the evolutionary process, created by God
The evolutionary process is not created by God (or anyone else), it simply is a natural process. Things exist, get offsprings, and die. The longer they live (the fitter they are), the more offsprings they get. So their genes become more widely distributed and dominant. Add mutation and there you are.
You see: its natural, logical, there are no alternatives.. no need for an Inventor
how do you prevent the bacteria from spreading like a wildfire and eventually mutating in something harmful?
In my understanding these bacterias are anerobic and would therefore simply die when exposed to air - remember, oxygen is quite an agressive, deadly acid except to some habitants of earth:)
All told, colocation was down for about a day and a half.
Allthough it is exciting that they recovered from such an accident quite fast - it also means that their customers where 36 hours out of business.
This could kill a small company.
Maybe they should overhaul their strategys..
Pricedrops are an old-economy-answer to the problems the music industry faces; copy-protection and suing customers, too...
The real problem with the industry is that they didnt realize that they are trading virtual goods. They missed it ever since. They missed the MP3-revolution, they missed the internet, they are like dinosaurs not realizing that the times have changed.
Instead of utilizing new technologies for distribution, higher customer satisfaction, more efficience they stuck in their old, flawed business model.
The world would look different today if there were flexible, smart managers instead of old men without vision (and shareholders should make them reasonable for all the damage they did by stupidity to their business).
Why are people forced to buy LP/CD of artists with 12 songs when they only like one or two? Why is a CD more expensive than a tape? Why keep up a flawed business- and distributionmodel if their are lean alternatives to earn more money?
Refactor your business-model! Concentrate on your core-business: find and promote artists. Close your manufactoring fabs, stop making all bands sound alike to reduce risk, stop using old-economy-arguments for new-economy business.
Realize that everything has changed! Today there are twothousand different musicstyles with small groups of fans and not one monolithic common taste. No need for everybody-like-them-billion-dollar-superstars.
Take the following recipe:.) small and effective units generating profit
Produce small bands and allow them to be different. It costs some hundred bucks to record their songs in a small soho-studio. Distribute their songs to the internet (instead of 100000 CD) and promote them to interested places (not a 5-Million-Ad-Campaign on MTV). If you have a handful downloads for 50 cents, you make profit - and the artists, too..) use the technology
reduce costs of distribution via utilizing the internet, reduce costs of advertisements by utilizing community-effects.) ignore pirates
People dont buy music, fans buy! If I like an artist, I will buy all his records. The best way to become a fan is to - listen.
According to heise.de there could be well a connection to w32.blaster..
The Niagara-Powerplant belongs to National Grid USA which is a reference customer of Northern Dynamics - a company which provides COM/DCOM-Software for process control.
So there could be well a relation to w32.blaster - at least there plants are driven by COM/DCOM...
The guy - while writing an interessting article - misses one point which makes his argumentation a bit void: Windoze People know the concept of free software.
They use Freeware and Shareware (with some keys from the internet *g*) regularily, since years. So they are used to the concept of "giving quality Software away for free".
Of course neither Freeware nor Shareware are Open-Source; but in regard of this articles line of argumentation they are free enough to make the writers conclusion wrong. From the point of average Joe Doe there is no big difference between OpenOffice.org and any other Freeware-Thingy.
IMHO thats not the reason Joe Doe rejects Linux.
Lets talk about games, about ease-of-use, about MS-interoperability.. and about what Joe Doe might have heard from his friends about this points..
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the evolutionary process, created by God
The evolutionary process is not created by God (or anyone else), it simply is a natural process. Things exist, get offsprings, and die. The longer they live (the fitter they are), the more offsprings they get. So their genes become more widely distributed and dominant. Add mutation and there you are. You see: its natural, logical, there are no alternatives.. no need for an Inventor
In the article they write that the bacterias operate between 4 and 30 degrees Celsius, best at 25 degrees..
how do you prevent the bacteria from spreading like a wildfire and eventually mutating in something harmful? In my understanding these bacterias are anerobic and would therefore simply die when exposed to air - remember, oxygen is quite an agressive, deadly acid except to some habitants of earth :)
All told, colocation was down for about a day and a half. Allthough it is exciting that they recovered from such an accident quite fast - it also means that their customers where 36 hours out of business. This could kill a small company. Maybe they should overhaul their strategys..
Pricedrops are an old-economy-answer to the problems the music industry faces; copy-protection and suing customers, too...
.) small and effective units generating profit
.) use the technology
.) ignore pirates
The real problem with the industry is that they didnt realize that they are trading virtual goods. They missed it ever since. They missed the MP3-revolution, they missed the internet, they are like dinosaurs not realizing that the times have changed.
Instead of utilizing new technologies for distribution, higher customer satisfaction, more efficience they stuck in their old, flawed business model.
The world would look different today if there were flexible, smart managers instead of old men without vision (and shareholders should make them reasonable for all the damage they did by stupidity to their business).
Why are people forced to buy LP/CD of artists with 12 songs when they only like one or two? Why is a CD more expensive than a tape? Why keep up a flawed business- and distributionmodel if their are lean alternatives to earn more money?
Refactor your business-model! Concentrate on your core-business: find and promote artists. Close your manufactoring fabs, stop making all bands sound alike to reduce risk, stop using old-economy-arguments for new-economy business.
Realize that everything has changed! Today there are twothousand different musicstyles with small groups of fans and not one monolithic common taste. No need for everybody-like-them-billion-dollar-superstars.
Take the following recipe:
Produce small bands and allow them to be different. It costs some hundred bucks to record their songs in a small soho-studio. Distribute their songs to the internet (instead of 100000 CD) and promote them to interested places (not a 5-Million-Ad-Campaign on MTV). If you have a handful downloads for 50 cents, you make profit - and the artists, too.
reduce costs of distribution via utilizing the internet, reduce costs of advertisements by utilizing community-effects
People dont buy music, fans buy! If I like an artist, I will buy all his records. The best way to become a fan is to - listen.
According to heise.de there could be well a connection to w32.blaster.. The Niagara-Powerplant belongs to National Grid USA which is a reference customer of Northern Dynamics - a company which provides COM/DCOM-Software for process control. So there could be well a relation to w32.blaster - at least there plants are driven by COM/DCOM...
I dont want to moan; but I have submitted this story 4 hours ago and it got rejected...
2003-08-14 13:54:28 SCO lawyers: GPL is invalid (articles,news) (rejected)
Well.. wonder what the reason was..
The guy - while writing an interessting article - misses one point which makes his argumentation a bit void: Windoze People know the concept of free software.
They use Freeware and Shareware (with some keys from the internet *g*) regularily, since years. So they are used to the concept of "giving quality Software away for free".
Of course neither Freeware nor Shareware are Open-Source; but in regard of this articles line of argumentation they are free enough to make the writers conclusion wrong. From the point of average Joe Doe there is no big difference between OpenOffice.org and any other Freeware-Thingy.
IMHO thats not the reason Joe Doe rejects Linux.
Lets talk about games, about ease-of-use, about MS-interoperability.. and about what Joe Doe might have heard from his friends about this points..
> 3. Political rivals spy on each other
Except that the US also spies on "friend" nations like French or Germany.
> ALso I winder postgress will ever be ported or even compile.
Yesterday I installed OpenBSD and there was an actual postgres 7.0.2-package (and port). So I'm highly convinced there is also a package for FreeBSD.