Yes, but if they refuse to sell movies in the US, then any movies downloaded in that region can't possibly be considered a lost sale, thus they won't be losing a billion dollars are year to the pirates. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
This is the logic used to pirate Satelite TV in Latin America. You can't buy US sat TV due to the studio's license issues. So they either pay by having a relative in the US subscribe, or they pirate.
For some strange reasons, they still try to go after pirates there anyway. If they could sell subscriptions, then I could see their point. But attacking them in a market they don't even sell to is out of line.
AFAIK this exploit can be used over the net, but only if you've enabled remote logins in your Xconf.
The article specified local. Whether this would work over the net could be a subject of debate. You might be right and the article did not touch on remote X sessions.
Please note that this exploit is for the local user only. If you are the only user on your Apple or Nix box, then this is a non-news item. However if the BSA, RIAA, MPAA, or Dept of Homeland Security has taken your box and wants root, then you might have a problem.;-)
The count in the article is biased toward having one user counted several times because of using several IP's from a pool on DSL service. It made no allowance for the number of unique visitors not counted because they re-used an IP address from the pool.
(3) Convince one or two BIG artists to sell directly themselves with Apple as the distributor. Offer them like 50% of the proceeds of sales, and sell through the iTunes Music Store exclusively, with possible physical distribution at Apple Stores.
And sell their tunes at $.50 each so the artist gets $.25 of a much larger pie instead of $11 of a much smaller pie of the higher priced label tunes.
Just watch Apple become a big label as artists follow the money.
You ever priced a Mackie? Studio time? A decent microphone? There are a large number of non-trivial costs to producing an album. No, GarageBand and a Shure mic from Sam Ash isn't going to cut it.
These are investment costs. Tools. I work in electronics. Priced a good sweep generator, digital storrage scope, service software, etc. I charge for my time. My time isn't easly duplicated the way a music CD is duplicated. Now if you wanted to charge me to bring all your gear to my place for a personal house call at $60/hour, then I could see your point. Mass production should cut costs.
Tell me again why a DVD is less than a CD? Is a film set less expensive than a Mackie? Are film extras, props, lighting and costumes less than studio time and back-up vocals? Many do not see the value in pre recorded music at the prices they are asking. Much better value can be found elsewhere. That is why I don't buy I-tunes or CD's. I buy DVD's instead.
But to hand-wave the rest of the costs of production as "almost nonexistent" shows a shocking lack of common sense.
A mass production model that wants $20 for a CD instead of selling a couple million copies at $5 a pop doesn't make sense. You get a great mark-up on the few copies sold, but I don't buy CD's like I buy Kids meal toys for my little one.
For an experiment.. Put out a great CD. (No DRM/Spyware/internet needed) Put it in Big kids meals for $3-4 a pop. See if volume can do the job.
Remember I buy DVD's at 3 for $20 at Blockbuster. Can you put out old inventory CD's at 3 for $10? (Not junk, the good stuff.) There is a few Pink Floyd, Chicago, Styx, ELO, and REO Speedwagon CD's I wouldn't mind having. The industry is to not let the back catalog compete with the current offerings. The result is I simply quit buying CD's. How is this profitable?
An EGR valve simply dumped some hot exhaust into the intake to re-burn some unburned hydrocarbons. This increased compression pressures and increased the oxides of nitrogen. It also wrecked fuel economy. It did reduce unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, but this was just a trade off for other problems. EGR died with the better catalytic converters and fuel injection.
The Atkinson cycle at low power does not dilute the fuel air mixture. It permits the engine to run at low power just as if the throttle was closed with high manifold vacuum. The advantage is the pistons didn't waste power pulling against the high vacuum to draw a fuel charge into the cylinder. This is what increased effeciency. The lower fuel air mix needed for the same power lowered the peak compression which reduced the peak combustion tempratures which resulted in lower oxides of nitrogen for lower pollution and less fuel used.
