Industry pundits talk about audiovisual downloads through some system like Apple's iTunes Music Store, and perhaps we'll see something like this in the near future, but this works against the simple fact that people do not expect to pay for television programs
Is there any data to back this up? Maybe people would in fact be willing to pay $1 for a TV episode on demand without commericals or 50 cents with an episode with commericals, or maybe not, the article does not prove the case one way or the other.
Its possible to extract uranium from seawater. It's not economical compared to mining but if that's all you have to make nuclear weapons from you can afford to do it.
Suppose that fans made nonrefundable prepayments for season five dvds, priced high enough to cover all expected costs plus some profit. The actors rights could then be covered the same way they are for direct to video/dvd movies (e.g. Lion King Part Eight).
It's needed to build the ISS. A number of the pieces of the ISS are designed to fit into the shuttle's cargo bay and to be supported by brackets within the bay during lanuch. No current expendable rocket has the same configuration. Plus the spacearm is needed for some assembly tasks.
That seems like a bad design. In normal use of a car you press the brake to stop not take your foot off of it. Won't a person using them system and react by pressing down harder on the brake when they suddenly need to make an emergency stop (kid with soccer ball, etc)?
Some of the questions in the quiz are not suitable for estimation.
For example answering "the year that Harold II became King of England" requires knowledge of English history. Any answer prior to the mid 1900s is a reasonable one for a person who only knows about Queen Elizabeth II.
People with more knowledge know this a pre-Norman Conquest King and so the answer must be before 1066. But that reduction in the scope of the answer comes from existing knowledge not by estimating.
During lunch time I took the subway and bus to their worksite in the former Downviews AFB in Toronto. The craft itself is now black with GoldenPalace.com logos but they say once a few more layers of thermal shielding are put on they will repaint it will all of their sponsor's logos and the Canadian flag. So its going to look like a NASCAR racer.
They still need to join two pieces of the body and it appeared that the interior where the rocket engine and fuel tanks and pipes would be mounted is completely empty. Also I'm pretty sure that some interior parts of the craft beneath the thermal shielding are made out of wood.
However they seemed confident so I wish them all the best.
Unlike RAM (640K will be enough, etc.) in which if you hit the limit you need to buy more or a new device if you fill out your iPod then you just need to free some space and sync over new songs from your computer.
The disadvantage of having a smaller disk is more frequent resyncs but you can trade that off for less cost or smaller physical size.
So why do people rent from Netflix instead of just buying the movies? Why do people pay for HBO instead of just buying? Sometimes people would rather pay for continual updates then be up to date once.
$10 a month for all the music you want in a month sounds reasonable. There's likely sometimes new every month that you want. Yes you lose all the items if you stop paying but in the meantime you would gain a much greater selection.
The article looks at encoding at low and medium bit rates because the idea is to see ini what format you should save video so you can send it by email or on a cd to grandma. Neither of which you are likely to do with clips from Monsters, Inc. (animation) or a action SF film. What you might do with a hollywood movie is back it up to a DVD+/-R for archivial purposes - in which case you want tests of high bit rates.
They should shoot their own video of household stuff - baby walking, baseball game, etc. and tested that.
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The Huygens is being carried on the Cassini orbiter until it will be released in the same manner as the probe from the Galileo.
All this action by the RIAA is nothing more than going to people selling copies and saying stop doing it or we will sue you. Just like what the FSF does with people that accuse of breaking the GPL.
Europa is by no means minor. With the belief that Europa has oceans of water covered by ice, it is considered a one of the most likely places for life to exist in the solar system outside of the Earth. Instead of finding signs that life might have existed on Mars, a probe to Europa might find actual plants or animals living below the ice.
In 1967 Egypt had blocked Israel's access to the Red Sea. A blockade is seen as an act of war by all countries. Israel had every right to attack Egypt and any country in a military alliance with it the instant the blockade started.
Since sub $150 multiformat drives have been available since the summer if not earlier Dell is doing a real diservice to their customers by trying to make a few extra dollars in profit by only selling +RW drives. Having to explain why DVDs made on my sister's Dell may not work on some DVD players was not fun and is certainly a strike against Dell.
