A thing not mentioned that is very important.. Two big words.. MARKET SHARE Without DRM, MS took a bunch of the market share. With risisng prices and DRM, they are loosing market share. What's market share and the ability to set standards worth? In your example the market share went from 5 users to 1 when switching to the DRM model. 4 of the 5 are going to switch. The 5th will switch when the competition becomes the next standard with more features, is more up to date, and at a lower price. Does Turbo Tax really want to loose market share that quickly? They set some standards with their market share and the interface with Quickbooks. This is the fastest way to loose the market share I know of. They are about to sell the same number of copies next year or less and loose 3/4's of the market share to another standard. Who's bright idea was that?
Sad but true. It only works in a monopoly. This is great news for Tax Cut. Check out who does better next year. Remember when Ashton Tate did the anti-copy stuff on Framework? Remember when Rainbow Dongles were all the rage? It's the quickest way to get bypassed in the marketplace. How is selling encumbered products at higher prices in a competive marketplace good business sence.
It may work in a monopoly like cable, but not where there are alternatives. I've dropped all subscription TV. I have alternatives on the internet. It's a great promotion Microsoft is giving the Open Source movement with the software subscription model. They couldn't have done a better thing to promote free software. They are driving developers to the new wide open market to promote their wares on Linux. The customers are there looking for the applications.
The music industry is doing great things for Inde Bands who otherwise would never get attention, but get lost in the sea of CD's.
I love a free market where the consumer is always right! Great inovations happen!
One minor mistake in the theory. Too many people have Ipod's, Rio's, PDA's, etc. The Rip Mix Burn is too ingrained to be easly discarded. DRM means no redbook Compact Disk logo. No logo means NO SALE. It's kind of funny to think the customer is always right. If they want DRM, they will buy the crippled stuff. However to sell me a CD, it better be the real thing.
I rejected 3 CD's for lack of a logo on my last trip to the CD section. I rejected 2 others for excessive price. It is a free market economy. It's not yet a full monopoly.
Some of the microcaches are going to be in trouble like my Tiny cache, but others will still be fun because once you find the local area, you follow other instructions like my After Dark Cache. (my After Dark Cache can be found without a GPS. Look up the street intersection on mapquest and follow the directions) Geocaching was just becomming popular before SA was turned off. It's popularity exploded after that as the sport became much easier.
Actualy I like mine to find my favorite fishing spot. Head out of the mouth of the Columbia River and go West about 200 miles. There are some small banks with great tuna. They are not very big and the street map won't get you there. Don't depend on the sun, moon, and stars. Ever seen satelite photos of the incomming storms? Not all places worth going to have well marked roads.
I said nothing regarding reduction of airflow. I mentioned instead of pumping air out of the case, we draw it in filtered. This prevents drawing it in all the vent holes dusty and unfiltered. Instead we draw it in using intake fans and filtering all intake air keeping it clean. The case vents then no longer bring dust laden air into the case.
Another important consideration on the choice of oil is it's absorption of RF energy. A super simple test for it can be done in your kitchen. Put a cup of water in the microwave oven at home with a cup of the oil to test. Nuke them for a couple minutes. If the oil has become hot, is is converting RF energy to heat. If it remains cold and only the water got hot, then the oil isn't absorbing RF energy in the 2.4 Ghz range. You will not want to use oil that will attenuate the RF signal. Sticking the motherboard in the stuff may reduce noise from the motherboard reducing interfearance with your signal which may be a good thing. Your home microwave oven is using the same frequencies as your antenna components.
It shouldn't be too difficult to keep the dirt out. Can the idea of exhaust fans and go to intake fans. The idea would be presurise the case. All intake air would go through a HEPA filter. Should keep it clean and tidy inside.
I would rather drop $50 for each disc to get the hits from '84, '85, and '86 rather than several hundred dollars on individual discs or crappy compilations that are 80% filler anyway.
You just stated the reason they won't. They are way ahead if you buy $75 worth and want more than spend $50 and have it all. However they are missing a big market. I see how little $100 buys and leave it all sitting on the shelf unsold. They haven't hit my price points.
