The flaw in your logic is that you assume the only people that use Napster are ones that know about the 'other' methods. I have yet to personally talk (face-to-face) to a geek/nerd/techie that uses Napster. I either rip my own as it is, get if from Carracho (a Hotline-type program for Mac), or trading with friends. The typical Napster user is both not a geek and too dumb to find other methods easily.
Now assuming that 45% of Napsters current users find a different way of getting music, and that their current user base is 5 million people, that leaves 3.25 million people left. At $5 a pop monthly, that gives Napster a yearly revenue (est.) $195 Million. I'd say that this is a decent amount, and it is with the assumption that Napster does not grow any - that is a very big if (I'd wager to say impossible).
Now what in the world was with that choice??? NPR (National Public Radio) had a really intresting discussion on one of their shows (Talk of the nation) about the H-1b visas. The first guests they had were the pro H-1b people (some of congress, heads of tech companies, etc.), and they basically said a bunch of non-detailed FUD. The other guests and other callers esentially said that this is a bad thing. Corperation said that H-1b's are not getting hired over US Citizens, and the tech callers said just the opposit. In addition, corperation said that H-1b's were getting paid the same as the US Citizens, and the tech people said nay to that too. A caller from Germany cited a similar law over there that all the German Nationals hate. I sure love how our Congress is here for us, and not for corperations! I sure hope Clinton says nix to this.
If I were a world famous person in any given topic, when I got old I think it would be cool to make up some wierd stuff (like based upon the trajectory of some unknown flying brick, the world will be overrun by rabbid dogs with hot grits in 100 years.) just to see peoples reactions.
The sundown machines are behind a firewall, so pinging them would be futile. In addition to that, this test occured about two weeks ago, so you couldn't do anything with it. Compaq (seeing as Digital is owned by them, not on their own) doesn't let their machines that are as big as three refridgerators (sp?) sit running all the time (something about power consumption comes to mind...). An intresting thing about these machines is that they are prototypes. They are for sale (they model type), but they cost somewhere in the 2 Million Dollar range. As far as the Linux Scalability issue, here is a really intresting report from a UofM alumni, now a worker for Compaq on their zk3 campus (practically Hemos's back yard, it's in New Hampsire I belive). Yes it is only a coincidence.
Call me paranoid, but how many people (celeb or not) have FBI files on them? Quite frankly, I think that the US Govn't violates quite a bit of our privacy every day. Just because it is online doesn't mean that they won't watch you so to speak. Besides, if you wanted, just tell your browser to not accept cookies, or to ask you first. -Mr. Macx
So it this the ultimate in scanning your "computer" by MSFT? Seems like this is the eaisest way for them to tell if you have pirated something. I might, maybe, sort of, kinda consider it if lots of bandwidth were included. -Mr. Macx
Actually I got my rev b and an overclocked LCIII for $550. The rev b had a 13.3GB HD, and 96 extra MB RAM were included at no extra charge. I got this from a friend who wanted to upgrade, so the processor upgrade is just as much as my iMac. -Mr. Macx
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Actually, the reason I got my iMac was that it was dirt cheap. I bought it off of a friend who got a powerbook, and I am quite intrested in upgrading my iMac rev.B. (I am also quite intrested in getting a G4 instead:-) -Mr. Macx
I was thinking that since MSFT wanted to take over the world eventually, "Dr. Evil" for the OS and "Mini Me" for the apps portion seems fairly appropriate:-) -Mr. Macx
Sort of. Just like people are not supposed to bring explosives or weapons over the border for reasons of national security, the same types of security issues could be applied to MSFT. It may seem slightly illogical, but this is the US govn't we are talking about, and they will use any loopholes that they can come up with to get their way. -Mr. Macx
Sound's good to me, if that happens, the govn't can just deny the importation of MSFT products on the grounds that they are "too insecure";-) -Mr. Macx
My post didn't have the intention of lumping MSFT with the afformentioned group of people, but rather it was used to illustrate the fact that these are all criminals. They all, afterall, have commited a crime, have they not? Wether it be anti-trust or terrorism, there is a law against that, and if you break it, you pay the price.
I agree with one of the other AC's in that although criminals do get some say in their punishment, it is mostly to have the punishment be neither cruel or unusual. Anti-trust as with any crime should be punished. It should be up to the court to decide punishment, not MSFT. -Mr. Macx
Does MSFT think they can get away with this??? Do they honestly think they can buy or con the DOJ? (I hope not)... Personally I don't think MSFT should have any say in this - do murders, rapists, theives, etc. get to say what they want their sentance to be? I think not! Why is it any diffrent with MSFT??? -Mr. Macx
personall I think it's pretty cool that NOAA is using a Linux distro instead of WIN xx; hopefully our local weather forcaster will get it a bit more accurate in the future thanks to this;-) -Mr. Macx
Many wars in were on the front of intelligence; seeing as the web is an intelluctial front (well, it's supposed to be that way), it seems apt that some wars would be fought here eventually. -Mr. Macx
In addition to the other replies for this, a low power processor, because it runs on so little power, creates less heat. That leads to the ability to run the processor (overclock) faster while still maintaining stability. -Mr. Macx -Mr. Macx
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The flaw in your logic is that you assume the only people that use Napster are ones that know about the 'other' methods. I have yet to personally talk (face-to-face) to a geek/nerd/techie that uses Napster. I either rip my own as it is, get if from Carracho (a Hotline-type program for Mac), or trading with friends. The typical Napster user is both not a geek and too dumb to find other methods easily.