The amounts listed are what Dick was paid for the stories' first appearance in SF magazines. For later films such as Imposter and Minority Report his estate may have been paid much more. It is certainly being paid more now:
From the article: Paycheck, based on a 1953 short story Dick sold to a pulp magazine for less than $200, will bring close to $2 million to his estate.
Will the RIAA get its full cut? Maybe they made a deal with Apple that for promotional deals like this they only want a smaller amount per sale. Until companies start filing tax and security exchange documentation we may not know.
The problem is they are trying to fit two services - rental and purchase in the same interface. The web site should clearly seperate the two options and give you a choice (with an explaination when you enter the site) of which type of service you want to see. Then at the bottom of each page they can clearly say "also available to buy" or "also available on the monthly subscription also" as appropriate.
Another comment says it is the price for the Ad/spyware free version of Kazaa.
The RIAA should drop this suit and sue Kazaa for misleading the girl into thinking that by buying their program they can legally download RIAA copyrighted music from their service.
I don't see this as a good development. They should have studied the device, how it responds to input and produce a clean room implementation - not disassmble the binary driver.
What if MS did not have a Windows driver for a device and decided to skip some development effort by dissambling the source from a binary of a GPLed driver. I bet most people here would oppose that - this is no different.
The article being linked to is simply a few bits from a LA Times story which has much more information. The LA Times article has a number of quotes from movie executives that show they realize that word of mouth is key and that they wish to make movies that get good reviews from the initial fans. It does not indicate that the movie companies want to gag anyone - just figure out how to appeal to the initial viewers.
In any case bad movies always get a negative word of mouth and good movies hopefully get a good word of movie - improved communications merely helps speeds this up.
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Industry pundits talk about audiovisual downloads through some system like Apple's iTunes Music Store, and perhaps we'll see something like this in the near future, but this works against the simple fact that people do not expect to pay for television programs
Is there any data to back this up? Maybe people would in fact be willing to pay $1 for a TV episode on demand without commericals or 50 cents with an episode with commericals, or maybe not, the article does not prove the case one way or the other.
Its possible to extract uranium from seawater. It's not economical compared to mining but if that's all you have to make nuclear weapons from you can afford to do it.
Suppose that fans made nonrefundable prepayments for season five dvds, priced high enough to cover all expected costs plus some profit. The actors rights could then be covered the same way they are for direct to video/dvd movies (e.g. Lion King Part Eight).
It's needed to build the ISS. A number of the pieces of the ISS are designed to fit into the shuttle's cargo bay and to be supported by brackets within the bay during lanuch. No current expendable rocket has the same configuration. Plus the spacearm is needed for some assembly tasks.
That seems like a bad design. In normal use of a car you press the brake to stop not take your foot off of it. Won't a person using them system and react by pressing down harder on the brake when they suddenly need to make an emergency stop (kid with soccer ball, etc)?
Some of the questions in the quiz are not suitable for estimation.
For example answering "the year that Harold II became King of England" requires knowledge of English history. Any answer prior to the mid 1900s is a reasonable one for a person who only knows about Queen Elizabeth II.
People with more knowledge know this a pre-Norman Conquest King and so the answer must be before 1066. But that reduction in the scope of the answer comes from existing knowledge not by estimating.
During lunch time I took the subway and bus to their worksite in the former Downviews AFB in Toronto. The craft itself is now black with GoldenPalace.com logos but they say once a few more layers of thermal shielding are put on they will repaint it will all of their sponsor's logos and the Canadian flag. So its going to look like a NASCAR racer.
They still need to join two pieces of the body and it appeared that the interior where the rocket engine and fuel tanks and pipes would be mounted is completely empty. Also I'm pretty sure that some interior parts of the craft beneath the thermal shielding are made out of wood.
However they seemed confident so I wish them all the best.
Unlike RAM (640K will be enough, etc.) in which if you hit the limit you need to buy more or a new device if you fill out your iPod then you just need to free some space and sync over new songs from your computer.