Actualy the analogy analogy fits depending where you eat. Fast food people do not know there is a diffrence. When you go to the restraunt, you actualy hire the waiter, the bus boy, the dishwasher, the muzak in the background, the wine stuard, the.... Just because I don't like wine doesn't mean I won't have a wine stuard. It's true I do have the choice not to tip him if I don't order wine. When I go to the record store, I do have a choice between Motzart and The Backstreet Boys. You still hire and pay for the cashier, the lighting, the stock boy, the heating/air conditioning, the window washer... It is included in the price.
The Fast Food a-la-carte model is missing from the RIAA lineup for most on a budget and looking to pick and choose. If everytime I had to eat out, it took 2 hours and cost $60 + per person, I certanly would find an alternative, just like with music. However the full deal is nice once in a while. (Some albums are great, but they are far and few between)
Uhm - no. The reduction in radio frequency usage is due to the adoption of compression of the video stream. These are still going to be multi-MegaWatt Xmitters because of the frequency(UHF), and the distance they want to cover. Put two of these on the same frequency, close enough, and you have inteference at the receiver. PERIOD.
Actualy regarding this first paragraph, It's almost true. One band with many transmitters all operating on the same frequency covering the same area without interferance is possible. However it requires very directional receiving antennas and a lack of reflecting objects that will put a conflicting signal into the antenna with the desired signal.
An example I am thinking of is C Band Satelite Television. All the C-band satelites parked in geostationary orbit transmit on the same 24 chanels. You select which satelite you wish to receive by moving the receiving antenns. This is multiple transmissions on the same frequencies passing through the same space at the same time without interferance when a directional receiving antenna is used. For frequencies VHF and below, wide apature narrow beam directional antennas become very large. For UHF and above, it workes reasonably well unless the transmitter is near the ground and there happens to be buildings or such that reflects a signal you don't want into your antenna pointed in the direction of a signal you do want. If the signal is on the same frequency, and the antenna can't ignore one of them, then you will have interferance. Otherwise, I agree with you entirely. It is difficult to eliminate problems with terrrestial broadcasts on the same frequency. There is usualy too many good reflectors in front of your directional antenna that will reflect undesired signals into it. Pointing a dish into the sky on the other hand doesn't see too many reflecting objects in the path.
Wow, well said. There have been a few albums that were mostly great. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall as well as Styx Cornerstone.
An example of a great album with wasted space is the Beatles White album. Have you ever heard Revolution Number 5 on the radio? It was so bad it is never included on a jukebox. About the only people who have ever heard that track heard it directly from the LP and nowhere else. There was no reason to ever air it or put it in a jukebox. It isn't music. It was wasted space pure and simple. Let me know if you ever heard that track from a source other than P2P or directly from the album. Most of the stuff on the Beatles Abby Road album is good.
Unfortunately they have to deal with the free market. I have enjoyed the price drop of some CD's recently. I've seen racks of CD's in the below $8 range of much of the classic rock stuff I grew up with. However, I am sure to check for the Compact Disk logo proving it is a red book CD and will work with my computer, CDeX, and MP3 jukebox devices. No CD logo, no sale. I take all my selections to the checkout and then examine them. I tell the check out clerk what I am looking for. If I don't spot the logo right away, I ask them to help me find it to complete the sale. I ask about known DRM. I explain I can't use anything with DRM because it would subject me to the DMCA to use it as intended (rip-mix-burn). Then I leave information so they can get back to me regarding the missing logo and can learn about the DMCA and Cactus DataShield. I don't break the DMCA on CD's. I refuse to buy it. It is amazing how much stuff is missing the logo. Last time I was there they saw the lost sale. It was close to 80% of my selections. I voted with my pocketbook and made my vote known!
I don't know if Microsoft has changed anything with their mice. I made the mistake of buying one and installing it on a new machine I was building on the coffee table. This was shortly after they first came out. The software (ya need the driver) complained that it could not find my internet connection. It didn't bother to ask if I wanted to register it online. I wondered if it found a connection, would it have informed me it was using it? I thought the EULA and online registration for a piece of hardware was overkill. What if the floppy, memory controller chip, graphics card, sound chip, CD ROM drive, Hard Drive, etc. all wanted to phone home to register and each had a seprate EULA? I ditched the mouse and went with a Logitech Optical instead on principal. I have never gone back to MS EULA ridden hardware since.
