I currently pay £10-15 for a CD album, £30 for a (dance) vinyl album and £5 for a new vinyl single.
First of all, people who buy vinyl are in it for different reasons than everybody else on the planet. They will continue to buy vinyl until hell freezes over so no change in the digital market will matter to them. Ever.
Secondly, people pay for quality. If your independent artists that are self producing have actual quality (and to be honest, most in this class do, even if I don't like much of it) they will have sales. Only the qualityless style divas will be the losers. I shed no tears.
People that critique the RIAA/MPAA business model tend to not really think-through the long-term self-interest of themselves
No. People who critique the RIAA/MPAA business model don't really care if the RIAA/MPAA businesses thrive or dissolve. Nor should they. I for one have significantly increased my music purchases, while maintaining an unbroken RIAA boycott. I don't care if the RIAA makes a profit or can adjust.
So the lack of anything good about MS proves bias? The fact that IS has more exploits, is slower to patch, is installed by default without the users knowledge is evidence of bias?
Your implicit assumption is that there are two states of moon rocks "possessed by the US Gov't" and "Stolen from the US Gov't." Hint: Other countries have reached the moon and returned with rocks. As well, the US Gov't has sold some, a fact that doesn't preclude some being stolen.
I have three laptops, a Vaio F190, Tecra 8100, and a Thinkpad 600E. Only the 600e works flawlessly in Linux. It's the only working winmodem in the lot, the only one that allows me to configure the hardware from linux, the only one where every bit of the hardware actually functions under linux (at least, the later 2.4 kernels) and the only one to have "How to Open the Case" documents on the web.
I've had it for awhile, and while it took some time to ramp up the Thinkpad Linux support is far superior to pretty much every other laptop support available. To call the support "sporatic" is inflamatory at best.
Until there is something available that I can record anything on broadcast TV for a handful of pennies.
You're obviously prorating your VCR's cost (plus cleanings, etc), not to mention the tapes themselves (they do wear out). So, since you already have a computer (you are posting, after all) you can pick up a capture card for $150. This will not only give you basic time shifting, but be burnable at $0.22 per cd, which holds 70-80minutes. For viewing on your TV but not permanent storage you can use a rewritable (1000 burns for just over $1)
Well, uhm. Yes. If I"m wrong, please show me the "and entertainment" to the "Life, Liberty, etc..."
Why should Circuit City devote floorspace to product which only has market share in a group of people unable to pay a one time cost of $69.99USD (current price at Circuit City) for a box to play it? Walmart and KMart can continue selling VHS, until MPAA stops producing them entirely.
I have a right to backup anything I purchase, I also have a right to resell the original if I either destroy the backups or give them to the new owner.
Who cares about individual rights if the bottom line is looking rosy?
Ok, clue me in here. What rights? Right to steal cable? Right to underpriced broadband? I'm not sure what rights of yours these companies are violating.
There's one simple (but not necessarily easy) way to get the ball rolling on AlterNIC, OpenNIC, etc.
Convince Google to spider pages on those TLDs. Then, when Joe User searches google, gets a hit, and then has DNS failure he'll complain to his ISP. Enough complaints, and ISPs will support the alternate services just to keep the noise level down.
If there is no specific advantage to me being in a specific location, with a specific phone and reference books, notes, hardware, etc around me... Why should I come in at all? Telecommute
I mean if they were trying to block old 486's from coming in, why don't they let them in and build a Beowulf parallel tasking computer that would rival that of NASA's supercomputers.
Power. As in electricity.
Figure 150 watts per unit. 8760 hrs/year x.15 KWH per machine = 1300 KWH per unit per year. A good marginal rate for power is $0.24 per KWH. Let's say the Chinese are ultra efficient and their wonderfully functioning communistic economy doesn't have nasty things like profit raising costs, so let's give them $0.12 per KWH.
Let's be really nice and say they're getting loads of 300 mhz machines in (doubtful). The 10 machines required (mhz doesn't just add folks) to equal one 1.7 P4 would cost $1560 to power for one year. More than the cost to buy the P4 itself.
Exactly how many many 300mhz machines do you think will be needed to match NASAs comuting power?
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CB doesn't have callsigns, it's "no code Technician" not Expert and it's not the same thing by a long shot.
As for usefulness, police still monitor the emergency CB channel, and a Tech or better ham license will give you access to phone connections that are usable to dial 911.