The disadvantage of having a smaller disk is more frequent resyncs but you can trade that off for less cost or smaller physical size.
So why do people rent from Netflix instead of just buying the movies? Why do people pay for HBO instead of just buying? Sometimes people would rather pay for continual updates then be up to date once.
$10 a month for all the music you want in a month sounds reasonable. There's likely sometimes new every month that you want. Yes you lose all the items if you stop paying but in the meantime you would gain a much greater selection.
The article looks at encoding at low and medium bit rates because the idea is to see ini what format you should save video so you can send it by email or on a cd to grandma. Neither of which you are likely to do with clips from Monsters, Inc. (animation) or a action SF film. What you might do with a hollywood movie is back it up to a DVD+/-R for archivial purposes - in which case you want tests of high bit rates.
They should shoot their own video of household stuff - baby walking, baseball game, etc. and tested that.
They should get together ...
The Huygens is being carried on the Cassini orbiter until it will be released in the same manner as the probe from the Galileo.
D. File a lawsuit.
All this action by the RIAA is nothing more than going to people selling copies and saying stop doing it or we will sue you. Just like what the FSF does with people that accuse of breaking the GPL.
Europa is by no means minor. With the belief that Europa has oceans of water covered by ice, it is considered a one of the most likely places for life to exist in the solar system outside of the Earth. Instead of finding signs that life might have existed on Mars, a probe to Europa might find actual plants or animals living below the ice.
From another of your posts:
The best example I can think of comes from my home country: Kuwait.
Speaking of depending on the United States, you would be bowing to a painting of Saddam if it was not for the United States.
In 1967 Egypt had blocked Israel's access to the Red Sea. A blockade is seen as an act of war by all countries. Israel had every right to attack Egypt and any country in a military alliance with it the instant the blockade started.
Since sub $150 multiformat drives have been available since the summer if not earlier Dell is doing a real diservice to their customers by trying to make a few extra dollars in profit by only selling +RW drives. Having to explain why DVDs made on my sister's Dell may not work on some DVD players was not fun and is certainly a strike against Dell.
There is a dramatic difference between a sub orbital flight and going to orbit and staying in space for days.
When a X-Prize craft can reach orbit that's interesting, until then these vehicles are really of little interest.
The amounts listed are what Dick was paid for the stories' first appearance in SF magazines. For later films such as Imposter and Minority Report his estate may have been paid much more. It is certainly being paid more now:
From the article: Paycheck, based on a 1953 short story Dick sold to a pulp magazine for less than $200, will bring close to $2 million to his estate.
Will the RIAA get its full cut? Maybe they made a deal with Apple that for promotional deals like this they only want a smaller amount per sale. Until companies start filing tax and security exchange documentation we may not know.
The problem is they are trying to fit two services - rental and purchase in the same interface. The web site should clearly seperate the two options and give you a choice (with an explaination when you enter the site) of which type of service you want to see. Then at the bottom of each page they can clearly say "also available to buy" or "also available on the monthly subscription also" as appropriate.
Create their own software using GPLed source and not provide the source of their changes.
Another comment says it is the price for the Ad/spyware free version of Kazaa.
The RIAA should drop this suit and sue Kazaa for misleading the girl into thinking that by buying their program they can legally download RIAA copyrighted music from their service.
I don't see this as a good development. They should have studied the device, how it responds to input and produce a clean room implementation - not disassmble the binary driver.
What if MS did not have a Windows driver for a device and decided to skip some development effort by dissambling the source from a binary of a GPLed driver. I bet most people here would oppose that - this is no different.
New Line Cinema is owned by AOL Time Warner.
The article being linked to is simply a few bits from a LA Times story which has much more information. The LA Times article has a number of quotes from movie executives that show they realize that word of mouth is key and that they wish to make movies that get good reviews from the initial fans. It does not indicate that the movie companies want to gag anyone - just figure out how to appeal to the initial viewers. In any case bad movies always get a negative word of mouth and good movies hopefully get a good word of movie - improved communications merely helps speeds this up.