Also interesting, because it's a return to their roots.
Where did IBM make their big money from in their heydey? Service contracts.
Selling the big iron was never the profit, it was always about the service contracts afterward.
My experience in the defense industry was the same. It was no problem if you built the multi-million dollar systems at a loss, because the maintenance contract was where you made the money. I know of one UK product that finally turned a profit for our companies 10 years after delivery, then became quite a good money maker.
A person's right to a fair trial is more important than my need to hear something this week instead of next week.
Waiting to next week has no impact on my life, or that of any other Canadian. Impatience is a pretty small price to pay so that we can maintain the basis of our judicial system.
Personally I don't even like the space and castle legos
I buy my son the basic blocks only. With a space set he can build space ships. With a castle set he can build castles. With generic blocks he can build spaceships, castles, cars, and a whole bunch of things I would never have thought of.
Since IBM PC Co played a major role in the death of OS/2 to begin with. A lot of customers were understandably dubious of an operating system that even its creator wouldn't bundle on their systems.
That's quite a common fallacy around people who didn't follow OS/2.
IBM bundled it with a lot of their systems, and it was hugely successful -- as an embedded OS. Which is interesting when you think about it, because that means OS/2 all that time ago was designed as scalable as Linux is trying now.
Internal politics in IBM are generally credited with killing OS/2 on the desktop (after all when you already have several operating systems for sale, the new one is going to be seen as a threat!) but don't think that just because you don't see it on desktop comptuers that means that OS/2 was not succesful. Every time you use a cash register, bank machine of the like with the IBM logo on it, odds are you are using OS/2.
Well, with the byline of the story being "This could permanently damage the Disney-Pixar relationship", and the references in the story to things like "They have avoided doing this in the past in deference to Pixar's CEO", etc, it appears that the lack of Pixar is going to be a big part of the story. I think that you'll find by the time the movie gets released direct-to-video every parent that reads a newspaper will understand that this is being done by a different group.
Steve Jobs certainly understands how to use the media far better than Eisner does. There is no way this movie will come out with people thinking Pixar has anything to do with it.
And given Jobs credibility in the enterntainment industry at this point, I suspect securing distribution deals in a Disneyless Pixar won't be an issue. The only question is will Pixar try to go it completely alone, or will they ally themselves with another major company?
Who are these people? Being a freelance computer tech (and knowing many others in my trade), I know exactly who these folks are. They're the ones who got a particularly good deal when buying a home-made computer from someone's garage.
There's a second group here. The people that bought a computer from a mom-and-pop style computer store, which came with Windows XP "Pre-installed". There's a not insignificant number of these stores that are installing pirated copies. Great cost saving in a tight market.
It potentially destroys their ability to change their software.
If Apple makes a change that they have planned, and it accidentally breaks compabitibility with Real, you know Real is going to pound then in the press.
How would you like it if a competitor tries to put you in a position where you cannot change your own software?
Well according to my investigation they are all fraudulent emails.
Apparently there is some javascript that is intentionally obscuring the urls when I mouseover in firefox -- definite red flag in my books. So I right click the URLs to force them to display, and every single one points to somewhere other than the claim -- they all go to survey.mailfrontier.com. Sounds like mailfrontier.com is trying a massive phishing scam.
Sheesh. If you're going to try a test like this at least try to make it realiztic. The first thing I do is look at the actual link source. Only if that seems legit would I bother to spend time actually reading the message.
They don't have to since the Russian compulsory license does not restrict distribution to Russia.
That covers the export restriction. They still have to take care of the import restrictions for the individual countries they are selling to.
Whether or not it is legal for them to sell the song is one thing. Whether or not it is legal for you to buy the song it another, and depends on what country you are in. Don't think Apple is restricting the purchase point just because they want to be difficult.
Russia has compulsory licensing and AllOfMP3 pays royalties to the collection agency.
And they've negotiated the relicensing necessary to be able to distribute those songs internationally?