EGR used more fuel and increased some polution while reducing some. Atkinson got better fuel use and reduced heat and emissions for the same power. This is much better than an EGR. For those who don't remember the EGR cars, EGR = Exhaust Gas Recirculation. It was intended to reduce hydrocarbon emissions. It did while reducing fuel effeciency and power which is why disconnecting it was popular and against the law.
All that aside, an Otto or Diesel engine using biofuels, modern engine management and state of the art emission control equipment (catalysators) are already extremely benign on the environment compared to the average car in say the '70s.
I was waiting for the sales pitch of a Prius. It does use an Atkinson cycle engine. It's valve timing is even more effecient that the Otto cycle. Here is a link.
From the link "Compared to the Otto cycle, where the intake valve is closed near bottom-dead-center, the Atkinson cycle does not close the intake valve at BDC, but leaves it open as the piston rises on the compression stroke. What this means is that some of the air/fuel charge is pushed back out and into the intake manifold and is used in other cylinders. This reduces the volume of the air/fuel mixture that(TM)s compressed and combusted without severely restricting the throttle opening. Restricting throttle opening results in large pumping losses and greatly reduced efficiency. This method of reducing power output without incurring large pumping losses makes the Prius engine much more efficient than a conventional Otto cycle engine under most operating conditions.
You have to give up lifetime for range or vice versa with current technology. Deep discharges are damaging but if you stick to shallow discharges you don't go as far.
Toyota engineers knew this when designing the Prius. They were very agressive about battery management. The control software is very good at keeping the pack between 50 and 75% charged at all times. Overcharging is avoided as well as a discharge below 50%. That is how they get long life out of the hybrid battery pack. The pack if used in an EV application would soon be killed by full charges and deep discharges.
Ask anyone you know that has a Prius for a ride. Switch the screen to the energy screen that shows the engine battery combo. Note the level of the battery charge stays in a narrow range even when doing hills, and pulling onto the freeway.
An EV on the highway uses about 20KW of electric power. 300 miles at 60MPH is about 5 hours. Simple math says about 20KW X 5 = 100 KWH. A KWH in many palces is about 15 cents in the US. 100 X $0.15 is about $15. It seems to be less than a tank of gas by quite a bit.
What is this going to do to the power grid which has been known to collapse, famously with the northeast blackout and the rolling blackouts in California?
As with any unstable power source having a redundant standby source isn't a bad idea. Look into a standby generator for the home if this issue is critical.
Aren't these the batteries that tend to explode if you look at them funny?
Yes. Look online. There are some great video's of these overheating and failing in flames. There is a company that has solved the thermal runaway problem. This should help their stock. As a side note that is why the Prius uses the Nickle-Metal Hydride instead even though it has a much lower capacity.
Just what does battery production do to the environment? How about leaks and recycling?
I simply don't know yet, but you may find out with a little research.
Didn't I hear once about Netscape folks showing up at a Microsoft shareholders meeting once? MS wanted to kick them out, but couldn't because Netscape bought a share of MS and were therefore a shareholder. Good thing open source doesn't have shares of stock and shareholder meetings. Brilliant move.
Does this mean the dead old napster is coming back?
I hope not. It was way too insecure. The RIAA may not go after the Nap after this, but uploaders will still be targeted. You need something much more secure.
I believe that Steve Jobs said quite a while ago in public that their best iTMS customer had bought over $30,000 worth of music. And that was a few years ago.
You just made my point. The exception to the rule got noticed. It's an exception, not the norm.
I only watch a film once, so why pay more for a DVD than it costs to watch in the theater?
I know the single slashdotter has no ides, but a family has a very good idea. The movie can be paused when the little one screams, can be traded with your friends, can watched without the other family who didn't leave the kids home,... There is lots of reasons to get a DVD instead of a ticket. The reasons get better when the used ones at the rental outfit are at a 3 fer price.
I do the live CD to see if there is any major hang-ups with hardware detection. If there are none, then I go ahead and install. One nice feature with the Ubuntu and Edubuntu live CD's is they are also an install cd. After boot, one of the desktop icons is there to start an install.