Unfortunately, this type of filter is not immune from collatoral dammage. I travel. I have a mailbox in the Cayman Islands. They don't have an open relay (thank goodness). I can fetch my mail from anywhere except AOL who force you to use their proprotiary mailbox. (can't fetch POP mail from within AOL). Even though I send mail from which ever local ISP I happen to be using at the time, my reply to is pointed to my Cayman Islands mailbox. It is valid. The above filter would create a bounce message except for times I am actualy in the Cayman Islands. It assumes my reply to is invalid and forged. It is valid and not forged. I get replies sent there. I do not check the spam box provided my my national ISP. It just gets emptied once in a while. I do not have a major ISP inbox that I use. They are all far too atractive to dictionary spam attacks. Therefore I don't use them for my inbox, however having a nationwide ISP for traveling and internet access is very nice. It's the big ISP mailboxes that are useless.
You must be talking about Reel to Reel and not Compact Cassettes. Tape speeds below 7 IPS just didn't make it. Checked the flatness and frequency of a good 1-7/8 IPS cassette lately? No deep bass and not much above 10K. Now a 1/2 inch 15 IPS deck does a great job.
Check with Cable and Wireless. They have a monopoly in most of the carribean. Unless something is diffrent there, they will be your only choice. The Jamaca Cable and Wireless page is http://home.cwjamaica.com/. You should be able to find rates and requirements there.
I don't see rates published online, but contact information for internet is here.
Customers can access information about local dial up numbers by
Dialling 1-888-225-5295 (CALL-CWJ) Visiting the Cable & Wireless website (www.cwjamaica.com) Visiting any of their 24 Commercial offices
California isn't the only state that sold or released driver regestration details. I bought a used car in Oregon and registered it. My registration came back with a typo. My middle initial was wrong. I intended to fix it as this is an official document. Then I started getting junk mail addressed with the same error. I decided to overlook the error just to see how far it went. I found about 1/3 of my junk mail was from registering a car. I've heard they changed the access to the records, but I've since moved 3 times and live in another state.
Actualy, I research which printers can be refilled. I've settled on a couple nice HP printers and ink runs about $30/pint. I change cartridges after I notice a change in print quaility or it simply dies from burnout. Be sure to reasearch resetting estimated ink levels. If you can't reset it, forget it. I was convinced to check into this when my new printer used the $60 cartridge instead of the $30. They have a $30 cartridge, but it holds half the amount of ink my old printer used. I've saved enough in ink to buy a laser printer.
Multiply that by a-very-large-number-of-spam victims and I think some damage will be done.
I like the idea of mass claims, but most people have problmes with filing 20+ claims per day. Talk about a massive clogging of the court system! Unfortunately most spammers are not that easy to find to take to court. Proving the source is much more difficult with forged headers and such. It's not as simple as taking the FAX and your caller ID records to court that match the time and date on your fax printout.
As long as people have a portable CD player, a CD player at home, and one in the car, CD's will keep selling. Unfortunately for the industry, many of us has adopted MPS's as the new standard. My portable CD player plays MP3's. So does the new DVD player in the living room. When I update my car, (currently radio only) it will also play MP3's. I plan on getting a MP3 jukebox recorder. I do not universaly support any other format as widely. MS formats only work on the computer and nowhere else. CD's have been butchered by the industry so they are not as playable as MP3's. When I do buy a CD, I always look for the Compact Disk logo. Anything without it is a suspected defective disk and not worth the trouble of testing for ripability to MP3. CD are now just the container carrying the music home to the system. Unfortunately the high prices have very much limited my filling in the gaps from my favorite artists.
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A thing not mentioned that is very important..
Two big words.. MARKET SHARE
Without DRM, MS took a bunch of the market share. With risisng prices and DRM, they are loosing market share. What's market share and the ability to set standards worth? In your example the market share went from 5 users to 1 when switching to the DRM model. 4 of the 5 are going to switch. The 5th will switch when the competition becomes the next standard with more features, is more up to date, and at a lower price.
