(Unpopular music, the kind many Slashdotters claim to prefer, which always seems to be the first thing people check for on a new music service, will always be something of a money-losing proposition.)
"Unpopular" music can still be profitable.
I think it is a good litmus test of whether a store truly has a variety of music they claim to have.
As for multiple sequels, if there is a long line of them and they still sell, maybe the sequels are actually halfway decent? Each sequel might add enough to the franchise to keep it ineteresting so that people will buy #4, #5 and so on. If handled right, people will still keep buying.
Admittedly, there's a counterexample like the Star Trek movies and game series, I'm not sure what happened there, there are maybe four good movies out of ten, and the Star Trek games I've played were crap.
Also, original titles often fail.
I've heard, although admittedly rumored:
A great many games don't break even. The one in ten that makes it big are hopefully a big enough of a win to pay for the shortfall in development & marketing costs of the nine failures. With odds like that, and the marketing of an existing known success behind the game when making a sequel. It is easier to put them on store shelves, it is easier to market, easier to generate interest and so on.
Laws like this make me proud to live in a backwards country such as Canada.
Doesn't Canada have the highest CD-R music tax (erm , "fee") in the industrialized world? Sure it was the last to introduce one but the fees make buying a consumer set-top CD music recorder a laughable concept.
The thing that bugs me is that it takes a complaint from a competitor. Haven't individuals been complaining to BBB and other organizations about Apple's ads? The thing is though that Apple HAS been saying "personal computer" all along that I remember so I don't understand the BBB's comments.
Intel's "wireless everywhere" ads don't mention the need for a base station, not the likelyhood that such a station won't be found on a freaking mountain for that matter, despite what some of the ads imply.
It may be fastest, and may have been the cheapest 64 bit desktop PC system on introduction. A problem with making the claim now is that that eMachines has been selling Athlon 64 systems at about $1000 for three months now.
Microsoft's products might suck, but they made Intel hardware the comodoty that it is today in order that you can afford to tinker with Linux or whatever it is you want to do.
I don't think that the lack of Intel's 386 would have meant the end of hardware & software hacking and no Linux. IIRC, various forms of hacking has been around long before Intel came around. It isn't necessarily the unified commodity for computers that is necessary for affordability either, witness the cheap game consoles.
Who knows, maybe Motorola would have had dominance in its place, but that might have depended on its business manager. There were some pretty nifty Motorola based systems in its time. I read somewhere that IBM chose Intel because its chips did the job and weren't as powerful, they didn't want to poach the sales of their heavy iron. In retrospect, maybe going with Mot might have been a better choice, but we'll never know.
[i]Some people said they didn't want Marsh using their money to fund SCO.[/i]
So, it doesn't matter who is sued, unless it is you?
[i]The poor guy did the deal thinking he was just buying something akin to fire insurance, and boy did he get burned.[/i]
The "insurance" bought from SCO is simply protection money from the new Mafia, IMO. The man should have done his homework or had someone do it for him.
At a retail store, if you don't want to be tracked, just pay with cash and don't use loyalty.
How long before that cash gets embedded RFID? Then it could be tracked to an account at a bank. And should it happen, it would be illegal to disable it.
RFID adds two things:
A bar code can be scanned once and is noticible. Bar codes aren't uniquely identifiable to a particular instance of an object.
RFID allows tracking by serial number, and can be scanned without the owner knowing it, with a scanner placed anywhere where a person might walk.
With data mining becoming a huge thing, and storage capacity ever increasing, I think it could lead to trouble especially should one go through a divorce or any other court-involved difficulty, much like what subpoenas to Speedpass can do, despite the numerous assurances (i.e. lies) by the people promoting it.
Now, it might be possible to recover stolen objects if you just give coppers the serial number, but crafty thieves would know how to disable them anyway.
Frankly, it comes down to trust. The problems I see is that the potential is there and you bet the same way we've seen major web sites violate their stated privacy policies, companies.
At the time of changing to a color standard, the US had quite an installed base of B&W sets. The UK did not for most practical purposes, so they could make a new standard from scratch without shafting owners of existing sets into having to buy all-new TVs.
Now that's not the case in the ATSC change-over as most HDTV recievers sold in the US can rescale an image to any current non-PAL standard, be it NTSC (480i), 480p, 720p or 1080i. The old TV can still work with a set-top box, and indeed it could easily show a better picture than with analog reception as it isn't composite modulated with ghosting, etc.
