Well, I'm sure I've got out of bed and posted this thought way to late for any good responses... however...
It would be interesting to look at global market boom-bust cycles and use these to evaluate when MS is going to release longhorn and its' next armarda of operating systems for maximum profitability. I believe we are starting to move into the next stockmarket boom period, here in Australia anyway. The rest of the western world can't be all that far away from us. As the equity markets boom and money flows into them, productivity needs to increase and ms-windows is an excellent short cut to helping increase productivity, forget linux for the moment, linux is a longterm investment. Windows-longhorn and its decendents will create more profit in a boyant marketplace. 2008 might be a good time to start pushing/selling longhorn when the equity market starts to get ahead... similar things happened with NT4 release dates IIRC and if my theory is tracking along sane lines...
Any thoughts? or did I really sleep in and miss the boat...
Like there's no-one out there who does art for the sake of, er, art, or pleasure? Or who can find other means of supporting themselves besides putting virtual chains around their knowledge. Or who maybe wouldn't feel the need to live like a king, or spend $50 million hyping their album.
News flash for you, dasidiot: Art would indeed survive. In fact, you might say that the art that does survive is going to be that made by the real artists, and not all the stars-in-the-eyes in-it-for-the-money corporate executives and boy bands.
I do not know why you posted as Anonymous Coward because that was a good post, in fact I belive you are correct. I'm now slightly OT however. Art that is good sells itself, the artist is in demand for personal art shows, be these personal paintings or live musical concerts et al. The individual smalltime artist is then fairly recompensed, provided massive copyright violations do not take place, where large distribution companies profit from the artists expense. This is the fundamental reason for copyright laws. The concept that I have just described is one of capitalism "the price of an item is worth only what the market will pay for it".
allofmp3.com isn't legal, it migth be in Russia, but that doesn't mean that people outside russia can buy from them legally.
If you live in Australia, where the article is written, then it is legal The parallel importing of music is legal in Australia. The parallel importing of music helps keep the price down and is evidence of a free market economy working well, unlike the USA with the BSA and MPAA and RIAA and other IP outfits where these gestapo like organisations control the free flow of information.
We can't see any legal or moral objection to using the site. We're using the material for private use, there is no restriction in this country on the parallel importing of recorded music and none of the artists seem to have been deprived of their rights.
I have a 4U rackmount system for my Audio studio. The fans that came with the case and mobo/CPU were loud, so I replaced them all with quiet fans. The fans that I use are temperature sensitive and their RPMs depend on temperature, how accurate they are I don't know but they are quiet and I have no overheating problems. The most noise comes from the fan in my mixer which I can't easily replace:)
All of this could be avoided if I had a user side application that indexed my browser cache. A local database of indexed webpages that I have already seen would heed the best results under the previous scenario. Such a scenario is not uncommon.
The google toolbar already incorporates part of this functionality by use of the drop down search.
Also just because people are downloading these games and mp3s doesn't mean they dont eventually buy it. I downloaded a game I liked, Alpha Centauri, then *bought* the expansion pack (to get tech support, the manual, and the satisfaction of possession. Many people enjoy *buying* and *owning* something).
While I didn't get into Alpha-Centauri I did pruchase Civilistation II after having played the downloaded version of Civilisation. Yes I wanted the books and actually to pay for the game that gave me many hours of lost productivity in the form of enjoyment.
Australian radio documentary on this.
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If you listen to the ABC news radio either streaming radio or on the old fashion light spectrum then tonight, Australian time, there will be a documentary about this.
I actually had some great fun with it. Weeks and weeks of joy for me. I got myself a job as a taxi driver and stuck a laptop with external GPS and external 802.11 connected to the roof for good reception. After a days work I'd pull out the laptop and see where all the networks were and when I had been driving all day.
Not forgetting to mention that when I get bored I can just whip out the lappy and recompile my kernel for fun...
I can only just begin to imagine how much fun and how useful this new device is going to be for me.
Is there a similar Law to Moores law (or a combination of such) that could be applied to this compression of data and the effective use of the spectrum? As time goes I feel we are going to see the need for the available ammount of wireless transmission medium to increase. How long before we hit the theoretical limit of data transmission and the planet is saturated?
Internet music company Kazaa has failed in its attempt to delay proceedings for alleged copyright breaches brought by the Australian record industry.
Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox dismissed an application by the world's largest file sharing network to delay proceedings against it until a similar case in the United States was finalised.