Does Turbo Tax really want to loose market share that quickly? They set some standards with their market share and the interface with Quickbooks. This is the fastest way to loose the market share I know of. They are about to sell the same number of copies next year or less and loose 3/4's of the market share to another standard. Who's bright idea was that?
Sad but true. It only works in a monopoly. This is great news for Tax Cut. Check out who does better next year. Remember when Ashton Tate did the anti-copy stuff on Framework? Remember when Rainbow Dongles were all the rage? It's the quickest way to get bypassed in the marketplace. How is selling encumbered products at higher prices in a competive marketplace good business sence.
It may work in a monopoly like cable, but not where there are alternatives. I've dropped all subscription TV. I have alternatives on the internet. It's a great promotion Microsoft is giving the Open Source movement with the software subscription model. They couldn't have done a better thing to promote free software. They are driving developers to the new wide open market to promote their wares on Linux. The customers are there looking for the applications.
The music industry is doing great things for Inde Bands who otherwise would never get attention, but get lost in the sea of CD's.
I love a free market where the consumer is always right! Great inovations happen!
One minor mistake in the theory. Too many people have Ipod's, Rio's, PDA's, etc. The Rip Mix Burn is too ingrained to be easly discarded. DRM means no redbook Compact Disk logo. No logo means NO SALE. It's kind of funny to think the customer is always right. If they want DRM, they will buy the crippled stuff. However to sell me a CD, it better be the real thing.
I rejected 3 CD's for lack of a logo on my last trip to the CD section. I rejected 2 others for excessive price. It is a free market economy. It's not yet a full monopoly.
Some of the microcaches are going to be in trouble like my Tiny cache, but others will still be fun because once you find the local area, you follow other instructions like my After Dark Cache. (my After Dark Cache can be found without a GPS. Look up the street intersection on mapquest and follow the directions) Geocaching was just becomming popular before SA was turned off. It's popularity exploded after that as the sport became much easier.
Actualy I like mine to find my favorite fishing spot. Head out of the mouth of the Columbia River and go West about 200 miles. There are some small banks with great tuna. They are not very big and the street map won't get you there. Don't depend on the sun, moon, and stars. Ever seen satelite photos of the incomming storms?
Not all places worth going to have well marked roads.
I said nothing regarding reduction of airflow. I mentioned instead of pumping air out of the case, we draw it in filtered. This prevents drawing it in all the vent holes dusty and unfiltered. Instead we draw it in using intake fans and filtering all intake air keeping it clean. The case vents then no longer bring dust laden air into the case.
Another important consideration on the choice of oil is it's absorption of RF energy. A super simple test for it can be done in your kitchen. Put a cup of water in the microwave oven at home with a cup of the oil to test. Nuke them for a couple minutes. If the oil has become hot, is is converting RF energy to heat. If it remains cold and only the water got hot, then the oil isn't absorbing RF energy in the 2.4 Ghz range. You will not want to use oil that will attenuate the RF signal. Sticking the motherboard in the stuff may reduce noise from the motherboard reducing interfearance with your signal which may be a good thing. Your home microwave oven is using the same frequencies as your antenna components.
It shouldn't be too difficult to keep the dirt out. Can the idea of exhaust fans and go to intake fans. The idea would be presurise the case. All intake air would go through a HEPA filter. Should keep it clean and tidy inside.
I would rather drop $50 for each disc to get the hits from '84, '85, and '86 rather than several hundred dollars on individual discs or crappy compilations that are 80% filler anyway.
You just stated the reason they won't. They are way ahead if you buy $75 worth and want more than spend $50 and have it all. However they are missing a big market. I see how little $100 buys and leave it all sitting on the shelf unsold. They haven't hit my price points.
Actualy the analogy analogy fits depending where you eat. Fast food people do not know there is a diffrence. When you go to the restraunt, you actualy hire the waiter, the bus boy, the dishwasher, the muzak in the background, the wine stuard, the .... Just because I don't like wine doesn't mean I won't have a wine stuard. It's true I do have the choice not to tip him if I don't order wine. ... It is included in the price.