That's a pretty impressive task. I would guess that Apple and Microsoft must be fighting over whoever pulled that one off, as both of them have been completely unable to manage the same task within a single continent, let alone for the whole world!
I was looking at my old portable stereo with two tape decks, and realized that the 2nd deck didn't even have a play button. All it had was record, to record from the first tape deck
So, let's think about this -- in the early 80's Sony was making devices whose sole purpose was to record music from other mediums. I will tell you 99% of the time I used that deck to record a tape I had borrowed
The music industry managed to survive a time when they were making devices to copy music (and I'll tell you right now, 10th generation analog copies did not bother me).
A 5th or so generation tape introduced me to what became one of my favourite bands for a long time... The Violent Femmes. I ended up buying every one of their tapes, then their CD's hen it turned into that.
Nothing has changed in the last 25 years, other than the fact that the recording industry is trying to find excuses to generate revenue through a blanket tax.
We'll Rember it for you Wholesale (Total Recall) ended with a joke. The Mars trip was never in doubt. As different from the source as any Paul Verhoeven film.
While I agree totally that the movie had nothing to do with the story, I disagree that "the Mars trip was never in doubt".
Go back and watch the beginning of the movie again. The program he buys is "Blue Sky over Mars". Hmmm...
Look at the girl he orders. Perfect match for the one in the story
I remember there were other things, but it's been a long time since I've seen the movie. It could be he made those choices because of a residual memory, or it could be that he's still sitting in the chair. That would finally even allow us to explain away that totally improbably face almost blowing up then coming back to normal ending, since it never happened.
I already have one on my powerbook.
It's called the firewire port. I plug my iPod in and it charges off of it. Works great.
I don't think you would want to power a much higher voltage device, the power supplies in most desktops are too loud as it is.
Fundamental Justice is the state of Justice as it exists, the body of Law and the decisions based in it and prior decisions taken as a whole... If we're going after paedophiles, then Fundamental Justice dictates that they will be punished and restricted.
How, then, do you explain the decision on the Robin Sharpe case, which was based on the charter? You know, that's the one about the pedophile who will be allowed to publish his works because they contain artistic merit?
Judges don't need to interpret based on the current "trend", the notwithstanding clause allows them the out by putting the responsiblity on the government. Again, notice that the government decided not to use it.
You're probably American, so you don't realize this, but the Charter works. Our courts are not political so the decisions can be made solely on law and legal precedent, and not the need to get re-elected. Time and again it has held up, even around unpopular decisions that would not have been made in the States.
Also notice the comment that the Canadian Privacy Commissioner still has to comment. Again, this is much more than a rubber stamp, and he has taken the government to task on a number of proposals.
Recently he quashed the RCMP's attempts to use general surveillance cameras in parts of BC, a practice which is commonplace in many other parts of the world.
There's just too many hurdles that are unlikely to be passed -- I highly doubt this will go through.
Frankly, I don't get what's so hard about it. The numbers are represented as large digits on all four corners on both sides. (1,5,10,20) It is written out in English on the bottom on both sides (ONE DOLLAR)
The problem is a lifetime of habit. You grew up knowing you had to look at the numbers in the corner, so you do. I grew up being able to tell the denomination by a quick glance at the paper in general,so I do.
Remembering to actually look at the corner and focus on the number there really does take a lot of effort, after 30 odd years of not having to.
It's much the same way people read. You aren't actually looking at each individual letter in this post, you're just recognizing the pattern of the word. If the writing is hard to decipher, then you have to slow down and spell out each individual letter to get the word.
That's how foreigners feel every time they try to deal with American money.
I had been using Yahoo email for a long time, and was planning to pay for the service since it was useful. Because of their change, I sent a letter to Yahoo indicating why I would not pay for the service, and am now using a new address.