Music Industry Piracy Investigation (MIPI), which is owned by Universal, Festival Mushroom Records, EMI Music, Sony Music, Warner Music Australia and BMG Australia, raided 12 premises on February 6 this year to collect evidence against Kazaa.
MIPI general manager Michael Speck said the decision to allow proceedings to go ahead against Sharman Networks, Kazaa's owner in Australia, was a win for the record industry.
"This represents a massive victory for the copyright owners," he said outside the court.
"It's time for Kazaa to stop using delaying tactics and face the music."
There is something to be said for getting older and not giving a *&@# about keeping current as-far-as TV shows are concerned. I could'nt even tell you who is sleeping with who on Friends;-) You know what? I don't miss it either.
Thanks. It's good to know that I'm not the only freak in the world who doesn't care for mindless TV.
So here's what I'm hoping Microsoft do. They sell two models of X-Box 2, one with HD, one without. The one with costs $50 extra, but you can probably save that in memory cards.
They will not do this.
Last time I checked, MS was a "For-Profit" company. MS derives profit from these tiny little memory cards. They cost bugger all to manufacture. It's these little add-ons that make up for the loss they incur on each and every shiny new black and green xbox console sold. I guess you could draw an analogy with the profit from the sale of games, the profit from the sale of extra controllers, the profit from the sale of the DVD add-on, the profit from the sale of...
An xbox hard drive has three purposes. For two of them it isn't necessary, well the important ones from an MS perspective anyway.
Savegames. Flash memory would be more than sufficient. There are already hitachi CF cards with 4 GB capacity and don't be surprized to see 32GB CF cards in a year or so.
Downloaded content from xbox live. Great feature.
Storing ripped music for use as a soundtrack. Those with LAN could use a windows share for this. I don't think this is a popular enough feature or easily implimented by the average consumer to mandate its inclusion in XBox2. An external harddrive peripheral could fill this need.
MS have come out and said they can't make XBox 1 profitable. There is a good chance they are going to try to reduce theirhardware costs with XB2 so that they can actually realise some good profits out of the XB console series. The harddrive is a large expense that could be considered expendable with without too much pain.
There are already some third-party addon memory cards. While I'm not sure about the exact hardware format used (SanDisk Memory), there are USB memory cards that can be used to transfer game saves easily amongst compatible devices.
Unless, that is, unless MS is planning on making the X-Box 2 games available on demand only, downloaded from a central server when you want to play them.
Not likely. So much of the world still lacks access to braodband, and even then downloading a full DVD every time you want to play the game is not going to be popular with consumers.
First I would recommend looking seriously at the CDMA network or one of the other 2.5G networks. There is going to be a shift away from GSM over the next few years towards 3G (third generation) phones. While the uptake isnt quite what has been expected in Asia, it is comming.
There are dual CDMA and AMPS phones available here in Australia that were introduced to cover the phase out of the AMPS network. They support all new digital features, including short message service (SMS), call forwarding, call waiting, caller identification and voice privacy.
GSM doesn't like hilly regions, so if you are planning regular trips into "hilly" regions then CDMA or AMPS would be a better system. However if you are a "city slicker" then GSM is for you!
A quick google search allowed me to find quite a few CDMA/AMPS phones.
About forty years ago, it looked like Lockheed was going to go bankrupt. The stock fell from $60 to $3, which was below par (i.e. breaking up the company and selling off the assets would have recovered more money than the stock was selling for). The problem was that Lockheed wasn't just a defense contractor, it was the defense contractor, and during the height of the cold war, to boot. They couldn't be allowed to go bankrupt.
So the government bailed them out.
Then, some years later, there was a little problem at a generating plant owned by General Public Utilities (GPU). You might not have heard of GPU but you've heard of the plant: Three Mile Island. GPU stock took a hit, as you might imagine. In fact it looked like it might go broke. The problem was that it was a utility, which means it was a monopoly. If it went broke the lights went out over a fair stretch of countryside. That couldn't happen.
So the government bailed them out.
Now, my father saw both of those coming. He bought Lockheed stock at fire-sale prices because he knew that they couldn't be allowed to go broke. He cried because he couldn't afford more. He made out like a bandit.
When GPU started to go under, he bought all the GPU stock he could. And this time, he could afford more. He made out like a bandit. So well, in fact, that he assured himself a comfortable retirement. He's quite conservative, and told me ruefully, "I always preached the values of thrift and economy. Now I'm comfortable in my old age, but it isn't due to any of that. Hmph."
