MS wanted to buy Google, because to a large degree, the search engine (Google's natural language command line shell) is the way people interact with the OS, so it becomes the OS, in large part.
I helped spec out a document management metadata database 18 months ago for an engineering firm that wanted to catalog its files. They started out wanting just to categorize their CAD drawings, then decided to include all types of project files.
Our solution was a tcl front end that forced the entry of a minimal amount of metadata *during file creation,* to be picked from preset categories and subcategories. We also provided for free text entry but that was to be used only after the other fields.
The points are a) The general metadata categories were known; the engineering tasks weren't new. b) No one is going to go back after the fact and enter the metadata. You have to integrate its entry into the new file work procedure. c) It's got to be as easy as file/new in a GUI. d) Its utility has got to be very very apparent when juxtaposed with a subdirectory / filename scheme.
So who lives near Starbucks?
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they offer high speed internet. I hear it's coming to a McDonalds near you some time soon, too, possibly gas stations next.
Hard to stop an HD digital Recorder at a matinee
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I know this is about filming at pre-screenings, but in week one after that, given one of these High Definition Digital recorders mounted on a mini tripod under a sweater, and a matinee that no one else goes to, getting a decent copy could be pretty unstoppable. None of the high schoolers staffing my local theaters for the summer would be up to it.
To make this work, you also need the Universal content publishing appliance so I can post my text/pictures/animations/sound/video and some kind of community mechanism for ranking and filtering it all.
Digital photography is just an example because that's what I'm into.
Pick ANY DIGITAL CREATION--certainly good coding is an art--and certainly I enjoy the fruits of the GPL. But the persons who code under it do get paid or have sustenance one way or another, if not from it directly. Linus and RMS included. Some organization that charges somebody money for something pays for them and for us to live.
So the question is, if you don't have a job at another place that pays your rent, and you *want* to make money purely from your creation, and you distribute/sell it only digitally, can you do it using the net exclusively as your middleman and cashier, getting paid up front and not later, instead of a "traditional" distribution method?
("the net" could be a website where others upload their "competing products" and can vote your product up or down based on criteria)
And back to the original post: is anyone doing it and if so what are the examples?
Download.com would be one if it also was the cashier and you had to pay up front.
I'm not into porn so I couldn't tell you what it's doing, though I hear that's always the cutting edge industry.
Perhaps I should say very low costs of production and distribution versus a material good like you find on ebay. However, the question is about production and distribution (artificially/legally) restricted to the owner of the digital work so s/he can make money. And I do mean for all types of digital content, not just photos.
This would be for individuals who want to get paid up front or on some standard terms for their product, not voluntarily like on shareware sites. They don't want to go with a traditional media distribution channel.
Without DRM, is it possible for a net service to replace the middleman, the big media corporations so many readers on/. love to hate?
I'm guessing from the numbers of posts that no one knows yet how to solve this?
Everyone with a computer, an internet server, an idea, and some initiative has the means of production and distribution at hand, just not the way to enforce restricted access to the product.
Maybe they need patrons who make their money from physical goods that aren't so easily reproducible.
I think most people don't subscribe because they don't know what it's like to have fast internet integrated into their lives--and their houses and hardware aren't set up to have it be integrated:
It's got to be a total package that extols the value of sharing data (text, voice, pix, video), not just receiving it, and that also provides mobility with your "device(s)" at least while in your house. Who regularly creates digital files that s/he wants to share through the web? That person needs broadband.
I can't understand why all the web-based digital photo reprinters aren't cross selling broadband, not to mention the digital video hardware vendors. Actually, Circuit City is a big Broadband reseller.
To integate the web into your life, you need mobility, not a fixed PC in one room of your house. For your kids to do their homework while lying on the floor, for you to read the news while at the kitchen table, etc., you don't just need broadband, you need a wireless hub at your house, and one or more devices to go with it. You may need a server and a network.