My yahoo address is still open, however, so I can catch the stragglers that haven't caught up yet. So from a superficial (number of users pov), yes, it appears that this didn't affect their business, but what you don't know is how many people like me changed their mind about paying for the service, or the trust that they had placed in Yahoo.
The future will tell if the same thing happens with Microsoft. I don't have a hotmail address because I knew better than to trust Microsoft, but a lot of people didn't. The question isn't really (like Yahoo) whether this will cost them hotmail addresses, but whether this will cost them $ in future service offerings like the larger mailboxes.
Not just here, anywhere. Of course now everyone will be looking for it so cutaneous may get identified more readily but still... 25 years and not one inhaled case and all of this sudden three cases in two completely different geographical regions?
Some clarification here -- this is the first case of inhalation anthrax in 25 years. Cutaneuos Anthrax is not uncommon, although it doesn't show up in office buildings very often. Cutaneous anthrax is what has been showing up everywhere except in Florida, and all the people in Florida were exposed together.
Also, cutaneous anthrax is quite treatable, it cannot be passed between people, and it needs broken skin in order to infect you. In other words, the flu is a much more dangerous illness.
1) Why do you need a GPS phone? If you don't know where you are, you ask, or buy a map for a buck or two. The only people who would ever buy a GPS phone are the same kinds of people who get confused looking at rotary telephones.
I think the most obvious reason is the one for which it has been mandated in the US -- so you can be located when you call 911!
Another reason is for people like me who don't like to carry too many goodies -- a lot of the hiking and mountain biking in my area is in forests with analog coverage, but are easy to get lost in. It would be nice to have a GPS so I can locate myself on the topo maps. If that GPS is built into the same device that I'm using for my emergency contact, great, I'm saving a few ounces in my pack!
Finally, you can't forget the gee-whiz factor. Especially not on Slashdot.
Of course we're all waiting for the day when even more is integrated - and it'll come fairly soon. It takes very very little more to add a voice recorder, an MP3 player, and user programmability
Well we're 2/3 of the way there -- the Samsung Uproar has a voice recorder and an MP3 player. Given that Samsung is the company producing these GPS phones, that programmable tracking is probably only a small step away!
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Well, here in Vancouver, that would mean sunset at about 3:30 PM at the end of it, and kids trying to get home in the dark.
It will be even worse farther north. Can't imagine what Edmonton will do, and there's a lot more north than that.
So yes, it is being rammed down our throat, because can you imagine the confusion if we didn't follow?
Where did IBM make their big money from in their heydey? Service contracts.
Selling the big iron was never the profit, it was always about the service contracts afterward.
My experience in the defense industry was the same. It was no problem if you built the multi-million dollar systems at a loss, because the maintenance contract was where you made the money. I know of one UK product that finally turned a profit for our companies 10 years after delivery, then became quite a good money maker.
A person's right to a fair trial is more important than my need to hear something this week instead of next week.
Waiting to next week has no impact on my life, or that of any other Canadian. Impatience is a pretty small price to pay so that we can maintain the basis of our judicial system.
I buy my son the basic blocks only. With a space set he can build space ships. With a castle set he can build castles. With generic blocks he can build spaceships, castles, cars, and a whole bunch of things I would never have thought of.
That's quite a common fallacy around people who didn't follow OS/2.
IBM bundled it with a lot of their systems, and it was hugely successful -- as an embedded OS. Which is interesting when you think about it, because that means OS/2 all that time ago was designed as scalable as Linux is trying now.
Internal politics in IBM are generally credited with killing OS/2 on the desktop (after all when you already have several operating systems for sale, the new one is going to be seen as a threat!) but don't think that just because you don't see it on desktop comptuers that means that OS/2 was not succesful. Every time you use a cash register, bank machine of the like with the IBM logo on it, odds are you are using OS/2.
Steve Jobs certainly understands how to use the media far better than Eisner does. There is no way this movie will come out with people thinking Pixar has anything to do with it.