Now assuming that 45% of Napsters current users find a different way of getting music, and that their current user base is 5 million people, that leaves 3.25 million people left. At $5 a pop monthly, that gives Napster a yearly revenue (est.) $195 Million. I'd say that this is a decent amount, and it is with the assumption that Napster does not grow any - that is a very big if (I'd wager to say impossible).
-Mr. Macx
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Now what in the world was with that choice??? NPR (National Public Radio) had a really intresting discussion on one of their shows (Talk of the nation) about the H-1b visas. The first guests they had were the pro H-1b people (some of congress, heads of tech companies, etc.), and they basically said a bunch of non-detailed FUD. The other guests and other callers esentially said that this is a bad thing. Corperation said that H-1b's are not getting hired over US Citizens, and the tech callers said just the opposit. In addition, corperation said that H-1b's were getting paid the same as the US Citizens, and the tech people said nay to that too. A caller from Germany cited a similar law over there that all the German Nationals hate. I sure love how our Congress is here for us, and not for corperations!
I sure hope Clinton says nix to this.
-Mr. Macx
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If I were a world famous person in any given topic, when I got old I think it would be cool to make up some wierd stuff (like based upon the trajectory of some unknown flying brick, the world will be overrun by rabbid dogs with hot grits in 100 years.) just to see peoples reactions.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
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The sundown machines are behind a firewall, so pinging them would be futile. In addition to that, this test occured about two weeks ago, so you couldn't do anything with it. Compaq (seeing as Digital is owned by them, not on their own) doesn't let their machines that are as big as three refridgerators (sp?) sit running all the time (something about power consumption comes to mind...). An intresting thing about these machines is that they are prototypes. They are for sale (they model type), but they cost somewhere in the 2 Million Dollar range. As far as the Linux Scalability issue, here is a really intresting report from a UofM alumni, now a worker for Compaq on their zk3 campus (practically Hemos's back yard, it's in New Hampsire I belive). Yes it is only a coincidence.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
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Call me paranoid, but how many people (celeb or not) have FBI files on them? Quite frankly, I think that the US Govn't violates quite a bit of our privacy every day. Just because it is online doesn't mean that they won't watch you so to speak. Besides, if you wanted, just tell your browser to not accept cookies, or to ask you first.
-Mr. Macx
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So it this the ultimate in scanning your "computer" by MSFT? Seems like this is the eaisest way for them to tell if you have pirated something. I might, maybe, sort of, kinda consider it if lots of bandwidth were included.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
Actually I got my rev b and an overclocked LCIII for $550. The rev b had a 13.3GB HD, and 96 extra MB RAM were included at no extra charge. I got this from a friend who wanted to upgrade, so the processor upgrade is just as much as my iMac.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
Actually, the reason I got my iMac was that it was dirt cheap. I bought it off of a friend who got a powerbook, and I am quite intrested in upgrading my iMac rev.B. (I am also quite intrested in getting a G4 instead :-)
-Mr. Macx
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That would be quite intresting to bring to either work or College. The class I'm in now doesn't do much anyway.
-Mr. Macx
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I was thinking that since MSFT wanted to take over the world eventually, "Dr. Evil" for the OS and "Mini Me" for the apps portion seems fairly appropriate :-)
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
Sort of. Just like people are not supposed to bring explosives or weapons over the border for reasons of national security, the same types of security issues could be applied to MSFT. It may seem slightly illogical, but this is the US govn't we are talking about, and they will use any loopholes that they can come up with to get their way.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
Sound's good to me, if that happens, the govn't can just deny the importation of MSFT products on the grounds that they are "too insecure" ;-)
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
My post didn't have the intention of lumping MSFT with the afformentioned group of people, but rather it was used to illustrate the fact that these are all criminals. They all, afterall, have commited a crime, have they not? Wether it be anti-trust or terrorism, there is a law against that, and if you break it, you pay the price.
I agree with one of the other AC's in that although criminals do get some say in their punishment, it is mostly to have the punishment be neither cruel or unusual. Anti-trust as with any crime should be punished. It should be up to the court to decide punishment, not MSFT.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
Does MSFT think they can get away with this??? Do they honestly think they can buy or con the DOJ? (I hope not)... Personally I don't think MSFT should have any say in this - do murders, rapists, theives, etc. get to say what they want their sentance to be? I think not! Why is it any diffrent with MSFT???
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
personall I think it's pretty cool that NOAA is using a Linux distro instead of WIN xx; hopefully our local weather forcaster will get it a bit more accurate in the future thanks to this ;-)
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
Many wars in were on the front of intelligence; seeing as the web is an intelluctial front (well, it's supposed to be that way), it seems apt that some wars would be fought here eventually.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
In addition to the other replies for this, a low power processor, because it runs on so little power, creates less heat. That leads to the ability to run the processor (overclock) faster while still maintaining stability. -Mr. Macx
-Mr. Macx
Moof!