying when the indies first got on board, it's only a matter of time before somebody gets seriously rich as an indie artist this way... ;)
Bluetooth worked fine under 10.2.6.
Bluetooth worked fine under 10.2.8-original.
Bluetooth worked fine under 10.2.8-reissue.
Oh, and with iCal 1.5 and iSync 1.2.1 out, guess what? Bluetooth still works fine. ;)
Technology in and of itself is not the solution. Nor is legislation in and of itself. Nor is preventive education in and of itself (it potentially could be, but it'd be a huge task, and the first time I'm aware of in human history that everyone agreed on something.)
Each of those, though, is - or can be - part of a good solution. The EFF stateside has historically been opposed to just about anything the government wanted to do affecting the Internet, which has at times put them at odds with groups opposed to spam, but this analysis out of Australia looks a bit more reasoned.
A lot of "real" colleges and universities are making more and more stuff available via distance/online education programs these days, as well. So maybe you can get a degree from a school that'll make the PHB's happy, while not having to spend too much time on campus.
<a href="/x.cgi/mailto:abuse@localhost">mail me</a>
And then had x.cgi be a PERL script that generated an HTTP "Location" header to the real mailto: URL.
If I wanted more complexity, I'd substitute in whatever I felt like for the @ in the address, and have the PERL script un-do that. It's probably also doable in PHP, shells, TCL, or whatever. I like to leave something resembling a "real" address in the HREF, so the most clueless harvesters can grab it.
And of course, we're already at that point, with speech-recognition built into Mac OS X and presumably other major operating systems. "Computer, tell me a joke" is the first thing I tell new Mac users to try.
A bigger vocabulary would, though, be very nice. Maybe link speech synthesis with an RSS reader, have it read the headlines off, and when it mentions somthing you want to hear about, have it read the story.
#1 and #4 were the most surprising; #4 was the only one that really hit hard since my daughter had just been born.
There are plenty of con men and spammers there (in fact, I'd say there are few who aren't one or the other). Try groups with names like alt.business.home.pc or whatever. Oh, and if there's an alt.make-money-fast... ;)
So... does it go without saying that you should mirror the image, somewhere we in "the masses" can see it? :)
If "we" had enough money to all have Vipers like you do, you lucky S.O.B., "we" would probably either be happy or indifferent. :)
A clever tool is worse than useless if, for example, it's running on your desktop. By the time the tool gets around to nuking the spam, it (the spam) has already wasted resources across the Internet.
Take the Bayesian logic and drop it into backbone routers, and we can talk. :)
Of course, the further the tools get from end-users, the more non-zero (if still miniscule) the odds become that they're going to nuke from orbit something that someone, somewhere actually wanted to get.
Oh, and "list-generation" software? I think the people who're concerned about it think that the term refers to things like LISTSERV, Majordomo, and MailMan. It doesn't. Those are list management programs.
Want an example of list generation? Take a "Baby Names" book in your language of choice. Type in all the names. Then have your software send your message to each of those names. At, say, AOL, MSN, Yahoo... and anything else large. That's a speedy way to generate a list. :)
Google can probably find you more, if you ask it nicely.
I beta-tested QuickBooks Pro 5.0 for Mac, and was seriously peeved to discover that it could only import files from the most recent Mac version. I don't know what Intuit is thinking, but even Microsoft manages to create products that can open files from a couple versions back, and file formats that are the same on Windows and Mac.
Windows XP is... a bit of a dog under Virtual PC on my 600MHz dual USB iBook. Perhaps it's snappier with Altivec, but I can't test that theory. It feels like it's running on maybe a 400MHz PC.
I'm just finishing up an install of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (the only version I have the CD for really handy) under Bochs 2.0.2 (not the OpenOSX version - straight off SourceForge!) and it's a big dog. We're talking Clifford sized. (And dangit, this CD says it contains code for the PPC version of NT 4.0 - what I really need is a VMWare or Plex for the PPC, maybe? ;)
I'd say it feels like I'm running NT on a 200Mhz PC, at best. Of course I've got a bunch of other OS X stuff running, and I only gave it 64 megs (Squirm, you accursed OS! One tenth of the system memory is all you get!), so I might find it a little faster in full-screen mode in the foreground with less other stuff going on.