When I go to the record store, I do have a choice between Motzart and The Backstreet Boys. You still hire and pay for the cashier, the lighting, the stock boy, the heating/air conditioning, the window washer
The Fast Food a-la-carte model is missing from the RIAA lineup for most on a budget and looking to pick and choose. If everytime I had to eat out, it took 2 hours and cost $60 + per person, I certanly would find an alternative, just like with music. However the full deal is nice once in a while. (Some albums are great, but they are far and few between)
I meant Revolution Number Nine Sorry for the typo.
See if the lyrics ring a bell and jog some memories.
It's the track with someone saying
Number nine
Number nine
Number nine
Number nine...
If you acutaly listened to the white album, you would remember it.
Uhm - no. The reduction in radio frequency usage is due to the adoption of compression of the video stream. These are still going to be multi-MegaWatt Xmitters because of the frequency(UHF), and the distance they want to cover. Put two of these on the same frequency, close enough, and you have inteference at the receiver. PERIOD.
Actualy regarding this first paragraph, It's almost true. One band with many transmitters all operating on the same frequency covering the same area without interferance is possible. However it requires very directional receiving antennas and a lack of reflecting objects that will put a conflicting signal into the antenna with the desired signal.
An example I am thinking of is C Band Satelite Television. All the C-band satelites parked in geostationary orbit transmit on the same 24 chanels. You select which satelite you wish to receive by moving the receiving antenns. This is multiple transmissions on the same frequencies passing through the same space at the same time without interferance when a directional receiving antenna is used.
For frequencies VHF and below, wide apature narrow beam directional antennas become very large. For UHF and above, it workes reasonably well unless the transmitter is near the ground and there happens to be buildings or such that reflects a signal you don't want into your antenna pointed in the direction of a signal you do want. If the signal is on the same frequency, and the antenna can't ignore one of them, then you will have interferance.
Otherwise, I agree with you entirely. It is difficult to eliminate problems with terrrestial broadcasts on the same frequency. There is usualy too many good reflectors in front of your directional antenna that will reflect undesired signals into it.
Pointing a dish into the sky on the other hand doesn't see too many reflecting objects in the path.
Wow, well said. There have been a few albums that were mostly great. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall as well as Styx Cornerstone.
An example of a great album with wasted space is the Beatles White album. Have you ever heard Revolution Number 5 on the radio? It was so bad it is never included on a jukebox. About the only people who have ever heard that track heard it directly from the LP and nowhere else. There was no reason to ever air it or put it in a jukebox. It isn't music. It was wasted space pure and simple. Let me know if you ever heard that track from a source other than P2P or directly from the album. Most of the stuff on the Beatles Abby Road album is good.
Unfortunately they have to deal with the free market. I have enjoyed the price drop of some CD's recently. I've seen racks of CD's in the below $8 range of much of the classic rock stuff I grew up with. However, I am sure to check for the Compact Disk logo proving it is a red book CD and will work with my computer, CDeX, and MP3 jukebox devices. No CD logo, no sale. I take all my selections to the checkout and then examine them. I tell the check out clerk what I am looking for. If I don't spot the logo right away, I ask them to help me find it to complete the sale. I ask about known DRM. I explain I can't use anything with DRM because it would subject me to the DMCA to use it as intended (rip-mix-burn). Then I leave information so they can get back to me regarding the missing logo and can learn about the DMCA and Cactus DataShield. I don't break the DMCA on CD's. I refuse to buy it. It is amazing how much stuff is missing the logo. Last time I was there they saw the lost sale. It was close to 80% of my selections.
I voted with my pocketbook and made my vote known!
I don't know if Microsoft has changed anything with their mice. I made the mistake of buying one and installing it on a new machine I was building on the coffee table. This was shortly after they first came out. The software (ya need the driver) complained that it could not find my internet connection. It didn't bother to ask if I wanted to register it online. I wondered if it found a connection, would it have informed me it was using it? I thought the EULA and online registration for a piece of hardware was overkill. What if the floppy, memory controller chip, graphics card, sound chip, CD ROM drive, Hard Drive, etc. all wanted to phone home to register and each had a seprate EULA? I ditched the mouse and went with a Logitech Optical instead on principal. I have never gone back to MS EULA ridden hardware since.