And given Jobs credibility in the enterntainment industry at this point, I suspect securing distribution deals in a Disneyless Pixar won't be an issue. The only question is will Pixar try to go it completely alone, or will they ally themselves with another major company?
Who are these people? Being a freelance computer tech (and knowing many others in my trade), I know exactly who these folks are. They're the ones who got a particularly good deal when buying a home-made computer from someone's garage. There's a second group here. The people that bought a computer from a mom-and-pop style computer store, which came with Windows XP "Pre-installed". There's a not insignificant number of these stores that are installing pirated copies. Great cost saving in a tight market.
That's not the fault of PG-13, it's the fault of executives who decide on a target market, then try to build a movie around it.
Making a movie, then deciding if it fits in G, PG-13, 14-Years, R, NC-17 is fine.
Declaring ("We need to make this movie PG-13" | We cannot afford to have a movie NC-17") "so cut it down until it fits" is the issue.
If Apple makes a change that they have planned, and it accidentally breaks compabitibility with Real, you know Real is going to pound then in the press.
How would you like it if a competitor tries to put you in a position where you cannot change your own software?
Apparently there is some javascript that is intentionally obscuring the urls when I mouseover in firefox -- definite red flag in my books. So I right click the URLs to force them to display, and every single one points to somewhere other than the claim -- they all go to survey.mailfrontier.com. Sounds like mailfrontier.com is trying a massive phishing scam.
Sheesh. If you're going to try a test like this at least try to make it realiztic. The first thing I do is look at the actual link source. Only if that seems legit would I bother to spend time actually reading the message.
They don't have to since the Russian compulsory license does not restrict distribution to Russia.
That covers the export restriction. They still have to take care of the import restrictions for the individual countries they are selling to.
Whether or not it is legal for them to sell the song is one thing. Whether or not it is legal for you to buy the song it another, and depends on what country you are in. Don't think Apple is restricting the purchase point just because they want to be difficult.
Russia has compulsory licensing and AllOfMP3 pays royalties to the collection agency.
And they've negotiated the relicensing necessary to be able to distribute those songs internationally?
That's a pretty impressive task. I would guess that Apple and Microsoft must be fighting over whoever pulled that one off, as both of them have been completely unable to manage the same task within a single continent, let alone for the whole world!
I was looking at my old portable stereo with two tape decks, and realized that the 2nd deck didn't even have a play button. All it had was record, to record from the first tape deck
So, let's think about this -- in the early 80's Sony was making devices whose sole purpose was to record music from other mediums. I will tell you 99% of the time I used that deck to record a tape I had borrowed
The music industry managed to survive a time when they were making devices to copy music (and I'll tell you right now, 10th generation analog copies did not bother me).
A 5th or so generation tape introduced me to what became one of my favourite bands for a long time ... The Violent Femmes. I ended up buying every one of their tapes, then their CD's hen it turned into that.
Nothing has changed in the last 25 years, other than the fact that the recording industry is trying to find excuses to generate revenue through a blanket tax.
So if I get this right, you get to carry around a backpack to try and replicate what all Airport-installed Macs do out of the box?
While I agree totally that the movie had nothing to do with the story, I disagree that "the Mars trip was never in doubt".
Go back and watch the beginning of the movie again. The program he buys is "Blue Sky over Mars". Hmmm...
Look at the girl he orders. Perfect match for the one in the story
I remember there were other things, but it's been a long time since I've seen the movie. It could be he made those choices because of a residual memory, or it could be that he's still sitting in the chair. That would finally even allow us to explain away that totally improbably face almost blowing up then coming back to normal ending, since it never happened.
I already have one on my powerbook. It's called the firewire port. I plug my iPod in and it charges off of it. Works great. I don't think you would want to power a much higher voltage device, the power supplies in most desktops are too loud as it is.
Fundamental Justice is the state of Justice as it exists, the body of Law and the decisions based in it and prior decisions taken as a whole ... If we're going after paedophiles, then Fundamental Justice dictates that they will be punished and restricted.
