Ann M. Bartow, assistant law professor at the Unviersity of South Carolina, argues that the law should ultimately incorporate what people do in real life -- and that we have to reduce the complexity inherent in today's statutes.
It is going to take a long time to work out the struggles of the RIAA and people's need to have fair use of the media they purchase. It seems like it is going to be tough for the big media companies to build a digital format that I can't copy to my friend's computer, but I can put in my computer, mp3 player, or stereo.
I'm not sure that an online free book database becomes very relevant until I start reading books in a digital format. CDDB, freedb, and DVD Profiler are all for digital media while books are still primarily in paper format.
I will continue using my book shelf for the time being.
If "alternative" processor manufacturers want to make inroads into "big corporations" they are going to have to start buddying up to the OEM's that supply PCs to them and get their chips inside those putty boxes.
This is a good point. On the desktop side of the game, the chip manufacturers certainly need to team up with OEMs to sell their wares. I do think though, that there is definitely a stigma towards AMD.
On the server side of the equation, if a company is using x86 server hardward, it seems like a foregone conclusion to go Intel. Aside from the fact that AMD again cannot get the OEM partners, they have been late to the MP game. People in corporate IT are not going to buy AMD for critical server machines. It just isn't happening.
This device sounds pretty cool. However, I think Transmeta is going to have a hard time penetrating the corporate market which seems to be where the profits are. Big corporations are so pro-Intel, it makes it tough for the AMDs and Transmetas of the world.
Your points are all good ones. For as irritating as the music industry is right now, I think they have to know that consumers will revolt at some point when digital copyright protection goes too far. Hopefully, our legislators or courts will come to the rescue when "fair use" of music is put in jeopardy and we cannot move music between our personal computers, cars, and portable music players.
Let's face it though, the labels will never sell us MP3s. They would still have the same problem that the music could be easily distributed with no copy protection.
When a book is first sold as a new book, the author gets his/her due royalty. This situation is just like when GM sells a car, when Britney sells a CD, or some home-builder sells a home. What would happen if I bought a house and when I sold it again I had to add more commission for the home builder even though I had paid him/her the first time. So, Amazon should be able to sell as many used books as they want. This Writers Guild is holding a baseless position.
My guess is that all of this online auction fraud is taking place amongst all those hackers on IRC. So, if the FBI can infiltrate IRC, they can kill the proverbial two birds with one stone.
In this age of watered-down single source media, this article is about par for the course. It's hard to believe that the bulk of American's accept CNN as a reliable media outlet.
Blodget estimates Microsoft will "lose $125 on every Xbox console--and that's before taking into account" sales, marketing and other administrative costs.
IDC analyst Schelley Olhava said Blodget's estimate is roughly in line with Sony's per-unit loss on its PlayStation 2 game console and may even be a bit conservative, with much depending on the final consumer price tag Microsoft settles on for the Xbox.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-253654.html?legacy =c net
It sounds like Sony was losing as much as Microsoft was during the early days of the console. I can't find any information that confirms whether Sony really is making money or not on their consoles. Just because the fab is paid for doesn't mean the product is making money. There are addition costs and also fab operations.
Is the backward compatability thing really that big of a deal? How often do people really spend playing PS1 games on their PS2? If you have the PS1 games, you must have had a PS1, so why not just play that. It seems like in the long run, the backwards compatability thing might just limit the consoles in their growth.
Yes, almost all manufacturers lose money on their consoles. One thing in XBox's favor is that they use more commodity computer components than PS2 or GC. So, that PIII that is at the heart of the XBox should continue to get cheaper more quickly.
First, Time Warner can enforce download limits. Then, Time Warner Music can create their completely secure uncopyable music format. So, I will be able to pay extra for the bandwidth it takes to get music and then I can pay $11.99 to download the actual music in a format that I won't be able to copy around. Sounds like a great plan.
This is often the argument of the engineering types (of which I am one)...build a better system and you will win. But the reality is that you have to build a good system (maybe not the best) and then you have to have a market to sell it to (and who wants to buy it).
Exactly. Microsoft just stole some ideas, pressured a few businesses, and was lucky. Ideas alone (or theft of ideas) are not enough to win real business. It takes more than that and that is why things like Linux would be nowhere within business without the likes of a behemoth like IBM.