It is true that we don't use all that much from the mideast. The US uses roughly 6mil barrels/day. 45% of that is from local production. Canada at 15%, Saudi and Venezuela at 14% and Mexico at 12%. (PDF Data here)
We get 14% of our oil from the Middle east, while Europe and Asia get near 100% (minus whatever local production they have in each country.) However, the theory that we're interested in Mideast oil to stop other countries from forming militaries is silly, they couldn't form (successful) militaries without oil, unless they went to non-conventional, which Asia/Europe already has access too. More likely, as much as oil is a concern at all, it stems from the reality that any decrease in Mideast supply would increase worldwide price. We'd still have the same availability, just paying more for it.
This doesn't sound like a step towards a better movie format for everyone, this sounds like VHS/Betamax all over again.
Except a VHS machine couldn't play a betamax tape, etc...
This machine will play it's format plus the DVD format. Either it's format will take off and other manufacturers will need to start supporting the new format as well as DVD, or it won't take off. If it becomes the new standard, new machines could very easily drop DVD support and still have a market. However, since it can play DVD's to begin with, it is not a VHS/Betamax situation.
I don't believe they can without making some serious changes to the DVD format
Several players are 'hackable' to be region free, or region switch. My current Apex for example. Some of these are obviously left in on purpose, some are hacks to the flashroms in the unit themselves. The only reason that these units don't come with region switch from the manufacturer is that a unit that wishes to display the DVD logo must technically respect region encodings, or they are not allowed to display the logo.
Obviously, this shouldn't be a problem for these new players since they don't intend to display the logo.
While Cable may be a regulated (not unregulated as you claim) monopoly, it is not the only broadband provider. While my choices for cable broadband are limited to one (AT&T) I have an overall choice of seven broadband providers, and am happily a customer of one of them (not AT&T).
Now, it may be the only one to offer speeds you want (although with recent caps I tend to doubt it) but that's not a monopoly. Uncapped cable service is a -better- service than their competitors, and thus the service provider can and in fact should charge more for it.
Now that a major US provider is changing the rules, it'll be interesting to see how Slashdot readers take the news when it affects them a bit closer to home.
AT&T users should get over it and find a new ISP that won't change the rules on them.
here in Americaland. Freedom of the press allows the media to break all sorts of laws.
There is no difference between Reuters and Joe Bob Smith. The former does not get any extra legal protection, and the latter doesn't have to print a newspaper.
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I currently pay £10-15 for a CD album, £30 for a (dance) vinyl album and £5 for a new vinyl single.
First of all, people who buy vinyl are in it for different reasons than everybody else on the planet. They will continue to buy vinyl until hell freezes over so no change in the digital market will matter to them. Ever.
Secondly, people pay for quality. If your independent artists that are self producing have actual quality (and to be honest, most in this class do, even if I don't like much of it) they will have sales. Only the qualityless style divas will be the losers. I shed no tears.
People that critique the RIAA/MPAA business model tend to not really think-through the long-term self-interest of themselves
No. People who critique the RIAA/MPAA business model don't really care if the RIAA/MPAA businesses thrive or dissolve. Nor should they. I for one have significantly increased my music purchases, while maintaining an unbroken RIAA boycott. I don't care if the RIAA makes a profit or can adjust.
How then did you manage to elect Hitler chancellor?
They didn't. He was appointed by Hindenberg.
Uh. No. There is definitely a first. It's a guarantee.
There's one problem to your supposed paradox.
We might be first. Someone has to be.
So the lack of anything good about MS proves bias? The fact that IS has more exploits, is slower to patch, is installed by default without the users knowledge is evidence of bias?
Please.
Instead of taxing one individual, they can tax every person on this network they find, since they are all transmitters.
Your implicit assumption is that there are two states of moon rocks "possessed by the US Gov't" and "Stolen from the US Gov't." Hint: Other countries have reached the moon and returned with rocks. As well, the US Gov't has sold some, a fact that doesn't preclude some being stolen.
litigation should NOT always be the first resort.
So how would you solve disagreements between the gov't and citizenry? Forfeiture? Imprisonment? Bills of Attainder?
I much prefer litigation thanks.
I have three laptops, a Vaio F190, Tecra 8100, and a Thinkpad 600E. Only the 600e works flawlessly in Linux. It's the only working winmodem in the lot, the only one that allows me to configure the hardware from linux, the only one where every bit of the hardware actually functions under linux (at least, the later 2.4 kernels) and the only one to have "How to Open the Case" documents on the web.
I've had it for awhile, and while it took some time to ramp up the Thinkpad Linux support is far superior to pretty much every other laptop support available. To call the support "sporatic" is inflamatory at best.
Until there is something available that I can record anything on broadcast TV for a handful of pennies.