This bundled solution of two way participative services and mobility is the marketing solution. But, it's got to be so easy you can bring it home and plug it in. It's got to be secure out of the box. It's got be spun in a way that convinces you your life is better now that you have it.
The Linux server appliance resellers are doing the same thing, selling high relative to their costs but still below what it would cost to install a similar solution with a proprietary OS. What many have found is they can sell an $8-15k server successfully against a seat licensed competitor but not a $1500-$2500 one, the latter is just too "cheap".
If you had come in at say $10k or $11k you would have had a chance.
The trick is to learn what the competing bid average is going to be...
Given increases in cpu, tools, and bandwidth, we're all going to be capable of creating and broadcasting our own content. The Video IP Phone isn't quite here yet, but once it is, the networks and media congloms are in for one heck of a restructuring... Unless someone can make it illegal for me to do it or create significant financial barriers to entry.
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Walmart are already selling linux PCs and PCs with Windows XP and OpenOffice.org.
Sun's in the game with their Java Desktop.
It'll be interesting to see what the OEMs do about OpenOffice, though, Dell offering OpenOffice would be a real foot in the door.
MS wanted to buy Google, because to a large degree, the search engine (Google's natural language command line shell) is the way people interact with the OS, so it becomes the OS, in large part.
See this eweek article for more on this idea.
Anyone used these?
Has anyone tried Quickbase or OpenACS?
I helped spec out a document management metadata database 18 months ago for an engineering firm that wanted to catalog its files. They started out wanting just to categorize their CAD drawings, then decided to include all types of project files.
Our solution was a tcl front end that forced the entry of a minimal amount of metadata *during file creation,* to be picked from preset categories and subcategories. We also provided for free text entry but that was to be used only after the other fields.
The points are
a) The general metadata categories were known; the engineering tasks weren't new.
b) No one is going to go back after the fact and enter the metadata. You have to integrate its entry into the new file work procedure.
c) It's got to be as easy as file/new in a GUI.
d) Its utility has got to be very very apparent when juxtaposed with a subdirectory / filename scheme.
they offer high speed internet. I hear it's coming to a McDonalds near you some time soon, too, possibly gas stations next.
Michael Crighton
I know this is about filming at pre-screenings, but in week one after that, given one of these High Definition Digital recorders mounted on a mini tripod under a sweater, and a matinee that no one else goes to, getting a decent copy could be pretty unstoppable. None of the high schoolers staffing my local theaters for the summer would be up to it.
The goals of a limited liability corporation are expressly to make profit for a group of shielded remote elite executives.
Hmmm. What effects of this do we now see?
And these are the most powerful organizations in the world today...
Move Over Shaq.
Best ad of the lot. Yao and Yogi, Yo!
To make this work, you also need the Universal content publishing appliance so I can post my text/pictures/animations/sound/video and some kind of community mechanism for ranking and filtering it all.
Like photo.net or mp3.com all rolled into one.
Oh, you also need a fast two way pipe.
Looks like Covad offer 384/1.5 and static ip for 69.95 at least in some parts of North Carolina. I'll be checking them out next.
I'm pretty sure the Constitutional legalese on this was decided during the Civil War. You can't opt out...
Digital photography is just an example because that's what I'm into.
Pick ANY DIGITAL CREATION--certainly good coding is an art--and certainly I enjoy the fruits of the GPL. But the persons who code under it do get paid or have sustenance one way or another, if not from it directly. Linus and RMS included. Some organization that charges somebody money for something pays for them and for us to live.
So the question is, if you don't have a job at another place that pays your rent, and you *want* to make money purely from your creation, and you distribute/sell it only digitally, can you do it using the net exclusively as your middleman and cashier, getting paid up front and not later, instead of a "traditional" distribution method?
("the net" could be a website where others upload their "competing products" and can vote your product up or down based on criteria)
And back to the original post: is anyone doing it and if so what are the examples?
Download.com would be one if it also was the cashier and you had to pay up front.