Then the Seattle public utility, through a boring series of blunders, started to go broke. They couldn't be allowed to go broke, for the same reasons that GPU couldn't and Lockheed couldn't.
So the government...said "Hey! Wait just a darn minute here!" And didn't bail them out.
And they went broke. And the lights stayed on.
Ditto when California started having rolling blackouts. Big raspberries from the Fed, because the Shrub knows California wouldn't vote for him if he was rolling out the red carpet in front of Jesus Christ for the Second Coming. Much stick-waving, stunningly bad contracting, and shouting, but the lights came back on and stayed that way.
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Well, I'm sure I've got out of bed and posted this thought way to late for any good responses... however...
It would be interesting to look at global market boom-bust cycles and use these to evaluate when MS is going to release longhorn and its' next armarda of operating systems for maximum profitability. I believe we are starting to move into the next stockmarket boom period, here in Australia anyway. The rest of the western world can't be all that far away from us. As the equity markets boom and money flows into them, productivity needs to increase and ms-windows is an excellent short cut to helping increase productivity, forget linux for the moment, linux is a longterm investment. Windows-longhorn and its decendents will create more profit in a boyant marketplace. 2008 might be a good time to start pushing/selling longhorn when the equity market starts to get ahead... similar things happened with NT4 release dates IIRC and if my theory is tracking along sane lines...
Any thoughts? or did I really sleep in and miss the boat...
I do not know why you posted as Anonymous Coward because that was a good post, in fact I belive you are correct. I'm now slightly OT however. Art that is good sells itself, the artist is in demand for personal art shows, be these personal paintings or live musical concerts et al. The individual smalltime artist is then fairly recompensed, provided massive copyright violations do not take place, where large distribution companies profit from the artists expense. This is the fundamental reason for copyright laws. The concept that I have just described is one of capitalism "the price of an item is worth only what the market will pay for it".
If you live in Australia, where the article is written, then it is legal The parallel importing of music is legal in Australia. The parallel importing of music helps keep the price down and is evidence of a free market economy working well, unlike the USA with the BSA and MPAA and RIAA and other IP outfits where these gestapo like organisations control the free flow of information.
Perhaps this might be a good time to encourage everyone to move over to IPV6.
I have a 4U rackmount system for my Audio studio. The fans that came with the case and mobo/CPU were loud, so I replaced them all with quiet fans. The fans that I use are temperature sensitive and their RPMs depend on temperature, how accurate they are I don't know but they are quiet and I have no overheating problems. The most noise comes from the fan in my mixer which I can't easily replace :)
I guess cost will be the determining factor.
I might be off target here, but...
MS is a US based company and Sony/Nintendo are not. It is in the interests of the US to allow this to take place.
The google toolbar already incorporates part of this functionality by use of the drop down search.
The reason would be "that people afraid of a thing which they can not see, can not feel, can not smell and that kills."
Profit.
While I didn't get into Alpha-Centauri I did pruchase Civilistation II after having played the downloaded version of Civilisation. Yes I wanted the books and actually to pay for the game that gave me many hours of lost productivity in the form of enjoyment.
If you listen to the ABC news radio either streaming radio or on the old fashion light spectrum then tonight, Australian time, there will be a documentary about this.
Who is getting sloppy with their HTML?
I actually had some great fun with it. Weeks and weeks of joy for me. I got myself a job as a taxi driver and stuck a laptop with external GPS and external 802.11 connected to the roof for good reception. After a days work I'd pull out the laptop and see where all the networks were and when I had been driving all day.
Not forgetting to mention that when I get bored I can just whip out the lappy and recompile my kernel for fun...
I can only just begin to imagine how much fun and how useful this new device is going to be for me.
Is there a similar Law to Moores law (or a combination of such) that could be applied to this compression of data and the effective use of the spectrum? As time goes I feel we are going to see the need for the available ammount of wireless transmission medium to increase. How long before we hit the theoretical limit of data transmission and the planet is saturated?
Just interested...
Many thank for the zip.
:)
If I had mod points you would get some, perhaps I shall add you to my freind list and give you some later.
Internet music company Kazaa has failed in its attempt to delay proceedings for alleged copyright breaches brought by the Australian record industry.
Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox dismissed an application by the world's largest file sharing network to delay proceedings against it until a similar case in the United States was finalised.
Music Industry Piracy Investigation (MIPI), which is owned by Universal, Festival Mushroom Records, EMI Music, Sony Music, Warner Music Australia and BMG Australia, raided 12 premises on February 6 this year to collect evidence against Kazaa.
MIPI general manager Michael Speck said the decision to allow proceedings to go ahead against Sharman Networks, Kazaa's owner in Australia, was a win for the record industry.
"This represents a massive victory for the copyright owners," he said outside the court.
"It's time for Kazaa to stop using delaying tactics and face the music."
The matter was adjourned until March 23.
Thanks. It's good to know that I'm not the only freak in the world who doesn't care for mindless TV.
They will not do this.
Last time I checked, MS was a "For-Profit" company. MS derives profit from these tiny little memory cards. They cost bugger all to manufacture. It's these little add-ons that make up for the loss they incur on each and every shiny new black and green xbox console sold. I guess you could draw an analogy with the profit from the sale of games, the profit from the sale of extra controllers, the profit from the sale of the DVD add-on, the profit from the sale of...
MS have come out and said they can't make XBox 1 profitable. There is a good chance they are going to try to reduce theirhardware costs with XB2 so that they can actually realise some good profits out of the XB console series. The harddrive is a large expense that could be considered expendable with without too much pain.
There are already some third-party addon memory cards. While I'm not sure about the exact hardware format used (SanDisk Memory), there are USB memory cards that can be used to transfer game saves easily amongst compatible devices.
Not likely. So much of the world still lacks access to braodband, and even then downloading a full DVD every time you want to play the game is not going to be popular with consumers.
Fuck it...
Bum out and drive cabs.
You get to do what you want when you want...
It's what I have done, and I love it... Computers sucked out to much of my creativity and life force.
First I would recommend looking seriously at the CDMA network or one of the other 2.5G networks. There is going to be a shift away from GSM over the next few years towards 3G (third generation) phones. While the uptake isnt quite what has been expected in Asia, it is comming.
There are dual CDMA and AMPS phones available here in Australia that were introduced to cover the phase out of the AMPS network. They support all new digital features, including short message service (SMS), call forwarding, call waiting, caller identification and voice privacy.
GSM doesn't like hilly regions, so if you are planning regular trips into "hilly" regions then CDMA or AMPS would be a better system. However if you are a "city slicker" then GSM is for you!
A quick google search allowed me to find quite a few CDMA/AMPS phones.
Thank you for making me laugh today!
About forty years ago, it looked like Lockheed was going to go bankrupt. The stock fell from $60 to $3, which was below par (i.e. breaking up the company and selling off the assets would have recovered more money than the stock was selling for). The problem was that Lockheed wasn't just a defense contractor, it was the defense contractor, and during the height of the cold war, to boot. They couldn't be allowed to go bankrupt.
So the government bailed them out.
Then, some years later, there was a little problem at a generating plant owned by General Public Utilities (GPU). You might not have heard of GPU but you've heard of the plant: Three Mile Island. GPU stock took a hit, as you might imagine. In fact it looked like it might go broke. The problem was that it was a utility, which means it was a monopoly. If it went broke the lights went out over a fair stretch of countryside. That couldn't happen.
So the government bailed them out.
Now, my father saw both of those coming. He bought Lockheed stock at fire-sale prices because he knew that they couldn't be allowed to go broke. He cried because he couldn't afford more. He made out like a bandit.
When GPU started to go under, he bought all the GPU stock he could. And this time, he could afford more. He made out like a bandit. So well, in fact, that he assured himself a comfortable retirement. He's quite conservative, and told me ruefully, "I always preached the values of thrift and economy. Now I'm comfortable in my old age, but it isn't due to any of that. Hmph."
Then the Seattle public utility, through a boring series of blunders, started to go broke. They couldn't be allowed to go broke, for the same reasons that GPU couldn't and Lockheed couldn't.
So the government...said "Hey! Wait just a darn minute here!" And didn't bail them out.
And they went broke. And the lights stayed on.
Ditto when California started having rolling blackouts. Big raspberries from the Fed, because the Shrub knows California wouldn't vote for him if he was rolling out the red carpet in front of Jesus Christ for the Second Coming. Much stick-waving, stunningly bad contracting, and shouting, but the lights came back on and stayed that way.
The days of government bailouts are over.