IIRC, NTSC runs at 59.94 fields per second or thereabouts. It is NOT 60 fields per second, otherwise you get one noticable glitch about once every twenty seconds.
A great deal of software companies have per-cpu licencing on operating system and database software, and charge up the wazoo for it, why hold it against Microsoft? It costs more to develop and test multi-cpu software, so the ones that have multiple CPUs should be the ones to pay for it.
I thought the Honda Cog "ad" was something never aired anywhere, not just "not aired in US". My impression was that it was a promo video never intended to air because of its length.
I would have a problem with a store that knows what I buy _when_ it starts sharing or selling that information to other stores, distributors, or to the "everyone is a suspect" government. Given that every RFID tag has a unique number, then that means it can, given time and equipment, be "followed" and its complete history known should they choose.
I don't think stopping production means that it isn't profitable. I think Disney does this with the intent of maximizing its profit.
Often Disney stops production of a video title and lets the market go without new copies for seven or so years then re-releases it. I think under the idea of abandonware, it has been abandoned for seven years.
"Do they mention if the CPU and motherboard manufacturing companies care?"
CPU and motherboard companies probably would not be able to use this until ten years from now. CPU companies may be quietly investigating this already because R&D to production on silicon processes has a long lead time. It won't concern motherboard manufacturers until chips are already sampling.
I think that is kind of odd that 40% of "care assistants" are very happy. If that includes nursing (RN, LPN, etc.) then I have to wonder what is going on because it seems most of the ones I know endure a terrific amount of stress and poorer management than nearly any other field I know about. It could be a regional thing.
You won't be able to just "dd" the content and have it play in just any DVD player, unless you decrypt it, and the decrypting is against the DMCA law.
The CCS key is in a protected part of a DVD, and the place to put the key on DVD blank media is pre-burned to all zeros, which is effectively a "no key"
Another problem I had not seen mentioned yet is that some companies don't have a worldwide warranty. You want a warranty that will apply in the country which you will use it. Otherwise, if something breaks, you will need to send it through your forwarder, it gets serviced, then returned again, possibly paying customs both ways on a used laptop.
I predict the nonoca will adopt the name "Intel Xeon Championship Edition."
You laugh now, but it's already been done with Serverworks chipsets.
You know, a company called Serverworks (I think part of Broadcom now), had used "Champion" as their first Xeon chipset at 66MHz FSB, Champion II for 100MHz FSB, Champion III for the 133MHz chips, and Champion IV which is now renamed "Grand Champion" for the current 400 and 533 MHz FSB, with HE, LE, SL, HE-SL and WS sub variants. HE is a quad CPU chipset, the rest ar dual, I haven't looked to see what the other differences are.
Overclockers are a subset of modders. There are modders that bias themselves towards quiet versus performance. There are even several sites that devote themselves to silent PCs.
These modders switch out fans, get larger heat sinks add heat pipes, swap out to quieter power supplies, strategically add sound absorbing materials. Trading small high RPM fans for larger lower RPM fans with same flow ratings usually net a much quieter fan. IIRC, heat pipes were introduced last year to modder community, but Compaq and Dell has used them on PII and PIII Xeon servers.
The thing is, I can see his position, but the fact that he doesn't apply any logic to the entry discredits him entirely.
I don't think it is fair to expect that the summary be an exacting replication of the intent original document. Google is simply showing the sentences that happen to match the search criteria, even if they might represent disparate sections of the document. One thing that can be done is adjust the ranking based on how far apart the keywords are, but I bet Google probably does that a little already. Heck, the ellipsis (...) is supposed to signify that information is left out for brevity, and one only must click the link to see the source. Anyone that uses a Google summary to form such an opinion is really stretching it for credibility unless one admits that their clients really are total retards.
I think to sue for libel, one must prove damages, so the guy has nothing coming to him for a few different reasons.
Standards are great! You can pick any one you want!
The prospect of smaller computers with an interchangeable form factor is interesting. I doubt power users will want an ITX board based system as their main system, but there's a lot of power to be harnessed for experiments.
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(Unpopular music, the kind many Slashdotters claim to prefer, which always seems to be the first thing people check for on a new music service, will always be something of a money-losing proposition.)
"Unpopular" music can still be profitable.
I think it is a good litmus test of whether a store truly has a variety of music they claim to have.