Unfortunately, this type of filter is not immune from collatoral dammage. I travel. I have a mailbox in the Cayman Islands. They don't have an open relay (thank goodness). I can fetch my mail from anywhere except AOL who force you to use their proprotiary mailbox. (can't fetch POP mail from within AOL). Even though I send mail from which ever local ISP I happen to be using at the time, my reply to is pointed to my Cayman Islands mailbox. It is valid. The above filter would create a bounce message except for times I am actualy in the Cayman Islands. It assumes my reply to is invalid and forged. It is valid and not forged. I get replies sent there.
I do not check the spam box provided my my national ISP. It just gets emptied once in a while. I do not have a major ISP inbox that I use. They are all far too atractive to dictionary spam attacks. Therefore I don't use them for my inbox, however having a nationwide ISP for traveling and internet access is very nice. It's the big ISP mailboxes that are useless.
... no new mails in my inbox :-(
Umm, yer forgot to post your e-mail address. I'm sure someone will take the time to write you.
You must be talking about Reel to Reel and not Compact Cassettes. Tape speeds below 7 IPS just didn't make it. Checked the flatness and frequency of a good 1-7/8 IPS cassette lately? No deep bass and not much above 10K.
Now a 1/2 inch 15 IPS deck does a great job.
Try this page for the current rates.
i ce s/data_ip/internet_services/rates.asp?ID=316
http://home.cwjamaica.com/content/products_serv
Check with Cable and Wireless. They have a monopoly in most of the carribean. Unless something is diffrent there, they will be your only choice. The Jamaca Cable and Wireless page is http://home.cwjamaica.com/. You should be able to find rates and requirements there.
I don't see rates published online, but contact information for internet is here.
Customers can access information about local dial up numbers by
Dialling 1-888-225-5295 (CALL-CWJ)
Visiting the Cable & Wireless website (www.cwjamaica.com)
Visiting any of their 24 Commercial offices
California isn't the only state that sold or released driver regestration details. I bought a used car in Oregon and registered it. My registration came back with a typo. My middle initial was wrong. I intended to fix it as this is an official document. Then I started getting junk mail addressed with the same error. I decided to overlook the error just to see how far it went. I found about 1/3 of my junk mail was from registering a car.
I've heard they changed the access to the records, but I've since moved 3 times and live in another state.
Actualy, I research which printers can be refilled. I've settled on a couple nice HP printers and ink runs about $30/pint. I change cartridges after I notice a change in print quaility or it simply dies from burnout. Be sure to reasearch resetting estimated ink levels. If you can't reset it, forget it.
I was convinced to check into this when my new printer used the $60 cartridge instead of the $30. They have a $30 cartridge, but it holds half the amount of ink my old printer used.
I've saved enough in ink to buy a laser printer.
Multiply that by a-very-large-number-of-spam victims and I think some damage will be done.
I like the idea of mass claims, but most people have problmes with filing 20+ claims per day. Talk about a massive clogging of the court system! Unfortunately most spammers are not that easy to find to take to court. Proving the source is much more difficult with forged headers and such. It's not as simple as taking the FAX and your caller ID records to court that match the time and date on your fax printout.
As long as people have a portable CD player, a CD player at home, and one in the car, CD's will keep selling.
Unfortunately for the industry, many of us has adopted MPS's as the new standard. My portable CD player plays MP3's. So does the new DVD player in the living room. When I update my car, (currently radio only) it will also play MP3's. I plan on getting a MP3 jukebox recorder. I do not universaly support any other format as widely. MS formats only work on the computer and nowhere else. CD's have been butchered by the industry so they are not as playable as MP3's. When I do buy a CD, I always look for the Compact Disk logo. Anything without it is a suspected defective disk and not worth the trouble of testing for ripability to MP3. CD are now just the container carrying the music home to the system. Unfortunately the high prices have very much limited my filling in the gaps from my favorite artists.