I'm not into porn so I couldn't tell you what it's doing, though I hear that's always the cutting edge industry.
No examples so far...
Perhaps I should say very low costs of production and distribution versus a material good like you find on ebay. However, the question is about production and distribution (artificially/legally) restricted to the owner of the digital work so s/he can make money. And I do mean for all types of digital content, not just photos.
/. love to hate?
This would be for individuals who want to get paid up front or on some standard terms for their product, not voluntarily like on shareware sites.
They don't want to go with a traditional media distribution channel.
Without DRM, is it possible for a net service to replace the middleman, the big media corporations so many readers on
I'm guessing from the numbers of posts that no one knows yet how to solve this?
Everyone with a computer, an internet server, an idea, and some initiative has the means of production and distribution at hand, just not the way to enforce restricted access to the product.
Maybe they need patrons who make their money from physical goods that aren't so easily reproducible.
My little DirecTV Apache server wouldn't have a prayer.
Download.com lets you search on free but not Free.
Freshmeat.net sort of gets you there for cross OS stuff, but not for pure WinOS plays.
I think most people don't subscribe because they don't know what it's like to have fast internet integrated into their lives--and their houses and hardware aren't set up to have it be integrated:
It's got to be a total package that extols the value of sharing data (text, voice, pix, video), not just receiving it, and that also provides mobility with your "device(s)" at least while in your house. Who regularly creates digital files that s/he wants to share through the web? That person needs broadband.
I can't understand why all the web-based digital photo reprinters aren't cross selling broadband, not to mention the digital video hardware vendors. Actually, Circuit City is a big Broadband reseller.
To integate the web into your life, you need mobility, not a fixed PC in one room of your house. For your kids to do their homework while lying on the floor, for you to read the news while at the kitchen table, etc., you don't just need broadband, you need a wireless hub at your house, and one or more devices to go with it. You may need a server and a network.
This bundled solution of two way participative services and mobility is the marketing solution. But, it's got to be so easy you can bring it home and plug it in. It's got to be secure out of the box. It's got be spun in a way that convinces you your life is better now that you have it.
See Quicktopic, Shutterfly, MP3.com, Vonage, and more.
Can they still walk on it?
Ctrl-A selects all
Shift-F9 reveals codes
Record this as a macro and install it in their Word working environment with a custom button.
Who thinks this is so serious?
Anyone gotten all their users never to open email attachments nor to leave floppies in the drive bay when they restart?
Just press Ctrl-A to select all then Shift F-9 to reveal codes and you'll know what's going on...
Anyone can record this as a macro in the normal.dot as a custom button and use it to check.
This "bug" is like telling people not to run/open email attachments even when they come from friends.
Woody's Watch has the same thing and he says it's in 2000 and 2002 also, and doesn't give details pending MS's response to reporting it to them first.
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http://www.woodyswatch.com/office/archtemplate.
The Linux server appliance resellers are doing the same thing, selling high relative to their costs but still below what it would cost to install a similar solution with a proprietary OS. What many have found is they can sell an $8-15k server successfully against a seat licensed competitor but not a $1500-$2500 one, the latter is just too "cheap".
If you had come in at say $10k or $11k you would have had a chance.
The trick is to learn what the competing bid average is going to be...
This is already /.-ed Anyone got a mirror or a copy of the article?
Given increases in cpu, tools, and bandwidth, we're all going to be capable of creating and broadcasting our own content. The Video IP Phone isn't quite here yet, but once it is, the networks and media congloms are in for one heck of a restructuring... Unless someone can make it illegal for me to do it or create significant financial barriers to entry.
How does this affect all of us who shoot a movie to dvd and want to share it or eventually stream it to our families?
Record a song (assuming it's not copyrighted, say a hymn from an OLD book) and share/stream it?
Ultimately, unless it's banned, we're all going to be entertainment publishers and broadcasters.
Anyone got a way to measure that?