As for multiple sequels, if there is a long line of them and they still sell, maybe the sequels are actually halfway decent? Each sequel might add enough to the franchise to keep it ineteresting so that people will buy #4, #5 and so on. If handled right, people will still keep buying.
Admittedly, there's a counterexample like the Star Trek movies and game series, I'm not sure what happened there, there are maybe four good movies out of ten, and the Star Trek games I've played were crap.
Also, original titles often fail.
I've heard, although admittedly rumored:
A great many games don't break even. The one in ten that makes it big are hopefully a big enough of a win to pay for the shortfall in development & marketing costs of the nine failures. With odds like that, and the marketing of an existing known success behind the game when making a sequel. It is easier to put them on store shelves, it is easier to market, easier to generate interest and so on.
Laws like this make me proud to live in a backwards country such as Canada.
Doesn't Canada have the highest CD-R music tax (erm , "fee") in the industrialized world? Sure it was the last to introduce one but the fees make buying a consumer set-top CD music recorder a laughable concept.
The thing that bugs me is that it takes a complaint from a competitor. Haven't individuals been complaining to BBB and other organizations about Apple's ads? The thing is though that Apple HAS been saying "personal computer" all along that I remember so I don't understand the BBB's comments.
Intel's "wireless everywhere" ads don't mention the need for a base station, not the likelyhood that such a station won't be found on a freaking mountain for that matter, despite what some of the ads imply.
It may be fastest, and may have been the cheapest 64 bit desktop PC system on introduction. A problem with making the claim now is that that eMachines has been selling Athlon 64 systems at about $1000 for three months now.
Apple has long shelved the ad campaign though.
Microsoft's products might suck, but they made Intel hardware the comodoty that it is today in order that you can afford to tinker with Linux or whatever it is you want to do.
I don't think that the lack of Intel's 386 would have meant the end of hardware & software hacking and no Linux. IIRC, various forms of hacking has been around long before Intel came around. It isn't necessarily the unified commodity for computers that is necessary for affordability either, witness the cheap game consoles.
Who knows, maybe Motorola would have had dominance in its place, but that might have depended on its business manager. There were some pretty nifty Motorola based systems in its time. I read somewhere that IBM chose Intel because its chips did the job and weren't as powerful, they didn't want to poach the sales of their heavy iron. In retrospect, maybe going with Mot might have been a better choice, but we'll never know.
[i]Some people said they didn't want Marsh using their money to fund SCO.[/i]
So, it doesn't matter who is sued, unless it is you?
[i]The poor guy did the deal thinking he was just buying something akin to fire insurance, and boy did he get burned.[/i]
The "insurance" bought from SCO is simply protection money from the new Mafia, IMO. The man should have done his homework or had someone do it for him.
It would probably be a great platform for dispose-a-books like computer references. I hope PDFs and HTML pages too, even if only in black and white.
At a retail store, if you don't want to be tracked, just pay with cash and don't use loyalty.
How long before that cash gets embedded RFID? Then it could be tracked to an account at a bank. And should it happen, it would be illegal to disable it.
RFID adds two things:
A bar code can be scanned once and is noticible. Bar codes aren't uniquely identifiable to a particular instance of an object.
RFID allows tracking by serial number, and can be scanned without the owner knowing it, with a scanner placed anywhere where a person might walk.
With data mining becoming a huge thing, and storage capacity ever increasing, I think it could lead to trouble especially should one go through a divorce or any other court-involved difficulty, much like what subpoenas to Speedpass can do, despite the numerous assurances (i.e. lies) by the people promoting it.
Now, it might be possible to recover stolen objects if you just give coppers the serial number, but crafty thieves would know how to disable them anyway.
Frankly, it comes down to trust. The problems I see is that the potential is there and you bet the same way we've seen major web sites violate their stated privacy policies, companies.
At the time of changing to a color standard, the US had quite an installed base of B&W sets. The UK did not for most practical purposes, so they could make a new standard from scratch without shafting owners of existing sets into having to buy all-new TVs.
Now that's not the case in the ATSC change-over as most HDTV recievers sold in the US can rescale an image to any current non-PAL standard, be it NTSC (480i), 480p, 720p or 1080i. The old TV can still work with a set-top box, and indeed it could easily show a better picture than with analog reception as it isn't composite modulated with ghosting, etc.