Sometimes I think the readers of Slashdot are so pro-Linux that they fail to give any real consideration to anything not Linux. I think in this case, yes Microsoft might be making a mistake in bashing UNIX. However, I think to have an intelligent discussion about Microsoft you need to consider it's good points as well as its bad points. Like this line: "mabey they can get some real programmers in there ". Do you really think MS got this far without good programmers? No.
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It is going to take a long time to work out the struggles of the RIAA and people's need to have fair use of the media they purchase. It seems like it is going to be tough for the big media companies to build a digital format that I can't copy to my friend's computer, but I can put in my computer, mp3 player, or stereo.
I'm not sure that an online free book database becomes very relevant until I start reading books in a digital format. CDDB, freedb, and DVD Profiler are all for digital media while books are still primarily in paper format.
I will continue using my book shelf for the time being.
This is a good point. On the desktop side of the game, the chip manufacturers certainly need to team up with OEMs to sell their wares. I do think though, that there is definitely a stigma towards AMD.
On the server side of the equation, if a company is using x86 server hardward, it seems like a foregone conclusion to go Intel. Aside from the fact that AMD again cannot get the OEM partners, they have been late to the MP game. People in corporate IT are not going to buy AMD for critical server machines. It just isn't happening.
This device sounds pretty cool. However, I think Transmeta is going to have a hard time penetrating the corporate market which seems to be where the profits are. Big corporations are so pro-Intel, it makes it tough for the AMDs and Transmetas of the world.
Your points are all good ones. For as irritating as the music industry is right now, I think they have to know that consumers will revolt at some point when digital copyright protection goes too far. Hopefully, our legislators or courts will come to the rescue when "fair use" of music is put in jeopardy and we cannot move music between our personal computers, cars, and portable music players.
Let's face it though, the labels will never sell us MP3s. They would still have the same problem that the music could be easily distributed with no copy protection.
Flash MX can be purchased for $99 if you are some sort of educator. That certainly lowers the price. Go to this URL to get it:
Macromedia Flash Education Store
You will need to attest that you are an educator.
When a book is first sold as a new book, the author gets his/her due royalty. This situation is just like when GM sells a car, when Britney sells a CD, or some home-builder sells a home. What would happen if I bought a house and when I sold it again I had to add more commission for the home builder even though I had paid him/her the first time. So, Amazon should be able to sell as many used books as they want. This Writers Guild is holding a baseless position.
My guess is that all of this online auction fraud is taking place amongst all those hackers on IRC. So, if the FBI can infiltrate IRC, they can kill the proverbial two birds with one stone.
In this age of watered-down single source media, this article is about par for the course. It's hard to believe that the bulk of American's accept CNN as a reliable media outlet.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-253654.html?legac
It sounds like Sony was losing as much as Microsoft was during the early days of the console. I can't find any information that confirms whether Sony really is making money or not on their consoles. Just because the fab is paid for doesn't mean the product is making money. There are addition costs and also fab operations.
Is the backward compatability thing really that big of a deal? How often do people really spend playing PS1 games on their PS2? If you have the PS1 games, you must have had a PS1, so why not just play that. It seems like in the long run, the backwards compatability thing might just limit the consoles in their growth.
My understanding was that the Linux kit was just to be able to run Linux on the PS2, not for game development under Linux.
Yes, almost all manufacturers lose money on their consoles. One thing in XBox's favor is that they use more commodity computer components than PS2 or GC. So, that PIII that is at the heart of the XBox should continue to get cheaper more quickly.
First, Time Warner can enforce download limits. Then, Time Warner Music can create their completely secure uncopyable music format. So, I will be able to pay extra for the bandwidth it takes to get music and then I can pay $11.99 to download the actual music in a format that I won't be able to copy around. Sounds like a great plan.
This is often the argument of the engineering types (of which I am one)...build a better system and you will win. But the reality is that you have to build a good system (maybe not the best) and then you have to have a market to sell it to (and who wants to buy it).
Exactly. Microsoft just stole some ideas, pressured a few businesses, and was lucky. Ideas alone (or theft of ideas) are not enough to win real business. It takes more than that and that is why things like Linux would be nowhere within business without the likes of a behemoth like IBM.
Sometimes I think the readers of Slashdot are so pro-Linux that they fail to give any real consideration to anything not Linux. I think in this case, yes Microsoft might be making a mistake in bashing UNIX. However, I think to have an intelligent discussion about Microsoft you need to consider it's good points as well as its bad points. Like this line: "mabey they can get some real programmers in there ". Do you really think MS got this far without good programmers? No.
congrats