After what happened with the Compact Disk logo for red book audio CD's and the fact almost nobody paid for a license lately and feel free to add DRM and stuff to fake audio CD's may have been behind the move. I hope they patented it to keep their new format from being hijacked like their audio Compact Disk format.
Go into any record store. Pick up any new popular shiny round music thing sold as a CD. Look for the Compact Disk tm logo. You get the picture.
I worked in a theatre a few years ago. The film was started a few seconds before the show to get it up to speed and the sound stable. That period was called pre-roll. After the pre-roll, the shutter was opened and the sound enabled. In school you may have seen it. It is the countdown before the movie start.
I consider all the DVD fluff the same as pre-roll. I load a DVD, press play, wait for it to load and pre-roll, hit menu, hit play, then turn on the TV and hit menu again. It is just part of threading the film in the DVD player. The best part is I don't have to rewind it.
MP3's are a propritory format. A royalty needs to be paid for each decoder. This is built into commercial applications. It is a pain in the *** for open source. To remain legal, most open source does not play MP3's out of the box. Get used to problems of software patents. It is a part of life. It keeps the developers out of hot water by not including it by default. It wasn't forgotten, it was left out for a reason. They didn't want to pay a fee for each copy they passed out for free.
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Yes, but if they refuse to sell movies in the US, then any movies downloaded in that region can't possibly be considered a lost sale, thus they won't be losing a billion dollars are year to the pirates. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
This is the logic used to pirate Satelite TV in Latin America. You can't buy US sat TV due to the studio's license issues. So they either pay by having a relative in the US subscribe, or they pirate.
For some strange reasons, they still try to go after pirates there anyway. If they could sell subscriptions, then I could see their point. But attacking them in a market they don't even sell to is out of line.
I always enjoyed the "This page intentionaly left blank" in an electronic document.
AFAIK this exploit can be used over the net, but only if you've enabled remote logins in your Xconf.
The article specified local. Whether this would work over the net could be a subject of debate. You might be right and the article did not touch on remote X sessions.
Please note that this exploit is for the local user only. If you are the only user on your Apple or Nix box, then this is a non-news item. However if the BSA, RIAA, MPAA, or Dept of Homeland Security has taken your box and wants root, then you might have a problem. ;-)
The count in the article is biased toward having one user counted several times because of using several IP's from a pool on DSL service. It made no allowance for the number of unique visitors not counted because they re-used an IP address from the pool.
(3) Convince one or two BIG artists to sell directly themselves with Apple as the distributor. Offer them like 50% of the proceeds of sales, and sell through the iTunes Music Store exclusively, with possible physical distribution at Apple Stores.
And sell their tunes at $.50 each so the artist gets $.25 of a much larger pie instead of $11 of a much smaller pie of the higher priced label tunes.
Just watch Apple become a big label as artists follow the money.
You ever priced a Mackie? Studio time? A decent microphone? There are a large number of non-trivial costs to producing an album. No, GarageBand and a Shure mic from Sam Ash isn't going to cut it.
These are investment costs. Tools. I work in electronics. Priced a good sweep generator, digital storrage scope, service software, etc. I charge for my time. My time isn't easly duplicated the way a music CD is duplicated. Now if you wanted to charge me to bring all your gear to my place for a personal house call at $60/hour, then I could see your point. Mass production should cut costs.
Tell me again why a DVD is less than a CD? Is a film set less expensive than a Mackie? Are film extras, props, lighting and costumes less than studio time and back-up vocals? Many do not see the value in pre recorded music at the prices they are asking. Much better value can be found elsewhere. That is why I don't buy I-tunes or CD's. I buy DVD's instead.
But to hand-wave the rest of the costs of production as "almost nonexistent" shows a shocking lack of common sense.
A mass production model that wants $20 for a CD instead of selling a couple million copies at $5 a pop doesn't make sense. You get a great mark-up on the few copies sold, but I don't buy CD's like I buy Kids meal toys for my little one.