So... mathematically speaking, VPC feels like it's running on a PC with 2/3 the clock speed, and Bochs feels like it's running on one with 1/3 the clock speed. When the G5 arrives with its oh-so-yummy 2.0GHz chips, VPC (if it ran) should theoretically feel like a 1.3GHz PC, and Bochs like a 667Mhz PC. Either of which would be faster than any PC I've ever had, of course... and I used NT 4.0 on a 500Mhz machine just fine for ages.
I'm looking forward to hearing that Bochs runs on the G5 from someone who actually has a G5, since OpenOSX says it does, but then in the same page says they haven't even tested it on OS versions newer than 10.2.4 yet. If no one else tries it in 3-6 weeks... I will.
I currently have Windows XP installed under VirtualPC 6.0 on my 600MHz dual USB iBook; in 3-6 weeks I expect my G5 to arrive, so I want to get a different emulation option going until VPC supports the G5.
I am... not using the "Open OS X" version of things. As far as I can see, spending the money isn't going to in any way simplify installing Windows. :)
And each one would show a different timeline or possible future or past.
And there would be this guy there, called the "Architect."
Then Neo would come rushing in...
Oh, wait, I forgot, Macs get used by the good guys in movies. My bad.
If the former, it's probably already happened.
If the latter, I don't think we have anything to fear.
If both... well, don't say I didn't tell you.
Yes, of course MS is losing money! Hand over fist. The only stuff they turn a profit on, if I recall, are Windows itself (oh, and I don't mean Windows CE, er, Pocket PC, er, Windows Mobile, since that probably loses money) and Office. Everything else? Go out and paint the balance sheet red...
But... a cluster should be redundant enough to withstand that sort of minor inconvenience and go on functioning without the errant node while it gets fixed, reboots or whatever.
I'll admit that building something smart enough to say "Node 206, you have a memory error. Bad G5, no donut!" is beyond the scope of my understanding.
What happens then?
Individual systems and networks administrators block spammy networks.
This unfortunately means duplication of efforts, of course... but if it's what has to be done, it will be done.
And then, when Joe ISP's customers complain that their mail is bouncing or being blackholed, instead of having to do the legwork to get off a few large, well-known blacklists... Joe can go around to thousands or millions of individual sites that have his network blocked.
Frying pan, fire, etc. I pity the ISP's.
I'd agree that it definitely does come up shy of "real" library software. (And I say that as someone who's worked in more'n a couple libraries. ;)
That said, the box for comments/review could probably be used to store that info along with, uh, whatever. :) But yeah, it's not a real library program. Then again, I don't think that's what it's trying to be.
I got a PC emulator (VPC6/WinXP Pro) for my Mac (iBook600) because I "need" to run the occasional piece of software that's only available for Windows. $220ish for that is cheaper than that $300 PC, doesn't take up space, doesn't require me to add more outlets, etc. :)
I have a lot of UNIX and Linux experience; I wound up getting a Mac almost 2 years ago because it'd run the apps I was used to from that arena, yet would also do things like playing QuickTime movies and DVD's (which back then were major struggles under Linux). That it can also emulate a PC, and that there are native versions of Microsoft products (MSIE, WMP, Office) for it, is just icing.
There've been a couple switcher stories about technical or scientific people who were able to go from having a Mac, a Windows PC, and a UNIX/Linux system at their desks, to having... a Mac. And going from 3 computers to 1 is usually a cost-saver, not just in acquisition costs, but support as well.
I was a big fan of tcsh for about twelve years - first started using it on SunOS 4 boxes back when SunOS 4 boxes were current. :) Eventually I got tired of having to install it on Solaris boxes, though, discovered that bash could (by then, anyway) do nice things like filename completion, and then discovered that bash instances used less resources than tcsh ones...
Huh-huh, he said "fan of silent machines."