You're obviously prorating your VCR's cost (plus cleanings, etc), not to mention the tapes themselves (they do wear out). So, since you already have a computer (you are posting, after all) you can pick up a capture card for $150. This will not only give you basic time shifting, but be burnable at $0.22 per cd, which holds 70-80minutes. For viewing on your TV but not permanent storage you can use a rewritable (1000 burns for just over $1)
Well, uhm. Yes. If I"m wrong, please show me the "and entertainment" to the "Life, Liberty, etc..."
Why should Circuit City devote floorspace to product which only has market share in a group of people unable to pay a one time cost of $69.99USD (current price at Circuit City) for a box to play it? Walmart and KMart can continue selling VHS, until MPAA stops producing them entirely.
Me, I'm Region-restricted DVD free since 1998.
I have a right to backup anything I purchase, I also have a right to resell the original if I either destroy the backups or give them to the new owner.
The two doctrines are not contradictory.
Who cares about individual rights if the bottom line is looking rosy?
Ok, clue me in here. What rights? Right to steal cable? Right to underpriced broadband? I'm not sure what rights of yours these companies are violating.
There's one simple (but not necessarily easy) way to get the ball rolling on AlterNIC, OpenNIC, etc.
Convince Google to spider pages on those TLDs. Then, when Joe User searches google, gets a hit, and then has DNS failure he'll complain to his ISP. Enough complaints, and ISPs will support the alternate services just to keep the noise level down.
If there is no specific advantage to me being in a specific location, with a specific phone and reference books, notes, hardware, etc around me... Why should I come in at all? Telecommute
I mean if they were trying to block old 486's from coming in, why don't they let them in and build a Beowulf parallel tasking computer that would rival that of NASA's supercomputers.
Power. As in electricity.
Figure 150 watts per unit. 8760 hrs/year x
Let's be really nice and say they're getting loads of 300 mhz machines in (doubtful). The 10 machines required (mhz doesn't just add folks) to equal one 1.7 P4 would cost $1560 to power for one year. More than the cost to buy the P4 itself.
Exactly how many many 300mhz machines do you think will be needed to match NASAs comuting power?
Blame?
I think you spelled "Thank" wrong.
CB doesn't have callsigns, it's "no code Technician" not Expert and it's not the same thing by a long shot.
As for usefulness, police still monitor the emergency CB channel, and a Tech or better ham license will give you access to phone connections that are usable to dial 911.
Cellphones are better.
It is true that we don't use all that much from the mideast. The US uses roughly 6mil barrels/day. 45% of that is from local production. Canada at 15%, Saudi and Venezuela at 14% and Mexico at 12%. (PDF Data here)
We get 14% of our oil from the Middle east, while Europe and Asia get near 100% (minus whatever local production they have in each country.) However, the theory that we're interested in Mideast oil to stop other countries from forming militaries is silly, they couldn't form (successful) militaries without oil, unless they went to non-conventional, which Asia/Europe already has access too. More likely, as much as oil is a concern at all, it stems from the reality that any decrease in Mideast supply would increase worldwide price. We'd still have the same availability, just paying more for it.
This doesn't sound like a step towards a better movie format for everyone, this sounds like VHS/Betamax all over again.
Except a VHS machine couldn't play a betamax tape, etc...
This machine will play it's format plus the DVD format. Either it's format will take off and other manufacturers will need to start supporting the new format as well as DVD, or it won't take off. If it becomes the new standard, new machines could very easily drop DVD support and still have a market. However, since it can play DVD's to begin with, it is not a VHS/Betamax situation.
I don't believe they can without making some serious changes to the DVD format
Several players are 'hackable' to be region free, or region switch. My current Apex for example. Some of these are obviously left in on purpose, some are hacks to the flashroms in the unit themselves. The only reason that these units don't come with region switch from the manufacturer is that a unit that wishes to display the DVD logo must technically respect region encodings, or they are not allowed to display the logo.
Obviously, this shouldn't be a problem for these new players since they don't intend to display the logo.
That's the real issue. Change providers? To who?
While Cable may be a regulated (not unregulated as you claim) monopoly, it is not the only broadband provider. While my choices for cable broadband are limited to one (AT&T) I have an overall choice of seven broadband providers, and am happily a customer of one of them (not AT&T).
Now, it may be the only one to offer speeds you want (although with recent caps I tend to doubt it) but that's not a monopoly. Uncapped cable service is a -better- service than their competitors, and thus the service provider can and in fact should charge more for it.
Now that a major US provider is changing the rules, it'll be interesting to see how Slashdot readers take the news when it affects them a bit closer to home.
AT&T users should get over it and find a new ISP that won't change the rules on them.
here in Americaland. Freedom of the press allows the media to break all sorts of laws.
There is no difference between Reuters and Joe Bob Smith. The former does not get any extra legal protection, and the latter doesn't have to print a newspaper.