For an experiment.. Put out a great CD. (No DRM/Spyware/internet needed) Put it in Big kids meals for $3-4 a pop. See if volume can do the job.
Remember I buy DVD's at 3 for $20 at Blockbuster. Can you put out old inventory CD's at 3 for $10? (Not junk, the good stuff.) There is a few Pink Floyd, Chicago, Styx, ELO, and REO Speedwagon CD's I wouldn't mind having. The industry is to not let the back catalog compete with the current offerings. The result is I simply quit buying CD's. How is this profitable?
I love a good hosts file.
I got connection refused when contacting www.washingtonpost.com and connection refused when contacting lb1.netster.com.
No ads to see here.
I thought the site with active x spyware was a trick question.
That one was easy. It was the one with the icon in the URL bar.
An EGR valve simply dumped some hot exhaust into the intake to re-burn some unburned hydrocarbons. This increased compression pressures and increased the oxides of nitrogen. It also wrecked fuel economy. It did reduce unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, but this was just a trade off for other problems. EGR died with the better catalytic converters and fuel injection.
The Atkinson cycle at low power does not dilute the fuel air mixture. It permits the engine to run at low power just as if the throttle was closed with high manifold vacuum. The advantage is the pistons didn't waste power pulling against the high vacuum to draw a fuel charge into the cylinder. This is what increased effeciency. The lower fuel air mix needed for the same power lowered the peak compression which reduced the peak combustion tempratures which resulted in lower oxides of nitrogen for lower pollution and less fuel used.
EGR used more fuel and increased some polution while reducing some. Atkinson got better fuel use and reduced heat and emissions for the same power.
This is much better than an EGR. For those who don't remember the EGR cars, EGR = Exhaust Gas Recirculation. It was intended to reduce hydrocarbon emissions. It did while reducing fuel effeciency and power which is why disconnecting it was popular and against the law.
Its ONLY selling point is its mpg and novelty value. Well sorry, but in
a competitive market you need more than that to sell a vehicle.
Gas roaring past $6.00 a gallon might do the trick.
All that aside, an Otto or Diesel engine using biofuels, modern engine management and state of the art emission control equipment (catalysators) are already extremely benign on the environment compared to the average car in say the '70s.
I was waiting for the sales pitch of a Prius. It does use an Atkinson cycle engine. It's valve timing is even more effecient that the Otto cycle. Here is a link.
http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=857
From the link "Compared to the Otto cycle, where the intake valve is closed near bottom-dead-center, the Atkinson cycle does not close the intake valve at BDC, but leaves it open as the piston rises on the compression stroke. What this means is that some of the air/fuel charge is pushed back out and into the intake manifold and is used in other cylinders. This reduces the volume of the air/fuel mixture that(TM)s compressed and combusted without severely restricting the throttle opening. Restricting throttle opening results in large pumping losses and greatly reduced efficiency. This method of reducing power output without incurring large pumping losses makes the Prius engine much more efficient than a conventional Otto cycle engine under most operating conditions.
The engineers at Toyota did a good job.
Just imagine, go to work - unplug the battery unit briefcase.
;-)
All 250 Lbs of it.
Check out the size and weight of this briefcase. Also look online for EV recharging stations. Your computer power strip may not be up to the task.
Oh I get it.. imagine..
You have to give up lifetime for range or vice versa with current technology. Deep discharges are damaging but if you stick to shallow discharges you don't go as far.
Toyota engineers knew this when designing the Prius. They were very agressive about battery management. The control software is very good at keeping the pack between 50 and 75% charged at all times. Overcharging is avoided as well as a discharge below 50%. That is how they get long life out of the hybrid battery pack. The pack if used in an EV application would soon be killed by full charges and deep discharges.
Ask anyone you know that has a Prius for a ride. Switch the screen to the energy screen that shows the engine battery combo. Note the level of the battery charge stays in a narrow range even when doing hills, and pulling onto the freeway.