IIRC, NTSC runs at 59.94 fields per second or thereabouts. It is NOT 60 fields per second, otherwise you get one noticable glitch about once every twenty seconds.
per-cpu licensing,
Huh?
A great deal of software companies have per-cpu licencing on operating system and database software, and charge up the wazoo for it, why hold it against Microsoft? It costs more to develop and test multi-cpu software, so the ones that have multiple CPUs should be the ones to pay for it.
I thought the Honda Cog "ad" was something never aired anywhere, not just "not aired in US". My impression was that it was a promo video never intended to air because of its length.
I would have a problem with a store that knows what I buy _when_ it starts sharing or selling that information to other stores, distributors, or to the "everyone is a suspect" government. Given that every RFID tag has a unique number, then that means it can, given time and equipment, be "followed" and its complete history known should they choose.
And if you are unlucky, someone in the next cube will yell over to you:
"FORMAT C COLON"
I don't think stopping production means that it isn't profitable. I think Disney does this with the intent of maximizing its profit.
Often Disney stops production of a video title and lets the market go without new copies for seven or so years then re-releases it. I think under the idea of abandonware, it has been abandoned for seven years.
"Do they mention if the CPU and motherboard manufacturing companies care?"
CPU and motherboard companies probably would not be able to use this until ten years from now. CPU companies may be quietly investigating this already because R&D to production on silicon processes has a long lead time. It won't concern motherboard manufacturers until chips are already sampling.
I think that is kind of odd that 40% of "care assistants" are very happy. If that includes nursing (RN, LPN, etc.) then I have to wonder what is going on because it seems most of the ones I know endure a terrific amount of stress and poorer management than nearly any other field I know about. It could be a regional thing.
You won't be able to just "dd" the content and have it play in just any DVD player, unless you decrypt it, and the decrypting is against the DMCA law.
The CCS key is in a protected part of a DVD, and the place to put the key on DVD blank media is pre-burned to all zeros, which is effectively a "no key"
Another problem I had not seen mentioned yet is that some companies don't have a worldwide warranty. You want a warranty that will apply in the country which you will use it. Otherwise, if something breaks, you will need to send it through your forwarder, it gets serviced, then returned again, possibly paying customs both ways on a used laptop.
I predict the nonoca will adopt the name "Intel Xeon Championship Edition."
You laugh now, but it's already been done with Serverworks chipsets.
You know, a company called Serverworks (I think part of Broadcom now), had used "Champion" as their first Xeon chipset at 66MHz FSB, Champion II for 100MHz FSB, Champion III for the 133MHz chips, and Champion IV which is now renamed "Grand Champion" for the current 400 and 533 MHz FSB, with HE, LE, SL, HE-SL and WS sub variants. HE is a quad CPU chipset, the rest ar dual, I haven't looked to see what the other differences are.
See for yourself:
Broadcom Grand Champion chipsets & more
Why would anyone need to re-implement an ATM?
The old ones work.
Because making a functional object work poorly for the sake of making it look pretty is considered "progress".
Overclockers are a subset of modders. There are modders that bias themselves towards quiet versus performance. There are even several sites that devote themselves to silent PCs.
These modders switch out fans, get larger heat sinks add heat pipes, swap out to quieter power supplies, strategically add sound absorbing materials. Trading small high RPM fans for larger lower RPM fans with same flow ratings usually net a much quieter fan. IIRC, heat pipes were introduced last year to modder community, but Compaq and Dell has used them on PII and PIII Xeon servers.
The thing is, I can see his position, but the fact that he doesn't apply any logic to the entry discredits him entirely.
I don't think it is fair to expect that the summary be an exacting replication of the intent original document. Google is simply showing the sentences that happen to match the search criteria, even if they might represent disparate sections of the document. One thing that can be done is adjust the ranking based on how far apart the keywords are, but I bet Google probably does that a little already. Heck, the ellipsis (...) is supposed to signify that information is left out for brevity, and one only must click the link to see the source. Anyone that uses a Google summary to form such an opinion is really stretching it for credibility unless one admits that their clients really are total retards.
I think to sue for libel, one must prove damages, so the guy has nothing coming to him for a few different reasons.
There was a quote to the effect of:
Standards are great! You can pick any one you want!
The prospect of smaller computers with an interchangeable form factor is interesting. I doubt power users will want an ITX board based system as their main system, but there's a lot of power to be harnessed for experiments.