How, then, do you explain the decision on the Robin Sharpe case, which was based on the charter? You know, that's the one about the pedophile who will be allowed to publish his works because they contain artistic merit?
Judges don't need to interpret based on the current "trend", the notwithstanding clause allows them the out by putting the responsiblity on the government. Again, notice that the government decided not to use it.
You're probably American, so you don't realize this, but the Charter works. Our courts are not political so the decisions can be made solely on law and legal precedent, and not the need to get re-elected. Time and again it has held up, even around unpopular decisions that would not have been made in the States.
Also notice the comment that the Canadian Privacy Commissioner still has to comment. Again, this is much more than a rubber stamp, and he has taken the government to task on a number of proposals.
Recently he quashed the RCMP's attempts to use general surveillance cameras in parts of BC, a practice which is commonplace in many other parts of the world.
There's just too many hurdles that are unlikely to be passed -- I highly doubt this will go through.
Frankly, I don't get what's so hard about it. The numbers are represented as large digits on all four corners on both sides. (1,5,10,20) It is written out in English on the bottom on both sides (ONE DOLLAR)
The problem is a lifetime of habit. You grew up knowing you had to look at the numbers in the corner, so you do. I grew up being able to tell the denomination by a quick glance at the paper in general,so I do.
Remembering to actually look at the corner and focus on the number there really does take a lot of effort, after 30 odd years of not having to.
It's much the same way people read. You aren't actually looking at each individual letter in this post, you're just recognizing the pattern of the word. If the writing is hard to decipher, then you have to slow down and spell out each individual letter to get the word.
That's how foreigners feel every time they try to deal with American money.
Well, there's outcry and there's outcry.
I had been using Yahoo email for a long time, and was planning to pay for the service since it was useful. Because of their change, I sent a letter to Yahoo indicating why I would not pay for the service, and am now using a new address.
My yahoo address is still open, however, so I can catch the stragglers that haven't caught up yet. So from a superficial (number of users pov), yes, it appears that this didn't affect their business, but what you don't know is how many people like me changed their mind about paying for the service, or the trust that they had placed in Yahoo.
The future will tell if the same thing happens with Microsoft. I don't have a hotmail address because I knew better than to trust Microsoft, but a lot of people didn't. The question isn't really (like Yahoo) whether this will cost them hotmail addresses, but whether this will cost them $ in future service offerings like the larger mailboxes.
But, isn't it just implicit that any event commemorating Douglas Adams has to be on a Thursday?
I don't know where the idea of a Friday would come from. A towel on a Thursday just makes sense. Helps you get the hang of Thursdays.
Up here in the great white north, all the teller machines at TD Canada Trust are OS/2. That makes for quite an installed user base as well.
Some clarification here -- this is the first case of inhalation anthrax in 25 years. Cutaneuos Anthrax is not uncommon, although it doesn't show up in office buildings very often. Cutaneous anthrax is what has been showing up everywhere except in Florida, and all the people in Florida were exposed together.
Also, cutaneous anthrax is quite treatable, it cannot be passed between people, and it needs broken skin in order to infect you. In other words, the flu is a much more dangerous illness.
Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
I think the most obvious reason is the one for which it has been mandated in the US -- so you can be located when you call 911!
Another reason is for people like me who don't like to carry too many goodies -- a lot of the hiking and mountain biking in my area is in forests with analog coverage, but are easy to get lost in. It would be nice to have a GPS so I can locate myself on the topo maps. If that GPS is built into the same device that I'm using for my emergency contact, great, I'm saving a few ounces in my pack!
Finally, you can't forget the gee-whiz factor. Especially not on Slashdot.
Well we're 2/3 of the way there -- the Samsung Uproar has a voice recorder and an MP3 player. Given that Samsung is the company producing these GPS phones, that programmable tracking is probably only a small step away!