How much will the power cost me?
An EV on the highway uses about 20KW of electric power. 300 miles at 60MPH is about 5 hours. Simple math says about 20KW X 5 = 100 KWH. A KWH in many palces is about 15 cents in the US. 100 X $0.15 is about $15. It seems to be less than a tank of gas by quite a bit.
What is this going to do to the power grid which has been known to collapse, famously with the northeast blackout and the rolling blackouts in California?
As with any unstable power source having a redundant standby source isn't a bad idea. Look into a standby generator for the home if this issue is critical.
Aren't these the batteries that tend to explode if you look at them funny?
Yes. Look online. There are some great video's of these overheating and failing in flames. There is a company that has solved the thermal runaway problem. This should help their stock. As a side note that is why the Prius uses the Nickle-Metal Hydride instead even though it has a much lower capacity.
Just what does battery production do to the environment? How about leaks and recycling?
I simply don't know yet, but you may find out with a little research.
Didn't I hear once about Netscape folks showing up at a Microsoft shareholders meeting once? MS wanted to kick them out, but couldn't because Netscape bought a share of MS and were therefore a shareholder. Good thing open source doesn't have shares of stock and shareholder meetings. Brilliant move.
Does this mean the dead old napster is coming back?
I hope not. It was way too insecure. The RIAA may not go after the Nap after this, but uploaders will still be targeted. You need something much more secure.
I believe that Steve Jobs said quite a while ago in public that their best iTMS customer had bought over $30,000 worth of music. And that was a few years ago.
You just made my point. The exception to the rule got noticed. It's an exception, not the norm.
Why is the IPod so popular? Affordable tracks and ... well, there is DRM, but so far nobody noticed it yet 'cause the IPods didn't break down yet.
Nobody has an Ipod full of I tunes tracks. Nobody is that rich. Ipods are popular because you can put you onwn tracks from other sources on it.
If Ipods could only play tracks from I-tunes at a buck a pop, they would not need a 40 Gig drive.
I only watch a film once, so why pay more for a DVD than it costs to watch in the theater?
... There is lots of reasons to get a DVD instead of a ticket. The reasons get better when the used ones at the rental outfit are at a 3 fer price.
I know the single slashdotter has no ides, but a family has a very good idea. The movie can be paused when the little one screams, can be traded with your friends, can watched without the other family who didn't leave the kids home,
I do the live CD to see if there is any major hang-ups with hardware detection. If there are none, then I go ahead and install. One nice feature with the Ubuntu and Edubuntu live CD's is they are also an install cd. After boot, one of the desktop icons is there to start an install.
After what happened with the Compact Disk logo for red book audio CD's and the fact almost nobody paid for a license lately and feel free to add DRM and stuff to fake audio CD's may have been behind the move. I hope they patented it to keep their new format from being hijacked like their audio Compact Disk format.
Go into any record store. Pick up any new popular shiny round music thing sold as a CD. Look for the Compact Disk tm logo. You get the picture.
I worked in a theatre a few years ago. The film was started a few seconds before the show to get it up to speed and the sound stable. That period was called pre-roll. After the pre-roll, the shutter was opened and the sound enabled. In school you may have seen it. It is the countdown before the movie start.
I consider all the DVD fluff the same as pre-roll. I load a DVD, press play, wait for it to load and pre-roll, hit menu, hit play, then turn on the TV and hit menu again. It is just part of threading the film in the DVD player. The best part is I don't have to rewind it.
MP3's are a propritory format. A royalty needs to be paid for each decoder. This is built into commercial applications. It is a pain in the *** for open source. To remain legal, most open source does not play MP3's out of the box. Get used to problems of software patents. It is a part of life. It keeps the developers out of hot water by not including it by default. It wasn't forgotten, it was left out for a reason. They didn't want to pay a fee for each copy they passed out for free.
if only it would work with my soundcard...
Did you try it with your sound card? Try the live CD. Ubuntu is one that has worked with my sound card when other's would not.